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Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
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Ingmar Guandique, the Salvadoran immigrant who was convicted of killing Capitol Hill intern Chandra Levy, was sentenced today to 60 years in prison.Guandique, 29, spoke briefly through a Spanish interpreter, telling the judge he was sorry for Levy's death but that he had nothing to do with it. "I am innocent," he said.Levy, a 24-year-old Washington intern, made national headlines when she disappeared on May 1, 2001. Her body was found a year later, in the District of Columbia's Rock Creek Park. But her family had to wait many more years before they learned who killed her.Rep. Gary Condit, the congressman representing Levy's home district in California, quickly came under scrutiny following reports that he and the intern had been involved in a sexual relationship. The married Democrat was never charged and he never admitted an affair, but the scandal torpedoed his political career.Eventually, authorities zeroed in on Guandique, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who was behind bars for attacking two female joggers in Rock Creek Park.Guandique finally went on trial in October on charges he murdered Levy. There was no DNA or physical evidence linking him to the crime, but prosecutors presented testimony from a former cellmate who said Guandique told him he had robbed Levy but had never meant to kill her.On Nov. 22, Guandique was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder.In making his decision today, D.C. Superior Court Judge Gerald I. Fisher said, "I think he is a dangerous person. I think he is a dangerous person to women, in particular, and I think he will remain one for a long time."Guandique will be required to serve no less than 85 percent of his sentence before he is eligible for parole. He will be approximately 80 years old when he goes before the parole board for the first time.Before sentencing, Levy's mother, Susan Levy, asked Guandique if he had killed her daughter . When he shook his head, she said: "Mr. Guandique, you are lower than a cockroach. F--- you." ||||| Washington (CNN) -- Calling him a dangerous predator, a judge on Friday sentenced the man convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy to 60 years in prison.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Gerald Fisher sentenced Ingmar Guandique to 60 years on each of the two counts he was convicted on, but ordered that they be served concurrently. The result, Fisher said, is still likely to be a life sentence for what the judge characterized as a chillingly unusual murder.
"The nature of the conduct was predatory," Fisher said. He added that there was "something different and worse" about Guandique's actions that wasn't often seen in Washington murders.
Levy, a 24-year-old California native, was in Washington working as an intern for the Bureau of Prisons when she was last seen on May 1, 2001. Her skull was found over a year later, on May 22, 2002, in Washington's Rock Creek Park.
But police didn't arrest Guandique until February 2009. He was then serving a 10-year sentence for attacking two other women in the park and had reportedly spoken about killing Levy.
A jury convicted him of one count of murder with kidnapping and a second count of murder with attempted robbery in November, after 11 days of trial and three days of deliberations.
During the trial, prosecutors argued that Guandique, a reputed member of the Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, attacked Levy while she was jogging in Washington's Rock Creek Park. After her skull was found, a search turned up other remains, as well as clothing later identified as hers strewn down the side of a ravine. Her running shoes were unlaced, and her clothes were turned inside out. Her pants were knotted in tight restraints around her legs.
Fisher's sentence came after a tense moment between Guandique and Levy's mother, Susan, who read letters from her husband and son before reading her own victim impact statement.
During her reading, she consistently looked at Guandique, at one point asking, "Did you really take her? Look me in the eye? Did you?"
Guandique looked at her, shook his head and mouthed, "No."
At the end of her statement, Susan Levy stood, turned to Guandique and loudly addressed him with an expletive before telling the judge, "That is all. Thank you."
Guandique addressed the court as well. Speaking in Spanish through an interpreter, he said, "I am sorry. I am sorry for what happened to your daughter. But I had nothing to do with it."
Fisher denied a motion for a new trial filed by Guandique's attorneys. The defense argued prosecutors had engaged in misconduct during closing arguments and that jurors had ignored Fisher's instructions to them by sharing notes.
Fisher said such actions, which were reported in the Washington Post at the end of the trial, would not have impacted deliberations or changed the verdict.
Guandique faced a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole.
Regardless of the sentence, "I have a lifetime sentence of a lost limb missing from our family tree," Susan Levy said in November after the verdict. "It's painful. I live with it every day. ... There's always going to be a feeling of sadness."
Prosecutor Amanda Haines, during her closing argument, cited what she portrayed as confessions that Guandique allegedly made to a cellmate as he served time for other attacks, as well as remarks he allegedly made to a female pen pal.
Defense attorney Santha Sonenberg emphasized the largely circumstantial nature of the case, including what prosecutors have acknowledged was a lack of DNA evidence, a lack of witnesses and only secondhand accounts of Guandique's alleged confessions.
Both of the other women whom Guandique was convicted of attacking in the park -- including one on the same day Levy went missing -- spoke at the trial, providing testimony that juror Susan Kelly called "powerful." Guandique had pleaded guilty in those attacks, and was set to be released in September 2010.
The disappearance of Levy drew national attention after her parents discovered a connection with Gary Condit, who was then a congressman from California. Condit was never a suspect in the case, but he was questioned intensively for details about Levy's whereabouts.
He testified in the trial, but refused to address a question about whether he had sex with Levy. An FBI forensic expert later confirmed Condit's semen had been found in underwear retrieved from Levy's apartment in the days after her parents reported her missing.
In refusing to answer the question, Condit said, "We've lost our feeling for common decency. I didn't commit any crime. I didn't do anything wrong."
He said several times during his testimony that the media frenzy surrounding Levy's disappearance was hard to handle, including a helicopter flight over his California home while his daughter and her friends were sunbathing at the family's pool.
"They reported that I had young women in bikinis at my house," he said.
CNN's Eric Marrapodi, Kelly Marshall Smoot and Paul Courson contributed to this report. |||||
Output: | The man convicted of killing DC intern Chandra Levy in 2001 was sentenced to 60 years in prison today, CNN reports. Ingmar Guandique, a 29-year-old illegal immigrant from El Salvador, also got a dressing down from Levy's mother in court. "How could you take my daughter's life?" asked Susan Levy, standing near him. "Did you really take her life? Look me in my eyes and tell me." Guandique appeared to shake his head and mouth the word, "No." "You have sentenced our entire family to days of sadness, tears and heartache," she continued. "You are a hideous creature." When she finished, she turned to him again and said, "F--- you," reports the Washington Post. For more on the case, click here. |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
Context:
How to be the coolest girl in school<br>Don't concern yourself too much with popularity! In 10 years it won't matter what stores you shopped at, what makeup you wore, and so on. Be kind to the people around you, have a sense of humor and radiate confidence and beauty. Appearance matters but it is not everything.
Hypothesis: Beauty and confidence can be radiated. | Yes |
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun Thursday asked the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) to investigate questions arising about the Foreign Ministry's response to the kidnapping of a South Korean in Iraq who was later killed by Muslim militants, according to Yonhap.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: This happened thursday afternoon.
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Answer:
It's impossible to say
[Q]: Late Night<br>Kia had been assigned a novel to read for English class. She dawdled all week. The night before it was due, she panicked. She had read almost nothing! She had to stay up until almost 3AM to finish the novel. Kia was late for English class because she was so tired. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say
Problem: "The Heart" is a song written and originally recorded by American country music artist Kris Kristofferson on his 1986 album "Repossessed". It was covered by American country music artist Lacy J. Dalton on her 1989 album "Survivor" and released in January 1989 as the album's first single. Dalton's version of the song peaked at number 13 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that ""Repossessed" came out before "Survivor"."? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
Q: The Minister of Heritage is in control of the level of increasing tax write-offs, answering to no others.
Does the Minister of Canadian Heritage really think that increasing the tax write-off to 100% for corporate boxes, lowering the taxes sports millionaires pay to American levels, and writing off professional sports facilities in one year, which will cost hundreds of millions of dollars in lost tax revenues, will fly with Canadian taxpayers?
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Blessed Pierre-François Jamet (13 September 1762 - 12 January 1845) was a French Roman Catholic priest who refused to take the oath of allegiance during the French Revolution. He is also called the "Second Founder" due to restoring the dwindled order of the Sisters of the Bon Sauveur. In 1827 he was awarded the Legion of Honor for his service as a priest.
Jamet always obeyed civil authority. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Angeles Crest Highway is one of Southern California's best motoring roads, with high elevations and huge vistas. It’s also the entry point to hiking backdrops that rival the Sierras, and this one takes you to the top of the Mt. Waterman ski area. Be sure to wear good shoes, use sunscreen and bring plenty of water, and remember that hiking at altitude requires a little more effort than walking at sea level. Pro tip: Check the weather before you go.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: This road is not a suitable choice for snowsport activities.
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Answer:
| No |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
At 9:48, a representative from the White House shelter asked if there were any indications of another hijacked aircraft. The deputy director for operations mentioned the Delta flight and concluded that "that would be the fourth possible hijack." At 9:49, the commander of NORAD directed all air sovereignty aircraft to battle stations, fully armed. At 9:59, an Air Force lieutenant colonel working in the White House Military Office joined the conference and stated he had just talked to Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley. The White House requested (1) the implementation of continuity of government measures, (2) fighter escorts for Air Force One, and (3) a fighter combat air patrol over Washington, D.C. By 10:03, when United 93 crashed in Pennsylvania, there had been no mention of its hijacking and the FAA had not yet been added to the teleconference. The President and the Vice President The President was seated in a classroom when, at 9:05, Andrew Card whispered to him: "A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack." The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis. The press was standing behind the children; he saw their phones and pagers start to ring. The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening. The President remained in the classroom for another five to seven minutes, while the children continued reading. He then returned to a holding room shortly before 9:15, where he was briefed by staff and saw television coverage. He next spoke to Vice President Cheney, Dr. Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller. He decided to make a brief statement from the school before leaving for the airport. The Secret Service told us they were anxious to move the President to a safer location, but did not think it imperative for him to run out the door. Between 9:15 and 9:30, the staff was busy arranging a return to Washington, while the President consulted his senior advisers about his remarks. No one in the traveling party had any information during this time that other aircraft were hijacked or missing. Staff was in contact with the White House Situation Room, but as far as we could determine, no one with the President was in contact with the Pentagon. <sep>Who made a brief statement before going to the airport<sep>NORAD | No |
Skip chickens out<br>Skip is with his friends. Skips friends decide to go skinny dipping. They tell skip to jump in and join them. Skip is unsure and doesn't know what to do. Skip chickens out and leaves.
Skip went skinny dipping. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
input hypothesis: The decision was handed down after years in litigation.
Context: A federal appellate court in Brazil on Dec. 10, 2018, revoked a recent injunction that blocked any imminent agreement for the negotiated tie-up between Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer and US-based Boeing. EFE/File A federal appellate court in Brazil on Monday revoked an injunction granted last week that blocked any imminent agreement for the negotiated tie-up between Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer and US-based Boeing. The measure was revoked by an appeals panel in Sao Paulo, Embraer said in a statement to its stockholders.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: It's impossible to say
Context:
Ballet Lesson<br>It was Lane's first day in ballet. He had spent ages begging his parents to let him learn dance. Lane paid close attention and learned the first few positions. Lane had a great time. Lane's parents were gratified to see him enjoying himself.
Hypothesis: Lane learned a new move OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Yes
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Four men were released on bail and were ordered to return to a police station Monday, when they may be charged with assault, a police spokesman said.
Sentence: The four men were told to come back to the police station the day after Sunday.
Output: Yes
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
An official of the International Special Commission in charge of disarming Iraqi weapons (UNSCOM) announced yesterday, Saturday, that the Commission will keep its inspectors in Iraq despite Baghdad's decision to stop its cooperation with them.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Baghdad refuses to get along with UNSCOM.
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Answer:
Yes
Some of the stolen trade secrets were seized from the defendants at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) while they were attempting to fly to China.
the thieves were flying into the sunshine state OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | No |
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: What could you use again besides internet access when the bank was opened again?, Context: On July 11, 2008, citing liquidity concerns, the FDIC put IndyMac Bank into conservatorship. A bridge bank, IndyMac Federal Bank, FSB, was established to assume control of IndyMac Bank's assets, its secured liabilities, and its insured deposit accounts. The FDIC announced plans to open IndyMac Federal Bank, FSB on July 14, 2008. Until then, depositors would have access their insured deposits through ATMs, their existing checks, and their existing debit cards. Telephone and Internet account access was restored when the bank reopened. The FDIC guarantees the funds of all insured accounts up to US$100,000, and has declared a special advance dividend to the roughly 10,000 depositors with funds in excess of the insured amount, guaranteeing 50% of any amounts in excess of $100,000. Yet, even with the pending sale of Indymac to IMB Management Holdings, an estimated 10,000 uninsured depositors of Indymac are still at a loss of over $270 million.
Solution: | Telephone |
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: Cambodia or Kampuchea ( officially called Kingdom of Cambodia ) is a country in Southeast Asia .
Student: | Cambodia ( ; also Kampuchea ; -RSB- ; ) , officially the Kingdom of Cambodia ( , , -RSB- ; ) , is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia . |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: Who places significance on scripture?, Context: Zen Buddhism (禅), pronounced Chán in Chinese, seon in Korean or zen in Japanese (derived from the Sanskrit term dhyāna, meaning "meditation") is a form of Buddhism that became popular in China, Korea and Japan and that lays special emphasis on meditation.[note 12] Zen places less emphasis on scriptures than some other forms of Buddhism and prefers to focus on direct spiritual breakthroughs to truth.
A: | some other forms of Buddhism |
Context:
Because, if I understand correctly what has just happened, my hon. colleague for Lvis had the floor on a point of order and, during his point of order, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons rose on a point of order, and you recognized him.
Hypothesis: The colleague for Lvis rose on a point of order, which should have led to him being recognized, but this did not happen. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
No
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Boat<br>Nelson loved to ride on boats. He enjoyed the wind on his face. After many rides, he fell off the boat. He barely escaped the cold ocean as well. Now, Nelson wears a life jacket every time he gets on a boat.
Sentence: The ocean is sometimes warm.
Output: It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
In February 1942, the Japanese Imperial Army landed an army of 20 thousand men in Dili (the capital of East Timor) and occupied the then Portuguese colony.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: The Japanese had no army
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Answer:
No
[Q]: Sept 24 (Reuters) - Chipmaker Marvell Technology Group Ltd said it would cut jobs in its mobile platform business, resulting in a 17 percent reduction in its global workforce. The chipmaker said on Thursday it expects to take a charge of $100 million to $130 million related to the restructuring. The restructuring is currently expected to result in annualized operating savings of $170 million to $220 million, the company said. The company had a total of 7,163 employees at the end of January. (Reporting by Vidya L Nathan in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila) The executive board of the chipmaker agreed unanimously to the job cuts. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say
Problem: World leaders expressed concern on Thursday that North Korea will quit six-party nuclear disarmament talks and will bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "North Korea is suspected on going against their discussions"? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
Context:
Snake in the Hen house<br>Woody went to the hen house to feed the chickens. He first fed his favorite chicken Betty. Betty was very happy to see him and immediately ate her food. Woody then started to feed another chicken named Lorena. Then out of nowhere a snake struck at him!
Hypothesis: The man had more than two chickens OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
| It's impossible to say |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Anne and Gilbert finally marry at Green Gables, the house Anne grew up in, and move to the village of Four Winds, P.E.I. There, they take up residence in a small house Anne dubs the ``House of Dreams'', and Gilbert takes over his uncle's medical practice in the nearby town of Glen St. Mary. Anne praises her ``house of dreams'' as ``like a creamy seashell stranded on the harbor shore'', which is surrounded by fir trees ``enfolding secrets'' while the lane leading to the house is full of blossoming trees. The house looks up to a harbor on one side and a shining brook in the valley below. Anne's major problem at the House of Dreams is helping her neighbor Leslie Moore, whose husband was left with brain damage after an accident, and who is as emotionally damaged as her husband is brain-damaged.
| does anne marry gilbert in anne of green gables? |
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: Charles Pellegrino's Last Train from Hiroshima has been dropped by its US publisher, Henry Holt and Company, which said it had doubts over facts in the book.
After publication in January, it emerged that a source who claimed to have been on the US bombing mission over Hiroshima had invented his story. The publisher has now said it also has doubts relating to two other people named in the work.
Last Train from Hiroshima won acclaim earlier this year as a thorough and painstaking piece of research, being described by The New York Times as a "gleaming, popular wartime history". Oscar-winning director James Cameron even bought the film rights after previously using Pellegrino as an adviser on Avatar.
The book included testimony from Joseph Fuoco, who claimed to have been a last-minute replacement for flight engineer James R Corliss on an observation plane which accompanied the Enola Gay, the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb dubbed "Little Boy" on Hiroshima on Aug 6, 1945.
But surviving members of the crew said Fuoco, who died in 2008 at the age of 84, was not on the mission and scientists and historians also doubted him. The family of Corliss, who died in 1999, produced evidence that their relative was on the plane.
It forced Pellegrino to admit he was duped and said he was "stunned" because Fuoco had "loads of papers and photographs" to back up his story. He said the book would be corrected.
But that was only the start of the controversy and the publisher now says it is suspicious about two other figures in the book. They were a Father Mattias, who was said to have lived in Hiroshima and committed suicide, and John MacQuitty, a Jesuit scholar who was said to have presided over the funeral of Father Mattias.
Cameron has a long working relationship with the author. The award-winning director also wrote introductions for Pellegrino's Ghosts of the Titanic, published in 2000, and his controversial 2007 book The Jesus Family Tomb, which claimed that a tomb discovered in Jerusalem contained the remains of Jesus.
Cameron has now defended the author, saying: "All I know is that Charlie would not fabricate so there must be a reason for the misunderstanding."
The director said any decision he makes about the Hiroshima film project would not be influenced "by the issue of a single flawed source" and he "would be a fool to ignore the rich vein of eyewitness testimony, so painstakingly gathered."
Henry Holt president Stephen Rubin said: "Without the confidence that we can stand behind the work in its entirety, we cannot continue to sell this product to our customers."
Pellegrino is fighting back, saying he used pseudonyms to protect the men's identities but had forgotten to acknowledge that.
The author said he had produced documents to prove the existence of "Father MacQuitty" and that he wanted to protect the priest because he was elderly.
The publisher also questioned Pellegrino's education. According to his website he has a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand but the university said it had no record of it.
Pellegrino countered that his degree was revoked years ago in a dispute over evolutionary theory but later reinstated. The university said it is investigating.
About 18,000 copies of the book had been printed and the publisher said it was leaving it up to retailers whether to sell the remaining copies. Barnes & Noble, the largest book retailer in the US, said it would pull copies from shelves. ||||| An organization of World War II veterans is unhappy with James Cameron's support for a discredited history of the atomic bombing of Japan that the director has optioned for a possible film.
Members of the 509th Composite Group, which consists of veterans and relatives of those who carried out the 1945 attacks, said in a statement Wednesday that many aspects of Charles Pellegrino's "The Last Train from Hiroshima" are "complete fiction and cause great damage to true history."
Publisher Henry Holt and Co., responding to concerns raised by The Associated Press, announced Monday that it had ceased publication of the book. The AP questioned the existence of two men in the book: Father Mattias (the first name is not given), who supposedly lived in Hiroshima at the time of the bombing and committed suicide, and John MacQuitty, identified as a Jesuit scholar who presided over Mattias' funeral. Holt said Monday that Pellegrino did not offer a satisfactory answer.
But Cameron, whose "Avatar" has been nominated for nine Academy Awards, defended Pellegrino in an e-mail sent Tuesday to the AP.
"All I know is that Charlie would not fabricate, so there must be a reason for the misunderstanding," the filmmaker said in the e-mail.
Cameron wrote that he had long sought to do a movie on the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki "and still intend to do so, although I currently do not have a shooting script and no decision has been made to proceed in the short term."
In Wednesday's statement, the 509th Composite Group said "it suspects that Mr. Cameron did not understand the extent of the misrepresentations in Pellegrino's Hiroshima book." The group has been a leading critic of the book, released in January to strong reviews.
"However, we stand by our offer to help Mr. Cameron to make an historically accurate film about these important events," the statement reads. "But we strongly caution that many things in the Pellegrino book are complete fiction and cause great damage to true history."
In an e-mail sent to the AP later Wednesday, Cameron said he did not want to "conduct this conversation via the press."
"I will contact the 509th directly and get this resolved," he said.
Pellegrino first acknowledged flaws last month when he said he had been misled by Joseph Fuoco, who had claimed he was a last-minute replacement in 1945 on the Enola Gay bomber for flight engineer James R. Corliss. Pellegrino promised at the time to correct the errors. |||||
Student: | The publisher of Last Train to Hiroshima has stopped shipping the book after it emerged that at least one of the author's sources had invented his story. Joseph Fuoco, who died in 2008, claimed to have been a last-minute replacement on board the Enola Gay on its bombing mission but records and surviving crew members proved his story to be false, the Telegraph reports. Author Charles Pellegrino promised to correct the book but doubts later emerged over two other figures in the book. Director James Cameron, who bought the film rights to the book, is standing by the author despite protests from an association of veterans involved in the 1945 bombing, AP reports. Cameron did not likely "understand the extent of the misrepresentations in Pellegrino's book," said a statement issued yesterday by the 509th Composite Group, which warned that fictional aspects of the book may "cause great damage to true history." |
Context:
Both of these attacks, attributed to the drug trafficking cartels, took place after 10 bombs, placed in nine political offices of the Liberal and Social Conservative parties and in another bank office, exploded early this morning in downtown Bogota.
Hypothesis: Bogota has a lot of rich people OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
It's impossible to say
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
How to cure astigmatism<br>Speak to your optometrist about getting eyeglasses. Eyeglasses are a good option for correcting astigmatism. They help to correct the irregular curve of your cornea and allow your retina to focus properly.
Sentence: Eyeglasses is the easiest solution
Output: It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
How to tell if a goldfish is pregnant<br>Find out if your fish is female. The best way to find out the sex of your goldfish is to ask when you buy the fish, or to consult a vet. That said, females goldfish typically have plump bodies.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: The main reason to find out if your fish is female is to tell if it is pregnant.
****
Answer:
It's impossible to say
[Q]: Through all these trials Rose persevered , using all her little arts to please him .<br>When he fretted , she was patient ; when he growled , she ploughed bravely through the hard pages not dry to her in one sense , for quiet tears dropped on them now and then ; and when Mac fell into a despairing mood , she comforted him with every hopeful word she dared to offer . Rose does not care about Mac. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: No
Problem: How to give gifts unconditionally<br>Find a gift that means something about the other person to you. Be proud of what you choose. Don't just buy something because it is in the bargain bin or because it was the most expensive item in the store.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Don't cheap out on a gift."? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
Context:
Hurting Eyes<br>I got a new job in an office. I worked on the computer all day. This caused my eyes to hurt badly. My mother bought me shades to wear while at work. Now my eyes would not hurt from the computer screen.
Hypothesis: The computer did not cause his eyes to hurt. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
| No |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
What drove the aim of the schools?, Context: Polytechnics were tertiary education teaching institutions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Since 1970 UK Polytechnics operated under the binary system of education along with universities. Polytechnics offered diplomas and degrees (bachelor's, master's, PhD) validated at the national level by the UK Council for National Academic Awards CNAA. They particularly excelled in engineering and applied science degree courses similar to technological universities in the USA and continental Europe. The comparable institutions in Scotland were collectively referred to as Central Institutions. Britain's first Polytechnic, the Royal Polytechnic Institution later known as the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster) was established in 1838 at Regent Street in London and its goal was to educate and popularize engineering and scientific knowledge and inventions in Victorian Britain "at little expense." The London Polytechnic led a mass movement to create numerous Polytechnic institutes across the UK in the late 19th Century. Most Polytechnic institutes were established at the centre of major metropolitan cities and their focus was on engineering, applied science and technology education. | their focus was on engineering, applied science and technology education |
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: 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 is here: Russian Revolution
Explanation: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
Now, solve this: A type of competition that has a large number of participants that normally decides upon one winner is called a?, Context: SC Bern is the major ice hockey team of Bern who plays at the PostFinance Arena. The team has ranked highest in attendance for a European hockey team for more than a decade. The PostFinance Arena was the main host of the 2009 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship, including the opening game and the final of the tournament.
Solution: | tournament |
input hypothesis: NCEA is not an acronym
Context: Critics said the National Certificate of Educational Achievement or NCEA, the main qualification for high school students, would be degraded by the authority allowing text speak use in exams.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: No
Context:
So, even though statistics come out every week telling us what a total fiasco the employment insurance plan is, how it does not serve the interests of the unemployed in Quebec and Canada, the Liberals say the Quebeckers and Canadians who appeared before the Standing Committee on Finance do not understand the plan when it is the plan that makes no sense at all.
Hypothesis: Conservatives claim the Quebeckers and Canadians do not understand the plan OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
No
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
The 26th annual Miss Rattan High School Scholarship Pageant will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15 at the Rattan Gymnasium. Twelve beautiful and talented young ladies will be competing for the crown of Miss RHS and more than $12,000 in scholarships and prizes. For the full story, see the Tuesday, Oct. 11 edition of the Hugo News, or visit our E-Edition.
Sentence: he 26th annual Miss Rattan High School Scholarship Pageant was on a monday
Output: No
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Miles of Australia's most pristine coastline have been declared a disaster zone following a large oil spill from a storm-damaged cargo ship. At least 60 kilometres of Queensland's southeastern shore were contaminated when at least 42 tonnes of oil spilled into the ocean from MV Pacific Adventurer on Wednesday night. The ship, which had sailed into cyclonic weather, lost 31 containers aboard, one of which pierced the ship's hull and a fuel tank. Anna Bligh, the Queensland premier, has declared Moreton Island, Bribie Island and southern parts of the Sunshine Coast disaster zones.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: they are talking about cats only
****
Answer:
No
[Q]: At the very outskirts of commerce, Baka pygmies in southeastern Cameroon use a cyanide compound to stun bees while raiding their nests for honey. Honey is used by the Baka pygmies in southeastern Cameroon to stun bees while raiding their nests. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: No
[Q]: MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The death toll from two bomb attacks that tore through busy junctions in the heart of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has risen to 85, making it one of the deadliest attacks in the country since Islamist militants launched an insurgency in 2007. Read Full Story Islamist militants started their insurgency in 2007 OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: | Yes |
Part 1. Definition
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Part 2. Example
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.
Answer: Russian Revolution
Explanation: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
Part 3. Exercise
What happened to times2 during the 6th year of the 2000s?, Context: The Times's main supplement, every day, is the times2, featuring various lifestyle columns. It was discontinued on 1 March 2010 but reintroduced on 11 October 2010 after negative feedback. Its regular features include a puzzles section called Mind Games. Its previous incarnation began on 5 September 2005, before which it was called T2 and previously Times 2. Regular features include columns by a different columnist each weekday. There was a column by Marcus du Sautoy each Wednesday, for example. The back pages are devoted to puzzles and contain sudoku, "Killer Sudoku", "KenKen", word polygon puzzles, and a crossword simpler and more concise than the main "Times Crossword".
Answer: | Its previous incarnation |
Part 1. Definition
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Part 2. Example
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.
Answer: Russian Revolution
Explanation: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
Part 3. Exercise
The Kalven Report was issued before 1962, or before the 1980s?, Context: The university experienced its share of student unrest during the 1960s, beginning in 1962, when students occupied President George Beadle's office in a protest over the university's off-campus rental policies. After continued turmoil, a university committee in 1967 issued what became known as the Kalven Report. The report, a two-page statement of the university's policy in "social and political action," declared that "To perform its mission in the society, a university must sustain an extraordinary environment of freedom of inquiry and maintain an independence from political fashions, passions, and pressures." The report has since been used to justify decisions such as the university's refusal to divest from South Africa in the 1980s and Darfur in the late 2000s.
Answer: | the 1980s |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Firearms are prohibited from certain places, including demonstrations. Possession of firearms is prohibited on the premises of public schools by persons with intent to do bodily harm and those who do not have an Alabama Pistol Permit. Open carry on foot is generally allowed without a license, withstanding other applicable laws. As of Aug. 1, 2013, transportation of an unloaded handgun in a vehicle is allowed without an Alabama Pistol Permit if you are legally permitted to possess the handgun, and the handgun is locked away from immediate reach of all passengers. Carrying a handgun on premises that are not owned or under the control of the possessor is prohibited unless the person has a valid concealed handgun license. | can i carry a handgun in my car in alabama? |
Context:
WannaCry attack is good business for cyber security firms SAN FRANCISCO For Kris Hagerman, chief executive of UK-based cyber security firm Sophos Group Plc , the past week could have been bad. The WannaCry "ransomware" attack hobbled some of its hospital customers in Britain's National Health Service, forcing them to turn away ambulances and cancel surgeries.
Hypothesis: Kris Hagerman knew the attack would affect the hospital.
It's impossible to say
Context:
Lee Foss is an American-born producer and DJ from Chicago, Illinois. In addition to a number of releases on labels such as Culprit, Wolf+Lamb and No. 19, he co-founded the dance music label Hot Creations and is a member of the house music band Hot Natured alongside Jamie Jones, Ali Love and Luca C.
Hypothesis: Ali Love is a singer.
It's impossible to say
Context:
Third WI-SA T20 abandoned KINGSTON: South Africa’s chances of making a comeback in the T20I series against Windies Women were dealt a severe blow when the third game of the series was abandoned without a ball being bowled. Torrential rain few hours before the game in Trinidad forced a delay to the start, but after the umpires conducted multiple inspections of the outfield post that, it was finally decided to call it off with the outfield remaining soggy. Windies Women now lead the series 2-0 after having won the first two games.
Hypothesis: Third Wo-Sp M60 abandoned Egypt's chances.
| No |
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
ADDS TRUMP'S RESPONSE TO REP. WILSON - In this Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, frame from video, Myeshia Johnson cries over the casket of her husband, Sgt. La David Johnson, who was killed in an ambush in Niger, upon his body's arrival in Miami. President Donald Trump told the widow that her husband "knew what he signed up for," according to Rep. Frederica Wilson, who said she heard part of the conversation on speakerphone. In a Wednesday morning tweet, Trump said Wilson's description of the call was "fabricated." (WPLG via AP)
Sentence: Rep. Frederica Wilson is over 50
Output: It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Carmen was only slightly put out to find that women are as poorly represented among Australian political scientists as they are in parliament (Leonie was asking, 'where are all the women?').
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: The original statement that this is taken from is much longer
****
Answer:
It's impossible to say
[Q]: Alexander Leopoldovich Khvylya (born Bressem, Russian: Александр Леопольдович Хвыля , Ukrainian: Олександр Леопольдович Хвиля , "Oleksandr Leopoldovich Khvylya"; 15 July 1905 – 17 October 1976) was a Soviet Russian theater and film actor who played in "The Diamond Arm", "The end of Chyrva Kozyr", "Bohdan Khmelnytsky", and others. He was a People's Artist of the RSFSR (23 October 1963). Alexander Leopoldovich Khvylya was born on 17 October 1976 OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: No
Problem: Production at Brampton’s Fiat Chrysler automobile assembly plant was at a standstill today (May 3) as a labour dispute at a parts supplier in Ajax continues. Workers at Lear Corporation went on strike April 28 after contract negotiations fell apart. About 320 workers, represented by Unifor Local 222, voted to support strike action earlier in the week and later rejected a tentative new collective agreement. The Ajax plant is a “just-in-time” seating supplier for the Fiat Chrysler plant.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "contract negotiation trouble led to workers rebelling against the corporation"? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
Q: The victim that received minor injuries decided to take action against the staff member after the assault, 2 years later.
OAKVILLE, Ont. — Halton regional police say a residential counsellor at a facility in Oakville, Ont., has been charged with assaulting a resident. Police say they began investigating in September after receiving a report of an alleged assault at the Central West Specialized Developmental Services, which supports people with developmental disabilities. It was alleged the victim, who is a resident at the facility, suffered minor injuries in an assault by a staff member.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Q: Flax seed can come in bulk.
How to make a flax cracker<br>Start with the freshest and cleanest organically grown flax seed available. Bulk flax seed often contains lots of weed seeds and broken flax seeds, and this will cause your flax crackers to taste bitter or rancid. If you want the best tasting flax cracker, then you have to use the best tasting flax seed.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | Yes |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
Context:
MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say a 60-year-old northern Idaho man is recovering after being shot in the buttocks with a .50-caliber muzzleloader rifle by his hunting partner who mistook him for an elk. The Latah County Sheriff's Office tells the Moscow-Pullman Daily News that the Moscow man was shot Monday near Dreary by a 72-year-old Potlatch man. Officials say the injured man was transported to a hospital and was in stable condition Tuesday. Names haven't been released.
Hypothesis: the man did not die | Yes |
Write the next sentence in the following story.
They show a doctor who discusses the risks of cancer from sun exposure before going back to the correspondent with the mother at the park. we
Available choices:
a). see a man in an indoor room talking next to a ladder and he has young children on a bed together.;
b). return to the original reporters in the news room.;
c). then see the video again in the middle of the screen when we see the arrows from the website indicating what time it is and when the ride will take off.;
d). see a red screen with an oldie song and see it's " welcome to the winter clipper circadian rhythm ".;. The answer should be | b). |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
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: 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
Output: No
Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
New input case for you: IBM opened a sprawling and sophisticated semiconductor factory here on Wednesday that cost more than $2.5 billion to build and equip, the largest single capital investment the company has ever made. The factory, which opens as the computer chip business is in a slump, is a costly and risky move for IBM. But it is also an expression of confidence by the company that it can remain a technology leader in the highly competitive global semiconductor industry, and a commitment that the best place to execute that strategy is in upstate New York. IBM is an exception among computer makers in that it still invests heavily in research to advance the design, manufacture and materials used in semiconductor chips. It is spending more than $500 million a year on semiconductor research and development. The factory will produce a wide range of specialized semiconductors used in everything from the largest mainframe computers to cell phones and video-game consoles. The new plant is part of IBM's push to gain a strong lead in chip-making beyond the personal computer business, where Intel and East Asian chip producers hold the advantage. "The core of our strategy is to lead in technology and attack the high-performance segments of the market," said John Kelly, senior vice president in charge of IBM's technology group. An advantage to having the semiconductor fabricating factory here, Kelly explained, was that it was very close to its research laboratories in nearby Westchester County, N.Y. To stay ahead in advanced chip technology, he said, moving innovations out of the labs and into the factory as fast as possible is crucial. "What we call the lab-to-fab time should be as close to zero as possible," Kelly said. "If our strategy were anything but to be on the leading edge, we'd have put the plant in Asia." The new factory, which will begin normal production early next year, will employ about 1,000 people. <sep>What is the overall objective of the products being prodeuced by the factory described?<sep>Gain a strong lead in chip-making beyond the personal computer business
Output: | Yes |
TASK 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".
PROBLEM: The protagonist Preetam ( ( ( Ganesh , on a visit to Eva Mall amidst a heavy wind , spots a pretty girl , Nandini . While staring at her , he inadvertently falls into a manhole . Nandini rescues him from the pit , but in the process loses her heart-shaped watch she had just bought . While accompanying his mother to Madikeri , Preetam confronts a man named Jaanu . Jaanu , who has been following Nandini , beats up Preetam thinking that he is in love with Nandini . Preetam , unaware that Jaanu has vowed not to allow any one near Nandini , trashes Jaanu and his gang in return . In Madikeri , Preetam meets Nandini unexpectedly . He identifies himself and expresses his love towards her and offers to tie the watch as an indication for their marriage . Nandini , who is already engaged rejects his request . Still , Preetam vows to marry Nandini if she meets him again . In the meantime , Preetam discovers that his host in Madikeri , Col. Subbayya is Nandini's father , who is pretty much deaf , and Nandini's marriage is a just a week away . Dejected , Preetam throws Nandini's heart-shaped watch away . But Nandini calls him over the phone and taunts him to return . Delighted , Preetam goes in search of her watch and brings it back . While searching it , he spots a rabbit , Which he calls Devadas , and brings it along with him . Since Nandini's friends are due to arrive from Mumbai for the marriage , Preetam takes Nandini to the railway station . The train from Mumbai is delayed by five hours , so Nandini and Preetam decide to visit a nearby hill-temple . <sep>Why did Jaanu beat Preetam?<sep>Because Jaanu is in love with Nandini
SOLUTION: No
PROBLEM: Before the mysterious disappearance of one of its passenger jets this month, Malaysia wasn't a country used to finding itself dominating headlines around the world. Some of its Southeast Asian neighbors, including Indonesia and the Philippines, have suffered devastating natural disasters in recent years and are all too familiar with the media frenzy that accompanies a major crisis. But Malaysia has largely managed to stay out of the international spotlight since its independence from British colonial rule more than half a century ago. "It is one of these countries, because of its geography, that doesn't have earthquakes," said Ernest Bower, senior adviser for Southeast Asia studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "It doesn't have tsunamis. It hasn't been tested with a disaster like this." The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has thrust the government into the dazzling glare of worldwide attention. And it hasn't emerged with very good grades. "I think on a stress test, they're failing," Bower told CNN's Jake Tapper, pointing to the government's coordination of different agencies and communication with other countries. China among critics Criticism and complaints have come from other countries involved in the search for the missing plane, including China and Vietnam, and from the relatives of passengers. Malaysian officials have created confusion by issuing contradictory statements on key aspects of the investigation. The majority of the people on board the plane were Chinese, and Beijing has increasingly voiced its displeasure with the search, especially after Malaysia announced over the weekend that evidence suggested the plane had been deliberately flown west into the Indian Ocean, away from its last confirmed location over the South China Sea. "The new information means the intensive search in the South China Sea for the whole past week was worthless and would never bear fruit," said a commentary published by China's state-run news agency Xinhua. "Even worse, the golden time for saving possible survivors, if any, was generously wasted." <sep>Why are Chinese and Vietnamese officials critical of the Malaysian response?<sep>Because Malaysian officials have said there were no passengers aboard from either China or Vietnam
SOLUTION: No
PROBLEM: Brad, Texas (CNN) -- Authorities were working on plans Friday for residents who were forced to flee a wildfire in northern Texas to return home, a day after firefighters made progress battling the blaze that destroyed dozens of homes. The blaze in Palo Pinto County scorched 6,200 acres by Thursday, according to the Texas Forest Service. The fire is burning near the resort of Possum Kingdom Lake, near the town of Brad, about 100 miles west of Dallas. "We feel much better about this fire today," as the blaze is now 50% contained, said John Nichols, a spokesman for the Forest Service. He said evacuations were lifted for some residents forced to evacuate the fire, which was driven by high temperatures and dry winds. The wildfire has destroyed 40 homes and nine RVs since it began Tuesday, the Forest Service said Thursday. Firefighters were receiving support from aerial tankers and helicopters. Authorities are mapping out plans to allow residents to return to their homes, said Palo Pinto County Sheriff Ira Mercer. Authorities also are trying to open the lake for the Labor Day holiday, he said. On Wednesday, evacuations were ordered in several communities on the north side of the lake after the fire charged over a ridge and approached a dam on the lake, CNN affiliate WFAA reported. The wildfire was moving so fast that the Forest Service pulled out of its command observation post, telling journalists and onlookers to get out of the way of the fire. "My house is right through here, though it may be gone," Tom Hardeston told WFAA as he watched the fire. Nearby ranchers battled to save their herds from the encroaching fire. "I'm just moving them from pasture to pasture," Cindi McCoy told WFAA, referring to her livestock. "As one pasture burns, I'm moving them back to that one and bring(ing) them back around." <sep>What is the extent of the damage?<sep>Dozens of homes, at least 40 damaged.
SOLUTION: | Yes
|
Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
Tipper is not male.
I also believe in the Golden Rule. And I agree with a lot of the other things that the governor has said. We do have a serious problem in our culture. Tipper and I have worked on the problem of violence in entertainment aimed at children. She's worked on it longer than I have. | Yes |
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: The Abbottabad University of Science and Technology (also named "AUST"), is a public university located in Havelian (12 km from Abbottabad), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The University offers admissions in "Bachelors", "Masters", "MS/M. Phill" and "PHD" programs.
Hypothesis: Abbottabad has no one wise in the ways of science.
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: LONDON (Reuters) - London mayor Sadiq Khan said an attack in central London late on Saturday was a "deliberate and cowardly attack", and that he would take part in a security meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May later on Sunday. "We don't yet know the full details, but this was a deliberate and cowardly attack on innocent Londoners and visitors," Khan said. "I condemn it in the strongest possible terms. There is no justification whatsoever for such barbaric acts," he added.
Hypothesis: Sadiq Khan responded to the attack on Sunday.
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: A new record low temperature was registered in Omsk today.The mercury plummeted to -6.2 degrees C, breaking the previous record for the date of -4.5C, which was set more than 60 years ago in 1955.Thanks to Matin Siebert for these links"Looks like it started the cold record season," says Martin.
Hypothesis: This record was broken recently
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: | Context: lottery<br>I found an old lottery ticket in my car. It was a 500 dollar winner. I was worried it was too old to pay out. I took it to the lottery office and it was still good. They gave me a 500 dollar check.
Hypothesis: The check was to be paid in Canadian dollars. |
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: A day at the beach. When Sam woke in the morning, he was super excited! Today was the day! It was Sunday, the day that Sam's mom and dad had promised to take Sam to the beach. Sam's grandma had given a pail and shovel to Sam to use in the sand. At breakfast Sam was so excited he was wiggling in his seat! Mom told Sam that they would leave when the big hand on the clock was pointing to the 10, and the little had was pointing to the 12. Mom asked Sam if he would like to help make sandwiches for the trip, and Sam said that he wanted to help. Dad said, "let's make a game of it, we need to make a sandwich for each of us. There are three of us, so we need three sandwiches. Let's count as we make the sandwiches!" Sam counted as mom made the sandwiches, one for dad, one for mom and one for Sam. Then mom started to make another sandwich! "Mom!" said Sam, "we have three sandwiches and that makes one sandwich for each of us." Sam's mom laughed, "You're right Sam!" Sam's mom said she was being silly. <sep>What is Sam bringing on the trip?<sep>Chocolate
A: | No |
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:Powell contended that it was not inconsistent to want to foster cooperation even with an organization like the Indonesian military, which has a history of human rights abuses. "If you get young officers, expose them to a military organization that is within a democratic political institution, such as the United States, then that rubs off on them," he said. In Malaysia, Powell met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has led the country since 1981. The Malaysian foreign minister, Syed Hamid Albar, later told local reporters that Powell had proposed that American and Malaysian officials review the idea of forming a regional training center in Malaysia to coordinate antiterrorism activities. His brief stop in Malaysia also highlighted the moral ambiguities of the effort to prevent terrorism and its emphasis on cooperation with governments that the United States has often criticized. The United States once distanced itself from Mahathir for strong-arm tactics with political rivals, and human rights groups criticize him for arresting and jailing scores of suspected militants, including some who may be linked to al-Qaida, without trial. Powell said his discussions with Mahathir "touched on the case" of his former deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, who is serving a 15-year sentence on charges of sodomy and abuse of power after trials that Powell said the United States had "always felt" were flawed. The assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, James Kelly, met on Tuesday morning with Anwar's wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, for what she later told Malaysian reporters was a discussion about both the detention of her husband and six supporters, and the campaign against terrorism. <sep>What issue does Malaysia seem to continue to have trouble with?<sep>Weapons
Solution: | No |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Example: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Example solution: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Example explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Problem: For nearly all models of induction cooktops, a cooking vessel must be made of, or contain, a ferromagnetic metal such as cast iron or some stainless steels. However, copper, glass, non magnetic stainless steels, and aluminum vessels can be used if placed on a ferromagnetic disk which functions as a conventional hotplate.
| Solution: does cast iron work on induction stove top? |
Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
An asian woman is dressed in all white and is standing on a stage alone. the woman | slowly starts to move and does various karate movements in slow motion that it almost looks like a dance. |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
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Question: Odisha (/ əˈdɪsə / (listen); formerly Orissa, / ɒˈrɪsə, ɔː-, oʊ-/) is one of the 29 states of India, located in eastern India. It is surrounded by the states of West Bengal to the north-east, Jharkhand to the north, Chhattisgarh to the west and north-west, and Andhra Pradesh to the south. Odisha has 485 kilometres (301 mi) of coastline along the Bay of Bengal on its east, from Balasore to Ganjam. It is the 9th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. It is also the 3rd most populous state of India in terms of tribal population.
Answer: which state is to the west of odisha
Question: The Constitution does not require the Speaker to be an elected member of the House of Representatives, although every Speaker thus far has been. The Speaker is second in the United States presidential line of succession, after the Vice President and ahead of the President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate.
Answer: is the speaker of the house a member of congress
Question: In the biblical Book of Genesis, Cain and Abel are the first two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain, the firstborn, was a farmer, and his brother Abel was a shepherd. The brothers made sacrifices to God, each of his own produce, but God favored Abel's sacrifice instead of Cain's. Cain then murdered Abel, whereupon God punished Cain to a life of wandering. Cain then dwelt in the land of Nod (נוֹד , 'wandering'), where he built a city and fathered the line of descendants beginning with Enoch.
Answer: | who is kane and abel in the bible
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This is a test of commonsense. Complete the next sentence:
A close up is shown of a very dirty floor being cleaned with a large vacuum. Words on the screen explain the strength of the vacuum as the person continues. the floor | is being cleaned at walking speed. |
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to get an aol instant messenger buddy icon
Select your icon.
Make sure it's an icon, not a photo because it has to be within a certain dimension. A really good site is
Open up aim 6 , 6.8, whatever.
A: This should be indicated by a small bubble near the time display, if you are using windows. At the top, click on edit, and there should be a pull-down menu.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to save electricity
Embrace natural light.
Open up your curtains and let the sun shine in! Using natural light whenever possible instead of relying on artificial light can greatly reduce the amount of electricity you use during the day. The same is true whether you work in an office or spend your days in your house.
A: Exposure to natural light also increases happiness, , giving you an even greater incentive to raise the blinds. Try to arrange your workspace so that natural light floods your desk.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to stop daydreaming in class
Sit at the front of the classroom.
Being front and center will encourage you to give your undivided attention to the instructor. That means no time for daydreaming, at least without risking getting caught.
A: If you have assigned seating and are placed in the back, talk to your instructor. They will most likely let you switch your seat to one closer to the front.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to heal piercings
Get pierced by a pro.
In the body modification community, it's an accepted fact that there is a right way and a wrong way to get a piercing done. Rather than getting a piercing at a kiosk or chain store in the mall, invest a few extra dollars to have it done right by a professional.
A: | Your piercing will come out cleaner and heal up faster. You'll also have access to as much expert advice as you need from the person who did your piercing. |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
Design<br>Tim and Alice were getting married. They bought a brand new home. They hired an interior decorator. They loved the work the designer did. They were very happy with their new home.
Hypothesis: Tim and Alice's interior decorator did work in their brand new home.
Pick from: -- Yes -- It's impossible to say -- No | Yes |
Q: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
what is at the bottom end of the scale in the text, Context: In mid 2011, the Foundation announced in its new "Water, Sanitation, Hygiene Strategy Overview" that its funding now focuses primarily on sanitation, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, because access to improved sanitation is lowest in those regions. Their grant-making focus has been since 2011 on sanitation science and technology ("transformative technologies"), delivery models at scale, urban sanitation markets, building demand for sanitation, measurement and evaluation as well as policy, advocacy and communications.
A: | sanitation |
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 is second mentioned location?, Context: Cork was one of the most rail-oriented cities in Ireland, featuring eight stations at various times. The main route, still much the same today, is from Dublin Heuston. Originally terminating on the city's outskirts at Blackpool, the route now reaches the city centre terminus of Kent Station via Glanmire tunnel. Now a through station, the line through Kent connects the towns of Cobh and Midleton east of the city. This also connected to the seaside town of Youghal, until the 1980s.[citation needed]
SOLUTION: Ireland
PROBLEM: What was the main job for one of the individuals who was one of the final Apollo astronauts to go to the moon?, Context: The Apollo astronauts were chosen from the Project Mercury and Gemini veterans, plus from two later astronaut groups. All missions were commanded by Gemini or Mercury veterans. Crews on all development flights (except the Earth orbit CSM development flights) through the first two landings on Apollo 11 and Apollo 12, included at least two (sometimes three) Gemini veterans. Dr. Harrison Schmitt, a geologist, was the first NASA scientist astronaut to fly in space, and landed on the Moon on the last mission, Apollo 17. Schmitt participated in the lunar geology training of all of the Apollo landing crews.
SOLUTION: geologist
PROBLEM: Where is Warsaw situated?, Context: Warsaw (Polish: Warszawa [varˈʂava] ( listen); see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland. It stands on the Vistula River in east-central Poland, roughly 260 kilometres (160 mi) from the Baltic Sea and 300 kilometres (190 mi) from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population is estimated at 1.740 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 2.666 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 9th most-populous capital city in the European Union. The city limits cover 516.9 square kilometres (199.6 sq mi), while the metropolitan area covers 6,100.43 square kilometres (2,355.39 sq mi).
SOLUTION: | on the Vistula River in east-central Poland, roughly 260 kilometres (160 mi) from the Baltic Sea and 300 kilometres (190 mi) from the Carpathian Mountains
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Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
A close up of a bar is shown. The camera then pans all around a fooseball table. people
OPTIONS:
- are then shown playing on the table.
- pick up balls and pass them to one another.
- play the game, moving the poles, and standing behind them.
- continuously play the fooseball on the table.
****
Answer:
are then shown playing on the table.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
A baker artist mixes a cover base mixture in a plastic cup using a small paint brush. The baker artist uses the small paintbrush to coat the entire fish cake. baker artist
OPTIONS:
- then mixes a liquid and another powder mixture together and gets a different color texture.
- mixes egg yolks, and sids with a paintbrush, making shapes on the inside with the palette knife.
- decorates the inside of the fish cake.
- demonstrates tattooing on three small fish fishes, and holding a dipped razor.
A: then mixes a liquid and another powder mixture together and gets a different color texture.
How to get more lentils in your diet
Include lentils in your favorite dishes.
If you like shepherd's pie, then add some canned lentils to the meat mixture; if you're vegetarian, just use lentils as the " meat ". You and your family will probably not even notice the lentils are in it.
OPTIONS:
- Add to sauces, soups and stews. Lentils will add texture, bulk and taste, helping the dish to go further.
- Pick the right cutting to use for your recipe. Cut 1 to 2 pounds (454 to 454 grams) from each kernel.
- Garnish sauces and ingredients with herbs, tomatoes, and beans. You can also make enchiladas, tarragon, bruschetta, and cool beans with ground lentils.
- All you need to worry about are the butter, salt, pepper, and canned meat. Use nuts to satisfy the hunger you are craving.
Add to sauces, soups and stews. Lentils will add texture, bulk and taste, helping the dish to go further.
question: Complete the next sentence:
How to file a motion for nolle prosequi
Identify the reason for the motion.
Before filing the motion, you should identify exactly why you want to stop the prosecution. The judge will want to know, and you will have to include the reason in your motion.
OPTIONS:
- For example, you could include one simple reason that was motivated by the intent of the prosecution. It could be for monetary reasons, such as medicaid or treatment of a medical condition.
- Are you arraigned or are you entitled to fines, other nuisance charges, or misrepresentations similar to those discussed in your notice? Sign. Read both sides of the order to make sure you understand what the judge will want.
- You might describe your reasons for seeking nolle prosequi. The purpose of the motion is to ask the judge to restrain the defendant and hold him or her in contempt, which can only be restrained in theory.
- Generally, prosecutors file this motion for the following reasons : You have re-evaluated the evidence. For example, you might not think the evidence is strong enough to get a conviction.
answer: Generally, prosecutors file this motion for the following reasons : You have re-evaluated the evidence. For example, you might not think the evidence is strong enough to get a conviction.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to fill a bean bag chair
Inspect the delivered package for damage.
Return the package immediately if there is a problem.
Inspect carefully your flat bean bag chair, checking for any signs of rips and holes in the fabric.
OPTIONS:
- Wipe the rest of the seat with a cotton ball dipped in olive oil. This removes moisture from the fabric and de-stains the seat.
- Make sure it is sturdy enough to support the weight of the item it's carrying. If you suspect your chair is damaged, use a flat car seat.
- Loosen one of the seat-bars on the chair or hitch--before placing it back into position and storing it in place until you are ready to show your baby. Some chairs, if sold with no removable pieces, are closed-back.
- Higher quality bean bag chairs, constructed of materials such as leather, tend to be more durable, less likely to puncture and provide greater longevity, but a variety of other materials are available. Have a friend assist you in filling your chair..
Next sentence: Higher quality bean bag chairs, constructed of materials such as leather, tend to be more durable, less likely to puncture and provide greater longevity, but a variety of other materials are available. Have a friend assist you in filling your chair.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to distract yourself
Know that distraction can be an unhealthy response.
Distraction is a mechanism used to avoid dealing with difficulties and feelings in our lives. Some distractions that are considered unhealthy include eating junk food when stressed or turning to alcohol or drugs.
OPTIONS:
- It's easy to focus on a problem, have friends make simple crafts, get some coffee, and read a book. If you become distracted and find yourself unable to concentrate on a task, your brain is working overtime and will require immediate attention.
- When you are tempted to drink, consume a cigarette or a bag of chips instead. Also, resist the urge to throw down the kettle or take someone off his or her feet while watching tv.
- For example, if you have an anger management problem, you might turn to drugs to handle your overwhelming feelings. Acknowledge the feeling that you're having.
- In order to learn healthy habits you should learn to stop and see these things as minor distractions. This will help you stop and see them as things that will cause anxiety.
OUT: | For example, if you have an anger management problem, you might turn to drugs to handle your overwhelming feelings. Acknowledge the feeling that you're having. |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
Context:
The 337 Squadron (Norwegian: "337-skvadronen" ) is a maritime helicopter unit of the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF). Based at Bardufoss Air Station, the squadron operates eight NHIndustries NH90. The helicopters are used by the Norwegian Coast Guard and serve on the "Nordkapp"-class, the "Barentshav"-class and on NoCGV "Svalbard".
Hypothesis: Norwegian Coast Guard uses the helicopters. | Yes |
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:"What goes up must come down." You have probably heard that statement before. At one time this statement was true, but no longer. Since the 1960s, we have sent many spacecraft into space. Some are still traveling away from Earth. So it is possible to overcome gravity. Do you need a giant rocket to overcome gravity? No, you actually overcome gravity every day. Think about when you climb a set of stairs. When you do, you are overcoming gravity. What if you jump on a trampoline? You are overcoming gravity for a few seconds. Everyone can overcome gravity. You just need to apply a force larger than gravity. Think about that the next time you jump into the air. You are overcoming gravity for a brief second. Enjoy it while it lasts. Eventually, gravity will win the battle. <sep>What are some examples of overcoming gravity?<sep>Jump Rope
Solution: | Yes |
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
A guy is sitting with sticks in his hands. a guy
OPTIONS:
- is playing the drums.
- moves away from him and begins to play a set of drums.
- starts playing a game of foosball.
- grabs a shot the stands at a camp site.
A: is playing the drums.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
A volleyball coach talks to the camera while two volleyball players stand behind him. the two volleyball players
OPTIONS:
- play volleyball with each other without a net between them.
- lay low as the coach talks to them and show several shots of them playing.
- prepare to serve and perform their high threw that leads into one kicking the ball to the other.
- attack a ball intentionally both knocking it to the ground.
A: play volleyball with each other without a net between them.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
An athletic woman stands ready before a track holding a bar far above her head. she
OPTIONS:
- then does several straight back flips over the bar and lands on a mat below her.
- runs down and throws the pole off into the distance and is shown again in slow motion.
- gives the bar several times and prepares it by raising both arms up.
- begins her run demonstrating how to perform back flips in the sand.
A: runs down and throws the pole off into the distance and is shown again in slow motion.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to get your students to like you
Learn your students' names.
Because you are a teacher, students automatically respect you by default. By learning their names and using them on a regular basis, you are showing your students that you care and that you do not take their respect for granted.
OPTIONS:
- Notice how well you know your students and have them practice as well. You can practice learning their names whenever it seems appropriate, taking notes on them if you don't know them yet and then asking questions about them if you don't know their names.
- It is easy to forget to give your students names they are known for. For example, when you are giving a class presentation, someone who is well-known for being easily distracted is called into the room and she decides to give a presentation.
- This displays your students respect and makes them want to be your students. You can also teach students the names of past teachers as well, such as mr.
- This makes them feel good and respect you even more. If you are not good with names, or if you have a big group, do not hesitate to pass out blank name tags to each student at the start of class to help yourself out.
A: | This makes them feel good and respect you even more. If you are not good with names, or if you have a big group, do not hesitate to pass out blank name tags to each student at the start of class to help yourself out. |
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.
A Reservation Against Cancellation (RAC) is a type of ticket that can be sold for travel on the Indian Railways. Although it ensures certainty of travel, it does not guarantee a berth. A berth will be allocated to the person who reserves an RAC ticket if passengers who already have a confirmed ticket do not turn up before the train departure or get their confirmed ticket cancelled. A berth is split into 2 seats for 2 RAC ticket holders. If there's any last minute cancellations, or if any quota allocations remain unsold, or if any confirmed ticket holders are given a free upgrade (more later), an RAC ticket holder is given the empty berth, the other RAC ticket holder can then convert the 2 seats into a berth. | what is r.a.c. ticket in train in hindi |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.
/ Updated By Tom Winter
The Russian government warned U.S. authorities that Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a violent radical Islamist more than a year and a half before the April 2013 bombing, but authorities missed multiple chances to detain Tsarnaev when he was traveling to and from Dagestan for terror training, according to a soon-to-be released Congressional report.
In one instance, according to the report prepared by investigators for the House Homeland Security Committee and copies of documents reviewed by NBC News, Tsarnaev was supposed to be pulled aside for questioning at JFK airport because he was considered potentially armed and dangerous, but he slipped through undetected because someone had misspelled his last name in a security database.
“This sounds like a huge hole and an opportunity missed,” said Ed Davis, who was Boston’s chief of police at the time of the Marathon bombing.
NBC News has reviewed a copy of the report and copies of documents referenced in the report and constructed a timeline that shows how Russia warned the U.S. and what the U.S. did, and didn’t do, in response.
In March 2011, the FSB, the Russian intelligence agency that arose from the remnants of the KGB, sent a cable to the FBI with its concerns about Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the Tsarnaev family. By then, the Tsarnaevs, a Muslim family of mixed Chechen ancestry, had been living in Massachusetts for almost a decade. Tamerlan, born in 1986, had attended a local high school, married an American and become an amateur boxer.
Boston Marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar (back) and Tamerlan Tsarnaev are revealed in this handout photo during an FBI news conference. FBI via Reuters file
The letter was a page and a quarter long and very detailed. It included contact information, with addresses and phone numbers, for many of the members of the Tsarnaev family, including Tamerlan and his mother. It warned that Tamerlan was known to have associated with violent radical Islamists, including a Canadian Muslim convert named William Plotnikov who was later killed while fighting for the mujahideen in Dagestan.
The FBI responded to the FSB cable by opening an investigation of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in March 2011. The investigation was conducted by members of the Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force, an interagency group that includes federal, state and local law enforcement representatives.
An FBI member of the JTTF interviewed Tsarnaev in person. The FBI did not conduct surveillance of Tsarnaev because the case did not rise to the standard that permits surveillance, according to federal officials.
A member of the task force then entered a memo about Tsarnaev into a Customs and Border Protection database called TECS. The database would automatically trigger an alert on a so-called “Hot List” any time Tsarnaev left or reentered the United States.
“Subject is of interest to the Boston JTTF,” said the TECS memo. “If subject is encountered, contact FBI Special Agent [Name and contact information redacted by Department of Homeland Security]. Conduct a full CTR Secondary” – interview and search the subject -- “if encountered entering or exiting the U.S.”
In June 2011, the FBI investigation of Tamerlan Tsarnaev was closed. According to the report, “the assessment found no links to terrorism.”
On Sept. 11, 2011, three individuals were found with their throats cut and marijuana sprinkled over their body in Waltham, Mass. One of the victims, Brendan Mess, was a neighbor and long-time sparring partner of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and had been introduced by Tsarnaev to the owner of a martial arts gym as his “best friend.”
Authorities linked the deaths to drug dealing, and noted that they had nearly been decapitated. Investigators say all three victims were Jewish.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, was shot and killed by police in the manhunt after the bombing. The Sun of Lowell via Reuters file
Nearly two years later, after the Boston Marathon bombings, authorities interviewed an associate of Tsarnaev’s named Ibragim Todashev about the Waltham murders. The FBI shot and killed Todashev during the interview when he allegedly attacked an agent. The FBI, which has been cleared of wrongdoing by state authorities and an internal review, says Todashev was about to sign a statement implicating both himself and Tsarnaev in the murders when he was killed.
In the immediate aftermath of the Waltham murders, however, authorities made no arrests. Tsarnaev was not questioned.
In late September, six months after it had sent its first cable to the FBI, the FSB sent a second cable to the CIA, according to a U.S. intelligence official. The Russians’ second cable restated the warnings of the first memo, and was very similar in language and content.
There is no indication that the FBI reopened their file or conducted further investigative efforts after the CIA received its version of the FSB cable.
On Oct. 19, 2011, the CIA shared information on Tsarnaev with the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), DHS, the State Department and the FBI. The information shared included two possible dates of birth, his name and a possible alternate spelling of his name.
The CIA nominated Tsarnaev for inclusion in the terror watchlisting system. The NCTC then added Tsarnaev’s name to the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) database, a central U.S. government terror database that includes hundreds of thousands of names. TIDE is not itself a watchlist, but is used as a source for watchlists like TECS.
A second note about Tamerlan Tsarnaev was entered into the TECS system on October 20, 2011, according to sources familiar with the investigation conducted for the Congressional report. The second TECS entry, which NBC News has seen, spells Tsarnaev’s name as “Tsarnayev,” with an extra y, and warns that he might be armed and dangerous.
The note directs that if Tsarnaev is encountered leaving or reentering the U.S., his detention is “mandatory.” It says, “Escort to CBP [Customs] secondary and detain.”
“Detain isolated and immediately call the lookout duty officer at NTC (24X7),” says the note. “Call is mandatory whether or not the officer believes there is an exact match. Advise the person answering the phone that you have a code tip lookout intercept.”
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, poses for a photo after graduating from Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School. Tsarnaev is charged in the Boston marathon bombings. Robin Young / AP file
On January 21, 2012 Tsarnaev traveled to JFK airport in New York to board an Aeroflot flight to Moscow.
Though an alert was triggered, Tsarnaev was not pulled out for a secondary search or interview. According to sources familiar with the report, there were almost 100 other names on the “Hot List” of individuals traveling through Customs at JFK that day, and Tsarnaev was not considered high priority.
Tsarnaev flew to Moscow, and then to Dagestan, where he stayed for six months and received jihad training, according to U.S. authorities.
On July 17, 2012, Tsarnaev flew back to the United States, landing at JFK. TECS notes remain in effect for one year. The initial TECS note had expired. The second, more urgent TECS note filed in October 2011 that said he might be armed and dangerous had not.
But no alert was triggered when Tsarnaev passed through Customs at JFK, because of the misspelling of his name on the second TECS note. The difference of one letter – Tsarnayev instead of Tsarnaev – meant that he was not detained or questioned despite the warning in his file, according to sources familiar with the report.
Ibragim Todashev after his arrest for aggravated battery in Orlando. Todashev, who was being questioned in Orlando by authorities in the Boston bombing probe, was fatally shot last year when he initiated a violent confrontation, FBI officials said. Todashev told investigators that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect, participated in a triple killing in Waltham, Mass. on Sept. 11, 2011. Orange County Corrections Dept. via AP file
On April 15, 2013, bombs killed three people during the Boston Marathon. Tamerlan was killed during a shootout with police on April 19 in Watertown, Mass., and his brother Dzhokhar was discovered hiding in a boat nearby later the same day. Dzhokhar now faces federal terrorism charges in connection with the bombing that carry a possible death sentence. He has pleaded not guilty.
The House Homeland Security Committee, which is chaired by Rep. Michael McCaul (R.-Texas), is expected to make its report public as early as Thursday.
The report re-examines numerous facts that surfaced immediately after the bombing and in subsequent months. It compiles the material and puts it in perspective before making recommendations for changes to procedures. The report is not without controversy – several Democratic members of the committee did not sign on to the report.
A congressional staffer told NBC News that “the report is not blaming the FBI.” The staffer said the report is “looking at processes and filling holes.”
Robert Windrem contributed to this report. ||||| WASHINGTON — After being interrogated for four and a half hours, a 27-year-old Chechen man who had just admitted to committing a grisly triple homicide in 2011 with the help of one of the Boston Marathon bombers was starting to show signs of anxiety.
As the Chechen man, Ibragim Todashev, began to write his confession to the murders, an F.B.I. agent and a Massachusetts State Police detective in his apartment with him glanced away for a second, and Mr. Todashev picked up a table and threw it at the F.B.I. agent, lacerating the back of his head. Mr. Todashev then dashed into his kitchen and could be heard rummaging through the drawers.
Regaining his footing, the agent drew his gun as Mr. Todashev, holding a pole over his head, ran at the detective as if trying to impale him.
The agent fired at Mr. Todashev several times, knocking him down. Despite being shot, he tried to regain his footing and again lunged at the detective.
The agent fired at Mr. Todashev several more times, fatally wounding him.
The description of the shooting in Orlando, Fla., was included in more than a hundred pages of documents released on Tuesday by local investigators in Florida and federal officials in Washington who were looking into whether the F.B.I. agent should be charged with killing Mr. Todashev.
After an autopsy, forensic tests and dozens of interviews, the investigators in Florida and Washington ultimately came to the same conclusion: The agent had followed the Justice Department’s guidelines that say agents can fire their weapons if they believe they or someone else is under the threat of violence.
The Florida prosecutor, State Attorney Jeffrey L. Ashton, said in a letter to James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, that the agent had not shown any evidence of “intentional misconduct or acted with any degree of malice.”
Senior F.B.I. officials had been eager for the report in Florida to be released because it was by investigators outside the Justice Department.
The F.B.I. and the Justice Department have been criticized by civil libertarian and rights groups who believe that the federal authorities, who rarely have another investigative body look at their inquiries into shootings, were too quick to clear their own agents.
The New York Times reported last year that F.B.I. agents fatally shot 70 “subjects” and wounded about 80 others from 1993 to early 2011, and that in every case, the agent’s use of force was deemed justified.
Tuesday’s reports about what occurred in Orlando, after the Boston Marathon bombing, were different from the initial accounts provided by the F.B.I. In the aftermath of the shooting, federal law enforcement officials said Mr. Todashev ran at the F.B.I. agent after he knocked him to the ground.
The F.B.I. agent, who was based in Boston and was not identified in the reports, went to Florida in May with two Massachusetts State Police detectives to interview Mr. Todashev as part of the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. (The authorities have uncovered no evidence tying Mr. Todashev to the bombing last April, which killed three people and wounded more than 260.)
While the investigators in Florida and the Justice Department cleared the agent, a joint panel of F.B.I. and Justice Department officials will continue to study the shooting to determine whether lessons can be learned from it.
That panel will most likely examine the decision to interview the man in his home. Mr. Todashev, who had initially said he was willing to meet the authorities at a secure location, then said he would meet them only at his apartment.
According to the documents, the agent and the detectives knew that Mr. Todashev had a violent history, was experienced in martial arts and had probably played a role in the homicides.
As part of an effort to balance “between the competing factors of developing an amicable rapport conducive to gaining information and the potential risk presented by a murder suspect in the freedom of his own residence,” the agent and detectives did not initially search Mr. Todashev or the apartment for weapons, according to the report released by officials in Washington.
When Mr. Todashev’s attitude changed during the interview, the other Massachusetts detective removed a decorative sword hanging on a wall and hid it behind a shelf near the kitchen.
Shortly before the shooting, one of the detectives stepped outside to make a phone call to a prosecutor in Massachusetts. Before the detective left the apartment, the prosecutor had sent him a text message: “Don’t put him in custody until we get a warrant.” |||||
A: | Could better spelling have prevented the Boston Marathon bombing? A soon-to-be released congressional report finds that the US missed multiple chances to detain Tamerlan Tsarnaev after receiving warnings from Russian authorities, NBC reports. In July 2012, less than a year before the bombing, Tsarnaev returned to the US from Dagestan, where he is believed to have received jihad training. His name was on a watchlist warning that he might be armed and dangerous and should be detained, but sources say he wasn't stopped because his name had been entered as "Tsarnayev." The FBI opened and closed an investigation after receiving a warning from Russian authorities but apparently didn't reopen after a second warning was received. The report is "is not blaming the FBI," a congressional staffer says, but is "looking at processes and filling holes." Separately, investigators have released a report clearing an FBI agent of wrongdoing in the death of an acquaintance of Tsarnaev's shot dead while being questioned over a triple murder both men are believed to have committed, reports the New York Times. |
Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
The coach briefly speaks about how gives them rest before every competition. She lifts the weight way above her head and drops it wearing her uniform. everyone | claps for her, and then you hear from her and the coach again before the interview is over. |
Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
The words "decorating with attitude" appear on screen. Children open ornaments and place them on the tree. The little girl destroys a glass ornament. she | then purposely breaks another ornament. |
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:The Coca-Cola Company produces concentrate, which is then sold to licensed Coca-Cola bottlers throughout the world. The bottlers, who hold exclusive territory contracts with the company, produce the finished product in cans and bottles from the concentrate, in combination with filtered water and sweeteners. A typical 12-US-fluid-ounce (350 ml) can contains 38 grams (1.3 oz) of sugar (usually in the form of high fructose corn syrup). The bottlers then sell, distribute, and merchandise Coca-Cola to retail stores, restaurants, and vending machines throughout the world. The Coca-Cola Company also sells concentrate for soda fountains of major restaurants and foodservice distributors.
Solution: | coca cola is a product of which country |
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.
She won two inaugural Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards from the Swedish Arts Council in 2003 , the biggest prize in children 's literature . | She received one of two inaugural Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards from the Swedish Arts Council in 2003 , the biggest prize in children 's literature , for her career contribution to " children 's and young adult literature in the broadest sense . " |
Detailed Instructions: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Problem:The season is set for release in 2019.
Solution: | is there going to be a punisher season 2? |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
[Q]: The man charged in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart told investigators that heaven was his home and God had delivered him a young girl to become as his wife, according to recordings of a police interview after his arrest.
Brian David Mitchell, 57, told police his name was Immanuel David Isaiah. He referred to Smart by the religious name "Shear Jashub" but refused to say he had kidnapped her.
"By the power of God she was delivered to us," Mitchell said repeatedly to police.
The account came during a two-hour tape played for jurors Monday as Mitchell's federal trial on charges of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor across state lines entered its third week.
In the recording, Mitchell fends off questions about Smart's abduction and whether they had sex by spinning religious phrases and comparing his situation to that of apostles who suffered for following Jesus Christ, or to the persecution heaped on Christ himself.
"It mattereth not what you are saying and how good you think this case is against me, because God has the power to deliver me," Mitchell said during the interview.
Smart was 14 when she was taken from her home at knifepoint on June 5, 2002. She was recovered March 12, 2003, after motorists spotted Smart on a suburban Salt Lake City street with Mitchell and his now-estranged wife, Wanda Eileen Barzee.
In her testimony last week, Smart said Mitchell used a jagged-edged knife to threaten her life and that of her family, before taking her and keeping her tethered on a metal cable. She said she endured nearly daily rapes during her nine months of captivity, was forced to use drugs and alcohol, and was taken against her will to California.
Now, 23, Smart also said Mitchell proclaimed he was a religious prophet who would usher in the second-coming of Jesus Christ.
"You want to accuse me of being a diabolical, evil criminal. ... I am a servant of the Lord," Mitchell insisted to police. "She's had a glorious experience."
Police scoffed at Mitchell's responses and said Christ would not have lied about his identity, threatened to kill children or taken a young girl by force to have sex.
FBI agent George Dougherty called Mitchell a hypocrite and a fraud in the interview.
"You are not a servant of Jesus Christ and you need to get over that," Dougherty said, his voice rising.
Although he becomes argumentative during the interview, Mitchell remains mostly calm, deftly engaging in a verbal parry with the detectives. He speeds up or slows down his speech to match the pace detectives keep as they hurl questions at him. Mitchell frequently closes his eyes when he speaks, or he turns his back to detectives. He sings hymns during breaks in the interview and when he tires of the questioning.
Also Monday, prosecutors questioned four people who encountered Mitchell, Smart and Barzee while they wintered near San Diego and as they hitchhiked back to Utah in early March 2003.
In each instance, witnesses said they never heard Smart speak but the expression in her eyes was blank or fearful.
Trevelin Colianni saw the trio at a Burger King in Las Vegas and said he noticed them because of the their strange dress _ Smart was wearing a gray wig and sunglasses _ and because Mitchell never let go of Smart's wrist. Colianni called Las Vegas police but later saw the three on the street walking away from the restaurant.
"It was a look that I'll never forget," Colianni said, describing Smart. "She looked very frightened, very nervous. She looked like her face was quivering ... like a 'help me' look on her face."
Mitchell's attorneys have not disputed the facts of the abduction but contend that he is mentally ill and can't be held responsible for his actions.
In a parallel state case, Mitchell was diagnosed with a rare delusional disorder and deemed incompetent for trial.
U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball, however, ruled that Mitchell was competent for the federal proceedings.
Prosecutors contend Mitchell is faking psychiatric symptoms. He has been removed from the courtroom each day of the trial for disrupting the proceedings by singing hymns. He watches the trial on closed-circuit television from a holding cell. ||||| Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain. |||||
[A]: Trial resumed in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case today, with jurors hearing testimony that Brian David Mitchell was not delusional, but rather deliberately controlling and intimidating, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. Mitchell "has a personality that is much larger than I’ve ever encountered," testified a former cop who ran into Mitchell, his wife, and Smart on the street. "He gave me a look that was so intimidating, so encompassed, he stopped me before I could say hello." Jurors also watched a tape of a two-hour interrogation of Mitchell after his arrest. In it, he tells cops that Smart was "delivered to us" "by the power of God" and derided the authorities' case against him, saying "it mattereth not ... because God has the power to deliver me." Mitchell also compared his persecution to that of Jesus's followers, sang hymns when sick of questioning, and said Smart had had "a glorious experience." Smart watched today's proceedings from the gallery, reports the AP.
[Q]: Tim Childers, a volunteer at the Jonesboro Salvation Army, stirs soup at the shelter before dinner Monday afternoon. ||||| HOXIE, Ark. (AP) — A first-time political candidate in northeast Arkansas has learned a valuable civics lesson: vote early.
Cliff Farmer didn't make it to the polls in time to vote Tuesday, and his race for a Hoxie City Council seat ended up as a tie.
The Jonesboro Sun reports Farmer and his wife were returning from a Florida vacation on Tuesday when their plane landed only an hour before polls closed. The plane landed in Memphis, Tennessee, which is 80 miles (130 kilometers) from Hoxie.
His wife voted early, but Farmer said he'd intended to vote after they returned. That resulted in Farmer and incumbent Alderwoman Becky Linebaugh each receiving 223 votes. Linebaugh says she voted.
A winner will be declared next week by a coin toss or another game of chance. |||||
[A]: A first-time political candidate in northeast Arkansas has learned a valuable civics lesson: vote early. Cliff Farmer didn't make it to the polls in time to vote Tuesday, and his race for a Hoxie City Council seat ended up as a tie, the AP reports. The Jonesboro Sun reports Farmer and his wife were returning from a Florida vacation on Tuesday when their plane landed only an hour before polls closed. The plane landed in Memphis, Tennessee, which is 80 miles from Hoxie. His wife voted early, but Farmer said he'd intended to vote after they returned. That resulted in Farmer and incumbent Alderwoman Becky Linebaugh each receiving 223 votes. Linebaugh says she voted. A winner will be declared next week by a coin toss or another game of chance. (In another race, a mystery ballot may break the tie.)
[Q]: Yesterday evening, Gawker.com published a story about the CFO of Conde Nast texting an escort. It was an editorial call, a close call around which there were more internal disagreements than usual. And it is a decision I regret.
The story involves extortion, illegality and reckless behavior, sufficient justification at least in tabloid news terms. The account was true and well-reported. It concerns a senior business executive at one of the most powerful media companies on the planet.
In the early days of the internet, that would have been enough. “We put truths on the internet.” That has been the longstanding position of Gawker journalists, some of the most uncompromising and uncompromised on the internet. I cannot blame our editors and writers for pursuing that original mission.
But the media environment has changed, our readers have changed, and I have changed. Not only is criticism of yesterday’s piece from readers intense, but much of what they’ve said has resonated. Some of our own writers, proud to work at one of the only independent media companies, are equally appalled.
I believe this public mood reflects a growing recognition that we all have secrets, and they are not all equally worthy of exposure. I can’t defend yesterday’s story as I can our coverage of Bill O’Reilly, Hillary Clinton or Hulk Hogan.
We are proud of running stories that others shy away from, often to preserve relationships or access. But the line has moved. And Gawker has an influence and audience that demands greater editorial restraint.
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Gawker is no longer the insolent blog that began in 2003. It does important and interesting journalism about politicians, celebrities and other major public figures. This story about the former Treasury Secretary’s brother does not rise to the level that our flagship site should be publishing.
The point of this story was not in my view sufficient to offset the embarrassment to the subject and his family. Accordingly, I have had the post taken down. It is the first time we have removed a significant news story for any reason other than factual error or legal settlement.
Every story is a judgment call. As we go forward, we will hew to our mission of reporting and publishing important stories that our competitors are too timid, or self-consciously upright, to pursue. There will always be stories that critics attack as inappropriate or unjustified; and we will no doubt again offend the sensibilities of some industries or interest groups.
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This action will not turn back the clock. David Geithner’s embarrassment will not be eased. But this decision will establish a clear standard for future stories. It is not enough for them simply to be true. They have to reveal something meaningful. They have to be true and interesting. These texts were interesting, but not enough, in my view.
In light of Gawker’s past rhetoric about our fearlessness and independence, this can be seen as a capitulation. And perhaps, to some extent, it is. But it is motivated by a sincere effort build a strong independent media company, and to evolve with the audience we serve. ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. |||||
[A]: | A pair of controversial videos were at the center of two of this week's public apologies: Bad Samaritan: “I want to offer a public apology to the families of the kids that got injured or deceased in the car accident. I never intended it to be a video that came across as a gore video. I wanted to put the video out there so other kids could see it and learn from the mistake of speeding and driving recklessly.”—Paul Pelton, an Ohio man charged after filming the aftermath of a deadly car accident instead of helping the victims. Wrong tone: “Our top priority is the passionate care that we provide. In our video, one of our staff members speaks in a way that does not reflect that compassion. This is unacceptable, and I personally apologize for the staff member’s tone and statements."—Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, after an undercover video surfaced of a staffer talking about fetal organs. Bad timing: “We apologize to readers and mourn with the victims’ relatives and loved ones."—Ria Novosti, state-owned news agency in Russia, after posting a happy-go-lucky news quiz ("Congratulations! Your answer is correct") about the crash of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine on the one-year anniversary. Making matters worse is that many blame Russia, at least pro-Russian rebels, for the crash. Jumping the gun: "An associate accidentally discarded a bag of goldfish that had just arrived at the store and appeared to all be deceased. When a customer noticed the mistake, an associate was able to recover the few live fish and place them into a tank. We regret the mistake and are reviewing our policies to avoid future errors.”—PetSmart, after an employee in Michigan tossed live fish in the trash. Unposted: "The point of this story was not in my view sufficient to offset the embarrassment to the subject and his family. Accordingly, I have had the post taken down. It is the first time we have removed a significant news story for any reason other than factual error or legal settlement."—Nick Denton of Gawker, explaining why he made the rare move to pull a salacious story.
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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.
question:
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.
answer:
public
question:
How much can fixing water contamination improve child mortality rates overall?, Context: Given that water contamination is a major means of transmitting diarrheal disease, efforts to provide clean water supply and improved sanitation have the potential to dramatically cut the rate of disease incidence. In fact, it has been proposed that we might expect an 88% reduction in child mortality resulting from diarrheal disease as a result of improved water sanitation and hygiene. Similarly, a meta-analysis of numerous studies on improving water supply and sanitation shows a 22–27% reduction in disease incidence, and a 21–30% reduction in mortality rate associated with diarrheal disease.
answer:
88%
question:
Where is the most poultry raised?, Context: Poultry is the second most widely eaten type of meat in the world, accounting for about 30% of total meat production worldwide compared to pork at 38%. Sixteen billion birds are raised annually for consumption, more than half of these in industrialised, factory-like production units. Global broiler meat production rose to 84.6 million tonnes in 2013. The largest producers were the United States (20%), China (16.6%), Brazil (15.1%) and the European Union (11.3%). There are two distinct models of production; the European Union supply chain model seeks to supply products which can be traced back to the farm of origin. This model faces the increasing costs of implementing additional food safety requirements, welfare issues and environmental regulations. In contrast, the United States model turns the product into a commodity.
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| United States
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Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
That is why we intend to move an amendment which would ask the government to go beyond the initial motion and give some indication of whether or not the Liberals would have the fortitude on behalf of the Canadian people to not be a party to any international agreement which in future was found to compel us to export freshwater in bulk against our will.
Sentence: This text was taken from a speech in 1994.
Output: It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
The Great Maratha is an Indian historical drama television series directed by Sanjay Khan and produced by Numero Uno International Limited. The drama, aired on Doordarshan National, is based on the life of Mahadaji Shinde. The show comprised 47 episodes. The music was composed by Mohammed Zahur Khayyam.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Mahadaji Shinde was birthed in the year 1875.
****
Answer:
It's impossible to say
[Q]: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at its lowest level in over six years on Thursday, having lost 1.16%, or 89.68 points, bringing it to a level of 7,465.95. It had, at one point, set an intraday bear market low of 7,447.55. It was the lowest ending for the index since October 9, 2002. The Dow has fallen almost fifteen percent since the start of this year. This was the start of a recession. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say
Problem: After insulting the UN committee insinuating they were irrelavant, Bush no sooner had approval from Congress to use "force/war" if Hussein did not permit unfettered access for inspections - and the war ships were moved into place on the Gulf.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Hussein liked the taste of figs."? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Q: The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry had their communications disrupted
Termed "Operation Baylout", the group claims that hundreds of volunteers are taking part in coordinated efforts to jam the websites of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and MAQS, a law firm working with the prosecution in the Pirate Bay case. As of Friday evening MAQS's website read "Our website is currently under attack and we have therefore decided to shut it down until the attack ceases." The group is also coordinating efforts to jam the fax lines of the MPAA's anti-piracy office and of prosecuting attorney Monique Wadsted. Andrew Norton of Pirate Party International rejected the attacks, saying, "While we can't condone these acts, it does show there is a wealth of feeling that opposes the decisions and actions of this trade body.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
Q: National security is the most important thing in government.
One of the criteria that I think is important in deciding when and if we should ever get involved around the world is whether or not our national security interest is involved, if we can really make the difference with military forces. We tried everything else.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
Context:
Krieger will play for Team Israel in the World Baseball Classic, MLB.com's Jordan Bastian reports. Krieger was the Tribe's fourth-round pick in 2015 and will make his debut on the world stage in March. The middle infielder from Clemson hit .299/.377/.417 with 21 steals (he was caught 15 times, too) last season. Krieger's still a few years away from being on the MLB radar, but his performance in the WBC is worth watching for those in dynasty leagues.
Hypothesis: Kriger was picked in the fourth-round in 2015 and will debut in March on the world stage. | Yes |
Problem: The interest of the automotive industry increases and the first amplifier project, a four-channel output module for the German car manufacturer, Porsche, is finished.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Dodge is a German car manufacturer."? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Q: Fear kept Frank alive.
Robbed<br>Frank was walking home from work at night. A man approached him and told him to give him his wallet. Frank was scared but obeyed. The strange man then walked away from Frank. Frank was upset but thankful that he is still alive.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
Entering into a conversation with this ancient mariner , I asked if he knew any legend or stories concerning the old houses all about us .<br>`` Sights of 'em ; but it aint allers the old places as has the most stories concernin ' 'em .<br>Why , that cottage down yonder aint more 'n fifty year old , and they say there 's been a lot of ghosts seen there , owin ' to a man 's killin ' of himself in the back bedroom . ''
The ancient mariner believes in ghosts OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
input hypothesis: Some NGOs can meet BOVESPA's standards of transparency and accountability
Context: There is a growing sense of urgency to deal with the country's social issues, and a large number of professional NGOs can meet BOVESPA's standards of transparency and accountability.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: Yes
Context:
Scott Stevens, the Idaho meteorologist who claimed that a weather manipulating conspiracy (possibly under the control of Japanese Yakuza mafia) caused Hurricane Katrina, has quit his job at KPVI-TV in Pocatello.
Hypothesis: Scott Stevens has the initials SS. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Yes
Problem: How to treat winter eczema<br>Use moisturizer to soothe dry winter skin. Apply moisturizer to your skin at least twice a day focusing on any dry patches of skin. This will help keep it moist and prevent cracking and irritation.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Moisturizer is not safe to eat."? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Centre-left voters in Italy have chosen Romano Prodi as the candidate who will challenge Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in next year's election. The former European Commission president and Italian PM won 73.5% of votes, according to partial results of primaries.
Hypothesis: Romano Prodi has the initials RP.
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Answer:
Yes
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
The Bookstore<br>Jan went to the bookstore. She was looking for a cookbook. One of the clerks helped her find a good cookbook. Jan ended up buying an Asian cuisine cookbook. For dinner, she made sweet and sour chicken.
Hypothesis: Jan was looking for an enjoyable cookbook.
****
Answer:
It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
How to develop interpersonal skills<br>Learn what makes up nonverbal communication. Nonverbal communication includes your facial expressions, your use of touch, and your voice (not the words you speak, but how they sound). Visual cues are more important to interpret and deliver than audio cues.
Hypothesis: Non-verbal communication does not include touch.
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Answer:
| No |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
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.
Example solution: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Example explanation: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
Problem: The cities considered the global 'Big Four' fashion capitals of the 21st century are Milan, London, New York and Paris.
| Solution: who is the fashion capital of the world |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Q: Right after the Pentagon was hit, NEADS learned of another possible hijacked aircraft. It was an aircraft that in fact had not been hijacked at all. After the second World Trade Center crash, Boston Center managers recognized that both aircraft were transcontinental 767 jetliners that had departed Logan Airport. Remembering the "we have some planes" remark, Boston Center guessed that Delta 1989 might also be hijacked. Boston Center called NEADS at 9:41 and identified Delta 1989, a 767 jet that had left Logan Airport for Las Vegas, as a possible hijack. NEADS warned the FAA's Cleveland Center to watch Delta 1989. The Command Center and FAA headquarters watched it too. During the course of the morning, there were multiple erroneous reports of hijacked aircraft. The report of American 11 heading south was the first; Delta 1989 was the second. NEADS never lost track of Delta 1989, and even ordered fighter aircraft from Ohio and Michigan to intercept it. The flight never turned off its transponder. NEADS soon learned that the aircraft was not hijacked, and tracked Delta 1989 as it reversed course over Toledo, headed east, and landed in Cleveland. But another aircraft was heading toward Washington, an aircraft about which NORAD had heard nothing: United 93. United Airlines Flight 93 FAA Awareness. At 9:27, after having been in the air for 45 minutes, United 93 acknowledged a transmission from the Cleveland Center controller. This was the last normal contact the FAA had with the flight. Less than a minute later, the Cleveland controller and the pilots of aircraft in the vicinity heard "a radio transmission of unintelligible sounds of possible screaming or a struggle from an unknown origin." The controller responded, seconds later: "Somebody call Cleveland?"This was followed by a second radio transmission, with sounds of screaming. <sep>At what time was the FAA's last normal communication with United Airlines flight 93?<sep>9:45
A: | No |
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In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
question:
Auto-Tune became famous again in the mid-2000s when R & B singer T-Pain made active use of it in his songs .
answer:
The use of Auto-Tune as a vocal effect was bolstered in the late 2000s by hip hop / R & B recording artist T-Pain who elaborated on the effect and made active use of Auto-Tune in his songs .
question:
A tram stop is a place where a tram stops so passengers can get on or get off .
answer:
A tram stop , tram station , streetcar stop , or light rail station is a place designated for a tram , streetcar , or light rail vehicle to stop so passengers can board or alight it .
question:
The movie was produced by Paramount Pictures , Universal Pictures , Universal Animation Studios , and Nickelodeon ; and distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment in North America and Universal Studios Home Entertainment overseas .
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| It was produced by Paramount Pictures ( as the logo is seen on worldwide releases ) , Universal Cartoon Studios ( as the logo is seen on international releases ) , and Nickelodeon ; and distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment in North America and Universal Studios Home Entertainment overseas .
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Part 1. Definition
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Part 2. Example
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.
Answer: Russian Revolution
Explanation: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
Part 3. Exercise
how many seats does the theatre located on First Hill have?, Context: The 5th Avenue Theatre, built in 1926, stages Broadway-style musical shows featuring both local talent and international stars. Seattle has "around 100" theatrical production companies and over two dozen live theatre venues, many of them associated with fringe theatre; Seattle is probably second only to New York for number of equity theaters (28 Seattle theater companies have some sort of Actors' Equity contract). In addition, the 900-seat Romanesque Revival Town Hall on First Hill hosts numerous cultural events, especially lectures and recitals.
Answer: | 900 |
Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will appear on four of the five Sunday shows this coming weekend, POLITICO has confirmed.
The tour -- not quite a "full Ginsburg," as he is not scheduled to appear on CNN -- comes on the heels of Christie's landslide victory in the New Jersey gubernatorial race and amid intense debate about his prospects in the 2016 presidential election.
Christie will appear on NBC's "Meet The Press," ABC's "This Week," CBS's "Face The Nation" and Fox News's "Fox News Sunday." He is not scheduled to appear on CNN's "State of the Union," though he did give an exclusive election-day interview to CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday.
Christie will also guest star on tonight's episode of NBC's "The Michael J. Fox Show" and graces the cover of the new issue of Time magazine.
Read more about: Chris Christie ||||| Time Magazine went live with its new cover on Thursday morning, and it got Twitter talking in a hurry:
Next to a shadowy profile of newly-reelected New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, the cover reads, “The Elephant in the Room,” a triple pun on Christie’s party, his uncomfortable status within it, and, most troubling to the tweepsters, his weight.
Despite Christie’s party affiliation, the cover drew much of its criticism from liberals, and even from old Time employees:
Though not all the criticism was from the left:
More than one tweeter noted that the inside article said Christie was “Born to Run,” the second of Time’s Bruce Springsteen references when writing about Christie. Christie is a huge fan of the Boss, though the appreciation is not requited.
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>> Follow Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) on Twitter ||||| This isn’t the first time the magazine has controversially used Christie’s image on its cover. In January, after dubbing a very serious-looking Christie “THE BOSS,” the governor joked that he would report the magazine to the “anti-Italian defamation league.”
“I mean, come on,” Christie said at the time. “I can’t wait for that to come home for my kids to see it.”
But this time — with the joke more about Christie’s weight than his tough-guy image — no one is impressed: ||||| Add a location to your Tweets
When you tweet with a location, Twitter stores that location. You can switch location on/off before each Tweet and always have the option to delete your location history. Learn more ||||| Time’s new cover on Chris Christie: “The elephant in the room”
posted at 8:08 am on November 7, 2013 by Allahpundit
Not the first time they’ve hit him with a headline on the cover that can easily be taken the wrong way. Last time they called him “the boss,” which I’m pretty sure was a Springsteen allusion but which Christie himself took as a mafia reference.
Coming in early 2016: “A jumbo-sized victory.”
Recently in the Green Room: ||||| Photograph by Dennis Van Tine / ABACA USA
New Jersey voters never got to hear Chris Christie's most important speech this year, because it took place behind closed doors at a Westin hotel in Boston, where the governor laid out his not so veiled pitch for the party's 2016 nomination. "I'm in this business to win," he told the crowd of Republican leaders, according to an audio recording smuggled out of the room. "I don't know why you're in it."
It was pure Christie, combat bundled in cliche. Ever since he ousted Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine in 2009, he has run the Garden State with combustible passion, blunt talk and the kind of bipartisan dealmaking that no one seems to do anymore. He doesn't claim to be an ideas man or a visionary. He's a workhorse with a temper and a tongue, the guy who loves his mother and gets it done.
All year long, Christie has presented this character he has created as the savior for the Grand Old Party. At the Boston meeting in August, he said ideologues had begun to edge out the winners in Ronald Reagan's Big Tent. (He meant you, Tea Party, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin.) They acted like college professors, just spouting ideas. "College professors are fine, I guess," he joked, before driving it home. "If we don't win, we don't govern. And if we don't govern, all we do is shout into the wind."
Christie then went out and won, and he won big. In a blue state, he got 61% of the vote for governor on Nov. 5. "If we can do this in Trenton, New Jersey," Christie thundered, "maybe the folks in Washington, D.C., should tune in their TVs right now, see how it's done." |||||
A: | Chris Christie's landslide reelection win has landed him on the cover of Time—and that cover has landed Time in hot water. That's because over a silhouette of the governor, the magazine went with the headline "The Elephant in the Room." Which, Mediaite notes, is a triple-pun, referencing Christie's party, his uneasy relationship with that party, and—cue the controversy—his weight. The Internet swiftly delivered its trademark outrage party. Some highlights: "Coming in early 2016: A jumbo-sized victory," quips Hot Air, which notes that this is Time's second problematic Christie cover; an earlier one, reading simply "The Boss," raised ire, because some complained that it evoked the mafia. "TIME MAGAZINE EDITOR is SLIMY SNAKE!" Greta Van Susteren of Fox News said in a tweet spotted by USA Today. Conservative talk host David Webb said the cover "mocks" Christie's weight, asking "Is this acceptable to Americans?" Time alum Karen Tumulty tweeted, "Love my old employer, but this cover line is lazy, stupid." Later she added, "In my experience, they go for whatever they think will sell. But Christie cover line in puerile." Other Twitter reactions included, "Bipartisan ban on fat jokes, please," (link) "Congrats to @Time magazine for hiring Richie Incognito to write their cover headlines!!" (link) and this conservative parody cover. "Imagine if that were an overweight woman candidate with that elephant headline? Despicable," another Twitter user added, in response to Buzzfeed's writeup. Of course, the uproar serves to keep Christie's name on the front burner, an effort he'll continue this weekend, Politico observes, by hitting four of the five Sunday shows to discuss his win. He'll also guest star on the Michael J. Fox Show. |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Q: As the state-supported schools became bigger , it became difficult for the church-supported schools to pay for their sports teams .
A: | Rapid growth in enrollment of the state-supported schools made it difficult for the church-supported schools to finance their athletics programs and one by one they fell victim to the growing prowess of the state-supported colleges . |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
[Q]: Why could there be reasonable doubt about the validity of what was stated that she said?, Context: In May 2007, The Daily Telegraph, citing unnamed sources, reported that the Queen was "exasperated and frustrated" by the policies of the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, that she was concerned the British Armed Forces were overstretched in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that she had raised concerns over rural and countryside issues with Blair. She was, however, said to admire Blair's efforts to achieve peace in Northern Ireland. On 20 March 2008, at the Church of Ireland St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, the Queen attended the first Maundy service held outside England and Wales. At the invitation of the Irish President, Mary McAleese, the Queen made the first state visit to the Republic of Ireland by a British monarch in May 2011.
[A]: unnamed sources
[Q]: Which of the following is a type of DNA: junk, multicellular or dense?, Context: Whereas the chromosomes of prokaryotes are relatively gene-dense, those of eukaryotes often contain regions of DNA that serve no obvious function. Simple single-celled eukaryotes have relatively small amounts of such DNA, whereas the genomes of complex multicellular organisms, including humans, contain an absolute majority of DNA without an identified function. This DNA has often been referred to as "junk DNA". However, more recent analyses suggest that, although protein-coding DNA makes up barely 2% of the human genome, about 80% of the bases in the genome may be expressed, so the term "junk DNA" may be a misnomer.
[A]: junk
[Q]: the update caused what, Context: The 'OtherOS' functionality was not present in the updated PS Slim models, and the feature was subsequently removed from previous versions of the PS3 as part of the machine's firmware update version 3.21 which was released on April 1, 2010; Sony cited security concerns as the rationale. The firmware update 3.21 was mandatory for access to the PlayStation Network. The removal caused some controversy; as the update removed officially advertised features from already sold products, and gave rise to several class action lawsuits aimed at making Sony return the feature or provide compensation.
[A]: | controversy
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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".
Input: Temperate climates have moderate temperatures. These climates vary in how much rain they get and when the rain falls. You can see different types of temperate climates in Figure 2.40. Mediterranean climates are found on the western coasts of continents. The coast of California has a Mediterranean climate. Temperatures are mild and rainfall is moderate. Most of the rain falls in the winter, and summers are dry. To make it through the dry summers, short woody plants are common. Marine west coast climates are also found on the western coasts of continents. The coast of Washington State has this type of climate. Temperatures are mild and theres plenty of rainfall all year round. Dense fir forests grow in this climate. Humid subtropical climates are found on the eastern sides of continents. The southeastern U.S. has this type of climate. Summers are hot and humid, but winters are chilly. There is moderate rainfall throughout the year. Pine and oak forests grow in this climate. <sep>How do the main plants differ between a Mediterranian climate and a Subtropical climate?<sep>Plants in the Mediterranean can handle lots of dry weather
Output: | No |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Ex Input:
(CNN) -- Horror-meister, Stephen King calls George Pelecanos "perhaps the greatest living American crime writer." His stories are set in Pelecanos' hometown of Washington, D.C., but this is not the side of the U.S. capitol that you see portrayed on TV with white marble monuments, lawyers and lobbyists. Pelecanos is more interested in working families struggling to get by, the racial tensions in its ethnic neighborhoods and the low-lifes on the edges. His crime-writing peers call Pelecanos the "undisputed poet" of Washington's gritty side. The best-selling and award-winning author is out this week with his 17th and latest novel, "The Cut." It's the first in a new series featuring Iraq war veteran and private investigator Spero Lucas. When he's not working for a Washington defense attorney, Lucas recovers stolen property for a 40% cut. Now, a high-profile crime boss hires Lucas to find out who's been stealing from him, and it could turn out to be Lucas' biggest payday or an untimely end. While Pelecanos made his bones in the noir tradition, there's a definite "Western" feel to "The Cut." The new novel takes place in a morally gray and often violent world. It's peppered with pitch-perfect dialogue and captures the sights, sounds and taste of Washington in rich detail. In short, Pelecanos reads like the real deal. Pelecanos knows a thing or two about capturing the authenticity of urban America with an ethnically and socially diverse cast. In addition to his success as a novelist, Pelecanos is a producer and writer for HBO's New Orleans-set, "Treme." He was previously a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the hit series "The Wire" and the miniseries "The Pacific." Read an excerpt from "The Cut" CNN recently spoke to Pelecanos about his new novel. The following is an edited transcript. CNN: Tell me more about your new character, Spero Lucas. <sep>As a private investigator, who does Spero Lucas work for in Pelecanos newest novel, "The Cut"?<sep>A Washington defense attorney
Ex Output:
Yes
Ex Input:
Take a look at this train in Figure 1.11. It looks very futuristic. What do you notice about it? Did you notice that the train has no wheels? How can a train have no wheels? It doesn't need wheels. It actually floats, or levitates, just above the track. Magnets enable the train to do this. This is not a normal train. This is a maglev train. The word maglev stands for magnetic levitation. Because it has no wheels, there is no friction. Some magnets hold the train up. Other magnets are used to move the train forward. This train can go very fast. It can reach speeds up to 480 kilometers (300 miles) per hour! Magnets are pretty cool. What exactly is a magnet? How is it able to exert such force? <sep>How does the train work without wheels?<sep>It uses magnets to levitates above the train tracks
Ex Output:
Yes
Ex Input:
Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire. Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire. We might call it the first Chinese invention. Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire. Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight. He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat. Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued. And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down. Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology. The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel. Europeans did not yet have a word for "coal," nor had they discovered a use for it. The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty. This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees. And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes — China's first scholars. During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art. Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements. And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago. The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government. <sep>Where did man get fire and what luxuries did it provide?<sep>A way to cook food
Ex Output:
| No
|
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".
Input: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, in a bid to create jobs and boost economic growth, called on Congress on Monday to pass a $50 billion plan to renew the country's transportation infrastructure. His address was the first of two speeches the president is scheduled to make this week to frame his administration's ongoing response to the recession, less than two months ahead of midterm elections in which Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are in jeopardy. "Today, I am announcing a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America's roads, and rails and runways for the long term," said Obama, who spoke on Labor Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- a state with competitive gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races. "We used to have the best infrastructure in the world. We can have it again," he said to loud cheers from a crowd of union workers. The proposal envisions -- over a six year period -- rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rail and 150 miles of airport runways. It also would include modernizing the nation's air traffic control system in an effort to reduce delays and travel time. "This will not only create jobs immediately. It's also going to make our economy hum over the long haul," said the president. Obama hopes to work with Congress to enact an up-front investment of $50 billion -- an amount a White House statement said would represent a significant chunk of new spending on infrastructure. The investment would then be paired with what the administration called a framework to improve transportation spending. The long-term plan would include the establishment of an Infrastructure Bank, which would leverage federal dollars and focus on projects that could deliver the the biggest bang for the buck, Obama said. The president stressed the need for Democrats and Republicans to work together on the transportation initiative, which would need to be approved by Congress. <sep>The framework to improve transportation spending congress is being asked for would cost how much?<sep>$4 Billion
Output: | No |
Teacher:In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: What did Burke have to eventually clearly state about his work?, Context: Burke claimed that Bolingbroke's arguments against revealed religion could apply to all social and civil institutions as well. Lord Chesterfield and Bishop Warburton (and others) initially thought that the work was genuinely by Bolingbroke rather than a satire. All the reviews of the work were positive, with critics especially appreciative of Burke's quality of writing. Some reviewers failed to notice the ironic nature of the book, which led to Burke stating in the preface to the second edition (1757) that it was a satire.
Student: | that it was a satire |
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
One of the guys comes on the screen and gives some tips about how to prepare to give a tattoo. A close up of a man is shown giving a tattoo to someone. several clients
Options: [i] are shown close up on the screen while they are in the process of a tattoo.. [ii] come to the screen where they get piercing instructions and shows the wall paper.. [iii] are shown getting their tattoo and rubbing it in.. [iv] restart the process to get the tattoo to go.. | [i] |
input hypothesis: At least five people were involved in the shooting.
Context: BALTIMORE — Authorities say a man has been fatally gunned down in a triple shooting near a Baltimore police station. Police spokesman T.J. Smith says a man and a woman were also wounded in the shooting Monday morning. Officers saw two men run away from the scene. Smith says officers chased after them, but the men managed to escape. Investigators believe the shooting was targeted, not random. Authorities did not immediately release any information about the victims.
true or false: Yes
input hypothesis: The Good Mother is not a film.
Context: The Good Mother is a 1988 American drama film and an adaptation of Sue Miller's novel of the same name. Directed by Leonard Nimoy, the film stars Diane Keaton and Liam Neeson in the leading roles. "The Good Mother" explores feelings and beliefs about children's exposure to adult sexuality and challenges society's growing reliance upon courts to settle complex private and ethical matters.
true or false: No
input hypothesis: People who know quadratic algebra know about Koszul
Context: In mathematics, a quadratic algebra is a filtered algebra generated by degree one elements, with defining relations of degree 2. It was pointed out by Yuri Manin that such algebras play an important role in the theory of quantum groups. The most important class of graded quadratic algebras is Koszul algebras.
true or false: It's impossible to say
input hypothesis: That made no concession to the band's more than 9 decades playing pounding rock 'n roll.
Context: The Rolling Stones kicked off their latest tour on Sunday, with a flashy, high-energy concert at Boston's Fenway Park that made no concession to the band's more than four decades playing pounding rock 'n roll.
true or false: | No |
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: Who did Villa negotiate with to end his rebellion?, Context: Villa and Carranza had different political goals causing Villa to become an enemy of Carranza. After Carranza took control in 1914, Villa and other revolutionaries who opposed him met at what was called the Convention of Aguascalientes. The convention deposed Carranza in favor of Eulalio Gutiérrez. In the winter of 1914 Villa's and Zapata's troops entered and occupied Mexico City. Villa was forced from the city in early 1915 and attacked the forces of Gen. Obregón at the Battle of Celaya and was badly defeated in the bloodiest battle of the revolution, with thousands dead. With the defeat of Villa, Carranza seized power. A short time later the United States recognized Carranza as president of Mexico. Even though Villa's forces were badly depleted by his loss at Celaya, he continued his fight against the Carranza government. Finally, in 1920, Obregón—who had defeated him at Celaya—finally reached an agreement with Villa end his rebellion.
SOLUTION: Obregón
PROBLEM: Who may be more likely to have female clergy?, Context: Wesleyan theology stands at a unique cross-roads between evangelical and sacramental, between liturgical and charismatic, and between Anglo-Catholic and Reformed theology and practice. It has been characterized as Arminian theology with an emphasis on the work of the Holy Spirit to bring holiness into the life of the participating believer. The United Methodist Church believes in prima scriptura, seeing the Holy Bible as the primary authority in the Church and using sacred tradition, reason, and experience to interpret it, with the aid of the Holy Spirit (see Wesleyan Quadrilateral). Therefore, according to The Book of Discipline, United Methodist theology is at once "catholic, evangelical, and reformed." Today, the UMC is generally considered one of the more moderate and tolerant denominations with respect to race, gender, and ideology, though the denomination itself actually includes a very wide spectrum of attitudes. Comparatively, the UMC stands to the right of liberal and progressive Protestant groups such as the United Church of Christ and the Episcopal Church on certain issues (especially regarding sexuality), but to the left of historically conservative evangelical traditions such as the Southern Baptists and Pentecostalism, in regard to theological matters such as social justice and Biblical interpretation. However, it should be noted that the UMC is made up of a broad diversity of thought, and so there are many clergy and laity within the UMC that hold differing viewpoints on such theological matters.
SOLUTION: United Church of Christ and the Episcopal Church
PROBLEM: What scene expresses complex movement and sequences?, Context: The earliest examples of visual representations in Iranian history are traced back to the bas-reliefs of Persepolis, c. 500 BC. Persepolis was the ritual center of the ancient kingdom of Achaemenids, and the figures at Persepolis remain bound by the rules of grammar and syntax of visual language. The Iranian visual arts reached a pinnacle by the Sassanid Era. A bas-relief from this period in Taq Bostan depicts a complex hunting scene. Similar works from the period have been found to articulate movements and actions in a highly sophisticated manner. It is even possible to see a progenitor of the cinema close-up in one of these works of art, which shows a wounded wild pig escaping from the hunting ground.
SOLUTION: | a wounded wild pig escaping from the hunting ground
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Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
The Dark Eyes of London is a 1939 British horror film directed by Walter Summers, starring Béla Lugosi and Greta Gynt. The film is an adaptation of the 1924 novel of the same name by Edgar Wallace. The film is about a scientist named Dr. Orloff who commits a series of murders for insurance money, while periodically disguising himself as the blind manager of a charity to further his scheme.
Hypothesis: Wallace consulted with Summers about the film.
Pick from:
+Yes.
+It's impossible to say.
+No. | It's impossible to say |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
You Me Her is an American-Canadian comedy television series that revolves around a suburban married couple who is entering a three-way romantic relationship, otherwise known as a polyamorous relationship. The series is set in Portland, Oregon and was created by John Scott Shepherd. The series is also promoted as TV's ``first polyromantic comedy''. On June 9, 2016, Audience Network renewed the series for a second and third season. The third season premiered on March 20, 2018. On July 27, 2018, the series was renewed for a fourth and fifth season.
Output: | will there be another season of you me her? |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
For thousands of years, people have found fossils. The fossils caused curiosity about Earths past. How did these organisms live? What type of world did they live in? Fossils can tell us a lot about Earths history. In ancient times, fossils inspired myths and stories. These stories included tales of monsters and other incredible creatures. What type of creature do you know that could inspire such stories? Of course, dinosaur fossils were once mistaken for dragons bones. Two thousand years ago, people discovered fossils in China. At the time, they were thought to be dragon bones. We know now that these were not bones, but fossils. So what is the difference? <sep>What questions do fossils cause humans to ask about?<sep>What type of world did they live in?
Output: | Yes |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
Context:
The Auditor General, in his 1997 report, confirmed the importance of habitat restoration; yet this winter the federal government cancelled a mapping and inventory program developed on the coast to standardize essential salmon habitat mapping and inventory services and put displaced fishermen back to work.
Hypothesis: The federal government does not cancel things in winter. | No |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
How to bank online<br>Discover the types of online banking tools that are offered through your financial institution. You can pick and choose the services you want when you bank online. [substeps] Bill pay is typically offered through most traditional brick-and-mortar banks that provide online banking.
Hypothesis: Your financial institution will allow you to discover types of online banking tools
Choose from:
(I) Yes
(II) It's impossible to say
(III) No | (I) |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: Which of the following was not built during the WPA era: the Rose Garden, Oklahoma City or the Butterfly Garden?, Context: Oklahoma City has a major park in each quadrant of the city, going back to the first parks masterplan. Will Rogers Park, Lincoln Park, Trosper Park, and Woodson Park were once connected by the Grand Boulevard loop, some sections of which no longer exist. Martin Park Nature Center is a natural habitat in far northwest Oklahoma City. Will Rogers Park is home to the Lycan Conservatory, the Rose Garden, and Butterfly Garden, all built in the WPA era. Oklahoma City is home to the American Banjo Museum, which houses a large collection of highly decorated banjos from the early 20th century and exhibits on the history of the banjo and its place in American history. Concerts and lectures are also held there.
A: | Oklahoma City |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
One example is below.
Q: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
A: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Rationale: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
Q: The Preamble to the United States Constitution is a brief introductory statement of the Constitution's fundamental purposes and guiding principles. It states in general terms, and courts have referred to it as reliable evidence of the Founding Fathers' intentions regarding the Constitution's meaning and what they hoped the Constitution would achieve.
A: | main idea of the preamble to the constitution |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Example: 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.
Output: Russian Revolution
This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
New input case for you: What happened on the Harlem River that helped people's anger?, Context: The development of the Bronx is directly connected to its strategic location between New England and New York (Manhattan). Control over the bridges across the Harlem River plagued the period of British colonial rule. Kingsbridge, built in 1693 where Broadway reached the Spuyten Duyvil Creek, was a possession of Frederick Philipse, lord of Philipse Manor. The tolls were resented by local farmers on both sides of the creek. In 1759, the farmers led by Jacobus Dyckman and Benjamin Palmer built a "free bridge" across the Harlem River which led to the abandonment of tolls altogether.
Output: | a "free bridge" |
Definition: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: Who was the one who determined the ruler of Nepal?, Context: The ancient history of Kathmandu is described in its traditional myths and legends. According to Swayambhu Purana, present-day Kathmandu was once a huge and deep lake names "Nagdaha" as it was full of snakes. The lake was cut drained by Bodhisatwa Manjusri with his sword and the water was evacuated out from there and he established a city called Manjupattan and made Dharmakar the ruler of the valley land. After sometimes, a demon named Banasur closed the outlet and the valley was again a lake. Then lots Krishna came to Nepal, killed Banasur and again drained out water. He has brought some Gops with him and made Bhuktaman the king of Nepal.
Output: | Krishna |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
At length, as I entered the pass, the huge rocks began to close around in all their wild, mysterious impressiveness, when suddenly, as I was gazing eagerly about me, a drove of gray hairy beings came in sight, lumbering toward me with a kind of boneless, wallowing motion like bears. I never turn back, though often so inclined, and in this particular instance, amid such surroundings, everything seemed singularly unfavorable for the calm acceptance of so grim a company. Suppressing my fears, I soon discovered that although as hairy as bears and as crooked as summit pines, the strange creatures were sufficiently erect to belong to our own species. They proved to be nothing more formidable than Mono Indians dressed in the skins of sage-rabbits. Both the men and the women begged persistently for whisky and tobacco, and seemed so accustomed to denials that I found it impossible to convince them that I had none to give. Excepting the names of these two products of civilization, they seemed to understand not a word of English; but I afterward learned that they were on their way to Yosemite Valley to feast awhile on trout and procure a load of acorns to carry back through the pass to their huts on the shore of Mono Lake. <sep>What color were the rabbit skins?<sep>Red
| No |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
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: A handful of Bronze Age relics has fostered an assumption that prehistoric settlers inhabited Ibiza thousands of years ago. Greater evidence of such a people is found on Mallorca and Menorca than on Ibiza, but one of the Balearics' most important sites is actually on the island of Formentera, where the megalithic monument/tomb of Ca Na Costa has been dated to 2000 b.c. Ibiza's key location between Africa and ancient Iberia made it a convenient stopover for Mediterranean seafarers, such as the Phoenician traders, who called the island Ibosim. The Greeks dubbed it Ebysos, the Romans called it Ebusus, and the Moors, Yebisah. The Carthaginians: A detailed history of the island doesn't begin until it became a colony of Carthage in the 7th century b.c. . The Carthaginians originally came from the area comprising present-day Lebanon, and from their bases in North Africa and what's now Spain, they challenged the Roman Empire for domination of the Mediterranean region. Their interest in Ibiza lay partly in its vast salt flats, which to this day remain the source of a profitable industry. They capitalized on the natural resources by using the salt to cure fish, which they exported to their home country. The Carthaginians also carried out lead mining and continued to be of significance up until this century. It is believed that the lead pellets which were used by the Carthaginian general Hannibal were made on Ibiza. The Carthaginians also considered the island a holy place, and here in great splendour they buried thousands of their citizens in a huge necropolis on the Puig des Molins (Hill of the Windmills) below the Dalt Vila (Old Town) of Ibiza. Under the gnarled olive trees archaeologists have uncovered a treasure trove of statues, jewellery, pitchers, tools, and coins, which are now displayed in the town's two archaeological museums. The Romans never really infiltrated Ibiza, and even after the defeat of Hannibal in 202 b.c. during the Second Punic War their influence was restrained. Only with the fall of Carthage in 146 b.c. did they manage to make inroads, but, as local historians stress, Ibiza was neither conquered nor annexed by Rome, but confederated, retaining remarkable autonomy. For centuries to come the old Carthaginian traditions were allowed to continue on Ibiza alongside the new Roman way of life. <sep>What are some of the groups of people that went to island Ibosim?<sep>Phoenician traders, Greeks, Romans, Moors, and Carthaginians
Solution: | Yes |
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: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live. The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish. But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra. Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean. The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese. In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka. They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais. In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king. Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade. The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra. Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest — as had been the case in North Africa and Europe — but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching. Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast. In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance — all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade. At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446–1459). But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander. He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands. He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships. After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456. <sep>Why might you might not have wanted to live in Melaka in the early days?<sep>The river was small and sluggish
Solution: | Yes |
Definition: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: Which Renaissance scholar introduced the world Plato from what we now consider an ancient language?, Context: Meanwhile, in Renaissance Italy, a new period in the history of translation had opened in Florence with the arrival, at the court of Cosimo de' Medici, of the Byzantine scholar Georgius Gemistus Pletho shortly before the fall of Constantinople to the Turks (1453). A Latin translation of Plato's works was undertaken by Marsilio Ficino. This and Erasmus' Latin edition of the New Testament led to a new attitude to translation. For the first time, readers demanded rigor of rendering, as philosophical and religious beliefs depended on the exact words of Plato, Aristotle and Jesus.
Output: | Marsilio Ficino |
Select from options: Continue writing the next sentence.
A camera pans all around an indoor gym and leads into clips of people pole volting over a bar. several people
Options:
1). press people in slow motion as more are shown flipping and landing on the bar.;
2). demonstrate climbing over the bar and performing tricks on the mat while others record them.;
3). are shown running with a pole over a beam and onto a mat one after the other.;
4). are shown hosing down the bar attempting to score high.;
Answer: | 3). |
Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
Several people are shown in canoe riding around in the water and having a great time. then | , they are some learning different methods of canoeing and how to maneuver in the water. |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
Context:
In Greek mythology, the Hesperides ( ; Ancient Greek: Ἑσπερίδες , ] ) are the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunset, who were the "Daughters of the Evening" or "Nymphs of the West". They tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world, located near the Atlas mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus, the world-ocean.
Hypothesis: Atlas mountains contains a xx | No |
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to get rid of lice using custard apple seed paste
Get seeds from the custard apple.
Custard apples are cultivated in most parts of the world. They are available in markets throughout the autumn season.
A: In hindi, custard apple seeds are called " sharifa ". Soak the seeds for a few days.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
Photos of various people riding horses are shown. Woma is riding a horse in a barn and pictures of people riding horses. woman
A: is riding a horse in a riding track.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
A model wearing a bikini opens directs the scene and talks behind an i-pad screen. A meal is cooked in a frying pan. People ride on a boat and catch fish. surfers
A: ride large waves in the ocean.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
A man in a green shirt throws a disc onto a field. a man in a blue shirt
A: | throws a disc onto the field. |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Example: 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.
Output: Russian Revolution
This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
New input case for you: This system's brand is?, Context: The system displays the What's New screen by default instead of the [Games] menu (or [Video] menu, if a movie was inserted) when starting up. What's New has four sections: "Our Pick", "Recently Played", latest information and new content available in PlayStation Store. There are four kinds of content the What's New screen displays and links to, on the sections. "Recently Played" displays the user's recently played games and online services only, whereas, the other sections can contain website links, links to play videos and access to selected sections of the PlayStation Store.
Output: | PlayStation |
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: Billy and Sally are brother and sister. Billy is seven and Sally is eight. Their mother, Deborah, likes to have Billy and Sally dress up in costumes and play a game where they are answering the telephone. Usually when they play the game, Billy answers the telephone in a loud voice, and Sally answers the telephone in a quiet voice. On Tuesdays, Billy answers in a quiet voice, and Sally answers in a loud voice. On Fridays, Billy answers in a loud voice and Sally in a quiet voice. Billy has blonde hair. Sally has brown hair. Deborah has blonde hair, and Billy and Sally's father, Bob, has brown hair. He tells them to eat lettuce every time that he sees them, so that they grow big and strong like he is. Deborah likes to add some sugar with the lettuce so that Billy and Sally know what it is like to have sweet tastes in their life. One day, a Wednesday, Billy throws some lettuce into Sally's hair. Deborah laughs an grabs some straw from their farm and puts it in Billy's hair. Billy and Sally live on a farm. They have a goat, named Joey, and a duck, named Quack. They sometimes play a game with the goat where they chase him around the farm. Other times, they play a game with Quack where they wave at Quack and laugh. They have a fun life growing up on the farm. <sep>What games do Billy and Sally play?<sep>Sally has brown hair.
A: No
****
Q: What a time of it Dawson's Landing was having! All its life it had been asleep, but now it hardly got a chance for a nod, so swiftly did big events and crashing surprises come along in one another's wake: Friday morning, first glimpse of Real Nobility, also grand reception at Aunt Patsy Cooper's, also great robber raid; Friday evening, dramatic kicking of the heir of the chief citizen in presence of four hundred people; Saturday morning, emergence as practicing lawyer of the long-submerged Pudd'nhead Wilson; Saturday night, duel between chief citizen and titled stranger. The people took more pride in the duel than in all the other events put together, perhaps. It was a glory to their town to have such a thing happen there. In their eyes the principals had reached the summit of human honor. Everybody paid homage to their names; their praises were in all mouths. Even the duelists' subordinates came in for a handsome share of the public approbation: wherefore Pudd'nhead Wilson was suddenly become a man of consequence. When asked to run for the mayoralty Saturday night, he was risking defeat, but Sunday morning found him a made man and his success assured. <sep>Why did Dawson's Landing wake up?<sep>Because the duelists' subordinates ran around yelling to wake up everyone
A: No
****
Q: Magnets are able to place a force on certain materials. This force is called a magnetic force. The force a magnet exerts is a little different from the forces you may normally think about. You exert a force on a book when you lift it. You also exert a force on the pedals of your bicycle. In both those cases, those forces cause a change. The change you see in both these cases is called motion. Magnets, too, can produce change. They can produce motion just like you do. Unlike you, magnets do not have to touch something to exert a force. A magnetic force is exerted over a distance. Thats right, a magnet can push or pull certain items without ever touching them. Thats how the maglev train works. Do you know another type of force that does not require objects to touch? These forces are known as non-contact forces. Another type of non-contact force you may be familiar with is gravity. Gravity too can cause changes in motion. Gravity holds our moon in orbit without touching it. <sep>What kind of force is used to move a maglev train?<sep>The maglev train can push or pull certain items without ever touching them
A: | No
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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: February 7, 2012
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded the state of Oregon $2.5 million for achieving the nation’s highest rates of breastfeeding.
On Tuesday, Feb. 7, managers for the state of Oregon’s Women, Infant and Children’s Program attributed much of the state’s success in breastfeeding rates to the Multnomah County Health Department. Because of the county’s WIC program, breastfeeding rates in the most urban region of Oregon have surpassed 90 percent.
“You can take credit for that,’’ said Char McKay, a state nutrition counselor who lauded county health employees at a ceremony at the Northeast Health Center in Northeast Portland.
The state presented an award to the county, particularly for the number of WIC mothers who breastfeed exclusively for six months. The longer a mother relies solely on breast milk, the greater the benefits to mother and child. Multnomah County’s rates are especially impressive because it is more racially and socioeconomically diverse.
Breastfeeding is considered a core strategy for preventing illness and promoting health over a person’s lifespan, from lowering rates of asthma and infection in infants to lowering rates of obesity, diabetes and cancer in adults.
McKay said the federal nutrition program known as WIC has changed dramatically in the last 20 years to realize this impact.
“WIC used to be the formula people, where you came to get free formula,” McKay said. “Today, we’re the breastfeeding people. That is huge.’’
About 9.1 million women, children and infants were enrolled nationally in the nutritional program every month in 2010.
Multnomah County’s WIC program, the largest in Oregon, serves more than 22,000 children under age five and nearly 10,000 pregnant, breastfeeding and postpartum women. They receive food, nutrition counseling and access to health services.
Diane Garrett, special projects manager for Oregon WIC, said breastfeeding is a sound investment. Studies have shown that for every $1 an employer spends supporting an employee’s breastfeeding, $3 is returned in reduced health costs.
Garrett said the federal bonus to the state will be invested in strengthening breastfeeding programs.
One of the county’s most successful strategies has been a peer-support program. Peer counselor Shantae Johnson described how moms meet together for nine months and in the process, share tips about talking to providers, overcoming barriers to breastfeeding and “get to be friends.’’
County Commissioner Loretta Smith said when mothers and children are healthy, a community is healthy.
“We have to give it to the mothers,” Smith said. “They do all the hard work. They’re the bedrock of this community.” ||||| PORTLAND, Ore. - Crystal Cain couldn't have been happier when she delivered her little girl Karrisma at OHSU on Wednesday,even though she delivered eight weeks premature and the baby needed an incubator to survive.
“She's going to be OK, they said,” Cain said. “They took her off of all of her breathing machines yesterday and they gave her a trial run and they say she's doing absolutely fine.”
Knowing how important breast milk is to a baby's immune system, Crystal planned on breastfeeding, until the baby was born Wednesday.
“They're refusing to allow me to breastfeed,” Cain says she was told that day.
Cain is a medical marijuana cardholder.
Cain had been smoking marijuana during her pregnancy, on her midwife's advice she says, for anxiety and nausea.
Cain isn't worried about THC - the compound in marijuana that gets you high - in her bloodstream or breast milk.
“There are several studies that indicate that it doesn't, it can't transfer through your milk ducts. Your body automatically kind of filters it,” Cain said.
But the American Academy of Pediatrics advises against it.
OHSU decided on a middle ground.
“We had the mom sign a waiver acknowledging the use of marijuana and the potential risks involved in it.” says Dr. Charles Kilo, Oregon Health Science University’s chief medical officer.
The hospital says it's like warning a new mom against smoking or drinking alcohol during pregnancy.
“We do understand the benefits of mothers' milk,” Kilo said. “We also don't want to be caught in a situation where a mother continues to use and says that we never gave her information on it, never informed about the risks, and so it's really a way of documenting that the parents acknowledge the risks. And we can't stop her from using it.”
Crystal Cain believes more and more hospitals will have to deal with this issue because of legalization in Washington and medical marijuana use in Oregon.
“I'm saying there's not enough information because nobody tests it,” says Cain, “It's such a touchy subject that nobody wants to mess with it." |||||
Output: | Breastfeeding rates are higher in Oregon than any other state in the US, with the Portland area leading the pack at more than 90%, reports the USDA. But it was in Portland that a woman recently had to sign a waiver before being allowed to breastfeed her newborn—because she is a medical marijuana user, and the hospital wanted her to acknowledge that she is aware of the potential risks of getting high while nursing. "There are several studies that indicate that it doesn't, it can't transfer through your milk ducts," Crystal Cain tells KOMO News, though the American Academy of Pediatrics advises against smoking pot while nursing. On the advice of her midwife, the new mom also smoked throughout her pregnancy to deal with nausea and anxiety. Her baby, who was born almost two months premature and needed an incubator for a few days, appears to be doing fine now, and Cain says she has no plans to stop smoking. (Marijuana, meanwhile, has been implicated in two fatal heart failures.) |
IN: What happens next?
People are roller blading about in front of a building. a
OPTIONS:
- girl stands on front the camera and talks.
- guy goes up the stairs to the rink while he talks.
- man roller blades fast.
- man tries to keep up with them before their.
OUT: man roller blades fast.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to download pivot
Find various download sites for pivot.
Many different websites offer this animating software as a free download. Look at a few sites to figure out where to get this basic program.
OPTIONS:
- Read about the specs for pivot and its specific uses. Many of the available download sites will include product details that will help users plan for how they will utilize pivot for projects.
- Highlight the plug-ins window to get the browse box. Click it to open the data loading menu.
- These sites usually offer features that will help you charge as a user. There are many others that offer screen only animating, but there isn't a lot to keep up with.
- Some popular sites are deviantart, whatsapp, and dropbox. Download the latest version of the pivot installation.
A: Read about the specs for pivot and its specific uses. Many of the available download sites will include product details that will help users plan for how they will utilize pivot for projects.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to do a town and country poodle cut
Shampoo your poodle's fur.
You should use a gentle, non-acidic shampoo designed for canines. Never use human shampoo on your poodle.
OPTIONS:
- Human shampoo helps lubricate the dog's skin and make it easier to cut its hair. Rinse out the shampoo with cold water from the sink and dry your poodle's fur thoroughly.
- Lather up your poodle's coat and gently rinse out the shampoo. Repeat this process with conditioner designed for dogs if you want to make your poodle's coat even more soft and luxurious.
- It's too soft and can cause unwanted bleeding. Shake your poodle's fur gently from head to tail until thoroughly rinsed off.
- Pet stores shampoo your poodle's head as well, but do not use human shampoo. Remove the excess grease with a wire comb.
OUT: Lather up your poodle's coat and gently rinse out the shampoo. Repeat this process with conditioner designed for dogs if you want to make your poodle's coat even more soft and luxurious.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to diagnose knee pain
Decide if you have a fracture.
Kneecap fractures are common knee problems. You can fracture your knee just by falling onto your knee hard enough.
OPTIONS:
- If the kneecap is broken, the pain in the affected knee will immediately turn from mild to severe. There are various types of kneecap fracture.
- If you fracture your knee, you may need surgery. Knee fractures are generally serious and take a long time to heal.
- It's sometimes called a knee fracture. The medical tradition is that kneecap fractures should only be broken once or twice a year.
- In some cases, though, certain fractures can become more permanent, and can take weeks, months, or even years to heal. A fractured kneecap can cause injury to the knee and potentially nerve damage.
****
Answer:
If you fracture your knee, you may need surgery. Knee fractures are generally serious and take a long time to heal.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
A third man is seen in a car next to the man talking. The man wearing the helmet starts down the street on a skateboard. the man
OPTIONS:
- continues forward as well as back on the skateboard.
- runs past three other bikes, then stops to talk to a man standing in front.
- goes down a few very steep hills on his skateboard.
- wearing the helmet rides his skateboard.
A: goes down a few very steep hills on his skateboard.
How to write a letter to santa claus
Write a list of the things you want a few days before.
Start out by writing down everything you think you want on a piece of paper a couple days before you write your letter to santa. Come back to your list every so often and reconsider what you wrote.
OPTIONS:
- Give yourself time to write whatever your heart desires on the paper. Give yourself a deadline in a few weeks or less.
- Put a name to your list in case you forget, or if you forget about something. Write a christmas card for the christmas turkey.
- Cross off items that you aren't crazy about, keeping only the ones you really love. Santa gets tons of letters from kids across the globe, so sometimes he isn't able to get a kid everything on their list.
- You don't have to write every paragraph, or every conversation piece, but you should have at least one idea of what you want to say to your boyfriend. Write an overview of your relationship and who you know about it.
| Cross off items that you aren't crazy about, keeping only the ones you really love. Santa gets tons of letters from kids across the globe, so sometimes he isn't able to get a kid everything on their list. |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Let me give you an example: 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.
The answer to this example can be: Russian Revolution
Here is why: This is a good example, and the Russian Revolution is the first event mentioned.
OK. solve this:
What is Virgil's most well known work?, Context: The works of Virgil almost from the moment of their publication revolutionized Latin poetry. The Eclogues, Georgics, and above all the Aeneid became standard texts in school curricula with which all educated Romans were familiar. Poets following Virgil often refer intertextually to his works to generate meaning in their own poetry. The Augustan poet Ovid parodies the opening lines of the Aeneid in Amores 1.1.1–2, and his summary of the Aeneas story in Book 14 of the Metamorphoses, the so-called "mini-Aeneid", has been viewed as a particularly important example of post-Virgilian response to the epic genre. Lucan's epic, the Bellum Civile has been considered an anti-Virgilian epic, disposing with the divine mechanism, treating historical events, and diverging drastically from Virgilian epic practice. The Flavian poet Statius in his 12-book epic Thebaid engages closely with the poetry of Virgil; in his epilogue he advises his poem not to "rival the divine Aeneid, but follow afar and ever venerate its footsteps." In Silius Italicus, Virgil finds one of his most ardent admirers. With almost every line of his epic Punica Silius references Virgil. Indeed, Silius is known to have bought Virgil's tomb and worshipped the poet. Partially as a result of his so-called "Messianic" Fourth Eclogue—widely interpreted later to have predicted the birth of Jesus Christ—Virgil was in later antiquity imputed to have the magical abilities of a seer; the Sortes Vergilianae, the process of using Virgil's poetry as a tool of divination, is found in the time of Hadrian, and continued into the Middle Ages. In a similar vein Macrobius in the Saturnalia credits the work of Virgil as the embodiment of human knowledge and experience, mirroring the Greek conception of Homer. Virgil also found commentators in antiquity. Servius, a commentator of the 4th century AD, based his work on the commentary of Donatus. Servius' commentary provides us with a great deal of information about Virgil's life, sources, and references; however, many modern scholars find the variable quality of his work and the often simplistic interpretations frustrating.
Answer: | Aeneid |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: Story highlights Anonymous donors give $3 million to a new scholarship fund, Charleston's mayor says
The fund is named for the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, who was killed in last month's massacre
(CNN) Here's one more way Charleston's mayor says his community is fighting hate with love after nine people were gunned down in a church massacre: A $3 million scholarship fund.
The Reverend Pinckney Scholarship Fund, created by anonymous donors and announced Thursday, will help the victims' families and others affiliated with Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, officials said.
"What a tremendous opportunity to show the world once more and again that goodness of heart overtakes evil, and that we continuously show the world how we respond to a tragedy," said the Rev. Dr. Norvel Goff, presiding elder at the church. "We didn't ask for it. It was a horrific situation. It was a terrorist act. It was racist. It was bigotry -- all of the above. But through it all, we realize a lesson: It's not what has happened, truly, but how we respond."
Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley said the fund was started after Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., a professor at Harvard University, reached out to him shortly after the shooting.
"He said that he had been contacted by people who wanted to be anonymous and wanted to do something to assist those who lost their loved ones," Riley said.
The mayor said he wasn't sure how many people had contributed to the $3 million fund, but he said the original donors were from outside South Carolina.
"These people will never get a pat on the back, and they'll never know a recipient of these scholarships," he said. "They'll just know in their heart that in a moment of tragedy in America, they responded in such a positive and generous way."
Others will be able to contribute to the endowment and help it grow, Riley said.
The fund is named for the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the church's pastor and a South Carolina state senator who was among the nine victims killed in last month's shooting rampage.
"He was committed to quality education and educational opportunities for everyone," Riley said, "so what we're about to announce is a most fitting way to forever preserve the name of Rev. Pinckney and the cause for which he believed so strongly, as well as to help countless, hundreds and at times thousands of young people, attend college." ||||| The seed for Wide00014 was:
- Slash pages from every domain on the web:
-- a ranking of all URLs that have more than one incoming inter-domain link (rank was determined by number of incoming links using Wide00012 inter domain links)
-- up to a maximum of 100 most highly ranked URLs per domain
- Top ranked pages (up to a max of 100) from every linked-to domain using the Wide00012 inter-domain navigational link graph ||||| Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley and Rev. Norvell Goff announced inside Emanuel AME Church on Wednesday that a group of anonymous donors had raised more than $3 million towards a scholarship fund for children in the church and greater communities.
The endowment, called the Reverend Pinckney Scholarship Fund, was created to honor Senator Clementa Pinckney, one of the nine victims of a fatal shooting inside the church during a weekly bible study on June 17.
“It is so appropriate to have a scholarship fund in the name of Reverend Pinckney as he highly valued education,” Rev. Goff said in a statement from the mayor’s office. “It is our hope that the recipients of this gift will value education themselves further along in life.”
BuzzFeed News received a statement from the group through the mayor’s office.
“We do not pretend to understand the pain caused by this unimaginable tragedy. We simply want members of the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church community to know that the burdens of perseverance and empathy, which they have demonstrated with such dignity, do not fall exclusively on their shoulders. We want them to know that others, most of whom do not share their race or religion, who do not come from South Carolina, abhor the injustices from which they have suffered and admire the ways the African-American community has enriched our nation. We honor Reverend Pinckney who so profoundly embodied the values that bind us together as Americans.”
“We welcome this tremendous gift on behalf of the people of Charleston, and officers and ministers of Mother Emanuel,” said Rev. Goff, who is the presiding elder of the Edisto District of the State Conference of the AME Church.
He added that the money would “fertilize the minds of young people,” and that the religious community was “here to support this kind of effort.”
Mayor Riley explained that he is currently working with various individuals and organizations to form a committee, which will settle the details on how the money will be allocated, and to whom.
So far, this includes himself and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., but Rev. Goff emphasized that members of Emanuel AME church would be “represented at the table.”
Mayor Riley pointed out that while the scholarships will be open to students in the Emanuel AME Church and “extended community,” there will be a special focus on the children of the victims of the massacre.
He did not provide many details on the size or location of the donors, but noted that the coalition is not based in South Carolina.
Rev. Goff viewed the creation of a scholarship fund as a manifestation of the good will the community has shown in light of tragedy.
“What a tremendous opportunity to show the world that goodness of heart overtakes evil, to show the world how we respond to tragedy,” he said.
The massacre, he said, was “a terrorist act, it was racist, it was bigotry, but through it all, we realize the lesson is in how we respond: in a positive way that ripples through this nation, and throughout the world.”
Mayor Riley said that those looking to make donations to the scholarship fund can do so through the group’s website, or at his office.
ID: 6138206 ||||| Anonymous donors have given more than $3 million to establish a scholarship fund for people affiliated with the church in Charleston, S.C., where nine people were killed last month, city officials said on Thursday.
The fund, announced 15 days after the massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, is among the largest expressions of support for the congregation since the shooting, which the authorities have described as a racially motivated hate crime.
“We certainly have evil, and the worst kind of evil visited that church two weeks and some hours ago,” Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. said in a telephone interview before a news conference in the church’s sanctuary, where he announced the fund’s creation. “But the response is entirely the opposite. It’s pure goodness and generosity. It’s big hearts and loving people responding, and it’s absolutely wonderful.”
The city said that the scholarships would pay for undergraduate and advanced degrees for “members of the extended” church community, including family members of the victims. The fund carries the name of the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, the church’s senior pastor, who was among the nine killed on June 17. |||||
A: | A group of donors has raised more than $3 million for a scholarship fund for families of victims of the Charleston church shooting—and they have named it after the church's murdered pastor. Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley says the Rev. Clementa Pinckney was "committed to quality education and educational opportunities for everyone," which makes the fund an ideal way to preserve both his name and the cause he strongly believed in, CNN reports. In a statement, the anonymous donors said they are not from SC, but they want the Emanuel AME community to know that the "burdens of perseverance and empathy, which they have demonstrated with such dignity, do not fall exclusively on their shoulders." Riley says the scholarship fund will help those affiliated with the church and the wider community, but there will be a special focus on children of victims, BuzzFeed reports. "We certainly have evil, and the worst kind of evil visited that church two weeks and some hours ago," the mayor told the New York Times yesterday. "But the response is entirely the opposite. It's pure goodness and generosity. It's big hearts and loving people responding, and it's absolutely wonderful." (The sister of suspect Dylann Roof received a less than enthusiastic response to her attempt to raise funds for her honeymoon.) |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
Here's what I do: We take over Medicaid children from the states so that every child in America is covered. And in exchange, if the states want to -- they're not forced to, they can choose to -- they cover individuals up to 300 percent of poverty. It's their choice.
Hypothesis: There is just no way for every child in America to be covered
Options:
[-] Yes.
[-] It's impossible to say.
[-] No. | No |
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
A counter is shown with beer cans on it. A man is in a bathroom, using a toilet. he
OPTIONS:
- rinses his mouth out with a paper towel.
- flushes, then smiles and talks to the camera.
- uses a jump rope to do the horizontal bars.
- then washes up before finally leaving in a netted skate board.
A: flushes, then smiles and talks to the camera.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
A horse's feet run by the camera. a woman
OPTIONS:
- is pictured holding several brushes.
- stands on a montage of horses event.
- is seen standing beside a horse and speaking.
- puts on a pair of stirrups and pulls a calf into a stall.
A: is seen standing beside a horse and speaking.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
How to clean comforters
Read the care label.
Your comforter should have a care label with instructions on how to clean it. Most down and down-alternative comforters can be washed at home with a mild detergent, though some may specify to dry clean only.
OPTIONS:
- Do not deviate from specific instructions on the label. These may include temperature settings for washers and dryers, etc.
- The care label indicates whether your comforter can be repurposed for outdoor use, as well as whether the comforter should be : Machine washable. This means that it is able to withstand lifting, folding, and ironing a lot, but it is notn't waterproof.
- If the care label states to dry clean, turn it inside out. For the majority of comforters, tumble drying is probably better.
- Check the care label to make sure the material is washable. Consider using the following items to wash your comforter : Cotton swabs agitation cloth dust cloths water and soap silk pillowcases Get rid of any wood shavings.
A: Do not deviate from specific instructions on the label. These may include temperature settings for washers and dryers, etc.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
Another man in white and blue vaults and is successful. The camera cuts to four other competitors watching. the camera
OPTIONS:
- cuts to a man in white and blue celebrating while holding a flag against his black.
- cuts to the men in blue starting from ahead, and the ground start jumping again.
- then zooms out to show two men simulating sprinking as jumps are shown on screen.
- moves and we see people backstage, then the crowd on the sides talking.
A: | cuts to a man in white and blue celebrating while holding a flag against his black. |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
"I guess you have to expect this in a growing community," said Mardelle Kean, who lives across the street from John Joseph Famalaro, charged in the death of Denise A. Huber, who was 23 when she disappeared in 1991.
Hypothesis: Mardelle Kean had green eyes.
Select from the following. i. Yes ii. It's impossible to say iii. No | ii. |
Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
A group of people have stretched a tightrope across a gym. they | take turns trying to balance and walk on the rope. |
Definition: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Input: It is also called " maanhaar jackal " in Afrikaans , or " civet hyena " , based on the secretions ( civet ) from their anal glands .
Output: | It is also called " maanhaar-jackal " ( Afrikaans for " mane-jackal " ) , " ant hyena " or " civet hyena " , based on its habit of secreting substances from its anal gland , a characteristic shared with the African civet . |
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".
Backers of Legal Aid services for the poor are pushing a measure that would increase court filing fees in Kentucky to raise money for the program, which faces steep funding cuts. The proposed bill, sponsored by Rep. Charles Geveden, D-Wickliffe, would double the portion of the fee that goes to Legal Aid -- in district court to $10 from $5 and in circuit court to $20 from $10. Kentucky's current fee for filing a case in district court is $50.50, and in circuit court $108. The increase still would leave Kentucky's filing fee costs below those of surrounding states and would raise about $1.3 million a year -- almost enough to replace what Legal Aid is losing from federal and other sources, said Jamie Hamon, executive director of the Access to Justice Foundation, a state poverty law resource center in Lexington. Geveden said his measure appears to be the only potential source of money for the program, which is being forced to lay off workers and close offices around the state. Geveden said he's concerned because federal funding hasn't increased in recent years, and states with increased poverty are taking a greater share of the money. ''If you don't come up with the money somewhere, legal services to people in need will diminish or go away,'' he said. Hamon said the proposed bill has attracted a number of co-sponsors, and Legal Aid backers are hoping to get it passed in the upcoming legislative session. Hamon said she knows fee increases aren't popular with lawmakers but hopes they realize the crisis Legal Aid is facing. ''A lot of poor people are not going to get served,'' she said. The measure has the endorsement of the Kentucky Bar Association. The association's board of governors voted unanimously last month to back the bill, said KBA President Stephen Catron, a Bowling Green lawyer. Legal Aid ''has been a godsend to a great number of people in this state,'' Catron said. ''We simply must find a way to provide those services to the public.'' Larry York, executive director of Appalachian Regional Defense Fund, which provides Legal Aid services in 37 Eastern Kentucky counties and is a KBA board member, said he hopes the measure is approved. ''It would really offset the current cuts,'' he said. <sep>Who made the following statement: ''A lot of poor people are not going to get served.''<sep>Stephen Catron
A: | No |
Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: With a week to go, Mitt Romney appears to be in good shape. But Iowa (as Nate Silver reminds us) can be highly volatile, and it’s certainly possible that Romney could finish as low as fifth there. Even if he finishes first or second, a surprise third-place (or second-place) finish by one of the current longshots might spark a surge for that candidate, just as Gary Hart’s distant second in 1984 was followed by his stunning upset of Walter Mondale in New Hampshire. What if it’s Rick Santorum who breaks into the top three?
I’ve been saying for some time now that it’s likely that the GOP nomination will go to a candidate who qualifies on two counts: He or she must have orthodox positions on policy issues important to conservatives, and he or she must also have conventional qualifications. Since late summer, only Romney and Rick Perry remain from a group that once included some seven or more plausible nominees, and so I’ve been saying that their combined chances of winning the nomination are very high. (I’ve usually floated a number around 95 percent or so.)
What of Santorum?
He certainly has orthodox conservative views. The reason I’ve written him off is that there are no successful presidential candidates in the modern era with a similar resume. Santorum was crushed in a bid for reelection six years ago. I can’t think of anyone else with a similar pattern who came anywhere near a nomination. Richard Nixon, of course, lost two elections and spent eight years in the wilderness, but a two-time vice president and former nominee is in a whole different league from a senator. For someone whose credential was statewide office to lose reelection and then bounce back and seriously contest the nomination would be something new.
And there’s good reason to believe that’s a systematic effect, not just luck. Party actors are unlikely to back someone like that for higher office because they don’t want to support a loser. Indeed, I’d guess that examples in lower offices (say, members of the House who lose their seats but then become senators) are quite rare, too. There may be one in the Senate right now, but I can’t think of any.
However, suppose that Santorum manages to rally to third place in Iowa, something that isn’t impossible to imagine. What then? It’s possible that conservatives who aren’t excited about Romney might look to him. And if he surged, then his main drawback – that there’s solid evidence that voters don’t like him very much – would suddenly look a lot less important.
Put it another way: We’ve seen what happens when the rest of the field surges (or, in some cases, simply shows up in the race). Large numbers of party actors have turned on Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich, and have opposed Michele Bachmann and Jon Huntsman. Their problems, whether policy (in the cases of Paul and Huntsman) or trust (Gingrich and Bachmann), cannot be resolved by popularity among the rank and file. But Santorum’s, to some extent, perhaps can.
So while I think the candidate most likely to benefit from an unexpected strong finish in Iowa remains Perry — the only candidate who actually showed some strength among party actors during his surge — I’m fairly convinced that Santorum is the next most likely to benefit if he should get the Iowa bump. Basically, if Romney has to match up against Paul, Gingrich, Bachmann or Huntsman one on one after the early states, I think Romney is as close to a lock as you can get in politics. Against Perry? I have no idea. I guess I’d say that Romney would be the favorite against Santorum, but I’m not at all sure that he’d be an overwhelming favorite. Or, to put it one more way: If there’s a 5 percent chance that someone other than Romney or Perry gets the nomination, I’m increasingly inclined to think that most of that 5 percent belongs to Santorum. ||||| Rick Santorum said if he finished badly in Iowa's Jan. 3 caucuses, he would drop out of the presidential race.
"If I finish dead last behind the pack I'm going to pack up and go home but I don't think that's going to happen," he said Tuesday on the Des Moines radio station WHO.
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The former Pennsylvania senator has been focusing his resources in Iowa and won endorsements from a number of the state's top conservatives, including its secretary of State, Matt Schultz (R), and Bob Vander Plaats, the head of the social conservative group The Family Leader.
He has been near the bottom in polls of the state, usually only topping Jon Huntsman, who is not competing in Iowa.
Santorum, who failed to make Virginia's presidential ballot, also criticized that state's requirements, saying the process is rigged toward candidates with the most money.
"It's weighted toward the candidates who have the most money to go and buy it," Santorum said.
Candidates were required to submit 10,000 signatures by Dec. 22 at 5 p.m. to make it on Virginia's ballot for the March 6th Republican primary. Only Ron Paul and Mitt Romney qualified.
Santorum had raised only a little more than a million dollars for this presidential bid, according to his third-quarter fundraising report. Fourth-quarter reports are due next month.
He wasn't the only candidate to criticize Virginia's system after failing to get on the ballot. Newt Gingrich's campaign director said Virginia's process is a "failed system" and compared the setback to the Pearl Harbor bombing in 1941.
“Newt and I agreed that the analogy is December 1941,” campaign director Michael Krull wrote on the Gingrich Facebook page. “We have experienced an unexpected set-back, but we will re-group and re-focus with increased determination, commitment and positive action."
In the same interview, Santorum said that his campaign, through volunteers, was able to collect about 9,000 signatures but couldn't hit the 10,000 minimum.
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(CNN) - Rick Santorum is running hard to win next week's Iowa caucus, but the former Pennsylvania senator said Tuesday he wouldn't continue running if he placed last.
"If I finish dead last behind the pack I'm going to pack up and go home," Santorum said on the Iowa radio station WHO.
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He was quick to add he wasn't predicting failure.
"I don't think that's going to happen," Santorum said. "I think we're going to be very much in the mix and I feel very good that we're going to surprise a lot of people in how we finish."
Santorum, who has campaigned heavily in the Hawkeye State, is currently running at the back of the GOP race in Iowa. An American Research Group survey taken Dec. 19-22 shows him in last place among likely Republican caucus-goers at 4%.
Numbers like that don't bother Santorum, however. The candidate said Tuesday it was an opportunity to finish on an upswing.
"My feeling is we have to exceed expectations and you know, the expectations right now for us are pretty low based on a lot of national polls," Santorum said. "So I feel like we need to do well. We need to you know be right in the mix. Obviously we'd love to win it. Our intention is to win it and we're doing everything we can to try to finish first and you know, somewhere in that middle of the pack and up we feel very, very good."
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Output: | He won't be accused of raising the bar too high, but Rick Santorum is nonetheless making a defiant pledge about the Iowa caucuses: "If I finish dead last behind the pack I'm going to pack up and go home," he tells radio station WHO, reports the Hill. Santorum has been running low in the polls from the start, but he's confident of avoiding a last-place embarrassment, notes CNN. "I feel very good that we're going to surprise a lot of people in how we finish." Click to read how one columnist thinks Santorum is due for a surge. And the Plum Line blog at the Washington Post says a third-place finish in Iowa is possible. |
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You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Example: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Example solution: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Example explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Problem: The fluid ounce is distinct from the ounce as a unit of weight or mass, although it is sometimes referred to simply as an ``ounce'' where context makes the meaning clear, such as ounces in a bottle.
| Solution: does a fluid ounce of water weigh an ounce? |
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:During 2005 -- 2050, twelve countries are expected to account for half of the world's projected population increase: India, China, United States, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Philippines, Mexico and Egypt, listed according to the size of their contribution to population growth.
Solution: | what countries will have the largest population in 2050 |
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