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Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Problem:The University of California , San Diego ( UCSD or UC San Diego ) is a public research university .
Solution: | The University of California , San Diego ( UC San Diego , or colloquially , UCSD ) is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego , California , in the United States . |
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.
Q: In 1636, Roger Williams settled on land granted to him by the Narragansett tribe at the tip of Narragansett Bay after being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious views. He called the site 'Providence Plantations' and declared it a place of religious freedom.
A: | who founded the colony of rhode island and why |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: Image caption The first pictures to show good detail of the nucleus were taken by the medium resolution camera
Nasa's Deep Impact probe has flown by Comet Hartley 2.
The first pictures revealed a roughly 1.5km-long, peanut-shaped object with jets of gas streaming from its surface.
The pass, which went to about 700km from Hartley, was only the sixth time a spacecraft had made a close approach to a comet.
Nasa said it would take many hours to retrieve all of the data recorded by Deep Impact's two visible-light imagers and one infrared sensor.
But the initial pictures to get to ground gave a fascinating view of the comet's icy body, or nucleus.
"The dominant signature is [the] two rough ends and a smooth middle," said Dr Jessica Sunshine, the mission's deputy principal investigator from the University of Maryland, College Park.
"What we see is that where the activity is, where the jets are, is the rough areas. And the middle - in our best current interpretation - we think is fine grained material that has been re-distributed across the comet and collected in a topographic low."
The information from the flyby should give scientists further insight into the diverse properties and behaviours of what are some of the Solar System's most remarkable objects.
"Every time we go to comets, they're full of surprises," said principal investigator Dr Mike A'Hearn, also from the University of Maryland.
The closest approach to Hartley 2 - a highly elongated object - occurred just before 1400 GMT. The probe whizzed by at a relative speed of 12.5km/s. The comet was about 23 million km from Earth at the time.
There'll be enough data downloaded to keep researchers busy for the next five, 10, 15 years probably Dr Malcolm Hartley, Comet discoverer
Deep Impact is on an extended mission, having been re-tasked to visit Hartley following its successful flyby of Comet Tempel 1 in 2005.
On that primary mission, the spacecraft released an impactor that crashed into Tempel's nucleus kicking up thousands of tonnes of icy debris.
The new venture is known by the name Epoxi. It required a series of deep-space manoeuvres, including three gravitational slingshots around Earth, to put the spacecraft in the right part of the sky to meet up with Hartley.
Comet Hartley is named after the Australian astronomer Malcolm Hartley who first identified the body in a photographic plate from a sky survey undertaken in 1986.
He was at Nasa's mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California to see the images of his comet come back from Deep Impact.
"It's awesome," he said. "I've been overwhelmed by everything that's happened in the last two weeks.
"There'll be enough data downloaded to keep researchers busy for the next five, 10, 15 years probably. It's proving to be very interesting."
Tim Larson, the Epoxi project manager at JPL, said: "The mission team and scientists have worked hard for this day. It's good to see Hartley 2 up close."
COMETS PREVIOUSLY IMAGED UP-CLOSE BY PROBES Image caption So far, four comets have been seen up-close by spacecraft Halley's nucleus was by far the biggest seen - 15km in length
Comet Borrelly was about 8km in its longest dimension
Wild 2's dusty shroud (coma) was sampled by the Stardust probe
Tempel 1 was Deep Impact's primary mission "target"
Comets are thought to contain materials that have remained largely unchanged since the formation of the Solar System. They incorporate compounds that are rich in carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen.
Intriguingly these are the elements that make up nucleic and amino acids, the essential ingredients for life as we know it; and there are some who believe comet impacts in the early years of the Solar System could have seeded the Earth with the right chemical precursors for biology.
To date, spacecraft have flown close by six other comets - Tempel 1, Borrelly, Wild 2, Halley, Giacobini-Zinner, and Grigg-Skjellerup (the missions to Giacobini-Zinner and Grigg-Skjellerup did not return images). All are bigger than Hartley, several considerably so. But Hartley - it was discovered in 1986 by the Australian astronomer Malcolm Hartley - has already proved itself to be a fascinating target.
Even from a distance, scientists saw a lot of short-term changes on the object - huge outbursts of dry ice, or carbon dioxide, pulling copious quantities of dust from the comet. Those outbursts would appear to come from the active areas seen in the new images, the researchers told a press conference following the flyby.
"The reason we wanted to go to Hartley 2 specifically was that it was a very small, very active comet, and was therefore different from the other comets we had studied in detail," said Dr A'Hearn.
"What we hoped to do was to use the difference between a small active comet and a large, relatively inactive comet like Tempel 1 or Borrelly to address the question of what parts of comets are due to recent processing and what parts tell us about the formation of the Solar System 4.5 billion years ago."
Deep Impact will keep imaging Hartley for a further 20 days. Nasa says it is examining requests to use the spacecraft and its instruments for further science observations. The limited fuel reserves now on Deep Impact mean it cannot be manoeuvred to flyby a third comet, however.
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A: | NASA's Deep Impact probe is sending back amazing images from the comet Hartley 2, say team scientists. The probe, after a journey of 2.9 billion miles, came to within 435 miles for a fly-by of the intriguing peanut-shaped comet, the BBC reports. The comet is roughly 1.4 miles long, and scientists say it is surprisingly active and has been spewing out jets of cyanide gas for days. "We have a lot of work to do to try to understand what's going on here. This is just spectacular," a team astronomer told the Baltimore Sun. The NASA team cheered as they saw the first images from the fly-by—only the fifth time a spacecraft has come close to a comet. On hand was Australian astronomer Malcolm Hartley, who discovered the comet as a "smudge" on photographic plates in 1986. |
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Q: France opens enquiry into claims of Arafat poisoning
PARIS — French prosecutors have opened a murder enquiry into Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's 2004 death near Paris following claims he may have died of polonium poisoning, sources told AFP Tuesday.
The probe comes after Arafat's family launched legal action in France last month following reports the veteran Palestinian leader may have died from radioactive polonium.
Arafat's widow Suha and his daughter Zawra lodged a murder complaint on July 31 in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Arafat died at age 75 at a military hospital near Paris in 2004.
"A judicial murder enquiry has been opened, as expected following the complaint from Mrs. Arafat," a source close to the matter told AFP.
Confirming the enquiry, Pierre-Olivier Sur, a lawyer for Arafat's widow and daughter, said they were "happy" at the decision but would not comment further "so as to leave the judges to lead all investigations necessary to find the truth...."
The Palestinian Authority also welcomed the move, with senior Palestinian official Saeb Erakat expressing hope that "we will reach the full truth on Arafat's death and who stands behind it."
"We hope the French investigation will satisfy our desire for truth, and that there will be a serious investigation to reveal the whole truth, in addition to an international investigation to identify all the parties involved in Arafat's martyrdom," he told AFP in Ramallah.
Allegations that the Nobel Peace laureate was poisoned were resurrected last month after Al-Jazeera news channel broadcast an investigation in which experts said they found high levels of polonium on his personal effects.
Polonium is a highly toxic substance which is rarely found outside military and scientific circles, and was used to kill former Russian spy turned Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, who died in 2006 shortly after drinking tea laced with the poison.
Suha Arafat has said she backs exhuming her late husband's remains from his mausoleum in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
A Swiss radiology lab at the Lausanne University Hospital Centre said on Friday it has received Suha Arafat's go-ahead to test his remains for poisoning by polonium.
French news website Slate.fr on Tuesday published a copy of the medical report into Arafat's death and said his symptoms were not consistent with polonium poisoning.
Arafat was sent to the Percy military hospital in Clamart outside Paris after suffering from nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, acute diarrhea and an abnormally low amount of platelets in the blood.
Doctors at the hospital conducted a wide range of tests but were unable to determine the exact cause of his illness.
A few days after his arrival in France, Arafat lapsed into a coma and he died on November 11, 2004. No autopsy was conducted.
"The hypothesis of polonium does not stand up to scrutiny," Marcel Francis-Kahn, the former chief of rheumatology at Paris's Bichat hospital, told Slate.fr.
"All experts know that poisoning by radioactive material does not lead to the symptoms seen in Arafat," he said, noting that he also suffered no traditional effects of radiation poisoning such as hair loss and a massive drop in white blood cells.
At the time of Arafat's death, Palestinian officials alleged he had been poisoned by long-time foe Israel, but an inconclusive Palestinian investigation in 2005 ruled out poisoning, as well as cancer and AIDS.
Israel has consistently denied the allegations, accusing Suha Arafat and Palestinian officials of covering up the real reasons for the death of the former leader, who led the struggle for Palestinian statehood for nearly four decades.
Following the news of a French enquiry, Israel said it "does not feel this investigation is of any concern to it despite all the hare-brained allegations made against us," foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said.
"I hope this enquiry throws light on every aspect of this affair," he added.
Copyright © 2013 AFP. All rights reserved. More » ||||| Image caption Swiss scientists claim they found traces of polonium-210 on Mr Arafat's belongings
French prosecutors have opened a murder inquiry into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 2004.
His family launched a case last month over claims that he was poisoned with polonium-210, a radioactive element.
Swiss scientists hired by a documentary crew say they found traces of polonium on some of Arafat's belongings.
The medical records of Arafat, who died at a military hospital near Paris in 2004, said he had a stroke resulting from a blood disorder.
However, many Palestinians continue to believe that Israel poisoned him. Israel has denied any involvement.
Others allege that he had Aids.
'Significant' polonium traces
Tuesday's decision by the court in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre followed the deposition of a civil suit in late July by Arafat's widow, Suha. The case does not name an alleged killer, but is brought against an unnamed perpetrator X.
Arafat: The Swiss claims "Unexplained, elevated" level of polonium-210 on Arafat's clothing, keffiyeh and toothbrush
Highest levels found on items with bodily fluids
Toothbrush measured 54 millibecquerels (mBq); underwear 180mBq compared with 6.7mBq from another man's specimen underwear
More than 60% of polonium was not from natural sources Source: Al-Jazeera TV
French officials on Tuesday said prosecutors had agreed to begin a murder inquiry, but they have yet to appoint an investigating judge.
The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says the French legal system is obliged to take the matter very seriously because of its diplomatic aspect, but the medical profession is generally sceptical about claims of radioactive poisoning.
A statement by Mrs Arafat's lawyers in Paris welcomed the decision by the court and said they would make no further comment to allow investigators to be able to pursue their inquiry with respect for secret information and without undue interference.
The Palestinian Authority also welcomed the move.
Senior official Saeb Erekat said President Mahmoud Abbas had officially requested the help of French President Francois Hollande in the investigation.
"We hope there will be a serious investigation to reveal the whole truth, in addition to an international investigation to identify all the parties involved in Arafat's martyrdom," he told the AFP news agency.
The inquiry stems from an al-Jazeera TV documentary broadcast early in July, which commissioned Lausanne University's Institute of Radiation Physics (IRA) to analyse Arafat's belongings, which his widow had kept.
The scientists told the channel that they had found "significant" traces of polonium-210 present in items including Arafat's trademark keffiyeh.
Twin inquiries
Mrs Arafat's lawyers have said she wants a French investigation to work alongside international inquiries being conducted by the Lausanne scientists.
Polonium-210 Highly radioactive and toxic element
Present in foods in low doses
Small amounts created naturally in the body
Can be manufactured by bombarding certain isotopes with neutrons
Has industrial uses such as in anti-static devices
Very dangerous if significant dose ingested
External exposure not a risk, only if ingested
Present in tobacco What is polonium-210?
Last week, the Swiss institute said it had received permission from Mrs Arafat and the Palestinian Authority to travel to Ramallah to analyse her late husband's remains for traces of polonium.
The Palestinian Authority said last month that it was willing to order the exhumation of Arafat's body from the stone-clad mausoleum in which it is buried in the presidential compound in Ramallah.
Arafat led the Palestine Liberation Organisation for 35 years and became the first president of the Palestinian Authority in 1996.
He fell violently ill in October 2004 and died two weeks later, at the age of 75, in a French military hospital.
French doctors bound by privacy rules did not release information about Arafat's condition.
In 2005, the New York Times obtained a copy of Arafat's medical records, which it said showed he died of a massive haemorrhagic stroke that resulted from a bleeding disorder caused by an unknown infection.
Experts who reviewed the records told the paper that it was highly unlikely that he had died of Aids or had been poisoned. |||||
A: | France has opened a murder investigation into the death of Yasir Arafat, at the request of his widow, Suha Arafat, sources tell the AFP. The move follows reports that Arafat, who died in Paris in 2004, was poisoned to death with radioactive polonium. A Swiss radiology lab said last week that it would be testing Arafat's body for polonium, after getting the go-ahead from Suha. The Palestinian Authority said it welcomes the inquiry. "We hope there will be a serious investigation to reveal the whole truth, in addition to an international investigation to identify all the parties involved in Arafat's martyrdom," said a spokesman for Mahmoud Abbas, according to the BBC. Earlier tests revealed high polonium levels on Arafat's personal belongings. But a French website today published a copy of the medical reports into his death, and experts say his symptoms were not consistent with radiation poisoning. |
Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Eric Clapton revealed Tuesday (Jan. 9) that he is losing his hearing and was diagnosed with tinnitus.
Tinnitus is “the perception of noise or ringing in the ears,” according to Mayo Clinic. It is often a symptom of a more severe condition, such as hearing loss or an ear injury.
“I am still going to work. I’m doing a few gigs,” the 72-year old guitarist said in an interview with Steve Wright on BBC Radio 2 while discussing his documentary, Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars. “I’m concerned with now is being in my 70s and being able to be proficient. I mean, I’m going deaf, I’ve got tinnitus, my hands just about work. I mean, I am hoping that people will come along and see me for more than that [because] I am a curiosity. I know that is part of it, because it’s amazing to myself that I am still here.”
Clapton also suffers with peripheral neuropathy, which causes weakness and pain in hands and feet, making it difficult to play guitar. The legend, however, still has some concerts lined up in New York and Los Angeles in March 2018.
Fans can catch Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars February 10 on Showtime. ||||| Eric Clapton has revealed that he is losing his hearing.
During an interview with BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright on Tuesday, the 72-year-old guitar great admitted that he’s struggling with tinnitus, a ringing in the ear commonly caused by noise-induced hearing loss. Combined with ongoing nerve damage that has affected his back and movement in his hands, he admits that live concerts have become a challenge. Even so, he says he intends to continue performing in 2018.
“I am still going to work. I’m doing a few gigs. I am going to do a show at Hyde Park [British Summer Time Festival] in July,” he says. “The only thing I’m concerned with now is being in my seventies and being able to be proficient. I mean, I’m going deaf, I’ve got tinnitus, my hands just about work. I mean, I am hoping that people will come along and see me [for] more than [because] I am a curiosity. I know that is part of it, because it’s amazing to myself that I am still here.”
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Clapton is far from the only rock hero afflicted with tinnitus. The Who’s Pete Townshend has also battled the condition, utilizing new technology to continue touring and recording. Sting, Ozzy Osbourne and Neil Young also reportedly suffer variations of hearing loss.
A new documentary, Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars — set to premiere on Showtime Feb. 10 — will showcase the icon’s tumultuous life from the highs of rock stardom to the lows of substance abuse and personal tragedy, including the death of his 4-year-old son, Conor, in 1991.
“It’s difficult to sit through because it goes on so long about the difficult part of my life,” he says of the film. “I think it’s important for people to see that there is a happy ending. It’s like a redemption concept. If you are going to go and see it, be prepared for a heavy ride.” |||||
A: | Eric Clapton says he'll keep doing live concerts this year, though he admits it's become increasingly challenging. One, because nerve damage has given him back trouble and made it hard for his hands to work their magic on his guitar strings, he told BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright on Tuesday. Two, because he may have taken the "if it's too loud, you're too old" mantra too seriously in his younger years: The 72-year-old rock legend revealed he's got noise-induced hearing loss that's causing an annoying ringing in his ears. "The only thing I'm concerned with now is being in my 70s and being able to be proficient," he tells Wright, via People. "I mean, I'm going deaf, I've got tinnitus, my hands just about work." The Mayo Clinic notes short-term exposure to music at a loud concert can lead to temporary tinnitus, but permanent damage can occur when a musician like Clapton subjects himself to earsplitting performance after performance. People points out other big-name artists have also been said to have hearing loss, including Sting, Neil Young, Ozzy Osbourne, and Pete Townshend. Still, Clapton says "I'm doing a few gigs" in 2018, per Billboard, and that he hopes people will keep coming to watch him play—and not just because he's a "curiosity." Still, he acknowledges that curiosity status "is part of it, because it's amazing to myself that I am still here." |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
[EX Q]: Why could there be reasonable doubt about the validity of what was stated that she said?, Context: In May 2007, The Daily Telegraph, citing unnamed sources, reported that the Queen was "exasperated and frustrated" by the policies of the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, that she was concerned the British Armed Forces were overstretched in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that she had raised concerns over rural and countryside issues with Blair. She was, however, said to admire Blair's efforts to achieve peace in Northern Ireland. On 20 March 2008, at the Church of Ireland St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, the Queen attended the first Maundy service held outside England and Wales. At the invitation of the Irish President, Mary McAleese, the Queen made the first state visit to the Republic of Ireland by a British monarch in May 2011.
[EX A]: unnamed sources
[EX Q]: What was the smallest denomination present in Warsaw?, Context: Throughout its existence, Warsaw has been a multi-cultural city. According to the 1901 census, out of 711,988 inhabitants 56.2% were Catholics, 35.7% Jews, 5% Greek orthodox Christians and 2.8% Protestants. Eight years later, in 1909, there were 281,754 Jews (36.9%), 18,189 Protestants (2.4%) and 2,818 Mariavites (0.4%). This led to construction of hundreds of places of religious worship in all parts of the town. Most of them were destroyed in the aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. After the war, the new communist authorities of Poland discouraged church construction and only a small number were rebuilt.
[EX A]: Mariavites
[EX Q]: The U.S. and Canada consume?, Context: During the 1990s after NAFTA was signed, industrial development grew rapidly with foreign investment. Large factories known as maquiladoras were built to export manufactured goods to the United States and Canada. Today, most of the maquiladoras produce electronics, automobile, and aerospace components. There are more than 406 companies operating under the federal IMMEX or Prosec program in Chihuahua. The large portion of the manufacturing sector of the state is 425 factories divided into 25 industrial parks accounting for 12.47% of the maquiladoras in Mexico, which employ 294,026 people in the state. While export-driven manufacturing is one of the most important components of the state's economy, the industrial sector is quite diverse and can be broken down into several sectors, which are: electronics, agro-industrial, wood base manufacturing, mineral, and biotech. Similar to the rest of the country, small businesses continue to be the foundation of the state’s economy. Small business employs the largest portion of the population.[citation needed]
[EX A]: | manufactured goods
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In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
One example is below.
Q: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
A: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Rationale: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Q: Another feature of the haplodiploidy system is that lethal and deleterious alleles will be removed from the population rapidly because they will automatically be expressed in the males .
A: | Another feature of the haplodiploidy system is that recessive lethal and deleterious alleles will be removed from the population rapidly because they will automatically be expressed in the males ( dominant lethal and deleterious alleles are removed from the population every time they arise , as they kill any individual they arise in ) . |
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.
``Footloose'' is a song co-written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins. It was released in January 1984 as the first of two singles by Loggins from the 1984 film of the same name (the other one being ``I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man)''). The song spent three weeks at number one, March 31--April 14, 1984 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and was the first of two number-one hits from the film. Billboard ranked it at the No. 4 song for 1984.
| was the song footloose written for the movie? |
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 time of year is mentioned first?, Context: After a difficult winter, most of the Denny Party relocated across Elliott Bay and claimed land a second time at the site of present-day Pioneer Square. Charles Terry and John Low remained at the original landing location and reestablished their old land claim and called it "New York", but renamed "New York Alki" in April 1853, from a Chinook word meaning, roughly, "by and by" or "someday". For the next few years, New York Alki and Duwamps competed for dominance, but in time Alki was abandoned and its residents moved across the bay to join the rest of the settlers.
[A]: winter
[Q]: What was AFL not?, Context: In October 2008, Tom Benson announced that the New Orleans VooDoo were ceasing operations and folding "based on circumstances currently affecting the league and the team". Shortly thereafter, an article in Sports Business Journal announced that the AFL had a tentative agreement to sell a $100 million stake in the league to Platinum Equity; in exchange, Platinum Equity would create a centralized, single-entity business model that would streamline league and team operations and allow the league to be more profitable. Benson's move to shut down the VooDoo came during the Platinum Equity conference call, leading to speculation that he had folded because of the deal.
[A]: profitable
[Q]: What is smaller, a domestic chicken or a bantam?, Context: A bantam is a small variety of domestic chicken, either a miniature version of a member of a standard breed, or a "true bantam" with no larger counterpart. The name derives from the town of Bantam in Java where European sailors bought the local small chickens for their shipboard supplies. Bantams may be a quarter to a third of the size of standard birds and lay similarly small eggs. They are kept by small-holders and hobbyists for egg production, use as broody hens, ornamental purposes, and showing.
[A]: | bantam
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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.
The weight on the front and rear axles differs which causes uneven wear. With the majority of cars having the engine in front, the front tires typically bear more weight than the rear tires. Front-wheel drive vehicles have not only the engine but also the transaxle in front, adding to the weight differential. Moreover, additional stress is placed disproportionately on the front tires by braking and steering. Thus, tire rotation needs to occur more frequently for front-wheel drive vehicles.
what happens when you dont rotate your tires
The world's first movable type printing press technology for printing paper books was made of porcelain materials and was invented around AD 1040 in China during the Northern Song Dynasty by the inventor Bi Sheng (990 -- 1051). Subsequently in 1377, the world's oldest extant movable metal print book, Jikji, was printed in Korea during the Goryeo dynasty. Because of this, the diffusion of both movable-type systems was, to some degree, limited to primarily East Asia, although various sporadic reports of movable type technology were brought back to Europe by Christian missionaries, traders and business people who were returning to Europe after having worked in China for several years and influenced the development of printing technology in Europe. Some of these medieval European accounts are still preserved in the library archives of the Vatican and Oxford University among many others. Around 1450 Johannes Gutenberg, introduced the metal movable-type printing press in Europe, along with innovations in casting the type based on a matrix and hand mould. The small number of alphabetic characters needed for European languages was an important factor. Gutenberg was the first to create his type pieces from an alloy of lead, tin, and antimony -- and these materials remained standard for 550 years.
who is given credit for inventing the printing press
The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), first published in 1952, is one of a number of uniform acts that have been put into law with the goal of harmonizing the law of sales and other commercial transactions across the United States of America (U.S.) through UCC adoption by all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories.
| what is the uniform commercial code (ucc) and why was it created
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In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
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Question: Which, between neutrophils and macrophages, are found in the bloodstream?, Context: Neutrophils and macrophages are phagocytes that travel throughout the body in pursuit of invading pathogens. Neutrophils are normally found in the bloodstream and are the most abundant type of phagocyte, normally representing 50% to 60% of the total circulating leukocytes. During the acute phase of inflammation, particularly as a result of bacterial infection, neutrophils migrate toward the site of inflammation in a process called chemotaxis, and are usually the first cells to arrive at the scene of infection. Macrophages are versatile cells that reside within tissues and produce a wide array of chemicals including enzymes, complement proteins, and regulatory factors such as interleukin 1. Macrophages also act as scavengers, ridding the body of worn-out cells and other debris, and as antigen-presenting cells that activate the adaptive immune system.
Answer: Neutrophils
Question: The second Multilingual European subset includes everything from which other Unicode subsets?, Context: Several subsets of Unicode are standardized: Microsoft Windows since Windows NT 4.0 supports WGL-4 with 652 characters, which is considered to support all contemporary European languages using the Latin, Greek, or Cyrillic script. Other standardized subsets of Unicode include the Multilingual European Subsets: MES-1 (Latin scripts only, 335 characters), MES-2 (Latin, Greek and Cyrillic 1062 characters) and MES-3A & MES-3B (two larger subsets, not shown here). Note that MES-2 includes every character in MES-1 and WGL-4.
Answer: MES-1 and WGL-4
Question: Why do marriage of mixed jewish backgrounds occur more often?, Context: In Israel, the term Ashkenazi is now used in a manner unrelated to its original meaning, often applied to all Jews who settled in Europe and sometimes including those whose ethnic background is actually Sephardic. Jews of any non-Ashkenazi background, including Mizrahi, Yemenite, Kurdish and others who have no connection with the Iberian Peninsula, have similarly come to be lumped together as Sephardic. Jews of mixed background are increasingly common, partly because of intermarriage between Ashkenazi and non-Ashkenazi, and partly because many do not see such historic markers as relevant to their life experiences as Jews.
Answer: | many do not see such historic markers as relevant to their life experiences as Jews
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What happens next in this paragraph?
How to sweeten foods with honey
Drizzle honey on fruit.
For a sweet snack, try drizzling some honey over fruit. This will give your fruit a slightly sweeter taste.
--Honey is tart on all sides, so try using a little honey all over your food to sweeten it up. You can drizzle some honey on top of your yogurt, this can sweeten food with honey quicker, but you can also just drink honey in place of honey.
--Apple slices with honey, for example, can be a great treat. If you normally eat dessert, try to replace your dessert with honey and fruit.
--You can also drizzle honey over nuts or pears. One popular method is by making honey frappe.
--You can drizzle honey on simple cuts of fruit, such as pomegranate, pineapple, or melon; other fruit are suitable for dessert like apples, oranges, or peaches. Cherries, apricots, and green berries are also great options. | Apple slices with honey, for example, can be a great treat. If you normally eat dessert, try to replace your dessert with honey and fruit. |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Input: Consider Input: Joe's parents are farmers and they have a huge farm with cows, chickens, and ducks. Joe loves the farm and all the things he gets to play around and play on. One day, Joe's father told him not to get near a tractor that was sitting in the field. His father was worried that Joe would climb on it and hurt himself. Joe went out to the field and was feeding the horses and cows. When he was done, he saw the tractor his father told him not to get near. He knew that climbing on the tractor wouldn't hurt anything, so he did. He climbed on to the seat and sat there. Then, he pretended he was his father and pretended that he was driving the tractor. Joe's father saw him playing on the tractor and called for him. Joe heard his father calling for him and got off the tractor really fast. When he did that, he fell off and hurt his arm. Joe was in pain and his father came running to check on him and picked him up and sat him on a bench and asked him why he did that. Joe looked at his father and said, "I wanted to be like you." Joe's father gave him a hug and asked him if he wanted to ride with him on the tractor. Joe did and after he got a bandage on his arm, he and his father rode in the field on the tractor. <sep>Where did Joe live that his father told him not to play with the tractor?<sep>Students
Output: No
Input: Consider Input: Johnnie had a set of small volumes of English verse, extensively annotated by his own hand, which Stoddard had brought to her early in their acquaintance, leaving it with her more as a gift than as a loan. She kept these little books after all the others had gone back. She had read and reread them--cullings from Chaucer, from Spenser, from the Elizabethan lyrists, the border balladry, fierce, tender, oh, so human--till she knew pages of them by heart, and their vocabulary influenced her own, their imagery tinged all her leisure thoughts. It seemed to her, whenever she debated returning them, that she could not bear it. She would get them out and sit with one of them open in her hands, not reading, but staring at the pages with unseeing eyes, passing her fingers over it, as one strokes a beloved hand, or turning through each book only to find the pencilled words in the margins. She would be giving up part of herself when she took these back. Yet it had to be done, and one miserable morning she made them all into a neat package, intending to carry them to the mill and place them on Stoddard's desk thus early, when nobody would be in the office. Then the children came in; Deanie was half sick; and in the distress of getting the ailing child comfortably into her own bed, Johnnie forgot the books. Taking them in at noon, she met Stoddard himself. <sep>Why did the main character take in her books at noon instead of earlier?<sep>She couldn't bear to do it earlier
Output: No
Input: Consider Input: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire. Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire. We might call it the first Chinese invention. Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire. Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight. He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat. Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued. And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down. Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology. The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel. Europeans did not yet have a word for "coal," nor had they discovered a use for it. The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty. This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees. And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes — China's first scholars. During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art. Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements. And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago. The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government. <sep>What type of pre historic man was credited with the first Chinese invention and what was invented?<sep>Neanderthal Man
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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.
LITTLE COLORADO RIVER, Arizona Daredevil Nik Wallenda completed a historic high-wire walk on a 2-inch (5-cm) steel cable over the Grand Canyon on Sunday and was greeted by wild cheers after his hair-raising stunt.
Wallenda, the self-described "King of the High Wire," took 22 minutes and 54 seconds to walk 1,400 feet across the crimson-hued canyon with just a distant ribbon of the Little Colorado River beneath him. The event was broadcast live around the world.
Wallenda, the first person to cross the canyon, made the walk without a tether or safety net.
Wallenda could be heard praying almost constantly during the walk, murmuring "Thank you, Jesus." He kissed the ground when he reached the other side.
"It took every bit of me to stay focused that entire time," Wallenda said. "My arms are aching like you wouldn't believe."
He said he stopped and crouched down twice, first because of the wind, the second because the cable had picked up an unsettling rhythm.
He spat on his hands and rubbed it on the sole of his shoe for grip as the cable had gathered dust.
Wallenda said the walk was stressful. But he also said the view, from 1,500 feet above the snaking river, was "breathtaking."
"It was a dream come true," Wallenda said of the crossing. "This is what my family has done for 200 years, so it's part of my legacy."
A seventh-generation member of the "Flying Wallendas" family of acrobats, Wallenda also made history last year by becoming the only person to complete a high-wire walk over the brink of Niagara Falls. He used the same cable on Sunday.
The 34-year-old first dreamed of Sunday's challenge during a visit to the Grand Canyon with his parents as a teenager.
There was no word on the financial benefits of Wallenda's stunt. He was listed by the Discovery Channel as one of the executive producers of the live broadcast. A Discovery spokesman could not be reached for comment.
Viewers watching live in 217 countries were able to share Wallenda's point of view from the cable during the crossing, through cameras rigged to his body. Wallenda held a 43-pound (20-kg) balancing pole.
Nik's great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, slipped and fell to his death from a high wire in Puerto Rico in 1978.
In an interview after Sunday's walk, Nik Wallenda teared up describing how he thought of his great-grandfather.
"I knelt down and I thought of my great-grandfather and that everything I do is to honor him," Wallenda said. "It took my mind off all this movement underneath me ... and I was able to focus on him and regain composure."
Wallenda said before the crossing that his greatest concern was the unpredictable wind gusts that are prone to buffet the site in a remote section of the Grand Canyon's watershed on the Navajo Nation.
Wallenda trained in his Florida hometown of Sarasota as Tropical Storm Andrea barreled ashore. He also used air boats to blast him with side and updrafts of 55 miles per hour.
Wallenda talks about his Christian faith in his new book "Balance."
"That's really where I get my peace," he said. "I have confidence that if something were to happen to me, I know where I'm going."
For a future stunt, Wallenda said he dreams of walking between New York's Chrysler Building and Empire State Building.
(Reporting by Tim Gaynor; Editing by Mary Wisniewski, Doina Chiacu and Stacey Joyce) ||||| Florida aerialist Nik Wallenda completed a tightrope walk that took him a quarter mile over the Little Colorado River Gorge in northeastern Arizona on Sunday.
Aerialist Nik Wallenda near the end of his quarter mile walk over the Little Colorado River Gorge in northeastern Arizona on Sunday, June 23, 2013. The daredevil successfully traversed the tightrope strung... (Associated Press)
Daredevil Nik Wallenda smiles during a news conference after crossing a tightrope 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River Gorge Sunday, June 23, 2013, on the Navajo reservation outside the boundaries... (Associated Press)
Daredevil Nik Wallenda smiles during a news conference after crossing a tightrope 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River Gorge Sunday, June 23, 2013, on the Navajo reservation outside the boundaries... (Associated Press)
Daredevil Nik Wallenda crosses a tightrope 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River Gorge, Ariz., on Sunday, June 23, 2013, on the Navajo Nation outside the boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park.... (Associated Press)
Daredevil Nik Wallenda crosses a tightrope 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River Gorge, Ariz., on Sunday, June 23, 2013, on the Navajo Nation outside the boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park.... (Associated Press)
Daredevil Nik Wallenda crosses a tightrope 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River Gorge, Ariz., on Sunday, June 23, 2013, on the Navajo Nation outside the boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park.... (Associated Press)
Daredevil Nik Wallenda crosses a tightrope 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River Gorge, Ariz., on Sunday, June 23, 2013, on the Navajo Nation outside the boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park.... (Associated Press)
A unidentified tourist looks from a view point along the Little Colorado River Gorge Saturday, June 22, 2013, on the Navajo reservation near Cameron, Ariz., outside the boundaries of Grand Canyon National... (Associated Press)
Aerialist Nik Wallenda, left, is welcomed by his wife, Erendira, after walking a 2-inch-thick steel cable that took him a quarter mile over the Little Colorado River Gorge in northeastern Arizona on Sunday,... (Associated Press)
Daredevil Nik Wallenda runs as he finishes crossing a tightrope 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River Gorge Sunday, June 23, 2013, on the Navajo reservation near outside the boundaries of Grand Canyon... (Associated Press)
In this photo provided by the Discovery Channel, aerialist Nik Wallenda walks a 2-inch-thick steel cable taking him a quarter mile over the Little Colorado River Gorge, Ariz. on Sunday, June 23, 2013.... (Associated Press)
The Little Colorado River Gorge is shown Saturday, June 22, 2013, on the Navajo reservation near Cameron, Ariz., outside the boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park, near where Nik Wallenda, the Florida-based... (Associated Press)
Daredevil Nik Wallenda crosses a tightrope 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River Gorge, Ariz., on Sunday, June 23, 2013, on the Navajo Nation outside the boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park.... (Associated Press)
Daredevil Nik Wallenda smiles during a news conference after crossing a tightrope 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River Gorge Sunday, June 23, 2013, on the Navajo reservation outside the boundaries... (Associated Press)
Daredevil Nik Wallenda makes remarks during a news conference after crossing a tightrope 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River Gorge Sunday, June 23, 2013, on the Navajo reservation outside the boundaries... (Associated Press)
Wallenda performed the stunt on a 2-inch (50.8-millimeter)-thick steel cable, 1,500 feet (457.2 meters) above the river on the Navajo Nation near the Grand Canyon. He took just more than 22 minutes, pausing and crouching twice as winds whipped around him so that he could get "the rhythm out of the rope."
"Thank you Lord. Thank you for calming that cable, God," he said about 13 minutes into the walk.
Wallenda didn't wear a harness and stepped slowly and steady throughout, murmuring prayers to Jesus almost constantly along the way. He jogged and hopped the last few steps.
The event was broadcast live on the Discovery Channel.
Winds blowing across the gorge were expected to be around 30 mph (48 kph). Wallenda told Discovery after the walk that the winds were at times "unpredictable" and that dust had accumulated on and around his contact lenses.
"It was way more windy and it took every bit of me to stay focused the entire time," he said.
The 34-year-old Wallenda is a seventh-generation high-wire artist and is part of the famous "Flying Wallendas" circus family _ a clan that is no stranger to death-defying feats.
His great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, fell during a performance in Puerto Rico and died at the age of 73. Several other family members, including a cousin and an uncle, have perished while performing wire walking stunts.
Nik Wallenda grew up performing with his family and has dreamed of crossing the Grand Canyon since he was a teenager.
Sunday's stunt comes a year after he traversed Niagara Falls earning a seventh Guinness world record.
Wallenda wore a microphone and two cameras, one that looked down on the dry Little Colorado River bed and one that faced straight ahead. His leather shoes with an elk-skin sole helped him keep a grip on the steel cable as he moved across.
About 600 spectators watching on a large video screen on site cheered him on as he walked toward them.
Wallenda told reporters after the walk that he hoped his next stunt would be a tightrope walk between the Empire State building and the Chrysler building in New York.
Before the walk, a group of Navajos, Hopis and other Native Americans stood along a nearby highway with signs protesting the event.
The stunt was touted as a walk across the Grand Canyon, an area held sacred by many American Indian tribes. Some local residents believe Wallenda hasn't accurately pinpointed the location and also said that the Navajo Nation shouldn't be promoting the gambling of one man's life for the benefit of tourism.
"Mr. Wallenda needs to buy a GPS or somebody give this guy a map," said Milton Tso, president of the Cameron community on the Navajo Nation. "He's not walking across the Grand Canyon. He's walking across the Little Colorado River Gorge on the Navajo Nation. It's misleading and false advertising."
Discovery's 2-hour broadcast showcased the Navajo landscape that includes Monument Valley, Four Corners, Canyon de Chelly and the tribal capital of Window Rock.
"When people watch this, our main thing is we want the world to know who Navajo people are, our culture, traditions and language are still very much alive," Geri Hongeva, spokeswoman for the tribe's Division of Natural Resources, said before the walk. |||||
A: | Nik Wallenda has sealed his place in daredevil history with a heart-stopping tightrope walk over a gorge near the Grand Canyon—with no safety harness. The 34-year-old took 22 minutes to cross the quarter-mile, balancing on a 2-inch thick cable 1,500 feet above the Colorado River Gorge, the AP reports. He could be heard praying almost non-stop as he inched across, buffeted by winds. The stunt was aired live by the Discovery Channel, with a 10-second delay. "It was a dream come true," Wallenda said after making it across "This is what my family has done for 200 years, so it's part of my legacy. " His great-grandfather and several other members of the Flying Wallenda clan died performing similar stunts. Wallenda—who says he'll give up the tightrope-walking if his wife and kids ask him to— aims to walk between New York's Chrysler Building and Empire State Building for his next stunt, Reuters reports. |
As much as I know about the scientific community -- and, you know, you have to remember that's not my discipline. But as much as I know about what the high school science standards say, it would be in standing with that. As far as the scientific community, I really can't go there, because I know that there is a lot more about Darwin than is in that textbook. I mean, I can absolutely say that without knowing everything about Darwin or knowing everything about science.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "The science textbook being referred to only talks about Darwinism."? | It's impossible to say |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
A woman standing behind Pope Francis before he entered the House Chamber was caught on a live mic saying she wanted to “take my shoe off and throw it.”
Watch, via CNN.
Here’s a Soundcloud of the women’s statement, ripped by RedState’s Erick Erickson.
It’s worth noting that nothing the woman said necessarily indicates that Francis was the target of the shoe. Keep in mind that while Francis was in shoe range, so was Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid.
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Have a tip we should know? [email protected] ||||| I was listening to the press pool’s open microphone as Pope Francis entered the House of Representatives’ Chamber. Standing behind the Pope was an army of reporters and their cameras and open microphones.
I had my studio headphones on listening to the chatter of the reporters when suddenly, distinctly, I heard a reporter say she wanted to take off her shoe and throw it. Seriously.
Listen for yourself.
Maybe, to be charitable, her feet were hurting. But it was definitely caught on tape and aired live on CNN right after Wolf Blitzer tuned in for live coverage. |||||
Something about Pope Francis' visit to Congress this morning apparently made one mystery woman want to resort to footwear-related violence. Mediaite reports a live mic caught a woman standing behind the pope saying she wanted to "take my shoe off and throw it" just before Francis entered the House Chamber. The bizarre remark aired live on CNN, and RedState claims it came from an unidentified reporter. Mediaite states it's unclear who or what was the target of the woman's ire, but points out that Francis, Joe Biden, and Harry Reid were all within shoe-throwing range.
Members of the media wait along a road next to the Fullerton hotel in Singapore on May 31, 2018. (Nicholas Yeo/AFP/Getty Images)
At an island resort off the coast of Singapore, U.S. event planners are working day and night with their North Korean counterparts to set up a summit designed to bring an end to Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.
But a particularly awkward logistical issue remains unresolved, according to two people familiar with the talks. Who’s going to pay for Kim Jong Un’s hotel stay?
The prideful but cash-poor pariah state requires that a foreign country foot the bill at its preferred lodging: the Fullerton, a magnificent neoclassical hotel near the mouth of the Singapore River, where just one presidential suite costs more than $6,000 per night.
The mundane but diplomatically fraught billing issue is just one of numerous logistical concerns being hammered out between two teams led by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin and Kim’s de facto chief of staff, Kim Chang Son, as they strive toward a June 12 meeting.
After weeks of uncertainty, President Trump called off the summit last week, blaming “open hostility” from North Korea. But a flurry of diplomacy across two continents got the meeting back on track, and Trump announced Friday that he would attend as initially planned.
When it comes to paying for lodging at North Korea’s preferred five-star luxury hotel, the United States is open to covering the costs, the two people said, but it’s mindful that Pyongyang may view a U.S. payment as insulting. As a result, U.S. planners are considering asking Singapore, the host country, to pay for the North Korean delegation’s bill.
“It is an ironic and telling deviation from North Korea’s insistence on being treated on an ‘equal footing,’ ” said Scott Snyder, a Korea expert at the Council on Foreign Relations.
The State Department initially declined to comment on the issue, but spokeswoman Heather Nauert on Saturday ruled out the possibility that the United States would pay for North Korea’s accommodations and said Washington is “not asking others to do so.”
Earlier in the week, Singapore government officials were made aware that the United States was considering asking them to cover the hotel costs for North Korea, the two sources said.
And Saturday, Singaporean Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen said his country was eager to pick up the bill for some of the summit costs to ensure the success of the meeting.
“It is a cost that we’re willing to bear to play a small part in this historic meeting,” Ng told reporters without elaborating.
The Fullerton, a magnificent neoclassical hotel in the central business district, is the preferred lodging of North Korean officials staying in Singapore. (John Hudson/The Washington Post)
The heavily sanctioned and isolated regime has a long history of making bold monetary demands.
[Trump reinstates summit with Kim Jong Un for June 12 in Singapore]
During the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea set aside $2.6 million to cover travel accommodations for a North Korean cheering squad, an art troupe and other members of the visiting delegation.
At the same Games, the International Olympic Committee paid for 22 North Korean athletes to travel to the event.
In 2014, when then-U.S. Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. visited North Korea to retrieve two prisoners, his North Korean hosts served him an “elaborate 12-course Korean meal,” the veteran intelligence official said, but then insisted that he pay for it.
“These norms were laid in the early 2000s, when Seoul’s so-called sunshine policy took off,” said Sung-Yoon Lee, an expert on Korea at Tufts University, referring to a policy of rapprochement associated with former South Korean president Kim Dae-jung. “North Korea can build nukes and ICBMs, but claim they are too poor to pay for foreign travel costs.”
Any payment for North Koreans’ accommodations would run afoul of Treasury Department sanctions, said Elizabeth Rosenberg, a former Treasury official. The transaction would require the Office of Foreign Assets Control to “temporarily suspend the applicability of sanctions” through a waiver, she said.
The United States is expected to request these waivers from Treasury and the United Nations for a range of payments associated with North Korea’s travel, but a long list of exemptions could draw scrutiny.
“There are legitimate mechanisms built in for exemptions depending on the circumstance, but this could run into public and political criticism and send the wrong message to North Korea,” said Duyeon Kim, a visiting fellow at the Korean Peninsula Future Forum, a nonpartisan think tank in Seoul.
Figuring out how to pay Pyongyang’s hotel tab will not be the only unusual planning obstacle that comes with hosting an event with the isolated regime. The country’s outdated and underused Soviet-era aircraft may require a landing in China because of concerns it won’t make the 3,000-mile trip — a visit that would probably require a plausible cover story to avoid embarrassment. Alternatively, the North Koreans might travel in a plane provided by another country.
Many of those issues have been secondary to the major decision of selecting a venue for the two leaders to meet. For that, the two sides are believed to have settled on the Capella hotel on the resort island of Sentosa, the people familiar with the talks said. Situated off Singapore’s southeast coast, the hotel boasts a mix of colonial-style buildings and curvy modern edifices.
On Wednesday, a Washington Post reporter witnessed construction crews erecting tents and other facilities required for a large event. The reporter was later instructed to leave the premises after interacting with the U.S. planning delegation, which is staying at the resort. The resort’s relative seclusion appealed to security-conscious U.S. and North Korean officials.
During Trump’s visit to Singapore, he is expected to stay at the Shangri-La, a 747-room hotel that is accustomed to high-security events. It hosts the annual Shangri-La Dialogue, a security conference that attracts dozens of defense and foreign ministers.
White House and State Department officials repeatedly declined to comment on the advance team planning, keeping those discussions more opaque than the substance of the negotiations.
Rexon Ryu, a former White House official who dealt with the North Korea nuclear issue, said the North Korean side in particular has an interest in keeping those discussions quiet.
“These talks go to the question of security, and if anything, that’s probably most immediately paramount to Kim,” he said. “I think for many folks on the North Korean side, this is more important than the content of the negotiations.” ||||| The prospect for a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula could hinge on who picks up the tab for Kim Jong Un’s hotel.
The arrangements for the five-star accommodations are among many that have to be hashed out before Kim and President Trump sit down for the historic talks in Singapore, the Washington Post reported.
But the US would need to circumvent its own sanctions against the rogue nation.
The peace talks are set for The Fullerton Hotel Singapore on June 12.
A rack rate room goes for $415 that night but a super-luxurious suite, befitting a world leader, could go for as much as $6,000, the newspaper said.
The hermit kingdom reportedly requires that all of Kim’s lodging bills are picked up by another country.
The US is open to paying for Kim. But first, Trump’s team would have to get around its own economic sanctions against North Korea — by obtaining a waiver from the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
However, should the United States pick up Kim’s tab, that could be seen by North Korea as a condescending slight by the imperialist American dogs.
So that could usher in a plan to have the host nation of Singapore pay for Kim’s entourage, ensuring that Pyongyang doesn’t have to max out its low-limit credit card or suffer the indignity of Uncle Sam picking up the bill.
“It is an ironic and telling deviation from North Korea’s insistence on being treated on an ‘equal footing,’” said Scott Snyder, a Korea expert at Council on Foreign Relations.
The famed hotel does have a 48-hour cancellation and free WiFi for guests. |||||
At least as of Friday, the US-North Korea summit meeting is back on—but who's going to foot the bill? Especially that darned hotel bill. So the Washington Post is asking in an article about how two teams led by Washington and Pyongyang are hammering out details before the June 12 meeting. Two people familiar with negotiations say the US team is willing to pay for North Korea's favored lodging, at the five-star Fullerton Hotel near the Singapore River, where the presidential suite alone costs over $6,000 a night. But knowing that cash-strapped North Korea may be insulted by a US payment, Americans are asking Singapore to pay for it. Yet such payments are nothing new: North Korean athletes and cheerleaders had their travel costs covered to the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang (by the International Olympic Committee and South Korea, respectively) and when former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper dined in North Korea to take back two US prisoners in 2014, he was served an elaborate meal and asked to pay the bill. One issue now is that paying for North Korea's hotel bill would violate Treasury Department sanctions; the US could seek waivers, but a detailed exemption list might raise eyebrows. On the bright side, the Fullerton does accept cancellations 48 hours ahead of time and the WiFi is free for guests, the New York Post reports.
Tweet with a location
You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| CNN’s Jim Acosta continued to go off on White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer today after today’s off-camera, no-audio gaggle, which he earlier made clear on Twitter frustrated him:
The Spicer off-camera/no audio gaggle has begun. I can't show you a pic of Sean. So here is a look at some new socks I bought over the wknd pic.twitter.com/wO9erspwYa — Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 19, 2017
Make no mistake about what we are all witnessing. This is a WH that is stonewalling the news media. Hiding behind no camera/no audio gaggles — Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 19, 2017
There is a suppression of information going on at this WH that would not be tolerated at a city council mtg or press conf with a state gov. — Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 19, 2017
Call me old fashioned but I think the White House of the United States of America should have the backbone to answer questions on camera. — Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 19, 2017
He reiterated those same points later to Brooke Baldwin, saying that this isn’t about the press being “crybabies” but about the American people being able to see these answers on camera.
Acosta even went on to take this shot at Spicer, in the context of him not giving a more direct answer on whether there are White House “tapes” or on whether the president believes in climate change or not:
“The White House press secretary is getting to a point, Brooke, where he’s just kind of useless. You know, if he can’t come out and answer the questions and they’re just not going to do this on-camera or audio, why are we even having these briefings or these gaggles in the first place?”
Watch above, via CNN.
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| CNN’s White House correspondent Jim Acosta did not hold back after being denied the use of camera and audio equipment to record statements by Sean Spicer at a press briefing Monday. According to Mediaite, the reporter hopped on social media to air his frustration, tweeting that the White House should have the “backbone to answer questions on camera.” His rant began with a cheeky tweet and photo of his anchor-print socks, which he said he was able to snap in place of a photo of the press secretary. Acosta accused the White House of “stonewalling the news media” and claimed Spicer took questions from a Russian news outlet, but not CNN. Per the Hill, Acosta doubled-down on his sentiments when he appeared on CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin. “It just feels like we’re sort of slowly but surely being dragged into what is a new normal in this country where the president of the United States is allowed to insulate himself from answering hard questions,” he told Baldwin. Acosta asserted that Spicer is getting “kind of useless,” and wondered why the media is going along with the White House's no-recording rule. “This isn’t how we do things in this country but, for whatever reason, we’re all going along with it. I don’t understand why we covered that gaggle today, quite honestly.” No response from Spicer yet, but Politico reports that he may be looking for his own replacement behind the White House podium.
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How to get rid of bagworms
Begin looking for bagworms during the winter or early spring.
Bagworm egg sacks are brown and one and a half to two inches (3.8 to 5 cm) long. They are covered with dead needles, so they appear more noticeable in contrast to the green deciduous needles at this time.
Bagworm sacks can be very hard to find because they look like pine cones. Look through your pinecones to find variations that may be bagworms.
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How to participate in the boots to business training program
Register for the program.
Registering for the boots to business program is easy. All you have to do is contact the transition assistance program (tap) office on your base.
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How to make cookies and cream rice krispie treats
Melt the butter in a large saucepan.
Over a low heat setting, melt the butter to where it is nearly all liquid.
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| Combine and stir the butter and marshmallows until everything is melted thoroughly. Remove the pan from the heat and add the 10 oreos that were chopped. |
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]: He read the telegram again. In desperation he went back to the long distance booth, but found the line still out of order, and a wire had come giving the details of the damage done by the storm. It would be several days before communication could be established. There was no help coming from headquarters, and from the wording of the telegram there seemed to be a reason for their not giving clear details. He must get a copy of the paper. Reluctantly he went to the printing office and made known his errand. Mr. Driggs was delighted to give him the paper--he had it some place, though he very seldom opened any of his exchanges. He evidently bore Mr. Steadman no ill-will for his plain talk two weeks ago. With some difficulty he found it, with its wrapper still intact. It was a loose wrapper, which slipped off and on easily. Mr. Steadman remarked carelessly that there was an editorial in it to which his attention had been drawn, on hearing which Mr. Driggs turned his head and winked at an imaginary accomplice. <sep>What did Mr. Driggs still have intact around the item he was getting for Mr. Steadman?<sep>Box
[A]: No
[Q]: Mr. Andrews pointed to one of the oak chairs. "You sit there," he commanded, "it's reserved for members of the bar, but it's all right. You're with ME." Distinctly annoyed, slightly bewildered, the banker sank between the arms of a chair. He felt he had lost his individuality. Andrews had become his sponsor. Because of Andrews he was tolerated. Because Andrews had a pull he was permitted to sit as an equal among police-court lawyers. No longer was he Arnold Thorndike. He was merely the man "with Mr. Andrews." Then even Andrews abandoned him. "The judge'll be here in a minute, now," said the assistant district attorney, and went inside a railed enclosure in front of the judge's bench. There he greeted another assistant district attorney whose years were those of even greater indiscretion than the years of Mr. Andrews. Seated on the rail, with their hands in their pockets and their backs turned to Mr. Thorndike, they laughed and talked together. The subject of their discourse was one Mike Donlin, as he appeared in vaudeville. To Mr. Thorndike it was evident that young Andrews had entirely forgotten him. He arose, and touched his sleeve. With infinite sarcasm Mr. Thorndike began: "My engagements are not pressing, but—" A court attendant beat with his palm upon the rail. "Sit down!" whispered Andrews. "The judge is coming." Mr. Thorndike sat down. The court attendant droned loudly words Mr. Thorndike could not distinguish. There was a rustle of silk, and from a door behind him the judge stalked past. <sep>What did his sponsor whisper?<sep>Stand up
[A]: No
[Q]: Callimaco is taken by the beauty of Lucrezia , but she is the loyal wife of Nicia , a rich and foolish lawyer . Callimaco hires the service of a shady ` fixer ' named Ligurio to aid in his quest to sleep with her . Lgurio informs Callimaco that Nicia and Lucrezia are anxious to have a child . With the fixer's help , . Callimaco masquerades as a doctor and convinces Nicia that the best way for Lucrezia to conceive a child is by her taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root . He lies and warns Nicia that the first man to sleep with Lucrezia after she has taken the potion will die within eight days . Together they devise a plan to kidnap a stranger to sleep with Lucrezia and draw out the poison . Callimaco then disguises himself and arranges to be the one who is kidnapped . Lucrezia is an honorable woman and does not at first agree to meet with the stranger . Nicia gets both Lucrezia's mother , a woman of ill repute , and her confessor Brother Timoteo , a priest of low morals , to aid in convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan . After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything . Lucrezia gives thought to the duplicity of her husband , her mother , and her confessor , and decides that she now wants Callimaco as a lover forever . Callimaco gets what he had desired and everyone else continues to believe that each had outwitted the others . <sep>What plan does Nicia want confessor Brother Timoteo's help with?<sep>Nicia wants Brother Timoteo to convince Lucrezia to sleep with her kidnapper, Callimaco
[A]: | Yes
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Harlem Beat (ハーレム・ビート , Hāremu Bīto ) is a Japanese manga series created by Yuriko Nishiyama. It was published by Tokyopop in the United States. The series contain 29 volumes in Japan. However, in the U.S., the manga goes up to 9 volumes under the name "Harlem Beat", while volumes 12+ are published under the series title Rebound. As of August 31, 2009, the "Rebound" volumes are out of print.
Harlem Beat is hand drawn OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
How to rebuild a good reputation in the community<br>Own your mistakes as soon as possible. In order to effectively restore your image, you need to act fast. Waiting too long can lead to irreparable damage.
It is easy to rebuild your reputation. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
How to buy corn commodities<br>Understand what factors affect corn production. When trying to predict whether corn will go up or down in price, it is important to know about the agriculture business and what factors lead to a profitable or a lousy harvest. [substeps] Read up on the kinds of corn that are being sewn.
The price of corn depends on the agriculture business OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | Yes |
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: Which hit top of the charts in less countries, Confessions on a Dance Floor or Hung Up?, Context: Her tenth studio album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, was released in November 2005. Musically the album was structured like a club set composed by a DJ. It was acclaimed by critics, with Keith Caulfield from Billboard commenting that the album was a "welcome return to form for the Queen of Pop." The album won a Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album. Confessions on a Dance Floor and its lead single, "Hung Up", went on to reach number one in 40 and 41 countries respectively, earning a place in Guinness World Records. The song contained a sample of ABBA's "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)", only the second time that ABBA has allowed their work to be used. ABBA songwriter Björn Ulvaeus remarked "It is a wonderful track—100 per cent solid pop music." "Sorry", the second single, became Madonna's twelfth number-one single in the UK.
A: | Confessions on a Dance Floor |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Robert Clary (born Robert Max Widerman; March 1, 1926) is a French-American actor, published author, artist and lecturer. He is known for his role in the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes as Corporal Louis LeBeau. | are there any actors from hogan's heroes still alive? |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Sabine Roza MD Ph.D. and
Ayesha Sajjad MD, Phd student
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry & Psychology
Department of Psychiatry, Erasmus MC,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Medical Research: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Dr. Roza: WHO guidelines recommend six months of exclusive breastfeeding followed by partial breastfeeding until two years for overall optimum growth and development of children. However, the role of breastfeeding duration on child cognitive development remains a topic of continual debate. Previous research has shown mixed results on the role of breastfeeding duration and exclusivity on child IQ. Several methodological differences in study design inhibit comparisons of these studies and thus limit their generalizability. Furthermore, the association of breastfeeding with child cognitive development is subject to confounding by various factors especially maternal IQ. Therefore, we aimed to study the association between breastfeeding duration and breastfeeding exclusivity with non-verbal IQ in children. We used data the Generation R Study, which is a prospective cohort study from fetal life until young adulthood. Due to the large variability in ethnic backgrounds in our study participants, we focused on non-verbal IQ. In a large sample of 3761 children aged on average 6 years, we found an initial advantage of 0.32 points in non-verbal IQ for every increasing month of breastfeeding, which strongly attenuated after adjustments were made for child factors, maternal factors, sociodemographic factors, parental lifestyle and maternal IQ. Similar attenuation of effect sizes was observed for breastfeeding duration as a categorical variable and duration of exclusive breastfeeding.
Medical Research: What should clinicians and patients take away from your report?
Dr. Roza: Breastfeeding is important for over-all optimum growth of children conferring various health advantages. However, improved IQ with longer duration of breastfeeding is not among those advantages. Sociodemographic factors, parental lifestyle and most importantly maternal IQ mostly explain the association between breastfeeding and child IQ.
Medical Research: What recommendations do you have for future research as a result of this study?
Dr. Roza: Future research should be aimed to investigate other factors that can further explain the complex association between breastfeeding and child IQ such as paternal IQ. Furthermore, other domains of child cognitive development should be investigated in relation to the effects of confounding.
Citation:
Breastfeeding duration and non-verbal IQ in children
Sajjad A1, Tharner A2, Kiefte-de Jong JC3, Jaddoe VV4, Hofman A5, Verhulst FC6, Franco OH3, Tiemeier H7, Roza SJ8.
J Epidemiol Community Health. 2015 Feb 19. pii: jech-2014-204486. doi: 10.1136/jech-2014-204486. [Epub ahead of print]
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:, & Sabine Roza MD Ph.D. (2015). Longer Breastfeeding Not Linked To Higher Childhood IQ ||||| Brazilian study of 6,000 babies from all backgrounds since 1982 finds those who breastfed were more intelligent, spent longer in education and earned more
Breastfed babies are more likely to turn into well-educated and higher-earning adults, according to a major long-term study.
Researchers in Brazil have followed nearly 6,000 babies from birth for the past three decades, enabling them for the first time to get an idea of the long-term effects of breastfeeding. Nearly 3,500 of them, now 30-year-old adults, accepted an invitation to be interviewed and sit IQ tests for the purpose of the study. Those who had been breastfed proved to be more intelligent, had spent longer at school and earned more than those who had not been. And the longer they were breastfed as a baby, the better they tended to be doing.
It is already known that breastfeeding can increase a child’s IQ by a small amount. The question that Dr Bernardo Lessa Horta from the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil wanted to answer was whether this translated into greater intelligence and better prospects as an adult.
“Our study provides the first evidence that prolonged breastfeeding not only increases intelligence until at least the age of 30 years but also has an impact both at an individual and societal level by improving educational attainment and earning ability,” he said.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest The study found babies who had been breastfed for six months, as recommended by the WHO, got most of the benefits enjoyed by those who were fed for longer. Photograph: Katie Collins/PA
It is not just the age of the participants that makes this study unusual. Horta says it is free of the major complication of most breastfeeding studies because, when it began in 1982, it was not just the more affluent and educated mothers who breastfed in Brazil. Breastfeeding was not limited to one socio-economic group. It was, he says, evenly distributed across the social classes. So the higher achievers at the age of 30 did not come from better-off homes.
Nonetheless, in analysing their results, now published in the Lancet Global Health journal , they took account of family income at birth, parental schooling, genomic ancestry, maternal smoking during pregnancy, maternal age, birthweight and type of delivery to try to avoid any of those factors skewing the results.
They found that all the breastfed babies had greater intelligence, as measured by a standard IQ test, had spent more years in education and had higher earnings. But the longer they had been breastfed, the greater the benefits. Children who had been breastfed for 12 months had an IQ that was four points higher than those breastfed for less than a month, had nearly a year’s more schooling and earned around £70 a month more – about a third more than the average income level.
Horta acknowledged he could not completely rule out the possibility mothers who breastfed helped their babies’ development in other ways. “Some people say it is not the effect of breastfeeding but it is the mothers who breastfeed who are different in their motivation or their ability to stimulate the kids,” he told the Guardian.
But, he said, there is evidence from other studies of the nutritional value of mother’s milk, rich in long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids that are essential for brain growth. Some studies have suggested babies with a particular genotype are more likely to get the IQ benefit from breastfeeding than others. Horta and colleagues are now looking to see whether that applies in their cohort.
Exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months is recommended by the World Health Organisation. Horta said babies who had been breastfed for six months got most of the benefits enjoyed by those who were fed for longer. “Mothers should breastfeed for as long as possible,” he said, but he recognised that extended breastfeeding is not always easy for women. Less than a quarter of new mothers in the UK are still exclusively breastfeeding by the time the baby is six weeks old.
Dr Colin Michie, chair of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health’s nutrition committee, said: “It’s widely known that breastfed babies are better protected against chest and ear infections, are at less risk of sudden infant death and are less likely to become obese, but it’s interesting to see the benefits of breastfeeding for a prolonged period of time not only benefit the baby in the early years, but also translate into increased intelligence and improved earning ability later in life.
“It is important to note that breastfeeding is one of many factors that can contribute to a child’s outcomes, however, this study emphasises the need for continued and enhanced breastfeeding promotion so expectant mothers are aware of the benefits of breastfeeding. Furthermore, once mothers have given birth, we must ensure they are properly supported to continue breastfeeding for as long as they are able to.”
• This article was amended on 18 March 2015 because an earlier version referred to long-chain polyunsaturated acids. This has been corrected to say long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids.
||||| | The benefits of breastfeeding extend long beyond childhood, a decades-long study finds. Researchers have been keeping tabs on a group of Brazilian children since 1982, and recently, they checked in with some 3,500 of them to see how they're doing as adults. Interviews and an IQ test found that those who breastfed had higher IQs and were earning more money, the Guardian reports. In fact, a longer period of breastfeeding was associated with particularly good results: Those babies who had breastfed for a year ended up pulling in about $100 more per month as adults than did those who had breastfed for less than a month. They also had IQs that surpassed the shorter-term breastfeeders by four points. The researchers used data from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds, the Guardian notes, and they worked to control for factors like maternal education, babies' birth weight, mothers' smoking, and more. Still, the scientists say that other influences could be at play, and the lead researcher tells the New York Times that he doesn't "want to terrify people who did not breastfeed or who breastfed for a short time." In fact, another recent study questions the idea that IQ and breastfeeding are linked: A researcher in the Netherlands tells MedicalResearch.com that other variables—including "sociodemographic factors, parental lifestyle, and, most importantly, maternal IQ" may explain the connection. Still, she agrees that "breastfeeding is important for overall optimum growth of children." (A lactation expert recently explained why pumping and breastfeeding aren't equivalent.) |
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".
Callimaco is taken by the beauty of Lucrezia , but she is the loyal wife of Nicia , a rich and foolish lawyer . Callimaco hires the service of a shady ` fixer ' named Ligurio to aid in his quest to sleep with her . Lgurio informs Callimaco that Nicia and Lucrezia are anxious to have a child . With the fixer's help , . Callimaco masquerades as a doctor and convinces Nicia that the best way for Lucrezia to conceive a child is by her taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root . He lies and warns Nicia that the first man to sleep with Lucrezia after she has taken the potion will die within eight days . Together they devise a plan to kidnap a stranger to sleep with Lucrezia and draw out the poison . Callimaco then disguises himself and arranges to be the one who is kidnapped . Lucrezia is an honorable woman and does not at first agree to meet with the stranger . Nicia gets both Lucrezia's mother , a woman of ill repute , and her confessor Brother Timoteo , a priest of low morals , to aid in convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan . After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything . Lucrezia gives thought to the duplicity of her husband , her mother , and her confessor , and decides that she now wants Callimaco as a lover forever . Callimaco gets what he had desired and everyone else continues to believe that each had outwitted the others . <sep>Whose wife longs to have a child?<sep>Ligurio | No |
The latch is let down and they all take off into the dirt and start to race in the dirt. many of the boys
keep going around the track and people are spread throughout the course holding up sticks.
How to buy from a wedding registry
Find out where the couple is registered.
You may need to ask the bride's or groom's parents or a member of the wedding party. Some couples include this information in the wedding invitation, but it is generally considered impolite to do so.
If the couple has a wedding website, they may include the registry information on the site. Typically, a couple will register at more than 1 store.
How to get magnesium from food
Eat fruit rich in magnesium.
Tamarind and prickly pear are the fruits with the highest content of this nutrient. One fresh prickly pear contains 88 mg of magnesium.
½ cup of tamarind contains 58 mg. A medium sized banana, for comparison, provides only 32 mg of magnesium.
How to set up a pro tools session
Launch pro tools and create a new session.
Once you have opened pro tools on your computer, create a new session by going to file and selecting new session. If you are using pro tools on a macintosh, you can press the control and letter m keys simultaneously to create a new session.
| The new session dialog box will appear on your screen. Name and designate the storage location for your session. |
In fact, we put together a $5. 6 trillion surplus in the '90s that was for the purpose of saving Social Security. If you take the tax cut that the president of the United States has given -- President Bush gave to Americans in the top 1 percent of America -- just that tax cut that went to the top 1 percent of America would have saved Social Security until the year 2075.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
bush tax cuts were good for the middle class
Possible answers:
1). Yes
2). It's impossible to say
3). No | 2). |
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: Hurlburt Field, Florida (CNN) -- An Air Force CV-22 Osprey crashed Wednesday during a routine training mission north of Navarre, Florida, injuring five crew members aboard, a military official said. The crash occurred about 6:45 p.m. at Hurlburt Field's Eglin Range, said Amy Nicholson, chief of public affairs at the airfield. The five injured crew members were taken to an area hospital, Nicholson said. The extent of their injuries was not immediately known. The cause of the accident is under investigation, she said. The Osprey was assigned to the 1st Special Operations Wing, the Air Force said. The tilt-rotor aircraft can fly like an airplane and land like a helicopter. The Army began developing the Osprey in 1982, though the program was nearly scrapped in 1989 when then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney sought to cancel it because of ballooning costs. Questions were raised about the safety of the Osprey after two crashes, including one in 1992 at a Marine Corps air base in Virginia that killed the crew. In late 2000, the Marine Corps grounded the Osprey fleet after two crashes -- one in Arizona that killed four crew members and 15 passengers, and another in North Carolina that killed the crew. A redesign was ordered on the Osprey, and it resumed flights in 2002. The Air Force began using Ospreys in 2008 after testing the aircraft in 2006. They were first deployed by the Marines in Iraq in 2007 after 18 years and $20 billion in development. <sep>How many people have died from the crash in Navarre, FL and in Arizona combined?<sep>19
A: Yes
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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 three parts of the small intestine?<sep>The colon, the duodenum, the esophagus
A: No
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Q: Comanche Indians have trapped the evil of their land in a monster made up of a mixture of other animals . The Comanche have placed a protective spear in the ground to contain the evil . A young boy pulls the spear from the ground while pocketing a rabbit foot talisman . He starts to play with the spear . A Comanche catches the boy , and startled , he runs away with the rabbit's foot . The Native American places the spear back , realizing too late that the rabbits foot is now gone . After that , white men come and start drilling for oil . Skip to current time , a divorced father , Mance Cashen , moves to the area with his new wife , baby , and his son from his first marriage , Willy ( played by ( ( Chris Miller , who is visiting . Willy notices something peculiar in the house and tries to warn his father and step-mother . They do not believe him . Willy is attacked while on a tire swing over a small water hole . The creature grabs his foot and Willy struggles , eventually getting away . He eventually befriends the local drunk , T. C. van Houten . A nice old man with some bad memories who knows something about the evil near the oil well and was in a situation similar to Willy's . In the meantime a Comanche Indian , Chief Sam John , comes to warn Mance of the evil and the need to keep it contained . Sam John informs Mance the evil was originally intended to stop the white man , but it is indiscriminate in whom it kills instead . Mance will have none of it . Willy eventually takes a spear he finds on his property to Sam John and tries to find out what is going on . <sep>Who removes and starts to play with the spear?<sep>A young boy
A: | Yes
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Definition: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Input: A nightclub featuring loud music and a swimming pool just beyond the left field fence brings a touch of South Beach into the park. Taste of Miami food court includes such local cuisine as Cuban sandwiches, pork sandwiches, and stone crabs. There's even an aquarium inside the walls of home plate backstop containing live, tropical fish.
Output: | is the fish tank still in marlins stadium? |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then an example. Follow the example to solve a new instance of the task.
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
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
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.
New input: The ISS serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which crew members conduct experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology, and other fields. The station is suited for the testing of spacecraft systems and equipment required for missions to the Moon and Mars. The ISS maintains an orbit with an altitude of between 330 and 435 km (205 and 270 mi) by means of reboost manoeuvres using the engines of the Zvezda module or visiting spacecraft. It completes 15.54 orbits per day.
Solution: | what is the purpose of the international space station (iss) |
Clube de Futebol União de Coimbra, usually known as União de Coimbra (] ), is a sports club in the city of Coimbra, Portugal. The club was founded in June 2, 1919 and has a large array of sports departments which includes football, futsal, basketball, aikido, volleyball and swimming.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
Clube de Futebol União de Coimbra is a sports club that is often mistakenly called União de Coimbra due to a misunderstanding started by social media.
pick from the following.
(I) Yes.
(II) It's impossible to say.
(III) No. | (II) |
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".
A handful of Bronze Age relics has fostered an assumption that prehistoric settlers inhabited Ibiza thousands of years ago. Greater evidence of such a people is found on Mallorca and Menorca than on Ibiza, but one of the Balearics' most important sites is actually on the island of Formentera, where the megalithic monument/tomb of Ca Na Costa has been dated to 2000 b.c. Ibiza's key location between Africa and ancient Iberia made it a convenient stopover for Mediterranean seafarers, such as the Phoenician traders, who called the island Ibosim. The Greeks dubbed it Ebysos, the Romans called it Ebusus, and the Moors, Yebisah. The Carthaginians: A detailed history of the island doesn't begin until it became a colony of Carthage in the 7th century b.c. . The Carthaginians originally came from the area comprising present-day Lebanon, and from their bases in North Africa and what's now Spain, they challenged the Roman Empire for domination of the Mediterranean region. Their interest in Ibiza lay partly in its vast salt flats, which to this day remain the source of a profitable industry. They capitalized on the natural resources by using the salt to cure fish, which they exported to their home country. The Carthaginians also carried out lead mining and continued to be of significance up until this century. It is believed that the lead pellets which were used by the Carthaginian general Hannibal were made on Ibiza. The Carthaginians also considered the island a holy place, and here in great splendour they buried thousands of their citizens in a huge necropolis on the Puig des Molins (Hill of the Windmills) below the Dalt Vila (Old Town) of Ibiza. Under the gnarled olive trees archaeologists have uncovered a treasure trove of statues, jewellery, pitchers, tools, and coins, which are now displayed in the town's two archaeological museums. The Romans never really infiltrated Ibiza, and even after the defeat of Hannibal in 202 b.c. during the Second Punic War their influence was restrained. Only with the fall of Carthage in 146 b.c. did they manage to make inroads, but, as local historians stress, Ibiza was neither conquered nor annexed by Rome, but confederated, retaining remarkable autonomy. For centuries to come the old Carthaginian traditions were allowed to continue on Ibiza alongside the new Roman way of life. <sep>What did Carthaginians capitalize on in Ibiza?<sep>Salt to cure fish
Yes
To protect its seagoing interests and trade routes, Portugal established strategic garrisons in Goa (India), Malacca (East Indies), and Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. Portuguese explorers then embarked upon Macau (now Macao), the Congo, and various other parts of Africa, including the Sudan. The Portuguese policy was to avoid armed strife and to develop a trade empire, rather than to conquer nations. To this end it succeeded with relatively few blood-soaked episodes in its colonial history. Adventures abroad, however, proved disastrous during the second half of the 16th century. In 1557 the 14-year-old boy-king Sebastião ascended the throne, the beginning of a calamitous reign that was to end at the battle of Alcacer-Quiber (Morocco) in pursuit of a vain crusade. Sebastião's untimely demise, alongside some 18,000 ill-prepared, badly led followers, set the stage for a crisis of succession. For many years afterwards, legends and rumors bizarrely insisted that the king was still alive, and imposters turned up from time to time claiming the throne; those who were plausible enough to be deemed a threat were summarily executed. In fact, the only rightful claimant to the crown was the elderly Prince Henry. But after two years of alternating between the throne and his sickbed, he died, heirless. Surveying the situation and smelling an opportunity, Spain occupied the power vacuum, and Portugal's neighbor and long-time antagonist became its master. Spanish rule dictated Portugal's inadvertent involvement in Spain's ongoing wars. In 1587 a squadron of British ships commanded by Francis Drake attacked the Algarve (now a "legitimate target" as Spanish territory) and sacked Sagres, thus depriving the world of the relics of Henry the Navigator. Nine years later Faro was torched. The 1386 Treaty of Windsor, by which Britain and Portugal had pledged eternal friendship, seemed a distant memory. Portugal's empire was gradually eroded, and many of its trading posts (with the notable exception of Brazil) were picked off by the British and Dutch. Finally, after 60 years of Spanish rule, Portuguese noblemen (aided by the French, then at war with Spain) organized a palace coup and restored independence. The Great Disaster Portugal's greatest misfortune struck on All Saint's Day, 1 November 1755. <sep>Who became sick and died heirless?<sep>Prince Henry became sick
Yes
The Mummy 's Shroud is set in 1920 and tells the story of a team of archaeologists who come across the lost tomb of the boy Pharaoh Kah-To-Bey . The story begins with a flash back sequence to Ancient Egypt and we see the story of how Prem , a manservant of Kah-To-Bey , spirited away the boy when his father was killed in a palace coup and took him into the desert for protection . Unfortunately , the boy dies and is buried . The story then moves forward to 1920 and shows the expedition led by scientist Sir Basil Walden and business man Stanley Preston finding the tomb . They ignore the dire warning issued to them by Hasmid , a local Bedouin about the consequences for those that violate the tombs of Ancient Egypt and remove the bodies and the sacred shroud . Sir Basil is bitten by a snake just after finding the tomb . He recovers , but has a relapse after arriving back in Cairo . Preston takes advantage of this and commits him to an insane asylum , to take credit for finding the tomb and Prince 's mummy himself . Meanwhile , after being placed in the Cairo Museum , the mummy of Prem is revived when Hasmid chants the sacred oath on the shroud . The mummy then proceeds to go on a murderous rampage to kill off the members of the expedition , beginning with Sir Basil after he escapes from the asylum . One by one , those who assisted in removing the contents of the tomb to Cairo are eliminated by such grisly means as strangulation , being thrown out of windows , and having photographic acid thrown in their face . <sep>In what country was Kah-To-Bey's tomb?<sep>USA
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IN: What happens next?
How to tell if a salesperson is shady
Watch for extreme promises.
An incredible opportunity. There is a saying, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
OPTIONS:
- If an offer sounds like something the salesperson promised, he or she is generally lying. For example, a salesperson may promise to give you $100 if you get an annual bonus.
- Salespeople might promise an endless number of phone numbers, talk about their jobs but never offer to pay a flat rate for what they do or take on. Businesses hire people who in return do not earn the big bucks they once did.
- If someone i know and trust tells me something is incredible, i'll be inclined to believe them, but from a vendor i don't know, an incredible opportunity is rarely credible. Pay attention when they refer to a higher authority.
- If you can't be assured that the company you bought it for is the right one for you, then a good salesperson is likely shady. Some companies have been sued under the dealerships' act of 1977 (s).
OUT: If someone i know and trust tells me something is incredible, i'll be inclined to believe them, but from a vendor i don't know, an incredible opportunity is rarely credible. Pay attention when they refer to a higher authority.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to write a tanka poem
Focus on a scene in nature.
Tanka poems are similar to haikus in that their subject matter is usually about nature and the natural world. Think of a scene in nature that you find beautiful, stunning, or powerful.
OPTIONS:
- For example, the brushing of a rock across a river at sunset is one worthy poem. You could write a haiku using this image as a starting point.
- For example, if you find yourself drawn by the image of a lily in the grass, then so be it! This is a perfectly good way to write a haiku poem and it will explain the nature of nature. Try to find a subject that is interesting to you and write a poem about it.
- As you read, try to draw from a place, object, or feeling that you find captivating. If you don't have any particular experience in nature, try your subject matter.
- Pick an animal or plant in nature that you find inspiring. To get inspiration for the poem, you can also go for a walk outside in a natural area like a park or a garden.
A: Pick an animal or plant in nature that you find inspiring. To get inspiration for the poem, you can also go for a walk outside in a natural area like a park or a garden.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
A woman is standing on a ladder hanging wall paper. she
OPTIONS:
- uses a black tool to help her put the wall paper up.
- starts putting sheet after vast wall paper.
- wraps a wall paper pad around the existing wall paper and gathers the loose wall paper around it.
- is showing a wall, and various watercolors.
OUT: uses a black tool to help her put the wall paper up.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to get a certified check
Ensure that you have sufficient funds before you plan to write the check.
You cannot write a certified check for a given amount unless you currently have sufficient funds in your account. Before a bank issues a certified check, it will verify this information.
OPTIONS:
- Say you currently have $1 , 000 in your account and want to write a certified check for $1 , 100. The bank will not verify the check even if you are scheduled to get paid $3 , 000 in a few days.
- An easy option is to fill out the check yourself and mail a free check to the bank or credit bureau within a week when the bank is accepting checks for a fee. If your bank does not accept checks for a fee, you can request a certified check as a gift from a seller instead.
- For example, suppose you have enough to start a savings savings account at your bank. You can note that the amount you will charge for the account already in your name is $10.
- You also must have a secured account for the amount required. For example, you cannot authorize transfers if you do not have a verified account.
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Answer:
Say you currently have $1 , 000 in your account and want to write a certified check for $1 , 100. The bank will not verify the check even if you are scheduled to get paid $3 , 000 in a few days.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
A man is seated cross legged watching a show. A man is kneeling in front of the crowd, talking. he
OPTIONS:
- continues talking as the crowd is enraptured, listening to his every word.
- is recording himself as he talks, getting himself ready and keeping his form.
- talks as the man rinses the machine with soap.
- speaks while perusing the music.
A: continues talking as the crowd is enraptured, listening to his every word.
A man is holding a ball. He spins around several times with the ball. he
OPTIONS:
- throws the ball several times.
- pauses to talk to the camera.
- releases the ball and throws it onto the field in front of him.
- continues bouncing the ball around.
| releases the ball and throws it onto the field in front of him. |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Sta facendo il giro dell'Italia la lista dei compiti per le vacanze consegnata agli alunni dal professore Cesare Catà, insegnante al Liceo delle Scienze Umane "Don Bosco" di Fermo.
Il motivo è semplice: invece di ordinare letture obbligatorie o esercizi, Catà consiglia agli studenti di contemplare il mare in solitudine, ammirare l'alba, sognare la vita futura, leggere "perché è la migliore forma di rivolta" e "ballare senza vergogna". Consigli di vita che sembrano impartiti da un maestro che ha a cuore il benessere psicologico e spirituale dei suoi ragazzi piuttosto che il nozionismo.
Ecco i 15 punti che il professor Catà ha riportato anche nella propria pagina Facebook:
1. Al mattino, qualche volta, andate a camminare sulla riva del mare in totale solitudine: guardate come vi si riflette il sole e, pensando alle cose che più amate nella vita, sentitevi felici.
2, Cercate di usare tutti i nuovi termini imparati insieme quest'anno: più cose potete dire, più cose potete pensare; e più cose potete pensare, più siete liberi
3. Leggete, quanto più potete. Ma non perché dovete. Leggete perché l'estate vi ispira avventure e sogni, e leggendo vi sentite simili a rondini in volo. Leggete perché è la migliore forma di rivolta che avete (per consigli di lettura, chiedere a me).
4. Evitate tutte le cose, le situazioni e le persone che vi rendono negativi o vuoti: cercate situazioni stimolanti e la compagnia di amici che vi arricchiscono, vi comprendono e vi apprezzano per quello che siete.
5. Se vi sentite tristi o spaventati, non vi preoccupate: l'estate, come tutte le cose meravigliose, mette in subbuglio l'anima. Provate a scrivere un diario per raccontare il vostro stato (a settembre, se vi va, ne leggeremo insieme)
6. Ballate. Senza vergogna. In pista sotto cassa, o in camera vostra. L'estate è una danza, ed è sciocco non farne parte.
7. Almeno una volta, andate a vedere l'alba. Restate in silenzio e respirate. Chiudete gli occhi, grati.
8. Fate molto sport.
9. Se trovate una persona che vi incanta, diteglielo con tutte la sincerità e la grazia di cui siete capaci. Non importa se lui/lei capirà o meno. Se non lo farà, lui/lei non era il vostro destino; altrimenti, l'estate 2015 sarà la volta dorata sotto cui camminare insieme (se questa va male, tornate al punto 8).
10. Riguardate gli appunti delle nostre lezioni: per ogni autore e ogni concetto fatevi domande e rapportatele a quello che vi succede.
11. Siate allegri come il sole, indomabili come il mare.
12. Non dite parolacce, e siate sempre educatissimi e gentili.
13. Guardate film dai dialoghi struggenti (possibilmente in lingua inglese) per migliorare la vostra competenza linguistica e la vostra capacità di sognare. Non lasciate che il film finisca con i titoli di coda. Rivivetelo mentre vivete la vostra estate.
14.Nella luce sfavillante o nelle notti calde, sognate come dovrà e potrà essere la vostra vita: nell'estate cercate la forza per non arrendervi mai, e fate di tutto per perseguire quel sogno.
15. Fate i bravi. ||||| Anno scolastico agli sgoccioli ormai in tutta Italia: a incoraggiare gli alunni a fare l'ultimo sforzo sono gli insoliti compiti per le vacanze postati su Facebook da un professore di 33 anni, che hanno fatto il giro del web: "Camminate in riva al mare, guardate l'alba almeno una volta, leggete e sognate il vostro futuro". Suggerimenti ispirati - ammette il prof. Cesare Catà di Porto San Giorgio (Fermo) dal personaggio del prof. Keating ne L'Attimo Fuggente, interpretato da Robin Williams.
Ecco cosa scrive Cesare Catà nel post:
Ecco gli speciali "compiti per le vacanze" che ho lasciato ai miei ragazzi per l'estate 2015
1. Al mattino, qualche volta, andate a camminare sulla riva del mare in totale solitudine: guardate come vi si riflette il sole e, pensando alle cose che più amate nella vita, sentitevi felici.
2, Cercate di usare tutti i nuovi termini imparati insieme quest'anno: più cose potete dire, più cose potete pensare; e più cose potete pensare, più siete liberi
3. Leggete, quanto più potete. Ma non perché dovete. Leggete perché l'estate vi ispira avventure e sogni, e leggendo vi sentite simili a rondini in volo. Leggete perché è la migliore forma di rivolta che avete (per consigli di lettura, chiedere a me).
4. Evitate tutte le cose, le situazioni e le persone che vi rendono negativi o vuoti: cercate situazioni stimolanti e la compagnia di amici che vi arricchiscono, vi comprendono e vi apprezzano per quello che siete.
5. Se vi sentite tristi o spaventati, non vi preoccupate: l'estate, come tutte le cose meravigliose, mette in subbuglio l'anima. Provate a scrivere un diario per raccontare il vostro stato (a settembre, se vi va, ne leggeremo insieme)
6. Ballate. Senza vergogna. In pista sotto cassa, o in camera vostra. L'estate è una danza, ed è sciocco non farne parte.
7. Almeno una volta, andate a vedere l'alba. Restate in silenzio e respirate. Chiudete gli occhi, grati.
8. Fate molto sport.
9. Se trovate una persona che vi incanta, diteglielo con tutte la sincerità e la grazia di cui siete capaci. Non importa se lui/lei capirà o meno. Se non lo farà, lui/lei non era il vostro destino; altrimenti, l'estate 2015 sarà la volta dorata sotto cui camminare insieme (se questa va male, tornate al punto 8).
10. Riguardate gli appunti delle nostre lezioni: per ogni autore e ogni concetto fatevi domande e rapportatele a quello che vi succede.
11. Siate allegri come il sole, indomabili come il mare.
12. Non dite parolacce, e siate sempre educatissimi e gentili.
13. Guardate film dai dialoghi struggenti (possibilmente in lingua inglese) per migliorare la vostra competenza linguistica e la vostra capacità di sognare. Non lasciate che il film finisca con i titoli di coda. Rivivetelo mentre vivete la vostra estate.
14.Nella luce sfavillante o nelle notti calde, sognate come dovrà e potrà essere la vostra vita: nell'estate cercate la forza per non arrendervi mai, e fate di tutto per perseguire quel sogno.
15. Fate i bravi.
Una scena del film 'L'attimo fuggente' ||||| 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. ||||| Image copyright AFP Image caption Summer fun: Italy's hottest months are made for more than just homework
An Italian teacher has decided to forgo setting the usual holiday homework for his students and has instead given them a list of life advice.
Most schoolchildren in Italy are given school work to complete over the three-month summer holidays, which stretch from mid-June to mid-September. But Cesare Cata, who teaches at a secondary school in the central Le Marche region, wants his students to use their time off for less academic pursuits. "At least once, go and watch the sunrise", he writes in the 15-point "homework" list, which has since gone viral. Students are also told to wander beside the sea in the morning "thinking of the things you love in life", and to dance shamelessly when the mood strikes, because "summer is a dance, and it is foolish not to take part".
Image copyright Cesare Cata/Facebook Image caption Students are told to dream of what they want their lives to be
Mr Cata doesn't want students to forget school completely, though, and urges them to read widely and use all of the new terms they learned in the past year. "The more things you can say, the more things you can think; and the more things you can think, the freer you are," he says.
More than 3,000 people have shared the teacher's Facebook post, and hundreds have left positive comments. "I wish I'd had a teacher like you who encourages reflection and introspection," one person writes. The list seems to have struck a chord with many parents, who say they have shared it with their children. "Homework for life, not just for a season," one Facebook user says, while another declares: "With a teacher like you, I would go back to school tomorrow!"
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Use #NewsfromElsewhere to stay up-to-date with our reports via Twitter. ||||| | Thankful your school days are over? An Italian teacher's summer homework list might make you want to get back to class. Though most Italian students put pen to paper for scholarly pursuits through their summer holidays from mid-June to mid-September, Cesare Cata—a secondary school teacher at the Don Bosco school in Fermo, reports the Huffington Post—has other ideas. Among the 15 tasks on his homework list, which has been shared nearly 5,000 times on Facebook, per the BBC: "at least once, go and watch the sunrise," walk beside the sea "thinking of the things you love in life," dance boldly because "summer is a dance, and it is foolish not to take part," and "be cheerful as the sun, untameable as the sea." Cata also recommends lots of reading "but not because you have to," and hopes students will use all of the new words they learned over the school year. "The more things you can say, the more things you can think; and the more things you can think, the freer you are," he says in a good imitation of Dr. Seuss. On social media, many are praising the list and the teacher, who Italy's ANSA reports was inspired by Robin Williams' character in Dead Poets Society. "I wish I'd had a teacher like you who encourages reflection and introspection," an individual writes in the Facebook comments. Another adds, "With a teacher like you, I would go back to school tomorrow!" (A Swedish city is considering banning homework altogether.) |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
PROBLEM: J1 League is the top grouping of the Japan Professional Football League ( 日本フ ゚ ロサッカーリーク ゙ , Nippon Puro Sakka ̄ Ri ̄ gu ) .
SOLUTION: The J1 League ( Japanese : J1リーク ゙ , Hepburn : J1 Ri ̄ gu ) or simply J1 is the top division of the Japan Professional Football League ( Japanese : 日本フ ゚ ロサッカーリーク ゙ , Hepburn : Nihon Puro Sakka ̄ Ri ̄ gu ) and the top professional association football J.League in Japan .
PROBLEM: " Burning " ( calcination ) converts them into the highly caustic material " quicklime " ( calcium oxide ) , and , through the addition of water , into the less caustic , but still strongly alkaline " slaked lime " ( calcium hydroxide ) .
SOLUTION: " Burning " ( calcination ) of these minerals in a lime kiln converts them into the highly caustic material " burnt lime " , " unslaked lime " or " quicklime " ( calcium oxide ) and , through subsequent addition of water , into the less caustic ( but still strongly alkaline ) " slaked lime " or " hydrated lime " ( calcium hydroxide , Ca ( OH ) ) , the process of which is called " slaking of lime " .
PROBLEM: Resistance in the Netherlands included sabotage ( like cutting phone lines , distributing anti-German leaflets , or tearing down posters ) .
SOLUTION: | Resistance in the Netherlands initially took the form of small-scale , decentralized cells engaged in independent activities , mostly small-scale sabotage ( such as cutting phone lines , distributing anti-German leaflets or tearing down posters ) .
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In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
--------
Question: Alien Planet starts out with an interstellar spacecraft named Von Braun , leaving Earth's orbit . Traveling at 20 % the speed of light , it reaches Darwin IV in 42 years . Upon reaching orbit , it deploys the Darwin Reconnaissance Orbiter , Which looks for potential landing sites for the probes . The first probe , Balboa , explodes along with its lifting body transport during entry , because one of its wings failed to unfold . Two backup probes , Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton , successfully land on the planet , and learn much about its bizarre indigenous lifeforms , including an apparently sapient species . The robotic probes sent out to research on Darwin IV are called Horus Probes . Each Horus probe consists of an { { convert } } long inflatable , hydrogen-filled balloon , Which is covered with solar receptors , a computer ` brain ' , a ` head ' covered with sensors , and several smaller robots that can be sent to places too dangerous for the probes themselves . The probes have a limited degree of artificial intelligence , very similar to the ` processing power ' of a 4-year-old . All the real thinking is done by a supercomputer in the orbiting Von Braun . The probes are programmed with different personalities ; Ike is more cautious , while Leo is the risk-taker . The two probes are also equipped with a holographic message that will be projected to any sentient life found on Darwin . After the two probes inflate their gas-bags , they encounter a voracious Arrowtongue and watch it pursue a Gyrosprinter . <sep>What speed does the interstellar spacecraft Von Braun travel at?<sep>10 % of the speed of light
Answer: No
Question: Two women trade houses without ever having met . They 're both looking for an escape from their problems , but by running away , both come to discover a great deal about themselves . Ria Lynch is married to Danny Lynch and they have a daughter and a son . Danny begins spending less and less time at home with his wife and children . Ria believes another baby is the solution , and is shocked to find out that indeed her husband is going to be a father - but to a child from an affair he has been having . Her husband's unfaithfulness is the event that leads Ria into her decision to switch homes with a woman from the US called Marilyn who lost her teenage son to a motorcycle accident on his birthday . Marilyn is struggling to come to terms with her son's death and has become estranged from her husband . She hopes her time in Dublin will cease her grief . Ria and Marilyn discover deep , dark secrets about the other during the summer . The two become close friends but do not reveal the secrets . { { Expand section } } <sep>Why do the women switch houses?<sep>They 're both looking for an escape from their problems
Answer: Yes
Question: FEMA inspectors were in Kerrville again Wednesday, inspecting some damaged homes. According to Lindsay, FEMA has already received 44,000 inspection requests in Texas. The number of individuals seeking relief from the floods across South Texas increased by more than 1,000 Tuesday, bringing the total to 5,855, he said. FEMA has already distributed $1.8 million in relief in the form of emergency housing. "The registration process is going rapidly," Lindsay said, adding that most registrations took between 5 and 7 minutes. Aid also is available from the local chapter of the Red Cross, but flooding victims must interview with the Red Cross separately to receive aid from them, too. Daletta Andreas, Hill Country chapter executive director, said the chapter has received calls from people who thought registering with FEMA or for cleanup services from local groups automatically registered them for Red Cross services. That's incorrect, Andreas said. "They need to come in and go through our interview process," she said. The Red Cross service center, 333 Earl Garrett St., is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, and will be open this weekend, Andreas said. People seeking assistance must provide identification proving they reside in the area. Members of the State Bar of Texas are offering free legal advice for flood victims. Victims in Texas counties declared a federal disaster can call (800) 504-7030 for assistance with basic legal questions. The free legal assistance hotline, operated in coordination with Texas Rural Legal Aid and volunteer lawyers from across the state, will be available from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. <sep>What should people bring to the interview?<sep>Identification
Answer: | Yes
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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: Sauropoda are an infraorder of saurischian ( " lizard-hipped " ) dinosaurs .
Student: | Sauropoda ( or ) , or the sauropods ( ; " sauro- " + " -pod " , " lizard-footed " ) , are a clade of saurischian ( " lizard-hipped " ) dinosaurs . |
What happens next in this paragraph?
How to work in the usa as a canadian citizen
Qualify for an h-1b visa.
This type of visa is much sought after as it can be issued for full time or part time employment for individuals who possess a " specialty occupation ". A specialty occupation is a role that requires the skills of a professional.
Options:
- Typical workplace positions include estate planning, planning applications, sales training, training, customer service, hospitality, drama, marketing and customer service, and social work and communication. The part time job that is the most high end to a canadian citizen can actually be another great advantage over a canadian citizen.
- These skills, though generally less expensive than other careers for canadian citizens, are not covered by an h-1b visa, which is widely available. Complete the rest of the processing process.
- Be sure that you are qualified before you apply for the visa. Any work you do in the u.s.
- You should have at least a bachelor's degree or its equivalent, or relevant work experience. In addition, the process can be complicated and you may need an attorney to navigate the process. | You should have at least a bachelor's degree or its equivalent, or relevant work experience. In addition, the process can be complicated and you may need an attorney to navigate the process. |
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".
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>Who didn't stay in Zurich after Albert and Maric separated?<sep>Lady Lowenthal
| Yes |
Local Government Minister Lenard Montoute wants to set the tone at the embattled Castries Constituencies Council [CCC]. Montoute's Junior Minister Senator Fortuna Belrose recently denied reports that a rift with city mayor Peterson Francis was a factor in her ministerial re-alignment to the Ministry of Tourism. Minister Montoute says he nonetheless hopes to pick up from where Senator Belrose left off. Share this: Email Print Facebook Twitter WhatsApp LinkedIn Skype Google Pinterest Tumblr Telegram Reddit
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Lenard Montoute was not elected"?
Select from: * Yes * It's impossible to say * No
I think the answer is | No |
What happens next?
How to burn a divx movie to play in a dvd player
Verify that your mac has a dvd drive.
If you purchased your mac within the last 4 years chances are it won't have a built in dvd drive. Look for a thin slot about 5 inches long along the right side of your computer.
Possible answers:
(1). This will let you insert your mac in the drive and space it up so it stays inside. Insert the dvd drive into the drive..
(2). If it's not there, you'll have to buy an external dvd drive. You can buy apple's own external usb dvd writer, superdrive, for ~ $79, or select from a range of similar but less expensive options from companies like lg and samsung..
(3). Ensure that your mac has a usb drive. Click on your usb cd-rom drive..
(4). It should be labeled " cd-rom player " with a few pops to show the image. Insert one-inch plastic disk into the drive.. | (2). |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
What stage of development is after Old Persian in language origins?, Context: The other directly attested Old Iranian dialects are the two forms of Avestan, which take their name from their use in the Avesta, the liturgical texts of indigenous Iranian religion that now goes by the name of Zoroastrianism but in the Avesta itself is simply known as vohu daena (later: behdin). The language of the Avesta is subdivided into two dialects, conventionally known as "Old (or 'Gathic') Avestan", and "Younger Avestan". These terms, which date to the 19th century, are slightly misleading since 'Younger Avestan' is not only much younger than 'Old Avestan', but also from a different geographic region. The Old Avestan dialect is very archaic, and at roughly the same stage of development as Rigvedic Sanskrit. On the other hand, Younger Avestan is at about the same linguistic stage as Old Persian, but by virtue of its use as a sacred language retained its "old" characteristics long after the Old Iranian languages had yielded to their Middle Iranian stage. Unlike Old Persian, which has Middle Persian as its known successor, Avestan has no clearly identifiable Middle Iranian stage (the effect of Middle Iranian is indistinguishable from effects due to other causes).
Output: | Middle Persian |
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: How can you describe your location? You might use a familiar system. You might say, 'I live at 1234 Main Street, Springfield, Ohio.' You could also say, 'I live right behind the Elementary School.' This method uses the school as a point of reference. Another example is, I am at the corner of Maple Street and Main Street. Both streets may be a good reference for anyone living in your town. Scientists must be able to pinpoint a feature they are studying. Scientists use a special system to describe locations. They use latitude and longitude as a reference. Lines of latitude and longitude form a grid. You may have used a grid system while doing graphing. This grid is centered on a reference point. Zero latitude is the equator. Lines of latitude run east to west. They divide the Earth from North to South. Lines of longitude run from north to south. They divide the Earth from East to West. Zero longitude runs through Greenwich, England. You may have heard the term, Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT. The system of latitude and longitude works well for objects that do not move. <sep>What are two ways of describing the same location?<sep>To describe location one might give the cross streets for the current position or recite the entire street address
A: | Yes |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Q: Mary, Queen of Scots: The baby was Mary Stuart, who at the age of nine months was crowned Queen of Scots at the Chapel Royal, Stirling. When the news reached London, Henry VIII saw his chance to subdue Scotland again and negotiated a marriage between the infant Mary and his son Edward. The Scots refused, and Henry sent an army rampaging through Scotland on a campaign known as the "Rough Wooing. " The English king ordered his general to "burn Edinburgh town so there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon the Scots. " But more was at stake than simply Scotland's independence: there was now a religious schism within Britain. In order to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII had broken with Rome and brought the English church under his own control. England was thus now a Protestant country, caught between Catholic France and the Scots with their new Catholic queen. The Scots themselves were divided, many embracing Protestantism in the spirit of the Reformation while others remained staunchly Catholic. However, fear of the rampaging English army led the Scots again to seek help from their old Ailies in France, and the young queen married the Dauphin François, son of the French king. François II became king of France in 1559 but died soon after. In 1561 the 18-year-old Mary returned to a Scotland in the grip of the Reformation, as Protestant leaders had taken control of the Scottish parliament and abolished the authority of the pope. Her Protestant cousin, Elizabeth Tudor, was on the English throne, but Elizabeth — the "Virgin Queen" — had no heir. Mary was next in line for the English crown, and Elizabeth was suspicious of her intentions. The six years of Mary's reign were turbulent ones. She clashed early on with Edinburgh's famous Protestant reformer, John Knox, who held sway in St. Giles but later adopted an uneasy policy of religious tolerance. In 1565 she married her young cousin Henry, Lord Darnley, much to the chagrin of Elizabeth (Darnley was a grandson of Margaret Tudor and thus also had a claim to the English throne). On 19 June 1566, in the royal apartments in Edinburgh Castle, Mary gave birth to a son, Prince James. Within a year, however, Darnley was murdered, and Mary immediately immersed herself in controversy by marrying the Earl of Bothwell, the chief suspect. <sep>What made England become a Protestant country?<sep>Henry VIII had broken with Rome and brought the English church under his own control
A: | Yes |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Fukuhara-kyo ̄ ( 福原京 ) was the Imperial capital of Japan for six months in 1180 .
Output: | Fukuhara-kyo ̄ ( 福原京 , Capital of Fukuhara ) was the seat of Japan 's Imperial Court , and therefore the capital of the country , for roughly six months in 1180 . |
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: Most taxpayers are allowed a choice between the itemized deductions and the standard deduction. After computing their adjusted gross income (AGI), taxpayers can itemize deductions (from a list of allowable items) and subtract those itemized deductions (and any applicable personal exemption deductions) from their AGI amount to arrive at the taxable income. Alternatively, they can elect to subtract the standard deduction for their filing status (and any applicable personal exemption deduction) to arrive at the taxable income. In other words, the taxpayer may generally deduct the total itemized deduction amount, or the applicable standard deduction amount, whichever is greater.
Student: | when are itemized deductions used in computing taxable income |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: Quran is a kind of what?, Context: The term also has closely related synonyms that are employed throughout the Quran. Each synonym possesses its own distinct meaning, but its use may converge with that of qurʼān in certain contexts. Such terms include kitāb (book); āyah (sign); and sūrah (scripture). The latter two terms also denote units of revelation. In the large majority of contexts, usually with a definite article (al-), the word is referred to as the "revelation" (waḥy), that which has been "sent down" (tanzīl) at intervals. Other related words are: dhikr (remembrance), used to refer to the Quran in the sense of a reminder and warning, and ḥikmah (wisdom), sometimes referring to the revelation or part of it.
A: | revelation |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Example: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Example solution: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Example explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Problem: On October 7, 2015, Fox renewed the series for the seventh and eighth production cycles. The eighth season premiered on October 1, 2017. On March 27, 2018, Fox renewed the series for a ninth season, which will premiere on September 30, 2018. A film adaptation based on the animated television series is in the works and is scheduled for a July 17, 2020 release.
| Solution: do they still make new episodes of bob's burgers? |
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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.
Monthly rent for entire community is about $25,000
An anonymous donor paid January rent for every tenant in the 38-unit Newpark Studios last week. Monthly rent for the entire affordable housing community is about $25,000 or $527- $709 per unit. (Jake Shane/Park Record)
When Greg Ceccarelli returned home last week after grocery shopping and saw a note hanging on the door to his apartment, he didn't think anything of it.
Notes are often tacked onto residents' doors at Newpark Studios to update them on parking regulations, upcoming maintenance and community news, Ceccarelli said.
"It wasn't an unusual thing to come home and see the note on the door and I typically just glance at it," he said.
But Ceccarelli decided to look at the notice a little more closely. When he sat down and read it, Ceccarelli realized that an anonymous donor had the covered rent for every unit in Newpark Studios, including his. Like many of his neighbors, Ceccarelli, 30, was skeptical.
"I first wanted to make sure it was real. After I reread it, I walked back out to my car because I was getting groceries and ran into my neighbor," Ceccarelli said. "I asked him if he had seen it, but he hadn't yet so then I immediately went back in and called my parents and girlfriend and told them about it."
Just days before Christmas, residents of the 38-unit Newpark Studios were notified that their January rent had been paid. Monthly rent for the entire affordable housing community is about $25,000 or $527- $709 per unit. Most of the tenants are service industry workers and young adults. The building is located in Newpark across from the Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District Fieldhouse.
Angie Davis, district manager for Newpark Studios, said about 30 minutes after the notices were posted she started receiving calls.
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"People were saying, 'who would do something like that' and 'is it true?'" Davis said. "And we said, 'yes, it is completely true.' There was crying and lots of 'oh my gosh, I can't believe it.' Many people said they would now be able to have a Christmas."
Davis said she received a phone call last week from the donor, who asked to remain anonymous, inquiring about the monthly rent for every unit and when it was due.
"I gave him the information and the person said I am going to cover January rent and I was floored," Davis said. "I have never seen anything of this magnitude in the 10 years that I have been doing this."
The donor wasn't "out to have people smack them on the back," Davis said, before adding that "they are doing this because they felt like it was right thing to do."
"It really is incredible for an apartment complex to see something like that totally outside of the box," Davis said.
Jacob Whitlow, 23, was still in disbelief more than a week after the gift.
"It was really unexpected and surprising and I just can't believe it," Whitlow said. "I was shocked. I'm still shocked."
"I just couldn't believe it because it was an anonymous donation and it's really weird because it was building specific," Whitlow said. "It was a huge help for me and my mom, who happens to live in the building. It's huge. It's just huge."
Ceccarelli, a freestyle ski coach and restaurant worker on Main Street, said the donation has made a "night and day" difference for him.
"You want to do something for the people you care about, but it's the tightest part of the year," Ceccarelli said. "This has made my life feel a million time easier and less stressful. I'm able to enjoy a holiday and give presents without losing sleep over whether my rent going to be on time or late. It felt good that I could give to people because someone gave to me."
Ceccarelli said he knows that the donor wants to remain anonymous, however, he is hoping that he can bump into "him or her on the chair lift and they overhear me talking about it and they get to see the reaction from someone it has affected." Ceccarelli said he would simply say, 'thank you.'
"I don't think he could every really understand how great of a gift this is this time of year. I wish I could do something to repay him or let him know how grateful I am and that it makes it easy when you pass it on. I would let him or her know that when I have the opportunity to do that I will definitely try," he said.
||||| Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and before him Richard Daley, each proposed plans to end homelessness. Mayor Daley even pledged to get people off the streets within a decade.It hasn't happened. Now a new report released by the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless shows the problem is getting worse for families.Eight-year-old Tristian and his sisters see their mom as a superhero, fighting to find a permanent home."My mom is a hard-working woman, like Cinderella!" Tristian says.LaToya Ellis lost her job at sandwich shop in August. Since then she and her kids have bounced from the homes of friends and family to shelters."I think of my mom as a warrior," says her 14-year-old daughter Gabrielle. "This is very hard for a parent to go through and the fact she's fighting it every day is very inspirational for me"During their hour-and-half long commute to school each day, that have a lot of time to talk."They're not allowed to do normal things that children are allowed to do," says LaToya. "Something simple like watching TV or have a friend come over.""It's hard for me to tell them about my situation, even close friends that I have, because I'm afraid they'll look at me in a different perspective than they look at me now," says Gabrielle.A report released Wednesday by the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless finds the number of homeless families in Chicago has tripled in the last decade. According to the report, 13,000 families experience some form of homelessness in the last year. Only 123 of them found permanent, affordable housing.Advocates say there's a direct impact on the kids."They saw their children starting to act out at school, become withdrawn, become depressed, grades fall behind," says Julie Dworkin of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless. "They don't have a quiet place to do homework. They don't have a quiet place to sleep."I don't blame my situation," says 16-year-old Burgendy Ellis. "Yeah, it would be easy to. But if I blamed my situation, I feel like it wouldn't get me anywhere."The Ellis family will head back to a shelter when night falls. Their time there runs out in January. Then, they'll have to move on. Again."I want to have a house," says Tristian. "I want to be able to come home, do my homework, go to the refrigerator, get about two hot dogs and play videogames all day."In other words, what any kid his age would want. |||||
Output: | The days before Christmas are typically replete with stories of extreme generosity—like those annual tales of huge Salvation Army kettle donations—but as for what happened in Newpark, Utah, well, "I have never seen anything of this magnitude in the 10 years that I have been doing this." So said Angie Davis, the district manager for the 38-unit Newpark Studios apartment complex, who found herself on the other end of an unusual phone call just before the holiday. A donor who asked to remain unnamed wanted to cover the entire complex's January rent, which totaled about $25,000, and did, reports the Park Record. The paper reports that most of the people who occupy the affordable housing units are young and work in the service industry; tenants must be income-qualified to secure one of the units, which range in size from 395 to 448 square feet. A 30-year-old tenant says the timing couldn't have been more perfect. "I'm able to enjoy a holiday and give presents without losing sleep over whether my rent going to be on time or late. It felt good that I could give to people because someone gave to me." The gesture wasn't the only rent-related one to grab headlines in 2015: After Chicago's ABC7 profiled a homeless family in November, an anonymous donor covered an entire year of rent for LaToya Ellis and her three children, the station reported. |
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 How to Train Your Dragon franchise from DreamWorks Animation consists of two feature films How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), with a third feature film, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, set for a 2019 release. The franchise is inspired by the British book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell. The franchise also consists of four short films: Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon (2010), Book of Dragons (2011), Gift of the Night Fury (2011) and Dawn of the Dragon Racers (2014). A television series following the events of the first film, Dragons: Riders of Berk, began airing on Cartoon Network in September 2012. Its second season was renamed Dragons: Defenders of Berk. Set several years later, and as a more immediate prequel to the second film, a new television series, titled Dragons: Race to the Edge, aired on Netflix in June 2015. The second season of the show was added to Netflix in January 2016 and a third season in June 2016. A fourth season aired on Netflix in February 2017, a fifth season in August 2017, and a sixth and final season on February 16, 2018. | is how to train your dragon on now tv? |
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 sweat allergy is the exacerbation of atopic dermatitis associated with an elevated body temperature and resulting increases in the production of sweat. It appears as small reddish wheals that become visible in response to increased temperature and resulting production of sweat. It can affect all ages. Sweating can trigger intense itching or cholinergic urticaria. The protein MGL_1304 secreted by mycobiota present on the skin such as Malassezia globosa acts as a histamine or antigen. People can be desensitized using their own samples of sweat that have been purified that contains small amounts of the allergen. The allergy is not due to the sweat itself but instead to an allergy-producing protein secreted by bacteria found on the skin.
Output: | can you develop an allergy to your own sweat? |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
[Q]: What is an exception to their role?, Context: During the ceremony of initiation, the candidate is expected to swear (usually on a volume of sacred text appropriate to his personal religious faith) to fulfil certain obligations as a Mason. In the course of three degrees, new masons will promise to keep the secrets of their degree from lower degrees and outsiders, and to support a fellow Mason in distress (as far as practicality and the law permit). There is instruction as to the duties of a Freemason, but on the whole, Freemasons are left to explore the craft in the manner they find most satisfying. Some will further explore the ritual and symbolism of the craft, others will focus their involvement on the social side of the Lodge, while still others will concentrate on the charitable functions of the lodge.
[A]: as far as practicality and the law permit
[Q]: One actress that was in the movie Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol is?, Context: In India, it was reported that the Indian Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) censored kissing scenes featuring Monica Bellucci, Daniel Craig, and Léa Seydoux. They also muted all profanity. This prompted criticism of the board online, especially on Twitter.
[A]: Léa Seydoux
[Q]: What did John do the year after the papal terms for submission were accepted?, Context: Under mounting political pressure, John finally negotiated terms for a reconciliation, and the papal terms for submission were accepted in the presence of the papal legate Pandulf Verraccio in May 1213 at the Templar Church at Dover. As part of the deal, John offered to surrender the Kingdom of England to the papacy for a feudal service of 1,000 marks (equivalent to £666 at the time) annually: 700 marks (£466) for England and 300 marks (£200) for Ireland, as well as recompensing the church for revenue lost during the crisis. The agreement was formalised in the Bulla Aurea, or Golden Bull. This resolution produced mixed responses. Although some chroniclers felt that John had been humiliated by the sequence of events, there was little public reaction. Innocent benefited from the resolution of his long-standing English problem, but John probably gained more, as Innocent became a firm supporter of John for the rest of his reign, backing him in both domestic and continental policy issues. Innocent immediately turned against Philip, calling upon him to reject plans to invade England and to sue for peace. John paid some of the compensation money he had promised the church, but he ceased making payments in late 1214, leaving two-thirds of the sum unpaid; Innocent appears to have conveniently forgotten this debt for the good of the wider relationship.
[A]: | he ceased making payments
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In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: After offering help against US government pressure in July, the Swedish Pirate Party has signed an agreement with Wikileaks. After the deal, if the party wins a Swedish parliament seat in September, it'll be impossible to legally shut them down.
As part of the agreement - signed by Wikileaks' Julian Assange and Pirat Partiet's Rick Falkvinge - the Pirate Party will host new Wikileaks servers, providing with servers and bandwidth for free as "part of their political mission". Falvinge said that they are happy to provide with this help, as they share Wikileaks vision:
Wikileaks contribution is tremendously important for the entire world. We want to contribute to any effort that would increase transparency and helps to keep the powerful in check.
Assange is happy to know that they may count with a safe port in case things get nasty:
We welcome the help provided by the Pirate Party. Our organizations share many values and I am looking forward to future ways we can help each other improve the world.
But to get the immunity, the party needs to win a seat in the parliament in the upcoming September 19 election. Only then it will have the protection of Sweden's top democratic institution, and it will be impossible to shut down by any legal method. Sadly, the Pirate Party is not as popular now as it was when they got 7.1 per cent of the Swedish vote for the European Parliament last year. Hopefully this agreement will push them into something more lofty than protect the Pirate Bay. [El Mundo (in Spanish) and AFP] ||||| Sweden's Pirate Party has agreed to host several new servers of WikiLeaks, an international group denounced by the U.S. government for publishing tens of thousands of military documents related to the Afghanistan War.
The political party, known for its fight to reform laws governing copyright and patents, announced Tuesday that an agreement was reached during a recent visit to Stockholm by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Under the deal, the Pirate Party, which also hosts the controversial site The Pirate Bay, will provide bandwidth and hosting to WikiLeaks free of charge.
"The contribution of WikiLeaks is tremendously important to the entire world," Rick Falkvinge, leader of the party said in a statement. "We desire to contribute to any effort that increases transparency and accountability of power in the world."
The U.S. government has demanded that WikiLeaks return 15,000 documents that it says are classified. In a news conference this month, a Pentagon spokesman also denied WikiLeaks claims that it had asked the Department of Defense for help in reviewing the files before publishing them on the Web in July. WikiLeaks says the request for help was made through an "agreed intermediary."
The U.S. military arrested in June an intelligence analyst for allegedly leaking to WikiLeaks a classified video of a U.S. helicopter attack in Iraq and 150,000 classified diplomatic cables. Pfc. Bradley Manning is also a suspect in the more than 90,000 documents about the Afghan War sent to the site.
Assange has said that if enters the U.S., he fears he is at risk of being forcefully detained as a materials witness in Manning's prosecution, the U.K. newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported. No charges have been filed against Assange.
Wikileaks has consistently run afoul of authorities and governments worldwide for obtaining often classified documents and publishing them online. However, proponents say the site bolsters freedom of speech and is an important tool for journalists. The site has won a number of awards, including the 2008 New Media Award from Economist magazine and Amnesty International's U.K. Media Award in 2009.
FURTHER READING:
-- Pentagon Demands Wikileaks Return Afghanistan Files
-- WikiLeaks Tests Feasibility Of Government Data Security
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A: | The Pirate Party, a Swedish pro-piracy political party, has agreed to host servers for Wikileaks. The party, which also runs The Pirate Bay, a popular file sharing site, says supporting Wikileaks is in line with its commitment to copyright and patent reform, notes Information Week. "We want to contribute to any effort that would increase transparency and helps to keep the powerful in check," the party's leader says. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange visited Sweden this week and the parties reached a deal under which the "pirates" would provide bandwidth and host Wikileaks servers free of charge, reports Gizmodo. For the plan to work, however, the party must win a seat in Sweden's parliament, which would make it impossible for authorities to legally shut its servers down. It may sound far-fetched, but these digital swashbucklers already won a seat at the EU. |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Input: Consider Input: She posted criticism of ISIL 's destruction of religious places in Mosul .
Output: During the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 's occupation of Mosul , she posted comments on her Facebook account critical of ISIS ' destruction of religious shrines there .
Input: Consider Input: In Finland it is illegal to give an animal food the caretaker knows is bad for it , and it is also illegal to not give the animal enough food .
Output: In Finland , giving feed , drink or other nutrition which is known to be dangerous to an animal which is being cared for is prohibited , as well as failing to give nutrients the lack of which is known to cause the animal to fall ill .
Input: Consider Input: The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense .
| Output: The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense , although as a symbol of the U.S. military , the phrase " The Pentagon " is also often used as a metonym for the Department of Defense and its leadership .
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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".
[Q]: When you get sick, your body springs to action. Your body starts to fight the illness. Thats why you want to eat right and get plenty of sleep. You need a strong immune system to fight off illness. Plants dont have an immune system. That does not mean they do not get sick. Plants are affected by disease just like us. Typically, their first line of defense is the death of part of the plant. This prevents the infection from spreading. Many plants also produce special chemicals to fight disease. For example, willow trees produce a chemical to kill the bacteria. The same compound is used in many acne products. You can see a picture of a willow tree in Figure Plants may be smarter than we think. No, they cannot talk to each other. They may be able to send messages, though. <sep>What typically happens in a plant first to prevent an infection from spreading?<sep>Having some rest
[A]: No
[Q]: (CNN) -- Beyond skateboards, Silicon Valley and hippies, California has a trendsetting streak of a different kind. The state has been first to pass major public health initiatives that have spread throughout the country. California was first to require smog checks for clean air, pass anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws. While these laws were met with skepticism and ridicule, they've often become standard practice in other states. The Golden State was first to ban smoking in workplaces, bars and restaurants in 1998. Now similar rules exist throughout the country. Some advocates tout the state as a forward-thinking vanguard in which its health and safety laws are routinely emulated by other states. "There have been progressive legislations in tobacco, environment and obesity prevention," said Mark Horton, a lecturer at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health. "In some respect, the rest of the country looks to California as a laboratory for moving forward with those various types of initiatives." But some critics liken the Golden State to a nanny state. California has 151,002 health and safety laws. "It never ends," said Laer Pearce, who works in public affairs in Orange County. "Every year, several hundred bills come through and dozens of them tell us how to live our lives." Starting in January, 760 new California laws went into effect -- for example, the importing of shark fins is prohibited, student athletes are required to have medical clearance after suffering a head injury, teens are banned from using tanning booths and the sale of caffeinated beer is forbidden. There's a perception that California has "more folks who are health-oriented and more health-minded," said Horton, former director of the California Department of Public Health. It's not just workout fanatics hanging out at Muscle Beach, Sierra Club members hiking mountains or the uber-health-conscious touting organic foods. Californians in general tend to have healthier habits, ranking 10th for physical activity, fourth for healthy blood pressure and fifth for a diet high in fruits and vegetables compared with other states, according to America's Health Rankings. <sep>Why is there a perception that Californians are more health conscious?<sep>They have healthier habits
[A]: Yes
[Q]: On December 4, as news came in about the discoveries in Jordan, National Security Council (NSC) Counterterrorism Coordinator Richard Clarke wrote Berger, "If George's [Tenet's] story about a planned series of UBL attacks at the Millennium is true, we will need to make some decisions NOW." He told us he held several conversations with President Clinton during the crisis. He suggested threatening reprisals against the Taliban in Afghanistan in the event of any attacks on U.S. interests, anywhere, by Bin Laden. He further proposed to Berger that a strike be made during the last week of 1999 against al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan-a proposal not adopted. Warned by the CIA that the disrupted Jordanian plot was probably part of a larger series of attacks intended for the millennium, some possibly involving chemical weapons, the Principals Committee met on the night of December 8 and decided to task Clarke's Counterterrorism Security Group (CSG) to develop plans to deter and disrupt al Qaeda plots. Michael Sheehan, the State Department member of the CSG, communicated warnings to the Taliban that they would be held responsible for future al Qaeda attacks." Mike was not diplomatic," Clarke reported to Berger. With virtually no evidence of a Taliban response, a new approach was made to Pakistan. 13 General Anthony Zinni, the commander of Central Command (CENTCOM), was designated as the President's special envoy and sent to ask General Musharraf to "take whatever action you deem necessary to resolve the Bin Laden problem at the earliest possible time." But Zinni came back emptyhanded. As Ambassador William Milam reported from Islamabad, Musharraf was "unwilling to take the political heat at home." The CIA worked hard with foreign security services to detain or at least keep an eye on suspected Bin Laden associates. Tenet spoke to 20 of his foreign counterparts. Disruption and arrest operations were mounted against terrorists in eight countries. In mid-December, President Clinton signed a Memorandum of Notification (MON) giving the CIA broader authority to use foreign proxies to detain Bin Laden lieutenants, without having to transfer them to U.S. custody. The authority was to capture, not kill, though lethal force might be used if necessary.16Tenet would later send a message to all CIA personnel overseas, saying, "The threat could not be more real. <sep>What is the president and the CIA's main goal in the article?<sep>To approach Taliban and Pakistan for help
[A]: | No
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In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
One example is below.
Q: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
A: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Rationale: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Q: An abelian group is a set , " A " , together with an operation " • " .
A: | An abelian group is a set , " A " , together with an operation • that combines any two elements " a " and " b " to form another element denoted " a " • " b " . |
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: In countries using what system is film not scanned at 24 or 25 frames per second?, Context: Standard 35mm photographic film used for cinema projection has a much higher image resolution than HDTV systems, and is exposed and projected at a rate of 24 frames per second (frame/s). To be shown on standard television, in PAL-system countries, cinema film is scanned at the TV rate of 25 frame/s, causing a speedup of 4.1 percent, which is generally considered acceptable. In NTSC-system countries, the TV scan rate of 30 frame/s would cause a perceptible speedup if the same were attempted, and the necessary correction is performed by a technique called 3:2 Pulldown: Over each successive pair of film frames, one is held for three video fields (1/20 of a second) and the next is held for two video fields (1/30 of a second), giving a total time for the two frames of 1/12 of a second and thus achieving the correct average film frame rate.
A: | NTSC |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Which of the following indicates a larger number of organisms, bacilli or bacillus?, Context: Most bacterial species are either spherical, called cocci (sing. coccus, from Greek kókkos, grain, seed), or rod-shaped, called bacilli (sing. bacillus, from Latin baculus, stick). Elongation is associated with swimming. Some bacteria, called vibrio, are shaped like slightly curved rods or comma-shaped; others can be spiral-shaped, called spirilla, or tightly coiled, called spirochaetes. A small number of species even have tetrahedral or cuboidal shapes. More recently, some bacteria were discovered deep under Earth's crust that grow as branching filamentous types with a star-shaped cross-section. The large surface area to volume ratio of this morphology may give these bacteria an advantage in nutrient-poor environments. This wide variety of shapes is determined by the bacterial cell wall and cytoskeleton, and is important because it can influence the ability of bacteria to acquire nutrients, attach to surfaces, swim through liquids and escape predators.
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I think that what -- I think the point of that is that anybody would have a hard time trying to make a tax cut plan that is so large, that would put us into such big deficits, that gives almost half the benefits to the wealthiest of the wealthy. I think anybody would have a hard time explaining that clearly in a way that makes sense to the average person.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
The tax cuts will eventually be amended to be more fair to everyone overall.
Pick your answer from:
(i) Yes.
(ii) It's impossible to say.
(iii) No. | (ii) |
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.
Problem:An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in the water for most or all of its lifetime. Many insects such as mosquitoes, mayflies, dragonflies and caddisflies have aquatic larvae, with winged adults. Aquatic animals may breathe air or extract oxygen that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through the skin. Natural environments and the animals that live in them can be categorized as aquatic (water) or terrestrial (land).
Solution: | where do animals and plants get the oxygen from in the aquatic environment |
This is a test of commonsense with single/multi-choices. Complete the next sentence:
How to connect pc to tv wirelessly
Plug the transmitter into your computer.
You will need to use the usb mini cable included with the product. This will power the device.
Available options:
[1]. Check to make sure the wi-fi connection is working. Most devices have radio-detecting instructions on the back of the unit..
[2]. Alternatively, you can also use the power adapter to plug into a wall socket if you aren't going to be moving around. Plug the hdmi cable into the transmitter and into your computer's video card..
[3]. Choose which channel you would like to broadcast to. You can only broadcast from all 6 channels..
[4]. Make sure both the headphone jack and dvds on your unit and usb cables are turned on. This will help you connect the samsung dvd to your television..
The answer is: | [2]. |
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: Striking new aerial photographs of an uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian Amazon highlight the importance of protecting their territory from the growing threat of illegal mining, according to indigenous rights campaigners.
The images – which show the tribe members inside a circular communal structure, known as a maloca – were taken in the Yanomami Reserve near the border with Venezuela, and are the clearest yet of the apparently healthy, growing community of Moxihatetema, who had not been seen for more than a year.
The tribe – one of three Yanomami groups in the area that are monitored remotely after shunning approaches from outsiders – were a source of concern after they went missing at a time of increasing invasions by garimpeiros, or illegal miners.
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But relief at finding the tribe has survived is mixed with worry that they have moved even closer to the miners, who bring diseases, contaminate water sources with mercury and often carry – and use – guns. There have been several murderous clashes in the past, most notoriously the Haximu massacre of 1993 when gold miners slaughtered 16 Yanomami and burned their communal house to the ground.
The images of the community were taken in September during aerial surveillance of illegal miner camps. This was preliminary work for a major army and police operation, which is still under way, to remove the estimated 5,000 illegal miners in Yanomami territory.
Fiona Watson of Survival International said the good news from the new pictures was that the Moxihatetema had two more thatched panels than in the past, which suggested they have grown by a couple of families since the communal house was moved.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest The National Indian Foundation, or Funai, is responsible for indigenous land but has been hit hard by austerity measures introduced by Michele Temer. Photograph: Guilherme Gnipper Trevisan/Hutukara
The bad news is that protection by the authorities is diminishing as a result of budget cuts. The National Indian Foundation (best known by its Brazilian acronym Funai), which is responsible for indigenous land, has been hit harder than other areas of government by the austerity measures introduced by Brazil’s president, Michel Temer.
“Funai closed its field base in this region last year, effectively abandoning the Moxihatetema to their own fate,” said Watson. “We are urging for funding for the uncontacted and recently contacted Indians department in Funai to be increased or at least maintained.”
Indigenous rights are key to preserving forests, climate change study finds Read more
Conservation of indigenous territory has taken on growing international importance, following studies that show how cost-effective this can be to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation.
But there are fears that Brazil is moving in the opposite direction as a result of recession and a congress that is hostile to indigenous rights. This year Funai’s budget was reduced by 37.7%; congress is now debating further cuts in 2017 that will reduce it to 110m reais ($32m) – the lowest it has been in the past 10 years.
The Yanomami fear they may be abandoned. Without stable funding, there is a high risk that the illegal miners will return.
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, president of the Yanomami association Hutukara, called on President Temer to recognise the threat posed by the illegal miners.
“I don’t think the president realises the dangers we face,” he told the Guardian. “The Moxihatetema are at great risk. But it is not just them. It is all the Yanomami people in the region. There are more garimpeiros every year. They do not respect our territory. The government must do more to prevent them from invading our land.” ||||| Incredible new photos of uncontacted Amazon tribe – that could be wiped out
November 17, 2016
Uncontacted Yanomami yano (communal house) in the Brazilian Amazon, photographed from the air in 2016 © Guilherme Gnipper Trevisan/FUNAI/Hutukara
Extraordinary new aerial photos show a contemporary uncontacted tribal community estimated to be home to 100 people in the Amazon.
The village is in the Yanomami indigenous territory in the north of Brazil, close to the Venezuelan border. About 22,000 Yanomami live on the Brazilian side of the border, and at least 3 groups of them have no contact with outsiders. They are extremely vulnerable to violence and disease from outsiders.
When their land is protected, uncontacted tribes can thrive. However, this area is currently being over-run by over 5,000 illegal gold miners raising serious fears that some of the most vulnerable people on the planet could be wiped out.
Uncontacted Indians' yano in the Yanomami indigenous reserve. At least 3 groups of them are known to be uncontacted. © Guilherme Gnipper Trevisan/FUNAI/Hutukara
Miners have brought diseases like malaria to the region and polluted Yanomami food and water sources with mercury, leading to a serious health crisis.
Yanomami shaman and activist Davi Kopenawa Yanomami said: “The place where the uncontacted Indians live, fish, hunt and plant must be protected. The whole world must know that they are there in their forest and that the authorities must respect their right to live there.” Davi is president of the Yanomami association Hutukara and has been called “The Dalai Lama of the Rainforest.”
Of the miners he said: “They are like termites – they keep coming back and they don’t leave us in peace.”
Brazilian government agents are charged with protecting the Yanomami territory. But they are currently facing severe budget cuts amid politicians’ plans to drastically weaken indigenous land protection and rights.
Without continued support, the team responsible for the Yanomami region will be unable to protect the territory from invaders, and might even be closed down completely. This would leave the uncontacted Yanomami at risk of annihilation.
Uncontacted Yanomami Indians photographed from the air near the Venezuelan border. They appear to be in good health, and their population appears to have grown. © Guilherme Gnipper Trevisan/FUNAI/Hutukara
Background briefing
- The Yanomami Indigenous territory was created in 1992 after years of campaigning by Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, Survival International, and the Pro-Yanomami Commission (CCPY).
- Before the reserve’s creation the Yanomami were being wiped out by violence from outsiders and by diseases like flu and measles to which they had little resistance, brought to the territory by illegal gold miners and other invaders. The territory has given them the chance to determine their own futures and the tribe has now largely recovered after decades of chaos.
- However, FUNAI, the Brazilian Indian Affairs department responsible for protecting territories like this one, is facing severe budget cuts. There are fears that six out of 12 uncontacted tribes teams could be shut down – including the one dedicated to protecting the Yanomami.
- Uncontacted Yanomami have clearly indicated their desire to be left alone – fleeing from outsiders and avoiding contacted members of the tribe.
- These photos show a typical Yanomami yano, a large communal house for several families. Each of the square sections of the yano is home to a different family, where they hang their hammocks, maintain fires, and keep food stores.
- The Yanomami have a huge botanical knowledge and use about 500 plants for food, medicine, and house building. They provide for themselves partly by hunting, gathering and fishing, but crops such as manioc and bananas are also grown in large gardens cleared from the forest.
- Yanomami shamans are the spiritual leaders of their community. They inhale a hallucinogenic snuff called yakoana, which they believe allows them to communicate with the spirit world.
Uncontacted Yanomami seen from the air in the center of their yano, estimated to be home to around 100 individuals. © Guilherme Gnipper Trevisan/FUNAI/Hutukara
Uncontacted tribes are not backward and primitive relics of a remote past. They are our contemporaries and a vitally important part of humankind’s diversity. Where their rights are respected, they continue to thrive.
Their knowledge is irreplaceable and has been developed over thousands of years. They are the best guardians of their environment. And evidence proves that tribal territories are the best barrier to deforestation.
Survival International opposes attempts by outsiders to contact them. It’s always fatal and initiating contact must be their choice alone. Those who enter uncontacted tribes’ territories deny them that choice.
Survival’s Director Stephen Corry said: “These extraordinary images are further proof of the existence of still more uncontacted tribes. They’re not savages but complex and contemporary societies whose rights must be respected. It’s obvious that they’re perfectly capable of living successfully without the need for outside notions of “progress” and “development.” All uncontacted tribal peoples face catastrophe unless their land is protected. We’re doing everything we can to secure their land for them, and to give them the chance to determine their own futures.” ||||| Anthropologists in Brazil have released a set of rare photos of an uncontacted Amazon tribe in an effort to save the group from the encroachment of illegal gold miners.
The aerial photos show a clearing in the jungle where the Yanonami-Moxihatetema indigenous group has built a communal house. The group lives deep in the Amazon and has avoided contact with the outside world for generations.
Activists said they released the photos, which were shot from a plane in September, in an effort to alert the world about the existence of the group and the risk they’re facing.
Guilherme Gnipper Trevisan/Hutukara
“The place where the uncontacted Indians live, fish, hunt and plant must be protected,” says Davi Kopenawa, an activist and shaman who is part of another Yanomami group. “The whole world must know that they are there in the forest and that the authorities must respect their right to live there.”
The Moxihatetema, along with several other Yanonami groups, live in a large reservation that straddles the border between Brazil and Venezuela. But since its creation in 1992, the Yanomami reserve has suffered from incursions by Venezuelan and Brazilian settlers involved in illegal gold mining.
Guilherme Gnipper Trevisan/Hutukara
Now the miners are getting dangerously close to the Moxihatetema. According to Fiona Watson, a Yanomami researcher at Survival International, there is a mining camp in another jungle clearing just 35 kilometers away from the uncontacted indigenous village.
If the Moxihatetema come into contact with the miners they could die off from illnesses that they have no immunity to, such as the flu or malaria. There is also a risk of violent clashes with the heavily armed and roughneck miners.
“The miners are ranging out from their camp to dredge in the river beds, and the Yanomami have a large hunting range, so it is possible there could one day be a dangerous encounter,” Watson said in an email.
Guilherme Gnipper Trevisan/Hutukara
To stop this from happening, activists are calling on the Brazilian government to increase efforts to remove illegal mining camps from the Yanomami reserve.
They have some allies within the government. FUNAI, an indigenous rights agency, has a long history of fighting for the protection of vulnerable tribes. FUNAI was the group that photographed the tribe during a patrol flight to look for illegal gold mines in the Yanomami reserve.
But there are concerns that Brazil’s new conservative government is not keen on protecting indigenous rights. The government has been pushing for the construction of dams in the Amazon basin and recently cut FUNAI’s budget by 37%, as part of a broader set of austerity measures designed to help Brazil claw back from a long economic slump. Brazil’s President Michel Temer notoriously picked a Cabinet that does not include any women or members of Brazil’s ethnic minority groups.
Survival International says FUNAI needs more field agents to arrest miners who illegally intrude into territory reserved for the Yanomami and other indigenous groups. The British NGO is also calling on Brazilian courts to investigate the links between illegal mining operations and local businessmen and politicians.
“The justice system needs to be more robust,” says Fiona Watson. “The people funding the mining operations need to be unmasked, fined and put on trial because what they are doing is illegal and has terrible consequences.”
Survival International says that there are about 100 uncontacted tribes still living in the Amazon. The rainforest sprawls across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela and Ecuador.
“All of the (uncontacted groups) are under threat one way or another,” Watson said. “Their lands are being invaded by loggers, miners, settlers or targeted by large infrastructure projects.” |||||
A: | New photos have emerged of a tribe deep in the Amazon that shuns contact with the modern world, and the photos bring a mix of good and bad news. On the hopeful side, the aerial images show that the small Yanomami community near the border of Brazil and Venezuela seems to be growing: A member of the advocate group Survival International tells the Guardian that the tribe's large communal structure has two more thatched panels than in previous years, suggesting additional families. But the bad news is that illegal gold miners are creeping closer to the community, a development that threatens its very existence given the risk of clashes or the spread of disease. One miners' camp is now only about 20 miles away, and activists are calling on the Brazilian government to crack down before it's too late, reports Fusion. "The place where the uncontacted Indians live, fish, hunt, and plant must be protected,” says Davi Kopenawa, an activist who belongs to another Yanomami group. Some of the Yanomami groups have contact with outsiders, but a handful don't, including the one in the new images, which has about 100 people. All the tribes live in the Yanomami indigenous territory, which is protected land, but activists say budget cuts in Brazil have allowed miners to encroach unimpeded. "They are like termites," says Kopenawa, per Survival International. "They keep coming back." The newly photographed community, called the Yanomami-Moxihatetema, has a large hunting range, making a potentially dangerous encounter with miners increasingly likely, says another Survival International researcher. (This American tracked down his mother living among a similar Amazon tribe.) |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Example input: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Example output: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Example explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Q: 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.
A: | can an x be used as a signature? |
How to feed orphaned newborn puppies<br>Buy necessary supplies. To feed a newborn puppy you will need a bottle made specially for feeding newborn puppies and milk replacement formula. The bottle and formula can both be purchased at most large pet supply stores or online.
A newborn puppy gets hungry. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
How to clean nickel plating<br>Polish the nickel with a soft cloth. Before trying anything else, see how much grime you can clean by wiping it away. Many grease spots, smudges, and patches of grime can be buffed away with cloth and a little bit of warm, running water.
See how much grime you can remove by wiping away once you try anything else. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Metkina (Russian: Светлана Александровна Меткина ; born 7 January 1974) is a Russian actress from Moscow. She is known outside Russia for playing the Czechoslovak reporter Lenka Janáček in the 2006 film "Bobby". known in Hollywood under the name Lana Litvak husband Michel Litvak.
Svetlana Aleksandrovna Metkina married a fellow Russian OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
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 Chinese Academy of Sciences ( CAS , formerly : Academia Sinica ) is the supreme institution for all the natural science organisations in China .
A: | The Chinese Academy of Sciences ( CAS ; ) , with historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republican era and formerly also known by that name , is the national academy for the natural sciences of the People 's Republic of China ( PRC ) . |
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: Which comes first, larva or adult?, Context: Holometabolism, or complete metamorphosis, is where the insect changes in four stages, an egg or embryo, a larva, a pupa and the adult or imago. In these species, an egg hatches to produce a larva, which is generally worm-like in form. This worm-like form can be one of several varieties: eruciform (caterpillar-like), scarabaeiform (grub-like), campodeiform (elongated, flattened and active), elateriform (wireworm-like) or vermiform (maggot-like). The larva grows and eventually becomes a pupa, a stage marked by reduced movement and often sealed within a cocoon. There are three types of pupae: obtect, exarate or coarctate. Obtect pupae are compact, with the legs and other appendages enclosed. Exarate pupae have their legs and other appendages free and extended. Coarctate pupae develop inside the larval skin.:151 Insects undergo considerable change in form during the pupal stage, and emerge as adults. Butterflies are a well-known example of insects that undergo complete metamorphosis, although most insects use this life cycle. Some insects have evolved this system to hypermetamorphosis.
A: | larva |
Davina McCall opened up about her love life with husband Matthew Robertson The TV presenter opened up about their relationship after 16 years of marriage and revealed that since she started taking hormone replacement HRT she has a fresh libido. Telling Stella Magazine about her menopause symptoms and the decision to start HRT, Davina said: "All my symptoms stopped overnight. I'm not endorsing it. It was a personal decision. "I feel, in a funny way, it's almost more attractive that I can't have children," she continued. "Because not I don't need to take contraception.
Davina McCall has a friend named stan
A: It's impossible to say
Vic & Anthony’s is an American steakhouse restaurant chain with locations in Downtown Houston, ]and inside the Golden Nugget Casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City. A fourth location is scheduled to open inside the new Golden Nugget Lake Charles in late 2014. Vic & Anthony’s is owned and operated by Landry’s, Inc.
Landry’s, Inc. is a bigger operation than Vic & Anthony’s.
A: Yes
TORONTO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Canada’s benchmark stock index was little changed on Monday as gains in energy shares on climbing oil prices were offset by sluggish economic data from China. The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index unofficially closed up 16.78 points, or 0.11 percent, at 15,100.70. Six of the 10 main sectors on the index were in the red. (Reporting by John Tilak, editing by G Crosse)
The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index is a lot like the Dow Jones.
A: | It's impossible to say |
How to cook rump steak
Place both 8 oz (225 g) rump steaks in a shallow dish.
Select a dish that is wide enough to easily accommodate the rump steaks. Arrange the steaks flat on the bottom of dish.
OPTIONS:
- As the skins rub off on each of the steaks, you may need to adjust the size of the dish to accommodate the rump steaks. You should leave plenty of room for the rump steaks to sit at the bottom of the dish.
- The height of the dish just needs to be 2-3 inches taller than the rump steaks themselves. Mix the red wine, worcestershire sauce, and garlic together.
- You can make sure that the rump steaks aren't evenly distributed. Aim for 4 oz (225 g) of ground beef with the thickest side facing up, and 4 oz (225 g) of ground beef with the thinnest side pointing downwards.
- You'll also need to line the inside of the dish with aluminum foil. If you're serving an appetizer, then you probably will need to place a few extra aluminum foil towels around the dish to keep the steaks in place.
The height of the dish just needs to be 2-3 inches taller than the rump steaks themselves. Mix the red wine, worcestershire sauce, and garlic together.
How to remove health hazards from your backyard
Make sure your grill is not a fire hazard.
Everyone loves to grill in the backyard. However, grills are hazards because they are controlled fires.
OPTIONS:
- There are several things you can do to prevent a fire : Always drain the burners before using them. These will make the flame crackling and hot, which can result in burns or fires.
- Make sure you keep the grill and open flames at least 10 feet (8 meters) below the ground in any area that has a fire hazard. Also do not let children or pets get near the grill.
- This means you should place your grill in a location that is a safe distance from combustible or flammable items. Place it 10 feet from anything that can catch fire.
- Check your grill frequently to make sure it's in good condition and is not attracting pets. Older grill engines sometimes get hot coals in the core, too.
This means you should place your grill in a location that is a safe distance from combustible or flammable items. Place it 10 feet from anything that can catch fire.
A woman stand with athletic jacket in a grass covered and forested yard. The woman enters an open workshop area. Logs are stacked upright on a chopping block. the woman
OPTIONS:
- demonstrates balance gymnastics in the snow.
- continues measuring and cutting the logs on a ladder.
- endures the chop as she lowers a log onto logs.
- uses an an ax to split the logs in half.
uses an an ax to split the logs in half.
How to groom a westie
Brush your westie every day.
Westies have thick, double coats that needs regular brushing to look its best. This can help keep your westie's fur clean and allow his skin to breathe.
OPTIONS:
- Even if you're not sure why, brushing means running your fingers all over your westie's coat-from his underbelly to his ears-a lot of the time. Start with brushing your westie once every day.
- You can brush his coat in the morning and bath him at night depending on the weather. Consider using a slicker brush to remove loose hairs from the rest of his fur.
- Use a brush meant for dogs with thick hair. You can buy a special brush for your westie at most pet stores or online pet retailers.
- Try brushing each pup's fur at least once a day to remove tangles and keep its cuticles healthy. Treat your westie with a double coat if he has tangles or won't groom itself.
| Use a brush meant for dogs with thick hair. You can buy a special brush for your westie at most pet stores or online pet retailers. |
Blues Berry<br>Berry was a struggling musician. He loved all kinds of music but didn't have any inspiration. On Friday his girlfriend of three years broke up with him. He began writing blues tunes about her. Then his music was a hit and people loved to hear him sing the blues.
berry started out big
A: No
How to change your name in connecticut<br>Prepare your documents. Before you can apply to change your name, you need to have two forms of identification to present to the probate court. One form of identification should have a clear photograph of you.
You need at least two forms of identification.
A: Yes
Franklin Johnson Foil (born October 31, 1964) is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 70, which includes a portion of Baton Rouge. In 2008, he succeeded term-limited Republican Representative Carl Crane, the former chairman of the House Education Committee. To win the seat, Foil defeated fellow Republican attorney Pat Culbertson.
Baton Rouge is part of at least 3 districts
A: | It's impossible to say |
How to pair wine with grilled steak
Pin down the definitions for sweetness, acidity, and tannic.
These terms will help you understand the descriptions written on wine labels or in online wine reviews. When talking about wine, these words have the following meanings :
Sweetness: or a wine's " dryness.
OPTIONS:
- " sweetness is made up of added carbohydrates, protein and acidity. Purity: often talked of in terms of sweetness, there are two ways of saying these.
- " sweet wine is high in sugar content, which will cause tingling in the tip of your tongue. Cheap wines and many cabernet sauvignons are often dry.
- " sweetness is pleasant and it enhances flavor and personality. Acidity? This is usually a byproduct of sour grapes.
- " sweetness often develops when the wine is slow to cool, and usually comes out dry, brittle, chapped, or loose. Flavor: zest or tart flavors are often thought to be sweeter compared to other wines.
" sweet wine is high in sugar content, which will cause tingling in the tip of your tongue. Cheap wines and many cabernet sauvignons are often dry.
question: Complete the next sentence:
How to talk to emo boys
Give him some space.
Don't rush up to him and start flirting at the first opportunity. Unless you're dead lucky, this will probably irritate/startle/freak him out a.
OPTIONS:
- So try to give him a little space-don't stare too much, don't be too heavy, etc. Find out what he's interested in.
- If you know he's still around, let him know you're not interested. It might sound a little offensive at first, but the goal is to pass him off as a friend, not to make him crazy.
- If he thinks you're a creep he will probably be very physically turned off. Write a message (text or email).
- If he reacts and shakes his head or snaps back, don't get upset; he's in his own head. He will eventually trust you and even help you! Just ignore him and if he wants to talk to you again, it's okay-he's in his own head).
answer: So try to give him a little space-don't stare too much, don't be too heavy, etc. Find out what he's interested in.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to mix plaster
Prepare the wall for plastering.
Before you get started, make sure the wall you're finishing has already been, and any seams have been touched up with a base coat. That way, all you'll have to worry about is spreading the plaster, which will require your full attention.
OPTIONS:
- Plaster is best applied to wood or metal lath, or bare walls stripped of paint and wallpaper. If the wall has semi-gloss or gloss paint on it, you should prime it before adding plaster.
- If you don't have plaster plaster at home, you can order it or buy it in a pre-mixed form and weld it down. You can already have a base coat applied, and you could add it before you move on to the next step.
- Before you start mixing, work out what wall you want to put plaster on. Here are some things to notice when deciding what, if any, parts of your wall you want to use : Surface layout.
- For the best results, prep the walls the same way you might for a painting. Get a contractor to wet down your walls..
Next sentence: Plaster is best applied to wood or metal lath, or bare walls stripped of paint and wallpaper. If the wall has semi-gloss or gloss paint on it, you should prime it before adding plaster.
context: How to make a secret place in your room
Clear your room of clutter.
This is the first thing you'll have to do in order to make room for your secret space. It will help you see more clearly the space available to you.
OPTIONS:
- You can choose from categories of clutter, from organized papers to familiar maps or pictures. A room filled with primarily items and subjects is not very big of a secret space.
- Once clear, you can weigh the pros and cons of each spot to find the suitable space for your secret place. You'll better be able to evaluate the perfect spot when you can see the entire space.
- If your room is not too big, put all your stuff in one place. Plus, using a well-organized closet, put everything in its own box.
- Make sure that any furniture is off the floor to keep it from blocking the door. Make sure that your bed has bed rails so it can help you sleep.
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next sentence for the context: Once clear, you can weigh the pros and cons of each spot to find the suitable space for your secret place. You'll better be able to evaluate the perfect spot when you can see the entire space.
IN: What happens next?
Men are doing motocross in a competition. a lot of people
OPTIONS:
- are gathered in a stadium and sit in a stands waiting for medals.
- are gathered around a path watching the motocross competition.
- is walking on benches in the square.
- are in motocross in the olympics.
OUT: are gathered around a path watching the motocross competition.
question: Complete the next sentence:
How to make spicy mayo
Whisk together the hot sauce and mayo.
Put the prepared mayonnaise and hot sauce in a glass bowl and whisk together, vigorously, until evenly combined.
One very popular spicy mayo is made with sriracha.
OPTIONS:
- Keep in mind, many people may find this chili sauce to be extremely spicy. Taste test after you mix your mayo up to determine if you should add more chili, or perhaps water it down by adding more mayo.
- This is an italian sauce in which you can get egg yolks, mayonnaise, and similar spices. Toss the ingredients in the mayonnaise and whisk until well blended.
- Measure out about four cups of this spicy mayo, and transfer it to a mixing bowl with ingredients. Combine the hot sauce with the garlic cloves, dried thyme, and other spices to create a different spicy mayo.
- This is one of the most popular healthy mayo brands available, and the rest of the food is made with that. If you are having trouble with any of the above ingredients, you can just try combining all of the remaining ingredients in a blender.
answer: | Keep in mind, many people may find this chili sauce to be extremely spicy. Taste test after you mix your mayo up to determine if you should add more chili, or perhaps water it down by adding more mayo. |
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]: Lunar distance (LD or Δ ⊕ L (\ textstyle \ Delta _ (\ oplus L))), also called Earth -- Moon distance, Earth -- Moon characteristic distance, or distance to the Moon, is a unit of measure in astronomy. It is the average distance from the center of Earth to the center of the Moon. More technically, it is the mean semi-major axis of the geocentric lunar orbit. It may also refer to the time-averaged distance between the centers of the Earth and the Moon, or less commonly, the instantaneous Earth -- Moon distance. The lunar distance is approximately a quarter of a million miles.
[A]: what is the distance between earth and moon
[Q]: Nuclear fusion powers a star for most of its life. Initially the energy is generated by the fusion of hydrogen atoms at the core of the main-sequence star. Later, as the preponderance of atoms at the core becomes helium, stars like the Sun begin to fuse hydrogen along a spherical shell surrounding the core. This process causes the star to gradually grow in size, passing through the subgiant stage until it reaches the red giant phase. Stars with at least half the mass of the Sun can also begin to generate energy through the fusion of helium at their core, whereas more-massive stars can fuse heavier elements along a series of concentric shells. Once a star like the Sun has exhausted its nuclear fuel, its core collapses into a dense white dwarf and the outer layers are expelled as a planetary nebula. Stars with around ten or more times the mass of the Sun can explode in a supernova as their inert iron cores collapse into an extremely dense neutron star or black hole. Although the universe is not old enough for any of the smallest red dwarfs to have reached the end of their lives, stellar models suggest they will slowly become brighter and hotter before running out of hydrogen fuel and becoming low-mass white dwarfs.
[A]: what characteristic of helium makes it a major constituent of the pulsating star mechanism
[Q]: The play opens with Hermia, who is in love with Lysander, resistant to her father Egeus' demand that she wed Demetrius, whom he has arranged for her to marry. Helena meanwhile pines unrequitedly for Demetrius. Enraged, Egeus invokes an ancient Athenian law before Duke Theseus, whereby a daughter must marry the suitor chosen by her father, or else face death. Theseus offers her another choice: lifelong chastity while worshipping the goddess Artemis as a nun.
[A]: | who loves who in a midsummer nights dream
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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.
[Q]: The word ain't is a contraction for am not, is not, are not, has not, and have not in the common English language vernacular. In some dialects ain't is also used as a contraction of do not, does not, and did not. The development of ain't for the various forms of to be not, to have not, and to do not occurred independently, at different times. The usage of ain't for the forms of to be not was established by the mid-18th century, and for the forms of to have not by the early 19th century.
[A]: what is the meaning of ain't in english
[Q]: In biological taxonomy, a domain (Latin: regio), also superkingdom or empire, is the highest taxonomic rank of organisms in the three-domain system of taxonomy designed by Carl Woese, an American microbiologist and biophysicist. According to the Woese system, introduced in 1990, the tree of life consists of three domains: Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya. The first two are all prokaryotic microorganisms, or single-celled organisms whose cells have no nucleus. All life that has a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles, and multicellular organisms, is included in the Eukarya. Stefan Luketa in 2012 proposed a five 'dominion' system, adding two more to the above.
[A]: why are organisms placed into the domain of eukarya
[Q]: In the United States, any musical works published before 1922, in addition to those voluntarily placed in public domain, exist in the public domain. In most other countries, music generally enters the public domain in a period of fifty to seventy-five years after the composer's death. (Public domain rights must be verified for each individual country.) It is important to note the distinction between 'musical works' (sheet music and other compositions) and 'sound recordings' (audio files, CDs, records), as virtually all sound recordings will not fall into public domain until 2067, unless explicitly placed into the public domain by its creators, rights holders or made by an employee or officer of the United States government acting under their official duty. (The status of copyright on sound recordings in the United States from before such copyrights were nationalized 1972 is nebulous; the copyrights were prior to that were considered a state issue, and even if no state law provided for it, some courts established an extra-legal common law copyright, the exact nature of which has been inconsistently applied over the years.)
[A]: | how old does a song have to be to become public domain
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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.
What is one assumes that there is no friction or other losses?, Context: Energy transformations in the universe over time are characterized by various kinds of potential energy that has been available since the Big Bang later being "released" (transformed to more active types of energy such as kinetic or radiant energy) when a triggering mechanism is available. Familiar examples of such processes include nuclear decay, in which energy is released that was originally "stored" in heavy isotopes (such as uranium and thorium), by nucleosynthesis, a process ultimately using the gravitational potential energy released from the gravitational collapse of supernovae, to store energy in the creation of these heavy elements before they were incorporated into the solar system and the Earth. This energy is triggered and released in nuclear fission bombs or in civil nuclear power generation. Similarly, in the case of a chemical explosion, chemical potential energy is transformed to kinetic energy and thermal energy in a very short time. Yet another example is that of a pendulum. At its highest points the kinetic energy is zero and the gravitational potential energy is at maximum. At its lowest point the kinetic energy is at maximum and is equal to the decrease of potential energy. If one (unrealistically) assumes that there is no friction or other losses, the conversion of energy between these processes would be perfect, and the pendulum would continue swinging forever. | the conversion of energy between these processes would be perfect |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: The Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit Branch of the NAACP speaks at a rally in Detroit, Monday, Dec. 4, 2017. Clergy, Detroit elected leaders and community activists are calling for due process... (Associated Press)
The Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit Branch of the NAACP speaks at a rally in Detroit, Monday, Dec. 4, 2017. Clergy, Detroit elected leaders and community activists are calling for due process in support of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., who faces allegations of sexual harassment from... (Associated Press)
DETROIT (AP) — A relative says John Conyers, who is battling sexual harassment allegations from former female staffers, won't seek re-election to a 28th term in Congress.
Michigan state Sen. Ian Conyers, a grandson of John Conyers' brother, told The New York Times for a story Tuesday that the 88-year-old Democrat's doctor "advised him that the rigor of another campaign would be too much for him, just in terms of his health."
Ian Conyers told the newspaper that his great-uncle — the longest-serving current U.S. House member — "is not resigning. He is going to retire." The report didn't specify how Ian Conyers knew of the congressman's plans. He said he plans to run for John Conyers' seat in Washington, D.C.
The Associated Press left the younger Conyers a message seeking comment Tuesday.
John Conyers' attorney, Arnold Reed, has said the congressman plans to speak on a Detroit radio show Tuesday morning about his political future.
Conyers, who was first elected in 1964, easily won re-election last year in the heavily Democratic 13th District. But following the mounting allegations of sexual harassment, he has faced growing calls to resign from colleagues in the House, including House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.
Reed has said Conyers' health would be the paramount consideration in whether he decides to step down from his House seat. He has already stepped aside from his position as ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
John Conyers returned to Detroit from Washington last week and was hospitalized on Wednesday after complaining that he felt light-headed.
The House Ethics Committee is reviewing allegations of harassment against John Conyers.
On Monday, a woman who said she worked for him for more than a decade said he slid his hand up her skirt and rubbed her thighs while she was sitting next to him in the front row of a church.
Elisa Grubbs made the allegation in an affidavit released late Monday by her attorney, Lisa Bloom. Grubbs is the cousin of another accuser, Marion Brown, who reached a confidential settlement with Conyers over sexual harassment allegations, but broke the confidentiality agreement to speak publicly last week.
Bloom posted Grubbs' affidavit on Twitter and confirmed to The Associated Press that it was genuine.
Grubbs' affidavit says that she worked for Conyers in various roles from approximately 2001 to about 2013.
"Rep. Conyers slid his hand up my skirt and rubbed my thighs while I was sitting next to him in the front row of a church," Grubbs said. "I was startled and sprang to my feet and exclaimed, 'He just ran his hand up my thigh!' Other staffers witnessed the event."
She also said that she saw Conyers touching and stroking the legs and buttocks of Brown and other female staffers on "multiple occasions."
Grubbs said witnessing such harassment "was a regular part of life while working in the office of Rep. Conyers."
One time when Grubbs was at Conyers home, she said he came out of the bathroom naked when he knew she was in the room.
Reed told the Detroit Free Press that the allegations by Grubbs are "another instance of tomfoolery from the mouth of Harvey Weinstein's attorney." Bloom previously represented Hollywood executive Weinstein, who is accused of sexual misconduct by a number of women. She quit Weinstein's team after the allegations became public and now represents sexual harassment victims.
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Sign up for the AP's weekly newsletter showcasing our best reporting from the Midwest and Texas: http://apne.ws/2u1RMfv ||||| The Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit Branch of the NAACP speaks at a rally in Detroit, Monday, Dec. 4, 2017. Clergy, Detroit elected leaders and community activists are calling for due process... (Associated Press)
The Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit Branch of the NAACP speaks at a rally in Detroit, Monday, Dec. 4, 2017. Clergy, Detroit elected leaders and community activists are calling for due process in support of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., who faces allegations of sexual harassment from... (Associated Press)
DETROIT (AP) — U.S. Rep. John Conyers — beset with allegations of sexual harassment by former staff members — announced Tuesday that he is retiring.
The 88-year-old Conyers made the announcement while speaking with Detroit radio talk show host Mildred Gaddis. He was not clear on when the retirement becomes effective. Conyers also endorsed his son, John Conyers III, to replace him in office.
"I'm in the process of putting my retirement plans together," he said from a hospital. "I am retiring today."
"My legacy can't be compromised or diminished in any way by what we're going through now," Conyers added. "This too shall pass. My legacy will continue through my children."
Michigan state Sen. Ian Conyers, a grandson of John Conyers' brother, told The New York Times for a story Tuesday that he plans to run for the 13th District congressional seat.
John Conyers, who was first elected in 1964, easily won re-election last year in the heavily Democratic district. But following the mounting allegations of sexual harassment, he has faced growing calls to resign from colleagues in the House, including House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.
John Conyers' attorney, Arnold Reed, has said Conyers' health would be the paramount consideration in whether he decides to step down from his House seat. He has already stepped aside from his position as ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
John Conyers returned to Detroit from Washington last week and was hospitalized on Wednesday after complaining that he felt light-headed.
The House Ethics Committee has been reviewing allegations of harassment against John Conyers.
On Monday, a woman who said she worked for him for more than a decade said he slid his hand up her skirt and rubbed her thighs while she was sitting next to him in the front row of a church.
Elisa Grubbs made the allegation in an affidavit released late Monday by her attorney, Lisa Bloom. Grubbs is the cousin of another accuser, Marion Brown, who reached a confidential settlement with Conyers over sexual harassment allegations, but broke the confidentiality agreement to speak publicly last week.
Bloom posted Grubbs' affidavit on Twitter and confirmed to The Associated Press that it was genuine.
Grubbs' affidavit says that she worked for Conyers in various roles from approximately 2001 to about 2013.
"Rep. Conyers slid his hand up my skirt and rubbed my thighs while I was sitting next to him in the front row of a church," Grubbs said. "I was startled and sprang to my feet and exclaimed, 'He just ran his hand up my thigh!' Other staffers witnessed the event."
She also said that she saw Conyers touching and stroking the legs and buttocks of Brown and other female staffers on "multiple occasions."
Grubbs said witnessing such harassment "was a regular part of life while working in the office of Rep. Conyers."
One time when Grubbs was at Conyers home, she said he came out of the bathroom naked when he knew she was in the room.
Reed told the Detroit Free Press that the allegations by Grubbs are "another instance of tomfoolery from the mouth of Harvey Weinstein's attorney." Bloom previously represented Hollywood executive Weinstein, who is accused of sexual misconduct by a number of women. She quit Weinstein's team after the allegations became public and now represents sexual harassment victims.
Deanna Maher, who ran a Michigan office for Conyers from 1997 to 2005, also accused Conyers of sexual misconduct.
A former scheduler also alleged sexual harassment, retaliation and a hostile work environment in a February 2017 proposed complaint, but took no further action after a judge refused to file it under seal.
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Mr. Conyers tried to make the same case as he endorsed his son.“My legacy can’t be compromised or diminished in any way by what we are going through now,” he said during the radio interview. “This, too, shall pass. My legacy will continue through my children.”
John Conyers III, who has not held elected office before, was cited on suspicion of speeding in his father’s congressional vehicle in 2010, according to The Detroit Free Press. His father reimbursed the Treasury Department more than $5,600 for the commandeering of a government vehicle for personal use. The younger Conyers also released a rap song, “Rich Glorious,” and describes himself as “a partner at Detroit’s first minority-run hedge fund.”
He posted on Twitter on Tuesday evening that he had not concluded whether he would run for his father’s seat, and instead said he would “come to a decision by the new year.” He thanked his father for supporting him, and said he would take time to talk to people in the district about the race.
“It has been an honor to share his generosity and love with the world, the people of Detroit and the cause of civil rights nationwide,” John Conyers III said of his father. “It is also an honor that my father endorses me as his successor in his congressional seat.”
The retiring congressman took his House seat in 1965, the last sitting lawmaker to help enact the Great Society programs conceived by President Lyndon B. Johnson. But Mr. Conyers’s exit has been ignominious. He stepped aside as the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee last month in the face of swirling allegations of sexual impropriety, then watched as one Democrat after another called for his resignation.
Mr. Conyers, however, remained protective of his time in Congress. “I am very proud of the fact that I am the dean of the Congress,” he said on Tuesday. He appreciated the “the incredible, undiminished support” that he had received from his state and the country, he added. |||||
A: | Despite numerous calls for him to do so, Rep. John Conyers won't resign—but he is retiring, and it looks like he's not waiting. "I'm in the process of putting my retirement plans together," he told Detroit radio host Mildred Gaddis in a call from a hospital Tuesday, per the AP. Although the news agency says it's not clear when the retirement takes effect, Conyers said, "I am retiring today." Per the New York Times, Conyers says he endorses his son, John Conyers III, to take his seat in Congress. But Michigan state Sen. Ian Conyers, who's the 29-year-old grandson of Conyers' brother, says he also plans to run for his 88-year-old great-uncle's Detroit seat. "His doctor advised him that the rigor of another campaign would be too much for him just in terms of his health," Ian Conyers notes. It's not likely to appease the elder Conyers' critics or the women who accuse him of sexual harassment in the workplace. Another woman joined the fray Monday, claiming Conyers put his hand up her skirt and rubbed her thighs while in the front row of a church, per the AP. "I was startled and sprang to my feet and exclaimed, 'He just ran his hand up my thigh!' Other staffers witnessed the event," Elisa Grubbs says in an affidavit, also alleging that Conyers appeared naked in front of her. Grubbs—who is the cousin of fellow Conyers accuser Marion Brown—reportedly worked for Conyers from 2001 to 2013. It isn't clear when the alleged behavior took place. Conyers' lawyer has referred to Grubbs' claims as "another instance of tomfoolery from the mouth of Harvey Weinstein's attorney." Grubbs is represented by Lisa Bloom, who represented Weinstein before he faced allegations of sexual misconduct. |
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: Houthulst is a municipality in the Belgian province of West Flanders .
Student: | Houthulst ( -RSB- ) ( West Flemish : " Oetulst " , pronounced as -RSB- ) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders . |
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 was the aftermath?, Context: In June 1963, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a major speech in Detroit that foreshadowed his "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. two months later. While the African-American Civil Rights Movement gained significant federal civil rights laws in 1964 and 1965, longstanding inequities resulted in confrontations between the police and inner city black youth wanting change. Longstanding tensions in Detroit culminated in the Twelfth Street riot in July 1967. Governor George W. Romney ordered the Michigan National Guard into Detroit, and President Johnson sent in U.S. Army troops. The result was 43 dead, 467 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed, mostly in black residential and business areas. Thousands of small businesses closed permanently or relocated to safer neighborhoods. The affected district lay in ruins for decades. It was the most costly riot in the United States.
A: The result was 43 dead, 467 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed, mostly in black residential and business areas. Thousands of small businesses closed permanently or relocated to safer neighborhoods. The affected district lay in ruins for decades
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Q: What do you need in addition to the LaserDisc in order to experience surround sound?, Context: Only one 5.1 surround sound option exists on a given LaserDisc (either Dolby Digital or DTS), so if surround sound is desired, the disc must be matched to the capabilities of the playback equipment (LD Player and Receiver/Decoder) by the purchaser. A fully capable LaserDisc playback system includes a newer LaserDisc player that is capable of playing digital tracks, has a digital optical output for digital PCM and DTS audio, is aware of AC-3 audio tracks, and has an AC-3 coaxial output; an external or internal AC-3 RF demodulator and AC-3 decoder; and a DTS decoder. Many 1990s A/V receivers combine the AC-3 decoder and DTS decoder logic, but an integrated AC-3 demodulator is rare both in LaserDisc players and in later A/V receivers.
A: playback equipment
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Q: where is the marvin braude bike trail, Context: Santa Monica has a bike action plan and recently launched a Bicycle sharing system in November 2015. The city is traversed by the Marvin Braude Bike Trail. Santa Monica has received the Bicycle Friendly Community Award (Bronze in 2009, Silver in 2013) by the League of American Bicyclists. Local bicycle advocacy organizations include Santa Monica Spoke, a local chapter of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition. Santa Monica is thought to be one of the leaders for bicycle infrastructure and programming in Los Angeles County.[citation needed]
A: | Santa Monica
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Thanks to the thirty Heads who responded to my question about maternity leave. Clearly, the amount of maternity leave offered to teachers at international schools varies greatly from school to school.
Can we infer the following?
Most teachers use maternity leave to take time off of work for vacations. | It's impossible to say |
Detailed Instructions: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Q: The Ranch is an American comedy web television series starring Ashton Kutcher, Danny Masterson, Debra Winger, Elisha Cuthbert, and Sam Elliott that debuted in 2016 on Netflix. The show takes place on the fictional Iron River Ranch in the fictitious small town of Garrison, Colorado; detailing the life of the Bennetts, a dysfunctional family consisting of two brothers, their rancher father, and his divorced wife and local bar owner. While the opening sequence shows scenes from Norwood and Ouray, Colorado and surrounding Ouray and San Miguel Counties, The Ranch is filmed on a sound stage in front of a live audience in Burbank, California. Each season consists of 20 episodes broken up into two parts, each containing 10 episodes.
A: | is garrison from the ranch a real place? |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
One example is below.
Q: Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy. Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it. When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework. <sep>Who does Timothy play with?<sep>Basketball and baseball
A: No
Rationale: Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
Q: Albanian was proved to be an Indo-European language in 1854 by the German philologist Franz Bopp. The Albanian language comprises its own branch of the Indo-European language family. Some scholars believe that Albanian derives from Illyrian while others claim that it derives from Daco-Thracian. (Illyrian and Daco-Thracian, however, might have been closely related languages; see Thraco-Illyrian.) Establishing longer relations, Albanian is often compared to Balto-Slavic on the one hand and Germanic on the other, both of which share a number of isoglosses with Albanian. Moreover, Albanian has undergone a vowel shift in which stressed, long o has fallen to a, much like in the former and opposite the latter. Likewise, Albanian has taken the old relative jos and innovatively used it exclusively to qualify adjectives, much in the way Balto-Slavic has used this word to provide the definite ending of adjectives. The cultural renaissance was first of all expressed through the development of the Albanian language in the area of church texts and publications, mainly of the Catholic region in the North, but also of the Orthodox in the South. The Protestant reforms invigorated hopes for the development of the local language and literary tradition when cleric Gjon Buzuku brought into the Albanian language the Catholic liturgy, trying to do for the Albanian language what Luther did for German. <sep>Of the languages that scholars compare to Albanian language, which is most closely related to the Albanian language and why?<sep>Scholars believe that Balto-Slavic is most closely related to the Albanian language because of the phonetic vowel usages between "a" and "o."
A: | Yes |
Q: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
What does "identity"mean?, Context: The description or representation of individual and group identity is a central task for psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists and those of other disciplines where "identity" needs to be mapped and defined. How should one describe the identity of another, in ways which encompass both their idiosyncratic qualities and their group memberships or identifications, both of which can shift according to circumstance? Following on from the work of Kelly, Erikson, Tajfel and others Weinreich's Identity Structure Analysis (ISA), is "a structural representation of the individual's existential experience, in which the relationships between self and other agents are organised in relatively stable structures over time … with the emphasis on the socio-cultural milieu in which self relates to other agents and institutions" (Weinreich and Saunderson, (eds) 2003, p1). Using constructs drawn from the salient discourses of the individual, the group and cultural norms, the practical operationalisation of ISA provides a methodology that maps how these are used by the individual, applied across time and milieus by the "situated self" to appraise self and other agents and institutions (for example, resulting in the individual's evaluation of self and significant others and institutions).[citation needed]
A: | their idiosyncratic qualities |
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: Rescue workers stand beside burnt-out coach on the motorway A9 near Muenchberg, southeastern Germany, Monday, July 3, 2017 after a bus crashed into a truck and caught fire. . (News5 / Fricke/NEWS5/dpa... (Associated Press)
BERLIN (AP) — The Latest on bus-truck collision in Germany (all times local):
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Police say a group of people from Saxony in eastern Germany was aboard the bus that went up in flames after it crashed into a truck on southern Germany.
Police say they fear a number of fatalities in the accident Monday morning, in which 31 people were injured and 17 have not been accounted for.
Oberfranken police tweeted that family members could call a special number for further information on the accident.
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10:30 a.m.
German police fear that there may be a number of fatalities after a collision in Germany engulfed a coach in flames. Some 31 people were reported injured with 17 other remaining to be accounted for. German news channel n-tv showed footage of the bus which was burned down to a black, smoking skeleton.
Police spokeswoman Irene Brandenstein says, "We're afraid that people may have died in the accident."
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10 a.m.
Police say a coach went up in flames after it crashed into a truck Monday morning in southern Germany, injuring 31 people and leaving 17 others to be accounted for.
Police said several people were severely injured in the crash near Muenchberg in Bavaria.
Two drivers and 46 people and were on the bus, police spokeswoman Irene Brandenstein said.
German news channel n-tv showed footage of the bus which was burned down to a black, smoking skeleton. ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Emergency services rushed to the scene
Eighteen people died when their tour bus collided with a lorry and burst into flames on the A9 motorway in southern Germany, police say.
Another 30 on the bus were hurt and two of them were fighting for their lives.
The bus was carrying a group of German pensioners at the time of the fire near Stammbach in northern Bavaria.
Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said rescuers were delayed by "gawpers" driving slowly and by the intensity of the blaze.
The cause of the fire is unknown. Traffic was reportedly moving slowly at the time and the collision between the two vehicles was not described as a major crash.
The lorry's trailer was also incinerated and the burnt-out wreck ended up a short distance ahead of the bus. The German news website Frankenpost reports that it was carrying mattresses and pillows.
The lorry driver was unharmed and told police the bus had gone into the back of his vehicle and burst into flames, it said.
Image copyright AFP Image caption The burnt-out wrecks of the bus and lorry trailer ended up a short distance apart
There were 46 passengers and two drivers on the bus. The bus driver was among those killed. The passengers were men and women aged 66 to 81, heading to Lake Garda in Italy for a holiday.
Some of the passengers had got on the bus at Dresden station in the eastern state of Saxony. According to local media in Saxony, the bus had earlier picked up passengers elsewhere in Saxony and also in Brandenburg in the early hours of Monday before going to Dresden and then south-west towards Nuremberg.
By mid-afternoon forensic teams had recovered the charred remains of 15 people and police confirmed that 18 had died.
Firefighters reached the scene within 10 minutes of the accident but were driven back by the intensity of the fire. "Only steel parts are recognisable so you can understand what that meant for the people in this bus," said German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt.
Motoring safety expert Hans-Ulrich Sander suggested that the fuel line that ran under the bus may have ruptured, prompting the fire to spread fast.
Five rescue helicopters joined emergency workers at the scene.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was distressed by the accident and expressed sympathy for the injured and bereaved relatives.
She thanked the rescuers for looking after people "in an appalling situation".
Image copyright AFP Image caption Forensic experts examined the charred skeleton of the bus and human remains inside
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The burnt-out shell of the bus could be seen as emergency teams reached the scene |||||
A: | Police in Germany say 17 people are unaccounted for after a horrific crash turned a bus with more than 40 passengers on board into a charred ruin. The bus went up in flames after crashing into a truck near the Bavarian town of Muenchberg early Monday, the AP reports. Police say 31 people were injured in the crash, some of them critically. A police spokesman tells Deutsche Welle that there is "only a glimmer of hope" that any of the people listed as missing will be found alive. "Perhaps somebody ran away in a state of shock," he says. The BBC reports that it's not clear what caused the crash, which happened as traffic was moving slowly on the A9 motorway. |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
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Question: A game controller is a device used to play video games .
Answer: A game controller , or simply controller , is an input device used with video games or entertainment systems to provide input to a video game , typically to control an object or character in the game .
Question: During this time , it has passed overhead once and underfoot once , so in many places the period of strongest tidal forcing is the above-mentioned , about 12 hours and 25 minutes .
Answer: During this time , it has passed overhead ( culmination ) once and underfoot once ( at an hour angle of 00:00 and 12:00 respectively ) , so in many places the period of strongest tidal forcing is the above-mentioned , about 12 hours and 25 minutes .
Question: Forcing someone to have sex who does not want to , called rape , is a serious crime in many countries .
Answer: | Sexual intercourse with a person against their will , or without their consent , is rape , but may also be called " sexual assault " ; it is considered a serious crime in most countries .
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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.
FILE - In this July 28, 2016, file photo, a screen magnification feature of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is demonstrated, in New York. Aviation safety officials took the extraordinary step of warning airline... (Associated Press)
FILE - In this July 28, 2016, file photo, a screen magnification feature of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is demonstrated, in New York. Aviation safety officials took the extraordinary step of warning airline... (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. aviation safety officials took the extraordinary step late Thursday of warning airline passengers not to turn on or charge a new-model Samsung smartphone during flights following numerous reports of the devices catching fire.
The Federal Aviation Administration also warned passengers not to put the Galaxy Note 7 phones in their checked bags, citing "recent incidents and concerns raised by Samsung" about the devices. It is extremely unusual for the FAA to warn passengers about a specific product.
Last week, Samsung ordered a global recall of the jumbo phones after its investigation of explosion reports found the rechargeable lithium batteries were at fault. In one case, a family in St. Petersburg, Florida, reported a Galaxy Note 7 phone left charging in their Jeep caught fire, destroying the vehicle.
Australian airline companies were among the first to take measures. Qantas has asked passengers not to switch the Note 7 devices on and not to charge them during flights, its spokeswoman Sharna Rhys-Jones said. Media reports said other Australian airlines took a similar step, including Jetstar Airways and Virgin Australia.
Samsung launched the latest version of the Note series in August. The Note series is one of the most expensive lineups released by Samsung, and the devices usually inherit designs and features of the Galaxy S phones that debut in the spring. Samsung also added an iris scanner to the Note 7, which detects patterns in users' eyes to unlock the phone.
Before the issue of battery explosions emerged, supplies were not keeping up with higher-than-expected demand for the smartphone.
The Note 7 isn't the only gadget to catch fire thanks to lithium-battery problems, which have afflicted everything from laptops to Tesla cars to Boeing's 787 jetliner.
Rechargeable lithium batteries are more susceptible to overheating than other types of batteries if they are exposed to high temperatures, are damaged or have manufacturing flaws. Once the overheating starts, it can lead to "thermal runaway" in which temperatures continue escalating to very high levels. Water can extinguish the flames, but doesn't always halt the thermal runaway. Flames will often reappear after initially being quenched.
Lithium batteries are ubiquitous in consumer electronic devices. Manufacturers like them because they weigh less and pack considerably more energy into the same space than other types of batteries.
Earlier this year, the International Civil Aviation Organization, a U.N. agency that sets global aviation safety standards, banned bulk shipments of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries as cargo on passenger planes until better packaging can be developed to prevent a fire from spreading and potentially destroying the plane.
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Kristen Gelineau in Sydney contributed to this report.
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U.S. air-safety regulators have taken the unusual step of singling out Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Note 7 smartphone as a potential airborne fire hazard, urging passengers to avoid using the devices entirely on board airliners, dealing another blow to the technology giant’s smartphone recovery efforts.
In a brief but strongly worded statement released late Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration said that “in light of recent incidents and concerns” involving the smartphones, the agency “strongly advises passengers... ||||| | The Federal Aviation Administration has taken what the AP calls the "extraordinary step" of warning passengers not to use Samsung's new smartphone in the air. Samsung has had to recall the Galaxy Note7 worldwide due to battery fires, and it appears that the only safe way to have one on a plane is to have it turned off in your carry-on baggage: The Wall Street Journal reports that the FAA says it "strongly advises passengers not to turn on or charge these devices" on planes and "not to stow them in any checked baggage." (This Florida man says his Jeep was destroyed by fire after he left his Galaxy Note7 charging in the console.) |
How to pronounce hermione
Break down the name into syllables.
The correct pronunciation of " hermione " has four syllables, so in order to pronounce it correctly, you need to break the whole name down into those syllables.
Write or type the name on a piece of paper; then use your index fingers or additional small pieces of paper to cover up parts of the name.
OPTIONS:
- Change the name to " vagina " or " hole " for greater pronunciation. Hermione means " vagina " in the hebrew alphabet.
- Focus on the first syllable of her name. The first syllable is " her-, " which is at the beginning of the name " hermione.
- Don't press the area between your middle and index fingers though, as this can make the pronunciation difficult to pronounce. Think of the first syllable like the number 1.
- Do this process until you have covered up most of the entire name, and it will be difficult to pronounce the name. Pronounce the name " hermione.
Focus on the first syllable of her name. The first syllable is " her-, " which is at the beginning of the name " hermione.
There are a few spectators looking on from the sides of the pool, while a referee is following the actions to stay in control of the match. It is quiet other than the young kids that are involved in the game. they
OPTIONS:
- are having a great time and are very involved in what they are doing.
- are playing a game of various games, as they all have their arms thrown up in triumph.
- have one swimmer swimmer get out of the water and swim towards the other swimmer while the referee continues his instruction from the side shots.
- move around freely in an attempt to keep score thrived by the kids.
are having a great time and are very involved in what they are doing.
How to evaluate an administrative assistant
Establish main duties and responsibilities.
The first step is to determine what exactly the duties of the administrative assistant are. You can't evaluate the person until you know what you are evaluating them on.
OPTIONS:
- By establishing or reasonable duties, you'll be able to focus further on the administrative assistant. Generally, you'll need to identify/deal with the administrative assistant's specific goals or responsibilities, but might have reasonable expectations of the customer and/or the company's officers.
- To be able to evaluate an administrative assistant : Identify the tasks your administrative assistant are tasked with. For example, if your administrative assistant is a team member, and they work closely with you to keep the team firmly in place, to know what tasks they are tasked with is important.
- For example, if you are evaluating a difference between a supervising employee and a team member, you would want to differentiate you from a team member when evaluating a generalized employee. Familiarize yourself with the administrative assistant's process.
- For instance, some standard responsibilities include answering phones, greeting people, managing equipment, relaying messages and mail, proofing letters and publications, organizing files and documents, coordinating events, and maintaining office supplies. Other responsibilities could be learning the industry jargon, being able to manage the office schedule well, and being available to run errands as needed.
For instance, some standard responsibilities include answering phones, greeting people, managing equipment, relaying messages and mail, proofing letters and publications, organizing files and documents, coordinating events, and maintaining office supplies. Other responsibilities could be learning the industry jargon, being able to manage the office schedule well, and being available to run errands as needed.
How to adjust eye glasses
Stand in front of a mirror and look straight ahead.
Position the eyeglasses so the middle of the lenses are located in the center of your eyes. This is the optical center and the ideal location for your eyeglasses.
OPTIONS:
- Find the correct " point of focus. " the point of focus over your eyes should be the center of the bridge of your nose.
- All adjustments to your eyeglasses should be made to achieve this optimal position. If you have a bifocal lenses, the line should sit at the lower eyelid.
- Try situating them so the other side is facing you. Adjust the upper and lower lenses as necessary.
- Position the glasses so that they face the light source. As you stand, you should be holding them perfectly still.
| All adjustments to your eyeglasses should be made to achieve this optimal position. If you have a bifocal lenses, the line should sit at the lower eyelid. |
Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Input: El Salvador is the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America .
Output: | El Salvador ( ; -RSB- ) , officially the Republic of El Salvador ( , literally " Republic of The Savior " ) , is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America . |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Ex Input:
Left-wing fascism or left fascism is fascism of the leftist nature .
Ex Output:
Left-wing fascism and left fascism are sociological and philosophical terms used to categorize tendencies in left-wing politics otherwise commonly attributed to the ideology of fascism .
Ex Input:
The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority ( usually called the MBTA or " the T " ) is Massachusetts ' public transportation system .
Ex Output:
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ( abbreviated MBTA and known colloquially as " the T " ) is the public agency responsible for operating most public transportation services in Greater Boston , Massachusetts .
Ex Input:
CeBIT stand for " " , German for " Centre of Office Automation and Information Technology and Telecommunication " .
Ex Output:
| CeBIT is a German language acronym for " Centrum fu ̈ r Bu ̈ roautomation , Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation " , which translates as " Center for Office Automation , Information Technology and Telecommunication " .
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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: Which of the following is smaller, Chernobyl or Ukraine?, Context: On September 30, 1989, thousands of Belorussians, denouncing local leaders, marched through Minsk to demand additional cleanup of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster site in Ukraine. Up to 15,000 protesters wearing armbands bearing radioactivity symbols and carrying the banned red-and-white Belorussian national flag filed through torrential rain in defiance of a ban by local authorities. Later, they gathered in the city center near the government's headquarters, where speakers demanded resignation of Yefrem Sokolov, the republic's Communist Party leader, and called for the evacuation of half a million people from the contaminated zones.
A: | Chernobyl |
How to calculate blood alcohol level<br>Understand what blood alcohol content (bac) means. Blood alcohol content is a measurement of the amount of alcohol in your body. So, a bac of 0.10% means 1 part alcohol for every 1000 parts of blood.
One part of alcohol for every 1000 parts of blood is considered to be a blood alcohol content of 0.10%. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
input hypothesis: I want to help these young fighters accomplish nothing.
Context: "People will get to know me on levels they never did before, and get to see me as a coach, as a human willing to take a backseat to try and help these young [fighters] evolve into something more, to accomplish a goal many can only dream of," Cormier said.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: No
Context:
The Final Cut is a 1995 BBC television serial, the third part of the "House of Cards" trilogy. Directed by Mike Vardy, the serial, based on Michael Dobbs's 1995 novel of the same name, was adapted for television by Andrew Davies. It details the conclusion of Francis Urquhart's reign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Hypothesis: andrew davies was a good adapter OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
It's impossible to say
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
The 2019 Cedar Commissions artists have each received $4,500 to create over 30 minutes of new music, drawing from their lives and experiences to create bold new works. Over the course of six months, they have been composing, exploring new ideas, and assembling musicians to bring their work to fruition on February 1st and 2nd. On night one, the artists Tarek Abdelqader, Antoine Martinneau, and Brianna Lane will perform their work.
Sentence: Cedar Commissions artists have landed grant money
Output: Yes
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Airspeed Limited was established to build aeroplanes in 1931 in York, England, by A. H. Tiltman and Nevil Shute Norway (the aeronautical engineer and novelist, who used his forenames as his pen-name). The other directors were A. E. Hewitt, Lord Grimthorpe and Alan Cobham. Amy Johnson was also one of the initial subscribers for shares.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Airspeed Limited was established by Tiltman and Norway.
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Answer:
Yes
When we look at unemployment, the minister is boasting of fantastic surpluses in the unemployment insurance fund, which he is putting toward reduction of the deficit, when we look at the restrictions which have helped accumulate the unemployment insurance fund surplus, the restrictions to the new employment insurance program, we see that this is no joke.
The restrictions to the new employment insurance program are no joke. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | Yes |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: An Armenian plane sits on the tarmac after landing at Erzurum airport, eastern Turkey October 15, 2012.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey ordered an Armenian plane flying to the Syrian city of Aleppo to land and searched its cargo on Monday, in the latest move to prevent its airspace being used to supply the Syrian military.
The plane was allowed to continue on its way after the search in the eastern Turkish city of Erzurum confirmed it was carrying humanitarian aid as stated by Armenian officials, a Turkish deputy prime minister said.
Last Wednesday Turkey forced down a Syrian airliner that had come from Moscow, and said it had found Russian munitions on board destined for Syria's armed forces.
NATO-member Turkey has become increasingly assertive in challenging Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the face of growing tensions along the border and banned all Syrian aircraft from its airspace in the wake of that incident.
"The plane was ordered to land and it was inspected. It was clear that the declaration was correct and the plane was given permission to take off," Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc told reporters.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman said Turkey had the sovereign right under the Chicago convention on civil aviation to require planes crossing its airspace to make a "technical landing" but did not say whether this right would be exercised in future.
Armenia confirmed it had known the plane would be searched.
"The landing of the airplane in Turkey was planned and it was carried out according to a previously reached agreement. The airplane is delivering humanitarian aid to Syria," Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan said.
Last week's decision to force down and search the Syrian plane travelling from Russia infuriated Moscow and Damascus.
Russia has said there were no weapons on the plane and that it was carrying a legal cargo of radar equipment. But Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov later said the incident would not hurt the countries' "solid" relations.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said at the weekend that Turkish airspace had been closed to Syrian planes. Syria has also banned Turkish planes from flying over its territory.
The confrontation between Turkey and Syria has escalated in the last two weeks because of cross-border shelling, with Ankara retaliating after five Turkish civilians were killed when a Syrian shell hit a Turkish border town.
The bloodshed inside Syria has worsened markedly in the past two months although neither government nor rebels have been able to gain a decisive advantage.
The increased conflict has fuelled further refugee flows across Syria's borders, with many fleeing to Turkey.
The Turkish disaster management agency (AFAD) said on Monday there were now 100,363 Syrians at more than a dozen camps.
Turkey has said it will struggle to accommodate more than 100,000 and has urged the United Nations to build refugee camps in a safe zone within Syria's borders.
(Additional reporting by Hasmik Mkrtchyan in Yerevan; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Kevin Liffey) ||||| WASHINGTON — Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster, according to American officials and Middle Eastern diplomats.
That conclusion, of which President Obama and other senior officials are aware from classified assessments of the Syrian conflict that has now claimed more than 25,000 lives, casts into doubt whether the White House’s strategy of minimal and indirect intervention in the Syrian conflict is accomplishing its intended purpose of helping a democratic-minded opposition topple an oppressive government, or is instead sowing the seeds of future insurgencies hostile to the United States.
“The opposition groups that are receiving the most of the lethal aid are exactly the ones we don’t want to have it,” said one American official familiar with the outlines of those findings, commenting on an operation that in American eyes has increasingly gone awry.
The United States is not sending arms directly to the Syrian opposition. Instead, it is providing intelligence and other support for shipments of secondhand light weapons like rifles and grenades into Syria, mainly orchestrated from Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The reports indicate that the shipments organized from Qatar, in particular, are largely going to hard-line Islamists.
The assessment of the arms flows comes at a crucial time for Mr. Obama, in the closing weeks of the election campaign with two debates looming that will focus on his foreign policy record. But it also calls into question the Syria strategy laid out by Mitt Romney, his Republican challenger.
In a speech at the Virginia Military Institute last Monday, Mr. Romney said he would ensure that rebel groups “who share our values” would “obtain the arms they need to defeat Assad’s tanks, helicopters and fighter jets.” That suggests he would approve the transfer of weapons like antiaircraft and antitank systems that are much more potent than any the United States has been willing to put into rebel hands so far, precisely because American officials cannot be certain who will ultimately be using them.
But Mr. Romney stopped short of saying that he would have the United States provide those arms directly, and his aides said he would instead rely on Arab allies to do it. That would leave him, like Mr. Obama, with little direct control over the distribution of the arms.
American officials have been trying to understand why hard-line Islamists have received the lion’s share of the arms shipped to the Syrian opposition through the shadowy pipeline with roots in Qatar, and, to a lesser degree, Saudi Arabia. The officials, voicing frustration, say there is no central clearinghouse for the shipments, and no effective way of vetting the groups that ultimately receive them.
Those problems were central concerns for the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, David H. Petraeus, when he traveled secretly to Turkey last month, officials said.
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The C.I.A. has not commented on Mr. Petraeus’s trip, made to a region he knows well from his days as the Army general in charge of Central Command, which is responsible for all American military operations in the Middle East. Officials of countries in the region say that Mr. Petraeus has been deeply involved in trying to steer the supply effort, though American officials dispute that assertion.
One Middle Eastern diplomat who has dealt extensively with the C.I.A. on the issue said that Mr. Petraeus’s goal was to oversee the process of “vetting, and then shaping, an opposition that the U.S. thinks it can work with.” According to American and Arab officials, the C.I.A. has sent officers to Turkey to help direct the aid, but the agency has been hampered by a lack of good intelligence about many rebel figures and factions.
Another Middle Eastern diplomat whose government has supported the Syrian rebels said his country’s political leadership was discouraged by the lack of organization and the ineffectiveness of the disjointed Syrian opposition movement, and had raised its concerns with American officials. The diplomat, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was discussing delicate intelligence issues, said the various rebel groups had failed to assemble a clear military plan, lacked a coherent blueprint for governing Syria afterward if the Assad government fell, and quarreled too often among themselves, undercutting their military and political effectiveness.
“We haven’t seen anyone step up to take a leadership role for what happens after Assad,” the diplomat said. “There’s not much of anything that’s encouraging. We should have lowered our expectations.”
The disorganization is strengthening the hand of Islamic extremist groups in Syria, some with ties or affiliations with Al Qaeda, he said: “The longer this goes on, the more likely those groups will gain strength.”
American officials worry that, should Mr. Assad be ousted, Syria could erupt afterward into a new conflict over control of the country, in which the more hard-line Islamic groups would be the best armed. That depends on what happens in the arms bazaar that has been feeding the rebel groups. In several towns along the Turkey-Syria border, rebel commanders can be found seeking weapons and meeting with shadowy intermediaries, in a chaotic atmosphere where the true identities and affiliations of any party can be extremely difficult to ascertain.
Late last month in the Turkish border town of Antakya, at least two men who had recently been in Syria said they had seen Islamist rebels buying weapons in large quantities and then burying them in caches, to be used after the collapse of the Assad government. But it was impossible to verify these accounts, and other rebels derided the reports as wildly implausible.
Moreover, the rebels often adapt their language and appearance in ways they hope will appeal to those distributing weapons. For instance, many rebels have grown the long, scraggly beards favored by hard-line Salafi Muslims after hearing that Qatar was more inclined to give weapons to Islamists.
The Saudis and Qataris are themselves relying on intermediaries — some of them Lebanese — who have struggled to make sense of the complex affiliations of the rebels they deal with.
“We’re trying to improve the process,” said one Arab official involved in the effort to provide small arms to the rebels. “It is a very complex situation in Syria, but we are learning.” |||||
A: | Turkey forced another Syria-bound plane to land today, but the Armenian plane was allowed to continue to Syria after its cargo—humanitarian aid—was searched, Reuters reports. Last week, Turkey forced down a jet en route to Syria from Russia, claiming it held weapons for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces. Meanwhile, the Obama administration has found that most of the weapons Saudi Arabia and Qatar are sending to Syrian rebels are ending up in the hands of "hardline Islamic jihadists," the New York Times reports today. That's in contrast to the White House's desire to support the country's secular opposition groups. "The opposition groups that are receiving the most of the lethal aid are exactly the ones we don’t want to have it," says one American official. The finding calls into question whether the US, by not directly intervening in Syria, is helping to ensure a future democracy there, or whether the end result will actually be more powerful anti-US insurgents. The findings come as Mitt Romney sharpens his attacks on President Obama's foreign policy—in a major speech last week, Romney promised to see that Syrian rebels "who share our values" are armed, though he didn't go so far as to say the US would be the one arming them. Click for more from the New York Times. |
IN: What happens next?
How to diagnose mitral stenosis
Watch for shortness of breath.
One of the main symptoms that mitral stenosis may present with is shortness of breath-in particular, waking in the night with breathing difficulties. The shortness of breath may get worse with exertion, and/or when lying down.
OPTIONS:
- If your breathing is accompanied by shallow breaths, this may be a sign of mitral stenosis. Be aware that more serious complications related to mitral stenosis will require heart surgery and/or other surgical intervention.
- If you notice the shortness of breath, don't panic. Get up and go to the bathroom to clean yourself.
- The shortness of breath is caused by decreased effectiveness of blood flow with each heartbeat, due to partial blockage of the mitral valve (called " stenosis "). Your shortness of breath may progressively get worse with time.
- If you feel like you have an obstruction blocking your airways, blood then may be in your lungs. Other symptoms such as shortness of breath, dizziness, or lightheadedness may also signal mitral stenosis.
OUT: The shortness of breath is caused by decreased effectiveness of blood flow with each heartbeat, due to partial blockage of the mitral valve (called " stenosis "). Your shortness of breath may progressively get worse with time.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to hide acne with makeup
Acquire oil-free makeup.
Cosmetics that do not clog pores are called noncomedogenic or non-acnegenic. The first ingredient in your makeup should be water.
OPTIONS:
- Get in the habit of applying oil-free cosmetics when you get out of the shower or before after every meal. Many special formula products are noncomedogenic.
- Opt for mineral-based cosmetics, which will absorb excess oil and hide redness without irritating your skin. Noncomedogenic makeup does not interfere with acne medication.
- The type of makeup you use should be simply, naturally-occurring. Look for products marked specially for your skin type; based on your skin type, oily and dry skin sound preferable.
- Avoid producing excess oil in your pores because the sheer amount of the oil seeps through pores and dries out. Opt for oil-free cosmetics that blend with the natural oils in your skin.
A: Opt for mineral-based cosmetics, which will absorb excess oil and hide redness without irritating your skin. Noncomedogenic makeup does not interfere with acne medication.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
A guy is playing an accordion on a stage. The guy stops playing the accorion. The guy points to the audience and orchestra. the guy
OPTIONS:
- spins the accordion with his legs.
- uses his finger to point at the audience behind him.
- stands on the street.
- slightly bows his head.
OUT: slightly bows his head.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to plant a flowering almond shrub
Choose a planting area with six or more hours of sunshine.
Flowering almonds will bloom more profusely when planted in full sunlight. However, they can also be planted in areas with partial shade and at least four hours of direct sunlight each day.
OPTIONS:
- If your hardiness zone is in the us, west virginia, southern virginia, and utah, the south american varieties may require somewhat darker shade and less sun. Your plants will suffer significant droughts if planted in areas that are too much shade and without light.
- These areas include : Farmland and streets east of the northern equator regions south of the airport areas eastern and northeastern desert areas south of the u.s. Select a planting site that receives the sun every day, with at least six hours of sunlight each day.
- Do not plant them in areas where water tends to puddle or where the soil drains slowly as flowering almonds commonly develop root rot in slow-draining soil. Flowering almond shrubs are fairly easy to grow in nearly any type of soil but they must be planted properly in order to thrive.
- Protect your flowering almond plant with plastic mulch if you do not plan to grow your flowering almond shrub in the spring. It will take several weeks to grow the flowering almond shrub in full sunlight.
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Answer:
Do not plant them in areas where water tends to puddle or where the soil drains slowly as flowering almonds commonly develop root rot in slow-draining soil. Flowering almond shrubs are fairly easy to grow in nearly any type of soil but they must be planted properly in order to thrive.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to show hotels on google maps on android
Open google maps on your android.
It's the map icon typically found on the home screen or in the app drawer.
Tap the search box.
OPTIONS:
- It's at the top of the screen. Type hotels and tap the search key.
- It's at the top-left corner of the screen. Type the hotel you are looking for in the search field at the top of the map.
- Tap the three vertical dots in the bottom right corner of the screen. Type in " nightlife " and tap search.
- It's in the upper-left corner of the map. Enter the hotel or resort you want to visit.
A: It's at the top of the screen. Type hotels and tap the search key.
How to remove chewing gum from cotton
Make an ice cube sandwich.
Soft, mushy chewing gum will harden like a rock when frozen, and be much easier to remove. Often, two ice cubes are all you need to get the job started.
OPTIONS:
- Lay the gummed up spot of the garment, gum side down, on top of an ice cube. Place a second ice cube on top of the spot.
- Each pack of dry ice must be able to hold at least 15 ml (3 %). Using some ice work out how often you have to grind your gum.
- If you didn't use any store-bought gum, a dab of ice cubes is fine. Give the gum a stir with a fork.
- If you have gum in the freezer, you can also cut the piece with a grater or file. However, if you don't have freezer-safe cavities, you might also want to check your food sources.
| Lay the gummed up spot of the garment, gum side down, on top of an ice cube. Place a second ice cube on top of the spot. |
Detailed Instructions: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Problem:The pound is the currency of Guernsey. Since 1921, Guernsey has been in currency union with the United Kingdom and the Guernsey pound is not a separate currency but is a local issue of banknotes and coins denominated in pound sterling, in a similar way to the banknotes issued in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland (see Banknotes of the pound sterling). It can be exchanged at par with other sterling coinage and notes (see also sterling zone).
Solution: | can you use guernsey money in the uk? |
What is the most logical next event?
How to celebrate a traditional easter sunday
Understand the liturgical seasons of lent and easter.
Easter sunday is the day when christians celebrate the resurrection of jesus christ. Easter marks the completion of lent, which is a 40-day period of prayer, penance and fasting.
Possible answers:
+The last week of lent, which is the week before easter, is often referred to as holy week. During this week, christians observe palm sunday, which marks jesus' return to jerusalem; holy thursday, which is when jesus held his last supper with his disciples; and good friday, which is when jesus was crucified..
+Show generous patience and patience to your fellow christians. Church of christ aspire to be the oldest christian denominator in church of both holy and non-christian denominations..
+The dates of lent differ by faith practice, so consult your jewish family for your earliest blessings so they can vary between seasons. Easter sunday can only be celebrated with an resurrection of jesus christ, but it is the end of lent such as thanksgiving, easter and easter meal 4 times closer to the end of lent..
+The morning after the tuesday eve mass (saturday) is saint vae and saint vae. Saint vae are latin name brands that follow the current year, but do not normally have the same generic name as saint vae.. | The last week of lent, which is the week before easter, is often referred to as holy week. During this week, christians observe palm sunday, which marks jesus' return to jerusalem; holy thursday, which is when jesus held his last supper with his disciples; and good friday, which is when jesus was crucified. |
What happens next in this paragraph?
How to choose health insurance
Learn about health maintenance organization (hmo) plans.
Hmo plans generally restrict your coverage to doctors and specialists who either work for that hmo or contract their services. Depending on the hmo plan you're considering, you may be required to live or work in a specified service area to qualify for coverage.
Choose your answer from:
(1). Research reputable deductibles before signing up for a policy. Getting into health insurance is like opening a trade-in program where you and your doctor work together, which can be expensive..
(2). If you live in or work in an hmo facility, you are free to stay at that facility. For $10 a day, you are free to stay at that facility, even if you live in an out-of-office facility..
(3). If you plan to live on your own, you may be asked to work under a schedule or pay certain hourly salaries. Liability insurance plans cover no real health expenses..
(4). Hmo plans do not usually cover out-of-network care, or only provide limited out-of-network care, unless you are seeking emergency services. Hmo plans generally provide you with the least freedom to decide where you will receive your health care.. | (4). |
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: " Sho ̄ kaku " had a damaged flight deck which required three months of repair in Japan .
A: " Sho ̄ kaku " herself was unable to conduct further aircraft operations , with her flight deck heavily damaged , and she required almost three months of repair in Japan .
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Q: The atomic radius of an element is the distance between the nucleus and the edge of the electron cloud .
A: The atomic radius of a chemical element is a measure of the size of its atoms , usually the mean or typical distance from the center of the nucleus to the boundary of the surrounding shells of electrons .
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Q: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , informally called the Nobel Prize in Economics , is a prize awarded each year for outstanding contributions in the field of economics .
A: | The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences , officially known as The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( Swedish : " Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne " ) , is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to researchers in the field of economic sciences .
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Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy signed the state's death penalty repeal bill into law today, but the new law will not affect the 11 convicted killers already on death row including the two men who killed the wife and daughters of Dr. William Petit.
The bill signing made Connecticut the 17th state to abolish the death penalty.
"This afternoon I signed legislation that will, effective today, replace the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of release as the highest form of legal punishment in Connecticut," Malloy said in a statement released after he signed the bill behind closed doors.
"It is a moment for sober reflection, not celebration," he wrote.
The new law replaces the death penalty with a sentence of life without parole. It abolished the death penalty for future cases, but it does not affect sentences for the 11 inmate's currently on death row in the state.
An isolated and vacant cell block at the Osborn prison in Somers is expected to be used for the death row inmates who are now on death row, according to ABC News' Hartford affiliate WTNH. The inmates will be kept isolated from the general prison population and will have tightly restricted privileges.
Malloy said he signed the bill because working as a prosecutor, he "learned firsthand that our system of justice is very imperfect" and that it was "subject to the fallibility of those who participate in it."
The second factor that led to his decision today was the "unworkability" of Connecticut's death penalty law.
The state has put to death two people in the past 52 years and both had volunteered for it. He said that the state's residents pay for countless fruitless appeals as the cases receive publicity he did not believe they deserve.
"The 11 men currently on death row in Connecticut are far more likely to die of old age than they are to be put to death," he said.
Malloy also acknowledged that the campaign to abolish the death penalty was led by dozens of family members of murder victims, some of whom were present when he signed the bill.
Not all family members have been supportive of repealing the death penalty.
One of the strongest voices against repealing the death penalty has been Dr. William Petit Jr., the lone survivor of a 2007 Cheshire home invasion that resulted in the murders of his wife and two daughters.
The wife was raped and strangled, one of the daughters was molested and both girls were left tied to their beds as the house was set on fire.
The two men convicted of the crime, Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes, are currently on death row.
"There is no such thing as closure when your loved one is savagely taken from you," Petit -- along with his sister Johanna Petit Chapman -- wrote in a statement to the New Haven Register in March. "There can, however, be adequate and just punishment and that is the death penalty." ||||| (HARTFORD, Conn.) Gov. Dannel P. Malloy quietly signed a new law Wednesday that ends the state's death penalty for future crimes, making Connecticut the 17th state to abolish capital punishment.
The Democrat signed the bill behind closed doors, without fanfare. An aide said Malloy was surrounded by lawmakers, clergy and family members of murder victims.
While he called it "an historic moment," Malloy said in a written statement that it was a moment "for sober reflection, not celebration." (MORE: Conn. Lawmakers OK Death Penalty Repeal)
The bill, which became effective immediately, was signed on the same day that a new Quinnipiac University Poll showed that 62 percent of registered voters in Connecticut still favor the death penalty for those convicted of murder. The same survey found 47 percent of voters disapprove of Malloy's handling of the issue, while 33 percent approve. "Many of us who have advocated for this position over the years have said there is a moral component to our opposition to the death penalty. For me, that is certainly the case," he said. "But that does not mean nor should it mean that we question the morality of those who favor capital punishment. I certainly don't."
Amnesty International USA praised Malloy for signing the bill. Connecticut joins 16 other states and the District of Columbia. "Lawmakers in Connecticut finally saw the death penalty for what it is a barbaric and irreversible punishment that does nothing to stop crime nor its victims," said Suzanne Nossel, the organization's executive director, who credited the family members of murder victims for supporting the legislation and working to get the bill passed. (LIST: Five Historically Infamous Executions: Justice Served or Grave Mistake?)
A former prosecutor, Malloy said he used to support the death penalty but his position evolved over the years. "I learned firsthand that our system of justice is very imperfect," he said, adding how he saw people who were poorly served by their lawyers, wrongly accused or mistakenly identified, as well as discriminated against. "In bearing witness to those things, I came to believe that doing away with the death penalty was the only way to ensure it would not be unfairly imposed," Malloy said.
Earlier this month, the Democratic-controlled General Assembly passed legislation repealing the death penalty for only future crimes and not the 11 men currently on Connecticut's death row. The legislation requires that people convicted under the new law would be subject to prison conditions similar to those now experienced by condemned inmates.
Opponents of the repeal legislation included Dr. William Petit Jr., the only survivor of a 2007 home invasion in which two paroled burglars killed his wife and two daughters. Last year, Petit successfully lobbied state senators to hold off on repeal legislation while one of the two killers was still facing a death penalty trial. (MORE: Witness Testimony and the Death Penalty: After Troy Davis, a Push for Eyewitness Reform)
In more than half a century, Connecticut has executed only one person serial killer Michael Ross, who volunteered for the lethal injection in 2005.
The Quinnipiac Poll also showed that 51 percent of voters disapprove of the legislature's handling of the issue, compared to 29 percent who approve. Asked, however, about which type of punishment they prefer for convicted murderers the death penalty or life in prison without chance of parole registered voters were split, 46 percent to 46 percent.
The telephone survey of 1,745 voters has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points. |||||
| Life without the possibility of parole has replaced lethal injection as the harshest punishment Connecticut's courts can hand down. Gov. Dan Malloy signed a bill to repeal capital punishment, making the state the 17th to do so, and the fifth in the last five years, ABC reports. The new law will not affect the 11 killers already on death row in the state, including two men sentenced to death for murdering the wife and daughters of Dr. William Petit in a home invasion. Petit successfully lobbied lawmakers to delay repeal until both men had been sentenced. Connecticut has only executed one person since 1960. Malloy, a former prosecutor, said he used to support the death penalty, but his position changed as he observed injustices caused by flaws in the system, Time reports. "In bearing witness to those things, I came to believe that doing away with the death penalty was the only way to ensure it would not be unfairly imposed," he said, calling repeal a "moment for sober reflection, not celebration." California may become the next state to abolish the death penalty if voters decide to do so in a ballot measure this November. |
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A Matter of Chance is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov written in Russian under his pen name Vladimir Sirin in Berlin in 1924. It was rejected by the newspaper "Rul" and first published by the emigre magazine "Segodnya" in Riga. In 1974 it became part of a collection of thirteen stories called "Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories" published by McGraw-Hill.
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the piece of writing was done by an unknown author
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BAGHDAD More than 100 people were killed in a suicide car bombing at a busy market in an Iraqi town on Friday, in one of the deadliest attacks carried out by Islamic State militants since they overran large parts of the country.
The blast brought down several buildings in Khan Bani Saad, about 30 km (20 miles) northeast of Baghdad, crushing to death people who were celebrating the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, police and medics said.
Islamic State, which controls large parts of northern and western Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack in the mixed eastern province of Diyala where Khan Bani Saad is located and said the target was "rejectionists", as the group refers to Shi'ite Muslims.
Angry crowds went on the rampage after the explosion, smashing the windows of cars parked in the street in grief and anger. Body parts were flung onto the roofs of nearby buildings by the force of the blast, police said.
"Some people were using vegetable boxes to collect children's body parts," said police major Ahmed al-Tamimi from the site of the explosion, describing the damage to the market as "devastating".
An officer from the Diyala police command said rescue crews were still retrieving bodies from under the debris so the death toll could rise.
The Diyala provincial government declared three days' mourning and ordered all parks and entertainment places to close for the rest of the Eid al-Fitr holiday to pre-empt any further attacks.
Islamic State said in a statement issued on Twitter that the attack was to avenge the killing of Sunni Muslims in the northern Iraqi town of Hawija, and that the suicide car bomber was carrying around three tonnes of explosives.
Iraqi officials declared victory over Islamic State in Diyala earlier this year after security forces and Shi'ite paramilitaries drove them out of towns and villages there, but the insurgents remain active in the province.
Security forces and militia groups are currently focused on the western province of Anbar, where they have been gearing up for an offensive to retake the mainly Sunni governorate - Iraq's largest.
The United Nations said earlier this week that nearly 15,000 people had been killed in the 16-month period up to April 30.
(Reporting by Baghdad Bureau; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Andrew Heavens, Toni Reinhold) ||||| Baquba (Iraq) (AFP) - A car bomb blast claimed by the Islamic State group ripped through the crowded heart of an Iraqi town north of Baghdad Friday, killing at least 35 people, officials said.
The attack occurred in a market area of the predominantly Shiite town of Khan Bani Saad as people shopped on the eve of the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramadan.
"We have 35 martyrs and more than 70 wounded," said Mohammed Jawad al-Hamadani, a member of the Diyala provincial council in which Khan Bani Saad is located.
"The explosion was big, it caused a lot of damage," Raad Fares al-Mas, a member of parliament, said from nearby Baquba, the capital of Diyala.
Many women and children were among the victims, the officials said.
Footage aired on Iraqi television showed devastation around the bomb site, with several buildings completely gutted by the blast and debris strewn over a huge area.
The wounded were being attended to on the street as residents walked about in the chaos holding their heads, imploring God and screaming in horror.
View gallery An image grab taken from a video released on March 17, 2014 by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Lev …
Six hours after the blast, rescuers were still pulling bodies from the wreckage, a police officer said.
Khan Bani Saad is less than 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Baghdad's sprawling northern neighbourhood of Sadr City.
Sunni Muslims began marking Eid al-Fitr on Friday but Iraq's majority Shiite community will start their celebrations on Saturday.
Markets are usually packed in the days before the holiday as people preparing for large family gatherings shop for food and clothes.
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The Islamic State group issued a claim on jihadist forums saying the blast was caused by a suicide car bomb, one of their biggest such attacks in months.
"Our brother Abu Ruqayya al-Ansari advanced with his car loaded with almost three tonnes of explosives in the middle of a gathering for Rafidha militias," the claim said.
Rafidha is a term IS uses disparagingly to refer to Shiite Muslims. The group often says its car bomb attacks target Shiite militia members even when mostly civilians are killed.
The office of Diyala Governor Muthanna al-Tamimi issued a statement declaring three days of mourning across the province and cancelling Eid al-Fitr festivities.
The Islamic State group also claimed a deadly car bomb attack that took place Tuesday in Khalis, another town in Diyala just 30 kilometres (18 miles) north of Khan Bani Saad.
Baghdad announced in January that Iraqi forces had "liberated" Diyala, significant parts of which had been overrun by IS after the jihadists launched a brutally effective offensive last June.
The jihadists no longer have fixed positions there but have reverted to their old tactics of planting car bombs, carrying out suicide operations or hit-and-run attacks.
The United Nations said earlier this month that more than 15,000 civilians have been killed between the start of Iraq's latest armed conflict in January 2014 and April 2015. |||||
Output: | A suicide bomber struck at an Iraqi market today, but seldom have such attacks been so deadly: Reuters puts the death toll at more than 100 and reports that the Islamic State claimed responsibility, boasting that the vehicle used in the blast had 3 tons of explosives. The explosion brought down multiple buildings in the town of Khan Bani Saad, northeast of Baghdad, which AFP notes is predominately Shiite. Victims had packed the market to gather food in preparation for the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. "Some people were using vegetable boxes to collect children's body parts," says a police major. |
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Great danes have an innate need to please, so your puppy will be easy to train. Since your great dane is so large, it is important to start as early as you can to help him learn good behavior. | This will ensure that, as he grows, he will listen to you and follow your lead. This will be easier for you because he will be harder to convince to do things the older and larger he gets. |
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The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
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New input: Although the Kansas Constitution was changed in 1986 to allow the sale of alcohol , Doniphan County remained a " dry " county until 2012 .
Solution: | Although the Kansas Constitution was amended in 1986 to allow the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with the approval of voters , Doniphan County remained a prohibition , or " dry " , county until 2012 . |
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