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1. While the ultimate conclusion is still the same as always, and Ashton Kutcher's flat delivery nearly ruins it, No Strings Attached is a thoughtful twist on the usual romantic-comedy.
2. Portman's fine, Kucher, not so much; No Strings Attached falters
3. Benefits the most from a sexy, emotionally available/vulnerable turn by Natalie Portman. But the Kutcher guy isn't bad either.
4. Aside from its unromantic plot, "Attached" is over-sexed, overdone and overcome by a terrible script.
5. While it's not without problems, No Strings Attached is a romantic comedy worth watching, and that's saying a lot. Every member of the cast lights up the screen with humor and charm and there are a lot of genuinely funny moments.
6. You get the feeling Reitman packed the supporting cast with ringers because he knew his leads couldn't cut it.
7. A romantic comedy that looks smutty but is actually slushy.
8. This being a Hollywood romantic comedy, the outcome of the story-about a man and woman who agree to a sex-only relationship-is obvious from the get-go, so this film is all about the journey, not the destination...
9. Portman is a true comedienne on screen. Hopefully she'll add a few more performances like this one to her resume' in the near future.
10. Acting opposite Ashton Kutcher is the equivalent of dropping down a year in school for someone like Natalie Portman.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?
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It benefits from the presence of Natalie Portman and director Ivan Reitman's steady hand, but No Strings Attached doesn't have the courage or conviction to follow through on its ribald premise.
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opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes
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zs_opt
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Here is a goal: Prevent crusty cheese on food.
How would you accomplish this goal?
Options:
A). Add cheese 5 minutes before removing food from oven.
B). Add cheese before placing food in oven.
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A).
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Flan2021
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piqa:1.0.0
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zs_opt
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Actress/singer, Millicent Martin was married to which pop singer from 1958-65????
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ronnie carroll
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trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0
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zs_opt
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What's an example of a task that requires knowledge of physical objects to perform?
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how do you play volleyball?
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piqa:1.0.0
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zs_opt
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OPT: (1). college was farther from my home town.. (2). university was farther from my home town..
Complete the following sentence.
I decided to go to the college and not the university because the
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(2).
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winogrande:1.1.0
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zs_opt
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Kinect is a "controller-free gaming and entertainment experience" for the Xbox 360. It was first announced on June 1, 2009 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, under the codename, Project Natal. The add-on peripheral enables users to control and interact with the Xbox 360 without a game controller by using gestures, spoken commands and presented objects and images. The Kinect accessory is compatible with all Xbox 360 models, connecting to new models via a custom connector, and to older ones via a USB and mains power adapter. During their CES 2010 keynote speech, Robbie Bach and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer went on to say that Kinect will be released during the holiday period (November–January) and it will work with every 360 console. Its name and release date of 2010-11-04 were officially announced on 2010-06-13, prior to Microsoft's press conference at E3 2010.
Is there an answer to this question (If it cannot be answered, say "unanswerable"): What prevents older models from working with the Kinect?
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unanswerable
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squad/v2.0:3.0.0
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zs_opt
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Answer this question:
when does new episode of the good doctor come out??
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March 12, 2018
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Flan2021
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natural_questions_open:1.0.0
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zs_opt
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Thirty-eight percent of patients surveyed in five urban clinics believed the myth that cancer spreads when exposed to air during surgery , according to a poll to be published Tuesday .
Thirty-eight percent of cancer patients in five urban clinics believed the myth that the disease spreads when exposed to air during surgery , according to a survey .
Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
Available options:
i. no
ii. yes
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ii.
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glue/mrpc:2.0.0
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zs_opt
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the large tendon (achilles tendon) of the calf muscle passes behind the ankle and attaches at the back of the heel.
Please write the text above using proper case.
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The large tendon (Achilles tendon) of the calf muscle passes behind the ankle and attaches at the back of the heel.
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Flan2021
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true_case
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zs_opt
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Write a sentence not in English.
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Synem?
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Flan2021
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wmt16_translate/cs-en:1.0.0
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zs_opt
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Generate a descriptive sentence about a restaurant using the following words:
name = The Wrestlers, eatType = restaurant, food = Chinese, priceRange = high, customer rating = 1 out of 5, familyFriendly = no
Sentence:
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The Wrestlers is a high priced Chinese restaurant with a customer rating of 1 out of 5. Not kid friendly.
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gem/e2e_nlg:1.1.0
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zs_opt
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Choose how you want this story to end.
Paris (CNN) -- In a rare public spat, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev criticized his political mentor, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, for Putin's comments over the use of force against Libya. It all started Monday, when Putin visited the town of Votkinsk, where a large defense plant that produces missiles (including nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles) is located. Criticizing the United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing a no-fly zone over Libya and military action to back it up, Putin called it "obviously incomplete and flawed." Putin said it's clear that "it allows anyone to do anything they want -- to take any actions against a sovereign state."
Medvedev went on: "All that is now happening in Libya is the result of the appalling behavior of the
OPTIONS:
- CNN leadership and the crimes it committed against its own people."
- Dmitry Medvedev leadership and the crimes it committed against its own people."
- Libya leadership and the crimes it committed against its own people."
- Paris leadership and the crimes it committed against its own people."
- Putin leadership and the crimes it committed against its own people."
- Russian leadership and the crimes it committed against its own people."
- U.N. leadership and the crimes it committed against its own people."
- United Nations Security Council leadership and the crimes it committed against its own people."
- Vladimir Putin leadership and the crimes it committed against its own people."
- Votkinsk leadership and the crimes it committed against its own people."
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Libya leadership and the crimes it committed against its own people."
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super_glue/record:1.0.2
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zs_opt
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Note the options at the end. Select the topic that this about:
Shares of Electronic Arts Inc., the country's largest video-game publisher, climbed Tuesday on news that it has gained exclusive rights to use NFL teams and players in its video games.
Pick your answer from:
a). World;
b). Sports;
c). Business;
d). Science/Tech;
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d).
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ag_news_subset:1.0.0
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TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- He's been labeled by many as the "reformist," a man who can take Iran beyond the truculent anti-Western rhetoric of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Moussavi was not seen as a reformer during his stint as prime minister during the 1980s.
So, when Iran's government announced over the weekend that Mir Hossein Moussavi had lost in his bid to become the country's next president, young Iranians took to the streets by the thousands alleging ballot fraud.
Thousands of others around the globe championed the cause on social-networking Web sites and agreed to wear green on Monday in solidarity with Moussavi's supporters.
But what is often lost in the outrage is whether Iran would look different under a Moussavi presidency. Watch more about the vote »
Though the 67-year old is credited for successfully navigating the Iranian economy as prime minister during a bloody eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s, he also was a hard-liner whom the Economist described as a "firm radical."
He, like most Iranians in power, does not believe in the existence of Israel. He defended the taking of hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Iran in 1979, which led to the break in ties between the countries.
He was part of a regime that regularly executed dissidents and backed the fatwa against British author Salman Rushdie.
And as late as April, he opposed suspending the country's nuclear-enrichment program but said it would not be diverted to weapons use.
"I wouldn't go as far as (call it) a 'Velvet Revolution,'" Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, said of the phrase many are using to describe the rallies in Iran.
Answer the following questions:
1. Why did the Iranian youth get so angry?
2. Was Moussavi a good leader?
3. Does he support Israel?
4. Does he support the Nuclear Ban Treaty?
5. What is the significance of the color green?
6. How are the protests being perceived?
7. How did he treat people who were against him?
8. How did the youth coordinate support?
9. Did he support the verdict against the English writer?
10. What was his view of the seizing of Americans?
Numbered answers:
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1. Mir Hossein Moussavi had lost in his bid to become the country's next president - Moussavi lost the election
2. Economist described as a "firm radical." - he had radical ideas
3. does not believe in the existence of Israel - No
4. he opposed - No
5. agreed to wear green on Monday in solidarity with Moussavi's supporters - To show support
6. I wouldn't go as far as (call it) a 'Velvet Revolution - not a revolution
7. regularly executed dissidents - had them killed
8. championed the cause on social-networking - Social Networking
9. backed the fatwa against British author Salman Rushdie - Yes
10. defended the taking of hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Iran - Supported it
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coqa:1.0.0
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Currently, Antarctica is the coldest and driest place on Earth. Paleontologists have found dinosaur fossils in rock layers below the ice. Based on this evidence, which is a reasonable conclusion about the climate of Antarctica in the past?
Options are:
I. Antarctica has always had the same climate as at present.;
II. At some time in the past, Antarctica was a hot, dry desert.;
III. At some time in the past, Antarctica was much warmer and wetter.;
IV. At some time in the past, Antarctica was colder and wetter than it is now.;
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III.
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unified_qa_science_inst
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Generate a sentence that contains a fact.
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the sun is the source of energy for life on Earth
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openbookqa:0.1.0
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zs_opt
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based on 13 ratings jupiter 2.1 out of 5 based on 13 ratings
Make this proper case.
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based on 13 ratings Jupiter 2.1 out of 5 based on 13 ratings
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true_case
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zs_opt
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Choose how you want this story to end.
House Republicans on Thursday elected Kevin McCarthy as majority leader, succeeding Eric Cantor, who is relinquishing the job after losing his primary election in an upset. The California Republican defeated Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador for the No. 2 position, which is responsible for the day-to-day running of the chamber and deciding which bills come to the floor for a vote. Labrador argued for a fresh conservative voice in the GOP leadership in challenging McCarthy, who was the favorite. With the win, McCarthy moves up a notch in the leadership hierarchy from whip, where he was responsible for counting votes and enforcing party discipline. Republicans then chose Louisiana's Steve Scalise, a red-state conservative, to succeed him.
Before last week's stunning upset of
OPTIONS:
- California many considered McCarthy as potentially the most vulnerable member of the House Republican leadership team.
- Eric Cantor many considered McCarthy as potentially the most vulnerable member of the House Republican leadership team.
- GOP many considered McCarthy as potentially the most vulnerable member of the House Republican leadership team.
- House many considered McCarthy as potentially the most vulnerable member of the House Republican leadership team.
- Idaho many considered McCarthy as potentially the most vulnerable member of the House Republican leadership team.
- Kevin McCarthy many considered McCarthy as potentially the most vulnerable member of the House Republican leadership team.
- Labrador many considered McCarthy as potentially the most vulnerable member of the House Republican leadership team.
- Louisiana many considered McCarthy as potentially the most vulnerable member of the House Republican leadership team.
- McCarthy many considered McCarthy as potentially the most vulnerable member of the House Republican leadership team.
- Raul Labrador many considered McCarthy as potentially the most vulnerable member of the House Republican leadership team.
- Republican many considered McCarthy as potentially the most vulnerable member of the House Republican leadership team.
- Republicans many considered McCarthy as potentially the most vulnerable member of the House Republican leadership team.
- Steve Scalise many considered McCarthy as potentially the most vulnerable member of the House Republican leadership team.
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Eric Cantor many considered McCarthy as potentially the most vulnerable member of the House Republican leadership team.
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super_glue/record:1.0.2
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zs_opt
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Sentence 1: "Jackson was greatly influenced by Arnold, though he lived two centuries earlier."
Sentence 2: "Arnold lived two centuries earlier."
Is sentence 2 true, based on sentence 1?
pick from the following. A). no. B). yes.
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B).
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glue/wnli:2.0.0
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zs_opt
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Latest update 2 March 2016 0359
What is the correctly punctuated version of this sentence?
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Latest update : 2 March 2016 03:59
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Flan2021
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fix_punct
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zs_opt
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Add punctuation: Before the palissage the arm is left in its open position where it stretches the thread so the vine is allowed to grow
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Before the palissage the arm is left in its open position, where it stretches the thread so the vine is allowed to grow.
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fix_punct
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zs_opt
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Create a set of triples that describes the content in the following sentence.
Nigeria won 35 medals at the 1989 African Championships in Athletics.
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Nigeria TOTAL 35
[TABLECONTEXT] COUNTRY Nigeria
[TABLECONTEXT] [TITLE] 1989 African Championships in Athletics
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gem/dart:1.1.0
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zs_opt
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See the multi-choice question below:
Sentence 1: Whittington ordered a substantial lunch for himself and his companion; then, as the waitress withdrew, he moved his chair a little closer to the table and began to talk earnestly in a low voice.
Sentence 2: The waitress was tipped quite generously by Whittington.
If the first sentence is true, then is the second sentence true?
OPT: (a). yes (b). it is not possible to tell (c). no
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(b).
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glue/mnli:2.0.0
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zs_opt
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Continue the following story.
Kayla got to their destination later than Rebecca because
Options are: (I) Kayla didn't stop to pay the toll.. (II) Rebecca didn't stop to pay the toll..
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(II)
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winogrande:1.1.0
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zs_opt
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Bulgaristan'ın Ulusal Arkeoloji Müzesi'nde arkeolojik öğelerin korunması ve restorasyonuyla ilgili yeni bir laboratuvar açıldı.
Could you please translate this to English?
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A new laboratory for the conservation and restoration of archaeological artefacts opened at Bulgaria's National Archaeological Museum.
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Flan2021
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wmt16_translate/tr-en:1.0.0
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zs_opt
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who is the man that played black panther??
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Chadwick Boseman
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Flan2021
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natural_questions_open:1.0.0
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zs_opt
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Question 1: I am studying a bachelor's of technology in nanotechnology at Lovely Professional University. My institute is offering some minor courses with my BTech curriculum activity. Which course should I select as a minor course which can help me further in nanotechnology?
Question 2: I want to Persue bachelors in media studies what all colleges offer this course in India?
[1]. no.
[2]. yes.
Are questions 1 and 2 asking the same thing?
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[1].
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glue/qqp:2.0.0
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zs_opt
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Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
Abie was clever
Choose your answer from: [i] Yes. [ii] No. [iii] It's impossible to say.
``Clever''. Klug means ``clever''. Would you say that Abie was clever?
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[iii]
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super_glue/cb:1.0.2
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zs_opt
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Choose your answer.Select from: a. no. b. yes..
The actress used to be named Terpsichore , but she changed it to Tina a few years ago, because she figured *it* was too hard to pronounce.
Do "it" and "Tina" mean the same thing?
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a.
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super_glue/wsc.fixed:1.0.2
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zs_opt
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Můžete je jen střelit do hlavy a jednoho po druhém je ničit.
Could you please translate this to English?
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All you can do is shoot 'em in the head And keep deleting 'em one at a time.
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Flan2021
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wmt16_translate/cs-en:1.0.0
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zs_opt
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Multi-select: Is it possible to draw the conclusion that "Now I have to get The tree removed." if "In the storm, the tree fell down and crashed through the roof of my house. Now, I have to get it removed."?
OPTIONS:
--no
--yes
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yes
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Flan2021
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glue/wnli:2.0.0
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zs_opt
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Choose your answer: Mike cut his finger while watching Chef Michaels on TV because he was not paying attention to his task at hand.
Tell me who he is.
Choose from: [I] Mike [II] Chef Michaels
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[I]
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Flan2021
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definite_pronoun_resolution:1.1.0
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zs_opt
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Question: How has burning fossil fuels most caused a decline to the quality of air that people breathe?
a). by adding particle pollution; b). by creating a hole in the ozone layer; c). by causing acid precipitation to fall; d). by increasing the levels of carbon dioxide;
Answer:
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a).
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Flan2021
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ai2_arc/ARC-Challenge:1.0.0
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zs_opt
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Choose your answer?
Which upgrade to a school will most likely reduce the school's consumption of nonrenewable resources?
Options:
*solar-collection panels
*high-speed computers
*wireless Internet connections
*biodegradable carpeting
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solar-collection panels
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Flan2021
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ai2_arc/ARC-Challenge:1.0.0
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zs_opt
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Fred and Alice had very warm down coats , but *they* were not enough for the cold in Alaska.
Which option(s) below is/are correct for question: are "Fred and Alice" and "they" the same entity?
pick from the following. --no. --yes.
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no
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Flan2021
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super_glue/wsc.fixed:1.0.2
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zs_opt
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Multi-choice problem: Given the following context
Mama came over and sat down beside Alice . Gently *she* stroked her hair and let the child weep.
Are "Mama" and "she" the same?
OPT: + no. + yes.
A:
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yes
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super_glue/wsc.fixed:1.0.2
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zs_opt
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Derek Llambias has opened up the possibility of Kenny McDowall remaining in charge of Rangers beyond the end of the season. The new Ibrox chief executive addressed the managerial situation at Monday’s tempestuous Annual General Meeting. Ally McCoist was placed on gardening leave on Sunday evening, nine days after notifying the club hierarchy of his intent to step down at the end of a 12-month notice period. Ally McCoist left Rangers nine days after he offered his resignation to the Glasgow club. Assistant McDowall was then named as interim manager for the current campaign, with coaching support provided by Ian Durrant and Gordon Durie as Rangers seek to close the gap on runaway Championship leaders Hearts. And while the bleak financial situation continues to cloud the future at Ibrox, Llambias had words of backing for McDowall. ‘When Ally handed in his notice, it was a surprise to us,’ said Llambias. ‘He felt he had done his time and needed to move on. He was willing to work his notice. ‘We needed time to reflect on that decision and do what was best for the club. We said we’d come back to Ally and it was business as usual because we had a game at the weekend. McDowall will be in charge of Rangers until at least the end of the season. ‘We spoke to Ally last night and decided it was better that we took this opportunity to put Ally on gardening leave. It would give him time to reflect and spend time at home and for us to reorganise the coaching staff. ‘We all have to move forward. Ally has been a great ambassador for the club, he has done a great job for the club and brought through some good youth players. But it is Ally’s choice to leave, not ours. ‘When somebody makes a choice to leave in that position in football, we all have to move on. We have to respect what Ally has done and respect what the club is trying to do now. ‘We are going to give Kenny 100 per cent support. He is going to be in place until the end of the season - and maybe beyond.’ Llambias had earlier used his opening address at the meeting to outline why he believes his previous five-year stint running Newcastle United makes him the right man to drag Rangers out of their current plight. Derek Llambias has opened up the possibility of McDowall remaining in charge of Rangers permanently. Initially appointed as a non-executive director in the wake of the board accepting a £2million loan from Mike Ashley in late October, Llambias was elevated to the post of chief executive last Friday. ‘I am honoured to have been appointed as the new chief executive of Rangers,’ he said. ‘As you can imagine, it has been a very up and down experience over the past few days – to say the least. ‘But I am now going to be in a position to roll up my sleeves and get on with the hard work it will take to get this club back onto its own two feet. ‘I have a strong track record in business and football. I spent the early part of my career in leisure before being appointed as managing director of Newcastle United. ‘When I began there in 2008 the club, quite frankly, was in a really poor state. It wasn’t easy, but with hard work they turned things round. By the time I stepped down in 2013, Newcastle United was in a financially secure position, standing on its own two feet, and it continues to remain so. McCoist and McDowall on the bench for the Scottish giants earlier this season. ‘As I begin my new period of office at Rangers Football Club, I am fully aware that this club has a great tradition and proud history. The responsibility resting on my shoulders is something I do not take lightly. ‘I know that the relationship between the board and some shareholders and fans has become strained. I understand those frustrations but that was then and this is now. ‘The task ahead will not be easy. There will be times ahead when we will have to take and make difficult decisions. Not everything I do will be popular. But I can guarantee that everything I do will be in the best interests of Rangers Football Club to secure its long-term financial stability. I only ask for your patience and an open mind. ‘This is a journey we will have to take together. The recipe for the future is simple. We need financial stability off the pitch and great football on the pitch. ‘Our goal is to get Rangers back to the Premier League and to be in Europe. That is all I can offer you now. Hopefully next year we’ll have a much better speech.’
What are the important parts of this article?
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Ally McCoist handed in his resignation on Sunday evening. His assistant Kenny McDowall was named as the new Rangers boss. Derek Llambias said McDowall will take charge until the end of the season. But he admitted that McDowall could land the job on a permanent basis.
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cnn_dailymail:3.4.0
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zs_opt
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Read this and answer the question
The principal fighting occurred between the Bolshevik Red Army and the forces of the White Army. Many foreign armies warred against the Red Army, notably the Allied Forces, yet many volunteer foreigners fought in both sides of the Russian Civil War. Other nationalist and regional political groups also participated in the war, including the Ukrainian nationalist Green Army, the Ukrainian anarchist Black Army and Black Guards, and warlords such as Ungern von Sternberg. The most intense fighting took place from 1918 to 1920. Major military operations ended on 25 October 1922 when the Red Army occupied Vladivostok, previously held by the Provisional Priamur Government. The last enclave of the White Forces was the Ayano-Maysky District on the Pacific coast. The majority of the fighting ended in 1920 with the defeat of General Pyotr Wrangel in the Crimea, but a notable resistance in certain areas continued until 1923 (e.g., Kronstadt Uprising, Tambov Rebellion, Basmachi Revolt, and the final resistance of the White movement in the Far East).
Where did the last Resistance from the White movement occur?
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Far East
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squad/v1.1:3.0.0
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zs_opt
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Some drivers claimed they were stuck seven hours after the crash at 14:30 BST on Thursday on the southbound stretch, between junctions 34 and 33.
The carriageway needed resurfacing because powdered cement from one lorry mixed with diesel oil from another.
One lane opened overnight and the other two reopened at 08:20 BST.
Water was handed out to drivers by police officers.
A major clean-up operation was needed as one of the lorries spilled its load of 30 tonnes of cement powder on the carriageway, between the Lancaster and Galgate junctions.
A Highways Agency spokesman said: "Several hundred gallons of diesel from the other lorry got mixed in with the powder and it set, causing considerable damage to the road surface."
The Highways Agency said it had started a full investigation into why it took so long to get the traffic moving.
Nobody was seriously injured.
Drivers who contacted the BBC wanted to know why they were allowed to join the motorway once the tailback developed and complained about the lack of information.
The Highways Agency said the closure of the carriageway was publicised in broadcast traffic bulletins very shortly after the accident happened and in a news release at 17:00 telling people what to expect.
What is a summary of this text?
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The Highways Agency is investigating why hundreds of vehicles were stranded on the M6 in Lancashire after two lorries and a car crashed.
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huggingface:xsum
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zs_opt
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(EN) Ongelman monimutkaisuus näkyy juuri puheenvuoroihinne käyttämänne ajan pituudessa.
Translate this to English?
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The complexity of this issue can be seen just from the length of time you took for your speech.
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Flan2021
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wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0
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zs_opt
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Write a (B). yelp review (Choose from:
(A). negative;
(B). positive;).
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Thai Cuisine is still my go to take-out place! I've only dined in a couple of times, but the experiences were great. Service is quick and friendly and the atmosphere is cozy. They have some really great lunch specials that include a trip to the soup/egg roll bar. I mostly order out, most time opting for delivery ($15 minimum order). There is a bit of a language barrier, but they always repeat your order back just to double check. My usuals are the pad thai with chicken, chili mint chicken, garlic pepper eggplant and spicy seafood soup. The chili mint chicken is basically ground chicken with thai chiles that can be served over rice or even better in a lettuce cup (though they don't come with those). It's even better leftover! I really like the spicy seafood soup, a mix of shrimp, fish, mussels and veggies in a spicy, flavorful broth. It's one of my favorite things to order in the winter-so comforting! I've always received free egg rolls with each order-they're not the best egg rolls, but I'm not going to hate on free. Delivery time can be crazy long on the weekends, so sometimes it's just better to come in and pickup. The staff is always friendly and your order is ready when they say it will be ready-I've never had to wait. I wouldn't drive out of my way for Thai Cuisine, but this isn't a neighborhood that has many neighborhood restaurants (mostly chain or fast food). Thai Cuisine is a bit of a gem in a relative food desert and I like that!
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yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0
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zs_opt
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Ultimaatumi
Translate this to English?
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Ultimatum
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Flan2021
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wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0
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zs_opt
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Please check if these have the same meaning. Options are:
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He died on August 16 , 1850 in Clarkstown ( now New City ) , New York City .
He died on August 16 , 1850 in New City ( now Clarkstown ) , New York City .
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In 2012 , Duncan appeared alongside Romola Garai in Scrubber , a film by Amanda Hale written and led .
In 2012 Duncan appeared alongside Romola Garai in Scrubber , a film written and directed by Amanda Hale .
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Possible tweet sentiments: Available choices:
(a). negative.
(b). positive.
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bout to hit up the happy club
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(CNN) A Pennsylvania State University fraternity has been suspended after allegedly posting on a private Facebook page compromising photos of women, including some who appeared to be asleep or passed out.
The suspension of Kappa Delta Rho (KDR) fraternity comes as State College Police as well as university officials investigate the fraternity's alleged use of the online page with up to 144 active members, including current and former students.
"No arrests are being made at this time," State College Police Lt. Keith Robb said. "Unfortunately, we aren't able to identify any suspects right now because the accounts on Facebook were sanitized, wiped clean."
Robb said it has not yet been determined if any crime occurred.
In a statement, college administrators said the fraternity's local chapter had been suspended for one year by the Penn State Interfraternity Council and that police and university officials were investigating.
The statement said the fraternity used the private Facebook page to post "highly inappropriate photographs ... of activities and events that are in direct violation of the standards and values of a recognized student organization at Penn State." The images allegedly included nude and partially nude women -- some seemed to pose, others appeared incapacitated.
"The evidence offered by the Facebook postings is appalling, offensive and inconsistent with the University community's values and expectations," the statement said.
Penn State University President Eric Barron said in a separate statement Wednesday that the university will work with Kappa Delta Rho's national headquarters to determine whether the fraternity should be reinstated.
The university is also considering whether fraternities will continue at Penn State, Barron said.
"It ... brings us to a point where we must ask if a re-evaluation of the fraternity system is required," he said. "Some members of the University senior leadership believe it is, and we are considering our options."
David Clohessy, director of the St. Louis-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, said in a statement that the latest allegations call into question the university's handling of sex crime reports.
"For years now, Penn State enthusiasts have repeatedly reassured everyone who'd listen that the university's problematic culture about sex crimes had been 'reformed," Clohessy said. "The latest allegations -- that fraternity members posted nude pictures of women on Facebook, some of whom appeared to be sleeping or passed out -- raise serious doubts about those claims."
In 2012, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted on 45 counts of sexually molesting boys and sentenced to a 30- to 60-year prison term. Sandusky, who has maintained his innocence, is appealing.
"The Kappa Delta Rho is a wake-up call," Clohessy said. "But the Sandusky case should have been a wake-up call too."
A former member of Kappa Delta Rho alerted police to the page, telling them in January that it had been used by members to share photos of "unsuspecting victims, drug sales and hazing," according to a copy of a police affidavit.
The drugs allegedly included "marijuana and edibles, concentrates, ADD medication, and some cocaine," the affidavit said.
The former frat member who tipped off police told authorities that a second Facebook page called "2.0" allegedly had been created around April 2014 following complaints from a woman whose photo was posted on it, the affidavit said. The earlier version of the page was titled "Covert Business Transactions."
The ex-frat member told police that the victim was visiting the fraternity when she saw a topless photo of herself after a member accidentally left his Facebook page logged in, the affidavit said.
The affidavit included photos of women and screen shots of cellphone text exchanges, including one from a woman who allegedly had no recollection of a sexual encounter and whether birth control was used.
In the Sandusky case, the sensational trial featured the testimony of eight young men who said they were sexually abused by Sandusky -- either groped in a car, soaped by him in the shower or sexually assaulted on a basement waterbed.
The scandal gripped the nation and ended a torturous chapter for the victims and Penn State's vaunted football program, including the dismissal of the late legendary coach Joe Paterno and one of America's highest-paid university presidents, Graham Spanier. It also tarnished Penn State's celebrated reputation in collegiate athletics.
"We hope that Penn State officials will stop patting themselves on the back and start instituting real reforms to make the campus safer for students," said Clohessy, whose group includes members who were allegedly molested by religious figures of all denominations.
Attempts to reach the university and interfraternity council were unsuccessful. ||||| STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Within the Kappa Delta Rho fraternity at Pennsylvania State University, the Facebook page and its photographs — of drugs, hazing and nude, unconscious women — were supposed to be among its brotherhood’s secrets.
But the clandestine website, known as 2.0 after a previous manifestation was discovered and shut down, has, since mid-January, been the subject of a police inquiry that this month led to the suspension of the fraternity’s Penn State chapter and could result in criminal charges.
“The evidence offered by the Facebook postings is appalling, offensive and inconsistent with the university community’s values and expectations,” Damon Sims, Penn State’s vice president for student affairs, said Tuesday in a statement. “We are confident that the various investigative and review processes, both internal and external to the university, will determine responsibility in this case. The university will hold accountable any groups and individuals found responsible.”
The Police Department here learned about the website in January when a former member of the fraternity walked into a police station and asked to meet with the authorities about what he thought might be criminal conduct. The man, who has since been declared a “cooperating informant,” eventually showed investigators printed copies of some of the photographs that appeared online. ||||| Read our comprehensive summary of what we know now.
UPDATE (12:45 p.m.):
Another comment exchange on a picture posted to the private page ended with, “lol delete these or we will be on cnn in a week.” The comment and the previous replies were in response to a highly inappropriate picture where the victim appears to be passed out. One of the commenters said “I banged her lol.”
UPDATE (10:50 a.m.):
A former member of KDR went to police about the private Facebook pages, and worked as their informant to help them obtain evidence, according to the probable cause affidavit. The document is attached below.
When asked about one of the pictures, the informant said, “this is the type of stuff that happens at KDR.”
One of the pieces of evidence is a screenshot of comments on one of the pictures. A member of the Facebook page commented, “373,217 views. All from us.” Another responded, “make that 373,218.” There were 144 members of the private Facebook page.
Police are currently working with the Office of Student Conduct and IFC in their investigation, Lieutenant Keith Robb said. Right now, authorities are working on getting the fraternity to cooperate and help identify any brothers that posted photos as well as identify any possible victims.
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UPDATE (10:51 p.m.):
In addition to the cease and desist from the IFC, both the university and national fraternity are currently reviewing the matter, Penn State spokeswoman Lisa Powers said.
“This action is being taken in response to … highly inappropriate photographs were posted of activities and events that are in direct violation of the standards and values of a recognized student organization and/or a fraternity at Penn State University,” Powers said.
The KDR executive director and alumni corporation president visited last week to look at the evidence, Powers said.
“We do not yet know the outcome of their visits or investigation,” Powers said.
This evening, the national fraternity conducted a “show cause” hearing with the chapter leadership by telephone. ***
Kappa Delta Rho was placed on full-chapter suspension after police discovered a private Facebook page containing nude images of women. According to a search warrant obtained by WJAC, which broke the story, several members of the fraternity are accused of taking pictures of women, mostly nude, while sleeping or passed out, and sharing those photos online.
“In response to the discovery of the two Facebook pages allegedly posted by Kappa Delta Rho, the chapter was immediately placed on full chapter suspension by Penn State’s Interfraternity Council,” Penn State IFC President Rick Groves said in a statement to Onward State. “This suspension shall remain in place until all investigations regarding the incident have been completed.”
State College Police began looking into the matter after they received a tip about the two private Facebook pages. The Facebook pages were used for sharing photos of drug sales, hazing, and photos of mostly women, according to police.
The search warrant says that the fraternity shut down an original Facebook page after a victim allegedly discovered it, but someone made another page in its place. Police told WPXI that page page had nearly 150 members, including current students and alumni.
“It appears [the photographed]were passed out or sleeping,” State College Police Lieutenant Keith Robb said to WJAC.
While under suspension, the fraternity may not participate in any IFC functions, host any social events, recruit new members, or conduct any business, including chapter meetings, without the written consent of the IFC. |||||
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– "Lol delete these or we will be on cnn in a week." On CNN is exactly where the Penn State chapter of Kappa Delta Rho ended up following the fraternity's suspension over a secret Facebook page. That "lol" line is one of the comments Onward State reports was made in connection with a picture on the private "2.0" Facebook page, which allegedly showed images of partially nude women who were asleep or otherwise unconscious. Onward State has more comments, including "sloots" (substitute a "u" for the "oo" and you'll have the meaning), "I banged her lol," and the exchange "373,217 views. All from us," followed by "make that 373,218." The page had 144 members, a group that's said to include current and former members. Per Onward State, it was a former member of the frat who alerted police to the page. The New York Times reports that police have been investigating the page for roughly two months, thanks to the "cooperating informant," who believed criminal conduct might be occurring and was able to produce screenshots of "a small fraction" of the photos and comments on the page. The affidavit noted the page also contained photos of hazing and drug sales, with the informant telling police the drugs included marijuana, edibles, ADD medication, and cocaine. Criminal harassment charges could ultimately be filed, per the State College assistant police chief. The Kappa Delta Rho chapter, a 95-year institution at the school, was initially suspended by Penn State's Interfraternity Council; that was followed by a one-year suspension and a "reorganization" handed down by the national frat. Members are reportedly being allowed to remain in the frat house. More background on the case here.
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Produce a long descriptive sentence that uses all these words: Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, inOfficeWhileVicePresident, Tuanku Bujang Tuanku Othman; Abdul Taib Mahmud, birthPlace, Miri, Malaysia; Abdul Taib Mahmud, successor, Abdul Rahman Ya'kub.
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Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, born in Miri, Malaysia, was in office during Tuanku Bujang Tuanku Othman Vice Presidency and was the suceessor to Abdul Taib Mahmud.
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Multi-select: Let's say that "What about the time you cut up tulip bulbs in the hamburgers because you thought they were onions?"
Can we now say that "You thought hamburgers were onions?"?
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Read this and answer the question. If the question is unanswerable, say "unanswerable".
Anti-government protests in 1991 led to a coup, a transitional government, and a new constitution. Opposition to the corrupt and dictatorial regime of General Moussa Traoré grew during the 1980s. During this time strict programs, imposed to satisfy demands of the International Monetary Fund, brought increased hardship upon the country's population, while elites close to the government supposedly lived in growing wealth. Peaceful student protests in January 1991 were brutally suppressed, with mass arrests and torture of leaders and participants. Scattered acts of rioting and vandalism of public buildings followed, but most actions by the dissidents remained nonviolent.
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B: Uh, uh, I've had one or two American cars I think, and they were okay. I had a Pontiac once and I never had a problem with it, but, uh, my mother had a Dodge at one point and I had driven it a few times and I really did not feel that I would buy a Dodge just from, A: Um. B: well, actually, I had uh, a Dodge Omni at one point A: Uh-huh. B: and that was, I think, what really prejudiced me against American cars because I did not feel that it was a very quality, uh, car.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "the Dodge Omni was a very quality car"?
pick from the following. (A). Yes. (B). No. (C). It's impossible to say.
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Translate the following.
English: And in doing this they need the internationalist support and love of their sisters—and their brothers—around the world.
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Al hacerlo, les hace falta el apoyo internacionalista y amor de sus hermanas, y de sus hermanos, de todo el mundo.
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This was my chioce for my birthday dinner last week, so that should tell you something right off the bat. It's excellent. Hot n Juicy is on my list of places to take out of towners. It's sits right next to Nora's and Fierfly in my book for something, different, excting, deliciuous, fun, and affordable. It is always packed! We went Monday night at 8:30 and still had to park across the street and wait 30 minutes to be seated. But, it's worth it. The funny thing is, I don't even eat the crawfish. I go for the crab! The shrimp and clams are also very good. This place is really great because you can personalize your selction. Pick your seafood, pick your sauce, pick your level of spice. NOTE: They are not kidding around here - SPICY MEANS SPICY. They put all your grub in a plastic bag and serve it to you tied in a knot. You can have them add corn, or potatoes insode as well. I stick to 1 lb. of crab hot n juicy special medium. I like to get corn on the cob thrown in there, plus order some sausage on the side. Rolls are a must to soak up the rest of that garlic butter infused seafood juice. The service isn't that great but isn't that always the case for the best grub. Strap on your bib, and get ready for your lips to burn, your nose to run, and your beer to slip out of your galicky hands.
How would this review be described in terms of sentiment?
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News article:
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Police in Georgia have detained a high-profile priest who is suspected of plotting to poison a senior cleric, prosecutors said on Monday.
The announcement comes after well-respected Rustavi 2 television channel reported about an attempt to poison Patriarch Ilia, head of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
Irakli Shotadze, chief prosecutor in the former Soviet republic, told reporters on Monday that Father Georgi Mamaladze was arrested at the Tbilisi airport on Friday with cyanide in his suitcase. Mamaladze, chief of the property department of the Georgian Orthodox Church, was on his way to Germany where Ilia is undergoing hospital treatment.
Shotadze said the arrest was made after prosecutors received a tip from a man who reported that he had been contacted by a priest looking to buy cyanide. Police also found weapons at Mamaladze's home.
Shotadze refused to name the senior cleric that Mamaladze is suspected of having targeted.
The 84-year old Ilia has been in poor health for several years, and was visibly frail when he welcomed Pope Francis to Georgia in October.
Eka Beseliya, chairwoman of the parliamentary committee on legal issues, said Mamaladze's arrest "has prevented a grave crime" but she said she was unable to disclose details of the case since it is classified. Beseliya added, however, that the patriarch's "security and health are protected absolutely."
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This story has been corrected to show that prosecutors have not linked the plot to Ilia. ||||| Image copyright AP Image caption There are suspicions that Georgian Church Patriarch Ilia II was the target
Georgian police have arrested a priest suspected of plotting to poison a top figure in the Georgian Orthodox Church.
Prosecutors said cyanide was found in Fr Giorgi Mamaladze's luggage when he was detained at Tblisi airport on Friday, before he could fly to Germany.
The head of the Georgian Church, Patriarch Ilia II, is being treated in hospital in Germany. Ilia might have been the target, but that is not clear.
The government said Georgia had "averted a major disaster".
"A treacherous attack on the Church has been prevented," said Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili.
The patriarch underwent successful gallbladder surgery on Monday.
Image copyright AFP Image caption More than 80% of Georgia's 4.5m people call themselves Orthodox Christians
Fr Mamaladze heads the Church's property department and manages a medical centre in Georgia.
Speaking on Georgian Rustavi-2 TV, Prosecutor-General Irakli Shotadze said a home-made gun was found when police searched Fr Mamaladze's home.
The priest had asked someone - not identified - to sell him cyanide, and that person had tipped off the police, Mr Shotadze said.
Patriarch Ilia, 84, has run the Georgian Orthodox Church since 1977. Repressed in Soviet times, the Church has enjoyed a big revival since Georgian independence in 1991.
More than 80% of Georgia's 4.5m people call themselves Orthodox Christians, according to census figures. |||||
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– It sounds like an odd espionage thriller, but it's all too true in the Republic of Georgia: Police busted a priest traveling with cyanide and say he meant to kill a high-ranking member of the Georgian Orthodox Church. Father Georgi Mamaladze, who runs the church's property department, was arrested Friday as he was attempting to fly to Berlin with the cyanide in his suitcase, reports the BBC. Police say they were tipped off by an individual whom Mamaladze had asked for the chemical. Authorities haven't identified his alleged target, but Mamaladze was on his way to meet with the church's longtime leader, Patriarch Ilia II, reports the Guardian. The 84-year-old patriarch, head of the church since 1977, was in Germany awaiting gallbladder surgery at the time of Mamaladze's arrest, reports Christian Today. The surgery went off without a hitch on Monday. A Georgian government official wouldn't comment on whether Ilia was the target but said his "security and health are protected absolutely," per the AP. Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili said "a crime against our country, a perfidious attack on our church, has been prevented." Mamaladze has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder. Authorities did not speculate about a motive.
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Briefly summarize this sentence: california received a bashing while energy producers denied they were gouging the state at a senate hearing on the state 's power woes .
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energy executives defend price policies to u.s. senate
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Scientists can identify an element by looking at the structure of a single
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transfer from bari (bri) airport to marina di ugento
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Transfer from Bari (BRI) airport to Marina di Ugento
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Parlamenttia on siis kuultu niin, että voimme antaa hyväksyntämme ajoissa, mutta sopimus on ollut voimassa heinäkuusta lähtien, joten jos parlamentti nyt esittäisi vastakkaisen mielipiteensä, yhteisön toimielimet joutuisivat hankalaan tilanteeseen.
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In other words, we have been consulted in time to give our approval, but the agreement has been in force since July, so that if Parliament now delivers an unfavourable opinion, it will put the Community institutions in a difficult position.
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in the following nights the same happened, therefore, the mining of this sea area was quitted.
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In the following nights the same happened, therefore, the mining of this sea area was quitted.
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– Donald Trump's campaign is once again on damage control, this time over remarks that critics say hinted at Hillary Clinton's assassination. His comment that "Second Amendment people" could "maybe" do something about Clinton picking Supreme Court justices if she wins was widely condemned Tuesday, though he insisted that he had been talking about the "strong, powerful" gun lobby using their political force, not their guns. "There can be no other interpretation," he told Fox News Tuesday night. "I mean, give me a break." A round-up of reactions: "The NRA and Donald Trump are calling for Second Amendment supporters to protect their constitutional right to self defense by defeating Hillary Clinton at the ballot box," NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker tells the Guardian, calling the controversy a "distraction created by the dishonest media." "Don't treat this as a political misstep. It's an assassination threat, seriously upping the possibility of a national tragedy & crisis," tweeted Connecticut's Sen. Chris Murphy, who is a strong proponent of gun control. Paul Ryan, speaking at his victory party in Wisconsin, said he hadn't heard the remarks, Politico reports. "I've been a little busy," he said. "It sounds like a joke gone bad. You should never joke about that. I hope he clears it up quickly." Trump "makes death threats because he's a pathetic coward who can’t handle the fact that he’s losing to a girl," tweeted Elizabeth Warren. "Nobody who is seeking a leadership position—especially the presidency, the leadership of the country—should do anything to countenance violence, and that’s what he was saying," said Tim Kaine. "It seems like every single day the national press latches on to some other issue about my running mate," said Mike Pence. "But you know what they’re not talking about? Anything having to do with Hillary Clinton." The Secret Service tweeted that it "is aware of the comments made earlier this afternoon." Former CIA director Michael Hayden told CNN: "Well, let me say, if someone had have said that outside the hall he’d be in the back of a police wagon now with the Secret Service questioning him." The New York Times notes that Trump's remarks were condemned from across the political spectrum, with conservative writer John Podhoretz criticizing him for suggesting that Second Amendment supporters were "potential assassins." The Washington Post notes that the latest uproar has followed a very familiar pattern of attention-getting expressions, followed by outrage, followed by Trump lashing out at the media—and the cycle appears "to be taking a toll among the electorate overall."
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You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| Donald Trump has been accused of a making an “assassination threat” against rival Hillary Clinton, plunging his presidential campaign into a fresh crisis.
The volatile Republican nominee was speaking at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, about the next president’s power to appoint supreme court justices. “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the second amendment,” said Trump, eliciting boos from the crowd.
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“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know. But I’ll tell you what, that will be a horrible day.”
The second amendment to the constitution protects the right of Americans to bear arms. Trump has accused his Democratic rival of wanting to abolish it, a charge that she denies.
His extraordinary remark on Tuesday was swiftly condemned by Democrats. Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, said: “This is simple – what Trump is saying is dangerous. A person seeking to be the president of the United States should not suggest violence in any way.”
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, where the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting took place in Newtown in 2012, went further in a tweet: “Don’t treat this as a political misstep. It’s an assassination threat, seriously upping the possibility of a national tragedy & crisis.”
British novelist Salman Rushdie then weighed in, tweeting: “Of course the Trump flacks are now trying to confuse the issue, but Senator Murphy is clear about what Trump meant.”
The claim was rejected by Jeff Sessions, a Republican senator from Alabama and longtime Trump supporter. He responded on CNN: “Totally wrong. I don’t believe that’s true. I don’t believe that’s at all what he meant.”
But Sessions acknowledged: “It may have been awkwardly phrased.”
Trump said later in reply to Sean Hannity on Fox News that he was referring to the political movement around the Second Amendment.
Hannity asked: “You know, so obviously you’re saying that there’s a strong political movement within the Second Amendment, and if people mobilize and vote, they can stop Hillary from having this impact on the court. But that’s not how the media is spinning it. What’s your reaction to it?”
Trump replied: “Well, I just heard about that, and it was amazing because nobody in that room thought anything other than what you just said. This is a political movement. This is a strong, powerful movement, the Second Amendment … there can be no other interpretation. Even reporters have told me – I mean give me a break.”
Trump has been striving to show more discipline on the campaign trail after a string of gaffes in recent weeks. He remained in control in Detroit on Monday when a speech on the economy was repeatedly interrupted by protesters. But in Wilmington, he apparently could not resist going off-script.
Campaigners for gun control expressed outrage at his off-the-cuff remark. Po Murray, chair of the Newtown Action Alliance, said: “Donald Trump continues to pander to the corporate gun lobby and the gun extremists who thrive on fear and rhetoric.
“Any suggestion that gun violence should be used to stop Hillary Clinton from appointing supreme court justices is dangerous and reckless. It’s no surprise that 50 GOP national security experts have signed a letter making a pledge to not vote for him.”
Mark Glaze, former executive director of Everytown for Gun Safety, said: “It may well be an incitement to violence, but understand it’s the basic theory on which the modern gun industry is built. Their core audience is people who hate the government and believe they’re going to have to take up arms against it. My guess is this is a deliberate dog whistle to that significant number of people.
“There are people out there who hear this kind of thing in a certain way, and if they’re already inclined to hatred of government and Hillary Clinton and see guns as a public policy solution, who knows what could happen?”
The concern was echoed by Paul Begala, a former adviser to Bill Clinton in the White House. “This is not something that should be joked about,” he told CNN. “I hope in the best case you could say he was joking. It didn’t seem like a joke to me. Tony Schwartz, the guy who wrote [Trump’s book] The Art of the Deal, says Trump never jokes.
“I fear that an unbalanced person hears that in this inflamed environment and, God forbid, thinks that was a threat. I certainly take it as a threat, I really do, and Trump needs to apologise.”
Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA and National Security Agency, said on the same channel:
“Well, let me say, if someone had have said that outside the hall he’d be in the back of a police wagon now with the secret service questioning him.”
As yet another controversy threatened to engulf him, Trump’s campaign insisted that his words had been misunderstood. Jason Miller, a spokesperson, attempted to explain the candidate’s comments. “It’s called the power of unification,” he said. “Second amendment people have amazing spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them great political power. And this year, they will be voting in record numbers, and it won’t be for Hillary Clinton, it will be for Donald Trump.”
National Rifle Association spokeswoman Jennifer Baker called the uproar over Trump’s remarks a “distraction created by the dishonest media.”
“The NRA represents law-abiding gun owners and we support lawful behavior,” she wrote in an email.
“The NRA and Donald Trump are calling for Second Amendment supporters to protect their constitutional right to self defense by defeating Hillary Clinton at the ballot box,” Baker said. “Second Amendment voters understand the stakes. They understand that the Second Amendment is on the ballot.”
Clinton’s campaign went on the record in May saying that she believes the Supreme Court’s 2008 Heller decision, a key victory for gun rights, was “wrongly decided.”
The 5-4 Heller decision struck down the District of Columbia’s handgun ban as unconstitutional, ruling that Americans have an individual right to own guns for self-defense in their homes.
“If Heller is overturned, that paves the way for extreme gun control for decades,” Baker said.
The official NRA Twitter feed compared Trump’s remarks to a 2008 comment from then-Senator Joseph Biden, who said “If [Obama] tries to fool with my Beretta, he’s got a problem,” and asked “Was Joe Biden…suggesting violence here?”
Katie Pavlich, a prominent conservative writer who spoke at this year’s NRA annual meeting, also slammed the media’s coverage of Trump’s remarks, tweeting: “Media totally exposed itself (again) today by assuming Second Amendment supporters are assassins instead of voters.”
But she added: “That said Trump is reason Trump has no credibility/isn’t given the benefit of the doubt when actually misunderstood.” She was referencing Trump’s remark in January that “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.”
Pavlich wrote: “I’m not defending Trump or his comments, I’m defending Second Amendment supporters.”
The supreme court has become a central election issue since the death earlier this year of Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative who has not yet been replaced. Trump claims that liberal judges could threaten the second amendment.
Progressive pressure groups that have been watching the process closely joined the condemnation of Trump on Tuesday. Michael Keegan, president of People for the American Way, said: “There has been no shortage of inexcusable rhetoric from Trump, but suggesting gun violence is truly abhorrent. There is no place in our public discourse for this kind of statement, especially from someone seeking the nation’s highest office.”
Neil Sroka, communications director of Democracy for America, added: “Honestly, it’s a little unclear whether Donald Trump was calling for his supporters to assassinate a Clinton court pick or take up an armed insurrection against a government that allowed her to appoint one. Either way, the only thing more insane than electing someone president who blows this kind of violent dog whistle would be buying the furious spin coming out of his campaign trying to explain it away.”
Trump has produced a shortlist of conservative justices that he hopes will appeal to the Republican base and deter those considering defecting to Clinton, who could set the court on a liberal trajectory for years to come.
He told supporters on Tuesday: “I guess there’s a scenario in which this president could pick five supreme court justices, and if you pick two that are left, left, left, it’s going to be a disaster for our country.”
The NRA had endorsed him early, he added. “We want to replace with justices very much like Justice Scalia and that’s going to happen, that’s so important. One of the most important elections for a lot of reasons, not just that,” he said.
He also told the rally that Clinton is “dangerous” and could destroy the country from within because of her immigration policies.
Trump was introduced by Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor, who brought up the case of Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist executed for spying for the US. Clinton received emails mentioning him on her controversial personal server when she was secretary of state.
Giuliani said: “Remember Hillary told us there was no top secret information on her emails? Remember she told us that. Well, she lied! And I don’t know the connection between that and the death of Mr Amiri, but what I do know is it put a lot more attention on him when they found those emails. It certainly put him at great risk, even if they didn’t find them, and it shows you that when the director of the FBI said she was extremely careless, he was being kind.”
But Giuliani repeatedly waved away chants of “Lock her up!” from the crowd.
Lois Beckett contributed reporting. ||||| At a rally in Wilmington, N.C., Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said rival Hillary Clinton wants to “essentially” abolish the Second Amendment. He warned of Clinton’s ability to pick Supreme Court justices if she wins, saying there would be “nothing you can do, folks.” (The Washington Post)
At a rally in Wilmington, N.C., Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said rival Hillary Clinton wants to “essentially” abolish the Second Amendment. He warned of Clinton’s ability to pick Supreme Court justices if she wins, saying there would be “nothing you can do, folks.” (The Washington Post)
Donald Trump was ticking through a list of reasons to support him over Hillary Clinton on Tuesday when he decided to linger on one.
“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Trump said with a shrug at a rally here after accusing Clinton of wanting to strip Americans of their gun rights. He paused, then softly offered a postscript: “Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.”
The denouncements came swiftly from Clinton’s campaign and her allies — and from outside politics. The insinuation, critics said, was that Trump was inciting his followers to bear arms against a president in the future. And Trump’s response was just as swift: He’d said nothing of the sort but was merely encouraging gun rights advocates to be politically involved.
The pattern has repeated itself again and again. First come Trump’s attention-getting expressions. Then come the outraged reactions. The headlines follow. Finally, Trump, his aides and his supporters lash out at the media, accusing journalists of twisting his words or missing the joke. It happened last week, when Trump appeared to kick a baby out of a rally, then later insisted that he was kidding. It happened the week before, when he encouraged Russia to hack Clinton’s emails, then claimed he was just being sarcastic.
And with each new example, Trump’s rhetorical asides grow more alarming to many who hear them — and prompt condemnations from an ever-wider universe of critics. On Tuesday, for instance, even Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), one of Trump’s most ardent defenders, struggled to fully embrace his comments. Sessions insisted in an interview on CNN that Trump did not mean to encourage violence, but he acknowledged that Trump’s words were “awkwardly phrased.”
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People from other corners weighed in, too. “As the daughter of a leader who was assassinated, I find #Trump’s comments distasteful, disturbing, dangerous,” tweeted Bernice King, daughter of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. “His words don’t #LiveUp. #MLK.”
The Secret Service acknowledged Tuesday in a tweet that agents were “aware” of the episode.
Trump’s most dedicated fans said they understood what he was saying, and they scoffed at the reaction of Democrats and the headlines from newspapers and news shows.
“In no way was he threatening Hillary,” said Sarah Smith, a 72-year-old retiree who attended the rally in Wilmington where Trump made the remark. “Anybody who thinks that is delusional.”
James Renaud, 66, said he took the comment “at face value,” meaning gun owners have to mobilize lest Clinton is able to stack the Supreme Court. “It was just off-the-cuff talking.”
And Keri Malkin, 49, said she didn’t “hear it that way at all,” suggesting that the insinuation that the comment was a threat against Clinton was engineered by her supporters.
“Hillary lies a lot, so it’s no surprise that her supporters would lie,” Malkin said.
The number of influential Republican officials saying they can’t vote for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton is growing as Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) pledges that she won’t vote for Trump. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)
[In North Carolina, Trump hits the trail hard but late where he needs to win big]
But Trump’s rhetorical asides appear to be taking a toll among the electorate overall. Many voters find his remarks distasteful, even given his explanations. The possibility that he was joking or being sarcastic, or that he meant something other than what some people heard, doesn’t alter the growing view that Trump is reckless with his words.
Each day brings new polls showing the Republican nominee lagging Clinton nationally and in several key battleground states. The surveys show widespread uncertainty about whether Trump has the temperament to serve as president — a doubt that his ever-replenishing supply of rhetoric continues to feed.
“Don’t treat this as a political misstep,” tweeted Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a Clinton supporter and a staunch gun-control advocate. “It’s an assassination threat, seriously upping the possibility of a national tragedy & crisis.”
Trump has made concerted efforts to counter such concerns; Monday, he delivered an economic policy address in Detroit that many anxious Republicans had hoped would reset a campaign that had flailed for more than a week after Trump’s attacks on the Muslim American family of a U.S. Army captain killed in Iraq.
But part of the pattern of Trump’s controversies is that they often step on his efforts to broaden his appeal, as they seemed to in this instance.
He also sometimes grabs the media spotlight away from Clinton when he’d be better off letting her keep it. That happened Tuesday, too, when Clinton was dealing with an unwelcome distraction: the revelation that the father of the gunman in the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub in June had secured a prime seat at her rally Monday in Kissimmee, Fla.
On Tuesday, it was not immediately clear whether Trump was inciting gun owners to use their weapons against judges or a sitting president — or was encouraging some other action. Trump spokesman Jason Miller released a statement just moments after the comment, swatting down the idea that the mogul was doing anything other than encouraging political action.
At an event in Fayetteville, N.C., later in the day, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani defended Trump while introducing him. “What he meant by” his comment, Giuliani said, was that “you have the power to vote against” Clinton.
Later Tuesday, Trump appeared on Fox News, where he described the “strong, powerful movement” in the United States to protect the Second Amendment. “There can be no other interpretation,” he said. “Even reporters have told me. I mean, give me a break.”
Meanwhile, Clinton and her supporters on Capitol Hill and in the pro-gun-control community said they saw Trump’s words in a very different way.
“@realDonaldTrump makes death threats because he’s a pathetic coward who can’t handle the fact that he’s losing to a girl,” tweeted Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a regular Trump critic.
“This is simple — what Trump is saying is dangerous,” Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said in a statement. “A person seeking to be the President of the United States should not suggest violence in any way.”
The campaign also quickly dashed off a fundraising solicitation after the episode, emailing supporters: “We don’t know how many children were watching him today, absorbing the kind of violence and hate that Trump is peddling.”
What may have been lost in the flap was the substance of Trump’s accusation against Clinton: that she wants to overturn the Second Amendment, and plans to appoint judges and justices to the federal judiciary who would help her do that.
“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment,” he said. “By the way, and if she gets to pick — if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.”
Clinton has never said she wants to eliminate the Second Amendment. Even if she did, neither the president nor the Supreme Court nor lower-level federal judges have the power to do so. There are two ways to alter the Constitution. One requires a two-thirds vote of Congress and then approval by three-fourths of the nation’s state legislatures. The other requires calling a constitutional convention and, again, approval by three-fourths of the states.
One common thread linking many of Trump’s more controversial comments and actions is that he denies having said or done them. Trump claimed never to have mocked a disabled New York Times reporter, despite a widely disseminated video clip showing him making jerking movements with his arms. He claimed that he never said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is not a war hero, despite a Q&A in which he said just that.
He said he never advocated intervention in Libya, though he did.
Trump also relies regularly on the turn of phrase “many people are saying” to make pronouncements without offering evidence backing them up.
On Monday, for instance, he tweeted: “Many people are saying that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the U.S. because of Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails.”
“Mr. Trump’s tweets speak for themselves,” said Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks.
Trump and his allies often blame the media for misconstruing his words. The statement issued by his campaign after his Tuesday comments appeared under the heading: “Trump Campaign Statement On Dishonest Media.”
Sullivan reported from Washington. Abby Phillip in Austin, David Weigel in Washington and Jenna Johnson in Wilmington contributed to this report. ||||| Tweet with a location
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House Speaker Paul Ryan declined to join the criticism of Donald Trump over the GOP nominee’s casual aside Tuesday that gun owners might somehow take matters into their own hands to stop Hillary Clinton from appointing federal judges as president.
Speaking at a news conference Tuesday night in Wisconsin after his landslide win in a GOP primary, Ryan said he hadn't actually heard Trump's remarks but he had heard about them.
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"I've been a little busy," Ryan said. "It sounds like a joke gone bad. You should never joke about that. I hope he clears it up quickly."
Trump sparked the latest uproar of his campaign earlier in the day when he veered off script during a rally.
“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment,” he said. “By the way, and if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know. But I’ll tell you what, that will be a horrible day.”
Trump later said the comment wasn't meant as a joke. Blaming the media for manufacturing another controversy, he told CBS that his point was that gun owners should exert their collective voting power to stop Clinton from winning.
Ryan has called out Trump on several occasions in the past, including over his comments questioning the objectivity of a judge because of his Mexican descent, and over the nominee's call to bar Muslims from immigrating to the United States.
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This company did a terrible job. They come once a week spend about 3 to 4 minutes and charge ridiculous amount of money they would constantly leave the gate to the pool open they would never sweep the sides of the pool after numerous complaints we had to terminate service they are a total waste of time and money do not give them your cell phone number unless you want a ridiculous amount of texts they are just bad news.
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The US military in Afghanistan dismissed a new videotape featuring Osama bin Laden as quot;propaganda, quot; and insisted that bin Laden would be caught, but it acknowledged having no fix on the Al-Qaeda leader #39;s whereabouts.
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Equity: is a cross-cutting issue and as such should be present in all Development cooperation endeavours;
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Equidad: constituye una cuestión horizontal y como tal debe estar presente en todas las iniciativas tomadas en el ámbito de la cooperación al desarrollo;
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Animaux 15 EUR Nos amis les chiens sont les bienvenus, exception faite pour la salle de restaurant, où ils ne sont pas admis.
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Multi-choice question: What is the sentiment of the following tweet?
Tweet: @alexmcarthur i'd DM you back but you aren't following me thnx for the congrats, I'm sure I'll see you at an event or something sometime
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GMA New Media, keyPerson, Felipe Gozon; GMA New Media, industry, Entertainment
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Was die Schlussverkäufe betrifft, so ist die Kommission dafür, dass sie um zwei Wochen verschoben werden, damit sie nicht mit dem Zeitpunkt der Einführung von Banknoten und Münzen zusammenfallen.
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Its composition is rather unusual; the works on display differ from what we have seen before – most of the paintings are the artist’s early works, created in the 60s; many of them have never been exhibited before.
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Преобладают ранние, порою никогда не выставлявшиеся работы 60-х годов. По жизненной практике можно сказать, что наши художники не очень любят показывать свои ранние творения.
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What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?
1. In all of these fields the UN is little more than an irrelevance .
2. The major economic , political and trade issues around the world are almost all dealt with either through bilateral agreements between nations or by specialised bodies set up for that purpose the World Bank , IMF , EU , ASEAN , NATO , WTO and so on .
3. Even where the UN does get involved in international affairs such as in the Libyan crisis of 2011 it is other bodies , in that case NATO , which serve as the vehicle for international cooperation .
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Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER XXXIV
At a few minutes after nine, the following morning, the Marquis entered the room where breakfast was usually served. The Duchess, in travelling clothes and a hat, was lifting the covers from the silver dishes upon the sideboard, with a fork in her hand. She welcomed him a little shortly.
"Good morning, Reginald!"
"Good morning, Caroline," he replied. "Are you the only representative of the household?"
She snorted.
"Charlie Grantham went off in his little two-seater at eight o'clock this morning," she announced. "He is motoring up to town. Left apologies with Gossett, I believe--telegram or something in the night. All fiddlesticks, of course!"
"Naturally," the Marquis assented, helping himself from one of the dishes and drawing his chair up to his sister's side. "So exit Charles Grantham, eh?"
"And me," the Duchess declared, returning to her place and pouring out the coffee. "I suppose you can send me to Fakenham for the ten o'clock train?"
The Marquis considered for a moment.
"I am not sure, Caroline," he said, "that your departure is entirely kind."
"Well, I'm jolly certain I don't mean it to be," she answered bitterly. "I ask no questions, and I hate scenes. A week ago I should have scoffed at the idea of David Thain as a prospective suitor for Letitia. Now, my advice to you is, the sooner you can get them married, the better."
"Really!" he murmured. "You've given up the idea, then, of taking the young man to Scotland?"
"Entirely," the Duchess assured him emphatically. "I was an idiot to ever consider it. When people of his class find their way amongst us, disaster nearly always follows. You see, they don't know the rules of the game, as we play it. Whilst we are on this subject, Reginald, what are you going to do about it?"
1. Are the characters related?
2. How?
3. Are they poor?
4. Are they wealthy?
5. Where are they?
6. who is getting married?
7. Who drove away in a car?
8. Where was he headed?
9. Is he going to return?
10. What was the lady drinking?
11. What was her first name?
12. Her title is?
13. What time of day does the locomotive leave?
14. Does he take her to the station?
15. Who was the prospective suiter?
16. Who doesn't know the rules of the game?
17. Was the Duchess in love with him?
18. Who was the brother?
19. Was he royalty?
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8. to town
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-- The well-publicized landing of 40 Iranian Jews in Israel on Tuesday spurred glee among some Israelis and the immigrants themselves and drew public scorn from a surprising quarter in Iran -- two officials from its centuries-old Jewish community. One of them described the emigration as a "misinformation" campaign and defended their lives under the government of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The arrival in Israel was publicized as the largest single group to arrive in Israel from Iran since Iran's Islamic Revolution, and the immigrants traveled via an undisclosed third country. Other Iranian Jews have immigrated to Israel over the years. Anti-Semitism has been a worldwide phenomenon for centuries and the state of Israel became a homeland for Jews to escape anti-Semitic persecution. The group that sponsored the immigration is the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, based in Chicago. It says it wants to help Jews flee such persecution. The group receives money from evangelical Christians. Its founder, Rabbi Yehiel Eckstein, believes Iranian Jews face dangers, citing the words of Ahmadinejad, who has urged Israel's destruction but not by military means. There has been great criticism of Ahmadinejad by Jews across the globe for his remarks about Israel, for the government's stance toward Israel, and for the regime's sponsorship of a recent Holocaust denial seminar. Eckstein said immigrants received $10,000 each because they left behind possessions to go to Israel. Noting the evangelical support from his group, Eckstein, in fact, believes it's no "coincidence" that the people came to Israel on Christmas Day, which Eckstein describes as "kind of a Christmas present to these folks from Christians in America who seek to tell Israel and the Jewish people that they're not alone." The immigration comes at a time of great tension between Iran, whose president stoutly rejects the Jewish state's existence, and Israel, which asserts that Iran is funding terrorism, has ambitions to develop nuclear weapons, and is intent on destroying the Jewish state. But the account of the mass immigration was vehemently disputed among Jewish officials in Tehran who defend Jewish life there. The man representing Iranian Jews in Iran's parliament on Wednesday disputed the notion of an organized immigration of Iranian Jews to Israel, saying he would have known about such a development. Iranian MP Morris Motamed told CNN that he and Ciamak Morehsadegh, the director of the Tehran Jewish Community, had issued a statement condemning the spread of false news about an evangelical organization facilitating the immigration of 40 Iranian Jews to Israel. Iranian Jews can travel anywhere they want, anytime they want, but like other Iranians they are not allowed to go to Israel, Motamed said. Even with that, some Iranian Jews may decide to travel to and from Israel via a third country to visit their families or to visit for religious reasons. However, Motamed called the news a "misinformation" campaign aimed at creating an atmosphere of distrust between the Muslim and Jewish communities in Iran. He said it is meant to make Iranian Jews feel unsafe and vulnerable in their own country. He said that before the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iranian Jews numbered more than 100,000, but like other minorities their numbers diminished because of immigration. He said almost 95 percent of Iranian Jews went to the United States and as a result there is now quite a sizable Iranian Jewish community there. The remaining 5 percent, he said, went to Europe and Israel. There are as many as an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 Jews remaining in Iran, the largest Jewish community in the Middle East outside Israel, according to CNN's Shirzad Bozorghmehr. The U.S. State Department's 2007 report on religious freedom says the Iranian government's "rhetoric and actions created a threatening atmosphere for nearly all non-Shi'a religious groups, most notably for Baha'i's," who are based in the Israeli city of Haifa. It also cites "Sufi Muslims, evangelical Christians, and members of the Jewish community." Jews by Iranian constitutional law have the right to practice their religion and "with some exception," there has been scant government restriction and interference with religious practices, the report said. However, "members of these recognized minority religious groups have reported government imprisonment, harassment, intimidation, and discrimination based on their religious beliefs." Jewish education has been tougher to carry out, there has been a rise in anti-Semitic rhetoric, and assaults on two synagogues, the report said. Their contact with or support for the state of Israel has been squelched "out of fear of reprisal." "Recent anti-American and anti-Israeli demonstrations included the denunciation of Jews, as opposed to the past practice of denouncing only 'Israel' and "Zionism," adding to the threatening atmosphere for the community," the report said. In the Islamic Republic's Jewish community, there is a different view from voices emerging. Morehsadegh described the Jewish community in Tehran as alive and well, with 20 synagogues, more than eight butcher shops, two restaurants, and four youth groups. "There is no doubt that the Holocaust happened," he said. "But we disagree with the superpowers who have misused this incident to their own benefit." E-mail to a friend. CNN's Shirzad Bozorgmehr contributed to this report.
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Senior Iranian Jew calls mass emigration of 40 Jews to Israel "misinformation" 40 Iranian Jews landed in Israel on December 25. U.S.-based group behind incident receives cash from evangelical Christians. Each immigrant received $10,000 to cover abanonded possessions, group admits.
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Khloe Kardashian Rips Jamie Foxx for Bruce Jenner Joke : People.com
Khloé Kardashian and Jamie Foxx; Bruce Jenner (inset)
David Becker/Getty; Steve Granitz/WireImage; Inset: Dan Steinberg/AP
04/03/2015 AT 11:10 AM EDT
's official reaction to Jamie Foxx's joke about Bruce Jenner at last weekend's iHeartRadio Music Awards.
. He got lots of groans when he joked that Jenner would be performing at the awards and "doing a his-and-her duet all by himself" – a cringe-worthy reference to Khloé's stepfather's
On Thursday, Kardashian expressed her disappointment in Foxx.
"I just think it's a low blow," the reality star, 30, told
. "I think it's very mean, but you know, I wish him all the best. It is what it is."
She added: "I just think – and I know Jamie, so I think that's also why that's a really low blow, but hey. Guess that's what he felt the need to do for a little press."
Check out the interview below.
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See context followed by options. Is "settlers" the same as "they" in this sentence?
The politicians far away in Washington could not know the settlers so *they* must make rules to regulate them.
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Demi Lovato: Live in Concert (also known as the Summer Tour 2009) was the debut headlining concert tour by American singer Demi Lovato, launched in support of her debut album "Don't Forget" (2008) and the second studio album "Here We Go Again" (2009).
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Demi Lovato was not the only singer performing at Summer Tour 2009 "?
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I am sure other people may be interested in this experience and that s what this blog is all about . It was a few weeks back on a Friday night , I felt nervous and anxious as I walked to the address . I had nt done this in 9 months , what if I had forgotten what to do , or what to say , this was really worrying me and I was quite stressed .
Options: *I had decided to go on this date quite late at night and was worried I was sending the wrong message about my intentions for the evening; *None of the above choices .; *I had not gone on a date in several months and was worried it would not go well; *I had not dated in a long time and was worried that I had the wrong address;
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LAGUNA NIGUEL – A 44-year-old hockey mother was arrested on suspicion of having unlawful sex and committing lewd acts with two victims who were members of her son's youth hockey team, authorities said.
Kathia Maria Davis, of Laguna Niguel, was arrested last Wednesday at her home on suspicion of having unlawful sex with a minor under 16 and committing lewd acts with a minor under 14, said Orange County Sheriff's spokesperson Jim Amormino. She posted $25,000 bail and was released later that day.
Both victims were members of the youth hockey team, the Beach City Lightning, which her son played in, Amormino said. The teams played at hockey rinks in Anaheim and Laguna Niguel.
Stacey Chilcoff, president of the Beach City Lightning Hockey Association, said the two victims are no longer affiliated with the club.
"We take the safety of the kids very seriously," Chilcoff said. "Nothing like that is currently going on."
The investigation began last week after the first victim, who was under 16 at the time, came forward to his mother, Amormino said.
Davis, a divorced mother of three, is accused of engaging in unlawful sex with the victim, who is still under 18 years of age, for about a year and a half, Amormino said.
"We received complaints that she was throwing parties for members of the hockey team and other friends of her son and providing them with alcohol," Amormino said.
During the course of the investigation, the second victim, who is now at least 18 years of age, was located, Amormino added. It is believed that Davis committed the lewd acts about six years ago.
Authorities say there may be a third victim.
Contact the writer: amolina@ocregister.com or 714-704-3795 ||||| Orange County authorities said a Laguna Niguel woman had sex with teenage members of her son's youth hockey team while throwing sleepover parties for the teens.
Kathia Maria Davis, 44, was arrested Wednesday at her Laguna Niguel home on suspicion of unlawful sex with a minor, Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jim Amormino said. She was released the same day on $25,000 bail.
Since then, Amormino said, investigators have found evidence of at least one and possibly two more victims. The first victim was under 16 years old when the sexual conduct began, and it continued for several years, authorities allege. The second victim may have been under 14, and the charge in that case will be lewd acts with a minor, Amormino said. The acts allegedly took place at Davis' home. |||||
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– The crime talker of the day: A 44-year-old California woman is accused of having sex and committing "lewd acts" with at least one and possibly three members of her son's youth hockey team, reports the Orange County Register. Kathia Maria Davis, a divorced mother of three, faces charges of unlawful sex with a minor under 16 and engaging in lewd acts with a minor under 14. Police don't think her son knew about the alleged acts, which reportedly started years ago, notes the Los Angeles Times. Says a police official, "We received complaints that she was throwing parties for members of the hockey team and other friends of her son and providing them with alcohol." The LAT helpfully adds that they were "sleepover parties." Davis is out on bail.
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I had friends warn me that she thought of me as more than a friend & when she realized this was not so it would cause problems , I knew it would as soon as I showed her the pics of me & steve & that was the last time she was nicee to me . Oh well Its not my problem , I did nothing wrong . As for me having no friends I just sent a text to three friends today because I need help moving a couch , chair , coffee table & end tables .
Available choices: +She had hopes for a romantic relationship with the speaker and realized that this was n't an option +The photo was just a coincidence , and she stopped hanging out with the speaker due to a new job +The photo showed the speaker with another man and the woman is homophobic +The woman was only using the speaker to buy her things and he stopped being willing to do this
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Paragraph: The next evening, she arrived with a stack of glistening stopboxes containing sushi, sashimi, oysters in their shells, and Terran vegetables fresh plucked from their hydroponic beds. Wondering about the reason for her extravagance, I asked how work had gone that day. "Emil came in. He's taking Dream's End." "Emil?" "You've no memory left, old one. Emil Malaquez." You did that to test my affections." "What?" "Calling him by his first name. I did that in a comedy once.'Nights with Karl and Groucho.' It was before your time." "The critics liked it." "I'm glad." A moment later: "That's not why I called him 'Emil'." "No. We lunched together. He's nice."
Question: "What makes the older speaker wonder about the female speaker's extravagance?"
Answer: "Oysters"
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A: During this time the garrison commander, Admiral Nakhimov fell on 30 June 1855.:378 Raglan having also died on 28 June.:460
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Sentences: 1. Without this collective revelation of grief and guilt , the families of the victims will never know the truth about their suffering , and so will not be able to mourn them with dignity .
2. This result can only ever be achieved with the cooperation of those responsible ; the individuals who had access to relevant documents or even participated in violent acts .
3. The nation must also confront its past so that those who did not commit violence themselves , but who supported violent groups or repressive regimes , even if only passively , can no longer claim , `` I did not know '' but must acknowledge their part too and commit themselves to building a better society .
4. Uncertainty as to the fate of loved ones , the identity of informants or the motives for certain actions can maintain the grip of a conflict over the minds of its victims for many years .
5. It is important to uncover the real truth of what happened during periods of violence and/or repression .
6. A victory is supposed to bring rapprochement , reason and stability to a conflict zone but it is unable to have this effect on individuals without some method of rationalising a conflict .
7. The unreason and capriciousness of certain actions can undermine an individuals identity and capacity to trust .
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1. Legally held guns are stolen and end up in the hands of criminals , who would have greater difficulty in obtaining such weapons if firearms were less prevalent in society .
2. The legal ownership of guns by law-abiding citizens inevitably leads to many unnecessary and tragic deaths .
3. Guns also end up in the hands of children , leading to tragic accidents and terrible disasters such as the Columbine High School massacre in the U.S.A. Sometimes even normal-seeming registered gun owners appear to go mad and kill , as tragically happened at Hungerford and Dunblaine in the U.K.
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Damontre Lamounte Moore (born September 11, 1992) is an American football defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the New York Giants in the third round of the 2013 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas A&M, where he earned All-American honors.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
Damontre Lamounte Moore was born in Buffalo New York
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Surprisingly good value coupled with a down-to-earth staff.
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A total of 35 people have been charged so far.
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For cheap Indian food, with an average rating, go to Browns Cambridge.
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Browns Cambridge food Indian
Browns Cambridge priceRange cheap
Browns Cambridge customer rating average
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Write an article with the title: "The Big House or Your Small House: Comparing the football viewing experience"
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Click to find out how your house stacks up to The Big House.
At Movoto Real Estate, we’re big fans of football (as evidenced by our story on affordable homes close to stadiums). Wander through our San Mateo office and you’ll find employees with their favorite teams displayed across their chests, in heated debate about an upcoming game.
Per the request of our resident football fanatics, Movoto bloggers are paying homage to this beloved pastime by honoring the king of all American football stadiums: The Big House.
We figured now, with the approach of the Wolverines’ homecoming, would be the perfect time to look at how watching a game in this affectionately named “House” compares to the experience in a different kind of home -- namely, the type that the average American resides in.
While we were at it, we threw in some unique stats about the stadium that might surprise you.
Let’s see how they stack up, shall we?
The House That Yost Built
For those Americans who are as of yet uneducated about our nation’s much-favored sport, The Big House is the nickname for the University of Michigan’s football stadium -- which happens to be the largest in the United States, found in Ann Arbor, MI.
Originally constructed in 1927 with a seating capacity of 72,000 people, The Big House was designed to include steel footings that made the size of the stadium expandable. It has been expanded six times since first built, and now has an official capacity of 109,901, although it has held crowds of more than 114,000.
The project was pursued by Michigan’s then head football coach, Fielding Yost. After leading the Wolverines to six national championships, Yost envisioned a day when the crowd would reach upwards of 150,000 and fought for a larger stadium. It is because of his contributions to the university’s football program that Michigan Stadium is often referred to as “the House that Yost built.”
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About The Big House
An exterior view of the stadium might mislead you about the true size of The Big House, as it was literally built into the ground. With only a portion of the upper rows visible from the outside, Michigan Stadium looks much more impressive when you’re on the inside.
The stadium field was originally covered in real grass, but was replaced with artificial turf in 1969 to give players better traction. The field then returned to natural grass in 1991 because the turf was considered bad for players’ joints. Fans had yet another change of greenery in 2003 when the grass was swapped out for FieldTurf, an artificial turf with grass-like playing characteristics.
And some other interesting tidbits about The Big House (with help from Michigan Stadium’s facility manager):
The House That Your Contractor Built
It seems obvious to say that watching a game from your house is a far cry from watching in the stadium, but just how different of an experience is it?
For starters, the venues themselves are quite dissimilar. At Michigan stadium, you’re sitting in a area that’s nearly 422,000 square feet and watching close-ups of the game on a 108-by-62-foot Jumbotron. At home the size of your entire house is only a small portion of that, and your flat screen TV is a measly 46 inches in comparison.
If you watch from home, you can still eat and drink to your heart’s content, but don’t expect your trash to throw itself out -- in this case the clean-up crew is guess who, you. You’ll also miss out on the camaraderie and team spirit that comes from cheering alongside thousands of fellow fans.
There are a few benefits, however, to critiquing the game from the comfort of your couch.
We say it’s a toss-up, and so we turn to you. Where would you rather watch a game from?
The Movoto blog is a service of Movoto Real Estate.
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SANAA, Yemen – Officials in Yemen say an Iranian diplomat has been killed in a drive-by shooting in the capital, Sanaa.
Three security officials said the diplomat was leaving the Iranian ambassador's house in the city's southern Hadda neighborhood when assailants opened fire on his car. The officials said the diplomat, who is in charge of administrative affairs in the embassy, was wounded and later died in the hospital. A medical official confirmed the diplomat's death.
Relations between Iran and Yemen have soured over what Sanaa calls Iranian meddling in its domestic affairs. Another Iranian diplomat was abducted by gunmen in July and remains in captivity.
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Lamme Goedzak is a character in Charles De Coster's novel "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak" (1867). He is the best friend of Thyl Ulenspiegel. While Ulenspiegel himself is derived from Dutch-German-Flemish folklore Lamme Goedzak is entirely created by De Coster. Despite this he has become one of the most recognizable Flemish folklore characters since.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
Thyl Ulenspiegel is a folklore character
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If this was a dud year in Washington, get ready for 2014 — the year to “go small.”
Lawmakers had already lost their appetite to “go big” this year, letting reforms of immigration, guns and the Tax Code slip away in the face of gridlock and dysfunction.
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And now there’s a new problem. Lawmakers are reluctant to rely on the federal government to get anything done — a guilt-by-association consequence of Obamacare’s botched rollout. Republicans have called it an indictment of more than a website, but of Big Government itself.
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While Democrats argue the problem is obstructionism — not ideology — the result will be the same: As Washington laments the end of a do-nothing year, lawmakers are fully prepared to do as little — or even less — in the new year.
“I think anything that has a significant expansion or role for the federal government is going to be problematic,” South Dakota Sen. John Thune, a top Republican message strategist, told POLITICO. “Because I just think there’s going to be such a cynicism and skepticism attached to any promises made with regard to the federal government’s role.”
There are top tier bills for 2014 that even a divided Congress should pass. A new farm bill, another debt limit extension and appropriations to keep the government from shutting down again are already lined up for action early in the year. But none is expected to be a blockbuster.
“Some things are big enough that they have to happen,” said Sen. Jim Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican at the center of several policy bills considered “must pass” that deal with the Pentagon, water infrastructure and highways.
(Also on POLITICO: The 10 craziest stories of 2013)
But beyond those few imperatives, expectations are beyond low that President Barack Obama’s second term agenda will have much to do with legislating on anything comprehensive and much more to do with his own executive powers.
Obama has long faced a high bar for legislation that involves growing government — but the health law has turned it into a skyscraper.
Democrats counter that they’re more than ready to take on the big issues of the day, if only Republicans would stop obsessing over Obamacare and its troubled launch. Party faithful argue that any talk of a dying legislative agenda associated with the health care law needs the critical context that the GOP long ago started fighting the president’s bid for more significant victories.
“I think the problem is we ended up in something that was decided by the Republican party that this was their political ticket, this was their golden ticket to political success,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.).
(PHOTOS: 25 unforgettable Obamacare quotes)
“Long before we saw any trouble with that, the Republicans blocked guns,” added Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.). “Long before we saw any of that, the Republicans failed to take up an immigration bill even though we passed one. Long before we saw anything on that, we passed two farm bills, waiting for the Republicans to come up with one. I think it goes back a little bit further.”
For policy advocates off the Hill, Obamacare’s role in dampening prospects for other policy issues is beyond frustrating. They’ve been told for several years to get in line behind a seemingly endless series of budget battles. Now it’s sounding like Obamacare will cool the legislative agenda for one — and perhaps two — more campaign cycles.
“Obama’s credibility is shot,” said GOP strategist John Feehery. “Frankly, Republicans simply don’t trust this president to keep his word on anything. That makes it harder to legislate big things. Most Republicans would rather wait to see who the next president will be.”
Public health funding expert Emily Holubowich said the policy issues she’s been pushing for have been thwarted by a “been there, done that” attitude among lawmakers from both parties. Obamacare politics have stymied action since 2011 on a stand-alone spending bill to fund the departments of Labor and Health and Human Services. Many public health service agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, have seen their authorizations expire, with no serious talk of action. And she fretted that Democrats and Republicans won’t partner on new health bills because it inevitably “becomes a debate about the merits of the ACA.”
“Because of the Affordable Care Act, I think public health programs have at best been overlooked and at worse, tainted by association even though much of what is done in public health — medical research, infectious disease control and surveillance, health professions training — has little to do with the ACA,” she said.
Obamacare’s problems likely won’t help motivate lawmakers who have fallen far behind in dealing with expiring laws and programs, including key parts of the PATRIOT Act, as well as the No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act. More than 500 programs currently are beyond their authorization deadline, according to a January report from the Congressional Budget Office.
Thad Hall, a University of Utah political science professor and reauthorization expert, said Obamacare and the rise of the tea party have left Congress with few legislators willing to dig in on the gritty details. ||||| Top Republicans assert that a wage increase would dampen the economic recovery and indicated after Mr. Obama mentioned the issue in his State of the Union speech this year that they had no intention of bringing a minimum-wage increase to a vote in the House, which they control.
“Why would we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?” Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio said.
In the capital, Mr. Obama and congressional Democrats are supporting legislation that would raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by 2015. Mr. Obama is planning a series of speeches across the country focused on improving wages for workers, aides said, many of them timed to coincide with key minimum-wage votes in Congress. Income inequality is also likely to play a prominent role in his State of the Union address next month.
At the same time, Democratic campaign officials and liberal activists — conceding that Democrats face tough prospects in some Senate races — are working to put minimum-wage increases on the ballot next year in places like Arkansas , Alaska and South Dakota . The hope is to stoke Democratic turnout in conservative-leaning states where the party’s Senate candidates have been put on the defensive by the mishandled rollout of the Affordable Care Act.
But in a sign that some moderate Democrats are uneasy about inflaming their local business communities, the imperiled Democratic Senate incumbents in Alaska and Arkansas, Mark Begich and Mark Pryor , have yet to embrace the ballot measures.
States with contested House races, including New Mexico , will also see campaigns to bring minimum-wage increases to a referendum next year.
After being battered for nearly two months on the problems with Mr. Obama’s signature health law, Democrats see the minimum-wage increase as a way to shift the political conversation back to their preferred terms.
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“The more Republicans obsess on repealing the Affordable Care Act and the more we focus on rebuilding the middle class with a minimum-wage increase, the more voters will support our candidates,” said Representative Steve Israel of New York, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
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Democratic planning on the issue has picked up in recent weeks, as the 2014 elections approach and the need to counter attacks on the health law has grown more urgent.
This month, top aides to Mr. Obama including the economic advisers Jason Furman and Gene B. Sperling, Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez and the legislative affairs office convened a meeting at the White House complex with an array of liberal groups to discuss the minimum wage. The gathering included representatives from Mr. Obama’s political arm, Organizing for America, unions and progressive groups like Americans United for Change and the National Employment Law Project.
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An official from the National Employment Law Project presented a spreadsheet showing which cities and states were pursuing campaigns to increase minimum wages next year, according to a person who attended. The attendees also discussed the potential timing of a minimum-wage vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
A representative from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. urged the White House officials to coordinate with Senate Democrats on when to bring the issue to the floor so that the unions could “have time to mount a grass-roots” campaign stirring up support for the measure, an attendee recalled.
“The combination of the state ballot initiatives and at some point a big nasty fight in D.C. that will amplify some of the stuff in the states is going to create a feedback loop that will be really helpful,” said one Democratic official involved in the discussions.
Democrats prize the issue of a minimum-wage increase because it would help address income inequality, which is galvanizing liberals at the moment and is popular with swing voters they will need in next year’s elections.
Sixty-four percent of independents and even 57 percent of Republicans said they supported increasing the minimum wage, according to a CBS News poll last month. Some 70 percent of self-described “moderates” said they supported an increase.
“We’ve got a lot of folks who are registered Republicans for whatever reason here, but when you start talking about earning a dollar more an hour it means something to them, regardless of their party,” said Rick Weiland, the Democrat running for the Senate in South Dakota next year, who has embraced the ballot measure there.
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Mr. Weiland said 62,000 people in his sparsely populated state would receive a raise if a ballot question that calls for raising the minimum wage to $8.50 an hour from $7.25 wins the approval of voters in November.
Liberal strategists would like other Democratic Senate candidates to follow suit, noting that Democrats were elected senators in two conservative-leaning states, Missouri and Montana , in 2006 when proposals to increase the minimum wage were overwhelmingly approved.
Of course, for the overall strategy to work for the Democrats they need Republicans to oppose an increase, and history suggests that is not a given. |||||
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– Democrats think they've found the issue that will carry them to victory in 2014: the minimum wage. Polls show broad support among both Republican and Democratic voters for hiking the $7.25 federal rate, the New York Times reports, but congressional Republicans have come out against it. "It puts Republicans on the wrong side of an important value issue," says one senior Obama adviser. Democrats think the issue will boost turnout among crucial minority and young voters, who often skip midterms. To that end, Democrats will push minimum wage ballot initiatives in challenging states like Arkansas, Alaska, and South Dakota, even though the Democratic incumbents in some of those states aren't currently backing wage hikes. The strategy comes as lawmakers prepare for what Politico is calling a "go small" year. It's predicting that what's oft been derided as a do-nothing Congress will do even less, as Republicans use ObamaCare's rocky debut to hammer any attempts to expand government.
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The 1990 European Cup Winners' Cup Final was a football match contested between Sampdoria of Italy and Anderlecht of Belgium. It was the final match of the 1989–90 European Cup Winners' Cup and the 30th European Cup Winners' Cup Final. The final was held at Ullevi in Gothenburg, Sweden, on 9 May 1990. Sampdoria won the match 2–0, thanks to two goals in extra time from Gianluca Vialli.
Sentence: The 1990 European Cup Winners' Cup Final was held three years after 1987.
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– Eighteen states, more than 100 people sick, 26 hospitalizations—and an unknown number of puppies as the likely infection-spreaders. That's the word out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has tied contact with puppies at six pet-store companies to the outbreak of human diarrheal infections from the Campylobacter bacteria, reports CBS News. The CDC's weekly report on morbidity and mortality, published Friday, notes 118 people fell ill from January 2016 through February 2018, with 29 of them being pet store workers; 26 people ended up at the hospital. Of those 118, 105 had reported being in contact with a dog at some point, with the vast majority of those interactions happening at pet stores. The stores weren't named in the CDC report, though Petland had been named previously, when the outbreak was first reported last year. The spread of Campylobacter usually happens when people ingest bacteria-tinged food or beverages, such as raw or undercooked poultry, raw milk, or tainted water, a CDC researcher tells HealthDay News. "It's rare that it's associated with contact with pets," Mark Laughlin says, though he warns: "This is most likely the tip of the iceberg." What also makes these recent Campylobacter infections unusual is they've been resistant to antibiotics. The CDC report notes health and agriculture officials visited 20 pet stores in four states and found 95% of the puppies' records indicated had had antibiotics administered before they got to the store or while there. Some of the antibiotics the puppies took are the same ones to which humans are resistant.
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What is already known about this topic?
Dogs, especially puppies, are a known source of sporadic Campylobacter infections in humans, but are uncommonly reported to cause outbreaks.
What is added by this report?
Investigation of a multistate, multidrug-resistant outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni infections implicated puppies from breeders and distributors sold through pet stores as the outbreak source. Outbreak strains were resistant to all antibiotics commonly used to treat Campylobacter infections.
What are the implications for public health practice?
Consumers, employees, and clinicians should be aware of the risk for disease transmission from puppies, including the possibility of exposure to multidrug-resistant pathogens. Greater adherence to implementation of antibiotic stewardship practices in the commercial dog industry might be needed. ||||| By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, Sept. 20, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Puppies can be cute and cuddly, but they also carry germs that might make you very sick, a new government report warns.
An outbreak of antibiotic-resistant Campylobacter infections in 2017 and 2018 that sickened 118 people in 18 states was traced to pet store puppies, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"This is most likely the tip of the iceberg," said researcher Dr. Mark Laughlin, a CDC veterinarian science officer.
Among those sickened by the bacteria, 26 were hospitalized. Of those who became ill, 29 were pet store employees. It's likely that many others got sick, but not sick enough to go to the doctor, or doctors didn't report cases, Laughlin added.
Campylobacter is not a rare bacteria. In fact, according to the CDC, it causes 1.3 million diarrheal illnesses in the United States each year.
"People most often get Campylobacter after they consume undercooked chicken," Laughlin said. They can also get it from contaminated water and raw milk.
But it's rare that an outbreak of Campylobacter occurs, "and it's rare that it's associated with contact with pets," Laughlin said.
This outbreak was also unique because the bacteria was resistant to the antibiotics usually used to treat it, he explained.
According to Dr. Marc Siegel, a professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, most people who are sickened with Campylobacter aren't treated with antibiotics.
The reason antibiotics aren't usually used is because they kill the bacteria but release the toxins the bacteria carries, and it's the toxins that cause most of the symptoms, Siegel said.
Usually, people get better without treatment, he noted. "One of the most common symptoms is bloody diarrhea," Siegel said. Other symptoms include headache, muscle ache and fever. The illness usually lasts about a week and then goes away.
Campylobacter is usually spread from feces, he said. It's common among chickens because of the way they're raised -- all crammed together.
It's possible that the same thing happens among puppies from puppy mills and pet stores, where the animals are in close contact with each other, Siegel suggested.
According to Laughlin, the outbreak was limited to dogs from pet stores. "These dogs are raised in close quarters with lots of opportunity for them to mix and co-mingle, so there's lots of opportunity for germs to spread among these dogs," he added.
Siegel said that because people get it from coming into contact with feces, or other places where the bacteria live, and then touching their mouth, transmitting the infection from one person to another does not usually occur.
He explained that your dog can be infected with Campylobacter and not be sick, but it may still carry the germ.
Laughlin suggested that the best way to prevent getting sick after petting or playing with a dog is to wash your hands with soap and water. That's especially important after picking up dog poop, he added.
Because young children, older adults and people with weak immune systems can become seriously ill from Campylobacter, hand washing is particularly important, Laughlin stressed.
Siegel said that not every dog carries Campylobacter. "But this is a reminder to people that your pet can have a bacteria that can get you sick," he added.
The report was published Sept. 21 in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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Camere de supraveghere sunt instalate de asemenea pe acoperişul de 18 000 de tone din sticlă şi oţel situat deasupra principalului stadion olimpic, care urmează să fie instalat definitiv în câteva zile.
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Surveillance cameras are being attached also to the 18,000-tonne glass-and-steel roof over the main Olympic stadium, which is expected to be fully in place in a few days.
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we 're still here , you know . ' the husband knew it made sense . it was an hour later that the door bell rang and brand opened the door of the safe house . dooley walked in , looking smug . ` is he cooperating ? ' asked brand . ` he 's thinking about it , ' replied
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