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How to rip content protected cds without using the bundled software<br>You need to disable autorun. Do this by running regedit. Exe (press start, run, type regedit, press enter). In the registry editor, navigate to hkey _ local _ machine \ system \ currentcontrolset \ services \ cdrom.
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Do this by running by running the windows. "?
Pick from:
i. Yes.
ii. It's impossible to say.
iii. No.
I think the answer is | iii. |
Q: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
What team did Shaq Thompson play for?, Context: Denver took the opening kickoff and started out strong with Peyton Manning completing an 18-yard pass to tight end Owen Daniels and a 22-yard throw to receiver Andre Caldwell. A pair of carries by C. J. Anderson moved the ball up 20 yards to the Panthers 14-yard line, but Carolina's defense dug in over the next three plays. First, linebacker Shaq Thompson tackled Ronnie Hillman for a 3-yard loss. Then after an incompletion, Thomas Davis tackled Anderson for a 1-yard gain on third down, forcing Denver to settle for a 3–0 lead on a Brandon McManus 34-yard field goal. The score marked the first time in the entire postseason that Carolina was facing a deficit.
A: | Carolina |
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In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
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It originally referred to an oath taken by jurors to tell the truth .
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It originally referred to an oath taken by jurors to tell the truth , i.e. , to say what is true , what is objectively accurate or subjectively honest , or both .
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Indonesia 's sea-lane position helped international trade .
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The country 's strategic sea-lane position fostered inter-island and international trade ; trade has since fundamentally shaped Indonesian history .
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It also refers to the time when fish are caught in wild fisheries or harvested from aquaculture or fish farming .
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| Although the term refers specifically to fish , in practice it is extended to cover any aquatic organisms harvested for commercial purposes , whether caught in wild fisheries or harvested from aquaculture or fish farming .
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How to enable floating windows in android
Download the installer.
First you've have to get the framework installer, which you can find in the xposed module repository site ().
Install the.
Before you can install the framework, you have to make sure that " unknown sources " is checked in settings] security] device administration. This enables installing third-party application not found in the google play store.
A helicopter is seen driving over an ocean where people are seen surfing. several shots
are shown of people riding along the water and others sitting.
How to ask a certain book publishing company to publish an amazon kindle ebook (on amazon )
Know which companies will take the requests from the amazon webpage.
Only some companies do, and it's remarkable which ones won't. Among these companies include hachette, harpercollins, simon & schuster, penguin or macmillan.
There are more in this list, but you'll have to be vigilant to find the publishers that do. Visit the amazon website in your web browser.
Two people are dancing on a dance floor. People are sitting and standing on the sidelines watching them dance. they
| continue to dance on the dance floor. |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
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 Strangers: Prey at Night is a 2018 American slasher film directed by Johannes Roberts and starring Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, Bailee Madison and Lewis Pullman. A sequel to the 2008 film The Strangers, it is written by Bryan Bertino (who wrote and directed the first film) and Ben Ketai. Mike and his wife Cindy take their son and daughter on a road trip that becomes their worst nightmare. The family members soon find themselves in a desperate fight for survival when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park that's mysteriously deserted -- until three masked psychopaths show up to satisfy their thirst for blood.
Answer: | is the strangers prey at night a sequel? |
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 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>Who was, at points, both considered semi-divine but also a counter-revolutionary force?<sep>Kâung Fu-tzu | 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 the name for features that stick up out of the surface of a continental glacier?, Context: Glacial bodies larger than 50,000 km2 (19,000 sq mi) are called ice sheets or continental glaciers. Several kilometers deep, they obscure the underlying topography. Only nunataks protrude from their surfaces. The only extant ice sheets are the two that cover most of Antarctica and Greenland. They contain vast quantities of fresh water, enough that if both melted, global sea levels would rise by over 70 m (230 ft). Portions of an ice sheet or cap that extend into water are called ice shelves; they tend to be thin with limited slopes and reduced velocities. Narrow, fast-moving sections of an ice sheet are called ice streams. In Antarctica, many ice streams drain into large ice shelves. Some drain directly into the sea, often with an ice tongue, like Mertz Glacier.
Output: | nunataks |
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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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Which was painted later, Amorpha-Fugue a deux couleurs or Contrasts of Forms?, Context: The most extreme forms of Cubism were not those practiced by Picasso and Braque, who resisted total abstraction. Other Cubists, by contrast, especially František Kupka, and those considered Orphists by Apollinaire (Delaunay, Léger, Picabia and Duchamp), accepted abstraction by removing visible subject matter entirely. Kupka’s two entries at the 1912 Salon d'Automne, Amorpha-Fugue à deux couleurs and Amorpha chromatique chaude, were highly abstract (or nonrepresentational) and metaphysical in orientation. Both Duchamp in 1912 and Picabia from 1912 to 1914 developed an expressive and allusive abstraction dedicated to complex emotional and sexual themes. Beginning in 1912 Delaunay painted a series of paintings entitled Simultaneous Windows, followed by a series entitled Formes Circulaires, in which he combined planar structures with bright prismatic hues; based on the optical characteristics of juxtaposed colors his departure from reality in the depiction of imagery was quasi-complete. In 1913–14 Léger produced a series entitled Contrasts of Forms, giving a similar stress to color, line and form. His Cubism, despite its abstract qualities, was associated with themes of mechanization and modern life. Apollinaire supported these early developments of abstract Cubism in Les Peintres cubistes (1913), writing of a new "pure" painting in which the subject was vacated. But in spite of his use of the term Orphism these works were so different that they defy attempts to place them in a single category.
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Contrasts of Forms
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what is the memory viewing a bunch of at the end?, Context: A computer's memory can be viewed as a list of cells into which numbers can be placed or read. Each cell has a numbered "address" and can store a single number. The computer can be instructed to "put the number 123 into the cell numbered 1357" or to "add the number that is in cell 1357 to the number that is in cell 2468 and put the answer into cell 1595." The information stored in memory may represent practically anything. Letters, numbers, even computer instructions can be placed into memory with equal ease. Since the CPU does not differentiate between different types of information, it is the software's responsibility to give significance to what the memory sees as nothing but a series of numbers.
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numbers
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Where was the largest elemental copper found?, Context: Copper is synthesized in massive stars and is present in the Earth's crust at a concentration of about 50 parts per million (ppm), where it occurs as native copper or in minerals such as the copper sulfides chalcopyrite and chalcocite, the copper carbonates azurite and malachite, and the copper(I) oxide mineral cuprite. The largest mass of elemental copper discovered weighed 420 tonnes and was found in 1857 on the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan, US. Native copper is a polycrystal, with the largest described single crystal measuring 4.4×3.2×3.2 cm.
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| Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan
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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".
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An appeal to popularity , also called argumentum ad populum ( Latin for " appeal to the people " ) , is a logical fallacy .
Answer: | In argumentation theory , an argumentum ad populum ( Latin for " argument to the people " ) is a fallacious argument that concludes that a proposition must be true because many or most people believe it , often concisely encapsulated as : " If many believe so , it is so . " |
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: Gaslighting is a type of psychological abuse where somebody uses lies or tricks to make another person doubt their memory and mental health .
Student: | Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group , making them question their own memory , perception , and sanity . |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
What led to the result that observers in relative motion measure different elapsed times?, Context: In non-relativistic classical mechanics, Newton's concept of "relative, apparent, and common time" can be used in the formulation of a prescription for the synchronization of clocks. Events seen by two different observers in motion relative to each other produce a mathematical concept of time that works sufficiently well for describing the everyday phenomena of most people's experience. In the late nineteenth century, physicists encountered problems with the classical understanding of time, in connection with the behavior of electricity and magnetism. Einstein resolved these problems by invoking a method of synchronizing clocks using the constant, finite speed of light as the maximum signal velocity. This led directly to the result that observers in motion relative to one another measure different elapsed times for the same event.
a method of synchronizing clocks
What controlling entity might the low countries been afraid of?, Context: In 1579 a number of the northern provinces of the Low Countries signed the Union of Utrecht, in which they promised to support each other in their defence against the Spanish army. This was followed in 1581 by the Act of Abjuration, the declaration of independence of the provinces from Philip II.
provinces from Philip II
What did Luther say he was engrossed in?, Context: Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, one of 12 nuns he had helped escape from the Nimbschen Cistercian convent in April 1523, when he arranged for them to be smuggled out in herring barrels. "Suddenly, and while I was occupied with far different thoughts," he wrote to Wenceslaus Link, "the Lord has plunged me into marriage." At the time of their marriage, Katharina was 26 years old and Luther was 41 years old.
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Teacher: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Solution: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Reason: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Now, solve this instance: Cruel and unusual punishment is punishment that causes severe suffering , pain , or humiliation .
Student: | Cruel and unusual punishment is a phrase describing punishment that is considered unacceptable due to the suffering , pain , or humiliation it inflicts on the person subjected to it . |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Example Input: This week, we've been treated to the increasingly familiar sight of former NBA star and provocateur Dennis Rodman attending events in Pyongyang, North Korea. It's his fourth trip in less than 12 months. On Tuesday, an angry Rodman defended his visit in a CNN interview straight from Pyongyang, at one point saying to "New Day" anchor Chris Cuomo, "I don't give a rat's ass what the hell you think ..." in response to question about Kenneth Bae, an American detained in North Korea. When will we tire of this circus? In case you don't watch cable news, you might miss that the media really loves this kind of thing. No story about North Korea is too weird to go unreported, even if there is no real information to disseminate. Recall the recent rumor that Kim Jong Un's uncle was executed by being fed to hungry dogs, which most likely was started as satire on Chinese social media but was at first reported widely in the media (CNN was unable to confirm and did not report the story). In media discourse, North Korea is the classic enemy. The regime's injustices, quirks and dysfunctions are reassuring to Americans that their own country is just the opposite: Normal, well-functioning, a land of peace and liberty. But add in Rodman to the North Korea story, and it's bound to produce eye-popping headlines: The Weird American Athlete Goes to Weird Country story is just too easy not to cover. Rodman himself seems to be thriving on finding a strange smidgen of relevance through his visits to North Korea (and perhaps a Paddy Power paycheck). Though often described as quite shy, he has always enjoyed challenging the values of Middle America. North Korea is providing him a new avenue to be in the spotlight. The most passive player in this tragicomedy is Rodman's home country, the United States. The U.S. State Department has deployed the rhetorical equivalent of an embarrassed teenager whose dad has shown up to dance at his prom. Something along the lines of "this has nothing to do with us" is what the State Department has said with every one of Rodman's trip. Last winter,the State Department criticized Rodman's timing as it followed a nuclear test and rocket launch. <sep>What makes the story of Rodman in North Korea notable?<sep>His odd hair color attracts attention
Example Output: No
Example Input: Adrienne Saunders is happily married to her art dealer husband , Jack . They have a daughter named Mary . Adrienne hears from a friend that she thought she saw Jack in town when he claimed to be on an out of town business trip . Adrienne confronts him , but he denies being in town , and their lives continue . Soon after a museum curator is mysteriously murdered , and a relic that Jack bought for the museum is revealed to be a fake . Jack is placed under suspicion , and then Adrienne receives word from the police that Jack perished in a car accident . In trying to wrap up Jack 's affairs , Adrienne begins to suspect that her husband had switched identities with a high school classmate , Frank Sullivan . When she sees a high school yearbook picture of her husband attributed to Sullivan , she is convinced . She tracks down a relative of Saunders , who confirms that Frank and Jack were inseparable in high school . After Jack died , the relative never saw Frank again . She explained that Frank 's father was an alcoholic and that his mother worked as a toll booth operator . She directs Adrienne to Frank 's mother , who lives in a rundown apartment in Brooklyn . Frank 's mother bitterly receives the news that she has a granddaughter , telling Adrienne that Frank was always selfish and that he never looked in on her . A stalker lurks at Adrienne 's loft . He comes in to Adrienne 's bed while she is asleep and caresses her . He watches Mary , who is spooked by the man in her room at night . <sep>What happened to Jack?<sep>Jack is in car accident
Example Output: Yes
Example Input: At 8:38, Ong told Gonzalez that the plane was flying erratically again. Around this time Sweeney told Woodward that the hijackers were Middle Easterners, naming three of their seat numbers. One spoke very little English and one spoke excellent English. The hijackers had gained entry to the cockpit, and she did not know how. The aircraft was in a rapid descent. At 8:41, Sweeney told Woodward that passengers in coach were under the impression that there was a routine medical emergency in first class. Other flight attendants were busy at duties such as getting medical supplies while Ong and Sweeney were reporting the events. At 8:41, in American's operations center, a colleague told Marquis that the air traffic controllers declared Flight 11 a hijacking and "think he's [American 11] headed toward Kennedy [airport in New York City]. They're moving everybody out of the way. They seem to have him on a primary radar. They seem to think that he is descending." At 8:44, Gonzalez reported losing phone contact with Ong. About this same time Sweeney reported to Woodward, "Something is wrong. We are in a rapid descent . we are all over the place." Woodward asked Sweeney to look out the window to see if she could determine where they were. <sep>At what time did Sweeney tell Woodward that the hijackers were Middle Easterners, naming three of their seat numbers.<sep>8:38
Example Output: | Yes
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Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: Street vending is an example of a what job?, Context: Like the rest of India, Hyderabad has a large informal economy that employs 30% of the labour force.:71 According to a survey published in 2007, it had 40–50,000 street vendors, and their numbers were increasing.:9 Among the street vendors, 84% are male and 16% female,:12 and four fifths are "stationary vendors" operating from a fixed pitch, often with their own stall.:15–16 Most are financed through personal savings; only 8% borrow from moneylenders.:19 Vendor earnings vary from ₹50 (74¢ US) to ₹800 (US$12) per day.:25 Other unorganised economic sectors include dairy, poultry farming, brick manufacturing, casual labour and domestic help. Those involved in the informal economy constitute a major portion of urban poor.:71
A: | informal |
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 more intense, concern or terror?, Context: Emotions have been described by some theorists as discrete and consistent responses to internal or external events which have a particular significance for the organism. Emotions are brief in duration and consist of a coordinated set of responses, which may include verbal, physiological, behavioural, and neural mechanisms. Psychotherapist Michael C. Graham describes all emotions as existing on a continuum of intensity. Thus fear might range from mild concern to terror or shame might range from simple embarrassment to toxic shame. Emotions have also been described as biologically given and a result of evolution because they provided good solutions to ancient and recurring problems that faced our ancestors. Moods are feelings that tend to be less intense than emotions and that often lack a contextual stimulus. | terror |
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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.
(CNN) Ted Cruz formally named Carly Fiorina as his vice presidential running mate Wednesday -- a last-ditch move to regain momentum after being mathematically eliminated from winning the GOP presidential nomination outright.
"After a great deal of consideration and prayer, I have come to the conclusion that if I am nominated to be president of the United States that I will run on a ticket with my vice presidential nominee Carly Fiorina," Cruz said during a rally in Indianapolis.
Fiorina joined the Texas senator on stage, and Cruz's staff changed the podium in between Cruz and Fiorina's remarks to display a new logo featuring both their names.
"Ted could not be more right in what he said: There is a lot at stake, and in fact, this is a fight, this is a fight for the soul of our party and the future of our nation," Fiorina said. "I've had tough fights all my life. Tough fights don't worry me a bit."
Fiorina told CNN in an interview the "real formal final conversation" between the two of them regarding the vice presidential decision happened Tuesday.
"Everything about this campaign, everything about this election, is unprecedented," Fiorina said. "Let's face it, these are unprecedented times, we face unprecedented challenges and dangers. I think this is a confident leader who knows what he wants to do for this nation and who wants the nation to understand who he is, what he believes and who he wants by his side to fight this fight on behalf of the American people."
Cruz is trying to recapture the narrative and keep himself relevant after Trump seized momentum in the 2016 race with a sweep of all five East Coast states on Tuesday, which puts him closer to having enough delegates to win the Republican nomination. The unusual move from the Cruz campaign also comes just hours after the billionaire businessman, who is trying to look like the presumptive nominee, gave a high-profile scripted speech on foreign policy.
Indiana votes Tuesday in the next GOP contest. Cruz must have a strong showing in the Hoosier State to help block Trump from securing the 1,237 delegates necessary to win the nomination, and keep alive his hopes of a contested Republican National Convention
During her remarks Wednesday, Fiorina described how she had grown close to the Cruz family since endorsing his presidential bid, including singing a few bars from an original song describing her affection for Cruz's daughters.
"I have watched Ted and Heidi: They are partners, they're a couple that rely on each other," Fiorina said.
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Trump responded to the news of Fiorina's selection in typical fashion -- using a tweet, which featured a clip of Fiorina criticizing Cruz on CNN earlier this year.
"Ted Cruz is just like any other politician; he says whatever he needs to say to get elected," Fiorina says in the four-second clip. Trump's tweet included the caption, "Agreed!"
Trump later called the pick "a desperate attempt to save a failing campaign by an all talk, no action politician."
"The people of Indiana are very smart -- they will see through this just like they saw through the already failed Kasich alliance," Trump said in a statement. "Cruz has no path to victory -- he is only trying to stay relevant."
Fiorina built her ill-fated presidential bid around her business experience as former president of Hewlett-Packard, a company she led from 1999 to 2005. She also ran for Senate in California in 2010 against Democrat Barbara Boxer. But during her tenure at HP, she led a divisive merger with Compaq and criticism of her leadership of the company was a key focus of Boxer's effective campaign against Fiorina.
Fiorina frequently sparred with Trump during the primary. Trump was quoted in a Rolling Stone profile as complaining about Fiorina's looks when she appeared on the television he was watching, saying, "Look at that face!"
Trump later argued he was referring to her "persona."
She turned the attack into an asset, calmly responding to Trump during a CNN Republican debate, that she believed "every woman" in America knew what Trump was referring to in his Rolling Stone comments.
Cruz referenced the incident during his comments Wednesday.
"I have seen her day in, day out, on the campaign bus, going from stop to stop to stop that she is careful, she is measured, she is serious, she doesn't get overly excited, she doesn't get rattled by whatever is thrown at her," Cruz said. "And you know, we all saw that when in one of the earliest debates, Carly confronted Donald Trump, a man who in his characteristic understatement said of her: 'Look at that face.'"
Fiorina revived her attack of Trump in her interview with CNN, referencing comments the billionaire said Tuesday night claiming Hillary Clinton would not be doing as well if she were not a woman.
"Look, I disagree with Hillary Clinton on every issue," Fiorina said. "That is why she cannot be president of the United States. I am very proud to be a woman. But I would never ask people to vote for me because I'm a woman. Ted Cruz didn't pick me because I'm a woman, Ted Cruz picked me because I'm a capable individual. Donald Trump's comments on women are frequently things I find either irrelevant or offensive."
Typically, candidates do not name vice presidential picks until after they are the presumptive nominee and soon before the convention. But Cruz is pinning his hopes on a contested GOP convention -- and after a disastrous two weeks of Northeast contests where Cruz netted just five delegates.
Fiorina also spent much of her time on the trail attacking Democratic front-runner Clinton, drawing a contrast with the former secretary of state as the only woman on the Republican side. Cruz has highlighted that tactic on the trail with Fiorina, saying Clinton would be terrified of Fiorina.
Vice presidential speculation heated up this week after Cruz confirmed his campaign was vetting Fiorina as a running mate. Fiorina is well-liked by Cruz's staff and has campaigned with him more than any other surrogate, and has spoken for him with reporters. ||||| poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201604/1213/1155968404_4866139893001_4866010817001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" true Cruz names Fiorina as VP running mate Hoping to kickstart his campaign after a string of demoralizing losses to Trump, the senator is tapping a former rival turned loyal campaign surrogate.
Ted Cruz announced Wednesday that Carly Fiorina will be his vice presidential nominee if he’s the Republican Party’s pick for president.
If nominated, "I will run on a ticket with my vice-presidential nominee, Carly Fiorina," the Texas senator said at an Indiana rally before the crowd began chanting "Carly."
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The two appeared together in an hour-long event in Indianapolis, with Cruz alternating between lauding Fiorina and maintaining that he has a path forward in the race despite suffering a series of losses over the last two weeks. Fiorina, who followed Cruz, shared stories about her own background and about Cruz, and even sang to his two young daughters from the stage, as she also railed against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Fiorina, a former Hewlett-Packard CEO, has been among Cruz’s most loyal and active surrogates since she ended her own 2016 GOP presidential bid after a poor finish in New Hampshire in February.
"This is a fight worth having," Fiorina said. "This is a fight worth winning. With your help, we will win this fight."
The announcement, which was teased early Wednesday morning, comes the day after Cruz suffered a drubbing at the hands of Trump in five northeastern primaries — losses that mathematically eliminated Cruz from getting the 1,237 delegates he’d need to clinch the GOP nomination.
"I'm not getting to 1,237 delegates, and Donald J. Trump is not getting to 1,237 delegates," Cruz said. "And the Hoosier state is going to have a powerful voice in making that clear."
Cruz’s hopes now rest in a contested convention this summer in Cleveland, where the Texas senator would hope to stop Trump on the first ballot and then win in subsequent rounds of voting thanks to support from the loyal delegates his campaign has assiduously courted.
Fiorina will work with Cruz, she said, "to restore the soul of our party, to defeat Donald Trump, to defeat Hillary Clinton and to take our country back."
The Cruz campaign deliberated over whether to pick Fiorina for the last two weeks, according to one person familiar with the move. It has polled the potential ticket, examining it for its prospective strengths and weaknesses.
The hope within the campaign is that Fiorina will help Cruz in California, which will award 172 delegates on June 7. Fiorina is scheduled to give the keynote address at this weekend’s California Republican Party convention, speaking hours after Cruz takes the stage.
She delivered a wide-ranging speech on Wednesday that highlighted Cruz's embrace of conservative principles and of the Constitution, but she also aimed to highlight a softer side of Cruz, describing time spent on the campaign bus with him and noting how much his daughters "adore their dad." She sang several bars of a song to his daughters
"I know two girls that I just adore," Fiorina sang. "I'm so happy I can see them more. 'Cause we travel on the bus all day...we get to play."
The move to bring Fiorina on board comes at a time of growing desperation within Cruz circles. Some in the campaign worry that the Texas senator will lose Indiana on Tuesday and lose other key states in May, paving the way for a Trump nomination.
Cruz is campaigning fervently this week in Indiana, where primary rules award the winner most of the state’s 57 delegates. With Trump’s victories Tuesday night, and with most of Pennsylvania’s 54 unbound delegates leaning in Trump’s direction, Cruz needs success in Indiana and California if he has any hope of stopping Trump.
The most recent Indiana polls show Trump polling around 40 percent, between 5 and 8 percentage points ahead of Cruz. Those polls were conducted before Ohio Gov. John Kasich — who’s polling around 20 percent in the state — announced that he would no longer actively campaign in Indiana, in exchange for Cruz agreeing to no longer actively campaign in Oregon and New Mexico.
Kyle Cheney and Patrick Reis contributed.
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Output: | Ted Cruz's big 4pm announcement? As sources told Politico in advance that he would, he named Carly Fiorina as his vice presidential running mate. "After a great deal of consideration and prayer, I have come to the conclusion that if I am nominated to be president of the United States that I will run on a ticket with my vice presidential nominee Carly Fiorina," Cruz said, per CNN. Politico calls Fiorina one of "Cruz's most loyal and active surrogates" since she ended her own presidential bid. Cruz made the announcement in Indiana, where he's campaigning this week in advance of Tuesday's primary. |
How to identify and care for lionhead goldfish<br>Check the fish you are preparing to buy, or if it is already in your tank, observe it. Lionhead goldfish have the following as physical traits : [substeps] Lionhead goldfish completely lack a stabilizing dorsal fin. If your fish has a dorsal fin, it is most certainly not a lionhead.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
Lionhead fish do not possess dorsal fins | Yes |
What happens next?
How to remove hair removal wax from the carpet
Don't put water on the wax.
Water will only make it worse. It will keep the wax from drying and allow it to sink deeper into the carpet fibers.
Choose your answer from: [i] Put some ice cubes in a plastic bag. You will use these to cool the ice but you want to make sure you don't get the wax wet.; [ii] You can use white vinegar to do this. Even the most very stubborn wax has spots in it that you will have to scrub away with paper towels.; [iii] Be sure to wipe with a warm, but not soapy, spot that you can clean in 1 hour. Water can cause a mess and make it much harder to remove.; [iv] If you do this, the wax will probably be crushed underneath, which will stain your carpet. If you have trouble removing hair wax from the carpet yourself, it may be a good idea to hire a hair cleaning company to help you with this portion of the process.; | [i] |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
One example: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Solution is here: 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".
Now, solve this: Sandalwood encompasses movies made in the Indian state of Karnataka .
Solution: | Kannada cinema , also known as Chandanavana or Sandalwood , is the Indian film industry based in the state of Karnataka where motion pictures are produced in the Kannada language . |
NEW YORK (AP) – Naomi Osaka won the U.S. Open to become the first Grand Slam champion from Japan, beating Serena Williams 6-2, 6-4 after the American was penalized one game for a third code violation. Williams was given three code violations by chair umpire Carlos Ramos, the third leading to an automatic loss of a game in the second set. This is a developing story and will be updated. (© Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
osaka was the first Grand Slam champion from Japan
A: Yes
I think that we have to put more emphasis on early learning and pre-school. Now, here is how that connects with all the rest of what we've been talking about. If you have -- if you squander the surplus on a huge tax cut that goes mostly to those at the top, then you can't make education the top priority.
If you squander the surplus on a huge tax cut then you can make education the top priority.
A: No
Tsunetane Oda (小田常胤 , Oda Tsunetane , March 10, 1892 – February 11, 1955) was a judoka who was influential in the development of Kosen judo. His correct name was Join Oda, but through a misinterpretation of the kanji 常胤 he is more commonly known as Tsunetane.
He dropped out of high school
A: | It's impossible to say |
Q: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Are angiosperms C3 or C4 plants?, Context: Some chloroplasts contain a structure called the chloroplast peripheral reticulum. It is often found in the chloroplasts of C4 plants, though it has also been found in some C3 angiosperms, and even some gymnosperms. The chloroplast peripheral reticulum consists of a maze of membranous tubes and vesicles continuous with the inner chloroplast membrane that extends into the internal stromal fluid of the chloroplast. Its purpose is thought to be to increase the chloroplast's surface area for cross-membrane transport between its stroma and the cell cytoplasm. The small vesicles sometimes observed may serve as transport vesicles to shuttle stuff between the thylakoids and intermembrane space.
A: | C3 |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
--------
Question: what type of string is mentioned third to last?, Context: Samuel Adelstein described the Lombardi mandolin in 1893 as wider and shorter than the Neapolitan mandolin, with a shallower back and a shorter and wider neck, with six single strings to the regular mandolin's set of 4. The Lombardi was tuned C, D, A, E, B, G. The strings were fastened to the bridge like a guitar's. There were 20 frets, covering three octaves, with an additional 5 notes. When Adelstein wrote, there were no nylon strings, and the gut and single strings "do not vibrate so clearly and sweetly as the double steel string of the Neapolitan."
Answer: gut
Question: Who, between Mary and Aquinas, was NOT Doctor Angelicus in 1567?, Context: Popular opinion remained firmly behind the celebration of Mary's conception. In 1439, the Council of Basel, which is not reckoned an ecumenical council, stated that belief in the immaculate conception of Mary is in accord with the Catholic faith. By the end of the 15th century the belief was widely professed and taught in many theological faculties, but such was the influence of the Dominicans, and the weight of the arguments of Thomas Aquinas (who had been canonised in 1323 and declared "Doctor Angelicus" of the Church in 1567) that the Council of Trent (1545–63)—which might have been expected to affirm the doctrine—instead declined to take a position.
Answer: Mary
Question: What kind of representation does Puerto Rico have in Congress?, Context: Since 1898, Puerto Rico has had limited representation in the Congress in the form of a Resident Commissioner, a nonvoting delegate. The 110th Congress returned the Commissioner's power to vote in the Committee of the Whole, but not on matters where the vote would represent a decisive participation. Puerto Rico has elections on the United States presidential primary or caucus of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party to select delegates to the respective parties' national conventions although presidential electors are not granted on the Electoral College. As American citizens, Puerto Ricans can vote in U.S. presidential elections, provided they reside in one of the 50 states or the District of Columbia and not in Puerto Rico itself.
Answer: | a Resident Commissioner
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Part 1. Definition
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Part 2. 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.
Answer: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Part 3. Exercise
Baby back ribs (also back ribs or loin ribs) are taken from the top of the rib cage between the spine and the spare ribs, below the loin muscle. They have meat between the bones and on top of the bones, and are shorter, curved, and sometimes meatier than spare ribs. The rack is shorter at one end, due to the natural tapering of a pig's rib cage. The shortest bones are typically only about 3 in (7.6 cm) and the longest is usually about 6 in (15 cm), depending on the size of the hog. A pig side has 15 to 16 ribs (depending on the breed), but usually two or three are left on the shoulder when it is separated from the loin. So, a rack of back ribs contains a minimum of eight ribs (some may be trimmed if damaged), but can include up to 13 ribs, depending on how it has been prepared by the butcher. A typical commercial rack has 10--13 bones. If fewer than 10 bones are present, butchers call them ``cheater racks''.
Answer: | are pork back ribs same as baby back? |
Write the next sentence in the following story.
How to use raspberry leaf tea during pregnancy
Consult your doctor.
While many midwives believe drinking red raspberry leaf tea during pregnancy is safe, others do not think it's safe, so it's always best to consult your doctor before you start drinking the tea. For one, any kind of herbal tea or supplement can have interactions with other medications and conditions, so it's important your doctor knows about it. | She can tell whether it's safe to use. Limit the tea or don't drink it in the first trimester. |
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.
After its acquisition of satellite television service DirecTV, telephone giant AT&T Inc. might be setting its sights on an even bigger prize, Time Warner Inc.
Bloomberg News reported Thursday afternoon that AT&T and Time Warner executives have engaged in preliminary talks about a potential merger or other partnerships.
Time Warner shares jumped on news of the talks, closing up $3.75, or 4.7%, to $82.99. The New York media company owns HBO, CNN, Cartoon Network, TBS and Hollywood’s largest film and TV studio, Warner Bros.
Representatives of AT&T and Time Warner declined to comment.
Such a combination would transform AT&T, based in Dallas, into a communications and entertainment colossus with multiple distribution outlets — including one of the nation’s largest mobile phone networks — and some of the most prestigious television channels in the business. Warner Bros. also has a rich library of characters, including DC Comics and such cartoon characters as Scooby-Doo and the Looney Tunes zoo, including Bugs Bunny and Sylvester the Cat.
In some ways, AT&T-Time Warner would resemble cable giant Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal — but AT&T would be even bigger with its mobile phone operations. AT&T already operates the nation’s largest pay-TV service with more than 25 million customers.
Like other telecommunications companies, AT&T has been eager to expand into the entertainment business as its mobile phone market matures. Owning content has become more valuable as more consumers, especially younger ones, watch entertainment on their phones.
AT&T completed its $49-billion acquisition of DirecTV, based in El Segundo, in July 2015. Later this year the company plans to roll out a streaming service of TV channels to compete with traditional TV operators.
AT&T has been working with an executive with considerable chops in Hollywood, former News Corp. President Peter Chernin, who now runs his own entertainment company. He and AT&T have partnered on several ventures, including Otter Media, suggesting that Chernin might play a role in the talks with Time Warner.
Such a massive merger, however, would probably trigger significant antitrust concerns. It would come during a changing of the guard in Washington and it’s unclear whether regulators within a Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton administration would consent to such a dramatic consolidation.
The discussions come two years after Time Warner warded off a hostile takeover bid from Rupert Murdoch and his sons at 21st Century Fox. That deal valued Time Warner at more than $75 billion, but it collapsed amid resistance from Chairman and Chief Executive Jeffrey Bewkes and Time Warner’s board. In addition, Fox investors got nervous about the acquisition, sending its shares down.
Time Warner is currently valued at $65 billion. AT&T’s market capitalization is $238 billion.
Time Warner, in recent years, has accelerated its push into digital media, launching HBO Now nearly 18 months ago. This summer, Time Warner took a 10% stake in the streaming service Hulu, which is owned by NBCUniversal, 21st Century Fox and Walt Disney.
AT&T shares closed down 73 cents, or 1.8%, to $38.65 in Thursday trading.
See the most-read stories in Entertainment this hour »
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This article was first published at 2:35 p.m. ||||| (Reuters) - Senior executives of telecommunications company AT&T; Inc (T.N) and media conglomerate Time Warner Inc TWX.N have discussed various business strategies including a possible merger in recent weeks, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing people it said were familiar with the matter.
An AT&T; Logo is pictured on the side of a building in Pasadena, California, January 26, 2015. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
A deal would be one of the largest in recent years in the sector as telecom companies make a land grab for media firms in order to get hold of valuable content.
Time Warner shares jumped 4.7 percent in regular trading and slightly extended gains after hours. AT&T; shares slipped 1.8 percent.
Neither side has yet hired a financial adviser, Bloomberg said. (bloom.bg/2enqBF9)
AT&T; and Time Warner declined to comment.
Time Warner is attractive because of its premium cable channel HBO, the CNN news network, film studio Warner Bros and other media assets.
AT&T;, which sells wireless phone and broadband services, may be looking to emulate cable company Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O), which acquired NBCUniversal and DreamWorks Animation in a bid to become a massive force that controls how television shows and movies are made and how they are delivered to viewers.
Owning more content gives cable and telecom companies more leverage as customers demand smaller, hand-picked cable offerings or are cutting the cord altogether and watching online.
AT&T; has already made moves to turn itself into a media powerhouse, buying satellite TV provider DIRECTV last year for $48.5 billion.
Time Warner Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes has not been willing to sell in the past. The company rejected an $80 billion offer from Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (FOXA.O) in 2014.
While Bewkes, 64, was not open to a deal two years ago, the pace of consolidation in the media sector may urge him to reconsider, especially as two competitors, Viacom Inc (VIAB.O) and CBS Corp (CBS.N) have been exploring a potential merger at the request of controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone.
Talk of a deal comes as another potential bidder, Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N), is busy with its purchase of internet company Yahoo Inc YHOO.O, which has been set back by news of a massive hacking breach into Yahoo customers’ email accounts.
Time Warner has a market value of about $65 billion. AT&T; has a market value of about $238 billion.
Any merger of that size in a sensitive market would get a close look from regulators, analysts said, but that would not necessarily derail a deal.
“Whoever the next president’s pick for the Federal Communications Commission is will have a significant say,” said Recon Analytics analyst Roger Entner.
Entner said Comcast’s purchase of NBCUniversal set a precedent and there is “a strong argument to say the FCC should approve” a deal between AT&T; and Time Warner. ||||| LISTEN TO ARTICLE 3:43 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Share Tweet Post Email
Senior executives at AT&T Inc. and Time Warner Inc. have met in recent weeks to discuss various business strategies including a possible merger, according to people familiar with the matter.
The talks, which at this stage are informal, have focused on building relations between the companies rather than establishing the terms of a specific transaction, the people said, asking not to be identified as the deliberations are private. Neither side has yet hired a financial adviser, the people said.
Acquiring Time Warner would give AT&T, one of the biggest providers of pay-TV and of wireless and home internet service in the U.S., a collection of popular programming to offer to subscribers, from HBO to NBA basketball to the Cartoon Network. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has been looking to add more content and original programming as part of his plan to transform the Dallas-based telecommunications company into a media and entertainment giant.
“There’s a lot that’s attractive about Time Warner,” media industry veteran Peter Chernin, who runs an online video joint venture with AT&T, said in an interview Thursday on CNBC. “I think they’re both great companies.” He said he didn’t know anything about a deal.
Time Warner Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bewkes is a willing seller if he gets an offer he thinks is fair, said one of the people. Bewkes and his board rejected an $85-a-share approach in 2014 from Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox Inc., which valued Time Warner at more than $75 billion.
For a Gadfly take on AT&T’s media ambitions, click here
Time Warner rose 4.7 percent to $82.99, valuing the company at about $64.5 billion. AT&T fell 1.9 percent to $38.65.
Representatives for AT&T and Time Warner declined to comment.
Telecom Powerhouse
Time Warner shares had gained about 23 percent this year through Wednesday, boosted by sales gains at both its HBO premium channel and Turner cable-TV unit. AT&T is up 12 percent in 2016, valuing the Dallas-based company at about $238 billion.
AT&T has transformed itself over the last decade from a regional phone company to a national telecommunications powerhouse. Its plan to focus on media and entertainment targets include companies worth $2 billion to $50 billion, people familiar with the plans said earlier this month.
Last year, AT&T paid $48.5 billion to acquire satellite-TV provider DirecTV, its biggest deal in at least 10 years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. AT&T has been developing an internet-based version of the pay-TV service, called DirecTV Now.
“With the pending launch of the DirecTV Now OTT app, it might make sense to move onto content ownership, but Time-Warner is an awfully big first step into the content world,” said John Butler, an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, in an e-mail.
The results are mixed with blockbuster deals that bring outsiders into the media industry. Comcast Corp. has had a largely successful run since acquiring control of NBCUniversal in 2009. But Time Warner itself had one of the most disastrous mergers of all time when it combined with America Online Inc. in 2000.
With $7.2 billion of cash on hand, AT&T doesn’t have enough firepower to make a big deal with cash alone. In the wake of the DirecTV purchase and the $18 billion it spent in the federal airwave auction last year, AT&T’s net debt was $120 billion at the end of June.
Moody’s Investors Service calculates the company’s adjusted leverage at 3.1 times earnings and says the company’s rating, three levels above junk, could be downgraded if it doesn’t stay on track to fall below 3 times.
— With assistance by Lucas Shaw, Gerry Smith, and Scott Moritz |||||
| A new communications behemoth may be emerging soon: Insiders tell Bloomberg that over the last few weeks, senior execs from AT&T and Time Warner have been discussing strategies including a possible merger. Reuters notes that telecom companies like AT&T have been making a "land grab" for media companies in recent years, and a merger would give AT&T assets including HBO, CNN, and Warner Bros. studios. The Los Angeles Times reports that Time Warner is valued at $65 billion and AT&T at $238 billion. A merger of the two would create an entity big enough to create major antitrust concerns, and it's not clear whether a Clinton or Trump administration would allow the deal. Time Warner shares jumped 4.7% after merger rumors surfaced Thursday, while AT&T shares fell 1.8%. (Verizon's deal to buy Yahoo has run into difficulties.) |
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.
The International Boxing Federation , or " IBF " , is one of many organizations which sanction world championship boxing bouts , alongside the WBA , WBC , WBO , and a dozen or so others .
A: | The International Boxing Federation ( IBF ) is one of four major organizations recognized by the International Boxing Hall of Fame ( IBHOF ) which sanction world championship boxing bouts , alongside the World Boxing Association ( WBA ) , World Boxing Council ( WBC ) and World Boxing Organization ( WBO ) . |
How to make a putt under pressure<br>Make sure you hit the green, preferably on the upslope as close to the hole as possible. You want to give yourself a make-able putt if a tournament is on the line. Aim towards the hole and try to hit your shot onto the upslope because they are easier putts to make opposed to downhill putts.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
The type of putter will make a difference in the putt.
Options are:
a). Yes.
b). It's impossible to say.
c). No. | b). |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Let me give you an example: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
The answer to this example can be: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Here is why: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
OK. solve this:
Righteousness (also called rectitude) is a theological concept in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. It is an attribute that implies that a person's actions are justified, and can have the connotation that the person has been 'judged' or 'reckoned' as leading a life that is pleasing to God.
Answer: | what is the definition of righteousness in the bible |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: Are ur Saturdays hectic like this!!! To do list located at search warrant in Cooby. #MurdochLPT3 ||||| Yes, the to do list was authentic, I don't think any of us here could make it up if we tried! # nosenseofhumour ||||| Some people have really stressful lives. So much so, they need to keep a list of what needs to be done each day.
This gets even more important if you like a toke of weed between dying your hair and eating your lunch.
Police in Murdoch, Western Australia, have posted a pot smoker's "to do" list on Twitter, saying it was located as they searched a property in Cooby on April 30. The list gives some insight into the mind of a stoner.
Are ur Saturdays hectic like this!!! To do list located at search warrant in Cooby. #MurdochLPT3 pic.twitter.com/KdpMbdEYMq — Murdoch Police (@MurdochPol) April 30, 2015
People were quick to respond, saying this list is proof that pot-smoking Australians are harmless creatures and the cops should let them just keep on puffing.
@MurdochPol This is proof stoners are dangerous, he should definitely be arrested! — Brndn (@Brandon0612) April 30, 2015
@MurdochPol At least you don't have to worry about that criminal mastermind anymore. — Texture (@iamtexture) April 30, 2015
@MurdochPol This is proof we need to legalise marijuana. If this is the MO of the average pot smoker we're all VERRRRRY safe !!! Awesome !!! — Boy from Oz (@boyfmoz) May 1, 2015
Police in Australia also use Facebook better than most regular citizens, and the latest example is no exception.
BONUS: Colorado's Farm-to-Table Marijuana ||||| POLICE have uncovered possibly one of the best insights into the mind of a pot smoker—a hilarious hand-written plan for their day.
Officers in Murdoch, Western Australia, uncovered the list as they raided a Perth home looking for clues about a suspected burglary.
It’s not clear if the officers found any evidence to press charges during the raid but did find a detailed plan of the resident’s intentions to get stoned.
Are ur Saturdays hectic like this!!! To do list located at search warrant in Cooby. #MurdochLPT3 pic.twitter.com/KdpMbdEYMq — Murdoch Police (@MurdochPol) April 30, 2015
The list, called “Things to do Saturday”, included such things as ‘go to bus stop’ and ‘go get lunch (chips and gravy).’
The tweet captioned ‘Are ur Saturdays hectic like this!!!!” prompted a swift response on social media.
“At least being stoned at home is less of a social nuisance than going out and getting trashed,” one Twitter user wrote.
“This is proof stoners are dangerous, he should definitely be arrested,” another added.
Murdoch Police came under fire from some local residents.
“No wonder our homes keep getting broken into. The Murdoch police are too busy embarrassing drug addicts on social media. Grow up.” ||||| Welcome to the Murdoch Police. If you need police assistance call 131444, if it’s an emergency call 000. Twitter is not monitored 24/7.
Murdoch, Western Australia |||||
A: | Police officers are people, too. And like us, they share their hilarious finds on Twitter. Take this example: Police in Murdoch, Western Australia, were executing a search warrant on a house in Perth, relating to a burglary investigation, when they uncovered a rather amusing to-do list, News.com.au reports. It described an individual's busy Saturday laid out with helpful reminders like "go to bus stop" and "go get lunch (chips and gravy)," per Mashable. The last two entries on the 10-item list, adding fuel to the idea that marijuana causes memory problems, were "go home and get a stick" and then "chop up and get stoned"—because, you know, sometimes you forget. Police tweeted a photo of the list, with the caption, "Are ur Saturdays hectic like this!!!" They followed that up with, "Yes, the to do list was authentic, I don't think any of us here could make it up if we tried! #nosenseofhumour." The witty replies flooded in. "At least he had realistic personal goals which he probably achieved," one user quipped. But not all social media users were as amused. "No wonder our homes keep getting broken into. The Murdoch police are too busy embarrassing drug addicts on social media. Grow up," another added, per News.com.au. (The list-writer joins a long tradition of misguided potheads.) |
Amelanchier ( ), also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry, or just sarvis, juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum or wild-plum, and chuckley pear is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the Rose family (Rosaceae).
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Amelanchier is the name of a scientific Family than contains the Genus called shadwood."?
Pick your answer from:
+Yes;
+It's impossible to say;
+No;
I think the answer is | No |
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".
When American 11 struck the World Trade Center at 8:46, no one in the White House or traveling with the President knew that it had been hijacked. While that information circulated within the FAA, we found no evidence that the hijacking was reported to any other agency in Washington before 8:46. Most federal agencies learned about the crash in New York from CNN. Within the FAA, the administrator, Jane Garvey, and her acting deputy, Monte Belger, had not been told of a confirmed hijacking before they learned from television that a plane had crashed. Others in the agency were aware of it, as we explained earlier in this chapter. Inside the National Military Command Center, the deputy director of operations and his assistant began notifying senior Pentagon officials of the incident. At about 9:00, the senior NMCC operations officer reached out to the FAA operations center for information. Although the NMCC was advised of the hijacking of American 11, the scrambling of jets was not discussed. In Sarasota, Florida, the presidential motorcade was arriving at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, where President Bush was to read to a class and talk about education. White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card told us he was standing with the President outside the classroom when Senior Advisor to the President Karl Rove first informed them that a small, twin-engine plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. The President's reaction was that the incident must have been caused by pilot error. At 8:55, before entering the classroom, the President spoke to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, who was at the White House. She recalled first telling the President it was a twin-engine aircraft-and then a commercial aircraft-that had struck the World Trade Center, adding "that's all we know right now, Mr. President." At the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney had just sat down for a meeting when his assistant told him to turn on his television because a plane had struck the NorthTower of the World Trade Center. The Vice President was wondering "How the hell could a plane hit the World Trade Center" when he saw the second aircraft strike the South Tower. Elsewhere in the White House, a series of 9:00 meetings was about to begin. In the absence of information that the crash was anything other than an accident, the White House staff monitored the news as they went ahead with their regular schedules. <sep>What was the name of the school where Karl Rove informed President Bush that an aircraft had hit the World Trade Centre?<sep>E. Books Reading School
No
The world can be divided into three climate zones. The first climate zone is the polar zone. As it sounds, the polar zone is near earths poles. The polar zone has very long and cold winters. Brrr!!!! Near the equator is the tropical zone. The tropical zone is known for being hot and wet. Between these two zones is the temperate zone. Temperatures there tend to be mild. Its not too hot and not too cold. You might expect places near the equator to be hot and wet. Thats not always the case. Sometimes there are other factors at work. These factors can affect the local climate type or a region. Oceans and mountain ranges can have a major impact. They can greatly influence the climate of an area. Many factors influence an areas climate. <sep>In which zone are temperatures neither too hot nor too cold?<sep>Central
No
The mighty fane, with its three massive towers, rises majestically over the red roofs of the town. Its most striking feature is the great Norman screen, running up without buttresses or projections to the parapet and hiding the bases of the square, richly decorated towers of the west front. The plain centre of the screen is the work of Remigius, the first bishop. The rest of it is relieved with rich arcading of Late Norman and Early English periods. The wooden spires which crowned the towers were removed in 1807. In 1192 Hugh of Avalon determined to rebuild the Norman building of Remigius, which an earthquake had shaken. To him we owe the choir and eastern transept. His successors completed the western transept and began the west end of the nave. So much money had to be spent in rebuilding the central tower, which fell in 1239, that the canons could not rebuild the nave entirely, but had to incorporate the Norman end by Remigius. Unfortunately the axis of the west front does not correspond to that of the nave, which is too wide for its height. The low vaulting is a serious defect in the choir built by St. Hugh, but of the superb beauty of the Angel Choir, which encloses his shrine, there can be no doubt. In its richness of sculpture it is one of the masterpieces of Gothic architecture in England. The interior of the cathedral is remarkable for the harmony of its style, which is Lancet-Gothic, and the dim lighting of the nave only adds to its impressiveness. <sep>Is the entire Norman screen the work of Remigius, or did he only begin it?<sep>He completed it
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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.
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.
Why? The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
New input: The American Psychiatric Association ( APA ) is a group of psychiatrists in the United States .
Solution: | The American Psychiatric Association ( APA ) is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States , and the largest psychiatric organization in the world . |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
In teaching , the University of Toronto is known for its ideas about literature and communication .
Output: | Academically , the University of Toronto is noted for influential movements and curricula in literary criticism and communication theory , known collectively as the Toronto School . |
Part 1. Definition
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Part 2. Example
The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Answer: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Explanation: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Part 3. Exercise
It is also called the " Eastern Seaboard " or " Atlantic Seaboard " .
Answer: | Other terms for referring to this area include the " Eastern Seaboard " ( " seaboard " being American English for coast ) , " Atlantic Coast " , and " Atlantic Seaboard " ( because the coastline lies along the Atlantic Ocean ) . |
Harlem Beat (ハーレム・ビート , Hāremu Bīto ) is a Japanese manga series created by Yuriko Nishiyama. It was published by Tokyopop in the United States. The series contain 29 volumes in Japan. However, in the U.S., the manga goes up to 9 volumes under the name "Harlem Beat", while volumes 12+ are published under the series title Rebound. As of August 31, 2009, the "Rebound" volumes are out of print.
Harlem Beat is hand drawn
A: It's impossible to say
How to rebuild a good reputation in the community<br>Own your mistakes as soon as possible. In order to effectively restore your image, you need to act fast. Waiting too long can lead to irreparable damage.
It is easy to rebuild your reputation.
A: It's impossible to say
How to buy corn commodities<br>Understand what factors affect corn production. When trying to predict whether corn will go up or down in price, it is important to know about the agriculture business and what factors lead to a profitable or a lousy harvest. [substeps] Read up on the kinds of corn that are being sewn.
The price of corn depends on the agriculture business
A: | Yes |
The music of Bahrain is part of the Persian Gulf folk traditions. Alongside Kuwait, it is known for sawt music, a bluesy genre influenced by African, Indian and Persian music. Sultan Hamid, Ali Bahar and Khalid al Shaikh (a singer and oud player) are among the most popular musicians from Bahrain.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
Sawt music is bluesy
Select from:
+Yes;
+It's impossible to say;
+No; | Yes |
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Q: In this Friday, Aug. 17, 2018 photo, Dr. Shafeeq Sheikh awaits his sentencing at Harris County Family Law Center in Houston. The former Baylor doctor received 10 years probation for raping a patient in... (Associated Press)
In this Friday, Aug. 17, 2018 photo, Dr. Shafeeq Sheikh awaits his sentencing at Harris County Family Law Center in Houston. The former Baylor doctor received 10 years probation for raping a patient in 2013 at Ben Taub Hospital. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP) (Associated Press)
In this Friday, Aug. 17, 2018 photo, Dr. Shafeeq Sheikh awaits his sentencing at Harris County Family Law Center in Houston. The former Baylor doctor received 10 years probation for raping a patient in 2013 at Ben Taub Hospital. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP) (Associated Press) In this Friday, Aug. 17, 2018 photo, Dr. Shafeeq Sheikh awaits his sentencing at Harris County Family Law Center in Houston. The former Baylor doctor received 10 years probation for raping a patient in... (Associated Press)
HOUSTON (AP) — A former Houston doctor convicted of sexually assaulting a patient while she was tethered to machines and receiving treatment for asthma won't serve any prison time and will instead serve 10 years' probation.
The punishment has surprised defense attorneys, disappointed law enforcement and raised concerns from a victims advocacy group, the Houston Chronicle reported . The victim said through a former attorney that she had no comment and wanted to put it all behind her.
Dr. Shafeeq Sheikh was sentenced Friday, a day after a Harris County jury of five women and seven men found him guilty after 14 hours of deliberations. Sheikh, 46, was not assigned to the woman's medical case at the time. He acknowledged at trial that he had sexual contact with the woman during the night shift at Ben Taub hospital in 2013 but told jurors it was consensual.
Prosecutors said the woman was weak, sore and medicate following several acute asthma episodes. The victim, who is now 32, testified that a doctor came to her bedside in the dark and began touching her breasts during a chest exam. She said she tried to summon a nurse with the call button, but witnesses testified it had been unplugged. She said the man returned twice more and sexually assaulted her.
The Associated Press generally does not identify victims of sexual assault.
Prosecutors pushed for prison time but said they respected the jury's decision. Sheikh has lost his medical license and must register as a sex offender. The jury decided the sentence.
"When you're a doctor, I'd expect you'd get prison time," said attorney Casey Kiernan, who has defended sexual assault cases for nearly four decades. "We hold doctors to a higher standard."
Sheikh declined comment after the sentencing.
His lawyer, Stanley Schneider, asked the jury to have mercy on a man who had a wife and children and no prior felonies. Schneider told jurors that his dreams to become a doctor "were shattered by his conduct."
Sonia Corrales, chief program officer at the Houston Area Women's Center, was unfamiliar with the case but said there should be equity in sentencing violent offenders.
"Oftentimes, perpetrators will attempt to minimize the severity of their actions by claiming it wasn't sexual assault, but was consensual sex," she said. "Sexual violence is a willful choice a perpetrator makes to harm another human being and should be addressed by the criminal justice system with the same severity as any other violent crime." ||||| Many surprised at sentence for ex-Baylor doctor who raped a Houston hospital patient
Dr. Shafeeq Sheikh, who was convicted of raping an an acute asthma patient during a night shift when he was a resident at Baylor College of Medicine in 2013, received 10 years probation Friday, Aug. 17, 2018. Dr. Shafeeq Sheikh, who was convicted of raping an an acute asthma patient during a night shift when he was a resident at Baylor College of Medicine in 2013, received 10 years probation Friday, Aug. 17, 2018. Photo: Yi-Chin Lee, Staff Photographer / Staff Photographer Photo: Yi-Chin Lee, Staff Photographer / Staff Photographer Image 1 of / 7 Caption Close Many surprised at sentence for ex-Baylor doctor who raped a Houston hospital patient 1 / 7 Back to Gallery
When a former Houston doctor was sentenced to probation Friday for raping an incapacitated patient at a county hospital, the punishment surprised defense attorneys, disappointed law enforcement, elicited concern from a rape victims advocacy group and sparked outrage on social media.
The doctor, who has been stripped of his license, admitted during the trial that he had sexual contact with the woman during the night shift at Ben Taub Hospital in 2013, but told jurors it was consensual. Although he was not assigned to her case, he slipped into her room anyway after he noticed her breast implants.
Veteran defense lawyers with no connection to the case called the outcome “unusual” and “a big victory” for the defense, explaining there was a very high likelihood a person who did not turn himself in to law enforcement and misrepresented the assault would face prison time.
“When you’re a doctor, I’d expect you’d get prison time,” said attorney Casey Kiernan, who has defended sexual assault cases for nearly four decades. “We hold doctors to a higher standard.”
The jury five women and seven men sentenced Dr. Shafeeq Sheikh, a former Baylor College of Medicine resident, to 10 years on probation for raping the patient while she was tethered to machines and receiving treatment for an acute asthma attack.
The jurors found Sheikh guilty Thursday after deliberating for 14 hours over two days. The conviction means Sheikh, 46, must be a registered for the rest of his life as a sex offender. Jurors recommended the 10-year probated sentence for the doctor and suspension of a $10,000 fine after deliberations on Friday, recommendations that visiting Senior District Judge Terry L. Flenniken was required by law to follow.
GUILTY: Verdict reached in case of ex-Baylor doctor accused of raping patient
During argument for the sentencing phase of the trial Friday, Assistant District Attorney Lauren Reeder asked jurors to keep in mind that Sheikh exploited his access to harm a vulnerable person.
“He sought her out. He chose her to prey on,” Reeder said, noting that Sheikh checked the woman’s chart and knew exactly what medicines she had been prescribed. “You know he’s the type of man who would go in multiple times, testing the waters, seeing how far he could go and get back to his normal business after that.”
The prosecutor said she hoped the jury would also consider the fact that after the assault, Sheikh went on to get another job and practiced medicine at Houston Methodist Hospital until the time police arrested him.
“You know he’s the kind man of who walked around for two years before he was charged with this… knowing what he did,” the prosecutor said.
Sheikh’s defense lawyer, Stanley Schneider, asked the jury to have mercy on a man whose wife and children had suffered greatly from his actions and who had been punishing himself for five years for this one shameful, erratic act. He said he hoped they would sentence Sheikh, who has no prior felonies, to probation.
“The dreams of a man, the childhood dream to become a doctor, were shattered by his conduct. He destroyed his own dreams,” Schneider said. “What he has done to himself and his family is punishment. They are serving his sentence with him. His children are serving his sentence with him.”
After the sentencing, the victim said through a former attorney that she had no comment on the punishment and wanted to put it all behind her and move on.
Sheikh, who has been free on bond, also declined comment. After the judge adjourned, Sheikh sat with some family members outside the courthouse having lunch at a picnic table.
Prosecutors respect the process that rendered the result, said Dane Schiller, a spokesman for District Attorney Kim Ogg.
“After being presented all the evidence, the jury convicted this man of rape and decided that he should be sentenced to 10 years of probation,” Schiller said. “The jury voted on behalf of the community to determine his sentence, and although prosecutors sought prison time, we respect this process, and the jury’s decision, which carries with it a lifetime of registering as a sex offender.”
It took investigators two years to charge Sheikh in the 2013 assault. He was only then, in 2015, that the Texas Medical Board revoked his license, finding that he posed “a continuing threat to public welfare.”
Stefanie Asin, a representative of Houston Methodist Hospital, said Sheikh worked briefly for the hospital system following his time at Baylor, “but (he) was immediately suspended and then terminated when we learned of the allegations and the suspension of his license.”
She noted that at the time Sheikh worked for Methodist none of the allegations had surfaced, adding, “There were no reports of misconduct or any incidents involving this doctor while he was at Houston Methodist.”
Both the victim, who is now 32, and the former doctor took the stand during the eight-day trial, providing contradictory accounts of what happened the night of Nov. 2, 2013. The victim said a doctor came to her bedside in the dark and began touching her breasts during a chest exam. She said she was weak, sore and confused, and tried to summon a nurse with the call button. The man returned two more times, and raped her without using a condom.
TRIAL: Former Ben Taub doctor accused of raping patient testifies sex was consensual
Sheikh said the patient took his hand and placed it on her breasts. He was intrigued by her breast implants and returned to her room again. At this point, he testified, she began touching his genitals and demonstrated with her body language that she wanted to have sex with him. He said he knew it was a breach of his marriage vows and the Hippocratic oath, but he succumbed to his impulse. He told jurors he understood that it was consensual sex.
The Houston Chronicle does not identify victims of sexual assault.
The woman, who was identified previously in a series of Houston Chronicle columns by Lisa Falkenberg as Laura, reported an assault by an unknown doctor the same day. Sheikh told jurors he checked her chart several times that day after he heard she had told officials it was a rape. He said he told his wife about his infidelity right away but he didn’t come forward to hospital officials because he panicked about the consequences.
BACKGROUND: Patient says she became doctor's prey at Ben Taub
Police eventually got a list of every man on the premises that night and began collecting cheek swabs of willing subjects. Sheikh only provided one when he was subpoenaed, according to a law enforcement source. DNA evidence from the woman’s rape kit implicated Sheikh as a likely suspect. Sheikh had been working a night shift as an internal medicine resident. He was seen on surveillance video on the woman's floor and his badge was used to swipe onto her floor that night at least 12 times.
One factor that could have impacted what some saw as a lenient sentence was the testimony from his wife, brother and family friends, who spoke about his vital role as the father of four children.
Attorney Paul Schiffer, a former prosecutor who has devoted more than four decades to defending people charged with sex offenses, said he thought Sheikh was fortunate.
“Defendants who take the stand and deny they’re guilty statistically are in a worse position to get probation,” Schiffer said. “But various factors, including their history while on bond and the impact incarceration could have on their own children can be a significant factor.”
He and Kiernan, who also defends people accused of rape, said it also may have been the case that jurors had residual doubt about his culpability.
Kiernan suggested there was another important factor jurors may have mulled over.
“The real question is whether the best interest of the defendant and society are served by sentencing him to the penitentiary,” he said.
Sonia Corrales, chief program officer at the Houston Area Women’s Center, was unfamiliar with the case but said there should be equity in sentencing violent offenders.
“Oftentimes, perpetrators will attempt to minimize the severity of their actions by claiming it wasn’t sexual assault, but was consensual sex,” she said. “Sexual violence is a willful choice a perpetrator makes to harm another human being and should be addressed by the criminal justice system with the same severity as any other violent crime.”
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A: | A former doctor in Houston found guilty of raping a sedated patient receiving treatment for a severe asthma attack doesn't have to serve a day in prison, a jury decided Friday. Shafeeq Sheikh was instead sentenced to 10 years' probation for the 2013 assault at Ben Taub hospital, the Houston Chronicle reports. Sheikh wasn't assigned to the woman's case, but entered the woman's room repeatedly after noticing her breast implants, jurors were told. Assistant DA Lauren Reeder had urged the jury of five women and seven men to remember that Sheikh used his position to sexually assault a vulnerable woman. "He sought her out. He chose her to prey on," Reeder said. Sheikh, who is married with children, claimed the encounter was consensual. The victim, who is now 32, testified that she was weak and tethered to machines when a doctor began touching her breasts during a chest exam. She said the doctor returned repeatedly overnight, raping her on the third visit, the AP reports. Witnesses confirmed that the button she had tried to use to call a nurse for help had been unplugged. Defense lawyer Stanley Schneider argued that Sheikh, who was stripped of his medical license, had already been punished. "The dreams of a man, the childhood dream to become a doctor, were shattered by his conduct," Schneider said. "He destroyed his own dreams." Advocacy groups say they are stunned by the decision, which analysts say is unusually lenient, especially since doctors are usually held to a higher standard. |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Example input: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Example output: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Example explanation: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Q: Hertha was a founder of the Bundesliga in 1963 and was Berlin 's reigning champion .
A: | At the time of the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963 , Hertha was Berlin 's reigning champion and so became an inaugural member of the new professional national league . |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Example: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Example solution: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Example explanation: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Problem: Detritus of aquatic ecosystems is organic material suspended in water , which is sometimes referred to as marine snow .
| Solution: The detritus of aquatic ecosystems is organic material that is suspended in the water and accumulates in depositions on the floor of the body of water ; when this floor is a seabed , such a deposition is denominated " marine snow " . |
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Q: Brad, Texas (CNN) -- Authorities were working on plans Friday for residents who were forced to flee a wildfire in northern Texas to return home, a day after firefighters made progress battling the blaze that destroyed dozens of homes. The blaze in Palo Pinto County scorched 6,200 acres by Thursday, according to the Texas Forest Service. The fire is burning near the resort of Possum Kingdom Lake, near the town of Brad, about 100 miles west of Dallas. "We feel much better about this fire today," as the blaze is now 50% contained, said John Nichols, a spokesman for the Forest Service. He said evacuations were lifted for some residents forced to evacuate the fire, which was driven by high temperatures and dry winds. The wildfire has destroyed 40 homes and nine RVs since it began Tuesday, the Forest Service said Thursday. Firefighters were receiving support from aerial tankers and helicopters. Authorities are mapping out plans to allow residents to return to their homes, said Palo Pinto County Sheriff Ira Mercer. Authorities also are trying to open the lake for the Labor Day holiday, he said. On Wednesday, evacuations were ordered in several communities on the north side of the lake after the fire charged over a ridge and approached a dam on the lake, CNN affiliate WFAA reported. The wildfire was moving so fast that the Forest Service pulled out of its command observation post, telling journalists and onlookers to get out of the way of the fire. "My house is right through here, though it may be gone," Tom Hardeston told WFAA as he watched the fire. Nearby ranchers battled to save their herds from the encroaching fire. "I'm just moving them from pasture to pasture," Cindi McCoy told WFAA, referring to her livestock. "As one pasture burns, I'm moving them back to that one and bring(ing) them back around." <sep>Possum Kingdom Lake is in which Texas county?<sep>Palo Pinto County
A: | Yes |
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Problem:Police arrested a drunk driver who allegedly struck the back of the Governor’s Mansion with his vehicle, damaging the historic house’s garage door Thursday night in downtown Juneau.
Officers found Alexander Oliphant, 49, with his dog sitting in a car that was lodged in a construction fence outside the Capitol, police say. The Juneau Police Department charged Oliphant for driving while intoxicated and refusing to take a breath test, according to a statement from JPD.
A woman called JPD at 10:51 p.m. to report the incident at the construction site. When officers questioned Oliphant at the scene, he volunteered that he also struck the Governor’s Mansion, police said. Sell said the damage was only to a garage door, which officers found caved in.
Gov. Bill Walker was home during the incident but not disturbed, Sell said.
Facilities personnel from the state Division of General Services began repairs to the garage door Friday morning. Two employees, Dave Blackwell and Justin Papenbrock, spoke to the Empire as they were placing wooden beams in the entryway where the garage door had been. Papenbrock said he is building a temporary wall facing Indian Street because the garage door had to be removed. The wall will secure a back door currently left exposed into the governor’s home. Blackwell said he doesn’t expect a new garage door to be in place for several weeks.
Oliphant and his dog were not injured during the incident, Sell said. JPD turned the dog over to Animal Control.
The investigation is continuing and additional charges are pending.
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Solution: | Of all the garage doors in Alaska, Alexander Oliphant allegedly hit a most unfortunate one: that currently being used by Gov. Bill Walker. The Juneau Empire reports that police responded to a call Thursday night and found Oliphant and his dog in his car, which happened to be in a temporary construction fence. Police say Oliphant wouldn't take a breath test but did allegedly let them know that he had previously hit the Governor’s Mansion door, which was indeed found "caved in," per a rep for Juneau police. The Alaska Dispatch News reports that video surveillance confirmed that the person who crashed into the door "did not enter the garage or any other part of the residence"; Walker was home at the time but was undisturbed. Repairing the door is apparently no simple feat, as the expected timeline is several weeks. The 49-year-old was charged with driving while intoxicated and refusing that test, and the dog was placed with animal control. |
Starting today, the government must follow the example set by one of its own backbenchers, the member for Thunder Bay-Atitokan, who wrote in The Chronicle Journal as recently as March 29 that the government was again going to meet with public service employee representatives on the issue of pension fund surpluses in order to come up with an agreement acceptable to both parties.
The government can do whatever it wants.
A: No
#BacktoSchool on County 10 is brought to you by SageWest Healthcare (Fremont County, Wyo.) – Believe it or not, the school year is just a couple weeks away...and less than one week for some of us. So, what can your family do between now and then (besides back-to-school shopping)? Here are 10 of our favorite things you'll want to squeeze in with the family before summer's up!
Your family could jump into a pool and swim before the school year starts.
A: It's impossible to say
How to make mushroom barley soup<br>Chop the vegetables. Wash 1 pound (480 g) of mushrooms , 2 large carrots , 2 large celery stalks, and peel 1 onion. Use a sharp knife to carefully cut the mushrooms into 1/2-inch (12 mm) pieces.
A dull knife can't cut the pieces into 1/2 in segments.
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".
The Reconquest: The aim of the Crusades in Spain was the eviction of the Muslims. After the recovery of Jerusalem in 1099, it took four hundred years of sieges and battles, treaties, betrayals, and yet more battles, before Christian kings and warlords succeeded in subduing the Moors. On 10 September 1229, a Catalan army led by King Jaume I of Aragón and Catalunya took the Mallorcan shore near the present-day resort of Santa Ponça. The defenders retreated inside the walls of Palma, but on the last day of 1229 the city fell, and pockets of resistance throughout the island were also defeated. Jaume I proved to be an enlightened ruler who profited from the talents of the Moors — converted by force to Christianity — as well as of the island's large Jewish and Genoese trading communities. Mallorca prospered. The Moors on Menorca speedily agreed to pay an annual tribute to Aragón and were left in peace. The island's tranquility lasted until 1287, when Alfonso III of Aragón, smarting over a series of humiliations at the hands of his nobles, found a pretext for invasion. The Moors were defeated and expelled or killed. In contrast to Mallorca, Menorca's economy was devastated for decades. Jaume I died after reigning in Aragón for six decades, but he made the cardinal error of dividing between his sons the lands he had fought for so long to unite. At first this resulted in an Independent Kingdom of Mallorca, under Jaume II, followed by Sanç and Jaume III. But family rivalry triggered the overthrow of Jaume III by his cousin Pedro IV, who then seized the Balearics for Aragón. Attempting a comeback, Jaume was killed in battle near Llucmajor in 1349. A newly unified Christian Spain under the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, completed the Reconquest, defeating the only Moorish enclave left on the Iberian peninsula, Granada, in 1492. However, the centralized kingdom failed to incorporate the Balearics politically or economically. <sep>Jaume was defeated by whom and died in what year?<sep>Jaume was killed by his cousin Pedro the IV in the year 1349 | Yes |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
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Question: The House of Representatives elects the Speaker of the House on the first day of every new Congress and in the event of the death, resignation or removal from the Chair of an incumbent Speaker. The Clerk of the House of Representatives requests nominations: there are normally two, one from each major party (each party having previously met to decide on its nominee). The Clerk then calls the roll of the Representatives, each Representative indicating the surname of the candidate the Representative is supporting. Representatives are not restricted to voting for one of the nominated candidates and may vote for any person, even for someone who is not a member of the House at all. They may also abstain by voting ``present''.
Answer: can the president of the united states fire the speaker of the house?
Question: Until the mid-2000s, sales of beer for off-premises consumption were prohibited statewide before noon on Sundays, a remnant of a royal decree during the Colonial era, and between 3--6 a.m. any day. Changes to the law made in the last years of Governor George Pataki's administration loosened those restrictions, and now beer sales are only prohibited from 3--8 a.m. Sundays. Counties are free to adjust those hours in either direction, all the way to midnight and noon, and allow 24-hour beer sales on other days of the week.
Answer: can you buy beer on sunday in new york?
Question: Although rhubarb is a vegetable, it is often put to the same culinary uses as fruits. The leaf stalks can be used raw, when they have a crisp texture (similar to celery, although it is in a different family), but are most commonly cooked with sugar and used in pies, crumbles and other desserts. They have a strong, tart taste. Several varieties have been domesticated for human consumption, most of which are recognised as Rheum x hybridum by the Royal Horticultural Society.
Answer: | is it safe to eat raw rhubarb stalks?
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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: Each year they give the ' “ Nebula Award for Best Short Story ” ' .
Student: | The Nebula Award for Best Short Story is a literary award assigned each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ( SFWA ) for science fiction or fantasy short stories . |
Better Socks<br>I always used to buy the cheapest socks available. I figured it was inconsequential. But I started walking to work and getting blisters. I upgraded to softer and more expensive sock varieties. Now I can never go back.
Socks have been worn by broly
A: It's impossible to say
Alan Bergman (born September 11, 1925) and Marilyn Bergman (née Keith), born November 10, 1929) are American lyricists and songwriters. The pair have been married since 1958 and have written the music and lyrics for numerous celebrated television shows, films, and stage musicals. The Bergmans have won two Academy Awards for Best Original Song and have been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Alan Bergman was born on Thanksgiving
A: No
TORONTO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Canada’s benchmark stock index was little changed on Monday as gains in energy shares on climbing oil prices were offset by sluggish economic data from China. The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index unofficially closed up 16.78 points, or 0.11 percent, at 15,100.70. Six of the 10 main sectors on the index were in the red. (Reporting by John Tilak, editing by G Crosse)
The report is about a US stock index
A: | No |
[Q]: How to get water stains off wood<br>Put mineral oil on a soft rag and rub it into the stain. Let it sit overnight and repeat if the stain seems to have diminished. Rub the stain with mineral spirits on a soft cloth if the mineral oil doesn't work. Using a soft cloth will not get the stains off wood. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: No
[Q]: Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is an adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese. The film narrates the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill and his friends over a period from 1955 to 1980. martin Scorsese directed the 1990 film goodfellas OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: Yes
[Q]: How to clean potatoes<br>Start with clean hands. Be sure to wash your hands first using an antibacterial soap, and to rinse them well. You don't want to transfer any bacteria to your clean potatoes. Be sure to wash your hands first using an antibacterial soap, and to rinse them well with a lot of dirt. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: No
[Q]: Authors Anonymous is a 2014 comedy American film directed and produced by Ellie Kanner. It stars Kaley Cuoco, Chris Klein, Tricia Helfer, Jonathan Banks, Jonathan Bennett, Teri Polo and Dennis Farina in his final film role. The film was released on March 18, 2014 through video on demand prior to its limited release on April 18, 2014 by Screen Media Films and Starz Digital. The script for Authors Anonymous was written in 2012. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[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".
[EX Q]: Imagine you are standing in a farm field in central Illinois. The land is so flat you can see for miles and miles. On a clear day, you might see a grain silo 20 miles away. You might think to yourself, it sure is flat around here. If you drive one hundred miles to the south, the landscape changes. In southern Illinois, there are rolling hills. Why do you think this is? What could have caused these features? There are no big rivers that may have eroded and deposited this material. The ground is capable of supporting grass and trees, so wind erosion would not explain it. To answer the question, you need to go back 12,000 years. Around 12,000 years ago, a giant ice sheet covered much of the Midwest United States. Springfield, Illinois, was covered by over a mile of ice. Its hard to imagine a mile thick sheet of ice. The massive ice sheet, called a glacier, caused the features on the land you see today. Where did glaciers go? Where can you see them today? Glaciers are masses of flowing ice. <sep>How long ago was Springfield, Illinois covered by over a mile of ice?<sep>1,200 years ago
[EX A]: No
[EX Q]: Living things need non-living matter as well as energy. What do you think matter is used for? One thing is to build bodies. They also need it to carry out the processes of life. Any non-living matter that living things need is called a nutrient. Carbon and nitrogen are examples of nutrients. Unlike energy, matter is recycled in ecosystems. You can see how in Figure 3.11. Decomposers release nutrients when they break down dead organisms. The nutrients are taken up by plants through their roots. The nutrients pass to primary consumers when they eat the plants. The nutrients pass to higher level consumers when they eat lower level consumers. When living things die, the cycle repeats. <sep>What happens to nutrients when the decomposers use them to break down dead organisms?<sep>Disapear
[EX A]: No
[EX Q]: Fossils may form in other ways. Fossils can be preserved almost completely. In this process, the organism doesnt change much. As seen below, tree sap may cover an organism. With time, the sap hardens. It turns to into amber. The original organism is preserved. This is very exciting for scientists. They are able to study the DNA of the organism that no longer lives on Earth. Some animals have been found frozen in ice. Others have been found in tar pits after falling in. Molds and casts are another way organisms can be fossilized. Have you ever walked in soft mud and left footprints? Once in a while, these traces of organisms can be preserved. In this case, nothing is left of the organism. A mold is an imprint of an organism that is preserved in rock. The organisms remains break down completely. There is nothing left of the original plant and animal. <sep>How is amber made?<sep>Molding
[EX A]: | No
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Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
An 80-year-old Spanish nun appeared in court Thursday to face charges that she kidnapped an infant girl as part of a vast baby-trafficking ring that stole newborns from poor mothers and sold them into adoption.
Sister Maria Gomez Valbuena appeared before the judge and refused to testify, invoking her right to remain silent, Reuters reported.
The aging Sisters of Charity nun was charged with kidnapping a newborn girl from a Madrid hospital in the 1980s.
A group of more than 1,000 families said she was part of a nationwide baby-snatching ring dating back four decades.
The group, Anadir, said the ring involved hundreds of doctors, nurses, priests, nuns and midwives who schemed to convince poor or unwed mothers their babies had died at birth.
The babies were then sold to families looking to adopt, and the child's birth papers were doctored, the group said.
Lawyers say Catholic priests and nuns acted as middlemen, paying hospitals workers for babies and then selling them to desperate families.
“The nuns and priests justified what they did by saying that the child was better off with the adoptive family, but they still took the money,” Enrique Vila, a lawyer who works for families trying to track down relatives, told The Daily Beast.
Anadir said the racket dates back to the Spanish Civil War, when Francisco Franco’s fascist minions stole babies from political prisoners, Reuters reported.
In later years, it became a money-making scheme for scores of hospitals and clinics, the group said.
Since the 1980s, Spanish police have investigated hundreds of claims from mothers who said their babies were stolen, and their stories have been well-documented in the Spanish media.
In one infamous case, workers at one Madrid clinic kept a dead newborn in the freezer, which they would show to mothers to prove their baby had died, The Daily Beast reported.
Valbuena is the first person to be charged in the scheme.
The case against her began after a woman said the nun intimated her into giving up her baby at Madrid’s Santa Cristina hospita in 1982, The Daily Beast reported.
“I was still half asleep when I asked her where my daughter was,” Marisa Torres Torres told AFP.
“She told me: ‘Stop asking me that or else I will also take away your other daughter and you will go to jail for adultery.’ ”
Torres was reunited with her now 29-year-old daughter, Pilar, last year, and said DNA tests proved they were mother and daughter, the Daily Best reported.
Outside the courthouse on Thursday, a throng of angry mothers and families jeered the nun as she was hustled to a car by police.
Paloma Perez, 55, told the AFP she believed she was stolen from her birth mother at Santa Cristina hospital in 1957.
“It is shameful, and on top of it all they protect her,” Perez said, as Valubeana’s car drove away. “I don’t even know who I am.”
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Did doctors and the Catholic Church traffic in stolen newborns? Mike Elkin reports from Madrid on the shocking trial of one nun.
On his deathbed five years ago in Barcelona, Juan Moreno told his son Juan Luis the family secret: we bought you from a priest in 1969. Moreno Sr. paid 150,000 pesetas, more than what he paid for their apartment seven years earlier. DNA tests have revealed that Juan Luis’s birth certificate, which names his adoptive parents as his birth parents, is false. And Antonio Barroso, Juan Luis’s best friend, was also bought from the same priest, according to Juan Luis. The two families would take summer vacations together to Zaragoza, around 300 kilometers west of Barcelona, but the men now believe the trips’ true purpose was to pay the installments on the two boys to the clergyman, Juan Luis says.
“My adoptive family gave me plenty of love, but it’s also true that my life has been a lie,” Juan Luis says over the telephone from Barcelona.
Moreno is one of thousands of Spaniards who suspect that doctors, nurses, priests, and nuns stole and sold babies between the 1960s and the early 1980s. While the 1,500 open cases vary, a common story has a woman being told her newborn has died shortly after birth. The baby is sold to another couple, and official papers are doctored so this couple appeared as the biological parents. At one infamous Madrid clinic, now closed, called San Ramón, it was reported in the Spanish media that staff kept a dead newborn in the freezer to prove to mothers that their babies had died.
Spanish police investigated a handful of cases in the early 1980s, but only within the last few years has the nationwide scope of the alleged trafficking started to take shape.
On Thursday, a Madrid judge is scheduled to question 80-year-old Sister María Gómez Valbuena on charges of illegal imprisonment (it is called illegal imprisonment instead of kidnapping because under Spanish law kidnapping involves a ransom). The case began when Marisa Torres filed accusations against the nun after meeting her daughter Pilar, now 29, for the first time last year. Torres had gone to Sister María at the Santa Cristina clinic in 1982 after seeing a magazine ad for expectant mothers who needed social assistance. Torres had separated from her husband, and the father of the baby was another man. Torres told a judge last week that after giving birth, Sister María intimidated her into giving up the child. The nun, Torres said, threatened to denounce her to authorities for being an adulteress, saying they would likely take away her 2-year-old daughter. When Pilar and her adoptive father began to investigate her roots, they spoke to Sister María. She told them Pilar’s mother was a prostitute and to forget about her, Pilar said. Sister María hasn’t responded to the charges.
Despite the recent number of cases being investigated, Spanish authorities have largely avoided the issue in the past, taking years to confirm what people had been talking about for decades (Sister María, for example, was named in a story in Interviú magazine about alleged child trafficking at her clinic in 1982). To assist those searching, Moreno and Barroso decided to found Anadir, now the largest association, of around 1,100 people, who are looking for parents, children, and siblings.
“It’s sad that the Spanish justice system is incapable of doing its job,” Moreno says. “We’ve given them false birth certificates, false death certificates, we’ve opened empty coffins, and supplied hundreds of testimonies. What more do they need?” This Thursday, the Spanish justice minister will be meeting with representatives of some of the families to discuss their grievances.
Internet groups have connected searchers across the country. Websites and Facebook pages abound with stories and pleas:
“I’m looking for my biological family. I was adopted in 1961 and my papers are full of irregularities. Thanks and good luck to everyone.”
“I’m searching for my brother or sister, born in Bilbao on January 27, 1972. They took the baby away right after the birth. Strange things happened, and a few hours later they told my mother that the baby had died. They refused to show it to her.”
“I’m looking for my brother who was born on October 11, 1964 in Málaga and was said to have died four days later, but it doesn’t appear that he was buried. We know that the dates and places of birth are not reliable.”
Courts are now looking into baby-trafficking cases in Valencia, the Basque Country, Madrid, Catalonia, Andalusia, and the Canary Islands.
“I view this baby-stealing network like a mafia,” says Enrique Vila, a Valencia-based lawyer who works on behalf of the five associations that provide support for people looking for their biological families. “If this wasn’t organized, how did babies born in Valencia end up in Galicia, around 1,000 kilometers away?” The Catholic Church in Spain has declined to respond to the allegations, and declined to talk to The Daily Beast for this story. Vila, who was adopted and suspects he might have been taken from his biological mother, said that he believes hospital staff perpetrated these thefts for money and the church acted as a distribution network. “The nuns and priests justified what they did by saying that the child was better off with the adoptive family, but they still took the money,” he said.
Even legal adoptions signed by a judge and sealed by a notary have been found to contain false information, as revealed in numerous investigations brought by adopted children and their families. So there is a heightened sense of uncertainty among Spanish adoptees. Last year in Barcelona, during the first meeting between a mother and her 40-year-old daughter, the latter read her own death certificate.
With nothing to trust, Spaniards are erring on the side of suspicion. But sometimes the trails don’t lead to trafficking. Last year a woman from León, Spain, whose twin sister supposedly died at birth, began to question the official story after reading about other cases in the press. On the Internet she found a woman who shared the same age and an uncanny resemblance. DNA tests, however, came back negative. Likewise, a few recent grave exhumations and subsequent DNA tests showed no wrongdoing. Nevertheless, other exhumations have revealed coffins filled with rocks, an adult femur, and the bones of another baby, according to various reports in the Spanish media.
Allegations of church-condoned baby trafficking are not confined to Spain. Investigations by the press and the government into similar allegations in Australia found that Catholic hospitals from the 1950s to 1970s coerced women using drugs to sign adoption papers or to simply knock them out long enough to whisk the baby away. Catholic Health Australia, the largest nongovernment health provider in the country, has formally apologized for what happened.
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The effects of the Spanish trafficking have reached the United States as well. Austin-based Randy Ryder thought he was born in the Spanish city of Málaga to his Austrian mother and American father, but the truth came out 12 years ago. Last October, Ryder appeared in a BBC report because a Spanish woman believed him to be her lost brother. DNA tests proved negative, but his biological mother, who now lives in London, saw the show and reached out to him on Facebook. This time, the DNA matched.
New Yorker Maria Washbourn was born in Spain in 1961, but through the church and an intermediary was adopted by an American couple. A friend noticed a physical resemblance between her and a Madrid man, Vicente González Olaya, who writes a blog about the search for his missing older sister. “It’s a long-shot,” says González, who also covers the auto industry for El País newspaper, “but we’re waiting for the DNA results to come back.”
González has kept an online record of his investigation, an often surreal account of dealing with the church, hospitals, DNA labs, and Spain’s vast bureaucracy of registrars and archives.
The nuns, he said, told his devoutly Catholic mother that the baby had choked to death on the umbilical cord, even though his mother saw the child alive. After his parents died early last year, González started to make some inquiries. Nothing made sense. |||||
A: | An 80-year-old nun has been busted in Spain for her role in a massive Catholic church-linked baby-theft ring, according to investigators. The ring took babies from hundreds of poor or unwed mothers dating back to the 1980s and sold them into adoption, say officials. Sister Maria Gomez Valbuena, the first person to be arrested in the operation, has been charged with snatching a newborn from a young mom in Madrid in 1982. When the mother demanded to know where her baby was, the nun "told me: ‘Stop asking me that or else I will also take away your other daughter and you will go to jail for adultery,'" said the mom, who has been reunited with her 29-year-old daughter. Valbuena appeared before a judge yesterday and refused to testify, reports the New York Daily News. Police have received hundred of complaints of baby snatchings, which have been widely investigated by the media. Catholic priests and nuns served as middlemen in the operations that also involved doctors, nurses, lawyers, and scores of clinics and hospitals, according to police investigators. In one case, a Madrid hospital kept a dead newborn in a freezer to show moms to prove their babies had died. “The nuns and priests justified what they did by saying that the child was better off with the adoptive family, but they still took the money," a lawyer for the targeted families told the Daily Beast. |
Some of them are climbing stairs with their roller blades. Some men are rollerblading through a busy city and on bridges. there
OPTIONS:
- are pumpkins and brick buildings in the city plaza.
- is a group of young children rollerblading together.
- are several big stumblebees in a plant.
- are a lot of people sticking their skis together on bridges.
is a group of young children rollerblading together.
A woman is smearing a white cream onto her forehead and cheeks. she
OPTIONS:
- spreads it around, smoothing it in.
- then shaves her face with red base, chasing the cream.
- takes a fast high jump onto a mat.
- holds a black mascara compact and begins use slowly to rub it around.
spreads it around, smoothing it in.
How to become a notary in ohio
Determine your eligibility.
In ohio, notaries must be 18 years of age and legal residents of the state. You also cannot have had a previous notary commission revoked, as this makes you ineligible.
OPTIONS:
- The ncpis (supreme court), district attorney, and the state impeachment commission (ptcm) all have notaries you can work with. Whatever notaries you apply for is a must.
- In ohio, you must have a marriage license and live in the state for the first five years of your life. You must have a valid proof of your marriage, such as a marriage license or a marriage certificate.
- Notaries must also have been licensed by the child labor administration to restrain a child in good faith prior to starting a service. Take your information into the nearest notary shop.
- Having a criminal record could make it harder to become a notary, as notaries are expected to be highly law-abiding citizens. If you are not a legal resident of ohio, you can still become a notary if you are an attorney who practices law in the state.
Having a criminal record could make it harder to become a notary, as notaries are expected to be highly law-abiding citizens. If you are not a legal resident of ohio, you can still become a notary if you are an attorney who practices law in the state.
How to cook with nuts
Buy shelled nuts.
Nut shells have no nutritional value and cannot be consumed. Doing so could cause them to lodge in your throat, and you could choke.
OPTIONS:
- Instead, buy shelled nuts when you are grocery shopping. Don't buy shelled nuts when you are preparing meals.
- Therefore, always buy shelled nuts, or shell them yourself. In either case watch out for the occasional shell piece that might be left behind.
- Shelled nuts aren't good for eating or digesting. There are other foods you can eat that don't require shelled nuts, such as : Butter, peanut butter, cottage cheese, okra, teriyaki, and chickpeas.
- Choose shelled nuts whose shells are heavy, easily broken, or cracked. Opt for : Corn nuts pumpkin shells peanut nuts pumpkin seeds roasted nuts sunflower seeds Clean your shells.
| Therefore, always buy shelled nuts, or shell them yourself. In either case watch out for the occasional shell piece that might be left behind. |
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: Attert is a municipality in the Belgian province of Luxembourg .
A: | Attert ( " Atert " in Luxembourgish , " Ater " in Walloon ) is a Walloon municipality of Belgium located in the province of Luxembourg . |
What happens next in this paragraph?
How to dance emo
Express yourself.
Emo, which is short for " emotive hardcore " is music scene which stems from the washington d.c. hardcore punk subculture. It's exactly what it sounds like; less angry version of punk rock music with emotional lyrics.
Choices:
[1]. Everyone (guy, girl, hip hop, energetic, dunk, pie) all write punk bands who draw the attention to fun times. Just be sure to put on the platform that makes it a concert need.
[2]. It's also an alternative to emo who is naturally driven by a style he uses. It is played in jam rooms such as studios or clubs in regular bands.
[3]. Makers and listeners of this type of music use it to express their feelings. Lyrics usually convey non-metaphorical messages about happiness, sadness, depression, death, anger and despair.
[4]. Emo emo music is mostly the same kind of music scene. However, the magazine used to feature electronic play with " whoa " sound. | [3]. |
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.
For instance , a Land constitutional court can write its own budget and hire or fire employees .
| For instance , a state constitutional court can write its own budget and hire or fire employees , powers that represent a degree of independence unique in the government structure . |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: Calgary police are investigating after a maintenance worker at the CORE Shopping Centre discovered a man’s body inside a washroom wall.
Spokeswoman Emma Poole said a worker was called Monday morning to fix a toilet that wouldn’t flush in a women’s washroom in the downtown mall.
“If you were to look at the toilet, there’s a panel behind it so that when people move it would automatically flush,” she said. “When they removed that panel, they found a deceased person behind that wall.”
Yellow caution tape was draped across the bathroom entrance as security guards turned people away Monday. Early in the afternoon, people in the nearby food court were eating and others were using the men’s bathroom as police ducked in and out of the women’s bathroom.
Later Monday afternoon police ruled out foul play in the case.
Ted Petrow said he was in the fourth floor men’s washroom at 9:30 a.m. when security staff cleared both washrooms.
“The security guards cleared out the men’s washroom and then their boss came over, the manager or whatever, and said ‘no, it’s just the women’s washroom.’ So I was allowed to go back in and finish my business,” said Petrow.
“A couple workmen came in, checking the walls to see if there was any hollow points. I could hear the banging. I was in the stall and I could hear them banging.”
By early afternoon, all the washrooms on the fourth floor were closed and part of the food court was cordoned off entirely and media were asked to move back. Curious mall staff and shoppers were milling about nearby.
Three of the eateries nearby were closed.
About an hour after the area was closed, someone wheeled a gurney past the cordon to the washroom. A short time later, the body was removed.
Poole said investigators have not yet determined if the death is suspicious. She said it’s possible someone crawling through a vent or duct fell from above and got stuck in the wall.
“That would be the most logical at this point is that it was from above,” said Poole. “So that is obviously something they would be looking at is someone crawling through the ventilation system.”
Reporter Sammy Hudes reported from the scene:
This entire area of the food court has now been cleared. We’ve been told this process is going to take a lot longer than expected. pic.twitter.com/N8yIyPw3l0 — Sammy Hudes (@SammyHudes) April 30, 2018
Actually, all washrooms are closed now on the fourth floor. Media’s been told to stand way back. pic.twitter.com/5tltkfyIA1 — Sammy Hudes (@SammyHudes) April 30, 2018
Update: fire crews are going in. pic.twitter.com/tLapmDRCQL — Sammy Hudes (@SammyHudes) April 30, 2018
The washroom is located in this corner of the food court, which has remained completely open to the public as police investigate. pic.twitter.com/afcOWdrRHy — Sammy Hudes (@SammyHudes) April 30, 2018
This man says he was in the men’s washroom at 9:30 a.m. when police entered to investigate the body found in the wall of the women’s. He says he could hear them searching for hollow points in the wall.
“I could hear the bangs as I was in the stall.” pic.twitter.com/9cJslJyps1 — Sammy Hudes (@SammyHudes) April 30, 2018
People still appear to be getting through to the men’s washroom without problem. It’s the women’s side that’s blocked off as police investigate. — Sammy Hudes (@SammyHudes) April 30, 2018
At CORE shopping centre, where police say a body was found in the wall of the fourth floor women’s washroom. Area is taped off.@calgaryherald @calgarysun pic.twitter.com/h28dMstG7F — Sammy Hudes (@SammyHudes) April 30, 2018 ||||| UPDATE April 2, 2018: Body found in washroom wall was not victim of foul play, police say
Police are investigating after the body of a man was discovered inside a wall in a public washroom at a mall in downtown Calgary on Monday.
The discovery was made about 9:30 a.m. in the fourth floor washroom at the Core shopping centre at Seventh Avenue and Third Street S.W., police said.
Calgary police spokesperson Emma Poole said a maintenance worker was called in the morning to fix a toilet that wouldn't flush in the women's washroom.
"If you were to look at the toilet, there's a panel behind it so that when people move, it would automatically flush," she said.
A Calgary firefighter walks through the food court in the Core shopping centre where a body was found behind a washroom wall. (Anis Heydari/CBC)
"When they removed that panel, they found a deceased person behind that wall."
How did someone get inside wall?
The Calgary Fire Department helped remove the body, and the provincial medical examiner was called to the scene.
Police said there was nothing to immediately indicate whether the death was suspicious.
"Despite the circumstances of where the body was located, investigators do not suspect foul play and the death remains classified as undetermined," police said in a release.
Poole said it's possible someone crawling through a vent or duct fell from above and got stuck in the wall.
"That would be the most logical at this point … that it was from above," she said.
"So that is obviously something they would be looking at is someone crawling through the ventilation system." |||||
A: | Police in Calgary are investigating a horrifying find made when a mall maintenance worker tried to fix a toilet in a women's bathroom that wouldn't flush. "If you were to look at the toilet, there's a panel behind it so that when people move, it would automatically flush," says police spokeswoman Emma Poole. "When they removed that panel, they found a deceased person behind that wall." Police say the body is that of an adult male, though no identity or cause of death has been determined, the CBC reports. The grisly find was made Monday morning at the Core Shopping Center, the main shopping complex in the Alberta city's downtown. Investigators do not suspect foul play at this point and the death has been classified as undetermined, police said in a statement Monday. It isn't clear how long the body was in the wall. The bathroom is located near the food court on the fourth floor of the four-story mall, and police believe it is possible that the man became stuck in the wall after he fell while crawling through a vent or duct, the Calgary Herald reports. "That would be the most logical at this point ... that it was from above," Poole says. "So that is obviously something they would be looking at is someone crawling through the ventilation system." (This Houston resident got fatally stuck in the wall of her home.) |
Lisa Jacobs is a British actress who is best known for playing Jewish diarist Anne Frank in the 1988 television film, "". She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in this movie. The film also starred Mary Steenburgen as Miep Gies.
Can we infer the following?
Lisa Jacobs was 25 when she starred in the Anne Frank film | It's impossible to say |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
The nonfiction category was every bit as competitive and featured established authors like the biographer Robert Caro and the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony Shadid, who wrote for The Washington Post and The New York Times .
It was won by Katherine Boo for “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity.” In her book, Ms. Boo tells of the heart-rending struggles of the dwellers of a slum in the shadow of luxury hotels in India .
“If this prize means anything,” she said in her acceptance speech, “it is that small stories in so-called hidden places matter because they implicate and complicate what we consider to be the larger story, which is the story of people who do have political and economic powers.”
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Celebrating its 63rd year, the National Book Awards packed some 670 attendees into the elegant Cipriani on Wall Street. The logistics behind the award were particularly challenging this year, as storm surge from Hurricane Sandy flooded the office of the National Book Foundation, which presents the awards, and they have still not been reopened.
To be eligible for an award, a book must have been written by a United States citizen. Winners received $10,000 and a bronze statue.
The award for Young People’s Literature went to William Alexander for “Goblin Secrets,” published by Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
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“The way things are, are not the only possible way they can be,” Mr. Alexander said. “Stories are the first way we figured that out.”
David Ferry choked up slightly as he accepted the poetry award for “Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations,” published by the University of Chicago Press. He said he had amazing rivals in his category, and his one advantage was being much older. “My only hope was a preposterous pre-posthumous award,” he said, “and I guess that is what I have won here.”
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Earlier in the evening, Arthur Sulzberger Jr. , the publisher of The New York Times, was honored for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. Mr. Sulzberger was praised for helping to make possible the continuing coverage of books and literature. In her speech introducing Mr. Sulzberger, Terry Gross, the host of the NPR show “Fresh Air,” singled out the Times’s Book Review in particular, saying it was like a “shopping catalog” that alerted her to “authors I’ve overlooked.”
The award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters went to the prolific and irreverent novelist Elmore Leonard , whose books are peopled with seedy characters, frequently armed with guns. It was only the second time that the award, which has been presented since 1988, went to a writer who was a popular favorite as opposed to a critically acclaimed legend. The first time was when the master of horror, Stephen King , won in 2003. Mr. King was also in the audience Wednesday night to help honor his friend.
Mr. Leonard, 87, took a humble tone. He compared himself with the English novelist Martin Amis , who introduced him, saying that Mr. Amis was a critically acclaimed writer and that he “was a category on ‘Jeopardy!’ ”
Still, Mr. Leonard concluded by acknowledging that the award had meaning for him. “I am energized by this honor. The only thing I’ve ever wanted to do in my life is tell stories, and this award tells me I am still good at it,” he said. ||||| And more changes are coming.
The foundation has been taking a tough look at itself, hiring a consultant to survey industry insiders — booksellers, editors and even critics — to see if the award process itself needs to be reformed to attract more attention.
On the table are proposals like expanding the judging pool beyond just writers who judge in their own genre to include well-known cultural figures of all types, and limiting for the first time who may submit award entries. (Now, any publisher can submit as many books as it wants in any category as long as the author is an American citizen.)
The goal is to add more sex appeal to an industry that’s not exactly known for it — but not, the organizers insist, just for its own sake. “It’s not about being glitzy,” said David Steinberger, the chief executive of Perseus Books and chairman of the foundation. “It’s about increasing the impact great books have on the culture.”
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The unstated model here is not the Oscars or the Emmys, but rather the Man Booker Prize, Britain’s top literary honor. Man Booker gives only one award, for fiction, but its imprimatur gives books a second life that traditionally generates more sales, even for nominees who don’t win.
“When a book is shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, it sells another 50,000 copies,” said Morgan Entrekin, president of Grove/Atlantic Press and vice chairman of the National Book Foundation’s board. “It can transform the fate of a book.”
“The winner of National Book Awards succeeds,” he added. “But I would like to see it have that kind of effect on the shortlist as well.”
The foundation’s board members believe that Man Booker is so effective because it has integrated itself with politics and the broader popular culture in Britain.
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Judges for the Booker, for example, are not just writers but also entertainment stars with a literary bent — among them Dan Stevens, the actor who plays Matthew Crawley on “Downton Abbey,” and Fiona Shaw, the Irish actress who has been in the Harry Potter movies and HBO’s “True Blood.”
When the National Book Awards were first presented in 1950, they had that same crossover appeal. The award ceremony was held at the Waldorf-Astoria and for the next decades attracted people from all walks of life including Eleanor Roosevelt and Mayor John V. Lindsay of New York.
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More important, it spotted and promoted major talents like John Updike and Philip Roth.
By the late 1990s, however, the event had narrowed and was attended almost solely by publishing insiders. Critics also complained that the awards were increasingly being used to recognize overlooked authors who hadn’t obtained a popular audience.
“The awards were stuffy and were visited upon by corporate elders,” said Paul Bogaards, director of publicity for Knopf Doubleday.
In 2004 the foundation recruited Harold Augenbraum as executive director. Three years later he brought in Mr. Steinberger, who in turn brought in Mr. Entrekin and the high-profile literary agent Lynn Nesbit, whose client list has included Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal and Robert Caro among others. A turnaround began.
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The organizers built a series of events apart from the dinner, which is also a $1,000-a-plate fund-raiser, to broaden the award’s appeal. They started a party earlier in the week to honor fiction writers under 35 and created a mix of the literary and the musical. (Neko Case, of the New Pornographers, will be the party’s host this year, and the poet Thomas Sayers Ellis will be mixing the tunes.)
Then three years ago the foundation moved the dinner to Cipriani. The event quickly drew a smattering of boldface names like Vogue’s editor, Anna Wintour, and the “Sex and the City” author Candace Bushnell.
The organizers also started an after-party that was opened up to awards attendees, as well as younger people in the industry who might not be in on the fund-raising dinner.
The success of these ventures — the after-party now has a waiting list — fueled a desire by board members to press further, and create a more public presence for the award.
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This year for this first time the foundation announced the five finalists in the four categories live on television, on MSNBC’s popular “Morning Joe” program.
“Usually we get about 10,000 unique visitors” to the Web site after the announcement, Mr. Augenbraum said, “and we got 22,000 the morning we announced on ‘Morning Joe.’ ”
The board also hired a consultant at the beginning of the year who gave extensive questionnaires to people in the field — writers, agents, booksellers, librarians and past judges — to solicit their thoughts on how the process could be improved.
Mr. Augenbraum insisted nothing will be decided until the December board meeting, but he acknowledged that the questionnaire asked whether the number of entrants should be limited. The current setup, while democratic, produces a reading burden so daunting that few high-profile people are willing to judge.
Another question being considered is whether the awards should have a long list of nominees as well as a shortlist, similar to the Booker prize, a feature that feeds anticipation leading up to the announcement of the winner. ||||| | Louise Erdrich's novel Round House won the National Book Award last night, beating out big-name contenders like Junot Diaz and Dave Eggers. Erdrich's book tells the story of a teenage boy's confrontation with violence on a North Dakota reservation, the New York Times reports. "This is a book about a huge case of injustice ongoing on reservations. Thank you for giving it a wider audience," she said, in an acceptance speech that partly featured her Native American language. The nonfiction prize went to Katherine Boo, whose book Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity describes life in an Indian slum. David Ferry took the poetry prize for Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations, while William Alexander won for Young People's Literature with Goblin Secrets. Novelist Elmore Leonard received the Distinguished Contribution to American Letters award, and Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. was recognized for his Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. This year's awards—which occurred despite Sandy's flooding of the National Book Foundation's office—sought to turn a formerly "dowdy" event glamorous, the Times notes. Held in the sparkling Cipriani Wall Street, the event featured a red carpet and attendees like Molly Ringwald. "It’s not about being glitzy," said the foundation's chairman. "It’s about increasing the impact great books have on the culture." |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
PROBLEM: From the Middle Jurassic of Argentina , it was one of the earliest large South American theropods .
SOLUTION: It was among the earliest large South American theropods , having been found in Middle Jurassic strata of the Can ̃ ado ́ n Asfalto Formation in the Can ̃ ado ́ n Asfalto Basin of Argentina .
PROBLEM: Because of this many see it as important to include a space in the name , as in " trans woman " , using " trans " as a word to talk about a particular type of woman , not a " third gender " as " transwoman " might imply .
SOLUTION: Among those who do refer to themselves as trans women , many see it as an important and appropriate distinction to include a space in the term , as in " trans woman " , thus using " trans " as merely an adjective describing a particular type of woman ; this is in contrast to the usage of " transwoman " as one word , implying a " third gender " .
PROBLEM: The Royal Standard of Scotland , , also known as the Banner of the King of Scots , or more commonly the Lion Rampant of Scotland , is the Scottish Royal Banner of Arms .
SOLUTION: | The Royal Banner of the Royal Arms of Scotland , also known as the Royal Banner of Scotland , or more commonly the Lion Rampant of Scotland , and historically as the Royal Standard of Scotland , or Banner of the King of Scots , is the Royal Banner of Scotland , and historically , the Royal Standard of the Kingdom of Scotland .
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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.
Crosswords DS ( also known as CrossworDS ) is a crosswords video game made by Nuevo Retro Games and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS game console .
Output: | Crosswords DS ( also known as CrossworDS ) and as Nintendo presents : Crossword Collection in PAL regions is a puzzle video game developed by American studio Nuevo Retro games released by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console . |
Hoge & Jahns Podcast: Bears look good after Josh McDaniels burned Colts In episode 146 of their podcast, the Chicago Sun-Times’ Adam L. Jahns and WGN Radio’s Adam Hoge offer their thoughts on the Eagles’ win in the Super Bowl and how the Bears look good following the Colts’ fiasco with Josh McDaniels.
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "The hosts of the podcast are both named Hoge"?
Select from:
(a). Yes;
(b). It's impossible to say;
(c). No;
I think the answer is | (c). |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
One example: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Solution is here: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Now, solve this: The 2011 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 2010--11 season of the National Basketball Association (NBA) in which the Western Conference champion Dallas Mavericks defeated the Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat 4 games to 2 to win their first NBA championship. The series was held from May 31 to June 12, 2011. German player Dirk Nowitzki was named the Finals MVP, becoming the second European to win the award after Tony Parker (2007) and the first German player to do so. The series was a rematch of the 2006 NBA Finals, which the Heat had won in six games.
Solution: | did the dallas mavericks ever win the nba championship? |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.
/ Updated By Maggie Fox
Congress sent President Donald Trump a multi-billion dollar poke in the eye Monday, refusing to slash medical spending as Trump proposed and instead giving the National Institutes of Health a $2 billion raise.
The budget agreement, finalized in the wee hours of Monday morning, also defies Trump’s demand for cuts to NASA’s earth science program, which the administration had targeted as part of a wider promise to cut climate change research. And it provides $103 million to fight the opioid abuse epidemic — an area of rare bipartisan agreement that even Trump supports.
The new budget proposal, which needs votes in the House and Senate, would keep the government running until October, when the 2018 budget is supposed to kick in.
Trump had proposed slashing NIH by $1.2 billion for the rest of 2017 to help pay for his proposed increases in defense spending. Instead, Congress gave the NIH an extra $2 billion for the next 6 months, bumping its total 2017 budget to $34 billion.
Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole, a Republican who chairs the appropriations subcommittee that oversees NIH funding and who sits on the budget committee, said funding medical research is something Republicans and Democrats agree on easily.
Related: Congressional Leaders Reach $1 Trillion Agreement to Avert Shutdown
“We doubled NIH funding in the late 1990s and early 2000s and then we were flat for a dozen years,” Cole told a seminar on biodefense Monday morning. The result was a giant cut in proposed medical research projects that got paid for, he said.
“Instead of funding one in three grants we fell to funding one in six,” Cole said.
He said the agency, as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, need regular increases, not cuts.
“The bill includes a total of $73.5 billion for HHS (the Health and Human Services Department), an increase of $2.8 billion above last year’s enacted level and $3.8 billion above the previous Administration’s budget request,” the House Appropriations committee said in a statement.
“It includes specific increases for research related to Alzheimer’s disease, the brain, antibiotic resistance, and the Precision Medicine Initiative. The bill also provides a general increase to all NIH Institutes and Centers to continue progress in developing new treatments and cures,” it added.
Specifically, the bill:
Gives the National Cancer Institute nearly $5.4 billion, including $300 million to the Obama administration’s Cancer Moonshot program
Provides $4.9 billion to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Raises Alzheimer’s research funding by $400 million, to $1.4 billion
Gives $120 million to former president Barack Obama’s BRAIN initiative
Gives $3.2 billion to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Allocates $57 million to prepare for an influenza pandemic
Gives CDC $112 million for “an evidence-based opioid drug overdose prevention program” and $50 million to the Veterans Health Administration for opioid and substance abuse treatment.
The new 2017 budget also preserves the $101 million Teen Pregnancy Prevention program that Trump proposed cutting in half.
It also sets aside $32 million for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Trump’s State Department earlier this year said it would stop giving any money to UNFPA, which got $69 million from the U.S. last year, so the bill provides for the money to go to other global health programs instead.
Related: Proposed Trump Budget Cuts Would Devastate Medical Spending, Experts Say
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gets a small increase, also.
“The agreement includes a total of program level of $7.3 billion for the CDC — $22 million above the fiscal year 2016 enacted level. This includes $6.3 billion in appropriated funds, as well as $891 million in transfers from the Prevention and Public Health Fund,” the Appropriations summary said.
A GOP bill designed to replace as much of the Affordable Care Act as possible had targeted the Prevention and Public Health Fund, which accounts for 12 percent of the CDC budget. But Congress joined Trump in doing everything possible to starve the 2010 Affordable Care Act. “The bill provides no new funding for Obamacare,” the committee said.
And it returns the U.S. to a focus on “abstinence only” education, which many studies have shown is not effective in reducing teen pregnancies or stopping the spread of disease.
Related: Teen Birth Rate Not Low Enough, CDC Says
“The legislation also increases funding for sexual risk avoidance programs for teens (formerly known as abstinence education) by 50 percent,” the committee said.
NASA gets a 1.9 percent increase, with $19.5 billion to spend before October, including $1.9 billion for earth science, and keeps the NASA education office running despite Trump administration proposals to cut it.
The budget also gives a small raise to climate change research. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research gets a 3.5 percent increase to $478 million.
The fight is not over. Trump has indicated he wants to cut overall health spending, including NIH, by 20 percent for 2018. ||||| Kimmel's friends will step in to guest-host while he takes the week off to be with his family.
Jimmy Kimmel is a father once again.
On April 21, Kimmel and his wife, Jimmy Kimmel Live! co-head writer Molly McNearney, welcomed their second child together, William “Billy” Kimmel. But at just 3 days old, the littlest Kimmel had to undergo open-heart surgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Fortunately, all went well, and Billy is now home with his parents and older sister, Jane.
Kimmel opens up about the complications on tonight’s show and encourages those watching to donate to the Children’s Hospital. Later in the show, he’ll be joined by guests Dr. Oz and Shaun White, who suffered from the same heart troubles as a child. In fact, the Olympian had to have three open-heart surgeries when he was born — a subject he’ll surely discuss on the show.
Kimmel referenced President Donald Trump’s proposed $6 billion cut in funding to the National Institute of Health and said he was glad “our congressmen made a deal last night not to go along with that.” He said his son was born with congenital heart disease and also expressed that partisans from both sides should come together in providing everyone with access to health insurance.
“If your baby is going to die, and it doesn’t have to, it should not matter how much money you make,” said Kimmel, who teared up during his monologue.
Given the circumstances, Kimmel has decided to forgo his annual appearance at ABC’s May 16 upfront presentation to Madison Avenue ad buyers. Instead, he will remain at home with his family.
Without any sort of announcement or fanfare, Kimmel quietly went to repeats last week when his son was still in the hospital. Assuming there isn’t a writers strike, he will go out on paternity leave for the remainder of this week. If there is a work stoppage, the ABC late-night show, like those on the other networks, is expected to go dark.
In his stead, Kimmel’s friends have lined up to guest-host Jimmy Kimmel Live! Will Arnett is set for Tuesday’s show, with a special appearance from his Gong Show host, Tommy Maitland. Anthony Anderson is on board for Wednesday, while Kristen Bell and David Spade will take over on Thursday and Friday, respectively. The guest list for the week includes Maya Rudolph, Charlie Hunnam, Adam Scott and Guy Ritchie.
Video from Monday’s show is below.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday morning, McNearney tweeted out a photo of Kimmel with their newborn son:
I am thankful to love and be loved by these two brave guys. Both criers. pic.twitter.com/NL0C3K3Q4E — Molly McNearney (@mollymcnearney) May 2, 2017
And many in Hollywood are tweeting well wishes to the Kimmel family:
Things got a bit dusty in the Meyers' house this morning. Love to the entire Kimmel family. https://t.co/1VlaTMn2SP — Seth Meyers (@sethmeyers) May 2, 2017
Thank you @jimmykimmel for your honesty, your words, your bravery. All should watch this!!! https://t.co/HixCTVxqLQ — christina applegate (@1capplegate) May 2, 2017
Hey @jimmykimmel, thanks for this. You are the best of the best. @mollymcnearney & Billy, too. https://t.co/ZrUhgqtk6v — Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) May 2, 2017
Do watch Jimmy Kimmel talking about his baby son’s heart surgery in a plea for healthcare for all – video https://t.co/tOR5udB2oE — Mia Farrow (@MiaFarrow) May 2, 2017
Watch & prepare to tear up. Thanks @jimmykimmel for sharing your story & reminding us what's at stake w/health care.https://t.co/2kTEeUEG2f — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 2, 2017
Well said, Jimmy. That's exactly why we fought so hard for the ACA, and why we need to protect it for kids like Billy. And congratulations! https://t.co/77F8rZrD3P — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 2, 2017
Welcome, Billy Kimmel! You have amazing parents – funny, kind, beautiful. Your dad has some good qualities too. @JimmyKimmel @MollyMcNearney — Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) May 2, 2017
Updated 7:31 a.m. Tuesday, May 2: McNearney's and other tweets added. |||||
A: | Jimmy Kimmel is known for his smirks, but Monday night he offered tears instead on Jimmy Kimmel Live with an emotional announcement, per the Hollywood Reporter. The late-night host was absent from his show last week, and he explained that it was because of the birth of his son, William "Billy" Kimmel, with wife Molly McNearney—a story he told through tears, though he assured audience members it had a "happy ending." Kimmel describes how, shortly after his son was born, a "very attentive nurse" not only picked up on the fact that the baby had a heart murmur (a common occurrence with newborns), but also that the infant was "purple." It turns out the baby was born with congenital heart disease and, at just three days old, had to undergo open-heart surgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The surgery went well, and little Billy is now home with his mom and dad and big sister Jane. "Poor kid, not only did he get a bad heart, he got my face," Kimmel joked during audience applause as a picture of his smiling son was shown. He adds the baby is "doing great. He's eating, he's sleeping, he peed on his mother today." Kimmel momentarily got political and thanked members of Congress for voting Monday to give the NIH $2 billion more than usual, despite President Trump's wishes to cut funding. "If your baby is going to die, and it doesn't have to, it should not matter how much money you make," Kimmel said. (Trump himself was on Kimmel's show.) |
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.
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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: The University of Engineering and Technology , Lahore is the oldest engineering university in Pakistan .
Solution: | The University of Engineering and Technology , Lahore ( UET Lahore ) is a public university and the oldest engineering institution in Pakistan , located in Lahore , Punjab , Pakistan . |
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: Tweet with a location
You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| Mr. Ayers has signaled to multiple major Republican donors that Mr. Pence wants to be ready.
Mr. Obst denied that he and Mr. Ayers had made any private insinuations and called suggestions that the vice president was positioning himself for 2020 “beyond ridiculous.”
For his part, Mr. Pence is methodically establishing his own identity and bestowing personal touches on people who could pay dividends in the future. He not only spoke in June at one of the most important yearly events for Iowa Republicans, Senator Joni Ernst’s pig roast, but he also held a separate, more intimate gathering for donors afterward.
When he arrived in Des Moines on Air Force Two, Mr. Pence was greeted by an Iowan who had complained about his experience with the Affordable Care Act — and who happened to be a member of the state Republican central committee.
The vice president has also turned his residence at the Naval Observatory into a hub for relationship building. In June, he opened the mansion to social conservative activists like Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and representatives of the billionaire kingmakers Charles G. and David H. Koch.
At large gatherings for contributors, Mr. Pence keeps a chair free at each table so he can work his way around the room. At smaller events for some of the party’s biggest donors, he lays on the charm. Last month, Mr. Pence hosted the Kentucky coal barons Kelly and Joe Craft, along with the University of Kentucky men’s basketball coach, John Calipari, for a dinner a few hours after Ms. Craft appeared before the Senate for her hearing as nominee to become ambassador to Canada.
Other Republicans eyeing the White House have taken note.
“They see him moving around, having big donors at the house for dinner,” said Charles R. Black Jr., a veteran of Republican presidential politics. “And they’ve got to try to keep up.”
Mr. Cotton, for example, is planning a two-day, $5,000-per-person fund-raiser in New York next month, ostensibly for Senate Republicans (and his own eventual re-election campaign). The gathering will include a dinner and a series of events at the Harvard Club, featuring figures well known in hawkish foreign policy circles such as Stephen Hadley, Mr. Bush’s national security adviser. ||||| Tweet with a location
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A: | President Trump may be away from the White House for a while, but he's not taking a vacation from Twitter. He unleashed several tweets Monday morning on everything from a defense of his base to a personal attack on Sen. Richard Blumenthal. "The Trump base is far bigger & stronger than ever before (despite some phony Fake News polling)," he wrote, citing recent rallies in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Iowa. "The fact is the Fake News Russian collusion story, record Stock Market, border security, military strength, jobs, Supreme Court pick, economic enthusiasm, deregulation & so much more have driven the Trump base even closer together. Will never change!" he added. Trump's statements come after a weekend report by the New York Times that several big-name Republicans, including VP Mike Pence, were beginning to consider 2020 runs of their own because Trump's support was showing cracks. (Pence rejected the report.) As for Blumenthal, Trump wrote that the Connecticut Democrat "told stories about his Vietnam battles and conquests, how brave he was, and it was all a lie. He cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child. Now he judges collusion?" (It's a reference to this.) The president also reiterated that he's not on vacation as the White House undergoes renovation and is "working hard from New Jersey." |
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".
After the disruption of the plot in Amman, it had not escaped notice in Washington that Hijazi had lived in California and driven a cab in Boston and that Deek was a naturalized U.S. citizen who, as Berger reminded President Clinton, had been in touch with extremists in the United States as well as abroad. Before Ressam's arrest, Berger saw no need to raise a public alarm at home- although the FBI put all field offices on alert. Now, following Ressam's arrest, the FBI asked for an unprecedented number of special wiretaps. Both Berger andTenet told us that their impression was that more Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) wiretap requests were processed during the millennium alert than ever before. The next day, writing about Ressam's arrest and links to a cell in Montreal, Berger informed the President that the FBI would advise police in the United States to step up activities but would still try to avoid undue public alarm by stressing that the government had no specific information about planned attacks. At a December 22 meeting of the Small Group of principals, FBI Director Louis Freeh briefed officials from the NSC staff, CIA, and Justice on wiretaps and investigations inside the United States, including a Brooklyn entity tied to the Ressam arrest, a seemingly unreliable foreign report of possible attacks on seven U.S. cities, two Algerians detained on the Canadian border, and searches in Montreal related to a jihadist cell. The Justice Department released a statement on the alert the same day. Clarke's staff warned, "Foreign terrorist sleeper cells are present in the US and attacks in the US are likely." Clarke asked Berger to try to make sure that the domestic agencies remained alert." Is there a threat to civilian aircraft?"he wrote. Clarke also asked the principals in late December to discuss a foreign security service report about a Bin Laden plan to put bombs on transatlantic flights. The CSG met daily. Berger said that the principals met constantly. Later, when asked what made her decide to ask Ressam to step out of his vehicle, Diana Dean, a Customs inspector who referred Ressam to secondary inspection, testified that it was her "training and experience." It appears that the heightened sense of alert at the national level played no role in Ressam's detention. There was a mounting sense of public alarm. The earlier Jordanian arrests had been covered in the press, and Ressam's arrest was featured on network evening news broadcasts throughout the Christmas season. The FBI was more communicative during the millennium crisis than it had ever been. <sep>On what date did the warning "Foreign terrorist sleeper cells are present in the US and attacks in the US are likely." take place?<sep>Christmas day
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Tom plays pool in a deserted pool hall , pocketing two balls by lowdown means and then wakes Jerry up by shooting the 10-ball into the pocket where he is sleeping . Jerry awakes just in time to avoid the 10-ball and is carried out to the ball return , where the 10 and the 13 smash the mouse between each other . Jerry is mad and walks up through the pocket , first sees nothing , but after a few steps back to the pocket , he spots Tom perched behind it . Jerry tries to jump into another corner pocket , but Tom aims a cue ball with so much force that it roll's into the pocket , and spins back out of it and it rolls Jerry backwards to Tom , who has made a ramp with his cue stick for the mouse to slide up . Jerry stops at the top of the stick and is then blown down by Tom , who then shoots a stream of balls to make the mouse flat . The whole train rebounds back towards the cat and the balls stack up at Tom's end of the table . Tom shoots all the balls in succession with his cue , and then tries to shoot Jerry , but the mouse hangs onto the cue tip . The cat , as if he were saying `` Have it your way '' , chalks up and shoots the 8-ball using Jerry . The mouse drops off the cue tip and then is upended by the 8-ball rolling in circles , and Tom forces Jerry to jump through the ball rack as if he were a circus performer . Tom then sets it on fire to add an additional level of torment , and when Jerry accomplishes this with poise , Tom discards the flaming rack and shoots the 8-ball across the table and back . <sep>Why did the mouse drop off the cue tip?<sep>Anything else
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Before the mysterious disappearance of one of its passenger jets this month, Malaysia wasn't a country used to finding itself dominating headlines around the world. Some of its Southeast Asian neighbors, including Indonesia and the Philippines, have suffered devastating natural disasters in recent years and are all too familiar with the media frenzy that accompanies a major crisis. But Malaysia has largely managed to stay out of the international spotlight since its independence from British colonial rule more than half a century ago. "It is one of these countries, because of its geography, that doesn't have earthquakes," said Ernest Bower, senior adviser for Southeast Asia studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "It doesn't have tsunamis. It hasn't been tested with a disaster like this." The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has thrust the government into the dazzling glare of worldwide attention. And it hasn't emerged with very good grades. "I think on a stress test, they're failing," Bower told CNN's Jake Tapper, pointing to the government's coordination of different agencies and communication with other countries. China among critics Criticism and complaints have come from other countries involved in the search for the missing plane, including China and Vietnam, and from the relatives of passengers. Malaysian officials have created confusion by issuing contradictory statements on key aspects of the investigation. The majority of the people on board the plane were Chinese, and Beijing has increasingly voiced its displeasure with the search, especially after Malaysia announced over the weekend that evidence suggested the plane had been deliberately flown west into the Indian Ocean, away from its last confirmed location over the South China Sea. "The new information means the intensive search in the South China Sea for the whole past week was worthless and would never bear fruit," said a commentary published by China's state-run news agency Xinhua. "Even worse, the golden time for saving possible survivors, if any, was generously wasted." <sep>Of what nationality were the majority of people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?<sep>Malaysian
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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.
[EX Q]: Why might someone distract a person in pain?, Context: Pain is the most common reason for physician consultation in most developed countries. It is a major symptom in many medical conditions, and can interfere with a person's quality of life and general functioning. Psychological factors such as social support, hypnotic suggestion, excitement, or distraction can significantly affect pain's intensity or unpleasantness. In some arguments put forth in physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia debates, pain has been used as an argument to permit terminally ill patients to end their lives.
[EX A]: affect pain's intensity or unpleasantness
[EX Q]: How does bass drum does not sound?, Context: It is still possible for two sounds of indefinite pitch to clearly be higher or lower than one another. For instance, a snare drum sounds higher pitched than a bass drum though both have indefinite pitch, because its sound contains higher frequencies. In other words, it is possible and often easy to roughly discern the relative pitches of two sounds of indefinite pitch, but sounds of indefinite pitch do not neatly correspond to any specific pitch. A special type of pitch often occurs in free nature when sound reaches the ear of an observer directly from the source, and also after reflecting off a sound-reflecting surface. This phenomenon is called repetition pitch, because the addition of a true repetition of the original sound to itself is the basic prerequisite.
[EX A]: higher pitched
[EX Q]: Formal membership of what varies between communities?, Context: Formal membership varies between communities, but basic lay adherence is often defined in terms of a traditional formula in which the practitioner takes refuge in The Three Jewels: the Buddha, the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha), and the Sangha (the Buddhist community). At the present time, the teachings of all three branches of Buddhism have spread throughout the world, and Buddhist texts are increasingly translated into local languages. While in the West Buddhism is often seen as exotic and progressive, in the East it is regarded as familiar and traditional. Buddhists in Asia are frequently well organized and well funded. In countries such as Cambodia and Bhutan, it is recognized as the state religion and receives government support. Modern influences increasingly lead to new forms of Buddhism that significantly depart from traditional beliefs and practices.
[EX A]: | Buddhism
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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 does the A in "DRAM" stand for?, Context: IBM has 12 research laboratories worldwide, bundled into IBM Research. As of 2013[update] the company held the record for most patents generated by a business for 22 consecutive years. Its employees have garnered five Nobel Prizes, six Turing Awards, ten National Medals of Technology and five National Medals of Science. Notable company inventions or developments include the automated teller machine (ATM), the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the Universal Product Code (UPC), the financial swap, the Fortran programming language, SABRE airline reservation system, dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), copper wiring in semiconductors, the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) semiconductor manufacturing process, and Watson artificial intelligence. | access |
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: Ethical egoism is the normative ethical position that moral agents ought to do what is in their own self-interest. It differs from psychological egoism, which claims that people can only act in their self-interest. Ethical egoism also differs from rational egoism, which holds that it is rational to act in one's self-interest. Ethical egoism holds, therefore, that actions whose consequences will benefit the doer can be considered ethical in this sense.
Student: | how does egoism define what is morally right |
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: Grasshopper won the most national championship titles ( 27 ) and Swiss Cups ( 19 ) .
Student: | With 27 titles , Grasshopper holds the records for winning the most national championship titles and for the most successes in the Swiss Cup tournament , 19 victories in the competition . |
Instructions: In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Input: Not all nation states have codified constitutions, though all such states have a jus commune, or law of the land, that may consist of a variety of imperative and consensual rules. These may include customary law, conventions, statutory law, judge-made law, or international rules and norms. Constitutional law deals with the fundamental principles by which the government exercises its authority. In some instances, these principles grant specific powers to the government, such as the power to tax and spend for the welfare of the population. Other times, constitutional principles act to place limits on what the government can do, such as prohibiting the arrest of an individual without sufficient cause.
Output: | what is the difference between common law statutory law and constitutional law |
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.
Input: Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, (Spanish: Condado de Los Ángeles) is the most populous county in the United States, with more than 10 million inhabitants as of 2017. Its population is larger than that of 41 individual U.S. states. It is the third-largest metropolitan economy in the world, with a Nominal GDP of over $700 billion -- larger than the GDPs of Belgium, Saudi Arabia, Norway and Taiwan. It has 88 incorporated cities and many unincorporated areas and at 4,083 square miles (10,570 km), it is larger than the combined areas of Delaware and Rhode Island. The county is home to more than one-quarter of California residents and is one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the U.S. Its county seat, Los Angeles, is also its most populous city at about four million.
Output: | what is the difference between los angeles and los angeles county |
IN: What happens next?
How to buy a baseball bat
Know the key differences in baseball bats.
Bats are available in both wood, metal and composite versions, with the metal bats often made of titanium or aluminum. The grips on the bats may also be different, as well as the length.
OPTIONS:
- Lumber bats are more durable and offer different agility and functionality. Technology bats tend to be made from steel and carbon and on the heavier side cost less to their modern, more expensive counterparts.
- The sturdiness of the grip varies depending on the size of the bat. Understand the amount of strength and seam the bat holds.
- The thicker the grip, the finer your bat will be. Plywood bats have soft wood grips, so only one bat is used at a time.
- Typically, longer bats are appropriate for players who are a little taller, while shorter bats are easier for children or teenagers to manage effectively. Having control over the bat is a very important deal when it comes to swinging.
OUT: Typically, longer bats are appropriate for players who are a little taller, while shorter bats are easier for children or teenagers to manage effectively. Having control over the bat is a very important deal when it comes to swinging.
IN: What happens next?
How to edit documents on dropbox
Go to https: // www.dropbox.com.
You can use any web browser on your computer, such as chrome or firefox, to access dropbox.
If you're not signed in to dropbox, enter your login information to sign in now.
OPTIONS:
- Click the magnifying glass in the upper-right corner. The search bar will display you a list of all your browsers.
- Click the button that says " manage accounts. It's on the far-right.
- Click the " edit/share " tab to sign in. This tab is near the top of the dialog box.
- Click the document you want to edit. This opens a preview of the document.
OUT: Click the document you want to edit. This opens a preview of the document.
IN: What happens next?
How to improve your child's creative writing skills
Read to your child every night.
Reading and writing go hand-in-hand. Good writers are well read in various subjects and writing styles.
OPTIONS:
- Your child's teacher and local librarian can help you select books that are appropriate to your child's age and interests. In addition to reading to your child, have your child read to you if she is old enough.
- If you would rather be fully engaged in your child's writing but keep in mind that your child has to do the reading too, leave it to them. Reading is important, but not the only one.
- Reading is the first step to improving your child's creative development. Good writers will ensure your child's reading level is consistent and always flows well into the appropriate setting.
- Better grammar and understanding of certain subjects encourage better artistic writing. For example, you may take a class with your child or read as a reading partner.
OUT: | Your child's teacher and local librarian can help you select books that are appropriate to your child's age and interests. In addition to reading to your child, have your child read to you if she is old enough. |
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.
These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| Damage in northern Chile caused by the tsunami associated with the magnitude-8.2 earthquake that struck in April 2014.
Shaking a smartphone can help you pinpoint your parked car, discover a good diner and then pay for your meal. Now, scientists have shown that a jiggling, GPS-equipped phone could someday deliver an early warning of earthquakes.
Earthquake early warning systems depend on the time delay between two sets of seismic waves. The first set, called P waves, often delivers a sharp jolt. The most damaging shaking comes from slower surface waves, called S waves. For cities built far from powerful faults, distant seismic instruments stationed on the hazardous faults can detect the P waves and send an alert before the S waves arrive. The warning may be only a few seconds to a minute, but that's enough time to stop trains and surgeries and for people to find cover.
"A few seconds can be enormously helpful," said lead study author Sarah Minson, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California.
For major earthquakes, those of magnitude-7 and larger, GPS sensors in smartphones can also provide up to several seconds of warning, according to a study published today (April 10) in the journal Science Advances.
The researchers tested the system with computer modeling, not in the real world, though they plan to launch a pilot project in Chile this year.
The GPS warning system is deceptively simple: If the GPS receivers from just a few phones suddenly lurched in one direction, that's probably not an earthquake. But if a few thousand phones all move at once, then the motion is likely from a sudden seismic jolt. (During a major earthquake, the earth may jump horizontally and/or vertically by several feet.) [The 10 Biggest Earthquakes in History]
The phones can determine the location and magnitude of the earthquake from the amount of surface movement and then send out a warning.
The computer models simulated what actual GPS data might look like from a magnitude-7 earthquake along California's Hayward fault, and also tested GPS data from the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan. The team ran the models using the sensitivity of a Google Nexus 5 smartphone. The phone picked up geologic shifts as small as 0.5 inches (1 centimeter).
Minson hopes that if enough volunteers joined in, a smartphone network could provide an early warning in remote areas of the world where smartphones are popular but earthquake warnings are nonexistent. Scientists at the U.S Geological Survey are already monitoring Twitter for earthquake keywords, which provide early confirmation of their instrumental data.
"Probably the biggest impact would be in parts of the world that don't have networks and can't afford to build them," Minson said. "We have high hopes that this could make a huge impact, because the vast majority of the world has no form of early warning or even rapid response to an earthquake. What people do increasingly have are these devices."
However, there's one big hurdle before any smartphone warning system becomes a reality. The researchers need access to raw GPS data, which smartphone manufacturers currently prevent. The processing that provides a good GPS position to smartphone users also masks earthquake signals, Minson said. It's likely that both phone software and chip firmware would need to be reprogrammed for the earthquake early warning idea to work.
Also, at least a few hundred people will need to be near the earthquake's epicenter so their phones can send out alerts to others.
For the test project in Chile, the scientists will hack about 250 smartphones so they can get the GPS data they need.
The research team is also involved in the West Coast’s $145 million ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system, which uses both GPS and seismometers.
Follow Becky Oskin @beckyoskin. Follow Live Science @livescience, Facebook & Google+. Originally published on Live Science. ||||| Thank you for your interest in spreading the word about Science Advances.
NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address. ||||| MENLO PARK, Calif.-- Smartphones and other personal electronic devices could, in regions where they are in widespread use, function as early warning systems for large earthquakes according to newly reported research. This technology could serve regions of the world that cannot afford higher quality, but more expensive, conventional earthquake early warning systems, or could contribute to those systems.
The study, led by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey and published April 10 in the inaugural volume of the new AAAS journal Science Advances, found that the sensors in smartphones and similar devices could be used to build earthquake warning systems. Despite being less accurate than scientific-grade equipment, the GPS (Global Positioning System) receivers in a smartphone can detect the permanent ground movement (displacement) caused by fault motion in a large earthquake.
Using crowd-sourced observations from participating users' smartphones, earthquakes could be detected and analyzed, and customized earthquake warnings could be transmitted back to users. "Crowd-sourced alerting means that the community will benefit by data generated from the community," said Sarah Minson, USGS geophysicist and lead author of the study. Minson was a post-doctoral researcher at Caltech while working on this study.
Earthquake early warning systems detect the start of an earthquake and rapidly transmit warnings to people and automated systems before they experience shaking at their location. While much of the world's population is susceptible to damaging earthquakes, EEW systems are currently operating in only a few regions around the globe, including Japan and Mexico. "Most of the world does not receive earthquake warnings mainly due to the cost of building the necessary scientific monitoring networks," said USGS geophysicist and project lead Benjamin Brooks.
Researchers tested the feasibility of crowd-sourced EEW with a simulation of a hypothetical magnitude 7 earthquake, and with real data from the 2011 magnitude 9 Tohoku-oki, Japan earthquake. The results show that crowd-sourced EEW could be achieved with only a tiny percentage of people in a given area contributing information from their smartphones. For example, if phones from fewer than 5000 people in a large metropolitan area responded, the earthquake could be detected and analyzed fast enough to issue a warning to areas farther away before the onset of strong shaking. "The speed of an electronic warning travels faster than the earthquake shaking does," explained Craig Glennie, a report author and professor at the University of Houston.
The authors found that the sensors in smartphones and similar devices could be used to issue earthquake warnings for earthquakes of approximately magnitude 7 or larger, but not for smaller, yet potentially damaging earthquakes. Comprehensive EEW requires a dense network of scientific instruments. Scientific-grade EEW, such as the U.S. Geological Survey's ShakeAlert system that is currently being implemented on the west coast of the United States, will be able to help minimize the impact of earthquakes over a wide range of magnitudes. However, in many parts of the world where there are insufficient resources to build and maintain scientific networks, but consumer electronics are increasingly common, crowd-sourced EEW has significant potential.
"The U.S. earthquake early warning system is being built on our high-quality scientific earthquake networks, but crowd-sourced approaches can augment our system and have real potential to make warnings possible in places that don't have high-quality networks," said Douglas Given, USGS coordinator of the ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System. The U.S. Agency for International Development has already agreed to fund a pilot project, in collaboration with the Chilean Centro Sismologico Nacional, to test a pilot hybrid earthquake warning system comprising stand-alone smartphone sensors and scientific-grade sensors along the Chilean coast.
"The use of mobile phone fleets as a distributed sensor network -- and the statistical insight that many imprecise instruments can contribute to the creation of more precise measurements -- has broad applicability including great potential to benefit communities where there isn't an existing network of scientific instruments," said Bob Iannucci of Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley.
"Thirty years ago it took months to assemble a crude picture of the deformations from an earthquake. This new technology promises to provide a near-instantaneous picture with much greater resolution," said Thomas Heaton, a coauthor of the study and professor of Engineering Seismology at Caltech.
"Crowd-sourced data are less precise, but for larger earthquakes that cause large shifts in the ground surface, they contain enough information to detect that an earthquake has occurred, information necessary for early warning," said study co-author Susan Owen of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
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This research was a collaboration among scientists from the USGS, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of Houston, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Carnegie Mellon University-Silicon Valley, and included support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
http://www. usgs. gov
Caltech is a world-renowned research and education institution focused on science and engineering, where faculty and students pursue new knowledge about our world and search for the kinds of bold and innovative advances that will transform our future.
The University of Houston is a Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university recognized by The Princeton Review as one of the nation's best colleges for undergraduate education.
Carnegie Mellon is a private, internationally ranked university with programs in areas ranging from science, technology and business to public policy, the humanities and the arts.
Managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory has active programs in Earth science, space-based astronomy and technology development, and manages NASA's worldwide Deep Space Network.
USGS provides science for a changing world. Visit USGS.gov, and follow us on Twitter @USGS, and our other social media channels. |||||
| Ah, the buzzing smartphone: It's a call, a tweet, a funny photo—or an earthquake? Yep, scientists say crowd-sourced data may one day relay warnings about impending quakes that have already begun elsewhere, LiveScience reports. In a computer-model study led by the US Geological Survey, researchers found that smartphones could send information about quakes of magnitude 7 or greater, giving several seconds of warning to areas the quake hadn't yet reached. The phones would automatically detect a temblor with an app using GPS technology and transmit information some distance away. Information from fewer than 5,000 phones would be enough to send a helpful alert, Eureka Alert reports—giving people time to halt trains, stop surgeries, take cover, you name it. "A few seconds can be enormously helpful," says lead author Sarah Minson. This could bolster early warning systems that already exist (in Japan and Mexico, say) or curb the need for such pricey projects: "We have high hopes that this could make a huge impact," says Minson. Scientists are currently planning a pilot project in Chile with 250 smartphones, and will also work with the West Coast's $145 million ShakeAlert plan, which mixes seismometers with GPS data. One little problem: Phone manufacturers don't allow access to raw GPS data, so smartphones will have to be reprogrammed down the road for the system to work. And, of course, the system will have to work in the real world for the first time, the LA Times reports. "I'm a little skeptical it will work," says a San Diego scientist. "I think a system like that would false-alarm more than they claim in the paper." (See why the odds of a strong California earthquake have just gone up.) |
Calendar » Garden Preschool Community Open House August 25, 2012 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM SBCEO Garden Preschool is a private, non-profit, quality preschool/pre-K program in the downtown Santa Barbara area. Come for a visit, tour the school and play yard and meet the teachers. Come see what we have to offer.
Garden Preschool Community Open House is a reoccuring event. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
input hypothesis: you can wind wire around a cylindrical with a pencil cell.
Context: How to build a motor<br>Wind wire around a cylindrical object like a pen or pencil cell. This coil of wire will be the moving motor armature. If the wire is thick then the diameter of the coil should be larger.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: Yes
Context:
A Student's Song of Heidelberg (German:Ein Burschenlied aus Heidelberg) is a 1930 German musical film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Hans Brausewetter, Betty Bird and Willi Forst. It marked Hartl's directoral debut. The film is in the tradition of the nostalgic Old Heidelberg.
Hypothesis: A Student's Song of Heidelberg was a financial hit. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
It's impossible to say
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
The debate on the bill is whether a proper balance is being struck between the rights of the accused and the rights of society as represented by law enforcement agencies charged with the responsibility and duty to bring criminals to justice, investigate crimes and have a sufficiently strong record in terms of success that it would be a deterrent to those who plan and commit premeditated acts against an individual.
Sentence: The bill being debated is not intended to serve as a deterrent.
Output: No
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Justice, the theory, which would advance the aim of limiting times in a way that is enforceable, is only applicable in the case that we brought before you here to the '98 act, and would not necessarily be applicable under the '76 act for the reasons the Government has offered.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: The theory about limitiing times is called Justice for the People and it was created in 1997
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Answer:
It's impossible to say
I don't think we agree on that. I would certainly also be judicious in evaluating any potential use of American troops overseas. I think we have to be very reticent about that. But look, Jim, the world is changing so rapidly. The way I see it, the world is getting much closer together.
The speaker thinks that the world is changing at an unbelievably slow rate. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | No |
How to check a potential tenant's credit<br>Obtain the applicant's personal information. To run a credit check, you'll need certain personal information from the applicant. Get the following : [substeps] Full legal name date of birth social security number previous address landlord contact information Get permission to do a credit check.
This article is discussing how to steal someone's credit information. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Broken fingernail<br>Today I was letting my nails dry. Yet unfortunately one of my nails broke. It was devastating. My nails were ruined. I knew I had to fix them.
Three nails broke. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
How to lubricate a bike<br>Choose a wet lube if you ride in the rain. If you live in a rainy environment or frequently ride on wet, muddy trails, go for a wet chain lube. It's thicker, so heavy downpours and mud won't wash it away.
There is no such thing as wet chain lube. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | No |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
One example is below.
Q: 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.
A: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Rationale: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Q: The term ``Grand Slam'' was first applied to Bobby Jones' achievement of winning the four major golf events of 1930: The Open Championship, the U.S. Open, the U.S. Amateur and the British Amateur. When Jones won all four, the sports world searched for ways to capture the magnitude of his accomplishment. Up to that time, there was no term to describe such a feat because no one had thought it possible. The Atlanta Journal's O.B. Keeler dubbed it the ``Grand Slam,'' borrowing a bridge term. George Trevor of the New York Sun wrote that Jones had ``stormed the impregnable quadrilateral of golf.'' Keeler would later write the words that would forever be linked to one of the greatest individual accomplishments in the history of sports:
A: | has anyone won the grand slam in golf in one year? |
How to recognize thrush symptoms (oropharyngeal candidiasis )<br>Look for white lesions in the mouth. These lesions (a catch-all term for damaged or abnormal tissue) are plaque-like because they are raised and can be in various sizes or come together to cover larger areas. The lesions are typically white and look like cottage cheese, though they might also be red and raw-looking.
Thrush may be black in color.
A: No
How to use physical therapy to relieve back pain<br>Choose a physical therapist who specializes in back pain treatment. Make an appointment with your doctor to get a prescription for physical therapy. Ask the doctor to recommend a handful of physical therapists who have extensive experience treating cervical, thoracic or lumbar spinal pain.
You should tell your doctor that you want a prescription for physical therapy.
A: Yes
Journalists of the concealed BBC, that was made happen through advisers of London industralists, asked Slavkov.
Journalists worked for ABC
A: | No |
How to transfer data from xperia to iphone
Turn on your new iphone.
Press the power button at the top right corner (or on the right edge, depending on your model) to power on your new device.
Use this method when you're setting up an iphone for the first time.
If you've already gone through the iphone's setup process, see transferring data to an existing iphone. Follow the on-screen instructions to set up your iphone.
. a small boy wearing a black and red striped shirt
is sitting with a drum set and playing drums.
How to make a hardcore wrestling company
Find a name for your company and a logo.
Try to use a name that has not been used before. For example, super-fun wrestling would be sfw.
The logo could be anything, even as simple as those letters in bold with a circle around it. Find a place that you can use on a regular basis.
How to cope if members are rude or upset you on a forum
Think before you post your problem or topic on the forum.
If it is a very personal problem it may be better solved by going to an advice center, or legal advice center if it is a legal problem. Not posting it on a forum.
| Bear in mind that the forum is public, and so everyone will read what you post. So if you do choose to post on a forum, if it is a personal problem you should choose a username that is different from your real name. |
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Police in Virginia Beach have arrested a man on several child pornography charges. Derrick Smith faces charges of possession and reproduction of child porn. 10 On Your Side is working to learn more about this story. Stay with WAVY.com for updates.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
The man is from the local area.
Select from the following. (a). Yes; (b). It's impossible to say; (c). No; | (b). |
How to watch tv on the internet
Make sure you have at least a 3mbps broadband internet connection.
When streaming tv from free websites, the picture quality can be greatly affected by your download speed. Contact your internet service provider (isp) (or log into your account) to see if your connection speed meets this recommendation to watch standard-quality tv.
To watch hd-quality tv, opt for at least a 5mbps connection instead. Browse current and old episodes of shows offered directly by tv networks.
A wooden outdoors stair case is shown outside of a white and brown horse. all
of a sudden, a black dog comes around the corner and trots up the stairs and multiple replays are shown.
How to the mesh tool in adobe illustrator
Select different swatches of blue for the mesh cloud.
You can follow some combinations of blue on the illustration below.
Using the third blue from your swatch box (or any blue, for that matter), create a graphic cloud.
Create the cloud by using the ellipse tool and by placing different sizes of circles on top of each other. From your pathfinder's tool (or box) click unite to merge the circles together.
How to get your parents to accept your friends from other cultures
Ask questions.
Ask your parents about their cultural beliefs and opinions. Your parents' answers may explain why they feel the way they do about other cultures.
| If you can get your parents' to explain their concerns, you can address those concerns. Then you can get your parents to accept your friends from other cultures. |
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.
Their skin hasn't always been so flawless.
GALLERY. » ||||| See more of Ariel Desiree McRae on Facebook ||||| When it comes to love, it's not about the money.
Quinn and Ariel McRae dated for two years before tying the knot. But a saleswoman where the couple bought Ariel's rings tried to put a damper on the festivities by calling the jewelry "pathetic."
"My husband doesn't have a lot, neither of us do," McRae explained in a Facebook post about the encounter. "We scrape and scrape to pay bills and put food in our bellies, but after almost 2 years of dating we decided that we couldn't wait anymore, so we didn't."
"I wasn't even thinking about rings, I just wanted to marry my best friend," she continued, "But he wouldn't have it. He scraped up just enough money to buy me two matching rings from Pandora."
The two headed to the store and picked out a pair of rings they could afford — two rings for $130.
McRae was was thrilled to get her rings, and then, the couple encountered a saleswoman.
"While we were purchasing my rings... another lady that was working there came over to help the lady selling them to us," she wrote. "She said, 'Y'all, can you believe that some men get these as engagement rings? How pathetic.'"
"I watched my now husband's face fall," she continued.
Quinn was already upset that he couldn't get his fiancé a more expensive ring, so the saleswoman's words crushed him.
"He was so upset at the idea of not making me happy enough and of me not wanting to marry him because my rings didn't cost enough money or weren't flashy enough," she explained.
"Y'all I would have gotten married to this man if it had been a 25¢ gum ball machine ring" she proudly posted. "When did our nation fall so far to think the only way a man can truly love a woman is if he buys her $3,000+ jewelry and makes a public decree of his affection with said flashy ring?"
McRae quickly shot down the pretentious saleswoman, calmly saying, "It isn't the ring that matters, it is the love that goes into buying one that is."
"My husband was so afraid of me not wanting him because he couldn't afford a piece of jewelry," she posted. "But here I am though, courthouse married, $130 ring set, the love of my life by my side and happier than I could ever imagine."
Looks like this marriage is off to a pretty perfect start.
Mashable reached out to McRae for a comment, and will update the story when she replies. |||||
| Quinn and Ariel McRae don't have a lot of money. They say they "scrape and scrape to pay bills and put food in our bellies." What they do have is love, lots of it, and they decided it was high time after two years of dating to tie the knot, reports Mashable. So they pulled together $130, marched to a store in Martin, Tenn., and found a ring set from Pandora they could afford. Then a saleswoman interjected, telling the person they'd been working with, "Y'all, can you believe that some men get these as engagement rings? How pathetic." Taking to Facebook to recount their story, McRae says she watched her now-husband's face fall. But she stayed calm and replied, "It isn't the ring that matters, it is the love that goes into buying one." McRae doesn't stop there. "Y'all I would have gotten married to this man if it had been a 25¢ gum ball machine ring," she writes. "When did our nation fall so far to think the only way a man can truly love a woman is if he buys her $3,000+ jewelry and makes a public decree of his affection with said flashy ring?" Her post has amassed more than 55,000 shares and 75,000 likes, and Yahoo7 Be reports that many comments applaud her response. "My ring is CZ too!" one person writes. "I'm still just as much married as I would've been with a real [diamond]!" McRae, meanwhile, reports that she's now "courthouse-married" with a $130 ring set and "happier than I could ever imagine." (This $125,000 engagement ring is now being fought over in court.) |
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".
When American 11 struck the World Trade Center at 8:46, no one in the White House or traveling with the President knew that it had been hijacked. While that information circulated within the FAA, we found no evidence that the hijacking was reported to any other agency in Washington before 8:46. Most federal agencies learned about the crash in New York from CNN. Within the FAA, the administrator, Jane Garvey, and her acting deputy, Monte Belger, had not been told of a confirmed hijacking before they learned from television that a plane had crashed. Others in the agency were aware of it, as we explained earlier in this chapter. Inside the National Military Command Center, the deputy director of operations and his assistant began notifying senior Pentagon officials of the incident. At about 9:00, the senior NMCC operations officer reached out to the FAA operations center for information. Although the NMCC was advised of the hijacking of American 11, the scrambling of jets was not discussed. In Sarasota, Florida, the presidential motorcade was arriving at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, where President Bush was to read to a class and talk about education. White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card told us he was standing with the President outside the classroom when Senior Advisor to the President Karl Rove first informed them that a small, twin-engine plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. The President's reaction was that the incident must have been caused by pilot error. At 8:55, before entering the classroom, the President spoke to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, who was at the White House. She recalled first telling the President it was a twin-engine aircraft-and then a commercial aircraft-that had struck the World Trade Center, adding "that's all we know right now, Mr. President." At the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney had just sat down for a meeting when his assistant told him to turn on his television because a plane had struck the NorthTower of the World Trade Center. The Vice President was wondering "How the hell could a plane hit the World Trade Center" when he saw the second aircraft strike the South Tower. Elsewhere in the White House, a series of 9:00 meetings was about to begin. In the absence of information that the crash was anything other than an accident, the White House staff monitored the news as they went ahead with their regular schedules. <sep>What was the name of the school where Karl Rove informed President Bush that an aircraft had hit the World Trade Centre?<sep>E. Books Reading School
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Life for the partners of Cates, Katalinic & Lund holds little of the glamour one might expect from a career in law. Instead of lunches at Lut��ce, they caucus at the Palace Diner in Queens. Wooing clients means passing out fliers on street corners, not securing box seats at Madison Square Garden. To make ends meet, one partner stacks pipe and cleans the yard at a plumbing warehouse. Another handles urine samples in a hospital lab. A sign of failure, of a feeble economy, perhaps? Hardly. They are heeding the call of a growing pool of law schools, which are for the first time pointing graduates in a new direction and teaching them how to get there. Forget the lure of large firms, the security of a government post. Here is how to grapple "in the service of justice," as many of the schools put it, instead. Convinced that corporate largess and government programs barely dent the nation's legal needs, the law schools are urging graduates to buck tradition, pass up big salaries and ignore mushrooming student debt to join tiny neighborhood practices or simply start their own, all with an eye toward charging no more than their clients can afford. This is not pro bono legal work; it is "low bono," a term the schools coined to define the atypical kind of law career they are training students for. While its practitioners do charge for their services, they are also dead set on turning no one away - or at least as few as possible. "When you go into this kind of social justice law, it's really brutal and you're almost guaranteed to struggle for a couple of years before there's a light at the end of the tunnel," said Fred Rooney, director of the Community Legal Resource Network at City University of New York School of Law, from which the lawyers of the newly formed Cates, Katalinic & Lund graduated last May. "But if our graduates don't do it, the millions of people who cannot access justice in this country will continue to soar." The movement, primly called the consortium, started four years ago by CUNY, Northeastern University, the University of Maryland and St. Mary's Law School in Texas. (St. Mary's later dropped out.) Since then, it has drawn seven additional law schools to its ranks: the University of Michigan, Rutgers and Syracuse Law Schools, New York Law School, University of New Mexico School of Law, Thomas M. Cooley Law School and Touro Law School. It has elicited at least initial interest from 19 more. <sep>What food establishment do Cates, Katalinic & Lund frequent?<sep>Queens
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The Vice President stated that he called the President to discuss the rules of engagement for the CAP. He recalled feeling that it did no good to establish the CAP unless the pilots had instructions on whether they were authorized to shoot if the plane would not divert. He said the President signed off on that concept. The President said he remembered such a conversation, and that it reminded him of when he had been an interceptor pilot. The President emphasized to us that he had authorized the shootdown of hijacked aircraft. The Vice President's military aide told us he believed the Vice President spoke to the President just after entering the conference room, but he did not hear what they said. Rice, who entered the room shortly after the Vice President and sat next to him, remembered hearing him inform the President, "Sir, the CAPs are up. Sir, they're going to want to know what to do." Then she recalled hearing him say, "Yes sir." She believed this conversation occurred a few minutes, perhaps five, after they entered the conference room. We believe this call would have taken place sometime before 10:10 to 10:15. Among the sources that reflect other important events of that morning, there is no documentary evidence for this call, but the relevant sources are incomplete. Others nearby who were taking notes, such as the Vice President's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, who sat next to him, and Mrs. Cheney, did not note a call between the President and Vice President immediately after the Vice President entered the conference room. At 10:02, the communicators in the shelter began receiving reports from the Secret Service of an inbound aircraft-presumably hijacked-heading toward Washington. That aircraft was United 93. The Secret Service was getting this information directly from the FAA. The FAA may have been tracking the progress of United 93 on a display that showed its projected path to Washington, not its actual radar return. Thus, the Secret Service was relying on projections and was not aware the plane was already down in Pennsylvania. <sep>What hijacked aircraft were the pilots authorized to shoot down under CAP?<sep>United 14
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Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
The House has voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over his failure to turn over documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal, the first time Congress has taken such a dramatic move against a sitting Cabinet official.
The vote was 255-67, with 17 Democrats voting in support of a criminal contempt resolution, which authorizes Republicans leaders to seek criminal charges against Holder. This Democratic support came despite a round of behind-the-scenes lobbying by senior White House and Justice officials - as well as pressure from party leaders - to support Holder.
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Two Republicans, Reps. Steve LaTourette (Ohio) Scott Rigell (Va.), voted against the contempt resolution.
Another civil contempt resolution, giving the green light for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to sue the Justice Department to get the Fast and Furious documents, passed by a 258-95 margin. Twenty-one Democrats voted for that measure.
But dozens of other Democrats marched off the floor in protest during the vote, adding even more drama to a tumultuous moment in the House chamber.
The heated House floor fight over Holder capped a historic day in Washington, coming just hours after the Supreme Court, just across the street from the Capitol, issued its landmark ruling upholding most of Barack Obama’s health care law. The passions of the day were evident inside the Capitol, where Democrats accused Republicans of ginning up the contempt vote for political purposes while Republicans continued to charge the Justice Department with a cover up on the Fast and Furious scandal.
The fight over the Holder contempt resolution also drew intense interest from outside groups ranging from the NAACP to the National Rifle Association.
In a statement released by his office, Holder blasted the contempt votes as “politically motivated” and “misguided,” and he singled out Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.), chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee and lead Republican on the Fast and Furious probe, for special criticism.
“Today’s vote is the regrettable culmination of what became a misguided – and politically motivated – investigation during an election year,” Holder said in his statement. “By advancing it over the past year and a half, Congressman Issa and others have focused on politics over public safety. Instead of trying to correct the problems that led to a series of flawed law enforcement operations, and instead of helping us find ways to better protect the brave law enforcement officers, like Agent Brian Terry, who keep us safe – they have led us to this unnecessary and unwarranted outcome.”
Holder added: “Today’s vote may make for good political theater in the minds of some, but it is – at base – both a crass effort and a grave disservice to the American people. They expect – and deserve – far better.”
White House officials also slammed House Republicans for the unprecedented contempt vote. White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said GOP congressional leaders “pushed for political theater rather than legitimate congressional oversight. Over the past fourteen months, the Justice Department accommodated congressional investigators, producing 7,600 pages of documents, and testifying at eleven congressional hearings… But unfortunately, a politically-motivated agenda prevailed and instead of engaging with the President in efforts to create jobs and grow the economy, today we saw the House of Representatives perform a transparently political stunt. ||||| With the National Rifle Administration demanding a "yes" vote and African-American lawmakers vowing to walk out of the chamber, the House moved Thursday toward holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress in a document dispute related to a bungled gun-tracking operation.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, goes to the House Rules Committee to argue procedures as the House of Representatives prepares to vote on... (Associated Press)
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, joined by other House GOP leaders, meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 27, 2012, following a political strategy session. Boehner defended... (Associated Press)
Republicans had the votes to make Eric Holder the first sitting attorney general to be held in contempt. They cited Holder's refusal to meet Republican demands to hand over _ without any preconditions _ documents that could explain why the Obama administration initially denied that a risky "gun-walking" investigative tactic was used in Operation Fast and Furious, which allowed hundreds of guns to be smuggled from Arizona to Mexico.
The vote on a criminal contempt resolution will send the matter to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, who is under Holder. A separate vote on civil contempt will allow the House to go to court in an effort to force Holder to turn over the documents the Oversight and Government Committee wants.
In past cases, courts have been reluctant to settle disputes between the executive and legislative branches of government.
The NRA urged House members to vote for contempt, contending the administration wanted to use Operation Fast and Furious to win gun control measures. Democrats who normally support the NRA but who vote against the contempt citations would lose any 100 percent ratings from the group.
That could affect whether they get endorsements from the powerful organization, particularly if Republican opponents surface who are strong NRA backers.
The 42-member Congressional Black Caucus said its members would walk out and refrain from voting. Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California said she was joining the boycott.
"Contempt power should be used sparingly, carefully and only in the most egregious situations," a letter from the caucus to House members said. "The Republican leadership has articulated no legislative purpose for pursuing this course of action. For these reasons, we cannot and will not participate in a vote to hold the attorney general in contempt."
Members of the Hispanic, Asian Pacific American and progressive caucuses said they also would not vote.
The dispute is both legal and political. Republicans asserted their right to obtain documents needed for an investigation of Operation Fast and Furious _ focusing on 10 months in 2011 after the Obama administration initially denied guns were allowed to "walk" from Arizona to Mexico. By year's end, the administration acknowledged the assertion was wrong.
President Barack Obama asserted a broad form of executive privilege, a legal position designed to keep executive branch documents from being disclosed. The assertion ensures that documents will not be turned over any time soon, unless a deal is reached between the administration and congressional Republicans.
In debate, however, Republicans framed the issue as the need for closure for the family of Brian Terry, a Border Patrol agent killed in December 2010 in a shootout with Mexican bandits. Two guns from Fast and Furious were found at the scene.
Democrats said the contempt issue was a political stunt to embarrass the Obama administration in an election year, and added that holding the attorney general in contempt will do nothing to bring closure to Terry's family.
Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., said the contempt motions were "Fast and foolish, fast and fake."
Rep. Rich Nugent, R-Fla., took the opposite view, arguing, "A man died serving his country, and we have a right to know what the federal government's hand was in that."
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., said Republicans picked an odd day to schedule the contempt vote.
"I find it interesting that the Republican leadership has scheduled this nonsense for the floor today when it is certain to be buried under the avalanche of news and reaction to the Supreme Court's health care decision," he said.
For the past year and a half, some Republicans have promoted the idea that Holder and other top-level officials at the Justice Department knew federal agents in Operation Fast and Furious had engaged in gun-walking.
Two of Holder's emails and one from Deputy Attorney General James Cole in early 2011 appear to show that they hadn't known about gun-walking but were determined to find out whether the allegations were true.
"We need answers on this. Not defensive BS. Real answers," Holder wrote.
The Justice Department showed the e-mails on Tuesday to Republican and Democratic staffers of the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee, whose chairman is Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., in an effort to ward off the criminal contempt vote against the attorney general.
The full contents of the emails were described to The Associated Press by two people who have seen them. Both people spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about them publicly.
Holder has refused to turn over these and other communications unless the oversight panel dropped its subpoena for the records _ a condition unacceptable to Issa.
The department withdrew the Feb. 4 letter denying gun walking took place on Dec. 2, 2011, after documenting what had taken place not only in Operation Fast and Furious, but in three other gun-walking operations going back to 2006.
In Operation Fast and Furious, agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in abandoned the agency's usual practice of intercepting all weapons they believed to be illicitly purchased. Instead, the goal of the tactic known as "gun-walking" was to track such weapons to high-level arms traffickers who had eluded prosecution and to dismantle their networks.
Gun-walking long has been barred by Justice Department policy, but federal agents in Arizona experimented with it in at least two investigations during the George W. Bush administration before Operation Fast and Furious. The agents in Arizona lost track of several hundred weapons in that operation.
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Associated Press Writer Pete Yost contributed to this report. |||||
| The House today declared that Eric Holder was in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal, reports Politico. It's a first for a sitting attorney general, and the matter now goes to DC's federal attorney to determine whether to press criminal charges, explains the Washington Post. The vote was 255-67, with 17 Democrats joining Republicans. A separate civil contempt charge allows the House to go to court to try to get the documents, notes AP. During the vote, members of the Congressional Black Caucus and other Democrats walked out in protest. Afterward, Holder dismissed the move as "politically motivated." Here's a sample of the partisan slogging leading up to the vote, via the Hill: Republicans: "He's the gatekeeper here, and if he won't give us the information this institution needs to do our … constitutional duty, then we will use every legal and constitutional tool that we have to get to it," said Rep. Rich Nugent of Florida. Democrats: "When the history of this despicable proceeding is recorded, it will be said that your actions were politically motivated to discredit and defeat a president," said Rep. GK Butterfield of North Carolina. Moot point? One columnist thinks John Boehner scheduled the vote on a busy news day because he knows the scandal is going nowhere. Click here for that. |
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: What is at the terminus of the path?, Context: The Farmington Canal Trail is a rail trail that will eventually run continuously from downtown New Haven to Northampton, Massachusetts. The scenic trail follows the path of the historic New Haven and Northampton Company and the Farmington Canal. Currently, there is a continuous 14-mile (23 km) stretch of the trail from downtown, through Hamden and into Cheshire, making bicycle commuting between New Haven and those suburbs possible. The trail is part of the East Coast Greenway, a proposed 3,000-mile (4,800 km) bike path that would link every major city on the East Coast from Florida to Maine.
Student: | Northampton, Massachusetts |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Let me give you an example: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
The answer to this example can be: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Here is why: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
OK. solve this:
The Yellowstone River is considered to be one of the greatest trout streams of the world and is officially classed as a blue ribbon stream in Montana from the park to the confluence with the Boulder River east of Livingston and from the mouth of Rosebud creek near Rosebud, Montana to the North Dakota border. The lack of dams along the river provides for excellent trout habitat from high inside Yellowstone Park, downstream through Gardiner, the Paradise Valley, Livingston, and to Big Timber, a stretch of nearly 200 miles (320 km). The Yellowstone varies in width from 74 feet (23 m) to 300 feet (91 m), so fishing is normally done by boat. The most productive stretch of water is through Paradise Valley in Montana, especially near Livingston which produces brown trout, rainbow trout and native Yellowstone cutthroat trout as well as Rocky Mountain whitefish. From Billings downstream to the North Dakota border, anglers seek burbot, channel catfish, paddlefish, sauger, smallmouth bass, and walleye. The pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus), an endangered species endemic to the waters of the Missouri and lower Mississippi River basins, is also found in the Yellowstone.
Answer: | what kind of fish are in yellowstone river |
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: Conduction is the transfer of thermal energy. It occurs between objects or substances that are touching. Thermal conductors are materials that are good conductors of heat. Thermal insulators are materials that are poor conductors of heat. Both conductors and insulators have important uses. Convection is the transfer of thermal energy. This occurs as particles move within a fluid. The fluid may be a liquid or a gas. The particles within the fluid transfer energy by moving from warmer to cooler areas. They move in loops. These loops are called convection currents. Radiation is the transfer of thermal energy by waves. These waves can travel through empty space. When the waves reach objects, the heat is transferred to the objects. Radiation is how the Sun warms the Earths surface. <sep>In order for Convection to happen, should you use a conductor or an insulator?<sep>A conductor
A: | Yes |
How to teach even and odd numbers
Count even objects as a class to establish a pattern.
Start with even numbers. Count the items together by having students pair up the items and count them off by 2s.
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- Then count the objects together by multiplying at 2s. For example, if you have a number 3 and a number 4 in a row, you should multiply about 50-2s by 8 and group them into pairs in the same row.
- Start with the heaviest (most difficult) object on one end, work your way up to heavier objects on the other side. Establish a rule about counting incremental numbers-numerated step by step.
- Count' five' and' four' consecutively as an example. Ask the students to calculate the result.
- Ask students if they notice a pattern with the numbers. If they're having trouble understanding, you can take each pair and divide it, so you have 2 groups of items.
Ask students if they notice a pattern with the numbers. If they're having trouble understanding, you can take each pair and divide it, so you have 2 groups of items.
question: Complete the next sentence:
How to fold and bake fish in parchment paper
Purchase fresh fish fillets.
You will cook these in parchment paper packets. Choose fish that has firm flesh and does not have a strong odor.
OPTIONS:
- A store bought cut fish should work for this recipe. Look for insects such as cooked tarragon on the fish.
- Different types of fish work best to each purchase. Make sure to lay them out so you can see them when they are fresh.
- A wide variety of fresh fish can be cooked in parchment paper, commonly : Salmon halibut snapper sole cod flounder you may also use any type of similar fish that you prefer. Keep the fish well refrigerated.
- Cut the fish into cubes and place them in a baking pan. Place the foil over the fish pieces, making sure to space them out evenly.
answer: A wide variety of fresh fish can be cooked in parchment paper, commonly : Salmon halibut snapper sole cod flounder you may also use any type of similar fish that you prefer. Keep the fish well refrigerated.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to refuse a personal loan to family
Evaluate the request.
After listening to the request, you should spend a little time evaluating it. This is important, as you should put some thought into the request before rejecting it.
OPTIONS:
- For example, if your marriage ended and you already have children, you should think carefully about whether it is worth your time to decline the loan. If you agree, then speak with your spouse and go over the request with them.
- Are you really willing to turn it down? Are you able to take responsibility for what happened? Once you evaluate, you can come up with an alternative that will help. Remember that you should typically resist the temptation to deny an employee a loan unless you feel that you already know how much you can pay her back in full.
- When someone defaults on the loan, it might only be for the following reasons. One reason might mean that the creditor intends to take a percentage of the debt.
- Ultimately, in order to reject a request, you should be able to understand the request and your relative's reasoning and situation. Consider if your relative is going through a once in a lifetime change and may actually need help..
Next sentence: Ultimately, in order to reject a request, you should be able to understand the request and your relative's reasoning and situation. Consider if your relative is going through a once in a lifetime change and may actually need help.
context: How to write an invoice for payment for services rendered
Put your company's name at the top.
To be professional, you start with your company's information at the top of the page. If you don't have a company name, just start with your name at the top.
OPTIONS:
- For example, you might write: " navy debt collection agency, inc. " however, you might use " navy debt collection agency " or other similar nicknames.
- It can be centered or all the way over to the left. Treat the invoice like a business letter.
- This allows you to easily work from scratch without having to analyze each one. For example, if you work with steve jobs, your name might just be " steve smith.
- For example, you may write " jones, t.. Repair, inc., evaluate, and unquote my services.
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next sentence for the context: It can be centered or all the way over to the left. Treat the invoice like a business letter.
IN: What happens next?
Materials to make a gift pack is shown. a person
OPTIONS:
- cut a top off a pumpkin and placed the inner insides.
- pours butter, sugar, and water into a roller.
- takes out the wrapping paper and squirts it onto a board.
- cuts pink circles from craft paper, then the person folds the circles in half.
OUT: cuts pink circles from craft paper, then the person folds the circles in half.
question: Complete the next sentence:
They are dressed in biking gear with protective helmets and clothing. They are going on hilly slopes and uneven terrain on their motorbikes. they
OPTIONS:
- use an intertube and continue riding through hilly, wooded areas.
- are going down the hill through tall hilly hills.
- go through extremely steep and dangerous dirt roads at high speed.
- continue wheeling and adjusting with the use of their paddles and the pedals, making progress with speed.
answer: | go through extremely steep and dangerous dirt roads at high speed. |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
One example is below.
Q: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
A: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Rationale: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Q: As luminosity of stars increases greatly with mass , the luminosity of hypergiants often lies very close to the Eddington limit .
A: | As the luminosity of stars increases greatly with mass , the luminosity of hypergiants often lies very close to the Eddington limit , which is the luminosity at which the radiation pressure expanding the star outward equals the force of the star 's gravity collapsing the star inward . |
Continue writing the next sentence.
A band is seen performing on a stage in front of a large audience with a small child singing and playing the harmonica. the boy | continues playing with the band as the audience claps. |
"You Make Me Feel So Good" is the third single released by the American synthpop band Book of Love. The song was included on the band's eponymous debut album "Book of Love" in 1986. The song was written by band members Susan Ottaviano and Ted Ottaviano.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
"You Make Me Feel So Good" was a part of the collection of songs on Ted and Susan's album. | Yes |
Detailed Instructions: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Problem:Scarlett is a 1991 novel by Alexandra Ripley, written as a sequel to Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, Gone with the Wind. The book debuted on The New York Times bestsellers list, but both critics and fans of the original novel found Ripley's version to be inconsistent with the literary quality of Gone with the Wind.
Solution: | is there a sequel to the book gone with the wind? |
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: Oxford Dictionaries Online (ODO) is adding a slew of words that only recently came into general usage, many driven by fast-moving trends in technology and culture. Yes, “twerk” is now in the dictionary.
The most relevant addition to the dictionary for Quartz readers is probably “phablet,” a portmanteau of “phone” and “tablet” used to describe oversized smartphones. Other new words and phrases that resonate with Quartz include “bitcoin,” “internet of things,” and “space tourism.” We are less enamored of “vom,” which is shorthand for “vomit.”
Oxford University Press publishes both the ODO and the more famous Oxford English Dictionary (OED). These words are only going into the ODO, which prides itself on staying up-to-date with modern lingo. The OED describes itself as a “historic dictionary” and never removes any words, even if they fall out of use.
Here is a partial list of the new words along with the ODO’s definitions:
• apols, pl. n. (informal): apologies. • A/W, abbrev.: autumn/winter (denoting or relating to fashion designed for the autumn and winter seasons of a particular year). (See also S/S) • babymoon, n. (informal): a relaxing or romantic holiday taken by parents-to-be before their baby is born; a period of time following the birth of a baby during which the new parents can focus on establishing a bond with their child. • balayage, n.: a technique for highlighting hair in which the dye is painted on in such a way as to create a graduated, natural-looking effect. • bitcoin, n.: a digital currency in which transactions can be performed without the need for a central bank. • blondie, n.: a small square of dense, pale-coloured cake, typically of a butterscotch or vanilla flavour. • buzzworthy, adj. (informal): likely to arouse the interest and attention of the public, either by media coverage or word of mouth. • BYOD, n.: abbreviation of ‘bring your own device’: the practice of allowing the employees of an organization to use their own computers, smartphones, or other devices for work purposes. • cakepop, n.: a small round piece of cake coated with icing or chocolate and fixed on the end of a stick so as to resemble a lollipop. • chandelier earring, n.: a long, elaborate dangling earring, typically consisting of various tiers of gemstones, crystals, beads, etc. • click and collect, n.: a shopping facility whereby a customer can buy or order goods from a store’s website and collect them from a local branch. • dappy, adj. (informal): silly, disorganized, or lacking concentration. • derp, exclam. & n. (informal): (used as a substitute for) speech regarded as meaningless or stupid, or to comment on a foolish or stupid action. • digital detox, n.: a period of time during which a person refrains from using electronic devices such as smartphones or computers, regarded as an opportunity to reduce stress or focus on social interaction in the physical world. • double denim, n.: a style of dress in which a denim jacket or shirt is worn with a pair of jeans or a denim skirt, often regarded as a breach of fashion etiquette. • emoji, n: a small digital image or icon used to express an idea or emotion in electronic communication. • fauxhawk, n: a hairstyle in which a section of hair running from the front to the back of the head stands erect, intended to resemble a Mohican haircut (in which the sides of the head are shaved). • FIL, n.: a person’s father-in-law (see also MIL, BIL, SIL). • flatform, n.: a flat shoe with a high, thick sole. • FOMO, n.: fear of missing out: anxiety that an exciting or interesting event may currently be happening elsewhere, often aroused by posts seen on a social media website. • food baby, n.: a protruding stomach caused by eating a large quantity of food and supposedly resembling that of a woman in the early stages of pregnancy. • geek chic, n.: the dress, appearance, and culture associated with computing and technology enthusiasts, regarded as stylish or fashionable. • girl crush, n. (informal): an intense and typically non-sexual liking or admiration felt by one woman or girl for another. • grats, pl. n. (informal): congratulations. • guac, n.: guacamole. • hackerspace, n.: a place in which people with an interest in computing or technology can gather to work on projects while sharing ideas, equipment, and knowledge. • Internet of things, n.: a proposed development of the Internet in which everyday objects have network connectivity, allowing them to send and receive data. • jorts, pl. n.: denim shorts. • LDR, n.: a long-distance relationship. • me time, n. (informal): time spent relaxing on one’s own as opposed to working or doing things for others, seen as an opportunity to reduce stress or restore energy. • MOOC, n.: a course of study made available over the Internet without charge to a very large number of people. • omnishambles, n. (informal): a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations. • pear cider, n.: an alcoholic drink made from the fermented juice of pears. • phablet, n.: a smartphone having a screen which is intermediate in size between that of a typical smartphone and a tablet computer. • pixie cut, n.: a woman’s short hairstyle in which the hair is cropped in layers, typically so as to create a slightly tousled effect. • selfie, n. (informal): a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website. • space tourism, n.: the practice of travelling into space for recreational purposes. • squee, exclam. & v. & n. (informal): (used to express) great delight or excitement. • srsly, adv. (informal): short for ‘seriously’. • street food, n.: prepared or cooked food sold by vendors in a street or other public location for immediate consumption. • TL;DR, abbrev.: ‘too long didn’t read’: used as a dismissive response to a lengthy online post, or to introduce a summary of a lengthy post. • twerk, v.: dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance. • unlike, v.: withdraw one’s liking or approval of (a web page or posting on a social media website that one has previously liked). • vom, v. & n. (informal): (be) sick; vomit.
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A: | It seems Miley Cyrus is dominating our conversations in more ways than one. Among words added this quarter to the Oxford Dictionaries Online is "twerking"—the ass-shaking dance move that had everyone talking about Miley after this week's MTV VMAs. Though the word has been around for about 20 years, an Oxford Dictionaries spokesperson tells the BBC that "by last year, it had generated enough currency to be added to our new words watch list, and by this spring, we had enough evidence of usage frequency in a breadth of sources to consider adding it to our dictionaries of current English." Among other words added in the dictionary's latest update, per Quartz: Cakepop: "A small round piece of cake coated with icing or chocolate and fixed on the end of a stick so as to resemble a lollipop." Derp: "(Used as a substitute for) speech regarded as meaningless or stupid, or to comment on a foolish or stupid action." Girl crush: "An intense and typically non-sexual liking or admiration felt by one woman or girl for another." Vom: "(Be) sick; vomit. " Me time: "Time spent relaxing on one’s own as opposed to working or doing things for others, seen as an opportunity to reduce stress or restore energy." |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
(CNN) -- A federal court jury in Florida convicted seven people of participating in a global child pornography trafficking enterprise, according to the Department of Justice. Jurors convicted the seven Wednesday of multiple counts of child exploitation, pornography and obstruction of justice. Members of the organization used Internet news groups to swap and share "illegal images and videos depicting prepubescent children, including toddlers, engaged in various sexual and sadistic acts," prosecutors said. An indictment filed in the case detailed interactions between group members as they swapped and commented on images. "My thanks to you and all the others that together make this the greatest group of pedos to ever gather in one place," Freeman wrote in response to one posting, according to the indictment. And a posting from Castleman, cited in the indictment, read, "Thanks to all for the wonderful material that has been posted." An Australian constable who infiltrated the group in August 2006 was among 50 witnesses testifying at trial. He told the jury that the group traded more than 400,000 images and videos of child sexual abuse before being dismantled by law enforcement, according to the Justice Department statement. Each defendant faces a sentence of 20 years to life in prison, fines and the possibility of supervised release for the rest of their lives, authorities said. The seven will be sentenced April 14. During the six-day trial, evidence showed the seven participated in what prosecutors called a "well-organized criminal enterprise whose purpose was to proliferate child sex abuse images to its membership during a two-year period." "This was a wide-scale, high-volume, international trafficking enterprise that used sophisticated computer encryption technology and file-sharing techniques," Matthew Friedrich, acting assistant attorney general, said in the statement. The seven defendants were James Freeman of Santa Rosa Beach, Florida; Gary Lakey of Anderson, Indiana; Marvin Lambert of Indianapolis, Indiana; Neville McGarity of Medina, Texas; Warren Mumpower of Spokane, Washington; Daniel Castleman of Lubbock, Texas; and Ronald White of Burlington, North Carolina, according to the Department of Justice. <sep>A federal court jury in Florida convicted 7 people on multiple counts of what charges?<sep>Pornography | Yes |
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: Who proposed that biological measure should be developed and used?, Context: In the paper "Who's Gay? Does It Matter?", Ritch Savin-Williams proposes two different approaches to assessing sexual orientation until well positioned and psychometrically sound and tested definitions are developed that would allow research to reliably identify the prevalence, causes, and consequences of homosexuality. He first suggests that greater priority should be given to sexual arousal and attraction over behaviour and identity because it is less prone to self- and other-deception, social conditions and variable meanings. To measure attraction and arousal he proposed that biological measures should be developed and used. There are numerous biological/physiological measures that exist that can measure sexual orientation such as sexual arousal, brain scans, eye tracking, body odour preference, and anatomical variations such as digit-length ratio and right or left handedness. Secondly, Savin-Williams suggests that researchers should forsake the general notion of sexual orientation altogether and assess only those components that are relevant for the research question being investigated. For example:
Answer: Ritch Savin-Williams
Question: The second Multilingual European subset includes everything from which other Unicode subsets?, Context: Several subsets of Unicode are standardized: Microsoft Windows since Windows NT 4.0 supports WGL-4 with 652 characters, which is considered to support all contemporary European languages using the Latin, Greek, or Cyrillic script. Other standardized subsets of Unicode include the Multilingual European Subsets: MES-1 (Latin scripts only, 335 characters), MES-2 (Latin, Greek and Cyrillic 1062 characters) and MES-3A & MES-3B (two larger subsets, not shown here). Note that MES-2 includes every character in MES-1 and WGL-4.
Answer: MES-1 and WGL-4
Question: How did the Census classify people of native heritage?, Context: Multiracial people who wanted to acknowledge their full heritage won a victory of sorts in 1997, when the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) changed the federal regulation of racial categories to permit multiple responses. This resulted in a change to the 2000 United States Census, which allowed participants to select more than one of the six available categories, which were, in brief: "White," "Black or African American," "Asian," "American Indian or Alaskan Native," "Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander," and "Other." Further details are given in the article: Race (U.S. census). The OMB made its directive mandatory for all government forms by 2003.
Answer: | American Indian or Alaskan Native
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How to connect a midi keyboard to pro tools
Connect the midi keyboard to your computer using a usb/midi adapter.
Verify that your keyboard is powered on and ready for use.
Launch pro tools on your windows or mac computer.
pick from the following. A. Click on start Sign in to custom keyboard. This may take a while depending on your current keyboard and on what you desire in custom keyboard.. B. Click on the blue' tools' tab at the top of pro tools interface. Click on' keyboard layout' at the top of the menu.. C. Click on " setup " at the top of your pro tools session and select " peripherals. The peripherals window will display on-screen.. D. Go to my computer dashboard and select tools ctrl + alt + z. Select your keyboard with the get button in the left panel..
Answer: | C. |
Part 1. Definition
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Part 2. 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.
Answer: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Part 3. Exercise
The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italian: Torre pendente di Pisa) or simply the Tower of Pisa (Torre di Pisa (ˈtorre di ˈpiːza)) is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa, known worldwide for its unintended tilt. The tower is situated behind the Pisa Cathedral and is the third oldest structure in the city's Cathedral Square (Piazza del Duomo), after the cathedral and the Pisa Baptistry.
Answer: | is the leaning tower of pizza in rome? |
What is the most logical next event?
How to time your trip to san francisco
Avoid the fog if you can, but know that it's hard to predict.
The city by the bay is often referred to as fog city due to the dense fog that is capable of hiding the golden gate bridge.
Summer is the worst season for foggy san francisco weather. | Summers are often cool and overcast, too. Enjoy san francisco travel in spring and early autumn. |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
What organelle is only found in plants which they use to photosynthesize?, Context: Plastoglobuli (singular plastoglobulus, sometimes spelled plastoglobule(s)), are spherical bubbles of lipids and proteins about 45–60 nanometers across. They are surrounded by a lipid monolayer. Plastoglobuli are found in all chloroplasts, but become more common when the chloroplast is under oxidative stress, or when it ages and transitions into a gerontoplast. Plastoglobuli also exhibit a greater size variation under these conditions. They are also common in etioplasts, but decrease in number as the etioplasts mature into chloroplasts. | chloroplast |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Let me give you an example: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
The answer to this example can be: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Here is why: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
OK. solve this:
American Idol is an American singing competition television series created by Simon Fuller, produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment, and distributed by FremantleMedia North America. It initially aired on Fox from June 11, 2002 to April 7, 2016 for 15 seasons. On March 11, 2018, the 16th season made its debut on ABC.
Answer: | how many years was american idol off tv |
How to buy train tickets in england
Travel to the train station from which you would like to depart.
Locate the ticket office, ticket windows or ticket machines at the train station.
Inquire about the destination, timetable, prices and traveling class to a member of the ticket office staff.
Decide which options will benefit you on your trip and purchase train tickets from the staff with cash, credit or debit card. Retain your tickets until you are seated on the train.
How to travel safely around peru
Prepare yourself for entering into a land where over 90% of the population speaks only spanish.
Basic spanish classes are recommended for a full, more confident experience in peru. Travelers can get by without spanish while within their tour groups, but one does miss a lot of the overall experience.
Learning spanish in groups or as a family can be really fun, and putting it into practice in spanish-speaking countries can be really satisfying. Research the destinations in peru that you plan to see.
How to earn money with your social accounts
Signup to affiliate programs.
An easy way to earn money with your social account is to sign up for major e-commerce partner program, like amazon, best buy, barnes and nobles or walmart.
Pick a product that might interest your friends and followers.
It is handy to visit the " popular " section of the shop you want to promote. Try to understand what others would like to see and get to as wide public as possible.
A man sits in a canoe that is docked in shallow water and talks to a camera with the paddle resting across the boat in front of him as a small black dog in a life jacket walks around the boat. the man
| reaches to pet the dog as the dog walks around and then picks the dog up and holds the dog up by a strap on the top of the life jacket over the water and then sets the dog down back into the boat by the life jacket. |
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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The High Priest and Priestess act as administrative chiefs and the two main public representatives .
Answer: | The High Priest and Priestess act as administrative chiefs and primary public representatives ; each position ( High Priest and High Priestess ) is held by a single individual at a time . |
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