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Mr Abbas said : " Every day without an agreement is an opportunity that was lost .
His Palestinian counterpart , Mahmoud Abbas , replied that " every day without an agreement is an opportunity that was lost .
Please tell me if the sentences above mean the same.
Select from the following.
(I). no
(II). yes
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Add spaces: SocialDemocracyisrealisticenoughnottotrytoavoidtherevolutionthatisdevelopingoutoftheexistinghistoricalconditions;onthecontrary,itismovingtomeettherevolutionwitheyeswideopen.
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Social Democracy is realistic enough not to try to avoid the revolution that is developing out of the existing historical conditions; on the contrary, it is moving to meet the revolution with eyes wide open.
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What sentence would provide a factual answer to this question: "If a glacier going past a dock brushed up against some large boulders there, the stones would"
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glaciers cause scratches in rocks
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"He never asked nor accepted any reward, because he was good and simple and did not think that one did good for a reward." (Primo Levi, If This Is A Man)
Gino Bartali wanted to keep it to himself.
How could a man, so famous and so revered, keep it a secret for so long?
"Good is something you do, not something you talk about," Bartali once explained. "Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket."
He was Italy's very own version of Babe Ruth -- a man whose personality, character and success transcended sport.
In the 1930s, Bartali, a son of Tuscany, was one of the leading cyclists in the world, a man admired by all.
He had won three Giro d'Italia titles -- one of the three major European cycling events -- in addition to his triumph at the 1938 Tour de France and was very much the country's poster boy.
And yet for a man who lived in his life in the full glare of the public, a new film, My Italian Secret reveals a very different side to Bartali's remarkable life.
Directed by Oren Jacoby, the film shows how Bartali was part of a secret Italian resistance movement which helped hide the country's Jews during the Nazi invasion of 1943.
Using the handlebars on his bike to hide counterfeit identity papers, Bartali would ride to Jews in hiding and deliver their exit visas which allowed them to escape transportation to the death camps -- he is credited with saving the lives of 800 people.
1. Who kept a secret?
2. What was his secret?
3. In what year?
4. During what?
5. Who did he help?
6. What's the title of the film?
7. And its director?
8. Where was Bartali from?
9. Did everyone admire him?
10. What was his sport?
11. Did he win the Tour de France?
12. How many times?
13. What did he deliver
14. Where were they hidden
15. How many did he save?
Provide a numbered list of answers.
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1. Gino Bartali
2. he was part of a secret Italian resistance movement
3. 1943
4. the Nazi invasion of 1943
5. Jews
6. My Italian Secret
7. Oren Jacoby
8. Tuscany
9. Yes
10. Cycling
11. Yes
12. Once
13. counterfeit identity papers
14. the handlebars on his bike
15. 800
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Generate a correctly punctuated version of the following text: Fixed the progress dialogue not appearing in copy paste actions
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Fixed the progress dialogue not appearing in copy / paste actions
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As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 42,040 people, 16,210 households, and 11,364 families residing in the county. The population density was . There were 18,133 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the county was 94.7% white, 2.2% black or African American, 0.5% Asian, 0.2% American Indian, 0.5% from other races, and 1.9% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 1.3% of the population. In terms of ancestry, 26.4% were Germans, 15.4% were Irish people, 12.0% were Americans, and 11.9% were English people.
How many percent of people were not Native American?
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Solve 589 + 217 - 393 = 73*x - 244 for x.
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Read this article and answer this question Hoping to rebound from their home loss to the Patriots, the Cowboys stayed at home for a Week 7 intraconference game against the Minnesota Vikings. In the first quarter, Dallas scored first as QB Tony Romo completed a 5-yard TD pass to WR Terrell Owens. The Vikings would respond with RB Adrian Peterson getting a 20-yard TD run. In the second quarter, Minnesota took the lead after a turnover. WR Patrick Crayton fumbled a pass, which was picked up LB Ben Leber, who later lateraled the ball to CB Cedric Griffin, who would eventually fumble and recover the ball at the Cowboys 28-yard line and run it into the end zone for a touchdown. In the third quarter, RB Marion Barber got a 1-yard TD run, while Safety Pat Watkins returned a blocked field goal by Chris Canty 68 yards for a touchdown. It would mark the first time that a Cowboy player returned a blocked field goal since Ed "Too Tall" Jones in 1983 against the New Orleans Saints on Sept. 25, 1983. In the fourth quarter, Dallas sealed the victory with rookie Nick Folk getting a 45-yard field goal. With the win, the Cowboys entered their bye week at 6-1.
How many yards longer was the longest touchdown of the game compared to the shortest?
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Twelve of Jupiter's moons are relatively small and seem to have been more likely captured than to have been formed in orbit around Jupiter.
Select from the following. A). yes. B). no.
Question: Can we infer the following?
Jupiter has Twelve moons.
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Translate "There is also a stream of Light that flows from your personal Pyramid of Light down into your physical vessel so that you are constantly receiving a flow of Creator Light / Adamantine Particles, and you will also be sharing the Light you have activated with you loving intention, your sacred breathing techniques and your affirmations." to Spanish.
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Hay también una corriente de Luz que fluye desde su Pirámide de Luz personal hacia su vehículo físico de tal manera que estén constantemente recibiendo un flujo de Luz del Creador y de Partículas Adamantinas, y también estarán compartiendo la Luz que han activado con su intención amorosa, su técnicas de respiración sagrada y sus afirmaciones.
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Choose your answer: is the following review positive or negative?
the staff here is not enjoying their work. It feels too much like a factory assembly line here in here. SMILE PEOPLE ! Life's too short to be miserable.
Available choices:
a). negative
b). positive
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1. Well, it's about this shark...
2. Nowadays, it doesn't really scare me anymore, but I love watching it for the way it moves.
3. The first calculated summertime blockbuster...A whale of big-budget Hollywood entertainment.
4. The fast-moving 124-minute film engenders enormous suspense as the shark attacks a succession of people.
5. It's no wonder a generation of holidaymakers still thinks twice before stepping into the water.
6. Like all the best suspense films, "Jaws" manages to somehow remain amazingly tense, even if you've seen the film before. No wonder so many moviegoers went back for repeat viewings.
7. Steven Spielberg's mechanical thriller is guaranteed to make you scream on schedule.
8. Achieves a number of cheap thrills at the expense of the mechanical shark.
9. Along with being a terrific character-driven (not plot) thriller, Jaws should be viewed against the broader context of 1975 as part of a cycle of paranoia films, reflecting the Vietnam War, Watergate scandal, anti-authoritarianism, and political apathy
10. A true film of the 70s, all its characters have feet of clay… Yet Jaws boldly puts [them] to a test as dire as any faced by the granite-jawed supermen of earlier decades.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?
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Compelling, well-crafted storytelling and a judicious sense of terror ensure Steven Spielberg's Jaws has remained a benchmark in the art of delivering modern blockbuster thrills.
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What is the debate topic for the following sentences?
1. Once a cyber-attack has been traced and evidence gathered if the appropriate domestic authorities wont deal with the culprit then an independent international institution can decide on the punishment for the government that is not living up to its treaty commitments .
2. If there is a need for international monitoring rather than simply a dispute settlement mechanism then there are models available through current treaties ; a UN organisation similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency or International Criminal Court could be set up that can investigate incidents when asked .
3. US Department of Defense , The Cyber Domain Security and Operations Mandiant , Exposing One of Chinas Cyber Espionage Units , mandiant.com , February 2013 ,
4. Once a treaty is set up to limit or eliminate cyber-attacks monitoring is unlikely to be a problem because states will be willing to monitor each other .
5. States in order to defend themselves from cyber-attacks already monitor the cyber-attacks that occur the United States for example already has several cyber defense forces .
6. If that is not enough then there are numerous private groups that will be monitoring cyber-attacks as most are made against corporate rather than government targets .
7. For example private company Mandiant exposed a unit of the Peoples Liberation Army for its cyber-attacks in February 2013 .
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This House would create an international treaty/ban on cyber-attacks
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Write a sentence not in English.
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Roman STK ve hak savunucuları tarafından hazırlanan belgede, girişimin bir diğer amacı olan Romanlara ülkelerin onları topluma kazandırma çabalarında söz hakkı verilmesini başarma konusunda da ilerleme kaydedildiği belirtildi.
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What is the answer: Who played Rick Deckard in Blade Runner?
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harrison ford
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[A]. negative;
[B]. positive; What would be an example of an [B]. review?
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I like CLT. I flew through here on my way from Philadelphia (my least favorite airport) to Fort Myers, FL, because it was cheaper. And I'm glad I did. The way the airport is laid out in general is cool. Plenty of moving walkways too. Lots of good food options, and there's no lack in Starbucks. I did, however, get in the longest line, but it moved quickly and the workers were very happy and were even singing. :D The Charlotte hub has to be my favorite for US Airways, since I hate PHL and I haven't been to PHX. Other than that, I'll be back! :D
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The English Premier League team says it had received a quot;preliminary approach quot; containing a number of significant conditions for a financial takeover.
Q: Which is the best summary of this article?
OPTIONS: (1). World; (2). Sports; (3). Business; (4). Science/Tech;
I think the answer is
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Summarize the following movie reviews:
1. The dance numbers are clever, fun and, sometimes, funky and are cleanly choreographed.
2. A charming, sweet-natured divertissement.
3. Woody Allen's lively musical is a whimsical journey with surprising in-tune performances from A-list stars.
4. The preoccupation with rich, uninteresting, New Yorkers continues to distance his audience from his work more and more with each movie.
5. Modern musical will not interest teens.
6. Warmhearted, original, but not entirely successful tribute to classic Hollywood movies of the 1930s, specifically Capra's You Can't Take It With You.
7. Everyone Says I Love You won me over completely.
8. Slight but pleasing middlebrow fare (much like a Bob Hope musical comedy).
9. Woody doing a musical? OK, it's a bit uneven, but the all-star cast holds it together. Goldie Hawn is a delight.
10. Magical experiment from Woody Allen.
Summary:
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A likable, infectious musical, Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You is sometimes uneven but always toe-tapping and fun.
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The Enrolled Missouri Militia was a state militia organization of Missouri in 1862 during the American Civil War. It was a part-time force whose primary purpose was to serve as garrison and infrastructure guards, both to augment the Unionist Missouri State Militia in defense versus raids and to free the Missouri State Militia for offensive operations versus Confederate guerrillas and recruiters.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
The Missouri Militia have killed hundreds of people.
Available choices:
[a]. Yes.
[b]. It's impossible to say.
[c]. No.
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Problem: Solve -3300*o - 8722*o - 388203 = 357161 for o.
And the answer is...
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What happens next?
A person riding a horse chases after a bull. the person
1). is caught several times by the bull.
2). chase and chase the bull, then the person chase after the bull and chase others.
3). lassoes the bull, get off his horse, ties its legs, and another person goes to the tied up bull.
4). chases him down and knocks the bull down.
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Patricia Cross and her boyfriend Larry Osborne , two students in a San Francisco school , become expelled for the publication of an off-campus underground paper . As a result , a philosophy professor , Dr. Jonathon Barnett , resigns his teaching position and decides to become an advocate for the counterculture youth movement and , specifically , the use of LSD . The hippies of the Haight-Ashbury district first see him as a hero and then as something even more . Dr. Barnett even makes an appearance on the Joe Pyne TV show to voice his support of the hippie community and the use of LSD . One scheming young man sees the opportunity to build Dr. Barnett as the head of a cult centered around the use of LSD . He hopes to earn profit from the users , Dr. Barnett's speeches known as `` happenings , '' and their lifestyles . At a massive LSD-fueled dance , Patricia begins to have a bad trip Which leads to an argument between her and Pat , ultimately splitting the couple up . After Patricia realizes that she's pregnant , Dr. Barnett advises her to have an abortion , ultimately leading to Patricia attempting suicide . However , Larry saves her and makes the destruction of Dr. Barnett's cult his primary objective . Larry shoots Dr. Barnett from the crowd at one of his massive speeches . As another hippie in attendance calms the audience and Elliot sees his new leader for their cult-like organization , Larry realizes that his assassination of Dr. Barnett simply made him a martyr for the hippie movement .
Question: "Why did Dr. Barnett resign from teaching?"
Answer: "To promote the use of LSD"
Is this answer to the question correct?
Choose your answer from:
(1). no.
(2). yes.
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Albrecht Durer (; German: ['albRect 'dy:Ra]; 21 May 1471 - 6 April 1528) was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Durer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in communication with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 he was patronized by emperor Maximilian I. Durer is commemorated by both the Lutheran and Episcopal Churches.
Despite the regard in which he was held by the Venetians, Durer returned to Nuremberg by mid-1507, remaining in Germany until 1520. His reputation had spread throughout Europe and he was on friendly terms and in communication with most of the major artists including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and--mainly through Lorenzo di Credi--Leonardo da Vinci. Between 1507 and 1511 Durer worked on some of his most celebrated paintings: Adam and Eve (1507), The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand (1508, for Frederick of Saxony), Virgin with the Iris (1508), the altarpiece Assumption of the Virgin (1509, for Jacob Heller of Frankfurt), and Adoration of the Trinity (1511, for Matthaeus Landauer). During this period he also completed two woodcut series, the Great Passion and the Life of the Virgin, both published in 1511 together with a second edition of the Apocalypse series. The post-Venetian woodcuts show Durer's development of chiaroscuro modelling effects, creating a mid-tone throughout the print to which the highlights and shadows can be contrasted. Other works from this period include the thirty-seven woodcut subjects of the Little Passion, published first in 1511, and a set of fifteen small engravings on the same theme in 1512. Indeed, complaining that painting did not make enough money to justify the time spent when compared to his prints, he produced no paintings from 1513 to 1516. However, in 1513 and 1514 Durer created his three most famous engravings: Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513, probably based on Erasmus's treatise Enchiridion militis Christiani), St. Jerome in his Study, and the much-debated Melencolia I (both 1514). Further outstanding pen and ink drawings of Durer's period of art work of 1513 were drafts for his friend Willibald Prickheimer. These drafts were later used to design the famous chandeliers lusterweibchen. In 1515, he created his woodcut of a Rhinoceros which had arrived in Lisbon from a written description and sketch by another artist, without ever seeing the animal himself. An image of the Indian rhinoceros, the image has such force that it remains one of his best-known and was still used in some German school science text-books as late as last century. In the years leading to 1520 he produced a wide range of works, including the woodblocks for the first western printed star charts in 1515 and portraits in tempera on linen in 1516.
Answer the following question by taking a quote from the article: What is significant about Nuremberg?
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Durer returned to Nuremberg by mid-1507, remaining in Germany until 1520.
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David Gibb (born 1 July 1990) is a children's musician and songwriter from Belper, Derbyshire. He was a finalist of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award 2011, as well as winning the 'Highly Commended' prize at the Young Storyteller of the Year Awards the same year. In 2013, Gibb featured alongside musical collaborator Elly lucas in the advertising campaign for Gola trainers.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
David Gibb (born 1 July 1990) is a children's musician multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Belper, Derbyshire.
Options are:
*Yes
*It's impossible to say
*No
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It's impossible to say
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Do these mean the same?
In 1881 , he married Agnes Theodora Walther , daughter of Vagn Petersson , and his son is the botanist and sketch artist Vilhelm Theodor Walther .
In 1881 he married Agnes Theodora Walther , the daughter of Vilhelm Theodor Walther , and his son is the botanist and outliner of Vagn Petersson .
Choose your answer from: (I). no. (II). yes.
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Summarize this article:
Communications Decency Act (CDA), also called Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, legislation enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1996 primarily in response to concerns about minors’ access to pornography via the Internet. In 1997 federal judges found that the indecency provisions abridged the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; this decision was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court without comment.
The CDA created a criminal cause of action against those who knowingly transmit “obscene” or “indecent” messages, as determined by local community standards, to a recipient under the age of 18 years. It also prohibited knowingly sending or displaying a “patently offensive” message containing sexual or excretory activities or organs to a minor. The CDA did, however, provide a defense to senders or displayers of online “indecent” materials if they took reasonable good-faith efforts to exclude children.
This legislation had numerous problems that affected both Internet service providers (ISPs) and businesses. First, there was no way for senders or displayers to know if they were within the exception. At that time, it was difficult and cumbersome for a sender to screen out minors. The displayers could ask for a credit card number as validation, but this would not allow them to conduct business with those who did not have a credit card and were over the age of 18 years. In addition, the terms indecent and patently offensive were ambiguous, and the CDA as a whole placed an undue burden on free speech.
Portions of the CDA, especially those regarding the phraseology, were quickly challenged in court by civil rights groups and free-speech advocates. The case was ultimately taken to the Supreme Court in 1997 in Reno v. ACLU. The provisions regarding indecent and patently offensive materials were found to violate the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment and were removed from the CDA.
In 2003 the portions of the CDA regarding obscene content were challenged in Nitke v. Ashcroft (later Nitke v. Gonzales). The plaintiff Barbara Nitke argued that the use of local community standards to determine whether content was obscene was an infringement on her First Amendment rights, as online content is shared with a global community with varying standards. However, she was unable to meet the burden of proof necessary to support her claim, as she could not demonstrate that she would actually be harmed by the CDA.
In Section 230 the CDA created a federal immunity to any cause of action that would make ISPs liable for information originating with a third-party user of the service. That section, originally introduced as the Internet Freedom and Family Empowerment Act in 1995, was added to the CDA during a conference to reconcile differences between the Senate and the House of Representatives versions of the bill. Although it protects online forums and ISPs from most federal causes of action, it does not exempt providers from applicable state laws or criminal, communications-privacy, or intellectual-property claims. Though ISPs are protected by the “Good Samaritan” portions of this section, there have been individuals and groups who have sued Internet users and ISPs over libelous Web pages. Some parties maintain that users should be able to sue ISPs in cases where it is appropriate, including situations where an anonymous poster of questionable content in an online forum cannot be identified. Additionally, the courts have not clearly defined the line at which a blogger, who may be viewed as an information publisher and a user, becomes an information content provider. Editing a Web page or posting a comment so as to create a new, defamatory meaning for the existing content may cause that user to lose protection under Section 230. ||||| Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–141, div. V, § 103(a)(2), , 132 Stat. 1214, added item 2713.
2002—Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title IV, § 4005(b), , 116 Stat. 1812, made technical correction to directory language of Pub. L. 107–56, title II, § 223(c)(2), , 115 Stat. 295, effective . See 2001 Amendment note below.
2001—Pub. L. 107–56, title II, §§ 223(c)(2), 224, , 115 Stat. 295, as amended by Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title IV, § 4005(b), , 116 Stat. 1812, temporarily added item 2712.
Pub. L. 107–56, title II, §§ 212(a)(2), (b)(2), 224, , 115 Stat. 285, 295, temporarily substituted “Voluntary disclosure of customer communications or records” for “Disclosure of contents” in item 2702 and “Required disclosure of customer communications or records” for “Requirements for governmental access” in item 2703.
1988—Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7067, , 102 Stat. 4405, which directed amendment of item 2710 by inserting “for chapter” after “Definitions” was executed by making the insertion in item 2711 to reflect the probable intent of Congress and the intervening redesignation of item 2710 as 2711 by Pub. L. 100–618, see below.
Pub. L. 100–618, § 2(b), , 102 Stat. 3197, added item 2710 and redesignated former item 2710 as 2711. ||||| Airbnb is taking its beef with the city of San Francisco to court.
The short-term rental company filed suit today over a new law that requires Airbnb to verify that its hosts have registered with the city before showing ads for their homes online. The suit aims to block the law from going into effect as scheduled on August 1.
San Francisco legislators passed the law earlier this month in an effort to combat the housing crisis in the city, but Airbnb and technology advocacy groups argue that the new rules violate the Communications Decency Act.
“This legislation ignores the reality that the system is not working and this new approach will harm thousands of everyday San Francisco residents who depend on Airbnb. It also violates federal law,” Airbnb said in a blog post announcing the suit. “This is an unprecedented step for Airbnb, and one we do not take lightly, but we believe it’s the best way to protect our community of hosts and guests.”
This is an unprecedented step for Airbnb, and one we do not take lightly. Airbnb
San Francisco already requires Airbnb hosts to go through a rigorous registration process that involves acquiring a business license, in-person registration, quarterly reports on when guests are sleeping in the home (as opposed to when the owners are), and a list of all the furnishings in the home that a guest might use, down to the sheets and towels.
The process is intended to help the city weed out commercial renters who are taking their properties off the housing market and listing them exclusively on Airbnb. Doing so might earn a homeowner more money, but it also takes housing stock away from a city that desperately needs all the housing it can get.
Understandably, many hosts opt not to go through the cumbersome registration process — and the new law puts Airbnb on the hook to make sure its hosts comply. The law requires Airbnb to make sure hosts register, and the company faces $1000 per day fines if it does not.
Airbnb launched a campaign asking its hometown to streamline the registration process, but the company is taking its fight to federal court, too.
In documents filed this afternoon, Airbnb argues that the new law violates Section 230 of the CDA, which protects websites from being held liable for content provided by their users. Airbnb argues that the city should hold hosts accountable for registering instead. “Instead of punishing Airbnb for publishing unlawful listings, the City could enforce its short-term rental law directly against hosts who violate it,” Airbnb’s filing suggests. “Removing these listings would cause a substantial disruption to Airbnb’s business and have a significant detrimental effect on Airbnb’s goodwill and reputation among both hosts and guests, thus threatening irreparable injury to Airbnb’s business.”
It’s the same principle for online vendors of alcohol and cigarettes. City Attorney spokesperson
Advocacy groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and The Center for Democracy and Technology have agreed with Airbnb’s legal analysis. The legislation “clearly goes against what Section 230 states,” CDT policy counsel Gautam Hans wrote in a blog post.
However, the San Francisco City Attorney’s office argues that Airbnb is misinterpreting the CDA. “Nothing in San Francisco’s pending ordinance punishes hosting platforms for their users’ content. In fact, it’s not regulating user content at all — it’s regulating the business activity of the hosting platform itself,” City Attorney spokesperson Matt Dorsey said. “It’s simply a duty to verify information that’s already required of a regulated business activity.”
The CDA protects YouTube from liability when users upload violent content and eBay when sellers use the platform to trade illegal goods, but the City Attorney argues that Airbnb is less of an online business and more of a physical one. “It’s the same principle for online vendors of alcohol and cigarettes. Businesses that sell those products have a legal duty to verify the age of their customers, whether it’s online or at the corner store, so they don’t sell alcohol and cigarettes to children. They, too, are required to verify information that’s already required for their regulated business activity,” Dorsey added.
In addition to the alleged CDA Section 230 violation, Airbnb also claims that San Francisco shouldn’t require the company to turn over information about its users without a subpoena. Airbnb argues that the city’s requirement to disclose users’ registration data also violates the Stored Communications Act. ||||| SAN FRANCISCO — Airbnb has charmed and strong-armed lawmakers around the world to allow it to operate in their communities. But two cities, Airbnb’s hometown, San Francisco, and New York, the service’s largest United States market, have not been so compliant.
On Monday, Airbnb sued San Francisco over a unanimous decision on June 7 by the city’s Board of Supervisors to fine the company $1,000 a day for every unregistered host on its service. If Airbnb does not comply, it could face misdemeanor charges.
The suit follows a bipartisan move by New York lawmakers who voted this month to heavily fine anyone who uses Airbnb to rent a whole apartment for fewer than 30 days, a practice that has been illegal in the state since 2010.
The actions show how Airbnb, despite aggressive lobbying efforts, has not been able to persuade some local legislators to play ball. And in the case of New York, the company has demonstrated a surprisingly tin ear for local politics. ||||| "If a clerk at 7-Eleven can be fined for selling alcohol to someone who does not have a proper ID, certainly a multibillion-dollar corporation can be fined for facilitating and profiting from an illegal advertisement," Bonin said in a statement Tuesday. "Instead of fighting tooth and nail to avoid responsibility, Airbnb should help make sure their site is not being abused in ways that threaten the character and quality of our neighborhoods." ||||| From the moment our founders launched Airbnb in 2008 during the middle of the Great Recession to help pay their rent, Airbnb has helped San Franciscans afford to stay in the City they love. Since then, thousands of City residents have avoided eviction or foreclosure and been able to stay in San Francisco because they share their space. Thousands more use Airbnb a few times a year to make extra money while on vacation or when big events come to town.
While we are not always perfect, we have constantly sought to learn, get better, and work with the City. There is a need for policies that protect San Francisco’s housing stock and ensure the collection of hotel taxes but also enable residents who depend on Airbnb to make ends meet. For over five years, we have worked with City government to create fair rules for home sharing.
Unfortunately, the rules do not work. There is broad agreement that the current registration process in the City is broken.
Despite these challenges, we had ongoing conversations with policymakers in City Hall and sought to encourage hosts to register in order to make the process work. Over the last year, we have held eleven town hall meetings to explain the registration process, repeatedly emailed hosts to encourage them to register, and convened scores of meetings with individual hosts to help walk them through the required registration steps.
But instead of fixing the process, the Board of Supervisors recently passed a hastily-crafted proposal requiring Airbnb to remove all unregistered hosts. This legislation ignores the reality that the system is not working and this new approach will harm thousands of everyday San Francisco residents who depend on Airbnb. It also violates federal law.
In particular, the proposal:
1. Puts many San Franciscans at risk of eviction or foreclosure while doing nothing to fix the broken registration process.
An estimated 1,200 San Franciscans avoided foreclosure or eviction by hosting on Airbnb. These hosts have been asked to register with the City, but the ever-changing and confusing process simply doesn’t work for many residents, particularly senior citizens, people who occasionally share their space, work several jobs, and have limited time for repeated in-person application meetings.
We have proposed a wide range of improvements, both large and small, that would help fix the process, including:
Creating a one-stop, online permit application process.
Creating a grace period for new hosts to get registered.
Creating flexibility for hosts who rent out their space fewer than 14 nights a year - particularly important for hosts offering space when the City plays hosts to big events.
Do not require hosts who share their space via a Qualified Website Company like Airbnb to obtain a business license. Home sharers are already required to receive one license. A second license is duplicative and unnecessary.
End the requirement that hosts inventory and pay taxes on items like their sheets, blankets, pots and pans.
Despite the Board of Supervisors’ acknowledgement that the current process is broken, the proposal does nothing to address the problem. Instead, the new law doubles down on a broken system by threatening websites that don’t remove home sharers who can’t navigate a confusing, inefficient, and bureaucratic process that often takes months to complete.
2. Violates important federal laws that protect privacy and innovation on the internet.
The new law does nothing to fix the registration process and it violates federal law. Since 1996, the Communications Decency Act -- an important federal law referred to as the “linchpin of the vibrant and successful Internet we know today” -- has prevented local governments from holding websites responsible for content published by their users as the city is attempting to do here.
The new law also violates the federal Stored Communications Act, which creates uniform privacy protections for internet users and prevents cities from simply demanding that platforms turn over user information without a subpoena or other legal process.
A range of experts like the Electronic Frontier Foundation have repeatedly noted that these types of misguided and unlawful rules “would create a chilling atmosphere for online commerce and speech.” The Center for Democracy and Technology agreed, describing the city’s new approach as “unlawful” and noting that “the internet wouldn’t work if it were subject to piecemeal regulations by every state and City within the US.”
3. Ignores better alternatives that could protect San Francisco’s housing stock while respecting federal law
There are better ways to regulate home sharing and address the City’s concerns, ways that don’t violate important federal laws. While the CDA plainly prohibits local governments from following the approach taken by the City, it still allows platforms and municipalities to work together to craft rules that work for everyone. We are ready and willing to work with City government to find common ground on a legal, sensible approach to regulation that protects housing and simplifies the process, and we are hopeful this dialogue can continue as quickly as possible.
We share the City's concern about unwelcome commercial operators converting affordable rental housing to illegal hotels. Within the last year, over 200 listings have been removed in San Francisco. In addition, the typical Airbnb listing in San Francisco is rented 48 nights per year, and in 2015 nearly a third of “entire home” listings rented on our site in San Francisco were rented out fewer than 14 nights total.
San Francisco is our hometown. Airbnb employs over 1,000 people here, and we’ve spent years working with City officials and other advocates to develop sensible rules. Airbnb was the first hosting platform to begin collecting and remitting hotel taxes on behalf of our hosts, and we have collected over $25 million for the City since 2014.
We recognize the need for platforms like Airbnb to play a bigger role in helping the City prevent the loss of affordable rental stock. While we have attempted to work with the City on sensible, lawful alternatives to this flawed new ordinance, we regret that we are forced to now ask a federal court to intervene in this matter. This is an unprecedented step for Airbnb, and one we do not take lightly, but we believe it’s the best way to protect our community of hosts and guests.
We believe that creative approaches are still possible and hope that the City will reconsider its current path and work with us towards building a new system that is legal, workable, and fair to everyone involved. |||||
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– Airbnb has filed a lawsuit alleging its First Amendment rights have been violated and that rules surrounding a new city ordinance flout federal protection for internet companies, and its target is its own hometown, the Los Angeles Times reports. The ordinance in question was passed unanimously earlier this month by San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, and when it takes effect within the next month or so (the New York Times says July; TechCrunch says Aug. 1), Airbnb and other online rental marketplaces will have to ensure hosts renting out their homes are registered with the city. If the company doesn't comply, it can be fined $1,000 per unregistered host per day or be forced to scrub its site of those listings. But in a blog post, Airbnb says "unfortunately, the rules do not work," and CNNMoney notes a registration process that may "turn off" some hosts, including a $50 fee and a mandate that all paperwork be turned in in person. Specifically, the company claims the law will put some San Francisco residents at risk of eviction or foreclosure because of "confusing" registration rules, and that the ordinance would violate the 1996 Communications Decency Act and the Stored Communications Act, which, respectively, protect websites from liability due to user content and from having to hand over consumer info without appropriate legal measures. A rep for the San Francisco attorney's office tells the San Francisco Business Times the city's not regulating online content—it's regulating the hosts' business. "It's simply a duty to verify information that's already required of a regulated business activity," the rep says. (These Airbnb renters found a rotting corpse.)
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Apart from the new substances entering the market, the phase out of existing ones, which have been definitely identified as damaging the ozone layer, is far from complete.
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New substances are damaging the ozone layer.
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- (PL) Mr President, I was really supposed to be speaking today about the situation in Burma, but information I have received obliges me to draw your attention once again to Russia.
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- (PL) Arvoisa puhemies, minun oli itse asiassa tarkoitus puhua tänään Burman tilanteesta, mutta saamani tiedot velvoittavat minut kääntämään katseet jälleen Venäjään.
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News article: Father John Misty plays to, with, and in the crowd at Paradise
Performing as Father John Misty at the Paradise Rock Club on Tuesday night, Josh Tillman went far beyond hitting clean high notes in his love ballads. With his raw delivery and beardy mystique, the 33-year-old singer-songwriter ignited minds — and also broke through the fourth wall completely, interacting with the audience in ways uncustomary for the beloved venue.
The former Fleet Foxes drummer was precise and intense while performing songs from his latest album, “I Love You, Honeybear.” The album’s weighty grappling with love, vulnerability, social commentary, and irony was earnestly reflected in his performance. Full, somber guitar strums and swelling strings on the album’s title track and “Nothing Good Ever Happens at the Goddamn Thirsty Crow” invited listeners into the saloon of Tillman’s soul.
Contrasting with Tillman’s theatrical, passionate stage presence during his songs was his distant demeanor between them. He cheekily prompted his audience to question a performing musician’s space, material, and intention.
“Yes, this is all meticulously engineered,” he said at one point. “From my cold, dead heart to your EDM ears.” This idea was vividly tied together by a heart-shaped neon sign behind the band bearing the words “No Photography” — a stab at the share-obsessed 20-somethings who made up most of his audience.
In a similar vein, he strayed from his typically ornate, folksy veneer with tracks like “True Affection,” where cascading, ethereal synths wove together with his falsetto critique of dependency on modern technology. Tillman danced and gesticulated fluidly on and off the stage, cocking his hips sassily while wrapping his microphone cord around his neck like a morbid scarf.
“I Love You, Honeybear” commemorates Tillman’s falling in love with his wife. Its poignant themes translated effortlessly live, and resurrected Tillman from past performances that exposed a more drug-inspired, disillusioned side — someone he repeatedly referred to as his drunken alter ego, Old Uncle Jerry, an anecdote that led perfectly into “Nancy From Now On.”
His encore began with “Bored in the USA,” a piano-driven ballad infused with sparse laughter as Tillman mocked himself and those around him about middle-class values. Driving his point home, he took an iPhone from an audience member and video-recorded himself spinning while singing wearily.
Following a lighthearted take on Leonard Cohen’s “I’m Your Man,” Tillman offered up “Every Man Needs a Companion,” the closing track from his 2012 LP, “Fear Fun.” Heard now, that song appropriately foreshadowed Tillman’s current album, and the refined, lovestruck, and gripping artist he has become.
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@t_iii Uh Why do they do that? And I so wanted that internship so I spend ages to make the CV and project best... Should have send messy
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By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 12:33 EST, 29 March 2013 | UPDATED: 13:50 EST, 29 March 2013 Hundreds of America's best Hot Rods rolled in to Las Vegas yesterday for a four-day festival dedicated that showcases the classic cars of the early 20th Century. Up to 20,000 fans will descend on Sin City to view the suped up cars that will be put on show during the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender. Cars drove in to the Nevada city from as far afield as Colorado and the East Coast of America. This flaming hot rod was one of hundreds of America's best cars that have rolled into Las Vegas
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Mav's up by two. Lose cal foul on carmelo. Howard shootin 2. ~Mandi~
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Jockey Victor Espinoza celebrates as he guides American Pharoah #18 after crossing the finish line to win the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 2, 2015 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Dortmund set a leisurely pace with Firing Line tracking him closely in second. American Pharoah sat comfortably in third down the backstretch.
That trio made it a three-horse race in the stretch, with none of the closers able to make up ground. American Pharoah angled outside and fought off a persistent Firing Line as Dortmund tired along the rail.
Victor Espinoza won his second consecutive Derby a year after being aboard California Chrome, and third overall.
"He's been a special horse since I first rode him," Espinoza said. "I feel like the luckiest Mexican on Earth."
American Pharoah ran 1 1/4 miles in 2:03.02.
Baffert tied D. Wayne Lukas and Herbert "Derby Dick" Thompson for second on the career win list.
American Pharoah paid $7.80, $5.80, $4.20.
Firing Line returned $8.40 and $5.40, while Dortmund was another two lengths back in third and paid $4.20 to show.
Owner Ahmed Zayat accepted the gold winner's trophy -- his first after a trio of second-place finishes.
American Pharoah missed his first big test last year when he was scratched from the Breeders' Cup with an injury. He returned with two easy wins this year against lesser competition. Dortmund and several other Derby contenders had beaten much tougher fields, raising questions about whether American Pharoah could mix it up in a 20-horse field.
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Bakoyannis also attended a conference on women's contributions to local government, organised by the ruling Justice and Development Party to commemorate International Women's Day.
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Yunan bakan, iktidardaki Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi'nin Dünya Kadınlar Günü münasebetiyle düzenlediği kadınların yerel yönetime olan katkıları konulu bir konferansa da katıldı.
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March 11th European Conference of Advanced Computer Technics Zaragoza Spain
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[March 11th] European Conference of Advanced Computer Technics, Zaragoza, Spain
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Pidän myös kiinni siitä, että parlamentti pidetään ajan tasalla tämän alan ja muiden alojen kehityksestä, sillä Euroopan parlamentin jäsenet ovat vastuussa kansalaisille silloin, kun Euroopan lentokentillä ilmenee ongelmia.
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Following long negotiations between the various institutions, this new legal framework will ensure clear and common conditions for citizens and businesses in the EU.
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Fiind rezultatul unor lungi negocieri dintre varii instituții, acest nou cadru legal asigură condiții clare și comune pentru cetățeni și întreprinderi din cadrul UE.
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Jimmy Kimmel and Matthew McConaughey star in hilarious ads for flagging US video store
American comedian Jimmy Kimmel has teamed up with a Hollywood heavyweight to try and save a small business suffering from rapid 21st century technological advancement.
Kimmel decided to help the flagging Vulcan video store in Austin Texas by agreeing to produce a series of hilarious advertisements that were broadcast on "Jimmy Kimmel Live."
Brian, the owner, can be seen giving Kimmel a tour of the store which proudly boasts an extensive Jerry Lewis, Canadian television and Asian horror section of DVDs and VHS tapes.
"So you rent like more than none of these in a day?" Kimmel asks about the VHS tapes, to which Brian assures him that they might sell two or three in a day.
"I think I know what we have to do here, I think I have to show people what's special about this video store other than the fact that it still exists," Kimmel tells the store owner.
When he finds out their budget is only "a few bucks" because they are a "video store in 2015" Kimmel says "we'll try and do it on the cheap. We're going to have to find someone who's passionate about movies."
So Kimmel returns two weeks later to meet the couple again, showing them the first VHS version of the advertisement for the store featuring a "local actor" that the comedian has managed to source.
The ad begins with a man cursing the pitfalls of streaming movies: "so many options, so much scrolling and so much clicking."
Then like something straight out of Star Trek, Kimmel and Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey are teleported outside the front of the Vulcan store, where they attempt to convince the viewer to "stop streaming and start dreaming about VHS."
When asked about his thoughts on the ad, store owner Brian replied, "it's good (but), I wish we had one that mentioned free parking."
Kimmel then proceeds to whip out a second version of the ad on VHS, complete with a couple of references to free parking, an "anecdote" from McConaughey about the time Vulcan owner Brian let him exchange a faulty VHS for a half-price 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3' (starring McConaughey himself).
Although Brian is happy about the free parking references, he's still not completely satisfied that the second version captured the "selection of movies we've got."
So out comes the third and final version, with the voice-over man boasting that the store stocks "over 52,000 titles, VHS tapes, t-shirts and a bathroom."
Then comes perhaps McConaughey's finest scene in all of the ads, when addressing the inevitable criticism that he and Kimmel would be referred to as "bygones of technology past" for choosing to watch VHS.
McConaghey counters the criticism by claiming it makes him "retro and vintage" and that he enjoys his "one-point-six-two" hour trip to get to the store in peak hour traffic because it allows him to talk to himself while driving.
The ad finishes with Kimmel and McConaughey using Star Trek references (and one incorrect Star Wars reference) to implore customers to come to the store.
With celebrity star power like that, Vulcan Video will hope for a renewed consumer push back towards their much-loved technology of yesteryear.
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<p>American comedian Jimmy Kimmel has teamed up with a Hollywood heavyweight to try and save a small business suffering from rapid 21st century technological advancement.</p>
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Cancun, Mexico (CNN) -- Latin American and Caribbean leaders meeting in Mexico approved the creation of a regional organization Tuesday that leaves out the United States and Canada. Approval for the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States came from heads of state attending the final session of a two-day "Unity Summit" near the Mexican beach resort of Cancun. More than 30 heads of state attended the meeting hosted by Mexican President Felipe Calderon. Creation of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, which would bring together the region's 33 countries, was a top item on the agenda. Some leaders see it as an attempt to counterbalance the Organization of American States, in which the United States and Canada are members.
"He said harsh things, I said harsh things, and then
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- CNN came and Calderon came and we sat down and talked, and continued."
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- Caribbean came and Calderon came and we sat down and talked, and continued."
- Caribbean States came and Calderon came and we sat down and talked, and continued."
- Chavez came and Calderon came and we sat down and talked, and continued."
- Colombian came and Calderon came and we sat down and talked, and continued."
- Community of Latin American came and Calderon came and we sat down and talked, and continued."
- Cuban came and Calderon came and we sat down and talked, and continued."
- Felipe Calderon came and Calderon came and we sat down and talked, and continued."
- Latin came and Calderon came and we sat down and talked, and continued."
- Latin American came and Calderon came and we sat down and talked, and continued."
- Mexican came and Calderon came and we sat down and talked, and continued."
- Mexico came and Calderon came and we sat down and talked, and continued."
- Organization of American States came and Calderon came and we sat down and talked, and continued."
- Raul Castro came and Calderon came and we sat down and talked, and continued."
- U.S. came and Calderon came and we sat down and talked, and continued."
- United States came and Calderon came and we sat down and talked, and continued."
- Unity Summit came and Calderon came and we sat down and talked, and continued."
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Turning certain brain cells on and off with light — a technique called optogenetics — is one of the most important tools in neuroscience. It allows scientists to test basic ideas about how brains work. But because waves of visible light don’t penetrate living tissue well, the technique requires the insertion of a conduit for the light into the brain — a very thin fiber optic cable.
For the first time, researchers say, they have done the same with ultrasound, opening the way to a noninvasive way to probe the functions of neurons. They call the technique sonogenetics. They achieved this in a microscopic worm, a creature so simple that it doesn’t have a brain. But it does have neurons, which have a great deal in common with the neurons in more complex animals that make up the brain and nervous system. If the technique works in more complex animals, it would mean a noninvasive way to do basic research, and perhaps even treat brain circuits.
“Previous studies have shown if you use ultrasound, you can manipulate the nervous system,” said Sreekanth H. Chalasani of the Salk Institute in San Diego and senior author of a recent report in Nature Communications that describes the research. But, he said, nobody had shown that, with genetic modifications, specific neurons could be targeted.
“It’s going to be a viable technique,” said William Tyler, a neuroscientist at Arizona State University, who said the ability to zero in on one neuron or a group of neurons without having to insert anything into the body was “unparalleled.”
In the new work, researchers identified a specific mechanism that made neurons in a tiny worm sensitive to ultrasound. They were then able to choose and genetically modify single neurons and activate them with ultrasound.
Dr. Chalasani, Stuart Ibsen, also at Salk and other researchers there and at the neighboring University of California, San Diego, conducted their research on one of the most intensively studied of all laboratory animals, the tiny roundworm C. elegans.
Scientists have a complete wiring diagram of the worm’s 302 neurons and all of their connections — a connectome of the sort that some investigators of the human brain imagine someday achieving for the 85 billion or more neurons inside our skulls. Even so, not all the functions of C. elegans’s neurons are known, and it is a challenge to predict the behaviors of even so simple a creature.
Ultrasound is attractive because it penetrates tissue easily, and it is safe enough that it is routinely used as a medical diagnostic tool, even to create images of fetuses during pregnancy. Dr. Chalasani and colleagues showed that gates, or channels, in cell membranes open when waves of ultrasound, as they move through tissue, push against the membranes.
When the channels open, they let in a flow of calcium ions, which changes the electrical balance of the cell, causing it to emit a pulse of electricity.
What happens when a neuron emits that signal depends on its function. Dr. Chalasani and his colleagues were able to pick a neuron that they predicted would make a worm reverse course in a big turn. It did not have the kind of channel that responds to ultrasound. They added genes to the neuron to make it pressure sensitive and to cause it to fluoresce when it activated.
They used low-energy ultrasound to avoid harming the animal. But they included microscopic bubbles in the fluid around the worm that amplified the sound enough to make the neuron respond.
As they predicted, the ultrasound activated the neuron and the worm turned. And they tested other neurons as well, confirming predictions and discovering some new functions.
The pressure-sensitive channel that the scientists used in C. elegans is not present in mammals, like mice and humans, but neither are the light-sensitive proteins that make optogenetics possible. Researchers put the genes required to make them into mammalian cells. And that is Dr. Chalasani’s next step in developing sonogenetics: to add genes to mouse neurons that will make the channels. If that works, then mouse neurons can be targeted by ultrasound.
Dr. White said he was excited by another alternative. “Maybe there’s this possibility that you don’t even have to introduce a channel,” he said.
Although mammalian cells don’t have the same channels as roundworms, they do have similar structures in their cell membranes, and researchers may find ways to use existing ones to test theories in basic science and to develop treatments.
A version of this article appears in print on September 29, 2015, on page D4 of the New York edition with the headline: Turning the Worm Around. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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As for engravings, Durer's work was restricted to portraits and illustrations for his treatise. The portraits include Cardinal-Elector Albert of Mainz; Frederick the Wise, elector of Saxony; the humanist scholar Willibald Pirckheimer; Philipp Melanchthon, and Erasmus of Rotterdam. For those of the Cardinal, Melanchthon, and Durer's final major work, a drawn portrait of the Nuremberg patrician Ulrich Starck, Durer depicted the sitters in profile, perhaps reflecting a more mathematical approach. Despite complaining of his lack of a formal classical education, Durer was greatly interested in intellectual matters and learned much from his boyhood friend Willibald Pirckheimer, whom he no doubt consulted on the content of many of his images. He also derived great satisfaction from his friendships and correspondence with Erasmus and other scholars. Durer succeeded in producing two books during his lifetime. "The Four Books on Measurement" were published at Nuremberg in 1525 and was the first book for adults on mathematics in German, as well as being cited later by Galileo and Kepler. The other, a work on city fortifications, was published in 1527. "The Four Books on Human Proportion" were published posthumously, shortly after his death in 1528.
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Here is a news article: Syrians in Jordan are taking an interest in attending sports clubs to learn to swim as they prepare to undertake the journey to seek refuge by sea.
“Sharif,” the owner of a sports venue, has noticed high demand among many Syrian refugees for attending the clubs, with their activities limited to taking swimming lessons. After speaking with some of them, he learned the reason was that some of them wanted to try to immigrate by sea.
“Usually we close the pool during winter, but considering that so many have registered for swimming lessons, and that most of them are Syrian refugees, we kept the classes open,” Sharif said.
The owner of a private pool, who asked that his name not be published, said: “We receive the men in one period and the women in another period. Since I’m in charge of registering participants in the swimming courses, I noticed that entire families were signing up. The father would come with the sons, and the mother would come with the daughters. We also had a few elderly people.”
An official in another sports club said the issue had not drawn his attention at first, and he did not think about why there was such high demand among refugees registering for swimming lessons. But after speaking with them, it became clear to him that they were trying to plan their journey by sea to seek refuge abroad.
One refugee did not deny his intent to travel by sea, or that he was trying to learn to swim to try to reduce the risks of the journey, despite knowing that simply learning to swim would not save him if the boat were to sink.
The young man, Mohammed, said: “It never occurred to me that one day I might think of putting my life in danger, but two reasons encouraged me to take this step. First, many have survived, and second, the life I live now is like death, because it has no future.”
This article was translated and edited by The Syrian Observer. Responsibility for the information and views set out in this article lies entirely with the author. ||||| ---
Swimming pools and sports centres in Jordan are seeing an increase in demand for lessons as Syrian refugees prepare to make the dangerous Mediterranean crossing to Europe.
The Syrian Observer, a website which gathers and translates language news from several sides of the conflict, says that anti-government outlet Al-Madar al-Youm reports that one sports centre owner, Sharif, said he noticed the surge in interest and after talking to customers realised it was because some people were planning on trying to get to Europe by sea.
More than 300,000 people are thought to have relied on the mercy of people smugglers, unseaworthy vessels and good weather to arrive on beaches in Turkey and Greece in 2015 alone.
At least 6,000 people are estimated to have died making the crossing since the beginning of 2014. More than 400 people have died so far in 2016.
Sharif told Al-Madar al-Youm:
Usually we close the pool during winter, but considering that so many have registered for swimming lessons, and that most of them are Syrian refugees, we kept the classes open.
Another pool owner said that entire families are signing up for lessons, with mothers taking daughters and fathers taking sons to segregated lessons. Some elderly people have also been learning.
A young man called Mohammed the group spoke to said he knew that if a boat sank, learning to swim would not be enough to save him.
It never occurred to me that one day I might think of putting my life in danger, but two reasons encouraged me to take this step. First, many have survived, and second, the life I live now is like death, because it has no future.
More: 10,000 refugee children are officially missing in Europe, according to Europol
More: Calais, Macedonia and Greece: how Europe is treating people fleeing war and persecution now ||||| A group of Afghans recently arrive on the island of Lesbos after travelling in an inflatable raft from Turkey to Greece. More than 300,000 refugees and migrants have used the dangerous sea route across the Mediterranean so far this year. © UNHCR/A. McConnell
GENEVA, Aug 28 (UNHCR) - More than 300,000 refugees and migrants have used the dangerous sea route across the Mediterranean so far this year with almost 200,000 of them landing in Greece and a further 110,000 in Italy.
The UN refugee agency, revealing the latest statistics in Geneva on Friday, said this represents a large increase from last year, when around 219,000 people crossed the Mediterranean during the whole of 2014.
"At the same time, some 2,500 refugees and migrants are estimated to have died or gone missing this year, trying to reach Europe. This death toll does not include yesterday's tragedy off Libya where numbers of deaths are still unconfirmed," UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming told a press briefing in Geneva.
Last year some 3,500 people died or were reported missing in the Mediterranean Sea.
Fleming said that despite the concerted efforts of the joint European search and rescue operation under FRONTEX, which has saved tens of thousands of lives this year, the Mediterranean Sea continues to be the "deadliest route for refugees and migrants".
She added that in the last few days, even more people had lost their lives in three separate incidents.
The Libyan Coast Guard carried two rescue operations on Thursday morning, seven miles off the port town of Zwara. Two boats carrying an approximate total of 500 refugees and migrants were intercepted and survivors taken to shore in Libya.
"An estimated 200 people are still missing and feared dead. A still undetermined number of bodies were recovered and taken to shore. The Libyan Red Crescent has been helping with the collection of the bodies," Fleming added.
On Wednesday (26 August), rescuers coming to the aid of another boat off the Libyan coast found 51 people dead from suffocation in the hold.
"According to survivors, smugglers were charging people money for allowing them to come out of the hold in order to breathe," Fleming detailed.
She quoted one survivor, Abdel, 25, from Sudan as saying: "We didn't want to go down there but they beat us with sticks to force us. We had no air so we were trying to get back up through the hatch and to breathe through the cracks in the ceiling. But the other passengers were scared the boat would capsize so they pushed us back down and beat us too. Some were stamping on our hands."
Fleming said that last week (15 August), the bodies of 49 persons were found in the hold of another boat in a similar but separate incident. They are thought to have died after inhaling poisonous fumes.
Also that week, a rubber dinghy carrying some 145 refugees and migrants ran into trouble when the person steering it made a manoeuvre that caused the dinghy to tilt dangerously to one side.
"Some people fell into the sea and two men jumped into the water to rescue them. Panic ensued and people began to jostle and shove and, as a result, three women were crushed to death on the dinghy," Fleming said.
Of those who fell in the water, 18 are still missing and believed to have drowned. The survivors were rescued and taken to Lampedusa, including a two-month old baby of one of the women who died. Most of the survivors are reported to be in a critical condition, suffering from shock, cuts and bruises.
Many of the people arriving by sea in southern Europe, particularly in Greece, come from countries affected by violence and conflict, such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan; they are in need of international protection and they are often physically exhausted and psychologically traumatized.
UNHCR appeals to all governments involved to provide comprehensive responses and act with humanity and in accordance with their international obligations.
All European countries and the EU must act together in response to the growing emergency and demonstrate responsibility and solidarity.
By Melissa Fleming, Geneva |||||
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– A report in the Syrian Observer illustrates how bleak things are for people hoping to start new lives elsewhere: They're signing up for swimming lessons ahead of the dangerous boat trip. The dispatch collects anecdotal evidence from the operators of three separate sports clubs in Jordan, all of whom say Syrians there are signing up in droves. "Usually we close the pool during winter, but considering that so many have registered for swimming lessons, and that most of them are Syrian refugees, we kept the classes open," says one. Another says that whole families were asking for help. "The father would come with the sons, and the mother would come with the daughters," he says. "We also had a few elderly people." Adds a young man taking lessons: "It never occurred to me that one day I might think of putting my life in danger, but two reasons encouraged me to take this step. First, many have survived, and second, the life I live now is like death, because it has no future." The Observer collects and translates posts from different sides of the conflict, notes the Independent, and this one comes from an opposition group. But the risks associated with fleeing via boat are clear: The UN estimated last August that 6,000 people had died or gone missing since 2014 while trying to cross the Mediterranean. (One artist turned the refugees' discarded life jackets into a statement.)
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desktool can be made to stay on top of other windows, making it readily accessible."
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DeskTool can be made to stay on top of other windows, making it readily accessible."
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Based on the premise "What should we have to do? she breathed.", can we conclude the hypothesis "They were totally lost in this new city." is true (see options)?
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Periclesprogramme-fundingtrainingfornationalagencies,banksandothersinvolvedincombatingeuro-counterfeiting-bothintheEUandoutside.
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Pericles programme - funding training for national agencies, banks and others involved in combating euro-counterfeiting - both in the EU and outside.
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"That is why I am sorry for Robert Reich." Based on this premise, is the hypothesis "I have no reason to be sorry. " true?
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Here is a goal: How do you find the mean?
Which way makes more sense to accomplish this goal?
Select from the following. a. The mean is the average of the numbers. It is easy to calculate: add up all the numbers, then multiply by how many numbers there are. In other words it is the sum divided by the count. b. The mean is the average of the numbers. It is easy to calculate: add up all the numbers, then divide by how many numbers there are. In other words it is the sum divided by the count.
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In any case once registered you may enjoy all our services
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In any case, once registered, you may enjoy all our services.
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Article: If you have the “right” kind of function to begin, you can find the inverse using some simple algebra. This form is something of a variation of y=ax2+c{\displaystyle y=ax^{2}+c}. Comparing this to a standard form quadratic function, y=ax2+bx+c{\displaystyle y=ax^{2}+bx+c}, you should notice that the central term, bx{\displaystyle bx}, is missing. Another way to say this is that the value of b is 0. If your function is in this form, finding the inverse is fairly easy. Your beginning function does not have to look exactly like y=ax2+c{\displaystyle y=ax^{2}+c}. As long as you can look at it and see that the function consists only of x2{\displaystyle x^{2}} terms and constant numbers, you will be able to use this method. For example, suppose you begin with the equation, 2y−6+x2=y+3x2−4{\displaystyle 2y-6+x^{2}=y+3x^{2}-4}. A quick examination of this equation shows that there are no terms of x{\displaystyle x} to the first power. This equation is a candidate for this method to find an inverse function. The initial equation may have multiple terms in a combination of addition and subtraction. Your first step is to combine like terms to simplify the equation and rewrite it in the standard format of y=ax2+c{\displaystyle y=ax^{2}+c}. Taking the sample equation, 2y−6+x2=y+3x2−4{\displaystyle 2y-6+x^{2}=y+3x^{2}-4}, the y-terms can be consolidated on the left by subtracting a y from both sides. The other terms can be consolidated on the right by adding 6 to both sides and subtracting x^2 from both sides. The resulting equation will be y=2x2+2{\displaystyle y=2x^{2}+2}. Recall that the domain of a function consists of the possible values of x that can be applied to provide a real solution. The range of a function consists of the values of y that will result. To determine the domain of the function, look for values that create a mathematically impossible result. You will then report the domain as all other values of x. To find the range, consider the values of y at any boundary points and look at the behavior of the function. Consider the sample equation y=2x2+2{\displaystyle y=2x^{2}+2}. There is no limitation on allowable values of x for this equation. However, you should recognize that this is the equation of a parabola, centered at x=0, and a parabola is not a function because it does not consist of a one-to-one mapping of x and y values. To limit this equation and make it a function, for which we can find an inverse, we must define the domain as x≥0. The range is similarly limited. Notice that the first term, 2x2{\displaystyle 2x^{2}}, will always be positive or 0, for any value of x. When the equation then adds +2, the range will be any values y≥2. Defining the domain and range at this early stage is necessary. You will use these definitions later in defining the domain and range of the inverse function. In fact, the domain of the original function will become the range of the inverse function, and the range of the original will become the domain of the inverse. Without changing the equation in any other way, you need to replace all appearance of y with an x, and all appearances of x with a y. This is the step that actually “inverts” the equation. Working with the sample equation y=2x2+2{\displaystyle y=2x^{2}+2}, this inversion step will result in the new equation of x=2y2+2{\displaystyle x=2y^{2}+2}. An alternate format is to replace the y terms with x, but replace the x terms with either y−1{\displaystyle y^{-}1} or f(x)−1{\displaystyle f(x)^{-}1} to indicate the inverse function. Using a combination of algebraic steps, and taking care to perform the same operation evenly on both sides of the equation, you will need to isolate the y variable. For the working equation x=2y2+2{\displaystyle x=2y^{2}+2}, this revision will look like the following: x=2y2+2{\displaystyle x=2y^{2}+2} (original starting point) x−2=2y2{\displaystyle x-2=2y^{2}} (subtract 2 from both sides) x−22=y2{\displaystyle {\frac {x-2}{2}}=y^{2}} (divide both sides by 2) ±x−22=y{\displaystyle {\sqrt {\frac {x-2}{2}}}=y} (square root of both sides; remember that the square root results in both positive and negative possible answers) As you did at the beginning, examine the inverted equation to define its domain and range. With two possible solutions, you will select the one that has a domain and range that are inverses of the original domain and range. Examine the sample equation solution of ±x−22=y{\displaystyle {\sqrt {\frac {x-2}{2}}}=y}. Because the square root function is not defined for any negative values, the term x−22{\displaystyle {\frac {x-2}{2}}} must always be positive. Therefore, allowable values of x (the domain) must be x≥2. Using that as the domain, the resulting values of y (the range) are either all values y≥0, if you take the positive solution of the square root, or y≤0, if you select the negative solution of the square root. Recall that you originally defined the domain as x≥0, in order to be able to find the inverse function. Therefore, the correct solution for the inverse function is the positive option. Compare the domain and range of the inverse to the domain and range of the original. Recall that for the original function, y=2x2+2{\displaystyle y=2x^{2}+2}, the domain was defined as all values of x≥0, and the range was defined as all values y≥2. For the inverse function, now, these values switch, and the domain is all values x≥2, and the range is all values of y≥0. To make sure that your work is correct and your inverse is the right equation, select any value for x and place it into the original equation to find y. Then, put that value of y in the place of x in your inverse equation, and see if you generate the number that you started with. If so, your inverse function is correct. As a sample, select the value x=1 to place in the original equation y=2x2+2{\displaystyle y=2x^{2}+2}. This gives the result y=4. Next, place that value of 4 into the inverse function x−22=y{\displaystyle {\sqrt {\frac {x-2}{2}}}=y}. This does give the result of y=1. You can conclude that your inverse function is correct.
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Look for a function in the form of y=ax2+c{\displaystyle y=ax^{2}+c}. Simplify by combining like terms. Determine the domain and range of the simplified function. Switch the roles of the x and y terms. Rewrite the inverted equation in terms of y. Determine the domain and range of the inverse function. Check that your inverse function works.
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the justice department replaced the head of its public corruption-fighting division , a career employee who had opposed an independent investigation of former vice president al gore 's fund-raising activities .
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justice replaces corruption chief
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(1). Laura was the customer.
(2). Jennifer was the customer.
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At the mall on Friday, Laura paid Jennifer for the diamonds because
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If "Frank felt crushed when his longtime rival Bill revealed that he was the winner of the competition.", does it follow that "Frank was the winner of the competition."
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Select the correct answer: Which is an appropriate title for this article?
Mike McKenzie wanted out of Green Bay. It was a trade many fans wanted as well. The cornerback #39;s trade to the New Orleans Saints was the talk of the day Monday among Packers fans, who are eager
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Math problem: Solve 234*p = -2654 + 80 for p.
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What does an IQ of 97 mean?
What do the scores on a classic IQ test mean?
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From the following options, what is the question "How far out is the universe ?" asking about?
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- entity
- abbreviation
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Question: Carthage and Tunisia are in what general area?
Is "Splendid mosaic floors are found in Roman villas across North Africa, in places such as Carthage, and can still be seen in the extensive collection in Bardo Museum in Tunis, Tunisia." the correct answer?
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a) la representación activa y pasiva de la Orden en las relaciones con terceros;
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Do not remove a bird from its nest. Return nestlings to the nest. Make a makeshift nest if you can't find the real one. Call the professionals if no parents come.
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If you find a baby bird all alone in its nest, don't assume its mother abandoned it. It's more likely she's off getting food for her baby and will return soon. No matter how much it's chirping and crying, never remove a baby from its nest. Think of it as kidnapping. A nestling is a young bird that hasn't grown feathers yet. They sometimes fall out of their nests, which puts them into danger. The best thing you can do for a nestling is to NOT take it home, but try to return it to its nest. Search nearby trees and bushes for an empty nest. If you can find one, place the bird back into its nest so it can wait for its mother to return. Remember to be gentle when handling it! Birds can be quite good at hiding their nests in nature. If you can't find the nest, you should still try to reunite the baby with its mother by making a manmade nest for it to wait in. Fill a small box or bowl with dried grass or paper towels, and place the bird in its makeshift nest. Do not use fresh grass, because that could make the baby bird cold You can also use a basket with a handle, then hang the basket from a nearby tree branch. Leave this "nest" where you found the bird. Wait to see if a parent bird comes by to take care of the baby. If, after waiting for an hour or so, you haven't seen any parent birds come to take care of the baby, you should reach out to experts. Licensed wildlife rehabilitation specialists will be best equipped to keep the baby bird healthy and happy. If you can’t find a rehabilitator on your own, call vets, bird stores or the local Audubon Society and ask them to put you in touch with one. The wildlife rehabilitator will want to know where you found the bird, so he or she can return it to its home when it's healed. Be as specific as possible.
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When buried sediments are subjected to pressure, the mineral grains are squeezed together. What is the result of this action?
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Additional land was transferred by Medford ( 1817 ) , Everett ( 1875 ) and Malden ( 1877 ) to Malden again .
Additional land was transferred to Medford from Malden ( 1817 ) , Everett ( 1875 ) , and Malden ( 1877 ) again .
Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
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[2]. yes.
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Firmalar, vergi uygulanma kotasının yükseltilmesi konusunda birlikle pazarlık halindeler.
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all free spins are played with the same bet per line as the triggering game.
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All free spins are played with the same bet per line as the triggering game.
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S: Matthew, I just heard from Kalama that a representative of the people who perished in the towers told her they gave you a message. If you have something, I'm sure Jean and Michael will send it out.
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S:Matthew,IjustheardfromKalamathatarepresentativeofthepeoplewhoperishedinthetowerstoldhertheygaveyouamessage.Ifyouhavesomething,I'msureJeanandMichaelwillsenditout.
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Do the following two sentences have the same meaning?
The number of extremely obese American adults - those who are at least 100 pounds overweight - has quadrupled since the 1980s to about 4 million .
The number of Americans considered extremely obese , or at least 100 pounds overweight , has quadrupled since the 1980s to a startling 4 million , the research shows .
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2). yes.
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Keywords: carry, container, train
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the freight train carries containers .
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Choose your answer: Do "mistress" and "her" point to the same thing in the following sentence?
When my parents died, I was not earning enough to keep myself or my crippled sister Nelly , and without our kind mistress , we would have gone to the poorhouse. Nelly calls *her* her angel and she has good right to do so. her
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Does "line" mean the same thing in these two sentences? See options at the end.
In line with.
He got out of line.
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Generate a sentence about this data: Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, country, Switzerland; Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, established, 1996; Switzerland, anthem, Swiss Psalm; Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, city, Mendrisio; Switzerland, leaderTitle, Federal Chancellor of Switzerland; Switzerland, leader, Johann Schneider-Ammann.
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The Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, Switzerland was established in 1996. Switzerland's anthem is the Swiss Psalm, and its leader is Federal Chancellor Johann Schneider-Ammann.
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Choose from options: Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
The census at 2011 was above 130,000.
North East Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, bordering the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire and the non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire. The population of the Unitary Authority at the 2011 Census was 159,616. These three administrative units make up the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire.
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Data: Alessio Romagnoli, club, A.C. Milan; A.C. Milan, manager, Siniša Mihajlović; A.S. Roma, league, Serie A; Alessio Romagnoli, club, A.S. Roma
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Alessio Romagnoli is a member of the A.C. Milan club and the A.S. Roma which is part of Serie A. The A.C. Milan is managed by Siniša Mihajlović.
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Look for a soft place to land. Open the door completely. Jump away at an angle.
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Scope out the area around you and try to locate a soft place to land. A field, a patch of grass, or a pile of leaves is probably your best bet. Look for a place that is “five seconds” away from you (meaning you could count to five before you reach it). In addition to finding a soft place to land, you must find a place that is free from obstructions. You want to jump without crashing into a road sign or fence, and you want to avoid landing on broken glass or other objects. When you swing open the door, it is crucial to make sure you open it all the way. You need space to jump with conviction, and you do not want the door to hit you on your way out. When you jump from a moving car, you want to be sure that you won’t be run over by it. So jump backwards and away from the car. Try to propel yourself at a 45-degree angle from the rear of the vehicle. Jump far to avoid the car and make sure your head is pointed further behind the car than your feet. You will be less likely to roll towards the vehicle using this method.
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Select the correct answer: Which is an appropriate title for this article?
Not even the Chicago Bears, the Green Bay Packers #39; favorite rented mule, red-headed stepchild, and whipping boy rolled into one.
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- World
- Sports
- Business
- Science/Tech
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Here are two sentences:
Artists are worried the plan would harm those who need help most - performers who have a difficult time lining up shows .
The artists say the plan will harm French culture and punish those who need help most - performers who have a hard time lining up work .
Choose your answer: are the two sentences saying the same thing?
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René Kalmer (born 3 November 1980 in Roodepoort, Gauteng) is a female South African runner who has competed over distances ranging from 800 metres to the marathon. She represented South Africa at the 2008 Summer Olympics, running in the 1500 metres. She then represented South Africa again at the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing in the marathon.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
René Kalmer met the president on her return
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What is the title of this article:
After 1517, when the new invention of printing made these texts widely available, the Dutch humanist Erasmus, who had studied Greek at the Venetian printing house of Aldus Manutius, began a philological analysis of the Gospels in the spirit of Valla, comparing the Greek originals with their Latin translations with a view to correcting errors and discrepancies in the latter. Erasmus, along with the French humanist Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, began issuing new translations, laying the groundwork for the Protestant Reformation. Henceforth Renaissance humanism, particularly in the German North, became concerned with religion, while Italian and French humanism concentrated increasingly on scholarship and philology addressed to a narrow audience of specialists, studiously avoiding topics that might offend despotic rulers or which might be seen as corrosive of faith. After the Reformation, critical examination of the Bible did not resume until the advent of the so-called Higher criticism of the 19th-century German Tübingen school.
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Select the correct answer: Which is an appropriate title for this article?
ATA Holdings Corp., parent of ATA Airlines, the nation's 10th-largest carrier, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization yesterday, becoming the third U.S. airline operating under court protection.
Choices: (1). World (2). Sports (3). Business (4). Science/Tech
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If "In the middle of the outdoor concert, the rain started falling, and it continued until 10.", is "The concert continued until 10." correct?
(i). no; (ii). yes;
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Write a dialog with this premise "Nancy wants to know which social media to use for her business. Vix proposes using Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and Phil using the same post all over in order to save time.".
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Nancy: The problem is, I can't decide which social media to choose: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr.
Phil: If I may recommend something - don't go with Tumblr. It's basically dead.
Vic: Agree with Phil. What are u going to post?
Nancy: What do u mean?
Vic: Text? Pictures? Music? Videos?
Nancy: Haven't really thought about that. I think photos with some comment mostly.
Phil: TBH, any of these will do. U can post photos and comments on Twitter.
Vic: IMHO, Instagram would suit u best. U'd need to work on ur graphics skills though.
Nancy: Y?
Vic: Well, ppl aren't that much interested in what they can read in the comment or description, but in what's on the photo.
Nancy: So the catchphrase would have to be on the photo?
Vic: Basically.
Phil: I can't imagine I'm saying this, but what about Facebook?
Nancy: What about it?
Phil: Well, u can do both! Post pictures and descriptions!
Nancy: Not a bad idea!
Vic: I have an idea!
Nancy: What is it?
Vic: Y not use all of them?
Nancy: What do u mean?
Vic: Well, u can use Facebook in general, Instagram 4 pics and Twitter for rash news!
Phil: That's actually ingenious!
Vic: Right? :)
Nancy: One problem - won't it take up too much of my time?
Phil: Nah! U can use the same post all over.
Nancy: How?
Phil: U post what u want to say on Facebook, the picture on Instagram and tell ur followers they'll find out more on Facebook and a short news on Twitter with the most important info and a link to ur Facebook post.
Vic: And that way u'll get more possible customers :)
Nancy: Thanks, guys! I think I'll do that!
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Out of the 355,731 people residing in Bilbao in 2009, only 114,220 (32.1%) were born inside the municipality. Of the remainder, 114,908 were born in other Biscayan towns, while 9,545 were born in the other two Basque provinces; 85,789 came from the rest of Spain (mainly Castile-León and Galicia (Spain)), and 33,537 were foreigners. There are 127 different nationalities registered in Bilbao, although 60 of them represent fewer than 10 people each. The largest foreign communities are Bolivians and Colombians, with 4,879 and 3,730 respectively. Other nationalities with more than 1,000 inhabitants are Romanians (2,248), Moroccos (2,058), Ecuadorians (1,832), Chinese (1,390), Brazilians (1,273) and Paraguayans, with 1,204.
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Thomas E. O'Donnell (1841 – c. 1875) was one of the driving forces in the New York City draft riots, when he was 22 years old. He was a public opponent of the draft, so he was promptly arrested. Though his jail time is unknown, it is known that he died at age 34 due to heart problems.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
O'Donnell lived 34 years.
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Here is a premise: "A woman takes a picture during the day."
Here is a hypothesis: "A woman is taking a picture outside"
.Does the premise tell us whether the hypothesis is true?
Pick from:
A). yes;
B). it is not possible to tell;
C). no;
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It's OK! is a musical group formed by Redd Kross members Robert Hecker (guitar, vocals) and Victor Indrizzo (drums), along with bassist Abby Travis and the late Greg White on vocals. This initial line up of the band released the self-titled debut album "It's OK!".
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Victor Indrizzo often had drum solos "?
OPTIONS: (I). Yes (II). It's impossible to say (III). No
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Here are portraits of Agnes .
Please remove spaces between words.
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HereareportraitsofAgnes.
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Here is a single or multi-choice question: What is a fear of worms ?
Would the answer to this question be an entity, an abbreviation, a description, a human, a location, or a numeric value?
Pick your answer from:
A). description;
B). entity;
C). abbreviation;
D). human;
E). numeric;
F). location;
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Generate a sentence that includes all the following words: cake, inspire, wedding
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pastel wedding cake for a beach wedding with floral and sea inspired details .
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Joe slapped Jose in the face because he was angry.
Who is "he" in this prior sentence(see options)?
Options are: (A). Joe. (B). Jose.
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He said Qualcomm has enjoyed many years of selling CDMA chips without much competition .
" Qualcomm has enjoyed many years of selling ... against little or no competition , " Hubach said in the statement .
(See options at the end). If the first sentence is true, is the second one also true?
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As of the census of 2000, there were 6,299 people, 2,519 households, and 1,592 families residing in the city. The population density was 914.5 persons per square mile (353.0/km²). There were 2,702 housing units at an average density of 392.3 per square mile (151.4/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 75.33% White (U.S. Census), 22.38% African American (U.S. Census) or Race (United States Census), 0.24% Native American (U.S. Census), 0.57% Asian (U.S. Census), 0.08% Pacific Islander (U.S. Census), 0.24% from Race (United States Census), and 1.16% from two or more races. Hispanic (U.S. Census) or Latino (U.S. Census) of any race were 0.89% of the population.
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How many percent of people were not Pacific Islander?
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Data: name = The Dumpling Tree, eatType = coffee shop, priceRange = less than £20, area = riverside, familyFriendly = yes, near = Café Sicilia. What is a sentence that describe this data?
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In the Riverside area near Café Sicilia you can visit The Dumpling Tree coffee shop for less than 20 and a family friendly environment.
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a siemens spokesman in germany stated that heinrich von pierer stated that gerhard schroeder stated that gerhard schroeder is not against the sale of the plutonium-processing facility in principle.
What is a sentence that would be (on a scale from 0 to 5) a (v). out of 5 in terms of textual similarity to the above sentence?
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a siemens spokesman in germany stated that heinrich von pierer stated that siemens was beginning talks with interested chinese parties about a sale of the plutonium-processing facility.
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Question 1: How big a planet can be?
Question 2: Can a planet be as big as a galaxy?
OPT:
1). no;
2). yes;
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Article:
Fox News on Tuesday retracted a story linking the murder of a Democratic National Committee staff member with the email hacks that aided President Trump’s campaign, effectively quashing a conspiracy theory that had taken hold across the right-wing news media.
It was a rare acknowledgment of error by the network. But it also underscored a schism between the network’s news-gathering operation and one of its biggest stars: the conservative commentator Sean Hannity, who has unapologetically promoted the theory and remained defiant on Tuesday.
“These are questions that I have a moral obligation to ask,” Mr. Hannity said on his radio show, shortly after Fox News announced its mistake. “All you in the liberal media — I am not Fox.com or FoxNews.com. I retracted nothing.”
The story of the murdered aide, Seth Conrad Rich, who was 27 when he was shot in the back near his Washington home in July, has been seized on by Mr. Hannity and other right-wing pundits as an alternative narrative to the cascade of damaging revelations about the Trump administration’s ties to Russian officials who meddled in the presidential election. ||||| The writers are the parents of Seth Rich, who was killed in the District in 2016.
Imagine living in a nightmare that you can never wake up from. Imagine having to face every single day knowing that your son was murdered. Imagine you have no answers — that no one has been brought to justice and there are few clues leading to the killer or killers. Imagine that every single day, with every phone call you hope that it’s the police, calling to tell you that there has been a break in the case.
Imagine that instead, every call that comes in is a reporter asking what you think of a series of lies or conspiracies about the death. That nightmare is what our family goes through every day.
Our beloved son Seth Rich was gunned down in the early hours of July 10, 2016, in his Washington, D.C., neighborhood of Bloomingdale. On the day he was murdered, Seth was excited about a new job he had been offered on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Seth had dedicated his life to public service, and he told us that he wanted to work on the campaign’s effort to expand voter participation because he loved our country dearly and believed deeply in the promise of democratic engagement. Seth had been walking around, calling friends, family and his girlfriend, pondering the broader picture of what the job change would mean. He wondered how he would pick up and move to New York City for four months, the strain that might put on his relationships, and how it would all affect the life he had built for himself in Washington.
The circumstances of what happened next are still unclear. We know that Seth was abruptly confronted on the street, that he had been on the phone and quickly ended the call. We also know that there were signs of a struggle, including a watchband torn when the assailants attempted to rip it off his wrist. Law-enforcement officials told us that Seth’s murder looked like a botched robbery attempt in which the assailants — after shooting our son — panicked, immediately ran and abandoned Seth’s personal belongings. We have seen no evidence, by any person at any time, that Seth’s murder had any connection to his job at the Democratic National Committee or his life in politics. Anyone who claims to have such evidence is either concealing it from us or lying.
Still, conservative news outlets and commentators continue, day after painful day, to peddle discredited conspiracy theories that Seth was killed after having provided WikiLeaks with emails from the DNC. Those theories, which some reporters have since retracted, are baseless, and they are unspeakably cruel.
We know that Seth’s personal email and his personal computer were both inspected by detectives early in the investigation and that the inspection revealed no evidence of any communications with anyone at WikiLeaks or anyone associated with WikiLeaks. Nor did that inspection reveal any evidence that Seth had leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks or to anyone else. Indeed, those who have suggested that Seth’s role as a data analyst at the DNC gave him access to a wide trove of emails are simply incorrect — Seth’s job was to develop analytical models to encourage voters to turn out to vote. He didn’t have access to DNC emails, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee emails, John Podesta’s emails or Hillary Clinton’s emails. That simply wasn’t his job.
Despite these facts, our family’s nightmare persists. Seth’s death has been turned into a political football. Every day we wake up to new headlines, new lies, new factual errors, new people approaching us to take advantage of us and Seth’s legacy. It just won’t stop. The amount of pain and anguish this has caused us is unbearable. With every conspiratorial flare-up, we are forced to relive Seth’s murder and a small piece of us dies as more of Seth’s memory is torn away from us.
To those who sincerely want to get to the bottom of Seth’s murder, we don’t hold this against you. We don’t think you are monsters, and we don’t think you are terrible people. We know that so many people out there really do care, don’t know what to think and are angry at the lack of answers.
We also know that many people are angry at our government and want to see justice done in some way, somehow. We are asking you to please consider our feelings and words. There are people who are using our beloved Seth’s memory and legacy for their own political goals, and they are using your outrage to perpetuate our nightmare. We ask those purveying falsehoods to give us peace, and to give law enforcement the time and space to do the investigation they need to solve our son’s murder. ||||| Sean Hannity on his radio show Tuesday continued to peddle a conspiracy suggesting that Rich was not the victim of a botched robbery, as police say, but was murdered over a connection to Wikileaks. This despite Fox News retracting a story on their website about the case of slain DNC-staffer Seth Rich, and yet another plea from Rich’s family to cease reporting debunked and/or unverified theories about the case.
While expressing sympathy for the Rich family, Hannity spoke about his “moral obligation” to continue to pursue the conspiracy.
“The family’s actually on the internet saying they want to find the truth. I feel so badly for this family, and what they have been through, and what they are going through. And my thoughts and prayers are with them,” Hannity said. But then he added, “This issue is so big now that the entire Russia collusion narrative is hanging by a thread. If in fact, take Seth out of it, there was a whistleblower within the DNC, a truth teller that actually was the source for WikiLeaks and not Russia working with the Trump campaign, these are questions that I have a moral obligation to ask.”
Oliver Darcy of CNN reports that a Rich family spokesperson said yesterday that Hannity has not reached out privately to the family:
Family spox also told me yesterday that Hannity hadn’t even reached out to them. https://t.co/zLQlqfTifD — Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 23, 2017
Hannity disputed this claim on his show Tuesday.
“These reports that I have not talked to the family are not true,” Hannity said. “These reports that I’ve not reached out to the family, I have evidence going back to, I think, Friday.”
Hannity did not elaborate further on any correspondence with the Rich family.
The Fox News host, meanwhile, stands by what he’s said on the air about the case to this point.
“I am not Foxnews.com,” Hannity said at one point. “I retracted nothing.”
Listen above, via The Sean Hannity Show.
UPDATE 5:25 P.M. ET — Hannity added the following tweets
IMPORTANT! Mediamatters is trying to silence me, get me fired, pressure my advertising on radio & TV. Liberal Fascism. I need your help!! — Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 23, 2017
I said publicly over and over to the Rich Family they are in my thoughts and prayers. I m trying to find the truth as the Mom Dad bro asked https://t.co/op11hVRlWW — Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 23, 2017
As reported by Oliver Darcy at CNN, Rich’s family has repeatedly asked Hannity to stop reporting on conspiracy theories about the case.
@seanhannity Seth Rich’s brother to @seanhannity:"We appeal to your decency to not cause a grieving family more pain & suffering” https://t.co/Z3VtVk2vRz — Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 23, 2017
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Have a tip we should know? tips@mediaite.com |||||
What is a summary?
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– Last July, 27-year-old Seth Rich was shot and killed near his home in Washington DC. On Tuesday, Fox News retracted a recent story positing the Democratic National Committee employee was murdered because he was acting as a WikiLeaks informant, the New York Times reports. Fox News states the story didn't meet the "high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting." The story was based on an interview with Rod Wheeler, a private investigator (and Fox News regular), who claimed there was evidence proving Rich's involvement with WikiLeaks. According to the Daily Beast, Wheeler took back that claim after getting a cease-and-desist letter from Rich's family. No evidence to support the theory has been put forward, and police believe Rich was killed in a botched robbery. Fox News' retraction hasn't stopped Sean Hannity from pushing a conspiracy theory that Rich was murdered by the Clinton organization for helping WikiLeaks. "I retracted nothing," Mediaite quotes Hannity as saying Tuesday on his radio show. Rich's family has asked Hannity multiple times to stop politicizing their son's death and discussing the conspiracy theory. His parents even published an op-ed in the Washington Post to that effect. Hannity says he feels "so badly for this family" but he has a "moral obligation" to hunt for the truth that could take down "the entire Russia collusion narrative." The Daily Beast says nearly a dozen Fox News employees have called Hannity's fixation on the conspiracy theory "embarrassing," "gross," and "unhinged."
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Complete the following text: he loved it when i did as i was told . my parents loved it , too . i did n't get the appeal . `` let 's move it along , '' said big steve . `` yes , of course . state the name you 're commonly called , '' said leonard . `` mercy watts . '' i almost said marilyn , since i was a dead ringer for the late bombshell , marilyn monroe , and got called marilyn as much as i did
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