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1. That is , if someone earning 200 per week is fined 100 , that will feel more severe than a 100 fine would feel to someone earning 2000 per week .
2. Therefore , if you make fines proportional to the income someone has , all people feel the impact of the punishment equally , rather than the poor facing a punishment with a harsher impact on them than on the rich .
3. The purpose of a fine is to ensure that the offender faces the consequences of their actions .
4. The extent to which a financial penalty feels like a negative consequence is relative to the amount of income someone has , not to the simple amount that the fine is .
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Add punctuation to the following sentence: that affect humans even men or women and this can be painful
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that affect humans , even men or women and this can be painful
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Write a a). yelp review (Select from the following.
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b). positive;).
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I hate the service takes forever to be seated, a part of the store was dark but still okay to sit in and they wouldn't let us sit there so we waited an hour to get seated. They said they did it for customer satisfaction but ur service is already horrible.
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Write a dialog with this premise "Isabella likes to observe people around her as entertainment. She will change her seat on the train because a lady sitting next to her is speaking about her sexual life.".
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Isabella: God, I am on the train to Berlin observing people around.
George: haha, and?
Isabella: How strange we all are.
George: What do you mean this time?
Isabella: I am just sitting with 3 other people at a table in an open-plan carriage.
George: Oh, I hate this type of cars.
Isabella: Haha, they are fine for me, I can observe more people :P
George: Hahaha.
Isabella: So there is an elderly couple.
George: That doesn't sound extremely interesting :P
Isabella: No, they are not! Just as we all are boring, or we all are interesting, right?
George: true
Isabella: I mean, life is interesting in its boredom, and boring in its interestingness.
George: How philosophical! My Sartre!
Isabella: LOL.
George: Was that your deep thought you wanted to share?
Isabella: No! So they are sitting just next to me, and next to so many other people and she's speaking quite loudly about their sex life.
George: oh! I would not expect that.
Isabella: He is not saying anything. Not a word and seems extremely embarrassed and she is saying really horrible things.
George: Like what?
Isabella: Like she has never had an orgasm with him, but with other men she was satisfied.
George: And I imagine other people pretend they are not there.
Isabella: Sure, what would you do?
George: No idea. Poor guy.
Isabella: Very. I think I will just change the seat, I cannot stand it any more and I don't want to be a witness of his humiliation.
George: Good idea!
Isabella: Talk to you later.
George: xoxo
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Instead , the philosophy is seen as an activity of defining and clarifying the empirical relationships of logical rates .
Instead , philosophy is seen as an activity of defining and clarifying the logical relationships of empirical propositions .
Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
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Write some highlights for the following article:
The scientist who discovered hepatitis C in 1989 says he has now created a vaccine against the liver-destroying virus. Michael Houghton, from the University of Alberta, said the vaccine was developed from a single strain but is effective against all known strains of the disease. Dr Houghton started working on the project 10 years ago while he was working for the drug company Novartis. Dr Houghton (left) discovered hepatitis C in 1989. This electron micrograph (right) shows hepatitis virions, which cause the virus. The disease has caused a 'silent epidemic' in western countries. Figures published yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed more people died as a result of Hepatitis C than from Aids in the U.S in 2007. 'One of every 33 baby boomers are living with hepatitis C infection,' said CDC's Dr John Ward. Left untreated it can cause scarring of the liver and ultimately to life-threatening cirrhosis. The U.S figures revealed there were 15,000 deaths related to the condition in 2007 - three-quarters of whom were middle aged. The condition is unpredictable - while some may live with the condition their whole lives with only mild symptoms, others can develop serious liver disease even with treatment. Hepatitis literally means the inflammation of the liver. It is usually caused by a virus, although alcohol excess can also be to blame. The most common types of liver inflammation and infection are Hepatitis A, B and C... Hepatitis A is spread by eating contaminated food or drinking water. It's most common in countries with poor hygiene standards. There is a vaccine.Hepatitis B is usually passed on by exposure to infected blood. In developing countries it is mostly passed from mother to baby. In developed countries it's spread through sex and sharing drug needles. It is 100 times more infectious than HIV, yet there is a vaccine to prevent infection.Hepatitis C is also a ‘blood borne’ virus. It can be passed on through sexual contact but is most commonly shared through sharing drug needles. There is no vaccine.Most people recover from hepatitis A with no lasting liver damage but B and C can cause long term liver disease, leading to cirrhosis and even liver cancer. In many cases there are no early warning symptoms until liver damage is advanced. Source: The Sheila Sherlock Liver Centre. There is currently no vaccine in use to prevent infection in the first place. But,. speaking at the Canada Excellence Research Chairs Summit in Vancouver. yesterday, Dr Houghton revealed his team is just five years away from. creating a useable vaccine. Dr Houghton and his co-investigator John Law. discovered that they could use a single strain of the virus to draw out broad. cross-neutralising antibodies against all the different major strains. 'This tells us that a vaccine made from a single strain can indeed neutralize all the viruses out there,' he said. 'It really encourages the further. development of that vaccine. This is a really a big step forward for the. field of HCV vaccinology.' Hundreds of thousands of people are infected with hepatitis C annually around the world, with between 20 to 30 per cent developing some form liver disease. However, Dr Houghton cautions that further testing is required, meaning that it may be five to seven years before the vaccine receives approval. He added that while it may make some difference in those currently suffering from hepatitis C, the vaccine will mainly be a preventative measure against acquiring the disease. Lorne Tyrrell, director of the Li Ka Shing Institute at the University of Alberta, said: 'We have a long way to go, but this is a great step.'
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Up to 30 per cent of hepatitis C sufferers develop liver disease. More people died as a result of hepatitis C than from Aids in the U.S in 2007.
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By Ellie Zolfagharifard PUBLISHED: 08:52 EST, 29 January 2014 | UPDATED: 09:32 EST, 7 February 2014 If there was ever a timepiece that would silence the boasts of smug smartwatch wearers, then this would be it. The magnificent Complication Poétique Midnight Planétarium lets you tell the time by placing a microcosm of the solar system on your wrist. The intricate watch incorporates Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — all the planets visible to the naked eye. Scroll down for video... Instead of hands denoting the hours and minutes, planets rotate around a tiny rose gold sun in real-time.
OPTIONS:
- Christiaan van der Klaauw, which is the farthest planet from the sun in the watch, won't make it back to its starting position for 29.5 years
- Complication Poétique Midnight Planétarium, which is the farthest planet from the sun in the watch, won't make it back to its starting position for 29.5 years
- Dutch, which is the farthest planet from the sun in the watch, won't make it back to its starting position for 29.5 years
- Earth, which is the farthest planet from the sun in the watch, won't make it back to its starting position for 29.5 years
- Ellie Zolfagharifard, which is the farthest planet from the sun in the watch, won't make it back to its starting position for 29.5 years
- Jupiter, which is the farthest planet from the sun in the watch, won't make it back to its starting position for 29.5 years
- Mars, which is the farthest planet from the sun in the watch, won't make it back to its starting position for 29.5 years
- Mercury, which is the farthest planet from the sun in the watch, won't make it back to its starting position for 29.5 years
- Planétarium, which is the farthest planet from the sun in the watch, won't make it back to its starting position for 29.5 years
- Saturn, which is the farthest planet from the sun in the watch, won't make it back to its starting position for 29.5 years
- UPDATED, which is the farthest planet from the sun in the watch, won't make it back to its starting position for 29.5 years
- Van Cleef & Arpels, which is the farthest planet from the sun in the watch, won't make it back to its starting position for 29.5 years
- Venus, which is the farthest planet from the sun in the watch, won't make it back to its starting position for 29.5 years
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Would a linguist find the following sentence to be a valid English sentence grammatically?
Every woman standing under that tree, whoever she may be, is Mary's friend.
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" SCO has not shown us any evidence that we 've violated our agreements in any way , " IBM spokesperson Trink Guarino told internetnews.com.
" SCO has not shown us any evidence that we violated our agreements , " spokeswoman Trink Guarino said .
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Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion
Urinalysis reveals a highly concentrated urine with a high fractional excretion of sodium (high sodium urine content compared to the serum sodium). A suspected diagnosis is based on a serum sodium under 138. A confirmed diagnosis has seven elements: 1) a decreased effective serum osmolality - <275 mOsm/kg of water; 2) urinary sodium concentration high - over 40 mEq/L with adequate dietary salt intake; 3) no recent diuretic usage; 4) no signs of ECF volume depletion or excess; 5) no signs of decreased arterial blood volume - cirrhosis, nehprosis, or congestive heart failure; 6) normal adrenal and thyroid function; and 7) no evidence of hyperglycemia (diabetes mellitus), hypertriglyceridemia, or hyperproteinia (myeloma).
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Is this statement correct "diabetes mellitus is a disease associated with the inadequate secretion or action of adh"?
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For millions of iPhone owners, or would-be iPhone owners, who dislike AT&T's wireless service or prefer Verizon Wireless service, liberation is at hand. Starting Feb. 10, Apple's iconic smart phone finally will be available in the U.S. on a second carrier, Verizon, instead of just on AT&T, which has been the exclusive iPhone network since the device launched in 2007. Current Verizon customers can pre-order the iPhone Thursday.
Walt Mossberg compares the new Verizon iPhone 4 to an AT&T; iPhone 4, and finds that they aren't interchangeable. The Verizon has much better voice calls, he says, but there's a trade off in data speed.
Complaints about dropped voice calls, or calls that can't be initiated, on AT&T's service, especially on iPhones, have been legion. Meanwhile, Verizon has enjoyed a general reputation for reliable voice service. So, many frustrated AT&T iPhone users and those scared off by reports of dropped calls, or simply loyal to Verizon, have been eagerly anticipating this move. To these people, I'm here to say: Yes, there are some major benefits to having your iPhone on Verizon, but, as with all good things, there are also trade-offs.
I've been testing a Verizon iPhone 4 and comparing it to an AT&T iPhone 4, which has been out since last summer. The phones themselves are essentially identical, except for the fact that they have different radios inside to accommodate the two carriers' differing network technologies. They aren't interchangeable.
Mossberg's Mailbox A Computer for Preparing Taxes
On the big question, I can say that, at least in the areas where I was using it, the Verizon model did much, much better with voice calls. In numerous tries over nine days, I had only three dropped calls on the Verizon unit, and those were all to one person who was using an AT&T iPhone in an especially bad area for AT&T: San Francisco. With the nearly identical AT&T model, I often get that many dropped calls in one day.
Calls on the Verizon unit were mostly crisp and clear, including speakerphone calls and those made over my car's Bluetooth connection. On my first full day of testing, I did have several Verizon calls that dropped out for a few seconds, before recovering. Apple attributed this to a very minor glitch I'd encountered in my initial setup of the phone and urged me to reboot it. I did and suffered no more momentary dropouts.
The Verizon model also introduces a feature that some iPhone power users have been craving but that AT&T hasn't allowed in the past: the ability to use the phone, for an extra monthly fee, as a Wi-Fi hot spot for Internet connectivity to multiple laptops or other devices. In my tests, this worked fine with Windows and Macintosh laptops, and an iPad. Wednesday afternoon, AT&T countered by announcing a similar Wi-Fi hot spot plan for the iPhone at an unspecified future date.
Bloomberg News For an extra fee, Verizon iPhone users can use the phone as a Wi-Fi hot spot. AT&T has rushed to counter this feature with one of its own.
Also, Verizon is, for an unspecified but limited time, offering an unlimited $30 a month data plan for the iPhone. That is something AT&T once offered new customers, but has since replaced with capped plans offering fixed amounts of data at $15 or $25 a month. (Existing AT&T customers have been allowed to keep their $30 unlimited plans.)
What about the trade-offs? Chief among them is data speed. I performed scores of speed tests on the two phones, which I used primarily in Washington, and its Maryland and Virginia suburbs, and for part of one day at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. In these many tests, despite a few Verizon victories here and there, AT&T's network averaged 46% faster at download speeds and 24% faster at upload speeds. This speed difference was noticeable while doing tasks like downloading large numbers of emails, or waiting for complicated Web pages to load. AT&T's speeds varied more while Verizon's were more consistent, but overall, AT&T was more satisfying at cellular data.
Also, because Verizon's iPhone—like most other Verizon phones—doesn't work on the world-wide GSM mobile-phone standard, you can't use it in most countries outside the U.S. AT&T's iPhone does work on this standard, and can be used widely abroad, albeit at very high roaming rates. In the midst of my testing, I had to travel to Hong Kong, one of the few countries where the Verizon iPhone functions. But even there, it only worked for voice, not data, at least in the areas where I was working. The AT&T model handled both voice and data everywhere I tried it there.
Finally, the Verizon model can't fetch Internet data at the same time it is making a voice call, something the AT&T model can do. In fact, if you try to, say, call up a Web page while on a voice call with the Verizon model, you get an error message warning the two things can't be done simultaneously. While this distinction is a weapon in the war of words between the carriers, I doubt it's a big deal for most average users. My guess is that the most common things you'd want to check while talking would be your calendar, contacts and notes. And, in my tests, it was possible to check all those things on the Verizon model during calls, even though I have them set up to sync via the Internet.
I did have some issues with the Verizon model. In the D.C. area, long a coverage stronghold for Verizon, it kept switching briefly from 3G mode to slower 2G mode. This didn't affect voice quality, and didn't last long, but it slowed data downloads drastically for short periods. Also, on my first day of testing—after the setup glitch but before I rebooted—the Verizon phone showed poor battery life, and had trouble connecting to my car's Bluetooth setup. After that, these problems disappeared. Bluetooth worked fine and I was able to make it through a day with the battery on both phones.
Apple lists the specs on the two models as identical. They both start at $199, both have the same battery-life rating, both run the same operating software. In my tests, I was easily able to transfer all my apps, music, photos, settings, music and videos from the AT&T iPhone to the Verizon model, using iTunes, and I didn't run into any apps or media that failed to work as expected.
Prices for voice and data plans are a bit different. The least you can pay monthly for an iPhone on Verizon is $75, which includes 450 voice minutes, 250 text messages and unlimited data. On AT&T, you can pay just $65, but your data is limited to a paltry 200 megabytes, though you get 1,000 text messages in this scenario.
The Verizon wireless hot-spot plan costs $20 a month for 2 gigabytes of data, but gets expensive if you run over: $20 for each extra gigabyte.
One big question about the Verizon iPhone that neither company is answering is whether it will be updated to a new iPhone 5 model when the AT&T model is updated. Such updates typically have occurred in June or July, which could make people who buy a Verizon iPhone now resentful that their new phone was bested so soon. Of course, Verizon customers who wait might be resentful if their version of the iPhone isn't upgraded at the same time as AT&T's.
Officials at both Apple and Verizon will only say they don't intend to make Verizon customers unhappy, but that could mean anything.
Bottom line: In my tests, the new Verizon version of the iPhone did much better at voice calling than the AT&T version, and offers some attractive benefits, like unlimited data and a wireless hot-spot capability. But if you really care about data speed, or travel overseas, and AT&T service is tolerable in your area, you may want to stick with AT&T.
—See a video of Walt Mossberg discussing the Verizon iPhone at WSJ.com/PersonalTech. Find all his columns and videos at the All Things Digital website, walt.allthingsd.com. Email him at mossberg@wsj.com. ||||| Yesterday, I made a 45-minute phone call from my office.
This seemingly unremarkable statement is remarkable for two reasons. First, I was able to place a call from my office — something which was impossible for me to do a week prior. Second, I made it through the entire 45-minutes without the call being dropped once. Again, this was impossible a week prior.
So what changed? Well, my iPhone changed.
I’ve been an iPhone user since day one: June 29, 2007. Over the course of the past three and a half years, the coverage I’ve gotten from my service provider for the device, AT&T, has gone from bad to worse. AT&T would talk about how much money they were putting into upgrades for their system, and would continually promise that things would get better soon. But for whatever reason, in major cities like San Francisco and New York City, the situation has continued to deteriorate.
It’s so bad, in fact, that in the TechCrunch office in the SoMa district of San Francisco it’s impossible to make or receive calls. Perhaps our office is a Faraday cage — one that only seems to affect AT&T — I’m not sure. But what I am sure of is that our office is hardly the only place in the city where the same is true. And even outside of the Bay Area, there’s a reason why there’s so much excitement for the Verizon iPhone.
And now it’s here. And yes, it works. Beautifully.
Build
I’ve had a chance to carry around a Verizon iPhone for the past week or so. It’s a bit odd to write a review about it now because, well, I’ve already reviewed this product before. This initial Verizon iPhone, of course, is just an iPhone 4. It’s the same phone that was released on AT&T’s network last summer. But it has been slightly reworked to make room for a CDMA chip that Verizon’s network requires, replacing the GSM chip that AT&T’s network requires.
But holding it in your hand, most regular users would have no idea that there’s any difference. In fact, the only physical difference is that the single rivet at the top of the device near the headphone jack has been replaced by two matching rivets on either side of the top of the Verizon version of the device. While Apple won’t talk specifics, presumably, this is a change made to the antenna of the device, which is the metal band that wraps around the iPhone 4. As you’re probably aware, Apple had an antenna issue shortly after the iPhone 4’s launch this past summer. As I’ve said time and time again, the issue was real, but it wasn’t a really big issue. And the millions of iPhone 4s that Apple has sold so far are testament to that.
This Verizon version of the iPhone 4 seems to have none of the same antenna issues. Try as I might, using the “death grip” and every other grip I can actually do, I can no longer reproduce the same attenuation problem that the previous iPhone 4 model had. I death grip the thing, and no bars drop. More importantly, calls don’t drop and data doesn’t stop. Again, Apple won’t comment, but problem, apparently, solved.
Moving on.
(Quickly, as an aside, I have noticed that the back of the Verizon version of the iPhone 4 is missing some of the FCC, etc symbols usually found at the bottom of the device — no clue why those are gone, but it’s another small change in the design. It makes the back look even cleaner!)
Service
The single most important thing that would-be AT&T switchers and some new iPhone customers will want to know is: how does it compare to the AT&T version in terms of signal, dropped calls, data, etc. The answer, at least in my neck of the woods (again, San Francisco), is very, very good.
It’s funny, if you spend time in various parts of this city, you’ll know where you can and cannot use an iPhone. Huge swaths of SoMa, for example, are awful. Some parts of the Mission are even worse. Then there are random streets throughout the entire city where AT&T service seemingly disappears into a black hole. I’ve more or less trained myself to know not to even try to use the iPhone in these parts of the city. So it was very, very odd to test out the Verizon iPhone in many of those areas. But guess what? Nearly across the board, the Verizon version of the iPhone worked — as both a phone and a mini data-sucking machine.
I can’t tell you how wonderful it has been to walk through the city while being able to maintain a phone call, or Internet connection. Naturally, there are still a few places I was unable get service, but they’re typically places where it’s understandable — like underground.
Many skeptics will be quick to point out that things may change when Verizon’s network gets swamped with iPhones in the same way that AT&T’s was. The difference is that Verizon’s network is already swamped with data-sucking Android devices. Millions of them. Maybe I’m being naive, but I really don’t expect there to be a problem with Verizon’s network in the same way that there was with AT&T’s. And neither does Verizon. We’ll see, I guess. But the early results are very promising.
Speed
AT&T, in their PR scramble to attempt to hold on to some of their disgruntled users, has been playing up two key things that are advantages of their network over Verizon’s. The first is the ability to make a call and surf the web at the same time. It’s true, you definitely cannot make a call and surf the web at the same time on the Verizon iPhone. To some people, this will matter. But I have really never seen this as a huge issue. If I’m talking on the phone with someone, I’m concentrating on talking with them, not surfing the web. But I realize that everyone is different. But apparently some 90+ million current Verizon subscribers don’t have too much of a problem with this either — as none of them have that capability.
The second issue AT&T has been playing up is the speed of their network. It’s “the fastest 3G network” according to their ad campaigns. In my tests, when both phones have had signal, that is also true. There’s no question that AT&T’s network is faster than Verizon’s for data transfers — both up and down. I’ve tried this all over the city a number of times. AT&T is faster. But — and this is a very big but — in order for AT&T to be faster, it needs to have a signal. And again, that’s simply not the case in large parts of the city. So speed or not, Verizon still wins this battle hands down in my book. I’ll take Verizon’s coverage over AT&T’s speed any day.
As sort of an aside, the one other issue brought up when taking about CDMA versus GSM is that the CDMA version of the iPhone won’t be able to roam internationally. For many countries, particularly those in Europe, that is true. One can only hope that Verizon or Apple come up with some sort of way around this — perhaps partner with another carrier for a deal on a per-use MiFi card to carry around in another country. Or better, just make a CDMA/GSM version of the phone. For now, if you’re going to be doing a lot of traveling, you’re likely to be out of luck.
Hotspot
The big new feature that was touted at the press conference unveiling the Verizon iPhone was the “Personal Hotspot” option. This allows you to turn your iPhone 4 into a WiFi hub that can accept up to five connections. I’ve previously done a walk-through of how this will work. And in the field, it’s just as easy as it initially seemed.
I’ve used this feature a number of times over the past week. It’s brilliant. It could not be any easier to set up and manage. Once you enable it and connect, a blue bar will appear at the top of the phone’s screen letting you know that the hotspot feature is enabled. And it will tell you how many devices are currently connected.
Unlike with phone calls, other data can also come in at the same time you’re using the phone as a hotspot. For example, Push Notifications still stream in when you’re connected. If you receive a call, the phone will ask you if you want to connect. If you do, it will sever your data connection, ending the hotspot capabilities. But when you hang up, you can push one button to resume.
Yes, I realize other phones have had this hotspot capability for some time now. In fact, when I reviewed the EVO 4G, it was pretty much the only thing I liked about the device. But the iPhone 4’s Personal Hotspot blows it away for one reason: battery life.
The EVO’s battery lasted something ridiculously low, like 90 minutes, with the hotspot feature turned on. In my tests, the iPhone 4 can give you a solid 4 hours of hotspot/tethering time. That’s from a fully charged battery, all the way down to zero. I’ve run it down fully twice. Both times, just about four hours.
Verizon plans to charge an extra $20 for the hotspot feature. That’s on top of the $30 you’ll pay for data for the iPhone 4 (which is currently unlimited, unlike AT&T’s capped plans). But if you’ve ever owned a wireless dongle, you’ll know that $20 is well worth it — the dongles usually cost you upwards of $60 a month for the same 2 GB of data usage.
The Verizon iPhone Versus The iPhone On Verizon’s Network
A few months ago, before the Verizon iPhone was announced, I wrote a post entitled: The “Verizon iPhone” Versus “The iPhone On Verizon’s Network”. The main idea behind the post was to wonder what the Verizon version of the device would be like when Verizon and Apple finally came to terms they could agree upon? As I said at the time, Verizon would undoubtedly love to load the device up with crapware in the same fashion that they’ve done with their Android devices, and all of the other devices they’ve sold over time. Apple, on the other hand, obviously would not want that. But would they have to make any concessions to get a deal done?
The best part of the Verizon iPhone is that no, Apple did not have to make any concessions. The Verizon iPhone is not a “Verizon iPhone” — it’s an “iPhone on Verizon’s network”. There’s no Verizon branding anywhere on the device aside from the upper left of the screen which shows you the carrier next to the signal strength. There are no pre-loaded Verizon apps. There are no apps that work on the AT&T iPhones that won’t work on this model. Every app you’ve bought in the App Store will install and work on this Verizon version of the device. FaceTime is interoperable over the two devices. So is Game Center.
Will Verizon have their own apps in the App Store that they’ll want you to buy? Undoubtedly. But this is very clearly Apple’s device. Not Verizon’s.
So Is It Worth It?
If you’re an AT&T iPhone customer at the end of your contract who lives in an area with poor AT&T service, you need to get to an Apple or Verizon store next week to get this updated device. Seriously, mark down February 9 on your calendar so that you pre-order it. Then show up at a store on February 10 to pick it up.
If you’re an AT&T iPhone customer still on contract who lives in an area with poor AT&T service, I would definitely consider getting this updated device. It may be a few hundred dollars out of pocket, but think of that compared to what you’ve paid to AT&T over the years. If you’re anything like me, it makes you want to scream.
If you’re an AT&T iPhone customer still on contract who lives in an area with good AT&T service, then no, this probably isn’t the device for you.
If you’re a non-iPhone user who is interested in checking it out but has been waiting for it to come to Verizon, this is absolutely for you.
The caveat to all of this is that it’s well known that Apple releases a new version of the iPhone every summer. Expect this summer to be no different. So if you buy this iPhone 4 on Verizon right now, know that there’s a good chance that an iPhone 5 will be out in six months or less. One can only hope that Apple and Verizon would do the right thing and allow the early Verizon iPhone adopters to upgrade to the iPhone 5 for a heavily discounted (if not fully subsidized price). But it’s still very much up in the air.
Hell, we don’t even know for sure that Verizon will get the iPhone 5 this summer. Perhaps it will be AT&T-only based on some sort of contractual agreement. But the latest rumors suggest that a CDMA/GSM hybrid iPhone 5 that works on both AT&T and Verizon may be the most likely bet. So again, it comes down to how badly you want an iPhone on Verizon right now — and the hope that Verizon and Apple will do the right thing for customers in a few months.
For me, as someone who has spent three and a half years fed up with AT&T, the Verizon iPhone is absolutely, 100 percent worth it. I’ve already cancelled my AT&T contract (by way of Google Voice, actually) and I cannot forsee a future where I ever go back.
There’s long been a slogan that goes along with many Apple products — “it just works”. It’s also the best way to sum up this review. The iPhone 4 on Verizon: it just works. ||||| Most impressively, the Verizon iPhone effortlessly made calls in the Cellphone Signal Torture Chamber of Doom: my house.
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The Verizon iPhone did drop one call — in baggage claim at the Los Angeles airport. And, of course, there are regions where AT&T coverage is better than Verizon’s. But in general, my testing matches the conclusions of Consumer Reports and RootMetrics.com: the Verizon iPhone has more bars in more places. (Hey, that might make a good slogan! Oh, wait...)
In general, the Verizon and AT&T iPhones are identical. Same sleek, thin, satisfying, plastic-free body — all glass and metal. Same gorgeous, high-resolution screen — 960 by 640 pixels. Same battery life — you’ll need a recharge every night. Same camera on the back, which can take 5-megapixel stills or excellent hi-def video — the flash doubles as a video light. Same low-resolution camera on the front, suitable for Wi-Fi videochats, using Apple’s FaceTime software for iPhone or Mac.
Even the prices are about the same. The 16-gigabyte phone costs $200 with two-year contract. The monthly service costs, for example, $70 for unlimited voice calls, plus $20 for 5,000 text messages, plus $30 a month for unlimited Internet use. (Verizon says that it will soon eliminate that unlimited plan, just as AT&T recently did. Instead, you’ll pay something like $25 a month for 2 gigabytes of Internet data. Good luck figuring out how much that is.)
The single new feature in Verizon’s iPhone is Personal Hotspot, where the iPhone becomes a Wi-Fi base station. Up to five laptops, iPod Touches or other gadgets can get online, using the phone as a glorified Internet antenna.
That’s incredibly convenient. Many other app phones have it — AT&T says its iPhone will get it soon — but Apple’s execution is especially nice. For example, the hot spot shuts itself off 90 seconds after the last laptop disconnects. That’s hugely important, because these personal hot spot features are merciless battery drains.
The hot spot feature costs $20 a month extra, and buys only 2 gigabytes of data for all of those laptops. Think e-mail, not YouTube. (AT&T will charge $45 a month for 4 gigabytes of data.)
Now, there are two kinds of cellphone networks in this country. They’re known as C.D.M.A. (Verizon and Sprint use this technology) and G.S.M. (the system for AT&T and T-Mobile). Making an iPhone that works on a C.D.M.A. network entailed four adjustments, some of which you won’t like.
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First, Apple moved the volume and Ringer Off switches a fraction of an inch to accommodate the C.D.M.A. antenna inside. It’s not a big deal, but those buttons no longer fit existing AT&T iPhone cases. (Contrary to blogger belief, the redesign doesn’t help with the famous Death Grip issue, in which holding the phone in a certain way makes your signal bars drop. Then again, the problem emerges only when you’re in a very weak signal area, so you’ll see it less often on Verizon. I couldn’t reproduce it at all.)
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A second C.D.M.A. difference: When you exchange long text messages with non-Verizon phones, they get split up into 160-character chunks. G.S.M. phones are smart enough to reconstitute those chunks into one more readable, consolidated message.
Third: You can’t talk on an C.D.M.A. phone while you’re online. That is, if you’re on a call, you can’t simultaneously check a Web site or send e-mail over the cellular network — and, annoyingly, the Personal Hotspot feature cuts off. (It reconnects when you hang up.)
If the top of your screen says “3G,” an indication that you’re in a high-speed Internet area of Verizon’s network, incoming calls take priority and interrupt your online connection. If you’re online in an older, 2G area, you stay online and the call goes directly to voice mail.
It’s not such a big deal. Continuing processes like downloads, Personal Hotspot and GPS navigation resume automatically when you end your call. You can still send text and get messages when you’re on a call. And none of this applies when you’re in a Wi-Fi hot spot; in that case, you can call and surf simultaneously, no problem.
For business travelers, the fourth C.D.M.A. difference is the most disappointing: not many other countries use C.D.M.A. The Verizon iPhone works in about 40 countries, including Mexico, Canada and China; AT&T phones, on the other hand, work in 220 countries. (In both cases, you pay through the nose if you use them overseas.)
Still interested? Here are a few final points to ponder before you plunge.
Even if Verizon’s network is the best in America, its policies and prices are still among the worst. This is the company, after all, that admitted to billing $2 every time you accidentally hit the up-arrow button. (Verizon refunded $52 million and paid the Federal Communications Commission a record $25 million fine.) This is the company that just eliminated its “new phone every two years” discount policy, that just cut its new-phone return policy to 14 days from 30, that doubled its early-termination fee (to $350 if you cancel your two-year contract before it’s up).
Consider, too, that if surveys are any indication, Verizon can expect an enormous stampede of new iPhone customers. Last time this happened — to AT&T — the weight of all those bandwidth-sucking iPhones swamped the network, causing interruptions that persist to this day. The same thing might happen to Verizon.
Verizon swears that it’s prepared for the onslaught. Then again, that’s what AT&T said, too.
Remember, too, that so far, Apple has released a new iPhone model every July. Apple won’t say if there will be an iPhone 5 for Verizon this summer. (“Let’s put it this way: We’re not stupid,” is all an Apple rep would say.) But if it does, and you buy an iPhone 4 now, you’ll be stuck with an outdated phone in only five months.
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Finally, a lot has changed in the years it’s taken the iPhone to come to Verizon. Phones that run Google’s Android software have eaten a lot of the iPhone’s lunch. A huge part of that, of course, was the AT&T factor; people bought Android phones so they could be on Verizon’s network.
Even now, though, Android phones are superior in some ways. For example, they offer amazingly good spoken GPS navigation, you can dictate text into any text box, and you can get one with a bigger screen. Of course, the iPhone still wins on battery life, simplicity and both the quality and quantity of the app store. (Google doesn’t screen or supervise what’s on the Android store, as Apple does. Some call that a blessing, others a curse.)
Yes, that’s a lot of footnotes and “yes, buts.” Even so, most people don’t care about overseas compatibility or simultaneous calling and surfing or Verizon’s tactics. They want an iPhone — an iconic, beautiful, fast, elegant iPhone — that doesn’t drop calls.
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– The iPhone 4 has finally arrived on Verizon, and what that means is … now you can actually make successful phone calls on your iPhone. Reviewers give it a thumbs-up: “The Verizon iPhone is nearly the same as AT&T’s iPhone 4—but it doesn’t drop calls. For several million Americans, that makes it the holy grail,” writes David Pogue in the New York Times. In five cities, including San Francisco and New York (“the two Bermuda Triangles of AT&T reception”), the Verizon version successfully held a call to a landline while the AT&T version dropped it, sometimes more than once. OK, the “holy grail” did drop one call, and AT&T has better coverage in some areas, but the bottom line is: “The Verizon iPhone has more bars in more places.” Walter S. Mossberg concurs that the Verizon version is “much, much better with voice calls,” and it also has “the ability to use the phone, for an extra monthly fee, as a Wi-Fi hot spot for Internet connectivity to multiple laptops or other devices,” a feature he found to work fine. But, he writes in the Wall Street Journal, “if you really care about data speed, or travel overseas, and AT&T service is tolerable in your area, you may want to stick with AT&T.” “It’s here. And yes, it works. Beautifully,” writes MG Siegler on TechCrunch. “I can’t tell you how wonderful it has been to walk through the city while being able to maintain a phone call, or Internet connection. Naturally, there are still a few places I was unable get service, but they’re typically places where it’s understandable—like underground.” The stellar reviews did come with some caveats (Verizon's "policies and prices are still among the worst" in America, Pogue writes). Click through for more reasons you might want to hold off on buying a Verizon iPhone.
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Associée à l'organisation du Concours en 1997.
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Ireland forged South Africa #39;s ill-judged pre-match words into a steely response which sentenced the Tri-Nations champions to a dramatic defeat and shattered Springbok dreams
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"I feel I'm like a Hollywood actor or something," said Gavin Strickland, 19, as local media filmed his reunion with the vehicle on Thursday.
He had driven from Syracuse, New York, for a Metallica concert on Sunday night, but forgot where he parked.
A Craigslist advert asking the public for help went viral.
"Our doofy son parked the car in an indoor parking garage, in the first floor (slightly lower / basement level) but that garage cannot now be located," his father wrote online.
"The car has US Florida license plates, a small Canadian flag affixed to the door frame, and a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker."
Man who saved Toronto $50,000 is rebuked
The teenager searched all night for the 2015 Nissan Versa Sedan and police officers even drove him around the city to help.
But he gave up on Monday morning and took a coach the 250 miles (400km) back home.
His father's advert included several details which the younger Mr Strickland had managed to recall: it's nearby a Starbucks, "possibly a bank" and some construction.
It was also within an $8 (£6) cab ride of the Rogers Centre, where he watched the concert.
One online user called the advert, which came with a $100 reward, "the best scavenger hunt ever".
A delighted Mr Strickland returned to Toronto after learning the car was discovered on Wednesday night.
Madison Riddolls, 26, found it parked in an electric car charging station, after she and her boyfriend decided to play detective.
"We were a little bored and deciding to go to bed or go on a little adventure in our city," Ms Riddolls told CBC News.
"I felt like I owed it to the family. They were sort of relying on us."
In another bonus, the car park waived the charge for four days of parking, only charging Mr Strickland for one day.
They even gave him a gift of a Bluetooth device to ensure he does not lose the car again.
"I love Canada," said Mr Strickland, "and I think I just love how the city got together to help me out."
With that, he hopped back in his car, waved to cameras and drove home.
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A US teenager who lost his car in a Toronto car park for four days has picked up the vehicle after volunteer sleuths pounded pavements to find it.
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George H.W. Bush served this country not only as President but also as Vice President, Member of Congress, United Nations Ambassador, chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and also, as a naval aviator in World War II. Coming back from the war, he married his sweetheart, Barbara Pierce of Rye, New York, and later that year made his first civilian adult decision when he made the appropriate choice of moving to Texas, where he lived the rest of his life.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that the sentence below is true?
The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara.
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1. -LRB- 7 -RRB- For all these reasons it is clear that for Congress to try to penalize a non-act is an unprecedented and unconstitutional power grab , and so the individual mandate is unconstitutional .
2. -LRB- 6 -RRB- This is why a majority of the states , and numerous organizations and individual persons , have filed actions in federal court challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate , and several courts have already struck it down on constitutional grounds .
3. It may require a degree of intrusiveness and bureaucracy that some will find unpalatable .
4. -LRB- 6 -RRB- This is likely to mean much more intrusive inspection , for example hospitals having to report to the government patients they have who dont have health insursnce . .
5. -LRB- 3 -RRB- As Robert A. Levy and Michael F. Cannon of the CATO Institute argue : Congress ' attempt to punish a non-act that harms no one is an intolerable affront to the Constitution , liberty , and personal autonomy .
6. That shameful fact can not be altered by calling it health-care reform .
7. -LRB- 4 -RRB- The individual healthcare insurance mandate would , for the first time , mean the government setting uo a monopoly or a cartel with which every citizen of the US would be compelled - by a statutory power - to do business .
8. This destroys any pretence of individual market freedom , individuals would be required to contribute money out of each and every pay check they earned to either a government entity which would be staffed and/or controlled by political appointees or to a cartel made up of companies that would owe their continued existence on the cartel list to the acquiescence of political overseers .
9. Either way , the reduction in individual autonomy and freedom over health care choices would be dramatically decreased and inevitably politicized .
10. This has obvious worrying possibilities for corruption , the party in power would favour those who donate to the party .
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Lucy was a young lady bug. She always felt different from the lady bugs because her colors were reversed! Instead of a red body and black spots she had a black body and red spots! As you can imagine this left Lucy feeling pretty lonely so she spent a lot of time flying around to all the different areas to find other ladybugs like her. She loved to feel the wind in her wings as she flew. She spent so much of her time flying around so she could fly longer and faster than another other lady bug. She also loved flying so much because it gave her a feeling of being free. One day when she was flying around she heard a loud scream for help! She went as fast as she could towards the screams for help. She saw another lady bug with a broken wing lying on the ground. She knew the lady bug as Jessie. "What happened?!" asked Lucy. "I crashed into the tree flying home yesterday and I've been lost ever since. I can't fly because my wing is broken. Do you know the way back home?" asked Jessie "Don't worry Jessie, I know this area like the back of my wing I'll lead you home!" Lucy said happily. "Thank you so much!" Jessie said happily. Lucy led Jessie straight home where he was given medicine to fix his broken wing. She was rewarded a medal and called a hero. As she enjoyed her medal she knew she didn't need to find for any more ladybugs that looked like her. She now knew that even with her different colors, she was still a lady bug like everyone else.
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Sentence: 101 Helena, which has an apoapsis of 441092000.0 kms was discovered by the Canadian National, James Craig Watson. His alma mater was the University of Michigan and he died in Madison, Wisconsin.
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101 Helena, discoverer, James Craig Watson; James Craig Watson, almaMater, University of Michigan; James Craig Watson, nationality, Canada; James Craig Watson, deathPlace, Madison, Wisconsin; 101 Helena, apoapsis, 441092000.0 (kilometres)
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Briefly summarize this sentence: the election commission responsible for tallying up the official results of a contested election in russia 's troubled caucasus region has split , russian media reported on saturday .
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A woman is swimming.
A man is singing.
On a scale from 0 to 5, where 0 is "no meaning overlap" and 5 is "means the same thing", how closely does the first sentence resemble the second one?
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More recently , the band Extra Life has combined aspects of early music with the modern genre of math rock .
More recently , the band has combined Extra Life Aspects of Old Music with the modern genre of Math Rock .
Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
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How to make snow<br>Make sure you have the proper weather conditions. Snow making depends on the weather. The ideal conditions are temperatures 28 ° f (−2 ° c) or lower, with a low humidity.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
It has to be more than 28 degrees to make snow.
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MIT was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1934 and remains a research university with a very high level of research activity; research expenditures totaled $718.2 million in 2009. The federal government was the largest source of sponsored research, with the Department of Health and Human Services granting $255.9 million, United States Department of Defense $97.5 million, United States Department of Energy $65.8 million, National Science Foundation $61.4 million, and NASA $27.4 million. MIT employs approximately 1300 researchers in addition to faculty. In 2011, MIT faculty and researchers disclosed 632 inventions, were issued 153 patents, earned $85.4 million in cash income, and received $69.6 million in royalties. Through programs like the Deshpande Center, MIT faculty leverage their research and discoveries into multi-million-dollar commercial ventures.
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What totaled the highest number at MIT, inventions or patents?
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Here is a goal: Make finished wood look shiny.
Which way makes more sense to accomplish this goal?
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Government needs to be separated from church and religion in order to preserve pluralism in society and prevent marginalization and oppression of religious minorities.
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1. `` Court Split Over Commandments . ''
2. Neutrality is the best antidote to contemporary culture wars .
3. Unless schools were to post texts for literally every religion and atheism as well , this goal can not be achieved if the Ten Commandments are in the classroom .
4. Lane , Charles .
5. Van Orden v. Perry , oral argument Ibid .
6. It is against the Ten Commandments to believe in `` other gods '' , but we expressly permit belief in other religious systems and atheism via constitutional protections .
7. Public schools are run by the government and as such have an obligation to cleave to that principle of separation of church and state .
8. Posting the Decalogue is obviously tremendously divisive - a serious culture war of lawsuits , protests , and speech has been waged over the issue .
9. Not only is this a violation of the principle of separation , but it also sends a mixed message to those groups , and runs the risk of alienating those who do not conform to these ideals .
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Choose from options: Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
Beaches with wave less than 1 ft high are good for boogie boarding
How to boogie board<br>Choose a calm spot for boogie boarding. Go to a swimming beach that has waves less than 2 ft (61 cm) high. Make sure that the beach is free of large rocks, boats, and fishing equipment.
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- It's impossible to say;
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Wave I was having a problem to erase the light with relay using the code in this tutorial could light normal but to delete not erased and the relay was armed only disarming when I unplugged the cable from the relay the raspberry
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Wave, I was having a problem to erase the light with relay, using the code in this tutorial, could light normal, but to delete not erased and the relay was armed, only disarming when I unplugged the cable from the relay the raspberry.
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Two men on one knee demonstrate a hip flexxer stretch in a therapy gym. the man wearing a black t - shirt
Choices:
+ spins his body on the uneven concrete to demonstrate a toss.;
+ prepares to flexes one of his knees muscles.;
+ uses the man wearing a green t-shirt as a model to demonstrate the hip flexxer stretch.;
+ does the splits on front two parallel bars.;
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Crying Baby<br>Sherry had a newborn baby. She didn't know how to stop the baby from crying. Sherry decided to go stay with her mother for a few days. Her mother gave her tips on caring for the baby. Sherry was able to keep the baby calm more often.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
The baby had a genetic disease
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The friendly staff at the 24hour reception are happy to provide tips on what to see and do in the area Show more The Hotel del Carmen is perfectly situated for exploring Valencia with a host of major attractions within a short stroll
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The friendly staff at the 24-hour reception are happy to provide tips on what to see and do in the area. Show more The Hotel del Carmen is perfectly situated for exploring Valencia, with a host of major attractions within a short stroll.
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Jäsenvaltioiden on mielestäni tärkeää tehdä pikemminkin yhteistyötä, jotta ne voivat torjua tehokkaasti ihmiskauppaa ja laitonta ihmisten salakuljetusta, joka usein vaarantaa sellaisten henkilöjen elämän, jotka ovat epätoivoisina joutuneet lähtemään kotimaastaan.
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I believe, rather, that it is important for the Member States to cooperate if they are effectively to combat trafficking in human beings and illegal people-smuggling, which often put at risk the lives of those who, in desperation, have been forced to leave their home countries.
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Doomsday Device is a term used in professional wrestling to reference a tandem move in which one wrestler hoists the opponent on their shoulders so that they are facing in the same direction in what is known as the electric chair position, while another wrestler climbs the ring post to the top turnbuckle and delivers a flying attack on that prone opponent.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
Doomsday Device was a unpopular term.
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[A]. Yes;
[B]. It's impossible to say;
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Kariç'in ezeli düşmanı Maliye Bakanı Mlacan Dinkiç satıştan elde edilecek gelirlerin Sırp ekonomisinde çok ihtiyaç duyulan yatırımlarda kullanılmasını önerdi.
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Karic's staunch foe, Finance Minister Mladjan Dinkic, has proposed using the sell-off receipts for much-needed investments in Serbia's economy.
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Whenit'sdeletedbyBitdefenderInternetSecurity2012,theinfectedDLLfilewouldberemovedtoo.
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Can we conclude that "Emma's mother's place had been taken by an excellent woman as governess." if the statement "Emma's mother had died long ago, and her place had been taken by an excellent woman as governess." is true?
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-- no.
-- yes.
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Write an article based on this ""Immediate and robust action" is being taken to stamp out bird flu following a confirmed case at a duck breeding farm in East Yorkshire, the environment secretary has told the Commons."
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Tests are yet to establish the strain, but the H5N1 form, deadly to humans, has been ruled out, Liz Truss said.
About 6,000 birds will be culled from Tuesday as a precaution and a 6 mile (10km) exclusion zone is in place.
Ms Truss repeated reassurances that there was no risk to food safety.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the flu strain at the farm in the village of Nafferton had been identified as the H5 virus, but not the H5N1 strain. That strain has led to hundreds of deaths worldwide, although none have been in northern Europe.
European Commission officials say the outbreak is likely to be linked to migratory birds - possibly swans - heading south for winter, and cases in the Netherlands at the weekend and Germany earlier in the month.
The EC said the UK and the Netherlands were applying its directives to control the spread of the virus.
They also include the introduction of cleaning and disinfection areas, and a ban on the sale of live poultry, eggs, poultry meat and other poultry products from the restricted zones to other countries.
In her statement to MPs, Ms Truss said: "Importantly, the chief medical officer and Public Health England have confirmed the risk to public health is very low.
"It is important to note this disease is highly pathogenic for birds but the Foods Standards Agency has advised that avian flu does not pose a food safety risk."
She added: "We have seen a really good effort, I am clear we need to keep that up, to make sure we stamp out this disease."
Amid concern further cases could be spread by wild birds, Ms Truss said compensation would paid to farmers adversely affected by the outbreak.
The sight of Defra officials, clad in protective clothing and planning the cull of 6,000 ducks is something no farmer wants to see.
But this community wants this virus stopped in its tracks here at the duck farm in Nafferton.
There are 2.5 million farmed birds in East Yorkshire alone, spread over 50 units. They include 500,000 ducks and more than one million hens. All of them are vulnerable to this highly contagious strain of Avian Flu.
The six mile exclusion zone around the infected farm was enforced from first light and could last for weeks. Within the zone the movement of all poultry is completely prohibited.
A biosecurity measure which in itself will already be having an impact on local businesses.
But perhaps what will worry farmers most is the suspected source of this outbreak. It is not believed to be the industry's supply chain but rather the droppings of wild birds, migrating in their thousands across Europe, with no regard for exclusion zones and completely beyond anyone's control.
A private vet reported a possible case of bird flu at the Nafferton farm on Friday morning and the disease was confirmed the following day.
Ms Truss said: "It is essential anyone keeping poultry practises good biosecurity, is vigilant for any signs of disease and seeks prompt advice from their vet."
The case is the first in the UK since 2008, when chickens on a farm in Banbury, Oxfordshire, tested positive for the virus.
On Sunday, an outbreak of a highly contagious strain of bird flu was discovered at a poultry farm in the Netherlands. The Dutch government has imposed a three-day nationwide ban on the transportation of poultry and eggs.
Officials say the strain identified in the Netherlands, H5N8, is very dangerous for bird life and could potentially spread to humans, although people can only be infected through very close contact with the affected birds.
The European Commission said the "information available indicates that the H5 virus in the UK is probably identical to the H5N8... virus found in the Netherlands and in Germany".
On Monday, specialists dressed in blue protective overalls and face masks could be seen on the Nafferton farm.
The Animal and Plant Health Agency, a Defra agency, said the culling of the livestock will begin on Tuesday morning and is expected to last all day.
In the Commons, shadow environment secretary Maria Eagle questioned whether officials should operate on a "precautionary principle" until it was clear what the source of the bird flu was.
"Would this not impact on measures ought to be taken to contain it," she said.
Ms Trust told MPs: "Whilst we are never complacent about such an important issue, we do have a strong track record of controlling and eliminating outbreaks of avian flu in the UK and we are working closely with operational partners, devolved administration colleagues and the industry to deal effectively with this outbreak."
Chris Dickinson, the National Farmers Union county adviser for Yorkshire, said farmers needed to maintain good hygiene measures and check their stock to help prevent a spread.
British Poultry Council chief executive Andrew Large reiterated the message from scientists that the risk to the general public in the UK from bird flu is negligible.
"Consumers should continue to support British poultry meat, assured that there is no risk in eating cooked poultry, and that is a message echoed by the Food Standards Agency and the World Health Organization," he said.
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What is the debate topic for the following sentences?
1. An elected mayor would act as a focus for local people , both symbolically and as someone with real power to improve their lives .
2. It is not surprising then that turnout is only around 30 % and in some urban areas in Britain fewer than 1 in 4 adults bother to vote in local elections the worst turnout in the EU .
3. At present many people have no idea who their local councillors are , or who leads their council , perhaps because collective decision-making is generally unexciting .
4. An elected mayor would revitalise local democracy .
5. This in turn would turn attention to local democracy and increase turnout in elections .
6. Local elections would gain more coverage and more peoples attention as they are voting for one recognisable figure rather than a number of councillors .
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It will help to find products or products containing this vitamin.
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Is the sentiment of the following sentence positive or negative (see options at the end)?
is visually smart ,
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(2). positive;
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TEXT: i think i fell in love with them before i fell in love with him . ashley and cooper were cuddled together . with just a cardigan , white tee , and baby blue fashion scarf , she was n't any more prepared to be without heat than i was in my cotton t-shirt and light jacket . the guys did n't show it if they were
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This is some data: Acharya Institute of Technology, city, Bangalore; Acharya Institute of Technology, director, "Dr. G. P. Prabhukumar"; Acharya Institute of Technology, state, Karnataka; Acharya Institute of Technology, country, "India"; Acharya Institute of Technology, numberOfPostgraduateStudents, 700; Acharya Institute of Technology, campus, "In Soldevanahalli, Acharya Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan Road, Hessarghatta Main Road, Bangalore – 560090."; Acharya Institute of Technology, affiliation, Visvesvaraya Technological University.
Generate a detailed description of this data.
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Acharya Institute of Technology in Bangalore, India is affiliated with Visvesvaraya Technological University. The school is in the state of Karnataka and has 700 post graduate students. Its director is Dr. G. P. Prabhukumar and its full address is In Soldevanahalli, Acharya Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan Road, Hessarghatta Main Road, Bangalore – 560090.
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Write a title:
BIRMINGHAM (AFP) - Rival captains Michael Vaughan and Ricky Ponting both pinpointed all-rounder Andrew Flintoff as the vital player in Tuesday #39;s Champions Trophy semi-final between England and Australia here at Edgbaston.
Title:
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Flintoff The Key Say Captains
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french big cock bisexual cum in mouth double penetration 18
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Complete the passage: pick from possible candidates.
It was a demolition; a day that ‘scarred’ Arsene Wenger and provided the blueprint for how Liverpool’s life under Brendan Rodgers can be. Go back to lunchtime on February 8 this year and you will remember the shock of the events that were unfolding at Anfield. One goal then another quickly followed by two more. In 20 blistering minutes, Arsenal heads were scrambled and Liverpool were catapulting themselves into a title race. So good was the performance, BT made an advert about it: Rio Ferdinand, watching on his iPhone, declares as the fourth goal from Daniel Sturridge speeds in that ‘I can’t believe what I’m watching’; Jose Mourinho, upon hearing the news, remarks with a shake of the head: ‘Unbelievable.’
The intensity of Liverpool's play resulted in
OPTIONS:
- Alexis Sanchez' side leading 4-0 after just 20 minutes at Anfield
- Anfield' side leading 4-0 after just 20 minutes at Anfield
- Arsenal' side leading 4-0 after just 20 minutes at Anfield
- Arsene Wenger' side leading 4-0 after just 20 minutes at Anfield
- BT' side leading 4-0 after just 20 minutes at Anfield
- Brendan Rodgers' side leading 4-0 after just 20 minutes at Anfield
- Daniel Sturridge' side leading 4-0 after just 20 minutes at Anfield
- Frenchman' side leading 4-0 after just 20 minutes at Anfield
- Jose Mourinho' side leading 4-0 after just 20 minutes at Anfield
- Liverpool' side leading 4-0 after just 20 minutes at Anfield
- Luis Suarez' side leading 4-0 after just 20 minutes at Anfield
- Northern Irishman' side leading 4-0 after just 20 minutes at Anfield
- Rio Ferdinand' side leading 4-0 after just 20 minutes at Anfield
- Rodgers' side leading 4-0 after just 20 minutes at Anfield
- Rogers' side leading 4-0 after just 20 minutes at Anfield
- iPhone' side leading 4-0 after just 20 minutes at Anfield
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Brendan Rodgers' side leading 4-0 after just 20 minutes at Anfield
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Bill dug a small hole and placed the seed inside. Then, he covered up the hole with dirt, and poured some water on it. It was such a small seed, and it was hard to believe that it would turn into a giant pumpkin.
Every day, Bill went out to the garden to check on the seed. Some days, if the ground was dry, he poured more water on it. After a few days, a tiny green plant started coming out of the ground. Bill kept checking every day, and the plant kept getting bigger and bigger.
Soon, there were tiny leaves on the plant. As the summer went on, the whole plant kept getting bigger and bigger. Soon, he could see tiny fruits starting to grow. They kept getting bigger and bigger. Eventually, he could tell that they were pumpkins!
That fall, the pumpkins were really big. Bill picked the biggest one and brought it to the fair. He got a blue ribbon for the biggest pumpkin!
Bill's parents had other plants in their garden. They had strawberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, and many other fruits and vegetables. But they all started as tiny seeds.
What are the answers to this following set of questions:
1. Who did some planting?
2. What was his first step?
3. What did he put in there?
4. What kind of seed was it?
5. What did he hope for?
6. Did he forget about his seed after he planted it?
7. What did he do with it then?
8. Anything else?
9. Did the seed die out?
10. What did it grow into?
11. What kind of plant?
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1. Bill.
2. Digging a hole.
3. The seed.
4. Pumpkin.
5. unknown
6. No.
7. Check on the seed.
8. Some days, if the ground was dry, he poured more water on it.
9. No.
10. A plant.
11. A pumpkin plant.
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Write an article using the following points:
Five men aged from 26 to 44 are arrested in a police raid in Lunel, southern France. France's interior minister says the arrests deal a "new blow" to terrorism.
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Paris (CNN)Five men were arrested in southern France Tuesday on suspicion of belonging to a jihadist cell which was recruiting young French people, authorities said. Speaking at a news conference in Paris, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said "a new blow has been dealt to terrorism" with the arrests in the Herault region. Police units carried out an early morning raid in in the small town of Lunel overseen by the anti-terror branch of the Paris prosecutor's office. Five men aged between 26 and 44 were arrested and remain in police custody. Law enforcement agenst also conducted several searches. According to Cazeneuve, the five men "are suspected of active participation in a jihadist thread whose members were recruited and indoctrinated, and then themselves recruited and indoctrinated several French young people from Lunel as well." Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor, told CNN that "two men out of the five are suspected to have traveled to Syria, two others were allegedly planning on traveling there." It's too early to give out any further information, she said. Cazeneuve emphasized the seriousness of the men's alleged jihadist ties. "If the involvement of the suspects is confirmed by the courts, a seriously dangerous and organized cell will have been dismantled this morning," he said. "Yet another one." It's been almost three weeks since two gunmen attacked the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people, and another gunman shot a policewoman in a Paris suburb and killed four hostages in a kosher supermarket. Web of terror: Paris attackers' connection to global jihad. Since then, authorities in France and elsewhere have cracked down on suspected radical Islamists with links to the Paris attackers or to terror networks overseas. Cazeneuve on Tuesday reiterated the "full mobilization and determination" of French authorities to fight against terrorism "both inside and outside the country." Over the past year, he said, more than 10 young men have left their hometown of Lunel for Syria, where they joined the ranks of ISIS. Several of them have died in fighting in Syria or Iraq. In total, 73 French nationals have died under the same circumstances, he said.
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Here are some keywords about a restaurant:
name = The Golden Palace, eatType = coffee shop, food = Fast food, priceRange = cheap, area = riverside. Write a sentence that describes the following attributes of a restaurant.
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The Golden Palace in riverside is a fast food serving coffee shop that is cheap and the customer service is average.
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Jon Garth Murray (November 16, 1954 – September 29, 1995) was the second son of late controversial activist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the first president and founder of American Atheists, Inc., in 1963. He was also the half-brother of the reverend William "Bill" Murray.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
Jon Garth Murray is the son of a mormon woman.
Select from the following.
* Yes;
* It's impossible to say;
* No;
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"takashi miike keeps pushing the envelope "
How would the sentiment of this sentence be perceived --
Possible answers: (1). negative. (2). positive.
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Identify the most salient words in this sentence:
A boy gets his haircut by another boy with friends watching.
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haircut
watch
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Review: Every motion picture Bette Davis stars in is worth experiencing. Before Davis co-stars with Leslie Howard in "Of Human Bondage," she'd been in over a score of movies. Legend has it that Davis was 'robbed' of a 1935 Oscar for her performance as a cockney-speaking waitress, unwed mother & manipulative boyfriend-user, Mildred Rogers. The story goes that the AFI consoled Davis by awarding her 1st Oscar for playing Joyce Heath in "Dangerous." I imagine Davis' fans of "Of Human Bondage" who agree with the Oscar-robbing legend are going to have at my critique's contrast of the 1934 film for which the AFI didn't award her performance & the 1936 film "Dangerous," performance for which she received her 1st Oscar in 1937.
I've tried to view all of Bette Davis' motion pictures, TV interviews, videos, advertisements for WWII & TV performances in popular series. In hindsight, it is easy to recognize why this film, "Of Human Bondage," gave Davis the opportunity to be nominated for her performance. She was only 25yo when the film was completed & just about to reach Hollywood's red carpet. The public began to notice Bette Davis as a star because of her performance in "Of Human Bondage." That is what makes it her legendary performance. But, RKO saw her greatness in "The Man Who Played God," & borrowed her from Warners to play Rogers.
I'm going to go with the AFI, in hindsight, some 41 years after their astute decision to award Davis her 1st Best Actress Oscar for "Dangerous," 2 years later. By doing so, the AFI may have been instrumental in bringing out the very best in one of Hollywood's most talented 20th century actors. Because, from "Of Human Bondage," onward, Davis knew for certain that she had to reach deep inside of herself to find the performances that earned her the golden statue. Doubtless, she deserved more than 2 Oscars; perhaps as many as 6.
"Dangerous" provides an exemplary contrast in Davis' depth of acting characterization. For, it's in "Dangerous" (1936) that she becomes the greatest actor of the 20th century. Davis is so good as Joyce Heath, she's dead-center on the red carpet. Whereas in "Of Human Bondage," Davis is right off the edge, still on the sidewalk & ready to take off on the rest of her 60 year acting career.
Perhaps by not awarding her that legendary Oscar in 1935, instead of a star being born, an actor was given incentive to reach beyond stardom into her soul for the gifted actor's greatest work.
It is well known that her contemporary peer adversary was Joan Crawford; a star whose performances still don't measure up to Davis'. Even Anna Nicole Smith was a 'star'. Howard Stern is a radio host 'star', too. Lots of people on stage & the silver screen are stars. Few became great actors. The key difference between them is something that Bette Davis could sense: the difference between the desire to do great acting or to become star-struck.
Try comparing these two movies as I have, viewing one right after the other. Maybe you'll recognize what the AFI & I did. Davis was on the verge of becoming one of the greatest actors of the 20th century at 25yo & achieved her goal by the time she was 27. She spent her next 50 plus years setting the bar so high that it has not been reached . . . yet.
Had the AFI sent her the message that she'd arrived in "Of Human Bondage," Davis' life history as a great actor may have been led into star-struck-dom, instead.
What is the sentiment of this review?
Options are:
[I] negative.
[II] positive.
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The Road to Stardom With Missy Elliott was a competitive reality television show that aired on the UPN Network in 2005. The main judge and host was hip-hop artist Missy Elliott. Other judges were singer-producer Teena Marie, producer Dallas Austin, and manager Mona Scott.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
Teena Marie was the main judge and host of The Road to Stardom
OPT:
(I). Yes.
(II). It's impossible to say.
(III). No.
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Pouze pokud tomu tak není, použije se přímo obecná klauzule v čl. 5 odst. 1 směrnice 2005/29 ( 33 ).
Translate to English
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The general clause in Article 5(1) of the directive is directly applicable only where that is not the case.
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This question has options. Does the word "application" have the same definition in the next two sentences?
A novel application of electronics to medical diagnosis.
December 31 is the deadline for applications.
Options: -- different meanings. -- the same meaning.
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different meanings
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Translate "By Antonio Prlenda for Southeast European Times in Sarajevo – 12/01/09" to Turkish?
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Antonio Prlenda, Southeast European Times, Saraybosna – 12/01/09
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Question: The reaction that releases energy for use by the cell occurs in which site?
What is the correct answer to the question from the following choices?
OPTIONS: [i] Golgi apparatus [ii] endoplasmic reticulum [iii] cytoplasmic membrane [iv] mitochondrial membrane
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I want to file for a dissolution of marriage , but I can not afford the court fees . I looked at the monthly household income chart and my gross exceeds the amount for the amount of members in my family . I filled out the Financial info sheet .
Generate a question about the above context.
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What is going to happen to the couple in the future ?
Options: 1). They are going to love each other always .. 2). They are going to fall deeper into love .. 3). None of the above choices .. 4). They are going to split ..
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Here is a news article: President Barack Obama's top national security adviser Tom Donilon is resigning and will be replaced by U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, marking a significant shakeup to the White House foreign policy team.
A White House official confirmed the personnel changes Wednesday morning ahead of a planned announcement by the president later in the day.
Donilon has been a key foreign policy adviser to Obama since he first took office. But the 58-year-old had been expected to depart sometime this year, with Rice seen as the likely candidate to replace him.
Rice, a close Obama confidante, came under withering criticism from Republicans as part of the investigations into the deadly attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya. Rice, relying on talking points from the intelligence community, said in television interviews that the attacks were likely spontaneous, which was later proven incorrect.
Obama considered nominating Rice as his second-term secretary of state, but she withdrew amid the Republican criticism, saying she didn't want her confirmation fight to be a distraction for the White House.
Her new post as national security adviser does not require Senate confirmation.
The White House official said Donilon is expected to stay on the job until early July, after Obama wraps up two overseas trips and a summit later this week with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The official insisted on anonymity in order to discuss the personnel changes before they were publicly announced. ||||| WASHINGTON — President Obama announced on Wednesday afternoon that Susan E. Rice, the American ambassador to the United Nations, would replace Tom Donilon, who is resigning, as national security adviser in a major shakeup of his foreign-policy inner circle.
The appointment, which Mr. Obama made in a Rose Garden ceremony, puts Ms. Rice, 48, an outspoken diplomat and a close political ally, at the heart of the administration’s foreign-policy apparatus.
It is also a defiant gesture to Republicans who harshly criticized Ms. Rice for presenting an erroneous account of the deadly attacks on the American mission in Benghazi, Libya. The post of national security adviser, while powerful, does not require Senate confirmation.
In his announcement, Mr. Obama referred to Ms. Rice’s role as an adviser during his 2008 presidential campaign and praised her work as a key diplomat during his first term.
“With her background as a scholar, Susan understands that there’s no substitute for American leadership,” Mr. Obama said. “She is at once passionate and pragmatic. I think everybody understands Susan is a fierce champion for justice and human dignity, but she’s also mindful that we have to exercise our power wisely and deliberately.”
Mr. Obama also named Samantha Power, a National Security Council official, as Ms. Rice’s replacement at the United Nations. Ms. Power, who has written extensively about genocide, is closely allied with Ms. Rice on human rights issues.
In his statement, Mr. Obama cited Ms. Power’s work with Ms. Rice on issues related to the United Nations.
“She knows the U.N.'s strengths. She knows its weaknesses," Mr. Obama said. "She knows that American interests are advanced when we can rally the world to our side. And she knows that we have to stand up for the things that we believe in. And to ensure that we have the principled leadership we need at the United Nations, I would strongly urge the Senate to confirm her without delay.”
Mr. Donilon, 58, a central member of Mr. Obama’s foreign-policy team since he first took office, has exerted sweeping influence, mostly behind the scenes, on issues from counterterrorism to the reorientation of America to Asia from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“Tom’s that rare combination of the strategic and the tactical. He has a strategic sense of where we need to go, and he has a tactical sense of how to get there,” Mr. Obama said in his announcement. “He’s helped shape every single national security policy of my presidency, from forging a new national security strategy rooted in our economic strength here at home to ending the war in Iraq.”
Among Mr. Donilon’s last big projects was negotiating the highly unusual informal meeting between Mr. Obama and President Xi Jinping of China on Friday at an estate in Southern California. Just back from talks in Beijing, he clearly took pride of ownership.
“I don’t know when there was a broad meeting like this,” Mr. Donilon said in an interview. “For the last 40 years or so, these conversations have taken place in a more formal, scripted context.”
But Mr. Donilon has also hit a rough patch recently, with the publication of an unflattering profile in Foreign Policy magazine that cast him as a sharp-elbowed infighter and a domineering boss who had strained relationships with colleagues, including his former deputy, Denis R. McDonough, now the White House chief of staff.
Mr. Donilon and Mr. McDonough, however, both denied those reports. Mr. McDonough said he had a “very good relationship with Tom,” adding, “It pains me to think anybody would think he’s leaving because of me.”
Mr. Donilon, whose departure is effective in early July, said he had planned to leave after Mr. Obama’s first term but stayed on at the president’s request to break in a new team led by Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John O. Brennan. ||||| For the past few weeks, Barack Obama's foreign-policy team has been grappling with world issues ranging from the urgent to the mundane, be it Syria's virulent civil war, North Korea's provocative threats, the historic visit to Washington by the president of Burma, or plans for a summit with China.
But throughout this period, the senior-most officials of the administration have also been working on another concerted but hidden campaign: to defend National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon against growing criticism from inside the administration and by those who served in the first term, and are now speaking out or quietly settling scores.
"Tom is a key advisor to the president. He has teed up over the course of these years many important decisions for the president and the country. I really appreciate the work that he does," the White House's hard-charging chief of staff, Denis McDonough, who previously served as Donilon's deputy, asserted in an unsolicited phone call to this reporter. "I value Tom's partnership and mentorship."
Asked about what one high-level observer called bad chemistry between him and Donilon, McDonough replied: "I think that's untrue. I spend a lot of time even in my new job with Tom. I have the deepest respect for him, and the chemistry between us is kind of the way the chemistry is between a couple of other Irish-Americans."
Over the past five years, Donilon has amassed enormous internal control over Obama's foreign policy -- indeed, ever more so now, with new secretaries of state and defense still learning their jobs. It is Donilon who, working directly with Obama throughout each day, helps the president decide whether to intervene in Syria, what to do about Chinese cyberhacking, and how to deal with Iran's and North Korea's nuclear programs.
So why the sensitivities over Donilon's role now? The growing controversy about his vast influence illustrates the fact that Obama's foreign-policy team will face a major transition if, as widely reported, he steps down over the next year. Most Washington hands assume the next national security advisor will be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, although some believe that the job may go to Tony Blinken, now the deputy national security advisor, who was previously Vice President Biden's national security advisor.
Over the past half year, several present and former administration officials have urged this reporter to examine the powerful role Donilon plays as national security advisor, the extraordinarily tight leash he holds over the foreign-policy apparatus, his demanding treatment of staff, and the way he allegedly undercuts or elbows aside challenges to his power. Despite his prominent place at the center of Obama's foreign-policy operation, few news outlets have profiled Donilon, who generally prefers to operate behind closed doors.
Even some of his supporters acknowledge that Donilon's style can be a problem for those who work with and under him. "Morale is not great. He drives people hard, and the president drives him hard," said one of his supporters, adding, however, that extraordinarily long hours simply come with the territory in the White House.
After this reporter called the White House last week to raise questions about Donilon's role and stewardship of the National Security Council, the administration launched a high-level campaign to sing his praises. McDonough and Blinken were merely two of several present or former senior officials who, having been alerted by White House officials about an impending story, contacted me by phone or email on Donilon's behalf, without having being asked. The calls appeared to be highly coordinated, in the sense that in four instances, one official called to respond to a new question or issue raised in a previous phone call.
Donilon himself would not speak for the record for this story (except to deny one specific allegation). Despite the complaints that he is too controlling, he is convinced that his responsibility is to run the internal foreign-policy process on behalf of the president and that he has done just that. He also feels that he has given ample scope for top-level officials to make their views known and to have regular access to Obama.
Indeed, by most accounts, Donilon's problems are not so much with cabinet-level officials. "At the highest levels, it's a pretty collegial group," observed one administration official, who pointed out that Donilon has generally avoided the frictions with cabinet officers that erupted under other national security advisors such as Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. (Donilon did, however, clash in the early years of the administration with former Defense Secretary Bob Gates, who was quoted in Bob Woodward's book Obama's Wars as having said that Donilon would be a "disaster as national security advisor.") The complaints about Donilon, rather, have come from subordinates who work in the White House and from officials below the Cabinet rank in the State and Defense Departments.
Last fall, as the administration prepared to find a new secretary of state to replace Hillary Clinton, I began a magazine story that was in part about Donilon and in part about the fact that, over the past decades, the roles of secretary of state and national security advisor have changed: Secretaries of state have taken on an ever more public role, while national security advisors have taken on ever greater control over the internal gears of the American foreign-policy machine.
The project was abandoned because, before it could be published, Obama had won the election and appointed John Kerry as his next secretary of state. There was, however, an unusual aftermath. Word had apparently spread through the administration that a story was being written about Donilon. Over the course of several months, a series of present and former officials approached me to ask when an article about Donilon's power would appear and to urge that it be pursued.
"There's a problem there, and it hasn't been told," said one current official of Donilon. In another instance, an official I had never met introduced himself and asked what had happened to the article about Donilon. One source said the National Security staff was "a snake pit."
Donilon's detractors, none of whom would speak on the record, are either now serving or have served in a variety of different institutions: at the State Department, the Pentagon, and in the White House. None of the sources are themselves in line for the national security position, and none appeared to have anything to gain if Donilon were to step aside.
The gist of the complaints is that Donilon burns out personnel with his unending requests for more and more paperwork on the details of foreign policy (he asks for extensive briefing papers, even before a meeting with a journalist) and that Donilon sometimes treats subordinates in a curt fashion, either on his own or through a brusque young aide.
His supporters inside the administration reject that criticism. "I've been here for four years and I haven't seen that at all," said Blinken." "That doesn't fit what I've witnessed. Tom works incredibly hard, and so does the staff, but if there's a family or personal issue, that takes precedence."
Inevitably, Donilon has clashed fiercely with officials from the Pentagon and State Department over control of, and credit for, various aspects of Obama's foreign policy.
Donilon is reported to have had friction with former Under Secretary of Defense Secretary Michèle Flournoy because of her inability to get the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to bring a single, unified position to National Security Council meetings. (Flournoy protested that she had no legal authority to do so, one source said, because the law gives the chairman and the defense secretary separate voices in the deliberations of the NSC.)
In addition, sources said, Donilon had further bureaucratic skirmishes with Gates and Flournoy over Afghanistan and defense policy, with former Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell over credit for the administration's "pivot" to Asia and with former Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg over China. (In addition, Vali Nasr, the former aide to the late Richard Holbrooke, Obama's first special envoy on Afghanistan and Pakistan, blamed Donilon in a recent book, Dispensable Nation, for deep-sixing efforts by the State Department to push for a diplomatic settlement in Afghanistan.)
Some of the complaints about Donilon appear to be unfounded. One story circulating Washington has it that friction with Donilon supposedly caused Steinberg to leave the administration after two years. But Donilon, departing from a background interview, exclaimed, "On the record, Jim Steinberg's departure had nothing to do with me." Several hours later, Steinberg contacted this reporter to back up Donilon's claim. "Before I started the job [in 2009], I told them I'd only stay for two years. I have young kids," he explained. "Nothing that happened [during the Obama administration] had anything to do with my decision."
Another disputed issue is whether Donilon, at the beginning of the second term, bottled up plans for a series of wide-ranging discussions inside the administration to review Obama's foreign policy, examine past assumptions, and set out directions for the next four years.
According to one source with direct knowledge of the administration's foreign-policy operations, there were to be two such meetings: an internal one within the White House, and a second one with representatives of cabinet agencies. However, the source said, the sessions were repeatedly postponed and have never been held. The suggestion was that Donilon dislikes freewheeling discussions with a lot of give-and-take that is beyond his control. Instead, he prefers meetings with a structured agenda, a specific decision at hand and a specific do-list at the end: who should make a phone call to the Russian foreign minister, when should congressional leaders be briefed, which administration officials will appear on the Sunday talk shows.
But one senior administration official -- who, like Donilon, would speak only on background -- insisted that there had in fact been internal review sessions about second-term foreign policy with the White House and national security staff. He said that there was no formal National Security Council meeting with an open-ended discussion on the directions for the second term, because it took considerable time for Kerry and, particularly, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to be confirmed -- and by that time, the press of events had taken over.
Donilon believes that he has, in fact, led the way in fostering broad, open-ended discussions of the administration's foreign policy, its priorities, future directions, and possible legacy. Kerry and Hagel each have a regular, weekly meeting with Obama, and the two secretaries also meet together once a week with Donilon.
So why does Donilon engender such sniping among foreign-policy hands? One reason is that, unlike many of them, he has not spent his entire career on the subject. When Democratic presidents have left office, many foreign-policy specialists have gone off to think tanks or academia to continue working on the same issues as when they were in power. Donilon has gone off to private law practice or, for one extended period, Fannie Mae.
Another source of suspicion is Donilon's background in partisan politics. He first rose to prominence as a Democratic political operative, went to work for Jimmy Carter's White House right after his college graduation, and became Carter's delegate-counter at the 1980 Democratic National Convention. (At the Palm, the Washington steakhouse where old pals from the Carter administration still gather for Friday lunches, the question gets asked from time to time: How did a pol like Donilon end up as national security advisor?)
Donilon is sensitive to suggestions that he is a mere political hand, or that he is devoted to the process of foreign policy rather than to strategy. In recent years, he has told interviewers that one of the turning points in his life came as he was leaving the Carter White House to go to law school. At the time, Warren Christopher, Carter's deputy secretary of state, handed him a copy of Dean Acheson's book, Present at the Creation. He read it, and he claims it was the beginning of his long interest in American foreign policy.
That may have been Donilon's Rosebud moment, but it took him quite a while to act on his passion. After law school, he joined Christopher's law firm, O'Melveny & Myers, and stayed active in Democratic Party politics until 1993, when Christopher was appointed secretary of state and Donilon became his chief of staff.
Recalling those days, Mike McCurry, who worked under Donilon at State, said in an interview last fall, "We didn't know shit about foreign policy, and we had to learn quickly... I never saw anyone work as hard as Donilon did. He has a temper. He's very demanding, but he never did anything that was not in the interests of the principal [Christopher] or the department."
After leaving the Clinton administration, Donilon returned to his law firm, but soon left to work, along with other Democratic Party insiders like Jim Johnson and Franklin Raines, in a well-paying job at Fannie Mae -- where, in a single year, 2002, Donilon's total compensation package was $4.3 million, according to the Washington Post. Still, while the Democrats were out of power, Donilon kept a hand in foreign policy as a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, an elite circle of current and former policy makers who meet in Colorado each summer to talk about international affairs.
In 2009, after Obama's election, Donilon returned to foreign policy full time, starting out as the deputy to National Security Advisor James Jones. That job meant that, like previous deputy national security advisors, Donilon was in charge of running a "Deputies Committee" [DC] meeting with representatives of the State and Defense Departments, CIA, and other agencies to coordinate daily operations in foreign policy. The meeting is generally held once a day, but when Donilon was deputy in 2009 and 2010, he sometimes called two or more DC meetings a day -- prompting Gates to grumble privately to an aide that he had served as deputy national security advisor during the end of the Cold War and the Persian Gulf War without needing to hold as many meetings as Donilon.
Jones remained remote from daily operations, and as a result, Donilon, working longer hours, assumed ever-greater power over policy. Few insiders were surprised when, in the fall of 2010, Jones stepped down and Donilon became the national security advisor.
In addition to handling foreign-policy crises, Donilon has been a principal architect of the administration's press strategy on national security. Last year, when Republicans in Congress called for an investigation of the Obama White House's leaks to the press on issues such as cyberattacks against Iran, they singled out Donilon as a likely source, asserting that Times reporter David Sanger both reported the leaked information and also portrayed Donilon as "the hero" of the Obama foreign-policy team in his book, Confront and Conceal. (A senior White House official retorted that this is an old charge that Republicans have been making for the past year without evidence. Sanger has said his information did not come from the White House. There is no indication whether the FBI has sought to interview Donilon or other White House officials about the Stuxnet leaks.)
Donilon also helped craft the administration's foreign-policy message for the 2012 campaign, which sought to counteract the Republican charges of previous presidential campaigns that the Democratic candidate was weak on foreign policy. "This is not a president who's at all shy about the use of force," Donilon said in an interview with this reporter a year before the 2012 election, a point he made in similar wording to other writers.
Despite the authority he has amassed, Donilon has until recently operated mostly behind the scenes, avoiding the role of public spokesman for the administration that past national security advisors, from Kissinger through Berger and Rice, have played. In his first two years on the job, Donilon rarely gave speeches or appeared on Sunday talk shows. Others in the administration say he is nervous as a public speaker and doesn't like the uncontrolled nature of television interviews.
In the last few months, however, he has begun to appear in public more often. He has given major public speeches in New York City on Asia policy and on energy policy. That has given rise to speculation within the administration that he may be creating a higher public profile because he is now thinking about what he will do after he leaves the White House.
Obama's foreign-policy team for the second term remains incomplete until Donilon's successor, who will probably direct foreign policy for the final three years of the administration, is on the job.
The role Donilon now plays, as a holdover national security advisor working with second-term secretaries of state and defense, is a departure from recent history. When Bill Clinton and George W. Bush made wholesale changes in their foreign-policy teams at the start of their second terms, they replaced the national security advisors at the same time.
When Clinton named Madeleine Albright as his secretary of state and William Cohen as defense secretary at the beginning of his second term, he at the same time named Sandy Berger as his new national security advisor. Similarly, after Bush's reelection in 2004, he shook up his foreign policy by replacing Colin Powell and Paul Wolfowitz, appointing Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state -- and at the same time appointed a new national security advisor, Stephen Hadley.
Obama administration officials say privately that one reason Obama did things differently than his predecessors -- keeping Donilon on the job while bringing in Kerry and Hagel -- is that Kerry has no previous experience working in the executive branch, and Hagel has had none since he worked for the Veterans Administration in the early 1980s. Donilon thus was kept on to provide stability.
Administration officials reject the suggestion that without a successor to Donilon, the second-term foreign policy can't gel.
"The beauty of having a second term is that one has an acute sense of how quickly four years goes," McDonough told me. "I can guarantee you that the president is not waiting for anything. I get a sense the team is moving out aggressively. From Secretary Kerry's aggressive travel schedule to Tom's consequential visit to Russia to Afghanistan, and his work on difficult issues such as sexual assault and harassment and taking a hard look at the budget, I do not have a sense anyone is waiting for anything or [that the foreign-policy team] is not gelling."
Exactly when would Donilon leave? White House National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin M. Hayden recently told Foreign Policy's The Cable, "We don't have any personnel announcements to make at this time, and Mr. Donilon has no plans to depart at this point."
One theory is that he will stay on through Obama's trip to Asia in October, when the president is to attend a meeting of Asian and Pacific leaders in Bali, Indonesia. Donilon views himself as the crafter of the administration's pivot to Asia, and would be able to leave after an event that both carries forward and highlights the new Asia focus.
Another theory is that he will leave even before that. Inside the administration, Kerry and Hagel are already said to be starting to chafe at some of the same White House controls faced in the first term by Clinton, Gates, and others, according to one administration source.
One way or another, if the national security post does finally go to Rice, it will represent no small irony.
A year ago, according to three sources, Donilon promoted the idea that Rice should be appointed World Bank president -- a job she didn't want that would have taken her out of the running for an appointment as secretary of state or national security advisor. (Without addressing Donilon's role, one senior administration confirmed that Rice was one of three prominent figures under consideration for the post; the others were Madeleine Albright and Kerry. Eventually, Obama appointed Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim.)
Rice has enjoyed a close relationship to the president dating back to the earliest stages of the 2008 campaign. But if she becomes national security advisor, she will also have a difficult job as something of an outsider to the foreign-policy operation Donilon has been running inside the Obama White House for the past five years.
Her appointment would also represent a departure from recent history. Over the past four decades, when a national security advisor leaves his job, the position has usually gone to the deputy national security advisor. Berger, Hadley and several others, including Colin Powell and John Poindexter in the Reagan administration, all served as deputy national security advisor before rising to the top job. In general, the thinking is that by virtue of his job in running the deputies' committee meetings, the deputy national security advisor is already up to speed on virtually all of the administration's ongoing foreign-policy initiatives, public and covert.
That is the reason some believe Blinken is a logical successor to Donilon. Rice, on the other hand, would represent greater change: She would bring fresh eyes and an outside perspective to the NSC and, in general, to Obama's White House inner circle.
Once the new national security advisor is on the job, she or he will be able to form, along with Kerry and Hagel, the nucleus of the foreign-policy team that will likely oversee America's strategy and overall approach for the final three years of his term.
For now, as Donilon stays on the job, his high-level supporters in the White House stand prepared to mobilize to praise his work and to defend him against criticism.
"Tom has been more critical than ever in making sure that we had a very strong process in place, in providing strategic direction and making sure that everyone is rolling in the same direction," asserted Blinken. "The president felt very strongly that Tom needed to stay and be the quarterback. Tom is the key element of continuity. He's the reason we've been able to get off to a good start in the second term."
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– National Security Adviser Tom Donilon will announce his resignation today, multiple outlets are reporting, and President Obama isn't exactly choosing a politically safe successor. Instead he'll tap Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the UN who's become a lightning rod thanks to the Benghazi controversy. The job doesn't require Senate confirmation, according to the AP, whereas filibuster threats drove Rice to withdraw her name from consideration to replace Hillary Clinton. Former National Security Council aide Samantha Power is expected to be nominated to replace Rice. Donilon's resignation has a whiff of controversy around it as well, coming on the heels of a Foreign Policy piece reporting that he was under fire from many within the administration, including his ex-deputy and current White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough. Critics complained that he exerts an outsized influence on Obama's foreign policy, the New York Times points out, though McDonough himself denies the report. "It pains me to think anybody would think he's leaving because of me," he says. Donilon says he'd actually planned to leave after Obama's first term, but stayed on to foster harmony among the all-new national security team of John Kerry, Chuck Hagel, and John Brennan. He'll depart early next month.
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thekonst.net :: фото :: Харьков: весенние снимки :: Магазин на перекрестке ул. Пу..
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Write a sentence in English.
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The real estate site Internationale Immobilienanzeigen offers thousands of real estate ads, for example house Czech Republic or house DRNOVICE.
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Context: Argonotes, the unofficial band of the Toronto Argonauts is an all volunteer organization committed to bringing quality musical entertainment and a "traditional football atmosphere" to all Argonauts home football games. Comprising more than 50 musicians on most game days, Argonotes is the largest musical organization associated with the CFL.
Hypothesis: Argonotes is committed to bring traditional baseball atmosphere.
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Please add spaces between words: Thesleevesareworkedfromarmholesanddown.
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The sleeves are worked from armholes and down.
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Q: How did India child workers act?
A: Another reason many Indian children were hired was because they lack knowledge of their basic rights, they did not cause trouble or complain, and they were often more trustworthy.
Does the answer correctly answer the question
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A). yes.
B). no.
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Choose from options: Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
Massaro was born in 1705.
Nicola or Niccolo Massaro (died 1704) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in his native city of Naples. He painted mainly marine vedute and landscapes in the style of his master, Salvatore Rosa. One of his colleagues was Marzio Masturzo. One of his pupils was Gaetano Martoriello, and Massaro's son's Girolamo and Gennaro.
* Yes
* It's impossible to say
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Answer the question...what is the largest state in america by area??
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Alaska
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Note that this question lists possible answers. Which person is he referring to in the following sentence?
James went to Sully's arcade but he refused to let him in.
Select from the following. +James. +Sully.
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Sully
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direct/indirect lighting is a good solution for one‐person offices.
Write the above sentence using proper case.
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Direct/indirect lighting is a good solution for one‐person offices.
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Azzie spatřil pomalu letící Ylith se čtyřmi košťaty, na kterých seděla s dvěma připoutanými těly.
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As Azzie watched, Ylith appeared, flying slowly with four broomsticks, and carrying the two frozen bodies by ropes suspended from them.
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News article:
Dr. Mehmet Oz, a celebrity doctor who frequently extols weight-loss products on his syndicated television show, got a harsh scolding from several senators on Tuesday at a hearing about bogus diet product ads.
Oz was held up as the power driving many of the fraudulent ads, even as he argued he was himself the victim of the scammers. The hearing is a follow-up to the Federal Trade Commission’s crackdown last January against fake diet products.
“I don’t get why you need to say this stuff because you know it’s not true,” Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat who chairs a Senate subcommittee on consumer protection, said at the hearing. “So why, when you have this amazing megaphone…why would you cheapen your show by saying things like that?”
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Oz plays a role in perpetuating scams, McCaskill said.
“When you feature a product on your show it creates what has become known as the ‘Dr. Oz Effect’ — dramatically boosting sales and driving scam artists to pop up overnight using false and deceptive ads to sell questionable products,’ she said.
“While I understand that your message is occasionally focused on basics like healthy eating and exercise, I am concerned that you are melding medical advice, news, and entertainment in a way that harms consumers.”
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Oz, a frequent guest on NBC's TODAY show, admitted he uses “flowery” language on his shows, and said he realizes that the moment he recommends a product, the scammers use his words to sell spurious products. “I concede to my colleagues at the FTC that I am making their job more difficult," he said.
But he said he has to be “passionate” to engage his audience. “When we write a script, we need to generate enthusiasm and engage the viewer,” Oz said.
“I actually do personally believe in the items I talk about on the show,” he added. “I recognize that oftentimes they don’t have the scientific muster to pass as fact. I have given my family these products.”
“I don’t get why you need to say this stuff because you know it’s not true.”
Oz said the products give people hope to keep trying to lose weight — something almost all experts agree is a very difficult thing to do. Two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese.
The FTC says it’s been struggling since 1927 to battle fake diet claims. But the Internet has made things worse than ever and it’s often near impossible to track down fraudsters who hide behind shell companies and post office box addresses.
And celebrity endorsements haven’t helped, said the FTC’s Mary Koelbel Engle.
"For instance, within weeks of an April 2012 Dr. Oz Show touting green coffeebean extract as a miracle fat burning pill that works for everyone, the marketers of the Pure Green Coffee dietary supplement took to the Internet making overblown claims — like ‘lose 20 pounds in four weeks’ and ‘lose 20 pounds and two to four inches of belly fat in two to three months’ — for their dietary supplement," she said.
“In the past 10 years, the Commission has brought 82 law enforcement actions challenging false or unsubstantiated claims about the efficacy of a wide variety of weight-loss products and services."
Oz, who has sued some of the companies using his image, said he never sells any products and says the scammers will misuse his image no matter what he says. “You know … the biggest disservice I have done for my audience?” he asked. “It’s that I never told then where to go to buy the products.”
He said he did that for ethical reasons, but it backfired by opening up a market for "fake stuff, real stuff, it doesn't frankly matter and start to use my name to start to sell."
Sen. Claire McCaskill listens to Dr. Mehmet Oz testify on Capitol Hill in Washington. AP
McCaskill asked why Oz didn’t use his show to promote what actually has been proven to help people lose weight — careful eating and exercise. “I want to see all that floweriness, all that passion, about the beauty of a walk at sunset,” she said.
“The scientific community is almost monolithic against you in terms of the efficacy of a few products that you have called miracles,” she added. “I just don’t understand why you need to go there … You are being made an example of today because of the power you have in this space.”
McCaskill also rebuked media companies that run the ads. “I find it troubling that broadcast and satellite radio witnesses who were asked to be here today were unwilling to appear. To me, this indicates that either there is something to hide or they don’t have a good story to tell,” she said.
The Advertising Self-Regulatory Council, the Council for Responsible Nutrition, which represents supplement makers, and other groups said they supported self-regulation. They also support the FTC’s seven point “gut check” that the agency says people should use as a guide in assessing ads for products that look too good to be true.
Take a hard look, FTC advises, if the ad claims the product ||||| "Either you don't talk about these things at all, or you're going to have to be more specific because right now . . . this is not working," she said. |||||
What is a shorter version of the above article?
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– Celebrity TV doctor Mehmet Oz stuck up for his right to use "flowery" language to praise weight loss products after a Senate panel slammed him for encouraging scammers by endorsing "miracle cures." Sen. Claire McAskill asked him why he "cheapened" his show by saying things he knew weren't true, NBC reports. "When you feature a product on your show it creates what has become known as the 'Dr. Oz Effect'—dramatically boosting sales and driving scam artists to pop up overnight using false and deceptive ads to sell questionable products," she told him. "The scientific community is almost monolithically against you in terms of the efficacy of the products you called 'miracles,'" said McCaskill, accusing the doctor of giving people false hope. Oz argued that he had to be "passionate" to engage his viewers. "I do personally believe in the items that I talk about," he said. "I intensively study them. I have given my family these products." He said that while he recognizes his claims may not have the "scientific muster to pass as fact", "when I can't use language that is flowery, that is exulting, I feel like I've been disenfranchised." The hearing was held as part of a probe of businesses using Oz's language to sell bogus diet products, adds the New York Daily News.
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Does the following review have a positive or negative opinion of the movie?
make a terrific effort at disguising the obvious with energy and innovation
Choose your answer from:
[I] negative
[II] positive
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[II]
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Sentence: Acharya Institute of Technology is located in Bangalore, the city that was established by Kempe Gowda. The Institute was given the 'Technical Campus' status by All India Council for Technical Education (which is located in Mumbai). Acharya Institute of Technology is affiliated with Visvesvaraya Technological University and one of the sports offered at the campus is tennis, which has as its governing body The International Tennis Federation.
What structured data could we extract from this sentence?
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Acharya Institute of Technology, wasGivenTheTechnicalCampusStatusBy, All India Council for Technical Education; All India Council for Technical Education, location, Mumbai; Bangalore, founder, Kempe Gowda I; Acharya Institute of Technology, city, Bangalore; Acharya Institute of Technology, sportsOffered, Tennis; Tennis, sportGoverningBody, International Tennis Federation; Acharya Institute of Technology, affiliation, Visvesvaraya Technological University
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Would a linguist find the following sentence to be a valid English sentence grammatically?
Calvin will fire someone today, but I don't know who.
Choices:
(1). unacceptable;
(2). acceptable;
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(2).
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1. There are many combustible elements in 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith,' but the key players are not among them. ...we're just watching two gorgeous bodies trying to mess each other up.
2. Just about worth seeing for the chemistry between its two stars ... but the overall glossiness is designed to blind you to the fact that there's very little substance here.
3. A one-joke movie.
4. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie look like they had a terrific time making Mr. and Mrs. Smith -- but I certainly didn't have a good time watching it. Neither, I suspect, will many of you.
5. A movie so in love with itself it hardly needs us at all.
6. Promises more than it delivers (what film doesn't?), and degenerates badly (and, to my mind, unforgivably) in the second half.
7. The studio must have reasoned that Jolie and Brad Pitt are movie stars, so anything they do would be seen as fun and attractive -- and what could be more fun and attractive than their trying to kill each other and just about everybody else in the movie?
8. A violent romp with no socially redeeming value -- but it's fun and sexy as hell.
9. Mr. & Mrs. Smith will prove a long, hard slog for filmgoers who don't think that simply gazing at Pitt and Jolie constitutes a fun night out.
10. Movie stars trade quips, stuff blows up, audiences go home happy.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?
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Although this action-romance suffers from weak writing and one too many explosions, the chemistry generated by onscreen couple Pitt and Jolie is palpable enough to make this a thoroughly enjoyable summer action flick.
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Answer based on context:
In August 2015, Czech GDP growth was 4.4%, making the Czech economy the highest growing in Europe. On 9 November 2015, unemployment in the Czech Republic was at 5.9%, the lowest number since February 2009. In September 2016, the unemployment was at 4.0%. In 2016, for first time since 1995, Czech Republic had budget surplus 61 billion CZK. In the year ending by Summer 2017, the Czech GDP grew by 4.7%, the third fastest in Europe, and unemployment was at 3% or 4% in the European or national conventions, by far the lowest rate in Europe. Dividends worth CZK 289 billion were paid to the foreign owners of Czech companies in 2016.
How many years were there between the Czech Republic's surplus reaching 61 billion CZK?
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What are the most important words in the following sentence:
portrait of mother and daughter at the doctor
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daughter, doctor, mother
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Hoping to build on their win over Tampa Bay, the Saints stayed at home for a Week 6 fight with the Philadelphia Eagles. In the first quarter, New Orleans jumped out to an early lead with kicker John Carney kicking a 39-yard field goal and quarterback Drew Brees completing a 14-yard touchdown pass to WR Joe Horn. In the second quarter, Philadelphia would get on the board with kicker David Akers kicking a 47-yard field goal. Fortunately, the Saints managed to further themselves, as Brees completed a 7-yard touchdown pass to WR Marques Colston. However, in the third quarter, the Eagles started to get back into the game, as quarterback Donovan McNabb completed two touchdown passes (a 60-yarder to WR Reggie Brown and a 4-yard to TE L.J. Smith). In the fourth quarter, Philadelphia took the lead on a 15-yard touchdown run by Brown. Fortunately, after Brees completed a 48-yard touchdown pass to Horn, Carney helped give New Orleans the win as he kicked a 31-yard field goal as time ran out on the game. With the win, the Saints maintained their lead in the NFC South with a 5-1 record going into their bye week.
Answer this question: How many field goals did John Carney kick in the second quarter?
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Translate the following.
English: 24 March 2009: The Alboran Sea continues transnational work for the conservation of its biodiversity and sustainability
Spanish:
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24 Marzo 2009: El mar de Alborán sigue recabando esfuerzos internacionales para la conservación de su biodiversidad y su sostenibilidad
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Write a question you would see in a school textbook.
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When a volcano erupts, dust and ash are blown into the atmosphere. The eruption directly reduces the transfer of energy from
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Here is a goal: cash
How would you accomplish this goal?
Options: (i). is stored pocket . (ii). is stored at Mc Donalds .
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Answer the question
Which is the best explanation why the remains of a small reptile living millions of years ago have been found only in Brazil and South Africa?
Available choices:
-- subduction.
-- plate tectonics.
-- mass extinction.
-- converging boundaries.
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Here is a premise: "A very young child dressed entirely in red squats in the back of a truck with a good amount of debris in it."
Here is a hypothesis: "The child squatted in the back of the truck hiding from his dad."
.Does the premise tell us whether the hypothesis is true?
Available options: (1). yes. (2). it is not possible to tell. (3). no.
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Here is some data: Abel Caballero, inOfficeWhilePrimeMinister, Felipe González; Felipe González, predecessor, Rodolfo Llopis.
Write a sentence that describes this data.
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Abel Caballero was in office while Felipe Gonzalez was Prime Minister whose predecessor was Rodolfo Llopis.
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Flan2021
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gem/web_nlg_en:1.1.0
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zs_opt
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What is an example of a tweet?
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i think ima go to bed now u guys....since trevors not online anymore..which is the main reason y i stay up this late! haha
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Flan2021
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sentiment140:1.0.0
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zs_opt
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If Fassbinder has made a worse film, I sure don't want to see it! Anyone who complains that his films are too talky and claustrophobic should be forced to view this, to learn to appreciate the more spare style he opted for in excellent films like "The Bitter Tears Of Petra von Kant". This film bogs down with so much arty, quasi-symbolic images it looks like a parody of an "art-film". The scene in the slaughterhouse and the scene where Elvira's prostitute friend channel-surfs for what seems like ten minutes are just two of the most glaring examples of what makes this film a real test of the viewer's endurance. But what really angers me about it are the few scenes which feature just Elvira and her ex-wife and/or her daughter. These are the only moments that display any real human emotion, and prove that at the core of this horrible film, there was an excellent film struggling to free itself. What a waste.
Is the sentiment of this review positive or negative?
Options are: +negative +positive
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negative
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Flan2021
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imdb_reviews/plain_text:1.0.0
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zs_opt
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Translate from English to Spanish:
For more than two thousand years the better minds of India have sought to escape from all desire, and thus was opened wide the door for the entrance of those later cults and teachings which have virtually shackled the souls of many Hindu peoples in the chains of spiritual hopelessness.
Spanish:
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Por más de dos mil años las mejores mentes de la India han buscado escapar de todo deseo, y así han abierto la puerta para el ingreso de aquellos cultos y enseñanzas posteriores que virtualmente han encadenado el alma de muchos pueblos hindúes en las cadenas de la desesperación espiritual.
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Flan2021
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para_crawl_enes
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zs_opt
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Data: 1634: The Bavarian Crisis, precededBy, 1634: The Ram Rebellion; 1634: The Bavarian Crisis, author, "Virginia DeMarce and Eric Flint"
Sentence about the following data:
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1634: The Bavarian Crisis, was authored by Virginia DeMarce and Eric Flint, it was preceded by 1634: The Ram Rebellion.
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Flan2021
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gem/web_nlg_en:1.1.0
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zs_opt
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Although Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM initially contemplated using established al Qaeda members to execute the planes operation, the late 1999 arrival in Kandahar of four aspiring jihadists from Germany suddenly presented a more attractive alternative. The Hamburg group shared the anti-U.S. fervor of the other candidates for the operation, but added the enormous advantages of fluency in English and familiarity with life in the West, based on years that each member of the group had spent living in Germany. Not surprisingly, Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah would all become key players in the 9/11 conspiracy. Mohamed Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt, to a middle-class family headed by his father, an attorney. After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple of years. In the fall of 1991, he asked a German family he had met in Cairo to help him continue his education in Germany. They suggested he come to Hamburg and invited him to live with them there, at least initially. After completing a course in German, Atta traveled to Germany for the first time in July 1992. He resided briefly in Stuttgart and then, in the fall of 1992, moved to Hamburg to live with his host family. After enrolling at the University of Hamburg, he promptly transferred into the city engineering and planning course at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where he would remain registered as a student until the fall of 1999. He appears to have applied himself fairly seriously to his studies (at least in comparison to his jihadist friends) and actually received his degree shortly before traveling to Afghanistan. In school, Atta came across as very intelligent and reasonably pleasant, with an excellent command of the German language. When Atta arrived in Germany, he appeared religious, but not fanatically so. This would change, especially as his tendency to assert leadership became increasingly pronounced. According to Binalshibh, as early as 1995 Atta sought to organize a Muslim student association in Hamburg. In the fall of 1997, he joined a working group at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians. Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality. But among those who shared his beliefs, Atta stood out as a decisionmaker.
Question: "Who are the four jihadists that arrived in Kandahar in 1999"
Answer: "Marwan al Shehhi"
Is this answer to the question correct?
Pick your answer from:
--no
--yes
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yes
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Flan2021
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super_glue/multirc:1.0.2
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zs_opt
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Choose your answer: What is "What holidays are celebrated in Ireland ?" asking about?
Choose from:
[A]. description.
[B]. entity.
[C]. abbreviation.
[D]. human.
[E]. numeric.
[F]. location.
Answer:
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[B].
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Flan2021
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trec:1.0.0
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zs_opt
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John liked a girl at his work. He tried to get her attention by acting silly. She told him to grow up. John confesses he was trying to make her like him more.
Choices:
--John was happy about being rejected.
--The girl found this charming, and gave him a second chance.
Which option is the next sentence?
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The girl found this charming, and gave him a second chance.
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Flan2021
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story_cloze/2016:1.0.0
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zs_opt
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Translate to Romanian:
The item is closed.
Romanian:
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Declar închis acest punct de pe ordinea de zi.
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Flan2021
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wmt16_translate/ro-en:1.0.0
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zs_opt
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A 14-year-old Pakistani girl who had faced life in prison for allegedly burning the Quran will have her case heard in juvenile court, the girl's lawyer told CNN. A local court ordered the transfer on Monday, Tahir Naveed Choudhry said. Pakistani police told CNN their investigation concluded Rimsha Masih is innocent and was framed by an imam. "There was no legal evidence against Rimsha," officer Munir Jafri told CNN. These developments could mark an end to the Christian teen's nightmare since she was accused of blasphemy in August. "This is a precursor to the case ending, and that is quite unprecedented in the 25-year history of Pakistan's blasphemy laws," said Ali Dayan Hasan, the Pakistan director of Human Rights Watch. Accused teen: 'I'm scared' Police have submitted the findings to the court. Pakistan courts usually go with what police recommend. There is a lot of evidence implicating imam Khalid Jadoon Chishti for framing the teenager and for himself tearing pages out of the holy book, Jafri told CNN. This is significant, said Human Rights Watch's Hasan, because "never before has a false accuser been held accountable." The teen's case sparked international outcry against the Pakistani government, some saying the blasphemy laws are used to settle scores and persecute religious minorities. Blasphemy laws have been a part of life in Pakistan for 25 years, first instituted primarily to keep peace between religions, Hasan said. But a military leader in Pakistan in the middle 1980s tightened the laws, introducing amendments that "essentially made blasphemy a capital offense," Hasan said. "They were vaguely worded ... and became an instrument of coercion and persecution," he said. "The laws were disproportionately used against the weakest and most vulnerable in society -- religious minorities, women, children and the poor." There have been 1,400 blasphemy cases since 1986, according to Hasan. There are more than 15 cases of people on death row for blasphemy in Pakistan, and 52 have been killed while facing trial for the charge, Hasan said. Rimsha was arrested on August 16. She and her family spoke to CNN in early September from an undisclosed location, in hiding after Rimsha was released on bail -- a move that appeared to be in reaction to the global condemnation of her jailing. The teen said she was happy to be with her family, but feared for her life. "I'm scared," she said by phone. "I'm afraid of anyone who might kill us." The teen spoke in short sentences, answering "yes" or "no" in a shy and nervous voice. In Pakistan, people accused of blasphemy are often attacked and sometimes killed by vigilantes. During CNN's interview with her, Rimsha said, "No, no," when asked if she burned pages of the Quran. She wouldn't answer questions about what happened on August 16. Pakistani investigators said Rimsha's neighbor accused her of burning pages of the Quran to use as cooking fuel. The neighbor began to shout in protest, drawing a crowd that grew angry. Some neighbors said the teenager was beaten. Others said she ran back home and locked herself inside. When police arrived, they arrested her. Rimsha's lawyers said the neighbor wanted to settle a personal score with the girl because the two didn't get along. They said it's likely that he liked the teen and she didn't feel the same. While the latest turn in her case this week appears largely positive, her ordeal is far from over. The next hearing in Rimsha's case is set for October 1 in juvenile court. Most victims of Pakistan's blasphemy laws belong to minority Muslim sects like the Ahamadis, who many of Pakistan's majority Sunnis perceive as nonbelievers, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and Human Rights Watch. Rimsha's father, Mizrak Masih, is a Christian. He paints houses for a few dollars a day. He was adamant that no one in his family would dishonor the Quran. "We respect the Quran just like we respect the Bible," he said. "We couldn't imagine committing blasphemy, let alone doing it. Our children would never do this either." A family representative said that aid groups in the United States, Italy and Canada have offered to the teen and her family a home outside Pakistan. But no matter how her case pans out, it's unclear what kind of life she might be able to have. She told CNN in September that she wanted to stay in her home country. People will believe what they want to believe, no matter what the courts or police say, Hasan said. "She is certainly in grave danger," he said. "It's the accusation that endangers your life, and can endure." CNN's Rezah Sayeh contributed to this report.
What are highlight points for this article?
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Case of Pakistani teen facing life for blasphemy charge will go to juvenile court. Rimsha Masih was jailed in August after she was accused of burning pages of the Quran. Police now say an imam framed teen and she is innocent. Human Rights Watch: This could be a major turning point in the case with larger implications.
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Flan2021
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cnn_dailymail:3.4.0
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zs_opt
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Is trend used to mean the same thing in the next two sentences (see options)?
Not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book.
The trend of the stock market.
Available options: I. different meanings. II. the same meaning.
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I.
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Flan2021
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super_glue/wic:1.0.2
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zs_opt
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If OMB did not approve the information collection as submitted, but required FDA to invite comments on the information collection when the final rule was published., can we conclude that "The OMB chose not to require the FDA to invite comments."?
Options are:
[a]. yes;
[b]. it is not possible to tell;
[c]. no;
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[c].
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Flan2021
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glue/mnli:2.0.0
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zs_opt
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material: 65% polyester, 35% cotton
Can you repeat this sentence, but capitalize it correctly?
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Material: 65% polyester, 35% cotton
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Flan2021
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true_case
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zs_opt
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Problem: Solve -133*x - 155 = 510 for x.
And the answer is...
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-5
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Flan2021
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math_dataset/algebra__linear_1d:1.0.0
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zs_opt
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Choose your answer: Who is they in the following sentence?
The NSA sent their agents in the field to retrieve intelligence, but they were not able to gather the intelligence for them.
Possible answers:
a). The NSA;
b). their agents;
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b).
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Flan2021
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definite_pronoun_resolution:1.1.0
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zs_opt
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Select from options: How similar are the following two sentences?
Two teenage girls, one is smiling.
A little girl on a kid swing.
Give the answer on a scale from 0 - 5, where 0 is "not similar at all" and 5 is "means the same thing".
Options are: (A). 0 (B). 1 (C). 2 (D). 3 (E). 4 (F). 5
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(B).
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Flan2021
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glue/stsb:2.0.0
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zs_opt
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