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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.
See one example below:
Problem: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Solution: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Problem: Russia has participated in 4 FIFA World Cups since its independence in December 1991. The Russian Federation played their first international match against Mexico on 16 August 1992 winning 2-0. Their first participation in a World Cup was the United States of America in 1994 and they achieved 18th place. In 1946 the Soviet Union was accepted by FIFA and played their first World Cup in Sweden 1958. The Soviet Union represented 15 Socialist republics and various football federations, and the majority of players came from the Dynamo Kyiv team of the Ukrainian SSR. The Soviet Union national football team played in 7 World Cups. Their best performance was reaching 4th place in England 1966. However Soviet football was dissolved in 1991 when Belarus, Russia and Ukraine declared independence under the Belavezha Accords. The CIS national football team (Commonwealth of Independent States) was formed with other independent nations in 1992 but did not participate in any World Cups.
Solution: | have russia ever been in the world cup final? |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
What, with regards to women's right to vote in Switzerland, happened in the 60th year of the century known as the 1900s?, Context: Switzerland was the last Western republic to grant women the right to vote. Some Swiss cantons approved this in 1959, while at the federal level it was achieved in 1971 and, after resistance, in the last canton Appenzell Innerrhoden (one of only two remaining Landsgemeinde) in 1990. After obtaining suffrage at the federal level, women quickly rose in political significance, with the first woman on the seven member Federal Council executive being Elisabeth Kopp, who served from 1984–1989, and the first female president being Ruth Dreifuss in 1999.
Output: | Some Swiss cantons approved this |
Part 1. Definition
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Part 2. Example
The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Answer: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Explanation: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Part 3. Exercise
The Hugo Award is an award given each year for the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year .
Answer: | The Hugo Awards are a set of literary awards voted on by members of the current World Science Fiction Convention and presented annually by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year . |
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".
In the popular mind, the history of Hong Kong, long the entryway to China for Westerners, begins in 1841 with the British occupation of the territory. However, it would be wrong to dismiss the long history of the region itself. Archaeologists today are working to uncover Hong Kong's past, which stretches back thousands of years. You can get a glimpse into that past at Lei Cheng Uk Museum's 1,600-year-old burial vault on the mainland just north of Kowloon. In 1992, when construction of the airport on Chek Lap Kok was begun, a 2,000-year-old village, Pak Mong, was discovered, complete with artifacts that indicated a sophisticated rural society. An even older Stone Age site was discovered on Lamma Island in 1996. While Hong Kong remained a relative backwater in early days, nearby Guangzhou (Canton) was developing into a great trading city with connections in India and the Middle East. By a.d. 900, the Hong Kong islands had become a lair for pirates preying on the shipping in the Pearl River Delta and causing a major headache for burgeoning Guangzhou; small bands of pirates were still operating into the early years of the 20th century. In the meantime, the mainland area was being settled by incomers, the "Five Great Clans": Tang, Hau, Pang, Liu, and Man. First to arrive was the Tang clan, which established a number of walled villages in the New Territories that still exist today. You can visit Kat Hing Wai and Lo Wai, villages with their walls still intact. Adjacent to Lo Wai is the Tang Chung Ling Ancestral Hall, built in the 16th century, which is still the center of clan activities. The first Europeans to arrive in the Pearl River Delta were the Portuguese, who settled in Macau in 1557 and for several centuries had a monopoly on trade between Asia, Europe, and South America. As Macau developed into the greatest port in the East, it also became a base for Jesuit missionaries; it was later a haven for persecuted Japanese Christians. While Christianity was not a great success in China, it made local headway, evidenced today by the numerous Catholic churches in Macau's historic center. Intermarriage with the local Chinese created a community of Macanese, whose culture can still be seen in Macau's architecture and cuisine. <sep>What occurred simultaneously in 900AD?<sep>The occupation of Hong Kong by pirates and the settling of mainland China by the "Five Great Clans"
| Yes |
Calendar » Garden Preschool Community Open House August 25, 2012 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM SBCEO Garden Preschool is a private, non-profit, quality preschool/pre-K program in the downtown Santa Barbara area. Come for a visit, tour the school and play yard and meet the teachers. Come see what we have to offer.
Garden Preschool Community Open House has a teacher named flora
A: It's impossible to say
The Christian Democrats (CDU) won 35.2% of the vote, or 225 seats, against 34.3% for Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD).
The democrats cheated this
A: It's impossible to say
In The Toronto Star, the story is that, before the offending letter was sent off to Swiss authorities, it went back and forth several times between Staff Sergeant Fiegenwald and the Justice Department lawyer Kimberly Prost, each time resulting in the Justice Department toughening the language.
The Toronto Star sent a letter to the Justice Department
A: | No |
[Q]: The crystallographic restriction theorem in its basic form was based on the observation that the rotational symmetries of a crystal are usually limited to 2-fold, 3-fold, 4-fold, and 6-fold. However, quasicrystals can occur with other diffraction pattern symmetries, such as 5-fold; these were not discovered until 1982 by Dan Shechtman. these were not discovered until 1987 by Dan Shechtman
[A]: No
[Q]: HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) – Police are on scene for a multi-vehicle accident at the intersection of Settlers Landing Road and Eason Street. State Police say the call came in at 7:39 a.m. and someone was extricated from a vehicle. The extent of injuries are unknown at this time. Stay tuned to WAVY.com for updates. Person extricated from vehicle in Hampton View as list View as gallery Open Gallery Credit: Marty Birch Credit: Marty Birch Credit: Marty Birch Credit: Laura Smith It was a bicycle accident
[A]: No
[Q]: The federal act, when it applies to Quebec and the other provinces, will affect federally regulated businesses-notably telephone companies, banks, airlines and interprovincial carriers-as well as all interprovincial and international personal data exchanges for business purposes. banks will not be affected.
[A]: No
[Q]: Jyestadeva (1500-1610), was an astronomer of the Kerala school founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama and a student of Damodara. He is most known for writing the first calculus text, the Yuktibhasa . He also authored the Drk-karana on astronomical observations. Jyestadeva was an astronomer.
[A]: | 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: (OPRAH.com) -- Chris Rock is an Emmy-winning comedian, devoted husband and loving father --but it's time to get to know a new side of this funnyman. Meet Chris Rock, hair expert. It's a detour he took after an innocent carpool ride left Rock with an idea he just couldn't shake. "I was with my daughter one day, and we're in the car and she's with one of her friends in the back seat, a little white friend," he says. "She was just kind of raving about her friend's hair a little too much for my comfort [saying]: 'You've got great hair. Oh, your hair's so good.'" Not wanting to make her comments a big deal, Rock says he tried to play his them off. "[I said]: "Oh, baby, your hair's beautiful. Come on,'" he says. "If I would have really reacted, then she would have a complex about her hair." Still, Rock couldn't let it go. "It sparked something in me," he says. Oprah.com: Oprah's hair throughout the years! What Rock discovered is a $9 billion industry that affects the daily activities, wallets, self-esteem -- and even the sex lives -- of black women. Because women spend so much time and money on their hair, Rock says men are forced to adopt a hands-off policy. "You cannot touch a black woman's hair. You are conditioned not to even go there," he says. "When I was a dating guy, I dated women from different races. Anytime I was with an Asian or a Puerto Rican girl or a white girl, my hands would constantly be in their hair. <sep>Which women do not allow men to touch their hair, according to Chris Rock?<sep>White women
SOLUTION: No
PROBLEM: You may be wondering, how can a glacier get so big? Why does it move? These are both good questions. In the winter months, precipitation falls as snow. This solid form of water builds up on the ground as long as the temperatures stay cold enough. As the temperature rises, the snow starts to melt. The frozen water changes state back into a liquid state. Nearer the poles, summer does not last very long. If the summer is long enough and warm enough, all the snow may melt. This is what typically happens now. The earth was a little cooler 12,000 years ago. As a result, during the summer months, that amount of snow did not melt. It may have only been an inch or so of snow that melted. The following winter, snow fell on top of this left-over snow. This next winters snowfall had a head start. Year after year, the snow that did not melt became thicker and thicker. Inch by inch the snow started to build up. Over many years, layer upon layer of snow compacted and turned to ice. <sep>What are two characteristics of glaciers?<sep>Not moving
SOLUTION: No
PROBLEM: During this time, Alexander adopted some elements of Persian dress and customs at his court, notably the custom of proskynesis, either a symbolic kissing of the hand, or prostration on the ground, that Persians showed to their social superiors. The Greeks regarded the gesture as the province of deities and believed that Alexander meant to deify himself by requiring it. This cost him the sympathies of many of his countrymen, and he eventually abandoned it. A plot against his life was revealed, and one of his officers, Philotas, was executed for failing to alert Alexander. The death of the son necessitated the death of the father, and thus Parmenion, who had been charged with guarding the treasury at Ecbatana, was assassinated at Alexander's command, to prevent attempts at vengeance. Most infamously, Alexander personally killed the man who had saved his life at Granicus, Cleitus the Black, during a violent drunken altercation at Maracanda (modern day Samarkand in Uzbekistan), in which Cleitus accused Alexander of several judgemental mistakes and most especially, of having forgotten the Macedonian ways in favour of a corrupt oriental lifestyle. Later, in the Central Asian campaign, a second plot against his life was revealed, this one instigated by his own royal pages. His official historian, Callisthenes of Olynthus, was implicated in the plot; however, historians have yet to reach a consensus regarding this involvement. Callisthenes had fallen out of favor by leading the opposition to the attempt to introduce proskynesis. <sep>What are some of the things Alexander required that Greeks thought made Alexander seem like he was trying to deify himself?<sep>Symbolic kissing of the hand
SOLUTION: | Yes
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How to deal with your friend who is being jealous of your other friends<br>Invite your friend to join the group. This might feel hard if your friend has made occasions with your other friends uncomfortable in the past. However, stay positive.
In all likelihood, you won't recieve orientation materials when starting a new school.
A: No
Ash vs Evil Dead is an American horror comedy television series developed by Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, and Tom Spezialy for the Starz network. It is set in Raimi's "Evil Dead" universe, with Bruce Campbell reprising his role as Ash Williams, and acts as a sequel to the original trilogy.
Ash vs Evil Dead has a plot
A: Yes
The Best Peel-Off Masks to Try Right Now Forget sheet masks. This year's superstar skin-care (and selfie-worthy) treatment is meant to be peeled off (literally) to reveal a gorgeous, glow-y complexion. So in the name of radiant skin (and a new profile photo), we've compiled the best peel-off masks to try this spring, no matter where you are—the tropics, the ski lodge, or simply your couch.
Sheet masks are not this year's superstar skin-care treatment.
A: | Yes |
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How to make a healthy omelet
Consider the nutritional value of egg yolks.
Though whole eggs contain a bit more protein than egg whites, their relative value comes from nutrients and vitamins that are plentiful in the egg yolk. For instance, even a small raw egg contains meaningful amounts of iron, phosphorus, zinc, and folate. | Further, yolks also contain good vitamins a and d, as well as a bunch of choline, lutein, and zeaxanthin, all of which your body needs. Substitute egg whites to limit cholesterol. |
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".
Befitting a lush, tropical island stranded in the middle of the ocean, Madeira's origins are shrouded in mystery and fanciful legend. Some claim that the archipelago is what remains of Plato's lost Atlantis, or part of a landmass that once fused the continents of Europe and America. The Portuguese Step Ashore: Recorded history of the volcanic archipelago begins in relatively recent times: 1418, just as the golden age of Portuguese discovery was erupting. Under the leadership of Henry the Navigator, caravels set out from the westernmost point of the Algarve, in southern Portugal, in search of foreign lands, fame, and wealth. João Gonçalves Zarco, sailing in the service of Prince Henry, made the first of many famous Portuguese discoveries, which would culminate a century later in Magellan's historic circumnavigation of the globe. Zarco happened upon a small volcanic archipelago 1,000 km from Lisbon. Perhaps Zarco knew precisely where he was heading, having learned of the existence of Madeira from a Castilian source. After all, the waters of the Canary Islands, only 445 km (275 miles) to the south, had occupied busy shipping lanes for very nearly a century, and Genovese maps from the mid-14th century depict both Madeira and Porto Santo. More likely, Zarco was heading for Guinea and storms forced him onto the beach of Porto Santo. If so, then he was extremely fortunate, for he managed to land on the only large, sandy beach for hundreds of miles around. Little wonder he subsequently named it Porto Santo (Holy Port). The following year Zarco returned to claim the larger island he had seen from Porto Santo, and with him went Tristão Vaz Teixeira and Bartolomeu Perestrelo. They officially became the first men to set foot on the heavily forested island, naming it Ilha da Madeira, "Island of Timber. " The Portuguese Crown, delighted with its first important discovery, immediately embarked on a program of colonization. Zarco and Teixeira were appointed co-governors of Madeira, while Perestrelo was awarded Porto Santo. <sep>How might Zarco have known of the location of the volcanic archipelago before he landed on it?<sep>Castilian Source
Output: | Yes |
How to prepare for herniated disk surgery
Undergo a physical exam and complete any tests deemed necessary by your doctor--possibly a urine sample and an x-ray.
You'll also need to supply your medical history. Make sure to note any allergies you have.
Ask your doctor questions you have in regards to your herniated disk surgery and fully research the procedure. There are three common types of herniated disc surgery: laminectomy, corpectomy, and anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.
How to get into nyu
Keep your gpa in the correct range.
To get in to a school like nyu, you need to keep your gpa in the average range they accept. Most students entering nyu have a gpa of about 3.5.
That doesn't mean that they won't accept any lower, and they certainly would like higher. However, it's good to keep the range in mind.
How to link your bank account to your paypal account
Launch the paypal app.
You can link your bank account to your paypal account to easily send and receive money on the internet.
You must have a paypal account and the android or ios app installed to link your bank account with this method.
No matter which bank you use, you'll have to wait 2-3 business days before your account is verified. This is different than the web version, which has an automatic linking option for some major banks.
How to get a boy to like you in high school
Make eye contact when you are talking to your crush.
Eye contact is very important for flirting.
You can signal your attraction to a guy by making brief eye contact with him.
| Let the eye contact last for about 1-2 seconds, then look away. Prolonged eye contact before a conversation can be off putting. |
TOKYO, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Japan’s Shionogi & Co said on Tuesday that it has applied to health regulators in the United States, Canada and Europe for approval of its HIV drug Dolutegravir. Shionogi developed Dolutegravir with a Viiv Healthcare, an AIDS drug joint venture between GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer, in exchange for its rights to the drug.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "the company wants to sell lots of drugs"? | It's impossible to say |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
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Question: On October 7, 2015, Fox renewed the series for the seventh and eighth production cycles. The eighth season premiered on October 1, 2017. On March 27, 2018, Fox renewed the series for a ninth season, which will premiere on September 30, 2018. A film adaptation based on the animated television series is in the works and is scheduled for a July 17, 2020 release.
Answer: do they still make new episodes of bob's burgers?
Question: Since the enactment of Colorado Amendment 64 in November 2012, adults aged 21 or older can grow up to six marijuana plants (with no more than half being mature flowering plants) privately in a locked space, legally possess all marijuana from the plants they grow (as long as it stays where it was grown), legally possess up to one ounce of marijuana while traveling, and give as a gift up to one ounce to other citizens 21 years of age or older. Any adult in Colorado's territory may possess up to one ounce of marijuana at any time, regardless of whether they are an in-state resident or an out-of-state visitor, as of 2016. Retail concentrate/edible limits are as follows: 8g of retail concentrate will be equal to 1oz of flower, and therefore 800mg of THC in the form of retail edibles will be equal to 1oz of retail flower. Consumption is permitted in a manner similar to alcohol, with equivalent offenses prescribed for driving. Consumption in public was recently passed in Denver under Ordinance 300 with a vote of 53% for legal public consumption, and a 46% vote against. Within 60 days the new rules will be written and should be similar to current public alcohol consumption rules and regulations. Amendment 64 also provides for licensing of cultivation facilities, product manufacturing facilities, testing facilities, and retail stores. Visitors and tourists in Colorado can use and purchase marijuana, but face prosecution if found in possession in any adjacent state. Denver airport has banned all possession of marijuana but admits it has not charged a single person with possession nor has the airport seized any marijuana since the ban went into effect.
Answer: is weed legal in the whole state of colorado?
Question: A United Kingdom is a 2016 British biographical romantic drama film directed by Amma Asante and written by Guy Hibbert, based on the true-life romance between Sir Seretse Khama and his wife Ruth Williams Khama. David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike portray Seretse and Ruth, respectively.
Answer: | is the movie a united kingdom a true story?
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Calendar » American Heart Association- Go Red For Women Luncheon February 27, 2015 from 10:30am - 1:00pm The Go Red For Women Luncheon is an event to raise funds for research and initiatives preventing heart disease and stroke. The luncheon is the American Heart Association's annual event to increase awareness of heart disease- the No. 1 cause of death for women- and inspire women to take charge of their health.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
The luncheon is the number 1 cause for death for women.
Possible answers: A). Yes; B). It's impossible to say; C). No; | C). |
How to find a good roommate
Advertise online.
Websites like craigslist, padmapper, and roomie match can help you find the right roommate for you. Such sites allow you to build a profile or post an ad seeking out a roommate to meet your needs.
OPTIONS:
- Look around craigslist, and click on the " be a good roommate " button at the top. You can purchase advertisements and invitations from these sites as well.
- You can also enter information about yourself to attract the perfect roommate. For example, you can post information like your age, weight, and address.
- Craigslist is one of the biggest and most commonly used sites. As it's free, it's a great means to reach a wide audience.
- There are also sites like pinterest and flipinterest that will allow you to advertise things you already own and possibilities to bring others into your apartment. Enter keywords that fit your situation in a way that the internet searches never have or that is inaccessible.
Craigslist is one of the biggest and most commonly used sites. As it's free, it's a great means to reach a wide audience.
How to practice breath meditation (anapanasati )
Select a place to meditate.
Look for a quiet place that inspires a contemplative attitude. The practice of breath meditation focuses on the subtle movement of the breath, so it is easily disrupted by stray noises.
OPTIONS:
- Talk to friends and family members in a quiet place with the intention of meditation. Do this slowly, so that you will be sure that there are no distractions.
- The coffee table (or a spot with low curtains) should suffice. Sit comfortably and breathe deeply and steadily for several minutes.
- Buddhist instructional sutras (or suttas in pali) recommend using abandoned buildings, deep forests, or the foot of a tree for an extended period of practice. For those of us without access to places like that, a quiet and peaceful room is a good choice.
- A quiet location can give you the freedom to focus, focus, and choose what you want to practice breathing in and out and spreading awareness throughout the body. You can also incorporate a paraphrase.
Buddhist instructional sutras (or suttas in pali) recommend using abandoned buildings, deep forests, or the foot of a tree for an extended period of practice. For those of us without access to places like that, a quiet and peaceful room is a good choice.
How to give a girl the perfect date
Open doors for her, and if you have a car, open that door as well.
It shows her you respect her and will make her feel special.
Let her choose the place, unless she doesn't want to.
OPTIONS:
- Also, let her carry the bags just for her. Buy her a dress, backpack or something.
- Try going to a park, mall, or to the beach where you know she likes to go. There are many great places to go on a date.
- In that case, have an idea ready as a backup. Try not to pick anything you really like-remember, it's about her.
- Don't allow her to pick the restaurant off the corner, let her pick the park. Don't make a big deal out of a disagreement.
In that case, have an idea ready as a backup. Try not to pick anything you really like-remember, it's about her.
How to set up a joomla website
Download the latest release version.
Unzip the package to your hard drive before uploading.
Unzip and open an ftp client.
OPTIONS:
- Note: when download yourself can be a prohibitively expensive approach. Include (and update! ) the platform number (for example , 955) in the title title.
- Double-click on " a file " and select " open ftp client ". A dialog box should appear; click the arrow directly to the right of the query box.
- Install any updates needed on your ftp. Wait for the torrent download to complete.
- Upload all your files to the desired directory of your host. If you're doing it online, upload the contents of the joomla directory to the public directory.
| Upload all your files to the desired directory of your host. If you're doing it online, upload the contents of the joomla directory to the public directory. |
instruction:
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
question:
On October 20, 1977 -- three days after the release of the band's fifth studio album Street Survivors -- a chartered plane on which the members and crew were travelling crashed in Gillsburg, Mississippi. Six people died in the accident, including band members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines; many of the other passengers onboard were seriously injured, including Wilkeson who was left in a critical condition and reportedly declared dead three times. The group disbanded after the crash. In 1978, a collection of previously unreleased recordings from 1971 and 1972 was released as Skynyrd's First and... Last. The following year, the surviving members (with the exception of Wilkeson) reunited at Volunteer Jam for a performance of ``Free Bird'' with Charlie Daniels and his band.
answer:
are any of the original members of lynyrd skynyrd alive?
question:
The Olde English Bulldogge is a recently created American dog breed. In the 1970s David Leavitt created a true-breeding lineage as a re-creation of the healthier working bulldog from early nineteenth century England. Using a breeding scheme developed for cattle, Leavitt crossed English bulldogs, American Bulldogs, American Pit Bull Terriers and Bull Mastiffs. The result was an athletic breed that looks similar to the bulldogs of 1820 but also has a friendly temperament.
answer:
do olde english bulldogs have pitbull in them?
question:
Goalkeepers are normally allowed to handle the ball within their own penalty area, and once they have control of the ball in their hands opposition players may not challenge them for it. However the back-pass rule prohibits goalkeepers from handling the ball after it has been deliberately kicked to them by a team-mate, or after receiving it directly from a throw-in taken by a team-mate. Back-passes with parts of the body other than the foot, such as headers, are not prohibited. Despite the popular name ``back-pass rule'', there is no requirement in the laws that the kick or throw-in must be backwards; handling by the goalkeeper is forbidden regardless of the direction the ball travels.
answer:
| can goalie pick up ball from throw in?
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Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Q: Rough surfaces create more friction than smooth surfaces. Thats why cars have tires. Its also why we use rubber mats in areas that might get wet. In your bathtub, you may even use No-Slip tape. No-slip is another way of saying the items has a lot of friction. In Figure 1.9, the blades of the skates are very smooth. Thats why you cant slide across ice with shoes. The soles of your shoes are much rougher than skates. The rougher surface of shoes causes more friction and slows you down. Heavier objects also have more friction. A heavy object presses down with more force. The surfaces are held together more tightly. This makes the surfaces harder to slide past each other. Did you ever try to push something heavy across the floor? Heavy objects are much harder to push than light objects. <sep>When there is more friction, is it harder or easier to push an object across the floor?<sep>Yes
A: | Yes |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Problem:The current first lady is Melania Trump .
Solution: | Melania Trump is the current first lady of the United States , as wife of 45th president of the United States , Donald Trump . |
Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to write civil war historical fiction
Look up resources at your local library.
You should start by visiting your local library for research books and texts on the civil war. You can look for scholarly texts online at the library and ask the reference librarian for assistance with finding research books about this historical event. | You can also look at magazines, newspapers, and catalogues from the time period at the library. The library should have these texts on microfilm so you can scan through them and get an idea of the fashions, trends, and discussions happening during the time. |
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".
Sound waves are mechanical waves. They can travel only through matter. They cannot travel through empty space. This was demonstrated in the 1600s by a scientist named Robert Boyle. Boyle placed a ticking clock in a sealed glass jar. The clock could be heard ticking through the air and glass of the jar. Then Boyle pumped the air out of the jar. The clock was still running, but the ticking could not be heard. Thats because the sound couldnt travel without air particles to transfer the sound energy. Is there any other place where sound cannot be heard? Here is a hint: is there any other place that does not have air molecules? Thats right, in space sound cannot be transferred. So can astronauts hear each other? Yes, they can, because they are in enclosed space stations or pressurized suits.In both cases, they are surrounded by air molecules. If they left their space ship and did not use their electronics, they would not be able to hear each other. Next time you watch a science fiction movie, think about this factoid. When spaceships are destroyed by hostile alien beings, there would be no sound heard. Sound waves can travel through many kinds of matter. <sep>Why can astronauts hear each other even if sound cannot be transferred in space?<sep>They are in enclosed space stations or pressurized suits which means they are surrounded by air molecules
Output: | Yes |
Part 1. Definition
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Part 2. Example
The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Answer: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Explanation: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
Part 3. Exercise
Its pattern of two-tier councils remains in use today in large parts of England , although the metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986 and it was replaced with unitary authorities in many areas in the 1990s .
Answer: | Its pattern of two-tier metropolitan and non-metropolitan county and district councils remains in use today in large parts of England , although the metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986 , and both county and district councils were replaced with unitary authorities in many areas in the 1990s . |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Boaty McBoatface Prepares For First Antarctic Mission
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The remotely operated underwater research vessel known as Boaty McBoatface is preparing for its first research mission — an expedition into "some of the deepest and coldest abyssal ocean waters on earth."
Boaty McBoatface, of course, was the moniker that emerged triumphant in an online poll meant to name the newest research ship in the U.K.'s Natural Environment Research Council fleet. But the council opted to overrule the will of the people, and named the ship the Royal Research Ship Sir David Attenborough instead.
As a consolation gesture, however, a smaller autonomous underwater vehicle was named Boaty McBoatface. So the name lives on — albeit in a way that makes less sense, because a submersible vehicle isn't actually a boat. (Subby McSubface, anybody?)
The RRS Sir David Attenborough is still under construction, but Boaty McBoatface is already on the job.
The British Antarctic Survey explains that the submersible will be investigating "an abyssal current of Antarctic Bottom Water along the Orkney Passage," as part of an expedition that begins Friday.
Antarctic Bottom Water is cold and dense, and its movement contributes to ocean circulation worldwide, the BAS writes. Boaty McBoatface will gather information on the intensity of turbulence in the Orkney Passage — information that could help improve climate change models.
"One of the most surprising features of the climate change that we are currently experiencing is that the abyssal waters of the world ocean have been warming steadily over the last few decades," professor Alberto Naveira Garabato wrote in the press release. "Establishing the causes of this warming is important because the warming plays an important role in moderating the ongoing (and likely future) increases in atmospheric temperature and sea level around the globe."
The BBC notes that there are actually three Boaty McBoatfaces:
"The name covers a trio of vehicles in the new Autosub Long Range class of underwater robots developed at Southampton's National Oceanography Centre (NOC). "These machines can all be configured slightly differently depending on the science tasks they are given. "The one that will initiate the 'adventures of Boaty' will head out of Punta Arenas, Chile, on Friday aboard Britain's current polar ship, the RRS James Clark Ross."
The U.K.'s National Oceanography Centre has designed a cartoon version of Boaty McBoatface to help teach children about marine research. According to The Guardian, a full-size, inflatable version of the submersible will "travel to events across the country." ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Prof Russell Wynn explains the workings of Boaty McBoatface
The yellow submarine named Boaty McBoatface is set to leave for Antarctica this week on its first science expedition.
The robot is going to map the movement of deep waters that play a critical role in regulating Earth's climate.
Boaty carries the name that a public poll had suggested be given to the UK's future £200m polar research vessel.
The government felt this would be inappropriate and directed the humorous moniker go on a submersible instead.
But what many people may not realise is that there is actually more than one Boaty. The name covers a trio of vehicles in the new Autosub Long Range class of underwater robots developed at Southampton's National Oceanography Centre (NOC).
These machines can all be configured slightly differently depending on the science tasks they are given.
The one that will initiate the "adventures of Boaty" will head out of Punta Arenas, Chile, on Friday aboard Britain's current polar ship, the RRS James Clark Ross.
The JCR will drop the sub into a narrow, jagged, 3,500m-deep gap in an underwater ridge that extends northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Referred to as the Orkney Passage, this is the gateway into the Atlantic for much of the "bottom-water" that is created as sea-ice grows on the margins of the White Continent.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Prof Mike Meredith: A quarter of all Antarctic bottom-water is exported through Orkney Passage
Frozen floes will cool and densify the water immediately below them, and this then generates a current that slides into the abyss to eventually move northwards. And in traversing the Orkney Passage, the bottom-water can feed the "great ocean conveyor" - the relentless system of deep circulation that helps redistribute all the heat energy that has built up in the climate system.
Boaty's mission will be to survey conditions in the passage.
Scientific moorings anchored in the area already gather some data, but the robot's mobility and autonomy means it can now build a full, three-dimensional picture of what's happening many hundred of metres below the surface.
Image copyright NERC/BAS Image caption The JCR will eventually be replaced by the RRS Sir David Attenborough
Scientists have good evidence that the bottom-water is warming. Quite why is not clear but it could have major implications, says Prof Mike Meredith from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
"One of these is sea-level rise because if you make water warmer obviously it expands and that pushes the sea level up," he told BBC News.
"But it also has relevance for benthic ecosystems. So, the animals that live on the seabed can typically cope well with low temperatures but not all of them can cope with changes in temperatures. The fact that this water has been getting warmer may have significant consequences for these animals."
Image caption Bottom-water is generated at the margin of the continent and then spills north into the Atlantic
The recorded warming could be the result of a change in the way the deep current is moving through the passage. If there is greater turbulence as the bottom-water flows over the jagged terrain, it might be mixing more warm water downwards. Boaty will have a probe on its nose to assess this.
"There are 'rapids' and 'waterfalls' that are occurring within the channels and valleys that surround underwater mountains in the passage," explained Dr Eleanor Frajka-Williams from Southampton University.
"Boaty is going to make measurements within these 'streams' and 'rivers' of the smallest-scale motions to try to understand how that water is being changed as it leaves the formation regions around Antarctica and then spreads out over the world's oceans."
Image copyright NERC/NOC Image caption The Autosub LR class of vehicles is beginning full science operations after successful sea trials
And while this particular robot is hard at work in the Southern Ocean, its two siblings back in Southampton are being prepared for their own expeditions.
Scientists are queuing up to use them, and to exploit their ability to autonomously patrol the oceans for weeks, even months, on end.
"Having three Boaty vehicles in the fleet means we can cover a much wider range of environments and geographic locations than we could with just one," said NOC's Prof Russell Wynn.
"So, one vehicle might be going out to Antarctica and surveying around and under the ice; another might be going to the deepest parts of the ocean, down to 6km; and another might be doing something more applied in, for example, the North Sea.
"We're getting lots of proposals and it's great that we can meet that demand," he told BBC News.
The Dynamics of the Orkney Passage Outflow (DynOPO) expedition is a collaboration between BAS, the University of Southampton and NOC.
Image copyright NERC/NOC Image caption Public outreach campaigns will be built around the future work of the subs
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| Boaty McBoatface is going into action. The remotely operated underwater research vessel will be undertaking its first research mission as part of an Antarctic expedition that starts Friday, NPR reports. The submersible, of course, was named Boaty McBoatface after that name won an online poll that was supposed to pick the name of a new UK research ship. The UK decided to name that ship the RRS David Attenborough instead, but gave the Boaty name instead to a trio of underwater vehicles, the BBC reports. It's one of those vehicles that will be heading to the Orkney Passage to study Antarctic Bottom Water, looking at its movement and turbulence in an effort to improve climate change models. |
Talbot will guard the goal in Tuesday's home game against the Wild, Oilers play-by-play announcer Jack Michaels reports. Talbot has been razor-sharp of late, posting a 6-0-1 record while maintaining an admirable 1.37 GAA and .950 save percentage over his last seven appearances. The 29-year-old netminder will look to keep rolling in a tough home matchup with a Wild team that is 15-5-5 on the road this season.
Guarding the goal is something Talbot will do. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
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A: Yes
"Our horse chestnut is in full bloom," Anne Frank told her diary on Saturday, May 13, 1944, "thickly covered with leaves and much more beautiful than last year." She would have been 79 this year, turning 80. Had she survived, Miss Frank would still be able to see the horse chestnut tree by which she measured the seasons of life during her two years of hiding from the Nazis, not just behind the building in Amsterdam from which she and her family were taken by the Gestapo in 1944 but — if the plans of the Anne Frank Center USA are realized — at 10 sites around this country, including New York City.
Anne Frank enjoyed the taste of ice cream. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Bar Fight<br>Caleb was at a bar. Two guys behind Caleb broke into a fight. One of the guys accidently hit Caleb in the face. The owner of the bar apologized profusely to Caleb. He offered Caleb a stack of free drink tickets to make up for the hit.
Caleb has thrown a punch at amy OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | It's impossible to say |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
PROBLEM: Magnetism in normal bar magnets and electromagnets does not come from magnetic monopoles .
SOLUTION: Magnetism in bar magnets and electromagnets is not caused by magnetic monopoles , and indeed , there is no known experimental or observational evidence that magnetic monopoles exist .
PROBLEM: Natural Language Processing ( NLP ) is a field in Artificial Intelligence , and is also related to linguistics .
SOLUTION: Natural language processing ( NLP ) is a subfield of linguistics , computer science , information engineering , and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human ( natural ) languages , in particular how to program computers to process and analyze large amounts of natural language data .
PROBLEM: A landslide victory is when one candidate or political party in an election receives a lot more votes or seats than their opponent .
SOLUTION: | A landslide victory is an electoral victory in a political system , when one candidate or party receives an overwhelming majority of the votes or seats in the elected body , thus all but utterly eliminating the opponents .
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In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
[Q]: Clarifying the Record The defense of U.S. airspace on 9/11 was not conducted in accord with preexisting training and protocols. It was improvised by civilians who had never handled a hijacked aircraft that attempted to disappear, and by a military unprepared for the transformation of commercial aircraft into weapons of mass destruction. As it turned out, the NEADS air defenders had nine minutes' notice on the first hijacked plane, no advance notice on the second, no advance notice on the third, and no advance notice on the fourth. We do not believe that the true picture of that morning reflects discredit on the operational personnel at NEADS or FAA facilities. NEADS commanders and officers actively sought out information, and made the best judgments they could on the basis of what they knew. Individual FAA controllers, facility managers, and Command Center managers thought outside the box in recommending a nationwide alert, in ground-stopping local traffic, and, ultimately, in deciding to land all aircraft and executing that unprecedented order flawlessly. More than the actual events, inaccurate government accounts of those events made it appear that the military was notified in time to respond to two of the hijackings, raising questions about the adequacy of the response. Those accounts had the effect of deflecting questions about the military's capacity to obtain timely and accurate information from its own sources. In addition, they overstated the FAA's ability to provide the military with timely and useful information that morning. In public testimony before this Commission in May 2003, NORAD officials stated that at 9:16, NEADS received hijack notification of United 93 from the FAA. This statement was incorrect. There was no hijack to report at 9:16. United 93 was proceeding normally at that time. In this same public testimony, NORAD officials stated that at 9:24, NEADS received notification of the hijacking of American 77. This statement was also incorrect. The notice NEADS received at 9:24 was that American 11 had not hit the World Trade Center and was heading for Washington, D.C. In their testimony and in other public accounts, NORAD officials also stated that the Langley fighters were scrambled to respond to the notifications about American 77,178 United 93, or both. These statements were incorrect as well. The fighters were scrambled because of the report that American 11 was heading south, as is clear not just from taped conversations at NEADS but also from taped conversations at FAA centers; contemporaneous logs compiled at NEADS, Continental Region headquarters, and NORAD; and other records. <sep>Who handled the U.S. air defense on 9/11?<sep>9
[A]: No
[Q]: Captured Moments by Will Shetterly I remember Papa's stopbox, a teal blue Tiempo Capturado that Mama brought home for his birthday. It was huge and inefficient, and she should never have spent so many pesos on a toy, but Papa would not let her return it. He used it to preserve baby tomatoes, cucumbers, and strawberries in translucent cubes that he stored in the pantry for spring-time meals in the middle of winter. Mama kept her mink jacket, a family hand-me-down, safe from time in a stopbox, and lent the capturador to my uncle for his stamp collection. Sometimes they would let us little ones to seal a treasured toy or a last piece of birthday cake until we begged them for its release, usually a few hours after enclosing it. When my father died, a year after my mother, my sisters and I cleaned out their apartment. We found our baby shoes protected in stopboxes. I took mine home, where they sat above my computer while I worked on my first play. One night when I did not believe love had ever existed for anyone, I used my own capturador, a sleek titanium Sanyo Tardar Ahora, to undo the stopbox. Bringing my face close to the shoes, I breathed deeply of air that my parents had trapped while closing up that symbol of their love for me. The instant would have been improved had my baby shoes been cleaned before they were encased. But as soon as I coughed, I laughed, and I did not try to kill myself that night. <sep>Father died how many years after mother?<sep>Immediately
[A]: No
[Q]: The city of Edinburgh grew up around the steep, ragged cliff of the Castle Rock and its easily defended summit. Archaeological excavations have revealed evidence of habitation here as long ago as 900 b.c. Very little, however, is known about the Rock and its inhabitants in the centuries between its first occupation and the time of the MacAlpin kings. A few shadowy details have been left to us by the Romans and by an epic poem from the seventh century. Romans and Britons The Romans invaded Scotland in a.d. 78–84, where they met a fierce group called the Picts, whom they drove north. They consolidated their gains by building Antonine's Wall across the waist of Scotland between the Firth of Forth and the River Clyde in about a.d. Roman legions encountered the strongholds of the Castle Rock and Arthur's Seat, held by a tribe of ancient Britons known as the Votadini. Little is recorded about this group, but they were probably the ancestors of the Gododdin, whose feats are told in a seventh-century Old Welsh manuscript. The capital of the Gododdin was Din Eidyn (the "Fort of Eidyn," almost certainly the Castle Rock), whose name lives on in the Edin- of Edinburgh. Din Eidyn fell to the Angles in 638 and became part of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria. It was the first of many times that the Fort of Eidyn would change hands between the kingdoms of the north and the south. The MacAlpin Kings Four distinct peoples once inhabited the land now known as Scotland: the Picts in the north, the Britons in the southwest, the invading Angles in the southeast, and the Scots in the west. The Scots were Gaelic-speaking immigrants from the north of Ireland. Kenneth MacAlpin, who ruled as king of Scots at Dunadd, acquired the Pictish throne in 843, uniting Scotland north of the River Forth into a single kingdom. He moved his capital — along with the Stone of Destiny (on which Scottish kings were crowned) — to the sacred Pict site of Scone, close to Perth. His great-great-great-grandson, Malcolm II (1005–1034), defeated the Angles at the Battle of Carham in 1018 and extended Scottish territory as far south as the River Tweed. <sep>At the time what is now know as Scotland was inhabited by four distinct peoples, where did the people come from who were living in the western part?<sep>They came from the north of Ireland
[A]: | Yes
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Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Example: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
Output: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
New input case for you: A " pas de deux " usually consists of an entre ́ e , adagio , two variations ( one for each dancer ) , and a coda .
Output: | A grand pas de deux is a structured pas de deux that typically has five parts , consisting of an " entre ́ e " ( introduction ) , an " adagio " , two variations ( a solo for each dancer ) , and a " coda " ( conclusion ) . |
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: With a budget of $329 million, LSC provides civil legal assistance to low-income people in every county in America, Kleiman said. NLAP was created in 1968. A decade later, the agency used a $50,000 LSC grant to buy a building at 438 King St. in Charleston and $33,000 to buy a building at 201 King St. in Georgetown, according to Erlenborn's letter to Kaynard. In 1980, NLAP used $63,000 in LSC funds to buy property at 607 Main St. in Conway, the letter said. On Nov. 14, 2001, NLAP transferred title of the King Street building in Charleston to the Charleston County Bar Association, according to county property records. The local bar paid $5 for the building, which sits between a redeveloped office building and an antique shop. The local bar said it would maintain the building for "legal services to indigent residents of Charleston County and coastal South Carolina," the records said. The King Street building appears to be vacant. Notices at the entrance direct visitors to the equal justice center on West Montague Avenue in North Charleston. E. Douglas Pratt-Thomas, president of the local bar, was not available for comment. Charleston County has not appraised the King Street property because it is tax-exempt. But Randall Goldman, managing partner of Patrick Properties, which owns buildings from 440 to 456 King St., said he estimates 438 King St. would sell for between $700,000 and $900,000. "That building, which was purchased solely with federal legal aid dollars, should be used to provide legal services for poor people in South Carolina," Kleiman said. LSC wants the title to go to the equal justice center in Charleston or "we want 100 percent of the proceeds from the sale of the building to stay in Charleston. We are not contemplating taking that money out of South Carolina," he said. Kleiman said if the neighborhood legal program in Charleston "had honored their obligation, this would not be an issue." <sep>What building did the Charleston County Bar Association pay $5 for?<sep>Kleiman Building
A: No
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Q: The grant also will help victims go through court proceedings after losing a job or being evicted because of an abuser's actions, Xanthopoulos said. "It's going to help the victims, but it's also going to help their children," he said. More than 270 domestic violence assaults in Madison County were reported last year, according to Tennessee Bureau of Investigation statistics. In Jackson, more than 730 domestic violence assaults were reported last year, according to records. "Domestic violence is certainly on the increase and we need to do something to curve that. I see this as helping that," Madison County Sheriff David Woolfork said of the grant. Domestic violence accounted for five of 12 murders in 2001 in Jackson, police have said. And the increase in calls prompted Jackson Police Chief Rick Staples in March to form a focus group to determine if police officers need to make changes in their response to domestic calls. <sep>How can the grant help children of domestic abuse victims?<sep>The grants help to identify missing children from abusive homes
A: No
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Q: Bin Laden and his aides did not need a very large sum to finance their planned attack on America. The 9/11 plotters eventually spent somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to plan and conduct their attack. Consistent with the importance of the project, al Qaeda funded the plotters. KSM provided his operatives with nearly all the money they needed to travel to the United States, train, and live. The plotters' tradecraft was not especially sophisticated, but it was good enough. They moved, stored, and spent their money in ordinary ways, easily defeating the detection mechanisms in place at the time. The origin of the funds remains unknown, although we have a general idea of how al Qaeda financed itself during the period leading up to 9/11. General Financing As we explained in chapter 2, Bin Laden did not fund al Qaeda through a personal fortune and a network of businesses in Sudan. Instead, al Qaeda relied primarily on a fund-raising network developed over time. The CIA now estimates that it cost al Qaeda about $30 million per year to sustain its activities before 9/11 and that this money was raised almost entirely through donations. For many years, the United States thought Bin Laden financed al Qaeda's expenses through a vast personal inheritance. Bin Laden purportedly inherited approximately $300 million when his father died, and was rumored to have had access to these funds to wage jihad while in Sudan and Afghanistan and to secure his leadership position in al Qaeda. In early 2000, the U.S. government discovered a different reality: roughly from 1970 through 1994, Bin Laden received about $1 million per year-a significant sum, to be sure, but not a $300 million fortune that could be used to fund jihad. Then, as part of a Saudi government crackdown early in the 1990s, the Bin Laden family was forced to find a buyer for Usama's share of the family company in 1994. The Saudi government subsequently froze the proceeds of the sale. This action had the effect of divesting Bin Laden of what otherwise might indeed have been a large fortune. Nor were Bin Laden's assets in Sudan a source of money for al Qaeda. When Bin Laden lived in Sudan from 1991 to 1996, he owned a number of businesses and other assets. <sep>What source of money did bin Laden hold in Sudan?<sep>Donations
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How to play tennis
Find a place to play.
You can play tennis at your local park, a gym, or a tennis club. Search online or ask friends where the best local courts are.
Most parks let you play for free, but you'll probably need to pay membership fees to play anywhere else. You can practice basic serving techniques in any large, open space, but it's best to spend as much time as possible on actual courts.
A close up of a lemon is shown with liquid being squeezed out. A dog is seen walking away and then hiding in the corner. a person
walks up to pet the dog.
How to age red wine
Identify the strain of grape in your wine to determine the proper length of aging.
Red bordeaux : 5 to 20 years (fruity, oaky). Cabernet sauvignon : 5 to 15 years (mild to hearty).
Merlot : 2 to 8 years (mellow, compliant). Barolo : 5 to 10 years (thick, complex, flowery).
A city is zoom in a map, then a girl performs water sky in a river pulled by a boat while flipping in the air. a road
| is leading to a water ski station, then a woman slides on ramps in the water holding a water ski rope. |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
We did you a favor and watched the Hulk Hogan sex tape so you don’t have to. It is indeed as cringeworthy as it sounds. We’re all contemplating gouging our eyes out. Here are worst things about it: first, that Hulk Hogan is naked. But also, that the alleged woman in the tape is Heather Clem (the ex-wife of his best friend Bubba the Love Sponge who appears to be in the house while all this is happening WHAT?), that Brooke Hogan’s song is the ring tone on his phone and that it rings while he’s in the middle of bizness, that he tells a story about his son’s girlfriend propositioning him for sex, that he keeps referring to himself as a pig because he just ate so much and last but not least, he says “you’re awesome” as he walks out the door. That’s all you really need to know. Never again shall we speak of it.
Final thoughts on the sex tape: why couldn’t it have been Ryan Lochte instead? We would have rather watched him having one of his one-night-stands, screaming out “Jeah!” during orgasm. It hardly ever works that way though, does it?
Click onward for more of the most disturbing sex tapes to ever burn our retinas and the ones we wish we’d seen instead. [DListed] ||||| By Jon Boon – Radar Reporter
Hulk Hogan’s family fears that another sex tape featuring the wrestling legend could be leaked, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
Hulk’s ex-wife Linda, his daughter Brooke and son Nick have all been put on red alert by the former WWF champ – who has confessed this isn’t the only time he’s possibly engaged in a sexual act on camera.
Hulk, 59, is now bracing himself for another storm and further embarrassment for his family.
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“Hulk is very concerned that a new sex tape could emerge,” a source close to the family told RadarOnline.com.
“After the first video was leaked he warned Linda, Brooke and Nick that he could of been caught on camera in the past.
“The family is absolutely mortified their name has been sullied in such a tacky way. They never imagined that Hulk could drag them into such an embarrassing situation.
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“Hulk’s admission has left the family praying that their reputation isn’t further muddied – last week was a week to forget for the Hogans, including Linda’s DUI arrest.
“But only time will tell if another sex tape finds it way on the internet. The family is certainly bracing for the worst,” the source revealed.
As RadarOnline.com previously reported, new clues have emerged to who could have leaked the tape.
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The one-minute clip that was published on Gawker shows the Hulkster baring his pasty rear-end in a sexual encounter allegedly with Heather Clem, the ex-wife of Hulk’s best friend, radio DJ Bubba the Love Sponge.
The website claimed that they didn’t pay for the sex tape and that the person who gave it to them didn’t want any money.
“Hulk didn’t leak the tape,” a source close to the wrestling icon, real name Terry Bollea, told RadarOnline.com. “He probably didn’t even have a copy of it.”
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A voice on the tape is reported to be Bubba, real name Todd Alan Clem, and he and his wife Heather are possibly the only people that had copies of the tape.
Heather is refusing to speak of the tape and has told pals that she is embarrassed that the x-rated footage has found its way on the web.
The release of the tape is raising suspicions that the people involved wanted revenge on Hulk and wanted to embarrass him. Without a profit being sought, the release of the tape is mortifying, as the interactions between Hulk and Heather are less X-rated porn and more humiliating for him.
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When RadarOnline.com spoke with Linda Hogan about the sex tape, she said: “I wasn’t really shocked about it” and called the sexual encounter “a little twisted.”
Speculation is growing that the only people who possibly had possession of the tape are Bubba, Heather or workers in his house who knew about it and had access, and point to people that wanted to hurt Hulk.
As more clues emerge as to the origin of the tape Hulk is preparing to take legal action against anyone trying to profit off the release of the tape.
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Kanye West Sex Tape With Kim Kardashian Look-A-Like Being Shopped ||||| | Just what you need right before lunchtime: More information about Hulk Hogan's sex tape. The wrestler admitted on the Howard Stern show today that his partner on the tape is Heather Clem, the estranged wife of Bubba the Love Sponge, TMZ reports. Bubba, a radio DJ, is Hulk's best friend … and he gave Hogan the go-ahead to sleep with his wife six years ago, the wrestler says. He added that he's still trying to figure out who leaked the tape, which was apparently recorded without his knowledge. Don't take a bite of your sandwich just yet, because there's more: Hogan's family is afraid yet another sex tape will end up getting leaked, Radar reports. "After the first video was leaked [Hulk] warned Linda, Brooke, and Nick that he could of [sic] been caught on camera in the past," a source says. "The family is absolutely mortified their name has been sullied in such a tacky way." If your appetite hasn't been ruined quite yet, click for seven more revolting celebrity sex tapes. |
How to wire a light<br>Cut power to your circuit. The best way to do this is by turning off the electricity supplied to the circuit on which you will be working at the junction box (also called a fuse box) for your home. Switch the breaker of your fuse-box so the fuse for the circuit supplying electricity to your fixture reads " off.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
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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: WHAT TO WEAR
The average woman spends almost five months of her working life choosing what to wear, a study has revealed.
Researchers found deciding what to wear for work, at weekends and for nights out mean women will spend more than an hour of each week simply considering their outfits.
Over the average year, this amounts to the equivalent of almost three days - and almost 20 weeks between the ages of 18 and 65.
It also emerged 45 per cent of women find the process of deciding what to wear to work stressful thanks to fears their outfit will be inappropriate for work or won’t adhere to the dress code.
And more than half even claimed they spend so much time fretting about their work outfits, they reckon they would be better off if they had to wear a uniform to have the decision taken out of their hands.
Simon Jersey, which provides uniforms to more than half a million UK workers and commissioned the research, said: “Many of us have a huge variety of clothes in our wardrobes, and picking what to wear can be a nightmare at the best of times.
“Not only do you have to consider the dress code of where you work, or where you are going, you have to consider whether an outfit is practical for your plans and also whether they will be suitable for the Great British weather.
“Regardless of where you work and what job you do, if you don’t wear a uniform to work, picking the right outfit can be a minefield.
“You don’t want to wear something which is inappropriate or too casual, but at the same time you don’t want to appear over-dressed.
‘’Over time, it seems many women get around this by developing their own sort suit of uniform, whether it’s by wearing the same clothes on a loop, or keeping their work and personal wardrobes completely separate.”
The study of 2,000 women found the average woman will spend more than 12 minutes of each weekday morning choosing what to wear to work that day, and a further 10 minutes picking out clothes at weekends.
On top of that, 55 minutes of each month is spent choosing and trying on outfits for two different nights out.
But for some, these figures could be much higher with half of women worrying about what they are going to wear before getting out of bed in the morning, or even the night before.
And 49 per cent admit they lie awake planning their outfit for their next day at work.
An organised 54 per cent even lay out their clothes the night before to save the last-minute panic in the morning.
It also emerged two thirds of women often have mornings where they end up trying on more than one outfit before settling on what to wear for work that day.
But as a result of their indecision, almost one in four have ended up late for work.
Fifteen per cent have had mornings where they have left the house for work, only to turn around and go home again so they can change their outfit, while one in ten have even gone home at lunch to get changed because they weren’t happy with what they were wearing.
Of those who find choosing a work outfit stressful, 37 per cent put it down to worries about whether their outfit is appropriate for work, while 16 per cent fret about whether it suits the dress code.
Other concerns when choosing a work outfit include whether they look OK, if their outfit flatters their shape, and what the weather is going to do.
But the study found that because of these concerns, two thirds reckon it would be less stressful in the mornings if they wore a uniform to work rather than their own clothes.
And 86 per cent of women reckon they tend to just wear the same outfits on a loop, to the point where they almost end up wearing a uniform of sorts.
It also emerged 55 per cent of people describe their workplace dress code as ‘smart casual’, but four in ten find this term confusing and struggle to find an outfit which is appropriate.
As a result, 23 per cent have been pulled up by their boss who deemed their work wear inappropriate.
And 55 per cent of managers have had to speak to an employee about what they were wearing, with 34 per cent even claiming they have had to formally worn or fire someone.
A spokesman for Simon Jersey added: ‘There’s no doubt that a uniform can make mornings easier – whether it’s one we’re given or one that we create based on our fashion preferences and employer’s dress code.
‘If you work in a job where you have to wear a specific uniform that doesn’t mean that it has to be boring. Professional uniform companies such as Simon Jersey take our cues from high street trends and incorporate them into our designs to ensure they offer both style and function. We also offer each of our garments in a wide range of colours to ensure that they reflect both the brand and individuals’ personalities.
‘There are more than 900 garments in our catalogue, so no matter what your role or what industry you work in, we can create a uniform for you and your team.’
WORKINGS OUT:
Average woman spends:
*12.53 minutes choosing what to wear to work each day x 5 = 62.65 minutes a week
X48 (48 working weeks a year) = 3,007.2 minutes a year
*10.66 minutes choosing what to wear at the weekend x52 = 554.32 minutes a year
*27.54 minutes choosing what to wear for a night out (2 a month) = 55.08 a month
X12 = 660.96 a year
Total per year = 4222.48 minutes / 60 = 70.37 hours
/24 = 2.93 days
Working lifetime (18-65) = 47 years
2.93 X 47 = 137.71 days
/ 7 = 19.67 weeks
<p><strong>Please include attribution to simonjersey.com with this graphic.</strong><br /><br /><a href='http://www.simonjersey.com/PagesPublic/UserControlled/UserDefined.aspx?page=what-to-wear><img src='http://www.simonjersey.com/Assets/SJL/Images/wtw.jpg' alt='What To Wear Infographic | Simon Jersey' width='700px' border='0' /></a></p> ||||| By Christine Slusser
Video transcript provided by Newsy.com
Every woman knows that moment when she stands in front of her closet filled with clothes: She audibly sighs and says, "I have nothing to wear."
Even if we factored in parents making some teens change their clothes, the decision about what to wear is worse than we thought.
Researchers at U.K. corporate uniform store Simon Jersey surveyed 2,000 women and found the average woman spends about five months of her working life picking out the perfect outfit.
"Researchers found deciding what to wear for work, at weekends and for nights out mean women will spend more than an hour of each week simply considering their outfits," said the report.
And more than an hour a week from ages 18 to 65 — that totals 20 weeks, or five months. The reason behind this could be to avoid weird encounters like this:
"You have no style or sense of fashion," said Meryl Streep's character, Miranda Priestly.
"Well," said Anne Hathaway's character, Andy Sachs.
"No, no. It wasn't a question," Priestly said. (Video via Fox 2000 Pictures / "The Devil Wears Prada")
We're sure Simon Jersey is just tickled with the results — because one way to cut down on that "deciding what to wear to work" category? Obviously, order an outfit from them.
To add to the results in Simon Jersey's favor, 45 percent of women said figuring out what to wear to work was "stressful." The study also found two-thirds of women said wearing a uniform would be less stressful.
But there weren't any results for the guys -- something Fox News jokingly promised to bring us next:
"How much time do you spend, Brian? That study coming your way, soon," said Fox News anchor Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
And really — isn't it a bit sexist to omit men? They probably take just as long as women do. Maybe Simon Jersey doesn't have as many male uniforms to sell.
This video includes images from Getty Images and Kompania Piwowarska / CC BY NC ND 2.0 and music from Kevin MacLeod / CC BY 3.0. |||||
Student: | Women sometimes get a bad rap for having a hard time deciding what to wear, but leave it to a uniform supplier to try to quantify just how much time they spend pondering outfits before heading out the door. A study of 2,000 women, commissioned by UK uniform supplier Simon Jersey, finds the average woman spends more than an hour per week—for a total of three days each year, or five months over a woman's working life from age 18 to 65—choosing what to wear. It breaks down to about 12 minutes every workday morning, 10 minutes every weekend morning, and about 27.5 minutes before a night out. You think that's bad? Half of women also worry about their outfit the night before or before getting out of bed in the morning. Even with all that planning, two-thirds of women admit to trying on multiple outfits before leaving the house; about 15% have regretted their choice and returned to pick something else. It's no surprise, then, that about 25% say they've arrived late to work because of deliberating what to wear. What's to consider, exactly? Well, 37% of women who say choosing an outfit is stressful cite concerns about whether their choice is suitable for work. Other worries relate to the dress code, weather, looks, and whether it's flattering. Simon Jersey concludes uniforms could save time and stress; its survey doesn't explore how long men stand in front of the closet, but KIRO 7 has a theory: "They probably take just as long as women do. Maybe Simon Jersey doesn't have as many male uniforms to sell." (See what women think about a lady in red.) |
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:
Tommy and Suzy (brother and sister) went to the playground one afternoon with their mom and dad, Jan and Dean. They were playing a game of tag and having the best time ever running after each other and laughing. They liked to play tag instead of building sandcastles or swinging. They liked tag because they liked to run. They like to play hopscotch or jump rope but that day they wanted to play tag. Other games aren't as fun. They met Tony and Ally (who are best friends) and invited them to play tag too. Tony and Ally like to play other games like hopscotch or jump rope but that day they joined the game of tag. Making new friends is important. Tony and Ally would rather make friends than play their favorite games. <sep>Did Tony, Ally, Tommy, and Suzy all become friends that day?<sep>They played separately
Ex Output:
No
Ex Input:
Mr. Andrews pointed to one of the oak chairs. "You sit there," he commanded, "it's reserved for members of the bar, but it's all right. You're with ME." Distinctly annoyed, slightly bewildered, the banker sank between the arms of a chair. He felt he had lost his individuality. Andrews had become his sponsor. Because of Andrews he was tolerated. Because Andrews had a pull he was permitted to sit as an equal among police-court lawyers. No longer was he Arnold Thorndike. He was merely the man "with Mr. Andrews." Then even Andrews abandoned him. "The judge'll be here in a minute, now," said the assistant district attorney, and went inside a railed enclosure in front of the judge's bench. There he greeted another assistant district attorney whose years were those of even greater indiscretion than the years of Mr. Andrews. Seated on the rail, with their hands in their pockets and their backs turned to Mr. Thorndike, they laughed and talked together. The subject of their discourse was one Mike Donlin, as he appeared in vaudeville. To Mr. Thorndike it was evident that young Andrews had entirely forgotten him. He arose, and touched his sleeve. With infinite sarcasm Mr. Thorndike began: "My engagements are not pressing, but—" A court attendant beat with his palm upon the rail. "Sit down!" whispered Andrews. "The judge is coming." Mr. Thorndike sat down. The court attendant droned loudly words Mr. Thorndike could not distinguish. There was a rustle of silk, and from a door behind him the judge stalked past. <sep>Andrews said the oak chairs were reserved for whom?<sep>Members of the kingdom
Ex Output:
No
Ex Input:
Boone, Ia. -Poor and elderly people may soon go without legal representation in Boone County. Boone County Legal Aid, which for 31 years has provided legal services to those who couldn't afford them, will close in February if a $10,000 grant from Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino is not awarded. The legal service is one of the few programs in Iowa that offers legal representation to those who qualify without turning to the state for its services. "It is a very sad situation, but that's the fact," said Alan Schroeder, city attorney and supervisor of Boone County Legal Aid. For the past two years using money mostly from the city and county, Schroeder has upheld the outfit alone, taking on about 60 clients a year, and settling cases that range from domestic abuse to bankruptcy. He also has a private practice. If the legal service closes, he's unsure where his clients will go. The city of Boone gave Schroeder $6,300 in July to resolve pending cases, said Kathy Berg, Boone's finance officer. Without that, the program might already be closed. "All governments are having problems with finances," Boone Mayor George Maybee said. "No one else stepped in. The county didn't. The state didn't." Donovan Olson, chairman of the county Board of Supervisors, said the board quit funding the legal service in July because it felt the county didn't need it. Drake University ended its funding after the 2000 spring semester "for a variety of reasons," Suzanne Levitt, the law professor who oversaw the program, said via e-mail. Olson said Schroeder must prove Prairie Meadows is the primary money source for the board to grant the program any more money. Schroeder ran the program without the help of law students or Drake, which had provided as much as two-thirds of the money in some years. <sep>Who has not stepped in to help Boone County Legal Aid?<sep>Boone County
Ex Output:
| Yes
|
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
[EX Q]: What do methodist's change from normal communion?, Context: Historically, the Methodist Church has supported the temperance movement. John Wesley warned against the dangers of drinking in his famous sermon, "The Use of Money," and in his letter to an alcoholic. At one time, Methodist ministers had to take a pledge not to drink and encouraged their congregations to do the same. Today the United Methodist Church states that it "affirms our long-standing support of abstinence from alcohol as a faithful witness to God's liberating and redeeming love for persons." In fact, the United Methodist Church uses unfermented grape juice in the sacrament of Holy Communion, thus "expressing pastoral concern for recovering alcoholics, enabling the participation of children and youth, and supporting the church's witness of abstinence." Moreover, in 2011 and 2012, The United Methodist Church's General Board of Church and Society called on all United Methodists to abstain from alcohol for Lent.
[EX A]: uses unfermented grape juice
[EX Q]: What buildings were usually chosen to be burned to the ground?, Context: In the 1970s, the Bronx was plagued by a wave of arson. The burning of buildings was predominantly in the poorest communities, like the South Bronx. The most common explanation of what occurred was that landlords decided to burn their low property-value buildings and take the insurance money as it was more lucrative to get insurance money than to refurbish or sell a building in a severely distressed area. The Bronx became identified with a high rate of poverty and unemployment, which was mainly a persistent problem in the South Bronx.
[EX A]: low property-value buildings
[EX Q]: who settled the isthmus of Panama in 1698?, Context: In 1695, the Scottish Parliament granted a charter to the Company of Scotland, which established a settlement in 1698 on the isthmus of Panama. Besieged by neighbouring Spanish colonists of New Granada, and afflicted by malaria, the colony was abandoned two years later. The Darien scheme was a financial disaster for Scotland—a quarter of Scottish capital was lost in the enterprise—and ended Scottish hopes of establishing its own overseas empire. The episode also had major political consequences, persuading the governments of both England and Scotland of the merits of a union of countries, rather than just crowns. This occurred in 1707 with the Treaty of Union, establishing the Kingdom of Great Britain.
[EX A]: | Company of Scotland
|
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
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.
Output: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
New input case for you: Mal de debarquement (or mal de débarquement) syndrome (MdDS, or common name disembarkment syndrome) is a neurological condition usually occurring after a cruise, aircraft flight, or other sustained motion event. The phrase ``mal de débarquement'' is French and translates to ``illness of disembarkation''. MdDS is typically diagnosed by a neurologist or an ear nose & throat specialist when a person reports a persistent rocking, swaying, or bobbing feeling (though they are not necessarily rocking). This usually follows a cruise or other motion experience. Because most vestibular testing proves to be negative, doctors may be baffled as they attempt to diagnose the syndrome. A major diagnostic indicator is that most patients feel better while driving or riding in a car, i.e.: while in passive motion. MdDS is unexplained by structural brain or inner ear pathology and most often corresponds with a motion trigger, although it can occur spontaneously. This differs from the very common condition of ``land sickness'' that most people feel for a short time after a motion event such as a boat cruise, aircraft ride, or even a treadmill routine which may only last minutes to a few hours. The syndrome has recently received increased attention due to the number of people presenting with the condition and more scientific research has commenced to determine what triggers MdDS and how to cure it.
Output: | is it normal to have motion sickness after a cruise? |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
[EX Q]: Tom plays pool in a deserted pool hall , pocketing two balls by lowdown means and then wakes Jerry up by shooting the 10-ball into the pocket where he is sleeping . Jerry awakes just in time to avoid the 10-ball and is carried out to the ball return , where the 10 and the 13 smash the mouse between each other . Jerry is mad and walks up through the pocket , first sees nothing , but after a few steps back to the pocket , he spots Tom perched behind it . Jerry tries to jump into another corner pocket , but Tom aims a cue ball with so much force that it roll's into the pocket , and spins back out of it and it rolls Jerry backwards to Tom , who has made a ramp with his cue stick for the mouse to slide up . Jerry stops at the top of the stick and is then blown down by Tom , who then shoots a stream of balls to make the mouse flat . The whole train rebounds back towards the cat and the balls stack up at Tom's end of the table . Tom shoots all the balls in succession with his cue , and then tries to shoot Jerry , but the mouse hangs onto the cue tip . The cat , as if he were saying `` Have it your way '' , chalks up and shoots the 8-ball using Jerry . The mouse drops off the cue tip and then is upended by the 8-ball rolling in circles , and Tom forces Jerry to jump through the ball rack as if he were a circus performer . Tom then sets it on fire to add an additional level of torment , and when Jerry accomplishes this with poise , Tom discards the flaming rack and shoots the 8-ball across the table and back . <sep>How did Jerry get to the top of the pool stick?<sep>He climbed up the pole
[EX A]: No
[EX Q]: The Venetian artist Jacopo de' Barbari, whom Durer had met in Venice, visited Nuremberg in 1500, and Durer said that he learned much about the new developments in perspective, anatomy, and proportion from him. De' Barbari was unwilling to explain everything he knew, so Durer began his own studies, which would become a lifelong preoccupation. A series of extant drawings show Durer's experiments in human proportion, leading to the famous engraving of Adam and Eve (1504), which shows his subtlety while using the burin in the texturing of flesh surfaces. This is the only existing engraving signed with his full name. Durer made large numbers of preparatory drawings, especially for his paintings and engravings, and many survive, most famously the Betende Hande (English: Praying Hands, c. 1508 Albertina, Vienna), a study for an apostle in the Heller altarpiece. He also continued to make images in watercolour and bodycolour (usually combined), including a number of still lifes of meadow sections or animals, including his Young Hare (1502) and the Great Piece of Turf (1503, both also Albertina). <sep>What sort of subjects were in Durer's artworks?<sep>Lifes of meadow
[EX A]: No
[EX Q]: Paul put the despised watch away And laid out before him his array Of stones and metals, and when the morning Struck the stones to their best adorning, He chose the brightest, and this new watch Was so light and thin it seemed to catch The sunlight's nothingness, and its gleam. Topazes ran in a foamy stream Over the cover, the hands were studded With garnets, and seemed red roses, budded. The face was of crystal, and engraved Upon it the figures flashed and waved With zircons, and beryls, and amethysts. It took a week to make, and his trysts At night with the Shadow were his alone. Paul swore not to speak till his task was done. The night that the jewel was worthy to give. Paul watched the long hours of daylight live To the faintest streak; then lit his light, And sharp against the wall's pure white The outline of the Shadow started Into form. His burning-hearted Words so long imprisoned swelled To tumbling speech. Like one compelled, He told the lady all his love, And holding out the watch above His head, he knelt, imploring some Littlest sign. The Shadow was dumb. <sep>What were the hands of the watch studded with?<sep>Garnets and seemed budded roses
[EX A]: | Yes
|
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Example input: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Example output: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Example explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Q: In business, net income (total comprehensive income, net earnings, net profit, informally, bottom line) is an entity's income minus cost of goods sold, expenses and taxes for an accounting period. It is computed as the residual of all revenues and gains over all expenses and losses for the period, and has also been defined as the net increase in shareholders' equity that results from a company's operations. In the context of the presentation of financial statements, the IFRS Foundation defines net income as synonymous with profit and loss.
A: | is net earning the same as net income? |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
what time of year is mentioned first?, Context: After a difficult winter, most of the Denny Party relocated across Elliott Bay and claimed land a second time at the site of present-day Pioneer Square. Charles Terry and John Low remained at the original landing location and reestablished their old land claim and called it "New York", but renamed "New York Alki" in April 1853, from a Chinook word meaning, roughly, "by and by" or "someday". For the next few years, New York Alki and Duwamps competed for dominance, but in time Alki was abandoned and its residents moved across the bay to join the rest of the settlers.
| winter |
Teacher:You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer, pronounced (bɛʁˈliːnɐ ˈmaʊ̯ɐ) ( listen)) was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and finished in 1992. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area (later known as the ``death strip'') that contained anti-vehicle trenches, ``fakir beds'' and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the ``will of the people'' in building a socialist state in East Germany.
Student: | did the berlin wall go all around west berlin? |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
DALLAS — Heather Mounce, who was saved in a dramatic rescue last August on the Oregon Coast, has been charged with 96 counts, including identity theft, first-degree theft, aggravated theft, and criminal mistreatment.
Court records show that the charges were filed against the Dallas resident on Thursday with the Polk County Circuit Court. Mounce is scheduled for an arraignment on an indictment on Aug. 14.
Theft victims are listed in the charges as Dallas Retirement Village, Oregon Center for Nursing, Mark and Elizabeth Weisensee, the owners of Dallas-based OpenRoad Transportation, and Antony Emil Britt, who is described in the court documents as a “elderly and dependent person,” in Mounce’s care.
Mounce also is charged with multiple counts of identity theft involving Britt. Charges list that Mounce “with the intent to deceive or defraud, convert to defendant’s own use, create, obtain, possess, transfer and utter personal identification of” several businesses, including Oregon Live/Oregonian Media Group, Monster.com/Monster Worldwide, Career Builder and Survey Monkey.
The charges date between September of 2013 to July 14.
District Attorney Aaron Felton said the investigation into the case started about a year ago. He wouldn't comment further, citing the undergoing investigation and prosecution.
Mounce was reported as a missing person on Aug. 12, 2017 and was the subject of a four-day search before her husband found her stranded on a cliff near the Sea Lion Caves north of Florence.
He called 911 to report that he found her alive.
Local emergency crews attempted a rescue, but were unsuccessful due to the steep terrain. They called in the U.S. Coast Guard Sector North Bend.
A Coast Guard helicopter and crew arrived within minutes and were able to pluck her off the cliff on the afternoon of Aug. 16. Family members reported her missing on Aug. 12 and police found her vehicle that day parked close to where she was found. ||||| Inside the rescue of Heather Mounce Copyright by KOIN - All rights reserved Heather Mounce in an undated photo posted on a Facebook page, August 17, 2017 [ + - ] Video
Amy Frazier and KOIN 6 News Staff - PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Karen Sparks was planning a vigil for Friday night for her missing cousin, Heather Mounce, when she got a text from another cousin.
The text said Heather was found alive.
Sparks, who lives in Idaho, said she was at Fred Meyer printing more flyers for the search. "I had to take a deep breath and sit down at Fred Meyer and all the workers all came over to assist me. They were so happy. I was happy," she told KMVT TV in Twin Falls, Idaho. "Terrible news turned into a miracle."
Mounce, 37, was last seen Saturday morning. She was found Wednesday near the Sea Lion Caves in Florence. Authorities said her determined husband, Denton Davision, found her near where her car was found earlier.
In the 911 call, Davison told the dispatcher he could see his wife.
"I am on the rocky beach, I think it's Cox Rock, she's up in the bushes, she's waving at me," he said. "She's alive she's alive, she's on that hillside."
The dispatcher asked again for a location and Davison said, "Highway 101, Cox Rock area, she's waving at me from the bushes, 100-150 feet up the cliff from the ocean. I don't think I can get to her."
While Davison remains on the line, the 911 operator called the rescue units -- including a rope unit to rappel down and the Coast Guard.
Listen to the entire 911 call here:
She was found about 180 feet down the side of a cliff, according to Lt. Alex Webber, the pilot for the Coast Guard crew that rescued her.
Coast Guard video of the rescue of Heather Mounce:
Webber said they looked around and spotted her, then hovered about 250 feet above the water. The crew lowered rescue swimmer Petty Officer 3rd Class Tyler Stacey about 180 feet, to the spot where Mounce was "clinging on to some bushes on the cliff," Webber said.
Stacey said it was hard to see her.
"She was covered by some pretty big bushes she had landed on. I don't know if she had fallen or how she got into the position she did," Stacey said. "But it appeared she had gotten herself into a situation where she was basically being suspended by a big bush and it was on a pretty sheer surface."
She looked grateful the Coast Guard found her, he said.
"She was very scared, but when I got up to her she definitely wanted to get out of there."
The windy conditions made it a bit more of a challenge to get her connected for the rescue. She lost her balance and fell onto him, he said, "and I basically caught her and was able to grab onto her long enough to where I could fly her other arm through the device and secure her."
Webber said, "He put his rescue strap around her, at which point the flight mechanic who was operating the hoist cable vectored us back off the cliff and then we reeled her up."
Mounce seemed "a little bit out of it," which Stacey believed was because she was missing for 4 days without food or water. He said she wasn't wearing shoes, her feet were swollen and she was scraped up.
Webber said the fire department made a landing spot on Hwy 101, where they landed and helped Mounce get to a waiting ambulance.
"She was in stable condition once dropped off," Webber said.
Karen Sparks said she was amazed at the support from around the country they received in the days they searched for Mounce. She just wants to hug and kiss Mounce.
"Her mother and her children, at least they have her back," Sparks said. "I want to say thank you to all the first responders and the Coast Guard and police and Oregon State Police."
"We can only go forward from here and we pray that she heals and recovers quickly and we can't wait to get that hug," Sparks said.
It is hard to put into words the elation we feel that Heather was found alive and well yesterday. It is nothing short of a miracle. We are beyond happy that she is safe and recovering. We would like to thank everyone for the time and effort put into the official Facebook page as well as all the flyers that were distributed by family, friends, and strangers. The public support has been overwhelming. Thank... you to the Coast Guard team who made the amazing rescue. Finally a big thank you to the Dallas Police Department for working with us so closely during this time.We will not be granting any interviews at this time as our focus will be on Heathers recovery. Please continue to pray for her and our family.God bless.
KMVT in Twin Falls, Idaho contributed to this report and granted permission to KOIN for this story. ||||| | Last summer, Heather Mae Mounce was reported missing by her family; her car was found abandoned along Highway 101 in Oregon. After her then-husband ultimately spotted her, four days later, "clinging to bushes" 180 feet down the side of a cliff, a Coast Guard helicopter crew airlifted her from the ridge in what KOIN calls a "dramatic" rescue that made headlines. This summer is also dramatic for the 28-year-old Oregon woman, but in a decidedly different way: She has been charged with 96 felonies. Mounce is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the Dallas Retirement Village, Oregon Center for Nursing, and OpenRoad Transportation, the Statesman Journal reports; she's also accused of stealing the identity of an "elderly and dependent" man whom she was caring for, along with $5,000 from him. She faces 62 counts of identity theft, 24 counts of criminal mistreatment, and 10 other charges; the charges date from September 2013 until July of this year. Authorities have not said whether there is any link to her disappearance in August of last year, but the Polk County District Attorney says an investigation into the case began about a year ago, per the Polk County Itemizer-Observer. Authorities at the time said that she appeared to have left her car of her own free will and that they did not believe she had been abducted. She filed for divorce three months later. Of the charges she faces, the Dallas Retirement Village says in a statement, "We are working closely with the state and Polk County Attorney’s Office in their investigation of this individual and former employee. ... We can assure that she had no access to any personal resident records." |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
[EX Q]: National identity cards are issued to their citizens by the governments of all European Union member states except Denmark, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, and also by Liechtenstein and Switzerland (the latter not formally part of the EEA). Citizens holding a national identity card, which states EEA or Swiss citizenship, can not only use it as an identity document within their home country, but also as a travel document to exercise the right of free movement in the EEA and Switzerland. Identity cards that do not state EEA or Swiss citizenship, including national identity cards issued to residents who are not citizens, are not valid as a travel document within the EEA and Switzerland.
[EX A]: can you travel in eu with id card?
[EX Q]: Devil May Cry 5 is an upcoming action-adventure hack and slash video game developed and published by Capcom. It is a continuation of the mainline series which began with Devil May Cry in 2001, to its most recent entry Devil May Cry 4, which was released in 2008.
[EX A]: is devil may cry 5 after devil may cry 2?
[EX Q]: In geometry, parallel lines are lines in a plane which do not meet; that is, two lines in a plane that do not intersect or touch each other at any point are said to be parallel. By extension, a line and a plane, or two planes, in three-dimensional Euclidean space that do not share a point are said to be parallel. However, two lines in three-dimensional space which do not meet must be in a common plane to be considered parallel; otherwise they are called skew lines. Parallel planes are planes in the same three-dimensional space that never meet.
[EX A]: | can a plane be parallel to a line?
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Q: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Which series was not made by the BBC, Doctor Who or Love Child?, Context: Beginning in 2005, the CBC has contributed production funds for the BBC Wales revival of Doctor Who, for which it received a special credit at the end of each episode. This arrangement continued until the end of fourth season, broadcast in 2008. The CBC similarly contributed to the first season of the spin-off series, Torchwood. More recently, the network has also begun picking up Canadian rights to some Australian series, including the drama series Janet King and Love Child, and the comedy-drama series Please Like Me.
A: | Love Child |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
What do you need in addition to the LaserDisc in order to experience surround sound?, Context: Only one 5.1 surround sound option exists on a given LaserDisc (either Dolby Digital or DTS), so if surround sound is desired, the disc must be matched to the capabilities of the playback equipment (LD Player and Receiver/Decoder) by the purchaser. A fully capable LaserDisc playback system includes a newer LaserDisc player that is capable of playing digital tracks, has a digital optical output for digital PCM and DTS audio, is aware of AC-3 audio tracks, and has an AC-3 coaxial output; an external or internal AC-3 RF demodulator and AC-3 decoder; and a DTS decoder. Many 1990s A/V receivers combine the AC-3 decoder and DTS decoder logic, but an integrated AC-3 demodulator is rare both in LaserDisc players and in later A/V receivers. | playback equipment |
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Input: In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter sun (December, January, February) rises in the southeast, transits the celestial meridian at a low angle in the south (more than 43° above the southern horizon in the tropics), and then sets in the southwest. It is on the south (equator) side of the house all day long. A vertical window facing south (equator side) is effective for capturing solar thermal energy. For comparison, the winter sun in the Southern Hemisphere (June, July, August) rises in the northeast, peaks out at a low angle in the north (more than halfway up from the horizon in the tropics), and then sets in the northwest. There, the north-facing window would let in plenty of solar thermal energy to the house.
Output: | does the sun rise in the west in the northern hemisphere? |
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Input: The Austrian school year for primary and secondary schools is split into two terms, the first one starts on the first Monday in September in the states of Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland and on the second Monday of September in Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Tyrol and Vorarlberg. Most schools have holidays between the national holiday on October 26 and All Souls Day on November 2, but those are unofficial holidays not observed by all schools in Austria. Christmas holidays start on December 24 and end on the first weekday after January 6. The first term ends in Vienna and Lower Austria on the first Friday of February, in Burgenland, Carinthia, Salzburg, Tyrol and Vorarlberg on the second Friday of February and in Upper Austria and Styria on the third Friday of February.
Output: | when does the school year start in austria |
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Input: 'Video Killed the Radio Star' is a song written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley in 1978. It was first recorded by Bruce Woolley and The Camera Club (with Thomas Dolby on keyboards) for their album English Garden, and later by British group the Buggles, consisting of Horn and Downes. The track was recorded and mixed in 1979, released as their debut single on 7 September 1979 by Island Records, and included on their first album The Age of Plastic. The backing track was recorded at Virgin's Town House in West London, and mixing and vocal recording would later take place at Sarm East Studios.
Output: | who sang the original video killed the radio star |
In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: Isabela Cristina, 18, who is six months pregnant, center, looks at her exams as she waits at a bus stop outside the IMIP hospital in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016. Isabela... (Associated Press)
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil is not sharing enough samples and disease data to let researchers determine whether the Zika virus is, as feared, linked to the increased number of babies born with abnormally small heads in the South American country, U.N. and U.S. health officials say.
The lack of data is forcing laboratories in the United States and Europe to work with samples from previous outbreaks, and is frustrating efforts to develop diagnostic tests, drugs and vaccines. Scientists tell The Associated Press that having so little to work with is hampering their ability to track the virus' evolution.
One major problem appears to be Brazilian law. At the moment, it is technically illegal for Brazilian researchers and institutes to share genetic material, including blood samples containing Zika and other viruses.
"It's a very delicate issue, this sharing of samples. Lawyers have to be involved," said Dr. Marcos Espinal, director of communicable diseases in the World Health Organization's regional office in Washington.
Espinal said he hoped the issue might be resolved after discussions between the U.S. and Brazilian presidents. He said WHO's role was mainly to be a broker to encourage countries to share. When asked whether the estimate of other scientists that Brazil had provided fewer than 20 samples was true, he agreed it probably was.
"There is no way this should not be solved in the foreseeable future," he said. "Waiting is always risky during an emergency."
Last May, as the first cases of Zika in Brazil were emerging, President Dilma Rousseff signed a new law to regulate how researchers use the country's genetic resources. But the regulatory framework hasn't yet been drafted, leaving scientists in legal limbo.
"Until the law is implemented, we're legally prohibited from sending samples abroad," said Paulo Gadelha, president of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil's premier state-run research institute for tropical diseases. "Even if we wanted to send this material abroad, we can't because it's considered a crime."
The ban does not necessarily mean foreign researchers can't access samples. Some were shared with the United States, including tissue samples from two newborns who died and two fetuses recently examined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But a U.S. official said that wasn't enough to develop accurate tests for the virus or help determine whether Zika is in fact behind the recent jump in the number of congenital defects. The spike in cases prompted WHO to declare an international emergency Monday.
Given the drought of Brazilian samples, public health officials across the world are falling back on older viruses — or discreetly taking them from private patients.
The U.S. official, who shared the information on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak publicly, said the CDC was relying on a strain taken from a 2013 outbreak in French Polynesia to perfect its Zika tests. U.S. researchers trying to sequence Zika's genetic code have been forced to work with virus samples from Puerto Rico for the same reason, he said.
In England, researchers are using samples drawn from Micronesia, the site of an outbreak in 2007. The French are using samples from Polynesia and Martinique. In Spain, scientists have a Ugandan strain of Zika supplied by the United States. Even Portugal, Brazil's former colonial master, doesn't have the Brazilian strain; the National Health Institute in Lisbon said its tests relied on a U.S. sample from the 1980s, among others.
Some researchers are bypassing Brazil's bureaucracy by getting samples sent to them for testing by a private lab, said Dr. Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, an expert on mosquito-borne diseases at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg.
"It's almost impossible to get samples from the country," Schmidt-Chanasit told AP, referring to Brazil. "It's not going via official government channels. Our source is simply the rich people who want a diagnosis."
In public, health leaders have been eager to boast about their excellent collaboration. WHO's chief, Dr. Margaret Chan, said after Monday's meeting that Brazil and the United States were working "very closely" on studies. When asked about sample sharing, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told AP: "I don't think it's an issue."
Behind-the-scenes, it was another story.
Four officials at the World Health Organization told AP that the Brazilians were starving international partners of up-to-date information.
"WHO has gotten zero from them, no clinical or lab findings," one of the officials said.
All four spoke on condition of anonymity because they were talking without authorization.
Ben Neuman, a virologist at Reading University in England, said thousands of samples — or hundreds at a minimum — were needed to track the virus and determine how it's changing. "Science only works when we share," he said.
The virus sharing problems aren't limited to Brazil, said Gadelha of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
"This isn't a unilateral issue; it's a global problem," he said.
More than a decade ago, WHO faced a similar problem when Indonesia refused to hand over bird flu samples, arguing that Western scientists would use them to make drugs and vaccines the country couldn't afford.
Lawrence Gostin, director of WHO's Collaborating Center on Public Health Law and Human Rights at Georgetown University, said there are no rules that force governments to hand over viruses, tissue samples or other information.
"If countries don't share, the only repercussions they face are public condemnation," he said.
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Associated Press writer Maria Cheng and Raphael Satter reported this story from London and AP writer Joshua Goodman reported in Rio de Janeiro. AP writers Mike Stobbe in New York, Frank Jordans in Berlin, Ciaran Giles in Madrid, Barry Hatton in Lisbon and Jenny Barchfield in Rio de Janeiro contributed to this report. ||||| Gov. Rick Scott declared a health emergency Wednesday because of the arrival of at least nine cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in four Florida counties, including Miami-Dade.
Scott signed the emergency order to cover Miami-Dade, Hillsborough (Tampa), Lee (Fort Myers) and Santa Rosa (Panhandle) counties. Within the past two weeks, health officials have confirmed four Zika cases in Miami-Dade, two in Hillsborough, two in Lee and one in Santa Rosa.
All nine of the cases stemmed from residents who had recently visited Latin America and the Caribbean, were bitten by a mosquito and unwittingly brought the disease back to the state. Three cases were contracted in Haiti, three in Venezuela, two in Colombia and one in El Salvador, according to state health officials.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on Monday added Jamaica and Costa Rica to the list of 24 countries in the Western Hemisphere where the Zika virus has been detected. On Wednesday, Dr. Carissa Etienne, the director of PAHO, requested $8.5 million from the international community to help fight Zika.
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“One fact of which we are unequivocally sure is that the Zika virus — like dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever viruses — is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito,” Etienne said. “The most effective control measures are the prevention of mosquito bites and the reduction of mosquito populations.”
While health officials are scrambling to contain the spread of the virus, regional tourism officials are worried about the impact it will have on the multibillion-dollar tourism industry during the crucial winter season.
“It’s a concern of everyone,” said Guadalupe Monge, a travel agent with Miami-based Costamar Travel. “I’d say 100 percent of our customers are asking about Zika. They want to know how bad it is. Is it safe to travel? Can they change their tickets?”
The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Health officials are particularly concerned about how quickly Zika has spread, as the infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes have transmitted the virus from person to person. Since first being detected in Brazil last May, more than a million people in Brazil have contracted Zika.
Zika causes relatively minor symptoms — light fever, a rash, muscle pain and conjunctivitis (red eye). It hadn’t represented a significant health issue — until the Brazilian outbreak. Zika has been linked to a rare neurological disorder called microcephaly, associated with babies being born with smaller brains that do not develop fully. The greatest risk appears to stem from an infection that develops during the first trimester of pregnancy, World Health Organization officials have said. To date, Brazil has reported more than 3,000 suspected cases of microcephaly.
Zika was long thought to be transmitted only when an infected mosquito bites a person. But health officials in Dallas on Tuesday reported a case of the virus being transmitted sexually by a person who had recently returned to Texas from Venezuela, adding to officials’ concerns.
Monge, the travel agent, estimates that her agency, which organizes trips and tours throughout the Caribbean and Latin America, has lost about 20 percent of its business as news of Zika has increased.
The timing is terrible, as Carnival season is picking up and spring break season is around the corner. Both draw tens of thousands to the region.
Caribbean public health officials launched a new public awareness and health campaign last week geared toward protecting the region’s $29 billion industry.
“We can never let our guard down where infectious diseases are concerned, and that is particularly so in our tourism-dependent Caribbean region,” Dr. C. James Hospedales, executive director of the Caribbean Public Health Agency, said at a news conference in Trinidad and Tobago, another tourist-dependent nation.
While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has advised pregnant women to postpone trips to infected countries, officials in those countries say others shouldn’t be dissuaded. They suggest taking standard precautions to prevent mosquito bites, including using repellant, sleeping inside and wearing long-sleeved shirts, long pants and hats.
“Don’t let the mosquito ruin your travel,” the Caribbean Public Health Agency says in a fact sheet on its website.
Zika is also driving fears about the Summer Olympics in Brazil, considered the epicenter of the Zika outbreak. Since the first case was discovered in Brazil last May, Zika has been found in more than 25 countries and territories in the Americas, plus in American Samoa and Samoa in the Pacific and Cape Verde in Africa. There have been cases in at least 11 U.S. states, including Florida.
On Tuesday, health officials in Texas announced they had identified a patient in Dallas who had contracted Zika through sex. The patient, identified as Patient 1, is the first known recent case of the virus being transmitted in the United States. Patient 1’s partner, identified as Patient 0, had recently returned to Texas from Venezuela. Dallas authorities said Patient 1 had had no other possible exposure to the virus.
“Now that we know Zika virus can be transmitted through sex, this increases our awareness campaign in educating the public about protecting themselves and others,” said Zachary Thompson, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services.
Not everyone is convinced that the virus can be transmitted through sexual contact.
Dr. George Sealy Massingill, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at John Peter Smith Health Network in Tarrant County, called the Dallas County sexual transmission a “postulated case.”
“So far, that’s their best guess how this happened,” he told McClatchy’s Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Tuesday. “It’s hard to go back and say that A caused B.”
But the CDC has endorsed the sexual transmission theory, a possibility that raises new concerns about the potential for rapid spread of a virus that until last May had been virtually unheard-of in the Americas.
The Dallas County health department added using condoms to its list of recommendations for anyone returning from an infected area.
The CDC already recommends that U.S. doctors test newborns who show signs of the Zika virus, especially in states such as Florida, where mosquitoes are a daily nuisance.
After receiving criticism that it was moving too slowly to address the virus, the World Health Organization on Monday declared the virus a public health emergency. The declaration allows for an organized international response to give countries resources and guidelines on what measures they should be taking.
Miami Herald Staff Writer Mimi Whitefield contributed to this report. ||||| Gov. Rick Scott has declared a health emergency in four counties due to the Zika virus.
At least nine cases of the mosquito-borne illness have been detected in Florida. Health officials believe all of the cases are from people who contracted the disease while traveling to affected countries.
Scott signed the order Wednesday to cover Miami-Dade, Lee, Hillsborough and Santa Rosa counties.
The Zika virus is linked to brain deformities in babies and is causing concern among public health officials worldwide. The virus is primarily spread through mosquito bites, but investigators had been exploring the possibility it could be sexually transmitted.
U.S. health officials say a person in Texas became infected with Zika through sex, in the first case of the illness being transmitted within the United States. |||||
A: | The Zika virus is now officially a public health emergency in Florida, where at least nine cases have been detected in four counties. Gov. Rick Scott signed the emergency order on Wednesday to cover Miami-Dade, Lee, Hillsborough, and Santa Rosa counties, WESH reports. State health officials say all nine cases involve Florida residents who were bitten by mosquitoes in Caribbean or Latin American countries before returning to the state, reports the Miami Herald. Officials say Haiti and Venezuela are involved in three cases each, two cases were contracted in Colombia, and one originated in El Salvador. On Monday, the World Health Organization called the spread of Zika in the Americas an international emergency. The virus has been linked to the birth of babies with abnormally small heads in Brazil, but health officials from the US and the United Nations say they aren't getting enough information from Brazil to examine the link or track the outbreak, the AP reports. Brazilian law bans the sharing of genetic material like blood samples, and researchers in other countries say they are having to use private samples. "It's almost impossible to get samples from the country," says an expert at Germany's Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine. "It's not going via official government channels. Our source is simply the rich people who want a diagnosis." (Health officials in Texas say they're dealing with a sexually transmitted Zika case.) |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| Sheriff Tommy Bryant (Photo: WFAA)
STEPHENVILLE -- An Erath County sheriff was found dead inside his Stephenville home early Tuesday morning.
According to the local newspaper, citing unnamed county officials, Sheriff Tommy Bryant died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. But Texas Rangers,who are now in charge of the death investigation, would only confirm Bryant's death and said their investigation has just begun.
Tuesday in Stephenville, friends and colleagues reacted to the news that the sheriff, a fixture in the community for more than 20 years, may have taken his own life.
Bryant served as the lead investigator into the shooting death of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle.
“Sheriff Bryant was a good sheriff,” said local attorney Jim Keene. “He did his best to run law enforcement in this county well.”
His death comes less than a week after it was revealed he was under investigation by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement for allegedly having someone else take his continuing education courses for him.
“It’s a very sad situation, very tragic when you lose a colleague and a friend like that” said Erath County Judge Tab Thompson, who worked alongside Bryant for more than 20 years. “Our thoughts and prayers from the county go out to Sheriff Bryant’s family his wife and son. Very sad time for them and for us as well.”
Early Tuesday afternoon, the county judge and commissioners met in an emergency session to decide who will serve as the temporary sheriff. It was a difficult task since many of them consider the sheriff their friend. They opted for the District Attorney’s Office investigator Matt Coates to serve the rest of the year. And, as required by law, they will reconvene at the start of the year to appoint him to serve out the remaining two years of Bryant’s term.
Meanwhile, a painful investigation begins.
“Tommy was well liked, recently re-elected, very popular sheriff,” Thompson said. “So I know that lot of hearts are heavy here in Erath County.”
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| Sad news from Erath County, Texas: Sheriff Tommy Bryant, the lead investigator in the 2013 murders of American Sniper author Chris Kyle and another man, was found dead at his home early Tuesday. The Dallas Morning News reports that authorities believe Bryant died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to the Stephenville Empire-Tribune, state authorities were investigating Bryant for allegedly cheating on his continuing education training by having a deputy take a course for him. Documents obtained by the paper state that Bryant was one of 190 Texas law enforcement personnel reprimanded earlier this year for failing to complete the 40 hours of training intended to keep them up to date with changes in the law. Bryant, sheriff since 1997, was re-elected this year with around 70% of the vote. The Texas Rangers division of the state's Department of Public Safety say the death is being investigated. Friends and colleagues say Bryant was a good sheriff and he'll be missed. "It's a very sad situation, very tragic when you lose a colleague and a friend like that," Erath County Judge Tab Thompson, who worked alongside Bryant for many years, tells WFAA. "Our thoughts and prayers from the county go out to Sheriff Bryant's family, his wife and son. Very sad time for them and for us as well." (Earlier this year, the Navy revised Kyle's medal count downward.) |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
The Middle Triassic is the second of three epochs of the Triassic period . | In the geologic timescale , the Middle Triassic is the second of three epochs of the Triassic period or the middle of three series in which the Triassic system is divided . |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
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Question: Tocqueville thought the conquest of Algeria was important for two reasons: first, his understanding of the international situation and France's position in the world, and, second, changes in French society. Tocqueville believed that war and colonization would "restore national pride, threatened", he believed, by "The gradual softening of social mores" in the middle classes. Their taste for "material pleasures" was spreading to the whole of society, giving it "an example of weakness and egotism". Applauding the methods of General Bugeaud, Tocqueville went so far to claim that "war in Africa is a science. Everyone is familiar with its rules and everyone can apply those rules with almost complete certainty of success. One of the greatest services that Field Marshal Bugeaud has rendered his country is to have spread, perfected and made everyone aware of this new science." Tocqueville advocated racial segregation in Algeria with two distinct legislations, one for European colonists and one for the Arab population. Such a two-tier arrangement would be fully realised with the 1870 Cremieux decree and the Indigenousness Code, which extended French citizenship to European settlers and Algerian Jews, whereas Muslim Algerians would be governed by Muslim law and restricted to a second-class citizenship. <sep>What did Tocqueville believe was spreading and which society was it spreading through?<sep>A deadly virus
Answer: No
Question: Comanche Indians have trapped the evil of their land in a monster made up of a mixture of other animals . The Comanche have placed a protective spear in the ground to contain the evil . A young boy pulls the spear from the ground while pocketing a rabbit foot talisman . He starts to play with the spear . A Comanche catches the boy , and startled , he runs away with the rabbit's foot . The Native American places the spear back , realizing too late that the rabbits foot is now gone . After that , white men come and start drilling for oil . Skip to current time , a divorced father , Mance Cashen , moves to the area with his new wife , baby , and his son from his first marriage , Willy ( played by ( ( Chris Miller , who is visiting . Willy notices something peculiar in the house and tries to warn his father and step-mother . They do not believe him . Willy is attacked while on a tire swing over a small water hole . The creature grabs his foot and Willy struggles , eventually getting away . He eventually befriends the local drunk , T. C. van Houten . A nice old man with some bad memories who knows something about the evil near the oil well and was in a situation similar to Willy's . In the meantime a Comanche Indian , Chief Sam John , comes to warn Mance of the evil and the need to keep it contained . Sam John informs Mance the evil was originally intended to stop the white man , but it is indiscriminate in whom it kills instead . Mance will have none of it . Willy eventually takes a spear he finds on his property to Sam John and tries to find out what is going on . <sep>What is the name of the old man with whom Willy became friends?<sep>T. C. van Houten
Answer: Yes
Question: Have you ever seen an egg? Some animals do not have live births. Instead, they lay eggs. The eggs contain the embryo. The embryo matures in the egg. With time, it will hatch. Some animals hatch and do not need care from their parents. They are ready to live on their own. Other animals will still need the care of their parents. Sea turtles break out of their shells. They immediately walk to the ocean. They do this with no help from an adult. Birds stay in the nest for many weeks. They are cared for by their parents. They leave the nest when they are strong enough to fly. Some animals give birth to live offspring. Animals like horses, cows, and whales give live birth. Their offspring are born looking like mini adults. <sep>Give an example of an animal that needs the care of its parents after birth.<sep>Birds ,Sent 13: Birds stay in the nest for many weeks. Sent 14: They are cared for by their parents
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Teacher:In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: In 2004, Valance returned to acting, this time in the United States, appearing in episodes of the television series CSI: Miami and Entourage. In 2005, she appeared in an episode of CSI: NY. In 2005 Valance returned to music, albeit briefly, when she appeared on Har Mar Superstar's album The Handler singing on the tracks, 'DUI', 'Back the Camel Up' and 'Body Request'. She appeared in Prison Break in 2006 as Nika Volek, a role which she continued to portray in the show's second season. Also in 2006, Valance appeared in the National Lampoon comedy Pledge This!, alongside American socialite Paris Hilton. The same year, she starred in DOA: Dead or Alive, an adaptation of the popular video game Dead or Alive, where she played Christie. In 2007 she appeared in the TV series Shark and Moonlight. In 2008 she had a role in the film Taken alongside Liam Neeson, and appeared in an episode of The CW series Valentine.
Student: | who is the singer at the end of taken |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
[Q]: What was the latter teaching school or opening up a school, Context: Unsure of his future, he first contemplated returning to London to complete his studies, but decided to return to Boston as a teacher. His father helped him set up his private practice by contacting Gardiner Greene Hubbard, the president of the Clarke School for the Deaf for a recommendation. Teaching his father's system, in October 1872, Alexander Bell opened his "School of Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speech" in Boston, which attracted a large number of deaf pupils, with his first class numbering 30 students. While he was working as a private tutor, one of his most famous pupils was Helen Keller, who came to him as a young child unable to see, hear, or speak. She was later to say that Bell dedicated his life to the penetration of that "inhuman silence which separates and estranges." In 1893, Keller performed the sod-breaking ceremony for the construction of the new Bell's new Volta Bureau, dedicated to "the increase and diffusion of knowledge relating to the deaf".
[A]: Bell opened his "School of Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speech
[Q]: Which place has the lowest latitude according to the text?, Context: At the end of World War II Soviet troops occupied southern Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands, making them part of the RSFSR. The status of the southernmost Kurils remains in dispute with Japan.
[A]: southernmost Kurils
[Q]: who marched his soldiers toward the town of Eckmuhl?, Context: In the early morning of 10 April, leading elements of the Austrian army crossed the Inn River and invaded Bavaria. The early Austrian attack surprised the French; Napoleon himself was still in Paris when he heard about the invasion. He arrived at Donauwörth on the 17th to find the Grande Armée in a dangerous position, with its two wings separated by 75 miles (121 km) and joined together by a thin cordon of Bavarian troops. Charles pressed the left wing of the French army and hurled his men towards the III Corps of Marshal Davout. In response, Napoleon came up with a plan to cut off the Austrians in the celebrated Landshut Maneuver. He realigned the axis of his army and marched his soldiers towards the town of Eckmühl. The French scored a convincing win in the resulting Battle of Eckmühl, forcing Charles to withdraw his forces over the Danube and into Bohemia. On 13 May, Vienna fell for the second time in four years, although the war continued since most of the Austrian army had survived the initial engagements in Southern Germany.
[A]: | Napoleon
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In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
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Question: What promotes conflict?, Context: According to economists David Castells-Quintana and Vicente Royuela, increasing inequality harms economic growth. High and persistent unemployment, in which inequality increases, has a negative effect on subsequent long-run economic growth. Unemployment can harm growth not only because it is a waste of resources, but also because it generates redistributive pressures and subsequent distortions, drives people to poverty, constrains liquidity limiting labor mobility, and erodes self-esteem promoting social dislocation, unrest and conflict. Policies aiming at controlling unemployment and in particular at reducing its inequality-associated effects support economic growth.
Answer: Unemployment
Question: Americans born in the country south of the United States are call what kind of Americans?, Context: According to a study by Dr. Paul Brest, Hispanics or "Latinos" include immigrants who are descendants of immigrants from the countries comprising Central and South America. In 1991, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans made up 80% of the Latino population in the United States. Latinos are disadvantaged compared to White Americans and are more likely to live in poverty. They are the least well educated major ethnic group and suffered a 3% drop in high school completion rate while African Americans experienced a 12% increase between 1975-1990. In 1990, they constituted 9% of the population, but only received 3.1% of the bachelors's degrees awarded. At times when it is favorable to lawmakers, Latinos were considered "white" by the Jim Crow laws during the Reconstruction. In other cases, according to Paul Brest, Latinos have been classified as an inferior race and a threat to white purity. Latinos have encountered considerable discrimination in areas such as employment, housing, and education. Brest finds that stereotypes continue to be largely negative and many perceive Latinos as "lazy, unproductive, and on the dole." Furthermore, native-born Latino-Americans and recent immigrants are seen as identical since outsiders tend not to differentiate between Latino groups.
Answer: Mexican
Question: What is the first name of the mandolin musician with the surname Firstman?, Context: The mandolin orchestras never completely went away, however. In fact, along with all the other musical forms the mandolin is involved with, the mandolin ensemble (groups usually arranged like the string section of a modern symphony orchestra, with first mandolins, second mandolins, mandolas, mandocellos, mando-basses, and guitars, and sometimes supplemented by other instruments) continues to grow in popularity. Since the mid-nineties, several public-school mandolin-based guitar programs have blossomed around the country, including Fretworks Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra, the first of its kind. The national organization, Classical Mandolin Society of America, founded by Norman Levine, represents these groups. Prominent modern mandolinists and composers for mandolin in the classical music tradition include Samuel Firstman, Howard Fry, Rudy Cipolla, Dave Apollon, Neil Gladd, Evan Marshall, Marilynn Mair and Mark Davis (the Mair-Davis Duo), Brian Israel, David Evans, Emanuil Shynkman, Radim Zenkl, David Del Tredici and Ernst Krenek.
Answer: | Samuel
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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.
Let me give you an example: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
The answer to this example can be: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
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Thirteen Reasons Why has received recognition and awards from several young adult literary associations, and the paperback edition reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list in July 2011. A screenplay was written, based on the original release of the book, that became the basis of the dramatic television series 13 Reasons Why released through Netflix on March 31, 2017. The screenplay contains several deviations from the book, including, but not limited to, name changes, plot elements, and character personalities.
Answer: | is thirteen reasons why based on a book? |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
What was the status of Kerry's promotion to full Lieutenant?, Context: After Kerry's third qualifying wound, he was entitled per Navy regulations to reassignment away from combat duties. Kerry's preferred choice for reassignment was as a military aide in Boston, New York or Washington, D.C. On April 11, 1969, he reported to the Brooklyn-based Atlantic Military Sea Transportation Service, where he would remain on active duty for the following year as a personal aide to an officer, Rear Admiral Walter Schlech. On January 1, 1970 Kerry was temporarily promoted to full Lieutenant. Kerry had agreed to an extension of his active duty obligation from December 1969 to August 1970 in order to perform Swift Boat duty. John Kerry was on active duty in the United States Navy from August 1966 until January 1970. He continued to serve in the Naval Reserve until February 1978.
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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.
Ex Input:
The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority ( usually called the MBTA or " the T " ) is Massachusetts ' public transportation system .
Ex Output:
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ( abbreviated MBTA and known colloquially as " the T " ) is the public agency responsible for operating most public transportation services in Greater Boston , Massachusetts .
Ex Input:
In these early days , most basketball games were played against nearby YMCA teams .
Ex Output:
In those early days , the majority of the basketball games were played against nearby YMCA teams , with YMCAs across the nation having played an integral part in the birth of basketball .
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A critically endangered species is a species of plant or animal , that has an extremely high chance of dying out in the future .
Ex Output:
| A critically endangered ( CR ) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild .
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In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said on Sunday that the attention on Clint Eastwood's bizarre address Thursday at the Republican National Convention was a commentary of the vacuousness of Mitt Romney's own speech.
Indeed, Emanuel, now the mayor of Chicago, said Romney's remarks were "vacuous."
"The fact is, coming out of the convention, they didn't want a debate about Clint Eastwood. They wanted it about Mitt Romney's ideas... The reason they're [talking about Eastwood] is that Mitt Romney's speech was so devoid and vacuous of any ideas," Emanuel said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "That moment in time is a commentary on Romney's speech."
Further, Emanuel noted there were no memorable lines from the speech.
There was no "'read my lips,' or 'for those who work hard and play by the rules,' as Bill Clinton said in '92. Anything that said here's my philosophy, a 'compassionate conservative' philosophy, there was nothing there. So the space post-convention is about Clint Eastwood or the fact that Paul Ryan's speech was factually challenged," Emanuel said.
Romney's campaign wasn't buying the criticism.
“Today," said spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg, "President Obama’s own surrogates admitted that we are not better off than we were four years ago. As the Chief of Staff in an administration whose failed policies have now left 23 million Americans struggling for work, Rahm Emanuel has no credibility when it comes to discussing the state of our economy or the state of our country.”
Read more about: Rahm Emanuel, Mitt Romney, Chicago Mayor, Republican National Convention 2012 ||||| Seeking to downplay comparisons between President Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 election campaigns, Obama senior campaign adviser Robert Gibbs said Sunday that the enthusiasm of the last campaign should not be expected.
"Nobody is sitting up here saying this is 2008," Gibbs said on CNN's "State of the Union," when asked about dwindling enthusiasm among Latinos and other key constituencies, as well as close "horse-race" numbers.
"What has happened since the election in 2008 and right now, again, is this huge economic calamity caused by a series of bad decisions that were made before the president ever got there," he added.
Gibbs continued to say that he thought that the race between Obama and Romney would be "close."
"This election was always going to be close, because we live in a closely divided country I remind people all of the time that just four years ago everyone was talking about the president's landslide, and he got 53 percent of the vote," Gibbs said. "Let's understand that we live in a very closely divided electorate, and we have for quite some time and this election was quite frankly always going to be close, but it is an important fundamental choice about where we go from here."
Read more about: Robert Gibbs ||||| Axelrod says GOP convention in Tampa was a 'terrible failure'
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Obama campaign senior adviser David Axelrod called the Republican convention a "terrible failure" on Sunday and said the event had failed to help Mitt Romney in the polls.
Speaking on Fox News, Axelrod said he "saw no movement" for Romney in the polls during the GOP convention. "I don't really see any bounce," he said.
Axelrod added that the GOP's "snarky attacks and bromides for the base" in Tampa had put Democrats in a strong position to begin their own convention this week in Charlotte, N.C.
"I think the race is exactly where it was before they walked in [to Tampa], and now it's our turn," he said.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll out Saturday found that President Obama has reclaimed a narrow lead from Romney, who enjoyed a two-point advantage for a short period last week.
But on Sunday, a different poll showed Romney with the expected convention bounce. Conservative polling outlet Rasmussen found the GOP nominee with a four-point lead over Obama, who he trailed by two points before the convention. The poll showed Romney leading the president with 48 percent support to 44.
Axelrod said that GOP convention was short on details about the party's plans to reform Medicare and cut taxes.
"They can talk about being bold, they can talk about facing up to these problems, but they don't do it," he said of Republicans. "All Mitt Romney does is talk about Barack Obama."
The senior campaign strategist also sought to paint the GOP as a party that is weakened by internal divisions and unhappy with its nominee.
"We don't have the problems the other party has," he said. "We're not divided. We don't have to worry about what people are saying on the side."
Echoing the rest of Obama's team, Axelrod downplayed expectations and predicted that the race with Romney would be close.
"We have a lead in this race, it's a slight lead," Axelrod said. "We have slight leads in battleground states. We expected a close race, and we're going to have a close race."
This story was updated at 12:21 p.m. ||||| Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich slammed GOP strategist Karl Rove on Sunday for joking about Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin's murder.
"Karl Rove said some terrible things...for which he has apologized, which should remind us, people make mistakes," the unsuccessful presidential contender said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "In the age of Gabby Giffords, it is not a joke to say that a member of Congress ought to get murdered."
Gingrich said that Rove's mistake should prompt sympathy for Todd Akin, who made controversial comments about rape and abortion, since everyone makes missteps.
"Todd Akin was a choice for people in Missouri, and Todd Akin has publicly apologized," Gingrich said.
Read more about: Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, Todd Aikin ||||| Self-deportation for illegal immigrants. No rape or incest exception for abortions.
With stances such as these, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told Chris Wallace of "Fox News Sunday," the Republican Party espouses "a platform from another century, maybe even two."
(Also on POLITICO: Democrats pan Republicans for perceived fibbing)
Added Villaraigosa, who's also serving as chairman of the Democratic National Convention: "It looks like the platform of 1812."
Regarding the Republicans plans for the economy, "Reagan would be turning in his grave" to hear some of the proposals coming from party leaders, particularly as it pertains to budget cuts.
Read more about: Republican Party, Jobs, Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace, Antonio Villaraigosa, James Madison ||||| President Barack Obama's surrogates were intent on Sunday on painting Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as a pair of pinocchios.
Summing up the Republican National Convention, Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter told CBS "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer that "it was a week of personal attacks, empty platitudes" where "lying is a virtue."
So, are Democrats saying Republicans are a "bunch of liars," Schieffer asked.
"I didn't say that," Cutter replied. "I heard a lot of things that weren't true this week."
Earlier on ABC's "This Week," Obama White House adviser David Plouffe argued that the Romney-Ryan ticket's health care policy proposals are “built on a foundation of absolute lies."
Read more about: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, David Plouffe, Paul Ryan, Face The Nation, Bob Schieffer, Stephanie Cutter |||||
A: | As the Republicans came off their convention week with very little bounce, Democrats descended on the Sunday talk shows today to drum up their own soiree in Charlotte, which kicks off Tuesday. "I think the race is exactly where it was before they walked in [to Tampa], and now it's our turn," David Axelrod told Fox News, according to the Hill. "We have a lead in this race, it's a slight lead. We expected a close race, and we're going to have a close race." Other familiar Democrat themes today included lies and liars, notes Politico, with Obama 2012 deputy Stephanie Cutter telling CBS that the RNC amounted to "a week of personal attacks, empty platitudes" in which "lying was a virtue. I heard a lot of things that weren't true this week." Elsewhere on your pre-DNC Sunday dial, as per Politico: Rahm Emanuel on Mitt Romney's RNC speech: "Coming out of the convention, they didn't want a debate about Clint Eastwood. They wanted it about Mitt Romney's ideas. The reason they're (talking about Eastwood) is that Mitt Romney's speech was so devoid and vacuous of any ideas." Robert Gibbs on the enthusiasm gap this time around: "Nobody is sitting up here saying this is 2008. What has happened since the election in 2008 and right now, again, is this huge economic calamity caused by a series of bad decisions that were made before the president ever got there." Antonio Villaraigosa on the GOP platform: "It looks like the platform of 1812. Reagan would be turning in his grave." Newt Gingrich on Karl Rove's joke about murdering Todd Akin: "Rove said some terrible things ... for which he has apologized, which should remind us, people make mistakes. In the age of Gabby Giffords, it is not a joke to say that a member of Congress ought to get murdered." |
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: The person who later stated in an affidavit that he was an alcoholic was a?, Context: The patent examiner, Zenas Fisk Wilber, later stated in an affidavit that he was an alcoholic who was much in debt to Bell's lawyer, Marcellus Bailey, with whom he had served in the Civil War. He claimed he showed Gray's patent caveat to Bailey. Wilber also claimed (after Bell arrived in Washington D.C. from Boston) that he showed Gray's caveat to Bell and that Bell paid him $100. Bell claimed they discussed the patent only in general terms, although in a letter to Gray, Bell admitted that he learned some of the technical details. Bell denied in an affidavit that he ever gave Wilber any money.
SOLUTION: patent examiner
PROBLEM: Which issues did Dell's competitor deal with but they did not?, Context: Dell has been attempting to offset its declining PC business, which still accounted for half of its revenue and generates steady cash flow, by expanding into the enterprise market with servers, networking, software, and services. It avoided many of the acquisition writedowns and management turnover that plagued its chief rival Hewlett Packard. Dell also managed some success in taking advantage of its high-touch direct sales heritage to establish close relationships and design solutions for clients. Despite spending $13 billion on acquisitions to diversify its portfolio beyond hardware, the company was unable to convince the market that it could thrive or made the transformation in the post-PC world, as it suffered continued declines in revenue and share price. Dell's market share in the corporate segment was previously a "moat" against rivals but this has no longer been the case as sales and profits have fallen precipitously.
SOLUTION: acquisition writedowns and management turnover
PROBLEM: How long was the company allowed to operate?, Context: In the next two years, the company established its first factory in south India in the town of Machilipatnam on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. The high profits reported by the company after landing in India initially prompted King James I to grant subsidiary licences to other trading companies in England. But in 1609 he renewed the charter given to the company for an indefinite period, including a clause that specified that the charter would cease to be in force if the trade turned unprofitable for three consecutive years.
SOLUTION: | indefinite period, including a clause that specified that the charter would cease to be in force if the trade turned unprofitable for three consecutive years
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Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Which cemetary has many uruguayan's which are famous in history?, Context: The largest cemetery is the Cementerio del Norte, located in the northern-central part of the city. The Central Cemetery (Spanish: Cementerio central), located in Barrio Sur in the southern area of the city, is one of Uruguay's main cemeteries. It was one of the first cemeteries (in contrast to church graveyards) in the country, founded in 1835 in a time where burials were still carried out by the Catholic Church. It is the burial place of many of the most famous Uruguayans, such as Eduardo Acevedo, Delmira Agustini, Luis Batlle Berres, José Batlle y Ordóñez, Juan Manuel Blanes, François Ducasse, father of Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse), Luis Alberto de Herrera, Benito Nardone, José Enrique Rodó, and Juan Zorrilla de San Martín.
| Cementerio central) |
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: On a hot summer day in late June, Jaiden Rogers looks like every other 12-year-old boy avoiding the blistering heat. Sitting on a chair in the living room of his Alamosa, Colorado, home, he watches The Twilight Zone and then plays on the computer in his Harry Potter-themed bedroom.
But he only wishes that he could actually be like other boys his age, his mother Natalie Rogers tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue.
That’s because six years ago, in January 2013, Jaiden was diagnosed with stiff skin syndrome — an extremely rare disease that slowly causes his entire body to harden.
“His skin is basically like stone,” says Natalie, 51. “It’s like tapping on a countertop.”
The disease first started in his thigh and has quickly made its way though his hips, stomach and back — causing unbearable joint and muscle pain. Now, as it spreads to his chest area, Jaiden is also battling breathing issues.
While the hardening of the skin isn’t fatal in itself, doctors say it could restrict his chest and lung cavity, eventually leaving him unable to breathe. Because the damage that has already been done to his body is irreversible, Natalie and her husband, Tim Rogers, are determined to stop the disease from progressing before Jaiden “becomes entombed within himself.”
Natalie and Jaiden Rogers Courtesy Rogers Family
According to Dr. Margarita Saenza, a clinical geneticist at Children’s Hospital Colorado who treats Jaiden, the first case of the syndrome was reported in 1971. Since then, only a few dozen people around the world have been diagnosed.
“What’s happening is almost a scarring — a fibrotic change to the skin itself,” Dr. Saenz tells PEOPLE.
Unfortunately, Jaiden’s life has been challenging from the beginning. He was born to a single mom, the older sister of one of the two children — Heather, now 29, and Ilysa, now 27 — that Natalie and Tim adopted years earlier.
When the Rogers learned that Heather’s sister was struggling to care for Jaiden, then 2, they became his legal guardians.
Jaiden Rogers Courtesy Rogers Family
• For much more on the Jaiden Rogers story, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
“We spent the first few years teaching him how to speak, playing with him, and just trying to be a family,” says Natalie.
At age 5, Jaiden was diagnosed with autism, which limits his ability to have conversations with others. It was just one year later that Tim first felt a hard spot on Jaiden’s right thigh. Biopsy results later revealed his unimaginable diagnosis.
“We were so confused at first,” says Tim. “We couldn’t believe there were no answers because it’s so rare. We couldn’t find anyone else who had it.”
The family is now in a race against time to find a treatment that could potentially cure their little boy. And with mounting medical bills — which are only getting higher every month — they’ve created a GoFundMe page to help.
Their expenses also include making a four-hour drive once a month to Children’s Hospital Colorado in Denver, where they stay for a few days and meet with doctors who are working on Jaiden’s case.
Tim and Jaiden Rogers Courtesy Rogers Family
“We’ve taken out three mortgages on our home,” says Natalie, “and have spent Tim’s retirement. There is nothing else we can do.”
Watch the full episode of People Features: The Little Boy Turning Into Stone, streaming now on PeopleTV.com, or download the PeopleTV app on your favorite device.
Jaiden is also undergoing chemotherapy, which has helped slow the progression of his disease and takes strong pain medications throughout the day, which cause him to sleep for up to 18 hours.
Adding to their challenges are Natalie’s own health issues. In 2016, she was diagnosed with Friedrich’s Ataxia, a degenerative and potentially fatal neuromuscular disorder that causes a decline in muscle control and coordination.
“It gets hard sometimes to care for Jaiden when I’m having to take care of myself,” says Natalie, who is a stay at home mom. “That’s where Tim comes in and takes over.”
While Jaiden’s future is filled with unknowns, both Natalie and Tim are still hopeful that he has one.
“You do whatever you have to do,” says Tim. “We won’t stop trying. One way or another, we’ll do what’s best for Jaiden.” ||||| The parents of the 12-year-old boy who was diagnosed with stiff skin syndrome — which is causing his entire body to harden— is refusing to give up on finding a cure that could save their little boy’s life.
Jaiden Rogers, of Alamosa, Colorado, has lived with the extremely rare condition for half his life. In September 2012, his father, Tim Rogers, felt a hard spot on Jaiden’s right thigh. Biopsy results the following January revealed he has the condition. Only a few other dozen people in the world share his diagnosis.
Ultimately, Jaiden could “become entombed within himself,” and become bedridden, according to his mother, Natalie Rogers. And while the disease isn’t fatal in itself, it could restrict his chest and lung cavity, eventually leaving him unable to breathe.
“We hit walls all the time,” Natalie, 51, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “Not enough people have this so there’s nobody to talk to.”
Because it’s so rare, there has been little research into the condition. But his genetics specialist, Dr. Margarita Saenz at Children’s Hospital Colorado, says she is hopeful.
“Even in the last decade of genetic medicine as a whole we’ve seen amazing things that we never thought were possible,” she tells PEOPLE. “Particularly with Stiff Skin Syndrome. We’re not there yet for a cure or gene therapy kind of intervention, but really as fast as technology is moving, it’s within the possible.”
• For much more on the Jaiden Rogers story, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
She adds: “Technology continues to advance so our diagnostic capabilities get better.”
Courtesy Rogers Family
Both Tim and Natalie continue to reach out to doctors almost daily to see if they know of any treatment that could save him.
“Maybe there is a medication out there that is being used for something else that could be used for Jaiden to try,” says Tim, 53. “We’ve been contacting geneticists both in the United States and in Europe.”
There is a stem cell treatment in Europe that focuses on rare skin diseases, according to Natalie. But the cost is over one million dollars.
“Money is in the way,” says Natalie. “We just want our boy to live.”
Adds Tim: “We just keep plugging away and trying to find something. We do what we have to do.”
To help raise money for a possible treatment and to help with the family’s mounting medical bills, they’ve created a GoFundMe page.
Watch the full episode of People Features: The Little Boy Turning Into Stone, streaming now on PeopleTV.com, or download the PeopleTV app on your favorite device.
Courtesy Rogers Family
Currently on chemotherapy, which has helped to slow down the progression of the disease, Jaiden is also on pain medication throughout the day to ease the excruciating pain he struggles with daily. He also requires a feeding tube (his medications stifle his appetite), oxygen to help his breathing and a wheelchair to avoid falling and breaking his brittle bones.
“Jaiden wants to run and play and he just can’t do it,” says Tim. “He wants to be a normal kid.”
Once a month, Jaiden and Natalie make the four-drive drive to Children’s Hospital Colorado to see specialists who are working on his case.
“One way or another, we won’t stop fighting for Jaiden,” says Tim. ||||| (Meredith) -- He was diagnosed with stiff skin syndrome in 2013, now 12-year-old Jaiden Rogers is racing against the clock to find a cure before his entire body becomes immobile.
Stiff skin syndrome is an ultra-rare condition discovered in the early 1970s where the skin and inner tissues begin to harden, leading to limited joint mobility.
Little is known about the condition, including the cause or treatment. It's only been reported 41 times throughout history.
"Nobody is really looking at it because there’s just not a lot of people that have it in the world," said Tom Rogers, Jaiden's father.
"So, we reach out to doctors all over the place. Maybe there’s a medication that’s being used for something else that can be used for Jaiden to try, to at least try," he added.
For Rogers, it's spreading over the back, legs, and hips, inhibiting his ability to walk. He say it hurts, but finds it difficult to describe the sensations further.
"Worst case scenario - it could be fatal. But it could also be total immobility," Tom said.
For more video and pictures, check out the PeopleTV app.
People Magazine is produced by the parent company of this station, the Meredith Corporation. ||||| GoFundMe has verified that the funds raised will go directly to the intended recipient.
What does verified mean? |||||
A: | The parents of a boy with an incredibly rare disease say they've run out of money and options and are asking for the public's help. Tim and Natalie Rogers of Alamosa, Colorado, say their 12-year-old son, Jaiden, is essentially turning to stone because of a condition called stiff skin syndrome, reports People. "It's like tapping on a countertop," Natalie Rogers has previously said of her son's skin in places. Only a few dozen people have ever been diagnosed with the syndrome since it was discovered in the 1970s, according to the clinical geneticist treating Jaiden at Children's Hospital Colorado. As WSMV notes, the condition causes the entire body to harden and will eventually lead to immobility. Jaiden's parents, however, are now hoping to get him into a treatment program currently unavailable in the US. They want to fly him to Europe to undergo a stem cell treatment for rare skin diseases, according to a GoFundMe page dedicated to raising $1.5 million. "If we can't raise the money to save Jaiden, we are left with nothing to do for him," wrote the couple. The fund had raised about $77,000 as of Saturday. (This rare disease was for the first time diagnosed in a female.) |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Problem:It is a united church established on 29 November 1970 by bringing together the main Protestant churches working in northern India ; it is a province of the worldwide Anglican Communion .
Solution: | The Church of North India ( CNI ) , the dominant United denomination in northern India , is a united church established on 29 November 1970 by bringing together the Anglican and Protestant churches working in northern India ; it is a province of the worldwide Anglican Communion . |
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:
Which major isotope of uranium is the most common?, Context: Natural uranium consists of three major isotopes: uranium-238 (99.28% natural abundance), uranium-235 (0.71%), and uranium-234 (0.0054%). All three are radioactive, emitting alpha particles, with the exception that all three of these isotopes have small probabilities of undergoing spontaneous fission, rather than alpha emission. There are also five other trace isotopes: uranium-239, which is formed when 238U undergoes spontaneous fission, releasing neutrons that are captured by another 238U atom; uranium-237, which is formed when 238U captures a neutron but emits two more, which then decays to neptunium-237; uranium-233, which is formed in the decay chain of that neptunium-237; and finally, uranium-236 and -240, which appear in the decay chain of primordial plutonium-244. It is also expected that thorium-232 should be able to undergo double beta decay, which would produce uranium-232, but this has not yet been observed experimentally.
Answer: | uranium-238 |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: Consider Input: Who believed a typical female-bodied person who is attracted to female-bodied persons would have masculine attributes?, Context: The earliest writers on sexual orientation usually understood it to be intrinsically linked to the subject's own sex. For example, it was thought that a typical female-bodied person who is attracted to female-bodied persons would have masculine attributes, and vice versa. This understanding was shared by most of the significant theorists of sexual orientation from the mid nineteenth to early twentieth century, such as Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Magnus Hirschfeld, Havelock Ellis, Carl Jung, and Sigmund Freud, as well as many gender-variant homosexual people themselves. However, this understanding of homosexuality as sexual inversion was disputed at the time, and, through the second half of the twentieth century, gender identity came to be increasingly seen as a phenomenon distinct from sexual orientation. Transgender and cisgender people may be attracted to men, women, or both, although the prevalence of different sexual orientations is quite different in these two populations. An individual homosexual, heterosexual or bisexual person may be masculine, feminine, or androgynous, and in addition, many members and supporters of lesbian and gay communities now see the "gender-conforming heterosexual" and the "gender-nonconforming homosexual" as negative stereotypes. Nevertheless, studies by J. Michael Bailey and Kenneth Zucker found a majority of the gay men and lesbians sampled reporting various degrees of gender-nonconformity during their childhood years.
Output: The earliest writers
Input: Consider Input: How many things may mirror things with effects?, Context: The three marks of existence may reflect Upanishadic or other influences. K.R. Norman supposes that the these terms were already in use at the Buddha's time, and were familiair to his hearers.
Output: three
Input: Consider Input: What humour did asiaticus have?, Context: The first post-Classical published classification of humans into distinct races seems to be François Bernier's Nouvelle division de la terre par les différents espèces ou races qui l'habitent ("New division of Earth by the different species or races which inhabit it"), published in 1684. In the 18th century the differences among human groups became a focus of scientific investigation. But the scientific classification of phenotypic variation was frequently coupled with racist ideas about innate predispositions of different groups, always attributing the most desirable features to the White, European race and arranging the other races along a continuum of progressively undesirable attributes. The 1735 classification of Carl Linnaeus, inventor of zoological taxonomy, divided the human race Homo sapiens into continental varieties of europaeus, asiaticus, americanus, and afer, each associated with a different humour: sanguine, melancholic, choleric, and phlegmatic, respectively. Homo sapiens europaeus was described as active, acute, and adventurous, whereas Homo sapiens afer was said to be crafty, lazy, and careless.
| Output: melancholic
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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".
Gravity is a force, but not like other forces you may know. Gravity is a bit special. You know that a force is a push or pull. If you push a ball, it starts to roll. If you lift a book, it moves upward. Now, imagine you drop a ball. It falls to the ground. Can you see the force pulling it down? That is what makes gravity really cool. It is invisible. Invisible means you cannot see it. But wait, it has even more surprises. Gravity holds planets in place around the Sun. Gravity keeps the Moon from flying off into space. Gravity exerts a force on objects that are not even touching. In fact, gravity can act over very large distances. However, the force does get weaker the farther apart the objects are. <sep>Why is gravity special?<sep>It is strong
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How to organize your middle school locker
Clean your locker.
Whether it's the beginning of the year or in the middle, your locker should be clean.
At the beginning of the year, it's a good idea to wipe down your locker with cleaning wipes, as you never know what was there before you.
OPTIONS:
- In the middle of the year, clean out everything, scrub down your locker, and, if needed, get rid of the smell of your gym clothes. Hanging car air fresheners on the hooks help a lot with any such smell.
- For best results, clear dust from your locker following the cleaning job. Alternatively, crumple a paper towel into a plastic lunch bag and throw it in the trash can.
- Also, make sure your classroom is free of anything that might get in the way. This includes paper, rubber bands, and tape.
- Disinfect any surfaces in your locker. If your locker has paint on it, either remove it using the remover program or spray the entire lock with a locker spray.
In the middle of the year, clean out everything, scrub down your locker, and, if needed, get rid of the smell of your gym clothes. Hanging car air fresheners on the hooks help a lot with any such smell.
How to prevent malware
Select a software to subscribe to.
Some antivirus/protection software targets viruses and malware, whilst others target internet protection completely. To help you choose what software to choose, here is a list of some different softwares that are good for beginners :
Avg protects again viruses and also serves as internet security.
OPTIONS:
- Avast provides quick-starting protection for early users. Sony will protect against windows antivirus, malware, and other malware.
- Mcftc lets you get mps2. It seals files and software to prevent it from taking over the same directory year after year.
- Avg protects you against cheating by breaching password protection. In addition, it can help your computer resist malware.
- Norton-protects against viruses and malware. Mcafee-protects against viruses, malware and also serves as a firewall.
Norton-protects against viruses and malware. Mcafee-protects against viruses, malware and also serves as a firewall.
How to get guys
Have a really good, honest, guy friend to consult.
This always comes in handy, because now you have an actual guy to help you know what's so pretty about other girls.
Casually ask the guy what he thinks of pretty girls and what's so pretty about them.
OPTIONS:
- Don't make it look like you think that the girl's are ugly, and you feel prettier. Just act curious, as if you're casually asking him who he likes.
- If he doesn't like it, say " why? Because i like prettier girls ". If he says nothing about it, he may be unsure of what to say.
- He will help you figure out if he likes them, and in turn you'll have a good sense of whether or not you should pursue the guy! Flirt with him regularly. Chances are he's only flirting with you--he probably likes you more than just friends.
- If you can think of something interesting about them, mention it, then casually walk up to them on your way to school or work and introduce yourself. If you cannot think of something to bring up, then find something else.
Don't make it look like you think that the girl's are ugly, and you feel prettier. Just act curious, as if you're casually asking him who he likes.
How to add a pdf to a kindle
Convert the desired document into a pdf.
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| However, word documents require a bit more work. Open the document you wish to convert to a pdf. |
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]: On a busy Friday morning in Manhattan, nine pedestrians suffered bullet or fragment wounds after police unleashed a hail of gunfire at a man wielding a .45 caliber pistol who had just killed a former co-worker. The officers unloaded 16 rounds in the shadow of the Empire State Building at a disgruntled former apparel designer, killing him after he engaged in a gunbattle with police, authorities said. Three passersby sustained direct gunshot wounds, while the remaining six were hit by fragments, according to New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. All injuries were caused by police, he said Saturday. One officer shot nine rounds and another shot seven. Police identified the gunman as Jeffrey Johnson, 58, who was apparently laid off from his job as a designer of women's accessories at Hazan Import Co. last year. Johnson, who served in the U.S. Coast Guard in the mid-1970s, had two rounds left in his pistol. It holds eight, Kelly said. Police identified the slain co-worker as Steven Ercolino, 41, who had apparently filed a prior complaint against his assailant, claiming that he thought Johnson would eventually try to kill him. Both men had filed harassment complaints against each other in April 2011, Kelly added. Ercolino was listed as a vice president of sales at Hazan Import Corp., according to his LinkedIn profile. "It's not something that should happen to a loving person like that," said his brother, Paul. "He's going to be so missed by everybody. He was a light of so many lives." <sep>Who was interviewed about Ercolino's death?<sep>Paul
[A]: Yes
[Q]: After more than a year of effort, attorneys with Northwest Justice Project earlier this week told 25 families in a mobile home park here that they can keep their homes and no longer need to fear eviction. The East Wenatchee City Council has entered into an Interlocal Agreement with the Wenatchee Housing Authority authorizing the Authority to purchase and maintain the Mobile Park Plaza mobile home park. Located just north of the Wenatchee Valley Mall, the park had been threatened with closure for more than a year. "We cannot say enough about how relieved we are that this is over," said Manuel Luna, one of the residents of Mobile Park Plaza. "We were afraid that no solution would be found, and that our families would have no place to go. We are very grateful for the help of our attorneys. Without them, we would not have saved our homes. We are also thankful for the help of the Housing Authority, the City Council and Mayor Steve Lacy." Formerly owned by local businessman Dan Jennings, Mobile Park Plaza had been home to 45 low-income families, many of them Latino farm workers. In October 2000 Jennings gave the park residents notice of his intent to close the park effective November 30, 2001. While some park residents decided to move, others, including 25 families, organized an informal association to relocate or save their homes. Unable to afford private legal counsel, the families asked for help from legal services attorneys at the Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services. In the succeeding months, these attorneys worked with representatives of the Greater Wenatchee Housing Authority, the state Office of Community Development, Chelan County, the City of East Wenatchee, state legislators, Jennings and others to secure funding and find a solution. "There seemed to be a never-ending set of obstacles," said Patrick Pleas, an attorney with Northwest Justice Project. "Mr. Jennings had financial considerations, the City had growth and economic development considerations, and the State and Housing Authority had their own concerns. Thankfully, hard work and good will from all parties allowed us to find a solution that works for everyone." Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services are non-profit organizations that provide civil legal assistance to low-income individuals and families throughout Washington state. Members of the state's Access to Justice Network, these organizations work with thousands of volunteer attorneys to ensure that justice is available to those who face critical legal problems and can't afford private legal counsel. <sep>Who was grateful for the help of their attorneys?<sep>One of the lawyers
[A]: No
[Q]: While the Base Ball writers of the cities which comprise the Southern Association have no organized membership similar to the Base Ball Writers' Association of the major leagues and the organizations which are best known as the class AA leagues, they are a clever, hard-working group of young men, who have labored in season and out of season, not only to build up Base Ball but to build it up on the right lines. Experience of more than a quarter of a century has most abundantly proved that the standard of Base Ball has steadily been elevated. It needs no compilation of fact nor any dogmatic assertion on the part of the Editor of the GUIDE to attest that fact. It is a present condition which speaks for itself. The general tone of the players is far higher than it was and there has come into evidence a marked improvement in the spirit of the men who own Base Ball clubs. In the earlier history of the sport there was a tendency to win by any means that did not actually cross the line of dishonesty. Later there came a season when the commercial end of the game tended to encroach upon the limits of the pastime. This has been repressed in the last two seasons and to-day the morale of Base Ball is of a higher type than it ever has been in the history of the pastime. <sep>The writers of which Association are said to have elevated the standard of Base Ball over the past 25 years?<sep>Baseball
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He is the professor of theater and drama at Loyola University and the director of Wilson's "Two Trains Running," now onstage at Pegasus Players.
"Two trains running" is a production currently being showcased at Pegasus Players.
A: Yes
Clemson had its first scrimmage of fall camp on Saturday. Head coach Dabo Swinney, Offensive Coordinator Jeff Scott and Defensive Coordinator Brent Venables had plenty of positive things to say about the offenses’ performance. However, things weren’t so good for the defense. The Clemson Insider’s Ashley Pendergist bring you the coordinators edition of the two-minute drill.
everyone loves Jeff Scott.
A: It's impossible to say
ZURICH, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Swiss premium chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli shrugged off the euro zone crisis to post 2012 organic sales growth in line with its long-term target. The maker of Lindor pralines and gold foil-wrapped Easter bunnies said on Tuesday full year sales rose 7.3 percent to 2.67 billion Swiss francs ($2.91 billion). It posted organic growth of 6.8 percent in local currencies. Lindt, which traces its origins to a Zurich confectionery shop in the 1840s said it won new market share in practically every country and category.
Lindt has market share in all categories
A: | No |
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In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
question:
The Great Slave Lake (French: Grand lac des Esclaves) is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada (after Great Bear Lake), the deepest lake in North America at 614 metres (336 fathoms; 2,014 ft), and the tenth-largest lake in the world. It is 469 km (291 mi) long and 20 to 203 km (12 to 126 mi) wide. It covers an area of 27,200 km (10,502 sq mi) in the southern part of the territory. Its given volume ranges from 1,070 km (260 cu mi) to 1,580 km (380 cu mi) and up to 2,088 km (501 cu mi) making it the 10th or 12th largest.
answer:
where is the great slave lake located on a map
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Red blood cells (RBCs), also called erythrocytes, are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate's principal means of delivering oxygen (O) to the body tissues -- via blood flow through the circulatory system. RBCs take up oxygen in the lungs, or gills of fish, and release it into tissues while squeezing through the body's capillaries.
answer:
where do you find red blood cells in the body
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Bumblebee is a fictional character from the Transformers franchise. In most incarnations, Bumblebee is a small, yellow (with black stripes) Autobot with most of his alternative vehicle modes inspired by several generations of the Chevrolet American muscle cars (with the live-action film versions being very real Camaros: the original vehicle mode was based on a classic European Type 1 Volkswagen Beetle). The characters and related events are described, below, using in-universe tone. He is named after a genus of bee which inspired his paint scheme.
answer:
| what type of car is bumblebee in transformers 1
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In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
What needs to decrease before pituitary growth hormone can increase in the blood?, Context: In addition to the negative consequences of sleep deprivation, sleep and the intertwined circadian system have been shown to have strong regulatory effects on immunological functions affecting both the innate and the adaptive immunity. First, during the early slow-wave-sleep stage, a sudden drop in blood levels of cortisol, epinephrine, and norepinephrine induce increased blood levels of the hormones leptin, pituitary growth hormone, and prolactin. These signals induce a pro-inflammatory state through the production of the pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin-1, interleukin-12, TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma. These cytokines then stimulate immune functions such as immune cells activation, proliferation, and differentiation. It is during this time that undifferentiated, or less differentiated, like naïve and central memory T cells, peak (i.e. during a time of a slowly evolving adaptive immune response). In addition to these effects, the milieu of hormones produced at this time (leptin, pituitary growth hormone, and prolactin) support the interactions between APCs and T-cells, a shift of the Th1/Th2 cytokine balance towards one that supports Th1, an increase in overall Th cell proliferation, and naïve T cell migration to lymph nodes. This milieu is also thought to support the formation of long-lasting immune memory through the initiation of Th1 immune responses.
cortisol, epinephrine, and norepinephrine
Frank Sinatra is an example of what genre of singer?, Context: Artists contributing to this format include mainly soft rock/pop singers such as, Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis, Nana Mouskouri, Celine Dion, Julio Iglesias, Frank Sinatra, Barry Manilow, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Marc Anthony.
pop
What is a change for the marketers?, Context: Some high-speed black-and-white films, such as Ilford Delta 3200 and Kodak T-MAX P3200, are marketed with film speeds in excess of their true ISO speed as determined using the ISO testing method. For example, the Ilford product is actually an ISO 1000 film, according to its data sheet. The manufacturers do not indicate that the 3200 number is an ISO rating on their packaging. Kodak and Fuji also marketed E6 films designed for pushing (hence the "P" prefix), such as Ektachrome P800/1600 and Fujichrome P1600, both with a base speed of ISO 400.
| Kodak and Fuji also marketed E6 films designed for pushing (hence the "P" prefix), such as Ektachrome P800/1600 and Fujichrome P1600, both with a base speed of ISO 400
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