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Background: Schoendienst was born in Germantown, Illinois, approximately 40 miles (64 km) east of downtown St. Louis to Joe and Mary Schoendienst, one of seven children. His father was a coal miner, and the family lived without running water or electricity. Schoendienst showed a marked aptitude for baseball at a young age. In school he would handicap himself by hitting left-handed.
Context: Keane resigned the day following the Cardinals' 1964 World Series victory over the Yankees, and Schoendienst was named as his replacement. Three years later, the Cardinals defeated the Boston Red Sox--Schoendienst's fourth World Series title, and third as a Cardinal. His managerial record over 12 full seasons (1965-76) and two subsequent stints as interim manager (1980 and 1990) was 1,041 victories and 955 defeats (.522). After two years as a coach for the 1977-78 Oakland Athletics, Schoendienst returned to the Cardinals as coach and special assistant to the general manager. He won his fifth Series title in 1982. He remains an employee of the Cardinals organization with the title of Special Assistant Coach, and in 2017 completed his 72nd consecutive season as a Major League player, coach, or manager. Schoendienst was a member of five winning World Series teams, all of which were won in seven games: as a player with the Cardinals and Braves in 1946 and 1957 respectively; as the Cardinals manager in 1967; and as a Cardinals coach in 1964 and 1982. He was also a member of three teams that lost the Series after leading three games to one: the 1958 Milwaukee Braves (to the Yankees), the 1968 Cardinals (to the Detroit Tigers), and the 1985 Cardinals (to the Kansas City Royals). Schoendienst was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989 by the Veterans Committee. The Cardinals retired his number 2 in 1996. In 1998 he was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. The Cardinals named Schoendienst, among 21 other former players and personnel, to be inducted into the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum for the inaugural class of 2014.
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Small toothbrushes. ~ Mouthwash.
Translate to Czech
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Zubní kartáčky.
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We need to develop the skills of those who still have problems with literacy and numeracy and, indeed, IT, but we are also looking for transversal skills - which is something else out of the Commission's document.
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Meidän on kehitettävä niiden taitoja, joilla on yhä luku- ja laskutaitoon sekä todellakin tietotekniikkaan liittyviä ongelmia, mutta tavoittelemme myös poikittaistaitoja - jotka on myös mainittu komission asiakirjassa.
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She tried to leave
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When talking with young Swedish students, Mo Yan showed respect for Chinese authors that he learned writing from, particularly Shen Congwen, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. "Lu Xun, Lao She, Mao Dun and Shen Congwen, they are more qualified for the Nobel Prize than me," he said,. Among the writers he learned from, he said he especially felt close to Shen Congwen, as they have similar life experiences. Both of them left school early and did not get formal education. Shen quit after high school and Mo only finished the fifth grade. They both joined the army after school. " We both learned from the book of life," said Mo. The themes of their writing are also similar. Both writers have their hometown as the theme and root of their writings. Shen'works are mostly about his hometown, Xiangxi, and most of Mo's stories are set in his hometown, Gaomi, in Shandong Province. Mo said he also learned from Shen how to deal with characters in a fiction. Unlike most Chinese writers, Shen has a humanistic touch towards all of his characters. Said Mo, "In his works, there are no particularly bad person or good person. Even gangsters and thieves have their humane side," he said. "I try to use the same approach in my writing. It shows the ability of a novelist when he treats all the characters as humans," he said. Mo said he also learned Lu Xun's depth and Lao She's humor. "They are all my teachers, and I am the student," he said. "I feel ashamed from my heart that teachers did not get the prize, but the student got it."
1. Who was nominated for the Nobel Prize?
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The Jets dropped the ball by paying its sexy cheerleaders a measly $3.77 an hour, a new lawsuit claims.
In the latest fair wage suit filed by an NFL cheerleader, former Jets flight crew dancer “Krystal C.” claims she was skimped for hours “off the clock” required work.
The dancers were paid $150 per game and $100 per special event — but were not compensated for practices, transportation and some public appearances, according to the suit, which was filed in Bergen County Court on Tuesday.
“We worked so much and it was so time-consuming. We are professional dancers — and we should be compensated that way,” Kyrstal C. told The Post.
“I needed to speak up about this — it’s not fair for people trying out for the squad, who think it’s going to be glamorous,” she said.
The cheerleaders deserve to be paid at least $8.25, which is minimum wage in New Jersey, she said.
The lawsuit seeks damages for unpaid wages and reimbursement of work-related expenses.
The 25- year-old dance student was inspired to take action after reading about a similar lawsuit filed by a Raiderette in California.
Two other fair wage lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by cheerleaders recent months, too.
Ben-Gal cheerleader also sued the Cincinnati Bengals in February, saying she says she makes just $2.85 an hour.
So did Buffalo Jill cheerleaders, who claimed they weren’t paid properly for time at games or at public appearances.
“I think NFL should establish a new policy. [Cheerleaders] should at least be paid Minimum wage, “ said Sharon Vinick, one of Kyrstal C.’s lawyers.
Krystal C. performed as a flight crew member from June 2012 to December 2013 , according to the lawsuit.
Flight Crew girls also put in unpaid hours selling calendars and were forced to arrive at games 3.5 hours in advanced, she said.
“I just hope there’s a settlement. I hope people are aware of what’s going a right now… This is a bigger problem throughout the nation and the NFL, Kyrstal C. said.
A spokesman for the Jets immediately return calls seeking comment. ||||| The Jets are Gang “Not a Lot of” Green when it comes to paying their cheerleaders, a new lawsuit charges.
The suit, filed by a former Jets cheerleader identified in court papers as Krystal C., says she was paid an average of $3.77 an hour for her time on the Flight Crew — or $1.50 an hour after out-of-pocket expenses.
“The Jets, while paying millions of dollars to its male athletes for a single season of work, have historically and currently pay less than minimum wage to its cheerleading staff,” the Bergen County, N.J. lawsuit says.
“We didn’t complain because we were always told how lucky we were to be able to perform and we were lucky,” Krystal told the Daily News. “But I didn’t think it was right to pay us so little when we all worked so hard and we were 100% there all the time.”
Her lawyer, Patricia Pierce, said of the paltry pom-pom pay: “It’s just not right or fair.”
Krystal, who’s studying for a master’s degree in education, auditioned three times before she made the squad in 2012, Pierce said.
“She was thrilled to be chosen,” the lawyer said.
But the New York native “was very surprised to find out the contract terms,” Pierce said.
Her deal called for her to be paid $150 per game and $100 for special events — but that didn’t take into account the full cheer schedule.
She loved the fans and her fellow Flight Crew members. She gave a lot of thought to taking this step.
“The cheerleaders are required to work ‘off the clock’ at home, attend rehearsals three days a week from May through December without pay, attend ‘charity events’ without pay, and are required to spend their own money on travel, uniform maintenance and cosmetic and hairstyling requirements set by the Jets,” the suit says.
They’re also required to show up three and a half hours before game time, and to stay 30 minutes after the end of the game, the suit says.
Practices were held three times a week, and lasted about three hours, and the cheerleaders were required to keep practicing at home, the suit says.
They were also required “to maintain a specific personal appearance, including hair style, make up and nail appearance,” all at their own “personal expense,” the suit says.
That was especially costly for Krystal.
She “had naturally curly hair, but the Jets required her to wear her hair straight, which in turn required her to see a hair stylist each week at an approximate cost of $45 per styling,” the suit says.
Krystal called it quits after one season with the team, and is now teaching dance part-time while going for her master’s.
The suit, which seeks class action status for Flight Crew members past and present, seeks to “recover money damages for unpaid wages and reimbursement of work-related expenses.”
A former member of the Jets' Flight Crew is seeking to 'recover money damages for unpaid wages.' (Ron Antonelli/New York Daily News )
Pierce said “it was a thrilling experience” for her client “to be on the team and experience dancing for the fans” at MetLife Stadium.
She said Krystal had been inspired to come forward after similar actions were filed against the Oakland Raiders, Cincinnati Bengals and Buffalo Bills.
“She loved the fans and her fellow Flight Crew members. She gave a lot of thought to taking this step,” Pierce said.
“She felt it was the right thing to do. She wants to make a difference.”
A rep for the Jets declined comment.
The Bills cheerleaders, called the Jills, said that in addition to being low-paid, they were groped and subjected to “jiggle tests.”
The company that manages the Jills announced last month they were suspending operations through the end of the year after the suit was filed. |||||
What is a one-paragraph summary of the above article?
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– The latest lawsuit from an NFL cheerleader details a familiar-sounding pay scale: Members of the Jets' "Flight Crew" make what amounts to $3.77 an hour, says a former dancer with the squad. The woman identified as Krystal C. tells the New York Post that the cheerleaders make $150 per game and $100 for other special events, but they don't get paid for practices or transportation. "We worked so much and it was so time-consuming," she says. "We are professional dancers—and we should be compensated that way." “The Jets, while paying millions of dollars to its male athletes for a single season of work, have historically and currently pay less than minimum wage to its cheerleading staff,” says the lawsuit, as quoted by the Daily News. Krystal C. says the team should pay the cheerleaders at least $8.25 an hour, the minimum wage in New Jersey. The suit follows similar ones by cheerleaders from the Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, and Oakland Raiders.
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KILLEEN, Tex. — The Army specialist at Fort Hood who killed three and wounded 16 of his fellow soldiers on Wednesday had an angry dispute over a leave request shortly before the shooting rampage, a law enforcement official said Friday.
After a meeting where he had sought a leave to attend to family matters, he was clearly agitated and disrespectful when his request was denied, said the official, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to discuss the investigation.
Fort Hood officials and a spokesman for Army investigators declined to comment on Friday about the meeting and its role in the shooting, but they confirmed in an afternoon news conference that the specialist, Ivan Lopez, became angry with soldiers from his unit before the attack. Two of those he killed were in his unit, a transportation battalion of the 13th Sustainment Command. Officials stressed that they had still not established a clear motive.
But in an interview with a local Mississippi television station, Theodis Westbrook, of Smithdale, Miss., the father of Sgt. Jonathan Westbrook, who was wounded in the attack, said he was told that a soldier came to Fort Hood’s personnel office, where Sergeant Westbrook worked, to get a leave form. When one of the soldiers told the man to come back the next day to pick that form up, the man left, then returned with a gun and opened fire.
“The first guy he shot right in front of my son was killed, and then he turned the gun towards Jonathan, aimed it, and fired,” Mr. Westbrook said. “I don’t know how many times he fired, but he hit my son four times.”
The Army has said that Specialist Lopez, who ended his rampage by fatally shooting himself, had been undergoing evaluation for post-traumatic stress disorder and treatment for depression and anxiety. But the post commander, Lt. Gen. Mark A. Milley, said on Friday that his “underlying medical conditions” were not a direct factor in the shootings.
“We believe that the immediate precipitating factor was more likely an escalating argument in his unit area,” General Milley said.
On his Facebook page, Specialist Lopez expressed a variety of concerns — including outrage at Adam Lanza’s shooting rampage in Newtown, Conn., the fear he felt in a convoy in Iraq and, more recently, anger with Army bureaucracy. He arrived on base in February after being transferred from Fort Bliss in El Paso. It was unclear how his writing might help explain his increasingly troubled state of mind.
“Given that the alleged shooter is deceased, the possibility does exist that we may never know exactly why the alleged shooter did what he did,” said Chris Grey, a spokesman for the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command in Quantico, Va., the lead agency investigating the shooting.
Specialist Lopez’s father released a written statement, in Spanish, on Friday in which he suggested that mental illness must have played a role in his son’s actions. “My son could not have been in his right mind,” said Ivan Lopez, the father. “This is not who he was.”
The statement, released in Guayanilla, P.R., where Specialist Lopez grew up and where his family still lives, said that the deaths of his mother and grandfather, along with “the recent changes he experienced in his transfer to the base affected his condition as a result of his experiences as a soldier.” He was divorced from his first wife, who also lives in Puerto Rico with their two children. His second wife and a child lived with him in Texas.
The troubled Facebook posts and comments Specialist Lopez made in the last two years — which are only visible to his friends on the site — appeared as posts from “Ivan Slipknot,” his Facebook identity and a reference to a favorite heavy metal band, friends said.
On March 1, the same day he purchased the .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol he used in the attack, Specialist Lopez wrote an especially angry and vaguely threatening post. “My spiritual peace has all gone away, I am full of hate, I believe now the devil is taking me. I was robbed last night and I’m sure it was two flacos. Green light and thumbs down. It’s just that easy ...”
Gov. Rick Perry and Senator Ted Cruz delivered remarks after meeting with military personnel wounded Wednesday in the shooting at Fort Hood in Texas.
The post was unclear about whether he was referring to an actual robbery, or a figurative robbery in which he was, perhaps, denied something that he felt was owed to him. The term “flacos” literally means thin people, but it is often used in a derogatory fashion to describe those who are too thin, implying that they are drug addicts. However, it is sometimes used to address another man, much as an English-speaking American might call a friend “dude.”
On Feb. 27, he posted a photo of what appeared to be a handgun with the comment “Plaka, plaka, plaka, plaka...,” Puerto Rican slang that means “Bang, bang, bang, bang...”
His posts in November showed him struggling with the death of his mother, Carmen Lopez, a nurse in Guayanilla who died that month, and grappling with problems with the Army at the time of his mother’s death.
“In shock. Mom died today,” he wrote on Nov. 15. “Thanks for your condolences. I couldn’t answer your calls,” he wrote, blaming Army bureaucracy, which he described with a vulgarity.
One law enforcement official said Specialist Lopez had told others that he should have received more time off after his mother’s death. It was apparently a source of anger for him, the official said. “He felt like he wasn’t being treated fairly,” the official said. “He wasn’t getting what he felt he should have been entitled to.”
On Facebook, he made other posts that appeared noteworthy in light of the shooting. On Oct. 3, he wrote in English, without further explanation: “Looking for a target.”
On Dec. 9, he wrote of his tour of duty in Iraq: “Exact 1 year and 2 days ago, I went out of Iraq having seen, in Falluja, the most brutal explosion at about 1,200 meters.” He described what happened, writing that moments after he turned on the ignition of his vehicle, he saw the mushroom cloud of a large blast not far away. “I was only trying to concentrate on breathing deeply and keeping the focus I needed to finish the mission. There were hours of agony waiting for an attack by insurgents, but we were able to come out of Falluja alive. I was in vehicle #6. The worst part was that vehicle #5 was a diesel truck, the perfect target. And I only thought of seeing my family again.”
General Milley stressed that Specialist Lopez appeared not to have experienced direct combat while in Iraq and that he was being evaluated for, but had not received a diagnosis of, post-traumatic stress disorder. “So far, we have not discovered any specific traumatic event, wounds received in action, contact with the enemy, or anything else specific that he may have been exposed to while deployed,” the general said.
Of the 16 people wounded on Wednesday, 10 have been treated and released. Three remained at Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple, and three others were recovering at the Fort Hood medical center. Army officials identified the three soldiers killed in the attack, for whom they planned on holding a memorial service next week: Sgt. First Class Daniel Michael Ferguson, 39, of Mulberry, Fla.; Staff Sgt. Carlos A. Lazaney-Rodriguez, 38, of Aguadilla, P.R.; and Sgt. Timothy Wayne Owens, 37, of Effingham, Ill.
The first report of the shooting came in at 4:16 p.m. Wednesday, when two soldiers who were wounded made the first call to 911. Officials said the shooting spanned a matter of only minutes over an area encompassing two city blocks, unfolding both inside buildings and outdoors in and near the First Medical Brigade area. Specialist Lopez was mobile at one point, shooting at soldiers as he drove in his vehicle from one location to another.
He then approached a military police sergeant who responded to the 911 call. There was a verbal exchange between them, and then the sergeant drew her weapon and fired a round when Specialist Lopez brandished his weapon. He then placed his gun to his head and fired, killing himself, officials said.
Reporting was contributed by Elivan Martinez in San Juan, P.R.; Alan Blinder from Killeen; and Joseph Goldstein and Rick Lyman from New York.
A version of this article appears in print on April 5, 2014, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Dispute Over Leave Agitated Ft. Hood Soldier Before Shooting. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Dispute Over Leave Agitated Ft. Hood Soldier Before Shooting
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Summarize the following:
If your machine is malfunctioning mid-cycle or you forgot to add a dish, you’ll need to reset the cycle. For front-control washers, press the Start/Reset button. If you have a top-control washer, carefully open up the top of the dishwasher door and press Start/Reset, then close the door. Dishes can be added at any point up until the main wash. Make sure to wait before opening the machine and adding dishes. During this time, you may see a blinking light, which means that the machine is resetting. Make sure the light has stopped blinking before starting up the machine again. Be careful of any hot steam or water. Place any extra dishes in the dishwasher and start a new cycle by pressing the Start button again and push the door closed until it latches.
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Press the Start/Reset button to cancel the cycle. Wait 2 minutes while the water pumps out. Unlatch the door carefully and load any additional dishes.
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Carl joined the military right after high school. He signed a short contract that put him on the front lines. His best friend was killed in front of him. Happiness became a foreign concept to Carl.
Pick from: A. Carl hung out with his best friend when they came home.; B. Carl had to go to therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder.;
Which option is the next sentence?
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Background: King's X is an American rock band that combines progressive metal, funk and soul with vocal arrangements influenced by gospel, blues, and British Invasion rock groups. The band's lyrics are largely based on the members' struggles with religion and self-acceptance. King's X was ranked No. 83 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.
Context: The band was moved up to Megaforce's parent label Atlantic Records for the release of their fourth album, King's X, in early 1992. However, rising tensions with Taylor led the band to eschew the upbeat approach of previous albums and turn out a darker, more introspective effort. Unfortunately, despite critical praise, their new style did not translate well among the record-buying public, thus garnering fewer sales than Faith, Hope, Love. "Black Flag", the album's lone single, received only moderate airplay on MTV and radio. Not long after the release of King's X, the band parted ways with Taylor. The details of the split were not made public, but it was believed to be rather bitter. Taylor would admit in 1996 that his company Wilde Silas MusicWorks was growing and, as a result, he was no longer giving King's X, whom he considered "the top dogs," the attention they deserved. In the aftermath, King's X took over a year off to consider their collective future together. The band members followed other, non-musical pursuits; most notably, guitarist Ty Tabor took up semi-professional motocross motorcycle racing. With grunge at the peak of its popularity, and Pearl Jam's bassist Jeff Ament declaring that "King's X invented grunge" (despite the group's trademark sound being very different from that of the commercially successful grunge acts), the band went looking for a new sound upon their return. They enlisted veteran producer Brendan O'Brien, who had recently produced albums for Stone Temple Pilots and Pearl Jam. The resulting album, 1994's Dogman, showcased a much more muscular and heavy sound from the group, along with less abstract and spiritual lyrics. The record received a heavier promotional push from Atlantic including a compilation promotional CD entitled: Building Blox, as King's X enjoyed a successful tour, capped by an appearance at the Woodstock '94 festival in August. They also toured in support of such bands as the Scorpions, Pearl Jam, Motley Crue and Type O Negative, but despite a return to the Top 100 for the group, the album failed to sell as well as Atlantic had hoped, and the label's support for the group quickly faded. The band's third release under Atlantic, 1996's Ear Candy, would also be their last for the label (not including a subsequent Best of King's X compilation). Although it sold to the band's sizeable core following, it lacked the relative mainstream success of previous efforts. The record was soon out of print, and it seemed that the group's chance for commercial success had come and gone.
Question: What else can you tell me about the atlantic era?
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The band's third release under Atlantic, 1996's Ear Candy, would also be their last for the label (
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What type of thing is the question "What group was formed in 1969 after police met resistance from patrons at the Stonewall , a Greenwich Village gay bar ?" asking about?
Available options:
1). description.
2). entity.
3). abbreviation.
4). human.
5). numeric.
6). location.
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Multi-choice problem: does word "call" have the same meaning in the following two sentences?
He was ejected for protesting the call.
After two raises there was a call.
Select from the following. (a). different meanings. (b). the same meaning.
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Shares of Hartford rose $ 2.88 to $ 46.50 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading .
Shares of Hartford were up $ 2.28 , or 5.2 percent , to $ 45.90 in midday trading .
Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
pick from the following.
[I] no.
[II] yes.
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[II]
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What is the cause of the following sentence?
The computer crashed.
Select from: a. I backed up my files.. b. I downloaded a virus..
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Canis latrans is what animal?
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Temperate climates have moderate temperatures. These climates vary in how much rain they get and when the rain falls. You can see different types of temperate climates in Figure 2.40. Mediterranean climates are found on the western coasts of continents. The coast of California has a Mediterranean climate. Temperatures are mild and rainfall is moderate. Most of the rain falls in the winter, and summers are dry. To make it through the dry summers, short woody plants are common. Marine west coast climates are also found on the western coasts of continents. The coast of Washington State has this type of climate. Temperatures are mild and theres plenty of rainfall all year round. Dense fir forests grow in this climate. Humid subtropical climates are found on the eastern sides of continents. The southeastern U.S. has this type of climate. Summers are hot and humid, but winters are chilly. There is moderate rainfall throughout the year. Pine and oak forests grow in this climate.
Question: "What are summers like in humid subtropical climates?"
Answer: "Summer are dry and chilly"
Is this answer correct?
OPTIONS:
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- yes;...I think the answer is
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Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
CHAPTER IV
IDA'S FIRST ASCENT
The party had spent another day or two beside the lake when, one drowsy afternoon, Kinnaird, who sat on the hot, white shingle by the water's edge, with a pair of glasses in his hand, sent for Weston. Miss Kinnaird and Ida Stirling were seated among the boulders not far away.
"I understand that the river bends around the range, and the crest of the first rise seems no great height," he said. "There is evidently--a bench I think you call it--before you come to the snow, and the ascent should be practicable for a lady. Take these glasses and look at it."
Weston, who took the glasses, swept them along the hillside across the lake. It rose very steeply from the water's edge, but the slope was uniform, and as a good deal of it consisted apparently of lightly-covered rock and gravel the pines were thinner, and there was less undergrowth than usual. Far above him the smooth ascent broke off abruptly, and, though he could not see beyond the edge, there certainly appeared to be a plateau between it and the farther wall of rock and snow.
"I think one could get up so far without very much trouble, sir," he said.
"That," replied Kinnaird, "is how it strikes me. My daughter is rather a good mountaineer, and Miss Stirling is just as anxious to make the ascent. I may say that we have had some experience in Switzerland, not to mention the hills among the English lakes. Do you know anything about climbing?"
1. Who surveyed the landscape to determine the best path?
2. What was good about the slope he saw?
3. Anything else?
4. Is that it?
5. Could he see beyond the edge?
6. What appeared to be between the edge and the wall of rock and snow?
7. What did Weston remark to Kinnaird after surveying the land?
8. Did Kinnaird agree?
9. What did he say about his daughter?
10. and Miss Stirling?
11. Where did Kinnaird say they had prior experience?
12. Anywhere else?
13. Where?
14. How many days did the group spend near the lake?
15. Where was Kinnaird sitting?
16. What was it next to?
17. What was he holding in his hand?
18. Who did he send for?
19. Who else was sitting nearby?
20. Who else?
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1. Weston
2. it was uniform
3. the pines were thinner
4. there was less undergrowth than usual
5. no
6. a plateau
7. "I think one could get up so far without very much trouble, sir,"
8. yes
9. she is a good mountaineer
10. she is anxious to make the ascent
11. Switzerland
12. yes
13. the hills among the English lakes
14. another day or two
15. the hot, white shingle
16. water's edge
17. pair of glasses
18. Weston
19. Miss Kinnaird
20. Ida Stirling
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Write a text based on "chechen parliament names new premier"
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a russian general was today appointed as chechnya 's new prime minister by the moscow-backed chechen government , reports reaching moscow said .
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Produce a long descriptive sentence that uses all these words: The Golden Curry eatType restaurant; The Golden Curry food Fast food; The Golden Curry customer rating low; The Golden Curry familyFriendly yes
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If you want a low customer rated family friendly Fast food restaurant then head to The Golden Curry.
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Am urmărit în mod activ o politică privind clima pentru Europa prin legislaţia referitoare la comercializarea cotelor de emisii, una care să nu fie doar ambiţioasă, ci şi raţională, astfel încât să nu transferăm pur şi simplu emisiile dintr-un loc în altul.
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I have actively sought a climate policy for Europe through emissions trading legislation, one that would not only be ambitious, but also rational, so that we would not simply be moving emissions from one place to another.
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Choose your answer. Novell Accuses Microsoft of Unfair Competition
Lawsuit alleges the software giant unlawfully attempted to eliminate competition from Novell #39;s WordPerfect and Quattro Pro applications.
Which topic is this article about?
Available choices:
--World;
--Sports;
--Business;
--Science/Tech;
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This question has options. How would someone go about accomplishing this goal?
To keep the car neat and clean
Choose your answer from:
- Use Shower Caddies for On-The-Go Meals;
- Use Shower fixtures for On-The-Go Meals;
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Use Shower Caddies for On-The-Go Meals
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The main role in the whole of this extremely important operation for the future of Europe belongs to the Commission and we call on it, in collaboration with the Member States, to give absolute priority, in the full meaning and with all the implications of the word, to developing these main arteries in the body of Europe so that it can function in the way we all want it to and meet the expectations of European citizens.
Translate to Finnish
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Tärkeintä roolia tässä Euroopan tulevaisuudelle tärkeässä ponnistuksessa esittää komissio, jota pyydämme yhteistyössä jäsenvaltioiden kanssa antamaan tehtävälle ehdottoman ensisijaisen aseman kaikin tavoin ja osallistumaan näiden liikenteen valtimoiden rakentamiseen Eurooppaan, jotta Eurooppa toimisi sillä tavoin kuin kaikki haluamme, ja antaisi jokaiselle Euroopan kansalaiselle sen, mitä tämä toivoo.
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Grim disappeared upstairs himself, and returned about ten minutes later in the uniform of a Shereefian officer--that is to say, of Emir Feisul's Syrian army. Nothing could be smarter, not anything better calculated to disguise a man. Disguise, as any actor or detective can tell you, is not so much a matter of make- up as suggestion. It is little mannerisms--unstudied habits that identify. The suggestion that you are some one else is the thing to strive for, not the concealment of who you really are. Grim's skin had been sun-tanned in the Arab campaign under Lawrence against the Turks. The Shereefian helmet is a compromise between the East and West, having a strip of cloth hanging down behind it as far as the shoulders and covering the ears on either side, to take the place of the Arab head-dress. The khaki uniform had just enough of Oriental touch about it to distinguish it from that of a British officer. No man inexperienced in disguise would dream of choosing it; for the simple reason that it would not seem to him disguise enough. Yet Grim now looked so exactly like somebody else that it was hard to believe he was the same man who had been in the room ten minutes before. His mimicry of the Syrian military walk--blended of pride and desire not to seem proud--was perfect.
What question would one ask from this paragraph?
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Why did Grim disappear upstairs?
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Universal Primary Education is one of the eight international Millennium Development Goals, towards which progress has been made in the past decade, though barriers still remain. Securing charitable funding from prospective donors is one particularly persistent problem. Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute have indicated that the main obstacles to funding for education include conflicting donor priorities, an immature aid architecture, and a lack of evidence and advocacy for the issue. Additionally, Transparency International has identified corruption in the education sector as a major stumbling block to achieving Universal Primary Education in Africa. Furthermore, demand in the developing world for improved educational access is not as high as foreigners have expected. Indigenous governments are reluctant to take on the ongoing costs involved. There is also economic pressure from some parents, who prefer their children to earn money in the short term rather than work towards the long-term benefits of education.[citation needed]
What parents do not give pressure to their children for schooling? (If the question is unanswerable, say "unanswerable")
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Continue writing the following text: i 've felt a little shaky all day . it 's the heat , maybe . but about this body , i thought you said we could get one from the morgue . '' `` in theory , yes . it would certainly be quicker and neater , except for two things . one : i do n't have access to the
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What is a one-sentence summary of the following article?
Choose your prefered colour of 1 ½ inch wide wire edge ribbon from an arts and crafts store. You will also need a pencil and needle-nose pliers. Tie a simple knot at one end of the ribbon. Gather the ribbon so that it becomes ruffled along the wire. Gather the ribbon by pinching one end of the wire and pulling the other end of the wire as you move the material of the ribbon toward where the knot is, which is the pinched end. Use your fingers to create more of a ruffle as you keep the material of the ribbon tightly gathered along the wire and fluffed out in a ruffle as you move away from the wire. Create a tight center around the pencil as you roll the ribbon around it. Start just after the knot and keep the knot below the roll and alongside the pencil. Once secure, remove the pencil but continue to create the rest of the rose by rolling the rest of the gathered ribbon around the center that you have created with the pencil.
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Gather your materials. Create a knot and gather the ribbon. Use the pencil to roll the ribbon.
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Please answer this question: What is the name of the second book in ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy?
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two towers
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See the multi-choice question below:
Sentence 1: The delicate ninth-century mosaics of Jesus and four angels make the Chapel of St. Zeno the city's most important Byzantine monument.
Sentence 2: There are ninth-century mosaics in the Chapel of St. Zeno.
If the first sentence is true, then is the second sentence true?
Pick from: a). yes; b). it is not possible to tell; c). no;
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20:44 Y sabréis que yo soy Jehová cuando hiciere con vosotros por amor de mi nombre, no según vuestros caminos malos, ni según vuestras perversas obras, oh casa de Israel, dice el Señor Jehová. How do you say this sentence in English?
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EZEK 20:44 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you for my name's sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.
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The fortune teller's revelations were convincing.
What is a plausible effect?
Options:
(i) She received many returning customers.;
(ii) Many customers asked for refunds.;
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Because I know you care - I feel terrible today - mostly my head. How can that be if there is nothing there??? I don't know if its alergies or what.
Propose a subject line for this email?
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Hey
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Choose your story that continues the following story.
Most roses grow well in the summer but not in the winter because in the
Pick your answer from:
a). summer it is too cold.
b). winter it is too cold.
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The Principals Committee had its first meeting on al Qaeda on September 4. On the day of the meeting, Clarke sent Rice an impassioned personal note. He criticized U.S. counterterrorism efforts past and present. The "real question" before the principals, he wrote, was "are we serious about dealing with the al Qida threat? Is al Qida a big deal? Decision makers should imagine themselves on a future day when the CSG has not succeeded in stopping al Qida attacks and hundreds of Americans lay dead in several countries, including the US," Clarke wrote. "What would those decision makers wish that they had done earlier? That future day could happen at any time." Clarke then turned to the Cole." The fact that the USS Cole was attacked during the last Administration does not absolve us of responding for the attack," he wrote. "Many in al Qida and the Taliban may have drawn the wrong lesson from the Cole: that they can kill Americans without there being a US response, without there being a price."
Question: "What two things did Clarke urge decision makers to do because the future could happen at any time?"
Answer: "Decision makers should imagine themselves on a future day"
Is this answer to the question correct?
Available options:
(a). no;
(b). yes;
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after years of uneasy relations with south korean leaders whom the white house considered soft on north korea , u.s. president george w. bush will warmly welcome on friday a south korean counterpart who talks tough about the north .
Write a brief summary in a sentence or less.
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bush to welcome like-minded south korean president after years of awkward ties
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Sentence: name = The Waterman, eatType = restaurant, food = English, priceRange = moderate, customer rating = 3 out of 5, area = city centre, familyFriendly = yes
Can you represent the content in this sentence in data form?
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The Waterman is a kid friendly, English restaurant in the city centre area. It has a 3 out of 5 star rating and is moderately priced.
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Translate the following sentence to Turkish:
At the state level, the Intelligence and Security Agency and the Agency for Investigation and Protection are currently operating, while entities and cantons in the Federation are under police jurisdiction.
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Devlet düzeyinde şu anda İstihbarat ve Güvenlik Dairesi ve Soruşturma ve Koruma Dairesi faaliyet gösterirken, Federasyondaki taraflar ve kantonlar polisin yetki alanında yer alıyor.
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Note that this question lists possible answers. Which person is they referring to in the following sentence?
Space Marines are played more often than Orks, so they are always the most played at tournaments.
Select from:
1). Space Marines
2). Orks
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Choose your answer: is the following review positive or negative?
I feel like it's a crime to give this place 2 stars but I've been twice now and the food is just not good. Of course the fried pickles are amazing, but I can't get over how ordinary everything is. I ordered spaghetti and literally got barely drained noodles and what looked/tasted like sauce from a jar. No herbs, no parmesan, nothing extra at all. I couldn't eat it because both the noodles and the water were pouring off the plate. I appreciate getting my money's worth but it could've fed 5 people and had no flavor at all. I love a good diner, but you have to have some flair to the every day food that gets served there. All in all it was a bland experience, both times.
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Write a title for this article:
Nick or Josh? Nick or Josh? Welcome to the finale of The Bachelorette, where Andi Dorfman must choose which of the two eligible bachelors will become her life partner. There’s Nick, the crazy-eyed stallion with the supposed heart of gold who makes Andi feel his passion for her and accent scarves. Then there’s Josh, the former pro baseball player who never misses a chance to flash his extremely white teeth, bulky biceps or his feelings for Andi. We’ve made our choice. But whom will Andi choose? As we join Chris Harrison in the studio, he informs us that the man Andi didn’t choose is not over her and has been trying to see her, and she has repeatedly turned him down. Sounds like fun to watch for the whole family.
Here’s what happened on the finale of The Bachelorette:
Nick Meets the Family: Nick is so nervous to meet Andi’s family that he is sweating all over the veranda. Her mother makes sure that Nick and the viewing audience knows Andi worked her way through law school. Nick spends all his time telling Mama Dorfman that he loves Andi. He says the L word about 20 times and until her mother begs for mercy. Then Nick turns his attention to Andi’s father Hy and asks for his blessing to marry his daughter. He pauses and tells Nick that in his family, commitment is for life and then shrugs and says sure, later interviewing that he would be O.K. with having Nick as a son-in-law. The one thing they can all agree on is this: Nick loves Andi. Nick and Andi make out on the couch to seal the deal.
Suave Hair Moments: Someone from Suave gives Andi a shiny coif. “Perfect for a rose ceremony,” decrees Andi. “Best of luck, Andi!” chirps Desiree. “You look wonderful,” notes Catherine. “Why did I watch this?” sighs a nation.
Josh Meets the Family: Josh notes that he only has one chance to make a first impression. He walks into the house and realizes that he is wearing the exact same blue button-down, white shorts outfit as Hy. Awkward! Despite the fashion faux pas, he hands Hy cigars, gives Patti flowers and hyperventilates all over the place. Patti rolls her eyes as Josh sweats through his shirt. They are all concerned that Josh is too much like Andi’s past boyfriends. Josh announces that he wants to marry Andi, and Hy gives him his blessing to propose to his daughter on prime time. Hy has no concerns about Josh whatsoever. In an interview, Josh announces, “Andi is my wife!”
Final Date With Josh: For their final date, Josh and Andi canoodle on a cruise around the Dominican Republic and Andi uses her law degree to grill Josh about what he said to her family. Josh flashes his pearly whites (is he sponsored by Crest White Strips?) and voice-overs that he wants to spend his life with his best friend. Then the producers make the wise decision to station a cameraman in the water to capture the moment that Andi’s bikini-clad behind enters the water after jumping off the boat with Josh and refraining from making a poignant metaphor about love and jumping. Back on land, Josh wants answers. Andi gives him a few without showing her hand or demanding to know why he thought red pants were a good choice for the evening. Josh hands her a baseball card with her name listed as Andi Murray, because of course she is changing her last name. Josh can’t imagine his life without her and Andi says “Josh is so my type” more times than Carl Gauss can count.
Final Date With Nick: For his final date with Andi, Nick opted to pair a blue V-neck T-shirt with blue athletic shorts for a Sad-Eyed-Smurf look. They go off-roading in the Dominican Republic, because it lends itself to the best marital metaphors. Andi and Nick do not canoodle. When Nick tells her that he’s going to marry her, she smiles politely; when they kiss, she holds her braid out of the way. That is not a good sign. Later, Andi stops by Nick’s hotel room and he overthinks and rambles and breathes heavily. Nick feels lucky and says he can’t wait to go grocery shopping with her. Nick hands her a box of sand from their first date. Sand? Sand.
Andi’s Choice: Andi feels passionately about Nick, but she also feels strongly about Josh. The men are nervous, and to prove this, the cameramen take a lot of photos of them staring moodily off into the middle distance. Then Neil Lane shows up to blow his annual promotional budget. Josh picks out an enormous rock.
The Drama: Then it is Nick’s turn. There’s a knock on the door, but it’s not Neil Lane. It’s Andi. The live-studio audience gasps. Chris polls the imported Bachelor/ette detritus about what it all means. Claire, who was loudly dumped by Juan Pablo Galavis, wishes that someone would have come to her door. Drew, who was abandoned by Desiree Hartsock, sadly reveals that it took him months to understand what had happened to him. In short: Andi’s arrival at Nick’s door is bad news for Nick.
The Big Talk: Andi tells Nick that she woke up this morning and just didn’t feel it. Something isn’t right, and she can’t go through with it. Nick is hyperventilating again and Andi joins him. Nick isn’t processing it. She apologizes a lot. Nick accuses her of “taking it too far” and wishing that she hadn’t said or done certain things. Then he takes his box of sand and goes home. But before he goes, he throws all of the roses he was going to scrapbook into the trash. Nick tears up in the limo, because he was in love. The studio audience cries with him. It rains as Andi thinks about what she’s done.
Josh and Andi Sitting in a Tree: At the final rose ceremony, Andi is bubbling out of her skin in excitement, which sounds like a special effect from a Guillermo del Toro movie, but isn’t that gross. Josh comes to find her and immediately launches into a well-prepared speech about how much he loves her. After pretending she was on the fence, she tells him she loves him and has loved him since the moment she first laid eyes on him. He drops to one knee and proposes. She says yes and kisses him while staring at the enormous Neil Lane diamond behind his back.
After the Final Rose: Nick wanders the streets of Wisconsin, heartbroken. He makes a decision and decides to go full creeper. He flies to L.A. to try and talk to Andi before the Men-Tell-All special. He has a heart to heart with Chris Harrison, who takes his message to Andi. She negs him and refuses to grant him an audience. Presumably that’s when Nick grabs a stereo and plays Elvis Costello’s stalker anthem “I Want You” outside Andi’s dressing-room window until the ABC security guards drag him away. Chris tells Andi that this was the second time Nick tried to see her and hands Andi a letter from Nick and suggests she read it (the “before we apply for a restraining order” is implied).
In the Studio: On stage with Chris, Nick blames Andi for giving him false hope and imbuing him with confidence. Nick swears that he likes Josh, stops to dry a tear and says he’ll always wonder about what he could have had with Andi. Chris reminds him that Andi can’t avoid him anymore. She comes out looking very guarded (or like she was wearing extreme Spanx). Nick’s hands shake as he pouts that Andi hurt him. She apologizes. He keeps talking about how hurt he is until he finally goes dark pointing out that if she didn’t love she shouldn’t have “made love” to him. Nick thought she did “fiancée kinds of things” in the Fantasy Suite, which is not a metaphor I am willing to unpack. (She made dinner for his unappreciative college friends?) Also, Nick: what happens in the Fantasy Suites, stays in the Fantasy Suites. Andi is not impressed with that one (Josh probably isn’t either). She tells Nick that she did care about him and that’s why she didn’t let him propose. She tried to be respectful. Chris calls the round after that, but the producers won’t let viewers pick it as “The Bachelorette Most Bleachable Moment.” Instead we are treated to a different awkward Nick moment from earlier in the season. Thanks a lot, Clorox.
The Sweet Ever After: The second Nick leaves and Josh joins Andi on stage, she starts to shine. They giggle, they tease, they hold hands and legs and knees and seem genuinely in love. Josh declares that the show works and to prove that, they randomly bring out Grumpy Cat. Because they can. Viva la Bachelorette!
MORE: It’s the Bachelorette Finale: Will Andi Pick Josh or Nick?
MORE: Bachelorette Watch: 11 Things We Learned When the Men Tell All
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Did Andi Pick Nick or Josh?
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39 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed
Summer may be lazing into fall, but we’re just ramping it up! To Mashable readers exclusively, we bring you the weekly roundup.
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What was this article about?
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Summer may be lazing into fall, but we're just ramping it up! Brought to Mashable readers exclusively, we bring you the weekly roundup.
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B: Uh, with regard uh, to jury trials. I really feel as though, uh, uh, whatever system has been used historically, in particular jurisdiction, you know, is really the only kinds of things that you can use. Because the jurisprudence is, you know, based uh, you know, on accumulated body of law. And if you have a situation where you change that body of law, then all of sudden they could start going back and digging up all these cases uh, that would be handled differently were they judged by today's standards. So I really don't think they can really do much of anything to change it.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "they can really do something to change it"?
pick from the following. a. Yes b. No c. It's impossible to say
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Choose your reply from the options at the end. Does "Europe spent these years rebuilding and coming to terms with the vast human cost of the conflict." contain the correct answer to "Europe has a large market for what?"
Available options: a. yes; b. no;
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Translate "We need effective, workable plans for dealing with the crises which we had in Italy and Malta." to Romanian?
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Avem nevoie de planuri eficiente, viabile pentru a face față crizelor pe care le-am avut în Italia și Malta.
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Here is a premise: The rider fell to the ground.
What is the cause?
Choose your answer from: [I] The bull bucked the rider. [II] The bull chased the rider.
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Multi-choice question: What is the sentiment of the following tweet?
Tweet: FML. literally.. i am actually hving the worst time of my life atm at home.. i feel like i cant stay here anymore.. sighs..
Available options:
(A). negative;
(B). positive;
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Write a dialog with this premise "Khezia and Ian are going on a date Saturday night.".
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Ian: hey, how do you think we plan a date night together
Khezia: mmmh😊😊😊
Ian:😉 what do you say
Khezia: sounds right, when?
Ian: whenever you want cutie
Khezia: haha, what about on saturday
Ian: saturday is great
Khezia: cool
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Find the right ending to this passage.
As many as 20 retired British soldiers could face being arrested for murder in connection with the Bloody Sunday shootings of 1972. Attempted murder and criminal injury charges could also be brought against the men, most of whom are now in their sixties and seventies. The soldiers face questioning under criminal caution for their involvement in the incident which killed 14 Catholic civil rights protestors in Londonderry, Ireland. An armed soldier attacks a protestor on Bloody Sunday when British Paratroopers shot dead 14 civilians on a civil rights march in Derry City As many as 20 British Paratroopers could face murder charges for the deaths of Irish protestors on Bloody Sunday in 1972
The soldiers gave anonymous evidence at the
OPTIONS:
- Bloody Sunday which cannot be used to pursue criminal charges
- British which cannot be used to pursue criminal charges
- Catholic which cannot be used to pursue criminal charges
- Derry City which cannot be used to pursue criminal charges
- Ireland which cannot be used to pursue criminal charges
- Irish which cannot be used to pursue criminal charges
- Londonderry which cannot be used to pursue criminal charges
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Problem: Solve -3036*r - 126 = -3015*r for r.
And the answer is...
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Please answer this question: who has held the office of vice president of india for 2 consecutive terms?
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Krishan Kant
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This is an email
Mr. Lay, I have been with Enron for 33 years. I have found these years to have been interesting, to say the least, and have seen many changes during this time. I am proud to be part of an aggressive, growing company. And I have always had a high regard for the people driving the company. I am now 60 years of age and I have been contemplating retirement and "pursuing other interests" as they say, with my remaining years. Imagine my despair at the state of affairs Enron has fallen to through what appears to be gross mismanagement. What was once envisioned as "those comfortable golden years" are now simply smoke. And after giving many of my years to this company it is devastating. It is hard for me to understand how this could happen without the knowledge of those of you at the head of the company, in my mind it was a "look the other way" situation without concern for anyone but yourselves and all that money for the fancy house, fancy cars, travel, etc. I will never understand everything that took place and why. I am certainly not alone in these feelings. But I would hope that Jeff Skilling, Andy Fastow and others involved in this travesty have as much trouble sleeping at night as I do. Robert S. Smith - 3ac3268 ETS - Engineering Records 1400 Smith St. Houston, TX 11251 E-mail - robert.s.smith@enron.com <mailto:robert.s.smith@enron.com>
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ENRON SITUATION
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that means it is not necessary to install an additional light switch.
How would the previous sentence be correctly capitalized?
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That means it is not necessary to install an additional light switch.
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What is the solution?
Solve -97*q - 82*q = -209*q - 150 for q.
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Data: name = The Mill, eatType = pub, priceRange = more than £30. What is a sentence that describe this data?
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The Mill pub is located near the water and provide games and more expensive food services.
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This is a bulletin I posted on my myspace about what I spontaniously did today . Right now I feel so ... I know it 's cliche , but I feel so at peace after tonight . It felt perfect . Today I went with Carly to Spectrum for a ballet class .
Available options: *It was hard and annoying . *I thought it was relaxing . *It was pathetic . *None of the above choices .
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Solve 0 = -19*h + 124298 - 124602 for h.. What is the answer??
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pick from the following. (i) negative. (ii) positive.Would the following phrase be considered positive or negative?
bask in your own cleverness
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Here are two sentences:
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin was scheduled to arrive Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday .
The French Foreign Minister , Dominique de Villepin , is also expected to attend .
Choose your answer: are the two sentences saying the same thing?
Choose from:
(I) no;
(II) yes;
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(CNN) -- There are certain elements of leadership that survive the centuries -- that are classical, says John Prevas, co-author of "Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today."
And while these features aren't necessarily a guarantee of success in the modern world, they can provide professionals with a framework around which success can be built, he says.
So which leaders from the ancient past should you be looking to model your career on?
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC)
Alexander III of Macedon is the standard for leadership by which all others are measured, Prevas says. But does he merit his place as a leadership icon?
"It's questionable," says Prevas.
On the one hand, Alexander had a capacity for intense focus and was willing to sacrifice friends, family and personal fortunes to reach the top.
But ambition fueled by a massive ego eventually proved to be Alexander's undoing, Prevas argues.
Having defeated King Darius III in the Battle of Issus, the Persian king offered the marauding youngster the western half of his Persian Empire in return for his family who had been captured by the Macedonian army.
Alexander's most senior commander, Parmenio, urged his young master to accept Darius's proposal and consolidate his power in the region.
But Alexander ignored the advice, choosing instead to resume his conquest, capturing the Persian capital of Persepolis before hunting down and killing Darius.
From there, Alexander continued eastwards conquering large parts of south central Asia before heading to India. But it was here that Alexander's exhausted army refused to carry on, thus ending his eastern escapade.
Answer the following questions:
1. Who co-Authored "Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today." ?
2. What does he call features that survive centuries?
3. Where is the first leader from?
4. What was his name?
5. What was he intense about?
6. What fueled his ambition?
7. What did that lead to?
8. What king did he defeat in the Battle of Issus?
9. What did he receive for his victory?
10. What would be bartered for it?
11. Who had captured them?
12. Who was Alexander's senior commander?
13. Was he in agreement with Darius' arrangement?
14. What did Alexander do rather than heed Parmenio?
15. And what was Darius' fate?
16. How?
17. Where does Alexander's conquests end?
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1. John Prevas
2. classical
3. Macedon
4. Alexander
5. focus
6. a massive ego
7. Alexander's undoing,
8. King Darius III
9. the western half of the Persian Empire
10. Darius' family
11. the Macedonian army
12. Parmenio
13. No
14. he resumed his conquest
15. Death
16. Alexander killed him
17. India
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In friendly games, the checking player customarily says ``check'' when making a checking move. Announcing ``check'' is not required under the rules of chess and it is usually not done in formal games. Until the early 20th century a player was expected to announce ``check'', and some sources of rules even required it (Hooper & Whyld 1992:74).
Choose your answer: Is the following statement correct based on the text
do you need to say check in chess
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What's an example of a grad-school level question?
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Which of these has the greatest capacity for storing thermal energy from the Sun?
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Here is a dialogue:
Jeff: Yo! Can I ask you some questions?
Daniel: Sure!
Jeff: After our last talk I decided to check the books you recommended.
Daniel: Discworld series?
Jeff: Yep.
Daniel: So what do you want to know?
Jeff: There's so many of them that I don't know where to start!
Daniel: I know it might not be the most useful advice but I would start at the beginning :P
Jeff: Very funny...
Daniel: I'm serious.
Daniel: There are lots of "recommended" patterns when dealing with Discworld series.
Daniel: But for me the answer is simple.
Daniel: Just start with the first book and follow the order in which they were released.
Jeff: So why people recommend a different approach?
Daniel: There are many sub-series within Discworld.
Daniel: Rincewind, Witches, City Watch, Death and so on.
Daniel: Some prefer to read it that way to focus on one set of characters.
Jeff: Okay but you still think I should read everything in order?
Daniel: That is what I did.
Daniel: Especially that there are characters that appear across several series.
Daniel: So that way you won't miss anything.
Jeff: Oh now I get it.
Jeff: I'll just follow your advice.
Daniel: No problem.
Daniel: I really think, you're going to enjoy it.
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Daniel gives Jeff some advice on the Discworld book series. Jeff should start from the first one and read them in order in which they were released.
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El cerco alrededor del municipio autónomo de San Juan Copala es tanto político como militar. How do you say this sentence in English?
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The circle around the San Juan Copala autonomous municipality was both political and military.
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Please capitalize where necessary: today, samsung is the only rival to apple in smartphones and its memory chip unit has grown to a massive cash generator.
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Today, Samsung is the only rival to Apple in smartphones and its memory chip unit has grown to a massive cash generator.
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Write a sentence in Spanish.
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A través de trabajo de campo, elaboración de políticas, educación, atención directa y servicios y financiamiento de socios locales, HSI ha ayudado a promocionar la causa del bienestar animal en docenas de países alrededor del mundo, protegiendo perros callejeros, brindando respuesta ante desastres, salvando vida silvestre del abuso, protegiendo mamíferos marinos, luchando contra la producción pecuaria industrializada y esforzándose por acabar con los test de toxicidad en animales.
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Multi-choice question: What is the sentiment of the following tweet?
Tweet: @katili Awwwh, you can't get a Mac version? Gah!
A). negative.
B). positive.
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This question has options. Select from options: Read this fact: "a beak is used for catching prey by some birds"
Now answer this question: "An example of being a predator is"
Possible answers:
[1]. an eagle landing on a branch.
[2]. a mouse taking shelter in a hole.
[3]. a wolf having a litter of pups.
[4]. a bird catching worms in its mouth.
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Here are two sentences:
There are more surprises than you can possibly imagine , " Gov. Gray Davis told reporters at a campaign stop in Compton .
There are more surprises than you can possibly imagine , " Davis said after appearing with former U.S. president Bill Clinton at a school dedication .
Choose your answer: are the two sentences saying the same thing?
Options:
*no
*yes
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Write a short summary for this text: the world 's top health official said wednesday a swine flu vaccine would not be readily available for months , undermining national plans for rapid immunisation against the accelerating pandemic .
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who chief doubts speedy swine flu vaccinations
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1. The west town line is the border of Steuben County , and the south town line is the border of Ontario County .
2. The West City line is the border of Steuben County , and the southern town line is the border of Ontario County .
Select your answer from the options. Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
Options are: (1). no. (2). yes....I think the answer is
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Write an article with the title: "Abu Bakar Bashir makes confused freedom bid in Bali"
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Radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir talks to reporters from behind bars of a holding cell in 2011.
Abu Bakar Bashir has put his bid for freedom before the court, but confused his legal team's argument by defending his donations to a terror training camp.
Bashir's lawyers argue his convictions for supporting the Aceh training camp should be overturned and the ageing cleric freed from a 15-year sentence because he believed his donations would be sent to Palestine.
But the 77-year-old told the court he was aware the camp was conducting paramilitary training and was obligated as a Muslim to support it, saying it was "the least I could do".
"Physical and armed training is God's commandment so I had to help them with donations," the cleric told the court.
"This was only a good deed but instead it was considered as terror."
Bashir is best known to Australians as the founder of the group Jemaah Islamiah, responsible for the Bali bombings.
He was freed in 2006 of charges relating to the 2002 Bali attack, which claimed 202 lives including 88 Australians.
He also got off charges relating to the bombings of churches in 2000.
Experts say even after four years in an island prison cell he still wields symbolic influence.
Hundreds turned out to watch the trial on screens provided outside the courtroom on Tuesday and cheered on the cleric with cries of "God is great!" and "free Bashir".
He was milder than in past public appearances but became animated when calling on the judges and the prosecution to repent for bringing the charges against him.
Bashir's lawyer Achmad Michdan will also argue the use of video conference in the 2011 trial was unfair.
"If possible, we want him to be released," he told reporters.
"But if even on that, the judges in Supreme Court have a different opinion, at least a sentence reduction from this heaviest punishment."
The lawyers have already succeeded in having the application for judicial review moved from Jakarta to Cilacap - the town closest to Nusakambangan - based on Bashir's health.
They claim Bashir has withdrawn his support for ISIS since being photographed making a prison pledge to the group in 2014.
The judges have asked for Bashir to be present at the next hearing in Cilacap on January 26.
In the 2011 sentencing that Bashir is now challenging, he was found to have clearly "incited others" to commit terrorist acts.
The judges found Bashir used the group Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT) as a front to fund the Aceh cell known as Takjim al-Qaeda Serambi Mekah (al-Qaeda of the Verandah of Mecca), which was understood to be planning attacks on police and Western targets.
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Premise: A musician with long hair performs on a stringed instrument.
Hypothesis: A musician makes music.
.Choose the correct answer: Given the premise, can we conclude the hypothesis?
Options are: 1. yes. 2. it is not possible to tell. 3. no.
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See context followed by options. Is "Tommy" the same as "him" in this sentence?
When Tommy dropped his ice cream, Timmy giggled, so father gave *him* a sympathetic look.
Available choices: (I). no. (II). yes.
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Do these two sentences mean the same thing?
Pines said he would convene the relevant party bodies within 10 days to discuss whether new elections would be held or whether a temporary leader would be appointed .
Mitzna and party secretary Ophir Pines agreed to convene party organizations within 10 days to discuss whether new primaries would be held or a temporary leader appointed .
Pick from: [+] no. [+] yes....I think the answer is
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– Several types of birds sing to unhatched eggs so their young will recognize their voices once they've hatched—but what the zebra finch does is something else entirely. In a study called "paradigm-shifting" by one of its authors, researchers at Australia's Deakin University say the birds sing a song to their eggs that keeps chicks from growing too big—but only when the weather is warm, with scientists suspecting that smaller birds are able to get rid of excess body heat more easily. Think of it as "an early weather advisory," per Smithsonian. After placing microphones in 125 zebra finch nests in an outdoor aviary, researchers heard finches singing a specific song in a certain scenario: when they were alone with eggs, the eggs were days away from hatching, and the temperature was above 78 degrees, reports New Scientist. The researchers then incubated 170 finch eggs in a lab, playing a recording of the song to only half before putting them back in nests. The chicks that heard the song and grew up in warmer nests weighed less than chicks in cooler nests, produced up to six fledglings in their first breeding season (compared to one or two), and chose warmer nests in later life. "Hearing that call before you even hatch affects your development, affects your growth rate," says the university's Kate Buchanan. Adds author Mylene Mariette, the "strategy ... could potentially help them deal with global warming." (Here's what happened when scientists got the birds drunk.)
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Are they singing The Heat is On? When it’s hot outside, zebra finches sing a special song to their eggs.
That song appears to keep the chicks from growing too large after they hatch if the weather is toasty – and it even affects the number of baby birds in the next generation, though researchers aren’t sure exactly why.
Several species of birds and their unborn offspring call to one another, says Mylene Mariette at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia. When they hatch, birds that are born well developed, such as ducks and chickens, recognise their parents by their voices.
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Birds that hatch at an early stage, such as zebra finches, were not thought to do this. “We didn’t realise that they were able to hear before hatching,” Mariette says.
But they do – and they seem to take this to a whole new level.
Mariette and her colleague Katherine Buchanan placed microphones in 125 nests of captive zebra finches living in an outdoor aviary. The researchers realised that chicks might be listening from inside their eggs when they noticed that their parents, which normally call to one another, sometimes sang a specific song when they were alone with the eggs.
The finches only sang this song when the weather was warm, and when their chicks were close to hatching.
“Because they only do it toward the end of the incubation, it really looked like they do it to communicate with the egg,” Mariette says, rather than just calling out because they are hot.
What else can we learn from birds? Birds do impressions – it’s time to take them seriously
To see if the eggs were listening, the scientists incubated a group in the lab. During the five days before the chicks hatched, the researchers played recordings that included the hot-weather song to about half of them, and the same recordings, minus the hot-weather calls, to the rest.
Mariette and Buchanan returned about 170 hatchlings to nests scattered around the aviary, some of which were sunnier and so warmer than others.
Of the chicks played the warm-weather song, those that grew up in hotter nests tended to weigh less than those raised in cooler nests. The chicks that hadn’t heard the song were the opposite: those in the hotter nests grew to be heavier.
As adults, the female finches that had heard the warm weather song and grew accordingly produced up to six fledglings during their first breeding season. The chicks from that group that didn’t follow their parents’ advice typically only had one or two fledglings.
The parental calls, and their chicks’ reaction to them, can make the finches more productive as adults, says Mariette. “That’s a strategy we really didn’t know birds could do, and that could potentially help them deal with global warming,” she adds. “That’s good news.”
The next step is to figure out what physiological changes are driving the chicks’ growth. Smaller birds may have an easier time shedding excess body heat, or perhaps the act of growing bigger is simply more stressful on birds’ bodies during hot weather, Mariette says.
Figuring that out will be interesting, says Renée Duckworth at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Bird parents can influence their offspring in other ways, for example by changing the mix of hormones and nutrients that goes into the egg.
Mylene Marietta
But using sound to teach their babies how to grow is something we didn’t know about before, she adds. “It is surprising that vocal communication at such an early stage of development can have such persistent effects,” Duckworth says.
“This is a remarkable study,” says Sonia Kleindorfer at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, because it shows how the sounds a bird hears in its egg can shape its development, even into adulthood.
What seems like a useful warning in captivity, however, might prove deadly in the wild. Noisy adult finches might attract predators, so the parental calls might endanger baby birds, she says.
Still, the existence of a previously overlooked finch call is a fascinating find, Kleindorfer adds.
“Zebra finches are literally right in front of us in cages around the world,” she says. “What are we ignoring that is right before us?”
Update, 18 August: An earlier version of this story contained an error about which group of birds produced fewer fledglings as adults.
Journal reference: Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf7049 ||||| Birds feeling the heat from warming weather may be able give their offspring an early weather advisory right through the eggshell—which could in turn help baby birds prepare for the forecast.
A new study shows that the songs zebra finches sing to their eggs late in development may give the young a head start in dealing with warm weather once they hatch.
Researchers have long known that birds like chickens or quails, which hatch fully capable of fending for themselves, can hear through their eggs—allowing them to imprint things like who their mother is. But or around 50 years, nobody believed anything happened inside the egg with birds that hatch dependent on their parents.
A new study published today in Science upends that wisdom, showing that certain zebra finch calls can change their young's growth and behavior in adulthood.
“This acoustic signal is potentially being used to program the development of offspring," says Kate Buchanan, an associate professor of animal ecology at Deakin University in Australia and the senior author of the new paper. “Hearing the call affects your rate of growth relative to the temperature that you experience.
“Animals have very subtle ways of inferring how the environment is likely to change, and (being able) to develop and adapt accordingly," she added. "We’re only looking at the tip of the iceberg in terms of what we recognize so far… It is quite paradigm-shifting.”
While researchers are just starting to understand this behavior, the implications may provide a rare instance of good news in terms of the ways animals can subtly adapt to a changing climate, she says.
Zebra finches live in the harsh, dry scrub environment of the Australian Outback. The females do most of the incubation, and the birds often mate for life, Buchanan says. The males are brightly colored, and the zebra finches are notorious songsters, a trait that makes them popular with pet owners and researchers, who have studied the pear-sized birds' speech patterns ad nauseam.
But despite so much attention, post-doctoral researcher at Deakin and lead author Mylene Mariette managed to find a new sound that nobody else had noticed before—probably due to the fact that it only pops up during the last few days of egg incubation when the conditions are right. Mariette had heard of incubation calling from previous research and believed what she was hearing might be related. Under Buchanan's supervision, she set about creating an experiment to test her theory.
Since researchers still aren't sure whether the male or female does the incubation call, they recorded the sounds of 61 male and 61 female zebra finches nesting in outdoor bird cages under natural temperatures. Strangely, the birds only seemed to make this special noise when the temperature climbed above 78 F.
Researchers then took finch eggs into an incubation chamber at a constant temperature (they replaced the ones in the nest with false eggs) and played back different sounds to two different groups of eggs during the last three to five days of incubation. Once the birds hatched, they placed them back in the outdoor finch nests, and found that their growth and development differed based on whether or not they had heard the sounds while still in the egg.
When the temperature in the nest after hatching was higher, nestlings exposed to the incubation calls while in the egg tended to be smaller on average than hatchlings exposed to normal socialization sounds. Warmer temperatures have been correlated with smaller birds in many other species; being smaller may give them an advantage, because body size impacts thermoregulation and can reduce damage to the bird's molecules.
That isn't all. Buchanan says that the birds who heard the incubation call continued to show effects even into adulthood, choosing nests that were hotter on average than the zebra finches that didn't hear the special call. “Hearing that call before you even hatch affects your development, affects your growth rate, probably affects your vocalization and it affects your behavior and choice 100 or 200 days later when you go to nest yourself," she says.
Mark Hauber, a professor of animal behavior at the City University of New York, says that the paper is shocking, with major implications on how we understand early embryonic development and auditory learning in birds. “It’s so novel. It’s going to open up a brand new field of research,” he says.
Hauber contributed to some of the only other research on incubation calling, in which the authors found that fairy wrens train their chicks to make certain sounds when born so the parents can distinguish them from cuckoos, a parasitic bird that lays eggs in other birds' nests before skipping out on the childcare struggle. Cuckoos don't have the brain mechanism to learn to identify a song, so fairy wrens use incubation calling as a strategy to avoid raising the parasitic cuckoos.
“What was important about some of the more recent work is it showed that much of this learning already takes place inside the egg,” Hauber says.
Buchanan says that there are wide implications for the new research that go beyond zebra finches in terms of what kinds of information parents can pass onto their offspring in the embryonic stage. “It makes me wonder what signal babies are picking up before they are born, whether they are hearing their parents arguing or loud noises,” she says.
In terms of zebra finches, she notes that the birds breed opportunistically with regards to their unpredictable environment, laying eggs when conditions are right and possibly using this incubation call as a way to acclimatize to the shifting weather. She says that while the recent study shows how zebra finches may be able to cope with the changing climate, the birds wouldn't be able to cope with more extreme and sustained temperature increases.
Hauber says that more investigation is needed to understand how they might be able to adapt to climate change, but he finds the research that Buchanan and Mariette made is intriguing. “What it tells us is that a species that we’ve used as a model is still full of surprises," he says. |||||
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– Did the process of taking out Osama bin Laden have to include an insult to a native American considered a hero by many? That's what CBS News is wondering, after it emerged that bin Laden was code-named "Geronimo." Apparently, the "code namers thought of bin Laden as a 21st-century equivalent" of the fearless Apache leader who waged war to protect tribal Indian lands from the US and Mexico. Geronimo was once "considered the greatest terrorist in America," notes the Independent. "These days, he's feted as a fearless guerrilla fighter, whose famously brave troops were the last American Indian force to hold out against the US." Geronimo took up arms when his family was massacred by Mexicans in 1851 and spent decades on the run. And, like bin Laden, he was a slippery target to capture: More than 5,000 soldiers set out to do so around 1885. But, notes CBS News, bin Laden "was a mass murderer, out to destroy Western civilization, not primarily to protect his lands." Other differences: Geronimo converted to Christianity later in life and urged all his followers to do so. He was captured alive, and became a celebrity who appeared in the St. Louis World's Fair, and in President Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade. He died as a US prisoner of war and was never allowed to return to his New Mexico birthplace.
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Why are we asking this now?
The US government has been dragged into a bizarre legal battle between descendants of the Apache leader Geronimo and a secret society of Yale students called Skull and Bones, whose members allegedly raided his grave during the First World War. Yesterday, the Justice Department asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed in February, on the 100th anniversary of Geronimo's death, seeking to recover the legendary warrior's remains and re-bury them near to his birthplace in the Gila Wilderness of southern New Mexico.
The legal action, by 20 descendants of Geronimo, claims a group of Skull and Bones members, including George W Bush's grandfather, Prescott, took his skull from Fort Sill in Oklahoma in 1918. The artefact has allegedly been stored in a glass case at the organisation's clubhouse in New Haven, Connecticut ever since. The Justice Department became involved because Barack Obama and his defence secretary Robert Gates are named alongside the Skull and Bones society as co-defendants, due to the fact that Geronimo was initially buried on public land.
So who was Geronimo?
For much of his lifetime, Geronimo was considered the greatest terrorist in America. These days, he's feted as a fearless guerrilla fighter, whose famously brave troops were the last American Indian force to hold out against the United States.
Born Goytholy, meaning "the one who yawns," he took up arms when his wife, children and mother were massacred by Mexicans in 1851. His nickname stems from daring retaliatory raids, when he led men on cavalry charges, often into a hail of bullets. Legend has it that victims would scream a plea to St Jerome (hence "Jeronimo!") as they died.
Geronimo evaded capture for more than three decades. Though wounded countless times, he was never defeated, and his men are perhaps the most effective light cavalry force in military history. They numbered no more than a couple of hundred at any one time, but are said to have killed more than 5,000 enemies.
Why did he fight?
Geronimo was a member of the Chiricahua Apache tribe whose homelands in the deserts of New Mexico were annexed first by Mexico and later by the United States during its expansion into the south-west during the 19th century. His insurgency was part of a wider rebellion by Native Indians against their treatment by white settlers, who carried out what in modern terms might be called ethnic cleansing: removing tribes from ancestral territories and (in some cases) placing a bounty on their scalps. Geronimo's success was down to old-fashioned derring-do, and sheer good luck. Because of repeated close shaves with mortality, many followers believed he was resistant to bullets. His men were adept at using their opponents' technology – including rifles and pistols – against them.
How was he captured?
After more than 30 years the US General Nelson Miles tracked Geronimo to Arizona. The rebels were exhausted after decades on the run, and their number had dwindled to just 36 men, many of whom (including their leader) had taken to heavy drinking. In the autumn of 1886, Geronimo negotiated a tactical surrender, agreeing to lay down his arms on condition that his followers would be allowed to disband and return home to their families. But the US reneged on its promises, and promptly took Geronimo and his troops into custody. They spent seven years in prison in Alabama before being transferred to Fort Sill, where they lived out the rest of their days in a form of open prison.
What became of him?
Ironically, Geronimo's fame only grew during his year in captivity. He became a local celebrity, charging visitors to Fort Sill to have their photo taken with him, and keeping a stock of autographed cards and other souvenirs to sell to tourists. In old age, he was constantly interviewed (for a small fee) by the US press, and took part in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Circus, where performers recreated his most daring battles. He was a star attraction at the 1904 World's Fair in St Louis, and had a prominent place in Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade in 1905.
Having embraced capitalism, Geronimo also took up the white man's religion, converting to Christianity saying he believed it to be "better than the religion of my forefathers." He joined the Dutch Reformed Church in 1903, but was expelled four years later, apparently for gambling. He died in 1909, at the age of 79.
What happened to his remains?
Three members of the Skull and Bones society, including Prescott Bush, were stationed at an artillery school at Fort Sill during the First World War. In a bizarre prank, they are rumoured to have dug up his grave, and taken his skull and femurs back to their alma mater.
Why does this matter?
Although unproven, the alleged desecration of Geronimo's grave carries significant political baggage. Like Chief Sitting Bull, who defeated General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn, Native Americans view him as a symbol of their people's righteous rebellion against white colonialists. Geronimo is also firmly embedded in the US psyche as a symbol of bonkers bravado. Paratroopers shout his name after leaping from aeroplanes, apparently as part of a tradition that began in 1940, when they prepared for their first mass jump by watching the film "Geronimo." In a scene based on one of its subject's many narrow escapes – and mimicked by generations of schoolchildren – the movie's hero yells his own name as he leaps from a cliff into a river to escape capture by approaching soldiers.
What is the Skull and Bones?
Adding to the intrigue is long-standing public fascination with the Skull and Bones society, an organisation of privileged Yale Students whose alumni include both Presidents Bush and John Kerry. The club, founded at the Ivy League school in 1832, selects 15 new members each year. They are sworn in at the "Tomb," a windowless campus clubhouse which is purported to hold the skulls of a range of famous figures, including Che Guevara. During the initiation ceremony, recruits are apparently required to kiss the skull of Geronimo, which is said to be held in a glass case near the door, and take a solemn oath to support fellow members.
Since the society is secret – it has never clarified the exact contents of the "Tomb" – some regard it as vaguely sinister. Others say it is a harmless networking organisation. In this respect, it is perhaps best described as an upmarket version of the Freemasons.
What happens next?
The lawsuit by Geronimo's descendants was filed in a federal district court in Washington DC, and seeks: "to free Geronimo, his remains, funerary objects and spirit from 100 years of imprisonment at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the Yale University campus at New Haven, Connecticut and wherever else they may be found."
Presuming the case isn't immediately thrown out – and the political ramifications of doing so would be enormous – the court's immediate next step must be to determine if the Skull and Bones society really does own Geronimo's disputed skull.
Does the Skull and Bones society really have Geronimo's skull?
Yes
*The Skull and Bones has repeatedly refused to discuss the skull, still less surrender it for DNA testing
*A letter written in 1918 by a society member says it gained possession of it
*A history of the society written in 1933 claimed that Prescott Bush 'engaged in a mad expedition' at Fort Sill to obtain Geronimo's skull
No
*Geronimo's grave was miles from where Prescott Bush was stationed
*The exact location of Geronimo's grave was unmarked at the time of the alleged theft
*Historians say that, while the Skull and Bones may very well have a Native Indian's skull, it is unlikely to be that of Geronimo
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"Geronimo E-KIA." Those words were heard in the Situation Room when Osama bin Laden was killed by bullets to the head and chest. Geronimo was the code name given by U.S. officials for bin Laden; E-KIA stands for "Enemy Killed In Action."
Apparently the code namers thought of bin Laden as a 21st century equivalent of the Chiricahua Apache leader, who waged battles against the Mexico and the United States, countries engaged in colonizing Indian lands.
Like bin Laden, Geronimo proved to be an elusive target. More than 5,000 soldiers were deployed to capture him in around 1885.
Geronimo was fighting for his land, and committed what U.S officials at the time might have called acts of terrorism, conducting raids on white settlers in Apache territory. U.S. officials said they could convict Geronimo and his fighters of murder, and exiled the outlaw Apache to Florida as a prisoner of war, never to return to his homeland.
But bin Laden was in a completely different league. The al Qaeda leader was a mass murderer, out to destroy Western civilization, not primarily to protect his lands.
In 1998, bin Laden declared, "We--with God's help--call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslim ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan's U.S. troops and the devil's supporters allying with them, and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a lesson."
Geronimo / wikipedia.org
However, unlike bin Laden, Geronimo lived to tell his tale, and in 1905 he appeared in President Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade.
During his latter years, Geronimo converted to Christianity.
"Believing that in a wise way it is good to go to church, and that associating with Christians would improve my character, I have adopted the Christian religion... I am not ashamed to be a Christian... I have advised all of my people who are not Christians, to study that religion, because it seems to me the best religion in enabling one to live right," he wrote in his autobiography. |||||
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By. Lizzie Edmonds. PUBLISHED:. 06:32 EST, 8 October 2013. |. UPDATED:. 07:01 EST, 8 October 2013. A group of pensioners have bought their retirement village after its owners went bust. The previous owners of the Woodchester Valley Village, near Stroud in the Cotswolds, Bluchie Limited went into liquidation three years ago. And since then, the residents of the complex - previously called Crystal Fountain Village - have been fighting to buy the freehold to the retirement complex. Celebration: Residents of the Woodchester Valley Village in Stroud who brought their retirement village after the owners went into administration. After three years of hard work, plus determined fund raising, the pensioners have now bought the freehold from the administrators. Leading the fight was Residents' Association chairman Peter Wilson, who said the purchase had dominated his life for the past three years. He said: 'Buying the freehold has been a long, hard struggle but we won through because we worked together. 'We were backed by villagers' families and, in some cases, even their grandchildren. Proud owners: The complex - previously known as the Crystal Fountain Village - has 73 houses and flats. 'Woodchester Valley Village now welcomes all those who seek something different. It's a new type of village for active over sixties who enjoy life.' Residents at the complex live independently but can be supported if necessary. It is professionally managed, with staff on-site 24 hours a day and domiciliary care available if required. Vice chairman of the residents' association and leading light in the buyout Betty Young said: 'Woodchester Valley offers the over sixties a real village community, with company when it is wanted, but with the independence and privacy of a home with its own front door. 'We believe this is the future and we hope it will be the model for other villages to follow, so that they can also take full control of their homes.' The future? The group's Residents' Association hope that other retirement villages will follow their example. The complex is nestled in 25 acres of Cotswolds countryside adjoining the National Trust's famous Woodchester Park. The village has 73 houses and apartments, plus communal areas including a lounge, a library and a green room and is close to Gloucester, Bath and Bristol. Residents frequently organise activities such as play reading, book groups and bridge as well as visits to theatres, cinemas, and historic gardens.
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Woodchester Valley Village, near Stroud, was previously run by Bluchie Limited, which went into liquidation three years ago. Pensioners at 73-home complex bought the freehold from. administrators, making them the first group in the UK to do so. 'It is the future. It will be the model for others,' Residents' Association says.
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After becoming disabled in a machete attack on a visit to his native Haiti, Jean-Claude Joseph needed help persuading his landlord to move him from a fifth-floor apartment to one on the ground floor. Isaac Benjamin became ensnared in a bureaucratic snafu that took away his Social Security disability payments for more than two years. The story of Martha, a woman from Sierra Leone, was more compelling. Beaten, raped and tortured in her politically repressive homeland, she knowingly used someone else's passport to escape to America, but was caught by immigration authorities upon her arrival. She desperately sought political asylum. Not the kind of cases that lead to ground-breaking upheavals in the law, but the kind of cases that are handled day in and day out by lawyers for the legally disenfranchised who have no where else to turn. The work of attorneys from Legal Services of New Jersey will be highlighted in a onehour documentary, "Quest for Justice," to be aired 9 p.m. today on New Jersey Network. Produced by NYD2, a communications firm based in Somerset, the documentary features case histories of clients whose needs ranged from housing to fighting off deportation. Joseph, a 54-year-old naturalized citizen, turned to Legal Services when the landlord of his federally subsidized apartment complex in Elizabeth turned a deaf ear to his request for a ground-floor apartment. Having lost the use of his left arm in warding off the machete attack during a robbery attempt, Joseph said he found it increasingly difficult to negotiate the five flights of stairs lugging groceries or laundry on the frequent occasions when the building's elevator was out of order. "With this, it became impossible for me to stay upstairs," he said, pointing to the scars on his forearm. "If I cannot carry my groceries or my laundry, how can I live?" "It was a compelling case," said Legal Services attorney Stephen St. Hilaire. "The key for us -- and we have to make tough decisions all the time on whether to take a case -- was visualizing what he had to do to get to the fifth floor, struggling with a bag of groceries," he said. Benjamin, 53, of Jersey City had been collecting Social Security disability after undergoing double bypass surgery when the checks stopped coming. He said the agency claimed he had failed to return a form updating the condition of his health. "But what got me was they didn't let me know they didn't get it, they just cut me off," he said, adding he found it impossible to negotiate the Social Security bureaucracy himself.
Question: "Why did Martha come to America?"
Answer: "She was raped"
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Kerry pursuing 'quiet strategy' in Mideast peace process
Kerry meets Israeli leaders to push Mideast peace
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Renseignements sur les visas et l'immigration Un enfant de moins de 18 ans... a)...voyageant seul ou avec une personne n’en ayant pas la garde, doit être muni de ...
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Песня Ratata Honung представлена вам Lyrics-Keeper. Flash-фичу можно использовать в качестве караоке к песне Honung, если есть возможность скачать минусовку.
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The Ratata Honung lyrics are brought to you by Lyrics-Keeper.
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What is the best way to: Start a fire using a magnifying glass.
Pick from: A). Tilt the magnifying glass in such a way as to focus the light from the sun to a single point on a leaf until it begins to heat up and smoke. Blow on the leaf until it combusts. B). Tilt the magnifying glass in such a way as to focus the light from the moon to a single point on a leaf until it begins to heat up and smoke. Blow on the leaf until it combusts.
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Here is an article:
The Amazon Echo can seem like a magical way to do things around the house. Just shout “Alexa,” and the device springs into action: Turning on lights, ordering pizzas, answering questions, or even morphing into a home bank teller.
But the home assistant isn’t a total genius. And sometimes just hearing the word “Alexa” can drive the little pod a little nuts.
That’s what some National Public Radio listeners discovered when the gadget started taking orders from the announcers on their radios. During a recent NPR segment about the Echo, hosts unwittingly sparked the attention of some listeners’ pods as they explained “Alexa can dim the lights” or “Alexa, give me a news bulletin.”
The revenge of the rogue home assistants was on: Echos started playing with thermostats, turning on the news, and generally going a little bit crazy, as NPR listeners reported.
It seems the beauty of “Alexa” can also be the devices’ downfall. The machine that can listen to commands from anyone and everyone around the house is just a little too obliging.
Get Data Sheet, Fortune’s technology newsletter.
The $180 Echo is something of a hit for Amazon. Released over a year ago, the Echo is consistently ranked one of Amazon.com’s most popular electronics. Earlier this month Amazon unveiled two new Echo spinoff products, the Tap and the Dot. And Ford F is partnering with Amazon AMZN to design an Echo-connected car so drivers can command Alexa to turn on the lights or turn up the heat in the house before they get home.
The New York Times‘ Farhad Manjoo is smitten with the technology, suggesting the Echo is poised to become the next great gadget.
The longer I use it, the more regularly it inspires the same sense of promise I felt when I used the first iPhone — a sense this machine is opening up a vast new realm in personal computing, and gently expanding the role that computers will play in our future.
Watch the Amazon Echo Super Bowl Commercial:
That’s a future that Americans say they’re wary of, though. In a recent Pew survey, just 27% of respondents said they would be ok with installing a thermostat that tracked their movements around the house in exchange for a break on their energy bill. So while Americans have little idea what information is being shared by their devices, the privacy pitfalls of more connected homes have consumers a little nervous.
Did you hear that, Alexa?
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Just threw my brother his 30th birthday party at Marquee even though I've never been there before. It was well recommended by my friends and little brother. At any rate, great venue! There were no overwhelming huge pools like XS or Surrender, but the vibe is nice. It's a huge place with different floors and rooms for all types of music. Very up beat, great indoor/ outdoor space. Didn't break the bank to get in. Would recommend presale tickets to avoid long lines.
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Select the correct sentiment of the following review: With all thats going on in the world sometimes we need an escape. Curly Sue is just that. Not a complicated plot or deep meaning; however it is not devoid of substance. There is more than furious action or heart pounding dramas. There are the charming little shows you can watch with your kids and have enough substance to enjoy with your date. Try it you may like it more than you think. The little girl is really smart and cute. The "Dad" and the girl go thru some slapstick routines. When a jealous boyfriend steps in, trouble brews for Curly and the life shes known may be torn asunder. Fred Thompson and Kelly Lynch play good roles as the upper crust and Alison Porter and James Belushi are a interesting fable like duo portraying street wise homeless drifters. Their worlds collide and comedy ensues.
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Would give them minus stars if I could. Totally incompetent staff. Scammers and lazy. We went here several times for several of our vehicles. Did not provide service that was paid for. They tried to manipulate my fiance that she needed services that were not needed. I asked them to rotate my tires along with oil change. We did this with several of our vehicles. It was not being done. I marked the tires on our vehicle to see if it was done and when we picked up the vehicle, the technician assured me it was done. I showed him that the tires were not touched at all, due to my markings on the tires were still there. They have also stripped out out oil plugs. Will never recommend this company to anyone.
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In eukaryotic organisms, interaction between which organelles is most important for cell shape, tensile strength, and communication between cells?
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C). nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Lamb died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound
A manhunt for a university professor accused of killing a colleague in Mississippi has ended after the suspect killed himself as police closed in.
Geography professor Shannon Lamb is suspected of shooting Ethan Schmidt, a history teacher at Delta State University, in the town of Cleveland.
Lamb had told police on Monday that he was "not going to jail".
Police also linked Lamb, 45, to the fatal shooting of a woman 300 miles away earlier that day.
Amy Prentiss, 41, was found shot dead at the home she shared with Mr Lamb in Gautier, Mississippi, in the early hours.
Police said they had not determined a motive for the killings.
At a news conference late on Monday, police in Gautier said they had initially contacted Lamb by phone, and later followed his car. After pulling over, he jumped out of the vehicle.
When officers gave chase they heard a single gunshot and found Lamb dead, Delta State University police official Lynn Buford told AP news agency.
Image copyright Delta State University Image caption Ethan Schmidt was a professor of history at the university
Schmidt, who specialised in Native American and colonial history, was shot in his office, police said.
All campus buildings were then locked from the inside and officials advised people to shelter as police cleared students from buildings.
Freshman Noah Joyner, 18, said he stayed inside his dorm during the lockdown.
"There were people banging on the doors to have somebody let them in," he said. "It was pretty terrifying to hear people banging on the door."
Image copyright AP Image caption The gunman had eluded police on campus
Police helicopters circled the campus and hundreds of officers swept the buildings.
Lamb was apparently "easygoing" and had taken some leave recently for "personal reasons", colleague Don Mitchell told Fox News.
Roughly 3,500 students are enrolled at the university near the Arkansas border. ||||| Armed and Dangerous
A manhunt for Shannon Lamb, who cops say murdered his girlfriend and a campus colleague in a horrific double slay, is over after the suspect committed suicide late Monday night.
A professor who may have turned executioner is dead after a frantic Mississippi manhunt.
Authorities say Shannon Lamb, 45, killed himself Monday night after shooting and killing his girlfriend inside their bayou home, then driving almost six hours to the college where he taught and murdering a fellow faculty member. The geography and social science teacher at Delta State University was the primary suspect in the murders of Amy Prentiss and Ethan Schmidt, cops in Cleveland, Mississippi, confirmed to The Daily Beast.
Authorities descended on the home Lamb and Prentiss, 41, shared in Gautier, Mississippi, after Lamb himself allegedly dialed local authorities and alerted them to the murderous scene just before 10:30 a.m.
That was almost half an hour before Lamb allegedly gunned down his second victim. “He reported it to the [Gautier] cops on the coast at that time,” Dispatcher Cliff Logan said in a phone interview.
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Logan said an armed Lamb, who had been “on personal leave” from the university for unknown reasons, took a green SUV believed to belong to Prentiss and tracked down Ethan Schmidt, a 39-year-old history professor and father, before fatally squeezing the trigger. “It was inside [Schmidt’s] classroom and it was close,” Logan said, referring to the distance that Lamb allegedly stood from his helpless victim.
Lamb then ditched the SUV in favor of a black Dodge Avenger, Logan said. He noted that the weapon the teacher used in the second murder was believed to be a pistol, but forensic work still needed to be completed to determine the make and model.
The history professor’s alleged murderous rampage sent some 5,000 students and faculty on lockdown after text messages—sent out by the school—began circulating, alerting everyone that a live shooter was on campus.
SWAT teams and other law enforcement personnel flooded the school grounds to apprehend the assailant.
But for hours Lamb managed to elude capture despite an extensive dragnet that was cast to bring him into custody.
He apparently told authorities, according to The Clarion Journal, that he didn’t want to go to jail, elevating worries that the instructor was suicidal.
A memo put out by cops, reported in The Sun Herald, warned fellow law enforcement agencies to “use extreme caution” when attempting to track Lamb down.
During a late night press conference Monday, Cleveland Police Chief Charles “Buster” Bingham confirmed that Lamb ran out of road to keep running and that he ultimately kept his promise to avoid prison by committing suicide.
At about 10 p.m. the wanted professor was spotted behind the wheel of a dark Avenger as it approached a checkpoint in Greenville, Mississippi.
“As one of the units pulled up behind the suspect, [Lamb] pulled off to the side of the road, exited his vehicle, and fled into a wooded area,” the chief said.
Officers gave chase but quit after they heard a pop.
The accused double murderer had apparently turned his gun on himself.
“There was one gunshot that was heard,” Chief Bingham said.
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A wounded Lamb was rushed to a local hospital, where he was shortly after pronounced dead by the deputy coroner in Washington County.
After a close look at Lamb’s Facebook account, it appears the professor was a part-time musician.
On April 30, 2013, Lamb let his friends know that the reason he’d been almost invisible was, during his five years at Delta State University, he’d been single-handedly rearing two kids. “Almost 7 years ago I was given the privilege, and the most labor-intensive job of my life… That of rearing my amazing son and daughter.”
In the post, he went on to dote on his kids as “straight ‘A’ students, extremely loving and respectful to others… I could not ask for better children.”
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At the end of the post, which he signed, “Love, Dad,” Lamb poured his heart out, saying that he realized “I should be more thankful for the blessings… [and] pay less attention to past mistakes and closer attention to those that I did get right!!”
One of the many Facebook friends who was moved by the note was Amy Prentiss. She wrote: “This is so touching to read, Shannon. You are the most amazing man that I have ever met. You are a wonderful daddy and I truly admire that! It is an honor to spend time with you and the little Lambs! Thanks for sharing your lives with me! I love y’all!”
The affectionate pitter-patter continued online for a couple of years. Lamb repeatedly refers to Prentiss as his “sweet baby angel.”
He also posted pictures of his apparent lead foot—putting up a blurry shot of his speedometer touching 120 mph.
A few months later, when he completed his doctorate, Lamb wrote that he was a lucky academic because of the woman in his life. He wrote about how he’d been juggling his dissertation, full-time work, raising his family, and maintaining “a relationship with the best girl in the whole wide world. [Amy Prentiss].”
In one post from Jan. 23, 2014, Lamb uploaded a picture of his teens when they were toddlers and boasted about how they were hitting him up for driver’s permits.
Prentiss chimed in months later: “Compare these children to the ones we have now… I think they have been abducted and replaced with almost grown ones! Boy, does time fly!”
Around the same time, Prentiss also posted a seemingly flirty exchange about a Courtyard Marriott ad that trumpeted, “Have Your Affair Here.”
“Those marketing degrees pay off! Haha,” Prentiss wrote. “This is no accident or oversight. Shannon Lamb, let’s go have an ‘affair’ there! Lol.”
The comments started dwindling earlier this year. One, left by Prentiss on Lamb’s page, apparently on May 15 of this year, mused over their hound dog Lightning. A portrait of the pooch is followed by her remarking how he managed to gobble up her gum.
“He just stuck his head in my briefcase and devoured an entire pack of gum—foil paper included,” she wrote.
On July 14, after Lamb posted a picture of himself in a full cap and gown, all smiles as he received his doctorate, Prentiss was one of 125 well-wishers offering their salute. “I’m very proud of you!! Lightning is too. We love you more than anything and appreciate all of your hard work and dedication. Lightning thinks that this constitutes an ice cream celebration. I vote for Disney! Congratulations, Dr. Lamb. I love you more every day.”
As for Lamb’s other alleged victim, Ethan Schmidt, authorities could only confirm that the two men knew each other.
Back in Schmidt’s native Peabody, Kansas, Harlin and Doris Unruh were reeling from the news. Harlin Unruh said his wife was Schmidt’s teacher.
The young academic was so bright in high school he was a leader in a team that traveled around the state in the annual Quiz Bowl, which is a sort of battle of brains covering topics like math and science.
“They competed at the state meet,” Harlin Unruh remembered fondly. “My wife taught Ethan and he used to call her ‘Grandma’ even though she was only in her late twenties.”
When word spread that Schmidt had been murdered, they were hoping it could have been someone else, not their Ethan. “We knew he had moved a couple times so we weren’t exactly sure, but then we checked and there it was.”
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Schmidt had been on a bright path ever since he’d completed his doctorate at the University of Kansas back in 2007. He taught for six years at Texas Tech and published extensively during his tenure at Delta State, the Cleveland, Mississippi-based university, where he taught a wide range of classes, from “The American Colonies” to “Baseball: A Mirror of America.”
"We mourn the loss of our colleague who has served us so well. It is indeed a tragic moment for this university,” Delta State University president Bill LaForge told reporters during a news conference Monday night.
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– A Delta State University professor has killed himself after two alleged murders and a huge manhunt, police in Mississippi say. Officials say Shannon Lamb, who's believed to have killed his girlfriend before shooting a colleague dead in his office at the university yesterday, took off on foot after police started following his vehicle last night and shot himself in the head as officers waited for backup, the AP reports. He was pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital in Greenville, Miss. Police say they spoke to the 45-year-old geography professor while the manhunt was in progress and he told them that he was "not going to jail," the BBC reports. Police haven't disclosed a motive in the murders of 41-year-old Amy Prentiss and 39-year-old history professor Ethan Schmidt. Delta State University President William LaForge tells the Clarion-Ledger that Lamb, who was teaching two online courses, was in the same division as Schmidt and that they definitely knew each other. LaForge says he didn't know Lamb that well, but he "thought the world" of Schmidt, who was a "star on our faculty." A police spokesman tells the Daily Beast that Lamb apparently killed Prentiss at the home they shared in Gautier, Miss., early yesterday and told police about the murder while he was on the six-hour drive to the Delta State campus.
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Table 5 Details of bank accounts of persons designated on the assets freeze list identified in Liberia The previous Panel report (S/2005/360, para.
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Lance Corporal Kylie Elizabeth Watson MC is a British Army medic from Northern Ireland. She was awarded the Military Cross on 25 March 2011 in recognition of gallantry in Afghanistan. She is only the fourth woman ever to have received the Military Cross.
Can we infer the following?
Lance Corporal Kylie Elizabeth Watson MC is one of the four woman ever to have received the Military Cross
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Вы так же можете скачать перевод текста песни The Waterboys Come Live With Me здесь . Мы стараемся сделать так, чтобы слова песни Come Live With Me были наиболее точными, поэтому если у вас есть какие-то корректировки текста, пожалуйста отправляйте их нам.
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We tried to make lyrics as correct as possible, however if you have any corrections for Come Live With Me lyrics, please feel free to submit them to us.
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It's conveniently close to my house and open 24/7, so I can't complain about that. Plus it's Walmart so you know that you are going to get low prices. However, it's a rather small Walmart that can have a pretty limited selection. I can typically get everything I need here, but I can definitely say that I have been disappointed multiple when I can't find things that larger Walmarts might have. On top of that, they never seem to have enough registers open. I am always finding myself waiting exceedingly long in line no matter what time of the day it is.
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