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You are a helpful assistant, who always provide explanation. Think like you are answering to a five year old.
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What is the most logical next event?
How to increase urination
Drink plenty of water each.
If you have trouble urinating, you may just be dehydrated. Most people need about two liters of water on a daily basis, or eight eight-ounce cups worth.
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The most logical next event after drinking plenty of water to increase urination would be that you will need to go to the bathroom more often.
Imagine your body is like a water slide park. When you drink a lot of water, it's like the park is getting more visitors (water) to use the slides (your kidneys and bladder). The more visitors you have, the more often they will want to go down the slide, and that means you will need to go to the bathroom (where the water leaves the park) more often to let them out. So when you drink more water, you'll notice that you have to pee more often, which means your body is getting rid of the extra water you drank.
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Sentence 1: I'm sorry, Dave Hanson, she said gently.
Sentence 2: She refused to say anything to Dave Hanson.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first sentence?
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Step 1: Analyze both sentences to understand their meaning and context.
Sentence 1: "I'm sorry, Dave Hanson, she said gently." - In this sentence, a woman is apologizing to a person named Dave Hanson.
Sentence 2: "She refused to say anything to Dave Hanson." - In this sentence, the same woman, presumably, is refusing to speak to Dave Hanson.
Step 2: Compare the information and context provided by both sentences.
From Sentence 1, the woman is apologizing to Dave Hanson, and therefore, she is speaking to him. In Sentence 2, she is not speaking to Dave Hanson.
Step 3: Determine if the second sentence is entailed by the first sentence.
Entailment is when the truth of one sentence logically guarantees the truth of another sentence. In this case, the second sentence is not entailed by the first sentence because the woman is speaking to Dave Hanson in the first sentence while refusing to speak to him in the second sentence. The information in both sentences is contradictory.
Conclusion: The second sentence is not entailed by the first sentence because their content and the information they provide are contradictory.
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Generate a 2-star review (1 being lowest and 5 being highest) about an app with package com.nolanlawson.keepscore.
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Title: Almost There but Not Quite
Review: I recently downloaded the app "KeepScore" by the developer Nolan Lawson. After having used it for a couple of weeks, I can't help but feel a little underwhelmed. I hate to leave a 2-star rating, but I believe there's a lot this app can improve on.
On a positive note, the concept of the app is great and has the potential to be a must-have app for scorekeeping. It's user-friendly and the main function – keeping score – worked without any hiccups. The simple and clean design also appealed to my minimalist taste.
However, the customization options were quite disappointing. The app could greatly benefit from additional features such as custom backgrounds, different fonts, and the ability to add player pictures, especially for those who play in teams or groups regularly.
While the app worked fine initially, I encountered a few crashes when trying to access my saved scores. These crashes are pretty frustrating, and I hope that the developer can address this issue in their upcoming updates.
Lastly, the ad placements within the app feel a bit intrusive. I understand the importance of generating revenue for the developer, but I would feel more comfortable paying for an ad-free version since I tend to use the app quite often.
In conclusion, KeepScore has the potential to be a valuable app for scorekeeping. However, due to a few drawbacks such as limited customization options, app crashes, and invasive ad placements, I could not rate it higher than 2 stars. If updates are made to improve these issues, I'm more than happy to give a higher rating and consider recommending it to others.
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Haluaisin kiittää kumpaakin esittelijää, David Martinia ja Richard Corbettia, heidän tämän mietinnön hyväksi tekemästään työstä.
Could you please translate this to English?
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I would like to thank both rapporteurs, David Martin and Richard Corbett, for the work they have done on this report.
Here's the step-by-step translation and justification of each step:
1. Identify the language: The text is in Finnish.
2. Translate the text into English: Use knowledge of Finnish grammar, vocabulary, and syntax to generate a faithful English translation.
3. Check the translation for accuracy: Ensure that the translated text conveys the same meaning as the original Finnish text, and make any necessary adjustments.
Final translation: "I would like to thank both rapporteurs, David Martin and Richard Corbett, for the work they have done on this report."
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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Pick the option in line with common sense to answer the question. Questions: Why would people go into a ship? Options: - heading east - run aground - near shore - list to port - party
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People would typically choose to go into a ship for a variety of reasons. However, among the provided options, the one that is most in line with common sense is "party."
A party is a social gathering where people come together to celebrate, have fun, and enjoy each other's company. Ships can offer a unique and great setting for hosting such events. People might be attracted to the idea of attending a party on a ship because it provides a distinct ambiance, beautiful views of the surrounding water, and a sense of adventure. Furthermore, ships can generally accommodate large groups of people, making them an excellent venue choice for various types of parties, such as birthdays, corporate events, and even weddings.
Heading east, running aground, being near the shore, or listing to port are not reasons people would typically choose to go into a ship. These terms are related to the navigational and operational aspect of the ship, rather than the motivation behind people boarding it.
Heading east refers to the direction in which the ship is sailing, which may or may not be relevant to the reason people enter the ship. It generally has nothing to do with a particular event or motivation for boarding.
Running aground is a situation where a ship accidentally hits the bottom in shallow waters, causing it to get stuck. This is generally considered a negative occurrence, and people would not intentionally board a ship with the purpose of experiencing it.
Being near the shore refers to the ship's proximity to the land. While the view of the shore can be appreciated by people on board, it does not represent a motive for people to enter the ship.
Lastly, a list to port refers to the ship leaning to one side (the left side, in this case), which could be due to an uneven distribution of weight or other issues. This is also an unfavorable situation and not a reason for people to board a ship.
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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How might one describe the sentiment of this review?
Looking for northern Italian fare, Un Bacio at Gainy Ranch is inviting the moment you enter their doors. The decor is impressive with over sized urns filled with rich flowers. The long bar area, where a vocalist hits every appropriate note accommodates diners with cocktail tables to dine at as well. I choose to have dinner in the main room which accommodates large groups as well as small intimate tables. As for the service, the staff are friendly and very attentive. Our choice of salads were the seafood and caesar both very tasty. The bolognese sauce was flavorful and a good choice as well although the meatballs were not up to my standards. A bit pasty and hard. As for the dessert, the flour less chocolate cake was scrumptious and perfect to share. For a neighborhood restaurant a definite go to spot.
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One might describe the sentiment of this review as predominantly positive with a few minor criticisms.
The reviewer begins by complimenting the inviting atmosphere and impressive decor of Un Bacio at Gainy Ranch. They specifically mention the oversized urns filled with flowers and the presence of a vocalist at the long bar area, implying that the establishment has an upscale and elegant ambiance. Additionally, the review points out the flexibility of seating options in the main dining area, which accommodates large groups as well as small, intimate tables.
The author continues to express their positive experiences with the service, stating that the staff is friendly and attentive. The salads mentioned, seafood and caesar, are noted as being very tasty, and the bolognese sauce is complimented for its flavorful nature. These aspects of the review further support the overall positive sentiment.
However, the reviewer also includes minor criticisms, noting that the meatballs available on the menu were not up to their standards, describing them as pasty and hard. This observation introduces a slight negative undertone to the review, but it does not diminish the overall positive sentiment.
The review concludes on a positive note, with the complimentary description of the flourless chocolate cake as scrumptious and perfect for sharing. The reviewer goes a step further by recommending the place, referring to Un Bacio as a "definite go-to spot" for a neighborhood restaurant.
In summary, the sentiment of this review can be described as mostly positive, with highlights focusing on the inviting atmosphere, impressive decor, friendly service, and delicious food options, but it also includes a minor criticism regarding the meatballs. The reviewer's recommendation of the restaurant demonstrates their pleasure with the overall experience.
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You are an AI assistant, who knows every language and how to translate one language to another. Given a task, you explain in simple steps what the task is asking, any guidelines that it provides. You solve the task and show how you used the guidelines to solve the task.
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In this task, you're given four sentences of a story written in natural language in which one part is missing. Your job is to predict the position and missing part of the story and return in the following format: position, missing part. The missing part is a sentence that completes the story, and the position is the number of the missing sentence in the new story.
Q: Sentence1: Ally had been saving her spare coins in a jar for Years. Sentence2: She wanted a new cell phone but she didn't have enough money. Sentence3: She thought she'd count the change in her change jar. Sentence4: To her surprise, there was over $300 in the jar.
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Step 1: Understand the task
The task asks to identify the position of a missing sentence in the given story and to create that missing sentence to complete the story.
Step 2: Analyze the story
We have the following sentences:
1. Ally had been saving her spare coins in a jar for Years.
2. She wanted a new cell phone but she didn't have enough money.
3. She thought she'd count the change in her change jar.
4. To her surprise, there was over $300 in the jar.
Step 3: Identify the gap in the story
We can see that after finding out there was enough money in the jar, the story doesn't mention whether Ally purchased the cell phone or not.
Step 4: Create the missing sentence and determine its position
Ally used the saved money to purchase the cell phone she always wanted.
This sentence should come after Sentence 4 as it completes the story by showing that Ally used her saved money to achieve her goal.
Step 5: Return the answer in the required format
Since the sentence is at position 5, and the missing sentence is "Ally used the saved money to purchase the cell phone she always wanted.", the final answer is:
A: 5, Ally used the saved money to purchase the cell phone she always wanted.
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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Write the next sentence.
Lawrence had to vomit after watching the explicit surgery on television but not Kyle because
Pick your answer from: (i) Lawrence felt fine looking at blood. (ii) Kyle felt fine looking at blood.
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Lawrence had to vomit after watching the explicit surgery on television but not Kyle because Kyle felt fine looking at blood. In fact, Kyle had always been fascinated by the intricacies of the human body and the way surgical procedures could provide life-changing relief to those suffering from various ailments. His strong stomach and firm grasp of the medical world made it easy for him to compartmentalize the gruesome aspects of surgery and focus on the incredible skill and precision required of the surgeons to perform such delicate and nerve-wracking operations.
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You are an AI assistant. You should describe the task and explain your answer. While answering a multiple choice question, first output the correct answer(s). Then explain why other answers are wrong. You might need to use additional knowledge to answer the question.
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Pick from:
A). negative
B). positive
Short movie review: tom tykwer , director of the resonant and sense-spinning run lola run
Did the critic thinking positively or negatively of the movie?
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B). positive
In the provided short movie review, the critic is thinking positively about the movie. The words "resonant" and "sense-spinning" are used, which are both positive terms. "Resonant" is usually used to describe something that is impactful or influential, while "sense-spinning" is a creative way of suggesting that the movie is engaging or captivating.
Answer A) negative is incorrect because there are no words or phrases used in the review that suggest a negative opinion. The critic's language is praising the director and the film he directed, indicating a positive viewpoint.
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You are a helpful assistant, who always provide explanation. Think like you are answering to a five year old.
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Article:
This is a set of web collections curated by Mark Graham using the Archive-IT service of the Internet Archive. They include web captures of the ISKME.org website as well as captures from sites hosted by IGC.org.These web captures are available to the general public.For more information about this collection please feel free to contact Mark via Send Mail ||||| Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett are asking the nation's billionaires to pledge to give at least half their net worth to charity, in their lifetimes or at death. If their campaign succeeds, it could change the face of philanthropy.
By Carol J. Loomis, senior editor-at-large
FORTUNE -- Just over a year ago, in May 2009, word leaked to the press that the two richest men in America, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, had organized and presided over a confidential dinner meeting of billionaires in New York City. David Rockefeller was said to have been a host, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Oprah Winfrey to have been among those attending, and philanthropy to have been the main subject.
Pushed by the press to explain, Buffett and Gates declined. But that certainly didn't dim the media's interest in reaching for descriptions of the meeting: The Chronicle of Philanthropy called it "unprecedented"; both ABC News and the Houston Chronicle went for "clandestine"; a New York magazine parody gleefully imagined George Soros to have been starstruck in the presence of Oprah. One radio broadcaster painted a dark picture: "Ladies and gentlemen, there's mischief afoot and it does not bode well for the rest of us." No, no, rebutted the former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Patty Stonesifer, who had been at the meeting and had reluctantly emerged to combat the rumors. The event, she told the Seattle Times, was simply a group of friends and colleagues "discussing ideas" about philanthropy.
And so it was. But that discussion -- to be fully described for the first time in this article -- has the potential to dramatically change the philanthropic behavior of Americans, inducing them to step up the amounts they give. With that dinner meeting, Gates and Buffett started what can be called the biggest fundraising drive in history. They'd welcome donors of any kind. But their direct target is billionaires, whom the two men wish to see greatly raise the amounts they give to charities, of any and all kinds. That wish was not mathematically framed at the time of the New York meeting. But as two other U.S. dinners were held (though not leaked), Buffett and Gates and his wife, Melinda, set the goal: They are driving to get the super-rich, starting with the Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, to pledge -- literally pledge -- at least 50% of their net worth to charity during their lifetimes or at death.
Without a doubt, that plan could create a colossal jump in the dollars going to philanthropy, though of what size is a puzzle we'll get to. To begin with, a word about this article you are reading. It is the first public disclosure of what Buffett and Melinda and Bill Gates are trying to do. Over the past couple of months Fortune has interviewed the three principals as the project has unfolded, as well as a group of billionaires who have signed up to add their names to the Gates/Buffett campaign.
In a sense this article is also an echo of two other Fortune stories, both featuring Buffett on the cover. The first, published in 1986, was "Should you leave it all to the children?" To that query, Buffett emphatically said no. The second article, "Warren Buffett gives it away," which appeared in 2006, disclosed Buffett's intention to gradually give away his Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) fortune to five foundations, chief among them the world's largest, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (For Buffett's thinking on the disposition of his wealth, see "My philanthropic pledge.")
Since then, in four years of contributions, Buffett has given the foundation $6.4 billion, not counting the 2010 gift, to be made this summer. The foundation in turn has in that same period combined Buffett's money and its immense gifts from the Gateses to raise its level of giving to about $3 billion a year, much of it for world health. One small example: the Medicines for Malaria Venture, heavily funded by the Gates Foundation, has worked with pharmaceutical company Novartis (NVS) to develop good-tasting malaria pills and distribute them to millions of children -- the principal victims of the disease -- in 24 countries.
Another fact about the 2006 Buffett article is that it was written by yours truly, Carol Loomis, a senior editor-at-large of Fortune. Besides that, I am a longtime friend of Buffett's and editor of his annual letter to Berkshire's shareholders. Through him, my husband, John Loomis, and I have also come to know Melinda and Bill Gates socially. The Loomis team has even occasionally played bridge against Warren and Bill.
All that said, the question of what philanthropy might gain from the Gates/Buffett drive rests, at its outset, on a mystery: what the wealthiest Americans are giving now. Most of them aren't telling, and outsiders can't pierce the veil. For that matter, the Forbes 400 list, while a valiant try, is a best-guess estimate both as to the cast of characters and as to their net worth. (Buffett says he knows of two Berkshire shareholders who should be on the list but have been missed.) As Bill Gates sums it up, "The list is imprecise."
Those qualifiers noted, the magazine stated the 2009 net worth of the Forbes 400 to be around $1.2 trillion. So if those 400 were to give 50% of that net worth away during their lifetimes or at death, that would be $600 billion. You can think of that colossal amount as what the Buffett and Gates team is stalking -- at a minimum.
Leaving aside the Forbes 400 and looking simply at Internal Revenue Service data for both annual giving and estate taxes, we can piece together a picture of how far the very rich might be from a figure like that $600 billion. Start with an admirable fact about Americans as a whole: The U.S. outdoes all other countries in philanthropic generosity, annually giving in the neighborhood of $300 billion.
Some of that gets reported as charitable deductions on the tax filings made by individuals. But taxpayers at low income levels don't tend to itemize, taking the standard deduction instead. At higher income levels, charitable gift data begin to mean something. To take one example for 2007 (the latest data available), the 18,394 individual taxpayers having adjusted gross income of $10 million or more reported charitable gifts equal to about $32.8 billion, or 5.84% of their $562 billion in income.
And billionaires? Here, the best picture -- though it's flawed -- emerges from statistics that the IRS has for almost two decades been releasing on each year's 400 largest individual taxpayers, a changing universe obviously. The decision of the government to track this particular number of citizens may or may not have been spurred by the annual publication of the Forbes list. In any case, the two 400 batches, though surely overlapping, cannot be identical -- for one reason because the IRS data deal with income, not net worth.
The IRS facts for 2007 show that the 400 biggest taxpayers had a total adjusted income of $138 billion, and just over $11 billion was taken as a charitable deduction, a proportion of about 8%. The amount deducted, we need quickly to add, must be adjusted upward because it would have been limited for certain gifts, among them very large ones such as Buffett's $1.8 billion donation that year to the Gates Foundation. Even so, it is hard to imagine the $11 billion rising, by any means, to more than $15 billion. If we accept $15 billion as a reasonable estimate, that would mean that the 400 biggest taxpayers gave 11% of their income to charity -- just a bit more than tithing.
Is it possible that annual giving misses the bigger picture? One could imagine that the very rich build their net worth during their lifetimes and then put large charitable bequests into their wills. Estate tax data, unfortunately, make hash of that scenario, as 2008 statistics show. The number of taxpayers making estate tax filings that year was 38,000, and these filers had gross estates totaling $229 billion. Four-fifths of those taxpayers made no charitable bequests at death. The 7,214 who did make bequests gave $28 billion. And that's only 12% of the $229 billion gross estate value posted by the entire 38,000.
All told, the data suggest that there is a huge gap between what the very rich are giving now and what the Gateses and Buffett would like to suggest is appropriate -- that 50%, or better, of net worth. The question is how many people of wealth will buy their argument.
The seminal event in this campaign was that billionaires' gathering in May 2009 -- the First Supper, if you will. The Gateses credit Buffett with the basic idea: that a small group of dedicated philanthropists be somehow assembled to discuss strategies for spreading the gospel to others. The Gateses proceeded to arrange the event. Bill Gates says, with a grin, "If you had to depend on Warren to organize this dinner, it might never have happened." In his office, meanwhile, Buffett scrawled out a name for a new file, "Great Givers."
The first item filed was a copy of a March 4 letter that Buffett and Gates sent to the patriarch of philanthropy, David Rockefeller, to ask that he host the meeting. Rockefeller, now 95, told Fortune that the request was "a surprise but a pleasure." As a site for the event, he picked the elegant and very private President's House at Rockefeller University in New York City, whose board he has been on for 70 years. He also tapped his son David Jr., 68, to go with him to the meeting.
The event was scheduled for 3 p.m. on Tuesday, May 5 -- a day urgently desired by Bill Gates, who wanted to fit the meeting into a short U.S. break he'd be taking from a three-month European stay with his family. Because Melinda elected to remain in Europe with their three children, she did not attend the first dinner, but lined herself up for any that followed. (The Gateses have considered this campaign to be a personal matter for them, not in any way a project of the Gates Foundation.)
Melinda also insisted from the start that both husbands and wives be invited to the dinners, sure that both would be important to any discussion. Her reasoning: "Even if he's the one that made the money, she's going to be a real gatekeeper. And she's got to go along with any philanthropic plan, because it affects her and it affects their kids."
The letter of invitation, dated March 24, went to more people than could come. But the hosts and guests who arrived on May 5 certainly had enough economic tickets to be there: a combined net worth of maybe $130 billion and a serious history of having depleted that amount by giving money to charity. Leaving aside the semi-observers, Patty Stonesifer and David Rockefeller Jr., there were 14 people present, starting with the senior Rockefeller, Buffett, and Gates. The local guests included Mayor Bloomberg; three Wall Streeters, "Pete" Peterson, Julian Robertson, and George Soros; and Charles "Chuck" Feeney, who made his money as a major owner of Duty Free Shoppers and has so far given away $5 billion through his foundations, called Atlantic Philanthropies. When Feeney was dropped from the Forbes 400 in 1997, the magazine explained his departure in words not often hauled out for use: "Gave bulk of holdings to charity."
The out-of-towners included Oprah, Ted Turner, and two California couples, Los Angeles philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, and Silicon Valley's John and Tashia Morgridge, whose fortune came from Cisco Systems (CSCO). Both the Broads and the Morgridges had equivocated over whether to accept the invitation, regarding the trip as an inconvenience. But there were the signatures at the bottom of the letter -- from left to right, Rockefeller, Gates, Buffett. "Impressive," Eli Broad thought.
So on the appointed day the Broads found themselves seated with everyone else around a big conference table, wondering what came next. They mainly got that message from Buffett, whose quick sense of humor left him playing, says David Rockefeller Jr., "the enlivener role." He remembers Buffett as keeping the event from being "too somber" and "too self-congratulatory." Buffett set the ball rolling by talking about philanthropy, describing the meeting as "exploratory," and then asking each person, going around the table, to describe his or her philosophy of giving and how it had evolved.
The result was 12 stories, each taking around 15 minutes, for a total of nearly three hours. But most participants whom Fortune has talked to found the stories riveting, even when they were familiar. David Rockefeller Sr. described learning philanthropy at the knees of his father and grandfather. Ted Turner repeated the oft-told tale of how he had made a spur-of-the-moment decision to give $1 billion to the United Nations. Some people talked about the emotional difficulty of making the leap from small giving to large. Others worried that their robust philanthropy might alienate their children. (Later, recalling the meeting, Buffett laughed that it had made him feel like a psychiatrist.)
The charitable causes discussed in those stories covered the spectrum: education, again and again; culture; hospitals and health; the environment; public policy; the poor generally. Bill Gates, who found the whole event "amazing," regarded the range of causes as admirable: "The diversity of American giving," he says, "is part of its beauty."
At the dinner that followed, the conversation turned specifically to how giving by the rich could be increased. The ideas advanced included national recognition of great philanthropists (presidential medals, for example), or a film, or a philanthropy guidebook, or a conference of the rich. There was no talk of a pledge. Of the dinner, the junior Rockefeller says, "The most important thing my dad and I came away with was that increasing giving would take work by many in that room -- delicate, and probably prolonged, one-on-one work."
The dinner, of course, had its unexpected coda: the leak. The leaker, with little doubt, was Chuck Feeney, and the leakee was his longtime friend Niall O'Dowd, the New York publisher behind the grandly unknown IrishCentral.com. (Fortune did not succeed in reaching Feeney; of our account, O'Dowd said, "I can't confirm that.") On May 18, two weeks after the meeting, IrishCentral.com posted an article of 14 short paragraphs headlined "Secret meeting of world's richest people held in New York."With that, the fame of the website spiked, as the rest of the press picked up the news and ran with it.
The IrishCentral article exhibited some confusion about which Rockefeller starred at the dinner, or was even there, but otherwise provided the names of all the participants -- with the notable exception of Feeney, who apparently didn't realize he looked more conspicuous to the others by being left out. Feeney, however, appears to have been quoted anonymously in the piece, once as an "attendee" who thought Gates the most impressive speaker of the day, Turner the most outspoken (surprise!), and Buffett the most insistent on his agenda for change. In a second instance, Feeney was a good bet to have been the awed "participant" who extolled his fellow guests: "They were all there, the great and the good."
The main effect of the leak was to place a "cone of silence" -- that's a description from the Gates camp -- over everything that transpired in the giving campaign over the next year. But there was certainly action, including a few small dinners abroad. Bill and Melinda Gates hosted a dinner in London, and Bill held a few others in India and China. Raising the philanthropic bar in foreign countries is a special challenge: Dynastic wealth is widely taken for granted; tax laws do not commonly allow deductions for gifts to charity; a paucity of institutions and organizations ready for gifts makes knowing whom to give to just not that obvious. Nonetheless, were the Gateses and Buffett to succeed in their campaign in the U.S., they would probably take it overseas.
But as last summer and fall progressed, Buffett and the Gateses did not even have a plan for how the campaign was to be structured. In this vacuum the idea of a pledge took hold and gained strength. It helped that more dinners were to be held. At them, says Melinda, the three principals would "float the pledge idea to see if it would fly."
There then occurred the second and third U.S. dinners, most of whose guests have not been publicly outed because of the cone of silence. Secrecy, a Gates spokesman says, is partly a bow to moguls who have been exposed to the philanthropic sales pitch but would be embarrassed to have been identified in case they chose not to step up to the challenge.
In any event, the names of some of the participants are known. The noted philanthropists at the second dinner, held at the New York Public Library in November last year, included New York investment banker Kenneth Langone and his wife, Elaine, and H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest and his wife, Marguerite, from Philadelphia. Lenfest got rich when he sold his Pennsylvania cable television company to Comcast (CMCSA) in 2000, netting $1.2 billion for himself and his family. He promptly vowed that he would give most of it to charity in his lifetime. Now 80, he has so far meted out $800 million, a good part of it to schools he attended (Columbia Law School, Washington and Lee, Mercersburg Academy).
Lenfest's favorite moment at the November dinner was Buffett's declaration that Marguerite Lenfest had put forward the best idea of the evening when she said that the rich should sit down, decide how much money they and their progeny need, and figure out what to do with the rest of it. Says Lenfest: "The value of Buffett and Gates is that they're going to make people sit down and think these things through."
The Third Supper, held in December in Menlo Park, Calif., at the Rosewood Sand Hill hotel, is known as the Bay Area dinner but drew from all over the state, including its entertainment precincts. In attendance were some veteran philanthropists, including venture capitalist John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins and his wife, Ann, and the Morgridges, who had selected the meeting site. This dinner was somewhat different from the other two, says Melinda Gates, because a few people there were relatively new to huge wealth and were still forming their opinions about giving. Talk went on for hours, so long that the beef being prepared for dinner became somewhat overcooked. This is reported to have dismayed Rosewood's management, which may have noticed that the crowd in the Dogwood room was worth having back.
The dinner also brought out some of the fears that people have about philanthropy. What does going public with big gifts do to the peace in your life? Won't pleas from charities be unending? How do you deal with giving internationally, which too often seems like throwing money down a hole? These are valid concerns, say the Gateses, the kind raised by people who want to feel as smart about giving as they were about making their money. But the questions didn't stop the two from plugging the satisfactions of philanthropy. At those dinners, says Bill, "no one ever said to me, 'We gave more than we should have.'"
Nor did the idea of a pledge get shot down at those dinners. It "floated" nicely, in other words. So as 2010 arrived, a pledge became the strategy. The idea of aiming for a 50% slice of net worth was pragmatically pulled from the sky, being less than the principals would have liked to ask for but perhaps as much, at least initially, as they can get. The pledges, meanwhile, were never envisioned as legal contracts but rather moral obligations to be both memorialized in writing and taken very seriously. They are in fact to be posted on a new website, givingpledge.org, whose construction Melinda Gates oversaw. The 99% pledge that Buffett is making is likely to be the No. 1 document on the website, if he is not beaten out by his Seattle friends.
Enthusiastic about leading the search for Great Givers, the Gateses and Buffett nonetheless have wanted a phalanx of strong supporters. Already committed to at least a 50% pledge are the Broads, the Doerrs, the Lenfests, and the Morgridges. With the online publication of this article, moreover, the three principals will send e-mails and make calls to other billionaires judged likely prospects. A bit later, all of the pledgers may join in sending a letter to a large number of other billionaires, asking them to join the growing crowd. In the fall there may even be a Great Givers conference.
The definition of success in this venture may take years to figure out, but each of the principals has reflections about the matter. Buffett knows that everyone rich has thought about what to do with his or her money: "They may not have reached a decision about that, but they have for sure thought about it. The pledge that we're asking them to make will put them to thinking about the whole issue again." He warns, most of all, against the rich delaying the decision of what to do with their money: "If they wait until they're making a final will in their nineties, the chance of their brainpower and willpower being better than they are today is nil."
Bill Gates regards the 50% as a "low bar" encouraging high participation. People, he thinks, may be drawn in by that proportion and then surprise themselves and find they are giving at higher levels. "This is about moving to a different realm," he thinks, and it will take time for everything to sort out.
Melinda Gates separates the near-term from the far. There are so many reasons that rich people don't give, she says: They don't want to plan for their death; they worry that they'll need to hire someone to help with the work; they just don't want to take the time to think about it all. So the initial goal of the pledge campaign, she thinks, must be simply to cut through that and get them moving in the direction of giving. And eventually? "Three to five years down the road, we need to have a significant number of billionaires signed up. That would be success."
Society cannot help but be a beneficiary here, by virtue of at least some dollars and perhaps many. Nor will it be just the very rich who will perhaps bend their minds to what a pledge of this kind means. It could also be others with less to give but suddenly more reason to think about the rightness of what they do.
Reporter associate: Doris Burke
Related: Billionaire peer pressure behind the Buffett-Gates Challenge
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A summary is a short and simple explanation of something, like a story or an article. It tells you the most important details without giving all the information. For example, the summary of this article is: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett are trying to get very rich people to promise to give at least half of their money to help others. They had secret meetings with these rich people to talk about their ideas and convince them how important it is to do this.
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You are an AI assistant. Provide a detailed answer so user don’t need to search outside to understand the answer.
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Given the question: What is the final step of the following process: - Water is heated - The heated water evaporates - The salt is left behind - The evaporated water condenses on a cold surface - The evaporated water is collected - The process is repeated
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The final step of the given process is: The purified water is stored for usage.
To elaborate, this process describes a method of desalination or water purification known as distillation. Here's a brief overview of the entire process:
1. Water is heated: The water, which may be impure or have dissolved salts, is heated until it reaches its boiling point.
2. The heated water evaporates: As the water heats up, it transforms into water vapor, leaving the salts and impurities behind.
3. The salt is left behind: The dissolved salt remains in the container as solid particles since it doesn't evaporate with the water.
4. The evaporated water condenses on a cold surface: The water vapor comes into contact with a cold surface, causing it to convert back into its liquid state—this is called condensation.
5. The evaporated water is collected: The condensed water, now free from impurities, is collected separately from the leftover salts.
6. The process is repeated: To ensure maximum desalination and purification, the process of heating, evaporating, and condensing is repeated multiple times.
7. The purified water is stored for usage: Once the desired level of purification is achieved, the purified water is collected and stored for future use.
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Given the question: Information: - The archaeological record is the body of physical (not written) evidence about the past. It is one of the core concepts in archaeology, the academic discipline concerned with documenting and interpreting the archaeological record. Archaeological theory is used to interpret the archaeological record for a better understanding of human cultures. The archaeological record can consist of the earliest ancient findings as well as contemporary artifacts. Human activity has had a large impact on the archaeological record. Destructive human processes, such as agriculture and land development, may damage or destroy potential archaeological sites. Other threats to the archaeological record include natural phenomena and scavenging. Archaeology can be a destructive science for the finite resources of the archaeological record are lost to excavation. Therefore archaeologists limit the amount of excavation that they do at each site and keep meticulous records of what is found. The archaeological record is the record of human history, of why civilizations prosper or fail and why cultures change and grow. It is the story of the world that humans have created. - Uummannaq Fjord is a large fjord system in the northern part of western Greenland, the largest after Kangertittivaq fjord in eastern Greenland. It has a roughly south-east to west-north-west orientation, emptying into the Baffin Bay in the northwest. - Norway (; Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Sami: "Norgga"), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a sovereign and unitary monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the island Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard. The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the Kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land. Until 1814, the Kingdom included the Faroe Islands (since 1035), Greenland (1261), and Iceland (1262). It also included Shetland and Orkney until 1468. It also included the following provinces, now in Sweden: Jämtland, Härjedalen and Bohuslän. - Inuit (pronounced or ; Inuktitut: , "the people") are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada and Alaska. Inuit is a plural noun; the singular is Inuk. The oral Inuit languages are classified in the Eskimo-Aleut family. Inuit Sign Language is a critically endangered language isolate spoken in Nunavut. - Uummannaq is a town in the Qaasuitsup municipality, in northwestern Greenland. With 1,282 inhabitants in 2013, it is the eleventh-largest town in Greenland, and is home to the country's most northerly ferry terminal. Founded in 1763 as Ûmañak, the town is a hunting and fishing base, with a canning factory and a marble quarry. In 1932 the Universal Greenland-Filmexpedition with director Arnold Fanck realized the film SOS Eisberg near Uummannaq. - The Canadian Arctic Archipelago, also known as the Arctic Archipelago, is a group of islands north of the Canadian mainland. - Qilakitsoq is an archaeological site on Nuussuaq Peninsula , on the shore of Uummannaq Fjord in northwestern Greenland . Formally a settlement , it is famous for the discovery of eight mummified bodies in 1972 . Four of the mummies are currently on display in the Greenland National Museum . - Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities. In North America, archaeology is considered a sub-field of anthropology, while in Europe archaeology is often viewed as either a discipline in its own right or a sub-field of other disciplines. - Geologically, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by glacial erosion. There are many fjords on the coasts of Alaska, British Columbia, Chile, Greenland, Iceland, the Kerguelen Islands, New Zealand, Norway, Novaya Zemlya, Labrador, Nunavut, Newfoundland, Scotland, and Washington state. Norway's coastline is estimated at with fjords, but only when fjords are excluded. - Greenland is an autonomous constituent country within the Danish Realm between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and Denmark, the colonial powers, as well as the nearby island of Iceland) for more than a millennium. The majority of its residents are Inuit, whose ancestors migrated began migrating from the Canadian mainland in the 13th century, gradually settling across the island. - The Republic of Iceland, "Lýðveldið Ísland" in Icelandic, is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean. It has a population of and an area of , making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Reykjavík. Reykjavík and the surrounding areas in the southwest of the country are home to over two-thirds of the population. Iceland is volcanically and geologically active. The interior consists of a plateau characterised by sand and lava fields, mountains and glaciers, while many glacial rivers flow to the sea through the lowlands. Iceland is warmed by the Gulf Stream and has a temperate climate, despite a high latitude just outside the Arctic Circle. Its high latitude and marine influence still keeps summers chilly, with most of the archipelago having a tundra climate. - An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record. Sites may range from those with few or no remains visible above ground, to buildings and other structures still in use. - The Danish Realm is a realm comprising Denmark proper, The Faroe Islands and Greenland. - Nuussuaq Peninsula (old spelling: "Nûgssuaq") is a large (180x48 km) peninsula in western Greenland. - Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: "Saknirutiak Imanga"; ), located between Baffin Island and the southwest coast of Greenland, is a marginal sea of the North Atlantic Ocean. It is connected to the Atlantic via Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea. The narrower Nares Strait connects Baffin Bay with the Arctic Ocean. The bay is not navigable most of the year because of the ice cover and high density of floating ice and icebergs in the open areas. However, a polynya of about , known as the North Water, opens in summer on the north near Smith Sound. Most of the aquatic life of the bay is concentrated near that region. Extent. The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of Baffin Bay as follows: History. The area of the bay has been inhabited since . Around 1200, the initial Dorset settlers were replaced by the Thule (the later Inuit) peoples. Recent excavations also suggest that the Norse colonization of the Americas reached the shores of Baffin Bay sometime between the 10th and 14th centuries. The English explorer John Davis was the first recorded European to enter the bay, arriving in 1585. In 1612, a group of English merchants formed the "Company of Merchants of London, Discoverers of the North-West Passage". Their governor Thomas Smythe organized five expeditions to explore the northern coasts of Canada in search of a maritime passage to the Far East. Henry Hudson and Thomas Button's explored Hudson Bay, William Gibbons Labrador, and Robert Bylot Hudson Strait and the area which became known as Baffin's Bay after his pilot William Baffin. Aboard the "Discovery", Baffin charted the area and named Lancaster, Smith, and Jones Sounds after members of his company. By the completion of his 1616 voyage, Baffin held out no hope of an ice-free passage and the area remained unexplored for another two centuries. Over time, his account came to be doubted until it was confirmed by John Ross's 1818 voyage. More advanced scientific studies followed in 1928, in the 1930s and after World War II by Danish, American and... - North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere. It can also be considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, and to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea. - The Arctic (or ) is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean, adjacent seas, and parts of Alaska (United States), Canada, Finland, Greenland (Denmark), Iceland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. Land within the Arctic region has seasonally varying snow and ice cover, with predominantly treeless permafrost-containing tundra. Arctic seas contain seasonal sea ice in many places. Given the information, choose the subject and object entities that have the relation of 'located in the administrative territorial entity'.
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Subject Entity: Uummannaq
Object Entity: Qaasuitsup municipality, northwestern Greenland.
Justification:
The relationship of 'located in the administrative territorial entity' is established between two key entities - the subject entity (the entity that is placed or located) and the object entity (the administrative region which houses or contains the subject).
From the given text, Uummannaq, a town in Greenland, serves as the subject entity. It's explicitly stated that this town is 'located in the Qaasuitsup municipality, in northwestern Greenland'. Hence, the 'Qaasuitsup municipality, northwestern Greenland' acts as the object entity. This administrative territorial region is the area where Uummannaq town exists or is located.
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Prin urmare, luarea de măsuri în vederea eradicării totale a acesteia este un obiectiv al politicii în materie de sănătate, la care guvernele pot contribui cel mai bine prin această măsură, dând dovadă de flexibilitate.
Translate this to English?
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Step 1: Read the text and understand the context.
I read the given text and identify that it's about taking measures to eradicate a health problem and the role of governments in this process.
Step 2: Break the text into smaller parts.
I will break the text into smaller phrases to make translation easier.
- luarea de măsuri
- în vederea eradicării totale a acesteia
- un obiectiv al politicii în materie de sănătate
- la care guvernele pot contribui cel mai bine
- prin această măsură
- dând dovadă de flexibilitate
Step 3: Translate each smaller part into English.
I will now translate each part into English:
- luarea de măsuri = taking measures
- în vederea eradicării totale a acesteia = towards the total eradication of this
- un obiectiv al politicii în materie de sănătate = a health policy objective
- la care guvernele pot contribui cel mai bine = to which governments can contribute most effectively
- prin această măsură = through this measure
- dând dovadă de flexibilitate = demonstrating flexibility
Step 4: Combine the translated parts into a coherent English sentence.
I will now combine the translated parts into a coherent English sentence, making necessary adjustments to ensure proper grammar and syntax:
"Therefore, taking measures towards the total eradication of this is a health policy objective, to which governments can contribute most effectively through this measure, demonstrating flexibility."
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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What would be an example of an negative review?
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To write a negative review, one needs to focus on the aspects of a product or service that did not meet expectations, and describe them in a clear, concise manner. Here's an example of a negative review for a smartphone:
Title: Disappointing Performance and Battery Life
Step 1: Start with a brief introduction
I purchased the XYZ Smartphone a month ago, expecting it to be a significant upgrade from my previous phone. Unfortunately, I have been left disappointed by its poor performance and battery life.
Step 2: Mention the negative aspects of the product/service
The phone's performance is frustratingly slow when running multiple applications or even just browsing the web. It's a common occurrence for the phone to freeze or crash when using it for what should be simple tasks.
Step 3: Provide specific examples
For instance, when trying to use Google Maps during a recent trip, the app took more than a minute to load, and even then, it kept freezing every few minutes, making navigation nearly impossible.
Step 4: Evaluate other aspects that may have contributed to a negative experience
Additionally, the battery life is far from what is advertised. I find myself having to charge the phone multiple times throughout the day, even with moderate use. For a brand new smartphone, this is completely unacceptable.
Step 5: End with a conclusion and a recommendation
In conclusion, the XYZ Smartphone has been a frustrating and disappointing purchase. I cannot, in good conscience, recommend this phone to anyone in search of a high-performing and reliable device. It's best to consider other options in the market.
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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I am trying to decide whether it's worth it to invest in this film proposal. Can you help me answer a few questions? If you can't, please say "No I can't". Question: Where were the woodcutter and the commoner talking? Movie title: Rashomon Movie plot: Sheltering from a rainstorm in the ruins of the Rashomon gatehouse, a woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) and a priest (Minoru Chiaki) sit dejected. A commoner (Kichijiro Ueda) joins them, and wants to hear the "strange story" they have just heard at a murder enquiry in the courthouse garden. The story has horrified the priest. Even though "year after year, it's been nothing but disasters," he has "never heard a story as horrible as this." The woodcutter is utterly confounded, and hopes the commoner can help him understand it.The woodcutter begins the narration, telling the commoner that three days earlier he had gone "into the mountains to get wood."The woodcutter is walking through the woods, carrying his axe. Sunlight filters through the foliage, dappling everything with a mix of sun and sharp shadows. He sees a woman's hat caught on a bush. Further along, he picks up a samurai's hat and some cut up rope. He sees something small amongst the leaves on the ground, and goes towards it, but does not notice the corpse right in front of him until he trips over it. He screams and, dropping everything (including his axe), runs away. He says, "I ran as fast as I could to tell the police. Then, three days later--today--I was called to testify."The woodcutter is seated in the sunlit courthouse garden, addressing the court, unseen and unheard behind the camera. He testifies that he is the one who found the body. Asked if he saw "a sword or something," he protests emphatically that he found "nothing at all" but the hats, rope, and "a shiny amulet case." And here he lets slip two additional details: the rope was "near the body" and the amulet case had "a red lining."The priest is seated in the courthouse garden. He testifies that he saw the man three days earlier, travelling on the road with a woman on a horse, and armed with a sword and bow and arrows. [There is a brief shot of the samurai passing on the road, turning to smile at his wife.] The priest comments on the fragility of life and offers condolences to someone off...
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The woodcutter and the commoner were talking in the ruins of the Rashomon gatehouse in the movie titled "Rashomon". Here, they were taking shelter from a rainstorm. This location provided them a setting where they could relay and evaluate the horrifying story they had just heard at the murder enquiry. The story had such a significant impact on both of them that it had deeply disturbed the priest, who claimed he had never heard a story as horrifying. And it left the woodcutter feeling thoroughly confounded, so much so that he sought the commoner's perspectives to make sense of it. The film thus uses this setting at the gatehouse not only as a physical space for their interactions but also as a platform for discussing the perplexing narrative that forms the backbone of the movie's plot.
The Rashomon gatehouse, even being in ruins, becomes a significant character in the movie. It becomes the site where three perspectives or interpretations of a terrible crime are shared and discussed. The characters who are to a certain extent sheltered from the rainstorm, are however exposed to the psychological storm stirred up by the horrific incident recounted. As they seek physical shelter, their minds are far from peace, as they engage in deciphering the mystery.
Yet the gatehouse in ruins also symbolizes the dilemmas and contradictions that the characters face. While it offers them protection from the physical rainstorm, it is where they expose themselves to the disturbing and baffling narrative about a murder. The ruined state of the gatehouse metaphorically mirrors the tumultuous state of the characters' minds in trying to piece together a coherent story and figuring out truths from the testimonies concerning the murder.
Therefore, the setting of the woodcutter and the commoner conversing in the ruins of the Rashomon gatehouse significantly contributes to the plot development in "Rashomon". It frames a space for the exposition of confusing and overlapping human accounts of a distressing event, wherein the notion of truth gets questioned and ambiguities loom large. Even in its desolate state, the gatehouse creates a dynamic where characters connect, contemplate, and confront each other's version of truth regarding the murder mystery. Hence, their conversation at this location becomes a pivotal element in the movie, raveling and unraveling the plot, while subtly underscoring the relative nature of truth and the inherent complexities of human perspectives.
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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Why do Manchester United supporters like the club?
Why is Manchester United such a famous club?
Do those questions have the same meaning?
Available choices: [i] no [ii] yes
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[i] No, the questions do not have the same meaning.
The first question, "Why do Manchester United supporters like the club?" focuses on understanding the reasons behind the supporters' affection and loyalty for the club. Fans can be drawn to a club for various reasons, and in the case of Manchester United, some of these reasons may include:
1. Successful history: Manchester United has a rich history of success, with numerous domestic league titles, FA Cups, League Cups, and European titles. Success on the pitch is a major attraction for fans who naturally want to support a winning team.
2. Iconic players: Over the years, Manchester United has boasted and produced many world-class and iconic players, such as Sir Bobby Charlton, George Best, Ryan Giggs, Eric Cantona, David Beckham, Wayne Rooney, and Cristiano Ronaldo. These players have left lasting impressions on the fans who may choose to follow the club because of their admiration for such talents.
3. The 'Busby Babes': The tragic story of the "Busby Babes," the young team managed by Sir Matt Busby that was involved in the Munich Air Disaster in 1958, adds an emotional connection for many fans. The subsequent rebuilding of the team and winning the European Cup in 1968 has become a symbol of determination and triumph in adversity.
4. The Alex Ferguson era: Sir Alex Ferguson's 26-year reign as manager of the club saw unparalleled success both domestically and in Europe. His character, leadership skills, and ability to nurture young talent left a lasting legacy that many fans continue to admire and support.
5. Global brand: Manchester United is renowned for its marketing strategies and represents a powerful global brand, providing fans with a sense of pride and belonging.
The second question, "Why is Manchester United such a famous club?" focuses on the factors contributing to the club's fame and prominence. These factors can include, but are not limited to:
1. Domestic and European success: Manchester United is one of the most successful football clubs in England and Europe, with 20 English Premier League titles, 12 FA Cups, 5 League Cups, 3 UEFA Champions Leagues, and numerous other honors. This success has elevated the club's global profile.
2. Historic moments: The club has been involved in some of the most memorable moments in football history, such as winning the European Cup three times, coincidentally, all in instances that ended in years divisible by 10 (1968, 1999, 2008), and the dramatic last-gasp title win in the 1998-99 season. This has contributed to the team's popularity and fame.
3. A strong fan base: Manchester United has a very large and diverse fan base both in England and globally, with millions of passionate fans dedicated to the club.
4. Star players: As mentioned earlier, the club has a history of attracting and developing legendary players whose popularity further contributes to the club's fame.
5. Marketing and commercial success: Manchester United has been adept at setting up lucrative sponsorship deals, global marketing campaigns, and brand partnerships, which have all helped to establish it as one of the most valuable football clubs in the world.
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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Police were called to reports of people being attacked at Leytonstone around 19:00 GMT on Saturday. The knifeman reportedly shouted "this is for Syria".
A man was arrested after being Tasered by police. One man suffered serious knife injuries while two others received minor injuries.
Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism detectives are investigating the case.
Downing Street said it was monitoring the situation closely.
The Met said the suspect was reportedly threatening other people with a knife.
Fellow passengers reportedly shouted at the man to drop his weapon and one person shouted "You ain't no Muslim bruv," a sentiment which has been picked up on social media by people trying to disown and sideline the attacker.
Another witness told the BBC he saw a man holding a knife, about 3in (7.5cm) long, standing over another man who was lying on the ground, and people running out of the Central Line station.
Witness Michael Garcia, 24, a financial analyst from Leytonstone, said he was walking along an underground passage that runs through the station when he saw people running outside.
"I realised it wasn't a fight but something more sinister," he said.
He then saw "a guy, an adult, lying on the floor with a guy standing next to him brandishing a knife of about three inches... maybe a hobby knife".
"It had a thin blade, but looked fairly long," Mr Garcia said.
"He was screaming 'go on, then, run' to everyone else. He was pacing back and forth next to the guy on the floor. He came up to the barriers."
Another witness, named Khayam, told BBC Radio 5 live people were shouting and throwing things at the arrested man as he was led from the station.
"I saw pedestrians shouting at him, one tried to throw a bottle and the police officers said 'back off' and took him to the police van."
Police said they received a call at 19:06 GMT and the man was arrested at 19:14.
They said the most seriously-hurt victim's injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.
Salim Patel, who works at a shop in the Tube station, said: "People just wanted the attacker to stop it, but then he took the knife out and used it on the victim.
"Everybody left the concourse and the attacker was using the knife on his body then he came out of [the] barrier and the people who were nearby the subway ran off."
He said he had been on the phone at the time to the police and said the attacker left the station and then returned.
Commander Richard Walton, who leads the Met's Counter-Terrorism Command, said: "We are treating this as a terrorist incident. I would urge the public to remain calm, but alert and vigilant.
"The threat from terrorism remains at severe, which means that a terrorist attack is highly likely.
"I would appeal to anyone who was in the vicinity of Leytonstone underground station earlier this evening at around 7pm who saw anything suspicious to call the anti-terror hotline on 0800 789 321."
He also urged anyone who took any photos or video of the incident to call that number.
A spokesman for the mayor of London said: "The incident, and the swift and professional response of the officers involved, reminds us of the dangers faced by the police every single day in their efforts to protect Londoners and keep the city safe."
A spokeswoman for 10 Downing Street said: "There is an ongoing police investigation into the attack in London. We are monitoring the situation closely as further details emerge."
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn wrote on Twitter: "The stabbing in Leytonstone is absolutely shocking. My thoughts are with the victim and his family."
Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal Democrats, tweeted the attack "was an act of pure evil".
Iain Duncan Smith, Conservative MP for nearby Chingford and Woodford Green, told the Andrew Marr show: "We cannot let these sort of people, terrorist etc, actually dominate our space." He urged people to carry on going about their business as normal to ensure our freedoms are not "curtailed".
Sadiq Khan, MP for Tooting and Labour's London mayoral candidate, has tweeted a photo of a London Tube notice board that reads: "London Underground say: #YouAintNoMuslimBruv."
"To defeat extremism we must directly challenge their poisonous ideology," he added.
What is a summary of this text?
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On Saturday at around 19:00 GMT, police were called to Leytonstone Underground Station in London due to reports of people being attacked by a man wielding a knife. The attacker reportedly shouted "this is for Syria" during the incident. One man suffered serious but non-life-threatening knife injuries, while two others received minor injuries. The suspect was arrested by police after being Tasered.
Metropolitan Police and counter-terrorism detectives are currently investigating the case, and Downing Street has stated that they are monitoring the situation closely. Witnesses at the scene reported people shouting at the man to drop his weapon, with one person shouting "You ain't no Muslim bruv," a sentiment that has since gained traction on social media as people try to disassociate the attacker from the Muslim community.
Following the incident, Commander Richard Walton of the Met's Counter-Terrorism Command urged the public to remain calm, but vigilant, noting that the threat from terrorism remains severe. The police have issued an appeal for anyone who was in the vicinity of the station or has any photos or videos of the incident to call the anti-terror hotline and share the information.
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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Are these paraphrases?
The eldest son of Doug and Lyn Enoch from Stradbroke Island , Wesley Enoch grew up in Brisbane . He is the brother of Queensland government minister Leeanne Enoch .
Wesley Enoch , the eldest son of Doug and Lyn Enoch from Stradbroke Island , grew up in Brisbane and is the brother of the Minister of Queensland , Leeanne Enoch .
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1). no;
2). yes;
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Option 2). Yes.
These sentences are indeed paraphrases of one another. They convey the same information, which is about Wesley Enoch's family background, including his parents, brother, and where he grew up.
The first statement, "The eldest son of Doug and Lyn Enoch from Stradbroke Island, Wesley Enoch grew up in Brisbane. He is the brother of Queensland government minister Leeanne Enoch," is a brief account of Wesley Enoch's family background. It tells the reader about his parents, Doug and Lyn Enoch from Stradbroke Island, and that Wesley Enoch grew up in Brisbane. It also mentions his sibling relationship with Leeanne Enoch, a Queensland government minister.
The second statement, "Wesley Enoch, the eldest son of Doug and Lyn Enoch from Stradbroke Island, grew up in Brisbane and is the brother of the Minister of Queensland, Leeanne Enoch," is a rephrased version of the first statement. The information provided remains the same, but the sentence structure differs slightly. The core information about Wesley being the oldest son of Doug and Lyn Enoch, his upbringing in Brisbane, and sibling relationship with Leeanne Enoch, is all retained.
Paraphrasing can serve various purposes, including simplifying text, clarifying complex ideas, or merely restructuring a sentence. In this case, although the original meaning is retained, the structure is altered, making these statements paraphrases of one another.
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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Please answer the following question: Pam and Ellie are two entomologists. they are both studying ants at the moment: Ellie is studying leafcutter ants, while Pam is studying ants that farm aphids. Given the paragraph above, please answer correctly the following question: Which scientist read less about aphid honeydew?
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Given the information provided, Ellie is the scientist who read less about aphid honeydew.
In the paragraph, it is mentioned that Pam and Ellie are both entomologists studying ants. However, they are focusing on different types of ants and their behaviors. Ellie is studying leafcutter ants, which are known for their ability to cut and carry leaves to their nests where they cultivate fungus to eat. Leafcutter ants do not engage with aphids and have no direct connection with aphid honeydew.
On the other hand, Pam is studying ants that farm aphids. These ants are known to protect aphids and, in return, get honeydew—a sugary substance produced by aphids—as food. Since these ants have a symbiotic relationship with aphids, it is highly likely that Pam has read more about aphid honeydew as part of her research.
So, based on the information given, the correct answer is:
A: Ellie
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t0.1440055
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You are an AI assistant. Provide a detailed answer so user don’t need to search outside to understand the answer.
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Please answer the following question: What is the missing first step of the following process: - Bloodstream - Cells in the body are attacked - Cells are killed - Different kinds of sickness are formed.
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A: The missing first step of the process is: "Pathogen (bacteria, viruses, or other harmful microorganisms) enters the body." The complete process would look like this:
1. Pathogen (bacteria, viruses, or other harmful microorganisms) enters the body.
2. Bloodstream: The pathogens travel through the bloodstream to various parts of the body.
3. Cells in the body are attacked: The pathogens target and infect specific cells or tissues, depending on their nature.
4. Cells are killed: The pathogens cause damage and death of the infected cells, leading to inflammation and tissue injury.
5. Different kinds of sickness are formed: The accumulation of cellular damage triggers the immune response, causing various symptoms and illnesses.
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flan.1974865
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Join date January 26 2011
Add punctuation.
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Join date: January 26, 2011.
Step 1: Identify the different segments of information within the given text ("Join date" and "January 26 2011").
Step 2: Determine the appropriate punctuation marks to be added to the text (a colon after "Join date" and a comma after "January 26").
Step 3: Add the punctuation marks to the text to make it more clear and readable.
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flan.1976286
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You are a helpful assistant, who always provide explanation. Think like you are answering to a five year old.
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Translate "All things that Melbourne offers to its visitors are close by our hotel. To find the hotel, go to 701 Swanston St. If you search to stay in place that is a home away from home, choose the stylish and elegant Rydges On Swanston. Timeless style, wide range of facilities and personalized attention are our trademarks we take pride in." to Spanish.
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Todas las cosas que Melbourne ofrece a sus visitantes están cerca de nuestro hotel. Para encontrar el hotel, ve a 701 Swanston St. Si buscas alojarte en un lugar que sea como un hogar lejos de casa, elige el elegante y con estilo Rydges On Swanston. El estilo atemporal, la amplia variedad de instalaciones y la atención personalizada son nuestras marcas distintivas de las que nos enorgullecemos.
En palabras sencillas para un niño de cinco años sería: Todas las cosas divertidas en Melbourne están cerca de nuestro hotel. Para llegar al hotel, busca la dirección en 701 Swanston St. Si quieres quedarte en un lugar que sea como tu casa pero lejos de ella, elige el hotel bonito Rydges On Swanston. Nos gusta mucho cómo se ve, todo lo que tiene y cómo cuidamos a nuestros visitantes.
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niv.26484
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You are an AI assistant, who knows every language and how to translate one language to another. Given a task, you explain in simple steps what the task is asking, any guidelines that it provides. You solve the task and show how you used the guidelines to solve the task.
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You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
Given a premise, an initial context, an original ending, and a counterfactual context, the task is to generate a new story ending aligned with the counterfactual context and as close to the original ending as possible. Each instance consists of a five-sentence story. The premise is the first sentence of a story, and the second sentence, which is the initial context, provides more information about the story's context and the story's general plot. The original ending is the last three sentences of the story. Also, a counterfactual context is a slight modification to the initial context. You should write a new story ending that edits the original story ending as little as possible to regain coherence with the counterfactual context. To sum up, you should write the last three sentences of a story based on the premise(first sentence) and the counterfactual context(second sentence) of the story.
Premise: Matt wanted to be a comedian.
Initial Context: He came up with an act and decided he was ready.
Original Ending: He called up a local comedy club and managed to book a spot. He went on stage and did his act. Nobody thought he was funny.
Counterfactual Context: He studied his act but still wasn't ready.
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To solve this task, first, let's understand the given story and the counterfactual context:
Premise: Matt wanted to be a comedian.
Initial Context: He came up with an act and decided he was ready.
Original Ending: He called up a local comedy club and managed to book a spot. He went on stage and did his act. Nobody thought he was funny.
Counterfactual Context: He studied his act but still wasn't ready.
Now, using the premise and counterfactual context, we write a new story ending that aligns with the counterfactual context while editing the original ending as little as possible.
New Story Ending:
He called up a local comedy club but hesitated to book a spot. He practiced his act some more but felt it needed more fine-tuning. Disappointed, Matt decided to work on his act further before performing it in public.
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flan.216574
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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Q: Where was the Teutonic Order headquartered in 1309?
A: Another order, the Teutonic Knights, although originally founded in the crusader states, focused much of its activity in the Baltic after 1225, and in 1309 moved its headquarters to Marienburg in Prussia.
Does the answer correctly answer the question
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A: The Teutonic Order was headquartered at Marienburg (modern-day Malbork, Poland) in 1309. The Teutonic Knights, also known as the Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem, was a Catholic military order founded during the late 12th century in the context of the Crusades. Initially, the order was active in the Holy Land; however, they gradually refocused their efforts on the Baltic region.
In the early 13th century, the Teutonic Knights were invited to support a military campaign to convert and subdue the pagan peoples in the Baltic area. This invitation came from Duke Konrad I of Masovia, who requested assistance against the pagan Prussians. As a result of their efforts, the Teutonic Knights began a process of territorial expansion, establishing their rule in parts of present-day Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
During this period, the Teutonic Order established numerous strongholds and castles, which were used as regional administrative centers and military bases. By 1309, the order had grown substantially and needed a new central seat of power. It was at this time that they chose Marienburg as their headquarters.
Marienburg was chosen primarily due to its strategic location and impressive fortifications. The castle itself, now known as Malbork Castle, was built by the Teutonic Knights along the banks of the Nogat River. The castle was strategically situated on trade routes and offered easy access to the Baltic Sea, which was essential for the order's military and economic activities. The castle complex was continuously expanded and fortified throughout its history.
The choice of Marienburg as the Teutonic Order's headquarters in 1309 marked a significant shift in the order's focus from the Holy Land to the Baltic region. The Teutonic Knights remained a powerful military, political, and religious institution in the Baltic lands until their decline in the 15th century, eventually being secularized and incorporated into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and other regional states. Today, Malbork Castle remains as a significant historic site and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, preserving the legacy and history of the medieval Teutonic Order.
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flan.2373424
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Translate "The new strategy for the internal market comprises one hundred or so measures, many of which will be beneficial to small and medium-sized businesses." to Finnish?
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To translate the English text into Finnish, I'll be applying my built-in language translation models and utilizing my understanding of Finnish vocabulary, grammar, and syntax.
Here's the English to Finnish translation:
"Sisämarkkinoiden uusi strategia käsittää noin sata toimenpidettä, joista monet hyödyttävät pieniä ja keskisuuria yrityksiä."
This translation maintains the meaning of the original English sentence, while adhering to the structures conventional in Finnish language, such as the word order and the correct inflection of words.
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flan.1767954
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You are a helpful assistant, who always provide explanation. Think like you are answering to a five year old.
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Să oferim o propunere pentru modul în care riscurile legate de nivelul ridicat al datoriei pot fi distribuite astfel încât Grecia şi alte ţări să nu fie nimicite de ratele ridicate ale dobânzilor.
Which language is this?
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This language is Romanian. The text is talking about providing a proposal for how the risks related to high debt levels can be distributed so that Greece and other countries won't be destroyed by high interest rates. Imagine it like this: people are trying to come up with a plan to help countries with big debts (like when someone has to pay a lot of money) to avoid getting in more trouble because of too much extra money they need to pay, which are called interest rates.
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niv.85898
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You are an AI assistant, who knows every language and how to translate one language to another. Given a task, you explain in simple steps what the task is asking, any guidelines that it provides. You solve the task and show how you used the guidelines to solve the task.
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Detailed Instructions: You are given a sentence in Italian. Your job is to translate the Italian sentence into Polish.
Problem:Il mio compito è parlarvi di astronomia senza mostrarvi nemmeno un'immagine di una nebulosa o una galassia, etc.
Solution:
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Task: Translate the given Italian sentence into Polish.
Guidelines:
1. Understand the meaning of the Italian sentence.
2. Translate the words and phrases from Italian to Polish.
3. Ensure the translation maintains proper grammar and sentence structure in Polish.
Sentence: Il mio compito è parlarvi di astronomia senza mostrarvi nemmeno un'immagine di una nebulosa o una galassia, etc.
Step 1: Understanding the meaning
The sentence in Italian means "My task is to talk to you about astronomy without showing you even an image of a nebula or a galaxy, etc."
Step 2: Translating the words and phrases
Il mio compito = Moje zadanie
è = jest
parlarvi = mówić wam
di astronomia = o astronomii
senza = bez
mostrarvi = pokazując wam
nemmeno = nawet
un'immagine = obrazu
di una nebulosa = mgławicy
o = czy
una galassia = galaktyki
etc = itp
Step 3: Constructing the Polish sentence
Moje zadanie jest mówić wam o astronomii bez pokazując wam nawet obrazu mgławicy czy galaktyki, itp.
Solution:
The translated sentence in Polish is: "Moje zadanie jest mówić wam o astronomii bez pokazując wam nawet obrazu mgławicy czy galaktyki, itp."
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flan.292713
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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Would the following phrase be considered positive or negative?
gentle and humane side
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The phrase "gentle and humane side" can be considered as positive in most contexts. Let's deconstruct the phrase and evaluate its constituent words to understand why this phrase is seen as positive.
1. Gentle: The word "gentle" is an adjective that describes someone who is kind, tender, and careful in their actions or behavior. This term can be seen as positive as it reflects a sense of compassion and understanding, which is often admired and appreciated by others. People who exhibit gentle behavior, such as listening attentively, offering comfort, or being patient, are typically seen as considerate and empathetic individuals.
2. Humane: The term "humane" refers to the quality of being compassionate, kind, and considerate, especially towards other living beings, be it humans or animals. It often involves actions that minimize suffering or harm and promote well-being. As a society, we generally view humane actions, such as treating others with respect, offering help when needed, or advocating for the welfare and rights of animals, as positive qualities. This characteristic is appreciated because it demonstrates that one has a strong moral compass and a genuine concern for the well-being of others.
Now, let's consider the phrase "gentle and humane side" as a whole. This phrase emphasizes the importance of exhibiting kindness, compassion, and a moral responsibility towards others. It highlights the part of one's personality that acts in the best interest of others, understanding their feelings, and trying to alleviate their pain or distress. Often, people who showcase this side of their personality are seen as approachable, trustworthy, and morally upright individuals.
In conclusion, the phrase "gentle and humane side" is generally considered positive, as it captures the essence of empathy, compassion, and a strong sense of morality. These are traits that are highly valued in interpersonal relationships, friendships, and society at large. However, it is essential to note that the context also plays a vital role in determining the positivity or negativity of a phrase, and thus, it is crucial to take into account the situation in which the phrase is used.
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Read the bio below and try to give details on jonathan tomlinson 's: - sport - event - weight - height - birth date - name - nationality - birth place Bio: jonathan tomlinson -lrb- born 1 july 1982 -rrb- is a british lawn bowler . he competed for wales in the men 's triples at the 2014 commonwealth games where he won a bronze medal .
The answer to this question is:
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Jonathan Tomlinson's details are as follows:
- Sport: Lawn Bowler
- Event: Men's Triples at the 2014 Commonwealth Games (where he won a bronze medal)
- Weight: Not provided in the bio
- Height: Not provided in the bio
- Birth Date: 1st July 1982
- Name: Jonathan Tomlinson
- Nationality: British
- Birth Place: Not provided in the bio
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flan.1563539
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You are a helpful assistant, who always provide explanation. Think like you are answering to a five year old.
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News article:
NEW DELHI: As you read this article, security personnel are swarming all over the tiny hamlet of Tembhali in northern Maharashtra, preparing for the flagging off of India's great UID mission by the prime minister.The Unique ID Authority of India has officially dubbed the initiative "Aadhar" and UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani is all set to tackle possibly the largest IT project, ever undertaken. We at Technoholik got exclusive access to Aadhar's technology centre in Bangalore to figure out whats happening under the hood.The tech can broadly be divided into three areas ie. enrollment, data centre and authentication.The UIDAI will partner with a number of agencies ranging from district collectors' offices to banks as "enrollment partners" who will be tasked with collecting data.These partners will receive a slick-looking pair of tough briefcases containing neatly packed hardware required for enrollment. A laptop with the Aadhar enrollment software installed along with a fingerprint reader and an iris scanner go into one briefcase while a webcam, a laser printer (for the receipt) and a small monitor fit into the other one. That last bit of hardware is an innovative touch because it's meant purely for the person getting enrolled to verify that the data being entered into the laptop is accurate.While Aadhar may be collaborative in its approach to enrollment, it's taking no chances with its central servers and whats being stored in them. The data centres themselves will be built and maintained by vendors, but access will be strictly controlled solely by the UIDAI at multiple levels. No data can leave the enrollment laptops unencrypted and any attempt to tamper or modify the data will raise an alarm when it is uploaded to the central server. Only once it is validated as being secure will it be accepted for further processing.Then comes the tricky part called "de-duplication" ie. checking to see if the person has not already enrolled which means comparing his biometric data (iris and ten fingerprints) to that of all the existing IDs. This will require enormous computing power and although Aadhar will have a large "grid" of networked computers, built using open-source technologies to do these "compute jobs" , building this grid as the volume grows will be the challenge.Complex algorithms to quickly compare biometrics have also been procured from specialist vendors to be run on this grid. "It has never been tried before, so it's the first time and Indians are attempting to do it with the next largest system only about 1/10th the size" , says Dr Pramod Varma, chief architect, Aadhar."Once the data comes into the CIDR it never leaves, its like a blackhole" , quips Dr Varma. What he means is that in order to protect citizens' privacy, no data will actually leave the Aadhar servers.Outsiders can only "query" the database for a yes/ no answer to authenticate someone who is quoting an ID, but cannot extract any other information. The authentication API (application programming interface) is publicly available on the Aadhar website, which means any programmer can build this querying ability into a software application in the future. ||||| India's vaunted tech savvy is being put to the test this week as the country embarks on a daunting mission: assigning a unique 12-digit number to each of its 1.2 billion people.
The project, which seeks to collect fingerprint and iris scans from all residents and store them in a massive central database of unique IDs, is considered by many specialists the most technologically and logistically complex national identification effort ever attempted. To pull it off, India has recruited tech gurus of Indian origin from around the world, including the co-founder of online photo service Snapfish and employees from Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Intel Corp.
The country's leaders are pinning their hopes on the program to solve development problems that have persisted despite fast economic growth. They say unique ID numbers will help ensure that government welfare spending reaches the right people, and will allow hundreds of millions of poor Indians to access services like banking for the first time.
Critics question whether the project can have as big an impact as its backers promise, given that identity fraud is but one contributor to India's development struggles. Civil-liberties groups say the government is collecting too much personal information without sufficient safeguards. The technology requires transferring large amounts of data between the hinterland and an urban database, leading some to question whether the system will succumb to India's rickety Internet infrastructure.
An ambitious national ID program in India is using sophisticated biometric technology to register the country's 1.2 billion citizens. WSJ's Amol Sharma reports.
The sign-up effort is already under way in a handful of districts, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to kick off nationwide enrollment Wednesday. The government hopes to issue the first 100 million unique ID numbers by March and 600 million within four years. The undertaking is the latest chance for India to show it can pull off a massive project after what is widely viewed as its mishandling of next week's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, where infrastructure and hygiene issues led some nations to threaten withdrawing.
To lead the program, Mr. Singh picked Nandan Nilekani, former CEO of Infosys Technologies Ltd., which helped pioneer India's low-cost offshore model of technology services. A native of Bangalore, India's tech hub, and son of a textile-mill manager, the 55-year-old billionaire is trying to infuse some of Infosys's efficiency into a lumbering bureaucracy.
"You have a whole mass of people who are shut out of society," Mr. Nilekani says. "A lack of identity is a big source of exclusion. You're giving them a key to social services."
In one early registration drive in Nagaram, a village 30 miles outside the southern city of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh state, dozens of people were streaming into a drab government office one recent afternoon to have their fingerprints taken and irises scanned. Many applicants, who ranged from vegetable and rice farmers to real-estate brokers and shopkeepers, had never used a computer much less seen biometric equipment. Local officials had knocked on their doors the night before to tell them about the program.
Salekula Anjaiah, a 44-year-old farmer who earns about $40 per month for his family of five, said he hoped the IDs would keep people from cheating the welfare system and getting food rations they don't qualify for. "It will take fraud out of the government schemes," said Mr. Anjaiah, who relies on subsidies to feed his family. "Then it will be guaranteed I get what I deserve."
India has been attempting to improve governance through technology for two decades. Programs have digitized land records, created Web portals for government agencies and computerized tax filing systems. But the unique ID program, dubbed "Aadhaar," or "foundation" in Hindi, is by far the largest and most ambitious effort. Many countries have some form of national ID and a handful use biometrics, but none come close to matching the scale of what India is attempting.
Mr. Nilekani started recruiting Indians in the global technology industry in the summer of 2009. These early recruits included Srikanth Nadhamuni, who had spent 16 years as a technology engineer for companies like Sun Microsystems and Intel.
Word spread in Silicon Valley that Mr. Nilekani wanted help, and by the fall a few others arrived in Bangalore.
The team rented an apartment at a gated community on the eastern outskirts of the city to use as an office. Everyone worked for free.
The group worked in the living room. They bought a few tables, two whiteboards and some markers. For food, they went to Mr. Nadhamuni's house nearby, where his wife served rice cakes, lentil crepes and lemon rice. Visitors had to use a wooden shoe rack as a bench since there weren't enough chairs.
The team came up with a plan to capture a mix of biometric information—digital photos, fingerprints and iris scans—as well as names, addresses, genders and dates of birth. Since they knew they wouldn't have a second chance to collect the data, the engineers say they erred on getting too much information, including all 10 fingerprints instead of just one. The government would issue the random 12-digit numbers by mail. Passports, driver's licenses, ration cards and government health-insurance cards could either have the numbers printed on them or embedded electronically.
Enlarge Image Close Bloomberg News Project head Nandan Nilekani says 'a lack of identity is a big source of exclusion' in India today.
That still left a major hurdle: How to verify that a number and a person actually match? Retailers, like banks and cell-phone companies, could install fingerprint readers and match the data over the Internet. But getting readers and Internet access to the 500,000, often remote locations where subsidized food is distributed to the poor would be costly and impractical.
The Indian government is expected to spend as much as $250 billion over five years on programs aimed at the poor, including subsidies for food, diesel, fertilizer and jobs. But 40% of the benefits, as the system now stands, will go to the wrong people or to "ghosts" with fake identification papers, according to a report by brokerage firm CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. Today's ration cards, for example, are issued on paper, and are relatively easy to forge or doctor.
India Real Time Who's Who in Nilekani's UID Dream Team
In November 2009, Mr. Nilekani wrote to tech companies such as Intel, Google, Oracle Corp. and Yahoo, asking them to send Indian-origin engineers to contribute to the cause, either on paid sabbatical or as volunteers. More than 20 people joined the effort.
The government has approved about $670 million for the project so far, and the entire cost will likely be "several billion dollars," says Mr. Nilekani.
By early this year, the Bangalore team moved into a real office at a technology park. Mr. Nilekani became a traveling salesman for the project, taking a PowerPoint presentation on the road and making the case for unique IDs with government agencies and regulators across the country.
In his pitch, Mr. Nilekani focused in part on reducing fraud, but also on the potential for bringing into the financial system the roughly two-thirds of Indian adults who don't have bank accounts. The poor often have few or no documents to prove who they are or where they live. The unique ID would solve that problem, says Mr. Nilekani, and could be linked to banks' plans to offer "no-frills" accounts, with no minimum balance and low fees, as well as nascent money-transfer services via mobile phones.
Scanning the World India's unique ID program is the largest and most logistically challenging identification project in the world. A look at other such schemes. Germany Now issues paper ID cards, but plans to replace with electronic cards embedded with fingerprints and a six-digit PIN number that can be used to digitally sign forms. Nigeria Creating a national database with biometric data on citizens. Government hopes that 100 million out of 150 million Nigerians will be issued a unique ID card in three years. Bosnia-Herzegovina National ID cards were issued in 2002, partly to encourage unity following ethnic strife. The technology involves a bar code, a single fingerprint and a photograph. About 2.5 million IDs had been issued as of May. Malaysia Smart cards hold personal data and a thumbprint, and can be used to pay road tolls and access ATM machines. Oman One objective of smart-card program is to track immigrants, including workers from Pakistan, Iran, India and elsewhere. U.S. The US-VISIT program collects digital fingerprints and photos from foreign travelers as a way to keep immigration violators and criminals from entering the country. It has over 100 million records. Source: CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets; WSJ Research
In the village of Nagaram, officials say they have been signing up 200 people per day, and as of early September, had made it through half of the 4,500 residents. The goal is for hundreds of villages and towns in Andhra Pradesh to start enrollment soon, and to reach 30 million people state-wide by the end of the year.
Signing up is technically voluntary, but any government agency or company will be allowed to require a unique ID as identity proof, an approach critics say amounts to a de facto mandate for people to enroll.
The process is slow going, taking anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes per person. Capturing iris scans with binocular-like devices is tricky and can take several minutes. Administrators had to hold one elderly man's eyelids open to get a good image.
In addition to biometrics, residents provided an array of personal information, including their caste, religion and cellphone number. State agencies and companies who register people can gather whatever information they deem appropriate.
Such vast data gathering rankles privacy advocates who say demographic details can potentially be used to discriminate in the services that companies offer customers or government agencies offer citizens.
Another concern is that marketers will find ways to build profiles of people based on how they use their IDs—tracking where people bank, which hospitals they have checked into and who their cellphone providers are, for example.
"You will basically be creating these wonderful resources for people to mine," says Sudhir Krishnaswamy, a law professor at the National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata.
Mr. Nilekani says he has drafted legislation to address the concerns of critics. Under the bill, which has been approved by India's cabinet but must still be passed by parliament, the government would have to ensure that the information it collects "is secured and protected against any loss or unauthorized access." Anyone who discloses private information or hacks into the ID database would face up to three years in prison and stiff fines. Mr. Nilekani said India also needs a broader privacy law.
Andhra Pradesh officials say early data already show how unique IDs could reduce corruption at the state's 43,000 ration shops, which distribute subsidized food to the poor.
At one shop, records showed rations were being delivered to 330 families, but after the IDs were rolled out, only 203 families claimed benefits by placing their finger on a scanner at the shop. State officials suspect the shop owner had been making up fake accounts to divert some of the food into the black market.
Jejjayila Venkatesh, a 35-year-old Nagaram resident who earns $50 a month in a local government job, said he isn't concerned about privacy. He just hopes the ID will help him open a bank account and get a driver's license, which he has had difficulty obtaining thus far, and maintain his benefits when he goes out of state for work: "This will help me prove my identity wherever I roam."
—Vibhuti Agarwal contributed to this article.
Write to Amol Sharma at amol.sharma@wsj.com |||||
What is a shorter version of the above article?
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In India, there is a big project called "Aadhar" that is trying to give every person in the country a special 12-digit number. This number will be used to help people get access to important things like government support, education, and bank accounts. It is a huge project because there are 1.2 billion people in India, and it will require very advanced technology to make sure that every person gets a unique number.
To do this project, India hired talented people from many technology companies like Google and Intel. These experts will use computers to store information about each person, like their fingerprints and pictures of their eyes (called iris scans). Then, they will use computers to check and make sure each person gets only one unique number.
People in India are hopeful that this project will help make the country's government work better and allow more people to get the help they need. However, some are worried about privacy, because the government is collecting a lot of information about each person. But the leaders of the project believe that they have put in place good rules to protect everybody's private information.
This project is very important because it can help improve the lives of many people in India, especially poor people who have trouble getting access to important services like banks.
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flan.1917172
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Based on the premise "Their only son, prince Don Juan, died here at the age of 19, and his tomb lies in the monastery.", can we conclude the hypothesis "Prince Don Juan lived into his forties." is true (see options)?
Choose from:
(1). yes
(2). it is not possible to tell
(3). no
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Step 1: Analyze the premise
The premise tells us that prince Don Juan died at the age of 19, and his tomb is in the monastery.
Step 2: Compare the premise with the hypothesis
The hypothesis states that prince Don Juan lived into his forties.
Step 3: Determine if the hypothesis aligns with the premise
Since the premise clearly states that prince Don Juan died at the age of 19, the hypothesis that he lived into his forties contradicts this information.
Step 4: Choose the appropriate option
Based on the analysis, the appropriate option is:
(3). no
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niv.262739
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Teacher:In this task, you are given an input list A. You need to convert all the alphabets in the list with a number representing their position in the English alphabet. E.g., replace A by 1, B by 2, a by 1, b by 2, and so on.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: ['e', 'W', 'F', '9857', 'n', 'W', '5753', '6915', '1693', '6471', '2369', 'j', 's', 'J', 'h', '9961', 'v', 'g', '9629', '7855', '8215', 'F', 'j', '441', '8569', 'G', '1279']
Student:
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Yes, I understand the problem. I will now solve the given instance step by step.
Given list A: ['e', 'W', 'F', '9857', 'n', 'W', '5753', '6915', '1693', '6471', '2369', 'j', 's', 'J', 'h', '9961', 'v', 'g', '9629', '7855', '8215', 'F', 'j', '441', '8569', 'G', '1279']
Step 1: Initialize an empty list `result`
Step 2: Iterate through each element in list A
Step 3: For each element, check if it is an alphabet (upper case or lower case)
a. If it's an alphabet, convert it to its position in the English alphabet (case insensitive)
b. If it's not an alphabet, keep it unchanged
Step 4: Append the processed element to the `result` list
Step 5: Continue iteration until all elements have been processed
Step 6: Return the `result` list
Here is the step by step conversion:
1. 'e' => 5
2. 'W' => 23
3. 'F' => 6
4. '9857' => 9857
5. 'n' => 14
6. 'W' => 23
7. '5753' => 5753
8. '6915' => 6915
9. '1693' => 1693
10. '6471' => 6471
11. '2369' => 2369
12. 'j' => 10
13. 's' => 19
14. 'J' => 10
15. 'h' => 8
16. '9961' => 9961
17. 'v' => 22
18. 'g' => 7
19. '9629' => 9629
20. '7855' => 7855
21. '8215' => 8215
22. 'F' => 6
23. 'j' => 10
24. '441' => 441
25. '8569' => 8569
26. 'G' => 7
27. '1279' => 1279
Final result list: [5, 23, 6, 9857, 14, 23, 5753, 6915, 1693, 6471, 2369, 10, 19, 10, 8, 9961, 22, 7, 9629, 7855, 8215, 6, 10, 441, 8569, 7, 1279]
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flan.169383
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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Fortheconsecrationofthesymbol,madeofmetal,itcancarrythroughthefireorwashincleanwatercharged.Papercharactersufficientlytoholdinthewind,orfumigatethesmokeofincense.Duringtheconsecrationofthesymbolshouldbealoudtoexpresstheirintention.
Generate a sentence using the above characters:
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For the consecration of the symbol, made of metal, it can be carried through the fire or washed in clean water charged with a specific intention. When using paper characters, simply holding them in the wind or fumigating them with the smoke of incense can achieve the desired effect. Throughout the process of consecration, it is important to verbally express one's intention clearly and confidently, allowing the energy to manifest and connect to the symbol in a powerful and meaningful way.
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cot.52257
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You are an AI assistant that helps people find information. Provide a detailed answer so user don’t need to search outside to understand the answer.
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Question: Which of the following sentences is nonsensical?
Options:
- Sentence A: "We bought a smile."
- Sentence B: "We bought a tiger."
Please answer this question gradually:
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To answer this question, we need to evaluate both sentences and determine which one makes the least logical sense:
Sentence A: "We bought a smile."
In this sentence, the idea of "buying a smile" seems a bit strange, since a smile is an emotional expression and cannot be physically possessed or bought like a tangible object. However, it can be interpreted metaphorically, such as paying for a pleasant experience or service that brings a smile to someone's face. So while it may not be entirely nonsensical, it requires a metaphorical understanding.
Sentence B: "We bought a tiger."
This sentence is more logically coherent. Tigers can be bought as animals, albeit in very specific and unusual circumstances, such as being purchased by a zoo, animal sanctuary, or a private owner with the necessary permits and resources. So, it makes more literal sense than Sentence A.
In conclusion, after evaluating both sentences, Sentence A: "We bought a smile" is more nonsensical than Sentence B: "We bought a tiger" because of its metaphorical meaning compared to the literal interpretation of purchasing a tiger.
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flan.109049
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Remove the spaces from the following sentence: More than 600 participants from all European countries have contributed to the contest.
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To remove the spaces from the given sentence, I will perform the following steps:
1. Identify the spaces in the sentence.
2. Remove each space from the sentence by concatenating the words adjacent to the space.
3. Combine the sentence after removing all spaces.
Step 1: Identifying the spaces
Input sentence: "More than 600 participants from all European countries have contributed to the contest."
Spaces are found between the following words:
- "More" and "than"
- "than" and "600"
- "600" and "participants"
- "participants" and "from"
- "from" and "all"
- "all" and "European"
- "European" and "countries"
- "countries" and "have"
- "have" and "contributed"
- "contributed" and "to"
- "to" and "the"
- "the" and "contest"
Step 2: Removing each space from the sentence
- "More" + "than" = "Morethan"
- "than" + "600" = "than600"
- "600" + "participants" = "600participants"
- "participants" + "from" = "participantsfrom"
- "from" + "all" = "fromall"
- "all" + "European" = "allEuropean"
- "European" + "countries" = "Europeancountries"
- "countries" + "have" = "countrieshave"
- "have" + "contributed" = "havecontributed"
- "contributed" + "to" = "contributedto"
- "to" + "the" = "tothe"
- "the" + "contest" = "thecontest"
Step 3: Combining the sentence after removing all spaces
Output sentence: "Morethan600participantsfromallEuropeancountrieshavecontributedtothecontest."
The sentence without spaces is: "Morethan600participantsfromallEuropeancountrieshavecontributedtothecontest."
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t0.968531
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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Answer the following question: Information: - Quebec City (pronounced or ) officially Québec) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. In 2015 the city had a population estimate of 545,485, and the metropolitan area had a population of 806,400, making it Canada's seventh-largest metropolitan area and Quebec's second-largest city after Montreal, which is about to the southwest. - The Liberal Party of Canada, colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federal political party in Canada. The party espouses the principles of liberalism, and generally sits at the centre of the Canadian political spectrum. The Liberal Party is traditionally positioned to the left of the Conservative Party of Canada and to the right of the New Democratic Party (NDP). - Toronto Centre is a federal electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1872 to 1925, and since 1935, under the names Centre Toronto (18721903), Toronto Centre (19031925, and since 2004), Rosedale (19351997), and Toronto CentreRosedale (19972004). - A Member of Parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this category includes specifically members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title. - Edward `` Eddie '' Goldenberg , CM served as a senior political advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien with Jean Pelletier and Aline Chrétien . Goldenberg first worked for Chrétien in 1972 with a summer internship after completing his first year at McGill University Faculty of Law . Goldenberg later served as Prime Minister Chrétien 's Chief of Staff during his term in office , before leaving to become a partner at the Ottawa office of law firm Stikeman Elliott LLP . Goldenberg later became a partner at Bennett Jones LLP . He was a supporter of Bob Rae 's bid to become Liberal leader in 2006 . Goldenberg is the author of The Way It Works , a bestselling book about his experiences working with Chrétien . He was described as Chrétien 's `` Machiavelli . '' - The Premier of Ontario is the first minister of the Crown for the Canadian province of Ontario. - The Faculty of Law is a constituent faculty of McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec. Its graduates obtain both a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.), concurrently, in three to four years, allowing them to practise in both the Canadian, U.S. and UK common law system as well as Quebec's civil law system. - Toronto is the most populous city in Canada, the provincial capital of Ontario, and the centre of the Greater Toronto Area, the most populous metropolitan area in Canada. Growing in population, the 2011 census recorded a population of 2,615,060. As of 2015, the population is now estimated at 2,826,498, making Toronto the fourth-largest city in North America based on the population within its city limits. Toronto trails only Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles by this measure, while it is the fifth-largest (behind also Chicago) if ranked by the size of its metropolitan area . An established global city, Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and widely recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. - An interim leader, in Canadian politics, is a party leader appointed by the party's legislative caucus or the party's executive to temporarily act as leader when a gap occurs between the resignation or death of a party leader and the election of a formal successor. Usually a party leader retains the leadership until a successor is formally chosen however, in some situations this is not possible, and an interim leader is thus appointed by the party's caucus or the party executive. An interim leader may also be appointed while a leader is on a leave of absence due to poor health or some other reason, and then relinquish the position upon the leader's return. - Jean Pelletier, (February 21, 1935 January 10, 2009) was a Canadian politician, who served as the 37th mayor of Quebec City, Chief of Staff in the Prime Minister's Office, and chairman of Via Rail. He was a leading organizer of the Liberal Party of Canada. - Robert Keith "Bob" Rae, (born August 2, 1948) is a Canadian lawyer, negotiator, public speaker, and former politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre and was the interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2011 to 2013. He was previously leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party and the 21st Premier of Ontario, from 1990 until 1995. - McGill University is an English and French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, ranked among the world's top 30 institutions. It was established in 1821 by royal charter, issued by King George IV of Great Britain. The University bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Scotland whose bequest in 1813 formed the university's precursor, McGill College. - Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born January 11, 1934), known commonly as Jean Chrétien, is a Canadian politician and statesman who served as the 20th Prime Minister of Canada from November 4, 1993 to December 12, 2003. - Via Rail Canada (generally shortened to Via Rail or Via; styled corporately as VIA Rail Canada) is an independent Crown corporation, subsidized by the Minister of Transport, mandated to offer intercity passenger rail services in Canada. - Montreal officially Montréal in both Canadian English and French, is the most populous municipality in Quebec and the 2nd-most populous in Canada. Originally called "Ville-Marie", or "City of Mary," it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. The city is on the Island of Montreal, which took its name from the same source as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. It has a distinct four-season continental climate with warm to hot summers and cold snowy winters. - Common law (also known as case law or precedent) is law developed by judges, courts, and similar tribunals, stated in decisions that nominally decide individual cases but that in addition have precedential effect on future cases. Common law is a third branch of law, in contrast to and on equal footing with statutes which are adopted through the legislative process, and regulations which are promulgated by the executive branch. In cases where the parties disagree on what the law is, a common law court looks to past precedential decisions of relevant courts. If a similar dispute has been resolved in the past, the court is usually bound to follow the reasoning used in the prior decision (a principle known as "stare decisis"). If, however, the court finds that the current dispute is fundamentally distinct from all previous cases (called a "matter of first impression"), judges have the authority and duty to resolve the issue (one party or the other has to win, and on disagreements of law, judges make that decision). Resolution of the issue in one case becomes precedent that binds future courts. "Stare decisis", the principle that cases should be decided according to consistent principled rules so that similar facts will yield similar results, lies at the heart of all common law systems. - Quebec (pronounced or ) is the second-most populous province of Canada and the only one to have a predominantly French-speaking population, with French as the sole provincial official language. - The Ontario New Democratic Party (ONDP or NDP) is a social democratic political party in Ontario, Canada. It is a provincial section of the federal New Democratic Party. It was formed in October 1961 from the Ontario section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (Ontario CCF) and the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL). What object entity has the relation of 'occupation' with the subject 'eddie goldenberg'? Choices: - canada - democratic party - faculty - king - lawyer - leader - member - minister - official - politician - prime minister - prior - research - speaker
Answer:
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The object entity that has the relation of 'occupation' with the subject 'Eddie Goldenberg' is lawyer. Eddie Goldenberg served as a senior political advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and later became a partner at the Ottawa office of the law firm Stikeman Elliott LLP, as well as a partner at Bennett Jones LLP. His occupation as a lawyer is intertwined with his political career, as he used his legal expertise to advise and support the Prime Minister and contribute to the Liberal Party of Canada.
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Please answer the following question: What key details about pradip somasundaran can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: pradip somasundaran , also known as pradeep somasundaram , is an indian playback singer .
A:
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Step 1: Read and understand the given bio
- In this step, I will read the provided text and make sure I understand the context.
Step 2: Identify key details
- From this text, we can extract these key details:
1. Name: Pradip Somasundaran
2. Alternative name: Pradeep Somasundaram
3. Nationality: Indian
4. Occupation: Playback singer
Step 3: Justify the extracted key details
- These key details have been selected because they offer essential information about Pradip Somasundaran that helps to identify him and know his professional background. They cover his name, nationality, and occupation.
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flan.1027776
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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Article: In order for the "torrc" file—the file which determines Tor's exit node preferences—to appear, you must run Tor on your computer at least once. You can run Tor by clicking the Tor app icon and then clicking Connect. It's a menu item at the top of the screen. Clicking it prompts a drop-down menu. If you don't see this menu item, first click the desktop or open {"smallUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/images\/1\/1d\/Macfinder2.png","bigUrl":"\/images\/thumb\/1\/1d\/Macfinder2.png\/32px-Macfinder2.png","smallWidth":460,"smallHeight":431,"bigWidth":"32","bigHeight":"30","licensing":"<div class=\"mw-parser-output\"><p>I edited this screenshot of a macOS icon.\n<\/p><p>License: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fair_use\">Fair Use<\/a><br>\n<\/p><\/div>"} Finder. This option is at the bottom of the drop-down menu. Doing so will open a text box in the middle of the screen. Type in ~/Library/Application Support/TorBrowser-Data/Tor/ and press ⏎ Return. Doing so will take you to the location where the "torrc" file is stored. Double-click the "torrc" file, then select TextEdit when prompted to choose a program. This will allow you to edit the "torrc" file's text. Place your cursor below the last line of text in the document, then type in EntryNodes {} StrictNodes 1 and press ⏎ Return. Type in ExitNodes {} StrictNodes 1 and press ⏎ Return. Go to https://web.archive.org/web/20180328074444/http://www.b3rn3d.com/blog/2014/03/05/tor-country-codes/ in your computer's web browser, scroll down to the "List of country codes for Tor" heading, and look for the codes for the countries that you want to use as your entry and exit nodes. For example, if you want your Tor browsing session to start in Canada and exit in Uganda, you would look for the "Canada" country code (ca) and the "Uganda" country code (ug). Type the code for the country in which you want your session to start in between the {} brackets to the right of the "EntryNodes" line, then repeat with the exit country and the "ExitNodes" line. For example, to enter in Canada and exit in Uganda, your lines might look like this: EntryNodes {ca} StrictNodes1 ExitNodes {ug} StrictNodes1 You can do this by replacing StrictNodes 1 with StrictNodes 0 which will ensure that Tor can still use other countries' codes if your specified ones aren't working. If you do want to keep strict nodes enabled for your entry and/or exit nodes, consider adding multiple countries rather than just using one country. You can add countries by adding more country codes inside of brackets, making sure to separate them with spaces. For example, to add the United States and France to the "ExitNodes" Uganda line, you would have the following line: ExitNodes {ug},{us},{fr} StrictNodes 1 Make sure there are no spaces between bracketed countries. Press ⌘ Command+S, then exit TextEdit. This should replace the "torrc" file's original text with your updated text. Tor may take an extra few seconds to start this time, especially if you selected a distant country. Go to any website (e.g., https://www.google.com/) in Tor, then click the onion-shaped icon in the upper-left side of the page. A drop-down menu with a "Tor circuit for this site" heading will appear with your browser, entry node, middle connections, exit node, and the Internet listed from top to bottom. For this method's example, you would see the following: This browser > Canada [IP address] > [Country] [IP address] > Uganda [IP address] > Internet
What is a summary of what this article is about?
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This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to configure the "torrc" file in the Tor Browser to set specific entry and exit nodes based on selected country codes. This customization allows users to route their Tor browsing session through desired countries for enhanced privacy and security. The article explains the process, including running Tor, locating and editing the "torrc" file, finding country codes, and setting entry and exit nodes based on these codes. Additionally, the article describes the option to use strict or non-strict nodes and the impact these settings have on browsing. Finally, it shows how to verify that the configuration has been successfully implemented.
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cot.73808
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You are an AI assistant that helps people find information.
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Question. Tom cannot afford a normal doctor, so he goes to a discount clinic that is 70% cheaper. It takes two visits, though, instead of 1. A normal doctor charges $200 for a visit. How much money does he save?
Answer. 80
What step-by-step reasoning justifies that answer?
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The given information shows that Tom goes to a discount clinic that is 70% cheaper than a normal doctor.
Step 1: Determine the cost of the discount clinic visit.
A normal doctor charges $200 for a visit. To find the cost of a visit at the discount clinic, first calculate the savings by multiplying the normal visit cost by the discount percentage: $200 * 0.70 = $140.
Step 2: Subtract the savings from the normal visit cost to get the cost of the discount clinic visit.
$200 - $140 = $60.
Step 3: Calculate the total cost of two visits to the discount clinic.
$60 * 2 = $120.
Step 4: Calculate the savings.
Subtract the total cost of two visits to the discount clinic from the cost of one normal doctor visit: $200 - $120 = $80.
So, Tom saves $80 by going to the discount clinic.
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flan.1221353
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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Solve this math problem
Solve -7*m - 400 + 121 = 24*m for m.
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To solve the equation -7*m - 400 + 121 = 24*m for m, we will need to follow several steps to isolate m. Let's go step by step:
The original problem: -7*m - 400 + 121 = 24*m
Step 1: Simplify both sides.
Add 400 to both sides and subtract 121 from both sides to eliminate -400 and +121 (i.e., move them to the other side of the equation using the inverse operations).
To simplify the left side, combine -400 and +121, to get -279. Therefore, the simplified problem to solve now becomes -7*m - 279 = 24*m.
Step 2: Remove m terms from one side of the equation by performing the same operation to both sides.
To do this, we'll add 7*m to both sides of the equation to eliminate the -7*m from the left side. This cancels out the m term on one side and changes the equation to -279 = 24*m + 7*m.
Combine like terms for m on the right side of the equation to get 31*m.
So, the equation now looks like this: -279 = 31*m
Step 3: Solve for m by dividing both sides by 31, because to eliminate the 31 coefficient attached to the m variable, we perform the opposite operation (division).
-279 ÷ 31 = m
Therefore, m = -9
So, the solution to -7*m - 400 + 121 = 24*m is m = -9.
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t0.1330348
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Question: Information: - Peng Chau is a small island located off the north-eastern coast of Lantau Island, Hong Kong. It is known for its temples, its small island lifestyle and accessibility to fresh seafood. - Sham Chun River (also called Shenzhen River in Shenzhen) serves as the natural border between Hong Kong and Mainland China, together with the Sha Tau Kok River and Deep Bay. - Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) is the public broadcasting service of Hong Kong. It currently operates seven radio channels and three television channels, and produces educational, entertainment, and public affairs programmes that are also broadcast on commercial television channels. - The Kowloon Peninsula is a peninsula that forms the southern part of the main landmass in the territory of Hong Kong. The Kowloon Peninsula and the area of New Kowloon are collectively known as Kowloon. - Cheung Chau (lit. "Long Island") is an island southwest of Hong Kong Island. It is nicknamed the 'dumbbell island ()' due to its shape. It has been inhabited for longer than most other places in the territory of Hong Kong, and had a population of 22,740 . Administratively, it is part of the Islands District. Geography. Geographically the island is formed from two mostly granite masses joined by a tombolo. With an area of , the island is therefore "long", hence the name as translated from Cantonese is "Long Island". Thus, it is redundant to say "Cheung Chau Island". The island is dumbbell-shaped, with hills at the northern and southern ends and the settlements concentrated in between. - Tseung Kwan O Village is one of the oldest communities in the Tseung Kwan O area of Hong Kong. Lying at the northern tip of Junk Bay, it is a sleepy and comfortable village that rests at the foot of a small mountain. Before major development in the 1970s by the Hong Kong Government, the ocean was a mere away but the land has since been reclaimed and an urban area built upon it. - Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the Pearl River Delta of East Asia. Macau lies across the delta to the west, and the Chinese province of Guangdong borders the territory to the north. With a total land area of and a population of over 7.3 million of various nationalities, it ranks as the world's fourth most densely populated sovereign state or territory. - China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia. With a population of over 1.381 billion, it is the world's most populous country. The state is governed by the Communist Party of China, and its capital is Beijing. It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and two mostly self-governing special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau), and claims sovereignty over Taiwan. The country's major urban areas include Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Hong Kong. China is a great power and a major regional power within Asia, and has been characterized as a potential superpower. - Mainland China, also known as the Chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is the geopolitical area under the direct jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China (PRC). It generally excludes the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau; however, it usually includes Hainan. The term "mainland China", which avoids calling the area simply "China" and thereby recognizing the founding of the PRC as "the" "China", was coined by the Kuomintang (KMT) after receiving control of Taiwan from Japan after World War II. By 1949, the KMT-led Republic of China (ROC) government was defeated in the Chinese Civil War in mainland China and fled to the island of Taiwan where the KMT pledged to "retake the Mainland". The KMT considers both sides of the Taiwan Strait (including Taiwan), as (one) "China" and one country, whereas Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) considers only mainland China as "China" and Taiwan (ROC) as "Taiwan" and maintains that they are different countries. - Asia Television (also known as ATV, stylised "aTV" since 8 October 2007) was a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong. Established as the first television service in Hong Kong as Rediffusion Television() on 29 May 1957, it shifted to terrestrial television on 30 November 1973, and was renamed Asia Television on 24 September 1982. ATV operated two main over-the-air channels: the Cantonese-language ATV Home, and ATV World. - Sai Kung District is the second largest district in Hong Kong in terms of area. It comprises the southern half of Sai Kung Peninsula and Clear Water Bay Peninsula in the New Territories plus a strip to the east of Kowloon. It is made up of the Sai Kung Town, Sai Kung rural areas, Tseung Kwan O New Town and over 70 islands of different sizes. The administrative centre is Sai Kung Town but the district's population is concentrated in Tseung Kwan O. The district has the second youngest residents. Known as the "back garden of Hong Kong", Sai Kung has been able to retain its natural scenery, and where the Hong Kong Global Geopark is located. Behind the modern buildings, a lot of traditional customs and cultures are still retained in the rural villages. - Boundary Street is a three-lane one-way street in Kowloon, Hong Kong. It runs in an easterly direction from its start at the intersection with Tung Chau Street in the west, and ends at its intersection with Prince Edward Road West in the east, near the former Kai Tak Airport. - Television Broadcasts Limited, commonly known as TVB, was founded as the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong. TVB runs five free-to-air television channels in Hong Kong, and is one of two free-to-air terrestrial television broadcasters in Hong Kong, and one of the largest commercial Chinese programme producers in the world. It commenced broadcasting on 19 November 1967. It has a staff of about 4,500. Its commercial rival for free-to-air terrestrial television broadcasts is Asia Television (ATV), whilst the government-owned Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) produces television programmes, but does not itself broadcast them. - Lamma Island, also known as Pok Liu Chau or simply Pok Liu, is the third largest island in Hong Kong (). Administratively, it is part of the Islands District. - New Territories (Hakka: "Sin Gai") is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it is the region described in The Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory. According to that the territories comprise the mainland area north of the Boundary Street of Kowloon Peninsula and south of the Sham Chun River which is the border between Hong Kong and Mainland China, as well as over 200 outlying Islands including Lantau Island, Lamma Island, Cheung Chau, and Peng Chau in the territory of Hong Kong. - Hong Kong Island is an island in the southern part of Hong Kong. It has a population of 1,289,500 and its population density is 16,390/km², . The island had a population of about 3,000 inhabitants scattered in a dozen fishing villages when it was occupied by the United Kingdom in the First Opium War. In 1842, the island was formally ceded in perpetuity to the UK under the Treaty of Nanking and the City of Victoria was then established on the island by the British Force in honour of Queen Victoria. - Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate (Chinese: , branded as ) is located in the southeast of the Tsueng Kwan O New Town, Sai Kung District in Hong Kong. - Lantau Island (also Lantao Island; Chinese: ) is the largest island in Hong Kong, located at the mouth of the Pearl River. Administratively, most of Lantau Island is part of the Islands District of Hong Kong. A small northeastern portion of the island is located in the Tsuen Wan District. - Kowloon is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. It is bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait to the east, Mei Foo Sun Chuen and Stonecutter's Island to the west, a mountain range, including Tate's Cairn and Lion Rock to the north, and Victoria Harbour to the south. It had a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of 43,033/km in 2006. The peninsula's area is approximately . - TVB City ( Chinese : ; Cantonese Yale : din si gwong bo sing ) , is the headquarters of Television Broadcasts Limited , located at 77 Chun Choi Street in the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate , Tai Chik Sha , Tseung Kwan O , New Territories , near to Shaw Studios . TVB is by far the biggest tenant of the estate and the first service - providing company in there . The city officially opened on 12 October 2003 durated and was constructed at a cost of HK $ 2.2 billion . It was designed to cope with future development and expansion , especially for digital television production . TVB City has a building area of over 110,000 square metres , 30 % more than that the old headquarters , TV City , at Clearwater Bay . The facilities includes an 11 - storey broadcasting centre , workshops , a newsroom , a satellite antenna farm , two outdoor shooting sites and 22 production studios , of which `` Studio 1 '' is one of the largest studio amongst all commercial television stations in Asia . - Tseung Kwan O (also called Cheung Kwan O or Junk Bay) is a bay in Sai Kung District, New Territories, Hong Kong. In the northern tip of the bay lies the Tseung Kwan O Village. Given the information, choose the subject and object entities that have the relation of 'located in the administrative territorial entity'.
Answer:
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1. Subject Entity: Peng Chau
Object Entity: Islands District, Hong Kong
2. Subject Entity: Sham Chun River
Object Entity: Hong Kong and Mainland China border
3. Subject Entity: Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK)
Object Entity: Hong Kong
4. Subject Entity: Kowloon Peninsula
Object Entity: Hong Kong
5. Subject Entity: Cheung Chau
Object Entity: Islands District, Hong Kong
6. Subject Entity: Tseung Kwan O Village
Object Entity: Tseung Kwan O area, Hong Kong
7. Subject Entity: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Object Entity: People's Republic of China
8. Subject Entity: People's Republic of China (PRC)
Object Entity: East Asia
9. Subject Entity: Mainland China
Object Entity: People's Republic of China (PRC)
10. Subject Entity: Asia Television (ATV)
Object Entity: Hong Kong
11. Subject Entity: Sai Kung District
Object Entity: Hong Kong
12. Subject Entity: Boundary Street
Object Entity: Kowloon, Hong Kong
13. Subject Entity: Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB)
Object Entity: Hong Kong
14. Subject Entity: Lamma Island
Object Entity: Islands District, Hong Kong
15. Subject Entity: New Territories
Object Entity: Hong Kong
16. Subject Entity: Hong Kong Island
Object Entity: Hong Kong
17. Subject Entity: Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate
Object Entity: Sai Kung District, Hong Kong
18. Subject Entity: Lantau Island
Object Entity: Islands District, Hong Kong
19. Subject Entity: Kowloon
Object Entity: Hong Kong
20. Subject Entity: TVB City
Object Entity: Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate, Hong Kong
21. Subject Entity: Tseung Kwan O
Object Entity: Sai Kung District, New Territories, Hong Kong
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Given the task definition and input, reply with output. You are given two sentences. You have to find if there is entailment or agreement of the Hypothesis by the Premise. From the given pair of sentences, you should identify if there is enough information in the Premise to support the claim made in the Hypothesis. The Premise may not exactly be the same as Hypothesis. Your task is to return 'entails' if the premise supports hypothesis else return 'neutral'.
Premise: they dilate in heat and contract in cold.
Hypothesis: The liquid in a thermometer expands or contracts to respond to heat or cold.
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Step 1: Identify the main idea in both the Premise and Hypothesis
Premise: The main idea here is that "they" (referring to something) dilate (expand) in heat and contract (shrink) in cold.
Hypothesis: The main idea is that the liquid in a thermometer expands or contracts in response to heat or cold.
Step 2: Compare the main ideas between the Premise and Hypothesis
Premise and Hypothesis both deal with expansion and contraction in response to heat and cold. However, the Premise talks about an unspecified "they," while the Hypothesis specifically mentions the liquid in a thermometer.
Step 3: Determine if the Premise provides enough information to support the Hypothesis
The Premise talks about the behavior of dilating in heat and contracting in cold but does not specify what it refers to. It could be related to any substance, object, or phenomenon.
Step 4: Decide if there is entailment or agreement
Since the Premise does not specify that it refers to the liquid in a thermometer, we cannot determine with certainty that the Premise supports the claim made in the Hypothesis.
Output: 'neutral'
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flan.510729
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Summarize this article:
Apple has never hidden the fact that it has a stricter censorship policy for iOS apps than for other forms of entertainment. The debate about whether this is unfair is heating up once more this week, however, after it removed an iPhone game called Phone Story from its App Store.
The game was released by Italian developer Molleindustria, whose mission statement is to "reappropriate video games as a popular form of mass communication" and "investigate the persuasive potentials of the medium by subverting mainstream video gaming cliche".
In Phone Story's case, that took the form of four mini-games about the "troubling supply chain" behind smartphones – all smartphones, not specifically iPhones – including coltan extraction in Congo, outsourced labour in China, environmental waste in Pakistan, as well as the mania for gadgets in the West. One of the mini-games sees workers leaping from their factory building: a clear reference to suicides and attempted suicides by workers at Apple's manufacturing partner Foxconn.
Molleindustria said that all its net revenues from sales of the iPhone game would go to charities tackling corporate abuses.
A game where you have to catch plummeting factory employees, oversee underage miners and distribute smartphones outside a store with a white pear logo on the front? Apple's disapproval comes as no surprise, but in an interview with Gamasutra, Molleindustria's Paolo Pedercini says that in itself is a comment on the iOS ecosystem.
"Here's the problem: the unanimous reaction from developers community has been, 'Wow, it's incredible Phone Story made through Apple's review process'. To me, this signals a full acceptance of a regime of censorship, the equivalent, for developers, of what journalists call the 'chilling effect'. I'm sure that Apple doesn't spend that much time in policing its marketplace, because the developers are already censoring themselves."
Pedercini goes on to talk about Apple's wider attitude to cultural products. "Of course, Apple has the right; it is the acceptance of Apple view about the cultural status of the 'App'. For them, games and applications are not part of culture like books or music. Try to imagine what kind of reaction iTunes would provoke if they banned all the songs with 'excessive objectionable' content."
On one level, Apple can't be faulted for its transparency on this score. In September 2010, it published some App Store guidelines, available to all developers (and reprinted in full at the time on several websites). "We view Apps different than books or songs, which we do not curate," explained the document.
"If you want to criticize a religion, write a book. If you want to describe sex, write a book or a song, or create a medical app. It can get complicated, but we have decided to not allow certain kinds of content in the App Store… We will reject Apps for any content or behavior that we believe is over the line. What line, you ask? Well, as a Supreme Court Justice once said, 'I'll know it when I see it'. And we think that you will also know it when you cross it."
According to Pedercini, Apple's email informing him of Phone Story's removal claimed the game had crossed four specific lines, in the form of specific guidelines for unacceptable apps. Two relating to charities and contributions appear to be wide of the mark, with the guidelines focusing on in-app donations, while Molleindustria was merely saying it would donate its download revenues to charities once it was paid.
The other two flouted guidelines relate to depictions of "violence or abuse of children", and "excessively objectionable or crude content". The former appears to be crucial to the satirical intent of the game, while the latter is something of a grey area – who is most likely to object to the content here: users or Apple?
Judging by his Gamasutra interview, Pedercini is fairly pessimistic about his chances of getting a resubmitted version of the game approved. In the past, these situations have been resolved – for example Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore had his NewsToons app rejected, sparking a media row over censorship, before resubmitting it unchanged and being approved. However, the subject material there was politicians and public figures, not Apple's own business.
The rejection of Phone Story raises wider questions for app publishers beyond the Games category in 2011. What kind of treatment could a newspaper or magazine expect if it ran a lead feature exploring exactly the topics highlighted in Molleindustria's game, for example?
It should be noted that thus far, Apple has shown no appetite for censoring editorial-based apps in this way. But the debate around how an app store owner responds when an app criticises and/or satirises its own business practices and those of its partners is not just restricted to Apple: it's one for all the platform owners, device makers and mobile operators launching their own curated stores.
Apple declined to comment on the story when contacted by The Guardian. ||||| The rise of the iPhone has revolutionized communication in the modern world, and the game development industry has been one of the largest beneficiaries of this paradigm shift. Thanks to Apple's touch screen and App Store, mobile game development was dredged from its cultural ghetto to a legitimate avenue for big studios and indies alike.It arrived in the nick of time, too, after the rapid contraction of packaged goods and the recession of a few years ago forced so many developers to seek more agile, less expensive and lower-risk spaces within the industry. Since then, powerhouse studios have been built and careers have been rescued on the back of Apple's must-have device.But until now, few have been willing to turn the lens on this boom and examine what mass-market gadget lust is costing us ethically. Though we've since heard of suicides at Foxconn , deplorable working conditions and hazards to the environment involved in the manufacture of the latest hot smartphones, game developers were mostly silent -- until now.It seems natural that provocative serious games developer Molleindustria was the one to take the step. The studio, which has taken on forces like the Catholic church, McDonald's and big oil with games likeand, never pulls its punches as it uses games to sharply deconstruct the social and economic constructs most people take for granted.Its latest title,, uses a series of minigames with voice-over narration to shed light on the human cost and high environmental impact of smartphone development. In one minigame, while the narrator explains that most electronic devices require the mining of coltan, a conflict mineral in Congo whose demand spurs war and child labor, the player must use the touch screen to guide armed soldiers to bark at exhausted child miners in order to meet the goal in time.In another, the voice-over explains the suicides at electronics manufacturers in China, and the facile solution of "prevention nets" -- while the player must catch tumbling workers using a stretched trampoline.Of course,is more interesting for the fact that players must interact with these messages while holding one of the devices discussed. Imagine being served hamburgers on a tour of a slaughterhouse. And all of the developer proceeds -- 70 percent of total App Store revenues, as per usual -- will be pledged to organizations fighting corporate abuses, starting with Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior , which supports workers in abusive conditions internationally, including at Foxconn.Or they would be, ifhad been allowed to stay on the App Store. Apple yanked it just a few hours after the game was officially announced, citing four code violations: 15.2, which prohibits depictions of child abuse, and 16.1, which prohibits apps depicting "objectionable or crude" content. The other two, 21.1 and 21.2, pertain to's charitable bent -- and they don't seem to quite apply, intended instead for games that allow their users to make donations within a game, rather than a pledge by the developer to donate revenues.Molleindustria makes an iPhone game to criticize the iPhone platform, and that Apple's chosen to silence it is an interesting punctuation mark on the developer's statement.Gamasutra reached out to Molleindustria's Paolo Pedercini about, who credits the game's idea to recent international affairs graduate Michael Pineschi, to whom he spoke through creative activism group YesLab . At the time, Pedercini already had some unusual ideas in the works for projects that could act as commentary on gadget fetishism."One of them was a multi-touchable virtual-pet vagina, monologuing about technological lust and willful submission to consumerism," he reflects. "Unfortunately, the flesh engine didn't work as I hoped so I went for a straightforward educational game."But the intent was always to develop a game as commentary on the hardware industry. "Most of the adults in the Western world are somewhat aware that most of our objects are manufactured far away, in conditions that we would consider barbaric," Pedercini says."A lot of tech-aware people heard about the story of the Foxconn suicides or about the issue of electronic waste," he continues. "But with, we wanted to connect all these aspects and present them in the larger frame of technological consumerism."He specifically wanted to highlight the goal that "must-have" consumer electronics culture plays in perpetuating these high-impact cycles; one of the levels oftasks the players with tossing brand-new boxed phones to swarming would-be buyers rushing a storefront. In his view, the marketing machine that makes people believe they absolutely need an upgraded hardware device on the day it comes out is what causes extremism in the supply chain."We don't want people to stop buying smartphones," he notes, "but maybe we can make a little contribution in terms of shifting the perception of technological lust from cool to not-that-cool. This happened before with fur coats, diamonds, cigarettes and SUVs -- I can't see why it can't happen with iPads."Pedercini says it was essential to use the platform itself to stage a critique of that platform. "Almost like the device itself was speaking to the user," he suggests. "The idea was to make a sort of reminder that you can keep with you, like a way-less-permanent tattoo or a bumper sticker, something that you carry around and maybe show off as a conversation-starter."But although Apple's immediate removal ofmakes for an interesting conversation point, Pedercini says he never intended it to happen this way: "I'm very familiar with the App Store policy, and the game is designed to be compliant with it," he asserts."If you check the guidelines,doesn't really violate any rule except for the generic 'excessively objectionable and crude content' and maybe the 'depiction of abuse of children'. Yes, there's dark humor and violence but it's cartoonish and stylized - way more mellow than a lot of other games on the App Store.""What makes these depictions disturbing is the connection the player makes with the real-world situation," adds Pedercini. "Of course, the goal was to sneak an embarrassingly ugly gnome into Apple's walled garden, but not to provoke the rejection. If it was just a matter of provocation I would have gone way further... I'd be much happier if the game was actually available to everybody, and possibly generating discussions around the issues it clumsily addresses."Editing the game to make it truthful without being objectionable will be some task: "a new version ofthat depicts the violence and abuse of children involved in the electronic manufacturing supply chain in a non-crude and non-objectionable way... will be a difficult task," he notes wryly."This morning, a dry and polite Apple employee called me personally to talk about the specific violations of," says Pedercini. "When I asked if I can submit a new version, there was a moment of silence and then he answered, 'Yes, if you can make it compliant to the guidelines.' But the truth is that there is no way to know what's 'excessive' and 'objectionable' in Cupertino."Most alarming to Pedercini is how complacent so many developers have become to mobile development's culture. "Here's the problem: the unanimous reaction from developers community has been, 'Wow, it's incrediblemade through Apple's review process,'" he says. "To me, this signals a full acceptance of a regime of censorship, the equivalent, for developers, of what journalists call the 'chilling effect.'""I'm sure that Apple doesn't spend that much time in policing its marketplace, because the developers are already censoring themselves." he continues. "Of course, Apple has the right; it is the acceptance of Apple view about the cultural status of the 'App.' For them, games and applications are not part of culture like books or music."Adds Pedercini: "Try to imagine what kind of reaction iTunes would provoke if they banned all the songs with 'excessive objectionable' content."is now available on the Android app store .] |||||
Summary:
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Apple removed an iPhone game called 'Phone Story' from its App Store just a few hours after its release, sparking debate about censorship. Developed by Molleindustria, the game consisted of four mini-games exploring the "troubling supply chain" behind smartphones, including coltan extraction in Congo, outsourced labor in China, environmental waste in Pakistan, as well as the mania for gadgets in the West. Apple claimed the game had crossed four specific lines of guidelines for unacceptable apps, relating to charities and contributions, as well as depictions of violence, abuse of children, and excessively objectionable or crude content. The game's creator, Paolo Pedercini, argued the removal demonstrated the company's view that games and applications are not part of culture like books or music.
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flan.2160513
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Is being an introvert better or extrovert?
Is it good to be an introvert or extrovert?
Choose your answer. Are these two questions paraphrases of each other?
i. no.
ii. yes.
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I will break down each statement and determine if they are paraphrases of each other.
1. "Is being an introvert better or extrovert?"
This question asks whether it is better to be an introvert or an extrovert. It compares the two personality types and seeks a preference or an advantage of one over the other.
2. "Is it good to be an introvert or extrovert?"
This question asks if it is good to be either an introvert or an extrovert. It does not necessarily compare the two or imply that one is better than the other, but rather inquires about the positive aspects of both personality types.
Conclusion:
Although the two questions are related and touch on the topic of introversion and extroversion, they are not exactly paraphrases. The first question seeks a comparison, while the second question asks about the positive aspects of both.
So, my answer is:
i. no.
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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Given the question: Generate a 5-star review (1 being lowest and 5 being highest) about an app with package com.reicast.emulator.
The answer is:
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Title: Exceptional Dreamcast Emulator Experience - A Must-Try App!
Rating: ★★★★★
I am beyond thrilled to leave a well-deserved 5-star review for com.reicast.emulator, an incredible Sega Dreamcast emulator that truly hits the mark with its fantastic performance, user-friendly interface, and extensive game compatibility. From classic titles like Shenmue, Sonic Adventure, and Crazy Taxi to hidden gems like Power Stone and Jet Set Radio, this emulator has managed to resurrect the nostalgia of the late 90s and early 2000s with tremendous dedication and care.
Starting off with the performance, I am genuinely impressed with how smoothly and seamlessly the games run on my device. Load times are lightning-fast, and the graphics stay true to the quality of the original console, successfully recreating the authentic Dreamcast experience. Even on lower-end devices, the app runs beautifully without any major hiccups, which speaks volumes about the optimization and efficiency of com.reicast.emulator.
The user interface is another aspect that deserves high praise. It is highly intuitive and easy to navigate, even for someone who is not a tech-savvy individual. Loading and managing game files are simple tasks, and any settings needed to be adjusted can be quickly accessed - providing a hassle-free experience.
One of the best features of this emulator is its extensive game compatibility. The developers have clearly put a lot of effort into ensuring that as many Dreamcast games as possible are playable and retain their inherent charm on modern devices. The list of supported games keeps growing with regular updates, so you can trust that com.reicast.emulator will support your favorite Dreamcast games.
Additionally, the controller support is excellent. The touchscreen controls emulate the Dreamcast controller with precision, and it is also possible to connect physical Bluetooth controllers for an even more authentic experience. The ability to customize and reposition the on-screen buttons further enhances the gaming experience, allowing users to find their perfect control layout.
Lastly, I would like to commend the developers for their continuous dedication to improving the app. Updates are frequent, and they seem to address user concerns and feedback quite effectively. It is noticeable that the emulator's stability, compatibility, and features consistently improve over time, which is wonderful to experience as an avid app user.
In conclusion, com.reicast.emulator is hands-down the best Sega Dreamcast emulator available for mobile devices. The unmatched performance, user-friendly interface, and dedication to continuous improvement make this app a must-try for Dreamcast fans and emulator enthusiasts alike. So, don't hesitate to give it a go, relive your favorite Dreamcast moments, and immerse yourself in nostalgia.
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flan.2211429
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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Premise:
"The New York Times reports that Santeria , the West Indian religion notorious for animal sacrifice, is gaining American adherents and coming out of the closet." Based on this premise, is the hypothesis "The New York Times is reporting that Santeria is coming out of the closest with Vegans leading the charge." true?
Pick your answer from:
[a]. yes.
[b]. it is not possible to tell.
[c]. no.
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[c]. no.
The given hypothesis, "The New York Times is reporting that Santeria is coming out of the closest with Vegans leading the charge," cannot be considered true based on the provided premise. The premise states that "The New York Times reports that Santeria, the West Indian religion notorious for animal sacrifice, is gaining American adherents and coming out of the closet." However, it does not mention that Vegans are leading the charge for this resurgence of interest in Santeria.
It is essential to note the main differences between the premise and the hypothesis. The premise mentions Santeria as a religion known for animal sacrifice, while the hypothesis brings up Vegans, who follow a lifestyle that avoids the use of animal products and opposes animal cruelty. This is contrary to the animal sacrifice practices in Santeria, making it unlikely for Vegans to lead the charge for this religion's growing popularity.
The hypothesis seems to be contrasting the premise rather than supporting it, so the statement is false. Additionally, since the premise states that Santeria is becoming more popular and gaining attention among Americans, one could argue that the statement "Santeria is coming out of the closet" holds some truth. However, this does not justify the inclusion of Vegans in the hypothesis, as they are not mentioned in the premise.
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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Answer the following question: Question: what continent is australia? Would "Geologically, a continent extends to the edge of its continental shelf, so the now-separate islands are considered part of the continent." be a reasonable answer?
Options:
[-] No
[-] Yes
Answer:
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Yes, that would be a reasonable answer as it provides a geological perspective to the classification of continents. To further elaborate on the answer:
Australia is recognized as both a country and a continent, and it is part of the continent called Oceania. Oceania is a region that includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. However, when referring to Australia as a continent, it often excludes the other islands within Oceania.
The statement mentioning the continental shelf is accurate. Continents are generally defined by their geological features, and one of the key aspects of a continent is its continental shelf. A continental shelf is a gently sloping, submerged platform of land that extends from the coastline to the deeper oceans. This transition marks the boundary between continental crust and oceanic crust, which have distinct geological properties.
In the case of Australia, the continental shelf includes the mainland, as well as Tasmania, and the now-separate islands, such as New Guinea, which were once joined to the mainland during the last ice age when sea levels were lower. As a result, geologically speaking, these islands can be considered part of the Australian continent due to the extension of the continental shelf they share.
So, in conclusion, the answer "Geologically, a continent extends to the edge of its continental shelf, so the now-separate islands are considered part of the continent." is a reasonable answer to the question, as it underlines the geological aspect of continental classification which includes Australia and its adjacent, now-separated islands as part of the same continent.
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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TEHRAN — When the call finally came, Maryam Seyed Emami’s heart leapt. Except for one brief phone call, she had heard nothing from her husband, Kavous Seyed Emami, a professor and prominent environmentalist, since he was arrested and accused of spying more than two weeks before. Now, she was being told to come to the offices of the Tehran prosecutor, where she could see her husband at last.
She rushed off, but upon arrival quickly sensed that something was wrong. Instead of being taken to see her husband she was closeted in a room with a prosecutor and four intelligence agents from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and interrogated for several hours. Cooperate, they told her, or you, too, will end up in prison.
In recounting the experience for their two sons, Ramin and Mehran, Ms. Seyed Emami said that the agents had asked about the couple’s friends and parties they had attended. They showed her family pictures and asked her to describe who and what were in them. They inquired about her husband’s environmental work, she told her sons. Did you know, they asked at one point, that he was a spy?
When the agents finally ran out of questions, she was informed she could see her husband. There was just one thing, they said. He was dead, having committed suicide in his cell. ||||| In response to reports that the Iranian authorities have said they will refuse to release the body of the Canadian-Iranian academic Kavous Seyed-Emami to his family unless there is an immediate burial and no attempt to conduct an independent autopsy, Magdalena Mughrabi, Amnesty international’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and Africa said:
“The authorities’ refusal to allow an independent investigation into the extremely suspicious death of Dr Seyed-Emami smacks of a deliberately orchestrated attempt to cover up any evidence of torture and possible murder. He was detained in Evin prison where detainees are held under constant surveillance and stripped of all personal possessions. It would have been near impossible for him to commit suicide.
“We are deeply concerned that Dr Seyed-Emami’s body bears incriminating signs of torture and other clues to the reasons for his death. We call on the Canadian government and the international community to continue to place pressure on the Iranian authorities to allow an independent investigation into the circumstances of Dr Seyed-Emami’s death in accordance with international standards. Those responsible, including any individual with command responsibility, must be brought to justice.”
Kavous Seyed-Emami’s death is the third to be hastily declared a suicide in detention by Iranian authorities since the December 2017 protests. A fourth death, also confirmed in detention, remains unexplained by the authorities.
“The mounting deaths in custody and the authorities’ refusal to allow independent and transparent investigations are deeply troubling illustrations of the utter contempt for human life and accountability that exists in the Iranian criminal justice system today.” said Magdalena Mughrabi.
In a statement on 11 February, Tehran’s Chief Prosecutor stated that Kavous Seyed-Emami was driven to suicide by “confessions” that he had made and the incriminating statements others had made against him. Remarks about his “confessions” heighten concerns that he was subjected to torture.
He had been arrested on 24 January 2018 and was under interrogations for national-security related charges stemming from his peaceful environmental activism, making him a prisoner of conscience. |||||
What is a one-paragraph summary of the above article?
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The suspicious death of Kavous Seyed Emami, a Canadian-Iranian professor and environmental activist, in an Iranian prison has raised concerns over human rights abuses and cover-ups within the Iranian criminal justice system. Emami was arrested and accused of spying, but his death was later declared a suicide while in custody, despite the near-impossible circumstances for committing suicide in the prison. Amnesty International has called for an independent investigation into Emami's death and for the Canadian government and international community to put pressure on Iranian authorities. This case marks the third death quickly labeled a suicide in Iranian detention centers since the December 2017 protests, while a fourth death remains unexplained.
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flan.664475
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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Solve 7 = 6*z - 5 for z.. What is the answer??
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Let's solve the given equation, 7 = 6*z - 5, for z step by step:
Step 1: Add 5 to both sides of the equation.
7 + 5 = 6*z - 5 + 5
12 = 6*z
Step 2: Isolate z by dividing both sides of the equation by 6.
12 / 6 = 6*z / 6
2 = z
So, the answer is z = 2.
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flan.1394868
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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I was working with a client who was completely burned out on her career and life and then ready for a career change. As we were talking, she said, "I just wish I had meaningful work. I don't feel like I am making a difference. I am just wasting my life." This is the theme I hear most often from clients who have been in the workforce awhile.All of us want to feel like we are making a difference. We want to believe our work means something. The problem comes in defining "meaningful work". What is it? That answer is different for everyone. For some meaningful work might be helping others organize their office. For others it may mean making a million dollars.
What really matters is how you see it. What is meaningful work to you? Take out a piece of paper and answer these questions. How do you define meaningful work? When do you feel like you are really making a difference? What work have you done so far that feels the most meaningful? Write down whatever comes to mind.
What you want to do is meaningful. It is very easy to start judging yourself as being selfish. Stop! Allow yourself to be honest. The fact is when Picasso painted; he was doing it because he liked to paint. He was not thinking, "Oh, I hope this brings joy to others' lives." He painted because he wanted to. When Beethoven composed, he did it because he loved music. Even scientists searching for a cure for cancer are immersed in their work because it fascinates them.
Don't look down on your work. It is easy to _ the importance of work that feels meaningful. I remember Tony Robbins told a story of talking with the owner of a major company. The man said to Tony, "I wish I could do what you do because it makes such adifference in people's lives". Tony said, "You have got to be kidding! Look at what adifference you make. You provide work, health insurance and security for thousands ofpeople!" Don't underestimate the value you provide.
Take a look at what you have written about meaningful work. Do you see any themes? How do you wish to contribute to this world? Whatever you choose, remember that the greatest gift you can give is to find work that makes you feel fulfilled and delighted. Respect your preference because giving your gifts to the world, whatever they look like, is the most meaningful action you can ever take.
Answer the following questions:
1. Can you easily define meaningful work?
2. Is the answer the same for everyone?
3. Who was this person working with?
4. What did the client say?
5. Did they hear that often?
6. What do all people want to feel like?
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1. Defining meaningful work can be challenging, as it is a subjective concept that varies from person to person. In general, meaningful work is work that has a positive impact or brings a sense of fulfillment and purpose to the individual doing it.
2. The answer is not the same for everyone, as people have different values, passions, and goals. What is meaningful work for one person might not be the same for another.
3. The person was working with a client who was burned out on her career and life and was ready for a career change.
4. The client said, "I just wish I had meaningful work. I don't feel like I am making a difference. I am just wasting my life."
5. The theme mentioned by the client is something that is heard very often from individuals who have been in the workforce for a while.
6. All people want to feel like they are making a difference and that their work has meaning and purpose.
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niv.220253
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You are an AI assistant, who knows every language and how to translate one language to another. Given a task, you explain in simple steps what the task is asking, any guidelines that it provides. You solve the task and show how you used the guidelines to solve the task.
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Teacher:Given an open-ended topic (movie name, a persons name, an event, sports, etc) generate a simple trivia-type question.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: castile
Student:
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Step 1: Understand the task
The task is asking us to create a simple trivia-type question based on an open-ended topic. It can be a movie name, person's name, event, sports-related topic, etc.
Step 2: Analyze the given instance
In this case, the given instance is "castile". Castile is a historical region in Spain.
Step 3: Generate a simple trivia question using the topic
Using the topic "castile," I will now create a simple trivia question.
Trivia Question: In which European country is the historical region of Castile located?
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cot.101345
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You are an AI assistant that helps people find information. Provide a detailed answer so user don’t need to search outside to understand the answer.
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What was the question for this implicit rationale, and corresponding answer?
If Ann has 60 cards, which is six times as many cards as Heike, Heike has 60 / 6 = 10 cards. Anton has three times as many cards in his collection as Heike does, and since Heike has 10 cards, Anton has 10 * 3 = 30 cards. Ann has 60 - 30 = 30 more cards than Anton.
The answer: 30
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Question: How many more cards does Ann have in her collection compared to Anton, given the relationship of their card collections to Heike's collection?
Implicit rationale:
1. Determine the number of cards Heike has.
2. Determine the number of cards Anton has, based on the given relationship with Heike's collection.
3. Compare Ann's and Anton's card collections to find the difference.
Answer: Ann has 30 more cards than Anton.
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flan.2392418
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You are a helpful assistant, who always provide explanation. Think like you are answering to a five year old.
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Write an article that answers the following question: How many more passing touchdowns were there compared to running touchdowns?
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Title: Comparing Passing Touchdowns and Running Touchdowns
Hi little friends! Today, we're going to talk about a fun topic - football! In football, teams score points by making touchdowns. There are two main ways to score a touchdown: by passing the ball or by running with it. Do you know what passing and running touchdowns are? Let me explain!
Passing Touchdown: This happens when a player called the quarterback throws the ball through the air to another player on his team, who then catches it inside the endzone. And then, they score points!
Running Touchdown: This is when a player runs with the football in their hands, and they cross the endzone line with the ball. That's also a way to make points.
Now, let's get to the main question: How many more passing touchdowns were there compared to running touchdowns?
To answer this question, we need a specific period to count touchdown numbers. We'll use last year's scores. We'll pretend that there were 100 passing touchdowns and 70 running touchdowns.
To find out how many more passing touchdowns there were, we take the bigger number (100 passing touchdowns) minus the smaller number (70 running touchdowns).
100 - 70 = 30
So, there were 30 more passing touchdowns compared to running touchdowns last year!
Isn't it amazing to know how teams scored these points? Keep enjoying football with your family and friends, and remember - passing and running touchdowns both help make the game exciting!
Do you have any more questions about football or touchdowns? Feel free to ask!
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t0.1502679
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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Article: "Last week," Dr. P said "I was invited to a doctors' meeting at the R. Hospital. In one of the rooms a patient, an old man, got up from his bed and moved slowly towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to live, but he came up to me and placed his right foot close to mine on the floor." "Frank!" I cried with surprise. He couldn't answer as I knew, but he tried to smile, all the time keeping his foot close to mine. My thoughts raced back more than thirty years--to the dark days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The scene was an air-raid shelter , in which I and about a hundred other people slept every night. Among them were Mrs. West and her son Frank, who lived nearby. Sharing wartime problems, we got to know each other very well. Frank interested me because he was not normal . He had never been normal, ever since he was born. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had less of a mind than a baby has. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, able woman, as she had to be of course, because Frank depended on her completely. He needed all the attention of a baby. One night a policeman came into our shelter and told Mrs. West that her house had been all destroyed. That wasn't quite true, because the West went on living there for quite some time. But they certainly lost nearly everything they owned. When that kind of thing happened, the rest of us helped the unlucky ones. So before we separated that morning, I stood beside Frank and measured my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a spare pair of shoes to the shelter for Frank. As soon as he saw me, he came running--and placed his right foot against mine. After that, he always greeted me in the same way. Question: Why did Dr P say that Mrs West had to be a strong, able woman? Yes or no, is the answer "She had to give care and thought to her son as to a baby."?
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Dr. P stated that Mrs. West had to be a strong, able woman because she needed to care for and support her son, Frank, who was not normal since birth and depended on her completely. According to the article, Frank had less of a mind than a baby, which implies that he required the same level of attention, care, and thought that a baby would need.
Therefore, the answer to the question, "Why did Dr P say that Mrs West had to be a strong, able woman? Yes or no, is the answer 'She had to give care and thought to her son as to a baby.'" is Yes. Mrs. West had to be a strong, able woman because she needed to provide constant care, attention, and thought to her son, just as one would provide for a baby. This responsibility placed great demands on her physical, emotional, and mental strength, demonstrating her resilience and determination in ensuring her son's well-being despite the challenges they faced, especially during wartime.
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flan.2185996
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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Solve 82*l = -79*l - 134*l for l.
Solve this problem.
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First, let us combine the terms on the right side of the equation:
-79*l - 134*l
Here, we can factor out the 'l':
l (-79 - 134)
Now, adding the two numbers together:
-79 - 134 = -213
So the equation now looks like:
82*l = -213*l
Now, in order to solve for 'l', we can add 213*l to both sides of the equation to combine the terms with 'l':
82*l + 213*l = -213*l + 213*l
Combining the terms with 'l' yields:
(82 + 213)*l = 0
Adding the two numbers together:
295*l = 0
Now, to solve for 'l', divide both sides of the equation by 295:
l = 0 / 295
As we know 0 divided by any number is 0, therefore:
l = 0
So, the solution for the given equation is:
l = 0
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flan.1064541
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Write an article based on this summary:
Turn everything off. Hook your amplifier and pedal up to power. Connect your guitar to the input jack. Connect the output jack on the pedal to the input of the amplifier. Turn the amplifier on first and set your levels. Turn down the effect knobs before switching it on. Experiment with the pedal. Always unplug cables when you're finished playing.
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Title: A Step-By-Step Guide to Connecting Your Guitar Pedal to Your Amplifier
Introduction
Guitar pedals, also known as effects pedals or stompboxes, are an essential part of every guitarist's arsenal, enabling them to manipulate the sound of their instrument in a variety of ways. From adding subtle touches of reverb or chorus to creating entirely new, out-of-this-world walls of sound, guitar pedals provide a versatile and straightforward way to take your playing to another level. In this article, we'll walk you through the process of connecting your guitar pedal to your amplifier and ensuring everything is set up correctly for the best sound possible.
Step 1: Turn Everything Off
The first step to connecting your guitar pedal is to ensure that both the amplifier and the pedal are turned off to prevent any damage to your equipment or sudden, loud noises which might disturb your neighbors. Unplugging any cables that might be connected to your amplifier or pedal is also a good idea, as it will allow you to start creating a fresh setup without any misunderstandings.
Step 2: Hook Your Amplifier and Pedal Up to Power
To power your amplifier and pedal, ensure that they are properly plugged into a power source. Using a reliable and surge-protected power strip will protect your gear from voltage spikes and other electrical issues.
Step 3: Connect Your Guitar to the Input Jack
Now it's time to connect your guitar to your pedal. Using a good-quality instrument cable, plug one end into the output jack of your guitar and the other end into the input jack of your pedal.
Step 4: Connect the Output Jack of the Pedal to the Input Jack of the Amplifier
Next, using another good-quality instrument cable, connect the output jack of your pedal to the input jack of your amplifier. This creates a complete signal chain, allowing the sound from your guitar to pass through the pedal and then into the amplifier.
Step 5: Turn the Amplifier On and Set Your Levels
With everything connected, turn on your amplifier first. Setting the amplifier levels before turning on the pedal ensures that you have a clean, unaffected sound to start with. This helps to avoid creating any unexpected sounds once the pedal is engaged.
Step 6: Turn Down the Effect Knobs Before Switching Your Pedal On
Before engaging your pedal, turn down all its effect knobs to their minimum settings. This is important because it will help you gradually introduce the effect into your playing, making it easier to fine-tune and control the sound.
Step 7: Experiment with the Pedal
Now it's time to have some fun! Slowly turn up the effect knobs on your pedal and experiment with the different sounds it can create. Play around with various combinations of settings to discover your preferred tone. Don't be afraid to try unorthodox configurations; some of the most unique and memorable sounds are born from experimentation.
Step 8: Unplug Cables When Finished Playing
When you're finished playing, always remember to unplug cables from your guitar, pedal, and amplifier. This practice helps to prolong the life of your cables and prevents any accidental damage to your equipment. Additionally, it's just good housekeeping and shows respect for your gear.
Conclusion
Connecting and setting up a guitar pedal with your amplifier may seem daunting at first, but by following these step-by-step instructions, you will be well on your way to exploring the vast world of sonic possibilities that effects pedals can offer. So get out there, plug in your pedal, and start creating your unique sound!
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flan.1991430
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You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer.
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What's an example of a movie review?
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Title: Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Directors: Anthony Russo and Joe Russo
Screenplay: Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely
Genre: Superhero, Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Review:
A triumphant culmination of the beloved Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avengers: End_game (2019) masterfully ties the threads of 22 movies to deliver an unforgettable experience. Directors Anthony and Joe Russo have crafted an epic superhero adventure filled with heart, humor, and spectacular action sequences that thrill from start to finish.
The film picks up after the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Half of the universe's population, including several major characters, has been wiped out by the villainous Thanos (Josh Brolin). The surviving Avengers, led by Captain America (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), must come up with a plan to reverse Thanos’ actions and save the universe. Assembling the heroes one last time, they embark on a perilous mission that spans time and space to set things right.
What sets Avengers: Endgame apart from its predecessors is a strong emphasis on character development and relationships. The audience has spent a decade getting to know these characters, so the payoffs in this film are both emotional and satisfying. The fight against Thanos is not only a physical battle for the heroes but also an internal struggle with their own identities and regrets. The film showcases the extraordinary chemistry amongst all the characters, and their interactions throughout the movie provide for compelling drama peppered with just the right amount of humor and emotional weight.
Robert Downey Jr.’s performance as Tony Stark/Iron Man is a standout in the film. His remarkable range, deftly balancing arrogance, vulnerability, and intelligence, is brought to the fore as the character grapples with the fear of losing loved ones and the responsibility of being a hero. Chris Evans’ Captain America also shines as the unrelenting moral compass who stands firm in the face of adversity.
Visually, Avengers: Endgame is a spectacle in the finest sense of the word. The detailed CGI, combined with the stunning practical effects, creates a seamless, immersive experience. The breathtaking action sequences including the third act battle are choreographed with precision and a sense of urgency that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats.
The movie’s pacing could arguably be its only minor flaw, as the initial two-thirds of the film steadily build the tension, while the final act becomes an adrenaline-charged race to the finish. However, given the scope and the emotional stakes involved, the filmmakers’ focus on telling a personal, character-driven story within a blockbuster framework is admirable.
In conclusion, Avengers: Endgame is a powerful and fitting swan song to the decade-long journey of Marvel's beloved superheroes. The Russo brothers deliver a visually sumptuous, emotionally charged, and action-packed farewell that will undoubtedly resonate with audiences for years to come. Filled with unforgettable moments, laughter, tears, and an undeniable sense of joy, Avengers: Endgame is a must-see film for fans and cinema lovers alike.
Overall Rating: 9/10
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flan.164052
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Even a damn narrow bridge I should enter it The first doubts I had immediately Whether that works so well without being let describes as Marita R their concerns at the start of a week coaching under sail
Add punctuation.
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Even a damn narrow bridge, I should enter it. The first doubts, I had immediately. Whether that works so well without being let, describes Marita R. as her concerns at the start of a week coaching under sail.
Step 1: Identify places where punctuation is needed.
I looked for natural breaks in the sentence, where separate ideas or statements were presented. These breaks usually require punctuation such as commas, periods, or semicolons.
Step 2: Add appropriate punctuation marks.
Based on the natural breaks I identified in Step 1, I added punctuation marks, such as commas, periods, and a semicolon to separate the ideas and make the sentence more readable and understandable.
Step 3: Review and adjust if needed.
After adding punctuation, I reviewed the sentence to ensure that the punctuation marks I added were appropriate and made the sentence more comprehensible.
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flan.1357177
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You are an AI assistant. You should describe the task and explain your answer. While answering a multiple choice question, first output the correct answer(s). Then explain why other answers are wrong. You might need to use additional knowledge to answer the question.
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If One of the villagers held a blacksmith hammer and a wooden shield., can we conclude that "The villager held a sword and a dagger."?
pick from the following. (a). yes. (b). it is not possible to tell. (c). no.
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(c). no.
We cannot conclude that "The villager held a sword and a dagger" because the information provided only tells us that the villager was holding a blacksmith hammer and a wooden shield. There is no mention of a sword or a dagger in the original statement.
Here's an explanation for the other choices:
(a). yes - This answer is incorrect because it directly contradicts the information provided.
(b). it is not possible to tell - This answer is also incorrect because we have clear information stating that the villager was holding a blacksmith hammer and a wooden shield.
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flan.197315
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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They are simply afraid of further persecution by the host countries, given that the average entrepreneur is in a very weak position when pitted against the whole apparatus of the state.
Translate to Finnish
Finnish:
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Käännös:
He pelkäävät vain lisää vainoa isäntämaiden taholta, ottaen huomioon, että keskimääräinen yrittäjä on hyvin heikossa asemassa, kun hänet asetetaan koko valtiojärjestelmän vastaiseen asemaan.
Käännösvaiheet:
1. Tunne alkuperäinen teksti ja merkitys englanniksi.
2. Käännä teksti osittain suomeksi sanasta sanaan tai lausesta lauseeseen.
3. Selvitä rakenteelliset ja osaamiseen liittyvät erot alkuperäisessä tekstissä ja käännöksessä.
4. Muokkaa suomennosta niin, että se noudattaa suomen kielen rakennetta ja sanasto on luonnollista suomalaiselle lukijalle.
5. Tarkista lopullinen suomennos, jotta se kuvastaa alkuperäisen tekstin merkitystä mahdollisimman tarkasti.
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flan.2199669
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You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps.
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Write down the solution for this math problem: Solve 36 = 4*q + 16 for q.
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To solve the equation 36 = 4*q + 16 for q, follow these steps:
Step 1: Subtract 16 from both sides of the equation.
Reasoning: We want to isolate the term with q, so we'll get rid of the constant 16 by subtracting it from both sides of the equation.
36 - 16 = 4*q + 16 - 16
Step 2: Simplify the equation.
Reasoning: We'll simplify the equation by performing the subtraction operation on both sides.
20 = 4*q
Step 3: Divide both sides of the equation by 4.
Reasoning: Now, we want to isolate the variable q by dividing both sides of the equation by 4 which is the coefficient of q.
20 / 4 = 4*q / 4
Step 4: Simplify the equation to find q.
Reasoning: We'll simplify the equation by performing the division operation on both sides.
5 = q
So, q = 5 is the solution.
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