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Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: How many influences are there for Nepali art?, Context: Kathmandu is a center for art in Nepal, displaying the work of contemporary artists in the country and also collections of historical artists. Patan in particular is an ancient city noted for its fine arts and crafts. Art in Kathmandu is vibrant, demonstrating a fusion of traditionalism and modern art, derived from a great number of national, Asian, and global influences. Nepali art is commonly divided into two areas: the idealistic traditional painting known as Paubhas in Nepal and perhaps more commonly known as Thangkas in Tibet, closely linked to the country's religious history and on the other hand the contemporary western-style painting, including nature-based compositions or abstract artwork based on Tantric elements and social themes of which painters in Nepal are well noted for. Internationally, the British-based charity, the Kathmandu Contemporary Art Centre is involved with promoting arts in Kathmandu.
A: | a great number |
Instructions: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: What conclusion is made about the word "computer?", Context: A computer does not need to be electronic, nor even have a processor, nor RAM, nor even a hard disk. While popular usage of the word "computer" is synonymous with a personal electronic computer, the modern definition of a computer is literally: "A device that computes, especially a programmable [usually] electronic machine that performs high-speed mathematical or logical operations or that assembles, stores, correlates, or otherwise processes information." Any device which processes information qualifies as a computer, especially if the processing is purposeful.[citation needed]
Output: | Any device which processes information qualifies as a computer |
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
No, because -- and I know this is difficult, but it goes like this. And this is the best I can put it, other than what I tried to do in my opinion. We have articles. We have a situation where the declarants, the quoted individuals, have apparently denied -- either denied, I guess -- I'm not sure about this.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: They earn £600000 a year
****
Answer:
It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Bewitch (1945–1959) was a Thoroughbred race horse born in 1945 at Calumet Farm, Kentucky, United States in the same crop in which the stallion Bull Lea produced Citation and Coaltown. Each of them was eventually inaugurated into the Thoroughbred Hall of Fame. Bewitch was the only filly of the three.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Bewitch was treated kindly
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Answer:
It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
In New York<br>Yannick was happy to visit New York city. He sent daily emails to his friends in France to update them. They asked him if he dared going up the Empire State building. Yannick didn't like heights but he accepted the challenge. He went up and sent them many beautiful pictures.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Yannick sent daily emails while on his visit
****
Answer:
| Yes |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Problem:Photo
The Chinese government is considering a reduction in the number of crimes eligible for capital punishment, part of a long-term trend that has seen a decline in executions, though China still leads the world in the number of people put to death annually.
The proposal, which was put before the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Monday, would change the maximum punishment for nine crimes to life imprisonment, Xinhua, the state news agency, reported. The crimes include counterfeiting, fraudulent fund-raising, forcing others into prostitution, “obstructing a commander or a person on duty from performing his duties,” “fabricating rumors to mislead others during wartime,” and smuggling ammunition, counterfeit currency, nuclear materials or weapons, Xinhua said.
China now lists 55 crimes for which offenders can be executed. In 2011 it dropped the death penalty for 13 offenses. That move was seen as largely symbolic, as the crimes were generally nonviolent acts for which the death penalty was rarely used. But the move signaled a willingness on the part of the authorities to restrict capital punishment.
In 2007, China’s highest court, the Supreme People’s Court, began reviewing death penalty cases following a series of well-publicized, flawed convictions, including the 2005 case of She Xianglin, a man convicted of killing his missing wife, who later returned to her hometown alive. In June, the Supreme People’s Court overturned the death sentence for a woman convicted of murdering her abusive husband.
China is believed to have executed about 2,400 people last year, according to the Dui Hua Foundation, a San Francisco-based human rights group. The official totals are considered secret, so rights groups and legal experts can only make estimates based on published sentences and details released in Chinese media reports. The 2013 total was about three times the number of people executed in all the other countries of the world combined, but far lower than the total in 2002, when China executed about 12,000 people.
While public opinion in China regarding the death penalty isn’t well documented, it is believed to have general support. While the government has gradually decreased the number of crimes eligible for execution, most experts believe it is unlikely to eliminate capital punishment altogether, particularly for violent crimes or for official corruption.
Some of the crimes for which China is now considering dropping the death penalty have been the subject of high-profile controversies. Wu Ying, a wealthy businesswoman who was sentenced to death in 2009 for fraudulent fund-raising, had her sentence overturned in 2012 after widespread public criticism.
In June, two defendants accused of raping an 11-year-old girl and forcing her into prostitution had their death penalty overturned by the Supreme People’s Court, which questioned whether the sentence was appropriate for their crimes and sent it to a lower court for reconsideration. The girl’s mother, Tang Hui, had become famous in China for her efforts to see those responsible for her daughter’s abuse executed. She was sent to a labor camp in 2012 in an effort to silence her calls for their punishment. ||||| BEIJING China is considering trimming nine crimes from the list of offences punishable by death, state media said on Monday, as the ruling Communist Party considers broader reforms to the country's legal system.
Rights groups say China uses capital punishment more than any other country, raising public concern of irreversible miscarriages of justice.
A draft amendment to China's criminal law, which includes the use of the death penalty, was submitted for initial review to the country's National People's Congress, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Crimes that would be exempt from capital punishment under the amendment include "smuggling weapons, ammunition, nuclear materials or counterfeit currencies; counterfeiting currencies; raising funds by means of fraud; and arranging for or forcing another person to engage in prostitution", Xinhua said.
The crimes of "obstructing a commander or a person on duty from performing his duties" and "fabricating rumors to mislead others during wartime", are also under review, the news agency said.
Officials had previously said that China would review the application of the death penalty, which applies to 55 offences, including fraud and illegal money-lending.
China guards the number of people executed every year as state secrets.
The San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation, which seeks the release of political prisoners in China, estimated that 2,400 people were executed in 2013. By comparison, 39 people were executed in 2013 in the United States, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
The reduction in death penalty crimes, however, is not expected to greatly reduce the number of executions per year, scholars have said.
The Communist Party, worried about rising social unrest and anger over land grabs, corruption and pollution unveiled legal reforms aimed at improving judicial independence at a key meeting last week.
The Party has stressed that it will remain in overall control of the judiciary, and despite the move to implement legal reforms, few analysts expect significant political change any time soon.
(Reporting by Michael Martina; Editing by Jeremy Laurence) |||||
Solution: | Good news for China's pimps, counterfeiters, and ammunition smugglers: Their crimes are among those that the government plans to stop punishing with death. A plan put before the National People's Congress yesterday eliminates the death penalty for nine non-violent offenses but still leaves 46 capital crimes on the books, reports the New York Times. The new maximum sentence for those offenses would be life. The San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation, a human rights group, estimates China executed at least 2,400 people last year, mostly for violent crimes, reports Reuters. That's far more executions than the rest of the world put together, but down from an estimated 12,000 in 2002. Three years ago, the death penalty was dropped for 13 offenses, including tax evasion and the smuggling of precious metals. |
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".
Problem:The day was just breaking, as I left the tower; though it was still too dark in the house to be able to see without a light, and I took one of the study candles with me on my 'round. By the time I had finished the ground floor, the daylight was creeping in, wanly, through the barred windows. My search had shown me nothing fresh. Everything appeared to be in order, and I was on the point of extinguishing my candle, when the thought suggested itself to me to have another glance 'round the cellars. I had not, if I remember rightly, been into them since my hasty search on the evening of the attack. For, perhaps, the half of a minute, I hesitated. I would have been very willing to forego the task--as, indeed, I am inclined to think any man well might--for of all the great, awe-inspiring rooms in this house, the cellars are the hugest and weirdest. Great, gloomy caverns of places, unlit by any ray of daylight. Yet, I would not shirk the work. I felt that to do so would smack of sheer cowardice. Besides, as I reassured myself, the cellars were really the most unlikely places in which to come across anything dangerous; considering that they can be entered, only through a heavy oaken door, the key of which, I carry always on my person. <sep>When was the last time the author went to the cellars?<sep>Early in the morning
Solution: | No |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: What is a helpful driver of evolution?, Context: Chapter I covers animal husbandry and plant breeding, going back to ancient Egypt. Darwin discusses contemporary opinions on the origins of different breeds under cultivation to argue that many have been produced from common ancestors by selective breeding. As an illustration of artificial selection, he describes fancy pigeon breeding, noting that "[t]he diversity of the breeds is something astonishing", yet all were descended from one species of rock pigeon. Darwin saw two distinct kinds of variation: (1) rare abrupt changes he called "sports" or "monstrosities" (example: ancon sheep with short legs), and (2) ubiquitous small differences (example: slightly shorter or longer bill of pigeons). Both types of hereditary changes can be used by breeders. However, for Darwin the small changes were most important in evolution.
A: | ubiquitous small differences |
Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to make blueberry nectarine pie
With a pastry blender, cut chilled butter into the flour and salt until the mixture looks like coarse crumbs.
Cut in the chilled shortening until it forms curds.
Add the ice water gradually and toss to blend. | ( your hands work great for this. ) When the dough is sufficiently moist, pinch it-it will stick together Lightly gather the dough into a round and chill before rolling. |
Definition: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| Greg Bensinger joins the News Hub to discuss Verizon's planned $2 fee the company says it will impose on some customers in 2012. AP Photo/Alan Diaz
Verizon Wireless has built its reputation on the quality of its cellular network, touting its reliability over rival AT&T Inc., but a series of outages this month threatens the largest U.S. wireless carrier's image.
Update The FCC said it was "concerned about Verizon's actions" and is looking into the carrier's decision to charge some customers $2 to pay their bills. Read updated story
On Thursday, Verizon Wireless said its engineers had fixed the third outage in December for its new high-speed data network. Some customers had complained they were getting slower connections or no signal at all.
Verizon Wireless further frustrated customers Thursday by disclosing it would impose a $2 fee on those paying their bills by phone or on Verizon's website starting Jan. 15. The company said it was necessary to help provide "single-bill payment options."
Customers can avoid the new fee by paying electronically through their bank or by mailing a check. Customers paying with a credit card can avoid the fee, but only those who sign up to have the card automatically charged. But some cried foul over the fee, which effectively amounts to a $24 annual surcharge. "I'm getting a little tired of businesses figuring out ways to get their hands in my pockets," wrote one customer on a Verizon forum.
Verizon Wireless is considered to have a headstart in offering products that run on its fourth-generation network, a point emphasized in its advertisements. But this week's outage was the fourth time this year Verizon Wireless's 4G network went down.
In each case, Verizon offered little explanation for the outages, which were generally resolved within about 24 hours. The company said Wednesday's problem was resolved overnight, its 3G service operated normally, and calling and texting were unaffected.
Verizon Wireless called the outages "regrettable" and vowed to improve its 4G service to be on par with its more broadly used 3G service. "Certainly we've shown we're not there in some aspects," said Mike Haberman, vice president of network operations.
The disruptions "were unforeseen despite careful and diligent planning" and each incident was prompted by a different technical glitch, such as software problems, said Mr. Haberman. "When you're operating the biggest, most advanced network, there are growing pains."
Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC, has rolled out its 4G network to more than 200 million Americans and has introduced a lineup of pricey smartphones—such as the $299.99 Samsung Galaxy Nexus—to entice new customers seeking faster download speeds for videos and photos. AT&T's 4G network, which reaches just 70 million Americans, hasn't had any reported nationwide outages.
While AT&T's iPhone customers struggled with dropped calls on its 3G network in large markets like New York and San Francisco, Verizon touted a more reliable network with its "Can You Hear Me Now?" ads.
"They've spent billions to say they have the highest quality network and up until this point they've been able to back that up," said John Byrne, analyst with International Data Corp. "Particularly for a company like Verizon, this is a big problem."
The network's stumbles come at a crucial time, as wireless carriers offer holiday deals on devices to entice them into two-year contracts. In addition, Verizon Wireless faces new competition in 2012 from Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp., which will be building out their own 4G networks using a similar wireless standard, called long-term evolution, or LTE.
Mr. Byrne said outages suffered by Verizon Wireless were to be expected on a new network and would likely be worked out over time. "This is the largest active 4G LTE network, you're going to have some hiccups."
The carrier has made moves to bolster its 4G network, including a nearly $4 billion deal to buy capacity from a consortium of cable companies and a swapping of airwaves with pay-as-you-go carrier Leap Wireless International Inc. in Chicago. AT&T said its failed $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA was necessary to help it reach more Americans more efficiently with 4G LTE service. |||||
Output: | Will outraged consumers convince Verizon to backtrack on its newest fee, just as they did with Bank of America? Perhaps: The New York Times notes that yesterday's announcement of the $2 fee, which will be levied against customers who make one-time bill payments using a credit or debit card over the phone or online, led to quite an uproar on Twitter. (Sample tweet: "Scumbags, as if we don't pay enough for crappy signals and service ... Verizon will charge fee for paying bill.") Some upset customers set up online petitions, complained in Verizon forums, and planned to flood the company with paper payments in order to ensure it makes no profit from the new fee. The Times notes that there are still many ways to make a payment without incurring the fee, including the aforementioned check payment, automated bank or credit card payment, in-store payment, money order, or Verizon gift card or rebate card. Verizon even offers a one-time option to make a last-minute phone or Web payment via bank account, rather than credit or debit card, sans fee. Other Internet service providers already have similar fees for certain types of payments, but, of course, that fact apparently did nothing to quell the Internet outrage. The Wall Street Journal notes that Verizon customers were already feeling sore, thanks to at least three outages this month. |
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: Aspirin should not be taken by people who are allergic to ibuprofen or naproxen, or who have salicylate intolerance or a more generalized drug intolerance to NSAIDs, and caution should be exercised in those with asthma or NSAID-precipitated bronchospasm. Owing to its effect on the stomach lining, manufacturers recommend people with peptic ulcers, mild diabetes, or gastritis seek medical advice before using aspirin. Even if none of these conditions is present, the risk of stomach bleeding is still increased when aspirin is taken with alcohol or warfarin. People with hemophilia or other bleeding tendencies should not take aspirin or other salicylates. Aspirin is known to cause hemolytic anemia in people who have the genetic disease glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, particularly in large doses and depending on the severity of the disease. Use of aspirin during dengue fever is not recommended owing to increased bleeding tendency. People with kidney disease, hyperuricemia, or gout should not take aspirin because it inhibits the kidneys' ability to excrete uric acid, thus may exacerbate these conditions. Aspirin should not be given to children or adolescents to control cold or influenza symptoms, as this has been linked with Reye's syndrome.
Output: | when might the administration of aspirin be contraindicated |
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".
Problem:(Financial Times) -- The increasing amount of personal information that can been gleaned by computer programs that track how people use Facebook has been revealed by an extensive academic study. Such programmes can discern undisclosed private information such as Facebook users' sexuality, drug-use habits and even whether their parents separated when they were young, according to the study by Cambridge university academics. In one of the biggest studies of its kind, scientists from the university's psychometrics team and a Microsoft-funded research centre analysed data from 58,000 Facebook users to predict traits and other information that were not provided in their profiles. The algorithms were 88 per cent accurate in predicting male sexual orientation, 95 per cent for race and 80 per cent for religion and political leanings. Personality types and emotional stability were also predicted with accuracy ranging from 62-75 per cent. Facebook declined to comment. The study highlights growing concerns about social networks and how data trails can be mined for sensitive information, even when people attempt to keep information about themselves private. Less than 5 per cent of users predicted to be gay, for example, were connected with explicitly gay groups. Michal Kosinksi, one of the report's authors, told the Financial Times that the university's techniques could easily be replicated by companies to infer personal attributes a person did not wish to share, such as sexual orientation or political views: "We used very simple and generic methods. Marketing companies and internet companies could spend much more time and resources, and hence get much higher accuracy than we did." Last week , the EU agreed to water down proposals for a radical overhaul of data privacy regulation. The move reflects governments' reluctance to impede internet businesses that might spur economic growth, and follows fierce lobbying from technology companies including Facebook and Google. Personal data has become big business. Wonga, the UK online lender, makes credit judgments within seconds based on thousands of pieces of information, including an applicant's Facebook profile. Tesco, the supermarket chain, this month started to use its customers' shopping histories to sell targeted online advertising. The report also revealed some unexpected correlations -- such as people who liked 'curly fries' having higher IQs, while those who like Facebook's "Sliding on Floors With Your Socks On" page were unlikely to use drugs. <sep>Has Facebook commented on the ability of computer programs that track how people use Facebook to discern undisclosed private information?<sep>Had comments
Solution: | No |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
The Episcopal Church (TEC) is the United States-based member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is a Christian church divided into nine provinces and has dioceses in the United States, Taiwan, Micronesia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, as well as the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe and the Navajoland Area Mission. The current presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Michael Bruce Curry, the first African American bishop to serve in that position.
Output: | what is the difference between the anglican church and the episcopalian church |
Q: Wal-Mart has had to appeal many sex-discrimination lawsuits.
Wal-Mart Stores has asked a US federal appeals court to review a judge's order approving class-action status for a sex-discrimination lawsuit.
A: It's impossible to say
Q: Mr. Speaker is 50 years old.
Mr. Speaker, to answer the member's first point about lower unemployment, the Minister of Finance in budget plan 1999 on page 64 projects that employment insurance benefit payments will rise from $11.8 billion to $13.8 billion by 2000-01, an extra $2 billion for employment insurance payments.
A: It's impossible to say
Q: The C. D. Howe Institute had not been created yet in 1962.
As the C.D. Howe Institute notes, the tendency to employ this kind of one-time initiative to lower the reported surplus has the effect of biasing initiatives against tax cuts and into program spending and, in particular, into program spending of the type that can be delivered through some sort of foundation or fund.
A: It's impossible to say
Q: The narrator wants to incentivize people to build new kinds of technology
I'm really strongly committed to clean water and clean air, and cleaning up the new kinds of challenges like global warming. He is right that I'm not in favor of energy taxes. I am in favor of tax cuts to encourage and give incentives for the quicker development of these new kinds of technologies.
A: | Yes |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Q: Zinni feared that Bin Laden would in the future locate himself in cities, where U.S. missiles could kill thousands of Afghans. He worried also lest Pakistani authorities not get adequate warning, think the missiles came from India, RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 135 and do something that everyone would later regret. Discussing potential repercussions in the region of his military responsibility, Zinni said, "It was easy to take the shot from Washington and walk away from it. We had to live there." Zinni's distinct preference would have been to build up counterterrorism capabilities in neighboring countries such as Uzbekistan. But he told us that he could not drum up much interest in or money for such a purpose from Washington, partly, he thought, because these countries had dictatorial governments. After the decision-in which fear of collateral damage was an important factor- not to use cruise missiles against Kandahar in December 1998, Shelton and officers in the Pentagon developed plans for using an AC-130 gunship instead of cruise missile strikes. Designed specifically for the special forces, the version of the AC-130 known as "Spooky"can fly in fast or from high altitude, undetected by radar; guided to its zone by extraordinarily complex electronics, it is capable of rapidly firing precision-guided 25, 40, and 105 mm projectiles. Because this system could target more precisely than a salvo of cruise missiles, it had a much lower risk of causing collateral damage. After giving Clarke a briefing and being encouraged to proceed, Shelton formally directed Zinni and General Peter Schoomaker, who headed the Special Operations Command, to develop plans for an AC-130 mission against Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Afghanistan. The Joint Staff prepared a decision paper for deployment of the Special Operations aircraft. Though Berger and Clarke continued to indicate interest in this option, the AC-130s were never deployed. Clarke wrote at the time that Zinni opposed their use, and John Maher, the Joint Staff 's deputy director of operations, agreed that this was Zinni's position. Zinni himself does not recall blocking the option. He told us that he understood the Special Operations Command had never thought the intelligence good enough to justify actually moving AC-130s into position. Schoomaker says, on the contrary, that he thought the AC-130 option feasible. The most likely explanation for the two generals' differing recollections is that both of them thought serious preparation for any such operations would require a long-term redeployment of Special Operations forces to the Middle East or South Asia. The AC-130s would need bases because the aircraft's unrefueled range was only a little over 2,000 miles. <sep>What is the range of a spooky<sep>25 miles
A: | No |
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
Comparison , in grammar , is a property of adjectives and adverbs .
Answer: | Comparison is a feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages , whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected or modified to indicate the relative degree of the property defined by the adjective or adverb . |
Continue writing the next sentence.
How to make paleo stuffed peppers
Saute the onion and preheat the oven.
If you cooked bacon, ham or sausage, place 1 tablespoon of the cooking fat in a skillet. You could also use vegetable oil. | Heat the fat or oil over medium-high heat and add 1 diced onion. Cook the onion until it's soft (about 4 minutes). |
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:A "brazen" trio has robbed nearly two dozen Los Angeles area banks in the span of seven months and police, worried that the bandits' attempts may become violent, appealed last week to the public for help in catching them.
The suspects are still on the loose, Det. Joe Harris with the Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery-Homicide Division told NBC News Friday, a week after the department released security footage of the three men and asked the public to call in any information that might lead to their arrests.
The LAPD decided to release the videos because police have "had it" with the volume of heists connected with the group — 23 since November, Harris said.
"They're hitting all over the place," he said.
Typically, the thieves casually walk into their target bank and one hands a teller a note, according to the LAPD. "They demand money and claim to be armed while threatening violence if their demands are not met," said a statement from the department.
No one has been physically hurt to date by the robbers, who have been dubbed the "Cold Hand Bandits" because one of the suspects wore winter gloves during one of the first robberies, said Laura Eimiller with the Los Angeles FBI office. But authorities worry that the violent threats on the notes might become reality if the robbers don't get what they want.
LAPD's robbery homicide division seeks the public's help in identifying bank robbery suspect. LAPD
The FBI is working with the LAPD, along with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Alhambra Police Department, Pasadena Police Department and Long Beach Police Department to identify and catch the three suspects, who are considered "armed and dangerous," according to the LAPD.
"It is scary," said the manager of a bank that the "Cold Hand Bandits" have robbed twice.
The manager, who didn't want to be identified for security reasons, told NBC News she will be on edge until the robbers are caught, but the chance of robberies is always a fear. "Working with cash, that’s the worry that we have every day," she said.
The most recent robbery took place in late April and was a repeat performance at a bank in the city of Artesia that the suspects had robbed ten days earlier, according to security footage released by the LAPD that showed portions of five different robberies.
Footage from April 18 shows a single robber handing a teller a note and then exiting with a wad of cash she hands him.
In footage from April 28, one of the suspects wanders the lobby of the bank, brandishing what appears to be a gun, while another suspect jumps over the counter. At least two tellers drop to the floor as the robber behind the counter opens drawers, using his shirt in an apparent bid to avoid leaving behind fingerprints.
One teller gets up to open a drawer that requires a key, and the robber fills a bag with what appears to be cash before he and the man with the gun run out of the bank.
"This isn’t amateur hour," Det. Charles Geiger of the LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Division told NBC Los Angeles. "The next level is people get tied up, maybe somebody gets hurt.” ||||| Published on May 20, 2016
Los Angeles: The Los Angeles Police Department Robbery Homicide Division is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying three suspects who have been involved in 24 bank robberies.
Los Angeles Police Department Robbery Homicide Division detectives have partnered with investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Alhambra Police Department, Pasadena Police Department and Long Beach Police Department to identify suspects involved in a series of bank robberies which began in November 2015. The most recent robbery occurred in April 2016. The suspects enter the location and pass the teller a note. They demand money and claim to be armed while threatening violence if their demands are not met. In recent robberies, the suspects have become increasingly brazen and have jumped over the teller’s counter. Law enforcement is greatly concerned that the level of aggression the suspects are displaying is increasing as the bank robberies continue.
The suspects are described as male Blacks, approximately 25 to 30 years of age. Two of the suspects are between 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 9 inches tall and weigh 170 to 190 pounds. The third suspect is between 5 feet 6 inches and 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 140 to 160 pounds. All the suspects should be considered armed and dangerous.
Anyone with information is urged to call Robbery Homicide Division Detective Koman or Detective Geiger at (213) 486-6890. After hours, please call 1-877-LAPD-24-7 (1-877-527-3247). Anyone wishing to remain anonymous should call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (800-222-8477). Tipsters may also contact Crime Stoppers by texting to phone number 274637 (C-R-I-M-E-S) on most keypads with a cell phone. All text messages should begin with the letters "LAPD." Tipsters may also go to www.lapdonline.org, and click on "Anonymous Web Tips." ||||| (credit: CBS)
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A team of robbers has hit nearly two dozen banks in the Los Angeles area since November, and police need help to catch them.
Alhambra police are working with the LAPD, Los Angeles County sheriff’s department and the FBI to capture a trio of bank robbers they have dubbed the “Cold Hands Bandits” for their habit of walking in with one hand in their pockets.
“In recent robberies, the suspects have become increasingly brazen and have jumped over the teller’s counter,” police said in a statement. “Law enforcement is greatly concerned that the level of aggression the suspects are displaying is increasing as the bank robberies continue.”
The trio has robbed 23 banks since November.
The robbers were all described as black men between 25 and 30 years old. Two of them are between 5-foot7 and 5-foot-9 and 170 to 190 pounds. The third suspect is between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-7 and 140 to 160 pounds. They are all considered to be armed and dangerous.
Anyone with information can call the LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Division at (213) 486-6890.
(©2016 CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Wire services contributed to this report.) |||||
Solution: | Police are hoping to find three men they say are responsible for robbing 23 Los Angeles-area banks since November before things turn violent, NBC News reports. According to CBS Los Angeles, the men have been dubbed the Cold Hand Bandits because they always walk into a bank with one hand in their pocket. They typically hand a teller a note stating they're armed and threatening violence, police say. One manager, whose bank has been robbed twice, says it's "scary." Police say the Cold Hands Bandits last struck April 28. Police say they've "had it," deciding Friday to release video of the suspects in hopes the public can identify them. “In recent robberies, the suspects have become increasingly brazen and have jumped over the teller’s counter,” CBS quotes a statement from police as saying. “The next level is people get tied up, maybe somebody gets hurt,” LAPD Det. Charles Geiger tells NBC Los Angeles. |
How to get glass out of your foot<br>Apply pressure to the area. Without pinching or squeezing, apply a firm rubbing pressure to the area around the location of the glass. This will help to slowly move the glass towards the surface of your foot, making it easier to extract.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
You should rub the area to get the glass out.
Pick from: + Yes. + It's impossible to say. + No. | Yes |
Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Image copyright PA Image caption Mr Trump's interview comes as protesters - both anti and pro-Trump - prepare to march on Friday
Theresa May and Donald Trump are holding talks at her country retreat Chequers, following his controversial comments on the PM's Brexit plan.
In an interview with the Sun, Mr Trump said the PM's plan would "probably kill" any trade deal with the US.
But on Friday, he said he and Mrs May had "probably never developed a better relationship" than during this trip - his first to the UK as president.
Meanwhile, a giant blimp of Mr Trump as a baby is floating in central London.
It is part of a demonstration in Parliament Square, one of many due to take place across the UK on Friday.
In his interview with the Sun, Mr Trump also said that former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson - who disagrees with the PM on Brexit and resigned this week - would make a "great prime minister", adding "I think he's got what it takes".
He also renewed his criticism of London Mayor Sadiq Khan over last year's terror attacks in London, saying he had done "a terrible job".
Downing Street has not yet reacted to Mr Trump's remarks, but Chancellor Philip Hammond said the talks will be "very positive".
Theresa May has been making the case for a US free trade deal, and says Brexit is an "unprecedented opportunity" to create jobs in the UK and US.
The US president and his wife, Melania, were given a red carpet reception at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire on Thursday evening.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Mays greet Trumps for UK black-tie dinner
They were at a black-tie dinner with Mrs May as news broke of his interview with the newspaper, which said it was conducted while he was in Brussels.
After it was published, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the president "likes and respects Prime Minister May very much", adding that he had "never said anything bad about her".
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Protesters near Blenheim Palace making their feelings known on Thursday
Mr Trump - who has been a long-time supporter of Brexit - told The Sun that the UK's blueprint for its post-Brexit relations with the EU was "a much different deal than the people voted on".
He said the Brexit proposals Mrs May and her cabinet thrashed out at the PM's country house Chequers last week "would probably end a major trade relationship with the United States."
"We have enough difficulty with the European Union," he said, saying the EU has "not treated the United States fairly on trading".
'I told May how to do it'
He also said Mrs May had not listened to his advice on how to do a Brexit deal, saying: "I would have done it much differently.
"I actually told Theresa May how to do it but she didn't agree, she didn't listen to me. She wanted to go a different route," he said.
Tom Newton Dunn, the Sun journalist who interviewed Mr Trump, said the US president seemed "sensitive" and knew about the "Trump baby" inflatable.
"He's really quite stung by the criticism he's been getting," said Mr Newton Dunn. "He knew all about the baby blimp. I think it hurt him."
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The Sun journalist who interviewed Donald Trump says the president "really cares" what people in Britain think of him.
The BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, said Mr Trump's interview had "driven a bulldozer" through Mrs May's claim that the UK would be able to get decent trade deals with the wider world, while sticking to the EU rules.
But Foreign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan said things had "moved on" since Mr Trump's interview - which was carried out before he arrived in the UK - and the mood at Thursday night's dinner was "fantastically positive and did focus a lot on trade".
The government does not see Mr Trump's behaviour as "rude", said Sir Alan, adding: "Donald Trump is a controversialist. That's his style."
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan defended his decision to allow the giant Trump baby inflatable to fly over London, saying: "The idea that we limit the right to protest because it might cause offence to a foreign leader is a slippery slope."
And, responding to Mr Trump's criticism of his response to terrorism, Mr Khan said it was "interesting" that he "is not criticising the mayors of other cities" which have also experienced terror attacks.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London: "It's not for me to be the censor"
Meanwhile, Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry said the PM "should be standing up to [Mr Trump]" after he "slagged her off", instead of holding his hand.
Image copyright EPA Image caption Mr Trump briefly held Mrs May's hand as they went up the stairs
Mr Trump's comments came on the same day the UK government published its proposal for its long-term relationship with the EU.
The plan is aimed at ensuring trade co-operation, with no hard border for Northern Ireland, and global trade deals for the UK. Mrs May said the plan "absolutely delivers on the Brexit we voted for".
But after ministers reached an agreement on the plan at Chequers a week ago, leading Brexiteers Boris Johnson and David Davis resigned from the cabinet.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Some of Mr Trump's supporters and protesters have been explaining their motivation
Mrs May and Mr Trump are watching a joint counter-terrorism exercise by British and US special forces at a military base.
The pair will then travel to Chequers - the PM's country residence in Buckinghamshire - for talks also being attended by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Seven things President Trump could learn from the Queen
Extra security is in place to police protests planned for the second day of Mr Trump's visit.
The president and first lady will travel to Windsor on Friday afternoon to meet the Queen, before flying to Scotland to spend the weekend at Mr Trump's Turnberry golf resort. This part of the visit is being considered private. ||||| A helicopter leaves the grounds of the US ambassador residence in Regent's Park, London, while demonstrators protest against the visit of US President Donald Trump Thursday July 12, 2018. (Gareth Fuller/PA... (Associated Press)
A helicopter leaves the grounds of the US ambassador residence in Regent's Park, London, while demonstrators protest against the visit of US President Donald Trump Thursday July 12, 2018. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP) (Associated Press)
LONDON (AP) — The Latest on protests in Britain against U.S. President Donald Trump's visit (all times local):
11:20 a.m.
Hundreds of people in London have crowded under a balloon depicting Donald Trump as a screaming baby as protests across the U.K. accompanying the U.S. president's arrival got underway.
Some 16 balloon minders in yellow vests identifying themselves as "babysitters" minded lead lines to the 6-meter (20-foot) inflatable as the curious gawked and took pictures.
Dominique Blum, 31, and Mia Parker, 50, from Pensacola Florida, were overjoyed with the spectacle.
Parker says she hopes the protest will encourage more people to get creative and organized in protesting Trump's policies. She says "it's brilliant. I just want to party with these people forever."
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9:30 a.m.
Demonstrators plan to mock U.S. President Donald Trump with a giant balloon depicting him as a screaming orange baby as tens of thousands march through the streets of London to protest the American leader's visit to the U.K.
The diaper-clad balloon infant, with a quiff of hair and a mobile phone for tweeting, is to soar Friday over the Houses of Parliament in London. It's the centerpiece of demonstrations across the country protesting Trump's policies on issues ranging from immigration and race relations to women and climate change.
Kevin Smith, one of the 16 people behind the balloon, says "this is what people need to be doing — to come together in their communities to organize and work out how to stand against right wing populism and xenophobia that we're seeing not just in the U.S. but in Europe."
Protest organizers say they plan to stage demonstrations in some 50 cities around the U.K.
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9 a.m.
President Donald Trump's visit to Britain is one of the biggest operations for police in recent years, requiring similar resources to the 2014 NATO summit in Wales.
Protests are planned Friday in some 50 U.K. cities. In London, a screaming orange baby balloon will be featured in the anti-Trump protest.
The 20-foot (6-meter) tall balloon's creators, who call themselves babysitters, admit they borrowed the idea from comedian Jon Stewart, who in 2016 called Trump a "man-baby." A crowd-funding campaign raised 20,000 pounds ($26,400) to make it a reality.
Matthew Bonner, one of the organizers, says "depicting Trump as a baby is a great way of targeting his fragile ego, and mocking him is our main motivation."
He says Trump "doesn't seem to be affected by the moral outrage that comes from his behavior and his policies. You can't reason with him but you can ridicule him." ||||| Sadiq Khan has hit back at “preposterous” claims by Donald Trump after the US president criticised the London mayor for doing a “a bad job” on terrorism and crime in the capital.
In an interview in the Sun, Trump lashed out at Khan, who has allowed a Trump protest balloon to float above Westminster during his visit.
The US president reignited his feud with Khan, who criticised the US president as “ill-informed” over a tweet following the London Bridge attack in June 2017.
Trump protests: baby blimp takes off as Foreign Office hits back over trade threat – live updates Read more
“I think allowing millions and millions of people to come into Europe is very, very sad ... You have a mayor who has done a terrible job in London,” Trump said.
“He has done a terrible job. Take a look at the terrorism that is taking place. Look at what is going on in London. I think he has done a very bad job on terrorism.
“I think he has done a bad job on crime, if you look, all of the horrible things going on there, with all of the crime that is being brought in.”
Khan responded on Friday morning, saying terrorism was a global problem, with people dying all over Europe. “What is interesting is Trump is not criticising mayors of those cities, but he is criticising me,” he said in an interview on the BBC’s Today programme.
Trump’s comments blaming immigration for crime in England were “preposterous”, he added.
“There has been an increase in violent crime across England and Wales … it’s gone up by more than 20% … and by 4% in London ... We must deal with the causes, but also enforcement and where we have lost £7m in our budget in London I have invested £4m ... [but] the idea to blame immigration from Africa is preposterous, and we should call him out when does,” Khan said.
Play Video 0:46 The moment Trump baby blimp lifts off - video
Trump’s verbal attack on Khan came after the London mayor refused to block a plan to fly a giant inflatable “Trump baby” near parliament to coincide with the president’s visit to the UK. The 20ft-high blimp depicts the US leader as an angry infant wearing a nappy and clutching a mobile phone.
Khan defended the decision, saying to have blocked the inflatable would have been to inhibit freedom of speech.
“The UK, like the USA, has a long and rich history of rights and the freedom to protest and freedom of speech. The US ambassador himself commented that one thing [the] USA and the UK have in common is freedom of speech, and the idea of restricting that and [the] right to assemble because someone is offended by something is [a] slippery slope,” he said.
“When determining these things [it should be about] ... whether it is safe and peaceful. As a politician I should not be the arbiter of what is good or bad taste.”
Khan said there would be far-right and pro-Trump demonstrations taking place on Saturday. “I disagree with their views as well, but letting them protest should not mean endorsing their views ... I am not banning the pro-Trump demo either,” he added. |||||
A: | London has seen countless strange sights over the centuries—but a blimp depicting President Trump as an angry orange baby rising outside the Houses of Parliament is a new one. The blimp—part of protests against Trump's visit that are planned in dozens of British cities—went up Friday morning, held with lead lines by 16 people calling themselves "babysitters," the AP reports. Tens of thousands of people are expected to march in London against Trump amid the UK's biggest police mobilization since riots in 2011. But the president will be elsewhere: His plans for the day include meetings with Prime Minister Theresa May at Chequers, her country retreat, and tea with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. Trump's meeting with May is likely to be an awkward one: In an interview published late Thursday, he accused of her wrecking Brexit and praised leadership rival Boris Johnson. Tom Newton Dunn, the journalist who interviewed him, says Trump is "really quite stung by the criticism he's been getting," the BBC reports. "He knew all about the baby blimp. I think it hurt him," Newton Dunn says. London Mayor Sadiq Khan has hit back against claims Trump made in the interview, the Guardian reports. Khan slammed Trump's "preposterous" claims blaming immigration for crime. The mayor, accused by Trump of doing a "bad job," said he had authorized the blimp because he didn't want to restrict freedom of speech. |
Read the text and determine if the sentence is true (see options at the end):
The Wedding<br>Larry and Michelle were getting married. They asked a friend to perform the ceremony. The friend went online and got a license to wed the two. The ceremony was unique and wonderful. They definitely won't be forgetting it anytime soon!
Sentence: You need to obtain a license to marry people
Choices: * Yes. * It's impossible to say. * No. | Yes |
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: VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A man accused of robbing the TowneBank on Constitution Drive Monday afternoon posted videos of the robbery on social media, as well as a picture of the note he handed a teller.
Police say 23-year-old Dominyk Antonio Alfonseca walked into the bank and handed the teller a note, asking for $150,000, “please.”
“I decided to go to the bank … She gave me money, and I left,” Alfonseca told WAVY.com during a jailhouse interview Wednesday.
But before he left the bank, Alfonseca did something surprising — he recorded the incident on his cell phone and put two videos and a picture of the note online. The videos show the teller pulling out stacks of cash and placing the money in a bag.
“I posted the video on my Instagram,” Alfonseca said from jail. “I videotaped it. If it was a robbery, I don’t think I would videotape it, post the picture of the letter and do that all to come to jail.”
Alfonseca was picked up by officers 20 minutes after he left the bank. Police say he was found with a gym bag full of money, but Alfonseca claims what he did wasn’t a crime.
“A robbery is going in and demanding something and taking the money,” he said. “I didn’t do that.”
Alfonseca said he moved back to the area two weeks ago, from California. He said he is rapper. 10 On Your Side asked him if he robbed the bank to get attention.
“Maybe my Instagram is under exposure,” he said. “A lot of exposure. There are a lot of things on my Instagram that have nothing to do with what happened.”
Alfonseca does believe he will be found innocent in court.
“Police told me, ‘we are just doing our job,’ and I don’t think they even believe there was a crime,” Alfonseca said.
He will make his next court appearance June 12 for a preliminary hearing. ||||| Please enable Javascript to watch this video
Virginia Beach, Va. - A Virginia Beach man was arrested within an hour after he allegedly robbed the Townebank at 297 Constitution Drive Monday afternoon. And in the 20 minutes it took for police to find him, he was able to post some incriminating evidence to his Instagram account.
Dominyk Antonio Alfonseca, 23, walked into the bank approximately 1:40 p.m. and handed the teller a note demanding money, according to police.
He then ran south toward Main Street. About 20 minutes later, at approximately 2:02 p.m., officers in the area of Kellam Road and Columbus Street located Alfonseca and took him into custody.
Two videos of the bank robbery and one picture of the note Alfonseca allegedly used were uploaded to his Instagram account before he was arrested.
NewsChannel 3 spoke to Alfonseca about the incident. He wanted to give shout outs to Michelle Obama, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga.
He says he did not rob the bank, he just “asked for the money.”
“I don’t know how I’m a robber because I asked for it. She could have said no, and I could have left," he says.
He says he posted it on Instagram to protect himself from police who may have said he was armed. He also wanted to show his social media followers what he was doing.
“I handed the letter to the woman. I recorded her as it was happening, you know," says Alfonseca.
There were no injuries reported.
Alfonseca is scheduled to be in court for a preliminary hearing on June 12th. ||||| Editor's note, May 16: The videos and photo appear to have been deleted from the Instagram account.
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VIRGINIA BEACH
Dominyk Antonio Alfonseca said yes, he did post a photo of the note he handed to a bank teller on Instagram.
And yes, he did post a video to his account on the photo app of the bank teller reading the note, and another of her stuffing stacks of money into a bag.
But he said that doesn't make what he did a bank robbery.
Police disagree. They arrested and charged Alfonseca, 23, of Norfolk, with robbing the TowneBank in Town Center 22 minutes after it happened.
From the city jail Wednesday, Alfonseca said he doesn't see it that way.
He said he didn't threaten anyone, and even his note wasn't threatening. It read, "I need 150,000 Bands Right NOW!! Please Police take 3 to 4 minites to get here, I would appriceate if you Ring the alarm a minute after I am gone... Make sure the money doesn't BLOW UP ON MY WAY OUT,-)"
He said he was polite, and he pointed out that he used "please" in the note. If he was trying to rob the bank, he said, he would have worn a mask.
"I'm basically asking permission for money" in the video, he said. "In my eyes, I did not commit a robbery, and I feel I'm being charged without reason."
Officer James Cason Jr., a police spokesman, declined to discuss Alfonseca's Instagram account and videos, citing the ongoing investigation.
When asked why he went to the bank, Alfonseca said he has reasons he'd rather not share. He talked about wanting people to see his online postings and wanting to speak directly with higher authorities, "like the president."
Alfonseca said he, too, has been the victim of theft, that businesses and artists have stolen ideas from his Instagram account. He said it's like there's a chip in his brain that tells people what he thinks before he says it.
He said he hopes he gets justice for those thefts, as well.
Elisabeth Hulette, 757-222-5097, [email protected] |||||
Student: | "I decided to go to the bank. She gave me money, and I left," Dominyk Antonio Alfonseca tells WAVY from his perch in jail. “I videotaped it. If it was a robbery, I don’t think I would videotape it, post the picture of the letter and do that all to come to jail.” Where police in Virginia Beach and Alfonseca agree: The 23-year-old walked into a bank Monday afternoon and handed the teller a note that read, "I need 150,000 Bonds Right NOW!! Please Police take 3 to 4 minites to get here, I would appriceate if you Ring the alarm a minute after I am gone... Make sure the money doesn't BLOW UP ON MY WAY OUT,-)" He then walked out $150,000 richer. Alfonseca next helpfully posted two videos of the exchange to Instagram, as well as a photo of his note. Where police and Alfonseca diverge in their characterization of events: Alfonseca tells the Virginian-Pilot that he made a simple request and was "basically asking permission for money"; "She could have said no, and I could have left," he tells WTVR, which notes that the ever-so-chatty Alfonseca "wanted to give shout-outs to Michelle Obama, Justin Bieber, and Lady Gaga." And while he did, in fact, say "please" and use a little winky emoticon, police who arrested him 22 minutes later seem to think a crime was involved and charged him with robbery. It's not the first time Alfonseca has contemplated the not-terribly-fine line between theft and non-theft: In another post he muses, "Should I Pay For My Items in Cash Routine Or Should I Just Take What Ever I Want?" (Want more criminal masterminds? Go here.) |
Q: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Who called for a new focus of analytical study?, Context: Anthropologists have contributed to the debate by shifting the focus of research: One of the first challenges for the researcher wishing to carry out empirical research in this area is to identify an appropriate analytical tool. The concept of boundaries is useful here for demonstrating how identity works. In the same way as Barth, in his approach to ethnicity, advocated the critical focus for investigation as being "the ethnic boundary that defines the group rather than the cultural stuff that it encloses" (1969:15), social anthropologists such as Cohen and Bray have shifted the focus of analytical study from identity to the boundaries that are used for purposes of identification. If identity is a kind of virtual site in which the dynamic processes and markers used for identification are made apparent, boundaries provide the framework on which this virtual site is built. They concentrated on how the idea of community belonging is differently constructed by individual members and how individuals within the group conceive ethnic boundaries.
A: | social anthropologists |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
One example is below.
Q: what is the first event mentioned?, Context: The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
A: Russian Revolution
Rationale: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
Q: Who was the one person that mentioned in the text that started good relationship with Vietnam?, Context: Kerry chaired the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs from 1991 to 1993. The committee's report, which Kerry endorsed, stated there was "no compelling evidence that proves that any American remains alive in captivity in Southeast Asia." In 1994 the Senate passed a resolution, sponsored by Kerry and fellow Vietnam veteran John McCain, that called for an end to the existing trade embargo against Vietnam; it was intended to pave the way for normalization. In 1995, President Bill Clinton normalized diplomatic relations with the country of Vietnam.
A: | President Bill Clinton |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
[EX Q]: For example , in " Koopa 's Tycoon Town , " players get stars by putting coins into hotels ( like " Monopoly " ) .
[EX A]: For example , " Koopa 's Tycoon Town " involves players investing coins into hotels ( as in " Monopoly " ) in order to earn stars , with each hotel only providing stars to the player with the highest current investment .
[EX Q]: She posted criticism of ISIL 's destruction of religious places in Mosul .
[EX A]: During the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 's occupation of Mosul , she posted comments on her Facebook account critical of ISIS ' destruction of religious shrines there .
[EX Q]: This Ai n't A Scene , It 's an Arms Race is a 2007 single by Fall Out Boy , from the album " Infinity on High " .
[EX A]: | " This Ai n't a Scene , It 's an Arms Race " is a song by American rock band Fall Out Boy and the second single from their commercially successful third studio album " Infinity on High " ( 2007 ) .
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You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Portugal is the top maker one thing but not what?, Context: Since the Carnation Revolution of 1974, which culminated in the end of one of Portugal's most notable phases of economic expansion (that started in the 1960s), a significant change has occurred in the nation's annual economic growth.[citation needed] After the turmoil of the 1974 revolution and the PREC period, Portugal tried to adapt to a changing modern global economy, a process that continues in 2013. Since the 1990s, Portugal's public consumption-based economic development model has been slowly changing to a system that is focused on exports, private investment and the development of the high-tech sector. Consequently, business services have overtaken more traditional industries such as textiles, clothing, footwear and cork (Portugal is the world's leading cork producer), wood products and beverages.
Output: | textiles, clothing, footwear |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: Consider Input: Small pneumatic __ can hold only one person., Context: A residential elevator is often permitted to be of lower cost and complexity than full commercial elevators. They may have unique design characteristics suited for home furnishings, such as hinged wooden shaft-access doors rather than the typical metal sliding doors of commercial elevators. Construction may be less robust than in commercial designs with shorter maintenance periods, but safety systems such as locks on shaft access doors, fall arrestors, and emergency phones must still be present in the event of malfunction.
Output: elevators
Input: Consider Input: What shouldn't be much of a worry?, Context: Vinyl records can be warped by heat, improper storage, exposure to sunlight, or manufacturing defects such as excessively tight plastic shrinkwrap on the album cover. A small degree of warp was common, and allowing for it was part of the art of turntable and tonearm design. "wow" (once-per-revolution pitch variation) could result from warp, or from a spindle hole that was not precisely centered. Standard practice for LPs was to place the LP in a paper or plastic inner cover. This, if placed within the outer cardboard cover so that the opening was entirely within the outer cover, was said to reduce ingress of dust onto the record surface. Singles, with rare exceptions, had simple paper covers with no inner cover.
Output: A small degree of warp
Input: Consider Input: Which is smaller, viruses or human nerves?, Context: Persistent infections occur because the body is unable to clear the organism after the initial infection. Persistent infections are characterized by the continual presence of the infectious organism, often as latent infection with occasional recurrent relapses of active infection. There are some viruses that can maintain a persistent infection by infecting different cells of the body. Some viruses once acquired never leave the body. A typical example is the herpes virus, which tends to hide in nerves and become reactivated when specific circumstances arise.
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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.
Input: Consider Input: It is common to mark the altitude with the letter h (as in height), often subscripted with the name of the side the altitude is drawn to.
Output: is altitude the same as height in a triangle?
Input: Consider Input: A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R.R. Martin. He began the first volume of the series, A Game of Thrones, in 1991, and it was published in 1996. Martin, who initially envisioned the series as a trilogy, has published five out of a planned seven volumes. The fifth and most recent volume of the series published in 2011, A Dance with Dragons, took Martin six years to write. He is still writing the sixth novel, The Winds of Winter.
Output: is the game of thrones book series over?
Input: Consider Input: On September 22, 2016, NBC renewed the series for a second season, set in various European and African countries, which premiered on January 1, 2018. A special preview aired on December 11, 2017. On July 16, 2018, the series was cancelled after two seasons.
| Output: is tv show better late than never coming back?
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Definition: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: Amazon is going on the offensive against fake reviews, filing a lawsuit against more than 1,000 people who allegedly asked for money to post about products.
The online marketplace is suing people who had been offering on Fiverr.com, a website that lets people do tasks for as little as $5, to write and post fake reviews. Amazon did not include the website in the complaint, choosing instead to go after the people writing the reviews. The lawsuit claims that a group of anonymous people — termed as "John Does" in the filing — have been offering to write five-star reviews for products in return for payment.
Amazon's review section is among its most important features, offering users the ability to comb through positive, negative and lukewarm feedback on the items. The company has been working on other ways to improve the quality of its reviews, recently revamping its system to give more weight to reviews of people who bought the product through Amazon.
This lawsuit follows a similar action filed in April against the owners of a group websites that offered to write Amazon reviews, including buyamazonreviews.com, bayreviews.net, and buyreviewsnow.com.
"While small in number, these reviews threaten to undermine the trust that customers, and the vast majority of sellers and manufacturers, place in Amazon, thereby tarnishing Amazon’s brand," Amazon claimed in that case.
Amazon provided examples of the posts offering fake reviews.
Image: Amazon
Amazon alleged that one reviewer manipulated the system in order to post "verified reviews," considered the most trusted on the platform,
"In at least one instance, the seller of a 'Verified Review'... was willing to receive an empty envelope, not the product itself, simply to create a shipping record in an attempt to deceive Amazon and its customers," Amazon claimed in its lawsuit. ||||| Payment Protection, Guaranteed Payment is released to the freelancer once you’re pleased and approve the work you get.
Know The Price Upfront Find any service within minutes and know exactly what you’ll pay. No hourly rates, just a fixed price. ||||| Online retailer files lawsuit in US against people whose names it says it does not know, claiming they offer reviews for sale
Amazon has started legal action against more than 1,000 unidentified people it claims provide fake reviews on the US version of its website.
The online retailer said in the lawsuit, filed in the US on Friday, that its brand reputation was being tarnished by “false, misleading and inauthentic” reviews.
Amazon claims the 1,114 defendants it is suing touted their false review service for as little as $5 (£3.25) on the website Fiverr, an online platform for buying and selling minor tasks.
Amazon said it had found many of the fake reviewers, all termed “John Does” as the company said it was unaware of their real names, had requested review wordings from sellers and had used multiple accounts and IP addresses – numeric codes that identify a device in a network – to avoid being caught.
The e-commerce company started its campaign against the alleged fake reviewers by hiring some of the Fiverr members, according to the court report.
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The legal action said: “Amazon is bringing this action to protect its customers from this misconduct, by stopping defendants and uprooting the ecosystem in which they participate.”
Amazon said there had been misleading five-star reviews and comments about products, such as: “This has lit up my life” about a USB cable. A bogus comment said: “Definitely buying more … I was impressed with how bright the lights on the cable are,” while another reviewer gave a product top marks and added the comment: “Cool charger.”
Amazon is not suing Fiverr, a startup that raised $30m from investors last year, as the company says in its terms and conditions that advertising for services such as writing bogus reviews is banned.
Fiverr did not dispute Amazon’s allegations regarding its freelancers. “As Amazon noted, we have worked closely together to remove services that violate our terms of use, and respond promptly to any reports of inappropriate content,” the online task company said in a statement.
Fiverr was also aware that Amazon, which describes itself as “Earth’s most customer-centric company”, forbids fictional or paid-for reviews.
Although Amazon has tried to remove the adverts for reviewers on the website, it said that doing this does not address the root cause of the issue or provide a deterrent to others.
The latest legal action comes after Amazon sued a number of websites in April for selling fake reviews.
In that complaint, filed to a Seattle court, Amazon said: “A very small minority of sellers and manufacturers attempts to gain unfair competitive advantages by creating false, misleading, and inauthentic customer reviews for their products on Amazon.com.”
It added: “While small in number, these reviews threaten to undermine the trust that customers, and the vast majority of sellers and manufacturers, place in Amazon, thereby tarnishing Amazon’s brand.”
The online retailer is also using algorithmic filtering to tackle the issue of fake product reviews and inflated star ratings, it was revealed earlier this year. According to Amazon, the artificial intelligence will bring more accurate reviews to the top, using them to create a star rating.
Previously, star ratings were simply an average of all reviews, which allowed fake reviews to heavily influence the first-glance rating, even if verified purchasers had slated the product.
In Britain, online reviews have also been “distorted” by the growth of a “clandestine” market of bogus reviews, reported the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the body responsible for market studies in the UK.
In its report earlier this year, the CMA said reviews formed an important part of consumers’ decision-making, with 54% of UK adults reading online reviews. It added that £23bn a year of UK consumer spending is potentially influenced by online reviews, across the six broad sectors analysed.
Although several sites that publish reviews told the CMA they suspected 1%-2% of all reviews being fake, the exact scale of the issue of bogus reviews in the UK, according to the CMA, is unknown.
“Given the clandestine nature of the fake reviews, it would almost impossible to arrive at a credible figure,” its report said.
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Last week scammers were found to be writing bogus reviews for a low quality ebook called Everything Bonsai!, which was written over a single weekend and littered with errors, as part of a Sunday Times investigation.
The newspaper journalists paid the fake reviewers a total of £56 to give the book a five-star rating, and take advantage of Amazon’s ebook deals to earn it a place at the top of the gardening and horticulture category of Amazon UK’s Kindle chart.
The newspaper subsequently went on to find that identities of those leaving the “reviews” had been stolen, including those of British teenage girls from Facebook. Amazon has since closed the accounts of ebook reviewers who were found to be posting fake reviews in exchange for cash.
Amazon UK told the Guardian: “Our goal is to make reviews as useful as possible for customers. We use a number of mechanisms to detect and remove the small fraction of reviews that violate our guidelines, and we terminate accounts,” and confirmed: “We’ve recently filed lawsuits against a number of individuals and businesses who were abusing the system.” ||||| Advertisement
Amazon has filed its second lawsuit this year, this time against over a thousand people for offering to create phony reviews of products listed on the company's e-commerce platform. Offers for fake reviews were at $5 each, and the profiles belonged to users of Fiverr.com.
Amazon engaged in an operation to crack down the phony reviewers by hiring some of the Fiverr members mentioned in the lawsuit, a report said.
The lawsuit targets neither the merchants nor Fiverr, because Fiverr's Terms of Service bans its users from conducting services that violate a third party's Terms of Service.
Included in Amazon's lawsuit are several Fiverr members, including one who goes by the username bess98.
"I will do, Amazon, Reviews, Amazon, Reviews, for $5," read the profile banner.
bess98's services, as per profile, consisted of the following:
"1. I will post awesome review on your amazon product, kindle ebook, ebook etc...
2. more than 30+ different account and ip
3. manual amazon reviews,
4. 100% satisfaction guaranty
5. 24/7 support
6. money back guaranty
7. For kindle review you have to provide me the review text.
8. Quick Responsiveness.
9. For verified purchases and kindle review , please send your own write text
10. Please send gift card/ coupon code for verified purchases
11. Verified Reviews: If you would like a verified amazon review, please provide me with a promo code or gift card so I can purchase the product for free."
Fiverr is a global online marketplace that provides a platform for people to sell their services, beginning at $5 per job, hence the name. Most of the services include audio transcription, photo conversion and video editing.
Amazon claims that the reviewers often arranged to have boxes shipped to their residences so as to appear that they had ordered the product. The boxes, however, would be empty.
"Amazon is bringing this action to protect its customers from this misconduct, by stopping defendants and uprooting the ecosystem in which they participate. Although Amazon has successfully requested removal of similar listings from Fiverr in the past, the removal of individual listings does not address the root cause of the issue or serve as a sufficient deterrent to the bad actors engaged in creating and purchasing fraudulent product reviews," stated Amazon in its court filing.
Similarly, in April 2015, Amazon filed a lawsuit against alleged operators of websites that offered Amazon merchants the ability to purchase fake 4- and 5-star customer reviews.
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© 2016 Tech Times, All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. ||||| Amazon.com Inc. filed a lawsuit against more than 1,000 unidentified people selling fake reviews on its Web store, attempting to stamp out efforts by merchants and manufacturers seeking to boost the appeal of their products.
The largest online retailer said it sued freelancers offering to write fictional reviews on Fiverr.com, an online marketplace where people can be hired for minor tasks at prices starting at $5. The lawsuit was filed in state court in Seattle, Amazon said.
Amazon’s steps follow an earlier action taken in April, when Amazon sued several websites that sold fake customer reviews. Amazon gives anyone, whether they are customers or not, the ability to review products sold on its online store. Fake reviews -- positive or negative -- undermines Amazon’s goal of making sure that customers have the information they need to shop on the store, the company said.
"While small in number, these reviews can significantly undermine the trust that consumers and the vast majority of sellers and manufacturers place in Amazon, which in turn tarnishes Amazon’s brand," Amazon said in its complaint.
The defendants are identified as John Does 1 to 1,114 in the lawsuit. Amazon said it conducted an extensive investigation, which included communicating with people on Fiverr and purchasing fake customer reviews from those who promised five-star ratings and offered to let the purchaser write the review themselves.
Amazon said the lawsuit isn’t targeted at Fiverr, which isn’t a defendant in the complaint. While Fiverr has a take-down process in place, it doesn’t solve the root cause, Amazon said.
"We continue to use a number of mechanisms to detect and remove the small fraction of reviews that violate our guidelines," said Julie Law, a spokeswoman for Amazon. "We are currently taking legal action against a number of individuals including many that are referred to here."
Fiverr said it’s working with Amazon to resolve the issue.
"We have worked closely together to remove services that violate our terms of use, and respond promptly to any reports of inappropriate content," said Channing Barringer, a spokesman for Fiverr. "We facilitate close to a million transactions a month, across more than 100 categories of services, such as graphic design, copywriting, voiceover, multimedia editing and coding. These services are being consumed by businesses who depend on them to thrive." |||||
Output: | "I will post awesome review on your Amazon product, Kindle book, ebook, etc..." If you posted that ad, watch out—Amazon is suing you and more than 1,000 others for allegedly offering to provide fake reviews on the retailer's website, Mashable reports. The company's lawsuit claims that 1,114 unidentified defendants offered fake-review services on the website Fiverr for $5 and up, notes Tech Times. "While small in number, these reviews threaten to undermine the trust that customers, and the vast majority of sellers and manufacturers, place in Amazon, thereby tarnishing Amazon’s brand," states the suit, which was filed in Seattle on Friday, the Guardian reports. Amazon says that during an extensive investigation it even hired such fakers, who promised five-star reviews and even offered to let those purchasing their services write the review, Bloomberg reports. The rogue writers also had empty boxes sent to their homes to appear more legit, according to the suit. But Amazon isn't suing Fiverr—a site that allows people to sell many kinds of services—because Fiverr's terms and conditions explicitly forbid the writing of fake reviews. Amazon says it previously had such ads pulled from Fiverr, but "the removal of individual listings does not address the root cause of the issue or serve as a sufficient deterrent," the suit says. (Amazon also is firing back at the New York Times over a story critical of its workplace environment.) |
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".
See one example below:
Problem: Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy. Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it. When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework. <sep>Who does Timothy play with?<sep>Basketball and baseball
Solution: No
Explanation: Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
Problem: Mechanical energy is a combination of the energy of motion or position. This type of energy describes objects that are moving or could move. A moving ball can have energy from motion. An arrow can also have the energy of motion. Both are types of mechanical energy. Can you think of some other examples? Where does the energy of motion come from? It comes from the energy created by position. This energy is stored energy. This means it is not moving yet, but it has the potential to move. How can you store energy? The arrow gains energy from the drawn bow. As the arrow is released, the bow releases its stored energy and puts the arrow into motion. Can you think of some other ways to store energy using position? <sep>What type of energy is released when a drawn bow releases an arrow?<sep>Nuclear energy
Solution: | No |
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to reset your samsung galaxy s4
Press and hold the power button for at least ten seconds until the screen turns off.
If your s4 has frozen while you are using it and none of the buttons are responding, you can try to force it to shut down.
Power your phone back on as your normally would.
Select from the following. (i) Turn the phone over and remove the back by sliding it off. If your phone will not turn off, even after holding the power button, you'll need to remove the battery from the phone.. (ii) If you still aren't seeing an error message, try to back up your own phone to the power cord. Press and hold the power button three times using one finger at a time.. (iii) Press and hold the power button for at least thirty seconds. If your galaxy s4 hasn't frozen while you are using it and none of the buttons are responding, you can try to force it to shut down.. (iv) Power on your samsung galaxy s4 again if prompted. If the screen remains cold after pressing and holding the power button, it means that the device's battery is dead.. | (i) |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
One example: Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy. Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it. When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework. <sep>Who does Timothy play with?<sep>Basketball and baseball
Solution is here: No
Explanation: Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
Now, solve this: The second major point on which the principals had agreed on March 10 was the need to crack down on terrorist organizations and curtail their fund-raising. The embassy bombings of 1998 had focused attention on al Qaeda's finances. One result had been the creation of an NSC-led interagency committee on terrorist financing. On its recommendation, the President had designated Bin Laden and al Qaeda as subject to sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. This gave theTreasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) the ability to search for and freeze any Bin Laden or al Qaeda assets that reached the U.S. financial system. But since OFAC had little information to go on, few funds were frozen. In July 1999, the President applied the same designation to the Taliban for harboring Bin Laden. Here, OFAC had more success. It blocked more than $34 million in Taliban assets held in U.S. banks. Another $215 million in gold and $2 million in demand deposits, all belonging to the Afghan central bank and held by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, were also frozen. After October 1999, when the State Department formally designated al Qaeda a "foreign terrorist organization," it became the duty of U.S. banks to block its transactions and seize its funds. Neither this designation nor UN sanctions had much additional practical effect; the sanctions were easily circumvented, and there were no multilateral mechanisms to ensure that other countries' financial systems were not used as conduits for terrorist funding. Attacking the funds of an institution, even the Taliban, was easier than finding and seizing the funds of a clandestine worldwide organization like al Qaeda. Although the CIA's Bin Laden unit had originally been inspired by the idea of studying terrorist financial links, few personnel assigned to it had any experience in financial investigations. Any terrorist-financing intelligence appeared to have been collected collaterally, as a consequence of gathering other intelligence. This attitude may have stemmed in large part from the chief of this unit, who did not believe that simply following the money from point A to point B revealed much about the terrorists' plans and intentions. As a result, the CIA placed little emphasis on terrorist financing. Nevertheless, the CIA obtained a general understanding of how al Qaeda raised money. <sep>What was the result of following terrorist money flowing from point A to point B?<sep>Little emphasis was placed on terrorist financing
Solution: | Yes |
The Pearls of the Crown (French: "Les Perles de la couronne" ) is a 1937 French comedy film of historically-based fiction by Sacha Guitry who plays four roles in it (many of the other performers play multiple roles, as well). Guitry's Jean Martin investigates the history of seven pearls, four of which end up on the crown of England, while the other three initially go missing.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
The Pearls of the Crown is a historically accurate 1937 French comedy film. | No |
Q: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Einstein and Maric married in January 1903. In May 1904, the couple's first son, Hans Albert Einstein, was born in Bern, Switzerland. Their second son, Eduard, was born in Zurich in July 1910. In 1914, the couple separated; Einstein moved to Berlin and his wife remained in Zurich with their sons. They divorced on 14 February 1919, having lived apart for five years. Eduard, whom his father called "Tete" (for petit), had a breakdown at about age 20 and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. His mother cared for him and he was also committed to asylums for several periods, including full-time after her death. The marriage with Maric does not seem to have been very happy. In letters revealed in 2015, Einstein wrote to his early love, Marie Winteler, about his marriage and his still strong feelings for Marie. In 1910 he wrote to her that "I think of you in heartfelt love every spare minute and am so unhappy as only a man can be" while his wife was pregnant with their second child. Einstein spoke about a "misguided love" and a "missed life" regarding his love for Marie. Einstein married Elsa Lowenthal on 2 June 1919, after having had a relationship with her since 1912. She was a first cousin maternally and a second cousin paternally. In 1933, they emigrated to the United States. In 1935, Elsa Einstein was diagnosed with heart and kidney problems; she died in December 1936. <sep>When were the children of Einstein and Maric born?<sep>1912
A: | No |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Example input: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Example output: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Example explanation: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Q: A Digital Object Identifier ( or DOI ) is a permanent way to identify an online document .
A: | In computing , a digital object identifier ( DOI ) is a persistent identifier or handle used to identify objects uniquely , standardized by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) . |
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".
Problem:While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds. Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful. As one NSC staff note put it, "Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists." In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban. In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation. Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy. He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden. They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything," given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan." President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India. The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan. The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life. Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit. But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia. His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969. At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden. President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden." I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two." The U.S. effort continued. <sep>Who was the first president to visit Pakistan since 1969?<sep>Bill Clinton
Solution: | Yes |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
PROBLEM: The Kingdom of France controlled the Louisiana territory from 1699 until it was ceded to Spain in 1762. In 1800, Napoleon, then the First Consul of the French Republic, hoping to re-establish an empire in North America, regained ownership of Louisiana. However, France's failure to put down the revolt in Saint-Domingue, coupled with the prospect of renewed warfare with the United Kingdom, prompted Napoleon to sell Louisiana to the United States. The Americans originally sought to purchase only the port city of New Orleans and its adjacent coastal lands, but quickly accepted the bargain. The Louisiana Purchase occurred during the term of the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Before the purchase was finalized, the decision faced Federalist Party opposition; they argued that it was unconstitutional to acquire any territory. Jefferson agreed that the U.S. Constitution did not contain explicit provisions for acquiring territory, but he asserted that his constitutional power to negotiate treaties was sufficient.
SOLUTION: what events led to the united states gaining the louisiana territory
PROBLEM: The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a military engagement fought primarily as part of the Battle of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, during the First World War. The main combatants were the Canadian Corps, of four divisions, against three divisions of the German Sixth Army. The battle, which took place from 9 to 12 April 1917, was part of the opening phase of the British-led Battle of Arras, a diversionary attack for the French Nivelle Offensive.
SOLUTION: when did the battle of vimy ridge start
PROBLEM: The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ; Hangul: 한반도 비무장 지대; Hanja: 韓 半島 非 武裝 地帶), informally known as the 38th Parallel, is a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula. It is established by the provisions of the Korean Armistice Agreement to serve as a buffer zone between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). The Demilitarized zone (DMZ) is a border barrier that divides the Korean Peninsula roughly in half. It was created by agreement between North Korea, China and the United Nations in 1953. The DMZ is 250 kilometres (160 miles) long, and about 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) wide.
SOLUTION: | where do north korea and south korea meet
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In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: “Sincere apologies to an American hero, Tammy Duckworth, and gratitude for her family's service,” Kirk wrote.
Sincere apologies to an American hero, Tammy Duckworth, and gratitude for her family's service. #ilsen — Mark Kirk (@MarkKirk) October 28, 2016
ADVERTISEMENT During a debate between the Senate candidates on Thursday, Kirk drew criticism for his reply to Duckworth’s remarks about her family history.
Answering a question on Middle East policy, Duckworth — an Iraq War veteran — detailed her family's military service going back to the American Revolution.
"I forgot that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington," Kirk responded.
Duckworth's mother is an immigrant from Thailand, and her father is a World War II veteran.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee called for Kirk to apologize immediately after the debate.
"Thankful for @TammyforIL's—and her family's—service to this country. It's really not that hard to grasp, @MarkKirk," Clinton wrote.
"The same Mark Kirk that unendorsed his party's presidential nominee and called him out in paid ads? Gotcha. Good luck," Conway wrote.
Kirk withdrew his endorsement of Trump for president in June after the billionaire's inflammatory comments about a federal judge’s Mexican heritage. Earlier this week, Kirk refused to say whom he will vote for on Nov. 8.
Kirk, considered one of the most vulnerable incumbent senators facing reelection, trails Duckworth by 7 points in the latest RealClearPolitics polling average.
Updated at 12:49 p.m. ||||| Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, answers questions during the first televised debate with Democratic U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth, in what's considered a crucial race that could determine which party controls the Senate, Oct. 27, 2016, at the University of Illinois in Springfield, Ill.
Sen. Mark Kirk apologized to his opponent Rep. Tammy Duckworth Friday after making a racially charged comment about her parents during a debate.
Kirk tweeted the apology, writing "Sincere apologies to an American hero, Tammy Duckworth, and gratitude for her family's service. #ilsen."
His campaign also issued a statement about the comment that sparked backlash at Thursday's debate.
“Senator Kirk has consistently called Rep. Duckworth a war hero and honors her family’s service to this country,” Kirk spokeswoman Eleni Demertzis said in a statement. “But that’s not what this debate was about. Rep. Duckworth lied about her legal troubles, was unable to defend her failures at the VA and then falsely attacked Senator Kirk over his record on supporting gay rights.”
At Thursday’s debate, which was hosted at the University of Illinois Springfield’s Sangamon Auditorium, Kirk mocked Duckworth’s family history of military service after the congresswoman said her family has “served this nation in uniform going back to the Revolution.”
“I had forgotten your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington,” Kirk responded.
Duckworth, who lost both legs piloting a Black Hawk helicopter over Iraq in 2004, was born in Bangkok to a Thai mother of Chinese descent. Her father was a U.S. Army veteran.
Kirk’s comment was met with silence in the auditorium and thunderous condemnation on social media.
“That remark made by [Mark Kirk] about [Tammy Duckworth's] ancestry is about the lowest thing I’ve seen in a debate,” Capitol Fax’s Rich Miller said in a tweet.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway also took the opportunity to slam Kirk, who has disavowed Trump and taken out ads distancing himself from the divisive billionaire.
"The same Mark Kirk that unendorsed his party's presidential candidate and called him out in paid ads," Conway tweeted Thursday. "Gotcha. Good luck." |||||
A: | Sen. Mark Kirk has apologized for a comment he made Thursday during a debate with challenger Tammy Duckworth that was met with "thunderous condemnation" around the country, NBC Chicago reports. "I forgot that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington," the Hill quotes the Illinois Republican as saying during the debate. The congresswoman's mother immigrated from Thailand, but her father—an American WWII veteran—traces his family's military service back to the Revolutionary War. Duckworth herself lost both legs while serving in Iraq. "Sincere apologies to an American hero, Tammy Duckworth, and gratitude for her family's service," Kirk tweeted Friday. His campaign also issued a statement: "Sen. Kirk has consistently called Rep. Duckworth a war hero and honors her family’s service to this country." |
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.
[EX Q]: The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States of America. It consists of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard. The President of the United States is the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces and forms military policy with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), both federal executive departments, acting as the principal organs by which military policy is carried out. All five armed services are among the seven uniformed services of the United States.
[EX A]: how many branches of the armed forces are there
[EX Q]: South Dakota (/-dəˈkoʊtə / (listen)) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who compose a large portion of the population and historically dominated the territory. South Dakota is the 17th most expansive, but the 5th least populous and the 5th least densely populated of the 50 United States. As the southern part of the former Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with North Dakota. Pierre is the state capital and Sioux Falls, with a population of about 174,000, is South Dakota's largest city.
[EX A]: where is south dakota located in the united states
[EX Q]: In chemistry, a group (also known as a family) is a column of elements in the periodic table of the chemical elements. There are 18 numbered groups in the periodic table, and the f-block columns (between groups 3 and 4) are not numbered. The elements in a group have similar physical or chemical characteristics of the outermost electron shells of their atoms (i.e., the same core charge), as most chemical properties are dominated by the orbital location of the outermost electron. There are three systems of group numbering. The modern numbering group 1 to group 18 is recommended by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). It replaces two older naming schemes that were mutually confusing. Also, groups may be identified by their topmost element or have a specific name. For example, group 16 is variously described as the oxygen group and chalcogens.
[EX A]: | what does the group number in the periodic table tell us
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In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: 777-year-old tree is a babe in Muir Woods
Photo: Michael Macor, The Chronicle Emily Burns, the Director of Science with, Save the Redwoods League...
The tallest redwood tree in Muir Woods — a giant that was assumed to have sprouted up to 1,500 years ago in the Middle Ages — is a measly 777 years old, a puerile sprig in the hallowed halls of old growth, an analysis of tree-ring data has revealed.
The study, by a Humboldt State University scientist, is the first definitive determination of the age of trees in Muir Woods. The findings by Allyson Carroll, a tree-ring specialist, mean that a 249-foot-tall coast redwood known by the lackluster name of Tree 76 sprouted seven centuries later than originally believed, at the beginning of the Medieval Inquisition in the early 13th century.
The new birth date is curiously apropos since the tree is in a place called Cathedral Grove, presumably acceptable under the Inquisition, which was characterized by an effort by the Catholic Church to suppress heresy. The date nevertheless means the oldest and biggest tree that researchers could find in the Bay Area’s most famous redwood forest is a babe in the woods compared with the giant old-growth trees farther north.
Photo: Michael Macor, The Chronicle A cross second taken from the "Vortex" tree which fell in June of...
“It’s one of the largest redwoods in Muir Woods, so it probably represents one of the oldest,” said Emily Burns, science director for San Francisco’s Save the Redwoods League, which is documenting the age, size, health and tree-ring history of California's last remaining old-growth redwood groves as part a statewide project known as the Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative.
Carroll, a biologist at Humboldt State and a consultant for the League, came up with 777 years by comparing the tree rings from Tree 76 to a database of core samples taken from redwoods across California, including from Samuel P. Taylor State Park.
Specific dates can be fleshed out by comparing the size and thickness of the tree rings, which are larger during wet years and smaller during dry years.
The samples were taken in Cathedral Grove in March 2014. Although that was one of dozens of redwood study plots in California, the research represented the first significant scientific study of the tree canopy at Muir Woods.
The plan over time is to identify tree-ring patterns, or markers, that are consistent throughout the coast redwood range and figure out how the trees react to climate change. As of now, the collective redwood tree-ring record in California can reliably be traced back to the year 328, revealing drought years and other major weather events, Carroll said. Scientists must have data from multiple trees in different locations to compare traits, which is why the reliable record goes back only 1,687 years. However, individual trees have been found that are older.
Photo: Michael Macor, The Chronicle A cluster of Redwoods at the Muir Woods National Monument, Calif....
Growth accelerating
Dendrochronology, as tree-ring science is called, was used to document a coast redwood in Redwood National and State Parks, near Crescent City, that is 2,520 years old. The oldest giant sequoia, a redwood species that grows in the Sierra, is 3,240 years old, according to the record.
Scientists have found that the growth trend of redwoods has accelerated over the past few decades, and they have pinpointed 1580 and 1739 as particularly parched years in California. The tree-ring record has also been used in cultural history projects. Carroll all but confirmed that a wood remnant at Trinidad Head, north of Arcata, was part of a cross erected by the Spanish in 1775. The redwood altar at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco came from the Humboldt area, but there wasn’t enough information to pinpoint the age of the tree it came from or the date it was cut, she reported.
Dendrochronologists are now trying to determine the age of the old adobe found at the historic Presidio Officers' Club by dating its redwood support beams. The adobe, hidden for years under a covering of wood planks and plaster, is believed to be the last remnant of the original Spanish fort El Presidio de San Francisco, established in 1776.
Until now, nobody had ever definitively calculated the age of the trees in Muir Woods, but scientists have suggested that the tallest trees were probably 1,200 to 1,500 years old. Besides Tree 76, Carroll calculated the ages of two fallen redwoods in Muir Woods, further bolstering the tree ring record in the grove.
Catastrophe centuries ago
The Vortex Tree, which fell in 2011, was 693 years old, according to her report published in April. The Solstice Tree, which fell in 2012, was 536 years old, she concluded.
Burns said the relative youth of the three trees means the grove itself is probably younger than was believed. She suggested a fire, flood or some other catastrophe might have struck the area many centuries ago, forcing the entire forest to regenerate itself from scratch.
“We know redwoods can get older than this, and some redwoods in the Bay Area were logged. But we don't see any evidence of logging,” she said. “That leads me to believe that there may have been some sort of disturbance.”
Peter Fimrite is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: [email protected]. Twitter: @pfimrite ||||| The finding, initially reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, is the first time the towering Muir Woods trees have been dated -- and the results were encouraging, said Emily Burns, science director with Save the Redwoods League, which is working with the university on a longterm study of climate change's effects on redwoods and giant sequoias -- the tallest and largest trees, respectively, on Earth. |||||
A: | You had us all fooled, Tree 76. Up til now, scientists believed that the tallest redwood in California's Muir Woods was about 1,500 years old, the Los Angeles Times notes. But the 249-foot-tall giant—or, as the San Francisco Chronicle now refers to it, "a puerile sprig in the hallowed halls of old growth"—likely came to be about 777 years ago. Allyson Carroll, a dendrochronologist (aka tree-ring expert) at Humboldt State University, discovered the discrepancy when she compared Tree 76's rings to those of its relatives around other parts of California. Carroll also pinpointed the ages of two fallen redwoods in the forest at 693 years old and a youthful 536, lending credence to the theory that Muir Woods is relatively young compared to the redwoods and sequoias further north: A coastal redwood cited by both the Times and the Chronicle is a mature 2,520 years old. So why is the famous forest so much younger than its cousins? Carroll notes that natural events like landslides or fires may have wiped out older trees somewhere down the timeline, per the Chronicle. (Climate change may be making the redwoods grow faster.) |
Tecmo Super NBA Basketball (テクモスーパーNBAバスケットボール ) is a basketball video game published by Tecmo for the Super NES. The game is the SNES equivalent of the original "Tecmo NBA Basketball". It also came out a year later (with updated rosters) for the Sega Genesis.
Can we infer the following?
The graphics are very ugly | It's impossible to say |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
PROBLEM: What group did not have a high opinion of royalty?, Context: In the words of Labour Member of Parliament George Hardie, the abdication crisis of 1936 did "more for republicanism than fifty years of propaganda". George VI wrote to his brother Edward that in the aftermath of the abdication he had reluctantly assumed "a rocking throne", and tried "to make it steady again". He became king at a point when public faith in the monarchy was at a low ebb. During his reign his people endured the hardships of war, and imperial power was eroded. However, as a dutiful family man and by showing personal courage, he succeeded in restoring the popularity of the monarchy.
SOLUTION: public
PROBLEM: How did the empire of ND football begin?, Context: Notre Dame rose to national prominence in the early 1900s for its Fighting Irish football team, especially under the guidance of the legendary coach Knute Rockne. The university's athletic teams are members of the NCAA Division I and are known collectively as the Fighting Irish. The football team, an Independent, has accumulated eleven consensus national championships, seven Heisman Trophy winners, 62 members in the College Football Hall of Fame and 13 members in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and is considered one of the most famed and successful college football teams in history. Other ND teams, chiefly in the Atlantic Coast Conference, have accumulated 16 national championships. The Notre Dame Victory March is often regarded as the most famous and recognizable collegiate fight song.
SOLUTION: the guidance of the legendary coach Knute Rockne
PROBLEM: __ is a lustrous, greyish-white, soft, ductile, malleable metal that is solid at room temperature, though it is hard and brittle at lesser purities., Context: Glass has the ability to refract, reflect, and transmit light following geometrical optics, without scattering it. It is used in the manufacture of lenses and windows. Common glass has a refraction index around 1.5. This may be modified by adding low-density materials such as boron, which lowers the index of refraction (see crown glass), or increased (to as much as 1.8) with high-density materials such as (classically) lead oxide (see flint glass and lead glass), or in modern uses, less toxic oxides of zirconium, titanium, or barium. These high-index glasses (inaccurately known as "crystal" when used in glass vessels) cause more chromatic dispersion of light, and are prized for their diamond-like optical properties.
SOLUTION: | zirconium
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How to install scion fr s oem fog lights<br>Using a trim removal tool or any flat plastic edge, carefully remove the factory bezel starting from the top. On the side that you are working on, turn the wheels towards the opposite direction to expose the three (3) clips that hold the fender liner on. Remove these three (3) clips and pull back the fender liner.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
Remove the three clis and then remove the factory bezel.
Available options: (1). Yes; (2). It's impossible to say; (3). No; | (2). |
Teacher: In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
Solution: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Reason: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
Now, solve this instance: An example of concurrent validity is a comparison of the scores of the CLEP College Algebra exam with course grades in college algebra to determine the degree to which scores on the CLEP are related to performance in a college algebra class. An example of predictive validity is a comparison of scores on the SAT with first semester grade point average (GPA) in college; this assesses the degree to which SAT scores are predictive of college performance.
Student: | what is an example of criterion related validity |
question: Complete the next sentence:
A man is using a telescoping pole by the side of a building. He stretches it upward, then cleans the side of the building with it. he
answer: uses it to clean the windows tha are highest.
question: Complete the next sentence:
How to prepare soil for the application of fertiliser
Send a sample of soil to a local cooperative extension.
Collect a sample of your soil by digging a couple of holes that are 5-6 inches (13-15 cm) deep. Then, store the soil in an airtight plastic container or sealable bag and send it to the cooperative extension for tests.
answer: They will evaluate the soil and give you recommendations for amendments and fertilizers. Cooperative extension offices test and study agriculture and the environment and can be found at certain universities.
question: Complete the next sentence:
A man with saxophone is playing at the center of the park while a woman is sitting by the fountain. the man
answer: | is playing the saxophone. |
Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Input: You couldnt survive without your skin. It has many important functions. The main function of the skin is controlling what enters and leaves the body. It prevents the loss of too much water from the body. It also prevents bacteria and other microorganisms from entering the body. The skin helps maintain a constant body temperature. It keeps the body cool in two ways. Sweat from sweat glands in the skin evaporates to cool the body. Blood vessels in the skin dilate, or widen. This action increases blood flow to the body surface. This allows more heat to reach the surface. The heat is then able to radiate off the body. The opposite happens to retain body heat. Blood vessels in the skin constrict, or narrow. This decreases blood flow to the body surface. This reduces the amount of heat that reaches the surface. When this happens, less heat can be lost to the air. <sep>What is different when something constricts as compared to when it dilates?<sep>Diameter
Output: | Yes |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Let me give you an example: Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy. Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it. When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework. <sep>Who does Timothy play with?<sep>Basketball and baseball
The answer to this example can be: No
Here is why: Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
OK. solve this:
At 8:38, Ong told Gonzalez that the plane was flying erratically again. Around this time Sweeney told Woodward that the hijackers were Middle Easterners, naming three of their seat numbers. One spoke very little English and one spoke excellent English. The hijackers had gained entry to the cockpit, and she did not know how. The aircraft was in a rapid descent. At 8:41, Sweeney told Woodward that passengers in coach were under the impression that there was a routine medical emergency in first class. Other flight attendants were busy at duties such as getting medical supplies while Ong and Sweeney were reporting the events. At 8:41, in American's operations center, a colleague told Marquis that the air traffic controllers declared Flight 11 a hijacking and "think he's [American 11] headed toward Kennedy [airport in New York City]. They're moving everybody out of the way. They seem to have him on a primary radar. They seem to think that he is descending." At 8:44, Gonzalez reported losing phone contact with Ong. About this same time Sweeney reported to Woodward, "Something is wrong. We are in a rapid descent . we are all over the place." Woodward asked Sweeney to look out the window to see if she could determine where they were. <sep>How, according to Sweeney, hijackers gained entry to the cockpit?<sep>They gain entry through gun point
Answer: | No |
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to negotiate the best offer on a foreclosure or pre foreclosure
Check local sources.
Foreclosure listings can be found in a variety of different places. Start by looking in the back of your local newspaper for foreclosure auctions.
OPTIONS:
- You can then visit the auctioneer's website for more information. Alternately, some real estate websites like zillow.com and realtytrac.com will allow you to easily filter a real estate search for foreclosed properties.
- Print off the newspapers and shut them down. Make sure all newspapers you pick (including those to stop at) are updated before finalizing your offer.
- If you know the location where you plan to sell your property, look for listings to give you insight into the locality where the property was located. Also look in local telephone numbers books.
- Type in your zip code and minimum requirements until you arrive at one location that will allow you to get your home repossessed. Generally, foreclosures typically wait at least six years for a " sell " price listed by the second circuit since then.
A: You can then visit the auctioneer's website for more information. Alternately, some real estate websites like zillow.com and realtytrac.com will allow you to easily filter a real estate search for foreclosed properties.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
A woman is seen speaking to the camera while holding a mop and dancing around the room. the woman
OPTIONS:
- moves her arms up and down while walking around the room.
- continues moping the floor while dancing as well as speaking to the camera and dumping the mop into a bucket.
- moves various objects around and with the mop while smiling to the camera.
- mixes ingredients together in a small clear bowl and pours it into a dish, adding fresh strawberries and other ingredients into the bowl.
OUT: continues moping the floor while dancing as well as speaking to the camera and dumping the mop into a bucket.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to make traditional navajo frybread
Start by mixing in the flour with the baking powder and salt.
Put in about a teaspoon of salt, and about two tablespoons of baking powder.
Navajo women usually used the palms of their hands as measuring devices, even today, hence the approximations.
OPTIONS:
- The wheat flour is used instead of the kiloml flour. Once you have combined the two ingredients, slowly stir in the sugar, water, and rice.
- Make the recipe and cook it for about 3 minutes; usually times, approximately. Stir in the base flour and cook it for 3 more minutes.
- ) Stir the dry ingredients together thoroughly. Add about 1 tablespoon of lard to the flour.
- Dump some of the mixture over the oats and stir till it blends. Take a sieve and add in some of the milk.
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Answer:
) Stir the dry ingredients together thoroughly. Add about 1 tablespoon of lard to the flour.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
A man is kneeling down holding a kettle bell. Another man comes up and takes the kettle bell. he
OPTIONS:
- puts a pick in the bottom and moves it around.
- gives it back to the man kneeling down and he begins to work out with it.
- bellows to the two men.
- begins to make a fire in the fire pit.
A: gives it back to the man kneeling down and he begins to work out with it.
How to small talk for successful business networking
Introduce and initiate.
Go ahead and initiate with a hello! Even if you recognize, or slightly know someone, re-introduce yourself. Be aware of how he introduces himself (you may know him as charles, but maybe he goes by chuck) and use his name throughout your interaction.
OPTIONS:
- Let him know if you've never met him at a business setting, or how you know him by his telephone number. If something really strikes you as interesting, mention it or write it down.
- This will provide your opening line for conversation. By creating small talk, you be the " two strike.
- It can be difficult to describe how someone looks when you're sitting next to them in a meeting. You can use this as a opportunity to be more more specific.
- This will help you remember it in the long run and also establish a personal connection. By taking ownership and initiating a conversation, you will feel more in control to drive the direction of the exchange.
This will help you remember it in the long run and also establish a personal connection. By taking ownership and initiating a conversation, you will feel more in control to drive the direction of the exchange.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to make your room a hangout spot (teen girls )
Pick a theme for your room.
All good rooms have a theme-it ties the room together. There are so many different possibilities when it comes to themes, so you're sure to find one that you like.
OPTIONS:
- Some ideas for themes are : Retro plaid your favorite color your favorite band paris (or another city) japan (or another country) music your favorite movie (harry potter, etc. ) animals your favorite book (percy jackson, etc.
- Theme: if your room did not currently have a theme, you could always make one. If you did have a theme, however, you should get started.
- Choose a theme that matches your mood-bedroom smells and feelings are the foundation of choosing your decor. Also, don't go all out and choose too many keyboards or nothing at all.
- Always start the theme with something fun and cool, without anything crazy. Hang pictures and posters around the walls..
Next sentence: | Some ideas for themes are : Retro plaid your favorite color your favorite band paris (or another city) japan (or another country) music your favorite movie (harry potter, etc. ) animals your favorite book (percy jackson, etc. |
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 United States Pharmacopeia defines 'isopropyl rubbing alcohol USP' as containing approximately 70 percent by volume of pure isopropyl alcohol and defines 'rubbing alcohol USP' as containing approximately 70 percent by volume of denatured alcohol. In Ireland and the UK, the comparable preparation is surgical spirit B.P., which the British Pharmacopoeia defines as 95% methylated spirit, 2.5% castor oil, 2% diethyl phthalate, and 0.5% methyl salicylate. Under its alternative name of ``wintergreen oil'', methyl salicylate is a common additive to North American rubbing alcohol products. Individual manufacturers are permitted to use their own formulation standards in which the ethanol content for retail bottles of rubbing alcohol is labeled as and ranges from 70-99% v/v.
A: | is surgical spirit the same as methylated spirit? |
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 Donald Tusk: "After 17 hours of negotiations we have reached agreement"
Eurozone leaders have agreed to offer Greece a third bailout, after marathon talks in Brussels.
Amid one of the worst crises in the EU's history, the head of the European Commission said the risk of Greece leaving the eurozone had been averted.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that after a "tough battle", Greece had secured debt restructuring and a "growth package".
The bailout is conditional on Greece passing agreed reforms by Wednesday.
These include measures to streamline pensions, raise tax revenue and liberalise the labour market.
An EU statement spoke of up to €86bn (£61bn) of financing for Greece over three years.
Though it included an offer to reschedule Greek debt repayments "if necessary", there was no provision for the reduction in Greek debt - or so-called "haircut" - that the Greek government had sought.
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Parliaments in several eurozone states also have to approve any new bailout.
"There will not be a 'Grexit'," said European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker, referring to the fear that if there had been no deal, Greece could have crashed out of the euro.
Mr Tsipras also said he had the "belief and the hope that... the possibility of 'Grexit' is in the past".
"The deal is difficult but we averted the pursuit to move state assets abroad," he said. "We averted the plan for a financial strangulation and for the collapse of the banking system."
The Greek PM returned to Athens after the talks and went straight into a meeting with Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and other party officials.
Mr Tsipras must get several unpopular measures through the Greek parliament in the next two days, including sales tax increases and pension reforms, to continue the third bailout process.
Image copyright AFP Image caption Greeks had an anxious wait as talks in Brussels dragged on
Analysis: Gavin Hewitt, BBC News, Athens
Athens has been offered a third bailout. Bankruptcy - the spectre of a failed state - has been avoided, and Greece will stay inside the euro. But the deal has left many Greeks humiliated. It is not just the ranks of the left that are using the word "surrender".
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will have to rush key measures on pension reforms, tax increases and a debt repayment fund through parliament. It will be a bruising process. Only then will bridging loans be released that will enable Greece to meet a payment to the European Central Bank next Monday.
As it is, the deal will almost certainly lead to snap elections. Mr Tsipras will reshuffle his cabinet and discard those cabinet ministers who opposed his latest proposal.
Greek anger at eurozone debt deal
Harsh deal leaves European vision tainted
Rifts between Europe's superpowers
Economic consequences for Greece
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the head of the eurozone group of finance ministers, said the agreement included a €50bn Greece-based fund that will privatise or manage Greek assets. Out of that €50bn, €25bn would be used to recapitalise Greek banks, he said.
Greek banks have been closed for two weeks, with withdrawals at cash machines limited to €60 per day. The economy has been put under increasing strain, with some businesses closing and others struggling to pay suppliers.
Monday saw the European Central Bank maintain its cap on emergency funds being provided to Greek banks, meaning they will stay shut for now to prevent them running out of funds.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption There have been mixed views on the streets of Athens to the new agreement
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Greek reforms - in 60 seconds
Eurozone finance ministers meeting in Brussels have discussed providing "bridge financing" that would cover Greece's short-term needs, but have made no final decisions.
"The road will be long, and judging by the negotiations tonight, difficult," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday morning.
French President Francois Hollande said the agreement had allowed Europe to "preserve integrity and solidarity".
"We also had to show that Europe is capable of solving a crisis that has menaced the eurozone for several years," he said.
Greek debt crisis timeline
26 June: Greece halts talks with creditors and calls referendum on bailout terms
Greece halts talks with creditors and calls referendum on bailout terms 28 June: European Central Bank (ECB) limits emergency funding to Greece; Greece imposes capital controls, forcing banks to stay shut
European Central Bank (ECB) limits emergency funding to Greece; Greece imposes capital controls, forcing banks to stay shut 30 June: Eurozone bailout expires, Greece misses €1.6bn payment to IMF
Eurozone bailout expires, Greece misses €1.6bn payment to IMF 5 July: Greeks overwhelmingly vote "No" in referendum, rejecting creditors' conditions
Greeks overwhelmingly vote "No" in referendum, rejecting creditors' conditions 9 July: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras presents new proposals to creditors, including measures rejected in referendum
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras presents new proposals to creditors, including measures rejected in referendum 13 July: Eurozone leaders agree to offer Greece third bailout
And looking forward...
15 July: Greek parliament to pass reforms demanded by creditors
Greek parliament to pass reforms demanded by creditors 16-17 July: Possible votes in eurozone member state parliaments on bailout
Possible votes in eurozone member state parliaments on bailout 20 July: Greece due to make €3.5bn payment to ECB
Mr Juncker said: "In this compromise, there are no winners and no losers.
"I don't think the Greek people have been humiliated, nor that the other Europeans have lost face. It is a typical European arrangement."
However, many Greeks and others who thought that unduly harsh terms were being imposed on Greece have expressed their widespread anger online using the hashtag #ThisIsACoup.
Mr Tsipras came to power after his left-wing Syriza party won elections in January on a promise to end austerity. Greece has already received two bailouts totalling €240bn since 2010.
Europe shares rise on news of deal ||||| BRUSSELS (AP) — Greece reached a deal with its European creditors Monday that avoids an exit from the euro and the global financial chaos that prospect had raised. The deal calls for Greece, already reeling from harsh austerity measures, to cut back even further in exchange for more loans without which its financial system would surely collapse.
Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, right, speaks with Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde during a round table meeting of eurogroup finance ministers at the EU... (Associated Press)
A presidential guard, right, stands guard at the tomb of the unknown soldier as riot police officers guard one of the entrances to the parliament during a demonstration of supporters of the no vote in... (Associated Press)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, speaks with French President Francois Hollande, center, and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during a meeting of eurozone heads of state at the EU Council building... (Associated Press)
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, sitting center, goes over papers with members of his delegation during a round table meeting of eurogroup finance ministers at the EU Lex building in Brussels... (Associated Press)
French President Francois Hollande said the Greek parliament would convene within hours to adopt the reforms called for in the plan, and he celebrated Greece's continued membership in the euro. For the eurozone to have lost Greece, Hollande said, would have been to lose "the heart of our civilization."
The agreement came after months of often bitter negotiations and a summit that stretched from Sunday afternoon well into Monday morning. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had been holding out for a better deal to sell to his reluctant legislature in Athens this week, even as financial collapse grew closer by the day.
A breakthrough came in a meeting between Tsipras, Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and EU President Donald Tusk, after the threat of expulsion from the euro put intense pressure on Tsipras to swallow politically unpalatable austerity measures in exchange for the country's third bailout in five years.
"We took the responsibility of the decision to be able to avert the harshest outcome," Tsipras said. "We managed to avert the demand to transfer Greek assets abroad, to avert the collapse of the banking system."
The deal includes commitments from Tsipras to push a drastic austerity program including pension, market and privatization reforms through parliament by Wednesday. In return, the 18 other eurozone leaders committed to start talks on a new bailout program that should stave off the imminent collapse of the Greek financial system.
A Cypriot official said the creditors would look into bridge financing for Greece later Monday, suggesting that the political decision could pave the way for the European Central Bank to extend emergency liquidity assistance to Greek banks. Without it, they risk running out of cash this week. The official spoke only on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the deal publicly.
If the talks had failed, Greece could have faced bankruptcy and a possible exit from the euro, the European single currency that the country has been a part of since 2002. No country has ever left the joint currency, which launched in 1999, and there is no mechanism in place for one to do so.
Greece had requested a three-year, 53.5 billion-euro ($59.5 billion) financial package, but that number grew larger by the tens of billions as the negotiations dragged on and the leaders calculated how much Greece will need to stay solvent.
A discussion paper put to eurozone leaders Sunday and obtained by The Associated Press spoke of a potential "time-out from the euro area" for Greece if no agreement could be found.
Greece has received two previous bailouts, totaling 240 billion euros ($268 billion), in return for deep spending cuts, tax increases and reforms from successive governments. Although the country's annual budget deficit has come down dramatically, Greece's debt burden has increased as the economy has shrunk by a quarter.
The Greek government has made getting some form of debt relief a priority and hopes that a comprehensive solution will involve European creditors at least agreeing to delayed repayments or lower interest rates.
Greek debt stands at around 320 billion euros ($357 billion) — a staggering 180 percent or so of the country's annual gross domestic product. Few economists think that debt will ever be fully repaid. Last week, the International Monetary Fund said Greece's debt will need to be restructured.
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Menelaos Hadjicostis and John-Thor Dahlburg in Brussels contributed to this story. |||||
Output: | After a grueling 17 hours of talks at an emergency summit, eurozone leaders have emerged with an "aGreekment," as EU chief Donald Tusk puts it, instead of a "Grexit." Leaders have agreed—in principle—on a deal that "means continued support for Greece," Tusk said in a statement, although it will have to be passed by the parliaments of several EU countries, including Greece. European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker says that with the deal, which includes a $55 billion fund to be created by privatizing parts of the Greek economy, Greece will not have to leave the eurozone, the BBC reports. In return for more loans to keep its economy from collapsing, the deal requires Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to bring in what the AP calls a "drastic austerity program" in a country that has already seen years of tough austerity measures—and voted against them just a week ago. The Greek leader, who had been under intense pressure to accept the deal and now has to present it to lawmakers, told reporters it had been a "tough battle" but that Greece had averted "extreme measures" and won debt restructuring. "The deal is difficult but we averted the pursuit to move state assets abroad," he said, per the BBC. "We averted the plan for a financial strangulation and for the collapse of the banking system." |
Q: The Trojans of Greene hosted the Oxford Blackhawks on a winter day.
GREENE â The Trojans of Greene hosted the Oxford Blackhawks this past Wednesday evening, to which the lady Blackhawks came away with a dominating win, only to see the Trojan boys take their win in commanding fashion as well. On the boys side it was all Greene who swept Oxford for a 4-0 win during the matchup, Jan. 4. Taking the series high on the Greene side was Jakob Funnell who rolled his way to a 539 series. Taking the Greene game high was Funnell as well when he snagged a 188 in the second game, only to follow that up with a 183 in the third.
A: Yes
Q: miami contains a m
How to time your trip to miami<br>Consider what you want most from a miami trip, because most trips involve a trade-off. [substeps] The best time of year in terms of weather and miami attractions and events is also the most expensive. If you're looking for the best value for your money, you can avoid the crowds, but miami weather can be uncomfortable and volatile.
A: Yes
Q: Normal force flows with the force of gravity.
How to find normal force<br>Understand what normal force refers to. Normal force refers to the amount of force use to counteract the force of gravity. [substeps] Imagine a block sitting on a table.
A: No
Q: The US base is unoccupied.
The Pentagon is rejecting demands by Kyrgyzstan to pay for the past use of Manas air base, a key military facility for US aircraft flying missions to Afghanistan.
A: | No |
Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Artificial lighting could be making us frail, withering muscles and making bones more fragile, according to a new study.
Researchers kept mice under a constant light for six months – a torture technique used by the security services around the world.
When the mice were examined, they were found to be suffering from muscle loss and the early signs of osteoporosis, while their immune system appeared as if it was reacting to an infection.
The bottom line, the academics said, was that the natural cycle of day followed by night matters to animals.
Professor Johanna Meijer, of Leiden University Medical Centre in The Netherlands, who led the research, said: “We used to think of light and darkness as harmless or neutral stimuli with respect to health.
“We now realize this is not the case based on accumulating studies from laboratories all over the world, all pointing in the same direction.
“Our study … showed that the absence of environmental rhythms leads to severe disruption of a wide variety of health parameters.”
However a paper about the study, published in the journal Current Biology, reported that the mice recovered after they were switched to natural light.
“The good news is that we subsequently showed that these negative effects on health are reversible when the environmental light-dark cycle is restored,” Professor Meijer said.
The researchers said that light exposure should be taken into consideration, particularly for elderly and vulnerable people.
About 75 per cent of the world’s population is exposed to light during the night and constant light exposure is common in intensive care units. The problem could also affect night-workers.
“Possibly this is not surprising as life evolved under the constant pressure of the light-dark cycle,” Professor Meijer said.
“We seem to be optimized to live under these cycles, and the other side of the coin is that we are now affected by a lack of such cycles.” ||||| Along with eating right and exercising, people should consider adding another healthy habit to their list: turning out the lights. That's according to a new study reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on July 14 showing many negative health consequences for mice kept under conditions of constant light for a period of months.
"Our study shows that the environmental light-dark cycle is important for health," says Johanna Meijer of Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. "We showed that the absence of environmental rhythms leads to severe disruption of a wide variety of health parameters."
Those parameters included pro-inflammatory activation of the immune system, muscle loss, and early signs of osteoporosis. The researchers say that the observed physiological changes were all indicative of "frailty" as is typically seen in people or animals as they age. But there was some more encouraging news, too.
"The good news is that we subsequently showed that these negative effects on health are reversible when the environmental light-dark cycle is restored," Meijer says.
To investigate the relationship between a loss of the light-dark cycle and disease, Meijer and colleagues, including Eliane Lucassen, exposed mice to light around the clock for 24 weeks and measured several major health parameters. Studies of the animals' brain activity showed that the constant light exposure reduced the normal rhythmic patterns in the brain's central circadian pacemaker of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) by 70 percent.
Strikingly, the disruption to normal light and dark patterns and the circadian rhythm led to a reduction in the animals' skeletal muscle function as measured in standard tests of strength. Their bones showed signs of deterioration, and the animals entered a pro-inflammatory state normally observed only in the presence of pathogens or other harmful stimuli. After the mice were returned to a standard light-dark cycle for 2 weeks, the SCN neurons rapidly recovered their normal rhythm, and the animals' health problems were reversed.
The findings suggest that more care should be taken in considering the amount of light exposure people get, particularly those who are aging or otherwise vulnerable. That's important given that 75 percent of the world's population is exposed to light during the night. Constant light exposure is very common in nursing homes and intensive care units, and many people also work into the night.
"We used to think of light and darkness as harmless or neutral stimuli with respect to health," Meijer says. "We now realize this is not the case based on accumulating studies from laboratories all over the world, all pointing in the same direction. Possibly this is not surprising as life evolved under the constant pressure of the light-dark cycle. We seem to be optimized to live under these cycles, and the other side of the coin is that we are now affected by a lack of such cycles."
The bottom line, according to the researchers is "light exposure matters."
They say they now plan to perform more in-depth analysis of the influence of distorted light-dark cycles on the immune system. They'd also like to investigate possible health benefits to patients exposed to more normal conditions of light and dark.
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This research was funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research grant TOPGO. L.10.035 and by the Dutch Diabetes Research Foundation grant 2013.81.1663.
Current Biology, Lucassen et al.: "Environmental 24-hr Cycles Are Essential for Health" http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30497-3 ||||| OJO Images Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo
Eliane Lucassen works the night shift at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, beginning her day at 6 p.m. Yet her own research has shown that this schedule might cause her health problems. “It’s funny,” the medical resident says. “Here I am, spreading around that it’s actually unhealthy. But it needs to be done.”
Lucassen and Johanna Meijer, a neuroscientist at Leiden, report today in Current Biology1 that a constant barrage of bright light prematurely ages mice, playing havoc with their circadian clocks and causing a cascade of health problems.
Mice exposed to constant light experienced bone-density loss, skeletal-muscle weakness and inflammation; restoring their health was as simple as turning the lights off. The findings are preliminary, but they suggest that people living in cities flooded with artificial light may face similar health risks.
“We came to know that smoking was bad, or that sugar is bad, but light was never an issue,” says Meijer. “Light and darkness matter.”
Disrupted patterns
Many previous studies have hinted at a connection between artificial light exposure and health problems in animals and people2. Epidemiological analyses have found that shift workers have an increased risk of breast cancer3, metabolic syndrome4 and osteoporosis5, 6. People exposed to bright light at night are more likely to have cardiovascular disease and often don’t get enough sleep.
Yet drawing a direct link between light exposure and poor health has been difficult. Meijer’s group explored this relationship in mice by implanting electrodes in the part of the animals’ brains that controls their body clocks, to measure the activity of neurons there. The scientists then housed the mice in brightly lit cages for 24 weeks.
The animals had bedding to make nests, could move freely and were able to close their eyes when they slept. But sleeping mice couldn't avoid the light entirely, and still got about one-seventh of the light exposure that they did while awake. Overall, the animals were exposed to more light than they would get in a typical light–dark cycle.
In response, the mice’s neuronal activity patterns shifted, leaving cells in the brain’s pacemaker region pulsing irregularly. This loss of synchronization mirrors what happens in ageing brains.
The mice also adopted a 25.5-hour day, lost bone density and had weaker muscles, as measured by how strongly they could grip with their forelimbs. After the researchers restored darkness, the mice's neurons returned to their normal rhythms and the animals reverted to a 24-hour day.
Bright lights, big impact
The analysis takes an innovative approach to studying circadian biology in mice, says Richard Stevens, an epidemiologist at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington who studies the effect of light on cancer. But he says that the findings may not apply to people. The bright lights foisted on the mice were more dramatic than the light–dark cycles that people would experience in real life, even in extreme situations.
“The next experiment ought to be something like 12 hours of light, 6 hours of dim light and 6 hours of dark. That would be the kind of exposure that humans would have,” Stevens says.
And disruption of the biological clock alone might not cause the health effects reported in the study, says Steven Lockley, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Poor sleep and light itself can each affect health, so an altered circadian clock may not be to blame.
But Meijer says the study should be a warning to people who work in intensive-care facilities or long-term care facilities, and to shift workers — such as her former student, Lucassen.
An atlas of artificial light pollution released in June showed that two-thirds of the world’s population is exposed to light at night7. Also last month, the American Medical Association’s Council on Science and Public Health called for a reduction in bright artificial light, citing evidence that it may increase a person’s risk of developing cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Meijer now plans to examine how light affects the immune system, and she wants to repeat her neuron-monitoring study with grass rats, which are active during the day (unlike standard lab mice). She remains fascinated by the circadian system.
“There is no other region of the brain we know so much about,” Meijer says. “It has been a beautiful model for neuroscience research. But only in the last five to seven years have we realized it is also essential for health.” |||||
A: | Roughly one-third of the globe can no longer see the Milky Way thanks to artificial light at night. The impact of light pollution has long been obvious, but scientists are now exploring the role of constant exposure to light on health, and a study in the journal Current Biology adds both good and bad news. Researchers in Holland say the absence of natural light-and-dark rhythms can lead "to severe disruption of a wide variety of health parameters"—including a loss of bone density. The conditions were extreme: They were studying mice subjected to constant artificial light for six months, which is a torture technique, notes the Independent. The good news, as delivered by researcher Johanna Meijer at Eureka Alert: "These negative effects on health are reversible when the ... light-dark cycle is restored." To study the impact of so much light, the team implanted electrodes in the parts of the brain that control circadian rhythms and observed neuron activity in the mice. Though they could make nests and move freely, they were unable to totally avoid the light while they slept, reports Nature. Certain cells began to pulse irregularly, they adopted a 25.5-hour day, and they lost both bone density and muscle strength, becoming more frail. After researchers gave them dark periods again, though, all systems normalized. How much of this can be applied to humans remains unclear, but Meijer says it should serve as a warning to people such as shift workers who have irregular hours. (Light at night even inhibits cancer drugs.) |
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Mario Sclaniza (1927–1993) - sometimes spelt Sclanizza - was an Italian actor and producer who worked in film and theatre for four decades, starting as a child actor in the 1940s mainly in films starred in by his father, Umberto Sclanizza. The patriarch of this prolific Italian acting dynasty often found roles for his children Mario and Scilla Sclanizza.
Hypothesis: Sclanizza - was an Italian actor and producer who worked in film and theatre for four decades, starting as a child actor in the 1940s mainly in films starred in by his grandfather's son. This fertile Italian acting great-grand child of his great-grandfather often found roles for his children Mario and Scilla Sclanizza. | Yes |
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.
Prince William and Kate Middleton Choose Charities In Lieu of Wedding Gifts
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A statement on the website reads, "Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton have created a charitable gift fund to help celebrate their wedding. The fund will focus on assisting charities which support the five causes chosen by the couple. These causes are close to their hearts and reflect the experiences, passions and values of their lives so far."
The statement continued, "Having been touched by the goodwill shown to them since their engagement, they have asked that anyone wishing to send them a wedding gift consider doing so in the form of a donation to the fund." Prince William and Kate Middleton have decided that they would like donations to be made to various charities in lieu of wedding gifts.According to RadarOnline.com , the royal couple have hand-picked 24 charities for people to donate to, instead of getting a wedding registry. The name of the charity fund is ' The Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton Charitable Gift Fund .'A statement on the website reads, "Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton have created a charitable gift fund to help celebrate their wedding. The fund will focus on assisting charities which support the five causes chosen by the couple. These causes are close to their hearts and reflect the experiences, passions and values of their lives so far."The statement continued, "Having been touched by the goodwill shown to them since their engagement, they have asked that anyone wishing to send them a wedding gift consider doing so in the form of a donation to the fund."
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The charities have been grouped into five categories: 'Changing lives through Arts and Sport,' 'Children fulfilling their potential,' 'Support for Services personnel and their families,' 'Conservation for future generations' and 'Help and Care at Home.'Among the charities supported include 'Beatbullying,' a children's charity working with young people to create a world where bullying, violence and harassment are unacceptable; and 'Cruse Bereavement Care', a charity that provides care to armed forces families facing bereavement and the support they need to rebuild their lives. ||||| To say that the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton will be an extremely dignified affair is surely an understatement. But must the future king's bachelor party be that way? Apparently Queen Elizabeth II doesn't think so.On 'Lopez Tonight,' Snoop Dogg claimed that the queen phoned the rapper and requested "somethin' special for her grandkid. So why not? Let me do it. I'm the best one when it comes to throwin' parties anyway."'Wet' is the result: a special anthem for the royal "stag" party. He explained, "I want him to have a little bit of fun before he get married ... to see all the girls that you gonna be able to see before you lie down with that one. And enjoy yourself." ||||| What's in a ring? Palace confirms that Prince William will not be wearing a wedding band when he marries Kate Middleton
Prince William has decided not to wear a wedding ring following his marriage to Kate Middleton, palace officials have revealed.
According to senior royal sources, the Prince discussed the issue with his fiancée but has chosen not to. 'It is simply down to personal preference,' an aide said.
Kate, 29, will wear a band fashioned from a lump of Welsh gold already owned by the Royal Family which will be given to her in the traditional way during the April 29 Westminster Abbey royal wedding ceremony, the Mail can reveal.
Breaking with tradition: Prince William will not be wearing a wedding ring after his marriage to Kate Middleton on April 29
The use of Welsh gold in royal wedding bands is a long-standing tradition.
Most male royals do wear a wedding ring of some kind, with the exception of the Duke of Edinburgh.
Like many members of the upper classes, Prince Charles wears a gold wedding ring under a signet ring on the little finger of his left hand given to him by the Duchess of Cornwall.
His signet ring bears the fleur-de-lys crest of the Prince of Wales and is believed to have been a gift from his parents.
He also wore a ring given to him by his first wife, Diana, Princess of Wales, until the day after his engagement to Camilla.
William's decision not to sport a wedding band is likely to cause some surprise, however, as it is so commonplace nowadays.
Symbol: Prince Charles wears a wedding ring under a signet ring on the little finger of his left hand given to him by the Duchess of Cornwall, who he married in 2005
But a St James's Palace aide insisted that it was a decision that Kate was happy with.
'It was something the couple discussed but Prince William isn't one for jewellery - he doesn't even wear a signet ring - and decided he didn't want to. It really is just down to personal preference,' they said.
'Catherine will wear a ring fashioned from a lump of Welsh gold owned by the Royal Family that has been smelted down. The couple have both had a hand in the design. This is the ring Prince Harry will carry and hand over in the traditional way.'
Another source added: 'It is quite common for men in that strata of society not to wear a traditional wedding band. If they do, they tend to wear it with their family signet ring but William doesn't have one of those.'
Most male royals, including Prince Edward (left), do wear a wedding ring of some kind, with the exception of the Duke of Edinburgh (right)
Prior to the Second World War is was unheard of for men to wear wedding rings. It then became customary for soldiers serving overseas to wear a wedding band to remind them of home and their commitment to their wives and families.
The popularity of wedding rings for men has since soared, but there is still divided opinion on whether wearing one is obligatory or not.
Although wearing a wedding ring for men in the past was not crucial, most modern brides would not hear of her new husband’s fourth finger going unadorned.
Poll Should all men wear wedding rings when they get married? Yes No Should all men wear wedding rings when they get married? Yes 14122 votes
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David Miller, director of Debretts, a leading authority on etiquette, said: 'Wearing a wedding ring used to be uncommon for men but now it is quite accepted practice. That said, it really is a matter of personal choice and members of the Royal Family often chose to wear it with a signet ring on the little finger of their left hand.
'Although this is a very modern royal wedding in so many ways, I think there will be a few surprises of this kind to come.'
According to some customs, the wedding ring forms the last in a series of gifts, which also may include the engagement ring, traditionally given as a betrothal present. This tradition was already in use in Ancient Rome and is possibly much older.
After marriage, the ring is worn on the hand it had been placed on during the ceremony. By wearing rings on the fourth finger, a married couple symbolically declares their eternal love for each other. |||||
| Perhaps when you heard that Prince William won’t sport a wedding ring after he finally ties the knot with Kate Middleton, you thought it was some sort of royal tradition. Nope, turns out the prince just doesn’t like jewelry, the Daily Mail reports. “It is simply down to personal preference,” says an aide. “It was something the couple discussed but Prince William isn't one for jewelry—he doesn't even wear a signet ring—and decided he didn't want to.” And Kate’s fine with that, the aide says. Another source adds, “It is quite common for men in that strata of society not to wear a traditional wedding band. If they do, they tend to wear it with their family signet ring but William doesn't have one of those.” Most male royals do wear some type of wedding band, including Wills’ dad. The only other exception noted by the Daily Mail is the Duke of Edinburgh. For more royal wedding gossip, click to find out where the couple is “registered”—or check out rumors involving Queen Elizabeth and Snoop Dogg. |
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.
Additive color is in contrast to subtractive color, in which colors are created by subtracting (absorbing) parts of the spectrum of light present in ordinary white light, by means of colored pigments or dyes, such as those in paints, inks, and the three dye layers in typical color photographs on film. | what do you call any two colors of light that combine to form white light |
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
In 1596 the Polish king decided to move the capital from Krakow to Warsaw, making Warsaw the most important city in Poland.
Options:
(i). Yes.
(ii). It's impossible to say.
(iii). No.
Hypothesis: The Polish king wanted Warsaw to be the most important city
| (i). |
Teacher: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Solution: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Reason: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Now, solve this instance: Vitebsk Region , Vitsebsk Voblast , or Vitebsk Oblast is a region ( voblast ) of Belarus .
Student: | Vitebsk Region , Vitsebsk Voblast , or Vitebsk Oblast ( , " Viciebskaja vobłasc ́ " , -RSB- ; Russian : , ) is a region ( voblast ) of Belarus with its administrative center being Vitebsk ( Vitsebsk ) . |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Example Input: You couldnt survive without your skin. It has many important functions. The main function of the skin is controlling what enters and leaves the body. It prevents the loss of too much water from the body. It also prevents bacteria and other microorganisms from entering the body. The skin helps maintain a constant body temperature. It keeps the body cool in two ways. Sweat from sweat glands in the skin evaporates to cool the body. Blood vessels in the skin dilate, or widen. This action increases blood flow to the body surface. This allows more heat to reach the surface. The heat is then able to radiate off the body. The opposite happens to retain body heat. Blood vessels in the skin constrict, or narrow. This decreases blood flow to the body surface. This reduces the amount of heat that reaches the surface. When this happens, less heat can be lost to the air. <sep>What happens when less heat reaches the surface of your skin?<sep>Cools the body
Example Output: No
Example Input: Bin Laden began delivering diatribes against the United States before he left Saudi Arabia. He continued to do so after he arrived in Sudan. In early 1992, the al Qaeda leadership issued a fatwa calling for jihad against the Western "occupation" of Islamic lands. Specifically singling out U.S. forces for attack, the language resembled that which would appear in Bin Laden's public fatwa in August 1996. In ensuing weeks, Bin Laden delivered an often-repeated lecture on the need to cut off "the head of the snake." By this time, Bin Laden was well-known and a senior figure among Islamist extremists, especially those in Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. Still, he was just one among many diverse terrorist barons. Some of Bin Laden's close comrades were more peers than subordinates. For example, Usama Asmurai, also known as Wali Khan, worked with Bin Laden in the early 1980s and helped him in the Philippines and in Tajikistan. The Egyptian spiritual guide based in New Jersey, the Blind Sheikh, whom Bin Laden admired, was also in the network. Among sympathetic peers in Afghanistan were a few of the warlords still fighting for power and Abu Zubaydah, who helped operate a popular terrorist training camp near the border with Pakistan. There were also rootless but experienced operatives, such as Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who-though not necessarily formal members of someone else's organization-were traveling around the world and joining in projects that were supported by or linked to Bin Laden, the Blind Sheikh, or their associates. In now analyzing the terrorist programs carried out by members of this network, it would be misleading to apply the label "al Qaeda operations" too often in these early years. Yet it would also be misleading to ignore the significance of these connections. And in this network, Bin Laden's agenda stood out. While his allied Islamist groups were focused on local battles, such as those in Egypt, Algeria, Bosnia, or Chechnya, Bin Laden concentrated on attacking the "far enemy"-the United States. After U.S. troops deployed to Somalia in late 1992, al Qaeda leaders formulated a fatwa demanding their eviction. In December, bombs exploded at two hotels in Aden where U.S. troops routinely stopped en route to Somalia, killing two, but no Americans. <sep>What was the names and locations of two peers of bin Ladin?<sep>Blind Sheik - New Jersey
Example Output: Yes
Example Input: The cute red ball rolled over to the blue ball and said hello. The blue ball was scared and went to cry to the green ball. The green ball laughed at the blue ball. Then the green ball told the orange ball that blue ball was stupid. Most felt this was not good to do and so they punished the green ball by taking away all his air. From that day on everyone saw the air-less green ball and knew that they could not do or say any bad things. This is how the trouble started. The purple ball used the fear of everyone to become the leader that they all feared. The purple ball was mean to everyone. Until one day the red ball spoke up and got all the other colored balls together and they took the air from the purple ball and put it in the green ball. Sadly, the green ball had been without air for too long and was dead. <sep>Why could the balls not say bad things?<sep>They took away the green balls air
Example Output: | No
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press release: Fresca Opera presents Opera Storytellers! Opera is a series of notes from the soul. Arias performed with the most intimate of instruments: The human voice. Accompanied by six strings and the history behind the notes, Opera Storytellers presents operatic music like you have never heard it before. Acoustic. Pure. Naked. Opera Storytellers performs this music the way it was intended to be. A connection without interference. Just pure music.
Arias does not sing. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
De Montfort University (DMU) is a public university in the city of Leicester, England. It ranked 53rd in the Times University rankings for young universities in 2016. University staff include the second highest number of National Teaching Fellows of all UK universities.
Times University rankings for young universities is done every 5 years and is an honour to be on OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Emile Zola Berman (November 3, 1902 – July 3, 1981) was an American criminal defense lawyer. He was named after the French novelist Émile Zola (1840–1902). During World War II he was an intelligence officer in the 10th Air Force in Burma where he received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Bronze Star. He was discharged as a lieutenant colonel.
Mr Berman was old for a soldier OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
How was the economical performance of Delhi in 2011-12?, Context: The gross state domestic product (GSDP) of Delhi at current prices for the year 2011-12 has been estimated at Rs 3.13 lakh crore, which is an increase of 18.7 per cent over the previous fiscal. | increase of 18.7 per cent over the previous fiscal |
Lawyer David Gibbs pleaded with the appeals court to order Schiavo's feeding tube reinserted to give her parents a chance to make a complete argument before a federal court that her rights are being violated.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
David Gibbs will blow his nose in the courtroom | It's impossible to say |
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: Amateur tennis star Guy Haines wants to divorce his vulgar and unfaithful wife Miriam , so he can marry the elegant and beautiful Anne Morton , daughter of a senator . While on a train to meet Miriam , Haines meets Bruno Anthony , a forward stranger who recognizes Guy from gossip items in the newspapers that detail his marital problems . During lunch in Bruno's compartment , Bruno tells Guy about his idea for the perfect `` Criss-cross '' murder : he will kill Miriam and in exchange , Guy will kill Bruno's father . Since both are strangers , otherwise unconnected , there is no identifiable motive for the crimes , Bruno contends , hence no suspicion . Guy hurriedly leaves the compartment but leaves Bruno thinking he has agreed to the deal . Guy accidentally leaves his cigarette lighter behind , a gift from Anne to Guy , Which Bruno pockets . Bruno heads to Guy's hometown of Metcalf and follows Miriam and her two beaux to an amusement park , where he briefly illuminates her face with Guy's lighter , then strangles her to death . Guy's problems begin when his alibi an inebriated college professor on the same train as Guy can not remember their meeting . But they increase exponentially when Bruno makes repeated appearances into Guy's life as he seeks to remind Guy that he is now obliged to kill Bruno's father , according to the bargain he thinks they struck on the train . Bruno sends Guy the keys to his house , a map to his father's room , and a pistol . Soon after , Bruno appears at a party at Senator Morton's house and hobnobs with the guests , much to Guy's apprehension and Anne's increasing suspicion . <sep>When did Guy's problems begin<sep>Bruno makes repeated appearances
Student: | Yes |
Q: Turnix worcesteri have black eyes.
Last month, native bird trappers have snared and caught the Luzon Buttonquail (Turnix worcesteri or Worcester's buttonquail) in Dalton Pass, a cold and wind-swept bird passageway in the Caraballo Mountains, in Nueva Vizcaya, located between Cordillera Central and Sierra Madre mountain ranges, in Northern Luzon. The rare species, previously known to birders only through drawings based on dead museum specimens collected several decades ago, was identified in a documentary filmed in the Philippines called Bye-Bye Birdie."
A: It's impossible to say
Q: Siemens is involved in all aspects of society
German Siemens and ThyssenKrupp may sell relevant core technology to China, which owns the first commercially operated maglev line.
A: It's impossible to say
Q: Greg made hamburger and pepperoni pizzas too.
The Pizza Burn<br>Greg was making some pizza for his wife's birthday. All of the pizzas but her's were done and ready to serve. She preferred Hawaiian and he stuck that in the oven last. Unfortunately, he burned her pizza. Luckily, his wife insisted that she actually enjoyed it better burned.
A: It's impossible to say
Q: I hope the minister will forget that, if there ever was a government on this earth that has worked, that has recognized aboriginal governments, it was Quebec
I hope the minister will not forget that, if there ever was a government on this earth that has worked, that has recognized aboriginal governments, and that has paid tribute to, made things easier for and given space to aboriginal communities, to the first nations, because they are nations, it is the Government of Quebec that did it, as early as 1985.
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:
Former Massachusetts senator Scott Brown welcomes attendees to a Donald Trump campaign stop, in Portsmouth, N.H. (Matt Rourke/AP)
As Donald Trump continues to call Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" for claiming Native American heritage, former Massachusetts senator Scott Brown -- who lost to her in 2012 -- is defending that line of attack.
"As you know, she's not Native American," Brown, an early Trump endorser, told reporters on a conference call organized by the Republican National Committee. "She's not 1/32 Cherokee."
In the 2012 race, Brown tried and, for a short time, succeeded in making a campaign issue out of Warren's claim of Native American ancestry and whether it helped her win academic positions because of affirmative action. Brown allies in talk radio called her "Fauxcahontas," and to this day, photoshopped images of Warren with a feather headdress follow her around the Internet.
[Together for the first time, Clinton and Warren knock Trump, talk policy]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's short list of potential vice presidential candidates. Here's what you need to know about her. (Sarah Parnass,Osman Malik/The Washington Post)
Four years ago, Warren struggled for a while with the storyline. "I still have a picture on my mantle at home," she explained at one point, "and it’s a picture of my mother’s dad, a picture of my grandfather, and my Aunt Bee has walked by that picture at least a thousand times, remarked that her father, my poppa, had high cheekbones, like all of the Indians do."
The storyline eventually backfired on Brown, especially after some campaign workers were filmed war-whooping and making "tomahawk chops" at Warren. Today, with the campaign very much in the rear-view mirror, Brown was happy to re-litigate it, suggesting ways for Warren to prove her ancestry.
"Harvard can release the records, she can authorize the release of those records, or she can take a DNA test," he said, insisting that Warren took a job that might have rightly gone to a nonwhite applicant. "It’s a reverse form of racism, quite frankly."
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He ran against Warren in 2012
(CNN) Former Sen. Scott Brown on Monday stepped into the attack dog role for Donald Trump, saying his former Senate opponent Elizabeth Warren should "take a DNA test" if she wants to prove her Native American heritage.
"She's not Native American, she's not 1/32nd, she has no Native American background, except for what her family told her," Brown told reporters on a conference call hosted by the Republican National Committee, hours after Hillary Clinton and Warren appeared at an event together. "The easy answer, as you all know, is that Harvard and Penn can release those records, she can authorize the release of those records, she can take a DNA test, she can release the records herself. There's never been any effort," Brown said.
Warren responded on Tuesday telling the hosts of ABC's "The View" that the comments were aimed at bullying her "into shutting up."
"What this is really about is can they bully me into shutting up?" she said. "Can they be nasty enough and ugly enough and throw enough in my direction that I will say 'oh' and just go back into the shadows? And the answer is nope, not happening."
Warren and Clinton appeared at a campaign event together earlier in the day, a large part of which was spent slamming Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee.
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Solution: | Former Massachusetts senator Scott Brown is not letting the Elizabeth Warren Native American controversy go. For those of you who don't remember, Warren's claims of Native American ancestry made waves during the 2012 senate race (she's reportedly only 1/32 Cherokee), and Brown made sure to rail on Warren over the claim often; his supporters edited images of her to include a feather headdress, for example, or called her "Fauxcahontas." (He still lost the race to her anyway.) Brown, who has now endorsed Donald Trump for president, brought the controversy up again Monday in a conference call with reporters that was organized by the Republican National Committee, the Washington Post reports. "As you know, she's not Native American. She's not 1/32 Cherokee. She has no Native American background, except for what her family told her," Brown said, per CNN. "The easy answer, as you all know, is that Harvard and Penn can release those records, she can authorize the release of those records, she can take a DNA test, she can release the records herself. There's never been any effort." He continued to insist that she may have taken teaching jobs away from other non-white applicants: "That took away somebody who truly was a Native American and gave that opportunity to somebody who is not, and that's just not right. It's a reverse form of racism, quite frankly." (Warren had choice words for Trump Monday.) |
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In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
What happened about a month before March 2008 that meant new generators needed to be installed on the island?, Context: On 13 February 2008, fire destroyed the fishing factory and the four generators that supplied power to the island. On 14 March 2008, new generators were installed and uninterrupted power was restored. This fire was devastating to the island because fishing is a mainstay of the economy. While a new factory was being planned and built, M/V Kelso came to the island and acted as a factory ship, with island fishermen based on board for stints normally of one week. The new facility was ready in July 2009, for the start of the 2009–10 fishing season.
Output: | fire destroyed the fishing factory |
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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: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
Output: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
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New input case for you: The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869, consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight associate justices, any six of whom would constitute a quorum. Justices are nominated by the President of the United States and appointed after confirmation by the United States Senate. Justices of the Supreme Court have life tenure and receive a salary which is set at $255,500 per year for the chief justice and at $244,400 per year for each associate justice as of 2014.
Output: | how many justice are in the supreme court |
Q: Tom very much hated his girlfriend
Smell<br>Tom loved his girlfriend very much. One day, his girlfriend told him he usually smells bad. Tom never wore deodorant. Tom decided to begin wearing deodorant. Tom pleased his girlfriend by wearing deodorant regularly.
A: No
Q: Franklin was the best at skiing in the group.
Skiing<br>Franklin was a very good skier. He had decided to come up and hit the slopes for a weekend. He was flying down all of the hills and trails. Franklin met up with some friends as well and they skied. He had an incredible time that weekend skiing.
A: It's impossible to say
Q: "Who Killed Marilyn?" is a song that Glenn Danzig wrote while contemplating his own life.
"Who Killed Marilyn?" is a song by Glenn Danzig, about questions surrounding the death of actress Marilyn Monroe, with the titular question suggesting she was murdered. Though Danzig's first solo single, the song has since been included on various collections by Danzig's group The Misfits.
A: It's impossible to say
Q: The speaker wants to give power to ministers and officials
That is speaking about as directly as I can to Motions Nos. 9 and 10. By tabling regulations in parliament and having the House of Commons or a committee subsequently pass them, we want to make sure an effective check is placed on ministers or departmental officials in terms of a bill to arbitrarily implement changes in the legislation.
A: | No |
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
A person is seen riding along the water in a kayak. the person
OPTIONS:
- uses a paddle to push themselves around the water while looking off into the distance.
- plays a few instruments along the water.
- speaks to another and then rides back with the paddle.
- is seen doing strange stunts along the water while the camera captures them..
Next sentence: uses a paddle to push themselves around the water while looking off into the distance.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
A person absorbs all the water from a bowl using a mop. Water is poured into a large bucket. the mop
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- is then wiped down with a rag.
- is placed into a bucket to clean out the rug.
- is then replaced with a measure.
- in dunked in the bucket of water then spun dry in the tray..
Next sentence: in dunked in the bucket of water then spun dry in the tray.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
A guy rises to his feet. The guy walks on a tight rope. The guy turns to walk back. the guy
OPTIONS:
- sits on the rough sea floor.
- walks backwards on the tight rope.
- stretches in front of skaters.
- straps his leg muscles into his shoes..
Next sentence: walks backwards on the tight rope.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
A child plays with a vacuum attachment piece in a bedroom. The mother vacuums the floor of the bedroom. the child
OPTIONS:
- kneels on the floor and vacuums the carpet of the butt.
- brings the vacuum attachment into the next bedroom.
- removes the vacuum from the bedroom.
- uses the vacuum attachment piece to vacuums the floor..
Next sentence: | brings the vacuum attachment into the next bedroom. |
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Fox News chairman Roger Ailes says "the air has been cleared" with Donald Trump.
"Donald Trump and I spoke today," Ailes said Monday in a statement obtained by CNNMoney. "We discussed our concerns, and I again expressed my confidence in Megyn Kelly. She is a brilliant journalist and I support her 100 percent."
Ailes continued: "I assured him that we will continue to cover this campaign with fairness & balance. We had a blunt but cordial conversation and the air has been cleared."
Kelly briefly acknowledged the controversy on her 9 p.m. program -- and then moved on. "I certainly will not apologize for doing good journalism" she said in a pointed response to Trump, who had suggested earlier in the day that she should apologize to him.
In an interview on CNN's "New Day" Tuesday morning, Trump effusively praised Ailes, calling him "an amazing guy and an amazing executive" and a "very good friend of mine."
When anchor Chris Cuomo asked, "Was part of the deal that Megyn Kelly wouldn't go on her show and attack you and keep it going?," Trump responded, "No, I don't -- we didn't even discuss that -- it's not about Megyn Kelly."
He reiterated that "I have no problems" with Fox.
That's a big change, because Trump had been lambasting Kelly and Fox for days, ever since he was challenged in last week's GOP debate on the network. He says the Fox moderators were unfair to him and that Fox should be "ashamed."
After Trump started complaining, Fox dramatically ratcheted down its coverage of the candidate. The channel barely covered Trump's criticisms of the moderators Kelly, Chris Wallace and Bret Baier.
But the motor-mouth Republican candidate began to ease up on his criticism of the channel on Monday morning after Ailes called.
Trump tweeted that Ailes had assured him of this: "'Trump' will be treated fairly on Fox News."
Trump added: "His word is always good!"
Soon after the phone call, Fox confirmed that Trump would be appearing on Tuesday's "Fox & Friends."
The show's co-host Steve Doocy welcomed him back by saying, "Glad we're friends again."
Trump will also be on Sean Hannity's 10 p.m. show on Tuesday.
This was (and is) a true clash of titans. Fox News is the favored network of Republicans, and Trump is the Republican campaign front-runner.
Trump complained over and over again about what he perceived to be the network's unfair treatment. On Sunday afternoon he tweeted: "It amazes me that other networks seem to treat me so much better than Fox News. I brought them the biggest ratings in history, and I get zip!"
And he repeatedly and personally insulted Kelly, Fox's 9 p.m. host.
While Trump is appearing on other Fox shows, it is "highly unlikely" that he will appear with Kelly in the coming days, a source said -- and that's probably an understatement.
The fight started several days ago when Kelly and the other moderators posed tough questions to Trump and other GOP candidates.
Kelly was praised for asking Trump about sexist and misogynistic comments from his past. But Trump was furious.
On Friday night, speaking with CNN's Don Lemon, Trump complained about Kelly's "anger" at the debate by saying there was "blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever." Many people believe he insinuating something about her menstrual cycle, but Trump denied that.
Kelly and Ailes declined to comment on the "blood" comments. Privately, though, they were disgusted by what Trump said and by the response from some of his supporters.
There was so much invective directed at her on the Internet that it created security concerns for Fox.
Kelly did not want to be seen as a victim; rather, she wanted to stay above the fray and be seen as an independent-minded journalist. That's why she barely addressed the controversy on Monday night.
Roger Ailes just called. He is a great guy & assures me that "Trump" will be treated fairly on @FoxNews. His word is always good! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 10, 2015
Ailes' role in all this was critical. He was a masterful Republican media consultant for decades before creating Fox News. He is widely regarded as a television genius and a conservative power broker.
And he has a long history with Trump. Before this current presidential bid, Trump was a weekly guest on the network's morning show "Fox & Friends."
According to Politico, the two men met for a long lunch in late June, shortly after Trump entered the race.
So what was Ailes thinking in this case? Ailes has a reputation as a fighter -- someone who has employed his network and his hosts to win many battles over the years.
Around the office, Ailes has been known to repeat advice from his father: "Don't pick a fight with someone who likes to fight."
Usually when he invokes it, he means it as a warning to others.
But this situation was tricky. Why? Because Trump is a fighter, too.
For now, the two men seem to have struck a fragile truce.
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Lagging in the polls, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky set aside his right to privacy agenda on Monday afternoon to take up another cause: derailing Donald J. Trump.
Mr. Paul laid into Mr. Trump in an afternoon conference call, calling him “a bully” and an “empty suit,” and comparing him to the “emperor with no clothes.”
“Are we going to fix the country through bombast and empty blather?” Mr. Paul asked. “Somebody has to challenge him.”
Mr. Paul has made that his mission. He started the Republican presidential debate on Thursday evening with a verbal assault on Mr. Trump’s integrity, accusing him of pretending to be conservative and cozying up to the Clintons.
He followed that with an op-ed in IJReview listing Mr. Trump’s history of liberal positions and calling on Republican voters to fire Mr. Trump and pick a serious candidate.
On Monday evening, Mr. Trump responded on Twitter, comparing Mr. Paul to a “spoiled brat” and saying he “was terrible at DEBATE!”
The confrontation with Mr. Trump comes as Mr. Paul’s campaign appears to be stumbling. His debate performance was panned and recent polls have shown him slipping into the bottom tier of candidates.
Last week also brought the specter of scandal, as a close aide and the head of a “super PAC” that supports the senator was indicted on charges of hiding secret payments while working on the 2012 presidential campaign of Ron Paul, Mr. Paul’s father.
Mr. Paul had little to say about that on Monday, instead reminding voters of his Tea Party credentials and directing his ire at Mr. Trump.
“I think if no one stands up to a bully, a bully will just keep doing what they’re doing,” Mr. Paul said. “Unless someone points out the emperor has no clothes, they will continue to strut about, and then we’ll end up with a reality TV star as our nominee.” ||||| Megyn Kelly opened her Fox News program on Monday night by addressing the uproar over Donald J. Trump’s personal attacks on her, her first comments since he made a remark that many interpreted as a reference to her menstrual cycle.
“I certainly will not apologize for doing good journalism, so I’ll continue doing my job without fear or favor,” she told viewers in brief comments on her show, “The Kelly File.”
“This is a tough business,” she added, “and it’s time now to move forward.”
She said she would not respond directly to any of Mr. Trump’s numerous insults and disparaging statements about her.
Mr. Trump and many of his supporters have unleashed a social media assault against Ms. Kelly and Fox News since she asked him pointed questions about his descriptions of women as pigs, dogs and slobs. ||||| | Looks like Fox News and Donald Trump are friends again: The candidate will appear on Fox & Friends this morning, and Roger Ailes, the network's chairman, says the "air has been cleared" after what he describes as a "blunt but cordial" conversation in which he promised Trump his campaign would be covered with "fairness and balance," CNN reports. "We discussed our concerns, and I again expressed my confidence in Megyn Kelly. She is a brilliant journalist and I support her 100%," Ailes says. Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy says Trump will discuss "his relationship with Fox News" in what will be his first appearance on the network since last week's debate and his widely slammed remarks about Kelly. On her show last night, Kelly said she wouldn't respond to Trump's attacks, but would keep on doing her job "without fear or favor," the New York Times reports. "This is a tough business, and it's time now to move forward," she said. Insiders tell New York magazine that Ailes reached out to Trump because he was worried that conservatives were taking his side and the episode could end up damaging the network. Trump tweeted yesterday that Ailes is a "great guy" who had promised to treat him fairly. He already appears to have found a new target: After Sen. Rand Paul described Trump as "a bully" and an "empty suit" in a New York Times interview yesterday afternoon, Trump tweeted that the "truly weird" senator reminded him of a "spoiled brat without a properly functioning brain." |
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A new social media craze is taking over the internet. This time, kids are attempting to summon a Mexican demon named Charlie.
The Charlie Charlie Challenge surfaced Monday on Twitter and has gone viral across social media platforms.
The challenge includes putting two pencils on a piece of paper in the shape of a cross. The words “yes” and “no” are written in boxes outlined by the pencils. Then the participants say “Charlie, Charlie are you here?”
Social media users have been uploading videos “summoning” Charlie.
When social media challenges go viral, memes are to be expected.
Me when I see someone doing the #charliecharliechallenge pic.twitter.com/9BNWTB0VE4 — Best Scenes (@BestScenees) May 25, 2015
Some Twitter users have been advising others against the Charlie Challenge with warnings of demons. Users say the craze stems from “an old Mexican game” to summon a demon named Charlie.
Report a typo ||||| Story highlights The challenge has taken off on social media
It's supposed to summon demons
(CNN) Please don't kill the messenger -- or send a Mexican demon our way.
Here are the five things you need to know, with the full understanding that we are not advising you to do this, people. Do not start trying to summon spirits and blame it on us.
Come with pencils
Remember those things from elementary school? Challenge-takers are laying two of them on a piece of paper in the form of a cross (some people are probably substituting pens). They write "yes" and "no" in the four boxes formed by the cross.
Read More ||||| The internet has been gripped by a Ouija board-like game called "Charlie Charlie challenge", but its origins are not what they seem.
More than 2 million people have used the hashtag #CharlieCharlieChallenge over the past 48 hours. It's a game which involves balancing pencils over the words "yes" and "no" on a piece of paper. Players ask questions which are supposedly answered by Charlie - a mysterious demon who spookily moves the pencils, if you believe in that sort of thing.
Two days ago a Twitter user called @_kluh was one of the first to use the hashtag #CharlieCharlieChallenge. It was also made popular by a number of big social media stars in the US. But where did the game come from? Several reports and tweets claim the game's origins are in Mexico. For example, one of the most retweeted videos about Charlie Charlie Challenge, shows a popular Mexican beer brand and the Spanish words for "yes" and "no":
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There's just one problem. The game has nothing to do with Mexican folklore.
"There's no demon called 'Charlie' in Mexico," says Maria Elena Navez of BBC Mundo. "Mexican legends often come from ancient Aztec and Maya history, or from the many beliefs that began circulating during the Spanish conquest. In Mexican mythology you can find gods with names like 'Tlaltecuhtli' or 'Tezcatlipoca' in the Nahuatl language. But if this legend began after the Spanish conquest, I'm sure it would've been called 'Carlitos' (Charlie in Spanish)."
"Mexican demons are usually American inventions," she says.
Describing the game as a traditional Mexican way to summon the dead is probably a way to make it sound mysterious or meaningful - in the same way that the Ouija board has its roots in a clever bit of 19th century American marketing rather than ancient Egypt. Another possible explanation is this YouTube video posted a year ago which shows a slightly different pencil trick. It's in Spanish, and its title translates as "Playing Charlie Charlie."
Image copyright Le Videoblog Image caption This year-old YouTube video in Spanish might explain why the 'Charlie Charlie' game is described as being 'Mexican' - even though there's little evidence that it actually is.
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You can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending ||||| What’s the Charlie Charlie Challenge and where did it come from?
The Charlie Charlie Challenge — or variants of it, known as the pencil game or Charlie pencil — has been around for some time. It’s claimed that the game is an old Mexican tradition, but there’s no trace of that on the internet, but it seems to have been around for years before it took off this week.
To play the game, grab a sheet of paper and draw two lines on it to make a cross. Put a “yes” in the top right and bottom left hand corner, and a “no” in the remaining two.
Then put a pencil right on the line going across. Balance another pencil on top of that, along the line going downwards.
To properly summon the demon, according to the game, you then have to ask “Charlie, Charlie, can we play?”
The pencils should then start moving. If they go to yes, the demon is ready and willing to answer your questions — put the pencil back, and use the same technique to get answers. If it’s a no, then you’ll have to come back later, or try again.
What’s actually moving the pencils?
Gravity, and the awkward positioning of some pencils. They just wouldn't sit still even if you wanted them to.
It’s perhaps scarier than a Ouija board because it doesn’t have the same explanations. With those boards, players have to keep hold of a glass while it moves around the table — so it’s not difficult to imagine that people might be pushing it around without knowing it.
With the Charlie Charlie game, however, nobody is actually touching the pencils. But they are still likely being pushed — the pencils have to be so finely balanced on top of each other that even the slightest movement from a breath or slightly tilted surface will push it around.
The arrangement of pencils that the game requires means that they’ll always move, because it’s just not a natural position for them to be in.
That’s why the game works reliably, to make the demon at least say no — unlike the Ouija board, it doesn’t require people to work, and so the pencils will always move if they’re aligned correctly. But if the friction of the pencils is too much, they just won't move.
If you’d like to debunk the game for yourself, try doing the same thing without the paper and without the incantation. Pencils placed on top of and across each other always move around, whether or not a demon is summoned to push them.
Why does scary stuff happen afterwards?
Afterwards, some have reported strange goings on. Those seem especially scary if people don’t chant the important words “Charlie, Charlie, can we stop?” and say goodbye when the demon says yes.
My sister did the Charlie challenge she didn't say bye to him, now her Siri keeps popping up out of no where saying pic.twitter.com/mxGdiffpxc — coz (@coral_olivia) May 26, 2015
It’s possible that strange things are happening. But it’s equally likely that after playing the game the brain gets itself into a state that makes it extra suggestible and fearful.
That’s the same thing that makes people more likely to hear strange noises when they’re on their own or in the dark. In both of those situations, people are genuinely more in danger — so the brain think itself into a special fight or flight state that makes it extra-vigilant to noises, so that those dangers can be avoided.
Who is Charlie?
As with most urban legends, the actual fact of who Charlie is seems to vary depending on who’s telling it. Some claim it is a child that took his own life, others a demonic Mexican man with black and red eyes.
The only way to really find out who he is for sure is to play the game and ask him. |||||
A: | If you've been curious about the #CharlieCharlieChallenge hashtag popping up on Twitter over the past few days, here's a warning that this is nothing like last year's Ice Bucket Challenge—though participants may scream just as loud. The game, which CNN points out could be described as "nothing but a mashup of the Ouija board and [the] 'Bloody Mary' [game]," involves summoning a supposed Mexican demon by placing two pencils in the form of a cross on a piece of paper and writing "Yes" and "No" in the alternating squares. Players then ask, "Charlie, Charlie, are you here?" (or some variant, like "Charlie, Charlie, can we play?"); if a pencil rolls toward a "Yes," players must then ask Charlie some more specific questions and see how he/she/it responds. The game has produced a plethora of videos and tweets of those partaking, ostensibly spooked by the presence of Charlie, described as both a group of Mexican demons or a single spooky entity (some say it's a child who committed suicide; others, a "demonic Mexican man with black and red eyes," per the Independent). KFOR has compiled a decent number of these photos and freakouts. But BBC Mundo reporter Maria Elena Navez says there's no demon known as "Charlie" in Mexican mythology, pointing out out that gods in old-time Mexican myths would have had names like Tlaltecuhtli or Tezcatlipoca. "If this legend began after the Spanish conquest, I'm sure it would've been called 'Carlitos' (Charlie in Spanish)," she tells the BBC. So why do the pencils move? Gravity and the "awkward positioning of some pencils," the Independent explains. (Some Mexican priests spend their time battling an "infestation of demons.") |
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ISIS has released propaganda videos celebrating the attacks in Paris and threatening to carry out another in Washington, D.C.
In one of the videos, a purported Algerian member of the terror group addresses the United States, saying, "like France we will strike in its center in Washington," according to global security firm and NBC News analyst Flashpoint Intelligence.
Related: CIA Director Brennan: Paris Attacks Not 'A One-Off Event'
French soldiers patrol at the Arch of Triumph in the Champs Elysees district of Paris, France, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015. Amr Nabil / AP
The man also threatens that ISIS is coming to Europe with "booby traps and explosives."
Another of the videos includes fighters congratulating their "brothers" in France for perpetrating Friday night's massacre, and urging more violence, Flashpoint said.
A senior U.S. official told NBC News that the video had not yet been authenticated.
"It looks like a typical propaganda video, and it's getting attention now because ISIS has been in the news," the official said. ||||| CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack in Washington.
The video, which appeared on a website used by Islamic State to post its messages, begins with news footage of the aftermath of Friday’s Paris shootings in which at least 129 people were killed.
The message to countries involved in what it called the “crusader campaign” was delivered by a man dressed in fatigues and a turban, and identified in subtitles as Al Ghareeb the Algerian.
“We say to the states that take part in the crusader campaign that, by God, you will have a day, God willing, like France’s and by God, as we struck France in the center of its abode in Paris, then we swear that we will strike America at its center in Washington,” the man said.
It was not immediately possible to verify the authenticity of the video, which purports to be the work of Islamic State fighters in the Iraqi province of Salahuddine, north of Baghdad.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security would not comment on the video but said it has not received information indicating a potential attack.
“While we take all threats seriously, we do not have specific credible information of an attack on the U.S. homeland,” a DHS official said on condition of anonymity.
The French government has called the Paris attacks an act of war and said it would not end its air strikes against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
French fighter jets launched their biggest raids in Syria to date on Sunday, targeting the Islamic State’s stronghold in the city of Raqqa, in coordination with U.S. forces.
Police raided homes of suspected Islamist militants across France overnight following the Paris attacks.
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“Al Ghareeb the Algerian” also warned Europe in the video that more attacks were coming.
“I say to the European countries that we are coming, coming with booby traps and explosives, coming with explosive belts and (gun) silencers and you will be unable to stop us because today we are much stronger than before,” he said.
Apparently referring to international talks to end the Syrian war, another man identified in the video as Al Karrar the Iraqi tells French President Francois Hollande “we have decided to negotiate with you in the trenches and not in the hotels.” |||||
Output: | The Paris terror attacks were just the start if airstrikes against Syria don't cease, according to unauthenticated ISIS video that surfaced Monday—and the next target could be DC, reports Reuters. The video—which the news agency says was posted on a site used by ISIS, supposedly by militants north of Baghdad—features a man dressed in fatigues and a turban and labeled in the subtitles as "Al Ghareeb the Algerian." "We say to the states that take part in the crusader campaign that … as we struck France in the center of its abode in Paris, then we swear that we will strike America at its center in Washington," the man says in the clip. Europe gets an additional warning as well: "I say to the European countries that we are coming, coming with booby traps and explosives, coming with explosive belts and [gun] silencers and you will be unable to stop us because today we are much stronger than before." The idea of talks to end the Syrian war were also roundly dismissed in the video, with another man called "Al Karrar the Iraqi" addressing French President Francois Hollande: "We have decided to negotiate with you in the trenches and not in the hotels." A senior US official, however, tells NBC News that the video looks like many other ISIS propaganda videos and that it may just be bubbling to the surface because of Friday's attacks. |
Susan's Plan (also released as "Dying to Get Rich" on video) is a 1998 black comedy film directed by John Landis and starring Nastassja Kinski, Dan Aykroyd, Billy Zane, Rob Schneider, Lara Flynn Boyle and Michael Biehn. The plot revolves around Susan's (played by Kinski) plan to kill her former husband (with the help of a group of misfits) and collect his life insurance.
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Susan's Plan bombed in theaters"?
Options are:
(A). Yes.
(B). It's impossible to say.
(C). No.
I think the answer is | (B). |
[Q]: Badla Jatti Da (Punjabi:ਬਦਲਾ ਜੱਟੀ ਦਾ) is a 1991 Punjabi action movie directed by Ravinder Ravi. This movie stars Gugu Gill and Yograj Singh in lead roles. The villain role played by Yograj Singh is considered one of his best. The movie was a blockbuster hit across Punjab. Badla Jatti Da has no english language in it
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[Q]: And I was surprised at the extent of it. And I think we've now got so many examples around the country that we really have to find ways to end this. Imagine what it -- what it is like for someone to be singled out unfairly, unjustly, and feel the unfair force of law simply because of race or ethnicity. Ethnicity is a problem in many countries
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[Q]: The School of Hotel Administration (SHA, more commonly known as the Hotel School) at Cornell University is a specialized business school in the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University, a private Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1922, it was the world's first four-year intercollegiate school devoted to hospitality management. The School of Hotel Administration was founded by 2 people.
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[Q]: How to study the concept of islam in international relations<br>Thoroughly study the western international relations theories. For example, be familiar with realism, liberalism, structuralism, and so forth. You must have a good understanding of the different theories in order to be able to apply them to your research and reflection. western international relations theories have been written by cartman
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Write the next sentence in the following story.
A man is riding a horse and roping a calf. he | jumps off the horse and hog ties the calf. |
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".
Let me give you an example: Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy. Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it. When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework. <sep>Who does Timothy play with?<sep>Basketball and baseball
The answer to this example can be: No
Here is why: Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
OK. solve this:
In 2415 , after a virus in 2011 wiped out 99 % of the Earth's population , all of the survivors inhabit Bregna , a walled city-state , Which is ruled by a congress of scientists . Although Bregna is idyllic , people are routinely disappearing and everyone is suffering from bad dreams . on Flux is a member of the ` Monicans ' , an underground rebel organization who communicate through telepathy-enabling technology and are led by The Handler . After a mission to destroy a surveillance station , on comes home to find her sister Una has been killed for being mistaken for a Monican . When on is sent on a mission to kill the government's leader , Trevor Goodchild , she discovers that both she and the Monicans are being manipulated by council members in a secret coup . This discovery causes on to question the origins of everyone in Bregna ; and in particular , her own personal connection to Trevor . It turns out that everyone in Bregna is actually a clone , grown from recycled DNA . With the dead constantly being reborn into new individuals and still bearing partial memories of their previous lives , there has been an increase in the troubling dreams . Recycling and cloning became necessary since the original viral antidote made humans infertile . Trevor's ongoing experiments , as with all his clone ancestors , has been trying to reverse the infertility . on learns that she is a clone of the original Trevor's wife , Katherine and is the first Katherine clone in over 400 years . One of Trevor's experiments , Una , was successful as she became pregnant . <sep>This man, the late husband of a girl named Katherine, is the government leader.<sep>Trevor Goodchild
Answer: | Yes |
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How to become a nurse in canada
Get a bachelor's degree in nursing.
Most provincial and territorial nurses' associations in canada require potential nurses to have a bachelor's degree in nursing. As the first step in your journey to becoming a nurse, check with your province or territory's nurses' association or regulatory body for a list of approved nursing schools and programs in your area.
Options are:
* Download a current list of programs accredited by the canadian association of schools of nursing here: https: // www.casn. Ca/accreditation/accredited-canadian-nursing-education-programs /..
* The united kingdom university program in nursing is a nationwide agency typically taught by the u.s. department of education and is a preferred field of nursing..
* Some common local nursing schools are marshall d. university, murray university, de al dannaps university, and the university of safety at concord university..
* Certain degree programs include doctoral nursing, nursing board, and nursing regulation. In your doctoral degree program, you will be able to decide whether to be a nurse or a nurse.. | Download a current list of programs accredited by the canadian association of schools of nursing here: https: // www.casn. Ca/accreditation/accredited-canadian-nursing-education-programs /. |
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:Pluto, also called Pluto the Pup, is a cartoon character created in 1930 at Walt Disney Productions. He is a yellow-orange color, medium-sized, short-haired dog with black ears. Unlike most Disney characters, Pluto is not anthropomorphic beyond some characteristics such as facial expression. He is Mickey Mouse's pet. Officially a mixed-breed dog, he made his debut as a bloodhound in the Mickey Mouse cartoon The Chain Gang. Together with Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, and Goofy, Pluto is one of the 'Sensational Six' -- the biggest stars in the Disney universe. Though all six are non-human animals, Pluto alone is not dressed as a human.
Solution: | how is goofy a dog if pluto is a dog |
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, has vowed to step down from his position if things "get out of control" in Tibet, where violent demonstrations against China have killed anywhere from 13 to 100 people. At a news conference in Dharamsala, India, the Dalai Lama said he was opposed to the use of violence against China's rule. "Violence is almost suicide," he said. "Even if 1,000 Tibetans sacrifice their lives, it will not help." However, he acknowledges that many radical Tibetans have criticized his policy of non-violence, and says that his only option is to "completely resign" if the bloodshed continues.
Sentence: the agent is aged 28
Output: It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
How to look like a rocker<br>Find the right bottoms. Looking like a rocker is all about finding the right combination for an outfit, and a large part of that is picking a pair of bottoms-such as pants or skirts. [substeps] Jeans, especially ripped and worn ones, are an excellent choice for most rocker outfits, no matter what subgenre you're going for.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Jeans are important for the rocker look
****
Answer:
Yes
[Q]: 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. Do not show too much decolletage. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: Yes
Problem: Basketball Camp Excitement<br>Marvin was excited to go to camp. It was no ordinary camp though. He was going to basketball camp for a week. He could barely sleep he was so excited. The next day his parents dropped him off for the week.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Marvin did well at high basketball camp"? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Q: large parishes are grouped into three areas
Póvoa de Varzim is divided into seven civil parishes, most of which were created as civil entities in the 19th century and some were merged in the 21st century, but are directly derived from ecclesiastical parishes existing since the Early Middle Ages. These parishes are grouped into three areas recognized by the Municipal masterplan: urban (city), suburban and rural.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Q: Domenica de Rosa will write a series about Elly Griffiths.
Elly Griffiths is the pen name of Domenica de Rosa (born 17 august 1963, London), a British crime novelist. She has written two series as Griffiths to date, one featuring Ruth Galloway, the other featuring Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens and Max Mephisto.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
PROBLEM: what language is mentioned second to last?, Context: In Latin, papyri from Herculaneum dating before 79 AD (when it was destroyed) have been found that have been written in old Roman cursive, where the early forms of minuscule letters "d", "h" and "r", for example, can already be recognised. According to papyrologist Knut Kleve, "The theory, then, that the lower-case letters have been developed from the fifth century uncials and the ninth century Carolingian minuscules seems to be wrong." Both majuscule and minuscule letters existed, but the difference between the two variants was initially stylistic rather than orthographic and the writing system was still basically unicameral: a given handwritten document could use either one style or the other but these were not mixed. European languages, except for Ancient Greek and Latin, did not make the case distinction before about 1300.[citation needed]
SOLUTION: Ancient Greek
PROBLEM: If you had water and coal or wood fuel, what could be done?, Context: In 1781 James Watt patented a steam engine that produced continuous rotary motion. Watt's ten-horsepower engines enabled a wide range of manufacturing machinery to be powered. The engines could be sited anywhere that water and coal or wood fuel could be obtained. By 1883, engines that could provide 10,000 hp had become feasible. The stationary steam engine was a key component of the Industrial Revolution, allowing factories to locate where water power was unavailable. The atmospheric engines of Newcomen and Watt were large compared to the amount of power they produced, but high pressure steam engines were light enough to be applied to vehicles such as traction engines and the railway locomotives.
SOLUTION: engines could be sited
PROBLEM: How were the countries divided up?, Context: Somali people in the Horn of Africa are divided among different countries (Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, and northeastern Kenya) that were artificially and some might say arbitrarily partitioned by the former imperial powers. Pan-Somalism is an ideology that advocates the unification of all ethnic Somalis once part of Somali empires such as the Ajuran Empire, the Adal Sultanate, the Gobroon Dynasty and the Dervish State under one flag and one nation. The Siad Barre regime actively promoted Pan-Somalism, which eventually led to the Ogaden War between Somalia on one side, and Ethiopia, Cuba and the Soviet Union on the other.
SOLUTION: | artificially and some might say arbitrarily
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Definition: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: WikiLeaks has released a 2011 memo by top Bill Clinton aide Douglas Band which revealed him using his firm, Teneo, to pressure many of the corporations that donated to the Clinton Foundation’s charity to also privately enrich the former president.
In a memo written for the law firm Simpson Thatcher, Band bragged about how Teneo managed to raise “well over $150 million, much of it from people who did not know President Clinton when he was in office.”
Band co-founded Teneo in 2011 with Declan Kelley, who Hillary Clinton appointed as U.S. Economic Envoy to Northern Ireland when she was secretary of state.
Band also wrote that he “sought to leverage my activities, including my partner role at Teneo, to support and to raise funds for the foundation.”
Simpson Thatcher, which specializes in ethical nonprofit management and regulation, was retained by Chelsea Clinton to conduct a “governance review” after she grew concerned about Teneo’s role in the Clinton Foundation’s activities.
The memo described how Band, after co-founding Teneo, blurred the lines between his private for-profit firm and the non-profit Clinton Global Initiative, which had been created by the Clinton Foundation to encourage political and business leaders to meet each year and discuss world problems. ||||| A memo written by a former top aide to Bill Clinton in 2011 shows how the same organizations donating to the Clinton charity were also paying him speaking fees. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post)
A memo written by a former top aide to Bill Clinton in 2011 shows how the same organizations donating to the Clinton charity were also paying him speaking fees. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post)
When top Bill Clinton aide Douglas Band wrote the memo, he was a central player at the Clinton Foundation and president of his own corporate consulting firm. Over the course of 13 pages, he made a case that his multiple roles had served the interests of the Clinton family and its charity.
In doing so, Band also detailed a circle of enrichment in which he raised money for the Clinton Foundation from top-tier corporations such as Dow Chemical and Coca-Cola that were clients of his firm, Teneo, while pressing many of those same donors to provide personal income to the former president.
The system has drawn scrutiny from Republicans, who say it allowed corporations and other wealthy supporters to pay for entree to a popular former president and a onetime secretary of state who is now the Democratic presidential nominee.
Band wrote the memo in 2011 to foundation lawyers conducting a review of the organization amid a brewing feud with the Clintons’ daughter, Chelsea Clinton, who was taking a stronger role in leading the foundation and had expressed concerns about Teneo’s operations.
Clinton supporters at a rally in Florida respond to the latest WikiLeaks revelations. (Alice Li/The Washington Post)
[Read the 2011 memo about Teneo and the Clinton Foundation]
The memo, made public Wednesday by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, lays out the aggressive strategy behind lining up the consulting contracts and paid speaking engagements for Bill Clinton that added tens of millions of dollars to the family’s fortune, including during the years that Hillary Clinton led the State Department. It describes how Band helped run what he called “Bill Clinton Inc.,” obtaining “in-kind services for the President and his family — for personal travel, hospitality, vacation and the like.”
Band and his Teneo co-founder, former Hillary Clinton fundraiser Declan Kelly, declined to comment. But Teneo issued a statement saying that “as the memo demonstrates, Teneo worked to encourage clients, where appropriate, to support the Clinton Foundation because of the good work that it does around the world. It also clearly shows that Teneo never received any financial benefit or benefit of any kind from doing so.”
Spokesmen for Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton and the foundation declined to comment.
Hillary Clinton campaign spokesman Glen Caplin declined to comment on the memo, calling the material “hacked by the Russian government and weaponized by WikiLeaks.” Caplin declined to authenticate the memo, but he also did not dispute it.
Band, who grew close to Bill Clinton two decades ago as his personal aide in the White House and became the architect of his post-presidential activities, argued in the memo that he and his firm had benefited the former president and his foundation.
“We have dedicated ourselves to helping the President secure and engage in for-profit activities,” Band wrote. He also said he had “sought to leverage my activities, including my partner role at Teneo, to support and to raise funds for the foundation.”
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Band’s memo provided data showing how much money each of Teneo’s 20 clients at the time had given to the Clinton Foundation, how much they had paid Bill Clinton and, in some cases, how he or Kelly had personally forged the relationships that resulted in the payments.
Band wrote that Teneo partners had raised in excess of $8 million for the foundation and $3 million in paid speaking fees for Bill Clinton. He said he had secured contracts for the former president that would pay out $66 million over the subsequent nine years if the deals remained in place.
For instance, Band wrote that Kelly arranged for the former president to meet the chief executive of Coca-Cola in January 2009 at the Clintons’ home in Washington. In all, according to Band’s memo, Coke had contributed $4.33 million to the foundation between 2004 and 2010.
A Coca-Cola spokesman said the company had supported the Clinton Foundation because it believed “in the great work that can be done when businesses, civil society and governments come together to solve problems.” He said Teneo had been hired to provide “business and communications” consulting.
Band also described how Kelly helped expand a fruitful relationship with UBS Global Wealth Management, introducing Bill Clinton to a top executive at a 2009 charity dinner. In the ensuing years, UBS upped its giving to the foundation, signed on as a Teneo client and agreed to pay Bill Clinton for speeches, Band wrote.
Records show UBS paid Clinton about $2 million in speaking fees between 2011 and 2015 for a series of appearances, generally alongside former president George W. Bush. The company also paid Hillary Clinton $225,000 for a 2013 speech.
UBS declined to comment.
Another achievement cited by Band: Laureate International Universities, a chain of for-profit international colleges, which donated to the foundation and agreed to pay Bill Clinton $3.5 million a year to serve as honorary chancellor.
[ Inside Bill Clinton’s nearly $18 million job as ‘honorary chancellor’ of a for-profit college ]
Clinton has credited Band with conceiving of the Clinton Global Initiative, the glitzy annual meeting where corporate, government and nonprofit leaders gathered annually to talk about the world’s problems. Started in 2005, CGI became the best-known arm of the Clinton Foundation, which also operated education, environmental and health programs around the world. The final CGI meeting took place last month.
By 2011, the longtime Clinton aide was ready to strike out on his own.
That’s when Band and Kelly joined forces to form Teneo. At first, the firm remained closely linked to the Clinton network.
Band described in the memo how he combined his work for CGI and Teneo. He wrote that he had used a hotel room upstairs from the 2011 CGI gathering to meet with Teneo clients. He also acknowledged giving free CGI memberships to “target Teneo clients” being cultivated as potential foundation donors. Memberships generally cost $20,000 a year.
Teneo, meanwhile, named Bill Clinton its “honorary chairman.” Clinton had been initially tapped for a three-year arrangement in which he would provide advice to Teneo “regarding geopolitical, economic and social trends,” according to a separate June 2011 memo that Band wrote to the State Department seeking ethics approval for the former president’s employment.
Bill Clinton was initially paid $2 million by Teneo, according to “Man of the World,” a book written with the former president’s participation by author Joe Conason.
But Chelsea Clinton grew concerned when news leaked in late 2011 that MF Global, the hedge fund owned by former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine, had been paying the Clinton-tied firm $125,000 a month just before MF Global went bankrupt.
According to emails released by WikiLeaks, Chelsea Clinton complained in December 2011 to longtime Clinton aide John Podesta, who at the time was serving as an adviser to the Clinton Foundation, that she had been informed that a member of her father’s office staff who answered to Band had been making calls to British lawmakers “on behalf of President Clinton” for Teneo clients, particularly for the chief executive of Dow Chemical.
Chelsea Clinton wrote that the calls were occurring without her father’s knowledge and that the reactions she was hearing to them would “horrify” Bill Clinton. In another email, she wrote she feared Teneo was “hustling business at CGI.”
Chelsea Clinton’s concerns helped spark efforts at the foundation to adopt new policies governing outside consulting agreements designed to erect a more solid wall between Bill Clinton’s private and charitable activities. Emails show that Cheryl Mills, who at the time was serving as Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff at the State Department, was deeply involved in the foundation’s proceedings.
Bill Clinton also separated from Teneo, returning to the company all but $100,000 of the money he had been paid, tax returns show.
Emails show how the dispute between Chelsea Clinton and her father’s longtime aide led to personal hostility.
“I don’t deserve this from her and deserve a tad more respect or at least a direct dialogue for me to explain these things,” Band wrote to Podesta at the time. “She is acting like a spoiled brat kid who has nothing else to do but create issues to justify what she’s doing because she, as she has said, hasn’t found her way and has a lack of focus in her life.”
Band complained that no similar scrutiny was being applied to Bill Clinton himself. Band noted that he had previously signed a conflict of interest document for CGI.
“Oddly, WJC does not have to sign such a document even though he is personally paid by 3 cgi sponsors, gets many expensive gifts from them, some that are at home etc.,” he wrote.
The Band memo disclosed by WikiLeaks on Wednesday made no direct reference to Hillary Clinton.
But Band outlined that Kelly, his Teneo co-founder, had served simultaneously between 2009 and 2011 as an unpaid economic envoy to Northern Ireland appointed by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and as head of a separate consulting company whose clients included Coke, UBS and Dow. Band wrote that the arrangement was consistent with Kelly’s State Department ethics agreement.
Kelly’s multiple roles came together during one State Department event in 2010, when then-Secretary Clinton recognized Dow, among other companies, for creating jobs in Northern Ireland and thanked Kelly for his work on the issue.
Dow became one of Teneo’s first major clients. According to Band’s memo, Dow chief executive Andrew Liveris had been introduced to Bill Clinton over a round of golf with Kelly in August 2009.
The company then increased its Clinton Foundation support, contributing $705,000 in 2010 and 2011. A Dow spokeswoman said that the company’s participation in the foundation dated to 2007 and that the charity was “aligned to core business and citizenship strategies that have positively leveraged the resources and capabilities of our company.”
Dow paid Teneo $2.8 million in 2011, payments that then jumped to $19.4 million in 2012, according to internal Dow documents made public as part of a whistleblower complaint. The company later said in public filings that the increase reflected a cost-saving decision to consolidate several consulting contracts with one firm.
But the spike raised red flags for an internal company fraud investigator, who expressed alarm that it may be linked to Bill Clinton’s work with a charity founded by Liveris — a charge the company denied.
“It appears Dow is paying Teneo for connections with Clinton,” the investigator wrote.
Anu Narayanswamy and Alice Crites contributed to this report. |||||
Output: | A 13-page memo detailing what an aide calls "Bill Clinton Inc." was made public Wednesday by WikiLeaks and will only add to Republican criticisms of the Clinton Foundation, the Washington Post reports. The memo, sent by Douglas Band, lays out how he and his company, Teneo, helped secure donations for the Clinton Foundation while lining up paid gigs for Bill Clinton. According to Salon, the memo says Teneo helped raise more than $150 million for the foundation. At the same time, Band says he secured tens of millions of dollars in income for Bill Clinton. For example, he got financial company UBS to donate $540,000 to the Clinton Foundation; he also got UBS to pay Bill Clinton $900,000 personally to give three speeches, the New York Daily News reports. The memo was written in 2011 after Chelsea Clinton expressed concern about Teneo's role in raising money for the Clinton Foundation. Band admits his methods are "unorthodox" but argues that his raising money for the foundation was completely separate from getting paid gigs for Bill Clinton. "As the memo demonstrated, Teneo worked to encourage clients, where appropriate, to support the Clinton Foundation because of the good work that it does around the world," Teneo said in a statement released this week. Republicans have claimed the Clinton Foundation allowed corporations and others to buy access to Bill and Hillary Clinton. For example, the memo reveals Coca-Cola gave more than $4 million to the foundation between 2004 and 2010 and its chief executive was able to meet with Bill Clinton at home in 2009. |
Q: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
The war lasting from 1775 to 1783 involved what entities on the revolutionary side?, Context: Beginning the Age of Revolution, the American Revolution and the ensuing political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century saw the Thirteen Colonies of North America overthrow the governance of the Parliament of Great Britain, and then reject the British monarchy itself to become the sovereign United States of America. In this period the colonies first rejected the authority of the Parliament to govern them without representation, and formed self-governing independent states. The Second Continental Congress then joined together against the British to defend that self-governance in the armed conflict from 1775 to 1783 known as the American Revolutionary War (also called American War of Independence).
A: | Thirteen Colonies of North America |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: When was the first Greek opera preformed?, Context: The modern Greek theatre was born after the Greek independence, in the early 19th century, and initially was influenced by the Heptanesean theatre and melodrama, such as the Italian opera. The Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù was the first theatre and opera house of modern Greece and the place where the first Greek opera, Spyridon Xyndas' The Parliamentary Candidate (based on an exclusively Greek libretto) was performed. During the late 19th and early 20th century, the Athenian theatre scene was dominated by revues, musical comedies, operettas and nocturnes and notable playwrights included Spyridon Samaras, Dionysios Lavrangas, Theophrastos Sakellaridis and others.
A: | early 19th century |
How to send an anonymous text<br>Create a new e-mail account for yourself. You don't want to use your personal account since the sender will be able to view your personal information (name, e-mail address, etc. ).
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "You should avoid using your name in your new e-mail account."?
OPTIONS: -Yes. -It's impossible to say. -No.
I think the answer is | Yes |
How to make roasted tomato ketchup
Cut your tomatoes and remove the stems.
To start, you need to prepare your tomatoes so they can be used in the kitchen. You will have to cut them into small chunks and also remove the stems.
OPTIONS:
- You can slice your tomatoes with a paring knife or a meat grinder, as well. Warm up your tomato slices on a microwave.
- To remove the stems from either side of the tomato, simply use a fork to pry out each stem. Cut into the bottom of the tomato to create a flat surface.
- Heat the oil and put it on the stove. Place your skillet or a small sauce pan over medium heat.
- Take out the pepper and put it in a small bowl. Take all of the pieces of thin peel and peel it off.
To remove the stems from either side of the tomato, simply use a fork to pry out each stem. Cut into the bottom of the tomato to create a flat surface.
How to check your ebt balance
Call a helpline.
Each state should have a telephone number you can call to check your balance. Search online for " your state " and " ebt balance.
OPTIONS:
- " alternately, you can call the department of housing and urban development. Add all the numbers provided by the most recent contact.
- " you can also call this number to change your pin, if necessary. The helpline should run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- " when you call, tell the operator that you would like to check your balance. You will have to provide your zip code, your residence or business address, and a country code.
- " after searching, call toll free (800) 555-1223. You can find a lot of information in the phone book : Your approximate annual interest rate.
" you can also call this number to change your pin, if necessary. The helpline should run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
How to identify a bombay cat
Check for shiny, black fur.
One of the main characteristics of a bombay cat is its black fur, which should be glossy and short. The goal of the original breeder was to create a cat that looked like a miniature panther, hence the fur color.
OPTIONS:
- Thus, you should examine whether the bombay cat has a yellow stripe, or if it is red. Your cat may have a red stripe, which indicates it enjoys eating and playing.
- However, a bombay cat will begin shedding as early as 2 weeks after birth, though if it does not stop at that age, the cat might carry fleas or parasites. Inspect the cat's ears and nose.
- Look for the gold or copper eyes. Another defining characteristic of the breed is its eyes.
- As well, bombay cats don't usually shed much, and tend to stay well-groomed. They are also harder to see when they have your attention or their coat moistened.
Look for the gold or copper eyes. Another defining characteristic of the breed is its eyes.
How to clean a glock
Point your glock in a safe direction.
Make sure there are no people or pets in the direction you are pointing in.
Press in on the magazine release to remove the magazine.
OPTIONS:
- Make sure you have the magazine extended or that it is up. Slide the magazine release slightly up and down to remove the magazine and empty the contents.
- You will see a tool slide out of the magazine, click on the tool and wiggle the tool out, as this will make the magazine release easier for the user. Slide the magazine out by turning the safety button.
- Your fingers should remain outside of the trigger guard. Use four fingers of your free hand to pull the slide back to eject any rounds that are in the chamber.
- A magazine release is a plug-in device that allows you to release the spring on a firearm when it is ready to fire. If you are having trouble removing the magazine release, place your finger on the slide handle on your automatic, and press down until the slide release is opened up.
| Your fingers should remain outside of the trigger guard. Use four fingers of your free hand to pull the slide back to eject any rounds that are in the chamber. |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then an example. Follow the example to solve a new instance of the task.
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
what is the first event mentioned?, Context: The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.
Solution: Russian Revolution
Why? This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
New input: Who did not disagree with the District Court?, Context: On August 18, 1970, the NAACP filed suit against Michigan state officials, including Governor William Milliken, charging de facto public school segregation. The NAACP argued that although schools were not legally segregated, the city of Detroit and its surrounding counties had enacted policies to maintain racial segregation in public schools. The NAACP also suggested a direct relationship between unfair housing practices and educational segregation, which followed segregated neighborhoods. The District Court held all levels of government accountable for the segregation in its ruling. The Sixth Circuit Court affirmed some of the decision, holding that it was the state's responsibility to integrate across the segregated metropolitan area. The U.S. Supreme Court took up the case February 27, 1974. The subsequent Milliken v. Bradley decision had wide national influence. In a narrow decision, the Court found that schools were a subject of local control and that suburbs could not be forced to solve problems in the city's school district.
Solution: | The Sixth Circuit Court |
Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: But they are not the only fossil hunters here.
Once a year for the past four years, the quarry has been opened to the public, and citizen paleontologists have come in droves — about 1,500 for the most recent community event last fall.
“I found a pile of rocks,” said Alexandra Hopper of Mantua, one of the participants. “When we rinse them off, we’re hoping some of them are fossils.” The diggers kept the fossils they found, and there are plenty to go around. The doomed creatures in the pit were mostly clams and oysters. But the fossils of animals like crocodiles and sea turtles are here, too, as well as the occasional mosasaur, a ferocious aquatic lizard with two long teeth at the back of its throat that pointed toward its gullet, ensuring that any prey it swallowed would never struggle out.
Fossils are being found throughout the sediment that fills the pit, but the assemblage occupies a single concentrated layer. Bones and shells sometimes pile up when currents sweep dead sea creatures toward a particular eddy, where they accumulate over years or centuries.
But here the skeletons of the larger creatures remain largely intact. That suggests they all died at the same time and then settled gently on the sea bottom. ||||| Rowan University alumni Jean and Ric Edelman made history on Oct. 17, 2016, when they announced a $25 million gift to transform the Rowan University Fossil Park into a world-class destination for scientific discovery and “citizen science.”
The Fossil Park will be known as the Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park at Rowan University.
The gift from the Edelmans is the largest ever from Rowan alumni and the second largest gift in the institution’s history.
Plans for the tract include a museum and visitor center, laboratory spaces, a nature trail, a paleontology-themed playground, and social spaces. Wildly popular community and school Dig Days at the site will continue.
For more on the Edelmans and their gift, visit rowan.edu/edelmangift. ||||| MANTUA TWP. — Imagine being a college student studying paleontology and having your own personal Jurassic Park as your classroom.
While lacking the real-life Velociraptors and Tyrannosaurus rex chopping electrified fences and eating people, Rowan University tried to get as close as possible by purchasing the Inversand fossil site in Mantua to transform into an academic research site like no other.
At the bottom of the 65-acre quarry on hot and sunny Wednesday afternoon, about 100 people gathered to hear Rowan announce that it had purchased the site for $1.95 million. The quarry, off Woodbury-Glassboro Road, had been owned by the Inversand Company for nearly a century.
The university plans to create a new School of Earth and Environment and utilize the site as a naturally built "classroom" for research.
Rowan Univeristy President Dr. Ali A. Houshmand — a staunch supporter of growing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education — said purchasing the quarry is one more component that shows Rowan's commitment in furthering STEM learning.
"The next step of the economy is how do we clean water from the sea, how do we lead in drug delivery ... all of these things (take) science, engineering," said Houshmand said after the announcement. "We need an army of people in this field."
The school, and all the research and activities at the quarry will be headed by internationally recognized paleontologist Dr. Ken Lacovara, who recently joined Rowan's faculty.
He said: "School kids, citizens; when they find a 65-million-year-old fossil with their own hands, it's a transformative experience."
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"Swimming right through where your bodies are right now were a couple dozen different species of sharks, four species of big marine crocodile are here, four species of big sea turtles ... we find these things right here," Lacovara said during the event.
He believes the site could become internationally renowned.
The discovery of a bone bed at the fossil site a couple years ago led experts to believe the site might be directly tied to the mass extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago — widely thought to have been caused by a large comet or asteroid impact.
Several years ago, the site was at risk of being lost to a redevelopment project of retail stores. However, after the economic downturn in 2008 plans changed.
Rowan University seized the opportunity to preserve the site for the long term.
Ashley Adams, a 25-year-old paleontology and geology graduate student at Rowan, was out digging at the site with her colleagues during the announcement.
"This might be a death assemblage of ... when dinosaurs died," she said. "This is a very unique site. There's not many sites you can just sit down and you know you'll be able to find something. It's abundant of bones."
State Senate President Stephen Sweeney and county and township officials all attended to celebrate the monumental purchase.
Rowan's board of trustees voted to move forward with the purchase of the site earlier this month.
Spencer Kent may be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @SpencerMKent. Find the South Jersey Times on Facebook. |||||
Output: | Amateur enthusiasts and kids on field trips have been flocking to a New Jersey quarry pit for years to dig up some of its many prehistoric fossils. Incredibly, this pit may also be the only known dinosaur graveyard dating back to their destruction 66 million years ago, the New York Times reports. "It sounds silly, but is it the case that this pit in South Jersey, behind Lowe's, has the one window into this pivotal moment in time?" asks Kenneth Lacovara, who teaches geology and paleontology at Rowan University. The pit, which was in a shallow sea on the dinosaurs' last day, happens to contain a host of fossils about 40 feet down—which puts it around the "extinction layer" marked by an element found in comets and asteroids called radioactive iridium. "We are in the trying-to-poke-holes-in-it phase," says Lacovara. "Certainly we have rocks that are near that time. I know we're damned close." Owned by a water treatment plant for nearly a century, it became unprofitable due to environmental regulations and was slated to become a lake—until Rowan, pressed by Lacovara, bought it for $1.95 million, the Star-Ledger reported in September. Now Lacovara wants even more school trips and fossil days so enthusiasts can search through the muck in Mantua Township, NJ. "We really want to integrate this in the community," he says. "Kids start to think of science as a process. It's a way of asking questions about your world." |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
[EX Q]: Which is not a name for the county: Hampshire, County Council, or Hantscire?, Context: After the establishment of Hampshire County Council, following the act in 1888, Southampton became a county borough within the county of Hampshire, which meant that it had many features of a county, but governance was now shared between the Corporation in Southampton and the new county council. There is a great source of confusion in the fact that the ancient shire county, along with its associated assizes, was known as the County of Southampton or Southamptonshire. This was officially changed to Hampshire in 1959 although the county had been commonly known as Hampshire or Hantscire for centuries. Southampton became a non-metropolitan district in 1974.
[EX A]: County Council
[EX Q]: Which of the following is a character system: Fujian, Teochew, or pinyin?, Context: Hokkien /hɒˈkiɛn/ (traditional Chinese: 福建話; simplified Chinese: 福建话; pinyin: Fújiànhuà; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hok-kiàn oē) or Quanzhang (Quanzhou–Zhangzhou / Chinchew–Changchew; BP: Zuánziū–Ziāngziū) is a group of mutually intelligible Min Nan Chinese dialects spoken throughout Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and by many other overseas Chinese. Hokkien originated from a dialect in southern Fujian. It is closely related to the Teochew, though mutual comprehension is difficult, and is somewhat more distantly related to Hainanese. Besides Hokkien, there are also other Min and Hakka dialects in Fujian province, most of which are not mutually intelligible with Hokkien.
[EX A]: pinyin
[EX Q]: What needed to be considered when building?, Context: In the late 20th century a new concept was added to those included in the compass of both structure and function, the consideration of sustainability, hence sustainable architecture. To satisfy the contemporary ethos a building should be constructed in a manner which is environmentally friendly in terms of the production of its materials, its impact upon the natural and built environment of its surrounding area and the demands that it makes upon non-sustainable power sources for heating, cooling, water and waste management and lighting.
[EX A]: | the demands that it makes upon non-sustainable power sources
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Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to get a free business listing in google local
Go to google's " google my business " website.
Start by visiting business. Google.com. This is google's business-specific website.
Select from: + Click the " file " button and enter your business description into the address bar at the top of your internet browser. Google will then ask you for the name of your business and the year of operation. + From here, you can select your business for review, including currently closed lists. You don't have to use a particular brand name. + This is the first step to finding a free business listing in google. Enter the name you would like to add to your business listing. + In order to fully use the site, you will need to create a google account or log into an existing one. This can be the account that you use for gmail or google drive. | In order to fully use the site, you will need to create a google account or log into an existing one. This can be the account that you use for gmail or google drive. |
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 architecture Durer cites Vitruvius but elaborates his own classical designs and columns. In typography, Durer depicts the geometric construction of the Latin alphabet, relying on Italian precedent. However, his construction of the Gothic alphabet is based upon an entirely different modular system. The fourth book completes the progression of the first and second by moving to three-dimensional forms and the construction of polyhedra. Here Durer discusses the five Platonic solids, as well as seven Archimedean semi-regular solids, as well as several of his own invention. In all these, Durer shows the objects as nets. Finally, Durer discusses the Delian Problem and moves on to the 'construzione legittima', a method of depicting a cube in two dimensions through linear perspective. It was in Bologna that Durer was taught (possibly by Luca Pacioli or Bramante) the principles of linear perspective, and evidently became familiar with the 'costruzione legittima' in a written description of these principles found only, at this time, in the unpublished treatise of Piero della Francesca. He was also familiar with the 'abbreviated construction' as described by Alberti and the geometrical construction of shadows, a technique of Leonardo da Vinci. Although Durer made no innovations in these areas, he is notable as the first Northern European to treat matters of visual representation in a scientific way, and with understanding of Euclidean principles. In addition to these geometrical constructions, Durer discusses in this last book of Underweysung der Messung an assortment of mechanisms for drawing in perspective from models and provides woodcut illustrations of these methods that are often reproduced in discussions of perspective. <sep>What kind of solids does Durer discuss in his fourth book?<sep>Platonic and seven Archimedean semi-regular solids
Yes
A stranger in town meets pretty young Susan Martinez De La Cruz and accompanies her to a barbecue , where wealthy Jason Carberry is saying a few words for the recently departed Robin Randall , a citizen who got shot . Jason objects to the stranger's presence , being Susan's guardian and protective of her . He challenges him to a shootout , but the stranger pulls his pistol before Jason's can even clear the holster . Calaveras Kate , a saloon singer who's in love with Jason , is relieved when the stranger declines to pull the trigger . Rafael Moreno suddenly rides into town and picks a fight with the stranger . Their brawl continues until the arrival of Judge Wallace Wintrop and his niece , Sheila , who have come to town from back East and deplore all this random violence out West . The stranger is recognized as Reb Randall , the dead man's brother . He is looking for the killer , who could be Rafael , or could be Jason , or could even be Billy Buckett , the coward of the county . The women hold their breath to see if the men they love will survive . <sep>What did Jason do for Susan?<sep>Became her guardian
Yes
In the popular mind, the history of Hong Kong, long the entryway to China for Westerners, begins in 1841 with the British occupation of the territory. However, it would be wrong to dismiss the long history of the region itself. Archaeologists today are working to uncover Hong Kong's past, which stretches back thousands of years. You can get a glimpse into that past at Lei Cheng Uk Museum's 1,600-year-old burial vault on the mainland just north of Kowloon. In 1992, when construction of the airport on Chek Lap Kok was begun, a 2,000-year-old village, Pak Mong, was discovered, complete with artifacts that indicated a sophisticated rural society. An even older Stone Age site was discovered on Lamma Island in 1996. While Hong Kong remained a relative backwater in early days, nearby Guangzhou (Canton) was developing into a great trading city with connections in India and the Middle East. By a.d. 900, the Hong Kong islands had become a lair for pirates preying on the shipping in the Pearl River Delta and causing a major headache for burgeoning Guangzhou; small bands of pirates were still operating into the early years of the 20th century. In the meantime, the mainland area was being settled by incomers, the "Five Great Clans": Tang, Hau, Pang, Liu, and Man. First to arrive was the Tang clan, which established a number of walled villages in the New Territories that still exist today. You can visit Kat Hing Wai and Lo Wai, villages with their walls still intact. Adjacent to Lo Wai is the Tang Chung Ling Ancestral Hall, built in the 16th century, which is still the center of clan activities. The first Europeans to arrive in the Pearl River Delta were the Portuguese, who settled in Macau in 1557 and for several centuries had a monopoly on trade between Asia, Europe, and South America. As Macau developed into the greatest port in the East, it also became a base for Jesuit missionaries; it was later a haven for persecuted Japanese Christians. While Christianity was not a great success in China, it made local headway, evidenced today by the numerous Catholic churches in Macau's historic center. Intermarriage with the local Chinese created a community of Macanese, whose culture can still be seen in Macau's architecture and cuisine. <sep>What occurred simultaneously in 900AD?<sep>The land was being settled
| Yes
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Clifford Jarvis (August 26, 1941 – November 26, 1999) was an American hard bop and free jazz drummer, who in the 1980s moved to London, England, where he died. This entry is from Wikipedia , the user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors and is licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License . If you find the biography content factually incorrect or highly offensive you can edit this article at Wikipedia
A memorial to Clifford Davis was set up in London after his death.
A: It's impossible to say
Earnings before interest and tax jumped to 4.55 billion euros ($5.34 billion) from 1.90 billion a year earlier, VW said in a statement on Thursday. "I am firmly convinced that our financial footing is adequate to cope with the transformation in the automotive industry and topics of the future," finance chief Frank Witter said in the statement.
VW wants to be part of the transformation in the automotive industry.
A: Yes
"Ocean Spray" is a song by the Manic Street Preachers, which was released as a single on 4 June 2001, the third single to be released from the album "Know Your Enemy". James Dean Bradfield wrote both lyrics and music for the song. It reached number 15 in the UK Singles Chart.
Ocean Spray has been sung by kate bush
A: | It's impossible to say |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
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Question: Of Tito and Stalin, who was considered the overall leader?, Context: In the first post war years Tito was widely considered a communist leader very loyal to Moscow, indeed, he was often viewed as second only to Stalin in the Eastern Bloc. In fact, Stalin and Tito had an uneasy alliance from the start, with Stalin considering Tito too independent.
Answer: Stalin
Question: Where is the Centennial Light?, Context: The relationships above are valid for only a few percent change of voltage around rated conditions, but they do indicate that a lamp operated at much lower than rated voltage could last for hundreds of times longer than at rated conditions, albeit with greatly reduced light output. The "Centennial Light" is a light bulb that is accepted by the Guinness Book of World Records as having been burning almost continuously at a fire station in Livermore, California, since 1901. However, the bulb emits the equivalent light of a four watt bulb. A similar story can be told of a 40-watt bulb in Texas that has been illuminated since 21 September 1908. It once resided in an opera house where notable celebrities stopped to take in its glow, and was moved to an area museum in 1977.
Answer: a fire station
Question: What did the Aryan's start doing more of?, Context: At the end of the Rigvedic period, the Aryan society began to expand from the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent, into the western Ganges plain. It became increasingly agricultural and was socially organised around the hierarchy of the four varnas, or social classes. This social structure was characterized both by syncretising with the native cultures of northern India, but also eventually by the excluding of indigenous peoples by labelling their occupations impure. During this period, many of the previous small tribal units and chiefdoms began to coalesce into monarchical, state-level polities.
Answer: | agricultural
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Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: A Matter of Chance is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov written in Russian under his pen name Vladimir Sirin in Berlin in 1924. It was rejected by the newspaper "Rul" and first published by the emigre magazine "Segodnya" in Riga. In 1974 it became part of a collection of thirteen stories called "Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories" published by McGraw-Hill.
Hypothesis: A newspaper called Rul rejected a short story by Vladimir Nabokov in 1924.
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son, Casey, died last year in Iraq, started her antiwar demonstration along the roadside in Crawford, Texas, on Aug. 6, demanding to meet with the president.
Hypothesis: sheehan does not like the president
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: Therefore I am very pleased to indicate to the member that within the next couple of weeks we will make available a service charge calculator free of charge on our website, Strategis, that will enable consumers to compare the charges levied against them by a variety of financial institutions and see in a very transparent and rapid way where the best services charges can be obtained.
Hypothesis: I am not pleased to indicate this to the member.
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: | Context: Singularity is an experimental operating system (OS) which was built by Microsoft Research between 2003 and 2010. It was designed as a high dependability OS in which the kernel, device drivers, and application software were all written in managed code. Internal security uses type safety instead of hardware memory protection.
Hypothesis: Type safety is better than hardware memory protection for internal security. |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: What, between DCT and DWT, is implied to often be used in practical products?, Context: Today, nearly all commonly used video compression methods (e.g., those in standards approved by the ITU-T or ISO) apply a discrete cosine transform (DCT) for spatial redundancy reduction. The DCT that is widely used in this regard was introduced by N. Ahmed, T. Natarajan and K. R. Rao in 1974. Other methods, such as fractal compression, matching pursuit and the use of a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) have been the subject of some research, but are typically not used in practical products (except for the use of wavelet coding as still-image coders without motion compensation). Interest in fractal compression seems to be waning, due to recent theoretical analysis showing a comparative lack of effectiveness of such methods.
A: | DCT |
Q: 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".
Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy. Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it. When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework. <sep>What does Andrew pretend play?<sep>He pretends he has an imaginary friend called sean
A: | Yes |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: What has come from the internet?, Context: An analysis of the evolution of mass media in the US and Europe since World War II noted mixed results from the growth of the Internet: "The digital revolution has been good for freedom of expression [and] information [but] has had mixed effects on freedom of the press": It has disrupted traditional sources of funding, and new forms of Internet journalism have replaced only a tiny fraction of what's been lost.
A: | new forms of Internet journalism |
[Q]: Ştefan de la Bărbuleşti (Ştefan from Bărbuleşti) is a Gypsy lăutar and manele singer, best known internationally as the artist of the song "Eu Vin Acasă Cu Drag". This song, however, is more recognized as the "Borat Television Programme" theme as shown on Channel 4, as part of the Ali G series starring Sacha Baron Cohen. Ştefan de la Bărbuleşti has a connection to the "Borat Television Programme" theme. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: Yes
[Q]: There's a -- no, look, there's a systemic problem. Health-care costs are on the rise because the consumers are not involved in the decision-making process. Most health-care costs are covered by third parties. And therefore, the actual user of health care is not the purchaser of health care. And there's no market forces involved with health care. Health care is the major expense for Americans. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say
[Q]: Among Stellafane's most ardent partisans is David H. Levy, co-discoverer with Dr. Eugene Shoemaker of a comet named for the two that broke apart in 1994 as it was drawn toward Jupiter, creating fireworks visible from Earth. There are fireworks that happen in space that you can see from Earth OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: Yes
[Q]: He consults with his own legal counsel and he is told if he says yes, there is a problem because he will be perceived to have taken a position that is intimidating the employees and therefore that position will be used to justify certifying a union even when less than the majority of the employees support doing so. He won't be perceived. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: | No |
question: Complete the next sentence:
How to accept the suicide of your own child
Allow yourself to grieve.
Although everyone experiences grief in different ways, everyone feels some form of depression, sadness, anger, disbelief, and loneliness after losing a loved one. When the death is because of suicide, you may experience the expected feelings of grief as well as other feelings, like guilt.
answer: Allowing yourself to have these feelings will help you accept the suicide of your own child. It is normal to go through the stages of grief (for example, denial, shock, and anger).
question: Complete the next sentence:
A man, alone in a room demonstrates two arm pulls with an elastic band attached to a white pole in a room, while he kneels on a blue gym mat. a man in grey shorts and black sneakers
answer: kneels on a blue gym mat in the corner of a room and pulls and elastic band from behind him with his arms.
question: Complete the next sentence:
How to talk to your crush casually
Say hello and wave when you see them.
Raise your hand, smile, and say " hi " when you see them. This simple exchange can allow your crush to start really noticing you.
answer: | It's also a great way to open conversations, and your crush may respond to your greeting by asking you a question. If they are already having a conversation with someone else, just smile and wave; don't interrupt by saying " hi. |
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to relieve heel pain
See a doctor if you suffered an injury and can't put weight on your foot.
Minor pain can often goes away after 1 to 2 weeks of home care. However, you should see a doctor promptly if sudden, severe pain prevents you from bearing weight on your heel.
A: Injuries such as a moderate to severe sprain or stress fracture require medical attention. If your pain is minor, provide home care for 2 to 3 weeks, then see your doctor if your heel doesn't get better.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
He goes down with another diver and they begin carving the pumpkins underneath the water. They are craving about five or six of them making different faces. then they
A: line them up and put some light inside or something as fish swim around them casually.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to convince elderly parents to move closer
Perform a cost-benefit analysis.
Providing care across the country or even in a neighboring state can add up quickly. Adult children may have to take off work to visit their parents, purchase plane tickets, obtain hotel accommodations, or arrange childcare.
A: Do the math in terms of time and money. Gain a clear picture going in as to how much relocating would save the family.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to choose an exfoliating cream
Determine your skin type.
Many products are suitable for a certain skin type, so to give yourself the best chance of finding the right cream for you, you should start by determining your skin type. The first thing to identify is your skin type: oily, dry, combination or normal.
A: | These can be approximations, so look at the indicators for each one and see which best matches your skin. Oily: you may have enlarged pores, a dull, shiny or thick complexion, visible blackheads, pimples or other skin imperfections. |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Ex Input:
What ship has a distinct advantage over carriers?, Context: The aircraft carrier dramatically changed naval combat in World War II, because air power was becoming a significant factor in warfare. The advent of aircraft as focal weapons was driven by the superior range, flexibility and effectiveness of carrier-launched aircraft. They had higher range and precision than naval guns, making them highly effective. The versatility of the carrier was demonstrated in November 1940 when HMS Illustrious launched a long-range strike on the Italian fleet at their base in Taranto, signalling the beginning of the effective and highly mobile aircraft strikes. This operation incapacitated three of the six battleships at a cost of two torpedo bombers. World War II in the Pacific Ocean involved clashes between aircraft carrier fleets. The 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was a clear illustration of the power projection capability afforded by a large force of modern carriers. Concentrating six carriers in a single unit turned naval history about, as no other nation had fielded anything comparable. However, the vulnerability of carriers compared to traditional battleships when forced into a gun-range encounter was quickly illustrated by the sinking of HMS Glorious by German battleships during the Norwegian campaign in 1940.
Ex Output:
battleships
Ex Input:
Under what kind of model is Swaziland governed?, Context: At no more than 200 kilometres (120 mi) north to south and 130 kilometres (81 mi) east to west, Swaziland is one of the smallest countries in Africa. Despite its size, however, its climate and topography is diverse, ranging from a cool and mountainous highveld to a hot and dry lowveld. The population is primarily ethnic Swazis whose language is siSwati. They established their kingdom in the mid-18th century under the leadership of Ngwane III; the present boundaries were drawn up in 1881. After the Anglo-Boer War, Swaziland was a British protectorate from 1903 until 1967. It regained its independence on 6 September 1968.
Ex Output:
kingdom
Ex Input:
What is used to create wire patterns?, Context: All paper produced by paper machines as the Fourdrinier Machine are wove paper, i.e. the wire mesh that transports the web leaves a pattern that has the same density along the paper grain and across the grain. Textured finishes, watermarks and wire patterns imitating hand-made laid paper can be created by the use of appropriate rollers in the later stages of the machine.
Ex Output:
| wire mesh
|
Teacher:In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Who was the physician equal to in an area centered on Italy?, Context: On the basis of the expansion and development of Yerevan State University a number of higher educational independent Institutions were formed including Medical Institute separated in 1930 which was set up on the basis of medical faculty. In 1980 Yerevan State Medical University was awarded one of the main rewards of the former USSR – the Order of Labor red Banner for training qualified specialists in health care and valuable service in the development of Medical Science. In 1995 YSMI was renamed to YSMU and since 1989 it has been named after Mkhitar Heratsi, the famous medieval doctor. Mkhitar Heratsi was the founder of Armenian Medical school in Cilician Armenia. The great doctor played the same role in Armenian Medical Science as Hippocrates in Western, Galen in Roman, Ibn Sīnā in Arabic medicine.
Student: | Galen |
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 her storage room-turned-office, Jennifer Baum works under an expanding leak that is causing the ceiling to turn brown and crumble. Mold grows in the buckets positioned to catch the water. She shrugs it off. Outside her office she has taped up a clear plastic suit, and a sign that reads, "All employees must don protective gear before coming in." Such is life in limbo. Nearly a year after Sept. 11, the Legal Aid Society-the lawyers for New York's poor and homeless-remains, well, homeless. The nonprofit has been barred from returning to its 90 Church St. headquarters, across from the World Trade Center site, because of environmental concerns. Legal Aid has uncomfortable company. More than 11,500 New Yorkers continue to work out of temporary space, according to analysis by Manhattan-based real estate brokerage TenantWise.com Inc. and Crain's New York Business. That's 8% of the 137,000 workers who lost their offices or access to them when the Twin Towers collapsed. Legal Aid's 450 displaced attorneys and staffers have spent the past 12 months spread among previously unused spaces-some unused for good reason-in the nonprofit's other offices. It could be another year and a half before they return to their old desks. They have contended with difficult working conditions as demand for Legal Aid's services is on the rise because of Sept. 11 and the deteriorating economy. The civil division is spread among a few boroughs. Their papers and documents, some 20,000 boxes worth, are stuck in a storage facility in Linden, N.J. "I am counting the days till we can have all the parts back in one place," says Steven Banks, Legal Aid's associate attorney in chief. In the memories of the exiled workers, the old office has achieved mythical proportions. They say the wood paneling and rugs had the ability to cool emotions and lift spirits. The Legal Aid office on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, where 65 displaced workers have cobbled together space amid the faded and scratched walls, looks more like a bargain basement. <sep>What happened to some of the displaced Legal aid staff?<sep>Moved | Yes |
What happens next?
How to treat algae in a swimming pool
Test and adjust the pool's ph.
One of the main causes of algae growing in a pool is if the ph of the water gets too high, because this prevents the chlorine from killing the algae. Collect some water from the pool and test the ph levels with a test kit. | To lower the ph, add some muriatic acid or sodium bisulphate. To increase the ph, add sodium carbonate. |
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