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In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
[Q]: It’s alright for Gary Neville. It’s all sun, sangria and viva Espana for him now. So who’s going to look after our insider football expertise on a wet Monday night in the Premier League now then? In the search for their new Bond, Sky Sports immediately turned to the dapper figure of Craig Bellamy. He was in the chair last Monday for Everton's draw with Crystal Palace. Sporting a window pane check suit that certainly ensured you would see him coming. And he did perfectly well. He’s a bright fella, and he made his points. But in watching him catch the eye alongside the now stalwart Jamie Carragher, it occurred to me perhaps why Gary Neville seemed to quickly become so popular with viewers.Gary Neville left Monday Night Football to become the new Valencia bossJohn Terry joined Jamie Redknapp in the studio on Saturday eveningThe Chelsea captain could be the man to fill in for Neville on Sky Sports
Questions:Like _, Terry seemed to have secured his haircut of choice a long time ago. (A) Gary Neville (B) Espana (C) Premier League (D) Bond (E) Sky Sports (F) Craig Bellamy (G) Everton (H) Crystal Palace (I) Sporting (J) Jamie Carragher (K) Night Football (L) Valencia (M) John Terry (N) Jamie Redknapp (O) Chelsea
[A]: (A)
[Q]: Washington (CNN) -- It was a long summer for President Barack Obama, who for months has defended his decision not to send U.S. troops to fight ISIS on the ground in the Middle East. But lawmakers contend that in the wake of a rapidly-spreading Ebola crisis and the upcoming midterm elections, the President's commitment towards fighting the extremist terrorist organization has fallen short. Comparing the spread of Ebola to the ISIS threat against the United States, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, said Sunday that he doesn't believe that the President is handling each issue with equal rigor. "The stronger Ebola gets in Africa, the more it spreads and the more entrenched it is -- the more endangered we are," Graham told Candy Crowley on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday. "The same (goes) for radical Islam in the Mideast. It seems to be that the President is all in when it comes to Ebola. I want to compliment him for sending troops to help get ahead of this in Africa, but we have a series of half-measures with (ISIS)."Sen. Lindsey Graham says Obama "is all in when it comes to Ebola," but not ISISSen. Kelly Ayotte says she is concerned Obama will reduce his commitment to fighting ISIS after midtermsHouse Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy says he wouldn't "second-guess" the House on an ISIS voteAdministration says that despite skepticism, it is capable of dealing with any matter of problem quickly
Questions:Asked if she thought the President would pull back some of his commitment towards the issue after the midterm elections, _ responded, "I'm very concerned about that ... and his resolve in this regard." (A) Washington (B) CNN (C) Barack Obama (D) U.S. (E) ISIS (F) Middle East (G) Ebola (H) United States (I) Lindsey Graham (J) R (K) South Carolina (L) Africa (M) Graham (N) Candy Crowley (O) State of the Union (P) Islam (Q) Mideast (R) Obama (S) Kelly Ayotte (T) House (U) Kevin McCarthy (V) Administration
[A]: (S)
[Q]: Mark McCall believes neutral territory offers Saracens hope of toppling mighty Clermont to reach a second successive European final. Marcelo Bosch landed a long-range penalty in the final act of Sunday's showdown with Racing Metro to clinch a 12-11 victory that has set up a last-four trip to St Etienne's Stade Geoffroy-Guichard on April 18. Awaiting in the Champions Cup semi-finals are Clermont, who are bristling with confidence after their remarkable 37-5 rout of runaway Aviva Premiership leaders Northampton. Marcelo Bosch launches a long range penalty towards the posts with the final act of Saracens' quarter-final The Argentinian centre is then mobbed by his team-mates after landing the match-winning kickSaracens through to Champions Cup semi-final after beating Racing MetroMarcelo Bosch landed last-gasp penalty to seal the win on SundaySaracens face Clermont in semi-final in neutral St Etienne on April 18 or 19
Questions:Northampton's players look shell-shocked after they were demolished by _. (A) Mark McCall (B) Saracens (C) Clermont (D) European (E) Marcelo Bosch (F) Racing Metro (G) St Etienne (H) Stade Geoffroy-Guichard (I) Champions Cup (J) Aviva Premiership (K) Northampton (L) Argentinian
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TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Prince Harry found himself at the centre of a group of admiring girls last night, as he enjoyed an evening on the town with Princess Beatrice and his old friend Guy Pelly. The Prince, 30, had spent the day in Staffordshire where he was joined by the Prime Minister at the National Memorial Arboretum. After attending a reception for humanitarian charity MapAction at a private London home, the royal let his hair down with drinks at Ramusake, a hip Japanese-themed bar in upmarket Kensington. The bar, which is famous for its Japanese-themed cocktails, was launching its new GEISHA club night which saw a host of glamorous guests, among them Otis Ferry and Harry's rumoured ex-girlfriend Astrid Harbord, 33, descend for the evening.Harry was seen leaving Kensington bar Ramusake in the early hoursHad enjoyed a night out with old friend Guy Pelly and Princess EugenieAll were attending the launch of a new club night called GEISHAEugenie lives and works in New York but is currently visiting LondonGirls were seen approaching Harry's security in a bid to speak to himOther guests included Otis Ferry and Harry's rumoured ex Astrid HarbordEarlier, Harry had attended a private reception for charity MapAction
Question:_ has long been popular with well-heeled drinkers and has a private member's club and restaurant on the premises as well as a bar.
SOLUTION: Ramusake
PROBLEM: Sure, St Andrews is the home of golf and Monaco hosts the most glamorous race on the Formula One circuit, but the sporting world offers so much more than what can be seen on television. With the warmer months upon us the countdown is on for all manner of festivals around the globe, with many of them revolving around intriguing, entertaining and downright wacky events. MailOnline Travel sheds some light on the most unique sporting escapes you could take this year as a spectator or in some cases even as a participant, from the historic cheese-rolling race in Gloucestershire to the Mud Olympics in Brunsbuettel, Germany.Traditional sports in Scotland's Highland Games and Mongolia's NaadamWife Carrying, Bog Snorkelling and Cheese-Rolling among the kookiestCamel Wrestling in Turkey and Prison Rodeo in the US more controversial
Question:Not for everyone, in particular animal welfare groups who oppose it, or the feint of heart but certainly historic - camel wrestling has been going on in _ for more than 2,000 years.
SOLUTION: Turkey
PROBLEM: (CNN) European Union and Turkish officials reached an agreement Friday on how to deal with a flood of Syrian refugees. "(The) agreement isn't a silver bullet, but part of EU's comprehensive strategy on migration," European Council President Donald Tusk tweeted Friday. The deal came after talks involving Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Tusk and a handful of other key European officials. The final language was then put up for a vote before representatives from the 28 European Union member states, who approved it unanimously, according to the European Council president. The talks were held to address the largest influx of refugees into Europe since World War II, though the more than 1 million people who have fled to there pale compared to the more than 2.7 million registered in Turkey alone. The discussions could be significant for Turkey not only in receiving financial aid to deal with this problem, but also expedite its push to join the 28-member European Union.EU states unanimously approve the agreement with Turkey, a top leader tweetsEuropean Council President Donald Tusk says the deal "isn't a silver bullet," but is key to Europe's migrant planThe agreement also addresses Turkey's desire to join the European Union
Question:It will be phased in gradually starting Sunday "based on (the) 1-for-1 principle" -- meaning that for every refugee resettled in _, one will go from Turkey to Europe.
SOLUTION: | Turkish
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You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you will be shown an incorrect English sentence. You need to generate a corrected form of the input sentence.
That is because If I became the member , I could be highly estimate from my friends .
Output: | That is because If I became a member , I would be highly esteemed among my friends . |
In this task, you will be presented with a context from an academic paper and you have to write an answerable question based on the context. Your questions can be extractive, abstractive, or yes-no questions.
Axelrod's causal mapping method comprises a set of conventions to graphically represent networks of causes and effects (the nodes in a network) as well as the qualitative aspects of this relation (the network’s directed edges, notably assertions of whether the causal linkage is positive or negative).
What are the causal mapping methods employed?
We map each relation type $R(x,y)$ to at least one parametrized natural-language question $q_x$ whose answer is $y$ .
How is the input triple translated to a slot-filling task?
Moreover, QA and QG have probabilistic correlation as both tasks relate to the joint probability between $q$ and $a$ . Given a question-answer pair $\langle q, a \rangle $ , the joint probability $P(q, a)$ can be computed in two equivalent ways.
$$P(q, a) = P(a) P(q|a) = P(q)P(a|q)$$ (Eq. 1)
The conditional distribution $P(q|a)$ is exactly the QG model, and the conditional distribution $P(a|q)$ is closely related to the QA model. Existing studies typically learn the QA model and the QG model separately by minimizing their own loss functions, while ignoring the probabilistic correlation between them.
Based on these considerations, we introduce a training framework that exploits the duality of QA and QG to improve both tasks. There might be different ways of exploiting the duality of QA and QG. In this work, we leverage the probabilistic correlation between QA and QG as the regularization term to influence the training process of both tasks. Specifically, the training objective of our framework is to jointly learn the QA model parameterized by $\theta _{qa}$ and the QG model parameterized by $\theta _{qg}$ by minimizing their loss functions subject to the following constraint.
$$P_a(a) P(q|a;\theta _{qg}) = P_q(q)P(a|q;\theta _{qa})$$ (Eq. 3)
$P_a(a)$ and $P_q(q)$ are the language models for answer sentences and question sentences, respectively. Overall, the framework includes three components, namely a QA model, a QG model and a regularization term that reflects the duality of QA and QG. The QA specific objective aims to minimize the loss function $l_{qa}(f_{qa}(a,q;\theta _{qa}), label)$ , where $label$ is 0 or 1 that indicates whether $a$ is the correct answer of $q$ or not. For each correct question-answer pair, the QG specific objective is to minimize the following loss function,
$$l_{qg}(q, a) = -log P_{qg}(q|a;\theta _{qg})$$ (Eq. 6)
where $a$ is the correct answer of $q$ . The third objective is the regularization term which satisfies the probabilistic duality constrains as given in Equation 3 . Specifically, given a correct $\langle q, a \rangle $ pair, we would like to minimize the following loss function,
$$ \nonumber l_{dual}(a,q;\theta _{qa}, \theta _{qg}) &= [logP_a(a) + log P(q|a;\theta _{qg}) \\ & - logP_q(q) - logP(a|q;\theta _{qa})]^2$$ (Eq. 9)
where $P_a(a)$ and $P_q(q)$ are marginal distributions, which could be easily obtained through language model.
| What does "explicitly leverages their probabilistic correlation to guide the training process of both models" mean?
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This task is about writing a correct answer for the reading comprehension task. Based on the information provided in a given passage, you should identify the shortest continuous text span from the passage that serves as an answer to the given question. Avoid answers that are incorrect or provides incomplete justification for the question.
Example Input: Passage: There were 158,349 households, of which 68,511 (43.3%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 69,284 (43.8%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 30,547 (19.3%) had a female householder with no husband present, 11,698 (7.4%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 12,843 (8.1%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 1,388 (0.9%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 35,064 households (22.1%) were made up of individuals and 12,344 (7.8%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.07. There were 111,529 families (70.4% of all households); the average family size was 3.62. Question: What was the average family size?
Example Output: 3.62
Example Input: Passage: Whitehead pointed to the limitations of language as one of the main culprits in maintaining a materialistic way of thinking, and acknowledged that it may be difficult to ever wholly move past such ideas in everyday speech. After all, each moment of each person's life can hardly be given a different proper name, and it is easy and convenient to think of people and objects as remaining fundamentally the same things, rather than constantly keeping in mind that each thing is a different thing from what it was a moment ago. Yet the limitations of everyday living and everyday speech should not prevent people from realizing that "material substances" or "essences" are a convenient generalized description of a continuum of particular, concrete processes. No one questions that a ten-year-old person is quite different by the time he or she turns thirty years old, and in many ways is not the same person at all; Whitehead points out that it is not philosophically or ontologically sound to think that a person is the same from one second to the next. Question: Whitehead's main philosophy on humans changing is what?
Example Output: each thing is a different thing from what it was a moment ago
Example Input: Passage: The National Conference of State Legislatures held in Washington D.C. stated in a 2014 overview that many supporters for affirmative action argue that policies stemming from affirmative action help to open doors for historically excluded groups in workplace settings and higher education. Workplace diversity has become a business management concept in which employers actively seek to promote an inclusive workplace. By valuing diversity, employers have the capacity to create an environment in which there is a culture of respect for individual differences as well as the ability to draw in talent and ideas from all segments of the population. By creating this diverse workforce, these employers and companies gain a competitive advantage in an increasingly global economy. According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, many private sector employers have concluded that a diverse workforce makes a "company stronger, more profitable, and a better place to work." Therefore, these diversity promoting policies are implemented for competitive reasons rather than as a response to discrimination, but have shown the value in having diversity. Question: What did proponents of affirmative action claim some of the effects of policies that support affirmative action had done?
Example Output: | help to open doors for historically excluded groups in workplace settings and higher education
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input question: I read this background article the other day: You may hear males "ribbiting," producing a mating call used to attract females to the bodies of water best for mating and breeding. Frog calls can occur during the day or night. Each frog species has a different call that is used to attract mates and warn off rivals. When a female picks a male whose call she likes, the male grabs her and squeezes across her back and around her abdomen. This causes the female to release her eggs. The male then fertilizes the eggs and, in some species, also guards them. I am facing a new situation today: Bob and Andy were two nature enthusiasts. They went camping together once a month. Bob was into bird watching, while Andy was fascinated with frogs and salamanders. They went on a trip last week-end and they were very happy with what they had observed. Using the knowledge I acquired from the background article, how should I answer correctly the following question regarding my new situation: Which friend observed fewer male frogs grabbing female frogs and squeezing them across the back????
output answer: Bob
I read this background article the other day: Besides anthropogenic productivity of the land, the biodiversity of degraded land also declines, as previously mentioned.[12] With less biodiversity, this ecosystem is less adaptable to when disasters strike it[11][8] It has a smaller available food supply, in terms of plants, for animals, who then may die out or more likely may relocate. Proof of this decline is that presently 15-20% of Tibetan Plateau species are now considered endangered; and now because of this animal and plant absence, the soil quality of these degraded lands is very poor.[1] It does not hold the necessary nutrients, such as water, nitrogen, and carbon, essential to either supporting life or inviting life back to that land.[6] As a result of such carbon and nitrogen loss in the Tibetan Plateau, $8,033/ha and $13,315/ha were respectively lost in economic terms. Soils are further weakened by dust storms whose frequency increases because of degradation.[11][4] Erosion of soil becomes a bigger problem, since no longer are there as many plants to anchor in the soil. In the northern Chinese province alone, 400 million are affected every year with an associated 54 billion yuan of annual economic loss due to grassland degradation. I am facing a new situation today: The Gorge saw some negative effects due to deforestation. The Valley has a more fertile soil, it's not overgrazed, and the trees and bushes are abundant, and the productivity has increased several fold over the past decade. Biodiversity in the Valley is varied, and the soils are nutritious and retain more water, nitrogen and carbon. Using the knowledge I acquired from the background article, how should I answer correctly the following question regarding my new situation: Which area experiences more soil erosion?
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Answer: The Gorge
Q: I read this background article the other day: Beginning in September 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will require larger, more prominent cigarette health warnings on all cigarette packaging and advertisements in the United States. These warnings are a significant advancement in communicating the dangers of smoking. These new cigarette health warnings contains nine different warnings that will increase awareness of the specific health risks associated with smoking, such as death, addiction, lung disease, cancer, stroke and heart disease. These warnings include: I am facing a new situation today: David collects cigarette packs of different years. He found that two of his packs, pack A and pack B, are very different. Pack A is from before September 2012, and pack B is from after September 2012. He started searching on the internet to find out why the packs were different. Using the knowledge I acquired from the background article, how should I answer correctly the following question regarding my new situation: Which pack would induce less awareness of smoking health risks, pack A or pack B?
A: pack A
Question: I read this background article the other day: Generally, nearsightedness first occurs in school-age children. There is some evidence that myopia is inherited. If one or both of your parents need glasses, there is an increased chance that you will too. Individuals who spend a lot of time reading, working or playing at a computer, or doing other close visual work may also be more likely to develop nearsightedness. Because the eye continues to grow during childhood, myopia typically progresses until about age 20. However, nearsightedness may also develop in adults due to visual stress or health conditions such as diabetes. A common sign of nearsightedness is difficulty seeing distant objects like a movie screen or the TV, or the whiteboard or chalkboard in school. I am facing a new situation today: David is a doctor who works for the public health department. After analyzing health data for his city, he found twenty percent of the population have myopia. He categorized them as group A. Another eighty percent didn't have myopia. He put them in group B. He now needs to devise a plan on how to tackle myopia in his city. Using the knowledge I acquired from the background article, how should I answer correctly the following question regarding my new situation: Which group would less likely engage in visually intensive works, group A or group B?
Answer: group B
[Q]: I read this background article the other day: The trade-off theory of capital structure is the idea that a company chooses how much debt finance and how much equity finance to use by balancing the costs and benefits. The classical version of the hypothesis goes back to Kraus and Litzenberger[1] who considered a balance between the dead-weight costs of bankruptcy and the tax saving benefits of debt. Often agency costs are also included in the balance. This theory is often set up as a competitor theory to the pecking order theory of capital structure. A review of the literature is provided by Frank and Goyal.[2] An important purpose of the theory is to explain the fact that corporations usually are financed partly with debt and partly with equity. It states that there is an advantage to financing with debt, the tax benefits of debt and there is a cost of financing with debt, the costs of financial distress including bankruptcy costs of debt and non-bankruptcy costs (e.g. staff leaving, suppliers demanding disadvantageous payment terms, bondholder/stockholder infighting, etc.). The marginal benefit of further increases in debt declines as debt increases, while the marginal cost increases, so that a firm that is optimizing its overall value will focus on this trade-off when choosing how much debt and equity to use for financing. I am facing a new situation today: Bob is a financial analyst. He used to work for company A. Bob noticed that company A is mostly financed by debt. Recently, he changed job and now working as a financial analyst for another company, company B. Company B has completely different culture than company A. Company B is mostly financed by equity. Using the knowledge I acquired from the background article, how should I answer correctly the following question regarding my new situation: Would company B have or not have tax benefits of debt?
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[A]: not have
Problem: Given the question: I read this background article the other day: Saturated hydrocarbons are given the general name of alkanes . The name of specific alkanes always ends in - ane . The first part of the name indicates how many carbon atoms each molecule of the alkane has. The smallest alkane is methane. It has just one carbon atom. The next largest is ethane, with two carbon atoms. The chemical formulas and properties of methane, ethane, and several other alkanes are listed in Table below . The boiling and melting points of alkanes are determined mainly by the number of carbon atoms they have. Alkanes with more carbon atoms generally have higher boiling and melting points. I am facing a new situation today: Two brothers studied chemistry in school. Ted studied alkanes, while Ned studied cycloalkanes. They both received grade A. Using the knowledge I acquired from the background article, how should I answer correctly the following question regarding my new situation: Which brother learned less about ethane?
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In this task, given a sentence in the English language, your task is to convert it into the Bahasa (Indonesian) language.
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Question: The two survivors trapped in a wire cage, survived by drinking water seeping through rocks until rescuers managed to dig a small tunnel to deliver fresh food and water.
Answer: Kedua orang selamat yang terperangkap di gua kabel, selamat dengan meminum air dari bebatuan sampai penyelamat berhasil menggali trowongan kecil untuk mengirimkan makanan segar dan air.
Question: Comments such as "Captain Hook" and "Hook off Hooky" have been used.
Answer: Komentar-komentar seperti "Captain Hook" dan "Hook Off Hooky" telah digunakan.
Question: The International Football Association Board (IFAB), the body that decides on the laws of the game, has decided to discontinue all experiments involving technology, and for the first time has also decided on the exact size of a soccer field.
Answer: | Dewan Asosiasi Sepakbola Internasional (IFAB), suatu badan yang menentukan aturan-aturan pertandingan, telah memutuskan untuk tidak melanjutkan percobaan melibatkan teknologi, dan untuk pertama kali juga memutuskan ukuran lapangan sepakbola yang resmi.
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Question: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Little Mike's grandmother died weeks ago. He missed her very much. One afternoon Mike went to the city park where his grandmother used to go. There he saw an old lady. She looked very kind. She was sitting there, watching pigeons . Little Mike went up and sat next to her. He took out his food and drinks and gave some to her. She smiled at him. Her smile was very sweet and Mike wanted to see it again. She seemed to understand him, so once again she smiled. Mike was very happy. They sat there all the afternoon, eating and talking. As it was dark, Mike got up to leave. Before he left, he hugged the old lady and she gave him her sweetest smile. When Mike got home, his mother was surprised by the happy look on his face. " I met an old lady in the park. Her smile was like the smile I used to see on Grandmother's face." The old lady also returned to her home happily. She told her son she had food and drinks with a little boy. " He was as lovely as Bill." She said. Her son was surprised, because he had never been so happy since Bill, her grandson, died weeks ago. Question: Mike and the old lady _ . Options: A: were good to each other B: knew each other well C: often met in the park D: did nothing that afternoon
Answer: | A |
Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: More than $1 billion dollars worth of a digital currency known as "bitcoins" now circulate on the web – an amount that exceeds the value of the entire currency stock of small countries like Liberia (which uses “Liberian dollars”), Bhutan (which uses the “Ngultrum”), and 18 other countries.
So what is a “bitcoin,” and why would anyone use it?
Unlike traditional currency, bitcoins are not issued by a government or even a private company. Instead, the currency is run by computer code that distributes new bitcoins at a set rate to people who devote web servers to keep the code running. The bitcoins are then bought and sold for regular U.S. dollars online.
'They buy gold, they put it under the mattress, or they buy bitcoin.' - Tony Gallippi, the CEO “BitPay.com,
Bitcoin is in high demand right now -- each bitcoin currently sells for more than $90 U.S. dollars -- which bitcoin insiders say is because of world events that have shaken confidence in government-issued currencies.
“Because of what's going on in Cyprus and Europe, people are trying to pull their money out of banks there,” Tony Gallippi, the CEO “BitPay.com,” which enables businesses to easily accept bitcoins as payment, told FoxNews.com.
In Cyprus, the government is considering taking a percentage of all citizens’ bank accounts to solve its fiscal woes. That has led Cypriots -- and other Europeans worried about the same thing happening to them -- to take their money out of banks.
“So they buy gold, they put it under the mattress, or they buy bitcoin,” Gallippi said.
Bitcoin demand has also increased, Gallippi says, because last week U.S. regulators issued the first official guidelines for private digital currencies. Prior to the regulations, the legal status of the currencies was in doubt.
“Now people can see that it's not illegal, that it's not banned,” Gallippi said.
Bitcoin is controversial because the currency can be exchanged anonymously online -- it is in a sense the digital equivalent of using hard cash -- and so some have criticized it for facilitating online drug markets. On the site known as "the Silk Road," for instance, users pay bitcoins for illegal drugs and other forbidden items.
Bitcoin Targeted by Cyberattack Just as Bitcoin explodes beyond the $1 billion mark thanks to Europe’s debt crisis, the emerging virtual currency was dealt a setback this week after a key exchange was hit by a powerful cyber attack that caused delays. Read more at Fox Business.
In a 2011 letter to the Attorney General, Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) argued for strict enforcement.
“After purchasing bitcoins through an exchange, a user can create an account on Silk Road and start purchasing illegal drugs from individuals around the world and have them delivered to their homes within days,” the Senators wrote. “We urge you to take immediate action and shut down the Silk Road network.”
But the Silk Road is still running, and a recent study estimates that $23 million dollars of illicit items are sold for bitcoins on the site every year.
The regulatory guidelines issued last week by the government agency known as the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), however, will not stop that.
The regulations say that digital currencies like bitcoin are to be treated essentially as foreign currencies. Companies that exchange digital bitcoins for real money will have to comply with the same regulations as traditional currency exchangers -- namely, they must verify the identity of anyone exchanging money for bitcoins and report large transactions to the government.
Using bitcoins to purchase goods, however, is specifically exempted.
“A user who obtains convertible virtual currency and uses it to purchase real or virtual goods or services is not… under FinCEN’s regulations,” the guidance reads.
Some bitcoin defenders say the use of bitcoins to buy illegal items shouldn’t obscure the legal uses.
“With any technology… Criminals are going to use it for something, and regular people are going to use it for something,” Gallippi said. “You can't ban cell phones just because criminals are using them to do drug deals. You can't ban e-mail just because people are using them to do phishing scams in Nigeria. You have to start just prosecuting people who are committing crimes -- you can't just completely wipe out the new technology.”
Gallippi says one reason to use bitcoins for legal transactions is a lower risk of identity theft.
“If you are buying something online and you have the choice of paying with a credit card or bitcoins – think about what you have to do to use a credit card. You have to fill out this whole long form, name, address, account number, sometimes more... coincidentally, that’s all the info a thief would need to steal to pretend to be you.”
Between that, bitcoin’s anonymity, and worries about conventional currency, bitcoin demand is as high as ever, according to Alan Safahi, who runs “Zip Zap” – a company that facilitates cash deposits at stores like CVS and Wal-Mart for transfer to a site that can convert the money to bitcoins.
“We’re processing millions of dollars a month. We’ve seen tremendous surge in activity,” he said.
Contact the author at maxim.lott@foxnews.com. ||||| Hang around in the tech industry long enough and you or someone you know will be heard saying, “that’s so crazy it just might work.” Two years ago, if you’d have told me that an open-source, P2P currency would soon be a thriving, billion-dollar market, I would’ve told you that you were on a lonely bus headed to CrazyTown, U.S.A. But today, Bitcoin officially became a crazy idea that’s actually working.
Today, all the Bitcoin in circulation — some 10.9 million of them — have collectively crossed the billion-dollar mark. As it is wont to do, the value of Bitcoin (and its exchange rate) has fluctuated wildly today. At one point, it hit a dollar value around $78, then pushed into the mid-nineties. As of this minute, it’s hovering around $90.
Okay, it’s still a tiny fraction of Google’s market cap, but this is something — especially for a largely unregulated, decentralized virtual currency. (Say that three times fast.) The world’s most popular controversial crypto-currency, mind you.
Bitcoin supporters will scoff and tell you that this is no news, and that Bitcoin has been alive and thriving for years. In fact, it first appeared back in 2009, and has been slowly gaining steam since. But Bitcoin has largely remained outside the realm of mainstream media attention, because no one has been quite sure what to make of it. Is it a passing fad, a hilarious geek-driven phenomenon, or the real deal?
In fact, it has really been relegated to the realm of the uber geeky, or seen as the currency of anarchists or crazy digital libertarians. The black market marketplace known as Silk Road, which allows pretty much anyone to anonymously sell “alternative products” (i.e. large quantities of one’s drug of choice), uses Bitcoin for its currency. Something which hasn’t exactly helped Bitcoin’s “cross over” appeal.
And geeks have had a point: Eventually, with the increasing popularity of P2P networks, virtual currency and digital marketplaces, it was only a matter of time before these entities would collide and a virtual currency of record would emerge. No government control?! Even better!
Bitcoin crossing the $1 billion threshold may not seem like much, but if anything, it seems to be a sign to anyone listening that the crypto-currency is ready to be taken seriously. Of course, there are still a lot of concerns, as John Biggs laid out in 2011.
But why has Bitcoin become a billion-dollar market?
First off, startups are beginning to carry the torch. As Alex wrote yesterday, Expensify announced that it is now supporting Bitcoin “to give international contractors an alternative to PayPal and the high fees associated with the service.” Reddit has jumped on the bandwagon, too, along with WordPress and Namecheap, among others.
Adam Draper, the founder of Menlo Park-based accelerator, Boost VC, recently announced that the team would be focusing on Bitcoin-focused startups for its summer class. As he laid out in a post today, one of the other big reasons Bitcoin is beginning to take off — besides, of course, that it allows secure digital transactions without transmitting personal information — is that investor confidence is growing. Bitcoin startups are beginning to raise, and Draper claims that their fund is far from being the only one that’s interested.
What’s more, the government has finally realized that it needs to start taking virtual currency seriously and develop a strategy for dealing with these types of currencies. FinCEN recently put out a series of “Guidelines,” which will inform future regulation, but also works to establish trust and credibility for virtual currency, particularly Bitcoin.
There’s also the climate of the global financial markets, particularly the panic in Cyprus, after the government froze its citizens’ bank accounts following its bailout. Many believe that the tenuous financial markets in Europe and beyond create an atmosphere that’s ripe for a digital panacea like Bitcoin.
Of course, the other side of the Bitcoin argument is that the confluence of unsteady financial markets, and skyrocketing growth of virtual currency (plus hype), is creating a perfect storm that equates to Bitcoin just being one giant bubble waiting to pop.
What’s more, as my colleague Greg Kumparak pointed out today, Bitcoin itself is still in a tenuous place, policy-wise. There’s a good chance that a decentralized, unregulated market is going to scare the pants off the government once it’s fully cognizant that Bitcoin is a billion-dollar market — and growing. “It’s the easiest ‘this funds terrorism’ scare argument the government will ever try to make, so a big battle within the next year or two is pretty much guaranteed,” he said.
Whether one sees it as a phenomenon or a legitimate institution, Bitcoin is working on all cylinders to become the latter — and now has a real case for our undivided attention. Either way, feel free to marvel at how a virtual currency that appeared practically out of the ether (created by some phantom mathematician/economist) just pulled a billion-dollar market out of its hat.
See you on Silk Road? |||||
Output: | There isn't any national treasury backing the bitcoin, nor does anyone have great stores of physical bitcoins lying around. Yet more than $1 billion worth of this invented currency is in circulation—more than the entire currency stock of 20 countries, Fox News reports. A single bitcoin is currently worth more than $90 US. What's the appeal? Well, some say it's because global currency markets are so unstable that bitcoins, which are distributed to people who donate web server space to the bitcoin system, seem more stable than cash. "Because of what's going on in Cyprus and Europe, people are trying to pull their money out of banks," says BitPay CEO Tony Gallippi. "So they buy gold, they put it under the mattress, or they buy bitcoin." But others have another theory. Because bitcoin can be traded anonymously, like a digital form of cash, they believe bitcoin is fueling online black markets and drug markets. Gallippi scoffs at that concern. "With any technology," he says, "criminals are going to use it for something." TechCrunch has more background on how the system works. |
Based on the sentence "People walking down the sidewalk", is the sentence "There are people walking outdoors." a true sentence? | yes |
In this task you are given a question. You need to generate an answer to the question.
Question:Horatio was a legendary Roman hero who defended a bridge against which army? | Tiber |
In this task, you're given an article, a question which often contains a blank, four options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D") and the answer to that question. Your task is to classify whether the given answer is correct or not by providing "Yes" or "No", based on the article.
Q: Article: Tomatoes are necessary in every kitchen, but hardly will you hear their cosmetic function. Not only do tomatoes taste great, but they also keep the skin healthy. It is good to consume tomatoes as they have lycopene , which is an antioxidant and hence works as a sunscreen from within. These antioxidants make the tomato an anti-aging product as they help fight the damage and reddening of the skin. It is recommended to have at least 16 milligrams of lycopene per day. For people who are used to sitting in air-conditioned places, tomato helps moisturize their skin. In a word, whether you want to cure large pores and sun-burns or reduce acne , tomatoes are beneficial. Cure big pores Big pores provide easy access to dirt, thus increasing the chances of infecting the pore. Take a tablespoon of fresh tomato juice, and mix it with two to four drops of fresh lime juice. Use a cotton ball to put this mixture on your face for about 15 minutes and then wash it off with cool water. Regular application will reduce pores greatly. Reduce acne Tomatoes can help reduce and clear up your acne. Vitamin A and vitamin C are commonly found in a lot of acne medicines. Tomatoes are rich in vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin K. If you have mild acne, cut a tomato in half and leave it on your face for an hour, which will moisturize your face. Do this as many times as you can, and your acne will dry off soon. Cool the skin A lot of people's skin gets sun-burnt in summer because of staying in the sun for a long time. Crush half a tomato and mix it with two table-spoons of plain yogurt. Apply this mixture on face, neck, hands and feet for 20 minutes, and then wash it. Tomato cools the skin, while yogurt can make it soft and supple.
Question: The purpose of this passage is to _ .
Options: (A) recommend that we should have 16 milligrams of lycopene (B) tell people how important it is to keep our skin healthy (C) remind people of the importance of tomatoes (D) analyze why tomatoes taste so great
Asnwer: C
A: | Yes |
Stream of consciousness rationale: Bliss is perfect happiness and ignorance is lack of knowledge. Equate is considering one thing to be the same as or equivalent to another. Ignorance is often equated with bliss.
The question and answer pair are described below. | Q: What is ignorance often equated with?
Options:
- bliss
- hostility
- peace
- accidents
- find truth
A: bliss |
Premise: In the U.S., power plants emit significant amounts of air 67 percent of all sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions, 37 percent of mercury emissions, and 25 percent of all nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions.
Hypothesis: In the U.S., the power plants contribute greatly to emissions pollutants.
Does the premise entail the hypothesis?
OPTIONS:
(a). yes
(b). it is not possible to tell
(c). no | (a). |
Answer the question from the given passage. Your answer should be directly extracted from the passage, and it should be a single entity, name, or number, not a sentence.
Passage: Members of the United Methodist Church who identify with the pro-life position have organized into the Taskforce of United Methodists on Abortion and Sexuality (TUMAS) to further their position within the denomination. There was an attempt to withdraw the United Methodist Church membership in the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice at their General Conference, held in May 2012, with a petition that passed through the legislative subcommittee and committee votes, but was not given a floor vote. Rev. Paul T. Stallsworth, president of the Taskforce of United Methodists on Abortion and Sexuality said he 'had every reason to believe' that pro-life delegates would have won a floor vote. Question: In what year was there an attempt to withdraw the UMC membership? | 2012 |
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: There are no survivors; Linda reads the eulogy at the memorial, followed by her remembering Billy's voice soliloquising about what it means to be a swordboat captain.
Output: | does the crew die in the perfect storm? |
Question: I have a test where I am given the following article, what is an answer for the question: What is the last name of the person who confronts George and Ursula? ? In an animated sequence, a plane flying through the fictional Bukuvu region in the heart of Africa crashes. A child on board the plane, George, disappears into the jungle and is raised by a sapient, talking gorilla named Ape. Twenty-five years later, George, who enjoys swinging on vines to move about but has a habit of crashing into trees, has grown to be King of the Jungle. Ursula Stanhope, a San Francisco heiress, tours Uganda with local guide Kwame and a trio of porters. Ursula is tracked down and joined by her fiancé, Lyle Van De Groot, with two poachers named Max and Thor. Kwame tells the group of the "White Ape", a local legend of a superhuman primate that rules the jungle. The next day Lyle, insistent on taking Ursula home as soon as possible, goes into the jungle with her to find the White Ape and they are attacked by a lion. Lyle knocks himself out trying to flee while Ursula is saved by George. George takes Ursula to his treehouse home and cares for her, introducing her to Shep, an African bush elephant that acts like George's dog, and Tookie, a toco toucan. George is smitten with Ursula and attempts to woo her; Ursula reciprocates his attraction, and her time spent with George makes her no longer wish to return home. Lyle, Max and Thor find the treehouse and Lyle confronts Ursula and George. Max and Thor make to shoot Shep for his ivory, and Ape shouts at Shep to run. Everyone is stunned by the sight of a talking ape and Max and Thor decide to tranquilize and capture him. George runs to stop them and is accidentally shot by Lyle, who thought his gun was a novelty lighter. Lyle and the poachers are imprisoned and Lyle is identified as the shooter by the porters; Max and Thor are released and resolve to capture Ape to make a fortune in Las Vegas. Meanwhile, Ursula takes George home to get medical help for his wound and to see the human world he belongs in.
Answer: | Van De Groot |
One of the following sentences is nonsensical. Which one is it?
Options:
- Sentence A: "Umbrella is used during a rainy day."
- Sentence B: "Sunscreen is used during a rainy day."
Let's be accurate as possible. So think first. | You do not need to be protected by the sun when it is not out.
The final answer: Sentence B. |
Answer the question from the given passage. Your answer should be directly extracted from the passage, and it should be a single entity, name, or number, not a sentence.
Passage: Child labour is common in Kenya. Most working children are active in agriculture. In 2006, UNICEF estimated that up to 30% of girls in the coastal areas of Malindi, Mombasa, Kilifi, and Diani were subject to prostitution. Most of the prostitutes in Kenya are aged 9–18. The Ministry of Gender and Child Affairs employed 400 child protection officers in 2009. The causes of child labour include poverty, the lack of access to education and weak government institutions. Kenya has ratified Convention No. 81 on labour inspection in industries and Convention No. 129 on labour inspection in agriculture. Question: What is the age range of most prostitutes in Kenya?
9–18
Passage: The Broncos defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers in the divisional round, 23–16, by scoring 11 points in the final three minutes of the game. They then beat the defending Super Bowl XLIX champion New England Patriots in the AFC Championship Game, 20–18, by intercepting a pass on New England's 2-point conversion attempt with 17 seconds left on the clock. Despite Manning's problems with interceptions during the season, he didn't throw any in their two playoff games. Question: What was the final score of the AFC Championship Game?
20–18
Passage: A steam turbine consists of one or more rotors (rotating discs) mounted on a drive shaft, alternating with a series of stators (static discs) fixed to the turbine casing. The rotors have a propeller-like arrangement of blades at the outer edge. Steam acts upon these blades, producing rotary motion. The stator consists of a similar, but fixed, series of blades that serve to redirect the steam flow onto the next rotor stage. A steam turbine often exhausts into a surface condenser that provides a vacuum. The stages of a steam turbine are typically arranged to extract the maximum potential work from a specific velocity and pressure of steam, giving rise to a series of variably sized high- and low-pressure stages. Turbines are only efficient if they rotate at relatively high speed, therefore they are usually connected to reduction gearing to drive lower speed applications, such as a ship's propeller. In the vast majority of large electric generating stations, turbines are directly connected to generators with no reduction gearing. Typical speeds are 3600 revolutions per minute (RPM) in the USA with 60 Hertz power, 3000 RPM in Europe and other countries with 50 Hertz electric power systems. In nuclear power applications the turbines typically run at half these speeds, 1800 RPM and 1500 RPM. A turbine rotor is also only capable of providing power when rotating in one direction. Therefore, a reversing stage or gearbox is usually required where power is required in the opposite direction.[citation needed] Question: What is another term for rotors?
| rotating discs
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In this task, you are given a question in English, and your task is to translate it into Persian.
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Question: Is it safe to eat food from the microwave if the turntable didn't spin?
Answer: آیا خوردن غذای مایکروویو در صورتی که صفحه گردان نچرخد، ایمن است؟
Question: What is a good text editor?
Answer: ویرایشگر متن خوب چیست؟
Question: How is career important in our life?
Answer: | چگونه شغل در زندگی ما مهم است؟
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You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
You are given a sentence and a question in the input. The information provided in the sentence should be enough to answer the question. You're expected to write the correct answer. Do not use any facts other than those provided in the sentence.
Sentence: Third, she had to eat it!.
Question: What happened when Katie took the pizza out of the oven?
Output: | she had to eat it. |
Q: The White House has announced sanctions against 38 Russian individuals and companies, saying the United States is standing up to ongoing "malign activity" by the Russian government against Western democracies and around the world. At Friday's White House briefing, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the U.S. still wants to work with Russia. "Again, what we would like to see is the totality of the Russian behavior change. We want to continue having conversations and work forward to building a better relationship," Sanders said. The sanctions will be imposed on seven Russian oligarchs — including Oleg Deripaska, an aluminum magnate and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin — and 12 companies they own or control. Seventeen senior Russian government officials, as well as a state-owned Russian weapons trading company and its subsidiary, a Russian bank, also will be targeted. The group includes key members of Putin's inner circle. Those sanctioned will have their assets blocked in the U.S. and people in the U.S. are barred from doing business with them. Friday, a number of U.S. lawmakers and foreign policy experts welcomed the measure, saying the sanctions are overdue. Representative Adam Schiff of California, ranking Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, said the move is the strongest action taken by the Trump administration to date for Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and "its murder of dissidents at home and abroad." "The sanctioning of oligarchs like Oleg Deripaska, who is linked to Paul Manafort, Alexander Torshin and Putin's son-in-law, will send a strong message to the Kremlin," Schiff said in a statement. Florida's Marco Rubio, a Republican senator and former presidential candidate, also welcomed Friday's announcement. "These new sanctions send a clear message to Vladimir Putin that the illegal occupation of Ukraine, support for … war crimes [under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime], efforts to undermine Western democracies, and... According to the above context, answer the following question. What did Putin do after hearing the sanctions the US imposed?
OPTIONS:
- not enough information
- told his leaders to help the common people more
- Discussed the sanctions with his fellow leaders in Russia
- told Trump he was willing to comply with all the sanctions
A: not enough information
Q: I was lucky enough to get three acne skincare packs from Aphelia Cosmetology for guest reviewers with acne to trial for me. I think that this is important because the treatment of acne is such a personalised journey that it is good to hear about the results of the skincare from a variety of people. In the third review of this series, Nalini from The Made Up Maiden has reviewed this acne set for me. Nalini is 30 and has troublesome skin. She has tried many products to fix it without a lot of luck. Here is Nalini's review: I've always thought the journey to clear skin can be quite a complicated one. There are just so many things that affect the condition of your skin; genetics, skincare, diet, hormones, weather, stress...the list is endless. In my case, both parents had acne when they were younger, and I had hopes that my acne would fade once I left my teens. My skin isn't completely horrendous, but I do have some minimal scarring on my cheeks (which goes away after a little while), and the odd large pimple on my chin during those hormonal times, which goes away after a while but is still really frustrating when it happens! I'm 30 years old, so it looks like these problems are here to stay. I have contemplated taking hormonal pills or medication aimed at reducing acne, but decided that the possible side effects haven't really been worth the benefit. As a result, I was really keen to explore the Aphelia Cosmetology range and see if it lives up to the promise of helping with acne troubled skin. I would classify my skin as combination, the t-zone gets a little oily towards midday, while the rest of my skin is pretty much classified as 'normal'. I received the following items. According to the above context, answer the following question. Why doesn't she want to take medication?
OPTIONS:
- because it causes scarring.
- not enough information
- because her t-zone is problematic.
- because she's worried about side effects.
A: because she's worried about side effects.
Q: I still remember that day when my mother realized that finally I had matured and was no longer a child. It was the month of December and my parents were not at home. It was very cold and I was thinking of doing something that can raise my body temperature . Well, now I think I should have chosen doing exercise over porn . The mood was set, wi-fi speed was good and Google search was working. It took me half an hour to select a porn video. After selecting the video I downloaded it . WTF where are my earphones. Took 15 minutes to locate my earphones. The movie began and just after 5 seconds the door bell rang and this was where I got screwed when I forgot to minimize the movie. My parents were back home and I was back to my studies and just forgot about the movie. Now I have a habit that while I am studying I keep the phone in the next room. My mother was in the same room where the phone was. Now comes the worst part when my phone received a whatsapp message and my mother saw that message was dropped. Without giving any damm to my privacy she opened the phone and it was my bad luck that there was no screen lock. The movie automatically started and after 5 seconds she took the phone to my dad she said “This is what he is doing when he's alone” My parents called me what is this ?? I said it's a video message from the company and it starts automatically. I have nothing to do with that stuff and suddenly my dad said yes he is right, it's a video from the company and asked me to delete the video. My dad saved me because he already knew that I watched that kind of stuff. From that day on, I never download the movies but I watch them online, I just hate the buffering part . According to the above context, answer the following question. What did the author watch
OPTIONS:
- porn
- a horror movie
- not enough information
- a comedy
A: porn
Q: When I first started out in the field, I was working at a private hospital in the locked psychiatric unit, and there was a call from one of the med floors requiring someone from our unit to assist with a problem of a young man who had bitten through his cotton restraints on his wrists. They were requesting he be restrained with leather ones. I had not done any restraining and was asked to assist a woman counselor to show me the ropes (no pun intended). When we arrived in the patients room, I was shocked to see a man in his early 20’s flailing around spasmodically on the bed with his gums bleeding in between his teeth. The nurse informed us that the patient was dying of a liver disease and his body and brain had become toxic, causing delirium. The counselor instructed me to hold down his arms and she placed him in leather restraints which were fastened to the side of the bed. The most upsetting thing which to this day I can not remove from memory was this man literally snapping his jaws at me like a mad animal with traumatized bloody gums from biting so hard on the cloth restraints. There was nothing I, or anyone could do, except keep him restrained from hurting himself or others. It is the kind of witness to suffering I had never experienced before, and I felt almost relieved when the nurse quietly said, “ He will die before morning. “ I suppose what is so traumatic about witnessing such situations is the utter sense of helplessness. I was a trained therapist, and in this situation, I was unable to do anything, and was rendered powerless. I recall being plagued by this young man’s face for some time when I tried to go to sleep at night. Bruce Kugler According to the above context, answer the following question. When did the patient finally succumb to the disease?
OPTIONS:
- within a twenty four hours
- before morning
- not enough information
- within three hours
A: | not enough information |
Read the below conversation. W: What do you want to do tonight? M: How about going to the cinema? I haven't seen a movie for a long time and I really miss it. W: What do you want to see? M: There's a good film at the Green House Cinema,The Speed and Passion 8. I've watched all the former movies in that series and I really like them. The movie starts at 6:15 pm. W: I don't think I can make it. I won't be able to leave the office until 6:00 pm. M: Then let's watch the one that starts at 8:20 pm. We can eat first and then go to the cinema. What would the listener say?
| W: That sounds better. |
Detailed Instructions: You are given a sentence and your task is to generate another sentence that supports the given input.
See one example below:
Problem: In spite of this reduced heat input, the surface temperature of Venus is higher than that of the Earth.
Solution: Venus has a warmer average surface temperature than earth.
Explanation: Output statement supports the input statement's claim about the temperatures of Venus being higher than the earth.
Problem: According the law of superposition, we assume that the rock unit located on the bottom is older than the top layer.
Solution: | Deeper layers of rock must be older than layers closer to the surface, this is the law of superposition. |
In this task, given a sentence in English Tokens, your task is to convert it into the English language
Input: Consider Input: After an exhaustive two year , 20 million euro -LRB- $ 28 million -RRB- search , the final resting spot of Air France Flight 447 has been located .
Output: After an exhaustive two year, 20 million euro ($28 million) search, the final resting spot of Air France Flight 447 has been located.
Input: Consider Input: The goal early in the second period made for a more exciting match which had been mostly uneventful in a first half during which neither side could muster more than a single shot .
Output: The goal early in the second period made for a more exciting match which had been mostly uneventful in a first half during which neither side could muster more than a single shot.
Input: Consider Input: According to Goldman 's complaint , three employees of 21st Century Democrats were fired after refusing to attend the Landmark Forum course .
| Output: According to Goldman's complaint, three employees of 21st Century Democrats were fired after refusing to attend the Landmark Forum course.
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In this task, you're given a question, along with a context passage which has extra information available on certain terms mentioned in it. Your job is to determine which sentence(s) from the passage can be used to search for further information needed to answer the question.
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Question: Question: Who ruled Egypt in the Fourth Dynasty? Passage:Azurite is unstable in air, however it was used as a blue pigment in antiquity. Azurite is naturally occurring in Sinai and the Eastern Desert of Egypt. It was reported by F. C. J. Spurrell (1895) in the following examples; a shell used as a pallet in a Fourth Dynasty (2613 to 2494 BCE) context in Meidum, a cloth over the face of a Fifth Dynasty (2494 to 2345 BCE) mummy also at Meidum and a number of Eighteenth Dynasty (1543–1292 BCE) wall paintings. Depending on the degree of fineness to which it was ground, and its basic content of copper carbonate, it gave a wide range of blues. It has been known as mountain blue or Armenian stone, in addition it was formerly known as Azurro Della Magna (from Italian). When mixed with oil it turns slightly green. When mixed with egg yolk it turns green-grey. It is also known by the names blue bice and blue verditer, though verditer usually refers to a pigment made by chemical process. Older examples of azurite pigment may show a more greenish tint due to weathering into malachite. Much azurite was mislabeled lapis lazuli, a term applied to many blue pigments. As chemical analysis of paintings from the Middle Ages improves, azurite is being recognized as a major source of the blues used by medieval painters. Lapis lazuli (the pigment ultramarine) was chiefly supplied from Afghanistan during the Middle Ages, whereas azurite was a common mineral in Europe at the time. Sizable deposits were found near Lyons, France. It was mined since the 12th century in Saxony, in the silver mines located there.
Answer: Spurrell (1895) in the following examples; a shell used as a pallet in a Fourth Dynasty (2613 to 2494 BCE) context in Meidum, a cloth over the face of a Fifth Dynasty (2494 to 2345 BCE) mummy also at Meidum and a number of Eighteenth Dynasty (1543–1292 BCE) wall paintings
Question: Question: When was the school where Guttenberg attended a summer program during high school established? Passage:Guttenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Ann Iris (née Newman), a surgical assistant, and Jerome Stanley Guttenberg, an electrical engineer. He had a Jewish upbringing in the Flushing neighborhood of the borough of Queens before his family moved to North Massapequa, New York, where he graduated from Plainedge High School in 1976. During high school, he attended a summer program at the Juilliard School where he studied under John Houseman, and he won a role in an off-Broadway production of The Lion in Winter. After his high school graduation, he attended the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany for a year. He moved to California to pursue an acting career. As Guttenberg recounts, within weeks he was cast in a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial playing opposite Colonel Sanders. Although he’s a New Yorker he is a devout Minnesota Timberwolves fan and is a Kansas City Chiefs season ticket holder.
Answer: During high school, he attended a summer program at the Juilliard School where he studied under John Houseman, and he won a role in an off-Broadway production of The Lion in Winter
Question: Question: What director offered Prada a role in the film Bhoomi Kosam? Passage:When Jaya Prada was a teenager, she performed a dance at her school's annual function. A film director in the audience offered her a three-minute dance number in the Telugu film Bhoomi Kosam. She was hesitant, but her family encouraged her to accept it. She was paid only 10 rupees for her work in the film, but the rushes of those three minutes of film were shown to the major figures of the Telugu film industry. Major filmmakers offered her starring roles in quality films, and she accepted them. She became a huge star in 1976 with major hit films. Director K. Balachander's black-and-white film Anthuleni Katha (1976) showcased her dramatic skills; K. Viswanath's color film Siri Siri Muvva (1976) showed her playing a mute girl with excellent dancing skills; and her title role as Sita in the big-budget mythological film Seetha Kalyanam confirmed her versatility. In 1977, she starred in Adavi Ramudu, which broke box office records and which permanently cemented her star status. The song "Aaresukoboyi Paresukunnanu" performed by Prada and co-star N.T. Rama Rao became a mass hit. Important filmmakers were casting her and repeating her in their films. Filmmaker Vijay introduced her to Kannada cinema in his 1977 super-hit movie Sanadi Appanna alongside Kannada matinee idol Raj Kumar. The movie is also known to be the only movie to feature shehnai rendition by Ustad Bismillah Khan. Jaya Prada repeated her successful pairing with Rajkumar in films such as Huliya Halina Mevu (1979), Kaviratna Kalidasa (1983) and Shabdavedhi (2000). In 1979, K. Balachander repeated her in the Tamil film Ninaithale Inikkum opposite Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth in which she played a terminally-ill patient. She continued to act in more films in Telugu opposite actors such NTR, ANR, Krishna, Krishnam Raju and Sobhan Babu throughout the 70s and 80s. K. Viswanath remade Siri Siri Muvva (1976) in Hindi as Sargam, introducing Jayaprada to Bollywood in 1979. The film was successful and she became a star there as well. She earned her first Filmfare nomination as Best Actress but couldn't capitalize on her success since she couldn't speak Hindi.
Answer: | A film director in the audience offered her a three-minute dance number in the Telugu film Bhoomi Kosam
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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.
South Dakota (/-dəˈkoʊtə / (listen)) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who compose a large portion of the population and historically dominated the territory. South Dakota is the 17th most expansive, but the 5th least populous and the 5th least densely populated of the 50 United States. As the southern part of the former Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with North Dakota. Pierre is the state capital and Sioux Falls, with a population of about 174,000, is South Dakota's largest city. | where is south dakota located in the united states |
Windswept House: A Vatican Novel - Windswept House: A Vatican Novel is a novel by Roman Catholic priest and theologian Malachi Martin. The book charts the turmoil within the Catholic faith and within Vatican City. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
| Written Work |
Write a question from the passage such that it identifies a character (a person or a thing) in the passage.
Let me give you an example: I really struggle to feel bad for people who actively choose to be miserable and manipulative. I'm dorky and like to use little proverbs all the time. One of my favorites is this: "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." At the end of the day, if someone has a problem, they can never resolve it if they don't truly wish to. You can give someone all the resources in the world, but you can't force them to utilize them. When I was 16, I dated a horrible guy. He was abusive verbally, emotionally, and sexually. He was an incredibly troubled young man and refused to seek help for his severe mental health issues. I eventually came to understand that he reveled in his misery. It was his identity. He acted like he wanted a cure and I'd set him up with resources, but he refused every single one. He may have struggled with serious mental illnesses, but being miserable perversely made him happy and he loved to use his struggles to justify his inexcusable behavior. He wanted to drag as many people into his fiery pit of anguish as possible. I later suffered from severe depression myself, and I never once used it as an excuse to hurt other people. My ex wasn't struggling with his mental health in terms of deliberating and carefully harming others. He was simply exhibiting a personality trait, one he chose to cultivate… and it wasn't my problem. I ended up cutting him off completely in spite of all the threats. I will never feel bad for the awful plight he refuses to help himself out of. I have no patience for that type of person. Know what we call them? Toxic. Poison. A waste of time.
The answer to this example can be: Who was abusive to the author?
Here is why: The question is based on the following sentences in the passage - 'When I was 16, I dated a horrible guy. He was abusive verbally, emotionally, and sexually.'. The sentence clearly explains that the author's boyfriend was abusive to her.
OK. solve this:
The violent ambush that killed five Dallas police officers and wounded seven more could have been a lot worse, the city's police chief says.
Dallas Chief of Police David Brown told CNN Sunday that the slain gunman told police negotiators he wanted to "kill white people, especially white officers."
Bomb making materials and a journal were found at Johnson's home during a search Friday.
"The material were such that it was large enough to have devastating effects throughout our city and our North Texas area," Brown said.
Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, was killed by police in the deadly attack Thursday night during a protest against police killings of African American men.
Since the shooting deaths of two black men by white police officers over two days last week, protests have been held across the country. Scores of demonstrators have been arrested, with one flash point being the southern city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where DeRay McKesson, one of the most prominent activists linked to the police reform protest movement Black Lives Matter, live streamed his own arrest.
Police defended his arrest as a matter of public safety, but demonstrators told U.S. news outlets they believe McKesson was targeted.
McKesson was freed on bond Sunday afternoon after being charged with obstructing a highway. "I remain disappointed in the Baton Rouge police, who continue to provoke protesters for peacefully protesting. There's a lot of work to be done, with this police department specifically,'' he said.
But Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards disagreed with McKesson's assessment. The governor told a news conference Sunday that he is proud of the state's law enforcement officers, calling their response to the protests "moderate."
In the northern city of St. Paul, Minnesota, where a second man, Philando Castile, was shot to death last week by a policeman after a traffic stop for a broken tail light, hundreds of protesters hurled firecrackers, rocks and bottles at police on Saturday.
The heavily armed officers used smoke grenades and pepper spray to break up the demonstration, with about 100 arrests. Authorities said 27 police officers were injured in the clashes.
Answer: | Who said he wanted to 'kill white people, especially white officers.' |
Teacher:In this task, you are given a question and an answer. Answer "Yes" if the given answer correctly answers the question, otherwise answer "No".
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: what is middle class in the us, Answer: Depending on class model used, the middle class may constitute anywhere from 25% to 66% of households.
Student: | Yes |
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.
Question: "How did Robert Boyle prove how sound waves travel?"
Answer: "He didn't."
Is this answer correct? | no |
Petasites is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae, that are commonly referred to as butterburs and coltsfoots. They are perennial plants with thick, creeping underground rhizomes and large rhubarb-like leaves during the growing season.
Can we infer the following?
They are perennial plants that are a very popular during the flowering season
Options: A. Yes B. It's impossible to say C. No
The answer is: | B. |
Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: (CNN) Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid ripped into Donald Trump on Thursday, calling the Republican presidential nominee a "spoiled brat," "a con artist" and a "human leech who will bleed the country." Reid made the remarks on the Senate floor, where he cited a recent cover story in Newsweek that raised questions about a potential Trump presidency based on his international business ties. The story, written by Kurt Eichenwald, said Trump would be the "most conflicted president in American history" if elected, as "almost every foreign policy decision he makes will raise serious conflicts of interest and ethical quagmires." Reid began his remarks by expressing concern "about the integrity and the security of democracy in America."Harry Reid cited a Newsweek story in critiquing Donald Trump's business connectionsThe Senate minority leader said he was concerned "about the integrity and the security of democracy in America"
Question:How could he understand working people, because he's only out for _."
Output: | Donald Trump |
In this task, you will be shown a passage. You need to write a fill-in-the-gap question based on your understanding of the events that might be inferred from the passage. Your question should be answerable based on the passage and only have one correct answer. Show the gap in your question with a _ .
[EX Q]: They are a mysterious relative of the Neanderthals who are thought to have roamed the plains of Siberia and east Asia long before modern humans arrived on the continent. But little is known about the Denisovans, a sister species of the Neanderthals who first emerged around 200,000 years ago, as so few of their fossilised remains have been discovered. Now researchers have unpicked a tiny piece of the puzzle about how this enigmatic human species lived - they regularly inhabited the same caves. Using pioneering DNA analysis of teeth and a fragment of pinky finger bone found at the Denisova cave in Altai Krai, in the Altai Mountains near Barnaul, Russia, the researchers have discovered they belonged to three individuals who lived there tens of thousands of years apart.Geneticists studied DNA from teeth and a pinky bone from a Siberian caveThey were found to belong to individuals living thousands of years apartIt has provided clues about how this mysterious human species livedThe Denisovans are thought to be a sister species of the Neanderthal
[EX A]: 'Moreover, we find that nuclear diversity among the four _ is higher than among seven Neanderthals for which nuclear DNA have previously been recovered.
[EX Q]: (CNN) A Tennessee teacher who authorities believe abducted a student had conducted research on teen marriage, authorities told HLN on Tuesday night. "That is an issue that we have some major concerns of because it might potentially speak to his intentions for her," Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokesman Josh DeVine said of Tad Cummins. The spokesman said he could not get into specifics. Officials also are trying to authenticate a statement made by the student's family, DeVine said. Elizabeth Thomas had said she was going away for the day but that someone should call police if she wasn't home by evening, a relative told HLN earlier.Elizabeth Thomas asked that police be called if she wasn't home by evening of March 13, brother saysA teacher, Tad Cummins, and the teen disappeared from Tennessee town that day
[EX A]: Four days later, an official reprimand issued to Cummins on February 4, indicated that _ had been in his classroom for a half-hour earlier that day.
[EX Q]: Editor's note: The staff at CNN.com has been intrigued by the journalism of Vice, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York. Motherboard.tv is Vice's site devoted to the overlap between culture and technology. The reports, which are being produced solely by Vice, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process. We believe this unique approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers. Brooklyn, New York (Motherboard.tv) -- Last year, Motherboard went to Bent Festival , the world's premier meeting of circuit benders, music hackers, and broken Speak n' Spells. We spent a day at 81 Front St. in Dumbo, where hackers young and old, expert and amateur, came to break electronics in order to put them back together again, in the DIY spirit of groups like NYC Resistor and musicians like Reed Ghazala and Morton Subotnick. At night, a healthy roster of chiptune musicians and others made music with their homemade gear.Brooklyn's annual Bent Festival is a gathering of music hackersHackers use broken electronic gadgets to make music by "circuit bending"At night, both amateur and expert musicians make music with their homemade gear
[EX A]: | In other words, no sign of the kind of melee happening in the art space just across the street, where the _, the annual circus of the art of "circuit bending," was happening.
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Question: I know that the answer to the question "Zinke is from what?" is in "The element was probably named by the alchemist Paracelsus after the German word Zinke (prong, tooth). German chemist Andreas Sigismund Marggraf is credited with discovering pure metallic zinc in 1746. Work by Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta uncovered the electrochemical properties of zinc by 1800. Corrosion-resistant zinc plating of iron (hot-dip galvanizing) is the major application for zinc. Other applications are in batteries, small non-structural castings, and alloys, such as brass. A variety of zinc compounds are commonly used, such as zinc carbonate and zinc gluconate (as dietary supplements), zinc chloride (in deodorants), zinc pyrithione (anti-dandruff shampoos), zinc sulfide (in luminescent paints), and zinc methyl or zinc diethyl in the organic laboratory.". Can you tell me what it is?
Answer: | German |
A deli is for serving food, not for swimming.
This justifies what answer for what question? Q & A: | Of the below sentences, which one does *not* make sense?
Options:
- Sentence A: "I went swimming at my uncle's house"
- Sentence B: "I went swimming at my uncle's deli."
Sentence B |
In this task, you are given news articles and you need to generate a highlight, i.e., a short summary, with a maximum length of 10 lines.
Ex Input:
(CNN) -- Two hijackers who took over a plane flying from Sudan's Darfur region on Tuesday and diverted it to Libya surrendered to authorities Wednesday, Libyan state media said. The hijacked plane took off from near the Darfur refugee camp of Kalma, which was attacked earlier in the week. The official news agency JANA said the two hijackers surrendered to Libyan authorities in the eastern town of Kufra, where the plane landed, and they were being detained in a hall in the airport there. Their identities were not released. Earlier, the hijackers had released all 87 passengers aboard the plane, but had held on to six crew members while they negotiated with Libyan officials through the pilot about passage to France, JANA said. Libyan officials tried to persuade the hostage-takers to surrender as the hijackers demanded fuel to fly the plane to Paris, France. No details were provided as to how the two surrendered. All of the remaining hostages were freed, and JANA said 20 Sudanese officials were en route to the airport. Libya will send a plane to return the passengers and crew to Khartoum, Sudan, the plane's original destination, JANA said. The Sun Air Boeing 737 airliner was about 10 minutes into a flight from Niyala, Sudan, to Khartoum on Tuesday when the pilot called the control tower and told officials the plane had been hijacked and was heading to Kufra, Sun Air airlines official Murtada Hassan Jumaa told the Al-Arabiya news channel. The hijackers at first wanted to land the plane in Egypt, but the Egyptian government refused them permission, John Ukec, Sudan's ambassador to the United States, said Tuesday. Khaled Deeb, an Al-Jazeera reporter in Tripoli, Libya, said Libyan authorities allowed the plane to land only because the hijackers said they were low on fuel -- "for humanitarian reasons and nothing else." "The fact that the plane was kidnapped from Darfur indicates that one of the militant groups may have prepared for this operation, and the fact that they want to go to France adds more to that theory," Deeb said Tuesday. "The hijackers don't have any clear demands except for fuel and then heading to France." -- CNN's Mustafa Al-Arab contributed to this report .
Ex Output:
NEW: Two hijackers surrender to Libyan authorities .
Hijackers earlier released passengers but had kept crew as hostages .
Sudan plane hijacked shortly after taking off from Darfur region for Khartoum .
Hijackers reportedly wanted fuel to fly to France; no other demands known .
Ex Input:
The gunman who held hostages for more than 16 hours in a Sydney cafe was no stranger to police -- and was on bail for violent criminal offenses at the time of the siege. Man Haron Monis, an Iranian-born refugee who was granted political asylum in Australia in 2001, had "a long history of violent crime, infatuation with extremism and mental instability," Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott told reporters. "It's pretty obvious that the perpetrator was a deeply disturbed individual," he said at a press conference Tuesday, adding that the 50-year-old was "well known" to federal and state police, as well as the Australian Security Intelligence Organization. "But I don't believe he was on a terror watch list at this time." New South Wales Premier Mike Baird said authorities were investigating why Monis -- who was killed in the siege -- was at large, given his criminal background. "We're all outraged that this guy was on the street," he told reporters. "We need to understand why he was. We also need to understand why he wasn't picked up." What we know, what we don't know . Accessory to murder, sex charges . The self-styled Muslim cleric, also known as Sheikh Haron, was facing dozens of charges at the time of the siege, including two counts of being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife, according to the Attorney General of New South Wales. Noleen Hayson Pal was found dead with multiple stab wounds in a stairwell, and her body had been set on fire, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. "They should have put him away and thrown away the key," the dead woman's godfather, Ayyut Khalik, told NBC News. He said Monis used to beat Pal, forcing her to wear a hijab all the time and forbidding her from talking to "outsiders." Court documents show Monis was also facing 45 sex-related charges, including sexual intercourse without consent and aggravated indecent assault. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the initial charges, laid in May 2014, related to an alleged sexual assault on a woman in western Sydney in 2002, before other sex-related charges were added regarding six additional victims. Monis was using the name Mohammad Hassan Manteghi -- his birth name, according to Iran's state news agency IRNA -- and claimed to be a "healer," according to the report. Monis also pleaded guilty last year to writing offensive "poison pen" letters to the families of Australian soldiers who died in Afghanistan, and was sentenced to 300 hours of community service. The letters were "sadistic, wantonly cruel and deeply wounding," one High Court judge said at the time, according to CNN affiliate Seven News. But the criminal accusations against him began even before he came to Australia. Monis fled his homeland in 1995 while being sought for allegedly committing fraud, Iran's semi-official Fars News reported. A spokesperson at Iran's embassy in Canberra told CNN that Tehran had officially requested Monis's extradition but nothing had come of it. Monis had been granted political asylum in 2001 and had had no further contact with his birth country, the spokesperson said. Who were the victims? An extremist theology . Manny Conditsis, a lawyer who acted for Monis in relation to the accessory to murder and letter-writing charges, told CNN his former client had been a cleric in Shiite Iran, but had become critical of the Islamic Republic's government in the late 1990s, and fled to Australia "because he was going to be killed." He had left behind a wife and two children, who he believed Monis had not seen since. Throughout the 2000s, said Conditsis, Monis "became sympathetic to what he perceived ... was the victimization of Muslims and Islamists around the world, and partly at least took up that cause." His broader cause, he said, was lobbying governments around the world, particularly Australia, not to wage wars on Muslim soil. "He was so blinded by that objective that it would seem he had lost sight of objectivity and rationality and acted in extreme ways," he said, describing his former client as "intensely conflicted and contradicted and inconsistent." While older footage of Monis preaching shows him dressed in typical Shiite cleric's attire, in his social media posts, he appears to embrace a radical Sunni extremist theology. He used the Internet to spread extremist beliefs, garnering nearly 13,000 likes on his Facebook page. During the siege, Abbott said, the hostage-taker "sought to cloak his actions with the symbolism of the (ISIS) death cult," Abbott said. On his website, which has now been taken down, there was a pledge of allegiance to the so-called Islamic State terror group. The site describes Monis as a Muslim cleric and activist based in Sydney who has "continuously been under attack & false accusation by the Australian government & media since he started his political letter campaign from 2007." There's a graphic photo of slain children at the top of the site. Under the image, it reads, "This is an evidence for the terrorism of America and its allies including Australia. The result of their airstrikes." A description on the site portrayed Monis as a victim of a political vendetta and compares him to Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who has claimed the sex crime allegations he faces are politically motivated. A YouTube video posted in November shows Monis standing on a street corner, chains draped over him, carrying a sign that says, "I have been tortured in prison for my political letters." Police have refused to comment on that accusation. His last tweet linked to his website, with a haunting message posted the day of his attack on the Sydney cafe: "If we stay silent towards the criminals we cannot have a peaceful society. The more you fight with crime, the more peaceful you are." Conditsis told Australian public broadcaster ABC that Monis was an isolated figure who was probably acting alone. Crisis in a cafe . Monday's hostage situation began around 10 a.m. Hundreds of police officers, including snipers, took position around the Lindt Chocolate Cafe in Sydney's central business district. Australian media captured haunting images of hostages pressing their hands against the cafe's windows. They were reportedly taking turns holding a black flag with Arabic writing on it that said, "There is no God but God and Mohammed is the prophet of God." The man holding the hostages demanded to speak to Abbott. Police were monitoring social media because hostages appeared to be posting information about the man's demands. Hours into the crisis, at least five hostages managed to escape, running terrified toward police in riot gear. That made the hostage-taker furious, reported Chris Reason, a correspondent for CNN affiliate Seven Network. Reason said he could see the gunman become "extremely agitated" when he realized what had happened, and he "started screaming orders" at the remaining hostages. Gunfire erupted early Tuesday as police stormed the cafe where the gunman had been holding hostages. Two hostages were killed during the standoff. Police later announced that the siege was over and that the lone gunman had been killed.
Ex Output:
Man Haron Monis had history of "infatuation with extremism and mental instability," Abbott says .
Hostage-taker was granted political asylum in Australia in 2001; was on bail for violent offending .
His former lawyer says he campaigned against "the victimization of Muslims and Islamists"
On Monis' apparent website, there is a pledge of allegiance to ISIS .
Ex Input:
Actor Russell Johnson, best known as Professor in the 1960s TV sitcom "Gilligan's Island," died Thursday, his agent said. Johnson was 89. Johnson played the iconic role of Professor Roy Hinkley, whose scientific schemes to get the castaways rescued were always foiled by Gilligan's bumbling. He died at his home in Washington, where he lived with his wife, Connie. She and their daughter, Kimberly, were at his side, said agent Mike Eisenstadt. Johnson is also survived by a stepson, Court, and a grandson, he said. Johnson worked up until his death, signing autographs over the holidays, said Eisenstadt. He called Johnson's death "unexpected." The chief deputy coroner in Kitsap County, Washington, told CNN that Johnson died from natural causes. Johnson was "just a positive and nice guy" who always treated people with respect, his agent said. His acting career began in the early 1950s with many jobs as a character actor on television. He played Marshal Gib Scott in two seasons of "Black Saddle," a Western that ran in 1959 and 1960. Johnson acted in dozens of television shows after the four seasons on "Gilligan's Island," but his career seemed stranded on its own island because of the popular sitcom role. A noteworthy big screen role was as a nuclear physicist in the 1955 science fiction film "This Island Earth." Share your memories . Johnson was in Ray Bradbury's 1953 sci-fi classic "It Came From Outer Space." Before becoming an actor, Johnson served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. He was on a B-24 Liberator when it was shot down during a bombing raid over the Philippines in 1945, according to his official biography, and used his G.I. Bill benefits to pay for acting school after the war. Johnson, in a 2004 interview for the Archive of American Television said the success of "Gilligan's Island, which he never expected to last more than the initial order of 13 episodes, was the result of the "great chemistry" of the cast. Tina Louise, who played the glamorous Hollywood starlet Ginger on "Gilligan's Island said she was " very saddened to hear of the passing of Russell Johnson." "My prayers and condolences go out to his wife Constance and his family," Louise said. "He will always be in our hearts and remembered from Gilligan's island as part of American pop culture history. He will truly be missed." Advice to young actors . Johnson's advice to young actors was to "prepare yourself." "Most of us have to really learn how to do what we do, and that takes some studying and being part of an acting group," he said. "Preparation is everything, and that means studying." Another important ingredient to acting success is perseverance, he said. "You can have all the talent in the world, but if you don't persevere, if you don't stick to it, it doesn't mean anything."
Ex Output:
| Johnson played the iconic role of Professor Roy Hinkley on "Gilligan's Island"
Johnson worked up until his death, signing autographs over holidays .
He was "just a positive and nice guy," his agent says .
Johnson, 89, was an Army Air Forces veteran of World War II .
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Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
FIXED COST - A cost that does not vary in the short term with the volume of activity. Fixed cost information is useful for cost savings by adjusting existing capacity, or by eliminating idle facilities.
FIXED COST- Cost that doesn't vary short term with volume of activity. fixed cost information is useful for savings by adjusting existing capacity.
"We should do everything we can to get this resolved and find a way to have [Saddam Hussein] removed from office one way or another."
We should do everything to get this resolved and find a way to have removed from office.
For our purposes, we can represent growing product diversity in the form of a "fashion triangle" (Figure 1.1). Apparel items at the very top of this triangle include dresses from Paris, Milan, and New York runways, which represent a very small share of apparel sold.
| We can represent growing product diversity in the form of a "fashion triangle." Apparel items at the very top of this triange include from Paris, Milan , and New York, which is a very small share.
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Q: In this task, you will be presented with a question and you have to answer the question based on your knowledge. Your answers should be as short as possible.
How many total U-boat types were commanded by the commander of the submarine launched in July 1936 ?
A: | 3 |
InstitutionCounciloftheEuropeanUnionRepresentativesofthegovernmentsoftheMemberStateswhoregularlytakepartinCouncilmeetingsPolandSTACHANCZYKPiotr
What's a sentence that uses these characters? | Institution Council of the European Union Representatives of the governments of the Member States who regularly take part in Council meetings Poland STACHANCZYK Piotr |
In this task, given a sentence in the English language, your task is to convert it into the Malay language.
Q: After a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Berlin, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, "The Syrian government did not meet the legitimate demands of the Syrian people."
A: | Selepas satu mesyuarat menteri-menteri luar negeri NATO di Berlin, Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat Hillary Clinton berkata, "Kerajaan Syria tidak memenuhi tuntutan sah rakyat Syria." |
Question: Given the following passage "The island has two local newspapers, both of which are available on the Internet. The St Helena Independent has been published since November 2005. The Sentinel newspaper was introduced in 2012.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: Where is the St. Helena paper located
Answer: | The island |
Q: Generate a correct and concise answer for the question based on the words in the context.
Context : Eva Mori (born 13 March 1996) is a Slovenian female volleyball player, playing as a setter.
Question : Was Eva Mori male or female?
A: | female |
Given a passage and a query based on the passage, generate an unambiguous, concise and simple answer to the query from information in the passage. Note that the answer may not be present in exact form.
[Q]: Signs and symptoms of autism in babies and toddlers. If autism is caught in infancy, treatment can take full advantage of the young brain’s remarkable plasticity. Although autism is hard to diagnose before 24 months, symptoms often surface between 12 and 18 months. If signs are detected by 18 months of age, intensive treatment may help to rewire the brain and reverse the symptoms. If you notice any of these signs or have concerns about your child's development, talk with his doctor. Signs of autism in babies younger than 12 months old. At this age, picking up on signs of autism involves paying attention to whether your child is meeting developmental milestones. Here are some things to watch for: Doesn't show interest in faces. Doesn't make eye contact, doesn't smile, and may even seem to look right through you. Does My Child Have Autism? Recognizing the Early Signs and Symptoms of Autism. As a parent, you never want to believe that your precious bundle has a problem. But when it comes to autism, catching it early—ideally by the age of eighteen months—makes a huge difference. But no matter your child's age, don't lose hope. It's important to note that, unlike kids with autism, those with AS might show no delays in language development; they usually have good grammar skills and an advanced vocabulary at an early age. However, many do have a language disorder — for instance, a child might be very literal and have trouble using language in a social context. For parents, the first months after learning that their child has a developmental disorder can be emotional, confusing and challenging. For this reason, Autism Speaks has developed the 100 Day Tool Kit, to help families navigate the often-tumultuous first 100 days after a child’s diagnosis. Knowing you have autism may help you understand why you may feel differently or see yourself as being different but it doesn’t have to define you.” Your provider can help with this discussion with your child so ask if you are unsure of where to start or if you are having difficulty describing autism as anything but a disability. We hope this helps give you some ideas on when and how to talk with your child about having an autism diagnosis. Finally, get information and support from credible organizations like Autism Speaks, the Autism Science Foundation, and the Autism Society. If there’s one thing that the statistics tell us, it’s that families with autistic children are not alone. Autism Speaks' multi-year Ad Council public service advertising campaign stresses the importance of recognizing the early signs of autism and seeking early intervention services. Recent research confirms that appropriate screening can determine whether a child is at risk for autism as young as one year. The most recent statistics show that 1 in 68 children are now being diagnosed with autism. While diagnosis is on the rise, a child typically is not diagnosed by a professional until he or she is over two years old. However, there are signs that could indicate your child is on the spectrum as early as six months of age. Signs and symptoms can vary, as can the severity of the symptoms. Be sure to monitor your child’s development, and consult your doctor if anything concerns you. It’s important to note that autism in infants can be recognized by a lack of normal behavior, rather than the presence of strange behaviors. 9. Lack of smiling Rather than describe autism as a disability, think of it as a way to describe the way your child’s brain works. Point out the strengths of having a brain that works this way – “You have a great memory” or “You see details that others miss”. There is no right age to tell your child – it’s more a matter of right developmental level. Kindergarten and 1st grade are a time when kids start to see differences and hear descriptive words to describe or group kids such as the kids who are “busy”, “shy”, “active”. Query: at what age can you tell that a child has autism
[A]: You can tell that a child has autism at the age of younger than 12 months old.
[Q]: They mostly stay underwater for 3 to 8 minutes. However, longer periods of up to 30 minutes 50 to 80 minutes A:a whale can stay under water for more than a hour. it can stay i…n water for about 50-80 minutes. Up to 30 min. The Sperm whale can hold its breath for up to 90 minutes. Human beings can hold their breath under water for an average of one minute. A hippopotamus can stay underwater for 15 minutes. The sperm whale and bottlenose whale can stay underwater the longest: some have been recorded on dives that lasted nearly two hours. a blue whale can reportedly hold it breath for up to 20 minutes. How long whales stay under water during normal feeding dives and how long. they can stay under water if they have to is quite different. Blue whales can. a blue whale can reportedly hold it breath for up to 20 minutes.How long whales stay under water during normal feeding dives and how longthey can stay. · just now. 1 My whale can stay underwater indefinitely, it's just a toy. 2 My whale stays in the shower until the hot water runs out. 3 The average length of a killer whales' dive is about 10 minutes with a max dive time of about 15 minutes. 4 a whale can stay under water for 1-2.5 hours. 5 1-2 hours. 6 I have never timed my whale when it is underwater. a blue whale can reportedly hold it breath for up to 20 minutes. How long whales stay under water during normal feeding dives and how long they can stay under water if they have to is quite different. Blue whales can stay submerged for about 40 min but their dive lengths are more on the order of 10-15 min. Hope this helped! Best Answer: It depends on the type of whale. Killer whales can hold their breath for about 20 minutes while Sperm whales can hold their breath for over an hour! If the whale is a deep-diving whale, it can typically hold it's breath longer than more shallow diving whales. Also, dolphins (a killer whale is the largest in the dolphin family) can't hold their breath as long as true whales. They mostly stay underwater for 3 to 8 minutes. However, longer periods of up to 30 minutes 50 to 80 minutes A:a whale can stay under water for more than a hour. it can stay i … n water for about 50-80 minutes. Up to 30 min. The Sperm whale can hold its breath for up to 90 minutes. My whale can stay underwater indefinitely, it's just a toy. live whales on the other hand can stay under until they need to take a breath, or until they drown, after which they'll float back to the surface temporarily. I don't know if you realized but there are many different species of whale. My whale stays in the shower until the hot water runs out. The average length of a killer whales' dive is about 10 minutes with a max dive time of about 15 minutes. a whale can stay under water for 1-2.5 hours I can only stay underwater for 1 minute. 1-2 hours. I have never timed my whale when it is underwater. Query: how long can a blue whale stay underwater
[A]: A blue whale can stay for up to 20 minutes in underwater.
[Q]: SMRT-Y Kit Includes: 1 Controller User Interface. 2 In-Ground Soil Moisture Sensor. 3 Anodized, rust-proof screws, 1.5 (two per package) 4 Wire nuts – 5 blue, 2 gray, 1 yellow. 5 Multilingual instruction manual, “Quick Start” Guide and sticker that reads: “This controller is connected to a Rain Bird Soil Moisture Sensor”. Turns any controller into a smart controller. The SMRT-Y Soil Moisture Sensor Kit is an easy to install add-on to any standard irrigation system that directly links your irrigation controller to your landscapes moisture requirements. Program the controller to water every day that irrigation is allowed, and the soil moisture sensor will do the rest. As the SMRT-Y optimizes moisture at the root zone, you will enjoy a lush, healthier landscape that is less prone to fungus and shallow root growth. User Interface with LCD Readout. 1 Touchpad keys with digital LCD readout displays: 2 Automatic moisture threshold setting with increase/decrease adjustment. 3 Sensor bypass touchpad key for easy deactivation. 4 Up to two independent zones can be isolated from sensor. 5 Designed for outdoor installation. The moisture sensor works when the series of discs in the sensor expands they get wet, and to a certain size, they flip a micro switch, this interrupts the current going from the controller to the valves, whereby the controller will tell the valves to start watering in the middle of a rainstorm, if the valves do not get the memo then they don't turn ... A moisture sensor estimates the amount of water in the soil that is being tested. It works by measuring the soil's ability to conduct electricity, higher moisture means more c…onducting power. The reason that some look down on soil moisture meters is because of the plethora of crappy and cheap ones that don't actually work well... but not all meters are bad. I use this soil moisture sensor in my house for my potted plants, and I actually have been very pleased with it. Advanced TDT Digital Soil Moisture Sensor. 1 Sensor uses Time Domain Transmissometry (TDT) and digital signal processing to measure soil moisture content accurately and consistently. 2 Corrosion-resistant in-ground sensor made of high-grade 304 stainless steel. 3 No maintenance sensor – just bury and forget. soil moisture meters are garbage!! Lift up a bone dry pot and feel what it weighs. thatll give you an idea. like he said ! ... use your fingers.... a couple inches deep and still dry its time to water! I dont water heavey. I find it better to water lightly more often (2-3 days) instead of drenching the soil. At field capacity most soils have a soil moisture tension between 0.05 and 0.33 bars. Soils classified as sandy may have field capacity tensions around 0.10 bars, while clayey soil will have field capacity at a tension around 0.33 bars. At field capacity it is relatively easy for a plant to remove water from the soil. Discussion in 'Organics' started by BillyBonnie, May 30, 2012. BillyBonnie New Member. I get so tired of trying to guess when my plants need water. eDude Well-Known Member. I was born with ten soil moister meters.. nastynate420 Active Member. soil moisture meters are garbage!! BillyBonnie New Member. Query: how does a soil moisture sensor work
[A]: | A soil moisture sensor works by measuring the soil's ability to conduct electricity.
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Given the task definition and input, reply with output. You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
In the United States of America, individuals and corporations pay U.S. federal income tax on the net total of all their capital gains. The tax rate depends on both the investor's tax bracket and the amount of time the investment was held. Short-term capital gains are taxed at the investor's ordinary income tax rate and are defined as investments held for a year or less before being sold. Long-term capital gains, on dispositions of assets held for more than one year, are taxed at a lower rate.
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Q: Pick which sentence is not logical.
Options:
- Sentence A: "We must violate the statute of this country."
- Sentence B: "We must obey the statute of this country."
Let's solve this gradually.
| If you violate the law, you will be punished. The answer is Sentence A. |
[Q]: Generate an approximately fifteen-word sentence that describes all of Fitzbillies eatType coffee shop; Fitzbillies customer rating high; Fitzbillies area city centre; Fitzbillies familyFriendly yes
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[A]: Fitzbillies, located north of the city centre, is a family friendly coffee and sushi shop that is mid-priced and has 5 stars.
[Q]: Generate an approximately fifteen-word sentence that describes all of UCLA Medical Center #_BEDS 668
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[A]: UCLA Medical Center has 668 beds.
[Q]: Generate an approximately fifteen-word sentence that describes all of William Anders DATE_OF_RETIREMENT "1969-09-01"; William Anders WAS_SELECTED_BY_NASA 1963; William Anders NATIONALITY United States; William Anders DATE_OF_BIRTH "1933-10-17"; William Anders OCCUPATION Fighter pilot; William Anders BIRTH_PLACE British Hong Kong; William Anders WAS_A_CREW_MEMBER_OF Apollo 8
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[A]: William Anders was a US National born in British Hong Kong in 1933. He was selected by NASA in 1963 where he crewed Apollo 8 as a Fighter pilot. He retired in 1969.
[Q]: Generate an approximately fifteen-word sentence that describes all of The Olive Grove eatType pub; The Olive Grove priceRange moderate; The Olive Grove area riverside; The Olive Grove familyFriendly yes
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[A]: | Along the riverside, there is a moderately priced, kids friendly pub, called The Olive Grove. |
Question: Information: - Landover is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 23,078. - Borden Bridge is an abandoned arch bridge that spans across the North Saskatchewan River near Borden, Saskatchewan, Canada. The bridge used to carry vehicular traffic from Saskatchewan Highway 16, but is now open to foot traffic only. - William Albert Hajt ( born November 18 , 1951 in Radisson , Saskatchewan and raised in Borden , Saskatchewan ) is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the NHL from 1973 until 1987 . He is the father of Guelph Storm assistant coach Chris Hajt who played six games in the National Hockey League for the Edmonton Oilers and the Washington Capitals . Hajt was drafted 33rd overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1971 NHL Amateur Draft . He played 854 career NHL games , all with the Sabres , scoring 42 goals and 202 assists for 244 points . His highest point total of his career was actually his rookie season , when he registered 29 points and a plus minus rating of +47 . - The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over a land area of just , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. A global power city, New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term "New York minute". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. - Ontario, one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada, is located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province by a large margin, accounting for nearly 40 percent of all Canadians, and is the second-largest province in total area. Ontario is fourth-largest in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto. - The major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada are the highest professional competitions of team sports in the United States and Canada. The four leagues universally included in the definition are Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), and the National Hockey League (NHL). Other prominent leagues include Major League Soccer (MLS) and the Canadian Football League (CFL). - The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). - Defence (defense in the USA) in ice hockey is a player position whose primary responsibility is to prevent the opposing team from scoring. They are often referred to as defencemen, D, D-men or blueliners (the latter a reference to the blue line in ice hockey which represents the boundary of the offensive zone; defencemen generally position themselves along the line to keep the puck in the zone). They were once called cover-point. A good defenceman is both strong in defensive and offensive play and for defenceman pairing also need to be good at defending and attacking. - Borden (2011 population 245) is a village in Great Bend Rural Municipality No. 405, Saskatchewan, Canada. Borden is named after Sir Frederick William Borden, Minister of Militia in the Laurier Cabinet. An abandoned arch bridge of the same name (Borden Bridge) is located to the southeast and once carried Highway 16 across the North Saskatchewan River. - Alberta is a western province of Canada. With an estimated population of 4,196,457 as of July 1, 2015, it is Canada's fourth-most populous province and the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces. Its area is about . Alberta and its neighbour Saskatchewan were districts of the Northwest Territories until they were established as provinces on September 1, 1905. The premier has been Rachel Notley since May 2015. - A team sport includes any sport which involves two or more players working together towards a shared objective. A team sport is an activity in which individuals are organized into opposing teams which compete to win. Examples are basketball, volleyball, water polo, handball, lacrosse, cricket, baseball, and the various forms of football and hockey. - Edmonton is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region. - Radisson is a town in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. It was named after Pierre-Esprit Radisson (16361710), an explorer who was instrumental in the creation of Hudson's Bay Company. - The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff winner. Originally commissioned in 1892 as the "Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup", the trophy is named for Lord Stanley of Preston, thenGovernor General of Canada, who awarded it to Canada's top-ranking amateur ice hockey club, which the entire Stanley family supported, with the sons and daughters playing and promoting the game. The first Cup was awarded in 1893 to Montreal HC, and subsequent winners from 1893 to 1914 were determined by challenge games and league play. Professional teams first became eligible to challenge for the Stanley Cup in 1906. In 1915, the two professional ice hockey organizations, the National Hockey Association (NHA) and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA), reached a gentlemen's agreement in which their respective champions would face each other annually for the Stanley Cup. After a series of league mergers and folds, it was established as the "de facto" championship trophy of the NHL in 1926 and then the "de jure" NHL championship prize in 1947. - The National Hockey League (NHL) is a professional ice hockey league currently composed of 31 member clubs. Of the 30 clubs currently playing, 23 are in the United States and 7 in Canada. Headquartered in New York City, the NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the end of each season. - Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636/16401710) was a French fur trader and explorer. He is often linked to his brother-in-law Médard des Groseilliers. The decision of Radisson and Groseilliers to enter the English service led to the formation of the Hudson's Bay Company. His career was particularly notable for its repeated transitions between serving Britain and France. - The Guelph Storm are a major junior ice hockey team based in Guelph, Ontario. They have played in the OHL since the 199192 season. The team plays home games at the Sleeman Centre. - The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), commonly referred to as The Bay (La Baie in French), is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, Hudson's Bay Company now owns and operates retail stores throughout Canada, Belgium, Germany, and the United States with Galeria Kaufhof, Gilt, Hudson's Bay, Home Outfitters, Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH. HBC's head office is in the Simpson Tower in Toronto, Ontario. The company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "HBC". - Guelph (Canada 2011 Census population 121,688) is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as "The Royal City", Guelph is roughly east of Waterloo and west of Downtown Toronto at the intersection of Highway 6 and Highway 7. It is the seat of Wellington County, but is politically independent of it. - Saskatchewan (or ) is a prairie and boreal province in west-central Canada, the only province without natural borders. It has an area of , nearly 10 percent of which is fresh water, composed mostly of rivers, reservoirs, and the province's 100,000 lakes. - Ice is water frozen into a solid state. Depending on the presence of impurities such as particles of soil or bubbles of air, it can appear transparent or a more or less opaque bluish-white color. - A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. - Maryland is a state located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. The state's largest city is Baltimore, and its capital is Annapolis. Among its occasional nicknames are "Old Line State", the "Free State", and the "Chesapeake Bay State". The state is named after Henrietta Maria of France, the wife of Charles I of England. - Canada (French: ) is a country in the northern half of North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering , making it the world's second-largest country by total area and the fourth-largest country by land area. Canada's border with the United States is the world's longest land border. The majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its land territory being dominated by forest and tundra and the Rocky Mountains. About four-fifths of the country's population of 36 million people is urbanized and live near the southern border. Its capital is Ottawa, its largest city is Toronto; other major urban areas include Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg and Hamilton. - In ice hockey, the goaltender is the player responsible for preventing the hockey puck from entering their team's net, thus preventing the opposing team from scoring. The goaltender usually plays in or near the area in front of the net called the "goal crease" (often referred to simply as " the crease" or "the net"). Goaltenders tend to stay at or beyond the top of the crease to cut down on the angle of shots. In today's age of goaltending there are two common styles, butterfly and hybrid (hybrid is a mix of the traditional stand-up style and butterfly technique). Because of the power of shots, the goaltender wears special equipment designed to protect the body from direct impact. The goalie is one of the most valuable players on the ice, as their performance can greatly change the outcome or score of the game. One-on-one situations, such as breakaways and shootouts, have the tendency to highlight a goaltender's pure skill, or lack thereof. Only one goaltender is allowed to be on the ice for each team at any given time. - Christopher William Hajt (born July 5, 1978) is a former Canadian-born American ice hockey defenceman and the son of former NHLer Bill Hajt. - The Verizon Center, formerly known as the MCI Center, is a sports and entertainment arena in Washington, D.C. - Junior hockey is ice hockey competition generally for players between 16 and 21 years of age. Junior hockey leagues in the United States and Canada are considered amateur (with some exceptions) and operate within regions of each country. - The Capital Centre (later known as USAir Arena) was an indoor arena in the eastern United States, located in Landover, Maryland, a suburb east of Washington, D.C. Opened in late 1973, it was the primary home for the Washington Bullets of the National Basketball Association and the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League. The Bullets moved to the Washington area from nearby Baltimore, and the Capitals were an expansion team in the arena's second year. The seating capacity was 18,756 for basketball and 18,130 for hockey. - Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points. Ice hockey teams usually consist of six players each: one goaltender, and five players who skate up and down the ice trying to take the puck and score a goal against the opposing team. - The Washington Capitals (often shortened to Caps) are a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C. They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). Since their founding in , the Capitals have won one conference championship (in 1998), and nine division titles. In , the team moved their home ice hockey rink from the suburban Capital Centre (located in Landover, Maryland) to the new Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. After reading the paragraphs above, choose the best answer for the entity that related to 'bill hajt' with the relationship of 'given name'. Choices: - albert - alberta - america - an - are - art - bill - c . - charles - christopher - des - forest - france - frederick - french - hamilton - hudson - junior - jure - laurier - médard - pace - pierre - puck - rachel - stanley - storm - taylor - urban - virginia - washington - water - wellington - william
Answer: | bill |
Choices:
A). description;
B). entity;
C). abbreviation;
D). human;
E). numeric;
F). location;Would the answer to the question "In what part of the world is Mozambique ?" be an entity, an abbreviation, a description, a human, a location, or a numeric value?
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What is a shorter version of this:
world leaders said they were deeply troubled by political developments in nepal after king gyanendra dismissed the government and declared a state of emergency , calling it a setback for democracy .
Summary: | nepal 's king dismisses government assumes power cuts nation off from world |
In this task, you are given a question and an answer, you would be asked to create the sentence based on the Question-Answer provided. It should be contained within the Question-Answer provided.
Ex Input:
Question: Exposure to what can increase the amount of pigment in the skin and make it appear darker? Answer: ultraviolet radiation
Ex Output:
Exposure to ultraviolet radiation can increase the amount of pigment in the skin and make it appear darker.
Ex Input:
Question: Protists are classified as animal-like, plant-like, or what else? Answer: fungus-like
Ex Output:
Protists are classified as animal-like, plant-like, or fungus-like else.
Ex Input:
Question: Which form of dialysis has a patient’s blood pass through a length of tubing that travels through an artificial kidney machine? Answer: hemodialysis
Ex Output:
| Hemodialysis has a patient’s blood pass through a length of tubing that travels through an artificial kidney machine.
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Please answer this: Extract the answer to the question from the following context. Question: What diameter was used prior to the 10 inch record? Context: Eventually the 12-inch (300 mm) 33 1⁄3 rpm LP prevailed as the predominant format for musical albums, and 10-inch LPs were no longer issued. The last Columbia Records reissue of any Frank Sinatra songs on a 10-inch LP record was an album called Hall of Fame, CL 2600, issued on October 26, 1956, containing six songs, one each by Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney, Johnnie Ray, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, and Frankie Laine. The 10-inch LP however had a longer life in the United Kingdom, where important early British rock and roll albums such as Lonnie Donegan's Lonnie Donegan Showcase and Billy Fury's The Sound of Fury were released in that form. The 7-inch (175 mm) 45 rpm disc or "single" established a significant niche for shorter duration discs, typically containing one item on each side. The 45 rpm discs typically emulated the playing time of the former 78 rpm discs, while the 12-inch LP discs eventually provided up to one half-hour of recorded material per side.
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Answer: 7-inch
Problem: Extract the answer to the question from the following context. Question: Of the youngest students, what percentage were not residents? Context: During the 2009–10 school year, there were a total of 10,979 pupils attending classes in Bern. There were 89 kindergarten classes with a total of 1,641 pupils in the municipality. Of the kindergarten pupils, 32.4% were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 40.2% have a different mother language than the classroom language. The municipality had 266 primary classes and 5,040 pupils. Of the primary pupils, 30.1% were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 35.7% have a different mother language than the classroom language. During the same year, there were 151 lower secondary classes with a total of 2,581 pupils. There were 28.7% who were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 32.7% have a different mother language than the classroom language.
A: 32.4%
Problem: Given the question: Extract the answer to the question from the following context. Question: Why was Rome less stable after the second century? Context: The Roman Empire reached its greatest territorial extent during the 2nd century AD; the following two centuries witnessed the slow decline of Roman control over its outlying territories. Economic issues, including inflation, and external pressure on the frontiers combined to make the 3rd century politically unstable, with emperors coming to the throne only to be rapidly replaced by new usurpers. Military expenses increased steadily during the 3rd century, mainly in response to the war with Sassanid Persia, which revived in the middle of the 3rd century. The army doubled in size, and cavalry and smaller units replaced the legion as the main tactical unit. The need for revenue led to increased taxes and a decline in numbers of the curial, or landowning, class, and decreasing numbers of them willing to shoulder the burdens of holding office in their native towns. More bureaucrats were needed in the central administration to deal with the needs of the army, which led to complaints from civilians that there were more tax-collectors in the empire than tax-payers.
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The answer is:
Economic issues
input question: Extract the answer to the question from the following context. Question: what location contained france? Context: During the Middle Ages, Paris was a center of Jewish learning with famous Talmudic scholars, such as Yechiel of Paris who took part in the Disputation of Paris between Christian and Jewish intellectuals. The Parisian Jewish community was victim of persecution, alternating expulsions and returns, until France became the first country in Europe to emancipate its Jewish population during the French Revolution. Although 75% of the Jewish population in France survived the Holocaust during World War II, half the city's Jewish population perished in Nazi concentration camps, while some others fled abroad. A large migration of North Africa Sephardic Jews settled Paris in the 1960s, and represent most of the Paris Jewish community today. There are currently 83 synagogues in the city; The Marais-quarter Agoudas Hakehilos Synagogue, built in 1913 by architect Hector Guimard, is a Paris landmark.???
output answer: Europe
Extract the answer to the question from the following context. Question: What was Moulin Rouge famous for? Context: The music hall and cabaret are famous Paris institutions. The Moulin Rouge was opened in 1889. It was highly visible because of its large red imitation windmill on its roof, and became the birthplace of the dance known as the French Cancan. It helped make famous the singers Mistinguett and Édith Piaf and the painter Toulouse-Lautrec, who made posters for the venue. In 1911, the dance hall Olympia Paris invented the grand staircase as a settling for its shows, competing with its great rival, the Folies Bergère, Its stars in the 1920s included the American singer and dancer Josephine Baker. The Casino de Paris presented many famous French singers, including Mistinguett, Maurice Chevalier, and Tino Rossi. Other famous Paris music halls include Le Lido, on the Champs-Élysées, opened in 1946; and the Crazy Horse Saloon, featuring strip-tease, dance and magic, opened in 1951. The Olympia Paris has presented Edith Piaf, Marlene Dietrich, Miles Davis, Judy Garland, and the Grateful Dead. A half dozen music halls exist today in Paris, attended mostly visitors to the city.
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Answer: singers Mistinguett and Édith Piaf and the painter Toulouse-Lautrec
Q: Extract the answer to the question from the following context. Question: Even though considered monogamous, what do birds sometimes commit? Context: Ninety-five percent of bird species are socially monogamous. These species pair for at least the length of the breeding season or—in some cases—for several years or until the death of one mate. Monogamy allows for both paternal care and biparental care, which is especially important for species in which females require males' assistance for successful brood-rearing. Among many socially monogamous species, extra-pair copulation (infidelity) is common. Such behaviour typically occurs between dominant males and females paired with subordinate males, but may also be the result of forced copulation in ducks and other anatids. Female birds have sperm storage mechanisms that allow sperm from males to remain viable long after copulation, a hundred days in some species. Sperm from multiple males may compete through this mechanism. For females, possible benefits of extra-pair copulation include getting better genes for her offspring and insuring against the possibility of infertility in her mate. Males of species that engage in extra-pair copulations will closely guard their mates to ensure the parentage of the offspring that they raise.
A: | infidelity |
Please answer the following question: Extract the answer to the question from the following context. Question: Does the fire apparatus fleet have more engines or ladders? Context: Oklahoma City is protected by the Oklahoma City Fire Department (OKCFD), which employs 1015 paid, professional firefighters. The current Chief of Department is G. Keith Bryant, the department is also commanded by three Deputy Chiefs, who – along with the department chief – oversee the Operational Services, Prevention Services, and Support Services bureaus. The OKCFD currently operates out of 37 fire stations, located throughout the city in six battalions. The OKCFD also operates a fire apparatus fleet of 36 engines (including 30 paramedic engines), 13 ladders, 16 brush patrol units, six water tankers, two hazardous materials units, one Technical Rescue Unit, one Air Supply Unit, six Arson Investigation Units, and one Rehabilitation Unit. Each engine is staffed with a driver, an officer, and one to two firefighters, while each ladder company is staffed with a driver, an officer, and one firefighter. Minimum staffing per shift is 213 personnel. The Oklahoma City Fire Department responds to over 70,000 emergency calls annually.
Answer: | engines |
In this task, you will be shown a conversation and a question. You need to answer the question and choose the correct option based on the conversation. "W" and "M" in the conversations stand for "woman" and "man".
Ex Input:
M: Excuse me. Shall I book a double room for several days? W: Oh, yes. When will you arrive? M: We'll check in on Saturday and out on Tuesday. Is that all right? W: No problem., Question: Where does the conversation probably take place? (A) On the street. (B) At a hotel. (C) At a shop.
Ex Output:
(B) At a hotel.
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W: Your spoken English is very good. I like it very much. M: Thank you! You see, I've ever stay de in England for five years and for five years and during that time my oral English was improved a lot., Question: How long did the man stay in England? (A) Two years. (B) Five years. (C) Four years.
Ex Output:
(B) Five years.
Ex Input:
W: Hello, emergency line. What can I do for you? M: I am calling to report an accident. W: Could you give me some details, sir? M: A truck hit a car on Highway 204. W: Has anyone been badly hurt? M: I'm not quite sure. The driver of the truck says he is OK. But the lady in the car might have broken her leg. W: May I have your name, sir? M: Daniel Smith. W: OK, Mr. Smith. We'll send an ambulance and a police car immediately. It's 11:55 now, and they should be there by 12:05. Thanks., Question: How soon will help come? (A) In five minutes. (B) In ten minutes. (C) In fifteen minutes.
Ex Output:
| (B) In ten minutes.
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In this task, you need to translate the given English sentence to the French language
[EX Q]: What materials can I use?
[EX A]: Que puis-je disséminer?
[EX Q]: What is really the scope of our practice?
[EX A]: Quel est réellement notre champ d'activité?
[EX Q]: Why should I use My Business Account?
[EX A]: | Pourquoi devrais-je utiliser Mon dossier d'entreprise?
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Problem: Continue the following story.
The man went to the hospital instead of going to the theater because sick people went to the
Here's how I want to continue it: hospital .
Problem: Continue the following story.
The yard of Rachel was a disaster compared to the yard of Victoria, by reason of
Here's how I want to continue it: Victoria being diligent.
Problem: Continue the following story.
Donald's car started, but Nelson's car did not, because
Here's how I want to continue it: | Nelson put his spark plugs in backwards. |
Part 1. Definition
In this task, you're given a text which is the body of the document. Indicate your answer as "Yes" if the text is about a person, otherwise indicate your answer as "No". Don't generate anything else apart from "Yes" or "No". Pay attention that for your answer to be "Yes", the passage should be generally about a person. Mentions of people in the text don't necessarily mean the text is about a person.
Part 2. Example
Text: The third and current HMS Argyll is a Type 23 'Duke' Class frigate. She is currently the oldest serving Type 23 frigate in the Royal Navy. Like all of her class she is named for a British dukedom in this case that of Argyll.
Answer: No
Explanation: HMS Argyll is a frigate which a warship. Clearly the text is not about a person. Hence, the answer is No.
Part 3. Exercise
Text: Jennifer Paige (born September 3 1973) is an American singer-songwriter. She is best known for the 1998 pop hit Crush.
Answer: | Yes |
Does "Today, genetic modification of the Ti plasmid is one of the main techniques for introduction of transgenes to plants and the creation of genetically modified crops." contain the correct answer to "How can scientists use bacteria in the study of plants?"
OPTIONS:
- yes
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A: no
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In 1920, the League of Nations mandated the country to South Africa, which imposed its laws and, from 1948, its apartheid policy.
What year did the League of Nations mandate Namibia to South Africa?
answer: yes
[Q]: Sentence: The Tucson Padres played at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium from 2011 to 2013. Question: What team played at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium in 2011-2013? OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
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[A]: yes
Q: Does "In 2014, IBM announced that it would go "fabless" by offloading IBM Micro Electronics semiconductor manufacturing to GlobalFoundries, a leader in advanced technology manufacturing, citing that semiconductor manufacturing is a capital-intensive business which is challenging to operate without scale." provide a valid answer to "What was the name of the company that IBM Micro Electronics was offloaded to?"?
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A: yes
Problem: Does "In mammals and plants, the major part of the genome is composed of repetitive DNA." answer the question "What two types of organisms have remarkable differences in their genomic composition?" OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
A: no
Does "This can allow an insect to return unerringly to a single hole a few millimeters in diameter among thousands of apparently identical holes clustered together, after a trip of up to several kilometers' distance." contain the correct answer to "An insect recalling a specific location for up to a year is called what?"
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A: | no |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you are given a sentence in English, and your task is to translate it into Persian.
Both western media and Chinese media have been writing a lot about the record levels of smog in eastern China during the past week.
Output: | در طول هفته گذشته، رسانههای غربی و چینی درباره میزان گرد و غبار در آسمانهای شرق چین مطالب بسیاری نوشتهاند. |
Please answer the following question: Given the following passage "The Oklahoma City National Memorial in the northern part of Oklahoma City's downtown was created as the inscription on its eastern gate of the Memorial reads, "to honor the victims, survivors, rescuers, and all who were changed forever on April 19, 1995"; the memorial was built on the land formerly occupied by the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building complex prior to its 1995 bombing. The outdoor Symbolic Memorial can be visited 24 hours a day for free, and the adjacent Memorial Museum, located in the former Journal Record building damaged by the bombing, can be entered for a small fee. The site is also home to the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, a non-partisan, nonprofit think tank devoted to the prevention of terrorism.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: What was kept in the building damaged in the explosion
Answer: | Journal Record |
You are given a sentence in Japanese. Your job is to translate the Japanese sentence into English.
Q: オガンディーロさんが魚のくん製を作っています彼女に魚の産地を聞きました私が期待したのはその辺のラグーンか ― アフリカの向こう側という答えでしたしかし実際はここ北海産でした
A: Ogandiro smokes fish in Makoko in Lagos, and I asked her, "" Where does the fish come from? "" And I thought she'd say, "" Oh, you know, up the lagoon somewhere, or maybe across Africa, "" but you'll be happy to know she said it came from here, it comes from the North Sea.
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Q: 本当は何が起こっているのか二人に話しました裕福な男性は、哀れにも、意気消沈して言いました
A: And he said, you know, "" This is what's happening. "" And the rich man — oh, dear — crestfallen.
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Q: 困ったことにこれらの種子バンクは世界のあちこちの脆弱な建物に設置されています。とても価値が高いのです。
A: | Unfortunately, these seed banks are located around the world in buildings and they're vulnerable.
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Carmine Biagio Gatti - Carmine Biagio Gatti (born February 10 1988 in Avellino) is an Italian professional football player currently playing for Lega Pro Seconda Divisione team V.F. Colligiana on loan from S.S.C. Napoli. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
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Athlete
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Adam Ingram (SNP politician) - Adam Ingram MSP (born 1 May 1951 Kilmarnock) is the Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Carrick Cumnock and Doon Valley (Scottish Parliament constituency). Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
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Office Holder
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Syntypistis umbrosa - Syntypistis umbrosa is a species of moth of the Notodontidae family. It is found in India China (Fujian Guangdong Guangxi Hainan Sichuan Yunnan) Taiwan Myanmar Malaysia Indonesia and Vietnam. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
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Question generated: The Moon orbits Earth at a speed of approximately one kilometer per second. The Moon is kept in orbit by which of the following?
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Question: My knees buckled on the stairs. What is the effect? OPTIONS:
- I caught myself on the railing.
- The railing came loose from the wall.
Answer: I caught myself on the railing.
Q: Here is a premise:The girl's mouth ached.
What is the cause?
OPTIONS:
- She lost a tooth.
- She swallowed her gum.
A: She lost a tooth.
[Q]: The bully stuck his foot out in front of his classmate.
What is the effect?
OPTIONS:
- The bully picked up his classmate.
- The bully's classmate tripped.
[A]: The bully's classmate tripped.
[Q]: The speaker disarmed her debate opponent.
effect:
OPTIONS:
- The speaker congratulated her opponent.
- The speaker won the debate.
[A]: The speaker won the debate.
[Q]: effect?
The cup of tea was scalding hot.
OPTIONS:
- I blew on it.
- I poured it out.
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[A]: I blew on it.
Question: I clumsily bumped into the stranger. What is the effect? OPTIONS:
- I ran away.
- I apologized to him.
Answer: | I apologized to him. |
Please add punctuation to this: Death March 23 1951 in Horslunde Denmark | Death: March 23, 1951 in Horslunde, Denmark |
Q: Does the word "seat" mean the same thing in "The seat of these trousers is almost worn through." and "The seat of his pants was worn through."?
A: the same meaning
Q: Does the word "pack" mean the same thing in "To pack fish." and "Crowds packed the stands."?
A: the same meaning
Q: Does the word "business" mean the same thing in "He bought his brother's business." and "Business has been slow lately."?
A: different meanings
Q: Does the word "raise" mean the same thing in "Raise a shout." and "Raise a protest."?
A: | the same meaning |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, your goal is to judge a correct answer to a given question based on an associated paragraph and decide if it is a good correct answer or not. A good correct answer is one that correctly and completely answers the question. A bad correct answer addresses the question only partially or incorrectly. If you think the given correct answer is good, indicate it by responding "Yes". Otherwise, respond "No". There are only two types of responses possible: "Yes" and "No".
Paragraph- Sent 1: The film begins with the announcement of the scheduled launch of a space vehicle carrying an Indian remote sensing satellite which would help scientists identify land suitable for agriculture .
Sent 2: Within a short range of this operation , in the same forest , the state forest department runs an NCC camp for women cadets .
Sent 3: Dhuruvan is a trainer at the camp .
Sent 4: Being a Scheduled tribe , he is deprecated for being positioned as a cadet officer in the forest security force through reservation system by his senior officer Ganapathiram .
Sent 5: But Dhuruvan 's integrity and co-living with other tribes in the forest abnegates aboriginal allegations by other forward caste officials and cadets in the department .
Sent 6: As a part of the training camp , an expedition is organized into the forest for a selected five cadets from the troop .
Sent 7: Dhuruvan selects the five most insolent and disobedient girls in the troop for the expedition intending to provide them better training .
Sent 8: As an attempt at a practical joke , the haughty girls post a complaint to Ganapathiram claiming that they did n't feel safe with Dhuruvan and that he was responsible for whatever that was to happen to them .
Sent 9: Meanwhile , the expedition begins and while Dhuruvan is caught up in some procedures at the forest check post , the girls non-chanlantly try to drive the jeep and run it down the slope of a hill .
Sent 10: After losing their vehicle , the troop decides to stay in the forest for the night and go by an alternate route the next morning .
Sent 11: But the plot thickens , when Kalpana describes two white men with advanced armaments in the Indian forest heading towards the direction of the Indian satellite research station in the forest .
Question: Whose fault was it that the troop had to stay the night in the forest?
Correct Answer: 5 women cadets.
Output: | Yes. |
In this task, you are given a sentence and question which can be answered using the sentence. Your task is to answer the question using the information from the sentence. The answer to the question is unique and it is a continuous text span from the sentence.
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Question: Sentence: It transforms back into Alan just in time for Pete to arrive and see Ed open the airlock .
Question: what transforms into someone?
Answer: It
Question: Sentence: In a traditional ceremony , Command Sgt. Major Richard L. Ross , holding the division color with battle streamers , passed it to General Frederick M. Franks , Jr. , completing the official retirement of the division , and the 3rd Armored Division was removed from the official force structure of the U.S. Army .
Question: where was something completed?
Answer: In a traditional ceremony
Question: Sentence: 35.0 % of all households were made up of individuals and 14.7 % had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older .
Question: what was made up of something?
Answer: | 35.0 % of all households
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In this task, you're expected to write answers to questions involving multiple references to the same entity. The answer to the question should be unambiguous and a phrase in the paragraph. Most questions can have only one correct answer.
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Question: Passage: There are over 20 miles (32 km) of hiking trails at Worlds End State Park. Most of the trails are rocky and steep, so hikers are encouraged to wear proper footgear and to be prepared for icy conditions during the cold winter months. As John Young writes in Hike Pennsylvania, "If you want to do some hiking in the Worlds End region, you should know that hiking here means climbing". Worlds End State Park is open during the winter months for snow mobiling and cross-country skiing. Most of the trails are too steep or rugged for either activity, but the park roads are open, as are trails on surrounding state forest lands.
Loyalsock Trail, often abbreviated LT, is a rugged 59.28-mile (95.40 km) hiking trail that stretches from near Loyalsockville, in Lycoming County on Pennsylvania Route 87 to north of Laporte in Sullivan County, just off U.S. Route 220. This trail follows the ridges and streams of the Loyalsock Creek watershed. The trail is primarily within the boundaries of Loyalsock State Forest and uses some old logging roads and abandoned railroad grades. The Loyalsock Trail was originally blazed in a yellow rectangle with a red stripe, and red can lids with a yellow "LT". Recently, the trail markers have been changed to a yellow disc with a red "LT".
Link Trail is a moderate 8.5-mile (13.7 km) trail marked with a red X on a yellow circle blaze. The trail starts at the Cabin Bridge in the park and follows Loyalsock Creek before it branches off and follows Double Run. The trail then ascends to Canyon Vista and heads out into Loyalsock State Forest where it links up with the Loyalsock Trail at the 55.33-mile (89.05 km) post. The Loyalsock Trail can be followed back for a 17.62 miles (28.36 km) long loop.
Canyon Vista Trail is a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) loop trail with blue blazes that passes through the eastern portion of the park and a stand of ash, sugar maple, and black cherry trees. This trail passes a maze-like jumble of blocky Pottsville Formation rocks known as the Rock Garden, adjacent to Canyon Vista. The vista is at an elevation of 1,750 feet (530 m) and "rewards the hiker with a spectacular view of the Loyalsock Creek gorge".
Worlds End Trail is a 3.25-mile (5.23 km) trail with yellow blazes that begins at the park office and ascends to an overlook of the swimming area. It then crosses the old Pioneer Road, which was used by some of the first settlers to the area, and enters the Loyalsock State Forest, ending at the 37.77-mile (60.78 km) post of the Loyalsock Trail, which can be followed back to the park office to make a loop 11.5 miles (18.5 km) long.
Butternut Trail is a 2.5-mile (4.0 km) trail marked with orange blazes that loops through a hardwood forest and crosses over Butternut Run. Two side trails connect Butternut Trail with the Loyalsock Trail.
Question: What is the name of the trail that crosses Pioneer Rock?
Answer: Worlds End Trail.
Question: Passage: There are over 40 species of mammals in the Pine Creek Gorge. Leonard Harrison State Park's extensive forest cover makes it a habitat for "big woods" wildlife, including white-tailed deer, black bear, wild turkey, red and gray squirrels. Less common creatures include bobcats, coyote, fishers, river otters, and timber rattlesnakes. There are over 26 species of fish in Pine Creek, including trout, suckers, fallfish, and rock bass. Other aquatic species include crayfish and frogs.Several species have been reintroduced to the gorge. White-tailed deer were imported from Michigan and released throughout Pennsylvania to reestablish what had once been a thriving population. The current population of deer in Pennsylvania are descended from the original stock introduced beginning in 1906, after the lumberman had moved out of the area. The deer population has grown so much that today they exceed their carrying capacity in many areas. River otters were successfully reintroduced in 1983 and now breed in the gorge. Despite the fears of anglers, their diet is only 5 percent trout.Fishers, medium-sized weasels, were reintroduced to Pine Creek Gorge as part of an effort to establish a healthy population of fishers in Pennsylvania. Prior to the lumber era, fishers were numerous throughout the forests of Pennsylvania. They are generalized predators and will hunt any smaller creatures in their territory, including porcupines. Elk have been reintroduced west of the gorge in Clinton County and occasionally wander near the west rim of the canyon. Coyotes have come back on their own. Invasive insect species in the gorge include gypsy moths, which eat all the leaves off trees, especially oaks, and hemlock woolly adelgids, which weaken and kill hemlocks. Invasive plant species include purple loosestrife and Japanese knotweed.
Question: What is the full name of the place that has gypsy moths?
Answer: Pine Creek Gorge.
Question: Passage: Constantine the Great effectively became the emperor of the whole of the Roman Empire in September 324. Two months later, he laid out the plans for a new, Christian city to replace Byzantium. As the eastern capital of the empire, the city was named Nova Roma; most called it Constantinople, a name that persisted into the 20th century. On 11 May 330, Constantinople was proclaimed the capital of the Roman Empire, which was later permanently divided between the two sons of Theodosius I upon his death on 17 January 395, when the city became the capital of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.The establishment of Constantinople was one of Constantine's most lasting accomplishments, shifting Roman power eastward as the city became a center of Greek culture and Christianity. Numerous churches were built across the city, including Hagia Sophia which was built during the reign of Justinian the Great and remained the world's largest cathedral for a thousand years. Constantine also undertook a major renovation and expansion of the Hippodrome of Constantinople; accommodating tens of thousands of spectators, the hippodrome became central to civic life and, in the 5th and 6th centuries, the center of episodes of unrest, including the Nika riots. Constantinople's location also ensured its existence would stand the test of time; for many centuries, its walls and seafront protected Europe against invaders from the east and the advance of Islam. During most of the Middle Ages, the latter part of the Byzantine era, Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city on the European continent and at times the largest in the world.Constantinople began to decline continuously after the end of the reign of Basil II in 1025. The Fourth Crusade was diverted from its purpose in 1204, and the city was sacked and pillaged by the crusaders. They established the Latin Empire in place of the Orthodox Byzantine Empire. Hagia Sophia was converted to a Catholic church in 1204. The Byzantine Empire was restored, albeit weakened, in 1261. Constantinople's churches, defenses, and basic services were in disrepair, and its population had dwindled to a hundred thousand from half a million during the 8th century. After the reconquest of 1261, however, some of the city's monuments were restored, and some, like the two Deisis mosaics in Hagia Sofia and Kariye, were created.
Question: What is the full name of the place that became the center of episodes of unrest?
Answer: | Hippodrome of Constantinople.
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Given a paragraph, your job is to generate a question that can be answered from the passage. The answer to your question should be a single entity, person, time, etc. that can be extracted from the passage.
One example: There are a million times more viruses on the planet than stars in the universe. Viruses also harbor the majority of genetic diversity on Earth. Scientists are finding evidence of viruses as a planetary force, influencing the global climate and geochemical cycles. They have also profoundly shaped the evolution of their hosts. The human genome, for example, contains 100,000 segments of virus DNA.
Solution is here: How many segments of virus DNA does the human genome contain?
Explanation: The paragraph states the number of segments of virus DNA does the human genome contain, hence the question asked above is appropriate.
Now, solve this: The neighborhood includes Kearney Boulevard, named after early 20th century entrepreneur and millionaire M. Theo Kearney, which extends from Fresno Street in Southwest Fresno about 20 mi (32 km) west to Kerman, California. A small, two-lane rural road for most of its length, Kearney Boulevard is lined with tall palm trees. The roughly half-mile stretch of Kearney Boulevard between Fresno Street and Thorne Ave was at one time the preferred neighborhood for Fresno's elite African-American families. Another section, Brookhaven, on the southern edge of the West Side south of Jensen and west of Elm, was given the name by the Fresno City Council in an effort to revitalize the neighborhood's image. The isolated subdivision was for years known as the 'Dogg Pound' in reference to a local gang, and as of late 2008 was still known for high levels of violent crime.
Solution: | Who is Kearney Boulevard named after? |
Instructions: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
Input: Paulo Ribenboim proved in 1991 that the set of these is Diophantine, and in 1912 Edmund Landau proposed four "unattackable problems" dealing with them, none of which have yet been solved. The theorem named for them states that the number of them less than or equal to n is approximately equal to n divided by the natural logarithm of n. The GIMPS project seeks to find examples of the Mersenne type of this number, ordinary examples of which can be found using the sieve of Eratosthenes. For 10 points, identify these numbers whose only two factors are 1 and itself.
Output: | Social Science |
The woman covered her ears.
What is the cause of the preceding sentence? | The fire alarm blared. |
In this task, given a sentence in the Chinese language, your task is to convert it into the English language.
Input: Consider Input: 他们认为杂交可能比以前认识的更为常见，并且可能是物种在环境变化时处理其栖息地丧失的一种方式。
Output: They suggest that hybridization may be more common than previously recognized and may be a way species deal with loss of their habitats when the environment is changing.
Input: Consider Input: 因此，我决定将流感大流行警戒的水平从第5阶段提高到第6阶段，“世卫组织主任陈冯富珍今天早些时候在新闻发布会上说。
Output: I have therefore decided to raise the level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 5 to phase 6," said the the WHO's director Margaret Chan in a press conference earlier today.
Input: Consider Input: 由于担心这一事故会导致燃油泄漏，工作人员决定用餐车里发现的一个酒瓶的软木塞堵住这个洞。
| Output: Worried the incident could cause a fuel leak, staff decided to use the cork of a wine bottle found in the buffet car, to block the hole.
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In this task, you are given news articles and you need to generate a highlight, i.e., a short summary, with a maximum length of 10 lines.
Q: (CNN) -- In brief remarks to the media just after returning to her hometown of Seattle, an emotional Amanda Knox thanked those who believed in her and supported her fight to overturn her murder conviction in Italy. "I'm really overwhelmed right now," said a tearful Knox, who arrived to cheering supporters at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. "I was looking down from the airplane, and it seemed like everything wasn't real." "What's important for me to say is just thank you, to everyone who has believed in me, who has defended me, who has supported my family," she said, her voice shaking. Being with her family, she said, is "the most important thing to me right now." "Thank you for being there for me," she said. Knox and her family were on a British Airways flight that landed in Seattle about 8:12 p.m. ET. Before beginning her remarks, Knox smiled and said, "They're reminding me to speak in English, because I'm having problems with that." An Italian appeals court on Monday overturned Knox's murder conviction in the 2007 death of her roommate, British student Meredith Kercher. Knox initially was sentenced to 26 years in prison. Knox's mother and stepfather, Edda and Curt Mellas, also thanked those who have supported their family, as well as the Italian attorneys who fought on her behalf. "Meredith was Amanda's friend," said Philadelphia attorney Theodore Simon, who spoke at the news conference. Knox wants the Kercher family to be remembered, Simon said as Knox nodded and appeared to fight tears. Knox supporters in Seattle said they planned a rousing welcome. "To Amanda herself, we say, 'Way to go, kid,' " Tom Wright, founder of the group Friends of Amanda Knox, said Monday night. "We look forward to welcoming you home with open arms and open hearts," Wright said, reading a statement. "You have well deserved, and will well deserve, all the joy and warmth and fun of your normal life returned to you." The statement also said that it was "primarily a sad occasion," and that the group's "deepest sympathies" were with Kercher's family. CNN affiliate KOMO-TV reported that Wright was among a group of more than a dozen supporters who gathered at a hotel suite to watch the jury return its decision about Knox more than 5,000 miles away. Afterward, Margaret Ralph was among those crying tears of joy. Asked what she'll say when she sees Knox, Ralph told KOMO, "I won't say anything. I'll just give her a big hug and kiss." "It was incredible," fellow supporter Kellanne Henry told KOMO, adding that it took a minute to absorb the news. "They finally got it right," she said. Many Seattle residents took to social media to post messages. "I am so happy this nightmare is over for you," Seattle resident Jenn Whitney wrote in a posting on one of several Facebook pages devoted to Knox. Whitney said she "cried with joy" when Knox's conviction was overturned. "I pray that God brings you home safely," she added. "If I had the chance to greet her when she lands back here in Seattle, the only thing I would do is hand her a rose, give her a hug and say 'welcome home!' " Jeff Bamby posted. On another Facebook page, Tamara Slater wrote, "Amanda you have been in the prayers of so many people, it must be heart warming to know you were never forgotten. Welcome home!" CNN affiliate KIRO-TV reported that when staff went out to gauge reactions to the news out of Italy on Monday, "We met just a few people in West Seattle who disagreed with Monday's ruling and thought that Knox was guilty." Jordan Adams said he thought Knox was guilty, but he was willing to accept the decision to overturn the conviction. "I did think she was guilty, but I guess, good luck to her since she's been freed and cleared," he told KIRO. Early Tuesday morning, a jogger who spotted a CNN crew in Seattle's Queen Anne Hill neighborhood stopped and yelled, "Yay Amanda! Welcome home!" But later, another resident walked up to a CNN crew to say that she could not "care less about Knox returning home" and that she believed Knox committed the crime. CNN's Josh Levs and Sandra Endo contributed to this report.
A: NEW: An emotional Knox says she is "overwhelmed"
NEW: She says being with her family is "the most important thing"
NEW: Her family thanks her supporters .
NEW: "Meredith was Amanda's friend," one attorney says .
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Q: Unlike most harried men in many other countries around this time each year, Korean men don't have to worry about shopping for jewelry or flowers or writing nice cards to give to their significant other on February 14. Instead, for South Koreans Valentine's Day is when women shower men with chocolates. It's also just one romantic day in a whole series of calendar-dictated romantic days. Next up is March 14. Known as White Day, on this occasion men gift women with candy. Fact: Chupa Chups is the most sold candy. Next is Black Day on April 14, when downbeat singles who didn't receive any goodies head to local Chinese restaurants to commiserate over their loneliness while eating jjajyangmyeon, or "black noodles." Surprisingly, one of the most popular gift-giving days of the year is November 11, or Pepero Day, so named in honor of a favorite Korean stick-shaped snack. (Link in Korean only) Catering to women . Throughout the country, stores selling confectionery prepare for months leading up to February for one of their best-selling days of the year. As February 14 nears, visitors to the country will notice lines and lines of women at such stores. Naturally, retailers need to cater to the female shopper's eye. "Valentine's Day is one of our top five days of the year," Chul-hyun Yoo, the public relations representative for CU convenience stores, told CNN. With 7,900 stores throughout the country, CU is the number one convenience store chain in South Korea, recording almost ₩3 trillion (US$2.8 billion) in total sales last year. "You can tell what concerns women and men is different by comparing the sales of Valentine's Day and White Day," said Yoo. "Women tend to go for value for money, while men buy big, flashy baskets." One translation: women are comparatively stingy, while men like to show off. Some of the best-selling items on Valentine's Day are the Ferrero Rocher chocolates sold in packets of three or five. Fellas, don't eat all at once. Becoming unhealthy? At the more upscale Jubilee Chocolatier dessert cafe in Seoul, women line up on the days up to Valentine's Day to buy handmade chocolates that can be customized with their loved one's initials. "Our Valentine's Day sales make up 20 percent of our entire sales," said Gae-ra Lee, public relations representative for the cafe. Although the series of romantic days used to cater more towards couples, or those wanting to confess their secret loves using a romantic day as an excuse, in recent years, goodie-gifting on Valentine's Day and White Day has expanded to include family, co-workers and pretty much anyone you come into contact with on those days. "I'm buying chocolates for my father. I feel like Valentine's Day should about confessing romantic love," said Jin-hee Oh, 28, an office worker shopping at Lotte Department store. "Nowadays, you don't give chocolates on Valentine's Day because you really like that person," said Chun Kyung-woo, a culture reporter for a local newspaper. "The custom has evolved so that now you have to give small crappy candy that no one actually wants to all your friends and everyone at the office down to your security guard as a show of goodwill," said Chun. "It's unhealthy." So what did I do? Along with the other female members of the Seoul office, we each gave the Turner Korea boss some chocolate. Not that he needs it.
A: Women give men chocolates for Valentine's Day in Korea .
Valentine's Day is just one of many romantic Korean holidays. Next up: White Day .
Valentine's Day has evolved to incorporate more than just romantic interests .
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Q: (CNN) -- It would take you almost five solid months -- without sleeping or bathroom breaks -- to watch every sporting event at this year's Summer Olympics. More than 3,500 hours of competition from London will be crammed into just 17 days. In the past, people had to settle for watching the delayed, edited bits broadcast on TV or websites, but technology and viewing habits have changed. This year, 40% of people plan to follow the games on more than one device, with 35% checking in on their tablets and 27% using their smartphone, according to a new study by Harris Interactive. Fans asked to tweet from Olympics only if it's 'urgent' So what are the best ways for today's mobile, multiple-screen owning, Twitter-loving generation to follow the Olympics à la carte? We offer these five: . Live streaming, with a catch . First, the good news: It's finally possible to stream any Olympic event live online, on a tablet or from your smartphone. After years of tape-delayed broadcasts and online video, NBC has caught on that viewers want to follow the Olympics on multiple devices in real time, and is offering the live options in addition to its regular television programming. The bad news is that anyone in the U.S. who wants to enjoy live streaming of the games needs to have a current cable, satellite or telco TV subscription that includes MSNBC and CNBC (for some areas this may mean be more than just basic cable). You will be prompted on the NBC site and in NBC apps to choose your provider from a list and log in with your official username and password in order to access any live streams. Cord cutters -- those who have canceled their cable and primarily watch TV online through services like Hulu and Netflix -- are out of luck, however. They can sign up for cable and cancel after the games are over, but there's no one-time payment option just to access live streaming. NBC wants mobile and online options to complement the TV coverage, not replace it. NBC, which is owned by the largest cable provider in the United States, Comcast, paid $1.18 billion for the rights to this year's Olympics. The network makes a good portion of that amount back on television advertising, which still generates more revenue than online ads. Online . The Internet portal for all video in the U.S. is NBCOlympics.com. On the main video page, anyone can view the select clips that NBC posts after watching a short ad. These clips are a combination of highlights from events, interviews, profiles, and peeks behind the scenes. Sort by your sport of choice or type of video. How to avoid Olympics spoilers . The site is also providing live streams of any sport to cable, satellite or telco TV subscribers. Called LiveExtra, the service will live stream some Olympic trials and every single Olympic sport. You can watch online or through the complimentary app. It's the only option for live streaming in the U.S. Though hosted through YouTube, all of the videos on the NBCOlympics are in Flash. To view them on iPhones, iPads or other mobile devices, go to the mobile version of the site, m.nbcolympics.com. You can also download one of the official apps to watch official NBC Olympic video on your iOS or Android device. For the first time, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will live stream 11 high-definition channels simultaneously over YouTube for 64 territories in Asia and Africa that don't have broadcast deals, but those streams will not be accessible outside of those countries. Foreign news websites such as the BBC will also have videos, but again, most will be blocked for U.S. viewers. Mobile apps . NBC created two official apps for Android and Apple mobile devices, NBC Olympics and NBC Olympics Live Extra, and both are free to download. NBC Olympics has no live video, but tons of content that can be enjoyed by anyone for free, including news, results, video highlights, and the intriguing-sounding Twitter heat map. NBC Olympics Live Extra app is a mobile version of its LiveExtra online service and requires a cable, satellite or telco subscription. View any event live, watch replays of the ones you missed, and check out medal ceremonies and alternative camera views. Look over the in-app schedule and set up notifications for the events you don't want to miss. (Avid streamers should be careful not to go over their monthly data limits.) There are two official apps for the London 2012 Olympics, and they're available for a mix of platforms including iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7. Official London 2012: Results App has live updates of results, as well as schedules, news, background on sports and athlete profiles. You can follow specific countries and set up custom alerts. The second app, Official London 2012: Join In App, is more for people attending the games, and has schedules and locations for the various Olympic-related festivities going on in London. The free BBC Olympic iOS and Android app will have a steady stream of quality Olympics news, including a running tally of medals won and live reporting from the BBC journalists attending events. Social media and news . Perhaps you have no interest in seeing your favorite diver's perfectly executed reverse 3 1/2 somersault tuck. You just want to know who got the gold as soon as it happens. Individual sports have official, automated Twitter feeds that will tweet out the results as they happen. You can narrow it down to just the events you're interested in and follow those feeds (say @L2012Trampoline or @L2012Judo), or keep an eye on all of them at once by following the London 2012 official Twitter list of automated feeds. The official London 2012 feed is @London2012. Twitter takes the Olympic gold for speed . This year a lot of the fun will be following the athletes themselves. You can look up your favorites or follow this list of verified Olympic athlete Twitter accounts, the London 2012 list of Olympians or find a list just for your preferred sport of team, like Team USA. If you want more color, find a hashtag for the event you're interested in to get live tweets of the excitement as it happens from attendees and journalists. There's also an official London 2012 Facebook page you can like to get updates. And of course, there are old-fashioned news sites and blogs filled with words and pictures. There are 21,000 journalists in London covering the Olympics (outnumbering the 10,500 athletes competing). With all the content online, on TV and on social media, keeping up with the Olympics won't be nearly as much of a challenge as avoiding spoilers. Television . Oh right, there's TV, too. If you have cable, you can catch NBC's coverage scattered across a number of its channels: NBC, NBC Sports Network, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and Telemundo. Check the schedule for your location, sorted by time or sport, at the NBC Olympics site. If you don't have cable, you can still tune into NBC over the air for nearly round-the-clock coverage, including the four-hour prime-time broadcast that will show the most popular events mixed in with the usual profiles and athlete interviews. The channel will broadcast a total of 217 hours of Olympic coverage. Opinion: Is it really #NBCfail?
A: | This is the first year the Olympic games will be available as live streams in the U.S.
The events can be watched on TV, computers, tablets and smartphones .
Only cable, satellite and telco TV subscribers will be able to watch live streams .
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Question: The supermodel posted the magazine's last staff photo, which featured no black faces among the 55-strong team. It was taken before Edward Enninful took the reins as the magazine's first black editor earlier this month. "Looking forward to an inclusive and diverse staff now that @edward_enninful is the editor," Campbell wrote on Instagram. Broadcaster and commentator Edward Adoo said the Vogue staff photo looked like a snapshot of "very old school Britain". He told BBC News: "It seemed there was no room for anyone else. It seemed like the Sloanies' club. In the whole fashion industry, the mainstream element feels very middle class, very white, very controlled, and there needs to be some kind of breakthrough. "I think Edward Enninful is a step in the right direction. He's black, he's gay and he reaches out to different people, and I think that's what's needed." Campbell has the status to speak out, whereas younger models have less power, Adoo said. "For Naomi Campbell to say it, it would certainly silence the critics because of her calibre and status. "But for someone who's up-and-coming to speak out and say, I feel as if I'm not being treated right, or there are no opportunities, they may never ever get a call again." One of Enninful's first appointments was to hire Campbell, Kate Moss and film director Steve McQueen as contributing editors. Speaking to Time last year, he said there needed to be widespread change to make the fashion industry more diverse. "If you put one model in a show or in an ad campaign, that doesn't solve the problem," he said. "We need teachers in universities, we need internships, we need people of different ethnic backgrounds in all parts of the industry. That really is the solution; you have to change it from the inside." In the same interview, Campbell said: "For me, it never stops. It's not a fight, it's a conversation - constantly reminding people that diversity is beautiful and that there should be diversity and equal opportunity. "It never stops because you say it and they say that they listen, and it seems to take two steps backwards." Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.
Answer: Naomi Campbell has criticised the lack of diversity among the staff at British Vogue under its previous editor.
Question: By Natalie ShermanBusiness reporter, New York Nearly 8 million Americans - many of them children and minorities - have fallen into poverty since May, university researchers have said. Last week, nearly 900,000 people filed new claims for jobless benefits - the highest number since August. Analysts have called for aid to prevent the economic recovery from stalling. But politicians in Washington have been at odds over a deal for months, with talks in recent weeks overshadowed by the upcoming presidential election and disputes over the Supreme Court. "The sobering reality is that it appears further help may not be coming from elected officials in Washington," said Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst at Bankrate.com. Stimulus relief This spring, as the pandemic cast more than 20 million Americans out of work, the US government approved more than $3tn (£2.3tn) in relief money. The aid included cheques of up to $1,200 for most individuals and money to temporarily boost unemployment benefits by an extra $600 per week. The massive spending wave initially blunted the economic upheaval caused by the virus, prompting poverty rates to decline. But those figures began to tick up again this summer, as the one-time financial boost from the cheques wore off and the expansion to unemployment benefits expired at the end of July. As of September, the poverty rate stood at 16.7%, up from 15.3% in February and 14.3% in May, with higher rates among children and minorities, according to calculations by researchers at Columbia University. A separate analysis by researchers at the University of Chicago and Notre Dame estimated the poverty rate at 10.1% in September, up from the 11% seen in February and 9.3% in May. The increase is in line with rising poverty rates around the world due to the pandemic. The World Bank this month warned that extreme poverty was set to rise for the first time in more than two decades. 'It has been an extremely difficult time' Until the pandemic, 49-year-old Latacha Barnett worked as a substitute teacher in Louisville, Kentucky during the school year and at a hair salon in the summer. The virus eliminated both lines of work. For two months this spring, she received unemployment payments. But those stopped in June, at the end of the school year, forcing her to dip into savings she had hoped to one day put toward a buying a house, stop her internet service and go to food banks for groceries for herself for the first time. Ms Barnett, who is the primary earner for her three children and two grandchildren, exhausted her savings last month. "I just didn't expect it to go on as long as it has," she says. "It's been an extremely difficult time for us. I'm behind on everything." Ms Barnett finally started a new job this month as a family advocate - one she took despite the possible health risks. She says the people she's really worried about are those who can't get new jobs and don't have savings to see them through. "I honestly think it's been horrible that no more has been done," she says. In the US, President Donald Trump has celebrated that the economy has so far rebounded faster than many analysts initially expected. But while the US has regained about half the jobs lost in March and April, many economists do not expect the labour market to fully recover before the end of 2023 - and they warn that momentum appears to be slowing. Thursday's Labor Department report showed an unexpected 53,000 increase in unemployment filings from the week before, sending new claims to a two-month high. More than 25 million people continued to collect some form of unemployment payment as of 26 September, the Labor Department said. Wells Fargo economist Sarah House said the report showed "the risk of the labour market's recovery going into reverse". Democrats in May approved more than $3tn in additional spending, but Republicans in the Senate have balked at the sums and White House efforts to broker a compromise have so far failed. On Thursday, Mr Trump said he was willing to agree to more spending, but Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who has been leading negotiations on behalf of the president, said a deal would be difficult before the November presidential election. Mitch McConnell, who leads Republicans in the Senate, said Congress would approve more aid, if not before the election then after. But he warned that his members continue to favour more limited, targeted relief.
Answer: Poverty rates in the US are rising, as government aid winds down despite ongoing economic distress caused by the pandemic.
Question: Mid Suffolk District Council is inviting bids to manage the business at Needham Lake on a 10-year lease. The former gravel pit, on a 13 hectare (32 acre) site on the edge of the River Gipping at Needham Market, had more than 376,000 visitors in 2018. Plans for centre are due to go on show to the public at the town's community centre on Thursday afternoon. The site, comprising several small islands and wildlife habitats, has been owned and managed by the council since 1980. A council spokesman said the visitor centre, including a cafe and toilets, would "boost the number of visitors to the lake each year, supporting the local economy and encouraging more people to enjoy a range of outdoor leisure pursuits". It is expected to open by summer 2020. Julie Flatman, cabinet member for communities and housing, described Needham Lake as "a wonderful attraction" and called on people to ensure the project reflected the view of the community. Bids for the management of the centre close on 25 October.
Answer: | Plans for a £600,000 visitor centre at the most-visited attraction in the East of England are to go on display later.
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Q:I want to test the ability of students to read a passage and answer questions about it. Could you please come up with a good question for the passage "In 1970 the country switched its currency from the Bermudian pound to the Bermudian dollar, which is pegged at par with the US dollar. US notes and coins are used interchangeably with Bermudian notes and coins within the islands for most practical purposes; however, banks levy an exchange rate fee for the purchase of US dollars with Bermudian dollars. Bermudian notes carry the image of Queen Elizabeth II. The Bermuda Monetary Authority is the issuing authority for all banknotes and coins, and regulates financial institutions. The Royal Naval Dockyard Museum holds a permanent exhibition of Bermuda notes and coins."?
A: | If a buyer in Bermuda had no Bermudian dollars, what might they use to buy goods? |
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The woman got away with the crime.
What is the cause? | She destroyed the evidence. |
In this task, you are given a passage which has a question and the context. You have to generate an answer to the question based on the information present in the context.
Input: Consider Input: Context: The expression of growth-associated protein 43 (GAP-43), a marker of axonal growth, in the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons innervating the lumbar intervertebral disc was assessed using the retrograde tracing method and immunohistochemistry.', 'To study whether disc inflammation affects GAP-43 expression in DRG neurons innervating the disc in rats.', 'Persistent inflammation and nerve ingrowth into the inner layer of degenerated discs can be a cause of discogenic pain. Although the presence of GAP-43-expressing nerve fibers in painful discs has been reported, the expression of GAP-43 in DRG neurons innervating the disc has not been studied.', "Seven days after the application of Fluoro-Gold to the L5-L6 disc, 50 microL of saline (n = 10, control group) or complete Freund's adjuvant (n = 10, inflammatory group) was applied to the disc in rats. Ten days after the Fluoro-Gold application, T13-L5 DRGs were double-stained with GAP-43 and either calcitonin gene-related peptide or isolectin B4 (IB4).", 'The percentage of Fluoro-Gold-labeled neurons that were positive for GAP-43 was significantly higher in the inflammatory group (44%) than in the control group (24%, P < 0.001). In both groups, the majority of GAP-43-positive neurons were small and positive for calcitonin gene-related peptide but not IB4.\Question: Does disc inflammation potentially promote axonal regeneration of dorsal root ganglion neurons innervating lumbar intervertebral disc in rats?
Output: The present results suggest that disc inflammation potentially promotes axonal growth of DRG neurons innervating the disc. In light of the strong correlation between the expression of calcitonin gene-related peptide and nerve growth factor receptor, it is most likely that nerve growth factor-sensitive DRG neurons extend their axons following disc inflammation.
Input: Consider Input: Context: To introduce an elastomeric continuous infusion pump for pain control after outpatient orbital implant surgery.', 'Retrospective, noncomparative consecutive case series of all patients undergoing enucleation, evisceration, or secondary orbital implantation using the On-Q pain system between August 2004 and January 2006. Postoperative pain score, need for narcotics, and adverse events were recorded. The On-Q catheter is inserted intraoperatively through the lateral lower eyelid into the muscle cone under direct visualization, prior to the orbital implant placement. The On-Q system continually infuses anesthesia (bupivacaine) to the retrobulbar site for 5 days.', 'Among 20 patients, mean postoperative period pain score, with On-Q in place, was 1.3 (scale of 0 to 10). Nine patients (45%) did not need any adjunctive oral narcotics. Two patients experienced postoperative nausea. One catheter connector leaked, thereby decreasing delivery of retrobulbar anesthetic resulting a pain level of 6, the highest level in the study. There were no postoperative infections. No systemic toxic effects from bupivacaine were observed clinically.\Question: Do on-Q pump for pain control after orbital implant surgery?
Output: The On-Q pain pump is widely available, low cost, and requires minimal patient manipulation for the use in orbital implant surgery. The device was safe and appeared to minimize postoperative pain in the authors' case series.
Input: Consider Input: Context: Stathmin is a ubiquitous cytosolic regulatory phosphoprotein and is overexpressed in different human malignancies. The main physiological function of stathmin is to interfere with microtubule dynamics by promoting depolymerization of microtubules or by preventing polymerization of tubulin heterodimers. Stathmin plays important roles in regulating many cellular functions as a result of its microtubule-destabilizing activity. Currently, the critical roles of stathmin in cancer cells, as well as in lymphocytes have been valued. This review discusses stathmin and microtubule dynamics in cancer development, and hypothesizes their possible relationship with epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT).', 'A PubMed search using such terms as "stathmin", "microtubule dynamics", "epithelial-mesenchymal transition", "EMT", "malignant potential" and "cancer" was performed to identify relevant studies published in English. More than 100 related articles were reviewed.', 'The literature clearly documented the relationship between stathmin and its microtubule-destabilizing activity of cancer development. However, the particular mechanism is poorly understood. Microtubule disruption is essential for EMT, which is a crucial process during cancer development. As a microtubule-destabilizing protein, stathmin may promote malignant potential in cancer cells by initiating EMT.\Question: Does stathmin destabilizing microtubule dynamics promote malignant potential in cancer cells by epithelial-mesenchymal transition?
| Output: We propose that there is a stathmin-microtubule dynamics-EMT (S-M-E) axis during cancer development. By this axis, stathmin together with its microtubule-destabilizing activity contributes to EMT, which stimulates the malignant potential in cancer cells.
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Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
Queen Elizabeth II is the sovereign, and her heir apparent is her eldest son, Charles, Prince of Wales. Next in line after him is Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, the Prince of Wales's elder son. Third in line is Prince George, the eldest child of the Duke of Cambridge, followed by his sister, Princess Charlotte and younger brother, Prince Louis. Sixth in line is Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, the younger son of the Prince of Wales. Any of the first six in line marrying without the sovereign's consent would be disqualified from succession.
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Emmy's dad took her to chose a kitten. There were two together in a cage. She couldn't split them up! It made her sad to have to chose.
Write the next sentence, by choosing from:
Choose your answer from:
[I] Then, Emmy's dad said she could keep both kittens.;
[II] Emmy left angry because she wanted a dog.; | [I] |
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