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Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Input: The freighter version of the A300 has been replaced by the A330-200F .
Output: | The freighter sales for which the A300 had previously competed in later life are instead fulfilled by the A330-200F , a derivative of the newer Airbus A330 . |
How to add storage space to your bathroom
Determine if spice racks will work in your bathroom.
If you have wall space above your toilet, to the side of your mirror, or in a similar location in your bathroom, extra spice rack storage will likely work for you. Use a tape measure to measure the available space so you know what size shelf your bathroom can accommodate.
The narrow design of most spice racks along with their usually raised edges, intended to keep spices from falling, are perfect for holding toiletries and bottles. Spice racks are great for holding makeup and other cosmetics.
The man skips and does other tricks to the music causing the kids in the crowd to gawk and comment. he
even flips on his hands and criss crosses while jumping rope.
A camera pans around a woman standing in front of a dog balancing on a fence. The dog continues balancing on the fence while the camera pans around. the dog
then jumps off the fence in the end.
A shoe is shown broken into pieces inside a bathtub. A person is kicking around in the tub water. he
| tries to wash his shoes by kicking them in the water, the soles coming out. |
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.
Why are the maroons no longer in the Big Ten?, Context: The Maroons compete in the NCAA's Division III as members of the University Athletic Association (UAA). The university was a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and participated in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball and Football and was a regular participant in the Men's Basketball tournament. In 1935, the University of Chicago reached the Sweet Sixteen. In 1935, Chicago Maroons football player Jay Berwanger became the first winner of the Heisman Trophy. However, the university chose to withdraw from the conference in 1946 after University President Robert Maynard Hutchins de-emphasized varsity athletics in 1939 and dropped football. (In 1969, Chicago reinstated football as a Division III team, resuming playing its home games at the new Stagg Field.)
| de-emphasized varsity athletics |
Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
If you thought you’d had a few too many beers seeing Jay Leno, Oprah Winfrey, and David Letterman all sharing a sofa during a Super Bowl commercial, don’t worry. It really happened:
The spot, a commercial for The Late Show, is the biggest TV ad shocker of the Super Bowl, surpassing Tim Tebow with ease.
Letterman and Leno snipe at each other with mock-annoyance, with Dave mimicking Leno’s high-pitched voice. Oprah tries to calm the boys.
Now this is damage control for Leno: Agreeing to appear in a CBS Late Show ad while he’s still finishing out his NBC 10 p.m. show is the coolest thing Jay has done in… ages.
If it also makes Dave the publicity victor — after all, it is a commercial for his show, not the Leno Tonight Show — you have to hand it to Jay for playing along, probably as a slap at the way NBC handled the whole Tonight Show mess.
Now you’ve seen it: What do you think?
For more: Jay Leno-David Letterman-Oprah Winfrey Super Bowl ad was Dave’s idea, says CBS ||||| Jay and Dave together? Could it be true?
It is, and there they were, Jay Leno and David Letterman sitting on a couch – with Oprah Winfrey between them — upstairs at the Ed Sullivan Theater, where Mr. Letterman tapes his show.
The spot was shot last Tuesday afternoon, under the strictest of secrecy which involved both Mr. Leno and Ms. Winfrey flying in surreptitiously to New York, and arriving incognito at the theater, while Mr. Letterman was in the midst of taping his show for that night. It also involved Jay wearing a disguise: hooded sweatshirt, glasses and faux mustache. If you happened to be on Broadway between 53rd and 54th street last Tuesday about 4:15, you might have seen a man fitting that description slip into the theater by a small entrance under the marquee.
According to staff members of the “Late Show with David Letterman” who were on the scene that day — including the executive producer, Rob Burnett – it all happened because Mr. Letterman had an idea he thought would be truly funny: a Super Bowl ad that featured the two longest-running adversaries in late night, sitting with Ms. Winfrey as though at a Super Bowl party.
What gave the idea extra spin, of course, was that the relationship between Mr. Letterman and Mr. Leno has been especially fractious of late in the wake of NBC’s moves that led to the departure of Conan O’Brien from the “Tonight” show and Mr. Leno’s impending return to the show, where he will once again go head to head with Mr. Letterman.
In the weeks since the decision was announced, Mr. Letterman had been notably acerbic in his on-air jokes about Mr. Leno, suggesting he was a schemer in some way in the moves that led to the changes in late night, and Mr. Leno had responded with jokes about Mr. Letterman’s well-covered romantic entanglements.
That added to the surprise viewers encountered when the ad came up and there the two comics were, flanking Ms. Winfrey, in essence for a promotion for Mr. Letterman’s show.
As Mr. Burnett described it, Mr. Letterman had the idea to invite Mr. Leno to participate, playing off a similar ad he put together with Ms. Winfrey the last time CBS had the Super Bowl, in 2007. “Dave wrote the bit himself,” Mr. Burnett said. “He just thought: it’s the Super Bowl, you’re supposed to entertain people.”
Steps were taken to contact Ms. Winfrey, who agreed immediately, Mr. Burnett said, and then Mr. Leno. Mr. Burnett said he spoke with Mr. Leno’s executive producer, Debbie Vickers. “She asked if this was for real and then she laughed for about 10 minutes,” Mr. Burnett said.
Mr. Leno quickly agreed, but the idea had to be passed by the top NBC executives, including the chief executive, Jeff Zucker. Permission was granted.
Mr. Leno was able to get Tuesday free – NBC had rearranged its schedule to pre-empt his 10 p.m. show that night — and took the NBC corporate jet, Mr. Burnett said. There seemed little chance though that Mr. Leno could sneak into Mr. Letterman’s theater unseen, so the idea was hatched to try to sneak him in during a live taping, in disguise.
Both guests turned up while Mr. Letterman was on stage doing his show. They were kept in a secret green room until the show was over and the theater was cleared. Then Mr. Leno and Ms. Winfrey went up to the theater balcony where a living room set was fashioned with a faux TV and a couch.
Mr. Letterman arrived a short time later. The two late-night rivals greeted each other warmly, Mr. Burnett said. “It was very friendly, very professional, totally cordial,” he said. “You could tell these were two guys who have known each other for a long time.”
The idea Mr. Letterman came up with was for him to be first seen alone, complaining about being at the worst Super Bowl party ever — then to be seen in a two-shot with Ms. Winfrey as he had been in 2007, with her telling him to be nice. And then Mr. Leno would be revealed at the other end of the couch saying that Mr. Letterman was only complaining because he was there.
Mr. Letterman followed doing a mock-Jay voice. The 15-second spot was shot quickly and efficiently, Mr. Burnett said. “I’d say it took no more that 20 or 30 minutes,” he said.
“I think everybody wanted to do it just because they all knew it would get attention and they all just wanted to do something funny.”
After the taping was completed, Mr. Letterman thanked his guests and they said a cordial goodbye, Mr. Burnett said. The two stars slipped back out into the Manhattan night, Mr. Leno back in his faux mustache.
“This wasn’t done to help Dave or to help Jay,” Mr. Burnett said, “though I think it does help both of them. It was just done because Dave thought it would be funny and would entertain people. Nothing went beyond that.” |||||
A: | This year's most talked-about Super Bowl commercial was a Late Night promo featuring David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey, and an unexpected third party—Jay Leno. Oprah and Letterman appeared in a similar spot when her Chicago Bears lost to his Indianapolis Colts 3 years ago, before Leno became America's Villain. "Now this is damage control for Leno," writes Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly. The one and future Tonight Show host and the queen of all media taped the spot Tuesday at the Ed Sullivan Theater, Letterman's home turf. Leno even arrived wearing a disguise, reports the New York Times. Watch the ad, which features Letterman's take on Leno's voice, above. |
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: Assisting Zionist causes Einstein was a figurehead leader in helping establish the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which opened in 1925, and was among its first Board of Governors. Earlier, in 1921, he was asked by the biochemist and president of the World Zionist Organization, Chaim Weizmann, to help raise funds for the planned university. He also submitted various suggestions as to its initial programs. Among those, he advised first creating an Institute of Agriculture in order to settle the undeveloped land. That should be followed, he suggested, by a Chemical Institute and an Institute of Microbiology, to fight the various ongoing epidemics such as malaria, which he called an "evil" that was undermining a third of the country's development. Establishing an Oriental Studies Institute, to include language courses given in both Hebrew and Arabic, for scientific exploration of the country and its historical monuments, was also important. Chaim Weizmann later became Israel's first president. Upon his death while in office in November 1952 and at the urging of Ezriel Carlebach, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion offered Einstein the position of President of Israel, a mostly ceremonial post. The offer was presented by Israel's ambassador in Washington, Abba Eban, who explained that the offer "embodies the deepest respect which the Jewish people can repose in any of its sons". Einstein declined, and wrote in his response that he was "deeply moved", and "at once saddened and ashamed" that he could not accept it. <sep>What position did Einstein decline, though he was "saddened and ashamed" not to accept it?<sep>The Jewish people
A: | No |
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.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Lorna Gordon: "There was silence followed by screaming"
Eight children and two adults have been injured after a rollercoaster derailed and crashed at a theme park in North Lanarkshire in Scotland.
Police said the injured were all being treated at local hospitals.
Six ambulances and six fire engines were at the M&D's park near Strathclyde Park, Motherwell, after being called at 15:37. It was evacuated shortly after.
One adult and one child are in a stable condition and three children are expected to be allowed home later.
The injured are being cared for at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Wishaw General and the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, although details of their injuries have not been released.
The incident involved the Tsunami ride, which can travel at up to 40mph through corkscrew turns and loops. One eyewitness said "people were trapped upside down on the ride" following the crash.
Police Scotland revised down the number of injured from its initial estimate of 11 and confirmed there were nine passengers on the ride at the time.
Image copyright Faye Donnelly
Image copyright Demi Campbell
Ch Insp David Bruce of Police Scotland said: "On arrival it became clear a series of five gondolas connected on a train on the Tsunami ride have detached from the rails, struck the superstructure and then struck the ground.
"They [the gondolas] fell less than 20 feet. It would appear that they have been coming round a bend and at that point it has detached.
"It's an inverted rollercoaster which means that the riders hang in gondolas below the rails rather than sit above them.
Mr Bruce could not say what speed the passengers had been travelling at when the carriage left the rails, but he confirmed it "hadn't struck anything on the ground".
'People were crying with shock'
Caitlin Barnes, 13, had been on the ride twice during a day out to the park with three friends. She was standing nearby when it crashed.
She said: "I heard first of all a loud bang. At first I thought it was part of the ride because it had been a very loud ride the whole day.
"But when I turned around to look at it I saw the carriage just hurtling to the ground and then it crashed on top of another ride.
"I could see that there was lots of people trapped - probably up to 10 - and I saw a girl upside down, stuck.
"A lot of people in the park ran over and tried to help and there was loads of people just running about trying to tell people to call ambulances and call emergency services.
"When the emergency services got here they were just shouting at us all to leave the park and they evacuated the whole park and cordoned off around the carriage.
"I saw one boy who was probably about 11, I would have said, who got out and he was sitting just next to it - shocked obviously - with his parents.
"Everybody was shocked and upset and a lot of them were crying with shock."
Image copyright Demi Campbell
'Children crying'
The theme park is now closed but Police Scotland, the Scottish Ambulance Service, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) remain on site this evening.
A joint investigation is being conducted by police and the HSE.
Eyewitness Katie Burns said she had just finished riding the Tsunami and was walking past when the carriage crashed with children on board.
On Facebook, she said: "Literally got off the Tsunami at M&Ds and then walking past and the next lot of people get on and the full thing goes off the tracks.
"Honestly never been so scared in my life, with this weather they should not be on.
"Kids and adults are still on it upside down, it's like something out a horror film, children crying and everything.
"Literally can't believe this, my heart goes out to everyone on it, a full load came off the track and on the pavement, like a horror film worse thing ever heard and seen, can't get over this."
Image copyright M&D's Image caption The Tsunami, pictured previously, is one of the fastest rides at the park
'Terrible accident'
First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon said: "My thoughts are with everyone involved in this terrible incident at M&D's theme park, especially those injured."
And Ruth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, said: "Awful news coming from M&Ds. Deeply concerning - our thoughts are with those affected and with emergency responders."
Richard Lyle MSP, whose constituency includes Strathclyde Country Park where the theme park is situated, called for a "full investigation" into the incident, saying he was "horrified at this terrible accident".
It is not the first time the park has experienced problems with its rides, including Tsunami.
Nine passengers, including children, were stranded for eight hours on the ride in July 2011 when it came to a halt 60 ft (18.2m) above the ground. The malfunction was blamed on a broken lift chain.
In March, eight people had to be rescued by firefighters when the park's Tornado rollercoaster ground to a halt 20 ft (6m) in the air.
Are you in the area? Did you witness the incident? Email [email protected] with your stories. Please do not endanger yourself.
Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways: ||||| THREE children are in a serious condition in hospital after a rollercoaster derailed at the popular M&Ds theme park in Lanarkshire.
Eyewitnesses said the Tsunami ride at the Motherwell amusement park had been full when it came off the track injuring eight children and two adults.
Four children are being treated at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow, with three described as serious and one in a stable condition.
An adult is being treated at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and is in a stable condition.
The other five casualties were being treated in hospitals in Lanarkshire. One adult and a child were described as stable, while three other children were due to be released this evening.
Police, firefighters and paramedics rushed to the scene as several visitors posted images on social media appearing to show a mangled carriage on a pathway surrounded by dozens of people.
Chief Inspector David Bruce said: "Along with other emergency services we attended immediately and on arrival it became clear that a series of five gondolas connected on a train on the Tsunami ride have detached from the rails, struck the superstructure and then struck the ground.
"We have launched an investigation and an inquiry between Police Scotland and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)."
Mr Bruce added: "They (the gondolas) fell less than 20 feet. It would appear that they have been coming round a bend and at that point it has detached.
"At this stage it's very, very early in the inquiry and we are still taking witness statements but the gondola had been in operation on the rollercoaster and it would appear that it has been coming round a bend.
"It's an inverted rollercoaster which means that the riders hang in gondolas below the rails rather than sit above them.
"It would appear to come off as it has come round a corner. It struck the ground but it hadn't struck anything on the ground.
"I don't know what speed it would have been travelling but it was operating and rollercoasters do travel at speed."
In one image, taken by Dean Borris, people can be seen trapped upside down in their seats on the carriage, with their legs protruding into the air.
Scott Nailon was one of the first on the scene, seconds after the crash. The 38-year-old from Hamilton was at the park with his two children and had left the Tsunami queue a few minutes before the accident.
He told The Herald: "It was bedlam. Absolute pandemonium. The M&Ds staff were just telling folk to stay back but offering no assistance or even assurance to the kids who were trapped.
"I'm a trained first aider and with a few others were went straight to the kids in the ride. A chef from the place had some alan keys and was able to get one girl out while he held the carriage up.
"A doctor who'd been at the park then arrived and was with a young boy who was definitely a priority. His injuries looked really bad.
"Maybe 15 later the fire crews arrived and the ambulances so we just took a step back at the stage.
"But it was brutal. One guy who'd been on the ride was about 20 metres away from it."
The area was sealed off as Police Scotland CID officers and the Health and Safety Executive carried out preliminary investigations.
A HSE spokesman said the agencies primary role was "to provide assistance".
Katie Burns said she had just finished riding the Tsunami rollercoaster and was walking past when the carriage crashed with children on board.
On Facebook, she said: "Literally got off the Tsunami at M&Ds and then walking past and the next lot of people get on and the full thing goes off the tracks.
"Honestly never been so scared in my life, with this weather they should not be on.
"Kids and adults are still on it upside down, it's like something out a horror film, children crying and everything.
"Literally can't believe this, my heart goes out to everyone on it, a full load came off the track but and on the pavement, like a horror film worse thing ever heard and seen, can't get over this."
She posted an image of one of the rollercoaster wheels on the pavement.
Witness James Millerick, who was queuing for another rollercoaster at the theme park, said he heard "shrieks" from customers.
He said there was talk that someone had come off one of the rides and rushed over.
"When we got there the rollercoaster had come off the track entirely - straight through the gated fence at the side of the rollercoaster and was upside down on the concrete path at the side," he told Sky News.
"There were maybe seven or eight individuals, mostly of younger age between maybe 10 and 15 years old that were actually trapped inside the rollercoaster lying on the ground. The harnesses were still on as well so there was absolutely no movement."
He said he thought the rollercoaster had slipped off the tracks as it came around a corner but did not fall from the highest point.
A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service said six ambulance crews, a specialist operation team and emergency doctors were on the scene.
He said: "I can confirm that we are attending an incident at M&Ds theme park in Motherwell."
According to the M&D's website, the Tsunami rollercoaster can go at speeds of up to 40 miles per hour through corkscrew turns and loops on a 650km track.
Children under 10 are not allowed to use the ride, and under 14s must be accompanied by a paying adult.
First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon said: "My thoughts are with everyone involved in this terrible incident at M&D's theme park, especially those injured."
Ruth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, said: "Awful news coming from M&Ds. Deeply concerning - our thoughts are with those affected and with emergency responders."
A spokesman for M&D’s said: “As family-run business, our thoughts are with those who have been injured and their families. We wish everyone a full recovery.
“We are cooperating fully with Police Scotland and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on their joint investigation to ascertain the cause of the accident.” |||||
| People watched in horror Sunday as a roller coaster car flew off the rails and plummeted 30 feet to the ground at a Scottish theme park, injuring two adults and up to nine children. Eyewitnesses say the car from the Tsunami roller coaster landed upside-down on another ride at M&D’s theme park near Glasgow and left around 10 people trapped inside—most of whom were just kids, the Scotsman reports. "A lot of people in the park ran over and tried to help and there was loads of people just running about trying to tell people to call ambulances and call emergency services," an eyewitness tells the BBC. "Everybody was shocked and upset and a lot of them were crying with shock." A chef working at the park managed to free a girl using alan keys, and a doctor tended to a boy whose injuries "looked really bad," a witness tells the Herald Scotland. "[Soon] the fire crews arrived and the ambulances so we just took a step back at the stage. But it was brutal. One guy who'd been on the ride was about 20 meters away from it." The Tsunami roller coaster, which winds through turns and loops at up to 40 mph, doesn't allow children under 10 and only lets on under-14s when accompanied by a paying adult. A rep from M&D's says the park is "closed until further notice." |
This is a test of commonsense with single/multi-choices. Complete the next sentence:
How to set a scheduled time for the iphone's do not disturb feature to activate automatically
Tap the settings app.
You can find this on your iphone.
Tap notifications.
Available choices:
-- Tap on " do not disturb ". Slide the slider of " scheduled " so it is listed as " on ".;
-- This will sync scheduled time to all timeboards on your device. Tap any timeboard you want to set your phone off manually.;
-- This is located to the right of the " auto notification " tab. Tap overnight app (iphone 2).;
-- It's at the top of the screen. If ringtone is enabled, the screen will shift and show first.;
The answer is: | Tap on " do not disturb ". Slide the slider of " scheduled " so it is listed as " on ". |
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".
In chapters 3 and 4 we described how the U.S. government adjusted its existing agencies and capacities to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin Laden and his associates. After the August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton and his chief aides explored ways of getting Bin Laden expelled from Afghanistan or possibly capturing or even killing him. Although disruption efforts around the world had achieved some successes, the core of Bin Laden's organization remained intact. President Clinton was deeply concerned about Bin Laden. He and his national security advisor, Samuel "Sandy" Berger, ensured they had a special daily pipeline of reports feeding them the latest updates on Bin Laden's reported location. In public, President Clinton spoke repeatedly about the threat of terrorism, referring to terrorist training camps but saying little about Bin Laden and nothing about al Qaeda. He explained to us that this was deliberate-intended to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity. His speeches focused especially on the danger of nonstate actors and of chemical and biological weapons. As the millennium approached, the most publicized worries were not about terrorism but about computer breakdowns-the Y2K scare. Some government officials were concerned that terrorists would take advantage of such breakdowns. On November 30, 1999, Jordanian intelligence intercepted a telephone call between Abu Zubaydah, a longtime ally of Bin Laden, and Khadr Abu Hoshar, a Palestinian extremist. Abu Zubaydah said, "The time for training is over." Suspecting that this was a signal for Abu Hoshar to commence a terrorist operation, Jordanian police arrested Abu Hoshar and 15 others and informed Washington. One of the 16, Raed Hijazi, had been born in California to Palestinian parents; after spending his childhood in the Middle East, he had returned to northern California, taken refuge in extremist Islamist beliefs, and then made his way to Abu Zubaydah's Khaldan camp in Afghanistan, where he learned the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare. He and his younger brother had been recruited by Abu Hoshar into a loosely knit plot to attack Jewish and American targets in Jordan. After late 1996, when Abu Hoshar was arrested and jailed, Hijazi moved back to the United States, worked as a cabdriver in Boston, and sent money back to his fellow plotters. After Abu Hoshar's release, Hijazi shuttled between Boston and Jordan gathering money and supplies. With Abu Hoshar, he recruited inTurkey and Syria as well as Jordan; with Abu Zubaydah's assistance, Abu Hoshar sent these recruits to Afghanistan for training. <sep>President Clinton often spoke of terrorist camps, but did he refer to Bin Laden by name and what was the reason for his choice?<sep>No, he didn't know who he was
No
One of the most dramatic changes in priorities proposed by the City Council would shift $25.6 million from funding for court-appointed lawyers to the Legal Aid Society. In a document released yesterday to justify its reordered priorities, the Council contended that Legal Aid can achieve greater economies of scale than lawyers appointed pursuant to Article 18-B of the County Law. The Council document also noted that "inexplicably" 18-B lawyers are handling 50 percent of the indigent criminal cases in New York City, even though their mandate is to handle only multi-defendant cases where the Legal Aid Society had a conflict. In past years, the City Council had consistently added $5.6 million to the $54.7 million proposed for the Legal Aid Society by former Mayor Giuliani, bringing the total to just a shade over $60 million. But this year for the first time, the Council is proposing shifting more than $20 million in funds earmarked by the Mayor for 18-B lawyers to the Legal Aid Society, which would increase its total funding to $80.4 million. That would reflect a jump in its current finding of about one-third. Meantime, the City Council proposed slashing the Mayor's allocation of $62.8 million for 18-B lawyers by 66 percent, to $21.4 million. <sep>City Council seems to want more funds allocated to which organization?<sep>Article 18-B Lawyers
No
We need natural resources for just about everything we do. We need them for food and clothing, for building materials and energy. We even need them to have fun. Table 2.1 gives examples of how we use natural resources. Can you think of other ways we use natural resources? Use Vehicles Resources Rubber for tires from rubber trees Steel frames and other metal parts from minerals such as iron Example iron ore Electronics Plastic cases from petroleum prod- ucts Glass screens from minerals such as lead lead ore Use Homes Resources Nails from minerals such as iron Timber from trees Example spruce timber Jewelry Gemstones such as diamonds Minerals such as silver silver ore Food Sunlight, water, and soil Minerals such as phosphorus corn seeds in soil Clothing Wool from sheep Cotton from cotton plants cotton plants Recreation Water for boating and swimming Forests for hiking and camping pine forest Some natural resources are renewable. Others are not. It depends, in part, on how we use them. <sep>What are other uses of natural resources?<sep>Building materials
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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: Despite meeting some of the requirements such as being surrounded by a body of water, Australia is commonly cited to be too large to be called a what?, Context: Non-Australian citizens who are Australian permanent residents should be aware that during their stay on Norfolk Island they are "outside of Australia" for the purposes of the Migration Act. This means that not only will they need a still-valid migrant visa or Resident return visa to return from Norfolk Island to the mainland, but also the time spent in Norfolk Island will not be counted for satisfying the residence requirement for obtaining a Resident return visa in the future. On the other hand, as far as Australian nationality law is concerned, Norfolk Island is a part of Australia, and any time spent by an Australian permanent resident on Norfolk Island will count as time spent in Australia for the purpose of applying for Australian citizenship.
Answer: Island
Question: What students is City of Bath School limited to?, Context: Some of the county's secondary schools have specialist school status. Some schools have sixth forms and others transfer their sixth formers to colleges. Several schools can trace their origins back many years, such as The Blue School in Wells and Richard Huish College in Taunton. Others have changed their names over the years such as Beechen Cliff School which was started in 1905 as the City of Bath Boys' School and changed to its present name in 1972 when the grammar school was amalgamated with a local secondary modern school, to form a comprehensive school. Many others were established and built since the Second World War. In 2006, 5,900 pupils in Somerset sat GCSE examinations, with 44.5% achieving 5 grades A-C including English and Maths (compared to 45.8% for England).
Answer: Boys
Question: In terms of gender, how can professional wrestling in Japan be described?, Context: In Japan, professional wrestling done by female wrestlers is called joshi puroresu (女子プロレス) or joshi puro for short. Female wrestling is usually handled by promotions that specialize in joshi puroresu rather than divisions of otherwise male-dominated promotions, as is the case in the United States. However, joshi puroresu promotions usually have agreements with male puroresu promotions such that they recognize each other's titles as legitimate, and may share cards. All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling was the dominant joshi organization from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Answer: | male-dominated
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Q: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Many grevilleas interbreed freely , and some specially picked hybrids have been grown for sale .
A: | Many grevilleas have a propensity to interbreed freely , and extensive hybridisation and selection of horticulturally desirable attributes has led to the commercial release of many named cultivars . |
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.
PBS will postpone new seasons of its documentary series “Finding Your Roots” after determining actor Ben Affleck was able to convince the series’ producers to omit a reference in an episode that aired in October to the fact that he has slave-owning ancestors.
PBS said Wednesday that it, along with New York station WNET, “determined that the series co-producers violated PBS standards by failing to shield the creative and editorial process from improper influence, and by failing to inform PBS or WNET of Mr. Affleck’s efforts to affect program content.”
WNET produced the first two seasons of the series, while WETA, based in Washington, D.C., has taken over production of the third season.
The actor’s request — and its influence on the production of the series — came to light in April, as media outlets reported on private email exchanges between Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard professor who is an executive producer on the series, and Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton in which Gates sought Lynton’s counsel over requests by Affleck to remove a segment from the episode that mentioned that slave owners were part of his family history.
“I didn’t want any television show about my family to include a guy who owned slaves. I was embarrassed,” Affleck said in a Facebook post made in April. “The very thought left a bad taste in my mouth.”
PBS said it had decided to delay the third season of the series until its producers could hire an additional factchecker and an independent genealogist. PBS also said it would not commit to a fourth season of the series “until we are satisfied that the editorial standards of the series have been successfully raised to a level in which we can have confidence.” The episode in which Affleck’s ancestry is examined will be withdrawn from all forms of distribution, PBS said, including digital streaming and homevideo.
The review was led by Beth Hoppe and Stephen Segaller, the executives who oversee primetime programming for PBS and WNET, respectively. To investigate the lapse, PBS and WNET said executives examined correspondence, production records, agreements, talent releases and other documentation regarding the episode, as well as publicly available material. Representatives also interviewed the co-producers, who, PBS said, “fully cooperated in this review.” The law firm of Covington and Burling assisted in the process.
Gates previously said he had decided to focus on the most intriguing parts of Affleck’s background. “In the case of Mr. Affleck — we focused on what we felt were the most interesting aspects of his ancestry — including a Revolutionary War ancestor, a third great-grandfather who was an occult enthusiast, and his mother who marched for Civil Rights during the Freedom Summer of 1964,” he said in an explanation provided to PBS ombudsman Michael Getler in April.
“I want to thank PBS for its thoughtful internal review,” Gates said in a statement issued Wednesday. “I sincerely regret not discussing my editing rationale with our partners at PBS and WNET, and I apologize for putting PBS and its member stations in the position of having to defend the integrity of their programming. Throughout my many years of producing genealogy documentaries, I have always operated with rigorous ethical standards. Even so, we have been working with PBS and WETA to create new guidelines to increase transparency going forward. My career has been dedicated to improving race relations and intercultural understanding in our country. We are very excited about the third season of ‘Finding Your Roots’ and look forward to uncovering and sharing many more incredible ancestral stories with our viewers.”
“Editorial integrity is essential to PBS. As a mission-driven media enterprise, we know that earning and keeping the trust of the American public are our most important priorities,” said Hoppe, who is PBS’ chief programming executive and general manager of general audience programming, in a prepared statement. “The co-producers of ‘Finding Your Roots’ have a strong track record of creating high-quality programming for PBS over many years. Improved editorial and production processes will ensure that all future projects will adhere to PBS’ editorial guidelines.” ||||| LOS ANGELES (AP) — PBS put its "Finding Your Roots" series on hold Wednesday after determining an episode that omitted references to Ben Affleck's ancestor as a slave owner violated its standards.
FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2014 file photo, Ben Affleck poses in the press room with the Hollywood film award for "Gone Girl" at the Hollywood Film Awards in Los Angeles. PBS says it's postponing the third... (Associated Press)
FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2013 file photo, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., addresses the audience during an award ceremony for the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal at Harvard University, in Cambridge,... (Associated Press)
The public television service said it is postponing the show's third season and delaying a commitment to a fourth year until it is satisfied with improvement in the show's editorial guidelines.
PBS launched its investigation after it was reported that Affleck requested the program not reveal his ancestor's slave-holding history in the 2014 episode. The Associated Press examined historical documents and found that Affleck's great-great-great-grandfather owned 24 slaves.
The review found that co-producers violated PBS standards by allowing improper influence on the show's editorial process and failed to inform PBS or producing station WNET of Affleck's efforts to affect the program's content.
In a statement, series host and executive producer Henry Louis Gates Jr. apologized for forcing PBS to defend the integrity of its programming. He said he's working with public TV on new guidelines to ensure increased transparency.
Affleck's request came to light last spring in hacked Sony emails published online by whistleblower site WikiLeaks.
"These reports marked the first time that either PBS or WNET learned of this request," PBS said Wednesday.
PBS said it will withdraw the episode from all forms of distribution including on-air, digital platforms and home video. The show was also ordered to hire an additional researcher and an independent genealogist to review programs for factual accuracy.
Asked for comment from Affleck, a representative referred to remarks he had posted when the issue first was reported.
"We deserve neither credit nor blame for our ancestors and the degree of interest in this story suggests that we are, as a nation, still grappling with the terrible legacy of slavery," Affleck said on his Facebook page in April.
The award-winning "Good Will Hunting" and "Argo" actor said he was "embarrassed" for a TV show about his family to include a slave owner. He added, among other comments, that "Finding Your Roots" isn't a news program.
Gates and PBS said in April they didn't censor the slave-owner details. Instead, more interesting ancestors of Affleck emerged and Gates chose to highlight them instead in the show that traces the ancestry of well-known guests.
But in an email exchange between Gates and Sony Pictures chief executive Michael Lynton, Gates asks Lynton for advice on how to handle Affleck's request.
"Here's my dilemma," says Gates in one email, dated July 22, 2014, "confidentially, for the first time, one of our guests has asked us to edit out something about one of his ancestors — the fact that he owned slaves. Now, four or five of our guests this season descend from slave owners, including (documentary filmmaker) Ken Burns. We've never had anyone ever try to censor or edit what we found. He's a megastar. What do we do?"
Lynton replied that it all depends on who knows that the information was in the documentary already.
Last January, PBS station WETA in Washington, D.C., succeeded WNET as the show's producing station.
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AP Television Writer David Bauder in New York contributed to this report. |||||
| After the Ben Affleck embarrassment, is Finding Your Roots now the kind of show that won't hush things up on the say-so of a Hollywood star? Sounds like PBS isn't sure: It says an internal review has "determined that the series co-producers violated PBS standards by failing to shield the creative and editorial process from improper influence" and that it will delay the show's third series until it hires an independent genealogist and an extra fact-checker, Variety reports. PBS says it won't commit to a fourth series until it's sure the "editorial standards of the series have been successfully raised to a level in which we can have confidence." The Sony hack uncovered an email from host Henry Louis Gates Jr. to Sony chief Michael Lynton saying Affleck had "asked us to edit out something about one of his ancestors"—his slave-owning great-great-great-grandfather. After PBS announced the results of its review, Gates issued a statement promising increased transparency and apologizing "for putting PBS and its member stations in the position of having to defend the integrity of their programming." PBS says the Affleck episode will be withdrawn from all forms of distribution, the AP reports. (Fewer people would have heard about Affleck's ancestor if he hadn't meddled, though some experts believe he was actually holding the slaves in trust.) |
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The event that happened approximately four months after the first pilot and crew used onboard radar to guide them to a visual interception was accurately foreseen by which person?, Context: Nevertheless, it was radar that proved to be critical weapon in the night battles over Britain from this point onward. Dowding had introduced the concept of airborne radar and encouraged its usage. Eventually it would become a success. On the night of 22/23 July 1940, Flying Officer Cyril Ashfield (pilot), Pilot Officer Geoffrey Morris (Observer) and Flight Sergeant Reginald Leyland (Air Intercept radar operator) of the Fighter Interception Unit became the first pilot and crew to intercept and destroy an enemy aircraft using onboard radar to guide them to a visual interception, when their AI night fighter brought down a Do 17 off Sussex. On 19 November 1940 the famous RAF night fighter ace John Cunningham shot down a Ju 88 bomber using airborne radar, just as Dowding had predicted.
| Dowding |
Part 1. Definition
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Part 2. Example
Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy. Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it. When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework. <sep>Who does Timothy play with?<sep>Basketball and baseball
Answer: No
Explanation: Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
Part 3. Exercise
From a human point of view, a habitat is where you live. It might be your city, town, or neighborhood. Your habitat can be altered. Most people move a few times in their lives. But a plant cannot move. An animal may not be suited to live in another area. A habitat is the natural home or environment of an organism. Humans often destroy the habitats of other organisms. The loss of habitat can cause the extinction of species. Extinction is when a species disappears forever. Once a species is extinct, it can never be brought back. Humans cause habitat destruction in many ways. There are two common ways this happens. Land may be cleared. Another way is when an animal or plant is brought to an area where it does not belong. <sep>What do humans consider are the characteristics of a habitat?<sep>cannot move
Answer: | No |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Despite the joyful celebrations outside the Municipal Cathedral in Buenos Aires yesterday, the news of Latin America's first pope was clouded by lingering concerns about the role of the church – and its new head – during Argentina's brutal military dictatorship.
The Catholic church and Pope Francis have been accused of a complicit silence and worse during the "dirty war" of murders and abductions carried out by the junta that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.
The evidence is sketchy and contested. Documents have been destroyed and many of those who were victims or perpetrators have died in the years that followed. The moral argument is clear, but the reality of life at that time put many people in a grey position. It was dangerous at that time to speak out and risk being labelled a subversive. But many, including priests and bishops, did so and subsequently disappeared. Those who stayed silent have subsequently had to live with their consciences — and sometimes the risk of a trial.
Its behaviour during that dark period in Argentine history was so unsaintly that in 2000 the Argentine Catholic church itself made a public apology for its failure to take a stand against the generals. "We want to confess before God everything we have done badly," Argentina's Episcopal Conference said at that time.
In February, a court noted during the sentencing of three former military men to life imprisonment for the killings of two priests that the church hierarchy had "closed its eyes" to the killing of progressive priests.
As head of the Jesuit order from 1973 to 1979, Jorge Bergoglio – as the new pope was known until yesterday – was a member of the hierarachy during the period when the wider Catholic church backed the military government and called for their followers to be patriotic.
Bergoglio twice refused to testify in court about his role as head of the Jesuit order. When he eventually appeared in front of a judge in 2010, he was accused by lawyers of being evasive.
The main charge against Bergoglio involves the kidnapping of two Jesuit priests, Orland Yorio and Francisco Jalics, who were taken by Navy officers in May 1976 and held under inhumane conditions for the missionary work they conducted in the country's slums, a politically risky activity at the time.
His chief accuser is journalist Horacio Verbitsky, the author of a book on the church called "El Silencio" ("The Silence"), which claims that Bergoglio withdrew his order's protection from the two priests, effectively giving the military a green light for their abduction.
The claims are based on conversations with Jalics, who was released after his ordeal and later moved to a German monastery.
Bergoglio has called the allegations "slander" and holds that, on the contrary, he moved behind the scenes to save the lives of the two priests and others that he secretly hid from the death squads. In one case, he claims he even gave his identity papers to one dissident who looked like him so that he could flee the country.
For some, that makes him a hero. Other are sceptical. Eduardo de la Serna, co-ordinator of a left-wing group of priests who focus on the plight of the poor, told Radio del Plate that: "Bergoglio is a man of power and he knows how position himself among powerful people. I still have many doubts about his role regarding the Jesuits who went missing under the dictatorship."
Many in the church are keen to move on from that dark period in the history of Argentina and the church. They say the new pope helped to heal the wounds of the dirty war and to restore the credibility of the Catholic hierarchy.
"As archbishop, he faced a monumental task, and he was even accused of collaboration with the dirty war, which he strenuously denied and was ultimately cleared. If he can restore the credibility of the church there [in Argentina], he can handle the scandals that have befallen the church worldwide because he knows how to connect to the people" said Ramon Luzarraga, theologian-in-residence at the University of Dayton.
But the issue is unlikely to go away any time soon, particularly while high-profile trials are still taking place. This week a Buenos Aires court sentenced the "Last Dictator" Reynaldo Bignone to life in jail for crimes relating to the disappearance of 23 people, including two pregnant women, when he was in power in the 1980s. ||||| The church authorities had spirited Father von Wernich out of the country and placed him in a parish in Chile under a false name, but he was eventually brought back to Argentina and put on trial. In 2007, he was found guilty on seven counts of complicity in homicide, more than 40 counts of kidnapping and more than 30 of torture, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Father von Wernich was allowed to continue to celebrate Mass in prison, and in 2010 a church official said that “at the appropriate time, von Wernich’s situation will have to be resolved in accordance with canonical law.” But Cardinal Bergoglio never issued a formal apology on behalf of the church, or commented directly on the case, and during his tenure the bishops’ conference was similarly silent.
Only in November 2012, a year after Cardinal Bergoglio had stepped down as head of the bishops’ conference, did the group address the issue of its role during the dictatorship. It came in response to remarks in which the former dictator, General Videla, had, in the words of the statement the bishops issued, “attributed to those who then led the Conference complicity in criminal acts.” The bishops’ statement denied General Videla’s accusation and claimed that church leaders of the time “tried to do what was within their reach for the welfare of all.”
Asked Wednesday about Cardinal Bergoglio’s role during the Dirty War, the archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, said, “I haven’t seen anything other than conjecture.”
In recent years, Cardinal Bergoglio has clashed with the Argentine government, particularly former President Néstor Kirchner and his successor and widow, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, about issues like gay marriage, abortion and the adoption of children by gay couples. In 2010, he described a government-supported law to legalize marriage and adoption by same-sex couples as “a war against God” and “a maneuver by the devil.”
At the time, Mrs. Kirchner said, “Bergoglio’s position is medieval.” But on Wednesday, after he was announced as the new pope, she appeared willing to smooth over their differences, congratulating him and telling him he had her “consideration and respect.”
Horacio Verbitsky, an Argentine journalist who has investigated claims of ties between Cardinal Bergoglio and Argentina’s military rulers, said he expected the new pope to be “extremely conservative in all doctrinaire questions, yet open to the world and, above all, to the world of the poor.” ||||| | Although responses to Pope Francis have been chiefly positive, one dark stain in church history is raising serious questions about the new pope—the church's role during the dictatorship in Argentina, reports the Guardian. The church backed the dictatorship during its rule from 1976 to 1983, urging its followers to be patriotic and support the regime, too, even as thousands of people were abducted and murdered by the government, including many progressive priests. As the head of the Jesuit order in Argentina from 1973 to 1979, Jorge Bergoglio was part of the church hierarchy and has been accused of working with the dictatorship. In 2005, Bergoglio was accused in a lawsuit of withdrawing church protection from two anti-government priests, leading to their incarceration under brutal conditions in 1976, reports the New York Times. Bergoglio has called the allegation "slander" and claimed he worked behind the scenes to help the priests, but he has twice refused to testify in court about what his role had been. "I still have many doubts about his role regarding the Jesuits who went missing under the dictatorship," says the leader of a group of left-wing priests. Others praise Bergoglio for his role in the "monumental task" of healing the church's black eye after the war: "If he can restore the credibility of the church (in Argentina)," says one expert, "he can handle the scandals that have befallen the church worldwide. |
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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.
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Transatlantic flights will be quicker coming from the US to Europe but significantly slower going the other way
Flights from the UK to the US could take longer due to the changes in the climate, according to a new study.
Global warming is likely to speed up the jet stream, say researchers, and slow down aeroplanes heading for the US.
While eastbound flights from the US will be quicker, roundtrip journeys will "significantly lengthen".
The University of Reading scientists believe the changes will increase carbon emissions and fuel consumption and potentially raise ticket prices.
The study has been published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
Speedy streams
High altitude jet streams in the northern and southern hemisphere are the powerful winds that help move weather systems around the globe.
Air traffic normally tries to take advantage of these speedy flows of the Atlantic jet stream from west to east to reduce journey times on routes between Europe and North America.
This is one of the world's busiest routes with around 600 flights every day.
Previous studies have shown that climate change is likely to increase turbulence on these transatlantic flights. In this new study researchers modelled how atmospheric winds would change given a doubling of atmospheric CO2.
They fed the results into the same route algorithms that airlines routinely use to plan their transatlantic journeys.
Image copyright SPL Image caption Jet streams are found in both the northern and southern hemispheres
They found that the winds on the New York to London route will become 15% faster on average.
Flights from London will become twice as likely to take over seven hours while flights from New York will speed up and will become twice as likely to take under five hours and 20 minutes.
While on average, flights will only gain and lose a few minutes each way, the cumulative impact is "significant" says the study.
"If you look at the round trips, the eastbound flights are getting shorter by less than the westbound flights are getting longer," lead author Dr Paul Williams from the University of Reading told BBC News.
"So there is a robust increase in the round-trip journey time, which means planes spending longer in the air, when you add that up for all transatlantic aircraft you get an extra 2,000 hours of planes in the air every year, with $22 million extra in fuel costs and 70 million kg of CO2."
The researchers say the extra CO2 is the equivalent of the annual emissions of 7,000 British homes.
Carbon cost of flying
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In 2012, 2% of all human carbon emissions were result of plane emissions.
If air travel continues to grow at the predicted rate, it could contribute a considerably higher proportion by 2050.
Is jet travel becoming the dirtiest way to cross the planet?
Blowing hot and cold
While at present there is no firm observational evidence of changes in the jet stream, scientists point to the fact that the record time for a non-Concorde flight from New York to London is currently 5 hours and 16 minutes, set in January last year.
"We know what drives the jet stream, it's the temperature difference between the warm tropical regions and the cold polar regions at flight levels," said Dr Williams.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption How jet stream could make UK-US return flights longer
"We understand what that temperature difference is going to do in response to global warming, it's increasing, we are very confident that the jet stream is increasing as a consequence."
The researchers believe that as well as worsening the environmental impacts of aviation, airlines are likely to increase ticket prices to cover their costs.
And while the study only applied to the London-New York route, the impacts on flights of changes in the jet streams are likely to be felt all over the world as these critical winds are found in both the northern and southern hemispheres.
Other scientists in this field welcomed the study.
"This study builds on the concept that my team published last year showing that there is a two-way relationship between climate change and air travel," said Dr Kristopher Karnauskas, from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
"I think these results are an important step forward in filling in the overall puzzle that is this intricate relationship that we humans have with the climate system."
Dr Gregor Leckebusch from the University of Birmingham said the study was sound and the findings were easy to comprehend.
"My meteorological basic instinct would exactly have predicted such a result (shorter eastbound times while longer westbound times), but it is difficult to quantify the net effect without a detailed study using a conceptual model and detailed computational efforts," he said.
Follow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook. ||||| Image caption Planes are already encountering stronger winds, scientists say
Flights across the North Atlantic could get a lot bumpier in the future if the climate changes as scientists expect.
Planes are already encountering stronger winds, and could now face more turbulence, according to research led from Reading University, UK.
The study, published in Nature Climate Change, suggests that by mid-century passengers will be bounced around more frequently and more strongly.
The zone in the North Atlantic affected by turbulence could also increase.
Reading's Dr Paul Williams said comfort was not the only consideration; there were financial consequences of bumpier airspace as well.
"It's certainly plausible that if flights get diverted more to fly around turbulence rather than through it then the amount of fuel that needs to be burnt will increase," he told BBC News.
"Fuel costs money, which airlines have to pay, and ultimately it could of course be passengers buying their tickets who see the prices go up."
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Dr Paul Williams: "We've used one of the world's best climate models"
Dr Williams was presenting his research here in Vienna at the European Union Geosciences (EGU) General Assembly.
It was undertaken with Dr Manoj Joshi from the University of East Anglia.
The scientists concentrated their investigation on the North Atlantic corridor, which some 600 flights cross each day to go between the Americas and Europe.
They used a supercomputer to simulate likely changes to air currents above 10km in altitude, such as the fast-moving jet stream.
There is evidence to suggest this has been blowing more strongly, and under some scenarios could be prone to more of the instabilities associated with turbulence as the Earth's climate warms.
Image caption The zone in the North Atlantic affected by turbulence could also increase
Williams and Joshi compared what was essentially an unchanged ("pre-industrial") climate with one that contained double the carbon dioxide. This could happen in the 2050s on present trends.
The modelling suggested the average strength of transatlantic turbulence could increase by between 10% and 40%, and the amount of airspace likely to contain significant turbulence by between 40% and 170%, where the most likely outcome is around 100%. In other words, a doubling of the amount of airspace affected.
"The probability of moderate or greater turbulence increases by 10.8%," said Dr Williams.
"'Moderate or greater turbulence' has a specific definition in aviation. It is turbulence that is strong enough to bounce the aircraft around with an acceleration of five metres per second squared, which is half of a g-force. For that, the seatbelt sign would certainly be on; it would be difficult to walk; drinks would get knocked over; you'd feel strain against your seatbelt."
The Nature Climate Change study is said to be the first to examine the future of aviation turbulence.
Figures are hard to come by but the costs of air turbulence in terms of injuries, plane damage and post-incident inquiries are thought to be in the region of $150m (£100m) a year.
Detecting clear-air turbulence (unstable air in clear blue skies) by remote sensing is difficult.
Currently, pilots rely a lot on reports from planes that have already made the journey across the Atlantic earlier in the day for information about probable flight conditions.
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Output: | Planning a round trip from New York to London in the not-too-distant future? The good news: Getting to Heathrow may be quicker than ever at about five hours. The bad news: The flight back to the Big Apple could drag on for more than seven hours, making the overall trip longer. That's what researchers with the University of Reading predict in a new study that examines the effect of climate change on the jet stream, Phys.org reports. The high-altitude wind that blows west to east across the Atlantic Ocean is closely related to atmospheric temperatures, study lead Paul Williams says in a video. "Therefore, the winds are changing in response to the temperature changes." More specifically, the jet stream will become 15% faster, according to the study published this month in Environmental Research Letters. It all adds up for aircraft making the trip across the pond and back—some 600 flights daily. The BBC says the average time difference will be only "a few minutes each way," but it's the cumulative effect that researchers are worried about—it amounts to an extra 2,000 hours a year in the air, adding about $22 million to fuel costs and increasing CO2 emissions by 70 million kilograms. In 2013, Williams led a study predicting that transatlantic flights would become bumpier thanks to climate change, making for uncomfortable flights or longer flights as pilots burn fuel trying to avoid turbulence. This new study looks only at transatlantic flights, meaning it's "possible that flights elsewhere in the world will also suffer from a similar jet stream effect," says Williams. (You could soon fly from the East Coast to Europe for $69.) |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
An oral law are rules of human behavior in use in a given culture , religion or other group , which is transmitted by oral tradition and respected .
| An oral law is a code of conduct in use in a given culture , religion or community application , by which a body of rules of human behaviour is transmitted by oral tradition and effectively respected , or the single rule that is orally transmitted . |
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: In this way , classical Greece was part of the foundation of Western civilization .
Student: | For this reason , Classical Greece is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of modern Western culture and is considered the cradle of Western civilization . |
Green Lake is a city in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 960 at the 2010 census. The city is located on the north side of Green Lake. The city of Green Lake is the county seat for the county of Green Lake. The Town of Green Lake is located on the south side of Big Green Lake, opposite the city.
Wisconsin has at least 960 people.
A: Yes
Beginners is a 2010 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Mills. It tells the story of Oliver, a man reflecting on the life and death of his father, Hal, while trying to forge a new romantic relationship with a woman, Anna, dealing with father issues of her own. The film is based on the true-life coming out of Mills' father at the age of 75, five years before his death.
Beginners is also seem as a science fiction work
A: No
For Bechtolsheim, who designed the prototype for the first Sun workstation while he was a Birkenstock-shod Stanford University graduate student in 1982, the new line of computers, code named Galaxy, is a return to the company's roots.
Bechtolsheim built the first Sun workstation
A: | It's impossible to say |
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: You just got done with a long run. You are gasping for air. Why does your body react this way? What is the purpose of breathing? All the cells of your body need oxygen to work properly. Your bodys circulatory system works with the respiratory system to deliver the oxygen. Your blood carries red blood cells. The main job of red blood cells is to carry oxygen throughout your body. The red blood cells get oxygen in the lungs. The lungs are the main organs of the respiratory system. The respiratory system is the body system that takes in oxygen. It then releases carbon dioxide back to the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide is the waste material from the cells. <sep>Do your blood carry red blood cells<sep>Yes
A: | Yes |
How does the next paragraph end?
How to track tornadoes
Watch doppler radar for severe storm cells.
Doppler radar detects the speed and movement of a storm by using radio wave pulses and it is highly accurate. There are different colors to signify the intensity of a storm. | Greens indicate light rain, yellows and oranges are moderate to heavy rains, and red means very heavy rain or hail. Use a weather app on your phone, visit weather websites like weather.com and weather underground, or watch your local news for up to date doppler forecasts. |
This is a test of commonsense. Complete the next sentence:
How to roll sod
Rent or purchase a lawn roller from a home supply store.
You can rent lawn rollers by the hour, day, or week. They cost about $18 (£ 12) a day or $72 (£ 51) a week. | Residential law rollers range from about 24-36 inches (610-910 mm) wide, which works well for home landscaping projects. If you are completing many landscaping projects, it may be more cost-effective to purchase your own. |
Rachel Meghan Markle (born August 4, 1981), is an American actress, model and humanitarian from Los Angeles. Since 2011 she has portrayed Rachel Zane on the legal drama series "Suits" and is also known for her work as FBI special agent Amy Jessup in the sci-fi thriller "Fringe".
Can we draw the following conclusion?
Rachel Markle is from Texas.
Select from: I. Yes. II. It's impossible to say. III. No. | III. |
You are here: Home Nizamabad Member of Parliament, K Kavitha offered special prayers and bonam at the historic Sri Ujjaini Mahankali temple in Secunderabad. All Mahankali temples have been spruced up for the two day annual Bonalu festival that is celebrated on July 9 and July 10. All the temples and their surroundings have been decorated colourfully with special lighting and arches. The 200 year old Mahankali temples is flooded with devotees in queues to offer prayer to the goddess.
Can we infer the following?
All the temples and their surroundings are now colourful after being decorated.
Pick your answer from:
* Yes;
* It's impossible to say;
* No;
The answer is: | Yes |
How to become a buddhist<br>Learn basic buddhist terminology. This will make it much easier to understand everything you will read, since many buddhist terms can be very unfamiliar, especially to westerners. The basic terms of buddhism include but are not limited to : [substeps] Arhat: a being who has attained nirvana.
It is not allowed for anyone to become a buddhist.
A: No
Officials from TAG Heuer have announced that the company received the iF product design award, which was given away by the jury from the International Forum Design. TAG Heuer received the award for its concept watch, called Monaco Calibre 360 (Linear Second) Concept Chronograph. The jury that gives away the iF product design awards each year consists of leading design experts from all over the world gathered in one place. The iF awards are presented in Hanover, Germany, at the International Forum Design Hannover GMBH. There are a number of fields and disciplines which have their own awards.
The watch was designed in Germany.
A: It's impossible to say
Castro's successful visits to Harlem and the Bronx, his speech to the United Nations General Assembly, and the October 21 march of 3,000 against U.S. policy and subsequent picket lines at Cuba's UN mission in defense of the revolution - all these events dealt blows to the U.S. government's unceasing efforts to isolate and slander Cuba.
Castro would never come back after the speech.
A: | It's impossible to say |
Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to clean carpet naturally
Use plain hot water in a steam cleaner.
Many carpet cleaning machines say that you should use their highly concentrated cleaner when steam cleaning your carpets. However, using plain water in these machines will get a large amount of dirt and grime out of the carpet, and it won't leave any residue or chemicals behind. | This method will not work on hard to clean stains. However, it is a good way to give your carpet a general, all over cleaning. |
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: Today, we know that the 'transforming principle' Griffith observed was the DNA of the III-s strain bacteria. While the bacteria had been killed, the DNA had survived the heating process and was taken up by the II-R strain bacteria. The III-S strain DNA contains the genes that form the smooth protective polysaccharide capsule. Equipped with this gene, the former II-R strain bacteria were now protected from the host's immune system and could kill the host. The exact nature of the transforming principle (DNA) was verified in the experiments done by Avery, McLeod and McCarty and by Hershey and Chase.
Student: | what is the name of the process that was involved in changing griffiths r bacteria to s bacteria |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Let me give you an 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.
The answer to this example can be: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Here is why: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
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The rules for the high jump are set internationally by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Jumpers must take off on one foot. A jump is considered a failure if the bar is dislodged by the action of the jumper whilst jumping or the jumper touches the ground or breaks the plane of the near edge of the bar before clearance. The technique one uses for the jump must be almost flawless in order to have a chance of clearing a high bar.
Answer: | can you jump off two feet in high jump? |
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Problem: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Solution: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Explanation: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Problem: Each group of bivalves tends to have distinctive hinge teeth .
Solution: | Each related group of bivalves tends to have distinctive hinge teeth , and because of this , examining the arrangement of the hinge teeth in a bivalve shell is often essential for identification and classification . |
Teacher:In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Is the ground state of the Hilbert space a QED vaccum or QCD vacuum?, Context: In quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, the vacuum is defined as the state (that is, the solution to the equations of the theory) with the lowest possible energy (the ground state of the Hilbert space). In quantum electrodynamics this vacuum is referred to as 'QED vacuum' to distinguish it from the vacuum of quantum chromodynamics, denoted as QCD vacuum. QED vacuum is a state with no matter particles (hence the name), and also no photons. As described above, this state is impossible to achieve experimentally. (Even if every matter particle could somehow be removed from a volume, it would be impossible to eliminate all the blackbody photons.) Nonetheless, it provides a good model for realizable vacuum, and agrees with a number of experimental observations as described next.
Student: | QED |
Rocko's Modern Life: Spunky's Dangerous Day is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game released in the United States on April 1, 1994 and in 1997 in Canada, and is based on Joe Murray's "Rocko's Modern Life" television series on Nickelodeon. It was developed by Viacom New Media.
Can we infer the following?
She was 2 months pregnant. | It's impossible to say |
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".
My father was named James Page Jackson because he was born on the old Jackson plantation in Lancaster county, Virginia. He named one of his daughters Lancaster for a middle name in memory of his old home. Clarice Lancaster Jackson was her full name. A man named Galloway bought my father and brought him to Arkansas. Some called him by the name of Galloway, but my father always had all his children keep the name Jackson. There were fourteen of us, but only ten lived to grow up. He belonged to Mr. Galloway at the time of my birth, but even at that, I did not take the name Galloway as it would seem like I should. My father was a good carpenter; he was a fine cook, too; learned that back in Virginia. I'll tell you something interesting. The first cook stove ever brought to this town was one my father had his master to bring. He was cook at the Anthony House. You know about that, don't you? It was the first real fine hotel in Little Rock. When father went there to be head cook, all they had to cook on was big fireplaces and the big old Dutch ovens. Father just kept on telling about the stoves they had in Virginia, and at last they sent and got him one; it had to come by boat and took a long time. My father was proud that he was the one who set the first table ever spread in the Anthony House. <sep>Even though my father was owned by a man named Galloway when I was born, what name did my father want me to keep?<sep>Lancaster | No |
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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.
Which of the following is not in Scotland: Glasgow, Inverness or King's Cross?, Context: Train operator Virgin Trains East Coast provides a half-hourly frequency of trains to London King's Cross, with a journey time of about three hours, these services call at Durham, Darlington, York, Doncaster, Newark North Gate and Peterborough and north to Scotland with all trains calling at Edinburgh and a small number of trains extended to Glasgow, Aberdeen and Inverness. CrossCountry trains serve destinations in Yorkshire, the Midlands and the South West. First TransPennine Express operates services to Manchester and Liverpool. Northern Rail provides local and regional services.
Output: | King's Cross |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Why did Cubitt build the new wing?, Context: By 1847, the couple had found the palace too small for court life and their growing family, and consequently the new wing, designed by Edward Blore, was built by Thomas Cubitt, enclosing the central quadrangle. The large East Front, facing The Mall, is today the "public face" of Buckingham Palace, and contains the balcony from which the royal family acknowledge the crowds on momentous occasions and after the annual Trooping the Colour. The ballroom wing and a further suite of state rooms were also built in this period, designed by Nash's student Sir James Pennethorne.
the couple had found the palace too small for court life and their growing family
What does the S in "OAS" stand for?, Context: Further conventions were adopted at the regional level under the aegis of the Organization of American States (OAS or OEA), the African Union, and in 2003, at the universal level under that of the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
States
What suggests El Templo was in existence when Ferdinand VI became a king?, Context: Among the parish churches are Saints John (Baptist and Evangelist), rebuilt in 1368, whose dome, decorated by Palonino, contains some of the best frescoes in Spain; El Templo (the Temple), the ancient church of the Knights Templar, which passed into the hands of the Order of Montesa and was rebuilt in the reigns of Ferdinand VI and Charles III; the former convent of the Dominicans, at one time the headquarters of the Capital General, the cloister of which has a beautiful Gothic wing and the chapter room, large columns imitating palm trees; the Colegio del Corpus Christi, which is devoted to the Blessed Sacrament, and in which perpetual adoration is carried on; the Jesuit college, which was destroyed in 1868 by the revolutionary Committee of the Popular Front, but later rebuilt; and the Colegio de San Juan (also of the Society), the former college of the nobles, now a provincial institute for secondary instruction.
| rebuilt in the reigns of Ferdinand VI
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You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
[EX Q]: Threats and aspirations to secede from the United States, or arguments justifying secession, have been a feature of the country's politics almost since its birth. Some have argued for secession as a constitutional right and others as from a natural right of revolution. In Texas v. White, the United States Supreme Court ruled unilateral secession unconstitutional, while commenting that revolution or consent of the States could lead to a successful secession.
[EX A]: can a state succeed from the united states?
[EX Q]: Tomalley (from the Carib word tumale, meaning a sauce of lobster liver), crab fat, or lobster paste is the soft, green substance found in the body cavity of lobsters, that fulfills the functions of both the liver and the pancreas. Tomalley corresponds to the hepatopancreas in other arthropods. It is considered a delicacy, and may be eaten alone but is often added to sauces for flavour and as a thickening agent. The term lobster paste or lobster pâté can also be used to indicate a mixture of tomalley and lobster roe. Lobster bisque, lobster stock, and lobster consommé are made using lobster bodies (heads), often including the lobster liver.
[EX A]: can i eat the green stuff in lobster?
[EX Q]: Canadian citizenship is typically obtained by birth in Canada on the principle of jus soli, or birth abroad when at least one parent is a Canadian citizen or by adoption by at least one Canadian citizen under the rules of jus sanguinis. It can also be granted to a permanent resident who has lived in Canada for a period of time through naturalization. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC, formerly known as Citizenship and Immigration Canada, or CIC) is the department of the federal government responsible for citizenship-related matters, including confirmation, grant, renunciation and revocation of citizenship.
[EX A]: | can i get canadian citizenship if my mother was born in canada?
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How to make a jute bauble<br>Assemble the things needed. These are listed below under " things you'll need ". Dab glue on one side of the jute twine carefully as you wind it around the ball.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "jute twine is necessary to make a jute bauble"? | Yes |
How to wake up in the middle of the night<br>Practice by waking up at the same time for a month. Nerves in your brain control your body's clock, known as your circadian rhythm. This rhythm is established by following a predictable routine, which is why you are able to wake up at the same time on the weekend as you are during the week if all factors are equal.
If you practice waking up at the same time of night you will feel better when you wake up.
A: It's impossible to say
How to get rid of a cold sore with home remedies<br>Use hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide has antiseptic and antiviral properties that can help reduce inflammation and fight the viral infection causing the cold sore. [substeps] Soak a cotton ball or cotton swab in one teaspoon of hydrogen peroxide and hold it directly over the cold sore for five minutes.
Hydrogen peroxide gets rid of cold sores.
A: Yes
California Sunrise<br>There I was sitting at the beach on a beautiful California morning. Breathing the beautiful site and taking in the waves hitting shore. The rain started, which reminded me it was time for work. Stuck in a box all day waiting for my freedom, I could still see hope. I returned to the beach after work and realized, I always had a choice.
California has an average temperature of 50 degrees celcius
A: | It's impossible to say |
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What year were changes made in the methodology of recording sea level changes?, Context: Whether there are measurable changes in the sea level relative to the islands of Tuvalu is a contentious issue. There were problems associated with the pre-1993 sea level records from Funafuti which resulted in improvements in the recording technology to provide more reliable data for analysis. The degree of uncertainty as to estimates of sea level change relative to the islands of Tuvalu was reflected in the conclusions made in 2002 from the available data. The 2011 report of the Pacific Climate Change Science Program published by the Australian Government, concludes: "The sea-level rise near Tuvalu measured by satellite altimeters since 1993 is about 5 mm (0.2 in) per year."
| 1993 |
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In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
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Princess Mako, 25, the elder daughter of Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko, is set to be engaged to a former classmate at her university and is expected to marry next year, media reports said Tuesday.
The prospective fiance was identified as Kei Komuro, who lives in Yokohama and was a student at International Christian University in Tokyo, according to public broadcaster NHK.
The Imperial Household Agency later confirmed the report and said Komuro is a 25-year-old graduate student at Tokyo’s Hitotsubashi University and also works at a law firm.
It will be the first engagement among the four grandchildren of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. The last marriage of a Japanese princess took place in October 2014 when Princess Noriko, the 28-year-old daughter of Emperor Akihito’s late cousin Prince Takamado, tied the knot with Kunimaro Senge, the eldest son of the chief priest of Izumo Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Shimane Prefecture.
Princess Mako met Komuro about five years ago through a friend at International Christian University, which they both attended, and later accepted a marriage proposal from him, according to an agency source.
The princess has already introduced Komuro to Prince Akishino, who is the younger brother of Crown Prince Naruhito.
Once married, the princess would be obliged to leave the Imperial family, as stipulated by the Imperial House Law.
When Princess Mako marries, the number of Imperial family members will drop to 18, and that of female members to 13.
The news will likely further promote public debate over whether women should be allowed to retain Imperial status after marriage and whether women should be allowed to rise to the throne.
The Imperial family has only one young male, Princess Mako’s younger brother Prince Hisahito.
As Imperial House Law allows only a male to rise to the throne, officials and experts have long been deeply concerned over the future of the succession system.
After graduating from ICU in 2014, Princess Mako earned a master’s degree in art museum and gallery studies at the University of Leicester and now works as a researcher at a museum at the University of Tokyo three days a week.
Information from Kyodo added ||||| FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2011, file photo, Japan's Prince Hisahito, wearing a traditional ceremonial attire, is accompanied by his parents, Prince Akishino, Princess Kiko, his sisters Princess Mako, left,... (Associated Press)
TOKYO (AP) — Princess Mako, the granddaughter of Japan's emperor, is getting married to an ocean lover who can ski, play the violin and cook, according to public broadcaster NHK TV.
The Imperial Household Agency declined to confirm the report Tuesday.
Kei Komuro, the man who won the princess' heart, was a fellow student at International Christian University in Tokyo, where Mako, 25, also graduated, NHK said.
They met at a restaurant in Tokyo's Shibuya about five years ago at a party to talk about studying abroad, and they have been dating several times a month recently, it said.
Komuro has worked as "Prince of the Sea" to promote tourism to the beaches of Shonan in Kanagawa prefecture, the report said.
Women can't succeed to the Chrysanthemum Throne in Japan. Mako's father and her younger brother are in line to succeed Emperor Akihito, but after her uncle Crown Prince Naruhito, who is first in line.
Once she marries, Mako will no longer be a princess and will become a commoner.
But the process building up to the wedding is likely to take some time and be full of ritual, as Japanese nuptials, especially royal ones, tend to be.
First there will be an announcement, the equivalent of an engagement, and then a date for the wedding will be picked and the couple will make a formal report to the emperor and empress. NHK said Mako has already introduced Komuro to her parents, and they approve.
Unlike royalty in Great Britain and other European countries, the emperor and his family tend to be cloistered, although they travel abroad and appear at cultural events.
Akihito, 83, is the son of Hirohito, Japan's emperor during World War II.
Akihito expressed his desire to abdicate last year, and Japan has been preparing legislation especially for him so he can.
Until Japan's defeat at the end of World War II, Hirohito was viewed as divine, and no one had even heard his voice. But the times are changing, and the Japanese public harbors a feeling of openness and familiarity toward the emperor and his family. People are likely to see Mako's marriage as a celebration, although the rituals will continue to be tightly orchestrated.
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Princess Mako, the granddaughter of Japan's emperor, is getting married to an ocean lover who can ski, play the violin, and cook. The news comes via public broadcaster NHK TV and has been confirmed by the Imperial Household Agency, reports the Japan Times. Kei Komuro, the man who won the princess's heart, was a fellow student at International Christian University in Tokyo, where Mako, 25, also graduated. They reportedly met at a restaurant in Tokyo's Shibuya about five years ago at a party to talk about studying abroad. Komuro is currently a graduate student. Women can't succeed to the Chrysanthemum Throne in Japan, the AP reports, and once she marries, Mako will no longer be a princess and will become a commoner. Mako's father and her younger brother are in line to succeed Emperor Akihito, but after her uncle Crown Prince Naruhito, who is first in line. The Times notes Mako is the first of Akihito's four grandchildren to become engaged. The process building up to the wedding, said to likely take place next year, is expected to be full of ritual, as Japanese nuptials, especially royal ones, tend to be. First there will be an announcement, the equivalent of an engagement, and then a date for the wedding will be picked and the couple will make a formal report to the emperor and empress. NHK says Mako has already introduced Komuro to her parents, and they approve.
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On the first day that Sally Ann Okuly felt well enough to leave her house after a motorcycle crash six months ago, she was struck and killed by a car in the crosswalk. News4's Shomari Stone reports. (Published Friday, Nov. 22, 2013)
Sally Ann Okuly survived cancer. And she survived a motorcycle crash six months ago, feeling well enough to leave the house last weekend for the first time in half a year.
But her determination was no match for a car Sunday morning. Okuly was struck by a car and killed as she left her Woodbridge, Va. home for the first time, to cross the street to her favorite convenience store and buy a newspaper and cup of coffee.
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Police say a car driven by Amanda Styles-Mays, 24, crashed into Okuly as she crossed at Opitz Boulevard and Montgomery Avenue. Okuly was crossing with the light and was in the crosswalk.
Styles-Mays has been charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian and reckless driving.
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"One of her favorite things to do was to walk over across that street to the Wawa gas station," said her husband, Bill Okuly.
Sally Ann was also a mother of two. The couple -- who were members of the Rolling Thunder motorcycle club -- was set to celebrate their 41st anniversary Monday.
"She's the most giving person ever," Bill Okuly said.
But, he said, he feels his wife will always stay with him. "Oh yeah, she'll always be there," Bill Okuly said. ||||| Woodbridge, VA (22192)
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Tomorrow, Bill and Sally Ann Okuly were set to celebrate their 41st wedding anniversary. The reasons why they won't are wrenching: It's not because of cancer (Sally survived that) or a motorcycle crash (which the Woodbridge, Va., woman also survived, six months ago). Last Sunday, Sally decided she was up for leaving her house for the first time since the crash, and headed across the street to a Wawa gas station to get coffee and a paper. She crossed in the crosswalk, with the signal indicating it was safe to do so, but was hit by a car. A Prince William County police rep explains that 24-year-old Amanda Styles-Mays had a green light, but was making a left turn, reports Inside NOVA. "The driver of the Jeep Wrangler did not yield the right of way and proceeded to turn left, striking the pedestrian," he says in a statement. Okuly died the next day; Styles-Mays has been charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian and reckless driving, reports NBC Washington.
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Lawyers for Miller had said that the company had received permission to film on the trestle from Rayonier Inc., a paper company that owns the land. Rayonier had told the film company that only two trains would be using the track that day, the lawyers said. After two trains, the crew set up for filming. ||||| JESUP, Ga. -- The director of a movie about musician Gregg Allman pleaded guilty Monday in a train crash that killed a camera assistant and injured six film workers, and prosecutors in exchange dropped charges against his wife and business partner.
As part of the plea deal, Director Randall Miller will spend two years in the county jail and another eight on probation on involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespassing charges. He also will pay a $20,000 fine.
Miller's wife and business partner, Jody Savin, will no longer face the same charges.
A third defendant, executive producer Jay Sedrish, also pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespassing on Monday but avoided jail time. He will be allowed to serve 10 years of probation from his home in California.
In the crash a year ago, a freight train traveling 55 mph plowed into the director's crew on a Georgia railroad bridge. Sarah Jones, 27, was killed.
"They didn't think a train was going to come, but a train came, they tried to get the bed off the tracks," Deadline author David Robb told CBS News correspondent John Blackstone. "The train hit the bed, and the bed hit Sarah and knocked her into the train and she was killed."
The case is a rare example of filmmakers being prosecuted for deaths on their sets.
CSX Transportation, the railroad company that owns the bridge where the crash occurred, has said it twice denied the filmmakers permission to shoot footage on its tracks in rural southeast Georgia. Under state law, someone can be convicted of involuntary manslaughter for committing a misdemeanor - in this case trespassing - that unintentionally causes another person to be killed.
It was the first day of shooting on "Midnight Rider" when Miller and his crew stepped onto the railroad bridge spanning the Altamaha River on Feb. 20, 2014. Actor William Hurt was on the set in his role as the Allman Brothers Band singer in his later years. A metal-framed bed was pulled across the tracks as a prop. When the train struck, it smashed the bed and hurled metal fragments at the fleeing crew.
The train struck and killed Jones, a young camera assistant from Atlanta who had worked on TV series including "Army Wives" and "The Vampire Diaries." Her death galvanized behind-the-scenes film workers nationwide to push for improved safety standards on sets.
A sobbing Miller called Jones' parents to tell them she was dead. The director, whose previous films included "Bottle Shock" and "CBGB," testified last May in a related civil case that he had been told only two trains a day crossed the bridge and he only set out with his crew onto the trestle after a pair of trains had passed. Asked if the crew had obtained permission from the railroad to film on its tracks, Miller said that wasn't his job. But he bristled at the suggestion he recklessly put his crew in danger.
"I was in the middle of the track and I almost died," Miller said in civil court May 12.
The "Midnight Rider" movie has been in limbo since the crash. Allman sued Miller to prevent the director from reviving the film. They settled out of court last year, and terms were not disclosed.
The last time criminal charges were filed in a Hollywood filming death was almost 30 years ago, when director John Landis and four others were charged with manslaughter in the deaths of three actors in a helicopter accident on the set of the film version of "The Twilight Zone." They were later found not guilty. |||||
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| Film director Randall Miller pleaded guilty yesterday in the death of an assistant camera operator on the set of Midnight Rider. Sarah Jones, 27, was killed last year while the Gregg Allman biopic was filming on a train trestle. A train going 55mph struck a metal-frame bed the crew put on the tracks; the flying bed reportedly knocked Jones into the train. Miller pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespass, and the Los Angeles Times calls it "a seminal moment in Hollywood film history"—the first time, as far as showbiz attorneys remember, a filmmaker has pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to an on-set accident. The sentence: up to two years in jail, eight years of probation, a fine of $20,000, 360 hours of community service, and a 10-year ban from serving as a director or assistant director. Part of his motivation for taking the deal: Doing so got Miller's wife and business partner, Jody Savin, out of her own involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespass charges. Miller's lawyers had maintained the director believed he had permission to film on the trestle, though that permission had been obtained from the paper company that owns the land. The company said just two trains would pass that day, and the crew was surprised by a third. But the company that owns the track says it denied the filmmakers permission—twice, CBS News reports. Miller's lawyer maintains that the director believed the set was safe, but says he takes responsibility for Jones' death.
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What were the type of ships that got attacked, Context: Englishman Sir Francis Drake probably located the island on the final leg of his circumnavigation of the world (1577–1580). Further visits by other English explorers followed, and, once Saint Helena’s location was more widely known, English ships of war began to lie in wait in the area to attack Portuguese India carracks on their way home. In developing their Far East trade, the Dutch also began to frequent the island. The Portuguese and Spanish soon gave up regularly calling at the island, partly because they used ports along the West African coast, but also because of attacks on their shipping, the desecration of their chapel and religious icons, destruction of their livestock and destruction of plantations by Dutch and English sailors. | carracks |
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(CNN) -- Argentina's star-studded line-up began their World Cup campaign with a 1-0 victory over Nigeria in their Group B opener in Johannesburg on Saturday. A goal from defender Gabriel Heinze after six minutes was all that separated the two teams after an inspired display from Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama. But South Korea ended the day on top of the group following a 2-0 victory over Greece in Port Elizabeth earlier on Saturday. Goals from Lee Jung-Soo and Park Ji-Sung gave the 2002 semifinalists a comfortable win over the 2008 European cvhampions. Argentina 1-0 Nigeria Enyeama could do little to stop Heinze's powerful early header from a Juan Sebastian Veron corner, but he kept his team alive with a string of acrobatic saves to deny World Player of the Year Lionel Messi. Diego Maradona was delighted to secure his first victory as a World Cup coach, but critical of his strikers for failing to make the game safe. "When you don't kill things off in front of goal you can pay a heavy price. They almost got a draw -- we missed loads of chances," Maradona told AFP. "Players such as Leo Messi and Higuain knocked in around 60 goals last season between them, yet today it was almost as if they couldn't set their sights on goal. "But the win means we can be calm -- we are in the right track." <sep>Who are Argentina's strikers?<sep>Lee Jung-Soo
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During the transition, Bush had chosen John Ashcroft, a former senator from Missouri, as his attorney general. On his arrival at the Justice Department, Ashcroft told us, he faced a number of problems spotlighting the need for reform at the FBI. In February, Clarke briefed Attorney General Ashcroft on his directorate's issues. He reported that at the time, the attorney general acknowledged a "steep learning curve," and asked about the progress of the Cole investigation. Neither Ashcroft nor his predecessors received the President's Daily Brief. His office did receive the daily intelligence report for senior officials that, during the spring and summer of 2001, was carrying much of the same threat information. The FBI was struggling to build up its institutional capabilities to do more against terrorism, relying on a strategy called MAXCAP 05 that had been unveiled in the summer of 2000. The FBI's assistant director for counterterrorism, Dale Watson, told us that he felt the new Justice Department leadership was not supportive of the strategy. Watson had the sense that the Justice Department wanted the FBI to get back to the investigative basics: guns, drugs, and civil rights. The new administration did seek an 8 percent increase in overall FBI funding in its initial budget proposal for fiscal year 2002, including the largest proposed percentage increase in the FBI's counterterrorism program since fiscal year 1997. The additional funds included the FBI's support of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah (a onetime increase), enhanced security at FBI facilities, and improvements to the FBI's WMD incident response capability. In May, the Justice Department began shaping plans for building a budget for fiscal year 2003, the process that would usually culminate in an administration proposal at the beginning of 2002. On May 9, the attorney general testified at a congressional hearing concerning federal efforts to combat terrorism. He said that "one of the nation's most fundamental responsibilities is to protect its citizens from terrorist attacks." The budget guidance issued the next day, however, highlighted gun crimes, narcotics trafficking, and civil rights as priorities. <sep>What did the FBI's assistant director for counterterrorism believed the Justice Department wanted the FBI to do?<sep>Building a budget for fiscal year 2003
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How to translate an autocad drawing using translation memory and cat
Get a text editor that supports unicode (such as the freeware babelpad).
Open the dxf file in the text editor and search for the word acdbmtext.
Search for " 1 " (two spaces and a number 1).
OPTIONS:
- Like those, we want to get an autocad drawing map of those four secret spaces. Explore what their meaning is, what they did, and how they got there.
- The next line of text has the text within the cad drawing. Translate the text within the text editor.
- Copy that image in the same text editor, save to a file in software. Name the document (ftcs).
- Enter something as the type of search you made. If the stroke to the location is not satisfied be missed.
The next line of text has the text within the cad drawing. Translate the text within the text editor.
How to make a thanksgiving centerpiece
Carefully cut a circular opening in the top of the pumpkin large enough to allow a 6 " plastic or terracotta flower pot to be inserted.
Discard the " cap " and stem of the pumpkin.
Remove the loose pulp and seeds from the pumpkin and discard.
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- Cut a 2 " x3 " (8 " x 13 ") hole on one side of the pumpkin. The hole should be small enough to allow a toothpick about 1/2 " deep to fit through the hole.
- Chop either red onions, canola, tarragon, black pepper, romaine coarsely chopped and salt and pepper to taste. Fill 2-3 cups with boiling water to cover.
- ( you may want to harvest the seeds for toasting or planting! ) Scrape the inside of the pumpkin as smoothly and cleanly as possible without puncturing through the flesh of the pumpkin. Pour about a 3 " layer of sand into the bottom of the pumpkin.
- Fill the pumpkin with tomato casserole, bread mix, peas/chilies, corn, beans, and tomatoes in a 3/4 gallon (113 ml) oval mixing bowl. This combined mushy stuffing will spread evenly throughout the pumpkin.
( you may want to harvest the seeds for toasting or planting! ) Scrape the inside of the pumpkin as smoothly and cleanly as possible without puncturing through the flesh of the pumpkin. Pour about a 3 " layer of sand into the bottom of the pumpkin.
How to attend couples counseling
Be honest with yourself and your partner.
You need to approach couples therapy with an open mind and honesty. Your couples counseling sessions will begin with your counselor asking a series of questions to figure out where your relationship is.
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- Your counselor may ask you, " how do you feel about our friendship? " or " how do you see our relationship changing? " you should also clarify your perspective so that a counselor understands where you're coming from. For example, " my partner is busy with work, and our friendship has become more serious.
- Be prepared to say a lot about your relationship with this person, but also let him/her know why you want to take the time to discuss your relationship. The answers will work best if you know your counselor on a first come, first served basis.
- Your counselor will ask about your history as a couple, why you sought treatment, and other questions to see where you are as a couple. Make sure you get everything out on the table about your relationship.
- Without being judgmental, consider how effective your sessions might be at removing naysayers. This will help make sure you're both willing to compromise as a couple to eliminate naysayers.
Your counselor will ask about your history as a couple, why you sought treatment, and other questions to see where you are as a couple. Make sure you get everything out on the table about your relationship.
A small collie is standing on top of a table. He is tied in place, and a man begins brushing him all over. he
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- then puts lotion on, rubbing it in as well as enjoying it.
- then clips his collar and does lines all over.
- stands still as he is being groomed.
- is playing around the table, grooming the dog.
| stands still as he is being groomed. |
Teacher: In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
Solution: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Reason: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
Now, solve this instance: The team made its first Super Bowl appearance in Super Bowl VI, but lost to the Dallas Cowboys, 24 -- 3. The following year, the Dolphins completed the NFL's only perfect season culminating in a Super Bowl win, winning all 14 of their regular-season games, both of their NFL playoff games, and also Super Bowl VII. The 1972 Dolphins were the third NFL team to accomplish a perfect regular season, and won Super Bowl VIII, becoming the first team to appear in three consecutive Super Bowls, and the second team (the first AFL / AFC team) to win back-to-back championships. Miami also appeared in Super Bowl XVII and Super Bowl XIX, losing both games.
Student: | how many times has the miami dolphins won the super bowl |
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]: 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>During the Shang Dynasty, the Chinese developed an interest in what type of designs?<sep>Bowls
[A]: No
[Q]: Plants also detect the daily cycle of light and darkness. Do you know how plants respond to these changes? Some plants open their leaves during the day. It is during these hours the plant can collect sunlight. At night, the plant closes its leaves to prevent water loss. Many plants respond to the change in the length of the day. As days grow shorter, some plants respond by going dormant. Dormant is when a plant suspends its growth. It does this in order to survive. Shorter days signal the coming of winter. Winter in most areas means extreme cold. It is also very dry in the winter months. As winter approaches, some plants respond by their leaves changing color. After the change in color, they fall off. This dormancy period helps trees. It allows them to survive the cold and dry winter. Plants only want to grow when conditions are right. <sep>Do some plants' leaves fall off in the winter months?<sep>No, they fall off in the autumn only
[A]: No
[Q]: The protagonist Preetam ( ( ( Ganesh , on a visit to Eva Mall amidst a heavy wind , spots a pretty girl , Nandini . While staring at her , he inadvertently falls into a manhole . Nandini rescues him from the pit , but in the process loses her heart-shaped watch she had just bought . While accompanying his mother to Madikeri , Preetam confronts a man named Jaanu . Jaanu , who has been following Nandini , beats up Preetam thinking that he is in love with Nandini . Preetam , unaware that Jaanu has vowed not to allow any one near Nandini , trashes Jaanu and his gang in return . In Madikeri , Preetam meets Nandini unexpectedly . He identifies himself and expresses his love towards her and offers to tie the watch as an indication for their marriage . Nandini , who is already engaged rejects his request . Still , Preetam vows to marry Nandini if she meets him again . In the meantime , Preetam discovers that his host in Madikeri , Col. Subbayya is Nandini's father , who is pretty much deaf , and Nandini's marriage is a just a week away . Dejected , Preetam throws Nandini's heart-shaped watch away . But Nandini calls him over the phone and taunts him to return . Delighted , Preetam goes in search of her watch and brings it back . While searching it , he spots a rabbit , Which he calls Devadas , and brings it along with him . Since Nandini's friends are due to arrive from Mumbai for the marriage , Preetam takes Nandini to the railway station . The train from Mumbai is delayed by five hours , so Nandini and Preetam decide to visit a nearby hill-temple . <sep>Who falls into a manhole?<sep>Col. Subbayya
[A]: | No
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In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Input: Consider Input: Historically, LSEO letter-writing campaigns generated from $11,000 to $25,000 annually, recalls Dallas Ferguson, a Tulsa attorney and board president of the new LASO. That amount hardly offset enormous cuts, beginning in 1996, by Congress to Legal Services Corp., the chief funding source for state legal-aid agencies. Threatened with extinction, LSEO clawed its way back with the help of state funding, grant money and the Tulsa Area United Way. Meanwhile, the clients keep coming. At least three-quarters are women and children living in poverty. The agency helps more than 12,000 children a year. A third of LSEO's clients are the working poor who receive no government benefits. Many are senior citizens. Riggs regrets that retired Tulsa attorney John Athens, a champion of legal aid, did not live to see how much the money has meant. Athens died last year. In his honor, The Oxley Foundation donated $200,000 to expand a client hot line. That service, which will be expanded statewide, enables needy people to consult an attorney about civil legal problems, including rent and contract disputes, domestic abuse, consumer issues and custody matters. Attorneys handle no criminal cases. R.H. Harbaugh, foundation trustee and a colleague of Athens at the Conner & Winters law firm, said his mentor had "a special interest in people who could not afford legal services. He was aware of the hot line and supported its expansion." Said Riggs: "We use lofty phrases such as 'with justice for all,' when we talk about our legal system. That phrase is etched on our U.S. Supreme Court building. Those are just empty words if people don't have access to that system." <sep>The Oxley Foundation donated $200,000 to expand a client hot line in whose honor?<sep>Riggs
Output: No
Input: Consider Input: The opening shot of the movie shows Kunti praying for Lord Krishna's protection for the Pandavas . Lord Krishna consoles Kunti and promises to ever protect the Pandavas and guide them through troubles and problems that may occur in life . The sons of Pandu and Dhritarashtra progeny break into an argument . When Duryodhana insults the Pandavas as `` dependents '' , Bheema counters by saying that , the Kauravas are the progeny of a widow . Duryodhana asks Veda Vyasa for an explanation . He is then told that , since his mother , Gandhari had an astrological defect , she is first married of to a goat and then married to his father . Duryodhana gains animosity towards the kingdom of Gandhara where the king , the father of his mother Gandhari , rules . He attacks Gandhara and lays waste of the whole kingdom . He them imprisons the royal family in his prison . He gives them only one rice grain per prisoner . The king of Gandhara then stops everyone from grabbing the little food that is provided . He says that instead of everyone dying , they could keep at least one of their princes alive . He chooses Sakuni to be alive . Sakuni takes an oath that he will do everything he can to destroy the entire Kaurava clan . He makes magic dice from his father's spinal cord . The magic dice show exactly the number that he would want . Duryodhana takes pity on the lone prisoner , Sakuni after the rest of the Gandhara royal family dies in prison out of starvation . Sakuni joins the evil of coterie of Duryodhana , Karna and Dushyasana . <sep>How did Sakuni survive the prison?<sep>He gets into an argument
Output: No
Input: Consider Input: Light rays strike a reflecting surface. They are then reflected back. You can predict the angle of the reflected light. Imagine a ball bouncing off a surface. Light can do the same thing. That is, assuming the surface is shiny. So how do you know where light will go after it strikes a shiny surface? It depends on how the light initially strikes the shiny object. Light does not always go straight toward a surface. Therefore, not all light bounces straight back. Sometimes, light can hit a surface at an angle. The angle at which it strikes the surface tells us how it will bounce off. While light is different to a ball, they react in a similar manner. Many sports rely on knowledge of reflection. Pool players know a lot about reflection. They take great care when they strike the pool ball. They need it to go to a certain place. They know the angle it will hit the side of the pool table. <sep>What has to be true in order to use a knowledge of reflection to help in sports?<sep>The knowledge of friction could help.
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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]: Force is a vector. What then is a vector? Think about how you would give directions to a friend. You would not say, just walk half a mile. The person may walk a half mile in the wrong direction! More information is needed. You may say, follow this particular road for a half mile. You may say, look for the green house on Sumter St. In both examples, you provided a direction. You also gave the distance. In other words, you provided a vector. You did not just give a distance. Both pieces of information are needed to find a location. This is just like describing forces. To explain forces, both size and direction are needed. Notice the girl in Figure 1.1. She is pushing the swing away from herself. Thats the direction of the force. She can give the swing a strong push or a weak push. <sep>If you know a force magnitude already, then what else do you need in order to give you the knowledge of a vector?<sep>Direction
[A]: Yes
[Q]: The Golden Heian Era: The geomancers in 794 decided that Heian-kyo (modern Kyoto) would be an auspicious site for the imperial family. It was indeed — until 1869. Grants of tax-free land over the years had been made to Buddhist temples and members of the court aristocracy. The most powerful families thus carved out for themselves whole regions that were to become the fiefdoms of Japanese feudalism. By the end of the eighth century the clans had created a hierarchy of shiki, or rights, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society. The aristocrat or court patron lent his prestige to a powerful provincial proprietor, who employed a competent estate-manager to oversee smallholders, who in turn worked their farms with dependent laborers. This elaborate structure of interdependent rights and obligations was to serve Japanese society right into the 20th century. Meanwhile, Heian court life blossomed in an effusion of aesthetic expression. Princes and princesses judged the merits of birds, insects, flowers, roots, or seashells. Literary party games held in ornate palace gardens required each guest to compose a small poem as his wine cup floated toward him along a miniature winding channel of water. Expeditions were organized to the best viewing points for the first spring cherry blossoms, and special pavilions were built to watch the rising of the full moon. Every gesture, from the most banal opening of an umbrella to the sublimest act of lovemaking, had its appropriate ceremonial. Conversation often took the form of elegant exchanges of improvised verse. The changing role of Chinese culture in Japanese life was epitomized in the language itself. In the absence of an indigenous alphabet, Japanese scholars had with the greatest difficulty tried to adapt the complex ideograms of monosyllabic Chinese to the essentially polysyllabic Japanese. Thus developed the katakana system used as a vehicle for writing Buddhist names and concepts. After rival Fujiwara factions had been struggling for years to gain control of the imperial throne, they turned to the Taira and Minamoto armies in 1156 to wage the four-year war that heralded the end of the golden age of the Heian court. The Taira, controlling the region along the Inland Sea, defeated the Minamoto armies based in the Kanto province east of the capital. <sep>What time period was Heian-kyo used as a site for the imperial family?<sep>From 794 to 1869
[A]: Yes
[Q]: On the previous evening,--March 12th,--the monotony of the camp had been unexpectedly disturbed by the arrival, from the direction of Salt Lake City, of a horseman completely exhausted by fatigue and cold, who proved to be no other than Mr. Kane, whose mission to the Mormons by way of California was at that time totally unknown to the army. The next morning he introduced himself to the Governor, was received as his guest, and remained in conference with him throughout the day. What was the character of their communication is unknown, except by inference from its results. When presented to Judge Eckels, on the following day, Mr. Kane exhibited to him the letters he bore from the President, and other letters, also, from Brigham Young, accrediting him as a negotiator in the existing difficulties. To General Johnston he showed nothing; nor did the Governor, to the knowledge of the camp, acquaint either that officer or any other person with the purport of his business. It was evident to everybody, however, that the Mormon leaders, conscious of their inability to resist the force by which they would be assailed so soon as the snow should melt upon the mountains, were engaged in an effort, of which Mr. Kane was the agent, to secure through the Governor, if possible, indemnity for their past offences, in consideration of acknowledgment of his authority. <sep>Was the public explicitly made aware of the mission or business of Mr. Kane at any point?<sep>No
[A]: | Yes
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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 needed to prove the theory?, Context: In the early 11th century, the Muslim physicist Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen or Alhazen) discussed space perception and its epistemological implications in his Book of Optics (1021), he also rejected Aristotle's definition of topos (Physics IV) by way of geometric demonstrations and defined place as a mathematical spatial extension. His experimental proof of the intromission model of vision led to changes in the understanding of the visual perception of space, contrary to the previous emission theory of vision supported by Euclid and Ptolemy. In "tying the visual perception of space to prior bodily experience, Alhacen unequivocally rejected the intuitiveness of spatial perception and, therefore, the autonomy of vision. Without tangible notions of distance and size for correlation, sight can tell us next to nothing about such things."
vision
What and how do some like to view things?, Context: Vowel length is not always considered a distinctive feature in Dutch phonology, because it normally co-occurs with changes in vowel quality. One feature or the other may be considered redundant, and some phonemic analyses prefer to treat it as an opposition of tenseness. However, even if not considered part of the phonemic opposition, the long/tense vowels are still realised as phonetically longer than their short counterparts. The changes in vowel quality are also not always the same in all dialects, and in some there may be little difference at all, with length remaining the primary distinguishing feature. And while it is true that older words always pair vowel length with a change in vowel quality, new loanwords have reintroduced phonemic oppositions of length. Compare zonne(n) [ˈzɔnə] ("suns") versus zone [ˈzɔːnə] ("zone") versus zonen [ˈzoːnə(n)] ("sons"), or kroes [krus] ("mug") versus cruise [kruːs] ("cruise").
One feature or the other may be considered redundant, and some phonemic analyses prefer to treat it as an opposition of tenseness
Despite what improvements were there still civil issues?, Context: Between 1346 and 1354, Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen toppled the Sakya and founded the Phagmodrupa Dynasty. The following 80 years saw the founding of the Gelug school (also known as Yellow Hats) by the disciples of Je Tsongkhapa, and the founding of the important Ganden, Drepung and Sera monasteries near Lhasa. However, internal strife within the dynasty and the strong localism of the various fiefs and political-religious factions led to a long series of internal conflicts. The minister family Rinpungpa, based in Tsang (West Central Tibet), dominated politics after 1435. In 1565 they were overthrown by the Tsangpa Dynasty of Shigatse which expanded its power in different directions of Tibet in the following decades and favoured the Karma Kagyu sect.
| founding of the Gelug school (also known as Yellow Hats) by the disciples of Je Tsongkhapa, and the founding of the important Ganden, Drepung and Sera monasteries near Lhasa
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Teacher:In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Who saw the corpses of Gaddafi, Yunis Jabr and Mutassim?, Context: On the afternoon of Gaddafi's death, NTC Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril publicly revealed the news. Gaddafi's corpse was placed in the freezer of a local market alongside the corpses of Yunis Jabr and Mutassim; the bodies were publicly displayed for four days, with Libyans from all over the country coming to view them. In response to international calls, on 24 October Jibril announced that a commission would investigate Gaddafi's death. On 25 October, the NTC announced that Gaddafi had been buried at an unidentified location in the desert; Al Aan TV showed amateur video footage of the funeral. Seeking vengeance for the killing, Gaddafist sympathisers fatally wounded one of those who had captured Gaddafi, Omran Shaaban, near Bani Walid in September 2012.
Student: | Libyans |
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: The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, China. The Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity (22,500 MW). In 2014, the dam generated 98.8 terawatt-hours (TWh) and had the world record, but was surpassed by the Itaipú Dam, which set the new world record in 2016, producing 103.1 TWh.
A: | where is the largest power dam in the world what is its source of water |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
[EX Q]: Earthquakes seemed to outline a special feature of earth's crust. Earthquakes let scientists know where the crust was moving. This led to the discovery that the Earths crust was broken up into regions, or plates. Earthquakes happen most often along these plate boundaries. This was evidence that continents can move. The movements of the plates are called plate tectonics. The Earths crust is divided into plates. There are about a dozen large plates and several small ones. Each plate is named for the continent or ocean basin it contains. Scientists know he plates are in motion. They now know the direction and speed of this motion . Plates dont move very fast. They move only a few centimeters a year. This is about the same rate fingernails grow. So you might wonder, what could cause this motion? What supplies the energy to cause this change? <sep>What moves at the same rate that fingernails grow?<sep>Earthquakes
[EX A]: No
[EX Q]: A day at the beach. When Sam woke in the morning, he was super excited! Today was the day! It was Sunday, the day that Sam's mom and dad had promised to take Sam to the beach. Sam's grandma had given a pail and shovel to Sam to use in the sand. At breakfast Sam was so excited he was wiggling in his seat! Mom told Sam that they would leave when the big hand on the clock was pointing to the 10, and the little had was pointing to the 12. Mom asked Sam if he would like to help make sandwiches for the trip, and Sam said that he wanted to help. Dad said, "let's make a game of it, we need to make a sandwich for each of us. There are three of us, so we need three sandwiches. Let's count as we make the sandwiches!" Sam counted as mom made the sandwiches, one for dad, one for mom and one for Sam. Then mom started to make another sandwich! "Mom!" said Sam, "we have three sandwiches and that makes one sandwich for each of us." Sam's mom laughed, "You're right Sam!" Sam's mom said she was being silly. <sep>What were Sam's words as mom made the Sandwich?<sep>You're right Sam!
[EX A]: No
[EX Q]: Nine families displaced by a fire at Alamo Hills Apartments in March filed lawsuits Wednesday against the apartment complex. They allege that the complex could have done more to protect belongings they were forced to abandon in the aftermath of the blaze. Bernard Dempsey Jr., an attorney with Western Michigan Legal Services, the group that represents the tenants, said Alamo Hills gave the displaced families very limited opportunity to remove belongings. "They were given three days to get their stuff out, and if they couldn't get moved out in three days, their stuff was discarded," Dempsey said. "Alamo Hills just threw it out." Others, he said, lost possessions to looters after the March 23 blaze, which left 78 people temporarily homeless. According to the lawsuit, the tenants were prohibited from entering their apartments to retrieve possessions and were promised that the complex would provide security. A spokesperson for PM One, the company that manages Alamo Hills, could not be reached for comment. Nine separate suits were filed in 8th District Court, which handles civil claims of less than $25,000. "We're asking for the reimbursement of the value of their property and a small amount for stress -- $3,000 on top of their out-of-pocket expenses for their lost stuff," Dempsey said. "They're not looking to get rich off this. A lot of this is simply because they were treated so badly." Dempsey said most of the tenants who filed suits still live at the apartment complex, although many are trying to find homes elsewhere. "The new apartments (they were provided) were not in very good shape. That's actually one of the claims," he said. <sep>Which attorney said "Alamo Hills just threw it out" after the fire at Alamo Hills Apartments?<sep>Dempsey
[EX A]: | Yes
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In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
[EX Q]: New Legitimacy: Organized crime was soon to have a formidable adversary in its bid to control Las Vegas — corporate cash. Though Las Vegas had developed a powerful local economy, few major outside investments were made in the city, due primarily to mob infiltration and its inherent ties to illegal activities. That would change dramatically with the 1966 arrival of billionaire Howard Hughes. A legitimate businessman, Hughes was nonetheless eccentric and dramatic, a style suited to the Las Vegas ethos. True to the myth, the reclusive Hughes immediately cloistered himself in the Desert Inn's penthouse. Several weeks later he was asked — then ordered — to vacate the room to make room for high rollers, whereupon he promptly bought the property and fired the management. Thus began Hughes' legendary three-year, $300-million Las Vegas buying spree. When it was over, Hughes owned six casinos, an airport, and an airline, along with numerous plots of land stretching from the Strip to the mountains. Hughes' actions would have beneficial repercussions, both immediate and lasting. Because of the new legitimacy Las Vegas acquired from Hughes' investments, established companies such as Hilton Hotels bought into the gaming business, and their influence helped draw a line in the desert sand between legitimate operations and mob casinos, where illegal skimming of profits was rampant. That, combined with the formation of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, would signal the beginning of the end for heavy mob influence in the city. Las Vegas with a Vision As corporations moved in and the mob was slowly pushed out, a new Las Vegas emerged. The legitimization of gambling led to its increased legalization across the US. What was once a sure thing became much more competitive. Casino operators had to reassess the nature of their business. The first to really do so was Steve Wynn, a Las Vegas resident and owner of the Golden Nugget. In the mid-1980s, Wynn began plans to reinvigorate Las Vegas with a new resort. He bought several Strip properties — the Silver Slipper and Castaways among them — and demolished them to make way for a new kind of resort — Mirage — which became an instant success. <sep>What did Howard Hughes purchase during his Vegas buying spree?<sep>Six casinos, an airport, an airline, and a large tract of land
[EX A]: Yes
[EX Q]: In the rest of the world, China's supreme sage, Kongfuzi (K'ung Fu-tzu), is better known by the romanized name "Confucius." He was born in 551 b.c. in what is now Shandong Province in eastern China. So profound was his influence that eleven Chinese emperors made pilgrimages to the birthplace of the Great Teacher. You, too, can pay your respects at the vast temple raised on the site of his home in the small town of Qufu (Chufu), and at his tomb in the woods just to the north. The classics of Confucius, while seldom addressing spiritual and metaphysical matters, set standards for social and political conduct that still underlie many of the Chinese ways of doing and perceiving. Confucius laid great stress on the proper and harmonious relationships between ruler and subject, parent and child, teacher and student, the individual and the state. These relationships were deemed to be hierarchical and dictatorial. If the order was disturbed, dire consequences inevitably resulted. The son who disobeyed the father would bring disaster upon himself and his family, just as the emperor who defied the "mandate of heaven" or ignored the good of the empire brought ruin upon the nation. Over the centuries Confucius has suffered more changes of fortune than probably any other philosopher. Honored soon after his death as the greatest of scholars, he was later revered as semi-divine; you can still visit temples to Confucius in many Chinese cities. During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), however, he was denounced as a counter-revolutionary force. It was only after the death of Chairman Mao (1976) and the opening of China to the outside world under more progressive reformers that Confucius, too, was "rehabilitated." Unlike Confucius, about whose life many specific and even colorful details are known, the philosopher Laozi (Lao Tse or Lao-Tzu) is an enigma. Estimates of his date of birth vary by well over a century. One legend even says he taught the young Confucius. Laozi is immortalized by his book of thoughts on man, nature, and the universe, Daodejing ("The Way and Its Power"), which became the major text of China's greatest indigenous religion, Daoism (Taoism). With its emphasis on nature, intuition, the individual, paradox ("The knowledge which is not knowledge"), and the cosmic flow known as "The Way," Daoism became the religion of artists and philosophers. After the death of Confucius, the Zhou Dynasty entered a period of strife known as the "Warring States" period (475–221 b.c.). <sep>Where was Kongfuzi born?<sep>Daodejing
[EX A]: No
[EX Q]: Historically, LSEO letter-writing campaigns generated from $11,000 to $25,000 annually, recalls Dallas Ferguson, a Tulsa attorney and board president of the new LASO. That amount hardly offset enormous cuts, beginning in 1996, by Congress to Legal Services Corp., the chief funding source for state legal-aid agencies. Threatened with extinction, LSEO clawed its way back with the help of state funding, grant money and the Tulsa Area United Way. Meanwhile, the clients keep coming. At least three-quarters are women and children living in poverty. The agency helps more than 12,000 children a year. A third of LSEO's clients are the working poor who receive no government benefits. Many are senior citizens. Riggs regrets that retired Tulsa attorney John Athens, a champion of legal aid, did not live to see how much the money has meant. Athens died last year. In his honor, The Oxley Foundation donated $200,000 to expand a client hot line. That service, which will be expanded statewide, enables needy people to consult an attorney about civil legal problems, including rent and contract disputes, domestic abuse, consumer issues and custody matters. Attorneys handle no criminal cases. R.H. Harbaugh, foundation trustee and a colleague of Athens at the Conner & Winters law firm, said his mentor had "a special interest in people who could not afford legal services. He was aware of the hot line and supported its expansion." Said Riggs: "We use lofty phrases such as 'with justice for all,' when we talk about our legal system. That phrase is etched on our U.S. Supreme Court building. Those are just empty words if people don't have access to that system." <sep>Who are the Majority clients of LSEO?<sep>At least three-quarters are women and children living in poverty
[EX A]: | Yes
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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.
Let me give you an example: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
The answer to this example can be: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Here is why: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
OK. solve this:
SIDS is sometimes referred to as cot death or crib death .
Answer: | Sudden infant death syndrome ( SIDS ) , also known as cot death or crib death , is the sudden unexplained death of a child of less than one year of age . |
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Authorities say four people, including three children, were hospitalized after a gas explosion at a home in West Yellowstone. Shane Grube, chief of the Hebgen Basin Rural Fire District said firefighters were called to the mobile home Tuesday morning. He says the explosion caused a fireball that blew itself out. Two people suffered severe injuries and two were moderately injured. All of the victims were taken to a hospital in Rexburg, Idaho. The fire district is investigating with help from the state fire marshal’s office. No other details were released.
Two adults suffered severe injuries. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
ROSEVILLE (CBS13) — Thieves targeted the Apple Store in the Roseville Galleria, making off with merchandise on Tuesday. Roseville Police say four men entered the Apple Store around 8 p.m. on Tuesday and began stealing products on display. They made off with 20 iPhones and at least two Apple computers. The suspects are described as black male adults with hoodies and gloves. No arrests have been made. Nobody was injured during the robbery.
The store was robbed late in the day. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
The Allegheny County Courthouse in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is part of a complex (along with the old Allegheny County Jail) designed by H. H. Richardson. The buildings are considered among the finest examples of the Romanesque Revival style for which Richardson is well known.
Pennsylvania has buildings from the Romanesque Revival. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | Yes |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
what name start with S?, Context: On 13 December 1904, Hungarian Sándor Just and Croatian Franjo Hanaman were granted a Hungarian patent (No. 34541) for a tungsten filament lamp that lasted longer and gave brighter light than the carbon filament. Tungsten filament lamps were first marketed by the Hungarian company Tungsram in 1904. This type is often called Tungsram-bulbs in many European countries. Filling a bulb with an inert gas such as argon or nitrogen retards the evaporation of the tungsten filament compared to operating it in a vacuum. This allows for greater temperatures and therefore greater efficacy with less reduction in filament life.
Sándor
What vehicle could you have that you would need lower pressure boiler feed water?, Context: The Rankine cycle and most practical steam engines have a water pump to recycle or top up the boiler water, so that they may be run continuously. Utility and industrial boilers commonly use multi-stage centrifugal pumps; however, other types are used. Another means of supplying lower-pressure boiler feed water is an injector, which uses a steam jet usually supplied from the boiler. Injectors became popular in the 1850s but are no longer widely used, except in applications such as steam locomotives.
steam locomotives
Why did remaining engines have to compensate?, Context: The delay in the CSM caused by the fire enabled NASA to catch up on man-rating the LM and Saturn V. Apollo 4 (AS-501) was the first unmanned flight of the Saturn V, carrying a Block I CSM on November 9, 1967. The capability of the Command Module's heat shield to survive a trans-lunar reentry was demonstrated by using the Service Module engine to ram it into the atmosphere at higher than the usual Earth-orbital reentry speed. This was followed on April 4, 1968, by Apollo 6 (AS-502) which carried a CSM and a LM Test Article as ballast. The intent of this mission was to achieve trans-lunar injection, followed closely by a simulated direct-return abort, using the Service Module engine to achieve another high-speed reentry. The Saturn V experienced pogo oscillation, a problem caused by non-steady engine combustion, which damaged fuel lines in the second and third stages. Two S-II engines shut down prematurely, but the remaining engines were able to compensate. The damage to the third stage engine was more severe, preventing it from restarting for trans-lunar injection. Mission controllers were able to use the Service Module engine to essentially repeat the flight profile of Apollo 4. Based on the good performance of Apollo 6 and identification of satisfactory fixes to the Apollo 6 problems, NASA declared the Saturn V ready to fly men, cancelling a third unmanned test.
| Two S-II engines shut down prematurely
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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.
Input: Consider Input: Was Viardot's comment real?, Context: With his health further deteriorating, Chopin desired to have a family member with him. In June 1849 his sister Ludwika came to Paris with her husband and daughter, and in September, supported by a loan from Jane Stirling, he took an apartment at Place Vendôme 12. After 15 October, when his condition took a marked turn for the worse, only a handful of his closest friends remained with him, although Viardot remarked sardonically that "all the grand Parisian ladies considered it de rigueur to faint in his room."
Output: sardonically
Input: Consider Input: For what reason would it be easy to burn a chair?, Context: Wood has always been used extensively for furniture, such as chairs and beds. It is also used for tool handles and cutlery, such as chopsticks, toothpicks, and other utensils, like the wooden spoon.
Output: Wood
Input: Consider Input: Why was the South Bronx hit the hardest?, Context: In the 1970s, the Bronx was plagued by a wave of arson. The burning of buildings was predominantly in the poorest communities, like the South Bronx. The most common explanation of what occurred was that landlords decided to burn their low property-value buildings and take the insurance money as it was more lucrative to get insurance money than to refurbish or sell a building in a severely distressed area. The Bronx became identified with a high rate of poverty and unemployment, which was mainly a persistent problem in the South Bronx.
| Output: low property-value buildings
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Given the task definition and input, reply with output. You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
The term hand luggage or cabin baggage (also commonly referred to as carry-on in North America) refers to the type of luggage that passengers are allowed to carry along in the passenger compartment of a vehicle instead of moving to the cargo compartment. Passengers are allowed to carry a limited number of smaller bags with them in the vehicle and contain valuables and items needed during the journey. There is normally storage space provided for hand luggage, either under seating, or in overhead lockers. Trains usually have luggage racks above the seats and may also (especially in the case of trains travelling longer distances) have luggage space between the backs of seats facing opposite directions, or in extra luggage racks, for example, at the ends of the carriage near the doors.
| is cabin baggage the same as hand luggage? |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
See one example below:
Problem: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Solution: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Explanation: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Problem: Many of the other books they say are written by Ezra ( First Esdras , 3-6 Ezra ) are written after that .
Solution: | The canonical Book of Ezra and Book of Nehemiah are the oldest sources for the activity of Ezra , whereas many of the other books ascribed to Ezra ( First Esdras , 3 – 6 Ezra ) are later literary works dependent on the canonical books of Ezra and Nehemiah . |
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: Although the Kansas Constitution was changed in 1986 to allow the sale of alcohol , Wichita County is still a " dry " county .
A: | Although the Kansas Constitution was amended in 1986 to allow the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with the approval of voters , Wichita County has remained a prohibition , or " dry " , county . |
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.
What is the lower number of expansions?, Context: Near the end of the 19th century compound engines came into widespread use. Compound engines exhausted steam in to successively larger cylinders to accommodate the higher volumes at reduced pressures, giving improved efficiency. These stages were called expansions, with double and triple expansion engines being common, especially in shipping where efficiency was important to reduce the weight of coal carried. Steam engines remained the dominant source of power until the early 20th century, when advances in the design of electric motors and internal combustion engines gradually resulted in the replacement of reciprocating (piston) steam engines, with shipping in the 20th-century relying upon the steam turbine.
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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: Article One of the United States Constitution establishes the legislative branch of the federal government, the United States Congress. The Congress is a bicameral legislature consisting of a House of Representatives and a Senate.
A: | article 1 of the constitution states that congress should have how many houses |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Problem:Share
There’s no shortage of movies and shows for you to binge on Netflix, but sometimes, even in the midst of all these options, boredom pervades. After all, you can almost always predict the endings of entertainment these days, and sometimes, plots are so similar you feel like you’ve seen everything already. But now, Netflix may have a solution for you. It’s called Interactive Storytelling, and it’s Netflix’s way of letting you choose your own adventure.
On Tuesday, the streaming platform announced its first “interactive ‘branching’ narrative episodes Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale and Buddy Thunderstruck: The Maybe Pile, where Netflix members are in control of how the stories unfold.” Heralded as the melding of Netflix engineers’ technical prowess and Hollywood creatives’ imaginative direction, this new kind of content promises a “new world of storytelling possibilities.” ||||| Netflix’s latest episode of television is an experiment in storytelling that will be familiar to people who are familiar with video games (or Choose Your Own Adventure books). The company launched an interactive TV show today, the first in a series of efforts that will allow viewers to decide which turns a story takes.
The first interactive offering from Netflix is Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale, a 23-minute spinoff of the Netflix kids series The Adventures of Puss in Boots. (The show’s titular cat originated in DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek film franchise; he starred in his own spinoff movie, Puss in Boots, in 2011.) Trapped in an Epic Tale lets viewers dictate the progression of the episode’s story, asking them questions like, in an encounter with strangers, “Should Puss fight them valiantly, or chitchat with them over tea?”
Netflix will soon expand its library with additional interactive shows. Buddy Thunderstruck: The Maybe Pile, an extension of the Netflix original series Buddy Thunderstruck, is set to premiere July 14. The third title is Stretch Armstrong: The Breakout, which will be a follow-up to this year’s upcoming animated series Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters. Netflix said The Breakout is coming in 2018.
“The children’s programming space was a natural place for us to start”
You may have noticed that all three of Netflix’s initial interactive shows are geared toward children, and the company did that for a reason: Consider the fact that Dora the Explorer asks kids to yell “Swiper, no swiping” at their TVs.
“The children’s programming space was a natural place for us to start since kids are eager to ‘play’ with their favorite characters and already inclined to tap, touch and swipe at screens,” said Carla Engelbrecht Fisher, Netflix’s director of product innovation, in a blog post today. “They also talk to their screens, as though the characters can hear them.”
Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale is available on a wide variety of devices that offer the streaming service. But at the moment, interactive shows will not function on Android, Apple TV, Chromecast or the Netflix website. You can still watch them on unsupported platforms — they’ll just revert to a traditional linear version without choices.
Netflix isn’t the only streaming service to explore interactive TV. Twitch is also looking to get into the field, the company said earlier this year. ||||| Netflix’s first interactive episode arrives on the service today, giving viewers a chance to shape the narrative through a series of decisions they make throughout the experience. The new episode of Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale gives users more than a dozen decision points throughout its length, giving young viewers reason to rewatch it several times to explore the branching paths. A second interactive episode, for the children’s show Buddy Thunderstruck, arrives next month. For now, Netflix is calling its interactive episodes an experiment. But if its 99 million subscribers like them, the format could come to the service’s more popular shows — and help bring a new form of interactive storytelling into the mainstream.
First, though, Netflix has to see whether the mainstream has an appetite for it. To begin, the company decided to focus on making interactive shows for children. “Kids are already talking to the screen,” says Carla Engelbrecht Fisher, Netflix’s director of product innovation, who oversaw development of the episodes. “They’re touching every screen. They think everything is interactive.” Children’s exposure to interactive stories in video games and mobile apps has left them with an expectation that TV will behave the same way. Netflix’s experiment suggests that eventually it could — at least in some cases.
“Kids think everything is interactive.”
To start with, the interactive shows will be available on some modern smart TVs, game consoles, iOS devices, and Roku devices. They won’t be available on the web, Apple TV, Chromecast, or Android devices, at least for now. You’ll use your device’s controller to make a series of choices in the narrative — there are a total of 13 for Puss in Book, and 8 for Buddy Thunderstruck — or, if you wait too long to choose, Netflix will simply choose for you. For each show, the creators created custom illustrations for each choice. “We think it’s important to feel as if it’s of the story world,” Fisher says.
The result is a show with a length that will vary significantly depending on your choices. The shortest path through Puss in Book is about 18 minutes; the longest is 39 minutes. Buddy Thunderstruck’s run time can be as short as 12 minutes and as long as... until your TV stops working, thanks to an infinitely looping narrative that spins out of one of those choices.
The company’s push into interactive entertainment began after Fisher arrived three years ago to work on products for kids. Before that, she had founded the game design firm No Crusts Interactive and worked for Highlights for Children and PBS Kids. Fisher says her work began with one overarching question: what stories can we tell at Netflix that can’t be told elsewhere? “Netflix is an interactive device ecosystem,” she says. “We’re not beholden to terrestrial television. We’re not beholden to linear schedules.”
“We’re not beholden to terrestrial television.”
That led the team to think about interactive storytelling — about whether it could offer a modern, televised version of the old Choose Your Own Adventure series, which sold 250 million copies in the 1980s and ‘90s. The multiple-choice approach to narrative was already the default for video games and educational software. And hit Hollywood movies had also played with branching narratives, from Clue to Sliding Doors to Memento. The fact that interactivity had not yet come to television came to look, from Netflix’s perspective, like a technical problem. And so it set about building.
Netflix approached DreamWorks Animation Television, makers of Puss In Book, and American Greetings Entertainment, which created the Netflix original series Buddy Thunderstruck, about piloting the interactive format. (The interactive Buddy Thunderstruck episode lands July 14th.) A third interactive episode, Stretch Armstrong: The Breakout, is coming next year.
For Ryan Wiesbrock, the creator of Buddy Thunderstruck, interactive storytelling came naturally. He had previously worked in educational software, which often involves elements of user choice. The question became how to map that format onto Buddy Thunderstruck, a stop-motion animated comedy aimed at boys 6 to 11 that he describes as “Dukes of Hazzard meets Fantastic Mr. Fox.” (Buddy is a dog who races trucks in a small town.)
‘Dukes of Hazzard’ meets ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’
The writing team settled on a format they call the “string of pearls”: a main spine for the story that branches out to four possible endings. (The result is enough animation for two Buddy episodes.) In a demonstration I saw, the narrative choices resulted in different hijinks for his buddy and his friend without altering the core progression of the story. But Wiesbrock hopes the audience will replay the episode to explore all the alternatives. “We wanted every choice to be as good and as compelling as all the others,” Wiesbrock said.
For adult Netflix viewers, it’s fun to imagine what an interactive episode of one of its most popular series might look like. A House of Cards where you guide Frank Underwood to power — or undermine him? An Orange Is the New Black where you navigate Piper through a prison break? Maybe they would be full of narrative inventions — or maybe they would feel like modern-day full-motion video games, which had a brief moment of popularity as PC games in the 1990s before giving way to animations.
But Netflix is in a competitive moment. Amazon, HBO, Hulu, YouTube, and others are all competing for viewers’ attention — and their subscription dollars. To date, they have competed primarily on the quality of their shows. If Netflix can master interactive programming, it could bring the company a competitive advantage — one that it will take significant resources to match.
In the future, Wiesbrock said he would be interested in making a show in which every episode is interactive. “I’d love to come up with something like this that is interactive from the get-go,” he says. “Where you could be more complex, or offer more choices, or get into some of the mind-bending aspects of it.” Says Fisher: “There are some really awesome possibilities.”
Correction: June 20th, 2:39PM ET: Due to a Netflix error, this article originally described American Greetings Entertainment as the producer of Buddy Thunderstruck. It is the creator. ||||| Traditionally, Netflix hasn't been known for canceling its original shows, but it's turned over a vicious new leaf this month.
Just a few days after Netflix announced it was not picking up The Get Down for a second season, the streaming service is now letting fans know its sprawling, sci-fi drama Sense8 is also getting the ax and will not be returning for a third season.
The news is extra painful to fans who just finished watching the show's second season a couple weeks ago, which ends on a cliffhanger where the sensates finally appear to have an upper hand in their war against main antagonist Whispers.
Though it only ran for 2 seasons, Sense8 became known as one of the most groundbreaking shows on air in terms of sexuality and race representation, telling the story of 8 diverse strangers from around the planet who can physically share their experiences with one another.
Some of the stars of the show shared their grief over the cancellation news on social media.
Brian Smith, who played the cop and de facto sensate leader, Will, wrote the show "was the greatest experience of [his] career, and [he's] going to miss it more than [he] can say" on his Instagram.
And of course, fans of the show also took to social media to express their sadness and anger over the cancellation.
Many fans also pointed out the ridiculous timing of the cancellation: the first day of LGBTQ+ Pride month.
Considering how inclusive the show has been to LGBTQ+ representation, it felt like another dagger to the heart of many fans.
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But a Sense8 fan never gives up. A number of fans are also tweeting at Netflix to renege on the cancellation and allow the show to have a final season. Some are even tweeting at other networks to pick up the show.
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But sadly, it looks like this is goodbye to Sense8.
Citations: Netflix Cancels 'Sense8' (Variety) |||||
Solution: | Netflix is introducing something that will likely appeal to fans of "Choose Your Own Adventure" books—interactive TV shows. So far, the shows are for kids (Puss in Boots and Buddy Thunderstruck will both feature interactive episodes this year; Stretch Armstrong is getting one next year, per Polygon), but if they prove to be a hit with subscribers, Netflix says it could expand the interactive format to its more popular series—or create a series in which every episode is interactive. The interactive episodes will also only be available, to start, on certain devices including game consoles, iOS devices, Roku devices, and some modern smart TVs. They won't yet be available on Android devices, Apple TV, Chromecast, or the web. "Kids are already talking to the screen," Netflix’s director of product innovation explains to the Verge. "They’re touching every screen. They think everything is interactive." The device controller will be used to make a series of choices (13 in Puss, eight in Buddy), although if too much time passes, Netflix will make the choice automatically. The shortest path through the choices is 12 minutes; the longest in Puss is 39 minutes. In Buddy, there's an "infinitely looping narrative" created by one of the choices. Kids can go back and rewatch the episodes to make different choices and ultimately experience all the possible endings. The interactive Puss episode launched Wednesday; the Buddy episode is out July 14, per Digital Trends. (Netflix subscribers are angry about this show's cancellation.) |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Let me give you an example: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
The answer to this example can be: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Here is why: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
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26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616 ) was an English playwright , poet , and actor .
Answer: | 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616 ) was an English poet , playwright , and actor , widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world 's greatest dramatist . |
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".
As noted above, the 9/11 plotters spent somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to plan and conduct their attack. The available evidence indicates that the 19 operatives were funded by al Qaeda, either through wire transfers or cash provided by KSM, which they carried into the United States or deposited in foreign accounts and accessed from this country. Our investigation has uncovered no credible evidence that any person in the United States gave the hijackers substantial financial assistance. Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government-or foreign government official-supplied any funding. We have found no evidence that the Hamburg cell members (Atta, Shehhi, Jarrah, and Binalshibh) received funds from al Qaeda before late 1999. It appears they supported themselves. KSM, Binalshibh, and another plot facilitator, Mustafa al Hawsawi, each received money, in some cases perhaps as much as $10,000, to perform their roles in the plot. After the Hamburg recruits joined the 9/11 conspiracy, al Qaeda began giving them money. Our knowledge of the funding during this period, before the operatives entered the United States, remains murky. According to KSM, the Hamburg cell members each received $5,000 to pay for their return to Germany from Afghanistan after they had been selected to join the plot, and they received additional funds for travel from Germany to the United States. Financial transactions of the plotters are discussed in more detail in chapter 7. Requirements for a Successful Attack As some of the core operatives prepared to leave for the United States, al Qaeda's leaders could have reflected on what they needed to be able to do in order to organize and conduct a complex international terrorist operation to inflict catastrophic harm. We believe such a list of requirements would have included leaders able to evaluate, approve, and supervise the planning and direction of the operation; communications sufficient to enable planning and direction of the operatives and those who would be helping them; a personnel system that could recruit candidates, vet them, indoctrinate them, and give them necessary training; an intelligence effort to gather required information and form assessments of enemy strengths and weaknesses; the ability to move people; and the ability to raise and move the necessary money. The information we have presented about the development of the planes operation shows how, by the spring and summer of 2000, al Qaeda was able to meet these requirements. By late May 2000, two operatives assigned to the planes operation were already in the United States. Three of the four Hamburg cell members would soon arrive. <sep>What requirements was Al Qaeda able to meet by spring and summer of 2000?<sep>Ability to move people | Yes |
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How to custom paint your electric guitar
Remove your guitar strings and the screws in the body of the guitar.
Remove the guitar strings and then unscrew the neck of the guitar from the body with a phillips-head screwdriver. Once the body is standing alone, unscrew the screws and knobs on the front of the guitar. | Remove the screws on the pickups and bridge of the guitar. If there is a faceplate over your volume knobs, you'll have to remove the plastic portions of the knobs before you can lift the faceplate off. |
What happens next in this paragraph?
How to connect tivo to a wifi network
Ensure your tivo is compatible with wireless access.
Note that only series 2 tivo units are compatible. Note that any unit that is a directivo (i.e. a unit that acts as your directv control box) will not connect over the wireless network without heavy modification, because directv has disabled the usb ports.
pick from the following. (i). Dxtr-1.51 (with the usb ports). Get a top off (non-usb) connection.; (ii). Some companies will remove this block for you, but the service can be somewhat pricey. Visit the tivo website for a list of compatible usb wifi adapters.; (iii). Contact your local companies if you must. Buy the wifi adapter by simply identifying it as a separate piece of compatible hardware.; (iv). Note that any unit that is a directv control box will not connect over the wireless network without heavy modification, because direct modify will be terminated. Fortunately, most tivo units start with user support.; | (ii). |
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:Fresh and dried dill leaves (sometimes called ``dill weed'' to distinguish it from dill seed) are widely used as herbs in Europe and central Asia.
Solution: | is dill weed the same as dill leaves? |
Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain. ||||| Now Piers Morgan tells Americans the Bible is 'flawed' (and he doesn't think much of their US constitution either)
Comes after a petition to have him deported after he criticised pro gun campaigners attracts more than 84 ,000 signatures
A second petition set up to make him stay 'as British do not want him'
CNN host Piers Morgan has said he believes the Bible and the U.S. Constitution are 'inherently flawed' and that the Bible needs an amendment changing its stance on same-sex marriage.
The bold statements come days after the British journalist divided America with his strict stance on gun laws following the Sandy Hook massacre, even sparking e-petitions to deport him.
While interviewing Pastor Rick Warren on his CNN show, he said: 'Both the Bible and the Constitution were well intentioned but they are basically, inherently flawed. Hence, the need to amend it.'
Warren, who is against same-sex marriage replied: 'Not a chance. What I believe is flawed is human opinion, because it constantly changes.'
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Outspoken: In an interview with Pastor Rick Warren, Piers Morgan called the Bible 'flawed'
Opinionated: He said that the Bible should be amended to change its stance on gay rights
'But you and I know the Bible is, in many places, a flawed document,' Morgan continued. 'My point to you about gay rights for example - it's time for an amendment to the Bible. You should compile a new Bible.'
With Warren responding that he believes that the Bible reveals the truth - and the truth is never outdated - Morgan quipped: 'We’re going to agree to disagree on that.'
His remarks sparked anger among conservatives, including Paul Kengor, the executive director of The Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College.
'It's remarkable to watch secular liberals like Piers Morgan assume unto themselves the extraordinary authority to divine what in the Bible is true and what is not, what is flawed and what is not, and where certain "amendments" supposedly need to occur,' he told Fox News .
Movement: It comes after he upset Americans with his stance on guns, sparking petitions to deport him
Now a second petition on the White House website now insists he must stay in the US, not only because he has a constitutional right to free speech but also 'more important' because 'no one in the UK wants him back'
It is just the latest of Morgan's outspoken opinions to be spotlighted after he offended thousands of Americans with his anti-gun remarks.
He has demanded tighter U.S. gun laws following the Sandy Hook massacre and last week on Piers Morgan Tonight, he interviewed a gun advocate and called him an 'unbelievably stupid man'.
On December 21, a man in Texas launched a petition on the White House e-petition website demanding Morgan be deported immediately for 'exploiting his position as a national network television host to stage attacks against the rights of American citizens'.
The petition accuses Morgan of engaging in a 'hostile attack against the U.S. Constitution' by targeting the Second Amendment - the right to bear arms.
Anger: People took to Twitter to lambast his latest remarks, adding to the voices who want him deported
It has already garnered more than 84,000 signatures - far exceeding the 25,000 signature threshold required to get a White House response.
But Morgan seemed unfazed by the effort to oust him.
In a series of Twitter messages, he urged his followers to sign the petition and in response to one article about the petition even said: 'Bring it on'.
He wrote: 'If I do get deported from America for wanting fewer gun murders, are there any other countries that will have me?'
But a second petition on the same website now insists he must stay in the US, not only because he has a constitutional right to free speech but also - 'more important' - because 'no one in the UK wants him back'.
Response: The White House defended the freedom of speech and the press on Wednesday in a long-awaited response to an online petition to deport CNN host Piers Morgan over his views on gun control
Hundreds have signed the 'Keep Piers Morgan in the USA' petition after it was proposed by Janusz Jasinski, a Birmingham-based website designer.
To add to the former newspaper editor's embarrassment, a third petition is calling on Home Secretary Theresa May to stop him from returning to Britain.
Appearing on the US website Change.org it has so far attracted more than 100 signatures and states: 'We got rid of him once and why should we have to suffer again. The Americans wanted him so they should put up with him.' ||||| By Todd Starnes
CNN host Piers Morgan said he believes the Bible and the U.S. Constitution are “inherently flawed” and asserted that it’s time for the Bible’s position on gay rights to be amended.
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“It’s flawed,” Morgan said during an interview with evangelical pastor and author Rick Warren. “Both the Bible and the Constitution were well-intentioned, but they are basically, inherently flawed – hence the need to amend it.
“I do not believe the Bible is flawed,” Warren said. “What I believe is flawed is human opinion because it constantly changes.”
The British-born talk show host held his ground during a lengthy conversation about the Bible and gay rights.
“But you and I know the Bible is, in many places a flawed document,” Morgan said – a point of disagreement with Pastor Warren.
“My point to you about gay rights for example – it’s time for an amendment to the Bible,” Morgan told Warren. “You should compile a new Bible.”
“Not a chance,” Warren replied. “I willingly admit, willingly admit that I base my worldview on the Bible which I believe is true. And my definition of truth is – if it’s new it’s not true. If it was true a thousand years ago, it’ll be true a thousand years from today. Opinion changes but truth doesn’t.”
“We’re going to agree to disagree on that,” Morgan said.
Robert Jeffress, pastor of the historic First Baptist Church of Dallas, Tex., told Fox News that Morgan was incredibly off-base with his remarks.
“For Morgan to label God’s divine revelation as ‘flawed’ because it doesn’t confirm to his own opinion is the epitome of arrogance,” he said. “My guess is that the Bible will be around a lot longer than Morgan’s program.”
Paul Kengor, the executive director of The Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College, told Fox News that to doubt the Constitution is one thing, “but to assume the infallible authority to judge the words of God is something else altogether.”
“It’s quite ironic that at this sacred time of year, Christmas, we’d be talking about truth allegedly changing and the need to amend sacred Scripture,” Kengor said. “It’s also remarkable to watch secular liberals like Piers Morgan assume unto themselves the extraordinary authority to divine what in the Bible is true and what is not, what is flawed and what is not, and where certain “amendments” supposedly need to occur. Do they fully realize precisely what powers they are proclaiming?”
But Jeffress did find a silver lining in Morgan’s comments.
“At least Piers Morgan recognizes what many Christians fail to comprehend– that both the Bible and the Constitution define marriage as a union between a man and a woman,” he added.
The CNN host has been under fire in recent days after he launched a crusade for gun control laws in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
He used his Twitter account to call Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle, a “dangerous, dim-witted, deluded menace to American safety.”
During an interview on his CNN program Morgan called Gun Owners of America executive director Larry Pratt a liar and an idiot.
“You’re an unbelievably stupid man, aren’t you?” Morgan asked Pratt.
“You don’t give a damn, do you, about the gun murder rate in America?” Morgan asked. “You don’t actually care.”
That encounter led to the creation of a petition on the White House website calling for Morgan to be deported. Tens of thousands of people have signed the petition alleging that “British citizen and CNN television host Piers Morgan is engaged in a hostile attack against the U.S. Constitution by targeting the Second Amendment.”
But it appears there may be some people in England who would prefer that Morgan stay on the American side of the Atlantic Ocean.
A second petition on the “We the People” website was launched called, “Keep Piers Morgan in the USA.”
“There are two very good reasons for this,” the petition states. “Firstly, the First Amendment. Second and the most important point, no one in the UK wants him back.”
The petition was reportedly started by a Briton and now has more than 5,000 signers.
A third petition calls for the White House to keep Morgan in the country to protect his Constitutional rights. That petition has more than 1,000 signers.
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Output: | Is Piers Morgan bucking for a new petition to get him deported? Following one to have him sent to Britain over his views on guns—and another by Brits refusing to take him back—the suddenly controversial CNN host called the Bible "inherently flawed," reports the Daily Mail. He made the bold statement this week while interviewing pastor Rick Warren about gay rights. "Both the BIble and the Constitution were well-intentioned but they are basically, inherently flawed," said Morgan. "Hence, the need to amend it." "Not a chance," Warren responded. "What I believe is flawed is human opinion, because it constantly changes." But Morgan kept charging: "My point to you about gay rights for example—it's time for an amendment to the Bible. You should compile a new Bible." In the end he was civil, saying they could "agree to disagree," but conservative Christians quickly returned fire, reports Fox News. "For Morgan to label God’s divine revelation as 'flawed' because it doesn't confirm to his own opinion is the epitome of arrogance," said a Baptist pastor in Dallas. "My guess is that the Bible will be around a lot longer than Morgan’s program." |
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: In mathematics and vector algebra, the cross product or vector product (occasionally directed area product to emphasize the geometric significance) is a binary operation on two vectors in three-dimensional space ( R 3 ) (\displaystyle \left(\mathbb (R) ^(3)\right)) and is denoted by the symbol × (\displaystyle \times ) . Given two linearly independent vectors a (\displaystyle \mathbf (a) ) and b (\displaystyle \mathbf (b) ) , the cross product, a × b (\displaystyle \mathbf (a) \times \mathbf (b) ) , is a vector that is perpendicular to both a (\displaystyle \mathbf (a) ) and b (\displaystyle \mathbf (b) ) and thus normal to the plane containing them. It has many applications in mathematics, physics, engineering, and computer programming. It should not be confused with dot product (projection product).
A: | is dot product the same as cross product? |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
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Question: 'The Rains of Castamere', sometimes referred to as 'The Red Wedding,' is the ninth and penultimate episode of the third season of HBO's fantasy television series Game of Thrones, and the 29th episode of the series. The episode was written by executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and directed by David Nutter. It aired on June 2, 2013 (2013-06-02).
Answer: game of thrones which episode is the red wedding
Question: It originated from the days of naval sailing squadrons and can trace its origins to the Royal Navy. Each naval squadron would be assigned an admiral as its head, who would command from the centre vessel and direct the activities of the squadron. The admiral would in turn be assisted by a vice admiral, who commanded the lead ships which would bear the brunt of a naval battle. In the rear of the naval squadron, a third admiral would command the remaining ships and, as this section of the squadron was considered to be in the least danger, the admiral in command of the rear would typically be the most junior of the squadron admirals. This has survived into the modern age, with the rank of rear admiral the most-junior of the admiralty ranks of many navies.
Answer: where did the term rear admiral come from
Question: The Governor General of Canada (French: Gouverneure générale du Canada) is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II. The person of the sovereign is shared equally both with the 15 other Commonwealth realms and the 10 provinces of Canada, but resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the United Kingdom. The Queen, on the advice of her Canadian prime minister, appoints a governor general to carry out most of her constitutional and ceremonial duties. The commission is for an unfixed period of time -- known as serving at Her Majesty's pleasure -- though five years is the normal convention. Beginning in 1959, it has also been traditional to rotate between anglophone and francophone incumbents -- although many recent governors general have been bilingual. Once in office, the governor general maintains direct contact with the Queen, wherever she may be at the time.
Answer: | how do you become the governor general of canada
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You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
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Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, set in a dystopian 2040s, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual reality game, the discovery of which will lead him to inherit the game creator's fortune. Cline sold the rights to publish the novel in June 2010, in a bidding war to the Crown Publishing Group (a division of Random House). The book was published on August 16, 2011. An audiobook was released the same day; it was narrated by Wil Wheaton, who was mentioned briefly in one of the chapters. In 2012, the book received an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association and won the 2012 Prometheus Award.
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was ready player one based on a book?
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A stipulation that this kick must be towards the opponents' goal existed in the rules from 1883 until 2016. This resulted in kick-offs typically involving two people (as pictured), with one tapping the ball forward and the other passing it back to the rest of the team. Now a team may kick the ball backwards explaining why the kicker may be in the other half of the field when kicking the ball.
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do you have to kick the ball forward at kick off?
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According to the current scientific theories, matter is required to travel at slower-than-light (also subluminal or STL) speed with respect to the locally distorted spacetime region. Apparent FTL is not excluded by general relativity; however, any apparent FTL physical plausibility is speculative. Examples of apparent FTL proposals are the Alcubierre drive and the traversable wormhole.
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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: Twin Cities activist Andrew Henderson claims Sgt. Jeff Rothecker is the man behind a Facebook account that directed people to run over protesters at two Monday afternoon rallies slated to converge on the Lake Street-Marshall Avenue Bridge. Commenting on a Pioneer Press article about the demonstration, Facebook user JM Roth called protesters “idiots” and provided instructions for drivers on how to hit them with impunity. Here’s the comment in its entirety:
“Run them over. Keep traffic flowing and don’t slow down for any of these idiots who try and block the street. Here is the deal, you continue to drive and if you hit someone make sure you call 911 to report the accident and meet the cops a block or two away and you can justify stopping further away because you feared for your safety since in the past people in this group has shown [sic] a propensity towards violence. Since they are trying to block the street and/or cross where there is no crossing you should not be charged with anything. Now, these idiots could try and sue you in civil court, but remember that it will be jury trial and so most likely it will come out in your favor.”
The comment and the JM Roth account have since been deleted. But Henderson, of anti-police brutality group Minnesota Cop Block, says JM Roth comments regularly on the group’s Facebook page. Usually the barbs call their readers “idiots,” say they couldn’t handle being cops, or hurl other insults. But this was the first time he saw JM Roth preach violence.
“When I saw that coming from a police officer, a person who is sworn to serve and protect people, it really struck a chord with me,” Henderson says.
Henderson met with St. Paul police on Sunday to formally file a complaint. During the meeting Henderson presented them with a disc containing other screen shots and information allegedly proving that Rothecker is JM Roth. Henderson claims he dug up Rothecker’s marriage license and took screen shots of his wife’s Facebook page listing JM Roth as her husband.
In one screen shot, another Facebook user appears to call out JM Roth as Jeff Rothecker. During the September 2015 exchange, JM Roth replies “Yup, you don’t see me denying do you?”
For months, activist Michelle Gross says JM Roth trolled various police accountability pages she runs, including Communities United Against Police Brutality. JM Roth often posted up to two or three racist comments a day on her pages, Gross says. After Jamar Clark was killed by Minneapolis police in November, Gross says JM Roth “went crazy” upping the vitriol and frequency of the posts, suggesting people killed by police deserved to die. Two weeks ago she blocked him.
“He’s supposed to be a leader of other police officers,” Gross says of Rothecker. “For him to be advocating running people over and how to get away with it, I think he needs to be disciplined.”
Rothecker did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Citing state law, St. Paul police say they can’t comment on the specifics, but they are investigating the post. In a statement, the department pledges that if the comment came from one of their own, disciplinary action will be taken.
“The statement is offensive, disappointing, concerning and does not reflect in any way — or align with — the views, values and practices of the Saint Paul Police Department,” the statement says.
Mayor Chris Coleman also says in a statement that he’s “outraged and disgusted” by the post, and that if the claims are true punitive action will be taken.
Rothecker has been with the St. Paul Police Department for 22 years and is a vice president of the Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police. According to his bio, he investigates elder abuse complaints. ||||| St. Paul police have placed a sergeant on leave as they investigate a report that he posted on Facebook, "Run them over," in response to an article about an upcoming Black Lives Matter protest.
Also see: St. Paul cop suspected of 'Run them over' post resigns from police group
The comment detailed what people could do to avoid being charged with a crime if they struck someone during the unpermitted march on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which blocked traffic on the Lake Street-Marshall Avenue Bridge.
Andrew Henderson, who frequently videotapes officers at work because he says he wants them to be held accountable, noticed the comment from "JM Roth" about 1 a.m. Saturday and immediately reported it to St. Paul police. He filed an internal affairs complaint Sunday, naming Sgt. Jeffrey M. Rothecker.
He posted video of himself reporting the post to police -- and a screenshot of the post -- here.
Rothecker could not be reached for comment Monday. The St. Paul Police Federation, the union for St. Paul officers, is representing Rothecker. Chris Wachtler, the union's attorney, said in a statement Monday, "There is an investigation under way. We will let the process play out.
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I can't comment on an active investigation until it is complete."
On Monday, St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman issued a statement saying he is "outraged and disgusted by the post and (I) have directed the SPPD to investigate."
"Chief Smith and I are committed to building strong, trusting relationships with the communities we serve," Coleman continued. "There is no room in the St. Paul Police Department for employees who threaten members of the public.
An apparent Facebook comment by a "JM Roth" advises others to "run them over," referring to Black Lives Matter marchers. St. Paul police Sgt. Jeffrey Rothecker has apologized for the post. (Courtesy of Andrew Henderson)
If the allegation is true, we will take the strongest possible action allowed under law."
At 9:30 p.m. Friday, the Pioneer Press posted an article to the newspaper's Facebook page with the headline, "Black Lives Matter planning to rally at Lake Street bridge Monday."
One comment on the post from "JM Roth" said, "Run them over. Keep traffic flowing and don't slow down for any of these idiots who try and block the street. Here is the deal, you continue to drive and if you hit someone make sure you call 911 to report the accident and meet the cops a block or two away and you can justify stopping further away because you feared for your safety since in the past people in this group has shown a propensity towards violence. Since they are trying to block the street and/or cross where there is no crossing you should not be charged with anything. Now, these idiots could try and sue in civil court, but remember that it will be jury trial and so most likely it will come out in your favor."
The comment has since been deleted, but Henderson captured it in a screenshot. Roth's Facebook page, which didn't include a mention of its owner's full name, was changed over the weekend to not be visible publicly.
Henderson, who is an administrator on the Minnesota Cop Block Facebook page, said he's familiar with Roth because that person frequently comments on Cop Block posts.
Henderson said he found evidence that "JM Roth" is Rothecker, which he provided to internal affairs, including that a woman whose last name is Rothecker had indicated on Facebook that she's married to "JM Roth." State records show a woman with that name is married to a Jeffrey M. Rothecker.
The head of the internal affairs unit, Senior Cmdr. Shari Gray, contacted Henderson after his initial report Saturday and they met Sunday. Henderson filmed the meeting with Gray and Sgt. John Wuorinen, an internal affairs investigator, and posted the video online Monday.
Henderson told them that when he saw the comment from "JM Roth," he thought, "You know, a police officer shouldn't be advising people to run over other people for just standing in the road. That's not reasonable to me. I don't know if that's reasonable to you.' "
Wuorinen responded, "It wouldn't be reasonable to, I would think any person, any decent person."
Police Chief Thomas Smith was informed of the allegation on Saturday, Gray said.
"This was of grave concern because of the upcoming event and we want to make sure everybody's safe," Gray said. "If we needed to change tactics or operational security on the event, we needed to do it. And then, two, make sure that if indeed this was one of our officers, that it's addressed quickly."
The police department said in a statement Monday that it has an active investigation underway and, if it's determined a member of the police department wrote the comment, "swift, strong and decisive disciplinary action will be taken."
"The statement (posted) is offensive, disappointing, concerning and does not reflect in any way -- or align with -- the views, values and practices of the St. Paul Police Department," the department said.
Trahern Crews, a Black Lives Matter St. Paul leader, said that before Monday's march, he and others were telling participants to be aware of their surroundings.
Crews said he found it disturbing and frightening that an officer would allegedly be "teaching people how to break the law or basically harm protesters. ... We're hoping nobody's going to do anything like that, but it's happened before."
In November 2014, a St. Paul man's car struck a 16-year-old protesting outside a police station on Minneapolis' Lake Street over a Missouri grand jury decision not to charge a Ferguson, Mo., police officer in Michael Brown's shooting. The 41-year-old pleaded guilty to failure to yield to a pedestrian; the teen suffered a minor leg injury.
Rothecker has been a St. Paul officer for 22 years and is the department's only elder-abuse investigator, according to information about him on the website for the Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police, of which he is second vice president and was previously a St. Paul lodge president. He's also a U.S. Army combat veteran, where he served from 1988 to 1996, the site said.
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A: | A St. Paul, Minn., police officer has been suspended over allegations that he encouraged drivers to run over Martin Luther King Jr. Day marchers—and told them how to avoid being charged. "Run them over," said a Facebook comment under a Pioneer Press article on a Black Lives Matter rally. "Keep traffic flowing and don't slow down for any of these idiots who try and block the street." The comment was made under the name "JM Roth," which the activist who reported the post believes is the online alias of Sgt. Jeffrey M. Rothecker, the Star Tribune reports. "Roth" recommended that anybody who ran over protesters should stop a couple of blocks away and call 911, adding, "These idiots could try and sue you in civil court, but remember that it will be jury trial and so most likely it will come out in your favor." Activists tell City Pages that "Roth" has long trolled the Facebook pages of police accountability groups with racist comments—and admitted being Rothecker in an exchange a few months ago. St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman issued a statement saying he was "outraged and disgusted by the post" and has told police to investigate it, the Star Tribune reports. The St. Paul police department issued a statement condemning the comments and promising that "swift, strong, and decisive disciplinary action will be taken" if it determines that an officer wrote the comment. The Press reports that Rothecker is a 22-year veteran of the force and is a former president of the Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police, where he is currently a second vice president. |
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How to be okay with being lgbt
Come out to your closest friends.
If you're out to supporting friends, they'll love you through it, and they'll aid you in the journey ahead. They'll be a constant reminder of what you want to achieve with yourself-accepting yourself, and all of yourself. | If you have no in-person close friends, try coming out on an online support network. Be sure to use a screen name for safety purposes. |
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: RNAi may be used for large-scale screens that shut down each gene to analyse cellular process or cell division .
A: | RNAi may be used for large-scale screens that systematically shut down each gene in the cell , which can help to identify the components necessary for a particular cellular process or an event such as cell division . |
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:In the summer of 2016, the satellite network yes officially picked up season 2 of the show, stating it will focus more on real world events. During the fall of 2017 the initial trailer was released, and the official premier date was later announced to be 31 December. A few weeks prior to the airing of season 2, Fauda was renewed for a third season, to air in 2019.
Solution: | is there going to be a third season of fauda? |
How to view fall foliage<br>Consider the timing of the peak foliage in autumn. The fall color season usually runs from late september to mid-october. [substeps] Fall foliage is determined by a number of factors, including shorter days, colder nights and the amount of moisture in the ground.
Fall foliage has been studied by tom
A: It's impossible to say
Perhaps there is no expansion, at least not due to a big bang which never happened. About 20 years ago, Halton Arp and John Bahcall published a debate in The Redshift Controversy, presenting both sides of the argument.
Maybe there is an expansion.
A: No
British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves becomes the first woman to climb Mount Everest alone and without oxygen tanks.
She didn't reach the top.
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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: The Minitel modem usually dialed a special number to connect to a PAVI ( " Point d 'Acce ̀ s VIde ́ otexte " , " videotext access point " ) .
Student: | When connecting , the Minitel 's integrated modem generally dialed a short code number connecting to a PAVI ( " Point d 'Acce ̀ s VIde ́ otexte " , " videotext access point " ) from the subscriber 's analog telephone line . |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Problem:Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2006, file photo, IOC medical commission chairman Arne Ljungqvist responds to a question during a press conference on doping test on Austrian athletes, in Turin, Italy. Transgender... (Associated Press)
FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2006, file photo, IOC medical commission chairman Arne Ljungqvist responds to a question during a press conference on doping test on Austrian athletes, in Turin, Italy. Transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in the Olympics and other international events without underdoing... (Associated Press)
LONDON (AP) — Transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in the Olympics and other international events without undergoing sex reassignment surgery, according to new guidelines adopted by the IOC.
International Olympic Committee medical officials told The Associated Press on Sunday they changed the policy to adapt to current scientific, social and legal attitudes on transgender issues.
The guidelines are designed as recommendations — not rules or regulations — for international sports federations and other bodies to follow and should apply for this year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
"I don't think many federations have rules on defining eligibility of transgender individuals," IOC medical director Dr. Richard Budgett said in a telephone interview. "This should give them the confidence and stimulus to put these rules in place."
Under the previous IOC guidelines, approved in 2003, athletes who transitioned from male to female or vice versa were required to have reassignment surgery followed by at least two years of hormone therapy in order to be eligible to compete.
Now, surgery will no longer be required, with female-to-male transgender athletes eligible to take part in men's competitions "without restriction."
Meanwhile, male-to-female transgender athletes will need to demonstrate that their testosterone level has been below a certain cutoff point for at least one year before their first competition.
"It is necessary to ensure insofar as possible that trans athletes are not excluded from the opportunity to participate in sporting competition," the IOC said in a document posted on its website that outlines the guidelines. "The overriding sporting objective is and remains the guarantee of fair competition."
"To require surgical anatomical changes as a precondition to participation is not necessary to preserve fair competition and may be inconsistent with developing legislation and notions of human rights," it added.
The guidelines, first reported by Outsports.com, were approved after a meeting in November in Lausanne, Switzerland, of Olympic officials and medical experts.
Budgett said there were no plans for the guidelines to be sent for approval by the IOC executive board.
"This is a scientific consensus paper, not a rule or regulation," he said. "It is the advice of the medical and scientific commission and what we consider the best advice."
Former IOC medical commission chairman Arne Ljungqvist, who was among the experts involved in drafting the new guidelines, said the consensus was driven by social and political changes.
"It has become much more of a social issue than in the past," he told the AP. "We had to review and look into this from a new angle. We needed to adapt to the modern legislation around the world. We felt we cannot impose a surgery if that is no longer a legal requirement."
"Those cases are very few, but we had to answer the question," he added. "It is an adaptation to a human rights issue. This is an important matter. It's a trend of being more flexible and more liberal."
Under the new rules, a man transitioning to a woman must undergo hormone therapy and demonstrate that the total level of male testosterone in the athlete's blood has been below 10 nanomols per liter for at least a year prior to competing.
The previous rule stated that, in addition to reassignment surgery, the athlete required a minimum of two years of hormone treatment. How long it will take the athlete to reach the new cutoff limit will depend on individual cases, Ljungqvist said.
"If you change sex, you will have to have a hormone level below 10 for 12 months," he said. "That does not mean a 1-year guarantee. You don't go below 10 from day one. It takes quite some time. It can take more than one year or two years."
The transgender issue gained extra prominence after former Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jenner announced last year that he had transitioned to a woman, Caitlyn Jenner.
The IOC document also cited the case of hyperandrogenism, or presence of high levels of testosterone in female athletes.
Indian sprinter Dutee Chand was suspended by the IAAF in 2014 due to hyperandrogenism and missed the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games.
But the Court of Arbitration for Sport suspended the rule last year, saying the IAAF had failed to prove that women with naturally high levels of testosterone had a competitive edge. Chand was cleared to compete, and the court gave the IAAF until July 2017 to present new scientific evidence.
The IOC statement urged the IAAF and others to go back to CAS with arguments in favor of reinstating the rule.
"To avoid discrimination, if not eligible for female competition, the athlete should be eligible to compete in male competition," the IOC said.
The issue of gender verification gained global attention after South African runner Caster Semenya was ordered to undergo sex tests after winning the 800-meter world title in 2009. She was eventually cleared to compete by the IAAF and won silver in the 800 at the 2012 London Olympics.
The IOC used to conduct gender verification tests at the Olympics, but those chromosome-based screenings were dropped before the 2000 Sydney Games because they were deemed unscientific and unethical. |||||
Solution: | Transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in the Olympics and other international events without undergoing sex reassignment surgery, according to new guidelines adopted by the International Olympic Committee. IOC medical officials say they changed the policy to adapt to current scientific, social, and legal attitudes on transgender issues. The guidelines are designed as recommendations—not rules or regulations—for international sports federations and other bodies to follow and should apply for this year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. "I don't think many federations have rules on defining eligibility of transgender individuals," the IOC's medical director tells the AP. "This should give them the confidence and stimulus to put these rules in place." Under the previous guidelines, introduced in 2003, athletes who transitioned from male to female or vice versa were required to have reassignment surgery followed by at least two years of hormone therapy in order to be eligible to compete. Now surgery will no longer be required, with female-to-male transgender athletes eligible to take part in men's competitions "without restriction." Meanwhile, male-to-female transgender athletes will need to demonstrate that their testosterone level has been below a certain cutoff point for at least one year before their first competition. "The overriding sporting objective is and remains the guarantee of fair competition," the IOC said in a document posted on its website explaining the new guidelines. |
Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Two women are dead as a result of an apparent kidnapping followed by a murder/suicide on Interstate 20 near Heflin.
The two were found in a black 2000 Dodge Durango near the 208 mile marker. Sgt. Steve Jarrett with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said that after a brief stand-off with police, the driver shot the passenger, then herself.
Multiple media outlets are reporting that the victim has been identified as 49-year-old Sandra Barnett of Ellenwood, Ga., who was abducted Wednesday from her home. Barnett was reportedly kidnapped by her husband's mistress, according to Clayton County Police. The other woman's name has not been released.
Chief Deputy Brad Robinson of the Carroll County Sheriff's Office in Georgia said authorities began chasing the Durango after receiving a notification of the vehicle's description in connection with the abduction out of Clayton County.
"We were told the vehicle might be in the area as part of a possible kidnapping, with both the suspect and victim inside," Robinson said.
Deputies with Carroll County spotted the Durango exiting a service station off Interstate 20, attempted to stop the vehicle and began a chase onto the Interstate.
Alabama authorities got notification around 11:30 a.m. of the chase, Jarrett said. Upon entering Alabama, Carroll County deputies dropped back into a support position, until the chase stopped near Heflin.
"I don't think any shots were fired by any law enforcement," Robinson said.
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Need an account? Create one now. ||||| HEFLIN, Ala. (AP) — A woman was abducted by her husband's mistress in suburban Atlanta and then shot in what authorities called a murder-suicide after a freeway pursuit into Alabama, police said Thursday.
Sandra Barnett, 49, of Ellenwood, Georgia, was abducted from her home Wednesday, Clayton County Police Officer Charlene Fraser said. Clayton County police distributed a lookout bulletin for a black Dodge Durango the woman was taken away in, Fraser said.
The vehicle was spotted Thursday morning in west Georgia and deputies from the Carroll County Sheriff's office and other Georgia law enforcement agencies chased it along I-20 into Alabama, said Carroll County Chief Deputy Sheriff Brad Robinson.
The SUV stopped at mile marker 208 on a stretch of the freeway in Cleburne County, Alabama, and a standoff ensued, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency spokesman Steve Jarrett said in an emailed statement.
Fraser said the kidnapping suspect reached into the backseat, grabbed a gun and shot Barnett before shooting herself. Both women were dead inside the SUV when authorities approached it, Robinson said.
The abduction was reported by one of Barnett's relatives, Fraser said. Fraser also said the suspect was the mistress of Barnett's husband. Authorities have not yet released the suspect's name. |||||
A: | Two women are dead after a dramatic chase that took police from Georgia to Alabama, where a standoff ensued yesterday. Police say Sandra Barnett, 49, was kidnapped from her home in Ellenwood, Ga., on Wednesday and whisked away in a black Dodge Durango, driven by her husband’s mistress. Neighbors tell WXIA they became suspicious when they noticed the SUV in Barnett’s driveway; the special needs teacher had recently replaced a latch on her backyard gate, thinking someone had messed with it. The neighbors say Barnett’s husband later told them, "I hope she didn't kidnap her." Police say a "relative" reported the abduction, per the AP. The vehicle was discovered yesterday morning leaving a gas station off I-20 in west Georgia, reports the Anniston Star. Authorities chased the Durango into Alabama, where the female driver suddenly pulled over at mile marker 208. There was a short standoff with police, but "I don't think any shots were fired by any law enforcement," the chief deputy with Georgia’s Carroll County Sheriff's Office tells AL.com. The kidnapping suspect then grabbed a gun from the backseat of the SUV, shot Barnett, then shot herself, an officer says. Authorities found both women dead inside. |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
PROBLEM: The United States has about 20 species of venomous snakes, which include 16 species of rattlesnakes, two species of coral snakes, one species of cottonmouth (or water moccasin), and one species of copperhead. At least one type of venomous snake is found in every state except Alaska and Hawaii.
SOLUTION: what are the poisonous snakes in the united states
PROBLEM: The Second Battle of Panipat was fought on November 5, 1556, between the forces of Hemu, the Hindu general and Chief Minister of Adil Shah Suri, and the army of the Mughal emperor, Akbar. Hemu had conquered Delhi a month earlier by defeating the Mughals led by Tardi Beg Khan at the Battle of Delhi and proclaimed himself Raja Vikramaditya. Akbar and his guardian, Bairam Khan, had immediately marched to Delhi to reclaim the city. The two armies clashed at Panipat not far from the site of the First Battle of Panipat of 1526.
SOLUTION: why was the second battle of panipat fought
PROBLEM: A drill is a tool fitted with a cutting tool attachment or driving tool attachment, usually a drill bit or driver bit, used for boring holes in various materials or fastening various materials together. The attachment is gripped by a chuck at one end of the drill and rotated while pressed against the target material. The tip, and sometimes edges, of the cutting tool does the work of cutting into the target material. This may be slicing off thin shavings (twist drills or auger bits), grinding off small particles (oil drilling), crushing and removing pieces of the workpiece (SDS masonry drill), countersinking, counterboring, or other operations.
SOLUTION: | name two important features a drill should have
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Definition: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Input: In 1995 , Oracle Systems Corporation changed its name to Oracle Corporation .
Output: | In 1995 , Oracle Systems Corporation changed its name to Oracle Corporation , officially named Oracle , but sometimes referred to as Oracle Corporation , the name of the holding company . |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Example: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
Output: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
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 case for you: 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer' is a novelty Christmas song. Written by Randy Brooks, the song was originally performed by the husband-and-wife duo of Elmo and Patsy Trigg Shropshire in 1979.
Output: | who sings grandma got run over by a reindeer |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
You already Facebook at work, so here's "Facebook at Work."
Facebook is working on extending its network beyond the social realm and into the professional world, according to the Financial Times, citing anonymous sources.
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The company's new, enterprise-focused product will be similar to the functionality of its current site, with a newsfeed, groups and messaging capability. However, it will also include collaborative tools for work on shared documents. Facebook at Work will be entirely separate from personal accounts, with no information from a user's social profile appearing on his or her professional page, and vice versa.
Facebook at Work is currently in an early pilot program that is based out of London. At the time of this writing, it does not host advertising.
Facebook employees are known to use the site internally for work. Creating a new, separate network for businesses would bring the company into competition with Google, Microsoft and IBM, which all offer enterprise tools.
A Facebook representative declined to comment.
BONUS: 5 Super Weird Facts About Facebook ||||| Facebook is secretly working on a new website called “Facebook at Work” to get a foothold in the office that will see the social network of more than 1bn people compete directly with Google, Microsoft and LinkedIn.
The Silicon Valley company is developing a new product designed to allow users to chat with colleagues, connect with professional contacts and collaborate over documents, competing with Google Drive and Microsoft Office, according to people familiar with the matter.
The new site will look very much like Facebook – with a newsfeed and groups – but will allow users to keep their personal profile with its holiday photos, political rants and silly videos separate from their work identity. Facebook declined to comment.
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Facebook employees have long used the site in their daily work and expanding this to other companies has been discussed internally for some time. The project began in earnest during the past year and is now being tested with companies as its launch approaches. Some of the engineers developing Facebook at Work are based in London.
Facebook’s new product could take market share from LinkedIn, the social network for professionals with 90m active monthly users. LinkedIn has become the dominant site for online business networking, but Facebook at Work could also challenge Google’s drive, email and chat products and Microsoft’s Outlook email service, Office software and Yammer, the corporate social network it bought for $1.2bn in 2012.
To become an integral part of office life, Facebook will need to win the trust of companies and organisations, which will expect to be able to conduct confidential conversations and share important information on the site, without it falling into the hands of rivals. Many companies, concerned about falling productivity as employees spend work time checking personal messages and internet gossip, currently ban Facebook from the workplace.
Facebook has grown from a small website for students wanting to connect to each other 10 years ago, to a network with 1.35bn people logging on each month, almost two-thirds of whom visit every day. The company’s mission statement is now to connect everyone, understand the world and build the knowledge economy.
The company, which has often been criticised by privacy advocates for how it handles user data, has been trying to rebuild its reputation on privacy this year, changing the default to a more private setting. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, said at the annual general meeting this year that these changes marked an “important cultural shift” for the company.
Facebook security was enhanced by the rollout of encryption by default last year, after the Snowden leaks shone a light on how easily the US National Security Agency had been able to access the data of large numbers of users.
The company is unlikely to charge for the service, at least initially, which will boost the amount of time spent on the platform, as employees previously banned from using the site in the office may now be encouraged to use it. Facebook generates the vast majority of its revenue from advertising, and the longer people spend on the site, the more opportunities it will have to show adverts.
Mr Zuckerberg said in July that Facebook still had “a lot of room to grow”. US users spend about 40 minutes a day on the service but, he noted, they spend nine hours each day with digital media on TVs, phones and computers. “There’s a big opportunity to improve the way people connect and share,” he said. ||||| Facebook is reportedly creating a product for office use called Facebook at Work, according to a report in the Financial Times. The Financial Times cites sources describing a product that allows users "…to chat with colleagues, connect with professional contacts and collaborate over documents, competing with Drive and Office…"
Sounds Like Chatter
It does sound good. It also sounds a lot like a product Salesforce.com introduced in 2010 called Chatter, which has seen numerous upgrades and iterations since its debut and has been adopted by thousands of Salesforce.com users. Chatter has also seen its fair share of imitators in the CRM industry.
A Fighting Chance
Facebook, though, does have a fighting chance to push Facebook at Work into the office—assuming it is an enterprise-quality product—for a couple of reasons. One reason is that employees already use Facebook in the workplace already, just not for work. Some 23% of workers recently surveyed by Salary.com reported using Facebook during working hours.
With Facebook at Work, users could sign on to both the corporate and personal account, according to the Financial Times. Facebook at Work, in short, would launch offering companies a system that has the fastest learning curve ever in the history of enterprise software. Also, it is hard to imagine companies having to coax user adoption with Facebook at Work, as is often the case with other software packages, especially CRM.
The Competition
For that reason, the arrival of Facebook at Work is not likely to be met with indifference by enterprise software companies. Even Google with its array of enterprise productivity tools could be threatened by Facebook at Work as well as Microsoft's Yammer. The most obvious target, though, is Salesforce.com, which unabashedly styled Chatter on the social media giant MO.
Salesforce.com, of course, offers far more functionality, features and tools than just its wildly popular Chatter. But even on a stand-alone basis Chatter could probably go head to head against Facebook at Work. ||||| | Bosses may soon be demanding that employees get on Facebook and do some work. The social media giant is getting ready to roll out a workplace version of its site called "Facebook at Work," insiders tell the Financial Times. The site—which will compete head-to-head with Google's and Microsoft's workplace products, as well as LinkedIn—will look and function much like Facebook's existing site, the sources say, but will include tools for people to work on things like shared documents and will allow users to keep their personal Facebook profiles completely separate from their professional ones. The project, inspired by Facebook employees' own use of the site for work purposes, is now in an early pilot program and doesn't currently host ads, according to Mashable. But will it catch on as the place to have workplace chats? The office version of Facebook could be a hit because it will have the "fastest learning curve ever in the history of enterprise software," writes Erika Morphy at Forbes, but with corporations fearing leaks of sensitive information, the company's "fast-and-loose approach with consumers' privacy may come back to haunt it." (Facebook is also rumored to be planning a move into health care.) |
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: Bartolo Colón (born May 24, 1973), nicknamed 'Big Sexy,' is a Dominican American professional baseball pitcher for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Cleveland Indians (1997 -- 2002), Montreal Expos (2002), Chicago White Sox (2003, 2009), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2004 -- 2007), Boston Red Sox (2008), New York Yankees (2011), Oakland Athletics (2012 -- 2013), New York Mets (2014 -- 2016), Atlanta Braves (2017), and Minnesota Twins (2017).
A: | how many teams has bartolo colon pitch for |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
[EX Q]: When land is cleared, habitats are lost. It may be cleared for agriculture. It may also be used for building new homes or businesses. Within the past 100 years, the amount of land used for agriculture has almost doubled. Land used for grazing cattle has more than doubled. Many wetlands have also been lost to agriculture. The U.S. has lost almost all the natural tall-grass prairies. Thee areas of tall thick grass have virtually disappeared. These areas of land had thick fertile soil. Their grasses had very deep root systems. These deep and thick roots reduced the amount of soil erosion. They also were home to many plants and animals. Prairies were wonderful places. They were home to colorful flowers, prairie dogs, and herds of bison. <sep>What lived on prairies?<sep>Herds of bison
[EX A]: Yes
[EX Q]: (CNN) -- The photographer who took images of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto moments before her assassination Thursday told CNN he was "surprised" to see her rise through the sunroof of her vehicle to wave to supporters after delivering her speech. Getty Images photographer John Moore captured Benazir Bhutto waving, moments before he heard gunshots. "I ran up, got as close as I got, made a few pictures of her waving to the crowd," Getty Images senior staff photographer John Moore told CNN's online streaming news service, CNN.com Live, in a phone interview Thursday from Islamabad, Pakistan. "And then suddenly, there were a few gunshots that rang out, and she went down, she went down through the sunroof," he said. "And just at that moment I raised my camera up and the blast happened. ... And then, of course, there was chaos." Watch Moore describe Bhutto's final moments » Moore said he was about 20 yards away from Bhutto's vehicle when he took his photographs. Bhutto was rushed to Rawalpindi General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Moore said he had been following Bhutto's story since her return to Pakistan in October. He was present October 19 when a terror attack targeting her motorcade in Karachi killed 136 people. In the aftermath of that attack, "The rallies had been very small," because of high security, Moore said. However, the Rawalpindi rally was announced beforehand, he observed. "Whoever planned this attack -- they had time on their hands to plan everything properly, and you saw the results today," he said. Between 5,000 and 8,000 were at the Rawalpindi rally, which was held at a parkground, he said. "We [the news media] all expected it to be filled ... but there were less people there than most of us expected to see," he said. "When I talked with a number of people, they said that people were just afraid to come out, for the simple reason that they all remembered what happened in Karachi." Moore said he himself expected there could be another attack following the Karachi massacre. He said he stayed away from gates at the Rawalpindi parkground, where police were searching people, because he suspected that's where a bomb would go off. <sep>What gave the assassins time to properly plan their attack?<sep>The time between the parade and the rally
[EX A]: No
[EX Q]: The day was just breaking, as I left the tower; though it was still too dark in the house to be able to see without a light, and I took one of the study candles with me on my 'round. By the time I had finished the ground floor, the daylight was creeping in, wanly, through the barred windows. My search had shown me nothing fresh. Everything appeared to be in order, and I was on the point of extinguishing my candle, when the thought suggested itself to me to have another glance 'round the cellars. I had not, if I remember rightly, been into them since my hasty search on the evening of the attack. For, perhaps, the half of a minute, I hesitated. I would have been very willing to forego the task--as, indeed, I am inclined to think any man well might--for of all the great, awe-inspiring rooms in this house, the cellars are the hugest and weirdest. Great, gloomy caverns of places, unlit by any ray of daylight. Yet, I would not shirk the work. I felt that to do so would smack of sheer cowardice. Besides, as I reassured myself, the cellars were really the most unlikely places in which to come across anything dangerous; considering that they can be entered, only through a heavy oaken door, the key of which, I carry always on my person. <sep>Why was he afraid to go into the cellar?<sep>It was cavernous
[EX A]: | Yes
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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.
Q: The idea was first developed by John Maynard Keynes in his book The General Theory of Employment , Interest and Money ( 1936 ) .
A: | The concept was first developed by John Maynard Keynes in his book " The General Theory of Employment , Interest and Money " ( 1936 ) to explain determination of the interest rate by the supply and demand for money . |
Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to seal a leaking radiator
Look for a rise in the temperature gauge.
Your radiator dissipates heat to help maintain the optimal operating temperature for your vehicle's engine. A leak in your radiator will result in lost coolant, which will compromise the system's ability to reduce that temperature. | When your coolant system begins to fail, the temperature gauge on your dash board will climb. If your vehicle has been running consistently warmer or if you have recently begun having issues with overheating, you may have a leak in your radiator. |
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: Tom the turkey had lived happily on Brian and Christa Caponi's 6-acre spread in Gulf Breeze for the past year along with their menagerie of cats, goats, a dog, chickens and roosters.
He was special among their 50 or so animals, Christa said.
"He was a family pet," she said. "It was like having a normal family dog." ... ||||| Topics: Barack Obama, Thanksgiving, Video, Turkey, Nate Silver, Election Day, News
Upholding the presidential Thanksgiving tradition, President Obama has today pardoned Cobbler and Gobbler, two 40-pound turkeys from Virginia.
This year, however, Americans voted on which turkeys would receive the pardon, giving the president the perfect opportunity to crack a joke about Nate Silver, the New York Times polling wizard who accurately predicted the Election Day results.
“Once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it,” Obama said. “The guy’s amazing. He predicted these guys would win.” |||||
A: | A Florida man thought he found a cheap way to put a turkey on the table for Thanksgiving: He admitted to police that he snuck onto his neighbors' property with a friend and killed a bird with a bow and arrow, reports the Pensacola News Journal. The problem is that the Caponi family thought of 30-pound "Tom" as a family pet. "It was like having a normal family dog," says mom Christa. Now neighbor Jacob Provo, 18, and pal Joshua Anderson, 19, are facing a slew of serious charges: armed burglary, armed trespassing, theft of livestock, and animal cruelty. In other turkey news: Obama/Silver: President Obama pardoned turkeys Cobbler and Gobbler today at the White House, and in so doing made a joke about the polling whiz at the New York Times, reports Salon.“Once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it,” Obama said. “The guy’s amazing. He predicted these guys would win.” (One writer hopes this will be the last year for the goofy White House tradition.) |
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.
Ministries are usually subordinate to the cabinet , and prime minister , president or chancellor . | Ministries are usually immediate subdivisions of the cabinet ( the executive branch of the government ) , and subordinate to its chief executive who is called prime minister , chief minister , president , minister-president or ( federal ) chancellor . |
Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: Northern Irish actor Jamie Dornan has been tapped to replace Charlie Hunnam as Christian Grey in the Universal and Focus adaptation of “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
Dornan plays Sheriff Graham Humbert in ABC series “Once Upon a Time”; he’s also played a serial killer in BBC Two crime drama “The Fall,” and he appeared in Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette.” The 31-year-old thesp performs in an Irish folk duo and has modeled for Calvin Klein, Christian Dior and Armani. His modeling experience may be useful, as the part will require him to act in explicitly sexual scenes.
PHOTOS: Jamie Dornan, From Model to “Fifty Shades”
Dakota Johnson will co-star as Anastasia Steele, with Sam Taylor-Johnson on board to direct.
Universal and Focus Features declined to comment.
The project was hit with a huge curveball when Hunnam departed after being attached for just a month. Universal said Hunnam’s exit was due to scheduling issues with “Sons of Anarchy” and upcoming movie “Crimson Peak,” but some sources said battles over a rewrite and the actor’s doubts about the role may have played a part in his decision.
PHOTOS: Christian Grey Casting: A Timeline
When Hunnam exited, U and Focus execs decided to go for more of a discovery and brought in Dornan and Billy Magnussen to test with Johnson last Friday. Though the studio considered bringing in more actors to test, as of Wednesday morning sources said no one else had been brought in.
Universal will now work quickly to land thesps for the remaining supporting roles that include Steele’s roommate Kate, a role for which U had already been testing actresses prior to Hunnam’s exit.
Michael De Luca is on to produce the adaptation of E.L. James’ sexy bestseller, which is set to bow Aug. 1, 2014.
Dornan is repped by UTA and United Agents. ||||| Dornan is in negotiations to replace Charlie Hunnam, as Universal hopes to start production in early November.
Jamie Dornan has been chosen as the new Christian Grey for Universal and Focus’ adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Negotiations with the actor now are underway.
Charlie Hunnam infamously backed out of the project a week and a half ago, setting off a feverish pursuit to find his replacement.
PHOTOS: Stars Misaligned: Charlie Hunnam Quits 'Fifty Shades' and 15 Other Casting Near-Misses
The U.K.-based Dornan was first revealed as a contender for the role of kinky billionaire Grey by THR on Oct. 14. He is the star of the U.K. series The Fall and might be best-known to U.S. audiences for playing the Huntsman in ABC's Once Upon a Time. Born in Northern Ireland, he's a former Calvin Klein model and dated Keira Knightley for two years.
Dornan, 31, actually was contacted before Hunnam officially dropped out, and tested Friday opposite female lead Dakota Johnson for director Sam Taylor-Johnson, author EL James and producers Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti. Tony-nominated actor Billy Magnussen also tested, as did Francois Arnaud from The Borgias, according to sources.
Dornan will now face the blinding spotlight of both fans of the best-selling trilogy and the media. Hunnam and Universal cited a scheduling conflict as the reason for his exit, but THR reported that he was uncomfortable with the frenzy surrounding the project. Universal was forced to hire bodyguards for the Sons of Anarchy actor at a premiere, and two appearances to promote the show were canceled. Hunnam, who also is a writer (he penned the gothic horror screenplay Vlad for Brad Pitt's Plan B and Summit Entertainment), is said to have had issues with Kelly Marcel's adaptation of the book. The script is getting a polish by Patrick Marber (Notes on a Scandal).
Universal was under pressure to begin production Nov. 1 on the high-profile project in order to meet an Aug. 1, 2014, release date. If Dornan's deal closes, he will be signed for three and possibly four Fifty Shades movies based on the erotic book, assuming the first film is successful.
THR also has learned that Universal and Focus had approached Juno Temple to play Anastasia Steele's (Johnson) best friend and Frank Grillo to play Grey's bodyguard. Both actors passed on the roles, according to sources.
RELATED: Charlie Hunnam's 'Fifty Shades' Script Showdown and the Chaotic Final Days
Dornan is repped by UTA. |||||
Output: | Maybe this Christian Grey will be more popular with Fifty Shades fans? Actor and former Calvin Klein model Jamie Dornan has been selected to replace Charlie Hunnam, who dropped out of the movie adaptation of the popular book last week. Dornan, 31, stars in a UK television series (The Fall), but if you live in the US, you might recognize him as the sheriff/huntsman from ABC's Once Upon a Time. (Other identifying fact: He dated Keira Knightley for two years.) He's already been tested with Dakota Johnson, who will play female lead Anastasia Steele, and multiple sources including the Hollywood Reporter and Variety are reporting he's in negotiations, though there's no official word from the studio yet. Hunnam's official reason for dropping the movie is that he had a scheduling conflict, but sources say he was actually uncomfortable with what THR refers to as the "frenzy" surrounding the film (Universal actually had to hire bodyguards for Hunnam at one point). Rabid fans of the book were quite displeased with the casting choices. |
Definition: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Input: A logic block , sometimes called configurable logic block is a component of an FPGA .
Output: | In computing , a logic block or configurable logic block ( CLB ) is a fundamental building block of field-programmable gate array ( FPGA ) technology . |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Let me give you an 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.
The answer to this example can be: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Here is why: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
OK. solve this:
Although a machine endowed with superhuman strength and futuristic weaponry, he often displayed human characteristics, such as laughter, sadness, and mockery, as well as singing and playing the guitar. With his major role often being to protect the youngest member of the crew, the Robot's catchphrases were ``It does not compute'' and ``Danger, Will Robinson!'', accompanied by flailing his arms.
Answer: | does the robot from lost in space talk? |
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 dog breed is taller, the Chihuahua or the Irish Wolfhound?, Context: Most breeds of dog are at most a few hundred years old, having been artificially selected for particular morphologies and behaviors by people for specific functional roles. Through this selective breeding, the dog has developed into hundreds of varied breeds, and shows more behavioral and morphological variation than any other land mammal. For example, height measured to the withers ranges from 15.2 centimetres (6.0 in) in the Chihuahua to about 76 cm (30 in) in the Irish Wolfhound; color varies from white through grays (usually called "blue") to black, and browns from light (tan) to dark ("red" or "chocolate") in a wide variation of patterns; coats can be short or long, coarse-haired to wool-like, straight, curly, or smooth. It is common for most breeds to shed this coat.
Answer: Irish Wolfhound
Question: Who, based on the evidence given, is oldest: John Elway or Peyton Manning?, Context: Peyton Manning became the first quarterback ever to lead two different teams to multiple Super Bowls. He is also the oldest quarterback ever to play in a Super Bowl at age 39. The past record was held by John Elway, who led the Broncos to victory in Super Bowl XXXIII at age 38 and is currently Denver's Executive Vice President of Football Operations and General Manager.
Answer: John Elway
Question: What type of lotion is something like GermX?, Context: Several molecular mechanisms of antibacterial resistance exist. Intrinsic antibacterial resistance may be part of the genetic makeup of bacterial strains. For example, an antibiotic target may be absent from the bacterial genome. Acquired resistance results from a mutation in the bacterial chromosome or the acquisition of extra-chromosomal DNA. Antibacterial-producing bacteria have evolved resistance mechanisms that have been shown to be similar to, and may have been transferred to, antibacterial-resistant strains. The spread of antibacterial resistance often occurs through vertical transmission of mutations during growth and by genetic recombination of DNA by horizontal genetic exchange. For instance, antibacterial resistance genes can be exchanged between different bacterial strains or species via plasmids that carry these resistance genes. Plasmids that carry several different resistance genes can confer resistance to multiple antibacterials. Cross-resistance to several antibacterials may also occur when a resistance mechanism encoded by a single gene conveys resistance to more than one antibacterial compound.
Answer: | antibacterial
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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]: At the age of 11, Houston started performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where she also learned to play the piano. Her first solo performance in the church was 'Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah'. When Houston was a teenager, she attended Mount Saint Dominic Academy, a Catholic girls' high school in Caldwell, New Jersey, where she met her best friend Robyn Crawford, whom she described as the 'sister she never had'. While Houston was still in school, her mother continued to teach her how to sing. Houston was also exposed to the music of Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, and Roberta Flack, most of whom would have an influence on her as a singer and performer.
[A]: what inspired whitney houston to become a singer
[Q]: The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. Its drafting by a committee appointed by the Second Continental Congress began on July 12, 1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification on November 15, 1777. The Articles of Confederation came into force on March 1, 1781, after being ratified by all 13 states. A guiding principle of the Articles was to preserve the independence and sovereignty of the states. The federal government received only those powers which the colonies had recognized as belonging to king and parliament.
[A]: who had power under the articles of confederation
[Q]: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are businesses whose personnel numbers fall below certain limits. The abbreviation 'SME' is used by international organizations such as the World Bank, the United Nations and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
[A]: | what is the definition of small and medium enterprises
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Posted Today, 07:49 PM These Samsung MicroSD memory cards reached a new historical low this week 128gb for $19.99 64gb for $10.99 256gb for $44.99 These memory cards are ideal for expanding your storage space in the Nintendo Switch, Samsung phones, or Samsung tablets. I know that I bought a pair of 64gb cards for $19.99 apiece at this time last year which was a good deal at the time. This is a great opportunity to get your 128gb or 256gb card to store games.
Can we infer the following?
Games can be stored on the 128gb or the 256gb cards only. | It's impossible to say |
Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Lynn Caponera, president of the Maurice Sendak Foundation, was going through the late artist’s files last year “to see what could be discarded,” she said. “I was asking myself, do we really need all these?” when she found a typewritten manuscript titled Presto and Zesto in Limboland, co-authored by Sendak and his frequent collaborator, Arthur Yorinks. Caponera, who managed Sendak’s household for decades, didn’t remember the two friends working on a text with that title, so she scanned the manuscript and e-mailed it to Michael di Capua, Sendak’s longtime editor and publisher.
“I read it in disbelief,” said di Capua. “What a miracle to find this buried treasure in the archives. To think something as good as this has been lying around there gathering dust.”
Not only is the manuscript complete, so, too, are the illustrations. Sendak created them in 1990 to accompany a London Symphony Orchestra performance of Leoš Janáček’s Rikadla, a 1927 composition that set a series of nonsense Czech nursery rhymes to music.
Voila! So it is that Sendak, considered by many to be the most influential picture book creator of the 20th century, will have another publication in the 21st, five years after his death. PW has the exclusive news that Michael di Capua Books/HarperCollins plans to publish Presto and Zesto in Limboland in fall 2018.
This will be the third book collaboration for Yorinks and Sendak, following The Miami Giant (1995) and Mommy? (2006), which were both also edited by di Capua. In addition to their publishing collaborations, the longtime friends also co-founded the Night Kitchen Theater. The title of the new book references an inside joke between them.
Though Yorinks had often visited Sendak at his home in Connecticut, “I only knew where he lived in relation to the train station.” So when Yorinks later moved to Connecticut himself, he called Sendak and said, “‘I think we’re close,’ but Maurice thought I was about a half hour drive away,” Yorinks recalled. “Then I got in the car and I was there in three minutes. When he opened the door he said, ‘Presto!’ That became my nickname.” Yorinks, in turn, dubbed Sendak “Zesto.”
Yorinks had seen the pictures Sendak made in 1990 for Janáček’s symphony and remembers thinking, “What a shame that they would be seen just once.” Di Capua had the same thought. “We talked about getting really good translations of the Czech verses but they were like Edward Lear squared,” di Capua said. “It just seemed hopeless, like trying to translate Finnegan’s Wake, and Maurice had many other fish to fry.”
So the illustrations went into a drawer for seven years until the violinist Midori asked Sendak if she could use them for a symphonic piece she was putting together to raise money for her foundation, which provides music education programs to underserved children in New York City public schools.
Before they went back in a drawer again, Yorinks was direct. “ ‘They could be a book, no?’ ” he asked Sendak. “We both agreed they could, but what was story?” On a drawing table in Sendak’s studio, they laid out the 10 illustrations—which they always called the “sugar beets” pictures because one of the rhymes was about the marriage of two beets—and riffed.
“It was a hysterical afternoon of cracking each other up,” Yorinks said. “But after a few hours a narrative thread began to coagulate. The story became an homage to our own friendship so we named the characters after ourselves—Presto and Zesto.”
Over the course of the next few months, they refined the text. Di Capua says the book might have been published 20 years ago but for Brundibar, the book Sendak produced with the playwright Tony Kushner about the opera performed by the children imprisoned at Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp. “[Sendak] became a bit obsessed with that,” di Capua recalled.
Yorinks was being pulled in different directions, too. “At that time, I was more into theater than books,” he said. “In all honesty, we just forgot it.”
When di Capua called Yorinks to ask if he wanted to go forward with publishing the book, the response was unambiguous: “He asked, ‘Are you interested?’ I said, ‘Holy mackerel. Are you kidding me?’ ”
Only minor revisions to the text were needed, which Yorinks did happily. “The memory of writing it originally flooded back in a wonderful kind of way,” Yorinks said. “We always had a lot of laughs for two really depressed guys.” ||||| The man who spread monstrous, magical nighttime adventures to millions is about to embark on one of his own. Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, is going to publish a book from the grave.
The Maurice Sendak Foundation announced yesterday that a new story by the beloved American writer and illustrator, who died in 2012, will be released next fall. Presto and Zesto in Limboland was co-written by Sendak and writer and theater director Arthur Yorinks, and will be published by Michael di Capua Books, an imprint of HarperCollins.
“It’s about two guys who are taking a walk and not realizing where they’re going, and they end up in Limboland,” says Yorinks, a longtime collaborator of Sendak. “It’s a book about friendship and dealing with a mixed up world.”
Presto and Zesto were nicknames that Sendak and Yorinks had for each other. The ten illustrations in the book were created first by Sendak in 1990, as accompaniment to an orchestra performance. Yorinks saw them and thought they should last beyond the one-time use. Together, the friends came up with a story to accompany the illustrations in one afternoon. They exchanged notes about Presto and Zesto after that, but both were too busy at the time with other projects to pursue it, says Yorinks.
The finished text and illustrations were found in Sendak’s files by Lynn Caponera, the Maurice Sendak Foundation president. Though she knew Sendak well, she hadn’t heard of the story, according to Publishers Weekly. She sent it to Sendak’s editor, and after getting in touch with Yorinks, they decided to publish the book.
For anyone clinging to departed children’s book legends, the story is familiar. In the last two years alone, lost stories by beloved deceased authors Beatrix Potter and Dr. Seuss have surfaced during file-rifling, going on to become bestsellers.
Yorinks is firm that this is not a hastily thrown together half-manuscript published without the author’s consent. “I knew Maurice for 40 years,” he says. “He would have absolutely been thrilled to have this published, absolutely no question about it.” He adds, “This isn’t some ersatz pieced-together thing; it’s a fully fledged book that just happened, due to various circumstances, to be stuck in a drawer.” |||||
Student: | Maurice Sendak died in 2012, but the world is getting a new book from the beloved children's author and artist nonetheless. The president of the Maurce Sendak Foundation was cleaning out Sendak's files when she found the manuscript of a "lost book," Publishers Weekly reports. "I read it in disbelief," says Sendak's longtime editor and publisher about Presto and Zesto in Limboland. "What a miracle to find this buried treasure in the archives. To think something as good as this has been lying around there gathering dust." The book was co-authored by Arthur Yorinks, who also collaborated with Sendak on The Miami Giant and Mommy? The manuscript is complete, and there are illustrations for it that Sendak created in 1990 to accompany a London Symphony Orchestra performance of a composition involving nursery rhymes. Yorinks explains that he saw the illustrations and thought how sad it was they might only be used once. "They could be a book, no?" he remembers asking Sendak 20 years ago. They had "a hysterical afternoon of cracking each other up" while coming up with a storyline that fit with the pictures, then spent a few months refining it, but ultimately both got busy with other projects and forgot about the book. Yorinks made minor revisions to the text, and HarperCollins will publish the book in fall of 2018. Quartz notes that lost stories by Beatrix Potter and Dr. Seuss have also recently been found and published. |
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 United States two-dollar bill ($2) is a current denomination of U.S. currency. The third U.S. President (1801--09), Thomas Jefferson, is featured on the obverse of the note. The reverse features an engraving of the painting The Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull. Throughout the $2 bill's pre-1929 life as a large-sized note, it was issued as a United States Note, National Bank Note, silver certificate, Treasury or ``Coin'' Note and Federal Reserve Bank Note. When U.S. currency was changed to its current size, the $2 bill was issued only as a United States Note. Production went on until 1966, when the series was discontinued. Ten years passed before the $2 bill was reissued as a Federal Reserve Note with a new reverse design. Two-dollar bills are seldom seen in circulation as a result of banking policies with businesses which has resulted in low production numbers due to lack of demand. This comparative scarcity in circulation, coupled with a lack of public knowledge that the bill is still in production and circulation, has also inspired urban legends about its authenticity and value and has occasionally created problems for those trying to use the bill to make purchases.
Solution: | is the 2 dollar bill still in circulation? |
The Sahara Desert ant ("Cataglyphis bicolor") is a desert-dwelling ant of the genus "Cataglyphis". It inhabits the Sahara Desert and is one of the most heat tolerant animals known to date. However, there are at least four other species of "Cataglyphis" living in the Sahara desert, for example "C. bombycina", "C. savignyi", "C. mauritanicus" and "C. fortis".
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Cataglyphis bicolor are not heat tolerant at all"? | No |
How to be a " homeless " backpacker in honolulu
Find alternative accommodations.
Hostels and backpacker inns are not cheap (and motels don't exist! ). You may want to consider camping to avoid blowing all of your budget on lodging.
OPTIONS:
- If you are looking for permanent accommodations, try asking a few locals. See who they know, and then call or visit them to inquire whether they have other people who would be willing to stay with you (and possibly a friend, if you're the adventurous sort, of course).
- Even in the middle of winter, oahu nights are warm enough to sleep in with a 0 degree sleeping bag or a blanket. The island has a campground on the north east coast that sells camping permits.
- You can also try hotel chains, big-box motels, and hostels closer to wherever you are staying. Don't be afraid to travel.
- Make sure that the accommodations you're staying are as affordable as possible and minimal in cost. Because of this, be sure that you have a sleeping bag, a camera, music system, space for your bathing suit, comfortable bedding and enough blankets to cover you.
Even in the middle of winter, oahu nights are warm enough to sleep in with a 0 degree sleeping bag or a blanket. The island has a campground on the north east coast that sells camping permits.
question: Complete the next sentence:
How to make a halloween house
Halloween party is all about creating a mysterious, creepy, dark atmosphere.
An easy place to start is with lighting. This can be easily achieved by simply changing out your normal light bulbs for coloured ones.
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- Green and red seem to be the colours that work the best, blue looks a bit washed out. Black or purple bulbs are also great for spooky effects.
- Keep candles around to fill in any gaps with spooky light, and keep the coloured ones out of sight as best possible. You can also use rectangular outdoor lamps with or without a label on the side.
- Warm colored and smelling and casting around are the most effective ways to do this. For an alternative halloween house theme, try choosing some old spiders, spider webs and black pipe cleaners to provide an operable, ghosts-like look.
- This will cause brighter and bolder lighting, but may not be noticeable to all of your family members. Before making a new white color all over the house, cut large circles out of white paper to maintain balance, and place the circles with candles.
answer: Green and red seem to be the colours that work the best, blue looks a bit washed out. Black or purple bulbs are also great for spooky effects.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to move to mexico
Ask yourself why you want to move to mexico specifically.
Moving to a new country is a big decision not to be taken lightly. Whether you're moving there for work, love, or simply a change of pace, take time to clarify your reasons for wanting to move, including how the move will help you reach your life goals.
OPTIONS:
- Staying in this country should appeal to you as much as it will help your marriage. Do not settle for less luxuries.
- You may find it useful to write your thoughts down in a journal. Decide which city/region you'd most like to live in.
- Meet with your significant other in your current country to assess whether or not you are willing to move to mexico one-on-one. Talk with your decision team about what they think of mexico and the climate.
- Ultimately, as you make the decision, you want to make sure all the considerations align with both your own and your new country's. Set aside specific time and place to move..
Next sentence: You may find it useful to write your thoughts down in a journal. Decide which city/region you'd most like to live in.
context: How to unbrick the htc one x
Verify that your htc one x is fully charged.
A full charge will help ensure that your device will not power down at any point during the reset process and cause further complications.
Back up all personal data, if possible.
OPTIONS:
- This includes your travel data, company names and any personal websites you use. Your privacy settings will be set to keep this as unrestricted as possible.
- Deleting or disabling your personal data may end up leaving your htc one x corrupted. Updating your htc one x will remove data that is not necessary, giving you a more powerful anti-malware installation.
- Your htc one x access cannot be set to " top " or " bottom " when you're using it as a driver. In order to avoid any unauthorized browsing, it is always wise to place all personal data back into your driver cache and secure it with data that is one folder's worth.
- A hard reset will wipe and erase all data from the memory of your device. Sync your personal information with google's servers, or connect your htc one x to your computer using a usb cable so you can transfer personal data to your computer.
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next sentence for the context: A hard reset will wipe and erase all data from the memory of your device. Sync your personal information with google's servers, or connect your htc one x to your computer using a usb cable so you can transfer personal data to your computer.
IN: What happens next?
How to win your ex boyfriend back (for teen girls )
Try to think of reasons why you broke up.
Maybe you're too clingy? Maybe you're demanding? You should have a talk with him and discuss these problems. If you did something bad, just, it will help the friendship.
OPTIONS:
- Also, try to think of reasons why you want him back. Also, if you're the one who broke up with him and you want him back, think of why you broke up with him in the first place and try to fix that.
- If he says no then you've broken up because you're afraid to stand up for yourself. If your significant other says yes then you definitely screwed up and you are in trouble.
- Just make sure you can think of some good reasons why you broke up with him. Maybe he got out of a bad habit that's causing fighting and or didn't take you back quickly enough.
- Good reasons for breaking up, however, include : You're in high school? You've held off on your boyfriend for a very long time, if he's still hanging around you. You think he's going to change his mind about you.
OUT: Also, try to think of reasons why you want him back. Also, if you're the one who broke up with him and you want him back, think of why you broke up with him in the first place and try to fix that.
question: Complete the next sentence:
A young lady explains how to put makeup on the eye lid using a brush. the young lady
OPTIONS:
- then puts mascara, mascara and lipstick on her eyelids using a mascara but with a shade in between.
- then paints contact lenses in her contacts while talking about them and speaking on the phone.
- use an eyeliner to paint the border of the top lid.
- uses a brush to apply shapes to her eyes that begin with a clear clear shades.
answer: | use an eyeliner to paint the border of the top lid. |
IN: What happens next?
How to shorten probation
Find your state law.
If your state allows probation to be shortened, then there should be a law to that effect. You will want to see what requirements are listed in the law.
OPTIONS:
- Some rules may include : For example, california has a minimum of six, non-exclusive probation periods. ( you can limit it by 10 to 30 days.
- For example, some states will only allow probation to be shortened for certain crimes but not others. In texas, for instance, you cannot shorten probation if you were convicted of a sex offense or of driving while intoxicated.
- In some states, a great deal of the law states that the probation has to be shortened after seven years since the person decided to stop using the substance. For example, every state has a written rule on drug rehabilitation and charges at once.
- The laws of your state may differ depending on the law you want to follow. In some states you can only shorten probation by asking the court to turn off or reversing the words that you use in the sentence.
OUT: For example, some states will only allow probation to be shortened for certain crimes but not others. In texas, for instance, you cannot shorten probation if you were convicted of a sex offense or of driving while intoxicated.
IN: What happens next?
Man wearing black pole vaults in hot weather. A frenchman pole vaults in hot weather. renaud
OPTIONS:
- beret is rafting near a river.
- goes for another exciting pole vault.
- is standing on the rope in javelin performing javelin vault at plaza de la barcelona ".
- churchill goes rafting in the river and pole vaults on raging seas before it occurs.
OUT: goes for another exciting pole vault.
IN: What happens next?
How to exercise when you have a cold
Check where your symptoms are.
When you have a cold, there are only certain symptoms with which you can exercise. If your symptoms only affect parts of your body above your neck, you are safe to work out.
OPTIONS:
- Keep in mind that only those symptoms may be combined with your cold symptoms. If your symptoms are clear to you, they are generally normal.
- To test whether your symptoms are normal, check : Your temperature. If you feel completely numb, look under or around your neck for a temperature monitor.
- But if they affect your heart and lungs, you may not be safe to exercise. Wear a scarf when you go outside to check for cold.
- Working out may actually help open your nasal passages. If your cold symptoms affect any body part below the neck, you should not exercise and instead rest.
OUT: | Working out may actually help open your nasal passages. If your cold symptoms affect any body part below the neck, you should not exercise and instead rest. |
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: According to the theory of relativity, no information can travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum, but this does not mean that the refractive index cannot be lower than 1. The refractive index measures the phase velocity of light, which does not carry information. The phase velocity is the speed at which the crests of the wave move and can be faster than the speed of light in vacuum, and thereby give a refractive index below 1. This can occur close to resonance frequencies, for absorbing media, in plasmas, and for X-rays. In the X-ray regime the refractive indices are lower than but very close to 1 (exceptions close to some resonance frequencies). As an example, water has a refractive index of 6999999999740000000♠0.99999974 = 1 − 6993260000000000000♠2.6×10 for X-ray radiation at a photon energy of 6985480652946099999♠30 keV (0.04 nm wavelength).
A: | can a refractive index be less than 1? |
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