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You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
[EX Q]: The Interstate Bridge between Marinette, Wisconsin and Menominee, Michigan carries U.S. Route 41 (US 41) over the Menominee River. The current bridge was completed in November 2005 and replaced the previous span built in 1929.
[EX A]: is there a bridge from wisconsin to michigan?
[EX Q]: Glenn Martin Christopher Francis Quinn (May 28, 1970 -- December 3, 2002) was an Irish actor. While he was best known for his portrayal of Mark Healy on the popular '90s family sitcom Roseanne, Quinn also amassed a large fan base for his portrayal of Doyle, a half-demon, on Angel, a spin-off series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
[EX A]: did the actor who played mark on roseann die?
[EX Q]: Twelve people have won all four major annual American entertainment awards in a competitive, individual (non-group) category of the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards. Respectively, these awards honor outstanding achievements in television, recording, film, and theater. Winning all four awards has been referred to as winning the ``grand slam'' of American show business.
[EX A]: | has anyone ever won an oscar and a grammy?
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In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
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Question: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire. Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire. We might call it the first Chinese invention. Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire. Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight. He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat. Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued. And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down. Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology. The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel. Europeans did not yet have a word for "coal," nor had they discovered a use for it. The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty. This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees. And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes — China's first scholars. During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art. Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements. And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago. The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government. <sep>During the Shang Dynasty, the Chinese developed an interest in what type of designs?<sep>Careful geometric designs
Answer: Yes
Question: On a busy Friday morning in Manhattan, nine pedestrians suffered bullet or fragment wounds after police unleashed a hail of gunfire at a man wielding a .45 caliber pistol who had just killed a former co-worker. The officers unloaded 16 rounds in the shadow of the Empire State Building at a disgruntled former apparel designer, killing him after he engaged in a gunbattle with police, authorities said. Three passersby sustained direct gunshot wounds, while the remaining six were hit by fragments, according to New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. All injuries were caused by police, he said Saturday. One officer shot nine rounds and another shot seven. Police identified the gunman as Jeffrey Johnson, 58, who was apparently laid off from his job as a designer of women's accessories at Hazan Import Co. last year. Johnson, who served in the U.S. Coast Guard in the mid-1970s, had two rounds left in his pistol. It holds eight, Kelly said. Police identified the slain co-worker as Steven Ercolino, 41, who had apparently filed a prior complaint against his assailant, claiming that he thought Johnson would eventually try to kill him. Both men had filed harassment complaints against each other in April 2011, Kelly added. Ercolino was listed as a vice president of sales at Hazan Import Corp., according to his LinkedIn profile. "It's not something that should happen to a loving person like that," said his brother, Paul. "He's going to be so missed by everybody. He was a light of so many lives." <sep>Who was interviewed about Ercolino's death?<sep>Paul
Answer: Yes
Question: What if you could drain all of Earths oceans? What would it look like? You might be really surprised. You see that the surface has two main features. It has continents and ocean basins. Continents are large land areas. These are the areas that are mostly above sea level. Ocean basins extend from the edges of continents. They include the ocean floor and Earths deep ocean trenches. You will also notice the ocean floor is not flat. It too has many Continents are much older than ocean basins. Some rocks on the continents are billions of years old. Ocean basins may only be millions of years old. Because the continents are so old, a lot has happened to them! As we view the land around us, we see landforms. Landforms are physical features on Earths surface. These features change over time, but how? There are actually two types of forces at work. <sep>What is a landform?<sep>Ocean basin
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In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Jordan played three seasons for coach Dean Smith at the University of North Carolina. As a freshman, he was a member of the Tar Heels' national championship team in 1982. Jordan joined the Bulls in 1984 as the third overall draft pick. He quickly emerged as a league star, entertaining crowds with his prolific scoring. His leaping ability, demonstrated by performing slam dunks from the free throw line in slam dunk contests, earned him the nicknames Air Jordan and His Airness. He also gained a reputation for being one of the best defensive players in basketball. In 1991, he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a 'three-peat'. Although Jordan abruptly retired from basketball before the beginning of the 1993 -- 94 NBA season to pursue a new venture in minor league baseball, he returned to the Bulls in March 1995 and led them to three additional championships in 1996, 1997, and 1998, as well as a then-record 72 regular-season wins in the 1995 -- 96 NBA season. Jordan retired for a second time in January 1999, but returned for two more NBA seasons from 2001 to 2003 as a member of the Wizards.
when did michael jordan play in the nba
Passover commences on the 15th of the Hebrew month of Nisan and lasts for either seven days (in Israel and for Reform Jews and other progressive Jews around the world who adhere to the Biblical commandment) or eight days for Orthodox, Hasidic, and most Conservative Jews (in the diaspora). In Judaism, a day commences at dusk and lasts until the following dusk, thus the first day of Passover begins after dusk of the 14th of Nisan and ends at dusk of the 15th day of the month of Nisan. The rituals unique to the Passover celebrations commence with the Passover Seder when the 15th of Nisan has begun. In the Northern Hemisphere Passover takes place in spring as the Torah prescribes it: 'in the month of (the) spring' (בחדש האביב Exodus 23: 15). It is one of the most widely celebrated Jewish holidays.
when is passover and how long is it
The United States presidential line of succession is the order in which persons may become or act as President of the United States if the incumbent President becomes incapacitated, dies, resigns or is removed from office. (A President can be removed from office by impeachment by the House of Representatives and subsequent conviction by the Senate.) The line of succession is set by the United States Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 as subsequently amended to include newly created cabinet offices. The succession follows the order of Vice President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, President pro tempore of the Senate, and then the heads of federal executive departments who form the Cabinet of the United States, which currently has fifteen members, beginning with the Secretary of State. Those heads of departments who are ineligible to act as President are also ineligible to succeed the President by succession, for example most commonly if they are not a natural-born U.S. citizen.
| who is the fourth person in the line of succession for the presidency
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You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Example Input: Additionally, several other actors reprise their MCU roles: Danai Gurira as Okoye, the head of the Dora Milaje; Letitia Wright as T'Challa's sister Shuri; William Hurt as Thaddeus Ross, the U.S. Secretary of State; Kerry Condon as the voice of Stark's A.I. F.R.I.D.A.Y.; Winston Duke as M'Baku, the leader of Wakanda's mountain tribe the Jabari; Florence Kasumba as Ayo, a member of the Dora Milaje; Jacob Batalon as Parker's friend Ned; Isabella Amara as Parker's classmate Sally; Tiffany Espensen as Parker's classmate Cindy; and Ethan Dizon as Parker's classmate Tiny. Samuel L. Jackson and Cobie Smulders make uncredited cameos as Nick Fury and Maria Hill, the former director and deputy director of S.H.I.E.L.D, respectively, in the film's post-credits scene.
Example Output: is there a end credit scene in avengers infity war?
Example Input: Fuel drums, a fuel tank, the EPIRB, an empty life raft, and some other flotsam were the only wreckage ever found. The ship was presumed lost at sea somewhere along the continental shelf near Sable Island.
Example Output: did they ever find the boat from the perfect storm?
Example Input: An enhanced driver's license (EDL), currently issued by the states of Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont, and Washington, is specifically designed to meet the requirements of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) to re-enter the United States via a land or water border. An EDL will also suffice as proof of identity and citizenship for American citizens entering Canada by road.
Example Output: | can i get into canada with an enhanced id?
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In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Q: At the age of eighteen there came a change in Poe's life. Until then he had been a petted child in a wealthy family. Mr. Allan did not have that affection for him which Mrs. Allan had. He did not understand the boy's peculiar and erratic nature, and was particularly displeased when he found that Edgar had run into debt at college. There was an angry scene between the two, and Edgar was told that he must leave the university and go into the counting-room. It appears that he made some attempt to tie himself down to figures and accounts and business routine; but as he had not been brought up to this kind of life, he soon tired of it, and decided to go into the world to seek his own fortune. He went to Boston, where he published a volume of poetry. In the preface to this volume, Poe says that the poems were written before he was fourteen. Though this may not be strictly true, there is little doubt that some of them were. While he was still at school he had collected enough of his poems to make a volume, and Mr. Allan had taken them up to the master of the English and Classical School to get his advice about publishing them. This gentleman advised against it on the ground that it would make Edgar conceited,--a fault from which he was already suffering. As soon as he was free to do as he pleased, therefore, it was natural that he should rewrite his poems and publish them. <sep>What did he do when he went to Boston?<sep>He published a volume of poetry
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In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
In 1990, the U.S. Custom House in New York City was renamed after Hamilton. In 1880, his son John Church Hamilton commissioned Carl Conrads to sculpt a granite statue, now located in Central Park, New York City. One statue honoring Alexander Hamilton in Chicago was mired in controversy, at least concerning the surrounding architecture. Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858-1937), of the Buckingham Fountain family, commissioned the monument. Its impetus was that Treasury Secretary Hamilton "secured the nation's financial future and made it possible for her own family to make its fortune in grain elevators and banking. Consequently, John Angel was hired to model a figurative sculpture and the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen was to create a "colossal architectural setting" for it. The proposed 80-foot tall columned shelter was poorly received. By Ms. Buckingham's death in 1937, the sculpture's setting. location and design were uncertain. Conspiracy allegations surfaced, and the matter became mired in litigation. After the courts ordered the construction to be completed by 1953, the trustees hired architect Samuel A. Marx. The structure was completed, had structural problems, and was eventually demolished in 1993. The statue was gilded, and is still on display. A statue, by James Earle Fraser, was dedicated on May 17, 1923, on the south terrace of the Treasury Building, in Washington. <sep>For how many years did Ms. Buckinghams statue of Alexander Hamilton stand?<sep>It stood for 40 years
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Tokugawa Takes All: When Hideyoshi died in 1598, he hoped to have his five-year-old son continue his "dynasty," initially under the tutelage of five regents. But one of the regents was Ieyasu Tokugawa, who had been biding his time at Edo for 12 years, nurturing dynastic ambitions of his own. Of the cunning, ruthless triumvirate that came out on top at the end of the country's century of civil war, Tokugawa was without doubt the most patient, the most prudent — and most treacherous. He moved quickly to eliminate his strongest rivals, crushing them in 1600 at the great Battle of Sekigahara (near modern Nagoya). During its subsequent two and a half centuries of rule from the new capital established at Edo, the Tokugawa organized a tightly controlled coalition of some 260 daimyo in strategic strongholds throughout the country. The allegiance of this highly privileged and prestigious group was ensured by cementing their ethical principles in the code of bushido, "The way of the warrior": loyalty to one's master, defense of one's status and honor, and fulfillment of all obligations. Loyalty was further enforced by holding the vassals' wives and children hostage in Edo. All roads into Edo, the most famous being the Tokaido Highway, had checkpoints for guns coming in and for wives going out. One of the most effective ways of keeping a tight rein on the country was to cut it off from the outside world, to keep Japan Japanese. At first, Ieyasu Tokugawa was eager to promote foreign trade. He wanted silk and encouraged the Dutch and British as good, nonproselytizing Protestants just interested in trade. But he didn't like the Portuguese and Spanish Catholic missionaries, who he felt were undermining traditional Japanese values. He banned their activities in 1612 and two years later ordered the expulsion of all missionaries and unrepentant Japanese converts. Executions and torture followed. Converts were forced to renounce their faith by trampling crucifixes and effigies of Jesus and Mary. The Catholic Church has counted 3,125 martyrs in Japan from 1597 (beginning under Hideyoshi) to 1660. In 1635 the Japanese were forbidden, on pain of death, to attempt to travel abroad, and Japanese citizens already overseas were prevented from returning, in case they brought back subversive Christian doctrines. Western books were banned, as were Chinese books that mentioned Christianity. <sep>Contrast Tokugawa's attitude toward the British and Dutch traders and the Portuguese and Spanish missionaries.<sep>He was accepting of the British and Dutch, but not of the Portugese & Spanish
Yes
We waited for half an hour, watching the smoke curling over the house, and then, judging that the Indians had made off for fear of being ambushed, we crossed the clearing. It took but a glance to read the story. The women had been washing by the little brook before the cabin, with the children playing about them, when the Indians had come up and with a single volley killed them all except the child we had heard crying. They had swooped down upon their victims, torn the scalps from their heads, looted the house, and set fire to it. We dragged out the body of the woman which had been thrown within, in the hope that a spark of life might yet remain, but she was quite dead. Beneath the warrior Spiltdorph had shot we found the child. It was a boy of some six or seven years, and so covered with blood that it seemed it must be dead. But we stripped it and washed it in the brook, and found no wounds upon it except in the head, where it had been struck with a hatchet before its scalp had been stripped off. The cold water brought it back to life and it began to cry again, whereat Spiltdorph took off his coat and wrapped it tenderly about it. <sep>Who shot a warrior and wrapped a child in his coat?<sep>The warrior
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Studia Mathematica is a Polish mathematics journal published since 1929. It was founded by Stefan Banach and Hugo Steinhaus. It accepts papers written in English, French, German, or Russian, primarily in functional analysis and related areas such as probability theory.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Studia Mathematica was first published in 1929"? | Yes |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Example Input: It is bounded on the west by the Gulf Stream ; on the north , by the North Atlantic Current ; on the east , by the Canary Current ; and on the south , by the North Atlantic Equatorial Current .
Example Output: The sea is bounded on the west by the Gulf Stream , on the north by the North Atlantic Current , on the east by the Canary Current , and on the south by the North Atlantic Equatorial Current , a clockwise-circulating system of ocean currents termed the North Atlantic Gyre .
Example Input: Many grevilleas interbreed freely , and some specially picked hybrids have been grown for sale .
Example Output: Many grevilleas have a propensity to interbreed freely , and extensive hybridisation and selection of horticulturally desirable attributes has led to the commercial release of many named cultivars .
Example Input: Since 1994 , the Association for Asian Studies ( AAS ) has awarded the John Whitney Hall Book Prize for an English language book published on Japan or Korea .
Example Output: | The Association for Asian Studies ( AAS ) Northeast Asia Council ( NEAC ) presents the John Whitney Hall Book Prize , which has been awarded annually since 1994 for an outstanding English language book published on Japan or Korea .
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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: For example , milk sugar ( lactose ) is made from glucose and galactose whereas cane sugar ( sucrose ) is made from glucose and fructose .
Student: | For example , milk sugar ( lactose ) is a disaccharide made by condensation of one molecule of each of the monosaccharides glucose and galactose , whereas the disaccharide sucrose in sugar cane and sugar beet , is a condensation product of glucose and fructose . |
How to be accepted by your new cheer squad
Be polite and friendly.
When you first meet your new cheer squad teammates, be courteous to them and ask them about themselves. Do not begin your new journey by trying to hog the limelight and inform them how good you are at cheerleading moves.
Instead, make it clear that you're interested in your other team members and want to learn more about them. Ask questions about their cheerleading experiences and how long they have been in the squad.
How to enjoy great britain
Check out travel websites on great britain travel.
It's also a good idea to buy (or borrow) a travel guide on the area, such as lonely planet or rough guide. By looking through websites, blogs and travel guides, you'll find out the recommended places to visit, the places to stay and things to do.
Travel guides will help you to budget, as they usually offer budget, medium and high cost alternatives for accommodations and activities to do. Check out blogs of people who have traveled through great britain.
A young man is shown speaking to the camera and puts a can of cleaner on the table. He puts two more bottles on the table and shows off a pair of shoes. he
puts cleaner on the shoes and shines them using a rag.
How to handle feeling out of place at work
Try to label what you're feeling.
Ask yourself what is keeping you from belonging. Co-workers sometimes hang out with their own age group by default and maybe you're much older or younger.
| Perhaps you are a manager and feel excluded from your subordinates? Maybe everyone else has energy for the job, but you're dealing with. There even may be varying levels of lifestyles, values, or interests separating you and your colleagues. |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Q: The Holocaust drama explores the horror of a World War II Nazi extermination camp through the eyes of two 8-year-old boys; Bruno (Butterfield), the son of the camp's Nazi commandant, and Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish inmate.
A: | what happens in the movie the boy in the striped pajamas |
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".
Relying on an animal to come by is risky. A flower may have to wait a long time for the right animals to come by. What if one never passes close enough to the flower? Hoping the wind will blow is also risky for a plant. What if the wind does not blow? What if the blowing pollen does not land on another flower? The wind could even blow the pollen over the ocean where it is wasted. Giving free nectar is costly. It is not a good use of the plants energy. A plant uses a lot of energy to produce nectar. Some animals may just drink the nectar. They may not carry off any pollen in return. To improve their chances, plants evolved special traits. For example, they developed ways to hide their nectar. Only certain animals were able to get at the plants hidden nectar. These specific animals might be more likely to visit only flowers of the same species. This was also a benefit for some animals. Animals also evolved special traits to get to the nectar. <sep>To improve their chances what traits did plants evolve?<sep>They developed ways to hide their nectar and only special animals were able to get it and these specific animals might be more likely to visit only flowers of the same species | Yes |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: On a December evening in 2015, Nicole Barattini and her husband, Kevin, were eating dinner at a Long Island steakhouse with a couple they knew socially, Shawn and Lianna Fives.
Years before this outing, Nicole learned that due to a rare blood disorder called TTP , if she got pregnant, she or the baby were at a high risk of dying.
Adoption or hiring a surrogate were out of the question due to the high cost topping $90,000.
A few female friends offered to carry for the couple (Nicole had harvested and frozen her eggs, since TTP is not genetic), but for various reasons it had never worked out.
That December night, Lianna (already a mom of five) announced a surprise solution: She would carry a baby for the Barattini’s, for free.
The Barratini’s were stunned. “To see their faces, their excitement, I don’t think they believed it themselves,” Lianna recalls.
“I was blessed to have five kids and they are all amazing and I couldn’t picture my life without them,” says Lianna, 37. “And to see this family so deserving it broke my heart.”
On February 10, 2017, Lianna delivered twins, a boy and a girl.
“Lianna and Shawn saved us,” says Kevin, 35, who works for the town of Smithtown, N.Y. and has a DJ business. “You hit rock bottom and you think it’s the end of the road. We are literally blessed. There are no words.”
About six years ago, Lianna had heard about Nicole’s inability to have children through a mutual friend.
At the time, Lianna was between her second and third child, and felt she could not be a carrier for the Barattini’s until she was finished having her own family.
In New York, surrogacy for pay is illegal. However, altruistic surrogacy — which means one carries the baby for free, and also known as being a gestational carrier — is allowed, according to surrogacy attorney Melissa Brisman.
Following the birth of Lianna’s last child on June 2, 2015, she made up her mind to become a carrier. She also got a promise from Shawn, a busy funeral director, to help more with child care.
“At first it was difficult for me to get a sense of why she wanted to do this,” says Nicole. “She is an angel. She wanted to do this out of the kindness of her heart.”
Shawn started giving Lianna hormone shots to prepare her body for the implantation of the embryos created with Nicole’s eggs and Kevin’s sperm.
After a second IVF attempt succeeded, both couples went to 95 percent of every doctor’s appointment with Lianna’s obstetrician, Dr. Richard Klein, sometimes twice a week.
“We had so much fun during the pregnancy, the delivery,” says Klein, who has known Lianna since delivering her first child over 13 years ago.
Lianna’s gift “was to me the most you could ever do for a friend, to do something like that,” says Klein. “What a generous thing to do for a friend.”
On Labor Day, the couples — by this time the closest of friends — created a joint surprise baby announcement party for 60 guests, and included the Fives’ children, then ages 13 to 1.
Despite a lot of people asking Lianna how she would be able to give up the babies, “We said, ‘Their buns, my oven,’ ” she says. “I will always have a connection to the twins, but I had no problem with letting them go.”
On February 10, both couples were in the operating room with Dr. Klein for a C-section, required because one of the babies was breech.
First Dominic was born, followed minutes later by Luciana.
“I felt hot and dizzy,” says Nicole. “We saw the whole thing.”
The Barattini’s annointed Lianna and Shawn the babies’ godparents. Nicole and Lianna, who share the same March 1 birthday, are “closer than we’ve ever been, I don’t have a sister but I’d consider her like that,” say Nicole. “We don’t hold back, we are open, honest and I am constantly turning to her for guidance.”
Nicole “still can’t process” Lianna’s generosity.
“Every time I look at the babies it reminds me of what she went through, she never complained, ever,” says Nicole.
“We have a strong faith,” she says, “and I believe things happen for a reason, and I believe that energy you put in comes full circle, and I think it will with her.”
Know a hero? Send suggestions to [email protected]. For more inspiring stories, read the latest issue of PEOPLE magazine. ||||| When Nicole Barattini was 16 years old, her eyes became jaundiced and she noticed little bumps all over her body. She went to her pediatrician, and her blood work came back abnormal: She had only 8,000 platelets per microliter, compared to an an average, healthy person's 140,000 to 150,000. At one scary point, her count dropped to a dangerous 3,000 platelets per microliter.
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After being shuffled around to multiple hospitals, a doctor at a children's hospital in New Hyde Park diagnosed her with an autoimmune disease called thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (or TTP). TTP causes tiny, potentially dangerous blood clots to form throughout the body. Whenever she has an episode, Narattini feels extremely tired and may need to be hospitalized for as long as 10 days to receive a plasma exchange. She requires regular immunotherapy, a medication which can make her feel even more tired, too.
Now 29, Nicole has been dealing with her TTP for over a decade. But it was until a year after her 2010 wedding to her now-husband Kevin Barattini that she learned carrying a baby could be damaging to her health — the medication could potentially harm a baby, and to avoid any possible risk, she would likely have to stop treating the TTP, leaving her at risk. While some women do have successful pregnancies while dealing with this illness, Nicole says that she had been informed that many end up ill or never reach full-term.
The couple considered adopting a baby, but she found the process to be too expensive. She did, however, have another option: to freeze her eggs. Luckily, there was nothing wrong her embryos and she had been informed that her autoimmune disorder was not genetic. Eventually, she'd have someone carry her eggs. But the question was: whom?
"We had heard stories that sisters carried and mothers carried [eggs for women who could not carry], but I don't have a sister and my mother is over the age [to be able to be a carrier]," she says. "We just did it [froze my eggs] for precautionary reasons and hoped for the best."
Though paid surrogacy is illegal in New York, Nicole and Kevin looked into finding a surrogate by going outside of New York. It's also very expensive, though; an attorney informed her that it would cost around around $150,000 (ConceiveAbilities says the average costs for paying for surrogacy is between $98,000 and $140,000.)
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In New York, you can use a gestational carrier — which is different from traditional surrogacy in that the carrier isn't connected by genetics to the child — without paying. You'd think that would make it easier on behalf of the parents, but it can make it even more challenging to find someone: It's a big ask to approach someone about using their body to carry your child. And Nicole understood that. "I have never been pregnant, but have heard that there is a major bond that takes place over 9 months [of gestation]," she says. "That after 9 months to hand off the babies — even if they are not biologically yours — is too difficult for some people."
Nicole and her husband were pleasantly surprised, though, to see that many of her friends offered to help out and be a carrier, saying how it was "crazy how many people stepped up to the plate."
But all of them were deemed to be "unfit" by doctors as a measure of precaution — they had to be the pinnacle of health in order to be a gestational carrier.
In late 2015, the Barattinis finally found their carrier: Nicole and Kevin's friend Lianna Fives.
Fives' husband, Shawn, had been friends with Kevin for about 15 years, and the family had long known about the Barattini's struggles. Lianna, though capable of being a carrier, had always been a supportive friend but offered to help. She was trying to grow her own family.
(L-R): Kevin Barattini, Shawn Fives, Lianna Fives, and Nicole Barattini. Courtesy of the Barattini Family
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"Lianna always knew she wanted to have more kids, so she never mentioned anything to us," Nicole says, also adding that Lianna has said that she always knew she would help out despite not having offered early on. But after the Fives had their 5 children, they decided they were ready to help their longtime friends.
Lianna first tried with two of Nicole's embryos in June 2016, and was unsuccessful. She tried again in July, and it worked — soon enough, Lianna was certifiably pregnant.
During Lianna's pregnancy, Nicole, Kevin, and Shawn all joined her at doctors' appointments. Nicole says it wasn't weird for her to see someone else carrying her baby and receiving the care from the ob/gyn. "We had been through so much that I had been OK with the fact that I wasn't going to be able to carry, so at that point it wasn't hard at all," she says. "It was actually a relief that they were going to be healthy, and there was less stress for me knowing that a really good person was carrying them."
Lianna gave birth to two healthy twins, Dominic and Luciana, on February 10. She's now Luciana's godmother.
Nicole says her babies are healthy, and she's been in remission from from having any serious TTP episodes for two and a half years, though she still gets immunotherapy every 12 weeks, mostly to keep any potential symptoms at bay.
Nicole hopes her story gives other woman who can't carry hope. "It's never the end of the road. I do wish it was legal to have a surrogate [in New York], because I do think more people would do it if they were paid, unfortunately," she says. "But there are people out there like Liana that will do it out of kindness — and it's easier to find them than it seems."
The Barattini babies. Courtesy of the Barattini Family
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A: | Lianna Fives heard about Nicole Barattini's plight through a mutual friend—because of a rare blood disorder, Barattini couldn't risk carrying a child because she or the baby would likely die—and made an incredible decision. At dinner together with their husbands in 2015, Fives told the Barattinis she would be a surrogate mother for them, at no cost. "To see their faces, their excitement, I don’t think they believed it themselves," the 37-year-old Fives, a mother of five herself, tells People. "She is an angel. She wanted to do this out of the kindness of her heart," says Barattini, 29. It took two attempts at IVF, but Fives was successfully implanted with embryos created using Barattini's eggs and her husband's sperm, and on Feb. 10 of this year, she gave birth to twins—one boy and one girl. "Lianna and Shawn saved us," says Barattini's husband Kevin, 35, who met Fives' husband about 20 years ago through volunteer firefighting. The couple thought they might never have children, since the high costs of adoption or hiring a surrogate were beyond their reach. Both couples, who live in New York, went to nearly all of the doctor appointments, and everyone was in the room when Dominic and Luciana were born. The Barattinis chose the Fives as the babies' godparents, and Nicole Barattini—who doesn't have a sister and whose mom was over the age to carry for her, per Redbook—says she considers Fives to be like a sister to her now. The Fives were even honored at a county event over Mother's Day weekend for their good deed, Newsday reported. "I will always have a connection to the twins," says Fives, "but I had no problem with letting them go." (In California, a woman gave birth to her own grandson.) |
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: It accepts print jobs from client computers , then prints the jobs on the requested printer .
A: | It accepts print jobs from the computers and sends the jobs to the appropriate printers , queuing the jobs locally to accommodate the fact that work may arrive more quickly than the printer can actually handle . |
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]: It uses differential and integral calculus as well as linear algebra to study problems of geometry .
[A]: Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that uses the techniques of differential calculus , integral calculus , linear algebra and multilinear algebra to study problems in geometry .
[Q]: The U-Bahn and S-Bahn public transit networks , rebuilt after the war , spanned all occupation sectors .
[A]: Berlin 's underground ( Untergrundbahn , U-Bahn ) and Berlin 's S-Bahn ( a metropolitan public transit network ) , rebuilt after the war , continued to span all occupation sectors .
[Q]: The main scientific goals of the MSL mission is to search whether Mars could ever have supported life or water and to study the climate and geology of Mars .
[A]: | As established by the Mars Exploration Program , the main scientific goals of the MSL mission are to help determine whether Mars could ever have supported life , as well as determining the role of water , and to study the climate and geology of Mars .
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In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Example Input: Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas or nitrous, is a chemical compound, an oxide of nitrogen with the formula N 2O. At room temperature, it is a colorless non-flammable gas, with a slightly metallic scent and taste. At elevated temperatures, nitrous oxide is a powerful oxidizer similar to molecular oxygen.
Example Output: what is the chemical formula of laughing gas
Example Input: 'He Lives in You' is a song written and performed by Lebo M. and his South African Choir for the album Rhythm of the Pride Lands. A shorter version of the song was used for the opening of The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. It is also performed twice in the musical version of The Lion King. The song was co-written by Mark Mancina and Jay Rifkin.
Example Output: who sings he lives in you lion king
Example Input: The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. Its drafting by a committee appointed by the Second Continental Congress began on July 12, 1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification on November 15, 1777. The Articles of Confederation came into force on March 1, 1781, after being ratified by all 13 states. A guiding principle of the Articles was to preserve the independence and sovereignty of the states. The federal government received only those powers which the colonies had recognized as belonging to king and parliament.
Example Output: | who had power under the articles of confederation
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Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Input: JPMorgan Chase Bank , N.A. , also known as Chase Bank , is a national bank headquartered in Manhattan , New York City .
Output: | J.P. Morgan Chase Bank , N.A. , doing business as Chase Bank , is a national bank headquartered in Manhattan , New York City , that constitutes the consumer and commercial banking subsidiary of the U.S. multinational banking and financial services holding company , JPMorgan Chase . |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Example: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Example solution: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Example explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Problem: As the Confederation Congress attempted to govern the continually growing American states, delegates discovered that the limitations placed upon the central government rendered it ineffective at doing so. As the government's weaknesses became apparent, especially after Shays' Rebellion, individuals began asking for changes to the Articles. Their hope was to create a stronger national government. Initially, some states met to deal with their trade and economic problems. However, as more states became interested in meeting to change the Articles, a meeting was set in Philadelphia on May 25, 1787. This became the Constitutional Convention. It was quickly realized that changes would not work, and instead the entire Articles needed to be replaced. On March 4, 1789, the government under the Articles was replaced with the federal government under the Constitution. The new Constitution provided for a much stronger federal government by establishing a chief executive (the President), courts, and taxing powers.
| Solution: are the articles of confederation part of the constitution? |
How to find the heart containers in ocarina of time
Search the lost woods.
There are 2 heart pieces that can be collected in the lost woods as a child.
Look for the skull kid at the left side of the entrance and play saria's song.
He will then give you a heart piece. You have to win a memory game in order to obtain the next heart piece.
How to shoot a movie entirely in one take
Go door to door and tell them when the movie will be shot, so if they hear screaming or see flashlights, it's just you.
Planning is the key to everything.
First, you must come up with an idea for the movie.
Then, you must figure out a way to interpret that idea into a plot that doesn't require any jumping to certain periods in time. Make sure there are absolutely no plot holes.
How to make an egg mcmuffin
Toast the english muffin.
Split 1 english muffin in half and spread 1 teaspoon of butter over each half of the muffin. Heat a skillet over medium heat and add the english muffin halves with the butter side down.
Toast the muffin halves for 3 to 4 minutes, so they become golden and a little crisp. Remove the toasted muffin halves to a sheet of aluminum foil so the buttered sides are facing up.
How to know if you're sleep deprived
Be aware of decreased cognitive function.
It's no surprise that a lack of sleep can cause irritability and changes in mood. You may actually develop a mood disorder if you're consistently sleep deprived.
| Disruptions in the sleep cycle have been strongly connected to depression and a reduced quality of life. You may also feel more anxious and lose your motivation to do simple everyday tasks. |
How to build strength gradually<br>Choose the appropriate weight. When you're just starting out with exercise or you want to build your strength slowly, it's important to choose the appropriate weight. Too much or too little won't help you in the long-term.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Lifting with an inappropriate amount of weight right from the beginning will help you in the long run."? | No |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
A total lunar eclipse occurred on 27 July 2018. The Moon passed through the center of Earth's shadow in what was the first central lunar eclipse since 15 June 2011. It was also the second total lunar eclipse in 2018, after the one on 31 January.
| is there a lunar eclipse in july 2018? |
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: Section 399F of the Public Health Service Act created the foundation to help the CDC work with the private sector .
A: | The creation of the Foundation was authorized by section 399F of the Public Health Service Act to support the mission of CDC in partnership with the private sector , including organizations , foundations , businesses , educational groups , and individuals . |
How to pay sallie mae with a credit card<br>Navigate to sallie mae's website at https: // www.salliemae.com/credit-cards/sallie-mae-card /. Click on " apply now. You will be redirected to an online application website operated by barclaycard.
Sallie Mae runs a website.
A: Yes
Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas emergency room doctors and nurses treat two to three injured surfers.
The emergency room has injured surfers.
A: Yes
How to grow tomatoes indoors<br>Choose a suitable variety. You have some choice when it comes to tomatoes, especially between determinate (bush) and indeterminate (vining) varieties. Both will have advantages for indoor gardens, so think about which kind is best for your purposes.
It's outside or no where for tomatoe growth
A: | No |
USS "Yorktown" (Gunboat No. 1/PG-1) was lead ship of her class of steel-hulled, twin-screw gunboats in the United States Navy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was the second U.S. Navy ship named in honor of the American Revolutionary War's Battle of Yorktown.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
USS "Yorktown" (Gunboat No. 0/PG-1) was lead ship of her class
Choose your answer from:
(I). Yes.
(II). It's impossible to say.
(III). No. | (III). |
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
Breast reduction is a plastic surgery to make human breasts smaller .
Answer: | Reduction mammoplasty ( also breast reduction and reduction mammaplasty ) is the plastic surgery procedure for reducing the size of large breasts . |
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: Last June, HUD drafted a compliance agreement limiting the number of units set aside for deaf residents, which seems to have only stoked the dispute. State officials said the agency at one point threatened to withhold money from the state if it did not continue with the plan. But the state housing director, Michael Trailor, did not back down, saying he had to “stand up for the rights of disabled people.”
Advocates for the disabled fear that the finding might complicate other projects in which federal money would be used to build housing for adults with special needs. Already, the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center, based in Phoenix, has scrapped plans to use federal grants to help pay for a development designed for autistic adults, opting instead to pursue private financing.
Through combative legal correspondence and in emotional meetings, the parties in the Tempe project, working to negotiate a compromise, have argued over the meaning of the federal statute governing fair housing practices and the word “discrimination” as it applies to the deaf.
John Trasviña, HUD’s assistant secretary for fair housing and equal opportunity, said in a statement that “federal law prohibits facilities that receive HUD funds from providing separate or different housing for one group of individuals with disabilities because this practice denies or limits access to housing for other individuals based on the types of disabilities they have.” (The agency did not make Mr. Trasviña or other officials available for on-the-record interviews.)
In interviews, Mr. Trailor and the developer, Erich Schwenker of Cardinal Capital Management, which is based in Milwaukee, said the units were advertised in publications that focused on the deaf population, but also in the state’s largest newspaper and in a local magazine.
“Our intention has never been to exclude, but to make sure the units are utilized to the fullest extent possible, as the law requires,” Mr. Schwenker said.
The demands from HUD mobilized advocacy groups across the country. Last week, 75 of them signed a letter from the National Association of the Deaf to the federal housing secretary, Shaun Donovan, accusing HUD of “forcing deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals to only live according to an ideological vision of forced integration.”
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In an interview, the association’s chief executive officer, Howard Rosenblum, said the approach “ignores the unique communication needs” of the deaf, making them more isolated. Denise Resnik, a co-founder of the Southwest autism center, said the agency’s attitude felt “like reverse discrimination.”
By Friday, HUD had scaled back its efforts. A spokesman said the agency had decided to “take a pause” in the negotiations to give the state and the developer time to submit evidence demonstrating the housing needs of the deaf population to justify the use of federal money in the project.
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Jeff Rosen, the chairman of the National Council on Disability, which advises the federal government on disability policy, said these types of discussions could help the government better understand the challenges faced by groups of disabled people like the deaf, who do not often have the opportunity to live in a community that they feel is “appropriate and fit for them.” (The council has not taken an official position on the Apache ASL Trails case.)
“Our understanding of discrimination and disability policies is evolving,” Mr. Rosen, who is deaf, said through a sign-language interpreter.
“In the past, our interest was really more focused on providing basic access to opportunities,” he said. “Now, we’re having a more involved conversation that includes living the way we choose. That’s the type of evolution we’re talking about, and it is not unique to deaf people.”
A report by the National Fair Housing Alliance last year ranked disability as by far the main source of housing discrimination complaints received by HUD, representing 54.9 percent of them in 2011.
There have been no formal complaints filed against Apache ASL Trails, federal officials acknowledged. The agency learned of the potential irregularities during an audit last year of Arizona’s use of HOME grants, which are given to state and local governments to create affordable housing for low-income families. It is the state’s responsibility to ensure that the grants comply with federal law.
Agency officials said that other housing developments offering accommodations for the deaf had been partly paid for with HUD grants, but gave no overwhelming preference to deaf tenants or did not exclude other groups in their advertising.
Tanya Towers in Manhattan is the only complex among the handful of examples given by HUD that currently houses only deaf and hard-of-hearing people, although others can apply, federal officials said.
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Mr. Trasviña said no one living at Apache ASL Trails would be displaced. The compliance agreement with HUD would limit the number of units set aside for tenants who are hearing-impaired or in wheelchairs to roughly 19, or 25 percent of its 75 units.
The dispute over the agreement has consumed many hours for lawyers on both sides. Mr. Schwenker, the developer, said the agency cobbled together sections of a Web site for a group of hearing-impaired senior citizens to justify its claim that marketing for the units was exclusionary. Agency officials did not disclose which promotional materials they specifically took issue with, citing the continuing negotiations.
Apache ASL Trails was built near the light-rail line that links Tempe to Phoenix and Mesa. Its resident manager, Linda Russell, is deaf; through an interpreter, she said she communicated with residents who do not know sign language through notes scribbled on paper or on the white board she keeps in her office.
A nonprofit organization offering sign-language interpretation and other services has an office in the complex. Weekly workshops — both spoken and with simultaneous sign-language translation — are held in its lobby.
“A lot of the people who live here, we share common language; we’re able to socialize,” Mary Susan Case, 72, who was born deaf to a hearing family, said through an interpreter. “I’m not lonely anymore.” ||||| The project, named Apache ASL Trails in a reference to American Sign Language, now finds itself in an unlikely spot, facing charges of discrimination for favoring deaf and hard-of-hearing people over others, disabled or not. The federal agency released its finding in January after examining marketing materials and the project’s criteria for tenant selection, even though the developer assured it that the documents in question had been misinterpreted or were outdated.
Last June, HUD drafted a compliance agreement limiting the number of units set aside for deaf residents, which seems to have only stoked the dispute. State officials said the agency at one point threatened to withhold money from the state if it did not continue with the plan. But the state housing director, Michael Trailor, did not back down, saying he had to “stand up for the rights of disabled people.”
Advocates for the disabled fear that the finding might complicate other projects in which federal money would be used to build housing for adults with special needs. Already, the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center, based in Phoenix, has scrapped plans to use federal grants to help pay for a development designed for autistic adults, opting instead to pursue private financing.
Through combative legal correspondence and in emotional meetings, the parties in the Tempe project, working to negotiate a compromise, have argued over the meaning of the federal statute governing fair housing practices and the word “discrimination” as it applies to the deaf.
John Trasviña, HUD’s assistant secretary for fair housing and equal opportunity, said in a statement that “federal law prohibits facilities that receive HUD funds from providing separate or different housing for one group of individuals with disabilities because this practice denies or limits access to housing for other individuals based on the types of disabilities they have.” (The agency did not make Mr. Trasviña or other officials available for on-the-record interviews.) |||||
A: | Packed with state-of-the-art equipment focused on the needs of the deaf, a new Arizona housing facility was seen as a step forward for the Southwest. Instead, it's become a lightning rod, reports the New York Times, as federal and state officials feud over alleged discrimination at the complex. As it stands, people with hearing difficulties live in 69 of Apache ASL Trails' 75 apartments. The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, however, wants to limit units specifically for the deaf to 25% of the facility—some 19 units. Arizona used federal money to fund the development. But "federal law prohibits facilities that receive HUD funds from providing separate ... housing for one group of individuals with disabilities," says a department official, because it may cut availability for others "based on the types of disabilities they have." But, says the complex's developer, "our intention has never been to exclude, but to make sure the units are utilized to the fullest extent possible." The conflict may already be having repercussions outside the facility: an autism center in Phoenix has chosen to go private for its funding. Click for the full piece. |
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.
Sources tell THR that Cowell has assembled the show's creative team for a UK offsite. The purpose: a hard look in the mirror.
The X Factor news came fast and furious on Monday night -- first, that host Steve Jones would not be returning, then that judge Nicole Scherzinger was exiting (both confirmed by Fox) and finally, according to sources, that Paula Abdul also would be shown the door. Now The Hollywood Reporter has learned that all of these major show decisions are coming from one key confab held in the U.K.
According to a show insider, a series of X Factor season 2 offsite meetings are taking place wherein show creator Simon Cowell has assembled his team and creative brain-trust for a post-mortem. The purpose: detailing what went wrong and what was done right on season 1 of the Fox singing competition.
Among the brash verdicts, says THR's source: that Abdul's role was seen as "irrelevant to the mix," in part through no fault of her own (as mentor to the groups, her contestants were picked off early in the competition).
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Still, Abdul was not without her controversies on the show. Many blamed her for the dismissal of season 1 favorite Rachel Crow, precipitated by advice Abdul gave to Scherzinger to let the decision be made by the public vote. America then sent the 13-year-old packing.
As for Jones and Scherzinger, another show insider says the X Factor host was notified by a show producer around 7:30pm Eastern on Monday evening that his option was not being picked up. (Cowell did not call Jones personally to deliver the news.) Soon after, Scherzinger was informed that her contract also would not be renewed.
On the show, both had weathered their share of viewer criticism; Scherzinger even received death threats after she and Abdul voted to send finalist Drew Ryniewicz home. Jones' handling of contestant eliminations, which some deemed insensitive, also came under fire as unscripted reactions became increasingly emotional.
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The host and judge did not receive an explanation for the decision, but a source close to the show says Cowell has decided that the show needs a bigger celebrity on the panel next season.
A source close to LA Reid says the fourth member of the X Factor panel has not been informed of any change to his status as judge.
Why the surprise post-season slaughter? Insiders point to an issue of both truth and perception: ratings. While The X Factor's inaugural bow had numbers comparable to that of NBC's The Voice, X Factor was seen as a disappointment while The Voice was deemed a success. In a way, Cowell could only blame himself -- he was the one who set the bar extraordinarily high, telling THR in an August 2011 cover story that he was anticipating a viewership of 20 million.
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Coming in some 8 million viewers short meant lost ad revenue and diminished profits on what was already one of the most expensive productions on television.
Also nagging at Cowell -- with just about everything he touches -- are the constant Idol comparisons and U.S. X Factor was no exception. But even with its over-the-top accoutrements of costumes, dancers and pyro, many from inside and outside the show's sphere felt it simply wasn't different enough, especially with the familiar image of Abdul at Cowell's side.
While Fox has confirmed the departures of Scherzinger and Jones, official word on Abdul has yet to arrive.
Twitter: @shirleyhalperin ||||| BREAKING… EXCLUSIVE: Today at The X Factor there was a bloodbath which just claimed its biggest name. Not only are host Steve Jones and judge Nicole Scherzinger exiting from the Fox show, but now a Simon Cowell insider just told me that his longtime friend and American Idol colleague Paula Abdul won’t be returning as an X Factor judge next season. I understand from sources that none of the three left on their own accord and that it was cleaning house day at the so-so rated reality series. It’ll be interesting to see if there’s any backlash against Simon because of Paula’s popularity.
Last April I revealed exclusively that Cowell, in addition to himself and ”L.A.” Reid, had made up his mind to bring back Paula beside him for X Factor‘s premiere season. “I missed her the second she left (Idol),” Cowell told me at the time. “Always loved working with her even though she can be a pain. I don’t know what it is about her, but I’ve always clicked with her. You just have to get that chemistry, and she’s right. I’ve never found anyone better than her.” It took several months for her contract to be pinned down as she famously held out for more money, only closing her deal hours before the first televised audition. But Abdul added star power to the judging panel as she was the most famous person on the show behind only Cowell.
Earlier tonight, Fox confirmed the departures of both Scherzinger as a judge and Jones as host. The two, originally paired as co-hosts, had been considered the weakest links and likely casualties going into Season 2 after receiving mostly negative reviews for their performances last season. But my news that Abdul is out as well comes as a surprise given her long history with Cowell. With Abdul, Scherzinger and Jones gone, Cowell and L.A. Reid remain the only X Factor personalities from Season 1 to make it to Season 2. Cowell hinted at a major shakeup on the show last month when he was quoted as saying “We change these shows all the time.” Especially after The X Factor failed to live up to Cowell’s own expectations. He famously predicted an average audience of 20 million for the series’ first season. But in actuality, it drew 12.4 million. This are not the first cast changes on The X Factor. Original judge Cheryl Cole was let go after one taping, replaced by Scherzinger. Later on, Scherzinger and Abdul became embroiled in the controversy surrounding the shocking elimination of frontrunner Rachel Crow.
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| It was a "bloodbath" at X Factor yesterday, Nikki Finke writes at Deadline, with host Steve Jones and judges Nicole Scherzinger and Paula Abdul all getting the ax. Apparently Simon Cowell himself made the decision to clean house, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Cowell and LA Reid are the only two judges who will return for the second season of the reality competition, which has garnered not-great ratings. Insiders tell the Reporter Abdul was seen as "irrelevant to the mix," and add that Cowell wants bigger celebrities on the panel. |
The Southeast Missouri State women's basketball team defeated Murray State 70-58 Monday night at the Show Me Center to improve to 2-1 in the Ohio Valley Conference and 7-8 overall. Senior Guard Bailie Roberts led the way with a career high 22 points for the Redhawks. The SEMO Women have now won two straight games for the first time since 2010. The Redhawks will conclude three-game home stand on Wednesday night at 6:30 against Saint Louis. Copyright 2013 KFVS. All rights reserved.
Other players besides Bailie Roberts on the SEMO team scored 58 points OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
The Bridge (Danish: "Broen" ; Swedish: "Bron" ) is a Scandinavian crime television series created and written by Hans Rosenfeldt. A joint creative and financed production between Sweden's Sveriges Television and Denmark's DR, it has been shown in over 100 countries.
The Bridge contains a d OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
How to improve your computer performance<br>Perform " disk cleanup " regularly. The disk cleanup utility is an excellent way to get rid of temporary files, recycle bin, system logs and other non essential files that build up and take up memory. To perform a disk cleanup perform the following steps: start] control panel] system and security] administrative tools] disk clean up.
Files cannot be temporary. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | No |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Problem:In appealing to America’s allies, the president will portray the mission in Afghanistan as one necessary not just for the United States but for every nation that desires peace.
“Taken together, these additional American and international troops will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to Afghan forces, and allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011,” Mr. Obama will tell the American people, according to the excerpts released by the White House.
“Just as we have done in Iraq , we will execute this transition responsibly, taking into account conditions on the ground,” the president says. “We will continue to advise and assist Afghanistan’s Security Forces to ensure that they can succeed over the long haul. But it will be clear to the Afghan government and, more importantly, to the Afghan people that they will ultimately be responsible for their own country.”
The strategy aims to prevent Al Qaeda from returning to Afghanistan, whose territory it used to prepare the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, and to keep Taliban insurgents from toppling the government there. The 30,000 new American troops will focus on securing several population centers in Afghanistan where the Taliban are strongest, including Kandahar in the south and Khost in the east, the officials said. The American forces, they said, will pair up with specific Afghan units in an effort to end eight years of frustrating attempts to build them into an independent fighting force.
Mr. Obama has concluded that the strategy for dealing with the Taliban should be to “degrade its ability,” in the words of one official deeply involved in the discussions, so that the Afghan forces are capable of taking them on. At the same time the president’s strategy calls for “carving away at the bottom” of the Taliban’s force structure by reintegrating less committed members into tribes and offering them paid jobs in local and national military forces.
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“We want to knock the Taliban back, giving us time and space to build the Afghans up mainly in the security front but also in governance and development as well,” said one senior administration official. By weakening the Taliban through a quick infusion of troops, the official said, the administration hopes to make it a more manageable enemy for the Afghans to take on themselves.
Hours before the speech, Senator John McCain of Arizona expressed support for sending more troops to Afghanistan but said he opposed a timetable. “Dates for withdrawal are dictated by conditions,” Mr. McCain, the senior Republican on the Armed Services Committee, told reporters on Capitol Hill. “The way that you win wars is to break the enemy’s will, not to announce dates that you are leaving.”
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Senator Harry Reid of Nevada , the Democratic majority leader, offered a more positive view after meeting with the president before his speech. “It is clear that the President’s deliberative approach to his decision, which allowed him to hear from a wide range of military, civilian and Congressional voices, will strengthen the clarity and focus of our mission,” Mr. Reid said. Before flying to West Point, Mr. Obama and his top advisers spent much of the past 24 hours briefing allies and Congressional leaders. The president called President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at 10 p.m. Monday and spent an hour discussing the new strategy, then called President Zardari of Pakistan at 10:35 a.m. Tuesday, officials said. Mr. Obama also talked with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland , both of whom have forces in Afghanistan.
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The White House issued a statement praising Pakistan as it announced Mr. Obama’s call with Mr. Zardari. “The president recognized the profound sacrifices Pakistan has made in its efforts to combat extremists in its northwest and emphasized that our goal is to defeat Al Qaeda and to ensure stability in the region,” it said.
While the number of troops Mr. Obama is deploying falls short of the figure sought by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal , his commander in Afghanistan, Mr. Obama is also counting on reinforcements from American allies. Those allies currently have nearly 40,000 troops in Afghanistan, but European and Canadian officials have said they doubt Mr. Obama will get more than a few thousand more.
The new strategy draws heavily on lessons learned from President George W. Bush ’s “surge” and strategy shift in Iraq in 2007, which Mr. Obama opposed as a senator and presidential candidate. Mr. Obama’s advisers are even referring to his troop buildup as an “extended surge.”
A critical part of Mr. Obama’s strategy is to succeed in an area where Mr. Bush failed: Training a reliable Afghan force, not only the national army but a series of local forces as well. Currently, the Afghan army is in the lead in only one of 34 provinces in the country, around the capital of Kabul .
In addition to the influx of troops, administration officials said they are taking other lessons from the Iraq surge, such as empowering local security forces to stand up to Taliban militants in their communities and enhancing the training of national forces by embedding American troops with Afghan counterparts and later pairing similarly sized American and Afghan units to fight side by side.
“We learned a lot of lessons, painful lessons, out of Iraq on how to do training,” said one official involved in the discussions.
The central mission of the new strategy is the same as that described by the White House after its last review in March — to focus on destroying Al Qaeda, the group that mounted the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and that still appears to have the reach to attack the United States. But regarding the Taliban, the administration’s latest review concluded that it needed only to degrade the capability of its various groups, some of which have close ties with Al Qaeda, on the assumption that they are indigenous and cannot be wiped out entirely.
Mr. Obama has sought to narrow America’s mission. There will be no talk of turning Afghanistan into a democracy — one of Mr. Bush’s central goals — and no discussion of “nation-building,” the officials said. But as they described it, some rudimentary nation-building is part of the plan, including helping the central government improve governance and curb corruption. ||||| West Point, New York (CNN) -- President Obama said Tuesday that the deployment of 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan is part of a strategy to reverse the Taliban's momentum and stabilize the country's government.
"There is no imminent threat of the government being overthrown, but the Taliban has gained momentum," Obama said at the U.S. Military Academy. "Al Qaeda has not re-emerged in Afghanistan in the same numbers as before 9/11, but they retain their safe-havens along the border.
"And our forces lack the full support they need to effectively train and partner with Afghan security forces and better secure the population. ... In short, the status quo is not sustainable."
Obama said he'd begin sending the additional troops "at the fastest pace possible" starting in early 2010 "with a goal of starting to withdraw forces from the country in July 2011."
The president said additional U.S. forces bolstered by NATO troops "will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to Afghan forces."
Senior administration officials said Tuesday that Obama has a goal of withdrawing most U.S. forces by the end of his current term, which ends in January 2013.
Watch what the new troops will do in Afghanistan
It will be the second increase of U.S. forces in the war-torn Islamic country ordered by Obama since he took office in January.
In his speech Tuesday, Obama said his strategy had three objectives:
• Deny al Qaeda a safe haven
• Reverse the Taliban's momentum and deny it the ability to overthrow Afghanistan's government
• Strengthen Afghanistan's security forces and government
The additional troops was one way to achieve these, he said. Other strategies will include holding Afghan government leaders accountable for corruption, focus assistance on areas that could help the lives of Afghans, and securing the country's border with Pakistan.
"We are in Afghanistan to prevent a cancer from once again spreading through that country. But this same cancer has also taken root in the border region of Pakistan. That is why we need a strategy that works on both sides of the border," Obama said.
The president said he rejected the option of committing more forces for an undefined mission of nation-building without any deadlines.
"I reject this course because it sets goals that are beyond what we can achieve at a reasonable cost, and what we need to achieve to secure our interests," Obama said. "Furthermore, the absence of a timeframe for transition would deny us any sense of urgency in working with the Afghan government. It must be clear that Afghans will have to take responsibility for their security, and that America has no interest in fighting an endless war in Afghanistan."
Obama rejected analogies with the war in Vietnam that divided America in the 1960s and 1970s.
"Unlike Vietnam, we are joined by a broad coalition of 43 nations that recognizes the legitimacy of our action," Obama said. "Unlike Vietnam, we are not facing a broad-based popular insurgency. And most importantly, unlike Vietnam, the American people were viciously attacked from Afghanistan, and remain a target for those same extremists who are plotting along its border."
Obama said the U.S. has no interest in occupying Afghanistan.
"We will support efforts by the Afghan government to open the door to those Taliban who abandon violence and respect the human rights of their fellow citizens," Obama said. "And we will seek a partnership with Afghanistan grounded in mutual respect -- to isolate those who destroy; to strengthen those who build; to hasten the day when our troops will leave; and to forge a lasting friendship in which America is your partner, and never your patron."
Obama spoke to an audience of West Point cadets, staff and guests in outlining his strategy that he has deliberated for months, meeting several times with his national security team.
He recognized that some in the audience had fought in Afghanistan, and some would be deployed in the future.
"As your commander in chief, I owe you a mission that is clearly defined, and worthy of your service," he said.
The additional U.S. forces "will increase our ability to train competent Afghan security forces, and to partner with them so that more Afghans can get into the fight," Obama said.
"And they will help create the conditions for the United States to transfer responsibility to the Afghans."
Obama also said he is asking NATO allies to provide more troops, and that he is "confident that there will be further contributions in the days ahead."
"Our friends have fought and bled and died alongside us in Afghanistan," he said. "Now, we must come together to end this war successfully. For what's at stake is not simply a test of NATO's credibility -- what's at stake is the security of our allies, and the common security of the world."
The new troop deployment would increase the total U.S. commitment to roughly 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, bolstered by more than 40,000 NATO forces.
Obama, whom Republicans had accused of "dithering" over the decision, concluded the deployment needs to be accelerated to knock back the Taliban, the senior officials said.
The push for a speedy deployment is surprising because White House officials who defended Obama's slow pace of coming to a decision had said the Pentagon wouldn't be able to get new troops to Afghanistan that quickly.
A Pentagon official noted that, under the new strategy, Obama is "trying to do it faster" than the 12-month timeline initially requested by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan.
McChrystal wrote in a report in August that a "failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months) -- while Afghan security capacity matures -- risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible."
The Pentagon official said Obama's six-month timeline for sending the new troops is "very aggressive" and will be challenging for the military to fulfill. The official expressed confidence, however, that the military would successfully carry out the order.
Opponents of an increased U.S. troop deployment complain that the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai is corrupt and an unreliable partner.
Obama spoke to Karzai for an hour by videoconference Tuesday to discuss the deployment decision, according to a White House statement.
"The president also emphasized that U.S. and international efforts in Afghanistan are not open-ended and must be evaluated toward measurable and achievable goals within the next 18 to 24 months," the statement said.
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The decision to send the troops carries significant political risk for Obama, who will announce it nine days before he travels to Oslo, Norway, to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.
His liberal base, which helped him win last year's presidential election, opposes another troop deployment to Afghanistan.
In addition, the deployment, expected to cost an extra $30 billion a year, comes amid high unemployment as the economy emerges from a recession. That concerns Democrats and Republicans faced with competing domestic priorities such as health care reform and job creation.
U.S.-led troops first invaded Afghanistan in response to the al Qaeda terrorist network's September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. The invasion overthrew the ruling Taliban, which had allowed al Qaeda to operate from its territory, but most of the top al Qaeda and Taliban leadership escaped the onslaught.
Taliban fighters have since regrouped in the mountainous region along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, battling U.S. and Afghan government forces on one side and Pakistani troops on the other. Al Qaeda's top leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, remain at large and are suspected to be hiding in the same region.
The conflict has so far claimed the lives of more than 900 Americans and nearly 600 allied troops. |||||
Solution: | President Obama wants the war effort in Afghanistan wrapped up in 3 years and most US troops home by then, senior officials tell CNN. He also wants to speed up deployment of the 30,000 or so additional troops he's sending, with the first Marines expected to be on the ground by Christmas. All new troops are expected to be in place within 6 months, reports the AP. The details come ahead of Obama's address to the nation tonight. The new troops will bring the total number of US forces to about 100,000 by the end of May. “We want to knock the Taliban back, giving us time and space to build the Afghans up mainly in the security front but also in governance and development as well,” a senior official tells the New York Times. |
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Which media outlet sold more daily copies in 2005, The Times or The Daily Telegraph?, Context: At the time of Harold Evans' appointment as editor in 1981, The Times had an average daily sale of 282,000 copies in comparison to the 1.4 million daily sales of its traditional rival The Daily Telegraph. By November 2005 The Times sold an average of 691,283 copies per day, the second-highest of any British "quality" newspaper (after The Daily Telegraph, which had a circulation of 903,405 copies in the period), and the highest in terms of full-rate sales. By March 2014, average daily circulation of The Times had fallen to 394,448 copies, compared to The Daily Telegraph's 523,048, with the two retaining respectively the second-highest and highest circulations among British "quality" newspapers. In contrast The Sun, the highest-selling "tabloid" daily newspaper in the United Kingdom, sold an average of 2,069,809 copies in March 2014, and the Daily Mail, the highest-selling "middle market" British daily newspaper, sold an average of 1,708,006 copies in the period.
| The Daily Telegraph |
Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
DETROIT (AP) — An Indiana man whose age, white hair and folksy style helped conceal his role as a drug courier was sentenced Wednesday — his 90th birthday — to three years in federal prison for hauling more than a ton of cocaine to Michigan.
Leo Sharp walks toward U.S. District Court before his scheduled sentencing, Wednesday, May 7, 2014, in Detroit. The Indiana man, who turned 90 on Wednesday, was convicted of hauling more than a ton of... (Associated Press)
"All I can tell you, your honor, is I'm really heartbroken I did what I did," Leo Sharp told a judge. "But it's done."
Wearing a dark suit and tie, the frail man stuffed his hands in his pockets as he stood in front of U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds. His attorney occasionally reached over to put a reassuring grip on his shoulder or a supportive stoke on his back.
There was no dispute over Sharp's crimes: He admitted last fall that he drove loads of cocaine into Michigan for a Mexican drug organization, one of 19 people charged in the case. The government said he was paid more than $1 million.
"I don't doubt it will be difficult," Edmunds told Sharp of prison, "but respect for the law requires there be some custody."
His age aside, Sharp still isn't a typical criminal. He fought Nazis in Italy during World War II and was awarded a Bronze Star for it. The Michigan City, Indiana, man also is known for growing prize-winning daylilies and even contributed 5,000 plant bulbs to his community.
Defense lawyer Darryl Goldberg focused on Sharp's past, not the trouble that landed him in court, while asking the judge to keep his client out of prison.
"This is not how we honor our heroes, whether they've fallen from grace or not," Goldberg said.
The attorney spent several minutes reading a history of the Battle of Mount Battaglia — "German blood on the end of their bayonets" — before the judge finally interrupted him.
Goldberg repeatedly warned that Sharp's dementia would be a burden for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. He acknowledged Sharp "went into this eyes wide," but said his condition led him to use "bad judgment" and become a drug courier.
During brief remarks, Sharp said he wished to grow Hawaiian papayas on his property in Florida to pay off his $500,000 penalty to the government.
"So sweet and delicious that people on the mainland will love it," he said.
That won't be possible: The government is seizing and selling the land.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Graveline said criminals don't get a pass simply for military service. He noted that Sharp used his age and appearance as a tool to shake the suspicions of police on cross-country trips before he was finally busted during a traffic stop on Interstate 94, west of Detroit, in 2011.
"They bargained on him not getting caught," the judge said in agreement.
Edmunds said linking dementia to Sharp's crimes was an "insult to all the people who have dementia and don't get involved in illegal activity."
Despite going to prison, Sharp still got a significant break. The government was seeking a five-year sentence, and sentencing guidelines called for a minimum of 14 years.
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Follow Ed White at http://twitter.com/edwhiteap . ||||| For convicted drug mule Leo Sharp, turning 90 turned out to be quite the letdown: he was sentenced to three years in federal prison on his birthday — and threatened to kill himself over the punishment.
Sharp, who spent his milestone birthday in federal court today, urged the judge to keep him out of prison, saying he regrets his crime: hauling nearly $3 million worth of cocaine across the country for a Mexican drug cartel.
“I’m really heartbroken I did what I did. But it’s done,” Sharp said, stressing: “I won’t live in prison, I’m just going to end my life if I end up there.”
U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds said she couldn’t justify not sending Sharp to prison considering the seriousness of his crime: He was a courier for a massive drug ring that ran a cocaine pipeline between Mexico and Detroit for several years.
“It’s not a victimless crime,” Edmunds said. “This is a huge drug operation, and Mr. Sharp was right in the middle of it.
“It would be weak for me to say, ‘Well, he’s an old man ...’ I think respect for the law requires there be some custody in this case.”
Sharp’s lawyer, Darryl Goldberg, pleaded with Edmunds to keep his client, who suffers from dementia, out of prison.
He argued that Sharp is a war hero who doesn’t deserve to be locked up and that it would be “cruel and thoughtless” to send a frail, old man to prison.
“Mr. Sharp is part of a great generation … before we were even born, he was on top of mountains fighting Nazis,” Goldberg said, arguing prison is the wrong place for a man like Sharp. “That’s not how we honor our heroes whether they’ve fallen from grace or (not).”
Goldberg also argued that his client was manipulated and threatened by drug lords and that he tried to get out of the drug ring.
“This old man was brainwashed … when he wanted to quit, they put a gun to his head,” Goldberg said, adding that he believes his client is one of the oldest defendants sentenced to serve time in federal prison.
The government disputed claims that Sharp didn’t know what he was doing.
“This was not a, ‘Whoops I stumbled into this,’ ” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Graveline. “He is a willing participant.”
Graveline noted that Sharp would be facing a significantly stiffer sentence — up to 210 months — if he were younger, so the recommended five-year prison sentence is warranted.
“This is a very serious case,” Graveline said, stressing that Sharp’s crimes harmed many, especially drug addicts and people killed in drug crimes. “Mr. Sharp needs to receive some prison time.”
Edmunds agreed, noting that if she didn’t send Sharp to prison for his crime, drug dealers would get the wrong message, being: “If you want to inoculate your organization from punishment … get an elderly person to do your deliveries for you, because they’re not going to go to prison for it.”
After his sentencing hearing, Sharp was released to the custody of his step-son and will begin his prison sentence at a later date, which hasn’t been set.
In addition to serving time, Sharp agreed to pay the government $500,000 and give up his Florida property, according to a forfeiture order. But he will not give up his home or farm, the order said.
■ Related: War veteran caught hauling cocaine hopes to avoid prison on 90th birthday
Sharp, of Michigan City, Ind., was arrested in 2011 during a traffic stop on I-94 near Ann Arbor. He was caught with nearly $3 million worth of cocaine in his pickup. Following his arrest, Sharp initially made up a story in court about what happened, telling a magistrate that he was forced at gunpoint to haul the cocaine. He eventually pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy.
Sharp was among 18 defendants indicted in the scheme. Unbeknownst to Sharp’s co-conspirators, the Drug Enforcement Administration was monitoring their phone calls. Their conversations led them to Sharp.
■ Related: Convicted drug mule to spend 90th birthday in court facing sentencing
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A: | Leo Sharp turned 90 yesterday ... while sitting in federal court in Detroit, where he was sentenced to three years in federal prison for his role in a drug smuggling operation. The Indiana man, a World War II veteran, was convicted of hauling cocaine between Mexico and Detroit for a Mexican drug cartel; he was arrested in 2011 near Ann Arbor, where he was found with almost $3 million worth of cocaine in his pickup during a traffic stop, the Detroit Free Press reports. In court yesterday, Sharp said he's "heartbroken" about his crime, and threatened suicide: "I won’t live in prison, I’m just going to end my life if I end up there." His lawyer pleaded with the judge to reconsider the sentence, arguing that Sharp suffers from dementia and the condition caused him to use "bad judgment," the AP reports. He also spoke at length about Sharp's military service, for which he was awarded the Bronze Star ("before we were even born, he was on top of mountains fighting Nazis," the lawyer asserted). But the judge would not relent, noting that the dementia argument was an "insult to all the people who have dementia and don't get involved in illegal activity." She added that she'd basically be sending a message to drug dealers that "if you want to inoculate your organization from punishment ... get an elderly person to do your deliveries for you." Sharp, who the government says was paid more than $1 million by the cartel, agreed to pay the government $500,000 and give up property in Florida; his prison date has not yet been set. |
I was taught -- I went to a church school and I was taught that the two greatest commandments are: Love the Lord, your God, with all your mind, your body and your soul, and love your neighbor as yourself. And frankly, I think we have a lot more loving of our neighbor to do in this country and on this planet.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
God is believed by bart | It's impossible to say |
Laverne Smith (born September 12, 1954) is a former American football running back who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fourth round of the 1977 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Kansas and attended Wichita Southeast High School in Wichita, Kansas.
He was born earlier than anticipated OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
The weapon Inspectors have had since 1991 to peacefully disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction.
The weapon Inspectors have had over 300 months to peacefully disarm Iraq. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
A premium display-equipped version of the Amazon Echo speaker has been the subject of rumors for over a year now, and it could launch next month, according to CNET. The site’s unnamed source claims that Amazon has accelerated the launch to stay ahead of Google, whose recent launch of multi-user support for the Google Home speaker served as a “wake-up call.” If CNET’s report is accurate, the device would be Amazon’s second new Echo product in as many months, following this week’s launch of the camera-equipped Echo Look.
The amazon echo was see through. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
[EX Q]: A blighted ovum or anembryonic gestation is characterized by a normal-appearing gestational sac, but the absence of an embryo. It likely occurs as a result of early embryonic death with continued development of the trophoblast. When small, the sac cannot be distinguished from the early normal pregnancy, as there may be a yolk sac, though a fetal pole is not seen. For diagnosis, the sac must be of sufficient size that the absence of normal embryonic elements is established. The criteria depends on the type of ultrasound exam performed. A pregnancy is anembryonic if a transvaginal ultrasound reveals a sac with a mean gestational sac diameter (MGD) greater than 25 mm and no yolk sac, or an MGD >25 mm with no embryo. Transabdominal imaging without transvaginal scanning may be sufficient for diagnosing early pregnancy failure when an embryo whose crown--rump length is 15 mm or more has no visible cardiac activity.
[EX A]: do you have yolk sac with blighted ovum?
[EX Q]: John Wayne Airport (IATA: SNA, ICAO: KSNA, FAA LID: SNA) is an international airport in Orange County, California, United States, with its mailing address in the city of Santa Ana, hence the IATA airport code. The entrance to the airport is off MacArthur Blvd in Irvine, the city that borders the airport on the north and east. Newport Beach and Costa Mesa form the southern and western boundaries along with a small unincorporated area along the Corona del Mar (73) Freeway. Santa Ana is just north, not actually touching the airport. Originally named Orange County Airport, the county Board of Supervisors renamed it in 1979 to honor actor John Wayne, who lived in neighboring Newport Beach and died that year.
[EX A]: is santa ana the same as john wayne airport?
[EX Q]: ``Article III federal judges'' (as opposed to judges of some courts with special jurisdictions) serve ``during good behavior'' (often paraphrased as appointed ``for life''). Judges hold their seats until they resign, die, or are removed from office. Although the legal orthodoxy is that judges cannot be removed from office except by impeachment by the House of Representatives followed by conviction by the Senate, several legal scholars, including William Rehnquist, Saikrishna Prakash, and Steven D. Smith, have argued that the Good Behaviour Clause may, in theory, permit removal by way of a writ of scire facias filed before a federal court, without resort to impeachment.
[EX A]: | can federal judges be removed by the president?
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You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Example input: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Example output: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Example explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Q: The wheel and axle can be viewed as a version of the lever, with a drive force applied tangentially to the perimeter of the wheel and a load force applied to the axle, respectively, that are balanced around the hinge which is the fulcrum. The mechanical advantage of the wheel and axle is the ratio of the distances from the fulcrum to the applied loads, or what is the same thing the ratio of the diameter of the wheel and axle. A major application is in wheeled vehicles, in which the wheel and axle are used to reduce friction of the moving vehicle with the ground. Other examples of devices which use the wheel and axle are capstans, belt drives and gears.
A: | is a car an example of a wheel and axle? |
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.
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Problem: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Solution: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Problem: The center contact of the bulb typically connects to the medium-power filament, and the ring connects to the low-power filament. Thus, if a 3-way bulb is screwed into a standard light socket that has only a center contact, only the medium-power filament operates. In the case of the 50 W / 100 W / 150 W bulb, putting this bulb in a regular lamp socket will result in it behaving like a normal 100W bulb.
Solution: | will a three way bulb work in any lamp? |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
The cities considered the global 'Big Four' fashion capitals of the 21st century are Milan, London, New York and Paris.
| who is the fashion capital of the world |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Q: (CNN) -- Shain Gandee, one of the stars of the MTV reality show "Buckwild," has been found dead along with two other people in Kanawha County, West Virginia, authorities said Monday. "This is a very sad and tragic event," Kanawha County Commissioner Kent Carper said. "We live in a very small community. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Gandee family." Gandee, 21, was found dead in a vehicle along with his uncle, David Dwight Gandee, 48, and Donald Robert Myers, 27, authorities said. 'Buckwild' producer talks about the show "Earlier this day after releasing information Shain Gandee was missing, the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office received word of a disabled vehicle in a wooded area near Thaxton Hollow, Sissonville, Kanawha County WV," said a statement from the Sheriff's Office. "Deputies and members of the Sissonville Volunteer Fire Department used all terrain vehicles to access that vehicle, a 1984 Ford Bronco belonging to the Gandee family. The vehicle was in a muddy area along a worn path. Inside were the bodies of three people." In a subsequent release, the Sheriff's Office said the vehicle was partially submerged in mud. It was uneven but upright; its muffler was below the surface. Mud covered the lower part of the Bronco's passenger side door, but the driver's side, where the younger Gandee sat, was free, the Sheriff's Office said. Gandee was happy with life before death He was one of the nine cast members of "Buckwild." The show follows a group of young adults trying to have fun in Sissonville, West Virginia, pulling stunts such as turning a dump truck into a swimming pool or just riding around the woods on their all-terrain vehicles. Gandee was billed as a former high school prom king who had done "every job from coal mining to being a garbage man." <sep>Was the muffler of the Ford Bronco mentioned most likely on the driver's side of the car or the passenger's side of the car?<sep>Barnett
A: No
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Q: An archaeological party explore some caverns underground . Dr. Campbell and Dr. Hughes are the two leaders of the archaeological expedition , and get separated . While Dr. Hughes finds an alien corpse with a fossilized diamond , Dr. Campbell finds hieroglyphics at the cost of the party except for Hughes and himself . Two years later , Campbell and his assistant Holly are digging up the bones of Yonggary , a gargantuan dinosaur 50 times the size of a tyrannosaurus rex . Out of nowhere , people slowly are being killed around the site . While Holly is working Dr. Hughes , who has been legally dead for 2 years , goes to Holly and tells her to stop the dig . Dr. Campbell comes into the tent and sends Dr. Hughes off . Holly quits the expedition when another `` Accident '' occurs . In the town bar , Dr. Hughes finds Holly and takes her back to her Hotel room to tell her why he thinks the bones of the Dinosaur , Which he calls Yonggary , are going to bring the end of the world . After explaining , Holly and Hughes go to the site to stop Campbell but it is too late and Aliens resurrect Yonggary . After Yonggary's first appearance , the Army comes in and takes Holly and Campbell to an army base when Yonggary is dispatched by the aliens again . The army sends choppers after Yonggary , but he destroys them . Yonggary is then sent to the city and does some damage , where some jets attack him . Then Yonggary is transported to a power plant where he is attacked by rocket pack soldiers . During the fight , Hughes and Holly find out that the diamond on Yonggary's forehead is the device giving the aliens control of Yonggary . <sep>What did the army send to attack Yonggary prior to the jets?<sep>Choppers
A: Yes
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Q: Speed is an important aspect of motion. It is a measure of how fast or slow something moves. To determine speed you must know two things. First, you must know how far something travels. Second, you need to know how long it takes to travel that far. Speed can be calculated using this formula: speed = distance time A familiar example is the speed of a car. In the U.S., this is usually expressed in miles per hour. Think about a trip you and your family made in the car. Maybe the trip covered 120 miles and it took 3 hours. What was the cars speed? speed = 120 mi = 40 mi/h 3h The speed of a car may also be expressed in kilometers per hour (km/h). The SI unit for speed is meters per second (m/s). This is the unit of measure a scientist would use. <sep>How do you calculate speed in the U.S.?<sep>km
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Q: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Since electrons, the charge carriers in metal wires and most other parts of electric circuits, have a negative charge, as a consequence, they flow in the opposite direction of conventional current flow in an electrical circuit.
A: | does current flow in the opposite direction to electrons? |
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.
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Thrush symptoms are undetected. "?
Available options: I. Yes II. It's impossible to say III. No
I think the answer is | III. |
[Q]: Rates by Asian News International, New Delhi Tel: 011 2619 1464 Indicative Previous opening close Metals (in rupees per kg unless stated) ---------------------------------------------------------- Copper bars 502 499. Copper wire rod 500 497. Copper Scrap No:1 440 435. Zinc ingots 136-150 135-150. Tin ingots 1,350 1,345. Nickel Strip 4 X 24" Inco 1,280 1,275. 4 X 4" Inco 1,260 1,255. 4 X 4" 1,115 1,110. Aluminium ingots 126-146 126-146. Lead ingots 115-135 115-135. Source: Delhi metal traders. The source for this information is New Delhi Metal Traders.
[A]: No
[Q]: How to make an atheist and theist relationship work<br>Keep communication open. If your difference in perspective causes friction between you, don't let it bubble away silently. As with any tension in a relationship, it's unlikely to disappear if you don't address it openly. Atheists and theists can learn to communicate.
[A]: Yes
[Q]: Antonio Mucci was an Argentine politician, and Minister of Labor during the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín. He promoted a reduction of the influence of Peronism over the Argentine unions, and helped the President draft a bill for the Congress for that purpose. He resigned when the bill was rejected. Mucci resigned because he was unhappy with the way the government was functioning.
[A]: It's impossible to say
[Q]: How to make peppermint sauce<br>Place the cream, crushed peppermint candies and water into the saucepan. [substeps] Candy canes can be used as a form of hard peppermint candies. Heat the ingredients over a medium heat. All ingredients to make peppermint sauce are heated to medium heat
[A]: | Yes |
How to measure tires
Check the tire's sidewall to read its wheel diameter.
The wheel diameter is often, though not always, printed on the tire's sidewall. You will be able to spot the diameter number by looking for the number followed after a capitalized " r. "
The tire diameter may be printed in inches or meters, depending on your country.
If the wheel diameter is 15 inches (38 cm), for example, the diameter will read as " r15 " on the number string. Lay the tire down on its side to measure wheel diameter manually.
How to make barbacoa
Puree the sauce ingredients.
Combine the chopped onions, olive oil, garlic, cumin, oregano, chiles, cider vinegar, and salt in a blender or food processor. Blend the ingredients together at medium to high speed until a thick puree forms.
Do not drain the adobo sauce from the chipotle chiles before adding them. You should pour the sauce into the blender along with the chiles.
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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.
Time magazine has asked the Trump Organisation to remove a framed front cover featuring Donald Trump from several of its golf clubs after it was proven to be fake.
The cover, showing a presidential Mr Trump with his arms folded and steely-eyed, was framed and hung on the walls of at least four Trump courses in the US, Ireland and Scotland.
Dated March 1, 2009, the cover reads “Donald Trump: The ‘Apprentice’ is a television smash!”, with another headline stating: “TRUMP IS HITTING ON ALL FRONTS . . . EVEN TV!” ||||| Time magazine has asked the Trump Organization to remove copies of a fake cover of President Trump Donald John TrumpFlynn to campaign for Montana GOP Senate candidate Trump considering pardon for boxing legend after call from Sylvester Stallone Decline in EPA enforcement won't keep climate bill from coming MORE that were on display at the company’s golf clubs, The Washington Post reported Tuesday afternoon.
The request came after the newspaper reported that at least four Trump-branded golf clubs had displayed a fake Time magazine cover that depicted Trump with the headline “Donald Trump: The ‘Apprentice’ is a television smash!”
The cover, dated March 1, 2009, was never published by the magazine at any point, a spokeswoman for Time confirmed.
“I can confirm that this is not a real TIME cover,” Kerri Chyka wrote to the Post in an email.
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The fake cover was reportedly hanging in at least two of Trump's golf clubs in the U.S.
Another one was reportedly displayed at Trump's resort in Ireland, but was recently moved from a restaurant area to a manager's office.
A cover that had also been displayed at the Trump’s Turnberry club in Scotland was removed a few weeks ago without explanation, the Post reported.
The fake cover was reportedly interspersed with real magazine covers in at least at one location.
Trump has previously touted his appearances on the cover of the magazine.
"I think I was on the cover of Time magazine twice in my life and like six times in the last number of months," Trump said in July 2016.
"So you tell me which is more important, real estate or politics, OK? I have six for politics and I have two for real estate or whatever they put me on for."
The Post noted that Trump had actually only been featured on the magazine's cover once before entering politics, in January 1989, when he was known as a New York business mogul. |||||
A: | President Trump has often boasted about the number of times he has been on the cover of Time magazine—but the framed cover that appeared in at least four of his golf clubs was a fake. After the Washington Post spotted the cover on display at several properties, with the headline "Donald Trump: The Apprentice is a television smash!" and the date March 1, 2009, Time confirmed that it never appeared on the magazine. The Hill reports that Time has asked the Trump Organization to remove the covers, which also bear the words "Trump is hitting on all fronts ... even TV!" Other headlines on the fake cover suggest it was based on the March 2, 2009 issue, which featured Kate Winslet on the cover. A White House spokeswoman declined to comment on the cover, which was on display in Trump properties including Mar-a-Lago. An employee at Trump's Turnberry club in Scotland tells the Post that it was on display until recently, when it was removed along with other Trump photos. "We certainly have been hearing more grumbling about all the stuff like that up on the walls since his election," the employee says. "From Americans, mostly, funny enough." The Telegraph notes that after Trump claimed to have the "all-time record" for Time covers earlier this year, the magazine said he had been on the cover 11 times, a long way short of Richard Nixon's 55 appearances. |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then an example. Follow the example to solve a new instance of the task.
In this task, 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: In computer science , a loop counter is a variable that controls how many repetitions the loop will do .
Solution: | In -LSB- computer programming -RSB- a loop counter is the -LSB- variable ( programming ) -PIPE- variable -RSB- that controls the iterations of a loop ( a computer -LSB- programming language -RSB- construct ) . |
What happens next in this paragraph?
How to fold clothes
Use the simplest method.
This is one of the easiest methods of folding shirts. It's best to use on short-sleeve shirts, but can also be used for long sleeved shirts.
OPT: + Stand in front of the shirt you want to fold. Bring one of your folded shirts, or only the shirt you want to fold, out. + If you only use a towel, doing so on short-sleeved shirts is easier, too. Use a towel to cover the shirt. + Start with a plain shirt, and fold it in half lengthwise. From there, move onto the other side. + Start by placing the shirt face up on a flat surface. Fold in half vertically with the arms together. | Start by placing the shirt face up on a flat surface. Fold in half vertically with the arms together. |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Is this an insect or an animal? A snail is an animal just like you and me. Thats right, you too are an animal. No, you don't look like a snail. You do have some things in common. Animals can be divided into many groups. These groups are decided based on their characteristics. All animals have some basic features in common. That does not mean they are the same. They also have many differences. For example, snails are mollusks and not insects. Mollusks have a unique set of features. Notice the large foot that allows it to move. Yes, it only has one foot. Did you notice the long antennas on its head? This is where the snail's eyes are. They are on the end of the antenna. They are not on its head like most animals. The foot and eyes are unique features. Scientists use these features to place animals into groups. <sep>What are snails' unique features?<sep>Slime producing glands
Output: | No |
Detailed Instructions: In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Problem:Six other amino acids are considered conditionally essential in the human diet, meaning their synthesis can be limited under special pathophysiological conditions, such as prematurity in the infant or individuals in severe catabolic distress. These six are arginine, cysteine, glycine, glutamine, proline, and tyrosine (i.e., RCGQPY). Five amino acids are dispensable in humans, meaning they can be synthesized in sufficient quantities in the body. These five are alanine, aspartic acid, asparagine, glutamic acid and serine (i.e., ADNES).
Solution: | an amino acid that is not an essential amino acid would be one that an animal |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
The Frustacis resolved to have the babies, despite the medical risks. On May 21, 1985, Ms. Frustaci delivered four boys and three girls by cesarean section, about 12 weeks premature. Intense news coverage ensued, with many outlets calling the birth the largest in the United States, even though the seventh child, a girl named Christina, was stillborn.
The six surviving children all had heart problems, jaundice and hyaline membrane disease, a respiratory ailment. They were whisked into intensive care, where a team of neonatal doctors struggled to save them. One of the babies, a boy named David, died about three days after he was born.
Ms. Frustaci spent more than a week in the hospital recovering. She got to hold her surviving children in the neonatal intensive care unit before she left the hospital in early June. The children remained in intensive care.
“They’re beautiful,” she told reporters when she left. “I just hope they live.”
Two others, a daughter named Bonnie and a son named James, died before the three remaining children — Stephen, Richard and Patricia — went home.
All three of the surviving septuplets faced grave health concerns that initially required near-constant care.
In October 1985, the couple sued the Tyler Medical Clinic, the fertility center in Los Angeles that had overseen Ms. Frustaci’s treatment, and Dr. Jaroslav Marik, a fertility specialist there, alleging malpractice.
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The suit contended that Ms. Frustaci had not been properly monitored early in her pregnancy and that the dose of Perganol she had received was too high. Dr. Marik contended that Ms. Frustaci had been negligent in failing to obtain the ultrasound treatments he had recommended.
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The suit was settled in 1990 for a one-time payment of $450,000 and a monthly care payment for each of the three surviving septuplets, who needed extensive physical therapy and medical treatment. The Frustacis’ son Joseph said that the family still received the payments, and that the total amount paid so far had exceeded $1.5 million.
The difficulties of raising her family did not dissuade Ms. Frustaci from adding to it. In 1990, after undergoing further fertility treatments, she gave birth to healthy twins, Jordan and Jaclyn.
She was born Patricia Ann Jorgensen on Nov. 19, 1954, at Hill Air Force Base in Utah. Her father, Richard, was in the Air Force and later ran an advertising agency; her mother, the former Bonnie Palfreyman, was a homemaker.
Ms. Frustaci received a bachelor’s degree in English from Brigham Young University in the mid-1970s and went on to earn a master’s from California State University, Fullerton. She married Mr. Frustaci in 1981, and they soon tried to start a family.
The news media coverage of the septuplets opened the Frustacis to some criticism. “One baby is excellent,” Dr. Heather Irwin, a gynecologist and fertility specialist, told The Miami Herald in late May 1985. “Two is acceptable. Anything more than twins is bad medicine.”
The Frustacis felt compelled to defend themselves. “By no means did we set out to have twins or triplets or more than one child,” Mr. Frustaci told The Times, adding, “We were not out to set any records.”
In an interview, Joseph Frustaci said that the media attention, and the criticism, had made it even harder for his mother to deal with the loss of her children.
“Really, all she wanted was to be a mother, and I think the media got in the way, for a time, of her being able to be a loving and nurturing mother,” he said.
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The ordeal took a toll on the family, and particularly on Ms. Frustaci, who had bipolar disorder. She and Mr. Frustaci, an industrial equipment salesman, were divorced in the mid-1990s.
In addition to her son Joseph, she is survived by her other children; her mother; three sisters, Julie Lindahl, Susan Ahlman and Joyce Wilson; three brothers, Richard, David and Scott; and five grandchildren.
Joseph Frustaci said that even through the difficult years his mother “was really the strength of the family.” All three of the surviving septuplets are doing well, he said. Her daughter Patti Carpenter is married with two children; her son Richard lives independently; and her son Stephen is cared for by his father. ||||| FILE - In this May 21, 1988 file photo, the three surviving Frustaci septuplets, Stephen, Patricia, and Richard, seated from left, join parents Patti and Sam Frustaci and older brother Joseph, 4, as they... (Associated Press)
FILE - In this May 21, 1988 file photo, the three surviving Frustaci septuplets, Stephen, Patricia, and Richard, seated from left, join parents Patti and Sam Frustaci and older brother Joseph, 4, as they dig into cake to celebrate their third birthday in Riverside, Calif. Patricia Frustaci, a Southern... (Associated Press)
FILE - In this May 21, 1988 file photo, the three surviving Frustaci septuplets, Stephen, Patricia, and Richard, seated from left, join parents Patti and Sam Frustaci and older brother Joseph, 4, as they dig into cake to celebrate their third birthday in Riverside, Calif. Patricia Frustaci, a Southern... (Associated Press) FILE - In this May 21, 1988 file photo, the three surviving Frustaci septuplets, Stephen, Patricia, and Richard, seated from left, join parents Patti and Sam Frustaci and older brother Joseph, 4, as they... (Associated Press)
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Patricia Frustaci, who made national headlines in 1985 when she gave birth to seven children but struggled with the financial and publicity fallout and with the heartache of seeing four babies perish, has died. She was 63.
Frustaci, who suffered from pulmonary fibrosis, died Saturday at a San Diego hospital, her eldest son, Joseph Frustaci of San Diego, said Wednesday.
Frustaci was an English teacher in Riverside and the mother of Joseph when she gave birth after undergoing fertility treatments. At the time, it was the largest multiple birth in the United States.
However, the babies were delivered 12 weeks prematurely by cesarean section and had a number of serious health problems.
One girl was stillborn, and two boys and a girl died within weeks.
Medical expenses soon topped $1 million. The family sued the fertility clinic and a doctor, alleging wrongful death of the four children and negligence that led to health problems for the surviving children.
"There is not a day that goes by that we don't talk about them," Frustaci, speaking of the dead children, said in a deposition. "There is not a day that goes by that I don't look at their pictures."
The clinic later settled the lawsuit without acknowledging any wrongdoing. It agreed to pay $450,000 and to provide monthly payments to the surviving three children for life.
The financial problems, the publicity and the stress of looking after children who needed round-the-clock care took a toll on Frustaci, who also suffered from what is now known as bipolar disorder, her son said.
"It was difficult," he said. "She's a normal woman thrust into notoriety. ... the overall frenzy took its toll."
However Frustaci, a devout Mormon, never had second thoughts about her decision to have the fertility treatments, her son said.
"She never regretted it," he said. "It gave her her children and her children are her life."
In 1990, after using the same fertility drug, Frustaci gave birth to healthy twins. That boy and girl are now college graduates, Joseph Frustaci said.
Frustaci and her husband, Samuel Frustaci, later divorced and for many years she lived with her eldest son and his family.
Of the surviving septuplets, the girl is now a happily married mother of two, one boy lives alone and the other lives with his father, Joseph Frustaci said.
Frustaci also is survived by five grandchildren and a sixth "on the way," he said.
Joseph Frustaci described his mother as someone who quickly made friends and "squeezed every drop out of life."
"She was the funnest person I've ever known," he said. "She made regular, mundane errands an adventure.
"We miss her terribly, we miss her deeply," he said. |||||
Output: | Patricia Frustaci, described by her son Joseph as "a normal woman thrust into notoriety," died Feb. 10 in California at the age of 63, the AP reports. Frustaci became the focus of the national news media in 1985 when she gave birth to septuplets—the first known in the US—but the deaths of her children, over $1 million in medical expenses, and criticism from the public weren't easy to handle for the English teacher. "The overall frenzy took its toll," Joseph says. Frustaci gave birth to Joseph in 1984 after using the fertility drug Pergonal. She continued to use the drug, and eight months later she was pregnant with septuplets. According to the New York Times, the seven children—four boys and three girls—were born 12 weeks premature via cesarean section. "They're beautiful," Frustaci said at the time. "I just hope they live." One of Frustaci's baby girls was stillborn; the other septuplets had jaundice, heart problems, and more. Two boys and another girl would die before they could leave the hospital. The surviving children needed nearly round-the-clock care. Frustaci sued her fertility clinic, which settled for $450,000 and monthly payments for the remaining septuplets' medical care without admitting wrongdoing. Joseph says those payments continue and now add up to over $1.5 million. Regardless, Frustaci continued with fertility treatments and gave birth to twins in 1990. Joseph says media scrutiny and criticism made it harder for Frustaci "to be a loving and nurturing mother." Still, he says his mother "never regretted" her decision. "It gave her her children and her children are her life," he says. Frustaci died of complications from pulmonary fibrosis. |
IN: What happens next?
How to take l carnitine
Boost low carnitine levels.
When the body does not absorb or make sufficient carnitine, doctors will prescribe oral l-carnitine.
Carnitine levels may be low because of many reasons.
OPTIONS:
- Some carnitine deficiencies are due to exposure to light, while others are due to severe fevers. In most cases, light decreases carnitine levels by about 75 percent or lower.
- Certain diabetes, high cholesterol levels, and higher levels of insulin could affect the absorption of l carnitine. Certain chronic conditions may interfere with the production of l carnitine in your body, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, osteoporosis, and kidney disease.
- Some health conditions could limit or prevent l-carnitine production. Just as your body cannot absorb l-carnitine from foods that you consume, your body also cannot absorb it from products that you drink.
- Genetic disorders are the most common, but medical procedures such as hemodialysis also drain the body of l-carnitine temporarily. Vegetarians or anyone who is on a strict diet may also have low carnitine levels.
OUT: Genetic disorders are the most common, but medical procedures such as hemodialysis also drain the body of l-carnitine temporarily. Vegetarians or anyone who is on a strict diet may also have low carnitine levels.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to read an mri
Insert your mri disc into your computer.
Today, you will usually be given a disc with your images on it after your mri. The main purpose of this is so that you can give the disc to your doctor, but there's nothing wrong with reading your mri at home.
OPTIONS:
- The image insert component is the black and white data on the sticker of the mri disc. Some doctors require only some of these data to be scanned, while others would prefer to download the entire file from a single computer.
- Instead, you can start with your scanner at home. To get the right mri you will need to insert a water-soluble lcd disc that can be inserted into your scanner about 20 minutes before imaging is to begin, or more usually later on.
- Type the name of the individual on your mri into the search bar. All the info is sorted into categories, such as " scanning, " " ct scan, " " immunotherapy, " and " mri.
- Start by putting the disc into your computer's dvd drive. Note: some mri centers may have different policies for giving patients copies of their mri.
A: Start by putting the disc into your computer's dvd drive. Note: some mri centers may have different policies for giving patients copies of their mri.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to understand your horse's body language
Read your horse's ears.
Horses use their ears in a variety of ways to communicate. Your horse's ears can either be forward, pinned, turned out to the side, turned back, or rapidly swiveling.
OPTIONS:
- In most cases, both ears have the correct direction. Instead of swiveling in position, your horse " rolls " its ear in an attempt to signal the direction to the opposite eye.
- Here is a guide to figure out what each movement means : If your horse's ears are positioned forward, this usually means your horse is relaxed. However, if they are sharply pricked forward this means your horse is alert and tuning into something that is either interesting or frightening.
- Either way, understand that your horse's ears aren't what looks like unless you physically manipulate them to fill in space, which is not usually possible without veterinary assistance. When your horse's ears are pinned back, they are : Pinned in a way that allows them to remain erect.
- If the horse reacts to the direction in which it was pushed (an abrupt turn of the head or a narrow forward catch of the hoof, for example), this is a sign of nervousness. If the horse seems to let its ears out of the way, then it may be a sign of discomfort in the saddle.
OUT: Here is a guide to figure out what each movement means : If your horse's ears are positioned forward, this usually means your horse is relaxed. However, if they are sharply pricked forward this means your horse is alert and tuning into something that is either interesting or frightening.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to prevent a cat from spraying
Get your cat spayed or neutered.
Un-neutered male cats are the most likely culprits to engage in this very undesirable behavior. Occasionally un-spayed females will do this as well.
OPTIONS:
- They may tell you to correct the behavior, but they might also become aggressive. Check for signs of sex at home.
- Therefore, it is advisable to neuter or spay your cat before the age of 6 months so as to curb this behavior from developing when puberty hits. However, a small percentage of neutered males and an even smaller percentage of spayed females will spray.
- Even if the cat is unneutered, spraying it repeatedly throughout the day may give off unwanted pheromones. This sends the cat's needs into action.
- This process is useful to prevent this behavior. Neutering your cat is the most highly recommended option if it is or is highly likely to result in the young cat spraying itself.
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Answer:
Therefore, it is advisable to neuter or spay your cat before the age of 6 months so as to curb this behavior from developing when puberty hits. However, a small percentage of neutered males and an even smaller percentage of spayed females will spray.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to make your clothes smell good
Wash your clothing often.
The more you wear something, the more it smells. If you've worn something several times, don't store it with your clean clothes, because that dirty smell can transfer to them.
OPTIONS:
- Instead, just wash it daily to change its smell. If you're going to a dry cleaning or laundry machine, put the clothes in the machine with other clothes.
- Keep your dirty laundry completely separate from your clean clothes. While some items should only be worn once before washing them, other items can be worn several times before they start to smell.
- Periodically washing clothing at least once daily will get rid of excess body odor. Use shampoo and a little bit of baking soda to remove the smell.
- Instead, use a laundry detergent on laundry days, or make your own homemade detergent. Using these items on a regular basis will give you an extra good smelling goal each day.
A: Keep your dirty laundry completely separate from your clean clothes. While some items should only be worn once before washing them, other items can be worn several times before they start to smell.
We see a lady washing clothes by hand outdoors. The lady pours water on the clothes from a bowl. the lady
OPTIONS:
- puts soap on her hands.
- cuts the clothes on a thread.
- throws water from a sponge into her bucket and washes another clothing.
- pushes her hair back.
| pushes her hair back. |
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".
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Question: Is this an insect or an animal? A snail is an animal just like you and me. Thats right, you too are an animal. No, you don't look like a snail. You do have some things in common. Animals can be divided into many groups. These groups are decided based on their characteristics. All animals have some basic features in common. That does not mean they are the same. They also have many differences. For example, snails are mollusks and not insects. Mollusks have a unique set of features. Notice the large foot that allows it to move. Yes, it only has one foot. Did you notice the long antennas on its head? This is where the snail's eyes are. They are on the end of the antenna. They are not on its head like most animals. The foot and eyes are unique features. Scientists use these features to place animals into groups. <sep>Where are the snails eyes?<sep>Under its shell
Answer: No
Question: The 1933 double eagle, a $20 gold piece with a mysterious history that involves a president, a king and a Secret Service sting operation, was auctioned Tuesday last night for a record price for a coin, $7.59 million, nearly double the previous record. The anonymous buyer, believed to be an individual collector who lives in the United States, made the winning bid in a fiercely contested nine-minute auction at Sotheby's in Manhattan. Eight bidders were joined by 500 coin collectors and dealers in an auction house audience seemingly devoid of celebrity bidders, while an additional 534 observers followed the bidding on eBay. As auction houses prepare for their fall seasons in an uncertain economy, the sale price "suggests that the marketplace for important items is enormously strong," said David Redden, a vice chairman at Sotheby's, who was the auctioneer. "This is an astonishing new record for a coin," he said. In an unprecedented move, the auction proceeds were split by the U.S. Mint and a London coin dealer, Stephen Fenton, who had won that right in court after having been arrested by Secret Service agents for trying to sell the coin in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan in 1996. Henrietta Holsman Fore, the director of the U.S. Mint, who witnessed the sale, said, "The monies we receive will go toward helping to pay down the debt and to fight the war on terrorism." Fenton commented that the double eagle had been on "a long historic journey, with a very satisfying ending." He added, "I am thrilled with the price." The previous numismatic record holder was an 1804 U.S. silver dollar, which sold for $4.14 million in 1999. Sotheby's partner in the one-lot auction was Stack's Rare Coins, with which it shared the customary 15 percent commission. "I have never seen as much interest in the sale of any coin in my 30 years in the business," said Lawrence R. Stack, the company's managing director. "This is the Mona Lisa of coins," said Beth Deisher, editor of Coin World, the largest weekly coin publication in the United States, with a circulation of 85,000. "It is unique. Forbidden fruit." Collectors' Web sites have surged with speculation about the sale price, and enthusiasts even organized betting pools. <sep>Who is the managing director of Stack's Rare Coins?<sep>Fenton
Answer: No
Question: Befitting a lush, tropical island stranded in the middle of the ocean, Madeira's origins are shrouded in mystery and fanciful legend. Some claim that the archipelago is what remains of Plato's lost Atlantis, or part of a landmass that once fused the continents of Europe and America. The Portuguese Step Ashore: Recorded history of the volcanic archipelago begins in relatively recent times: 1418, just as the golden age of Portuguese discovery was erupting. Under the leadership of Henry the Navigator, caravels set out from the westernmost point of the Algarve, in southern Portugal, in search of foreign lands, fame, and wealth. João Gonçalves Zarco, sailing in the service of Prince Henry, made the first of many famous Portuguese discoveries, which would culminate a century later in Magellan's historic circumnavigation of the globe. Zarco happened upon a small volcanic archipelago 1,000 km from Lisbon. Perhaps Zarco knew precisely where he was heading, having learned of the existence of Madeira from a Castilian source. After all, the waters of the Canary Islands, only 445 km (275 miles) to the south, had occupied busy shipping lanes for very nearly a century, and Genovese maps from the mid-14th century depict both Madeira and Porto Santo. More likely, Zarco was heading for Guinea and storms forced him onto the beach of Porto Santo. If so, then he was extremely fortunate, for he managed to land on the only large, sandy beach for hundreds of miles around. Little wonder he subsequently named it Porto Santo (Holy Port). The following year Zarco returned to claim the larger island he had seen from Porto Santo, and with him went Tristão Vaz Teixeira and Bartolomeu Perestrelo. They officially became the first men to set foot on the heavily forested island, naming it Ilha da Madeira, "Island of Timber. " The Portuguese Crown, delighted with its first important discovery, immediately embarked on a program of colonization. Zarco and Teixeira were appointed co-governors of Madeira, while Perestrelo was awarded Porto Santo. <sep>Why might a Castillian source have known about the existence of Madeira around the time Zarco was exploring?<sep>Genovese maps from the mid-14th century depict both Madeira and Porto Santo
Answer: | Yes
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The Actors Studio offering will be based on Simon's female version of the play which was premiered in 1985 in New York, at the Broadhurst Theatre, with the characters' names being Florence Unger and Olive Madison, played by Sally Struthers and Rita Moreno respectively.
The Actors Studio offering will be based on Ramon's female version of the play which was premiered in OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Shares of tech companies rose as a rebound in risk appetite stoked demand for the sector. The Nasdaq Composite closed at a record high as comments from Federal Reserve Jerome Powell alleviated worries about the effects of higher interest rates on growth. Microsoft is being investigated by U.S. authorities over potential bribery and corruption related to software sales in Hungary, The Wall Street Journal reported. A fire on the grounds of Tesla's car factory in California on Thursday burned a scrap pile but was extinguished before it could cause major damage. Rob Curran, [email protected]
The Nasdaq often closes at record highs OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Heartburn<br>Liam was at the county fair. He ate a sausage link he bought from a booth. The sausage was spicy. It gave Liam heartburn. When he left the fair, he went to the store to get medicine.
Liam did not need a prescription OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | Yes |
Q: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
After what album did the band become more collaborative?, Context: After working on various solo projects during 1988 (including Mercury's collaboration with Montserrat Caballé, Barcelona), the band released The Miracle in 1989. The album continued the direction of A Kind of Magic, using a pop-rock sound mixed with a few heavy numbers. It spawned the European hits "I Want It All", "Breakthru", "The Invisible Man", "Scandal", and "The Miracle". The Miracle also began a change in direction of Queen's songwriting philosophy. Since the band's beginning, nearly all songs had been written by and credited to a single member, with other members adding minimally. With The Miracle, the band's songwriting became more collaborative, and they vowed to credit the final product only to Queen as a group.
A: | A Kind of Magic |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Why did Bell feel he was vindicated?, Context: The question of priority for the variable resistance feature of the telephone was raised by the examiner before he approved Bell's patent application. He told Bell that his claim for the variable resistance feature was also described in Gray's caveat. Bell pointed to a variable resistance device in Bell's previous application in which Bell described a cup of mercury, not water. Bell had filed the mercury application at the patent office a year earlier on February 25, 1875, long before Elisha Gray described the water device. In addition, Gray abandoned his caveat, and because he did not contest Bell's priority, the examiner approved Bell's patent on March 3, 1876. Gray had reinvented the variable resistance telephone, but Bell was the first to write down the idea and the first to test it in a telephone.
| Bell described a cup of mercury, not water |
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How to be a banquet server
Set up the banquet hall by placing tables, chairs, and more.
As a banquet server, you'll be responsible for setting up before an event. This will include placing tables, chairs, and even decorations.
* Make sure your décor brings a sense of style to the setting. A banquet hall you end up building is unlikely to come alive when you're just reorganizing a vacant section. * When serving food, you'll require more. Accordingly, make sure that your server has a system already in place and set yourself up accordingly. * In some cases, you'll have 2 or more hours of set up before guests arrive. Most employers expect banquet servers to be able to lift at least 25 pounds (11. * You'll also also need to be getting food into the room at least twice per meal. Before an event is set up, set up the banquet hall during dinner. | In some cases, you'll have 2 or more hours of set up before guests arrive. Most employers expect banquet servers to be able to lift at least 25 pounds (11. |
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In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
{ { plot } } In 1964 , in the peak of Beatlemania , a reluctant John Lennon is persuaded by manager Brian Epstein to meet Freddie Lennon , the father who abandoned him seventeen years earlier , with the press in attendance . When they meet , John accuses his father of abandoning him , but his father says that `` he left it up to John . '' John and Brian quickly leave the meeting . The movie then jumps to 1967 , after Brian Epstein has died . The Beatles are giving a press conference about their new film, Magical Mystery Tour . John is skeptical about the film , but Paul ( ( ( Andrew Scott convinces him to go through with the idea . John then invites his father to his mansion to live with him . Freddie Lennon arrives and meets his grandson , Julian . Sitting with his wife , John reads the criticism of Magical Mystery Tour , while comparing his wife to Brigitte Bardot , whom he says he will meet after he returns from India . John finds a letter addressed to him , with the word `` Breathe '' written on it . Later , after finding his father in a neighbor's house , Freddie reveals that he has a 19 year old girlfriend named Pauline , with whom he wants to live . Lennon accuses his father of leaving him again , and then leaves , after telling his father that he wo n't live with him anymore . After meeting Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , the Beatles quickly return to London , and in a press conference they say they made a mistake when they trusted Maharishi . The journalists are curious about the Beatles new business -- Apple Records . <sep>Who does John feel abandoned him?<sep>The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Output: | No |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
One example: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
Solution is here: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Explanation: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
Now, solve this: Whole life insurance, or whole of life assurance (in the Commonwealth of Nations), sometimes called 'straight life' or 'ordinary life,' is a life insurance policy which is guaranteed to remain in force for the insured's entire lifetime, provided required premiums are paid, or to the maturity date. As a life insurance policy it represents a contract between the insured and insurer that as long as the contract terms are met, the insurer will pay the death benefit of the policy to the policy's beneficiaries when the insured dies. Because whole life policies are guaranteed to remain in force as long as the required premiums are paid, the premiums are typically much higher than those of term life insurance where the premium is fixed only for a limited term. Whole life premiums are fixed, based on the age of issue, and usually do not increase with age. The insured party normally pays premiums until death, except for limited pay policies which may be paid-up in 10 years, 20 years, or at age 65. Whole life insurance belongs to the cash value category of life insurance, which also includes universal life, variable life, and endowment policies.
Solution: | how frequently does the premium for a whole life policy change during the insured's life |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Q: Panama qualified for the FIFA World Cup for the first time for the 2018 tournament in Russia and scored their first goal of the World Cup against England, although they lost the match 6-1.
A: has panama ever made it to the world cup?
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Q: Linseed oil, also known as flaxseed oil or flax oil, is a colourless to yellowish oil obtained from the dried, ripened seeds of the flax plant (Linum usitatissimum). The oil is obtained by pressing, sometimes followed by solvent extraction. Linseed oil is a drying oil, meaning it can polymerize into a solid form. Due to its polymer-forming properties, linseed oil can be used on its own or blended with combinations of other oils, resins or solvents as an impregnator, drying oil finish or varnish in wood finishing, as a pigment binder in oil paints, as a plasticizer and hardener in putty, and in the manufacture of linoleum. Linseed oil use has declined over the past several decades with increased availability of synthetic alkyd resins--which function similarly but resist yellowing.
A: is flax oil the same as linseed oil?
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Q: The Interstate Bridge between Marinette, Wisconsin and Menominee, Michigan carries U.S. Route 41 (US 41) over the Menominee River. The current bridge was completed in November 2005 and replaced the previous span built in 1929.
A: | is there a bridge from wisconsin to michigan?
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How to select a horse stable<br>Do an online search. The quickest way to find all of the stables in your area is to do an. Once you have your search results, read through each of their websites.
You dont need internet access OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Copley will start Wednesday's game in Winnipeg. Wednesday's contest was meant to be handled by Washington's primary netminder, Braden Holtby. However, prior to puck drop, it was announced that Copley would get the nod and the Capitals would be forced to dress an emergency backup behind him. Meanwhile, Holtby (upper body) has been ruled out for Wednesday's road affair, which happens also to be the second night of a back-to-back.
Copley will coach Wednesday's game in Winnipeg which is very important to win OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
How to dress for a high school dance (girls )<br>Go for a formal gown. If you are attending a formal dance like a winter formal or prom, you should go for a formal outfit. This means a formal dress that is floor length or no shorter than three inches above your knee, with a modest neckline.
formal gown was worn by deana OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
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
Game of Thrones is an episodic graphic adventure video game based on the TV series of the same name, which in turn, is based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series, released in December 2014 for Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
Answer: | are they making a game of thrones game? |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
James Andrew Eric Phelps and Oliver Martyn John Phelps (born 25 February 1986) are identical twin British actors, best known for playing identical twins, Fred and George Weasley in the Harry Potter film series.
| did one of the weasley twins die in real life? |
How to make acidophilus yogurt<br>Combine 4 cups (950ml) of milk and 3/4 cups (120 g) of powdered milk (if not using whole milk) in the saucepan. Set the burner to medium heat and place the saucepan on the burner. Whisk the mixture constantly to keep it from sticking to the pan.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
You need a whisk to make this recipe.
Pick your answer from: * Yes. * It's impossible to say. * No. | Yes |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
The Shahadah is the Muslim declaration of belief in the oneness of God and on Muhammad as his final Prophet .
Output: | The Shahada ( " " -RSB- , " the testimony " ) is an Islamic creed , one of the Five Pillars of Islam , declaring belief in the oneness of God ( " tawhid " ) and the acceptance of Muhammad as God 's prophet . |
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: God sent Moses back to Egypt to demand the release of the Israelites from slavery. Moses said that he could not speak with assurance or eloquence, so God allowed Aaron, his brother, to become his spokesperson. After the Ten Plagues, Moses led the Exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea, after which they based themselves at Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments. After 40 years of wandering in the desert, Moses died within sight of the Promised Land on Mount Nebo.
Output: | where did the israelites lived after leaving egypt |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Let me give you an example: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
The answer to this example can be: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Here is why: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
OK. solve this:
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
Answer: | is there a age limit to be president? |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
What is constant?, Context: The Faraday constant F is the charge of one mole of electrons, equal to the Avogadro constant NA multiplied by the elementary charge e. It can be determined by careful electrolysis experiments, measuring the amount of silver dissolved from an electrode in a given time and for a given electric current. In practice, it is measured in conventional electrical units, and so given the symbol F90. Substituting the definitions of NA and e, and converting from conventional electrical units to SI units, gives the relation to the Planck constant.
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How to turn off facebook messenger notifications
Open the settings tab in messenger.
You can adjust some of your notification settings directly in the messenger app. Tap the " settings " tab in the lower-right corner to get started. | Tap " notifications " in the settings tab. This will open the messenger notification settings. |
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]: During this time, Alexander adopted some elements of Persian dress and customs at his court, notably the custom of proskynesis, either a symbolic kissing of the hand, or prostration on the ground, that Persians showed to their social superiors. The Greeks regarded the gesture as the province of deities and believed that Alexander meant to deify himself by requiring it. This cost him the sympathies of many of his countrymen, and he eventually abandoned it. A plot against his life was revealed, and one of his officers, Philotas, was executed for failing to alert Alexander. The death of the son necessitated the death of the father, and thus Parmenion, who had been charged with guarding the treasury at Ecbatana, was assassinated at Alexander's command, to prevent attempts at vengeance. Most infamously, Alexander personally killed the man who had saved his life at Granicus, Cleitus the Black, during a violent drunken altercation at Maracanda (modern day Samarkand in Uzbekistan), in which Cleitus accused Alexander of several judgemental mistakes and most especially, of having forgotten the Macedonian ways in favour of a corrupt oriental lifestyle. Later, in the Central Asian campaign, a second plot against his life was revealed, this one instigated by his own royal pages. His official historian, Callisthenes of Olynthus, was implicated in the plot; however, historians have yet to reach a consensus regarding this involvement. Callisthenes had fallen out of favor by leading the opposition to the attempt to introduce proskynesis. <sep>What are the details of the second plot on Alexander's life in the Central Asian campaign?<sep>Instigated by his own royal pages
[A]: Yes
[Q]: Hannah Harvey was a ten year old that had many friends in school. She lived in New York and enjoyed doing gymnastics and playing soccer. One day, Hannah came home from school and her parents greeted her. She knew that something was different by the expressions on their faces. Even Jackson, Hannah's dog, was acting different. Hannah asked why everyone was being so strange. Hannah's father, who was known as Pop, explained to Hannah that his job was forcing him to move. Hannah did not seem to think this was too big of a deal. Then, Hannah's mother explained that they were moving to Kenya. Kenya, she explained, was a place in Africa and life would be very different there. As Hannah began to cry thinking about all of her friends at home, Hannah's mother calmed her with a gentle touch. Jackson began howling as Hannah cried, but was also calmed by Hannah's mother. Hannah spent the next two weeks visiting her friends and saying her goodbyes. She did not know the next time she would be home. She cried very hard when she said goodbye to her best friend, Susan. Susan did not quite understand where Kenya was, but promised to visit Hannah. The next day, Hannah boarded a plane with her family. At first, they thought that Jackson could not come with them. However, Hannah worked hard and helped make sure that he had all of his shots so that he could come. After he had them all, the airport said it was OK for Jackson to come! The Harvey family left and off they went across the ocean to begin their new life in Kenya. <sep>How was Jackson able to come with the family to Kenya<sep>By having his shots
[A]: No
[Q]: Mr. Thorndike had risen, and, in farewell, was holding out his hand to Andrews. He turned, and across the court-room the eyes of the financier and the stenographer met. At the sight of the great man, Spear flushed crimson, and then his look of despair slowly disappeared; and into his eyes there came incredulously hope and gratitude. He turned his head suddenly to the wall. Mr. Thorndike stood irresolute, and then sank back into his chair. The first man in the line was already at the railing, and the questions put to him by the judge were being repeated to him by the other assistant district attorney and a court attendant. His muttered answers were in turn repeated to the judge. "Says he's married, naturalized citizen, Lutheran Church, die- cutter by profession." The probation officer, her hands filled with papers, bustled forward and whispered. "Mrs. Austin says," continued the district attorney, "she's looked into this case, and asks to have the man turned over to her. He has a wife and three children; has supported them for five years." "Is the wife in court?" the judge said. A thin, washed-out, pretty woman stood up, and clasped her hands in front of her. "Has this man been a good husband to you, madam?" asked the young judge. The woman broke into vehement assurances. No man could have been a better husband. Would she take him back? Indeed she would take him back. She held out her hands as though she would physically drag her husband from the pillory. The judge bowed toward the probation officer, and she beckoned the prisoner to her. <sep>What was the profession of the first man in line?<sep>He was a die-cutter by profession
[A]: | Yes
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Larkin at Sixty (1982) is a collection of original essays and poems published to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of the English poet Philip Larkin. It was edited and introduced by Anthony Thwaite and published by Larkin's publishers, Faber and Faber. A poetic dramatisation of the launch of the book was written by Russell Davies.
Can we infer the following?
Essays and poems were published in 1982 | Yes |
How to start having sex again
Know that you're not alone.
There are many people who are celibate at some time in their lives. One study found that 14% of men and 10% of women had not had sexual intercourse in the preceding year.
There are many changes and transitions in life that can lead to celibacy-involuntary or not. Resist the urge to judge yourself harshly for being celibate.
How to cure toe kick in soccer
Understand our " natural kick ".
A child doesn't change anything about their natural walking or running stride when they first start to kick a soccer ball. It is almost like the soccer ball just happens to get in the way of their natural stride.
As we walk or run as humans our toe naturally points forward as it moves forward. Keeping the toe down would cause us to walk or run looking like a clydesdale horse.
The man continues mowing the same area as he goes over in circles. Then he goes towards the backyard to cover some large area of land. he
drives is lawn mower across the front of the house towards the garage.
How to tell if someone is a poser
Look for excessive showing off.
A poser will use any chance they can find to show off the thing they're " obsessed " about. Look for stickers, apparel, and other items that relate to what they claim to love.
| For instance, posers within the car scene will cover their cars in stickers as a cry for attention. If that backpack or t-shirt from a popular comic book is brand new, but the wearer claims to have been a fan forever, you might have a poser on your hands. |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: Why was Bell so inspired to do research on hearing and speech?, Context: Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work. His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876.[N 4] Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study.[N 5]
A: Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf
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Q: Einstein created a way of thinking called a?, Context: It was only the orbit of the planet Mercury that Newton's Law of Gravitation seemed not to fully explain. Some astrophysicists predicted the existence of another planet (Vulcan) that would explain the discrepancies; however, despite some early indications, no such planet could be found. When Albert Einstein formulated his theory of general relativity (GR) he turned his attention to the problem of Mercury's orbit and found that his theory added a correction, which could account for the discrepancy. This was the first time that Newton's Theory of Gravity had been shown to be less correct than an alternative.
A: theory
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Q: What civilization has endured many clashes with others?, Context: Egypt has one of the oldest civilisations in the world. It has been in contact with many other civilisations and nations and has been through so many eras, starting from prehistoric age to the modern age, passing through so many ages such as; Pharonic, Roman, Greek, Islamic and many other ages. Because of this wide variation of ages, the continuous contact with other nations and the big number of conflicts Egypt had been through, at least 60 museums may be found in Egypt, mainly covering a wide area of these ages and conflicts.
A: | Egypt
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How to read topographic maps<br>Use the thicker contour lines to determine the elevation. Contour lines represent paths or segments of the earth. Topographic maps are covered in contour lines.
Topographic maps are sold online
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.
You need to learn about corn production. When trying to predict whether corn will go up or down in price, it is important to know about how farming works and what factors lead to a profitable or a lousy harvest. Corn is preyed on by many animals
A: It's impossible to say
The Complete Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse is a collection of 22 fairy tales written by Hermann Hesse between the years of 1904 and 1918 and translated by Jack Zipes. A list of the individual fairy tales and the year in which they were written follows. This collection was published in 1995 and is the first English translation for most of the tales.
Hermann Hesse was not an english writer.
A: | Yes |
Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The BBC's Yolande Knell at the scene in Gaza says Mohammed Deif has "long been on Israel's most wanted list"
Hamas says the wife and child of its military commander, Mohammed Deif, have been killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip.
At least 19 Palestinians have died since hostilities resumed on Tuesday, with both sides blaming each other for the collapse of the Cairo peace talks.
The Israeli military said it had carried out 92 air strikes in response to 137 rockets fired at its territory.
Six weeks of fierce fighting have left at least 2,103 people dead.
Egypt has expressed "profound regret" at the end of the 10-day period of calm and said it will continue trying to secure a lasting truce.
Bomb shelters
It is believed the air strike on a house in Gaza City late on Tuesday that killed Mohammed Deif's wife and their young son was intended to kill the militant himself, reports the BBC's Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem.
A Hamas official told the AFP news agency that Mr Deif was "still alive and leading the military operation" against Israel.
Image copyright AP Image caption Mourners carry the body of Mohammed Deif's wife, Widad Mustafa, at the beginning of the funeral procession
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Thousands joined the procession on the streets of Gaza, with some chanting "Revenge, revenge, revenge!"
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Accusing Israel of opening a "gateway to hell", Hamas fired rockets at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
The commander of Hamas' armed wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, has survived a number of previous Israeli assassination attempts believed to have left him with severe disabilities.
Israeli Interior Minister Gideon Saar said the attack was justified because Mr Deif was "personally responsible" for dozens of deaths.
Yaakov Perry, Israel's science minister and former security service chief, said he was "convinced that if there was intelligence that [he] was not inside the home, then we would not have bombed it".
Rescue workers later pulled out of the remains of the house the bodies of three members of the family that lived there, medics said.
Kevin Connolly, BBC News, Jerusalem
No-one is rushing to make an official declaration that the Cairo peace talks are dead but it is hard to see what could now bring them back to life.
Hamas blames Israel for the end of the ceasefire just as Israel blames Hamas - the one point of agreement between them appears to be that the time for talking has gone at least for now.
Any diplomatic failure in the Middle East can be explained by the formula that the maximum one side was prepared to offer was less than the minimum that the other side was prepared to accept. Never has it been truer than it is now.
Both sides went in to this round of negotiations with what diplomats would call maximalist positions - Hamas demanding an opening of Gaza's borders, Israel aspiring to the demilitarisation of Gaza.
But neither side can afford to allow any concessions which might be portrayed as a victory for the other. In neither society would public opinion stand for it.
That is a recipe for stalemate - and at times of stalemate both sides are inclined to turn back to their weapons of war.
There were further Israeli air strikes on Gaza on Wednesday which, according to local medics, killed a heavily pregnant woman and several children.
Our correspondent says the apparent attempt to kill Mohammed Deif may explain the intensity of the rocket fire that came after the collapse of the Cairo peace talks.
Image copyright AFP Image caption Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced by the conflict
Image copyright AFP Image caption Israeli army tanks remain deployed along the frontier with Gaza
Air-raid sirens sounded in many towns and cities in southern and central Israel, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, as 50 rockets were launched on Tuesday and 30 on Wednesday.
'Gravely disappointed'
The Israeli government accused Hamas of breaking the ceasefire by launching a salvo of rockets about eight hours before it was to have expired, and told its delegation in Cairo to return home shortly afterwards.
Palestinian negotiators blamed Israel for the failure of the indirect talks.
"Israel thwarted the contacts that could have brought peace," said Azzam al-Ahmed, a senior member of the Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
However, Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev rejected the accusation, saying rockets from Gaza were "a clear violation of the ceasefire" and "destroyed the premise upon which the talks were based."
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Palestinian negotiator Azzam al-Ahmed accused Israel of trying to force its position
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev: "A ceasefire has to be a two-way street"
Israel has been seeking guarantees that Hamas and other factions in Gaza would be disarmed, while the Palestinians were demanding an end to the Israeli and Egyptian blockades of Gaza, and the establishment of a seaport and airport.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was "gravely disappointed by the return to hostilities".
Meanwhile, human rights groups have called on Israel to allow them into Gaza so they can investigate allegations of violations of international humanitarian law by both sides.
In a joint statement, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch accused Israel of "playing bureaucratic games" with them by continually denying the groups' requests to cross the border.
Israel launched Operation Protective Edge on 8 July with the aim of ending Hamas rocket fire. It also sought to destroy tunnels dug under the frontier with Israel used by militants to launch attack.
Since then, at least 2,036 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in Gaza, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The Israeli authorities say 64 Israeli soldiers have been killed, along with two Israeli civilians and a Thai national.
Image copyright AFP
Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif ||||| 1 of 15. Smoke rises following what witnesses said was an Israeli air strike in Gaza August 20, 2014.
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike in Gaza killed the wife and infant son of Hamas's military leader, Mohammed Deif, the group said, calling it an attempt to assassinate him after a ceasefire collapsed.
Palestinians launched more than 180 rockets on Tuesday and Wednesday, mainly at southern Israel, with some intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system, the military said. No casualties were reported on the Israeli side.
Egypt, which has been trying to broker a long-term ceasefire in indirect Israeli-Palestinian talks, said it would continue contacts with both sides, whose delegates left Cairo after the hostilities resumed on Tuesday.
But there appeared to be no end in sight to violence that shattered a 10-day period of calm, the longest break from fighting since Israel launched its Gaza offensive on July 8 with the declared aim of ending rocket fire into its territory.
Israeli aircraft have carried out more than 100 strikes in the Gaza Strip since Tuesday, Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon said, the military adding it was "targeting terror sites".
Hamas and medical officials said 23 people had died in the latest Israeli raids, including Deif's wife and seven-month-old son. Deif is widely believed to be masterminding the Islamist group's military campaign from underground bunkers.
A Hamas official said Deif, head of Hamas's Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, had not used the targeted house, from whose rubble the bodies of three members of the family that lived there were also pulled out.
Abu Ubaida, a spokesman for Hamas's armed wing, said in a televised statement addressing Israel "you have failed and you have missed" Deif in the attack.
Chanting "Qassam, bomb Tel Aviv!", thousands of Palestinians later attended the funeral of Deif's wife and son in Jabalya refugee camp. The woman's mother told reporters she wished she had "another 100 daughters" to offer Deif in marriage.
Accusing Israel of opening a "gateway to hell", Hamas fired rockets at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem late on Tuesday, demonstrating the Islamist movement could still reach Israel's heartland despite heavy Israeli bombardments in the five-week conflict.
There was no confirmation from Israel that it had tried to kill Deif, who has been targeted in air strikes at least four times since the mid-1990s. Israel holds him responsible for the deaths of dozens of its citizens in suicide bombings.
"ALL OPTIONS OPEN"
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to say whether Deif had been targeted, but he reaffirmed Israel's longstanding policy of considering militant leaders as legitimate targets, adding that "none are immune" from attack.
Netanyahu said Israel's Gaza campaign could last for a while. "This will be a continuous campaign," he told a news conference in Tel Aviv, giving a vague description of Israel's goals as seeking "calm and safety" for Israeli citizens.
Ya'alon, his defence chief, added that "all options are open, including renewed ground operations" in Gaza.
Netanyahu compared Hamas Islamists to Islamic State militants operating in Iraq and Syria, calling them "branches of the same tree" and accusing both groups of acting with "savagery" by killing and targeting attacks against civilians.
Abu Ubaida, the Hamas military spokesman, said the group would target Israeli public sites such as soccer stadiums and Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport. He warned airlines to stay away from Thursday morning and cautioned Israelis living near to Gaza against returning to their homes.
An Israeli airport spokesman said there were no disruptions reported in Thursday's flight schedules.
Five children were killed in separate air strikes, according to Gaza health officials, and the Israeli military said it had targeted four gunmen in northern Gaza.
Hamas said it had fired two rockets at an Israeli gas installation about 30 km (19 miles) off the coast of Gaza in the first apparent attack of its kind. The Israeli military said no missiles had struck any gas platforms at sea.
The Palestinian Health Ministry says 2,040 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in Gaza. Israel says it has killed hundreds of Palestinian militants in fighting that the United Nations says has displaced about 425,000 people.
Sixty-four Israeli soldiers and three civilians in Israel have been killed in the most deadly and destructive war Hamas and Israel have fought since Israel withdrew unilaterally from Gaza in 2005, before Hamas seized the territory in 2007.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose Fatah party took part in the Cairo talks, was due to meet the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, and exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Doha on Wednesday, diplomatic sources said.
Israel instructed its civilians to open bomb shelters as far as 80 km (50 miles) from Gaza, or beyond the Tel Aviv area, and the military called up 2,000 reservists.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement he was "gravely disappointed by the return to hostilities" and urged the sides not to allow matters to escalate.
Egyptian mediators have been struggling to end the Gaza conflict and seal a deal that would open the way for reconstruction aid to flow into the territory of 1.8 million people, where thousands of homes have been destroyed.
The Palestinians want Egypt and Israel to lift their blockades of the economically crippled Gaza Strip that predated the Israeli offensive.
(Additional reporting by Maggie Fick and Stephen Kalin in Cairo; Writing by Maayan Lubell; Editing by Jeffrey Heller and Gareth Jones) ||||| The wife and infant son of Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif were killed in an Israeli airstrike, the Islamist group said on Wednesday, after the collapse of a weeklong cease-fire sparked a sharp escalation in Gaza attacks and a freeze in truce talks in Cairo.
For most of Wednesday, there was no word about the fate of Mr. Deif, who had been the target of several failed assassination attempts over the past decade. Breaking a day of silence hours after a mass funeral for Wedad Deif and 7-month-old Ali Deif, a spokesman... |||||
Output: | An Israeli airstrike has killed the wife and young son of Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif, the group says, per the Wall Street Journal. Hamas says Israel was targeting Deif himself, though it's not clear whether he was killed in the strike, the BBC notes. Deif, who has allegedly ordered suicide bombings in Israel in the past, was left disabled by previous efforts to kill him. Hamas says Israel will pay after opening "the gates of hell," the BBC reports. New Israeli strikes have killed 11 people since the ceasefire collapsed yesterday, the BBC reports. Palestinian officials say another 100 have been wounded. Following new rocket attacks from Gaza, Israel suspended truce talks in Cairo, the Journal notes, and Reuters adds that the country has recalled its negotiators. "Israel thwarted the contacts that could have brought peace," says Palestine's chief negotiator. An Israeli spokesman, however, disagreed: "The Cairo process was built on a total and complete cessation of all hostilities, and so when when rockets were fired from Gaza, not only was it a clear violation of the ceasefire, but it also destroyed the premise upon which the talks were based." |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Twenty-two years after Mary's death, John disappears while on a hunt, forcing Sam and Dean to reunite in an unsuccessful attempt to find him. Sam returns to the life of a hunter after Azazel kills his girlfriend. John reluctantly chooses to avoid his sons throughout most of the season while he investigates something, eventually reuniting with them in the episode ``Shadow.'' However, the demonic Meg Masters attacks them and reveals that Azazel is after John. After escaping from Meg, the brothers split up from their father to keep him from the demons. When vampires murder his old mentor and steal the Colt--a mystical gun capable of killing anything--John teams up with Sam and Dean in ``Dead Man's Blood'' to retrieve it. Because demons cannot be killed by conventional means, they hope that the Colt will be effective against Azazel. In response, Meg begins killing the Winchesters' friends in ``Salvation,'' and threatens to kill more unless they deliver the Colt. John is captured after trying to give her a fake gun, and reveals himself to be possessed by Azazel when the brothers come to his rescue in the first season finale ``Devil's Trap.'' However, he manages to resist the demon's control. Despite John's pleas for Sam to shoot him with the Colt, Sam cannot bring himself to do so and allows Azazel to escape. As the Winchesters flee in Dean's Impala, a demonically-possessed trucker crashes into them. | do they ever find the dad in supernatural? |
How to deauthorize itunes
Open itunes on the computer that you want to deauthorize.
If the computer that you want to deauthorize is no longer available, see the following section.
Click the store menu.
OPTIONS:
- On the bottom menu on the left side of itunes, click " store. " under the " stores " heading, select " itunes.
- It's under the " downloads " heading in the top left corner of the screen. Click " sort, " then type " youtube.com " into the search bar at the top of the screen.
- Next to " store " on your computer, you should see the " usage and payment " menu. This will separate " available data " from " paid usage.
- From the drop-down menu that appears, select " deauthorize this computer..." Enter your apple id and password. Click the deauthorize button.
From the drop-down menu that appears, select " deauthorize this computer..." Enter your apple id and password. Click the deauthorize button.
We see the vacuum attachment product and see the product in action. The lady shows each side, and we see her attach the product. We see the lady mopping. then we
OPTIONS:
- see the lady cover a back of her cupboard with a white paper and vacuum a crack.
- see a lady as she vacuums.
- see the cleaner and the vacuum attachment.
- see the ease of using the attachment.
see the ease of using the attachment.
Two men wearing scuba diving gear in an indoor pool talk to the camera. The camera follows one of the men underwater where numerous manmade obstacles are present. other men dressed like astronauts
OPTIONS:
- wear scuba gear playing on the water while instructors stand by and watch.
- are shown as they stand in a line talking.
- are underwater with them.
- are underwater as they prepare for scuba diving.
are underwater with them.
The girl smiles into a mirror and shows how she takes out the contacts and a reminder on your phone. one last woman
OPTIONS:
- kisses and hugs them all.
- speaks to the camera and the girl cheers and smiles again.
- cleans the jug of soapy water and then pours cleaning solution over the surface of the water.
- is shown and the two girls proceed to wrap presents in various outdoor spots.
| speaks to the camera and the girl cheers and smiles again. |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
[Q]: The USPS is often mistaken for a government-owned corporation (e.g., Amtrak) because it operates much like a business. It is, however, an ``establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States'', (39 U.S.C. § 201) as it is controlled by Presidential appointees and the Postmaster General. As a government agency, it has many special privileges, including sovereign immunity, eminent domain powers, powers to negotiate postal treaties with foreign nations, and an exclusive legal right to deliver first-class and third-class mail. Indeed, in 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision that the USPS was not a government-owned corporation, and therefore could not be sued under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
[A]: is the us post office a federal agency?
[Q]: Situated on the continent of Antarctica, it is the site of the United States Amundsen--Scott South Pole Station, which was established in 1956 and has been permanently staffed since that year. The Geographic South Pole is distinct from the South Magnetic Pole, the position of which is defined based on the Earth's magnetic field. The South Pole is at the center of the Southern Hemisphere.
[A]: is the south pole the same as antarctica?
[Q]: Thrust SSC holds the world land speed record, set on 15 October 1997, when it achieved a speed of 1,228 km/h (763 mph) and became the first land vehicle to officially break the sound barrier.
[A]: | has anyone broken the sound barrier on land?
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[Q]: ZURICH/BERLIN, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Here are some of the main factors that may affect Swiss stocks on Tuesday: COMPANY STATEMENTS * Gurit Holding said it will enlarge its group executive committee to eight members, from six at present, effective Feb. 1. * LafargeHolcim said it was exploring options for its business in the Philippines, including a potential sale, as the cement giant seeks to further reduce debt by selling non-core assets. ECONOMY Swiss December trade data due at 0700 GMT. (Reporting by Zurich newsroom and Berlin Speed Desk) Swiss stocks could be effected by Gurit Holding's increase in committee members. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: Yes
Problem: Access to the underground workings at the La Camorra mine is via a ramp from the surface, excavated at a -15% grade and connecting numerous levels.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "The ramp has stairs."? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Q: pulmonary diseases are harder to detect than other
How to diagnose copd<br>See your doctor. The best way to fight copd is to see your doctor before symptoms arise. This is because symptoms of copd often don't appear until significant lung damage has already occurred.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Given the serious nature of the situation, ought not the government immediately mandate the Standing Committee on Human Resources Development to carry out a thorough investigation on the scandal of quotas and harassment of which both the unemployed and the employees of Human Resources Development Canada are victims?
There is a quota scandal OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
input hypothesis: Prosecutors found multiple victims in the case of an El Cajon teen.
Context: Prosecutors say they've found a second victim in the case of an El Cajon teen who was kidnapped to be forced into prostitution. Four suspects are already facing charges of human trafficking, robbery, sexual battery and pimping in this case. Prosecutors say they will file the new charges against the four later Wednesday.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: Yes
input hypothesis: Lucy was paid minimum wage
Context: Lucy's Burn<br>Lucy worked after school at the local diner. One day Lucy, burned her hand on the grill at work. She was sent home for the rest of the day. The burn wasn't bad and she was able to return on the next day. Lucy was more careful at work.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: | It's impossible to say |
"I Don't Wanna Play House" is a song written by Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton. In 1967, the song was Tammy Wynette's first number one country song as a solo artist. "I Don't Wanna Play House" spent three weeks at the top spot and a total of eighteen weeks on the chart. The recording earned Wynette the 1968 Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
Tammy Wynette had a number one country song in 1968
A: It's impossible to say
Image copyright Reuters Britain's Mark Cavendish pulled out of the Tour de France after breaking his right shoulder in a crash. The 32-year-old from the Isle of Man collided with the world champion Peter Sagan before hitting the barriers in a sprint finish. Cavendish, who is just five stage wins away from a Tour record for the most victories, said he was "massively disappointed". The race doctor says Mark, who won a silver medal at the Rio2016 Olympic Games, needs rest but won't need an operation. Peter Sagan has been disqualified from the race for dangerous riding.
Mark Cavendish is an Olympian.
A: Yes
How to treat musculoskeletal pain without surgery<br>Take it easy. When you first notice any musculoskeletal pain, you should take it easy and rest your sore muscles. This means abstaining from exercise, strenuous activity, or any other activity that will overwork your muscles.
musculoskeletal pain is experience on mostly females
A: | It's impossible to say |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Q: "What goes up must come down." You have probably heard that statement before. At one time this statement was true, but no longer. Since the 1960s, we have sent many spacecraft into space. Some are still traveling away from Earth. So it is possible to overcome gravity. Do you need a giant rocket to overcome gravity? No, you actually overcome gravity every day. Think about when you climb a set of stairs. When you do, you are overcoming gravity. What if you jump on a trampoline? You are overcoming gravity for a few seconds. Everyone can overcome gravity. You just need to apply a force larger than gravity. Think about that the next time you jump into the air. You are overcoming gravity for a brief second. Enjoy it while it lasts. Eventually, gravity will win the battle. <sep>Are you overcoming gravity when you climb a set of stairs?<sep>False
A: | No |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: While diplomatically inconvenient for the Western powers, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s attempt to get the United Nations to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state has elicited widespread sympathy. After all, what choice did he have? According to the accepted narrative, Middle East peace is made impossible by a hard-line Likud-led Israel that refuses to accept a Palestinian state and continues to build settlements.
It is remarkable how this gross inversion of the truth has become conventional wisdom. In fact, Benjamin Netanyahu brought his Likud-led coalition to open recognition of a Palestinian state, thereby creating Israel’s first national consensus for a two-state solution. He is also the only prime minister to agree to a settlement freeze — 10 months — something no Labor or Kadima government has ever done.
To which Abbas responded by boycotting the talks for nine months, showing up in the 10th, then walking out when the freeze expired. Last week he reiterated that he will continue to boycott peace talks unless Israel gives up — in advance — claim to any territory beyond the 1967 lines. Meaning, for example, that the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem is Palestinian territory. This is not just absurd. It violates every prior peace agreement. They all stipulate that such demands are to be the subject of negotiations, not their precondition.
Abbas unwaveringly insists on the so-called “right of return,” which would demographically destroy Israel by swamping it with millions of Arabs, thereby turning the world’s only Jewish state into the world’s 23rd Arab state. And he has repeatedly declared, as recently as last week in New York: “We shall not recognize a Jewish state.”
Nor is this new. It is perfectly consistent with the long history of Palestinian rejectionism. Consider:
●Camp David, 2000. At a U.S.-sponsored summit, Prime Minister Ehud Barak offers Yasser Arafat a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza — and, astonishingly, the previously inconceivable division of Jerusalem. Arafat refuses. And makes no counteroffer, thereby demonstrating his unseriousness about making any deal. Instead, within two months, he launches a savage terror war that kills a thousand Israelis.
●Taba, 2001. An even sweeter deal — the Clinton Parameters — is offered. Arafat walks away again.
●Israel, 2008. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert makes the ultimate capitulation to Palestinian demands — 100 percent of the West Bank (with land swaps), Palestinian statehood, the division of Jerusalem with the Muslim parts becoming the capital of the new Palestine. And incredibly, he offers to turn over the city’s holy places, including the Western Wall — Judaism’s most sacred site, its Kaaba — to an international body on which sit Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Did Abbas accept? Of course not. If he had, the conflict would be over and Palestine would already be a member of the United Nations.
This is not ancient history. All three peace talks occurred over the past decade. And every one completely contradicts the current mindless narrative of Israeli “intransigence” as the obstacle to peace.
Settlements? Every settlement remaining within the new Palestine would be destroyed and emptied, precisely as happened in Gaza.
So why did the Palestinians say no? Because saying yes would have required them to sign a final peace agreement that accepted a Jewish state on what they consider the Muslim patrimony.
The key word here is “final.” The Palestinians are quite prepared to sign interim agreements, like Oslo. Framework agreements, like Annapolis. Cease-fires, like the 1949 armistice. Anything but a final deal. Anything but a final peace. Anything but a treaty that ends the conflict once and for all — while leaving a Jewish state still standing.
After all, why did Abbas go to the United Nations last week? For nearly half a century, the United States has pursued a Middle East settlement on the basis of the formula of land for peace. Land for peace produced the Israel-Egypt peace of 1979 and the Israel-Jordan peace of 1994. Israel has offered the Palestinians land for peace three times since. And been refused every time.
Why? For exactly the same reason Abbas went to the United Nations last week: to get land without peace. Sovereignty with no reciprocal recognition of a Jewish state. Statehood without negotiations. An independent Palestine in a continued state of war with Israel.
Israel gave up land without peace in south Lebanon in 2000 and, in return, received war (the Lebanon war of 2006) and 50,000 Hezbollah missiles now targeted on the Israeli homeland. In 2005, Israel gave up land without peace in Gaza, and again was rewarded with war — and constant rocket attack from an openly genocidal Palestinian mini-state.
Israel is prepared to give up land, but never again without peace. A final peace. Which is exactly what every Palestinian leader from Haj Amin al-Husseini to Yasser Arafat to Mahmoud Abbas has refused to accept. Which is why, regardless of who is governing Israel, there has never been peace. Territorial disputes are solvable; existential conflicts are not.
Land for peace, yes. Land without peace is nothing but an invitation to national suicide.
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Editorial: Bahrain’s repression ||||| To which Abbas responded by boycotting the talks for nine months, showing up in the 10th, then walking out when the freeze expired. Last week he reiterated that he will continue to boycott peace talks unless Israel gives up — in advance — claim to any territory beyond the 1967 lines. Meaning, for example, that the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem is Palestinian territory. This is not just absurd. It violates every prior peace agreement. They all stipulate that such demands are to be the subject of negotiations, not their precondition.
Abbas unwaveringly insists on the so-called “right of return,” which would demographically destroy Israel by swamping it with millions of Arabs, thereby turning the world’s only Jewish state into the world’s 23rd Arab state. And he has repeatedly declared, as recently as last week in New York: “We shall not recognize a Jewish state.”
Nor is this new. It is perfectly consistent with the long history of Palestinian rejectionism. Consider:
●Camp David, 2000. At a U.S.-sponsored summit, Prime Minister Ehud Barak offers Yasser Arafat a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza — and, astonishingly, the previously inconceivable division of Jerusalem. Arafat refuses. And makes no counteroffer, thereby demonstrating his unseriousness about making any deal. Instead, within two months, he launches a savage terror war that kills a thousand Israelis.
●Taba, 2001. An even sweeter deal — the Clinton Parameters — is offered. Arafat walks away again.
●Israel, 2008. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert makes the ultimate capitulation to Palestinian demands — 100 percent of the West Bank (with land swaps), Palestinian statehood, the division of Jerusalem with the Muslim parts becoming the capital of the new Palestine. And incredibly, he offers to turn over the city’s holy places, including the Western Wall — Judaism’s most sacred site, its Kaaba — to an international body on which sit Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Did Abbas accept? Of course not. If he had, the conflict would be over and Palestine would already be a member of the United Nations.
This is not ancient history. All three peace talks occurred over the past decade. And every one completely contradicts the current mindless narrative of Israeli “intransigence” as the obstacle to peace.
Settlements? Every settlement remaining within the new Palestine would be destroyed and emptied, precisely as happened in Gaza.
So why did the Palestinians say no? Because saying yes would have required them to sign a final peace agreement that accepted a Jewish state on what they consider the Muslim patrimony.
The key word here is “final.” The Palestinians are quite prepared to sign interim agreements, like Oslo. Framework agreements, like Annapolis. Cease-fires, like the 1949 armistice. Anything but a final deal. Anything but a final peace. Anything but a treaty that ends the conflict once and for all — while leaving a Jewish state still standing.
After all, why did Abbas go to the United Nations last week? For nearly half a century, the United States has pursued a Middle East settlement on the basis of the formula of land for peace. Land for peace produced the Israel-Egypt peace of 1979 and the Israel-Jordan peace of 1994. Israel has offered the Palestinians land for peace three times since. And been refused every time.
Why? For exactly the same reason Abbas went to the United Nations last week: to get land without peace. Sovereignty with no reciprocal recognition of a Jewish state. Statehood without negotiations. An independent Palestine in a continued state of war with Israel.
Israel gave up land without peace in south Lebanon in 2000 and, in return, received war (the Lebanon war of 2006) and 50,000 Hezbollah missiles now targeted on the Israeli homeland. In 2005, Israel gave up land without peace in Gaza, and again was rewarded with war — and constant rocket attack from an openly genocidal Palestinian mini-state.
Israel is prepared to give up land, but never again without peace. A final peace. Which is exactly what every Palestinian leader from Haj Amin al-Husseini to Yasser Arafat to Mahmoud Abbas has refused to accept. Which is why, regardless of who is governing Israel, there has never been peace. Territorial disputes are solvable; existential conflicts are not.
Land for peace, yes. Land without peace is nothing but an invitation to national suicide.
[email protected]
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Editorial: Bahrain’s repression |||||
A: | Much of the world swooned over Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' bid for statehood at the UN because it buys into the misconception that Israel is stubbornly standing in the way of peace, writes Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post. Far from it. The Palestinians have rejected three land-for-peace offers over the last decade, he writes. Why? Because all three deals called for a "final peace agreement that accepted a Jewish state," and that will never happen. "The key word here is 'final,'" he writes. Palestinians want "anything but a treaty that ends the conflict once and for all—while leaving a Jewish state still standing." That's why Abbas went to the UN: "to get land without peace," writes Krauthammer. He wants an independent Palestine and with it an unending war. After all, "territorial disputes are solvable; existential conflicts are not." |
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.
The main story is that Hyas was killed in a hunting accident , so the Hyades wept because of their grief .
Output: | The main myth concerning them is envisioned to account for their collective name and to provide an etiology for their weepy raininess : Hyas was killed in a hunting accident and the Hyades wept from their grief . |
context: How to witness to a mormon
Discuss the history and role of the bible.
Keep in mind mormons are taught not to trust the accuracy of the bible. They have been led to believe many truths have been removed from its pages, and other teachings have been altered or added.
OPTIONS:
- By talking to the scholars who share your faith, you can ask them to share the same information for centuries. Always be educated of the things that have occurred in the bible.
- So take the time to show that the integrity of the bible has been carefully preserved over the past centuries. Mormons use the king james version of the bible.
- However, christians still believe what is a scripture and that jesus now can act according to the bible. John 3:15 says: " according to god, when we were deceived from them, every living thing will be deceived, even those who are innocent, and all the bonds that have been created has been created.
- Do not believe everything you read in the bible, and judge all of the inaccuracies and barely trusted teachings. Discuss the history and development of the church.
****
next sentence for the context: So take the time to show that the integrity of the bible has been carefully preserved over the past centuries. Mormons use the king james version of the bible.
context: A young man stands outdoors on a porch speaking to the camera, the words "zack's glass cleaning" appears on screen. he
OPTIONS:
- is then shown dancing with shampoo products and spraying them down the car, then throws a rag on the articles back in the car.
- brings out tools and starts cleaning the window, explaining the process to the camera.
- shows off a glass cleaner and begins quickly stirring it into the items that are needed before using it to rinse the powder from the camera.
- continues talking to the camera, while a woman in a flowing, floral dress is shown and another in an elevator off camera.
****
next sentence for the context: brings out tools and starts cleaning the window, explaining the process to the camera.
context: How to carve like a downhill racer on skis
Start by finding a large, gently pitched slope, preferably with not too many people.
Practice making slow, parallel turns with your skis.
Position your skis a little more than shoulder's width apart.
OPTIONS:
- Look at the skis at the base of the slope (it is critical to see where they are going, so adjust your usage carefully). Carve a 50 to 60 mm foot front support into the ground with your tongue and delve into the soil and concrete where the slope will support you.
- Think of it as voting for speed, and try to think of two wheels in the same direction as one another. Maintain your speed even in a game of skiing, and improve your speed with much more.
- You don't want them so close that they could get tangled up with each other in mid-turn, but you want them far enough apart for stability. The right width is important in making banked turns without your knees colliding.
- Stand facing the direction you want to go, and your skis (in a gear shape) should be very close together and slightly curved. Stand firmly in front of the ski pole.
****
next sentence for the context: You don't want them so close that they could get tangled up with each other in mid-turn, but you want them far enough apart for stability. The right width is important in making banked turns without your knees colliding.
context: A person washes there hands and closes a sink drain. The person removes a contact from the container and places on the tip of their finger. the person
OPTIONS:
- holds open one eyelid at a time and inserts the contact into their eye.
- holds up the contact and starts shaving the finger of a person.
- dips their finger in a paper towel and puts vinegar on it to scrub.
- puts a contact in their finger and shows how it work.
****
next sentence for the context: | holds open one eyelid at a time and inserts the contact into their eye. |
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
Since 1964 , athletes of the Congo have taken part in the " Olympic Movement " .
Answer: | The Republic of the Congo , competing as Congo , first participated at the Olympic Games in 1964 , and has sent athletes to compete in most Summer Olympic Games since then . |
What happens next in this paragraph?
How to poach fruit
Choose fruits that work well with poaching, for the best results.
Suggested fruits include :
Stone fruits-peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums etc. Pears apples rhubarb persimmons figs oranges cherries. | Get the poaching ratios accurate. It is standard to use 2 parts of liquid to 1 part sugar. |
Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: 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 ||||| Photo: Shanna Ravindra
If there’s one thing grammar pedants hate, it’s using literally as a crutch word — or, worse, saying it when you actually mean figuratively. The owner of East Village dive bar Continental seems to have had enough: A prominent notice now hangs outside warning what will happen if customers let that word slip once inside: “You must leave.”
The sign’s been making the rounds since EV Grieve noticed it this morning:
East Village bar the Continental expounds on their (tongue-in-cheek) ban on the word literally. Their stated goal now is to stop “Kardashianism.” cc: @edenbrower pic.twitter.com/iI0N41qCgt — evgrieve (@evgrieve) January 24, 2018
As you can see from the sign above, patrons who are heard to utter the dreaded L-word will be given “5 minutes to finish” their drinks. Use it to start a sentence, you will be asked to leave “immediately!!!” Why? As the note explains: “This is the most overused, annoying word in the English language and we will not tolerate it.”
The notice has been hanging there for five or six days, says Trigger Smith, the owner of the decades-old neighborhood dive. He admits the policy is tongue-in-cheek, but really does hate that word. (For that matter, he’s also no fan of phrases like “It’s all good,” “You know what I’m saying?” and “My bad”), but literally gets special loathing because of its ubiquity. “Since it’s English, it’s probably happening in England, and maybe Australia,” he tells Grub Street. “I had a woman from Miami the other night tell me it’s happening down there,” he says. “And it’s not just millennials. Now you hear newscasters using ‘literally’ every three minutes on the Sunday news shows. What’s annoying is people aren’t even aware they’re saying it. How could you be so unaware of your words that it’s coming out every couple minutes?”
As you might expect, not everyone sees the sign as a joke:
People like this don't give a shit about language. They're just self-important, generally misogynistic blow hards who get off on feeling superior to (mostly) young women. Anyway, good morning all! https://t.co/gr5A21hcJ2 — Allegra Hobbs (@AllegraEHobbs) January 24, 2018
By the way, this is the East Village bar that offers "5 shots of anything for $10" — presumably because they are valiant defenders and purveyors of highbrow culture, so keep your hyperbole out of their hallowed halls https://t.co/6BfDBP1h8N — Allegra Hobbs (@AllegraEHobbs) January 24, 2018
Cool, so never spending money here! Though, even if they didn't have this sign I'm sure the bartender with the vest and waxed mustache would be enough of a warning anyway... — Katie (@katiefustich) January 24, 2018
Trigger calls the claim that they’re being sexist “even funnier than the sign,” and also adds: “Anybody who knows me knows I’m a feminist who supports women’s rights and is 100 percent behind this whole ‘Me Too’ thing. I guess people will find an issue in anything.”
A backlash seems unlikely, since Continental is set to close in a few months anyway, and its reputation precedes it — older New Yorkers will have fond memories of its Iggy Pop and Joey Ramone punk days, while the younger, NYU-heavy crowd will have vaguer memories of the bar’s infamous shot deal: five shots “of anything” for $10 (it costs $12 now because of, you know, inflation).
More recently, the bar became notorious for banning “saggy jeans,” a policy that Trigger has defended by saying: “If you have a problem with that, open up your own bar with no dress code or door policy and see how long it lasts. That crowd will alienate and scare away your mainstream crowd until that’s all you have left.”
So an attack on literally seems pretty mellow, comparatively. Just to give things some context, Trigger adds that he’s also got a sign hanging on the bar’s mirror inside that reads, “The customer is always wrong.” ||||| A post shared by Aaron Sylvan (@aaronsylvan) on Dec 2, 2017 at 7:55am PST
Continental, the East Village bar that’s notorious for its deal of five shots for $12 (it used to cost just $10), has started policing the language of its patrons.
The dive bar’s owner Trigger Smith put up a sign last week stating that anyone in the establishment who utters the phrase “literally” will have five minutes to finish their drink before being required to leave, and those who begin a sentence with “I literally” must immediately exit the building.
East Village bar the Continental expounds on their (tongue-in-cheek) ban on the word literally. Their stated goal now is to stop “Kardashianism.” cc: @edenbrower pic.twitter.com/iI0N41qCgt — evgrieve (@evgrieve) January 24, 2018
The sign drew a good amount of pushback on Twitter, with some users claiming that the sentiment is misogynistic. Smith, however, claims that the whole thing is a joke and that his staff has not actually kicked anyone out for saying “literally.”
“My bar would be empty if I enforced the sign,” he said over the phone. “How could I mean that? How could I be serious?”
“I literally feel sorry for anybody who would take this seriously,” he added.
Even so, Smith does take issue with the overuse of the phrase in general.
“If you watch TV shows like Keeping Up With the Kardashians or The Bachelor, every third word they say is ‘literally,’” he says. “It's contagious. You even hear newscasters on CNN saying it.”
The widespread use of the word literally to mean figuratively is nothing new. NBC’s Parks and Recreation satirized the trend with the introduction of Rob Lowe’s character, Chris Traeger, in 2010. The phrase’s alternate, nonliteral definition has also been added to the Merriam Webster dictionary.
Smith says he meditates daily and diagnoses the overuse of “literally” as a mantra of sorts.
“I think that it's a word that feels good to say,” he says. “I think this particular combination of syllables literally feels good rolling off the tongue.”
Continental is set to shutter this year due to a new development at its location. The exact date isn’t yet finalized, but Smith says it will be June 30 at the earliest.
Until then, New Yorkers can expect the bar to continue to stir up shit, just as it’s done since it opened in 1991.
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The Continental, a divey mainstay of Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood since 1991, will be shutting its doors for good on July 1 of this year. As it slouches towards extinction, though, it’s certainly going out with a bang. If you’re lucky enough to get past the bouncers and through the doors of a place that’s made headlines for banning people with saggy pants and has a whole page on its official website dedicated to its “DISCRIMINATORY DOOR POLICY?”, you better watch your dumb mouth and not get too loose with the word “literally.”
A sign posted on the bar’s facade, EV Grieve reported last Wednesday after a reader alerted the publication to it the day prior, warned patrons against using the word “literally” for any reason once they’re inside the bar. If you’re caught using that word, the sign warns, you’ll have five minutes to suck down your drink and leave the bar.
"Sorry but if you say the word 'literally' inside the Continental you have 5 minutes to finish your drink and then you must leave," the sign reads. "If you actually start a sentence with 'I literally' you must leave immediately!!!" |||||
Student: | A Manhattan bar that previously made waves for banning people in saggy pants will now figuratively kick you out for saying the word "literally." A sign posted this week at The Continental tells patrons that "literally" is "the most overused, annoying word in the English language and we will not tolerate it," adding that scofflaws will have five minutes to finish their drink and vamoose, per Munchies. This might have gone unnoticed, had the sign not caused a bit of a stir on social media, angering some who detected sexism. But owner Trigger Smith revealed to Grub Street that while he does indeed hate the word "literally," patrons won't really be kicked out. "I literally feel sorry for anybody who would take this seriously," says Smith, whose bar will close this summer after 27 years in business, per Time Out. |
How to clean burners on a stove<br>Remove the burners. Before cleaning, remove the burners from your gas or electric stove top. Be sure that the stove is off and that the elements are completely cooled down before taking off the burner grates or coils.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
These are not intended for grill burners.
Options are: 1). Yes; 2). It's impossible to say; 3). No; | 2). |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Q: Gravity is a force, but not like other forces you may know. Gravity is a bit special. You know that a force is a push or pull. If you push a ball, it starts to roll. If you lift a book, it moves upward. Now, imagine you drop a ball. It falls to the ground. Can you see the force pulling it down? That is what makes gravity really cool. It is invisible. Invisible means you cannot see it. But wait, it has even more surprises. Gravity holds planets in place around the Sun. Gravity keeps the Moon from flying off into space. Gravity exerts a force on objects that are not even touching. In fact, gravity can act over very large distances. However, the force does get weaker the farther apart the objects are. <sep>How does gravity work on far away objects?<sep>Gets weaker the farther apart objects are
A: Yes
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Q: If you beat a dog in Schuylkill County, you'll probably get a $100 fine. If you repeatedly beat a woman, you'll probably get the same fine. In 2001, county judges heard 98 Protection From Abuse cases, finding the defendant guilty in 48 percent of those cases, either after a hearing or through a technical violation or plea. Of those found guilty, the majority were ordered to pay court costs, plus a $100 fine. No defendants were ordered to pay more than a $250 fine for violating the court order. In 27 percent of the cases, the charges were dismissed or the defendant was found not guilty. In the rest of the cases, charges were withdrawn or the matter is not yet resolved. Sarah T. Casey, executive director of Schuylkill Women in Crisis, finds it disturbing that in most cases, the fine for violating a PFA is little more than the fine someone would get for cruelty and abuse toward an animal. "In most of the counties surrounding Schuylkill County, the penalties given for indirect criminal contempt are much stiffer than those in Schuylkill County," Casey said. "What kind of message are we sending those who repeatedly violate Protection From Abuse orders? That it's OK to abuse women in Schuylkill County, because you'll only get a slap on the wrist?" Under state law, the minimum fine for contempt of a PFA is $100; the maximum fine is $1,000 and up to six months in jail. Like others who are familiar with how the county's legal system does and doesn't work for victims of domestic violence, Casey believes some changes are in order. Valerie West, a manager/attorney with Mid-Penn Legal Services, with offices in Pottsville and Reading, regularly handles domestic violence cases. She finds fault with the local requirement that a custody order must be established within 30 days after a PFA is filed. West said she feels a custody order should be allowed to stand for the full term of the PFA - up to 18 months - as it does in many other counties in the state. "It places an undue burden on the plaintiff, in terms of cost, finding legal representation and facing their abuser - not to mention a further burden on the system to provide those services," West said. "It may be difficult for the parties to reach an agreement so soon after violence has occurred. <sep>How long does Valerie West suggest the custody order should last, and for whom does she work?<sep>18 years
A: Yes
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Q: Emery Simms is a highly educated and successful business tycoon whose life takes a turn for the worse when he engages in an adulterous fling with the wildly free-spirited and exotic Allanah . Emery kills a man that was trying to get information out of him . It is then witnessed by a man who runs and flees afterwords . Emery does n't see that the man he killed cell phone is there and it has all the call logs in it . He then makes a phone call to his friend who does not answer the phone . He later in the movie meets Alannah who 's car has broken down . He gives her a ride to her work not knowing that she is working an angle to get what she wants . He then calls her and insists that they have dinner . They do but the police are following and see them make out and so does a man that is following her . The crazy man comes to the resturaunt and attacks Emery . Emery goes to see Alannah and sees the place she is staying at and takes her to one of their properties which is the condo . She makes herself at home and even invites a friend over who says she can keep the condo and the life if there is a hole in the condom . To which Alannah says no. . Later Emery drops by for some sex and she has her friend wait outside so that she can do what she needs to do with Emery and it 's hot just like when they had sex in Emery 's car . Emery visit 's his friend who gives him a box cutter and tells him to help him unpack . He does and they comment on some fun times they had in college . After that there is more motives . <sep>What two thinks does Emery fail to notice?<sep>A cell phone
A: | Yes
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June 9 Fitch on Connecticut * Fitch Rates Connecticut's GO 2016C Bank Bonds 'AA-'; outlook stable * Remains unclear whether state has succeeded in fully aligning its budget to potential future economic and revenue performance * Stable outlook at 'AA-' rating level reflects view that recent state corrective actions have primarily been structural in nature Source text for Eikon:
Can we infer the following?
It is not clear whether Connecticut has completely aligned its budget
Options are: [+] Yes [+] It's impossible to say [+] No
The answer is: | Yes |
How to find the value of old coins<br>Pin down the coin's origin and date. You'll need to know exactly what coin you're looking at to determine its specific value. Modern coins will include a date of issue printed on the front or back of the coin itself.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Copper coins are least valuable."? | It's impossible to say |
Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Index and pinky fingers up. Thumb perpendicular. Some say it's the devil's horns. The Kiss rocker says it's his.
Thumb up or thumb down?
Kiss frontman Gene Simmons is awaiting the signal from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after he filed an application Friday for a trademark on a hand gesture. Rock fans are probably familiar with the sight. Here's the drawing that's included in the application:
According to Simmons, this hand gesture was first used in commerce Nov. 14, 1974. That appears to correspond with Kiss' Hotter Than Hell tour.
Speaking of hell, the hand gesture appears quite similar to what's known as the "Sign of the horns," a devil signal that, according to an entertaining entry from Wikipedia, dates back to the 5th Century BC founder of Buddhism. It's also the American Sign Language gesture for "I love you."
Simmons is claiming the hand gesture mark for "entertainment, namely, live performances by a musical artist; personal appearances by a musical artist."
Before the Trademark Office allows this hand gesture to be registered — it perhaps wouldn't be unprecedented — an examiner would consider the likelihood of confusion and, possibly, whether it's too generic to be associated with Simmons. Here, for example, is the album cover for the Beatles' 1966 single, Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby:
On the road to registration, Simmons might have other obstacles besides John Lennon. Among them could be how in certain Mediterranean cultures, the horns — or "rock on" — gesture is, in the words of The New York Post, "made to a man to imply that his wife is cheating on him." Whether or not that matters is possibly impacted by the U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming ruling in Tam v. Lee. Then again, maybe Simmons is saying "I love you," but if so, those who use sign language might not love what he's doing.
An even bigger question is the extent to which Simmons could enforce trademark rights even if his registration is accepted.
Former professional wrestler Diamond Dallas Page has tried. Some reported that he had sued Jay Z over the "Roc-A-Fella Hand Gesture,” alleging it was a trademark infringement of his "Diamond Cutter hand gesture," although we couldn't locate any complaint. However, we did find a lawsuit filed by Page in 2010 against the American electronic music duo, 3OH13. Here was the complaint filed in court. According to records from the Trademark Office, the case settled.
No matter what happens for Simmons, we guarantee nobody will ever be able to trademark a handshake. ||||| Due to high-volume usage, you may experience intermittent issues on the Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) system between 6 – 8 a.m. ET. Refreshing your web browser should resolve the issue. If you still need assistance accessing a document, email <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> and include your serial number, the document you are looking for, and a screenshot of any error messages you have received.<br><br>Starting Oct. 4, 2018, bulk data customers should no longer obtain direct access to TSDR data through tsdrsec.uspto.gov. <a href="https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/checking-application-status-view-documents/trademark-bulk-data">There are two alternative ways to receive bulk data from TSDR.</a> ||||| I will see your grainy G. Simmons and raise you one J. Lennon on the cover of the Yellow Submarine single 1966. # NoTrademarkpic.twitter.com/bV2s6rHyUP |||||
Gene Simmons appears at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles in 2012 to announce an upcoming tour. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Numerous historians long ago agreed that rock-and-roll emerged from Ike Turner’s “Rocket 88,” but who invented the “rock on” hand gesture so associated with the genre?
That’s the hand signal fans and rockers alike hold up during shows, in which the index and pinkie fingers are extended, the middle and ring finger are curled into the palm, and the thumb either sticks out from the hand like an errant branch from a tree or is also curled into the palm.
The “rock on” or “Devil’s horns” hand gesture, which Gene Simmons wants trademarked. (Courtesy of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office)
And Gene Simmons, the co-founder of Kiss, claims he used it first.
Simmons recently filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, seeking to trademark the hand gesture. He claimed on the application that the gesture was first used commercially, by him, on Nov. 14, 1974, which would have been during Kiss’s “Hotter Than Hell” tour.
For his request to be accepted, of course, “an examiner would consider the likelihood of confusion and, possibly, whether it’s too generic to be associated with Simmons,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.
While there is documented evidence Simmons liked to rock-and-roll all night and party every day, he may have a bumpy road arguing he was the first to use or popularize the gesture that’s become ubiquitous among fans of loud guitar riffs and pounding drums.
Similar gestures — if not the exact same one — can be found in the world of music predating Kiss touring on its debut, eponymous record in 1974.
Consider, for example, John Lennon’s hand on the cover of the Beatles’s single “Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby,” which was released in 1966 — a full seven years before Kiss was even formed.
I will see your grainy G. Simmons and raise you one J. Lennon on the cover of the Yellow Submarine single 1966. #NoTrademark pic.twitter.com/bV2s6rHyUP — Chuck Nowlin (@ChuckNowlinWZLX) June 15, 2017
Then in 1969, psychedelic rock band Coven released an EP with not one but two members flashing the sign. This variation, though, does pull the thumb in, which is the more popular version of the gesture in rock music.
Gene Simmons wants to trademark 'devil's horn' gesture. Says first used in 1974… yet Coven released this album in 1969. Hmmmmm… pic.twitter.com/vwqktTQ9p8 — Mitch Lafon (@mitchlafon) June 15, 2017
Many credit the popularization of the hand gesture not to Simmons but to Ronnie James Dio, the heavy metal rocker who in 1979 replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath. As the Florida Times-Union reported:
Ozzy’s big gimmick on stage was flashing double peace signs. It had become such a Black Sabbath ritual that when Dio took over, he felt the band wouldn’t be the same unless he used a symbol as well, a former publicity agent told The Wall Street Journal. But he didn’t want to be an Ozzy copycat. Setting himself apart from Ozzy, Dio adopted what has become the rock music salute.
The gesture — both with thumb curled in and sticking out — enjoyed a long history before anyone ever plugged in an electric guitar, though.
Fans of the University of Texas at Austin have been using the hand gesture (thumb in), which they call the “Hook Em’ Horns” symbol, to cheer on their beloved Longhorns on the gridiron or court ever since a group of students came up with the symbol in 1955, according to the Texas State Historical Association.
Texas quarterback Chris Simms give the Hook ‘Em Horns sign after beating Louisiana State 35-20 in the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 1, 2003. (AP/Tony Gutierrez)
Meanwhile, superstitious Italians have used the gesture for many years to ward off the devil. Dio told Metal Rules online magazine he originally got it from his grandmother.
“I doubt very much if I would be the first one who ever did that. That’s like saying I invented the wheel, I’m sure someone did that at some other point,” Dio said. “It’s an Italian thing I got from my grandmother … It’s to ward off the Evil Eye or to give the Evil Eye, depending on which way you do it.”
It even appeared in this context in Bram Stroker’s 1897 novel “Dracula.”
Indeed, the BBC reported it is a common gesture in Italy, and has a double meaning. One might use it in a vulgar manner, flash it to a man whose wife is rumored to be cheating on him.
Here in the states, meanwhile, the gesture is known for a few reasons outside of music.
The more frivolous one is that Spider-Man makes it when he shoots sticky webs from his wrists.
Tomorrow is the day YOU become Spider-Man! Tag a photo of your Spidey costume on Instagram with #SpideyHalloween. A post shared by Spider-Man (@spidermanmovie) on Oct 30, 2014 at 2:23pm PDT
More importantly, though, it’s the American Sign Language symbol for “love.”
Edith Rikuris gives the “I love you” sign to fellow residents at Columbus Colony in Westerville, Ohio, in 2009. (Maddie McGarvey/For The Washington Post Magazine)
Simmons sure seems to have a long road ahead of him, but claiming a hand gesture isn’t completely unprecedented. Dallas Page, a professional wrestler known to fans as Diamond Dallas Page, long touched his index fingers and thumbs together to create a diamond as a sort of calling card. He was able to trademark it.
Meanwhile, 3OH!3, a Colorado electronic band, made a similar hand gesture in a photo shoot. Theirs was rounder, though, creating more of a circle than a diamond. Page sued the band in district court, and the parties eventually settled.
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Student: | The "rock on" hand gesture is sported by everyone from teen girls to Spider-Man—but Gene Simmons claims it's all his. The KISS frontman filed an application with the US Patent and Trademark Office on Friday in an effort to trademark the sign, per the Hollywood Reporter. While similar to the "devil horns" gesture (make a fist, then raise your index and pinky fingers), Simmons' application is for the widely used sign that includes an extended thumb. Simmons claims he was the first person to use it commercially on Nov. 14, 1974, during KISS' "Hotter Than Hell" tour. Not so, according to a radio DJ who points out that John Lennon used the gesture on the cover of the Beatles' 1966 single "Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby." As the symbol for "I love you" in American Sign Language, the gesture has also long been used by the deaf community, reports the Washington Post. (It's also the gesture Spidey makes when he shoots his webs.) Those appearances could complicate Simmons' endeavor. However, Simmons' application notes he plans to trademark the gesture for "entertainment, namely, live performances by a musical artist; personal appearances by a musical artist." |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
One example is below.
Q: 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.
A: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Rationale: 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.
Q: According to Pausanias it was introduced by Hercules as a prize for the running race winner to honor his father Zeus. In the ancient Olympic Games there were no gold, silver, or bronze medals. There was only one winner per event, crowned with an olive wreath made of wild-olive leaves from a sacred tree near the temple of Zeus at Olympia. Olive wreaths were given out during the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens in honor of the ancient tradition, because the games were being held in Greece.
A: | what does the olive branch represent in the olympics |
Continue writing the next sentence.
How to decorate a moroccan themed bedroom
Use hanging lamps to add ambience.
Hang lamps made of metal and glass in your bedroom for mysterious lighting and an instantly recognizable moroccan feel. Choose less modern styles for more of an old-world atmosphere. | Get lamps with colored glass to match or complement the other colors in the room. Hang lamps or lanterns from the ceiling right over your bed, or from the frame of a four-poster canopy bed if you have one, for a cozy focal point. |
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: Catherine V. "Ginny" Kilgore of Oxford, an attorney with North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, has been recognized for her dedication to serving the indigent. Kilgore - who oversees delivering legal services to the disabled and elderly in 39 north Mississippi counties - is recipient of the University of Mississippi School of Law's 2002 Public Service Award. The award was announced recently at a dinne r, held in Kilgore's honor and hosted by law school Dean Samuel M. Davis, who presented her with an engraved plaque. "Ginny Kilgore is a public servant in the truest sense," said Davis. "Her selection continues the tradition of this award in recognizing those who have labored in the trenches, with little or no compensation but with great professional and personal satisfaction in helping to bring justice and equality to those who need it most." "This award means a great deal to me," Kilgore said, pointing to others so honored. "The work of those who received the award before me has been so important; I feel very honored." After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in education and a few years teaching, Kilgore enrolled at the UM law school. Upon graduation in 1975, she entered private law practice in Oxford, joining NMRLS in 1978. Since then, she has earned promotions from managing attorney, senior attorney, then director of the Council on Aging project. Since 1990, she has worked in the Administrative Law Unit and Resource Development, and directed the Elder Law Project, serving the northern half of the state. She also is an adjunct professor in the UM law school's Civil Law Clinic. She held a similar post a few years ago in the school's Elder Law Clinic. Kilgore says she's found her niche. "I've always thought it was important to do work to help people. I really enjoy it. The issues I've dealt with through the years have been on the side of helping people maintain the basics of life - home, healt h care, jobs and family." She says her desire to serve others was sparked early, growing up in a single-parent home, aware that her widowed mother faced certain challenges as she supported her four children through public school and college. <sep>What award was announced at a dinner held in Kilgore's honor?<sep>University of Mississippi School of Law's 2010 Public Service Award
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Q: Washington (CNN) -- The Pacific island nation of Palau has agreed to take in 17 Chinese Muslims held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the country's ambassador to the United States said Wednesday. The map shows the Pacific island nation of Palau in relation to China. Details of the transfer are still being worked out, Ambassador Hersey Kyota told CNN. But Kyota said his country, a former U.S. Pacific trust territory, has agreed to take in the ethnic Uighur detainees "for humanitarian reasons" and because of the "special relationship" between Palau and the United States. U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly would not comment on the announcement, telling reporters, "We're still involved in ongoing discussions." The agreement includes some U.S. aid for Palau, Kyota said, but he said those details remained to be worked out as well. The country, with a population of about 20,000, is about 1,000 miles southeast of Manila, Philippines, and about 4,600 miles west of Hawaii. Palau has received nearly $900 million in U.S. aid since independence in 1994, according to congressional auditors, and depends on Washington for defense. The "Compact of Free Association" between Palau and the United States is up for review, but Kelly said any additional aid offer "is not linked to any other discussions we may be having with the government of Palau." The Uighurs were accused of receiving weapons and military training in Afghanistan. <sep>What is the agreement between Palau and United States?<sep>Aid for detainees
A: No
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Q: We do not know exactly how the hijackers gained access to the cockpit; FAA rules required that the doors remain closed and locked during flight. Ong speculated that they had "jammed their way" in. Perhaps the terrorists stabbed the flight attendants to get a cockpit key, to force one of them to open the cockpit door, or to lure the captain or first officer out of the cockpit. Or the flight attendants may just have been in their way. At the same time or shortly thereafter, Atta-the only terrorist on board trained to fly a jet-would have moved to the cockpit from his business-class seat, possibly accompanied by Omari. As this was happening, passenger Daniel Lewin, who was seated in the row just behind Atta and Omari, was stabbed by one of the hijackers-probably Satam al Suqami, who was seated directly behind Lewin. Lewin had served four years as an officer in the Israeli military. He may have made an attempt to stop the hijackers in front of him, not realizing that another was sitting behind him. The hijackers quickly gained control and sprayed Mace, pepper spray, or some other irritant in the first-class cabin, in order to force the passengers and flight attendants toward the rear of the plane. They claimed they had a bomb. About five minutes after the hijacking began, Betty Ong contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airphone to report an emergency aboard the flight. This was the first of several occasions on 9/11 when flight attendants took action outside the scope of their training, which emphasized that in a hijacking, they were to communicate with the cockpit crew. The emergency call lasted approximately 25 minutes, as Ong calmly and professionally relayed information about events taking place aboard the airplane to authorities on the ground. At 8:19, Ong reported:"The cockpit is not answering, somebody's stabbed in business class-and I think there's Mace-that we can't breathe-I don't know, I think we're getting hijacked." She then told of the stabbings of the two flight attendants. At 8:21, one of the American employees receiving Ong's call in North Carolina, Nydia Gonzalez, alerted the American Airlines operations center in Fort Worth, Texas, reaching Craig Marquis, the manager on duty. Marquis soon realized this was an emergency and instructed the airline's dispatcher responsible for the flight to contact the cockpit. At 8:23, the dispatcher tried unsuccessfully to contact the aircraft. <sep>How many people were stabbed on the flight?<sep>Three
A: | Yes
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How to keep your phone cool in the car<br>Keep your phone on a vent mount with air conditioning on if you need to use it. If you need to use your phone while you're in your car, purchase a mount that attaches to one of the dashboard air vents. Turn on the air conditioner so it keeps your phone cold.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
keep your phone and tablet cool while mounted on an air conditioner vent if you need to use them while in the car. | 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]: 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>What are three materials an organism can be preserved in?<sep>Granite
[EX A]: No
[EX Q]: As noted above, the 9/11 plotters spent somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to plan and conduct their attack. The available evidence indicates that the 19 operatives were funded by al Qaeda, either through wire transfers or cash provided by KSM, which they carried into the United States or deposited in foreign accounts and accessed from this country. Our investigation has uncovered no credible evidence that any person in the United States gave the hijackers substantial financial assistance. Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government-or foreign government official-supplied any funding. We have found no evidence that the Hamburg cell members (Atta, Shehhi, Jarrah, and Binalshibh) received funds from al Qaeda before late 1999. It appears they supported themselves. KSM, Binalshibh, and another plot facilitator, Mustafa al Hawsawi, each received money, in some cases perhaps as much as $10,000, to perform their roles in the plot. After the Hamburg recruits joined the 9/11 conspiracy, al Qaeda began giving them money. Our knowledge of the funding during this period, before the operatives entered the United States, remains murky. According to KSM, the Hamburg cell members each received $5,000 to pay for their return to Germany from Afghanistan after they had been selected to join the plot, and they received additional funds for travel from Germany to the United States. Financial transactions of the plotters are discussed in more detail in chapter 7. Requirements for a Successful Attack As some of the core operatives prepared to leave for the United States, al Qaeda's leaders could have reflected on what they needed to be able to do in order to organize and conduct a complex international terrorist operation to inflict catastrophic harm. We believe such a list of requirements would have included leaders able to evaluate, approve, and supervise the planning and direction of the operation; communications sufficient to enable planning and direction of the operatives and those who would be helping them; a personnel system that could recruit candidates, vet them, indoctrinate them, and give them necessary training; an intelligence effort to gather required information and form assessments of enemy strengths and weaknesses; the ability to move people; and the ability to raise and move the necessary money. The information we have presented about the development of the planes operation shows how, by the spring and summer of 2000, al Qaeda was able to meet these requirements. By late May 2000, two operatives assigned to the planes operation were already in the United States. Three of the four Hamburg cell members would soon arrive. <sep>What time in 2000 does al Queada meet the requirements and what chapter can you find more details about financial transactions?<sep>Before May
[EX A]: No
[EX Q]: Crusaders, Mamelukes, and Turks: The Crusaders established a feudal Christian state with Godfrey at its head. They built many impressive churches during the term of the first Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, but in 1187 they were driven out by Muslim forces under the great warrior Saladin. During the Sixth Crusade (1228– 1229), the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II managed to secure Jerusalem for the Christians by negotiation. The Christians, however, could not hold the city. After they lost Jerusalem, a Mongol invasion swept through, and in 1244 the Mameluke dynasty of Egypt took control, ruling Jerusalem for the next 250 years. The city struggled to rebuild from Crusader wars and invasions. Much of the best Islamic architecture in the city was constructed in the Mameluke era, but the past thousand years had taken their toll: Jerusalem was unable to regain the prosperity it had enjoyed in earlier times. In the early 16th century, the Ottoman Turkish Empire was advancing through the Middle East. Jerusalem fell to the Ottomans in 1517, remaining under their control for 400 years. Suleiman the Magnificent rebuilt the walls and gates in the form they retain to this day. Fountains, inns, religious schools, and barracks were constructed. But when Suleiman died, his empire, including Jerusalem, began a long period of decline. The Holy City remained a backwater until the 19th century, when renewed interest among Christian pilgrims made it the destination of thousands of travelers each year. <sep>Who was driven out by Muslim forces under the great warrior Saladin in 1187?<sep>the muslims
[EX A]: | No
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The Twitter account for Fox News has gone into a virtual hibernation. It hasn’t tweeted in 23 hours, and posted just a handful of tweets since Wednesday night.
That’s incredibly unusual, if not unprecedented, for a major news operation that regularly posts hundreds of tweets a day, and has racked up more than 400,000 tweets on its page. The Twitter account for Fox Business has been equally dormant, posting just one tweet in the past 24 hours.
A source at Fox News told Mediaite the network’s social media shut-down is a response to the protestors that mobbed the home of Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night.
“[This] is a conscious decision in light of what was done to Tucker,” the source said. They suggested Twitter was fostering a dangerous climate and was not responsive to requests to remove content that targeted the Fox News host.
The protestors, apparently aligned with an anti-fascist group, chanted “Racist scumbag, leave town” outside Carlson’s home in Northwest Washington on Wednesday. They spray-painted an anarchy symbol on his driveway and banged on his front door. Carlson wasn’t home, but he told the Washington Post that his wife, thinking it was a home invasion, hid in a pantry and called the police. According to the police report, she said she heard “loud banging and pounding on her front door.”
The protests Anti-fascist group Smash Racism D.C., which accused Carlson of putting “fear into our homes,” posted videos of the protests on Twitter. The account was subsequently suspended.
Fox News did not immediately respond for comment Thursday night.
In a statement issued Thursday, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and network president Jay Wallace denounced the protests:
“The incident that took place at Tucker’s home last night was reprehensible,” Scott and Wallace said in their statement. “The violent threats and intimidation tactics toward him and his family are completely unacceptable. We as a nation have become far too intolerant of different points of view. Recent events across our country clearly highlight the need for a more civil, respectful, and inclusive national conversation. Those of us in the media and in politics bear a special obligation to all Americans, to find common ground.”
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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 ||||| | A weekend head-scratcher comes courtesy of Raw Story, which reports on an online media mystery. It appears that since shortly after 2pm on Thursday, Fox News hasn't tweeted anything on its official Twitter account (the same for its Fox News Research arm), and the internet is trying to figure out why. Mediaite notes that this dearth of activity is "incredibly unusual, if not unprecedented," considering the network usually blasts out loads of tweets every day. Online snarkers are posting their own conspiracy theories, including that "maybe the caravan got them" or that it's a "temporary" blackout while the network "[transitions] to Trump News." There are rumors floating around that the dormancy is linked to a recent protest at Fox host Tucker Carlson's home. An anonymous Fox source tells Mediaite the Twitter shutdown was "a conscious decision in light of what was done to Tucker," while a "Fox News employee" tells Scott Gustin of Tribune Media that it's tied to how Twitter has handled posts that doxxed Carlson, revealing his address. That source tells Gustin the decision to shutter Fox's Twitter account for now came from "the highest level" of the company and that "Fox will remain silent until Twitter removes the tweets and apologizes for mishandling the situation." There's been no official public word from Fox itself. (This is why there's snark regarding Fox News and the caravan.) |
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Problem:What's the shortest duration that socially monogamous bird couples stay together?, Context: Ninety-five percent of bird species are socially monogamous. These species pair for at least the length of the breeding season or—in some cases—for several years or until the death of one mate. Monogamy allows for both paternal care and biparental care, which is especially important for species in which females require males' assistance for successful brood-rearing. Among many socially monogamous species, extra-pair copulation (infidelity) is common. Such behaviour typically occurs between dominant males and females paired with subordinate males, but may also be the result of forced copulation in ducks and other anatids. Female birds have sperm storage mechanisms that allow sperm from males to remain viable long after copulation, a hundred days in some species. Sperm from multiple males may compete through this mechanism. For females, possible benefits of extra-pair copulation include getting better genes for her offspring and insuring against the possibility of infertility in her mate. Males of species that engage in extra-pair copulations will closely guard their mates to ensure the parentage of the offspring that they raise.
Solution: | the length of the breeding season |
Teacher:In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Critics say that is not nearly enough compared with other prescribers, such as M.D. psychiatrists or nurse practitioners who have at least six years' medical education and clinical experience. Neither Davison nor most other RxP opponents doubt the efficacy of medications. Their greatest objection is to the notion of turning psychology into a prescribing profession. In a field that has struggled long and hard to prove that mind, mood and behavior can be studied empirically, the past decade, Davison says, has seen "exciting developments" that demonstrate the validity of various psychotherapeutic interventions and the psychosocial-behavioral models on which they are based. "The timing is peculiar to abandon psychological science or to convert it to a medical science," explains Elaine M. Heiby of the University of Hawaii, who chairs a committee of the 1,000-member American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology that is concerned about the medicalization of psychology. "Making sure that practicing psychologists are giving patients interventions based on the best available psychological science should be the APA's priority," argues Emory University's Scott Lilienfeld, president of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP). More than any philosophical betrayal of psychology, RxP opponents fear that the movement will undermine the science they love. They believe that if prescriptive authority becomes the norm, biomedical requirements will inevitably seep into the psychology curriculum, at the expense of traditional psychological science and methodology. Lilienfeld feels that many clinical psychologists already receive inadequate training in fundamentals such as research design and evaluation. RxP opponents charge the APA with pushing its prescription-privileges agenda without adequately assessing support for it in the field. The 300-member SSCP is the only group within the APA to have taken a formal stance against prescription privileges. The APA has scheduled 30 minutes at its meeting in August for an RxP debate, but its leadership believes it already has an accurate sense of support for its RxP policy. "Except for this small vocal minority, we have just not gotten a lot of groundswell against this from members," says APA president Philip G. Zimbardo of Stanford University. With prescription privileges now a reality in one state, some RxP opponents concede that it may be too late. This year four states besides New Mexico -- Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois and Tennessee -- have pending legislation for psychologist prescription privileges. Over the past decade, 14 state legislatures have considered such laws. Between 1991 and 1997, a U.S. Department of Defense psychopharmacology demonstration project involving two to four years' training produced 10 military psychologists who can write prescriptions. <sep>What field has struggled long and hard to prove that mind, mood and behavior can be studied empirically?<sep>Neuroscience
Student: | No |
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Major insurer Cigna — which is engaged in an effort to reduce abuse of prescription painkillers — announced Wednesday that it will effectively stop covering the cost of use of the opioid OxyContin by customers of its employer-based health plans beginning in January.
At the same time, Cigna announced a contract to continue covering a competing oxycodone alternative to OxyContin, which will impose a financial penalty on that drug's maker if too much of the drug ends up being used by the insurer's customers.
Oxycodone is used to treat moderate to severe pain.
Cigna's moves come more than a year after the insurer said it intended to cut opioid use among its customers by 25 percent by 2019.
The announcement also comes two months after President Donald Trump said the opioid-abuse crisis is a "national emergency."
There were more than 33,000 opioid-related deaths in 2015, the highest tally on record, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
More than half of those deaths were linked to prescription opioids such as OxyContin. The rest were related to heroin or to fentanyl, a synthetic opioid.
"Our focus is on helping customers get the most value from their medications — this means obtaining effective pain relief while also guarding against opioid misuse," said Jon Maesner, Cigna's chief pharmacy officer on Wednesday.
OxyContin is the only opioid-based prescription painkiller that Cigna is removing in 2018 as "a preferred option" from its formulary, or list of medications that its health plans will pay for.
While Maesner said that Cigna would review individual prescriptions for OxyContin that are deemed "medically necessary" by a physician, the drug essentially is "being removed" from coverage by the insurer.
Cigna said that people who have already started using OxyContin for hospice care or cancer treatments will continue to have that medication covered next year.
Cigna said it has begun notifying customers who currently have OxyContin prescriptions, as well as their doctors, of the decision to stop covering the opioid "so that they have time to discuss treatment options and covered oxycodone clinical alternatives.
Maesner, who would not identify how many Cigna customers currently use OxyContin, said the insurer is "not specifically singling out Oxycontin."
But, he added, "we found a strong sense of commitment" to reducing opioid overuse from Collegium Pharmaceuticals, the maker of the oxycodone alternative that Cigna will continue to cover.
However, a spokesman for Purdue Pharma, the privately held Connecticut company that makes OxyContin, suggested there is little, if any, difference in between the two opioids in how they affect patients.
The spokesman, Robert Josephson, said OxyContin and Xtampza ER, the opioid that Cigna is continuing to cover, are both long-acting oxycodones.
Josephson also noted that both OxyContin and Xtampa ER are formulated in a way to deter abuse.
"We believe that patients should have access to FDA [Food and Drug Administration]-approved products with abuse deterrent properties," Josephson said.
"Unfortunately, Cigna's decision limits the tools prescribers can use to help address the opioid crisis as both products are formulated with properties designed to deter abuse."
Xtampza ER is made by Collegium Pharmaceutical.
Cigna said that under the terms of the contract the insurer signed with Collegium that kicks in Jan. 1, "Collegium is financially accountable if the average daily dosage strengths of Xtampza ER prescribed for Cigna customers exceed a specific threshold."
"If the threshold is exceeded, Collegium will reduce the cost of the medication for many of Cigna's benefit plans," Cigna said.
Purdue Pharma has been sued by a number of states and cities in the past year for alleged deceptive marketing of its opioids.
"I don't know how executives at Purdue sleep at night," State of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said last week as he announced one of those lawsuits accusing the drugmaker of downplaying the addictiveness OxyContin.
Purdue Pharma, which has declined the suits' claims, has noted that its products account for only 2 percent of all opioid prescriptions.
In 2007, the company and three Purdue Pharma executives pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges related to misbranding of OxyContin. Purdue Pharma agreed to pay $600 million in fines and other payments, while the executives agreed to pay $34.5 million in fines.
Cigna in 2016 announced a goal of slashing use of opioids among its customers by 25 percent over the next three years. Cigna said that as part of that initiative it would encourage doctors to prescribe the drugs in lesser quantities and for lesser amounts of time.
Last April, the insurer said opioid use among Cigna customers had already declined by 12 percent. ||||| (CNN) In an attempt to reduce opioid use amid a nationwide abuse epidemic , insurance giant Cigna will no longer cover most OxyContin prescriptions in its group plans beginning January 1.
"Our focus is on helping customers get the most value from their medications -- this means obtaining effective pain relief while also guarding against opioid misuse," Cigna Chief Pharmacy Officer Jon Maesner said in a statement Wednesday.
OxyContin is a brand name for an extended-release version of oxycodone, a commonly prescribed opioid painkiller.
Long-acting or extended-release medications like OxyContin contain a higher dosage of the active ingredients in the pill itself, which is chemically released over a long period of time. The advantage for patients is that they don't have to take pills as frequently. However, the higher dosage of long-acting pills can make them more attractive for abuse. Crushing or melting some versions of extended-release pills, a user can get a day's dosage in just one pill.
According to Cigna, "Xtampza ER's abuse-deterrent platform allows the product to maintain its extended release profile even when cut, crushed, chewed or otherwise manipulated." OxyContin likewise has some abuse-deterrent properties, such as being more difficult to crush. And although one study appeared to find that Xtampza was harder to abuse than OxyContin, it was conducted by the medication's manufacturer, Collegium.
The difficulty of abuse shouldn't be confused with how addictive a drug may be, said Dr. Caleb Alexander, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness. "People don't recognize that just because they are harder to tamper with doesn't make them any less addictive or any more effective in chronic non-cancer pain," he said.
Despite any advantages Xtampza may have, "people still get addicted to oral pills. They can still take too much. They can still overdose," said Dr. Walid Gellad , co-director of the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing.
Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, said in a statement Thursday that "Cigna's decision limits the tools prescribers can use to help address the opioid crisis as both products are formulated with properties designed to deter abuse. Unfortunately, this decision appears to be more about pharmaceutical rebates."
Gellad and Alexander also believe that there was more to Cigna's decision than a desire to combat the opioid crisis. "I think it's important to recognize that insurers are trying to find the sweet spot between finding the right spot clinically and the right thing to do for their business," Alexander said.
In its statement, the insurance company said that "Collegium is financially accountable if the average daily dosage strengths of Xtampza ER prescribed for Cigna customers exceed a specific threshold. If the threshold is exceeded, Collegium will reduce the cost of the medication for many of Cigna's benefit plans."
When asked for further details of the financial agreement, including what the threshold was and the how cost reduction would be distributed, Cigna said that "specific terms of the contract are proprietary."
Dr. Charles E. Argoff, president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine Foundation, said "we are going down a very bad slippery slope if we allow payers to only make decisions solely on financial grounds and don't have any checks and balances on the insurance world's ability to basically dictate what happens to them medically."
Cigna said OxyContin will still be considered for patients if a doctor believes it medically necessary.
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According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , over 90 Americans die every day from opioid overdoses, including legally prescribed drugs like oxycodone as well as illicit drugs like heroin. Since 1999, the number of opioid overdose deaths has quadrupled, as has the number of opioid prescriptions. However, there hasn't been a change in the amount of pain reported by Americans.
Drug overdoses overall are killing more Americans than guns or car accidents.
But Gellad said that targeting prescriptions alone will not be enough to help turn the tide on the opioid overdose epidemic. "If you really want to address the opioid epidemic, it's about about increasing access to non-opioid treament for chronic pain patients." ||||| | A big change for a huge insurance company: Starting Jan. 1, Cigna will stop covering most OxyContin prescriptions in its group plans. OxyContin, an opioid painkiller, is an extended-release version of oxycodone; extended-release versions contain a higher dose of the active ingredients, which can make them ripe for abuse as some versions can be crushed or melted in order to get the full dose immediately. "Our focus is on helping customers get the most value from their medications—this means obtaining effective pain relief while also guarding against opioid misuse," Cigna's chief pharmacy officer said in a statement Wednesday. He said that Cigna would review individual prescriptions deemed "medically necessary" by doctors, CNBC reports. The insurance giant has a goal of reducing its customers' opioid use by 25% over the next three years, CNN reports. Instead of OxyContin, Cigna has signed a contract with Collegium Pharmaceutical for the drug Xtampza ER, which is equivalent to oxycodone but is able to "maintain its extended release profile even when cut, crushed, chewed, or otherwise manipulated," Cigna says. However, it's not clear whether Xtampza ER is meaningfully more difficult to abuse than OxyContin (one study says yes, but it was conducted by the drug's manufacturer) and experts say even if a drug is hard to abuse, it can still be quite addictive. "People still get addicted to oral pills. They can still take too much. They can still overdose," says one doctor. Some are also raising questions about the financial agreement between Cigna and Collegium, and in its response to the news, the maker of OxyContin claimed Cigna's move is "more about pharmaceutical rebates" than keeping customers safe. |
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Embarrassing backside exposure in hospital gowns is now a thing of the past.
Introducing the all-in-one Patient Gown by Care+Wear x Parsons. Unlike the common hospital gown, our clinically-compatible gowns are designed for the wearer's dignity and comfort.
Full coverage, from front to back, maintaining the wearer's dignity and comfort.
Clinically-compatible access points, allowing for uncomplicated treatment monitoring.
Easy-to-use, making dressing and daily activity manageable.
The Care+Wear x Parsons Project
We are proud to announce our collaboration with the Parsons School of Design to create The Patient Gown by Care+Wear x Parsons. Click here to learn more about the Parsons Project and our journey to redefining the common hospital gown. ||||| Note: Javascript is disabled or is not supported by your browser. For this reason, some items on this page will be unavailable. For more information about this message, please visit this page: About CDC.gov |||||
Output: | "Embarrassing backside exposure" may soon be a thing of the past—at least when it comes to hospital gowns. "The current patient gown, with the ties in the back, reinforces a power imbalance between patients and caregivers," Dr. Mark Smith, head of the MedStar Institute for Innovation, tells the New York Times, which details a new incarnation of hospital attire created by Care+Wear. The company, which worked with Parsons School of Design students, found itself faced with a challenging task: Design a comfortable hospital gown that provides more coverage for the patient while still allowing medical staff easy access to insert IVs and check vitals. The result, which retails for $45 on the Care+Wear website, is a cotton-polyester innovation that opens in the front and comes together via a system of snaps and ties that allows different parts of the body to be exposed when needed. Perhaps surprisingly, the hospital gown niche is a relatively untapped market for designers, and it's a big one: CDC stats note 140 million people ended up in the ER in 2014, and hospitals need up to five times that number of gowns for an adequate supply, says Care+Wear CEO Chaitenya Razdan. The gown's backside box pleat (image here) is especially catching people's attention, functioning "like a giant skirt slit that you can open up to have full access," per the company's products chief. The new gown will see an initial test run at one of MedStar Health's Maryland hospitals, expanding to its other nine locations if the gown is a hit. |
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During the Age of Discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal and Spain pioneered European exploration of the globe, and in the process established large overseas empires. Envious of the great wealth these empires generated, England, France, and the Netherlands began to establish colonies and trade networks of their own in the Americas and Asia. A series of wars in the 17th and 18th centuries with the Netherlands and France left England and then, following union between England and Scotland in 1707, Great Britain, the dominant colonial power in North America. It then became the dominant power in the Indian subcontinent after the East India Company's conquest of Mughal Bengal at the Battle of Plassey in 1757.
| what was the status of england as it began colonization |
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