inputs stringlengths 249 53.4k | targets stringlengths 2 43 | _template_idx int64 0 9 | _task_source stringclasses 1 value | _task_name stringclasses 1 value | _template_type stringclasses 2 values |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
One example is below.
Q: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
A: Raheem Morris
Rationale: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Q: David Shapiro’s smear of Jeff Sessions in a Chicago Tribune op-ed suggesting that the attorney general is a racist is consistent with other failed partisan efforts to distort and delegitimize the former senator’s record on race and law enforcement. Apparently Shapiro missed Sessions’s confirmation hearing in which the same smears were attempted only to be refuted one by one by witnesses — mostly black — who actually know the facts and the man.
Shapiro asserts Sessions’s directive to staff on criminal sentencing related to drug crimes is “the latest in a series of attempts by the Attorney General to tear down protections for people of color.” Mr. Shapiro seems to have forgotten that during the height of the crack epidemic ravaging the black community in the ’80s it was Congressman Charlie Rangel and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus who voted for the Anti-Drug Abuse Act (“ADAA”) which established the 100-1 sentencing ratio for crack and powder cocaine. Were Rangel and other members of Congress racist?
The rest of Shapiro ’s piece is character assassination of the worst kind. As U.S. attorney for Alabama Sessions successfully sought the death penalty for Klan members. He defended black voting rights. He hired blacks for prominent positions. As a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights I’ve known and worked with Jeff Sessions for years and consider him the most principled and decent person in Washington a man of the highest integrity.
Shapiro ’s complaint seems to be that Attorney General Sessions is actually doing his job — enforcing the law as Congress passed it. In contrast former attorneys general Holder and Lynch under the veil of “prosecutorial discretion ” failed to enforce the law. Select immigration and sentencing laws were simply ignored virtually wholesale. That’s not the role of the attorney general whether his name is Holder or Sessions. Such a sweeping use of prosecutorial discretion effectively nullifies or rewrites federal law. If drug laws need to be changed Congress needs to change them. Holder’s and Lynch’s actions were a plain derogation if not usurpation of legislative authority. That Attorney General Sessions is being criticized for restoring both the rule of law and the Justice Department to their proper roles is an indication of how debased respect for the rule of law has become.
A: | David Shapiro | 9 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Consider Input: The primes are "suspicious solitary numbers " Giordano writes. Perhaps they would prefer to be ordinary numbers "but for some reason they couldn't do it." And he elaborates: There are some that almost touch -- 17 and 19 41 and 43 -- but are separated by an even number. As the numbers expand these so-called twin primes become ever rarer and the presentiment develops that these were accidents and "that solitude is the true destiny." But then if you count long enough you'll find another pair of twins "clutching each other tightly." Giordano depicts with aching vividness the traumas out of which Alice and Mattia emerge disabled. Alice's ski fall might be only that despite a permanently crippled leg. But we get horror seen from within: a father who bullies her even if lovingly into enduring the cold the awkwardness the fear of something she has so little taste for that she humiliatingly befouls her ski pants. Adults cannot suspect what furnishes a child's nightmare; here the reader is made to live it.
Giordano remarkably and movingly portrays the hesitant groping toward warmth that works beneath the pair's emotional disabilities. Alice unable to tolerate not just food but also the vitality it stands for assumes a touchingly decisive if frail seductiveness with the shaky Mattia. When at 22 he brings himself to tell her about his sister she embraces him they kiss and for a moment it seems things will change.
Only briefly; Mattia retreats goes off to Scandinavia. Upon his return years later there is another almost-moment. That too will vanish. Alice's reaching out though tentative is genuine. His response describes a parabola: rising seeming to converge dropping away. He is the man who fell to earth; she is earth though crumbly.
What is even more distinctive and transforming is the writing. The author works with piercing subtlety. He manages -- moving from math to physics -- an exquisite rendering of what one might call feelings at the subatomic level emotion's muons gluons and quarks. Take that kiss: "All Mattia saw was a shadow moving toward him. He instinctively closed his eyes and then felt Alice's hot mouth on his her tears on his cheek or maybe they weren't hers and finally her hands so light holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there in the space that no longer existed between them."
Output: Alice
Input: Consider Input: James Harden scored a game-high 41 points for the Rockets. (Photo: Isaiah J. Downing USA TODAY Sports)
James Harden had 41 points and eight rebounds Chris Paul scored 23 points and the Rockets beat the Nuggets 119-114 on Sunday night for their 12th straight victory.
Harden had 27 in the first half and seven in the fourth quarter when the Rockets held off a late Denver rally. Harden has scored 40 or more points nine times this season. He finished with seven assists.
"Having a 17-point lead in the fourth quarter we've got to finish games off like that " Harden said. "It was a good thing we finished the game off the right way down the stretch. We got stops when we needed to and we made shots."
That was when Harden took over. He scored 14 points in the last 2:47 of the period and assisted on Houston's other two baskets to end the period when the Rockets extended the lead from five to 13.
Houston led by as many as 18 but Denver rallied in the fourth. Jokic's tip with 2:12 left made it 110-106 and after Joe Johnson missed from the corner Gary Harris had a chance to cut it to a point with a 3-pointer. But the Nuggets' leading scorer who finished with six points on 2-of-12 shooting misfired and Harden hit two more free throws to make it 112-106 with 1:17 left.
DIFFERENT DEFENSE SAME RESULT: The Nuggets lost by 25 and 30 points in Houston earlier this season so they changed how they guarded the Rockets on Sunday by switching more on defense. Harden found himself going against the 7-foot Jokic and 6-11 Mason Plumlee a lot of the night. The new look didn't bother him .
"We've seen a lot of defenses and no matter who they put on James it's a pretty good chance he 's going to score " Trevor Ariza said. "We give him the ball and let him make plays. It's been working out for us."
SIDELINE ASSIST: With Houston ahead 106-99 and 4:51 left Ariza tried to save a ball off Harden 's miss as it went into the crowd but a fan sitting courtside grabbed the ball before he could get to it. Ariza pleaded with the referee that he had a chance to save it and then had a lighthearted exchange with the fan.
Output: James Harden
Input: Consider Input: Thomas Homan US Immigration and Customs Enforcementâs acting director told Fox News that the mayorâs warning on Twitter was âbeyond the paleâ and compared her to a gang lookout who tells people when a police car is arriving. Homan said the Justice Department is looking into whether Schaaf obstructed justice.
It was unclear how many people would have eluded capture without the mayorâs warning but Homan squarely blamed her for 800 and said her actions jeopardized officer safety.
âThereâs over 800 significant public safety threat criminals these are people who are here illegally and committed yet another crime been convicted of a crime â he told Fox. â She gave them warning and thereâs 800 that we were unable to locate because of that warning so that communityâs a lot less safe than it would have been.â
Homan âs statement of 800 missed targets â plus the 150 arrests â in only three days suggests an unusually large operation by the agencyâs standards. Two weeks ago it arrested 212 in a five-day operation in the Los Angeles area. A Texas operation in February resulted in 145 arrests over seven days.
Asked about Homan likening her to a gang lookout she said the âTrump administration is trying to distract the American people convince them that these immigrants are dangerous people. That could not be further from the truth and it is based in racism.â
The warring words are the latest sign of escalating tension between California officials and the Trump administration over immigration enforcement and âsanctuaryâ jurisdictions. Homan vowed that immigration agents would have a stronger presence in California since a state law took effect in January to sharply limit cooperation between state and local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.
Dozens of protesters marching outside the agencyâs offices in San Francisco after Homan spoke chanted âShut down ICE!â David Chiu a Democratic state assemblyman said Trump âhas declared war on our immigrant communities.â
Homan in announcing the arrests late Tuesday renewed his warning that Californiaâs limits on cooperating with ICE in local jails will lead to a bigger presence of immigration agents on the streets.
| Output: Homan
| 2 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Q: Jimmy Kimmel has already said what he needs to say about the events in Las Vegas.
But on Tuesday night Kimmel dedicated a small part of his opening monologue to take aim the "nuts" who spent time criticising him and others for wanting to do something about gun control following what happened on Sunday.
SEE ALSO: Jimmy Kimmel tears up talking about his hometown Las Vegas
He got straight to the point.
"So we will talk about it and shame on you for suggesting otherwise." And with that Kimmel returned to the show riffing about none other than Trump's visit to Puerto Rico.
A: Jimmy Kimmel
****
Q: But courtroom one is now an active crime scene after the dramatic events when former Bosnian Croat military leader Slobodan Praljak tipped the contents of a small brown bottle into his mouth and died shortly afterwards in hospital.
The unprecedented gesture came as Praljak 72 angrily denied being a criminal after judges rejected his appeal and upheld his 20-year jail term for atrocities committed in a breakaway Bosnian Croat statelet during the 1990s wars.
It remains a mystery exactly what Praljak drank and how he managed to evade tight security to smuggle the bottle into the tribunal.
There are also questions about how he acquired the substance and if it was in the fortress-like UN detention centre in The Hague where he was being held.
Under court rules everyone entering the detention centre is subjected to tight security âirrespective of his or her status nationality function or ageâ.
A: Slobodan Praljak
****
Q: "We're expanding our brand to deliver products aiming for a broader segment dominated by Apple " René Svendsen-Tune chief executive of GN's audio division told Reuters.
It will continue that cooperation while competing with the tech giant on the wireless earphone market Svendsen-Tune said.
"Apple has helped develop this market with great speed but now we're launching a new generation " Svendsen-Tune said speaking ahead of the launch of the product at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
"If we can maintain a second place in 2018 I believe we will have done very well " Svendsen-Tune said.
A: | Svendsen-Tune
****
| 4 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Example solution: Raheem Morris
Example explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Problem: There's a limit to the Women's March's support for women â and Rose McGowan has apparently met it .
After McGowan argued with a trangender activist who attempted to derail a planned speech about her abuse at the hands of Harvey Weinstein the Women's March hit out at McGowan for her "transphobia" and for "denying" a trans woman's identity.
The Daily Wire covered the incident which took place at a Manhattan Barnes & Noble. While McGowan was giving her speech a "trans activist" heckled her from the audience accusing her of abrogating her responsibility to trans women and failing to acknowledge the violence trans woman face as though McGowan was competing to be the most injured victim of men.
McGowan was confused and then hurt. When the activist was finally removed McGowan broke down.
Please read this interview with the activist who engaged with Rose McGowan last night. Transphobia and denying trans womenâs identities is never okay. The pain we feel does not excuse the pain we cause others. [Link] â Women's March (@womensmarch) February 2 2018
| Solution: Rose McGowan | 5 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Consider Input: Sarah L. Myers 41 worked as a special ed teacher at North Boone High School in Poplar Grove Illinois â just northeast of Rockford the stateâs third-largest city. The ex-teacher was sentenced to a ten-year prison term after pleading guilty to two sex acts Fox News reported.
The victim who was not a special ed student reported the sexual encounters with the teacher in April and told authorities he had been having regular sexual encounters with Myers since November of last year.
Myers was credited with 261 days of time spent but she will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of her life the judge ruled. She will not be eligible for parole until 85 percent of her sentence has been served.
But during the hearing news broke that yet another student implicated the teacher in a sex act. Myers is now accused of a sexual encounter with a student in nearby Champaign County. She will also face charges in that case officials say.
Output: Sarah L. Myers
Input: Consider Input: Eric Gultney 38 initially made contact with the girl as she walked home from school in Chicago on Oct. 24 giving the girl a $50 bill with his phone number written on it.
The girl blocked Gultney âs phone number after he requested to meet her that night prosecutors said. On Nov. 2 Gultney went to the girlâs school and approached her as she was leaving giving her $20 even though she âremained dismissiveâ of him according to prosecutors.
Chicago police were notified by the girlâs father when he discovered the text messages on his daughterâs phone. Prosecutors said Gultney admitted to detectives that he sent a sexually explicit photo to the girl.
He was charged with indecent solicitation of a child a Class Two felony. Judge Sophia Atcherson ordered Gultney held on $10 000 bail and kept on electronic monitoring/
Output: Eric Gultney
Input: Consider Input: On Saturday Mark Wahlberg pledged to donate $1.5 million to Time's Up in Michelle Williams's name the amount he was paid to reshoot scenes from All the Money in the World compared to his co-star's $80 per day. But it doesn't change the fact that the actress's salary was still a hell of a lot less than her male co-star's for her work on the film.
According to the Hollywood Reporter Williams earned an eighth of Wahlberg's salary for her leading role in All the Money in the World despite the fact that they shared the screen for about the same amount of time. He reportedly took home $5 million while she walked away with just $625 000.
The massive salary difference may not seem that surprising to many female performers in Hollywood but it's worth noting that Williams has been nominated for four Oscars to Wahlberg's two as Vulture points out. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe for role in the John Paul Getty III biopic.
The pay disparity is a particularly brutal dagger considering how passionate Williams is about the Ridley Scott project. She reportedly gave up her Thanksgiving to reshoot the scenes with Christopher Plummer who replaced disgraced actor Kevin Spacey at the last minute.
"I said I'd be wherever they needed me whenever they needed me " she told USA Today. "And they could have my salary they could have my holiday whatever they wanted. Because I appreciated so much that they were making this massive effort."
| Output: Michelle Williams
| 2 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Teacher: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Solution: Raheem Morris
Reason: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Now, solve this instance: Riggio and the company criticized Burkle as an opportunist who sought a stealth takeover of the company. Burkle argued that the Riggio family had failed to prepare Barnes
Noble for digital books and had used the company to profit at shareholders' expense.
"I feel great and I feel relieved " Riggio said after the meeting. "It's been a long four to five months."
Burkle who was not at the shareholder meeting said in a telephone interview that he would now press Barnes
Noble management to support the highest bid that emerges from the sales process. He indicated that he was leaning against making a bid of his own.
Noble put itself up for sale in August about 20 companies have expressed interest in making preliminary bids which are due in October according to people briefed on the process.
Riggio said that had he lost the proxy contest potential bidders could have walked away from the process. It was not clear whether Riggio might bid for the company though the people briefed on the process said that he might eventually partner with a promising suitor.
And while Riggio won Tuesday's board battle he still has a war on his hands.
Student: | Leonard S. Riggio | 2 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Teacher: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Solution: Raheem Morris
Reason: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Now, solve this instance: MANILA (Reuters) - China’s agreement to begin discussions with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on the fine print of a code of conduct framework for the disputed South China Sea will be a “stabilizer” for the region Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang attends the 20th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Plus Three (APT) Commemorative Summit on the sideline of the 31st Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Manila on November 14 2017. REUTERS/Noel Celis/Pool
“We hope the talks on the code of conduct will bolster mutual understanding and trust. We will strive under the agreement to reach a consensus on achieving early implementation of the code of conduct ” Li said according to a transcript of his speech released by China’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.
Li didn’t give a timeframe but said he hoped this move would be a “stabilizer” for the region.
Student: | Li Keqiang | 2 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
--------
Question: At a time when so many young Americans are ineligible to even be considered for the military extending protections for "Dreamers" also would have a positive impact on the armed forces former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote in a column for The New York Times.
"That is why we need legislation that will provide a pathway to citizenship for those immigrants who among other attributes are serving or have served in the military whether they are in America legally or were brought here illegally as children " Gates wrote for the NYT.
"That kind of policy will help the military recruit new service members and improve readiness " Gates wrote.
"In light of the service and sacrifice of those immigrants — legal or not — it is also the right thing to do " Gates wrote.
Answer: Robert Gates
Question: Amber Harding a staff attorney at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless said her organization is arguing for multiple changes to the legislation including requirements for proof of residency and the creation of a presumption absent proof to the contrary that anyone named as an occupant on a lease is ineligible for shelter.
She said both provisions would be especially burdensome for the young parents â commonly between the ages of 18 and 24 â who often seek shelter since they may not have adequate documentation of where they live or may still be listed on leases at the homes of parents unwilling to host their families.
âThe purpose of the right to shelter is to prevent people from freezing to death â Harding said. With the current bill she added âWe will guarantee that people will be left out on freezing nights who are D.C. residents and are eligible for shelter just because theyâve put up these bureaucratic hurdles.â
Nadeau said the bill has evolved in a way that softens some of the original shelter eligibility rules proposed by the mayor. It now includes a provision that shelter applicants would meet the residence requirement if they are already receiving certain other D.C. government benefits for the poor she said. The bill has also been modified to require only one proof of residency rather than the original two she said.
âWhen we say that we canât keep spending $80 000 a night . . . itâs not because we donât want to support the people in hotels â she said. âItâs because we want a better intervention for them. We can spend $80 000 a night in so many ways that help people more.â
Answer: Amber Harding
Question: Image copyright AFP Image caption Guillermo del Toro with two of the four Oscars his film won
Mexico's Guillermo del Toro won best director and his The Shape of Water took the top honour for best film.
Well that depends on your definition of a Latin American film. There is no doubt that Mexico did extremely well by getting the two most coveted awards of the night. Guillermo del Toro the 53-year-old from Guadalajara won both best director and best picture.
Image copyright AFP Image caption Before Guillermo del Toro Alfonso Cuarón was the golden boy of Mexican cinema
Judging by the reaction on social media where Guillermo del Toro's name trended the 2018 did highlight the achievements of Latin American filmmakers if not of actors.
Answer: | Guillermo del Toro
| 7 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
[EX Q]: For his profession Lowell Bailey wears a .22 caliber rifle strapped to his back. It has taken him across the world and to four Olympic Games most recently to the biathlon mixed relay Tuesday night at Alpensia Biathlon Centre where he skied the anchor leg for a United States team that finished 15th. His sport and his livelihood revolve around shooting. His competitors from other countries often wonder about his country's relationship with guns.
Biathlon and mass murder of innocent people share no connective tissue other than the broadest definition of the tool used. Even understanding that intellectual fact Bailey and his teammates often experience a visceral need to reconcile the shooting portion of their sport and the destruction guns have caused in their country. They are shooting rifles while representing a country where debates over gun control have once again become a central issue.
Tuesday night under the lights and in front of a packed grandstand Bailey spoke out.
"I support an assault weapons ban " Bailey said. "I really do. Our country needs to wake up. Our country needs to change. There's just no excuse. I compete against all of these other World Cup nations â Germany Norway. How good are they on the range? They're great at rifle marksmanship. Do you know how strict their gun controls law are? It's a travesty America hasn't changed and continues to go down this path. It just makes me want to cry."
"We're really aware we are a firearm sport that we are a shooting sport " Firesteel Reid said. "A lot of us have pretty strong opinions about this. I think we get grouped into a certain type of person and I don't think any of us are that type of person. That has been quite fascinating."
While the rules here are extreme U.S. gun laws confound biathletes from other countries. Bailey said he has discussed the U.S. laws with rivals and mostly they are left at a loss.
"They're absolutely baffled " Bailey said. "They're baffled at the political landscape of the United States and how we can continue to put assault weapons in the hands of anyone who wants to walk into a gun store and buy one."
"We're a sport that uses a .22 caliber rifle " Bailey said. "A .22 caliber rifle with a bolt action that shoots a single round is a much different thing than an AR-15. In my opinion there's just no reason for assault rifles to be in the hands of ordinary citizens. I understand the Second Amendment. I appreciate hunting. I appreciate rifle marksmanship. You're talking about rifles. You're talking about targets. You're not talking about weapons that are designed to kill people.
[EX A]: Lowell Bailey
[EX Q]: Detroit resident Darrell Standberry doesn't navigate streets of the Motor City without his licensed handgun and it already has saved his life once.
âI never leave home without my weapon â he said. âYou never know when or what youâll encounter.â
It was 2011 when Standberry stopped at a gas station on Six Mile Road after attending his sonâs football practice. After filling up the tank of his SUV he left the car running and went inside to pay only to spot a man jumping in behind the wheel.
âI went back over and told him to get out of my car " said Standberry 46 aformer bar owner who is now a college student. "He told me to get the hell out of there and drove off.â
âI never leave home without my weapon. You never know when or what youâll encounter.â - Darrell Standberry
Standberry stood frozen as the bandit peeled away but then felt his heart pound when the thief doubled back. His hand moved down to his hip and gripped a holstered .45-caliber SIG Sauer as the man who had stolen his car bore down on him .
âI saw him pulling out his gun to shoot me â Standberry recalled. âSo I pulled my gun out and shot him .â
The shot went through the windshield and hit its target a criminal with a long record who made a short-lived getaway before crashing into a tree and dying. Standberry âs claim of self-defense was never questioned by local cops.
Expand / Contract Darrell Standberry has had a carry permit since 2002. He used his hand gun to stop a car thief who attempted to kill him during a 2011 robbery in his native Detroit. (Courtesy of Darrell Standberry)
Expand / Contract Standberry's car was totaled when the man he shot crashed into a tree and died. (Courtesy of Darrell Standberry)
Standberry said his run-in with a car thief is proof that responsible and legal gun ownership is a key to surviving in Detroit.
âThat day could have been much worse â he said to FoxNews.com. âIt could have been my life that was taken.â
[EX A]: Darrell Standberry
[EX Q]: Apple CEO Tim Cook is already thinking about who might run the company after he 's gone.
And it sounds like he wants options.
"I see my role as CEO to prepare as many people as I can to be CEO and that's what I'm doing. And then the board makes a decision at that point in time " Cook said in an interview with BuzzFeed News.
Cook gave the interview at Apple's new Chicago retail store a flagship for the company as it looks to turn its locations into must-see attractions.
Apple's head of retail Angela Ahrendts flanked Tim Cook during the interview . It's not surprising she was there but it is notable for Cook to discuss succession next to her . Ahrendts is considered a prime candidate for the role. Of course at just 56 years old Cook might not step away for a while.
[EX A]: | Tim Cook
| 6 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example Input: Regional leader Carles Puigdemont is due to address the regional parliament on Tuesday afternoon and Madrid is worried it will vote for a unilateral declaration of independence.
Catalan President Carles Puigdemont at the Palau de la Generalitat the regional government headquarters in Barcelona Spain October 6 2017. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Puigdemont said on Sunday he had not been in contact with the Madrid government for some time because it refused to discuss independence.
“What is happening in Catalonia is real whether they like it or not. Millions of people have voted who want to decide. We have to talk about this ” he said.
Example Output: Carles Puigdemont
Example Input: It started when White read a news report that Dr. Donald Cline a retired Indianapolis fertility specialist faced charges for lying when he denied he 'd inseminated unwitting patients with his own sperm decades earlier. He searched out Cline 's address online recognizing it as the location of his mother's former doctor. Then he Googled the doctor's name. When a photo popped up he was stunned: He looked like Cline .
"It was just too similar to be coincidental " he says. White had long known he was a donor baby but that day he had an eerie feeling he was staring at the man who was likely his biological father.
Around the same time Julie Harmon saw a TV news story about Cline . She'd discovered years earlier that her blood type indicated she was not the child of both her parents. She didn't follow up to find out why but the report about Cline her mother's fertility doctor was unnerving.
The TV story featured Jacoba Ballard whose mother had also gone to Cline and whose complaint to the state helped launched an investigation. Harmon contacted Ballard through Facebook and they traded photos. There were striking similarities.
These two women and White recently crowded into an Indianapolis courtroom to hear Cline receive a one-year suspended sentence for lying to investigators when he denied wrongdoing; DNA tests determined he is the biological father of Ballard and another woman whose mother was his patient. Cline apologized "for the pain my actions have caused" but didn't specify how often he used his own sperm in procedures â court documents say he told Ballard about 50 times.
Cline 's sentencing though was not the end of this story. Instead in an extraordinary epilogue three one-time strangers â White Harmon and Ballard â have forged a kinship as brother and sisters even as they wrestle with the revelation about their identities. They've also reached out to 21 other men and women all in their 30s who've been identified through DNA tests as half-siblings â evidence they say that Cline is likely their father as well. About a half-dozen of them live in central Indiana.
Many stay in touch through a private Facebook page and several gathered last fall for a cookout with their spouses children and three mothers who'd been Cline patients. Others have gone on social outings shared childhood photos taken note of similarities (most of the men are over 6 feet tall) and at times confided in one another private details of their lives.
Jacoba Ballard was angry when she sat in court in December describing a three-year ordeal that determined Cline is her biological father.
Ballard 37 says Cline told her mother he used donor sperm from medical residents. She 'd known since she was 10 that she was a donor child but in 2014 Ballard grew curious about her family history and thought she might be able to track down some brothers and sisters. She took a DNA test from 23andMe.com a biotech company that uses saliva samples to determine ancestry and identify distant and close relatives health risks and physical traits.
Clients can choose whether to be identified in a "DNA relatives tool" that connects them to others. When Ballard's results came back they listed seven half-siblings all but one identified by name. Ballard and two others got together assembled a family tree and realized one common thread: Their mothers had gone to Cline for fertility treatments.
Ballard and a half-sister arranged to meet with two of Cline 's adult children. At first she says they denied their father had been a donor then said he'd done so in a small number of cases. About a month later Ballard and a group of the half-siblings met with Cline himself and she says he told conflicting stories finally saying he'd donated sperm about 50 times to help unknowing patients who desperately wanted children.
When Ballard filed a complaint with the Indiana attorney general's office Cline responded in a letter that anyone accusing him of being a donor "was guilty of slander and/or libel." At his sentencing he acknowledged using his sperm. "I was foolish in my actions and I should not have lied " he said.
Ballard's DNA match to Cline was 99.9997 court records show.
The case wasn't the first of its kind. In Virginia Dr. Cecil Jacobson was convicted in 1992 of fraud and perjury for using his sperm to impregnate patients without telling them. Cline was convicted of obstruction of justice for lying to investigators but a measure pushed by Ballard and others was introduced in the Indiana Senate this year to make it a crime for doctors to treat patients for infertility by using their own sperm or egg without consent. The measure didn't receive a hearing so it's dead for this session; its sponsor has not yet decided if he'll reintroduce it.
If there is any comfort she says it's in the camaraderie that's developed among several half-siblings. They've gotten together for concerts an occasional softball game for one of their kids and a few Christmas celebrations. White and Harmon attended the high school graduation ceremonies of Ballard's two children and the two women speak every day. They laugh about their similar tastes; they even prefer the same order at McDonald's â no onions.
"I went from not having a care to wanting to know everything " says the 34-year-old White. He tracked down a medical school graduation photo of Cline and studied photos of Cline's son online noticing similar facial traits â a round face and high forehead.
Example Output: Donald Cline
Example Input: Another recent poll obtained by Breitbart News shows that Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN-07) has a big lead over Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) among Tennessee Republican primary voters.
Marsha Blackburn is viewed favorably by nearly half of Republican voters (47%) and has ample room to grow with around 2 in 5 who either donât recognize her or who do recognize her but havenât formed an opinion yet (16% & 20%). In contrast a majority of Republican primary voters are split on Corker (39% favorable 41% unfavorable) leaving only 1 in 5 who have yet to form an opinion. This translates into a 19-point lead for Blackburn on the primary ballot.
Ragnar Research Associates concluded that â Marsha Blackburn has a strong lead in a hypothetical matchup versus Senator Bob Corker among Republican primary voters (+19). Her lead is significant among self-identified conservatives (70% of Republican primary voters) and her image (fav/unfav) is in a much stronger position than Senator Corkerâs. (+31 for Blackburn versus -2 for Corker) â adding:
Furthermore Blackburn has room to grow as 36% of Republicans donât know her or havenât formed an opinion of her. The opportunity especially exists in East Tennessee where her ballot lead is only +7 compared to middle Tennessee and west Tennessee (areas she has represented in the House) where her ballot lead is +24 and +31 respectively. As Blackburn becomes more known across the state she has the opportunity to build upon her already strong image and solidity Republican support heading into the 2018 general election.
A Senate Conservatives Fund poll released last week prior to the withdrawal of former Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-TN-08) from the race showed Blackburn with a 49 percent to 26 percent lead over Corker with Fincher in third place with nine percent.
A subsequent poll released by the Committee to Defend the President that did not included Fincher showed Blackburn with a 55 percent to 26 percent lead over Corker.
Corker announced on September 26 that he would not be seeking a third term in the United States. Blackburn announced her candidacy the following month.
Example Output: | Marsha Blackburn
| 3 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Q: The department's narcotics division began the investigation when a source told them about the group officials said. The buys were conducted by undercover officers who infiltrated the group according to Anthony Riccio chief of the department's organized crime division.
Riccio said there are “dozens and dozens of these secret groups a lot of them used for illegal things including trafficking the guns and firearms. It's dozens of them out there.”
He said many of the guns had defaced serial numbers making them difficult to trace. “These are guns that are winding up in the South Side West Side of the city being used in gang shootings ” Riccio said.
He said the Facebook group selling guns and drugs would not be found by searching and that someone had to vouch for anyone who wanted to join them.
“I absolutely think Facebook has a responsibility to monitor this and for this very reason ” Riccio said. “There’s other illegal activities — I want to point out this is phase one — there's other illegal activities going on on Facebook. We're looking at potentially human trafficking things of that nature as well. There's a lot of tentacles going out here.
A: Anthony Riccio
****
Q: Cmdr. Paul Bauer 53 was shot to death at the Thompson Center after chasing a man fleeing from tactical officers who tried to stop him police officials said. Bauer a 31-year-veteran who had been in the area for training and had a meeting with aldermen scheduled later confronted the man according to police officials and other sources. He opened fire hitting the commander multiple times police said.
Bauer the married father of a 13-year-old daughter is the first Chicago cop shot and killed since 2011 and he is the highest-ranking officer killed in decades.
Chicago Police Department Cmdr. Paul Bauer was shot and killed in Chicago on Feb. 13 2018. Cmdr. Paul Bauer was shot and killed in Chicago on Feb. 13 2018. (Chicago Police Department) (Chicago Police Department)
Bauer heard the radio traffic saw a man matching the description and tried to approach and question him in or near a stairwell according to Guglielmi. A struggle ensued and Bauer was shot multiple times.
Bauer was in uniform Guglielmi said.
The tactical officers apprehended the man and Bauer was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly after 2 p.m.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel was preparing to board a flight in Los Angeles to head home Tuesday afternoon when he was told of the shooting. He arrived in Chicago around 7 p.m. and headed straight to a meeting with Johnson the mayorâs staff said. Emanuel said in a statement that Bauer âs death was a sad reminder of the perils of police work.
â Commander Bauer stood for the highest ideals of our police department and our city - to serve and protect the people of Chicago â the statement said.
A statement from the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation called his death âsenseless.â
âThe idea that Paul would act so unselfishly and would sacrifice his own safety for the safety of the people of Chicago and his fellow officers comes as no surprise to those of us who knew him â the statement read.
Tuesday evening firefighters at a station near Bauer âs police district headquarters lowered their flags to half-staff. Anthony Goulet 13 came to pay his respects to the officer he said he had recently met at a community event.
RELATED: Slain Chicago cop advocated for stiffer sentences â the suspect in his shooting is a four-time felon. »
What we know now about the shooting of Chicago police Cmdr . Paul Bauer »
A: Paul Bauer
****
Q: Ben Zobrist? Kyle Schwarber? Kris Bryant? Anthony Rizzo? The Cubs donât seem worried as they scored 822 runs last season despite Schwarberâs struggles eventually dropping him from that spot. Assuming they donât acquire a leadoff specialist theyâll likely rely on a combination of players seeking to provide the production Dexter Fowler supplied in 2016.
The Cubs had minus-9 defensive runs saved at that position last year. Without a strikeout-heavy rotation defense takes on a greater role. Schwarber has slimmed down to help his agility. Ian Happ has been prone to taking curious routes to the ball. Ben Zobrist isnât fast but he âs dependable.
Zobrist turns 37 on May 26 and he played in only 128 games in 2017 because of wrist and back injuries. Manager Joe Maddon faces the delicate balance of getting Zobrist ready without taxing him . Happ is lined up to receive more playing time to preserve Zobristâs health.
Cubs' Ben Zobrist swinging for a rebound after injury-plagued season »
A: | Ben Zobrist
****
| 4 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Let me give you an example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
The answer to this example can be: Raheem Morris
Here is why: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
OK. solve this:
Virginia's Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe said he would respond physically to President Donald Trump if he ever used intimidation tactics and got in his "space " the Washington Examiner reported Friday.
"You would have to pick him up off the floor " McAuliffe told MSNBC's Chris Matthews on "Hardball" Thursday.
"Listen if this guy got in my space â you wanna get in my space? I've always said 'Chris you punch me I'm going to punch back twice as hard.' And it wouldn't be hard to do it. But you know this guy thinks he can intimidate everybody. It's disgraceful. It's embarrassing.
"If he ever came over and leaned on me and got in my space that would be the last time Donald Trump ever did that " McAuliffe said.
McAuliffe has been a vocal opponent of Trump especially on immigration issues. He served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005 and was chairman of the presidential campaigns of former President Bill Clinton in 1996 and Hillary Clinton in 2008.
McAuliffe is due to leave office on Saturday when newly-elected Democratic Gov.-elect Ralph Northam takes office.
Answer: | Terry McAuliffe | 8 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
instruction:
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
question:
Lena Dunham took permanent measures to help her fight her years-long battle with endometriosis.
The âGirlsâ alum revealed in a personal essay for Vogue that she underwent a hysterectomy â the removal of her uterus and cervix â after âyears of complex surgeries measuring in the double digits.â
Dunham 31 has been open about her endometriosis which occurs when the tissue lining of the uterus is found outside the uterus.
In April she wrote in her Lenny newsletter that she was endometriosis-free after several surgeries but more was discovered after she was rushed to the hospital during the Met Gala in May.
Lena Dunham wasnât involved in Timeâs Up says Tessa Thompson
Lena Dunham had her uterus and cervix removed to help her battle with endometriosis. (Rich Fury/Rich Fury/Invision/AP)
During her hysterectomy Dunham wrote surgeons discovered more medical problems.
âIn addition to endometrial disease an odd hump-like protrusion and a septum running down the middle I have retrograde bleeding a.k.a. my period running in reverse so that my stomach is full of blood â she said in her essay according to the Endometriosis Foundation of America.
Now unable to have children herself Dunham who recently split from boyfriend Jack Antonoff after five years said she will explore other options including adoption and surrogacy.
answer:
Lena Dunham
question:
(Reuters) - Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) said on Friday it has increased its borrowing capacity for a car lease program to $1.1 billion from $600 million.
The move comes as the electric car maker spends heavily to fix production bottlenecks of its new Model 3 sedan.
The company increased the borrowing capacity under certain warehouse agreements the company said in a filing. (bit.ly/2yx2P58) A spokesman said it was related to Tesla 's car lease program.
In August Tesla said it would raise about $1.5 billion through its first-ever offering of junk bonds as it seeks fresh sources of cash to ramp up production of its new Model 3 sedan.
answer:
Tesla
question:
Virginia's Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe said he would respond physically to President Donald Trump if he ever used intimidation tactics and got in his "space " the Washington Examiner reported Friday.
"You would have to pick him up off the floor " McAuliffe told MSNBC's Chris Matthews on "Hardball" Thursday.
"Listen if this guy got in my space â you wanna get in my space? I've always said 'Chris you punch me I'm going to punch back twice as hard.' And it wouldn't be hard to do it. But you know this guy thinks he can intimidate everybody. It's disgraceful. It's embarrassing.
"If he ever came over and leaned on me and got in my space that would be the last time Donald Trump ever did that " McAuliffe said.
McAuliffe has been a vocal opponent of Trump especially on immigration issues. He served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005 and was chairman of the presidential campaigns of former President Bill Clinton in 1996 and Hillary Clinton in 2008.
McAuliffe is due to leave office on Saturday when newly-elected Democratic Gov.-elect Ralph Northam takes office.
answer:
| Terry McAuliffe
| 9 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
--------
Question: Wa Lone 31 and Kyaw Soe Oo 27 were detained on Dec. 12 after they had been invited to meet police officers over dinner. Family members have said the two told them they were arrested almost immediately after being handed some documents by the officers they had gone to meet.
“They arrested us and took action against us because we were trying to reveal the truth ” Wa Lone told reporters as he and Kyaw Soe Oo were led out of the court and back to Yangon’s Insein prison after the 30-minute hearing.
In the court Kyaw Soe Oo embraced his wife and held his daughter for a couple of minutes. His daughter began to weep as he was escorted away and he had to hand her back to other family members.
Wa Lone’s wife gave him a few small pieces of cake that she had brought.
Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo arrives at the court in Yangon Myanmar January 10 2018. REUTERS/Stringer
Distraught relatives of Kyaw Soe Oo wailed and reached out to grasp him as the two journalists were driven away from a throng of reporters after the hearing.
“We view this as a wholly unwarranted blatant attack on press freedom. Our colleagues should be allowed to return to their jobs reporting on events in Myanmar. We believe time is of the essence and we continue to call for Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo ’s prompt release ” he said.
Answer: Kyaw Soe Oo
Question: Texas guard Andrew Jones is battling leukemia the school announced Wednesday.
Jones is the Longhornsâ second-leading scorer this season and was coming off a wrist injury when coaches noticed he was sluggish and playing with little energy. A sophomore who decided to return to school this year instead of entering the NBA draft Jones saw limited action the last two games as he attempted to come back from the injury that cost him four games last month. Something much more serious was at play.
âAfter undergoing a number of tests and evaluations over the past week Andrew has been diagnosed with leukemia â the Jones family said in a statement. â He has begun treatments and we hope everyone will keep him in your thoughts and prayers.â
In statement posted on Twitter Texas athletics director Chris Del Conte pledged the schoolâs full support and said âWe will do everything in our power to provide all of the resources we can to assist Andrew and his family.â
Last Thursday Texas coach Shaka Smart indicated Jones âhas not had the energy â and âweâre trying to figure out through the different testing what his ailment is. Thereâs something else some type of sickness.â
Texas sophomore guard Andrew Jones has been diagnosed with leukemia team announces. (Timothy J. Gonzelez/AP)
"Speaking for our entire team and staff we love Andrew and will do everything we can to support his family and help him get back to health â Smart said in a statement. âI want to thank everyone for being respectful of the privacy that the Jones family needs at this time.â
Jones played 11 minutes on Jan. 1 and the school said he saw limited action because Jones was under the weather according to reports.
âIâd love to have him back to 1 000 percent today. But he âs not just been feeling like himself â Smart had said. âItâs not for lack of trying ⦠He goes out there and really really wants to play obviously and wants to help his team. But he just to this point has not had the energy.â
Jones has started treatment which can vary depending on how fast his leukemia is growing. For more aggressive strains treatment would include chemotherapy radiation and possibly stem-cell transplants.
Answer: Andrew Jones
Question: Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is going to court to unmask the person who alleged in emails to politicians Chicago police investigators and journalists that Dart attacked his wife at their South Side home.
Dart filed the legal papers Wednesday in his personal capacity not as sheriff and hired lawyer John F. Winters Jr. who specializes in defamation cases. Such court filings are often a prelude to a defamation lawsuit filed against the person behind anonymous emails or web postings.
“ Tom has been subjected to sustained attacks on his integrity and even threats to his life during his tenure as sheriff ” said Dennis Culloton who is acting as Dart ’s personal spokesman in a statement. “Over the past several months these attacks have escalated to include false and vicious rumors involving his wife and family perpetuated by cowards who hide behind fake email addresses and anonymous blogs. Through this filing we hope to hold those people accountable.”
The first of two October emails cited in the filing allege Dart “committed a Domestic Battery” on his wife “causing visible injuries to her face” that were observed by responding Chicago and Cook County sheriff’s police on either Oct. 11 or 12. They allege a police report was taken but that the attacker was listed as “unknown” and that a 911 call was placed to Dart ’s home.
“This incident is being attempted to be swept under the rug ” the email’s author who describes himself as a “Cook County taxpayer” named “Dan ” writes. “Tom Dart should not be able to get away with this!”
Records show a complaint was also made to a Chicago police oversight agency in October alleging that police refused to act or take reports “in regards to an incident that occurred at Sheriff Tom Dart’s home that involved his wife and his girlfriend.”
RELATED: Sheriff Tom Dart’s personnel board halts firings suspensions amid legal questions »
Answer: | Tom Dart
| 7 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Q: CBS News has suspended veteran journalist Charlie Rose after eight women accused him of sexual misconduct in interviews with The Washington Post. Three additional unnamed women came forward in a story published by Business Insider later on Monday.
Interested in Charlie Rose ? Add Charlie Rose as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Charlie Rose news video and analysis from ABC News. Add Interest
" Charlie Rose is suspended immediately while we look into this matter. These allegations are extremely disturbing and we take them very seriously " CBS News said in a statement.
Five women told The Washington Post that Rose an anchor for "CBS This Morning " groped them; two said that he walked naked in front of them; and one accused Rose of firing her after he allegedly touched her inappropriately and made sexually charged remarks to her.
The newspaper reported that Rose 's accusers either worked with or aspired to work with him on his PBS show "Charlie Rose " from the late 1990s to 2011. At the time of the alleged incidents the women ranged in age from 21 to 37 according to the newspaper.
Rose issued an apology to the Post and later he shared it on Twitter.
My statement in full. pic.twitter.com/3kvFrqF2dT — Charlie Rose (@charlierose) November 20 2017
Kyle Godfrey-Ryan a former assistant to Rose in the mid-2000s and one of the three accusers who spoke to the Post on the record claimed that Rose walked nude in front of her at one of his homes in New York City and called her in the wee hours to describe fantasies of watching her swim naked. She said that she reported his calls to Rose 's longtime executive producer Yvette Vega who apparently told her "That's just Charlie being Charlie." Vega told the Post and later confirmed to ABC News that she regretted not doing more for Godfrey-Ryan and others who mounted similar complaints.
“I should have stood up for them ” she said. “I failed. It is crushing. I deeply regret not helping them.”
Godfrey-Ryan said that ultimately Rose fired her and she later left journalism.
“He took me out to lunch and told me how embarrassed he was how he didn’t treat me like that ” she said. “It was really about how I got it wrong and obviously I couldn’t work there anymore.”
Reah Bravo who worked alongside Rose beginning in 2007 claimed to the Post that she was groped -- sometimes forcefully -- by Rose on more than one occasion. In 2008 she said that as she prepared to accept a new job Rose offered her a position in Washington D.C. and the opportunity to live in his Georgetown residence. She declined.
“I was leaving because I was getting away ” she said. “I would never want to live someplace where he had keys.”
Megan Creydt the third woman who spoke to the Post on the record overlapped with Godfrey-Ryan when she worked as a coordinator on Rose 's show from 2005 to 2006. Creydt claimed that Rose put his hand on her thigh which alarmed her .
"I don’t think I said anything ” she said. “I tensed up. I didn’t move his hand off but I pulled my legs to the other side of the car. I tried not to get in a car with him ever again. I think he was testing me out.”
In a statement to ABC News Yvette Vega executive producer on “ Charlie Rose ” said: “I should have stood up for them. I failed. It is crushing. I deeply regret not helping them.”
A: Charlie Rose
****
Q: But Pat Robertson doesn’t see it that way. In his mind this nation’s unfolding tragedy is a direct fault of people who don’t respect Donald Trump and the American flag enough. Yes really.
What are Pat Robertson’s possible motives here? While people still fought for their lives after the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history why did a televangelist feel the need to issue a statement this useless? He wasn’t trying to provide comfort. He wasn’t helping to make sense of the tragedy because his thoughts here are violently stupid.
Robertson wasn’t trying to be helpful. He was trying to insert himself into a story that had nothing to do with him. He couldn’t help it. He can never help it. Because Pat Robertson is an evil man . He ’s been so evil for so long that one has to wonder whose side he ’s on.
Let’s do a quick topline comparison between Satan the Prince of Darkness and Pat Robertson the Prince of Doddering.
Robertson has spent decades lying and obfuscating throwing himself into the middle of discussions in which he wasn’t invited to offer opinions that nobody wanted. He ’s weighed in on the Iraq War 9/11 sex outside of marriage Hinduism the earthquake in Haiti abortion and every other topic du jour tragic or zeitgeist that can help boost Pat Robertson Awareness. He ’s thrown his fortunes in with warlords hucksters and profiteers.
He ’s claimed he can leg-press 2 000 pounds thanks to the aid of a protein shake.
Pat Robertson has built a billion-dollar empire by saying he ’s a person who knows what God wants other people to do. As host of The 700 Club he ’s spent thousands of hours on the bleakest television channel preaching to his followers about how they can emulate Jesus how they can send him money in an extremely holy way. Meanwhile he has lived a life of wealth and privilege at the expense of dupes.
What Robertson has said about Las Vegas is so much worse than his usual praying for attention. He ’s rebranding cruelty as sanctimony nastiness as wisdom. He ’s the answer to the question “What Wouldn’t Jesus Do?”
What’s the difference between Pat Robertson and Satan? Satan’s not real. Unfortunately Pat Robertson is.
A: Pat Robertson
****
Q: * Democratic governor candidate Chris Kennedy will meet with voters at a Brown Line stop then later have a announcement with Chicago principals association President Troy LaRaviere.
* Kennedy tosses out the term "immoral" regarding Pritzker Biss: Democratic governor candidate Chris Kennedy ramped up his rhetoric against rivals J.B. Pritzker and state Sen. Daniel Biss on Tuesday questioning their morals and ethics while billing himself as the one who has the âmoral frameworkâ to govern.
The campaigns of Pritzker and Biss fired back accusing Kennedy of having acted in ways he is criticizing.
Surrounded by supportive African-American clergy at a Bronzeville campaign stop Kennedy labeled as âimmoralâ assessment reductions Pritzker sought for his property and asked âDo you want someone who says âWhat I did do was legal therefore itâs right?â That is not the ethical the moral framework that we want as the leader of our state.â
Kennedy went on to criticize Biss an Evanston lawmaker for his sponsorship of legislation later deemed unconstitutional that would have reduced pension benefits to public employee retirees. Biss âepitomizes the brutality of government (with) the idea that he would go and take away the retirement security from hundreds of thousands of people living in our state and do it illegally â Kennedy said.
Asked later by a reporter if he was claiming he was the only moral candidate in the contest Kennedy said âI claim no morality myself.â But in earlier remarks he said of himself âDo you want someone to lead this state whoâs prepared to lead who has a moral framework and ethical background who understands the difference between right and wrong?â (Rick Pearson)
*Pritzker hits back: Pritzker campaign manager Anne Caprara accused Kennedy of resorting âto the Donald Trump playbook of calling names.â
âWe understand Chris Kennedy really wants to win but for him to question the morality of his opponents is frankly disturbing â Caprara said in a statement.
*So does Biss: Biss campaign spokesman Tom Elliott noted Kennedy âs use of the property tax assessment appeal system including getting a reduction for the familyâs Wolf Point development.
âChris Kennedy has no moral authority here â Elliott said in a statement.
âBoth Kennedy and Pritzker have taken advantage of a broken system they now want to fix â Elliot said. âAnd while hiring well-connected lawyers or ripping toilets out of their homes to reduce their property taxes arenât technically illegal they do raise serious moral and ethical questions and puts into perspective where their priorities were before they decided to bankroll their campaigns for governor."
A: | Chris Kennedy
****
| 4 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Example solution: Raheem Morris
Example explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Problem: "I assure you that we don't want bags of cash " Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testified on Tuesday during an appearance before the House Financial Services Committee. "We want to make sure that we can collect our necessary taxes and other things."
Last week a top Treasury official wrote in a letter to lawmakers that the department is "consulting with law enforcement" about whether to maintain the guidance for depository institutions. Last month a Mnuchin deputy testified at a Senate hearing that the banking document remains in effect while the administration weighs whether to revoke it.
At the Tuesday hearing Mnuchin confirmed that the department is "reviewing the existing guidance." But he clarified that he doesn't want to rescind it without having an alternate policy in place to address public safety concerns.
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) told Mnuchin that simply deleting the banking memo "would really make it better for armed robbers in my community because there'd be huge amounts of cash at the local marijuana dispensary."
"We specifically haven't taken it down " Mnuchin said of the 2014 memo. "We are looking at what Justice has done. And again as I said we're sensitive to the issue of dealing with the public safety issue and also making sure that the IRS and others have ways of collecting taxes without taking in cash."
| Solution: Steven Mnuchin | 5 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Let me give you an example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
The answer to this example can be: Raheem Morris
Here is why: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
OK. solve this:
A Cook County Stateâs Attorney asked the detective Reynaldo Guevara 74 to review police reports and testimony he âd previously given in the case. Guevara refused quickly flipping the pages and then handing them back.
Seated in the courtroom gallery were family members of 11 people who say Guevara framed them and four more people whom Guevara helped put in prison but whose convictions have since been overturned.
âThis morning I prayed that maybe God would touch his heart and he would tell the truth â said Esther Hernandez the mother of two sons who claim Guevara framed them in a 1997 murder.
âThatâs an acute case of amnesia â said Jose Montanez who was exonerated last year of a 1993 murder after spending 23 years in prison. Guevara was one of the lead detectives on his case.
Since 2009 when a federal jury issued a record $21 million to a man whom Guevara was found to have framed the retired detective has repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify.
But earlier this year Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx offered Guevara immunity in exchange for his testimony. His lawyers argued he would still be vulnerable to perjury charges.
Todayâs hearing was part of an appeal by two defendants Gabriel Solache and Arturo Reyes who say that Guevara beat confessions out of them. Prosecutors called Guevara to the stand to rebut that claim. Since he testified he didnât remember the case prosecutors asked the court to allow Guevaraâs previous testimony from two court appearance in 2000.
âI hope people know how fucked up that is â said Jennifer Bonjean an attorney representing other Guevara clients. âItâs pretty mindblowing that the state is literally vouching for the prior testimony when Guevara wonât himself .â
An attorney for Solache Karen Daniel told the court that Guevara was âdisavowing his prior testimonyâ in the 2000 case and that he âs essentially pleading the Fifth âunder a different guise.â
The state has called several other officers prosecutors and medical personnel who were at the police station the night of the alleged beating. They testified that neither defendant complained of abuse. A paramedic called to the stand today testified he conducted medical evaluations of both defendants two days after Guevara allegedly beat them and didnât note signs of abuse.
In 2013 Chicago hired a law firm to conduct an independent investigation of allegations of misconduct by Guevara . Those investigators rejected Solache and Reyesâs innocence claims but called the case against them âvery thin.â
Answer: | Reynaldo Guevara | 8 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
One example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Solution is here: Raheem Morris
Explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Now, solve this: Hurricane Irma Leaves Devastation Of 'Epic Proportions' In Caribbean
A string of tiny Caribbean islands have been left stunned and devastated by the destructive force of Hurricane Irma one of the strongest storms ever to hit the region. Some islands appear to have been spared but others suffered loss of life and damage on a near-apocalyptic scale.
In Barbuda communications were severed as Irma made landfall just before midnight on Tuesday. Antigua 25 miles to the south dodged the full force of the storm prompting Prime Minister Gaston Browne at first to declare it a miracle that his nation had been spared.
"I journeyed to Barbuda this afternoon and what I saw was heart-wrenching absolutely devastating " Browne said on state-owned television Wednesday afternoon. "In fact I believe that on a per capita basis the extent of the destruction in Barbuda is unprecedented. And it is unprecedented based on the type of storm. Hurricane Irma would have been easily the most powerful hurricane to have stormed through the Caribbean and it is extremely unfortunate that Barbuda was right in its path."
Some six hours later Irma smashed into St. Martin about 60 miles northwest of Barbuda. The island was directly in the storm's path and the half-French half-Dutch island suffered horrendously as a result.
North of St. Martin the low-lying British island of Anguilla took what U.K. Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan described as the full force of Irma.
The British and U.S. Virgin Islands popular tourist and charter boat destinations were next in the path of Hurricane Irma. The outer bands of the approaching storm began to lash the islands early Wednesday afternoon.
"We are very grateful to be able to report that all of our team on Island have been accounted for as safe as well. Necker Island felt the effects of Hurricane Irma and sustained extensive damage the extent of which we are still assessing."
Although Irma passed just north of Puerto Rico sparing it a full-on hit from the storm the island's precarious electrical infrastructure couldn't withstand the glancing blow. More than 1 million Puerto Ricans were reportedly without electricity.
Like the Dominican Republic Haiti is only getting a sideswipe from Irma but unlike its neighbor on the island of Hispaniola the land in French-speaking Haiti has been largely denuded of trees leaving it especially vulnerable to landslides and flooding from heavy rains.
"It looks like Haiti won't get a direct hit from Irma and that's fortunate because the country is still struggling to recover from Hurricane Matthew which wiped out the country nearly a year ago " said Hervil Cherubin country director for Heifer International a nonprofit working with 15 000 farming families across Haiti.
Solution: | Irma | 6 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Consider Input: It was supposed to be a triumphant year for White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner . Part of the team that guided his father-in-law to victory in 2016 the young Kushner was catapulted into the highest echelons of power.
He was handed a broad portfolio that included making peace in the Middle East and was reportedly a key part of Trumpâs inner circle and decision-making team. But as 2017 dragged on the man known as Mr. Perfect had anything but a perfect year.
Here are Kushner âs worst moments from 2017:
When Kushner visited Iraq in April he obviously did not want to abandon his dedication to preppy style. But the image of the senior adviser sporting a flak jacket (with âKushnerâ scrawled on it) along with a blazer and khakis brought on a torrent of mockery.
This pic of Jared Kushner in Iraq with a military bullet-proof vest over his usual Thurston Howell III outfit really says it all pic.twitter.com/Qbt90NiqV4 â Amy Westervelt (@amywestervelt) April 6 2017
Although Kushner stepped down as head of Kushner Companies in January his real-estate firm gave him a number of headaches throughout 2017. Perhaps the biggest one was its use of the EB-5 visa program which allows wealthy investors to gain visas in return for investing in the U.S.
Jared and Ivanka are reported to be scaling back their roles in the White House after officials have become annoyed by their presence. The move came shortly after Trumpâs decision to back Sen. Luther Strange in the Alabama Senate primary backfired spectacularly and Strange was crushed by conservative challenger Judge Roy Moore. Kushner was widely believed to have been a key voice in urging Trump to get involved in the race and back Strangeâa decision Trump himself admitted may have been a âmistake.â
Kushner was also widely reported to be a key official encouraging President Trump to fire FBI Director James Comeyâa move which has since turned out to be seen as a mistake as it directly led to the appointment of FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller whose probe has dogged the Trump administration throughout 2017.
FBI Special Counsel Robert Muellerâs appointment was announced in the wake of the firing of FBI Director James Comeyâa decision reportedly backed by Kushner . But as the probe has gone on Kushner has apparently become a key figure for Mueller.
Kushner was part of a 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer at Trump Towerâa meeting which Trump Jr. said he took as it promised information that would âincriminateâ Hillary Clinton.
Kushner was questioned by Muellerâs team in November during which he reportedly answered questions about a meeting with the Russian ambassador during the transition. It later emerged that Kushner was the âsenior Trump officialâ who directed former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to contact the ambassador about a U.N. vote on Israeli settlements.
While it is not clear if the Mueller team believes Kushner did anything wrong Muellerâs interest in him has no doubt led to a tough 2017 for Kushner .
Kushner spent much of 2017 aggravating congressional lawmakers with his lack of disclosure about his foreign contacts and other information deemed importantâparticularly over various investigations into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Two Senate committees have complained about his failure to hand over certain documents and that they have learned certain details from the media. Lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee were angered in September when they discovered from media reports that Kushner used a private email account occasionally for White House business.
Lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote to Kushner âs lawyer in November saying the document collection he provided to the committee was incomplete.
Newsweek reported in December that Kushner is still using an interim security clearance after he initially omitted dozens of foreign contracts from his original form submission for clearance.
Output: Jared Kushner
Input: Consider Input: Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman has stripped down for Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit issue.
The move comes after Raisman made headlines recently for presenting a powerful 13-minute testimony against Larry Nassar during which she directly told the former Olympic doctor âYou are nothing."
âI would like to remind everyone that being a survivor is nothing to be ashamed of and going through a hard time does not define you â Raisman said to SI Swim. âI hope that we can one day get to a point where everyone realizes that women do not have to be modest to be respected. We are free to draw confidence and happiness in our own way and it is never for someone else to choose for us or to even judge us for that matter.â
âFor me âIn Her Own Wordsâ serves as a reminder that we are all humans we are all battling something and it is OK to not be OK â Raisman said. âWe are not alone and we need each other.â
âYou lose a part of yourself when youâre abused â Raisman recently told People. âI lost a part of myself and Iâm getting it back by speaking out.â
Output: Aly Raisman
Input: Consider Input: Hurricane Irma Leaves Devastation Of 'Epic Proportions' In Caribbean
A string of tiny Caribbean islands have been left stunned and devastated by the destructive force of Hurricane Irma one of the strongest storms ever to hit the region. Some islands appear to have been spared but others suffered loss of life and damage on a near-apocalyptic scale.
In Barbuda communications were severed as Irma made landfall just before midnight on Tuesday. Antigua 25 miles to the south dodged the full force of the storm prompting Prime Minister Gaston Browne at first to declare it a miracle that his nation had been spared.
"I journeyed to Barbuda this afternoon and what I saw was heart-wrenching absolutely devastating " Browne said on state-owned television Wednesday afternoon. "In fact I believe that on a per capita basis the extent of the destruction in Barbuda is unprecedented. And it is unprecedented based on the type of storm. Hurricane Irma would have been easily the most powerful hurricane to have stormed through the Caribbean and it is extremely unfortunate that Barbuda was right in its path."
Some six hours later Irma smashed into St. Martin about 60 miles northwest of Barbuda. The island was directly in the storm's path and the half-French half-Dutch island suffered horrendously as a result.
North of St. Martin the low-lying British island of Anguilla took what U.K. Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan described as the full force of Irma.
The British and U.S. Virgin Islands popular tourist and charter boat destinations were next in the path of Hurricane Irma. The outer bands of the approaching storm began to lash the islands early Wednesday afternoon.
"We are very grateful to be able to report that all of our team on Island have been accounted for as safe as well. Necker Island felt the effects of Hurricane Irma and sustained extensive damage the extent of which we are still assessing."
Although Irma passed just north of Puerto Rico sparing it a full-on hit from the storm the island's precarious electrical infrastructure couldn't withstand the glancing blow. More than 1 million Puerto Ricans were reportedly without electricity.
Like the Dominican Republic Haiti is only getting a sideswipe from Irma but unlike its neighbor on the island of Hispaniola the land in French-speaking Haiti has been largely denuded of trees leaving it especially vulnerable to landslides and flooding from heavy rains.
"It looks like Haiti won't get a direct hit from Irma and that's fortunate because the country is still struggling to recover from Hurricane Matthew which wiped out the country nearly a year ago " said Hervil Cherubin country director for Heifer International a nonprofit working with 15 000 farming families across Haiti.
| Output: Irma
| 2 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Part 1. Definition
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Part 2. Example
At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Answer: Raheem Morris
Explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Part 3. Exercise
Mitt Romney the former governor of Massachusetts is now a Senate candidate in Utah â and the announcement of his candidacy shows he âs sensitive about being labeled a carpetbagger.
âUtah â the Republican says at the beginning of a video he shared Friday morning on social media âis admired not only for its beauty but also for the character of its people. Utahns are known for hard work innovation and our can-do pioneering spirit. But more than these weâre known as a people who serve who care and who rise to any occasion.â
It goes on like this for more than two minutes. One reporter joked on Twitter that he lost count of how many times Romney said âUtah.â The strategy telegraphed in recent days is clear and multipronged: Romney who fell short in two previous White House bids and emerged as one of Donald Trumpâs fiercest critics is trying to persuade voters that he is laser-focused on his adopted state and not on the president or the job heâs pined for in the past.
Though on paper this should be a cakewalk â Romney is hardly a stranger in Utah and Democrats have little chance of picking up the seat â two prominent Republicans have made an issue of Romneyâs Trump-bashing and his relocation to the West. One of them State Auditor John Dougall told BuzzFeed News that GOP activists in and outside Utah have been encouraging him after he said this week that he was seriously considering challenging Romney .
Dougall added that Romney had called him Thursday evening to inform him of his imminent announcement which has been anticipated since Sen. Orrin Hatch made his retirement plans known last month. âI wished him all the best â Dougall said of Romney .
A Romney spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Dougall declined to say who is encouraging him to run. But he suggested support would come from those concerned about electing someone who would not be aligned with Trump. For weeks on his Facebook page Dougall has been arguing against a âcoronationâ of Romney .
After the phone interview Dougall added via email: âI should have also mentioned that âIt's clear that Utahns have a very favorable view of Mr. Romney . The odds are strongly in his favor.ââ
Earlier this week Utah Republican Party Chair Rob Anderson noted Romney âs criticism of Trump and spoke dismissively of his Utah credentials in an interview with the Salt Lake Tribune: âI think heâs keeping out candidates that I think would be a better fit for Utah because letâs face it Mitt Romney doesnât live here his kids werenât born here he doesnât shop here.â
Anderson later apologized to Romney .
âIâve no doubt that Mitt Romney satisfies all qualifications to run for Senate â said Anderson in a Wednesday statement posted on Twitter âand as chairman of the Utah Republican Party I will treat all candidates equally to ensure their path to the party nomination is honest and fair.â
Answer: | Mitt Romney | 7 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Ex Input:
The department said investigators collected male DNA from the clothing that victim Sherri Papini was wearing when she was found on Thanksgiving and female DNA that was discovered on Papini's body. The samples have not been identified.
The bizarre case â with many of the most sensational details initially released by her husband in an exclusive interview with ABC â has baffled police and set social media buzzing.
FBI via AP These sketches released by the FBI show two suspects in the mysterious disappearance of Sherri Papini . Sheriff's Sgt. Brian Jackson said the sketches are being released 10 months after her disappearance because of Papini 's difficulty in recalling what her abductors looked like. These sketches released by the FBI show two suspects in the mysterious disappearance of Sherri Papini . Sheriff's Sgt. Brian Jackson said the sketches are being released 10 months after her disappearance because of Papini 's difficulty in recalling what her abductors looked like. (FBI via AP) (FBI via AP)
Papini disappeared Nov. 2 while jogging near her home in Shasta County about 215 miles north of San Francisco.
Her husband found her phone and earphones near their home after she failed to pick up their children at daycare and called police. He was initially a suspect but the sheriff said Wednesday that the husband passed a lie detector test and offered to take another.
Authorities also said a Detroit man Papini texted and planned to meet shortly before her disappearance has been cleared of involvement.
Papini was found alongside Interstate 5 in Yolo County about 100 miles from her home. Her nose was broken and she was wearing a chain restraint around her waist. Her blonde hair had been cut to shoulder length and she had a "brand" burned into her right shoulder.
Investigators declined to discuss the "brand" in detail. Papini has said she was not sexually assaulted and has described her abductors as two women who took her at gunpoint.
Sheriff's Sgt. Brian Jackson said the sketches drawn by FBI artists are being released 10 months after her disappearance because of Papini 's difficulty in recalling what her abductors looked like.
Ex Output:
Sherri Papini
Ex Input:
* * * France isn’t the first killjoy to quit the smartphone party. In 2015 the Canadian artist Garnet Hertz invented a cheeky device called “Phonesafe ” a masochistic lockbox designed to incarcerate smartphones for a set period of time. Hertz meant Phonesafe as a provocation but the same idea quickly became a product. Today you can buy similar but mass-produced containers on Amazon and multi-phone lockers have become a mainstay in corporate offices and schools around the world. A McDonald’s in Singapore has even installed a locker designed to promote “family togetherness” and face-to-face conversation. If you attend a Guns n’ Roses concert or a comedy performance by Dave Chappelle ushers will require you to lock your device in a neoprene pouch and take it into the show in that state. The phone-locking pouch made by a San Francisco company called Yondr has a wide opening at the short end for inserting a smartphone. A magnetic locking mechanism similar to those on anti-theft tags in retail stores engages to hold it closed. After the show this clasp is swiped across a counter-magnet which releases the lock. Yondr is a surefire way to cut down on bootleg YouTube videos. In Wired Alice Gregory recently took a tough look at the device. Gregory recounts her experience at a Chris Rock performance where audience members waiting in the lobby had to forgo smartphone usage. The affair reduced them to “a roomful of jonesing fiends ” as she puts it. Ultimately Gregory connects Yondr to a thorny question about civil liberties: the right of the people to keep and bear smartphones.
It’s an ironic conclusion because Yondr is sold as a tool to provide freedom rather than to take it away. To “Be Here Now ” as the company’s tagline puts it. It’s a promise to deliver presence—a tricky calling to say the least. Presence has a long history in religion and philosophy from Buddhist practices to the metaphysics of the 20th-century philosopher Martin Heidegger. Today presence is most common in the various mindfulness trends that have overtaken individual and corporate life in Silicon Valley in particular—collectively the critic R. John Williams has called them “technê-zen.” Cutting through the history and the rhetoric it’s productive to think about presence in terms of attention. You’re present where you focus your attention—and you only have so much attention to pay. In the case of Chris Rock he wants attention directed toward him live on stage. Rock’s show might involve awkward improvisation or new material that he doesn't want circulated online. Teachers are less concerned about copyright than comedians are but they still demand attention. I have tested Yondr’s effects on mind-wandering in classroom experiments with Dan Smilek of the University of Waterloo Vision and Attention Lab. Our research is based in part on the assumption that instructors want students to focus on the course materials and not on Instagram Facebook or other distractions. Yondr can be a remarkably effective tool for enforcing digital abstinence in these contexts thanks primarily to its portability. Rather than locking away devices inside lockers or even inside a disused Catholic tabernacle as I have done in a performance piece Yondr buffers the anxiety of being isolated from your device.
Given that the mere presence of one’s smartphone can reduce cognitive capacity Yondr offers a way to surf between the waves of a device’s presence and absence. You can hold it but you can’t use it. This might be an especially important balance in classroom situations where students see a teacher’s “phone shoebox” as an unwelcome imposition of authority. * * * Needless to say Yondr is still an imposition. And controlling attention requires more than just locking a device in a binge-breaking neoprene pouch. Joelle Renstrom has reported the results of her own Yondr experiment in a class at Boston University where she had her 30 students lock away their devices over the course of a semester. At first 37 percent of the students found the policy annoying but by the end of the term that figure had dropped to 14 percent. Those are promising if tentative results but Renstrom’s anecdotal comments about the experiment may be more instructive than the data she collected. Renstrom describes her students’ initial experience of Yondr as “akin to caging a pet a clear denial of freedom.” Moreover she observes that some students left their cases unlocked as a sign of rebellion even though they didn’t remove the phones from them. Rather than becoming “active resistors to technology ” as the scholars Christine Satchell and Paul Dourish call people who choose to ignore their devices Yondr users are ultimately the victims of technological disenfranchisement. When implemented as a mandatory smartphone prophylactic Yondr becomes a means of control not of choice let alone of presence.
Such top-down tactics might be enforced easily at live performances as one of my research assistants observed firsthand at a Chris Rock show in Niagara Falls. However as a daily ritual for high-school students all-or-nothing digital abstinence enforced by an authority figure seems destined to backfire possibly leading to rejection—or even worse a legal complaint. In an attempt to tackle this disciplinary problem I have been offering workshops to schoolteachers that riff on and revise the design Yondr originated. In the workshops I provide a kit that allows students to make their own digital abstinence case but with an obnoxiously loud Velcro enclosure rather than a silent magnetic clasp. This semipermeable design—the Resistor Case I call it—is intended to promote self-regulation not authoritarian control. The Velcro acts as a gateway to conscience: It provides just enough resistance and noise to make its owner think twice before opening it. Michael I. Norton Daniel Mochon and Dan Ariely coined the “IKEA effect” to name the increase in value people assign to self-made products. With the Resistor Case I’m counting on a similar effect that students who fist construct and then choose to make use of their DIY phone lockers might be more compelled to use them. Of course the kit will only work if the teacher provides a context for it that includes a discussion of responsible smartphone use. (The kit provides a series of cards to prompt this conversation.)
Ex Output:
Yondr
Ex Input:
A woman named Leigh Corfman says that when she was 14 years old in 1979 Roy Moore the current GOP Senate candidate in Alabama initiated a sexual encounter with her when he was 32 years old according to The Washington Post.
Moore approached Corfman outside a courtroom in Alabama the report said while her mother was inside at a child custody hearing and struck up a conversation with her.
He asked for Corfman's phone number and picked up a few days later near her house and drove her to his home in the woods 30 minutes away the report said. Moore told Corfman "how pretty she was and kissed her " the report said.
Moore on a second visit took off Corfman's shirt and pants and he removed his own clothes the report said which added that he touched her over her bra and underwear and " he guided her hand to touch him over his underwear."
Three other women told the Post in recent weeks the report said that Moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s working at the district attorney's office. He gave some of them alcohol -- at a time when the legal drinking age was 19.
Corfman is the only woman who had sexual contact with Moore the report said and they did not have intercourse. The legal age of consent in Alabama is 16 years of age and sexual contact between someone who is 19 years of age or older and a person who is 12 to 16 years of age is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year. The Post points out that enticing a child under 16 years of age into a home with the purpose of proposing sexual contact is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The statute of limitations on the felony charge would have run out in three years in 1979. Corfman never filed a police report.
"Judge Roy Moore has endured the most outlandish attacks on any candidate in the modern political arena but this story in today's Washington Post alleging sexual impropriety takes the cake. National liberal organizations know their chosen candidate Doug Jones is in a death spiral and this is their last ditch Hail Mary." "The Washington Post has already endorsed the Judge's opponent and for months they have engaged in a systematic campaign to distort the truth about the Judge's record and career and derail his campaign. In fact just two days ago the Foundation for Moral Law sent a retraction demand to the Post for the false stories they wrote about the Judge's work and compensation. But apparently there is no end to what the Post will allege." "The Judge has been married to Kayla for nearly 33 years has 4 children and 5 grandchildren. He has been a candidate in four hotly-contested statewide political contests twice as a gubernatorial candidate and twice as a candidate for chief justice. He has been a three-time candidate for local office and he has been a national figure in two ground-breaking judicial fights over religious liberty and traditional marriage. After over 40 years of public service if any of these allegations were true they would have been made public long before now." "Judge Roy Moore is winning with a double-digit lead. So it is no surprise with just over four weeks remaining in a race for the U.S. Senate with national implications that the Democratic Party and the country's most liberal newspaper would come up with a fabrication of this kind." "This garbage is the very definition of fake news and intentional defamation."
In a statement following the Post's report Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested if the allegations against Moore were in fact true " he must step aside."
National Republican Senate Committee Chairman Cory Gardner echoed those calls calling the allegations "deeply troubling" adding "If these allegations are found to be true Roy Moore must drop out of the Alabama special Senate election."
Ex Output:
| Roy Moore
| 1 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Detailed Instructions: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
See one example below:
Problem: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Solution: Raheem Morris
Explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Problem: Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE Justin Thomas wins FedExCup title $10 million bonus; Xander Schauffele wins Tour Championship. USA TODAY Sports
ATLANTA — With six holes to play in last week’s BMW Championship the third event of the FedExCup Playoffs rookie Xander Schauffele ’s chances of advancing to The Tour Championship seemed remote.
Seven days later he won the PGA Tour’s season finale.
With nerves of a veteran and a game that held up under the pressure in a battle against some of the game’s best players Schauffele claimed his biggest win and largest paycheck Sunday when he birdied the 72nd hole at East Lake Golf Club to topple Justin Thomas by one shot. The two were tied before Schauffele two-putted from just off the green on the par-5 18th for the separating birdie the final putt circling nearly the entire cup before dropping. He signed for a 2-under-par 68 to finish at 12 under and one clear of Thomas (66).
Solution: | Xander Schauffele | 4 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Teacher: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Solution: Raheem Morris
Reason: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Now, solve this instance: Two months after it found her the Nabiya Irion Hope Project an animal welfare group in South Korea sent Chi Chi to the Animal Rescue Media and Education (ARME) group in Los Angeles where both organizations believed she stood a better chance of adoption. Howell said she saw one video of the dog and âcouldnât get her off my mind.â
The Howells who have owned eight dogs in nearly 24 years of marriage decided they wanted to make Chi Chi their next. ARME drove her from Los Angeles to Phoenix in March 2016. Six months later she was fitted with custom prosthetics that allow her to walk and run.
After a short but traumatic lifetime of abuse Howell said Chi Chi was reticent to interact at first. But that changed in a matter of months. Now Howell said the dog is free to trust humans âwithout any fear or risk to her well-being. Thatâs been amazing to watch her grow and watch her transform into this dog that now canât wait to visit people and meet new people.â
So far Chi Chiâs biggest fan base is virtual â more than 45 000 followers on her Facebook and Instagram accounts. Howell said her hope though is that Chi Chi âs greatest impact will be at schools and that she will teach young children to be kind.
Student: | Chi Chi The | 2 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Part 1. Definition
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Part 2. Example
At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Answer: Raheem Morris
Explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Part 3. Exercise
Los Angeles Times political columnist David Horsey body shamed White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders in his latest anti-Trump hit piece referring to her appearance as like a âchunky soccer mom.â
Horsey originally wrote Wednesday that Sanders âdoes not look like the kind of womanâ that President Trump would chose for the high-profile role assuming he would prefer âsleek beauties with long legs and stiletto heelsâ who could pass for âarm candyâ in addition to serving as the White Houseâs top spokesperson.
âBy comparison Sanders looks more like a slightly chunky soccer mom who organizes snacks for the kidsâ games â Horsey wrote. âRather than the fake eyelashes and formal dresses she puts on for news briefings Sanders seems as if sheâd be more comfortable in sweats and running shoes.â
" Sanders looks more like a slightly chunky soccer mom who organizes snacks for the kidsâ games" - L.A. Times columnist David Horsey
âYet even if Trump privately wishes he had a supermodel for a press secretary he is lucky to have Sanders â he wrote.
Sanders who was promoted from deputy press secretary when Sean Spicer stepped down earlier this year is the daughter of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. She has been working in politics her entire adult life and is well respected among GOP insiders.
However the Times columnist went on to call Sanders a liar a âfailureâ and a âproâ at being ignorant. He also in another recent column about the recent allegations of powerful men sexually harassing women referred to Trump as a âsexually aggressive creep.â
Itâs curious to think what Horsey who is politically correct when itâs convenient would feel about fat shaming Sanders on a day when it doesnât fit his anti-Trump agenda. It should be noted that Horsey doesnât only shame the appearance of females as he has mocked Trump in cartoons calling him a âbloated orange mess â among other things.
Shortly after Fox News asked for comment the Times removed all references to Sanders â appearance and added a note from Horsey.
Answer: | David Horsey | 7 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
One example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Solution is here: Raheem Morris
Explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Now, solve this: “Fuller House” star John Stamos is about to have a full house of his own. Stamos who recently announced his engagement to model/actress Caitlin McHugh shared the news with People Magazine that the two are expecting their first child together.
“The look on John ’s face when I told him we were pregnant was priceless ” said McHugh. “It was the look of a man who has wanted a family of his own but wasn’t sure it was going to happen for him . Now it is!”
Though Stamos will be a first time dad in real life the actor is no stranger to fatherhood duties after years of playing Uncle Jesse on “Full House” and acting as a father to the show’s twins Nikki and Alex. Needless to say Stamos has had his fair share of dad experience.
“I’ll be a fun dad. I’ve been practicing for a long time ” he says joking “I’ve done every schtick you can do with a baby on TV … all the bits and jokes and diaper gags. I’ll probably just do all that stuff.”
Solution: | John Stamos | 6 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example Input: Amber Harding a staff attorney at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless said her organization is arguing for multiple changes to the legislation including requirements for proof of residency and the creation of a presumption absent proof to the contrary that anyone named as an occupant on a lease is ineligible for shelter.
She said both provisions would be especially burdensome for the young parents â commonly between the ages of 18 and 24 â who often seek shelter since they may not have adequate documentation of where they live or may still be listed on leases at the homes of parents unwilling to host their families.
âThe purpose of the right to shelter is to prevent people from freezing to death â Harding said. With the current bill she added âWe will guarantee that people will be left out on freezing nights who are D.C. residents and are eligible for shelter just because theyâve put up these bureaucratic hurdles.â
Nadeau said the bill has evolved in a way that softens some of the original shelter eligibility rules proposed by the mayor. It now includes a provision that shelter applicants would meet the residence requirement if they are already receiving certain other D.C. government benefits for the poor she said. The bill has also been modified to require only one proof of residency rather than the original two she said.
âWhen we say that we canât keep spending $80 000 a night . . . itâs not because we donât want to support the people in hotels â she said. âItâs because we want a better intervention for them. We can spend $80 000 a night in so many ways that help people more.â
Example Output: Amber Harding
Example Input: H.R. McMaster U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser said at the Munich Security Conference that the federal indictments showed the U.S. was becoming "more and more adept at tracing the origins of this espionage and subversion."
"As you can see with the FBI indictment the evidence is now really incontrovertible and available in the public domain " McMaster told a Russian delegate to the conference.
McMaster also scoffed at the suggestion that the U.S. would work with Russia on cyber security issues.
"I'm surprised there are any Russian cyber experts available based on how active most of them have been undermining our democracies in the West " he said to laughter. "So I would just say that we would love to have a cyber dialogue when Russia is sincere."
Example Output: McMaster
Example Input: Police dash cam video of the incident shows Albert Chatfield immediately emerging from his car at an intersection and backpedaling from two police officers who repeatedly shout for him to "stop." As he continues to back up through the street one officer pulls out his Taser and after the other officer is heard shouting "tase him " fires it. Chatfield is knocked to the ground instantly.
The city agreed to pay $900 000 to Chatfield's family over the incident one of the fastest settlements in a Taser case in the state ever according to the family's lawyer. Chatfield remains in the hospital after suffering bleeding on his brain due to the fall according to ABC affiliate WCIV.
Police had claimed Chatfield assumed a "fighting stance" as he backpedaled from police. The video shows the man raising his hands but he is slowly backing away from the officers throughout. The police report also described the scene as a busy street saying they were trying to protect Chatfield and others' safety though the video shows just one car in the intersection.
The family's lawyer Justin Bamberg blamed the police chase on a mental issue. Police had been called after Chatfield was aggressively tailgating other vehicles.
Bamberg said the money would be used to pay for Chatfield 's medical expenses.
Example Output: | Albert Chatfield
| 3 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Output: Raheem Morris
Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
New input case for you: Actress Jennifer Lawrence has a “pretty good speech” prepared for when she meets President Donald Trump.
Though the actress has never met Trump she revealed in an interview last year that she had once come close to crossing paths with the president at a concert. Lawrence told the UK’s Graham Norton Show that she had been at a concert and heard Trump was in attendance and ordered her security team to find the then-presidential candidate.
“Because I was adamant on finding him and then making a video of me going ‘Hey Trump f*ck you!'” she said then.
Lawrence has been a vocal critic of Trump since well before the November 2016 presidential election.
And just a few days after the election Lawrence penned an essay urging liberals to become energized by Trump’s victory.
Lawrence announced this year that she would take a hiatus from acting. Her last film the horror thriller mother! marked the worst opening-weekend box office of her career and earned a rare “F” CinemaScore from audiences.
The actress has also begun working with Represent.us an organization working to end political corruption.
Output: | Jennifer Lawrence | 1 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: (CNN) Iraq war veteran Taylor Winston became a hero on the night of the mass shooting in Las Vegas after he used a stranger's truck to rush critically wounded victims to the hospital.
Now Winston has a new truck of his own.
An Arizona car dealership rewarded him Monday with a free customized Ford F-150 in appreciation for his bravery and quick thinking on October 1 when Winston made two trips to the hospital while officials were still scrambling to get ambulances to the concert venue. Winston credited his military training for helping him keep a "cool head."
"It was still quite scary but we just knew they (the victims) had to get to the hospital immediately " Winston told CNN's Anderson Cooper last week. "No ambulances were immediately available. There was far too many casualties for anyone to handle."
B5 Motors would like to give #vegashero Taylor Winston a free truck. Please help us find him . #HelpB5MotorsfindTaylorWinston pic.twitter.com/2dJICGLvyI — B5 Motors (@B5Motors) October 4 2017
SOLUTION: Taylor Winston
PROBLEM: The ombudsman says it is investigating claims President Rodrigo Duterte 's bank accounts had hundreds of millions of pesos (millions of dollars) which he failed to disclose as required by law (AFP Photo/NOEL CELIS)
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he would not cooperate with a special anti-corruption prosecutor's investigation into allegations he acquired ill-gotten wealth vowing he would "not submit" to its authority.
The ombudsman said last week it was investigating claims Duterte 's bank accounts had hundreds of millions of pesos (millions of dollars) which he failed to disclose as required by law.
Duterte responded by lashing out at the ombudsman calling the agency "lousy" and saying allegations against him were "lies based on baseless" information.
"I will not submit to the jurisdiction (of the ombudsman) " Duterte said in a curse-laden speech to local lawyers on Saturday night.
"Waving fabricated evidence lying to his teeth in front of the nation and then you want me to submit to the jurisdiction of the ombudsman " Duterte said referring to Deputy Ombudsman Melchor Arthur Carandang who had announced the probe.
Duterte 's remarks contradicted his spokesman's statement last week that the president respected the ombudsman and trusted its impartiality.
Duterte 72 won last year's presidential elections on a brutal law-and-order and anti-corruption platform.
During the election campaign Duterte had said he came from a poor family and lived a modest lifestyle which boosted his image as an anti-establishment politician representing the common folk analysts said.
The ombudsman probe stemmed from a plunder complaint filed before the elections by opposition senator Antonio Trillanes who alleged Duterte embezzled government funds during his more than two-decade stint as mayor of the southern city of Davao.
On Saturday Duterte said his family had properties and businesses including an ice plant and lumberyard adding his late father was a provincial governor.
SOLUTION: Rodrigo Duterte
PROBLEM: Norwegian authorities were told that Ebadi's medal was seized "within the last week or so" from a safe-deposit box in Iran along with personal effects including the diploma awarded with the medal the Foreign Ministry said. Spokeswoman Ragnhild Imerslund said Norwegian authorities have been "in touch" with Ebadi since the incident.
Ebadi a human rights lawyer won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her efforts in promoting democracy. She has long faced harassment from Iranian authorities for her activities -- including a raid on her office last year in which files were confiscated.
Ebadi was out of the country at the time of the vote and has not returned since saying she is "in an effective state of exile."
The opposition claims that hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election was fraudulent. Ebadi urged the international community to reject the outcome and called for a new vote monitored by the United Nations. She has strongly criticized the clerical leadership's postelection crackdown on dissent. During the past months hundreds of pro-reform activists have been arrested and a mass trial has sentenced dozens to prison terms.
Ebadi could not be reached on Thursday for comment.
Ebadi said in an interview published Nov. 17 in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera that her apartment pension and her bank account and those of her relatives had been seized along with her Nobel and Legion of Honor.
"I live in an effective state of exile " she was quoted as saying from a hotel in New York where she had been attending U.N. meetings. "They say I owe them $410 000 in back taxes because of the Nobel; it's a complete lie given that the Iranian fiscal law says that prizes are excluded."
She nevertheless said she plans to return to Iran when she can be more useful in the country than outside it.
"Nothing frightens me any more even if they threaten to arrest me for fiscal evasion upon my return " she said.
SOLUTION: | Ebadi Nobel
| 8 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
One example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Solution is here: Raheem Morris
Explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Now, solve this: FAIRFAX Va. (AP) â Jon Axel Gudmundsson hit four 3-pointers and scored 24 points and Davidson took control early for an 86-59 win over George Mason on Sunday.
Pritchett had the first five points of an early 10-0 spurt that gave Davidson the lead for good 13-8. Grady had five in another 10-0 run that put the lead into double figures at 30-18. Gudmundsson then scored six in a third 10-0 run for a 45-24 lead before Livingston knocked down a 3 at the buzzer. The Wildcats shot 56 percent (18 of 32) and George Mason shot 42 (10 of 24) despite going 6 of 12 behind the arc.
Gudmundsson scored 15 points in the second half and Davidson shot 55 percent (17 of 31) for the easy win.
Davidson players had to Uber to the game after their bus broke down in the hotel parking lot.
Solution: | Davidson | 6 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Let me give you an example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
The answer to this example can be: Raheem Morris
Here is why: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
OK. solve this:
The inauguration of President Trump on Jan. 20 2017. (Jonathan Newton /The Washington Post)
During his campaign and tumultuous first year in office President Trump demonstrated little knowledge of policy details. He was not interested in advice that conflicted with his instincts and it was often impossible for White House staff to figure out what course he wanted to take. One compared it to âtrying to figure out what a child wants.â
Trump is depicted as presiding over a chaotic White House struggling to settle into his new reality and eagerly trying to maintain his normal golf habits.
In the book set to be officially released next week Wolff writes that Trump became upset that he couldnât give a Supreme Court seat to a friend rather than someone he didnât know. He casts Trump as having âlittle or no interestâ in Republican attempts to overhaul the Affordable Care Act. And Wolff says aides were incredulous over Trumpâs claims that President Obama had âwiretappedâ Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
Trump aides vigorously sought to undermine the book on Wednesday with White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders saying in a statement that it is âfilled with false and misleading accounts from individuals who have no access or influence with the White House.â
Wolff says that his book is based on 200 conversations over the past 18 months with Trump most members of his senior staff some of whom he talked to dozens of times and many people with whom they had spoken. Some conversations were on the record while others were off the record or on âdeep background â allowing him to relay a âdisembodied description of events provided by an unnamed witness to them.â
At a White House briefing Wednesday afternoon Sanders said Trump only had âone brief conversationâ with Wolff and that most dialogue with White House staff was coordinated by one person: former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon whom Trump dismissed in an unusually harsh statement saying he âhas nothing to do with me or my presidency.â
[ Trump slams Bannon: âWhen he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mindâ]
During the campaign â which few aides expected Trump to win â and the transition that followed Wolff writes about several instances in which Trumpâs lack of knowledge and interest in public affairs was evident.
Early in the campaign for example Trump aide Sam Nunberg was sent to explain the Constitution to the candidate Wolff writes and Nunberg offered this assessment of the experience: âI got as far as the Fourth Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head.â
Wolff reports that in early August 2016 Trump asked former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes to take over management of the campaign. Ailes turned him down Wolff writes because he knew of Trumpâs disinclination to take advice âor even listen to it.â
After Trump prevailed Trump turned to Ailes for advice on a chief of staff the book says.
âWhoâs that?â Trump reportedly asked unaware that Boehner had been the speaker of the House until he was forced out in a tea party putsch in 2015.
Wolff also writes that Reince Priebus â the chairman of the Republican National Committee who later became the chief of staff â was alarmed how often during the transition Trump offered people jobs on the spot including many he had never met before.
Wolff writes that one of the reasons Trump didnât want John Bolton a famously hawkish diplomat as his national security adviser was because of his mustache.
âBoltonâs mustache is a problem â Wolff quotes Bannon saying. â Trump doesnât think he looks the part.â
Answer: | Melania Trump | 8 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Teacher: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Solution: Raheem Morris
Reason: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Now, solve this instance: John Sculley is the former CEO of Pepsi and Apple. He was brought on by Steve Jobs to be the then-young founder's "adult supervision. "
Sculley started his career at Pepsi driving its trucks and eventually became its CEO.
He stayed at Apple for 10 years and had a tense relationship with Jobs that led to Jobs' temporary departure from the company.
After Apple Sculley became a tech investor and he 's now a founding member of a healthcare startup that he thinks could one day generate even more revenue than Apple.
John Sculley remembers the first time he met Steve Jobs . He was CEO of Pepsi at the time and he flew to California to meet with the then-26-year-old cofounder of Apple about a potential CEO role there.
Jobs had met about 20 other candidates and been unimpressed. But after 5 months of getting to know Sculley he was sold and offered him the job. Sculley initially turned it down. Then Jobs dropped a now-famous line on him that made Sculley change his mind:
"Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?"
Sculley spent a decade at Apple and it was a roller coaster ride. So was his relationship with Jobs . During one particularly tense moment Jobs planned a coup to unseat Sculley . When Sculley learned about Jobs' plan he held a board meeting that resulted in Jobs running from the room crying and taking a long sabbatical. It's a moment Sculley now regrets.
"In hindsight now that I have decades of perspective I didn't appreciate how important founders are " Sculley said in an interview for Business Insider's podcast "Success! How I Did It."
"This was not a power struggle; this was two different points of view of how do you make the company sustainable. I can't change it that's history but it's actually beautiful that Steve did eventually come back to Apple and of course he ended up becoming a very successful CEO. Steve Jobs 2.0 had matured tremendously from Steve Jobs 1.0."
After Sculley left Apple he became a tech investor. He 's now the cofounder of a healthcare startup that he thinks could become even bigger than Apple someday RXAdvance. He says 5% of the US population â the chronically ill â accounts for $1.5 trillion in spending. And he thinks he 's figured out a way to solve it.
"It turns out that the avoidable drug impacted medical costs âthis is out of that $3 trillion of health spending âadds up to about $840 billion. That's many times bigger than most industries certainly in high tech and of that $840 billion it's estimated that $350 billion is avoidable expense " Sculley explained.
Sculley discussed his career his friendship and eventual falling out with Steve Jobs and his new healthcare initiative on the podcast which you can listen to below.
John Sculley : Thank you.
Sculley : Oh I wish you wouldn't bring that up! I was in Hawaii because we would introduce market by market and fortunately those days we didn't have cable television so that you could see something that happened in Hawaii all the way back on the mainland. But I was being interviewed live in Honolulu and the lady interviewing me as people were taking the Pepsi Challenge taste test said âWell why don't you take the challenge test?â And I sort of hesitated but there wasn't much I could say so unfortunately I picked Coca-Cola.
Meeting Steve Jobs
Student: | Steve Jobs | 2 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Q: Stop Hating On Ed Sheeran's Fundraising Ad Say Critics
Radi-Aid a nonprofit group in Norway was running its annual contest asking folks to vote for the nominees. And the winner (or loser) for worst charity ad was a 5-minute spot for Comic Relief in which pop star Ed Sheeran visits orphans in a slum in Liberia talks to one homeless boy and asks viewers to help the children.
Maybe it's not such a bad idea to show a rich guy giving money to a kid on the streets argues Tariro Mzezewa in an op-ed this week in The New York Times: "Ed Sheeran Raises Money For Liberia â And Is Promptly Shamed." Mzezewa a staff editor for The Times' opinion section writes: "The reaction to this video is not only overblown but also harmful to the people who need help and those who may want to offer it."
Others agree with Mzezewa including Beyan Flomo Pewee the Liberian founder and executive director of YOCEL a nonprofit youth organization in Monsterrado Liberia. "I personally think that the video was not really bad given he was raising funds and Liberia benefited " he wrote in an email to NPR. "Especially the closing part of the video where he demonstrated commitment to help the boys."
"Poor Ed Sheeran he only wanted to help."
What's your perspective on Comic Relief's fundraising ad featuring Ed Sheeran? Share your thoughts on this thread on Twitter.
A: Ed Sheeran
****
Q: One of the reasons Jimmy Vesey didnât sign with his hometown Bruins when the Harvard product was a college free agent in 2016 was because he wanted to get out of his comfort zone. He sure looks comfortable playing against them.
Vesey scored twice in a 29-second span in the first period in the Rangersâ 4-2 home win Wednesday night against Boston the Blueshirtsâ fifth straight win as they continue to distance themselves from their rough start to the year.
For Buchnevichâs fellow sophomore Vesey Wednesday represented some progress in that he remained a contributor until the final horn. In three of the previous five games Vesey had either had limited third-period ice time or been benched altogether for the third.
Jimmy Vesey celebrates his first of two goals scored. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
âMaybe he wasnât finishing on a lot but Jimmy was working hard and like you saw (Wednesday) early on before he scored the goals he made a couple real strong plays along the wall in our end that permitted us to get the puck out â Vigneault said. âSo thereâs more than just finishing.â
A: Jimmy Vesey
****
Q: Last Saturday the couple wed outside of Dayton OH. But before the two said âI do â their friend Jake Clark set the stage for their walk down the aisle as âflower man.â
According to Yahoo Style Clark approached the couple after they got engaged and volunteered himself to be part of the wedding party. Amanda and Daniel took him up on the offer and now the pictures of Clark 's walk down the aisle have received nearly 200 reactions and over 60 shares on Facebook.
Clark strutted down the aisle with not one but three fanny packs â all stuffed with fallen fall leaves. During the rehearsal Amanda thought the fallen leaves were pretty but Clark says of the atypical wedding foliage âUnfortunately a lot of them were shredded when I pulled them out and some people got some leaves to the face as well which they seemed to be good sports about.â
As for the multiple fanny packs Clark wanted to âgo big or go home.â
âI figured if Iâm going to be flower man Iâm going to go all out â go big or go home â Clark tells Yahoo. âI could have just carried around a basket but I thought âHow could I make it a little more over the top?â So I decided three fanny packs not one. The showcase fanny pack was actually a unicorn fanny pack.â
Clark wasnât the only unconventional part of the wedding â later in the evening an unexpected blaze broke out.
A: | Jake Clark
****
| 4 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Consider Input: Amber Harding a staff attorney at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless said her organization is arguing for multiple changes to the legislation including requirements for proof of residency and the creation of a presumption absent proof to the contrary that anyone named as an occupant on a lease is ineligible for shelter.
She said both provisions would be especially burdensome for the young parents â commonly between the ages of 18 and 24 â who often seek shelter since they may not have adequate documentation of where they live or may still be listed on leases at the homes of parents unwilling to host their families.
âThe purpose of the right to shelter is to prevent people from freezing to death â Harding said. With the current bill she added âWe will guarantee that people will be left out on freezing nights who are D.C. residents and are eligible for shelter just because theyâve put up these bureaucratic hurdles.â
Nadeau said the bill has evolved in a way that softens some of the original shelter eligibility rules proposed by the mayor. It now includes a provision that shelter applicants would meet the residence requirement if they are already receiving certain other D.C. government benefits for the poor she said. The bill has also been modified to require only one proof of residency rather than the original two she said.
âWhen we say that we canât keep spending $80 000 a night . . . itâs not because we donât want to support the people in hotels â she said. âItâs because we want a better intervention for them. We can spend $80 000 a night in so many ways that help people more.â
Output: Amber Harding
Input: Consider Input: Stephen Paddock fired hundreds of rounds out of a 32nd story window in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Sunday night police have said killing 59 and injuring over 500 in the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history.
Paddock had no military training. According to Paddockâs family and the ongoing police investigation he had a penchant for guns and some experience hunting. But there is no indication he had formal training.
Nevertheless he managed to kill dozens and wound hundreds from 32 stories above the ground and a distance of three to five football fields between him and his victims.
The reason he was able to carry out the massacre lies largely with the tools at his disposal and the completely helpless nature of his targets.
Some of the weapons had scopes to increase his effective range. The length of the bursts of fire suggest Paddock likely used extended magazines to store many times a firearmâs normal capacity in ammunition.
All of Paddockâs guns legally belonged to him. Nevada where Paddock lived allows the sale of high-capacity magazines high-caliber weapons and ammunition and military-style weapons but it doesnât allow fully automatic weapons.
Paddock got around the limitation of government-mandated semi-automatic weapons by using something called a âbump stock â which effectively turns a semi-automatic rifle into an automatic according to The Associated Press.
From 300 to 500 yards away the crowd of 22 000 were essentially âfish in the barrel â which is how country singer Jake Owens who was on stage in Las Vegas described that night. It wouldnât take a military operative or master marksman to inflict grievous damage on a crowd with the tools Paddock had available.
Paddock simply rained down bullets on an unsuspecting crowd that was focused on the stage. Because bullets from high-powered rifles travel at supersonic speeds the first shots probably hit the victims before the sound of the rifle even rang out.
Output: Stephen Paddock
Input: Consider Input: âGrowing up and trying to figure out your life ⦠while people feel like they have some sort of entitlement to know whatâs going on is absolutely excruciatingly terrible â and the only way to get over it is to go into it â she explained.
âYou canât change your face. You canât change your parents. You canât change any of those things. So I feel like most kids like me end up going down a spiral of depression ... When youâre born into it there are two choices that you have; Iâm either going to try to go into it completely and help from the inside or ⦠no one is going to know where I am ⦠and Iâm really going to take myself completely out of the eye of soeciety. Thereâs really no in-between.â
Willow Smith 17 is the daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. She also has an older brother Jaden who grew up in the eye of the public.
Will Smith learned this after daughter Willow shaved her head
Willow Smith is the daughter of Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith . (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Will Smith the longtime actor spoke of raising his daughter in an interview earlier this year.
He said when she shaved her famous âWhip My Hairâ hair he learned an important lesson.
Jaden Smith says he plans to disappear in 10 years
| Output: Will Smith
| 2 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: The good news for Indy is that the only coaching vacancy still looks pretty attractive â if Andrew Luck is healthy.
Luck meanwhile continues to be the big question as he rehabs from last January's surgery for a partially torn labrum in his throwing shoulder.
Some believe McDaniels' sudden change of heart was related to doubts about Luck 's health.
On Wednesday though he attempted to alleviate lingering concerns about Luck while acknowledging the franchise quarterback still hasn't thrown a football since returning from Europe late last year.
"At this point we feel very strongly that Andrew is in a good place. He doesn't need surgery " Ballard said. "I have not gotten that from the two doctors that he 's seen here after the season. His strength is good. He 's working on his throwing motion and he 's working on his arm speed right now. He has not picked up a football but he is throwing balls working on arm speed.
" He 's going to do everything right to get himself ready to play and I'm very confident he 's very confident that he 's going to come back and prove a lot of people wrong " Ballard added.
SOLUTION: Andrew Luck
PROBLEM: What happens when the one and only Bill Murray recites American literature and flexes his pipes on songs from the great American songbook backed by three accomplished classical musicians at a packed Orchestra Hall?
âNew Worlds: Bill Murray Jan Vogler and Friendsâ was the name of the show the famed Wilmette-raised actor and comedian along with cellist Jan Vogler violinist Mira Wang and pianist Vanessa Perez brought to Symphony Center on Tuesday night as part of a national tour in support of their new Decca Gold album of the same name.
Murray sang a little danced a little cracked a couple of jokes. The inveterate Cubs fan traded his tuxedo jacket for a Cubs windbreaker at the end prompting a roar from audience members one of whom had draped a Wrigley victory flag over the side of the platform that was put up on stage to accommodate extra seats.
The tone shifted from light to serious and back again. Murray sometimes recited over musical accompaniment; sometimes his recitations stood on their own. One selection merged into the next in a seamless two-hour flow of spoken word song and instrumental music. Like all highly skilled actors Murray is a virtuoso of tone and timing. His typically laid-back manner fools no one for thereâs always a finely honed theatrical sensibility and command of craft peeking through.
Who could resist James Fenimore Cooperâs evocation of a pristine early 19th-century American woodland (from âThe Deerslayerâ) as recited with all due wonderment by Murray over a movement from a Schubert piano trio?
Or Murray âs thoughtful rendition half-sung half-spoken of âJeanie with the Light-Brown Hair â a nostalgic slice of early America I have never heard so poignantly done as here? Murray may not have classically trained vocal technique but his baritone is pleasant and musical and absolutely true to the words and the deep emotions they convey and that was all that mattered.
There was so much else to savor all evening long. You havenât heard âIt Ainât Necessarily Soâ until youâve heard Murray âs sassy jazzy transformation of that beloved Gershwin classic. Nor are you likely to forget the gutsy intensity of feeling he brought to Van Morrisonâs soul standard âWhen Will I Ever Learn to Live in God.â
After that number Murray flung long-stemmed roses to the fans who were up on their feet loudly cheering the hometown favorite. âThanks for coming â itâs nice to be home â he told them as he Vogler Wang and Perez waved their goodbyes.
If this is what it takes to sell light classical music and renew interest in neglected classics of American literature to a mass concert public maybe Murray and friends are on to something. Long may their team flourish.
RELATED: Bill Murray's new gig singing American standards: 'I am taking every show as potentially my final show' »
Sports Baseball Chicago Cubs Joe Maddon likes idea of Bill Murray playing him in David Ross movie »
Bill Murray golfwear has interesting new collection â of celebrity investors »
SOLUTION: Bill Murray
PROBLEM: Chinese President Xi Jinping claps while addressing the media as he introduces new members of the Politburo Standing Committee at Beijingâs Great Hall of the People on Oct 25. (Ng Han Guan/AP)
Chinaâs constitution is set to drop the two-term limit for president allowing Xi Jinping to extend his rule beyond 2023. Here are three things to know about Xiâs increasingly personal rule:
1. Xi has broken a decades-old norm of collective rule
Deng Xiaoping the Chinese leader who spearheaded reform after Mao passed spoke against personal rule in 1980: âOver-concentration of power is liable to give rise to arbitrary rule by individuals at the expense of collective leadership.â Most China watchers expected Xi to follow his predecessor Hu Jintaoâs example and rule for only 10 years but now there is consensus that Xi will stay on after this period.
[ Xi Jinping just made it clear where Chinaâs foreign policy is headed ]
In China Xi packed key government positions with his supporters while purging rivals. He also created significant new organizations such as small leadership groups that he controls to circumvent rival power centers. With these latest constitutional changes he has rigged the game in his favor too. The Chinese Communist Party is a massive and powerful organization but increasingly it is an institution ruled by just one man Xi Jinping.
Beyond this Xi has initiated a substantial anti-corruption campaign that has gone after tens of thousands of officials at all levels including retired top leaders such as Zhou Yongkang. Some targets no doubt were Xi rivals but there is good reason to believe that the Communist Partyâs pervasive corruption had become a major source of economic and political risk.
Even if Xi is interested in the party and the broader regime rather than his own aggrandizement going after top-level retirees broke a norm of exemption. This makes it difficult for Xi to retire as he could become a target given his familyâs wealth â despite their efforts to shed assets.
To be sure the proposed constitutional revisions do not stop at allowing Xi a third term. They call for inclusion of a reference to âcore socialist values â a âpublic oath of allegiance to the constitutionâ for state officials upon assuming office and for listing a supervision commission as a new state organ.
These changes are evidence that power is centralizing in Beijing â in addition to being concentrated in Xi . Local government officials enjoyed relatively free rein for much of the post-Mao period as long as the economy grew and tax revenue came in. But the central government increasingly is investing in its monitoring capacity and offering a rhetoric of governing morally with a mix of Confucian and Communist Party virtues.
SOLUTION: | Xi Jinping
| 8 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then an example. Follow the example to solve a new instance of the task.
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Solution: Raheem Morris
Why? Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
New input: MIAMI GARDENS Fla. (AP) — Alex Hornibrook 's first pass of the night was a wobbler one that seemed to slip out of his hand.
Nearly everything else he threw was just about perfect.
Hornibrook threw four touchdown passes three to Danny Davis and No. 6 Wisconsin capped off the winningest season in school history by topping No. 11 Miami 34-24 in the Orange Bowl on Saturday night.
"We were pretty relaxed " Hornibrook said. "We knew we had what it takes to win this game."
The Badgers dominated time of possession holding the ball for nearly 40 minutes. Hornibrook completed 23 of 34 passes for 258 yards going 20 for 25 in the final three quarters.
Travis Homer and Deejay Dallas had rushing scores for Miami (10-3) which lost on its home field for the first time in 2017. Lawrence Cager had a touchdown catch for the Hurricanes while quarterback Malik Rosier was 11 for 26 passing for 203 yards — with three interceptions.
"We're all coming back " Hornibrook said. "But nothing is going to happen if we don't put in the work."
Wisconsin: Hornibrook became just the third Badgers quarterback in the last 15 years to have multiple games with at least four touchdown passes in the same season. Scott Tolzien had a pair of four-TD games in 2009 and Jim Sorgi had games of four and five TDs in consecutive weeks back in 2003. From 2012 through 2016 the Badgers never had a quarterback throw for four scores in a game.
Solution: | Alex Hornibrook | 0 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then an example. Follow the example to solve a new instance of the task.
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Solution: Raheem Morris
Why? Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
New input: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has put his youngest son in charge of the country's spy agency as a prelude to handing over control of the communist regime a news report said Wednesday.
Kim visited the headquarters of the State Security Department in March along with his 26-year-old son Kim Jong Un and told agency leaders to "uphold" his third son as head of the department the Dong-a Ilbo newspaper reported citing an unnamed source.
Kim also told department leaders to "safeguard comrade Kim Jong Un with (your) lives as you did for me in the past " and gave them five foreign-made cars each worth some $80 000 as gifts the mass-market daily said.
It said Kim visited a college that educates spy agents last month and made similar remarks there.
Pyongyang's State Security Department is the backbone of Kim's harsh rule over the totalitarian nation. It keeps a close watch over government agencies the military and ordinary people for any signs of dissent. It also engages in spy missions abroad.
The move to put Kim Jong Un in charge of the agency illustrates the elder KimKim's concern about any possible backlash that the father-to-son succession could prompt the Dong-a said.
The paper also said the younger KimKim oversaw the handling of two American journalists detained in March while on a reporting trip to the China-North Korea border. The reporters were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor earlier this month for illegal border crossing and hostile acts.
Kim Jong Il inherited North Korea after his father and founding leader Kim Il Sung died in 1994.
On Tuesday the North's main Rodong Sinmun newspaper carried a remark by Kim Jong Il that could be seen as a justification of the father-to-son succession.
Solution: | Kim Jong Il | 0 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
[Q]: Chase Coleman's Tiger Global Management hedge fund is buying all the "FANG" stocks except Google.
But the hedge fund added to its holdings in the other so-called FANG stocks: buying nearly $500 million worth of Netflix shares $275 million of Amazon.com and $229 million of Facebook.
Coleman's fund also increased its stake in Fiat Chrysler by 3.88 million shares or $222 million and initiated a $137 million stake in design software company Autodesk.
The hedge fund also increased its holdings of Chinese e-commerce companies Alibaba and JD.com by 191 000 and 5.38 million shares respectively. Alibaba reported record sales worth $25.4 billion on Singles Day Nov. 11 while JD.com reported the equivalent of about $19.1 billion over its Singles Day shopping period which began on Nov. 1.
Coleman has a net worth of $2.2 billion according to Forbes.
[A]: Chase Coleman
[Q]: LONDON (AP) — A British judge is set to decide Tuesday whether to quash or uphold an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has spent more than five years evading the law inside Ecuador's London embassy .
Assange 's lawyers argue that it's no longer in the public interest to arrest him for jumping bail in 2012 and seeking shelter in the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden where prosecutors were investigating allegations of sexual assault and rape made by two women. He denied the allegations.
Swedish prosecutors dropped their investigation last year saying there was no prospect of bringing Assange to Sweden in the foreseeable future. But the British warrant for violating bail conditions still stands and Assange faces arrest if he leaves the embassy.
Assange 's lawyers asked for the warrant to be withdrawn since Sweden no longer wants him extradited but the judge rejected their request last week.
Assange 's attorney went on to argue that arresting him is no longer proportionate or in the public interest. Lawyer Mark Summers said that the 5½ years Assange has spent inside the embassy were "adequate if not severe" punishment for his actions and cited a report by a U.N. committee which said the 46-year-old was being arbitrarily detained.
He said the fact remained that Assange had chosen to enter the embassy to avoid arrest
Even if the judge lifts the British arrest warrant Assange 's legal problems may not be over. He suspects there is a secret U.S. grand jury indictment against him for WikiLeaks' publication of classified documents and that American authorities will seek his extradition
[A]: Julian Assange
[Q]: Ja Du a transgender white person from New Orleans also claims to be transracial and identifies as Filipino.
Du was born Adam Wheeler and grew up loving Filipino food and culture -- so much so Du now identifies as Filipino even driving a purple motorized rickshaw Du called a Tuk Tuk an Asian-derived vehicle used for public transit in the Philippines.
âWhenever Iâm around the music around the food I feel like Iâm in my own skin â Du told WTSP. âIâd watch the history channel sometimes for hours you know whenever it came to that and you know nothing else intrigued me more but things about Filipino culture.â
The comments make Du a member of a small but growing community of people who consider themselves transracial -- meaning to be born one race but identify with another.
âI think things that made no sense to most people make sense to us on an individual level in almost every person like a swelling feeling you feel when you listen to dramatic music â Du told the Huffington Post. âItâs all sound and vibration but something in it relates to your soul on such a subconscious level that you connect with it and [thatâs] how I feel about the Filipino culture.â
Many members of the Filipino-American community however are not pleased with some even expressing outrage at Duâs assertion saying Du is overlooking the hundreds of years of struggle Filipinos have endured.
âJa Du says he feels like himself when heâs around Filipino food and music and that is fabulous but to then say you are that race is both unrealistic and problematic â she said. âBeing Filipino means enduring racism discrimination and micro-aggressions all the time.â
[A]: | Ja Du
| 5 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Consider Input: DENPASAR Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia raised its warning for Baliâs Mount Agung volcano to the top level four alert on Monday closed the holiday islandâs airport and told residents around the mountain to immediately evacuate warning of an âimminentâ risk of a larger eruption.
A Balinese man sits as Mount Agung volcano erupts at Lempuyang Temple in Karangasem Bali Indonesia November 27 2017. REUTERS/Johannes P. Christo
Baliâs airport was closed for 24 hours from Monday morning disrupting 445 flights and some 59 000 passengers due to the eruption and the presence of volcanic ash from Agung but local officials said the closure could be extended.
âThe potential for a larger eruption is imminent â it said referring to the visible glow of magma at Agungâs peak overnight.
Residents were warned to âimmediately evacuateâ a danger zone that circles Agung in a radius of 8-10 km (5-6 miles).
Agung rises majestically over eastern Bali to a height of just over 3 000 metres (9 800 feet). Eastern Bali is relatively undeveloped with traditional rice paddies doting the landscape and the occasional budget resort unlike the heavily populated southern tourist hub of Kuta-Seminyak-Nusa Dua.
Agung âs last eruption in 1963 left more than 1 000 people dead and razed several villages.
Analysis suggested the threat should not be as great this time because âenergy at Mount Agungâs magma chamber is not as bigâ and with the ash column only around a quarter as high so far as the 20 km (12 miles) reached in 1963 said Sutopo.
Tourism business has slumped in Bali since September when Agung âs volcanic tremors began to increase.
Mount Agung volcano is seen erupting from Lempuyang Temple in Karangasem Bali Indonesia November 27 2017. REUTERS/Johannes P. Christo
According to the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre in nearby Darwin Australia there is âash confirmed on the ground at Denpasar Airportâ as well as ash at FL300 (which refers to flight level at 30 000 feet) in the vicinity of the volcano .
Baliâs I Gusti Ngurah Rai airport which is about 60 km (40 miles) from the volcano will be closed for 24 hours according to its operator. A total of 445 flights - 196 international and 249 domestic - and 59 000 passengers had been affected.
Farmers tend their crops as Mount Agung erupts in the background in Amed Karangasem Regency Bali Indonesia November 27 2017. REUTERS/Nyimas Laula
The alert level on Agung had been raised to the maximum in September but was lowered in October when seismic activity calmed. However volcanologists now say the volcano has entered a new phase with magma now visible at Agung âs peak meaning a greater risk of a larger eruption.
Output: Agung
Input: Consider Input: Investigators say Joseph Orbeso 22 shot and killed his girlfriend Rachel Nguyen 20 and then turned the gun on himself according to a release Friday from the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department Morongo Basin station.
Orbeso and Nguyen were reported missing July 28 after a bed-and-breakfast owner in the Morongo Basin told the Sheriff’s Department that they may have gone hiking in the park that morning.
Rachel Nguyen and Joseph Orbeso went missing July 28 and their bodies were found earlier this week. (National Park Serivce)
"Based on evidence located at the scene detectives believe Orbeso shot Nguyen then shot himself. The investigation into Orbeso ’s actions remains under investigation " the statement said.
The sheriff’s update comes days after Orbeso ’s father Gilbert Orbeso publicly identified the pair and authorities said they were found in an "embrace."
"I want Joseph to be remembered as a kind caring and thoughtful person " his father told the Southern California News Group in an email. "The way he was found beside Rachel holding her as they were seeking shade under the brush says everything you need to know about him as a man and as a human being."
Output: Joseph Orbeso
Input: Consider Input: On Tuesdayâs broadcast of the Fox News Channelâs âAmericaâs Newsroom â Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz stated Special Counsel Robert Mueller is âvery zealous.â He later added that Mueller wonât be content until he gets to President Trump or those âvery closeâ to him and this is the danger of special prosecutors.
Dershowitz said that both parties are guilty of arguing that everything they disagree with is criminal and this behavior started with Republicans during the campaign with Hillary Clinton and then continued by Democrats.
Dershowitz then recalled his experience with Mueller. He stated that he talked to Mueller about prosecutorial and FBI misconduct and Mueller stated âItâs a non-starter to talk to me about FBI misconduct or prosecutorial misconduct. Itâs a non-starter. He doesnât want to hear about that. He is in the business of protecting the FBI protecting prosecutors at all costs. I donât suggest he âs unethical but he âs very zealous.â
He added that this makes Mueller âeffective at his job but the job of a prosecutor is to do justice not to get as many notches on his belt as possible.â
Dershowitz further stated Mueller is ânot going to be satisfied until he gets to the president or people very close to him . Thatâs the danger of a special prosecutor.â
Dershowitz also stated the tactic of finding someone to prosecute in order to get them to talk is âdangerousâ because people will âcomposeâ and make things up to get a better deal. He continued âLook if an ordinary person walked over to somebody and said âUnless you give up your rights Iâm going to have you criminally prosecuted â weâd call that extortion. But itâs allowed by prosecutors. And Iâve been railing against this for 53 years. now Republicans agree with me. ⦠Which side are you on has become so important.â
| Output: Alan Dershowitz
| 2 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Part 1. Definition
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Part 2. Example
At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Answer: Raheem Morris
Explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Part 3. Exercise
South Africa's former police chief and ex-president of Interpol Jackie Selebi was convicted Friday of corruption for accepting bribes from organised crime.
Selebi had denied the charges against him which he said were part of a broader political conspiracy that reached to the top levels of government.
The trial laid out his startling links with the criminal underworld in particular with convicted drug smuggler Glenn Agliotti who was accused of giving him cash and luxury gifts.
Selebi was accused of taking bribes from Agliotti totalling more than 1.2 million rand (166 000 dollars 122 000 euros) between 2000 and 2005.
What finally emerged was a picture of Agliotti who was also accused in the murder of a local mining magnate indulging Selebi's fondness for designer clothing which the police chief rewarded by feeding Agliotti inside information.
While in office Selebi acknowledged his friendship with Agliotti saying "Glenn Agliotti is my friend finish and klaar (end of story)."
It was Agliotti's drugs conviction that lifted the lid on Selebi's activities sparking a lengthy investigation into his life.
His first arrest warrant was issued in September 2007 but he was not charged reportedly due to protection by then-president Thabo Mbeki.
On January 11 2008 he was charged with corruption and defeating the ends of justice due to his friendship with Agliotti.
Answer: | Jackie Selebi | 7 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Output: Raheem Morris
Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
New input case for you: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev after his meetings with Hu also underscored the importance of coordinated regional measures to combat the global crisis.
"Of course today our attention is centred on those measures necessary to prevent or minimise the negative influences of the global financial crisis which of course have an effect on our bilateral ties " Medvedev said.
"The main goal is not only to preserve the relations existing between our states but to give them a new impulse " he added.
Medvedev hailed Hu's visit as "friendly and constructive " adding these were qualities "that characterise relations between our two countries."
The Chinese president ended his talks with the Russian for "Thank You".
Medvedev and Putin did not mention these figures instead citing bilateral trade with China worth over 55 billion dollars in 2008.
China and Russia also agreed to boost the use of their domestic currencies in trade Medvedev added as Moscow seeks to lessen the global dominance of the US dollar.
"Another very important task -- which today has become very timely -- is the question of using national currencies in mutual payments " he said. "We agreed to take additional measures in this direction."
Output: | Dmitry Medvedev | 1 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Part 1. Definition
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Part 2. Example
At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Answer: Raheem Morris
Explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Part 3. Exercise
On Tuesdayâs broadcast of the Fox News Channelâs âAmericaâs Newsroom â Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz stated Special Counsel Robert Mueller is âvery zealous.â He later added that Mueller wonât be content until he gets to President Trump or those âvery closeâ to him and this is the danger of special prosecutors.
Dershowitz said that both parties are guilty of arguing that everything they disagree with is criminal and this behavior started with Republicans during the campaign with Hillary Clinton and then continued by Democrats.
Dershowitz then recalled his experience with Mueller. He stated that he talked to Mueller about prosecutorial and FBI misconduct and Mueller stated âItâs a non-starter to talk to me about FBI misconduct or prosecutorial misconduct. Itâs a non-starter. He doesnât want to hear about that. He is in the business of protecting the FBI protecting prosecutors at all costs. I donât suggest he âs unethical but he âs very zealous.â
He added that this makes Mueller âeffective at his job but the job of a prosecutor is to do justice not to get as many notches on his belt as possible.â
Dershowitz further stated Mueller is ânot going to be satisfied until he gets to the president or people very close to him . Thatâs the danger of a special prosecutor.â
Dershowitz also stated the tactic of finding someone to prosecute in order to get them to talk is âdangerousâ because people will âcomposeâ and make things up to get a better deal. He continued âLook if an ordinary person walked over to somebody and said âUnless you give up your rights Iâm going to have you criminally prosecuted â weâd call that extortion. But itâs allowed by prosecutors. And Iâve been railing against this for 53 years. now Republicans agree with me. ⦠Which side are you on has become so important.â
Answer: | Alan Dershowitz | 7 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Teacher: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Solution: Raheem Morris
Reason: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Now, solve this instance: "Mitt Romney .
Student: | Mitt Romney | 2 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
instruction:
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
question:
Taylor Swiftâs lawyers are trying to shake off claims that the âShake It Offâ singer stole lyrics with a new court motion.
Swift was sued in September by songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler who created the song âPlayas Gonâ Playâ for the girl group 3LW in 2001. The duo claimed that Swift stole their lyrics and used them in her famous hit single âShake It Off.â
On Wednesday the singerâs lawyers asked the federal judge to dismiss the copyright lawsuit against Swift and argued that the concepts of players playing and haters hating are common music phrases and âpublic domain clichésâ that canât be claimed as copyright according to Variety.
Swift used the familiar phrase in the chorus of her song which says âPlayers gonna play play play play play and haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate.â
âThere can be no copyright protection in âplayas they gonna play and haters they gonna hate â because it would impermissibly monopolize the idea that players will play and haters will hate â Swift âs lawyers said. âPlaintiffsâ claim to being the only ones in the world who can refer to players playing and haters hating is frivolous⦠Providing a copyright monopoly in the phrase would prevent others from sharing the idea that players play and haters hate.â
To further prove their argument Swift âs legal team went on to cite other examples of famous songs that use the âplayerâ and âhaterâ phrase such as âDreamsâ by Fleetwood Mac in which the song says âPlayers only love you when theyâre playing â and âPlaya Hater â by the Notorious B.I.G. where the phrase âplaya playa haterâ is used as the part of the songâs chorus.
answer:
Taylor Swift
question:
Interested in Game of Thrones? Add Game of Thrones as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Game of Thrones news video and analysis from ABC News. Add Interest
Behzad Mesri was charged in a seven-count indictment with computer fraud wire fraud and other crimes. He is believed to be in Iran and likely beyond the reach of American authorities but federal prosecutors and the FBI scheduled a lunchtime news conference to discuss the case.
Bill Sweeney assistant director in charge of the FBI's New York field office said that Mesri "lurked in the alleyways of the Internet identified the vulnerabilities of his victim and pickpocketed their information from thousands of miles away. After he had successfully identified their proprietary secrets he held their future for ransom. Today's charges show that international cybercriminals are never beyond the reach of U.S. laws."
Mesri was a self-professed expert in computer hacking court records said. He had worked previously âon behalf of the Iranian militaryâ to hack military systems nuclear software systems and Israeli infrastructure.
He was known online as Skote Vahshat a hacker pseudonym federal prosecutors said Mesri used to deface hundreds of websites in the United States and elsewhere around the world.
answer:
Behzad Mesri
question:
Greg Zanis first heard the news about the Las Vegas shooting when an employee from ArchAngels Biorecovery showed up at his door around 7:30 Monday morning with a check from the Aurora clean-up company for $1 200.
The donation was gas money for Zanis so he could take a pick-up truck filled with crosses to Las Vegas where at least 59 people have been killed and more than 500 wounded after a gunman opened fire at an outdoor Jason Aldean concert on Sunday evening.
"At first when he told me what happened I didn't believe him " said Zanis of his early-morning visitor. "And then I just cried."
It wasn't long before the phone calls started coming in to his home on Church Road. From the media of course. And more importantly from the mayor's office in Las Vegas asking Zanis to bring his unique anti-violence crusade to the desert city that has become the latest — and sadly the largest — mass murder site in this country.
Zanis is hoping that by Wednesday morning — after he 's received the identities and photos of the victims and attached them to the crosses — he will be ready to head to Vegas where the crosses will be planted on Sunday. Zanis says he 's already made a trip to the local pantry to get the food he will need for the trip. Money is tight as always but having made more than 20 000 crosses since this crusade began 20 years ago — all of them chronicled in more than 77 notebooks Haas noted — the retired carpenter always finds a way to create the white crosses and get them to their destinations.
answer:
| Greg Zanis
| 9 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example Input: The statement said the couple will live in Nottingham Cottage at Kensington Palace. Harry and Markle âs upcoming wedding will be the first grand royal wedding since Prince William and Kate Middleton got married in 2011.
William and Kate who is expecting her third child said in a statement they are excited for the couple adding that âit has been wonderful getting to know Meghan and to see how happy she and Harry are together."
Markle best known for her role as an ambitious paralegal in the hit U.S. legal drama "Suits " surprised many when she shared her feelings for Harry in a September cover story for Vanity Fair. Asked about the media frenzy surrounding their courtship the 36-year-old said: "At the end of the day I think it's really simple ... we're two people who are really happy and in love."
Describing Harry as her "boyfriend " Markle said that while she expected that she and Harry would have to "come forward" about their relationship at some point the two were just a couple enjoying time spent with each other.
"Personally I love a great love story " she said.
Markle 's Vanity Fair interview broke new ground. It is unusual for a royal love interest to speak so publicly -- and candidly -- before becoming engaged. Harry's past reported girlfriends all shied away from the media limelight and his sister-in-law formerly known as Kate Middleton stayed silent until she and Prince William gave a formal televised interview at Buckingham Palace after their engagement became public.
But then unlike some other "commoners" romantically linked to Britain's royals Markle is no stranger to media exposure and the world of show business.
The actress's most successful role is the feisty Rachel Zane in the TV legal show "Suits " now in its seventh season. Her career has included small parts on TV series including "Fringe " "CSI: Miami " "Knight Rider" and "Castle " as well as movies such as "Horrible Bosses." Outside of acting Markle founded a lifestyle blog called TheTig.com (which closed down in April without explanation) and has lent her celebrity status to humanitarian causes.
She has campaigned with the United Nations on gender equality written in Time magazine about girls' education and the stigma surrounding menstruation and has traveled to Rwanda as global ambassador for the charity World Vision Canada. She has described how her mother took her to the slums of Jamaica to witness poverty first-hand saying experiences like that shaped her social consciousness and charity work.
To some degree that mirrors the experience of Harry who was also inspired by his mother's humanitarian work and embraced the types of charities Diana favored in the final years of her life before her 1997 death in a Paris car crash.
Harry and Markle held hands for their first official appearance together in September in Toronto at the Invictus Games a sporting event for wounded service personnel that Harry spearheaded.
Both were dressed casually in jeans smiling and chatting as they arrived for a tennis match. Several days later Harry was photographed kissing Markle on the cheek as he joined the actress and her mother in a luxury box to watch the event's closing ceremony.
Markle said she met Harry through friends in London in July 2016 and that they had been dating quietly for several months before the romance hit the headlines.
Some tabloids had alluded to Markle 's mixed-race heritage pointing out she has an African-American mother and a white father.
Markle herself has spoken out about coming to terms with being biracial -- both growing up and in her Hollywood career.
In a March interview with Allure magazine she said studying race at college was "the first time I could put a name to feeling too light in the black community and too mixed in the white community.
Example Output: Meghan Markled
Example Input: In a recent New York Times article Dr. Willie Parker says he believes “that as an abortion provider [he is] doing God’s work.” It’s his Christian faith the author contends that drives him to abort babies. His “Life’s Work” (as his new book is ironically titled) is to end life for every preborn child that comes before him.
The Jewish people some of whom later became the first Christians were to avoid partaking in the practices of the surrounding peoples who sacrificed their children to appease their gods. Christians have long held that to abort one’s child as an act of worship to the gods of convenience is not permitted by the God of the Bible. But abortion advocates will attempt to play the “he’s a Christian” card by spinning opposition from Christians to imply Parker is persecuted within his own faith tradition.
The second thing abortion elites love about Parker is his skin color. Any opposition he faces from white pro-lifers not associated with Christianity can be easily dismissed as bigotry. Sweep under the rug for a minute that even black celebrities are accusing abortion providers in black communities of genocide. While Planned Parenthood’s media arm proclaims support of black lives its other arm is reaching for a pair of forceps to end life for hundreds of black babies each day.
In the tradition of the black slave owners in the Confederate South Parker makes his money by breaking the backs (or spines and what-have-you) of others many of whom share his skin color. He can’t admit that his work (some have called it his “ministry”) hurts his own people or it’d affect his bottom line. Abortion advocates want us all to simply accept that black lives only matter once they’ve had the privilege of being born. This brings us to the final contradiction of Parker ’s platform.
Parker considers himself a feminist. He believes he is bettering the future for females. Don’t think too long about the number of female lives he ’s ended before they’ve begun. This is nothing new to the insane logic of abortion advocacy. If they can successfully shift our attention off the rights of the life inside the womb to the perceived “rights” the pregnant woman has over her inhabited womb they’ve succeeded.
Parker ’s public persona is a farce. He parades the myth that he has a moral responsibility to “help women” while he strips them of their own responsibility to the children they’ve conceived. Christianity places value upon the lives of black women so much so that it envisions a world in which their lives aren’t ended in the womb. But maybe we’re the ones who are deceiving pregnant women? Perhaps we’re the ones getting rich by volunteering with crisis pregnancy centers and giving away free pregnancy tests ultrasounds and diapers.
Example Output: Willie Parker
Example Input: "Mitt Romney .
Example Output: | Mitt Romney
| 3 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Example solution: Raheem Morris
Example explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Problem: Equifax/Youtube Former CEO of Equifax Richard Smith
Congress pounced on Richard Smith the former CEO of Equifax just minutes into his hearing before the House Energy Committee Tuesday.
Last week Smith stepped
down from Equifax the consumer-data giant targeted in a hack that exposed the personal data of nearly half the US population. He was answering questions from a congressional panel on Tuesday.
Committee members have asked about the companyâs failure to fix software vulnerabilities as well as chief legal officer John Kelley (who is still employed at the company) and his role as head of security and what Smith knew when he was first notified of the breach in late July.
âYouâre just required to notify everybody and say âSo sorry so sad 'â he said. âWe can have this hearing every year from now on if we donât do anything to change the current system.â
âIt would seem to me that you might pay a little more attention if you had to pay everybody whose account got hacked a couple thousand bucks or something â he added.
| Solution: Richard Smith | 5 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
--------
Question: My name is Graham Weinschenk and I am a Democrat. Among other things I believe in a womanâs right to choose that diversity strengthens us that love will always win and that protecting the environment is a necessity. These are not things that âDemocraticâ Congressional candidate Sergio Coppola (6th CD) believes in.
There are a number of problems with the âIssuesâ page of Cappolaâs website. First he fails to actually take a position on most of the issues listed. He walks a fine line of attempting to take both sides of most issues. In the process of doing this he reveals some pretty outrageous things which are enumerated below:
Coppola Does Not Support Common Sense Gun Control
Coppola âs position here is incredibly unclear. He argues that guns are essential for âthe ability to form a militiaâ and that âaccess to guns is a constitutional right for self-protectionâ. However he does support regulations that would prevent the mentally ill from buying guns. But that seems to be where he draws the line. Coppola then makes a non-specific statement that gun holders need to face more accountability. What does that mean?
Coppola is Both Pro-Life and Pro-Choice?
This one is one of the strangest because Coppola seems to make both arguments here. He says that he âbelieves all life is importantâ and that he â[does] not support abortion as a method of birth controlâ. Then he does an immediate 360 and says that he believes âthat a woman has a right to decide what should happen to her bodyâ. Which is it?
Coppola Doesnât Understand Being LGBT
Although Coppola does say that he is against limiting access to government programs and benefits based on sexual orientation he also says that a personâs sexual orientation is a DECISION. Itâs 2017. Really.
Coppola Believes that America Was Created Based on Christian Principles
Again there are some positives and negatives here. He believes that our laws should be further separated from religion yet he also believes that America was founded based on âChristian principlesâ. This is just factually incorrect. The principal behind both of these are very different.
Coppola Is All Over the Place on Immigration
This one just really doesnât make sense. First he says that immigration is key to American culture. Then he says that immigrants must âassimilateâ to American culture.
Coppola Wants a Flat Tax
Again Coppola got this right out of The Heritage Foundation. Having a flat tax is extremely regressive and would do absolutely nothing for the struggling working class. He claims that he wants a flat tax of 23% and he says that this would lead to everyone paying their âfair share.â Really? 23% for someone making $30 000 a year is a lot different than someone making $300 000 a year or $3 000 000 a year.
Coppola Is an Isolationist
Coppola apparently has an issue with the amount of money that the United States spends overseas on goodwill projects and development (a tiny percentage of the budget by the way with most of the money coming back to the U.S. in military sales purchases of American goods and services etc.). In other words Coppola would rather see the US isolate itself than operate as the leader of the free world. We canât afford to take a step back from our spot on the world stage. I must add that Coppola also supports cutting military spending.
Answer: Sergio Coppola
Question: The draft plan -- put together by a task force of EU finance ministers EU President Herman Van Rompuy and ECB chief Jean-Claude Trichet -- was published Thursday.
Crucially it includes a disclaimer that Trichet "does not subscribe to all elements" of the proposed economic governance package.
ECB chief Jean-Claude Trichet -- was published Thursday.
Crucially it includes a disclaimer that Trichet "does not subscribe to all elements" of the proposed economic governance package.
An ECB spokesman declined to say what parts Trichet does not endorse.
Answer: Jean-Claude Trichet
Question: CLOSE First lady Melania Trump has opted for a more traditional decor for her family's first Christmas in the White House adding a few new touches to the standards. (Nov. 27) AP
First lady Melania Trump stands in the Grand Foyer as she tours Christmas decorations at the White House Nov. 27 2017. (Photo: SAUL LOEB AFP/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON â First lady Melania Trump has opted for a more traditional decor for her family's first Christmas in the White House adding a few new touches to the standards.
The family Christmas card is framed and on display. "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year " says the card signed by President Donald Trump the first lady and Barron their 11-year-old son.
Melania Trump hugs children in the East Room as she tours Christmas decorations at the White House. (Photo: SAUL LOEB AFP/Getty Images)
The first lady's office previewed the decorations for journalists on Monday after more than 150 volunteers from 29 states spent 1 600 hours during the long holiday weekend decking the White House halls. Mrs. Trump has also invited children and students from a nearby military base to come see the decorations and work on holiday arts and crafts.
The White House said she personally chose every detail of the decor. She did a final check late Sunday after returning from the family's Thanksgiving at their home in Palm Beach Fla.
Melania Trump participates in arts and crafts projects with children and students from Joint Base Andrews in various rooms throughout the White House. (Photo: OLIVIER DOULIERY / POOL EPA-EFE)
Answer: | Melania Trump
| 7 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Sep 26 2017; Jersey City NJ USA; U.S. Team assistant captain Tiger Woods during The Presidents Cup golf tournament at Liberty National Golf Course. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports
JERSEY CITY New Jersey (Reuters) - Tiger Woods said he was âoptimisticâ about his golfing future while at the same time publicly acknowledging what has been obvious for some time that he might never return to competitive golf.
The American former world number one won the last of his 14 major titles in 2008 and the 41-year-old has only played six competitive rounds in the past two years while trying to recover from multiple back surgeries.
âYeah definitely. I donât know what my future holds for me â he said on Wednesday on the eve of the Presidents Cup when asked whether there was a scenario that would not allow him to compete again.
âI donât know what 100 percent (healthy) means after eight surgeries but Iâll try and get as close as I can to that number â Woods added.
Woods was peppered with questions during a news conference with his three assistant Presidents Cup captains and the four International assistants who often looked bored at the focus stayed on the second most prolific major champion of all time.
Sep 26 2017; Jersey City NJ USA; U.S. Team assistant captain Tiger Woods during The Presidents Cup golf tournament at Liberty National Golf Course. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports
Woods seemed destined to become the most prolific major winner of all time when he won the 2008 U.S. Open moving within four titles of the record of 18 held by Jack Nicklaus.
Tiger Woods
Fannie and Freddie buy mortgages and package them into securities with a guarantee against default.
Fannie and Freddie have a legal right to return bad loans especially if they later discover fraudulent statements on applications. Any money they recover offsets their losses.
A bigger headache for lawmakers is figuring out what to do with Fannie and Freddie in the future.
The Obama administration is working on a plan to restructure the mortgage market and make sure home loans are affordable. Officials don't plan to release details until next year. But Michael Barr an assistant Treasury secretary told the panel Wednesday that Fannie and Freddie "will not exist in the same form as they did in the past."
Republicans have seized on the administration's management of Fannie and Freddie to illustrate Democrats' push for broadening the reach of the federal government. They say loans acquired by Fannie and Freddie since the September 2008 takeover have put taxpayers at risk.
But Democrats and regulators say the loans acquired by Fannie and Freddie before their takeover represent the overwhelming majority of the companies' losses. New loans acquired since then have been performing well they note.
"There is no urgency " to reform the two companies said Rep. Barney Frank the committee's chairman. "The pattern of abuse they had engaged in has been changed...Fannie and Freddie are behaving differently and are causing far less problems."
Freddie Freddie
Equifax/Youtube Former CEO of Equifax Richard Smith
Congress pounced on Richard Smith the former CEO of Equifax just minutes into his hearing before the House Energy Committee Tuesday.
Last week Smith stepped
down from Equifax the consumer-data giant targeted in a hack that exposed the personal data of nearly half the US population. He was answering questions from a congressional panel on Tuesday.
Committee members have asked about the companyâs failure to fix software vulnerabilities as well as chief legal officer John Kelley (who is still employed at the company) and his role as head of security and what Smith knew when he was first notified of the breach in late July.
âYouâre just required to notify everybody and say âSo sorry so sad 'â he said. âWe can have this hearing every year from now on if we donât do anything to change the current system.â
âIt would seem to me that you might pay a little more attention if you had to pay everybody whose account got hacked a couple thousand bucks or something â he added.
| Richard Smith
| 0 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Part 1. Definition
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Part 2. Example
At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Answer: Raheem Morris
Explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Part 3. Exercise
President Ma pays respects to deceased village administrator
President Ma Ying-jeou paid his respects Thursday to a deceased village administrator who slipped to his death during a daring effort to save his village in Yunlin County on a night when Typhoon Morakot was raging.
Praising Miu's efforts as heroic Ma said Miu showed great courage in the face of danger and was a national role model.
Ma said he will see to it that Miu's family receives good condolence compensation from the government.
Answer: | Ma Ying-jeou | 7 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example input: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Example output: Raheem Morris
Example explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Q: Billions of years ago Mars was likely much wetter than it is today. The ice has a series of layers says Colin Dundas a planetary geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey and the paper's lead author. Those newly detected layers suggest that the ice was laid down over a period of time through a process that happened repeatedly.
"Something caused it to be deposited and then deposited again " says Dundas . That thing was likely snowfall Dundas says which was eventually compacted into these deposits. The snowfall could have happened as recently as tens of millions of years ago he says.
The scientists think the exposed ice is not stable at the relatively warm surface temperatures. Dundas says ice at the surface is transforming from solid into vapor causing the slopes to collapse and become further exposed.
There have also been significant questions about how pure Mars ice is. But Dundas says that "at these locations its quite a thick ice sheet of rather clean ice."
A: | Colin Dundas | 3 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
One example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Solution is here: Raheem Morris
Explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Now, solve this: The flying taxi developed by German drone firm Volocopter resembles a small two-seater helicopter cabin topped by a wide hoop studded with 18 propellers.
It was unmanned for its maiden test run in a ceremony arranged for Dubai Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed.
Volocopter is in a race with more than a dozen well-funded European and U.S. firms each with its own science fiction-inspired vision for creating a new form of urban transport that is a cross between a driverless electric car and a short-haul vertical takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
“Implementation would see you using your smartphone having an app and ordering a Volocopter to the next voloport near you. The volocopter would come and autonomously pick you up and take you to your destination ” CEO Florian Reuter said.
Solution: | Volocopter | 6 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Ex Input:
Staffer Daniel Ellsberg (Matthew Rhys) registers this disconnect and leaks a top-secret government report on the war to the New York Times. And whenever the Times gets a scoop Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) gets riled.
Bradlee 's ambitions were not modest however. He just needed time. And now suddenly when the Post also got their own copy of the report he had it.
The film isn't Spielberg's subtlest but it has some nicely subtle touches like when his long-lens camera peers through White House windows to catch glimpses of a president and his henchmen; we hear their actual voices from tapes Nixon was forced to give up years later.
Tom Hanks makes for a blustery Ben Bradlee and Meryl Streep plays Kay Graham as hesitant but steely seemingly the only woman in the corridors of power â and ironically the one with the power to defend the First Amendment. Bradlee can talk principle all he wants â and he does here often â but only Graham can publish.
MONDELLO: Staffer Daniel Ellsberg registers how this doesn't jibe with what McNamara was saying on the plane or with a secret government report he has access to. When he leaks that report The New York Times gets a huge scoop and Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee...
TOM HANKS: (As Ben Bradlee ) Is anybody else tired of reading the news instead of reporting it?
HANKS: (As Ben Bradlee ) We are sucking hind tit in our own backyard.
HANKS: (As Ben Bradlee ) No it's 7 000 pages detailing how the White House has been lying about the Vietnam war for 30 years. It's Truman and Eisenhower and Jack. LBJ lying - lying about Vietnam. And you think that's one story. Let's do our jobs. Find those pages.
MONDELLO: Bradlee 's ambitions were not modest however. He just needed time and suddenly he had it.
HANKS: (As Ben Bradlee) I'd give my left one to be in this mess.
HANKS: (As Ben Bradlee ) Whoa.
MONDELLO: Put to the torch - a phrase you don't hear much today in a film where the clatter of typewriters competes with the whoosh of pages sent by pneumatic tube to a press room where molten lead turns them into lines of type. And running the show - Tom Hanks as a blustery Ben Bradlee and Meryl Streep...
MONDELLO: ...As a hesitant but steely Katharine Graham seemingly the only woman in the corridors of power and ironically the one with the power to defend the First Amendment. Bradlee can talk principle all he wants.
HANKS: (As Ben Bradlee) If we don't hold them accountable I mean my God who will?
Ex Output:
Ben Bradlee
Ex Input:
SINGAPORE/BANGKOK (Reuters) - When diaper maker DSG International (Thailand) wants to know what its customers are thinking it often turns to Lazada an e-commerce firm majority-owned by Alibaba Group Holding (BABA.N).
FILE PHOTO: The Singapore Lazada website is seen in this illustration photo June 20 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White/Illustration/File Photo
âData from Lazada has been used to position certain products where consumer preferences are different. For example Thai customers like to buy diapers in special cartons while Malaysians prefer multiple packs â says Chan.
To reach more customers and get a better handle on their online behavior consumer goods companies are forging partnerships with e-commerce firms like Lazada and fashion website Zalora.
The conglomerate which works with the likes of Singapore online grocer RedMart Indonesiaâs Blibli and Vietnamâs Tiki said it introduced its St Ives skincare brand on Lazada after seeing a trend towards natural products and shopper search data.
âTraditional retailers will struggle to see customer behavior â said Lazada Thailandâs CEO Alessandro Piscini. âWe can tell if a customer is pregnant from their search behavior.â
Lazada he said plans to use data science to help its merchants customize offers for specific customer groups based on age gender and other preferences.
Lazada and Zalora are among the few e-commerce platforms that operate in multiple Southeast Asian countries. But the region is becoming a new battleground as Amazon (AMZN.O) and JD.com (JD.O) make beachheads in Singapore and Thailand.
Lazada Thailand will focus on partnering with fast-moving consumer goods companies to maintain its lead Piscini said and is expanding its logistics footprint across a region that has poor roads clogged cities and thousands of often remote islands.
Thailandâs top consumer goods manufacturer Saha Group (SPI.BK) (SPC.BK) has seen online sales of some of its brands rise tenfold since it began a partnership with Lazada in June but online still represents just 1-2 percent of total sales.
Ex Output:
Lazada
Ex Input:
Shaka Senghor attends the Tribeca TV Festival series premiere of "Released" at Cinepolis Chelsea in September. (Photo: Nicholas Hunt Getty Images for Tribeca TV Festival)
New York Times bestselling author Shaka Senghor remembers his first night in prison.
It was fall. And it was cold. The windows were busted. Two scruffy wool blankets covered a three-inch plastic mattress. He had to use both blankets â one to cover his feet the other for his upper torso. But it was so cold Senghor eventually got up and put one of the blankets in the broken window. As he looked out he saw a couple of young men his age playing around a garbage can. He envied their freedom.
âIt just was ... dark and lonely sitting in that cell and realizing that this was the next however many years of my life if not the rest of my life â says Senghor author of Writing My Wrongs: Life Death and Redemption in an American Prison.
Senghor who was sentenced to 17 to 40 years for second-degree murder served 19 years in prison spending seven years in solitary confinement. He was released from prison on June 22 2010. He walked in at the age of 19 and didn't walk out until he was 38.
Senghor is now 45 and the past seven years have been a mixed bag. It was hard to find a job. For a couple of years he said his job applications were dismissed almost immediately because of his felony conviction.
As difficult as starting over was for Senghor he had it better than others. He lived in Michigan a state with one of the lowest employment restrictions for former felons in the country â 94. The state with the highest number Louisiana has 389 employment restrictions. Nationwide 6 392 of the 48 000 restrictions on former felons are on employment.
Beyond employment challenges strict rules regarding parole and probation make successful re-entry challenging for men says Senghor . Any encounter with police he notes can get an inmate sent back to prison. As an African American man returning to a low-income neighborhood itâs difficult to avoid law enforcement Senghor points out. Something as small as jaywalking can get black men detained in communities where stop-and-frisk measures are disproportionately employed.
And Senghor remembers growing up in such a community in Detroit. At 17 he was shot while standing on a street corner. And he developed a paranoia that turned into hyper-violence he explained during a TED talk.
That defensive posture â is what caused him to pick up a gun and what eventually led to his arrest and incarceration.
It took a long time for Senghor to drop that way of thinking. And some men never do as they rack up more serious criminal infractions and technical violations while they are on parole.
âWe should be figuring out waysâ¦to do away with a lot of these technical parole violations which aren't crimes " Senghor says "but you're punishing the person as if they've committed a new crime and you're creating the stigma that anybody who's going back just can't get it together when in reality a technical violation really isn't something worthy of a person being incarcerated for.â
Senghor is working on that issue as the director of strategy and innovation for #cut50 an organization co-founded by Van Jones that works on criminal justice reform policies including re-entry initiatives and reducing the restrictive nature of probation and parole. He is also an executive producer of the show âReleased â on the OWN network. It shows the challenges of people recently released from prison.
Senghor describes Americaâs justice system as âdysfunctional broken outdated and not designed to foster rehabilitation efforts or to keep communities safe.â He says systemic racism a failed mental health system poverty drug addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder contributes to mass incarceration more than anything else.
âWe have a system that fails " Senghor says. "And we still dump money into the system to further support the things that are proven not to work.â
Ex Output:
| Shaka Senghor
| 1 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Example solution: Raheem Morris
Example explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Problem: "The conventional approach to developing flu vaccines today is one in which we perform surveillance worldwide " said David Topham director of the New York Influenza Center of Excellence and professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester in New York.
"We collect the viruses that are circulating in people " said Topham who was not involved in the new study . Those viruses then typically are studied in ferrets he said.
"We create an antigenic map of each virus and determine how similar or different that is than the (current) vaccine strain and if it's different enough from the vaccine strain then we select that virus to be in next year's vaccine " Topham said. In other words they make their best guess on what strains will be most likely to spread and cause illness based on surveillance data
On the other hand the new study suggests "using high-throughput sequencing methods and genetic engineering to rationally design a virus to use as a vaccine " he said. "I thought it was a very innovative and comprehensive approach."
The new study acted like "rocket science" compared with the conventional approach used to develop flu vaccines he said.
So what does the future hold for flu vaccines and where could this new approach fit in? There has been a shift among researchers around the world to focus on developing universal vaccines Topham said.
"These for influenza would be vaccines that would last for at least five years and protect against 75% of the viruses that are out there " he said. "There are many ways that we might be able to achieve that. This approach that's described in this paper is just one approach."
| Solution: Topham | 5 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
One example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Solution is here: Raheem Morris
Explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Now, solve this: EBMA secretary-general Moreno Fioravanti said Europeans buy some 20 million bicycles per year of which about 10 percent are now e-bikes with the potential to rise to a quarter within five years.
European companies had pioneered the pedal-assist technology that e-bikes use and had invested about 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) last year he said but was risking losing its industry to China.
âToday the European bikes are the best in the world and we have to invest every year to renew the range. The Chinese are getting the money from the government and the subsidies have an impact of 30 40 even 50 percent of the price of the product â Fioravanti said.
âYou have subsidies which generate overcapacity which generate dumping â he said.
Solution: | Moreno Fioravanti | 6 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Premier had announced he was quitting during trip to Riyadh
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri suspended his resignation after the country’s president called for talks on how and why he ended up in Saudi Arabia this month and quit suddenly.
Hariri said he accepted a request from President Michel Aoun to delay his departure temporarily defusing a crisis that’s drawn in regional and global powers and rattled investors. The premier who had said he feared for his life in Lebanon has denied he was pressured by the Saudis to step down. He returned to Beirut late on Tuesday.
Saad Hariri in Beirut on Nov. 22. Photographer: Marwan Tahtah/AFP via Getty Images
Lebanese bonds rallied after Hariri ’s speech with yields on the nation’s Eurobonds due in October 2022 plummeting 42 basis points to 7.18 percent according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Hariri a long-time ally of Saudi Arabia announced he was quitting on an unexpected trip to Riyadh on Nov. 4 accusing Iran and the Hezbollah militant group it backs of destabilizing his country and threatening his safety. He returned after a near-three-week absence that raised concern Lebanon would again be caught in a showdown between the Middle East’s two chief rivals for influence.
Hariri supporters gathered at his home in downtown Beirut in a show of loyalty to the prime minister. They waved blue flags the color of his Future Movement and raised placards that said: “We’re all with you” and “You are our Lebanon.” The crowd chanted “Saad Saad” when he appeared at a window.
“This is an unforgettable moment ” Hariri told them. “We are staying together to be the first line of defense for Lebanon.” He then went down to walk among his supporters shake hands and take selfies.
Earlier on Wednesday Hariri joined Aoun and other top leaders to mark Lebanon’s 74th Independence Day.
SOLUTION: Saad Hariri
PROBLEM: Hope Academy founder Bob Muzikowski was blunt in his assessment of the forfeiture.
âI donât want to judge them but if it were the reverse weâd come to their place no matter what â Muzikowski said. âMaybe weâre not reading the same Bible. Thereâs âdo not fearâ all over it. I said it to both of the heads of (St. Francis and Bishop McNamara) â we had had an opportunity to do something great and they chose not to do it.â
Muzikowski said part of the reason Hope did not want to change venues was because it was impossible to find a neutral site. But mainly he said he doesnât want to set a bad precedent for his students and the neighborhood.
âIf we go down to (Bishop McNamaraâs) place itâs âWhere you live is good where we live is bad â â he said. âMy kids go to Hope. Our Christianity is actually a little radical â we think you should go where itâs bad.â
SOLUTION: Bob Muzikowski
PROBLEM: Billions of years ago Mars was likely much wetter than it is today. The ice has a series of layers says Colin Dundas a planetary geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey and the paper's lead author. Those newly detected layers suggest that the ice was laid down over a period of time through a process that happened repeatedly.
"Something caused it to be deposited and then deposited again " says Dundas . That thing was likely snowfall Dundas says which was eventually compacted into these deposits. The snowfall could have happened as recently as tens of millions of years ago he says.
The scientists think the exposed ice is not stable at the relatively warm surface temperatures. Dundas says ice at the surface is transforming from solid into vapor causing the slopes to collapse and become further exposed.
There have also been significant questions about how pure Mars ice is. But Dundas says that "at these locations its quite a thick ice sheet of rather clean ice."
SOLUTION: | Colin Dundas
| 8 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example input: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Example output: Raheem Morris
Example explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Q: Shaka Senghor attends the Tribeca TV Festival series premiere of "Released" at Cinepolis Chelsea in September. (Photo: Nicholas Hunt Getty Images for Tribeca TV Festival)
New York Times bestselling author Shaka Senghor remembers his first night in prison.
It was fall. And it was cold. The windows were busted. Two scruffy wool blankets covered a three-inch plastic mattress. He had to use both blankets â one to cover his feet the other for his upper torso. But it was so cold Senghor eventually got up and put one of the blankets in the broken window. As he looked out he saw a couple of young men his age playing around a garbage can. He envied their freedom.
âIt just was ... dark and lonely sitting in that cell and realizing that this was the next however many years of my life if not the rest of my life â says Senghor author of Writing My Wrongs: Life Death and Redemption in an American Prison.
Senghor who was sentenced to 17 to 40 years for second-degree murder served 19 years in prison spending seven years in solitary confinement. He was released from prison on June 22 2010. He walked in at the age of 19 and didn't walk out until he was 38.
Senghor is now 45 and the past seven years have been a mixed bag. It was hard to find a job. For a couple of years he said his job applications were dismissed almost immediately because of his felony conviction.
As difficult as starting over was for Senghor he had it better than others. He lived in Michigan a state with one of the lowest employment restrictions for former felons in the country â 94. The state with the highest number Louisiana has 389 employment restrictions. Nationwide 6 392 of the 48 000 restrictions on former felons are on employment.
Beyond employment challenges strict rules regarding parole and probation make successful re-entry challenging for men says Senghor . Any encounter with police he notes can get an inmate sent back to prison. As an African American man returning to a low-income neighborhood itâs difficult to avoid law enforcement Senghor points out. Something as small as jaywalking can get black men detained in communities where stop-and-frisk measures are disproportionately employed.
And Senghor remembers growing up in such a community in Detroit. At 17 he was shot while standing on a street corner. And he developed a paranoia that turned into hyper-violence he explained during a TED talk.
That defensive posture â is what caused him to pick up a gun and what eventually led to his arrest and incarceration.
It took a long time for Senghor to drop that way of thinking. And some men never do as they rack up more serious criminal infractions and technical violations while they are on parole.
âWe should be figuring out waysâ¦to do away with a lot of these technical parole violations which aren't crimes " Senghor says "but you're punishing the person as if they've committed a new crime and you're creating the stigma that anybody who's going back just can't get it together when in reality a technical violation really isn't something worthy of a person being incarcerated for.â
Senghor is working on that issue as the director of strategy and innovation for #cut50 an organization co-founded by Van Jones that works on criminal justice reform policies including re-entry initiatives and reducing the restrictive nature of probation and parole. He is also an executive producer of the show âReleased â on the OWN network. It shows the challenges of people recently released from prison.
Senghor describes Americaâs justice system as âdysfunctional broken outdated and not designed to foster rehabilitation efforts or to keep communities safe.â He says systemic racism a failed mental health system poverty drug addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder contributes to mass incarceration more than anything else.
âWe have a system that fails " Senghor says. "And we still dump money into the system to further support the things that are proven not to work.â
A: | Shaka Senghor | 3 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Consider Input: OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo speaks to the media during his visit in Abuja Nigeria Febuary 27 2017. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - OPECâs Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo on Tuesday called on U.S. shale oil producers to help curtail global oil supply warning extraordinary measures might be needed next year to sustain the rebalanced market in the medium to long term.
âWe urge our friends in the shale basins of North America to take this shared responsibility with all seriousness it deserves as one of the key lessons learnt from the current unique supply-driven cycle â said Barkindo .
âAt the moment we (OPEC and independent U.S. producers) both agreed that we have a shared responsibility in maintaining stability because they are also not insulated from the impact of this downturn â Barkindo said referring to a slide in oil prices that spurred OPEC to agree production cuts late last year.
While OPEC and some other producers including Russia have cut supplies this year in order to prop up prices U.S. production has soared by almost 10 percent this year driven largely by shale drillers. Barkindo said he hoped that new producers not just U.S. shale drillers would join production cuts.
âDemand-supply is returning to rebalance through massive destocking that we have been witnessing of stocks in OECD across regions in a very massive way â Barkindo said later speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the conference.
âIn the past four months alone we have seen destocking to the tune of 130 million bpd â he said.
The aim of the OPEC-led cut is to trim the level of oil in OECD industrialized countries compared with the five-year supply average. Barkindo said the stock overhang to the five-year average stood at 171 million barrels in August against 338 million at the start of the year.
âThe speed and pace (of destocking) has accelerated as a result of anticipated and projected demand growth in the second half of 2017 to the tune of 2 million bpd. We are witnessing a fast return to a balanced market â Barkindo said.
Still on Sunday Barkindo said OPEC and other oil producers might need to take âsome extraordinary measuresâ next year to rebalance the oil market.
World oil demand growth in 2017 is expected at 1.45 million barrels per day (BPD) and it should stay around 1.4 million bpd in 2018 Barkindo said. He said Indiaâs share of global oil demand is expected to rise to over 9 percent by 2040 up from 4 percent now.
Output: Mohammed Barkindo
Input: Consider Input: Bernie Sanders helps celebrate free City College tuition .
With all the fervor of a revival meeting , about 700 people at City College of San Francisco today cheered U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and the supervisor who helped make tuition at the college free to city residents .
I want to use my life to help other people , like Bernie ," Headrick said .
Output: Bernie Sanders
Input: Consider Input: "The conventional approach to developing flu vaccines today is one in which we perform surveillance worldwide " said David Topham director of the New York Influenza Center of Excellence and professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester in New York.
"We collect the viruses that are circulating in people " said Topham who was not involved in the new study . Those viruses then typically are studied in ferrets he said.
"We create an antigenic map of each virus and determine how similar or different that is than the (current) vaccine strain and if it's different enough from the vaccine strain then we select that virus to be in next year's vaccine " Topham said. In other words they make their best guess on what strains will be most likely to spread and cause illness based on surveillance data
On the other hand the new study suggests "using high-throughput sequencing methods and genetic engineering to rationally design a virus to use as a vaccine " he said. "I thought it was a very innovative and comprehensive approach."
The new study acted like "rocket science" compared with the conventional approach used to develop flu vaccines he said.
So what does the future hold for flu vaccines and where could this new approach fit in? There has been a shift among researchers around the world to focus on developing universal vaccines Topham said.
"These for influenza would be vaccines that would last for at least five years and protect against 75% of the viruses that are out there " he said. "There are many ways that we might be able to achieve that. This approach that's described in this paper is just one approach."
| Output: Topham
| 2 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
--------
Question: (CNN) Iraq war veteran Taylor Winston became a hero on the night of the mass shooting in Las Vegas after he used a stranger's truck to rush critically wounded victims to the hospital.
Now Winston has a new truck of his own.
An Arizona car dealership rewarded him Monday with a free customized Ford F-150 in appreciation for his bravery and quick thinking on October 1 when Winston made two trips to the hospital while officials were still scrambling to get ambulances to the concert venue. Winston credited his military training for helping him keep a "cool head."
"It was still quite scary but we just knew they (the victims) had to get to the hospital immediately " Winston told CNN's Anderson Cooper last week. "No ambulances were immediately available. There was far too many casualties for anyone to handle."
B5 Motors would like to give #vegashero Taylor Winston a free truck. Please help us find him . #HelpB5MotorsfindTaylorWinston pic.twitter.com/2dJICGLvyI — B5 Motors (@B5Motors) October 4 2017
Answer: Taylor Winston
Question: Founded out of Huangâs New Jersey garage in 2013 Boxed took off as a digital alternative to stores such as Costco BJâs and Samâs Club offering about 1 600 different bulk goods from paper towels to potato chips. By signing exclusive deals with brands to only carry one of a certain type of item Boxed was able to lock in prices more attractive to the company than those many retailers get allowing the company to shun membership fees and provide free delivery across the continental U.S. on orders of more than $49.
In a previously unpublished interview with Forbes from November Huang said âthe secret was outâ on Boxed increasingly turning to business-to-business sales for its long-term growth. âStaples and Office Depot are challenged these days â he said. âItâs a huge industry and the incumbents are in a weaker position. B2B will be larger than B2C [business-to-consumer] sales.â
Amazon remains the 800-pound gorilla looming over Boxed. âI donât want to deflect away from the fact that yes Amazon is in the space in a big way â Huang said in November. âAmazon is just trying everything everywhere. Anything you use around your daily life theyâll try to get into over the next five or 10 years.â
âTraditional places have more red tape â Rick Zumpano Boxedâ vice president of distribution said during Forbesâ tour. âThe team here is more nimble.â If Huang and Boxed decide to sell they âll need to work to keep it that way under a new regime.
Answer: Huang
Question: What now? Mrs Merkel will meet with Frank-Walter Steinmeier Germanyâs federal president this morning to discuss next steps. Four possible outcomes present themselves. The FDP might be coaxed back to the negotiating table by plausible concessions from the CDU CSU and Greens. But do not count on it. Mr Lindnerâs language was ominously final. And the Greens (seemingly the main target of FDP recrimination) declared that they had reached their âpain thresholdâ and could not budge another centimetre.
The second possibility is a new âgrand coalitionâ marrying the CDU/CSU and the centre-left Social Democrats (SDP) who together have a workable majority in the Bundestag. But the SPD has strenuously ruled out the option. Having lost distinctiveness and votes in partnership with Mrs Merkel its leaders and activists fear another spin with the chancellor could do their party terminal damage. Perhaps just perhaps Mrs Merkel the media and Germanyâs European partners can persuade them to take the risk. But months after its worst election result in post-war German history the SPD will most probably reject the overtures.
In the absence of a viable majority government Mrs Merkel could form a minority one concocting vote-by-vote majorities in the Bundestag. This might combine the CDU/CSU with the FDP its traditional governing partner (together they would be 29 seats short of a majority). But a more natural fit would now be a black-green coalition with the Greens (42 seats short of a majority). Last night each side found generous words for the other and they were as one in their contempt for the FDP. At federal level post-war Germany has witnessed no minority administrations though one ran North-Rhine Westphalia the countryâs largest state from 2010 to 2012. Such governments are alien both to the stable long-termist ways of the German state and to Mrs Merkelâs plodding leadership style. How long one would even last in the current circumstances is unclear.
That leaves the fourth most drastic option: new elections. The route is not as simple as it sounds. Unlike some other European parliaments the Bundestag cannot just dissolve itself (a legacy of Weimar-era instability) and as Mrs Merkel has not yet been reinstalled as chancellor she cannot call a straight confidence vote. Instead Mr Steinmeier must nominate a candidate for the job. If Mrs Merkel (for it would be she ) failed to win an absolute majority in two successive Bundestag votes which can be separated by two weeks she would go to a third vote at which a simple majority would suffice. Only then could Mr Steinmeier dissolve the Bundestag triggering a new election within 60 days.
If possible Germanyâs establishmentâincluding Mrs Merkel and Mr Steinmeierâwill seek to avoid new elections. These could most benefit the far-right Alternative for Germany and would not necessarily rupture the deadlock current polls putting the main parties very close to the results they obtained at the September election. In her comments last night Mrs Merkel emphasised that her party would âtake responsibility for this country even in difficult timesâ. She is determined in other words to make the best of the hand the German people dealt her in September. Precisely how she plans to proceed should become clearer today.
In recent years Germany has been a pillar of stable government in Europe and Mrs Merkel a seemingly permanent feature of the landscape (consider that her international counterparts when she first took office were Jacques Chirac Tony Blair and George W. Bush). Both of those truths are now if not dead then slipping away. The next German government will take months more to emerge and will be distinctly fragile in comparison with its predecessors. The end of the Merkel era has surely begun though whether it has weeks months or a short number of years to run is anyoneâs guess. Last nightâs events confirmed Emmanuel Macron as Europeâs top leader while making the French presidentâs grand plans for euro-zone reformâfor which he needs a confident and outward-looking Germanyâyet harder to achieve. The ripples of Mr Lindnerâs doubtful decision will travel far beyond his countryâs borders.
Answer: | Mrs Merkel
| 7 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Dillon Vatick said he couldn't believe it as he shopped online recently for next year's health plan. Vatick is a computer science student who lives in Jacksonville Florida. He qualified for a monthly subsidy of about $280 and he found a bronze plan with a premium of less than $270.
"My health care is technically free " said Vatick .
"Was it too good to be true?" he said he asked himself when he first saw the numbers. "Sure enough it wasn't."
Vatick said bronze plans aren't for everybody because they come with very high deductibles. But he 's in his 20s and figures he won't be going to the doctor much. He said he had been paying about $80 a month for coverage.
SOLUTION: Dillon Vatick
PROBLEM: Jessie Ware "Glasshouse" (Interscope Records)
No doubt about it Jessie Ware can sing. The London-born singer-songwriter has a versatile voice that can whisper and soar against a musical palette drawing from soul R&B jazz and pop.
The 12 songs in the collection effectively showcase Ware 's range. She can go from a murmur to a scream against a disco bassline in lead single "Midnight." She can croon soulfully on "Thinking About You." She can bathe the listener in a soothing balm on the lush "Stay Awake for Me."
In lyrics partly inspired by the birth of her first child last year Ware reflects on love and loss. It's not exactly Amy Winehouse-level soul baring but it delivers on the seductive bossa nova-tinged "Selfish Love" ("Why do I do these things/I break you down just to get my way?")
Ware is clearly an artist with personality but at times seems overwhelmed by the album's busy production. "Alone" is a catchy ballad honed to within an inch of its life. There's more freedom on "Your Domino " an appealing slice of Eurodisco fun.
The album is most effective when it slows down â as it does on the aptly named "Slow Me Down" and on "Hearts " which lets the emotion in Ware 's voice shine through.
SOLUTION: Jessie Ware
PROBLEM: The new Mario game has some serious film noir vibes. Fans on Twitter have been picking up on the crooked stink of New Donk City since the game came out but the idea seems to have solidified with the brilliant help of the Storied podcast. The podcast goes on a journey with co-hosts Sean Ainsworth Harrison Pink and Chris Rebbert as they transform famous films TV shows and games into other mediums.
Presumably inspired by the recent rumors that an official Super Mario Bros. movie is in the works the hosts pondered the best method for bringing Mario 's pixels onto the silver screen. Sure the happy-go-lucky world of Nintendo might not scream "gritty monochromatic detective drama." But you're clearly just not paying attention (or exploring Photo Mode in Super Mario Odyssey.)
Their proposed script begins with a panning shot over pictures of a smiling Luigi as Mario grieves over the death of his brother and the better half of their Super Mario Bros. P. I. firm. His voiceover is all tough talk while maintaining the trademark cartoonish Italian stereotype we've come to love.
What proceeds is your usual Mario game plot with a damsel in distress who needs the help of a hero to escape a mafia-style boss with tons of goons stalking about town. Bowser a local land baron in the tradition of Chinatown is up to his no-good tricks and is trying to marry her and take all her inheritance money.
If anyone is wondering I've got this frame of Mario Odyssey paused and am currently narrating "Mario P.I." as a film noir series while I have jazz music playing in the background.
In honor of his dead brother Mario goes on a wild-goose chase to rescue his dame.
Some key scenes include: 1) Mario meeting up with Bowser at a country club with Bowser intimidating the detective by totally owning his opponent in Wii Tennis while Mario tries to question him 2) A second femme fatale in the form of Birdo who cannot speak English but gives Mario an egg with a key piece of evidence before she's murdered 3) One (if not several) car chase scenes in which the cars are replaced with Mario go-karts and the tommy guns replaced with Blue Shells.
But like any good noir film the journey ends in deception. As Mario gets deeper into the investigation eventually managing to kill Bowser he learns a sickening truth. The Koopa King and Drug Lord Bowser was actually just small pennies compared to the real boss in charge: Princess Peach who runs the drug operation at the heart of the Mushroom Kingdom. She needed a fall guy. Mario was her guy. Bowser took the fall.
The story closes on Mario as he lays dying and Luigi emerges from the shadows to give the princess a kiss.
SOLUTION: | Mario Odyssey
| 8 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Detailed Instructions: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
See one example below:
Problem: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Solution: Raheem Morris
Explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Problem: San Juan Puerto Rico (CNN) Eyleen Gonzalez lost everything in her home after Hurricane Maria.
She has no running water. No electricity. Barely any cell service to communicate with family. Her house is "destroyed." Her only valuable possession left is her puppy Lena.
But for just a moment on Saturday Gonzalez forgot about life its worries and Puerto Rico's long road ahead.
"Daddy Yankee! Oh my God!" she said beaming with a smile. "It's exciting to see and believe that he's helping the people in Puerto Rico because not everyone has a heart like him."
Eyleen Gonzalez with her stepsister Amathys Santana and her puppy Lena after receiving food from Daddy Yankee in Toa Baja Puerto Rico.
Solution: | Eyleen Gonzalez | 4 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Consider Input: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer took responsibility on Sunday for a tweet about the firing of former national security adviser Michael Flynn a central figure in the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
FILE PHOTO: Lawyer John Dowd exits Manhattan Federal Court in New York U.S. on May 11 2011. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
In an interview with Axios John Dowd said the tweet was “my mistake” and that he drafted the tweet that raised more questions about whether there had been attempts to obstruct the Russia investigation.
“I‘m out of the tweeting business ” Dowd told Axios. “I did not mean to break news.”
Output: John Dowd
Input: Consider Input: Bush owes us an apology .
"If there 's any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists , it 's flawed logic ," Bush said .
Output: George W Bush
Input: Consider Input: It's eight in the morning in New York and 5 000 young girls are hanging out of office-building windows and crammed onto West Fifty-first Street screaming. For conservative midtown Manhattan this is an event. For Ricky Martin it's just another day at the office. This morning it's the Today show where Martin is appearing on Today's live summer-concert series with a performance that ties up traffic for hours.
"Ever since I've known him " says Robi Rosa the co-author of Martin 's smash single "Livin' la Vida Loca" and a former member of Menudo who roomed with Martin when Martin joined the Latin boy band "Ricky has exuded a sense of joy."
Not to mention organization. The twenty-seven-year-old CEO of Ricky Martin Inc. has managed his career in a way that is anything but crazy. Born on Christmas Eve 1971 in Puerto Rico to Nereida Morales and Enrique Martin III Enrique "Kiki" Martin IV started doing TV commercials at seven. At twelve he joined Menudo. After leaving the band at seventeen Martin considered quitting show business. But a role in a Mexico City musical led to soap opera work there and then to a part on General Hospital and a stint on Broadway in Les Misérables in 1996. In 1991 he began releasing a string of four solo albums which sold a total of 15 million copies worldwide.
He did not work alone. "When Ricky called me about 1993 saying he wanted to do a Latin album I was surprised " says Rosa whom Martin calls his "Latin soul" — a bit of a dark one at that. " Ricky and I are as much alike as Julio Iglesias and Sid Vicious " Rosa says with a laugh. A little Sid Vicious is clearly what Martin knew he needed; it was a song Rosa co-wrote "Maria " that broke Martin in Spain and the rest of Europe.
But it wasn't until February that America heard the beat itself. Martin 's hip-popping rendition of "The Cup of Life" at the Grammys brought even that jaded audience to its Manolo Blahnik-shod feet. In May when his first English-language album Ricky Martin was released it shot into the top of the charts at Number One and hasn't left since. Neither has Martin .
I was going to but didn't want it . My brothers and I went for a visit and said "We want Puerto Rico." My father was very important in my life; he was my hero. So even though I loved my mother with all my heart I wasn't going to stop seeing my hero. So my mother gave everything up and came back to Puerto Rico.
That I was someone who was good at hiding feelings — really good. I was an expert. I was like "No I don't want to feel this " and I wouldn't. It was hard for me to say "I love you." I wouldn't dare. I was afraid of rejection. For five years I was trained to be part of a concept not to say what I really felt: "Be yourself but you can't be angry because we have to work. You're not Ricky Martin you're Ricky Menudo." So that year I began to be — accept — myself. I read a lot started painting. My paintings were a little dark. If you did a psychological test you'd say "This guy was depressed." But I was also having a good time because I didn't have to follow an itinerary. If I wanted to be locked in my house for three days without leaving I was [laughs].
| Output: Ricky Martin
| 2 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Output: Raheem Morris
Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
New input case for you: It's eight in the morning in New York and 5 000 young girls are hanging out of office-building windows and crammed onto West Fifty-first Street screaming. For conservative midtown Manhattan this is an event. For Ricky Martin it's just another day at the office. This morning it's the Today show where Martin is appearing on Today's live summer-concert series with a performance that ties up traffic for hours.
"Ever since I've known him " says Robi Rosa the co-author of Martin 's smash single "Livin' la Vida Loca" and a former member of Menudo who roomed with Martin when Martin joined the Latin boy band "Ricky has exuded a sense of joy."
Not to mention organization. The twenty-seven-year-old CEO of Ricky Martin Inc. has managed his career in a way that is anything but crazy. Born on Christmas Eve 1971 in Puerto Rico to Nereida Morales and Enrique Martin III Enrique "Kiki" Martin IV started doing TV commercials at seven. At twelve he joined Menudo. After leaving the band at seventeen Martin considered quitting show business. But a role in a Mexico City musical led to soap opera work there and then to a part on General Hospital and a stint on Broadway in Les Misérables in 1996. In 1991 he began releasing a string of four solo albums which sold a total of 15 million copies worldwide.
He did not work alone. "When Ricky called me about 1993 saying he wanted to do a Latin album I was surprised " says Rosa whom Martin calls his "Latin soul" — a bit of a dark one at that. " Ricky and I are as much alike as Julio Iglesias and Sid Vicious " Rosa says with a laugh. A little Sid Vicious is clearly what Martin knew he needed; it was a song Rosa co-wrote "Maria " that broke Martin in Spain and the rest of Europe.
But it wasn't until February that America heard the beat itself. Martin 's hip-popping rendition of "The Cup of Life" at the Grammys brought even that jaded audience to its Manolo Blahnik-shod feet. In May when his first English-language album Ricky Martin was released it shot into the top of the charts at Number One and hasn't left since. Neither has Martin .
I was going to but didn't want it . My brothers and I went for a visit and said "We want Puerto Rico." My father was very important in my life; he was my hero. So even though I loved my mother with all my heart I wasn't going to stop seeing my hero. So my mother gave everything up and came back to Puerto Rico.
That I was someone who was good at hiding feelings — really good. I was an expert. I was like "No I don't want to feel this " and I wouldn't. It was hard for me to say "I love you." I wouldn't dare. I was afraid of rejection. For five years I was trained to be part of a concept not to say what I really felt: "Be yourself but you can't be angry because we have to work. You're not Ricky Martin you're Ricky Menudo." So that year I began to be — accept — myself. I read a lot started painting. My paintings were a little dark. If you did a psychological test you'd say "This guy was depressed." But I was also having a good time because I didn't have to follow an itinerary. If I wanted to be locked in my house for three days without leaving I was [laughs].
Output: | Ricky Martin | 1 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: FAIRFAX Va. (AP) â Jon Axel Gudmundsson hit four 3-pointers and scored 24 points and Davidson took control early for an 86-59 win over George Mason on Sunday.
Pritchett had the first five points of an early 10-0 spurt that gave Davidson the lead for good 13-8. Grady had five in another 10-0 run that put the lead into double figures at 30-18. Gudmundsson then scored six in a third 10-0 run for a 45-24 lead before Livingston knocked down a 3 at the buzzer. The Wildcats shot 56 percent (18 of 32) and George Mason shot 42 (10 of 24) despite going 6 of 12 behind the arc.
Gudmundsson scored 15 points in the second half and Davidson shot 55 percent (17 of 31) for the easy win.
Davidson players had to Uber to the game after their bus broke down in the hotel parking lot.
SOLUTION: Davidson
PROBLEM: TAMPA Raheem Morris has had less than a week to assess Josh Johnson in his new role as starting quarterback but the Bucs' coach likes everything he has seen from the second-year pro in practice.
"It was great " Morris said. "You want the quarterback to have control of the huddle. You want him to have control of the offense. And he went out there and did that. And it was not a shock.
"He went out there and executed his plays. He was hard on himself. He was conscientious of working the pocket. And he practiced like a pro. That's all you can really ask from anybody."
Johnson began training camp as the fourth-team quarterback but Monday was tapped to replace Byron Leftwich as the starter for Sunday's road game against the Redskins. The work began in earnest after the team's day off Tuesday.
"He had a really great day Wednesday " Morris said. "We came back on Thursday and didn't practice as well as we did Wednesday but he was decent. And (Friday) he cleaned up a lot of things and got a perfect red zone period in there and he fared pretty well. Now it's time to go out to the game and actually play."
SOLUTION: Raheem Morris
PROBLEM: "We've had an inkling that subconcussive hits â the ones that don't [show] neurological signs and symptoms â may be associated with CTE " says Dr. Lee Goldstein an associate professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine and the lead investigator on the study. "We now have solid scientific evidence to say that is so."
"It took us many years to do this " Goldstein says. "We see in our animals â even after a small number of hits even one â very early evidence of pathologies associated with CTE."
And they noted the brain pathology was unrelated to signs of concussion in the mice such as altered arousal and impaired balance. Goldstein says the scientists nailed what they wanted to â strong evidence linking head impact to CTE independent of concussion.
"I want to be very clear on this " Goldstein says. "This is in no way to minimize concussions."
Both Bailes and Goldstein are a big part of that evolution. Right now CTE can only be diagnosed after death but both scientists are working independently of each other on a test intended to detect CTE in living brains. Such a test would help determine how widespread the disease is and beyond that how to develop treatment.
In the meantime Goldstein hopes his study finds applications not just in football but in other sports like soccer and lacrosse where contact and collisions include hits to the head.
And beyond sports Goldstein says hits to the head affect the most vulnerable segments of society. He has a long list.
"Intimate partners who are having repetitive head injuries " he notes " domestic violence victims homeless children at risk people in our prison systems. [With] all of these people we need to take the focus off concussion and find out if they have injured brains."
SOLUTION: | Lee Goldstein
| 8 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example input: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Example output: Raheem Morris
Example explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Q: Eli Wheatley and Christian Guardino are among a growing number of patients whose lives are apparently being saved or radically improved by gene therapy.
Guardino was diagnosed with a different condition â Leber's congenital amaurosis a disease of the eye's retina â when he was born. The disorder isn't fatal. But it was destroying his vision.
"I wouldn't be able to walk around outside on my own " says Guardino . During the day he says the world looked "incredibly dark" and blurry. "It was sort of like watching your world fade away."
Enlarge this image toggle caption Courtesy of Beth Guardino Courtesy of Beth Guardino
Now Guardino can see things he 'd only dreamed about.
After the gene therapy treatment he says "I was able to see things for the first time â like the moon. I was able to see stars for the first time â fireworks â all these amazing things that I've never been able to see before."
A: | Christian Guardino | 3 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Example solution: Raheem Morris
Example explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Problem: At one point during the two-hour premiere of Citizen Rose her new E! docuseries Rose McGowan describes her life as âtrauma on top of trauma on top of trauma.â The series which delves deep into McGowanâs upbringing in a cult and her Hollywood sex symbol status as well as her alleged sexual assault and its aftermath is far more substantial and devastating than standard E! programming.
Citizen Rose takes on a portion of one of the biggest news stories of 2017: the outing of Harvey Weinstein as an alleged serial rapist and sexual abuser. Weinstein whose name and face is obscured in McGowanâs series is one of the many characters on Citizen Rose who has become a household name. And while the series takes pains not to amplify Weinsteinâs infamy it gives over its platforms to some of the heroes of the Weinstein saga. Ronan Farrow the journalist who helped expose Weinstein with his New Yorker reporting appears on Citizen Rose to thank McGowan for coming forward. Itâs one of the many moments in the series that successfully brings audiences behind the scenes of crucial moments in the #MeToo timeline. We learn that McGowan was one of the first women to talk to Farrow as he recalls âWhen I first talked to youâ¦at the end of that interview when I said are there others and you said âI know there are others â I then went out and started calling women.â
Farrow goes on to compare Weinsteinâs decades of alleged abuse and network of spies to a detective novel and McGowan explains the intense loneliness of being called crazy and paranoid for years because nobody believed that the producer was actively attempting to intimidate and silence her. After âtwenty years with everyone saying âyouâre not seeing what youâre seeing ââ Farrowâs reporting finally publicly confirmed what she had been privately alleging in the years since she was assaulted. She concludes âIâm not paranoid itâs reality.â
For McGowan doubts about how her narrative is being consumed are clearly secondary to the joy of being heard after decades of deafening silence. If thereâs one defining emotion in Citizen Roseâa series thatâs really about emotional as they comeâitâs relief. After years and years of being either ignored or misunderstood McGowan is finally being validated and encouraged to share her truth as she sees it. The resulting two hours of truth-telling is probably more sincere than anything E! has ever aired. Itâs almost as if the network canât come to terms with the fact that they have a truly gripping meaningful timely subject on their hands leading them to resort to unnecessary filler materialâinexplicable interludes of interpretive dancing and bright flashing lights.
Still when McGowan speaks itâs well worth the wait. While she insists that she has been attempting to tell her story for years itâs only in recent months that McGowan has become legible. Before she was alternatively seen as a sex symbol or a loose cannon; narratives that McGowan convincingly argues were forced upon her . Citizen Rose is as much about the âopen secretâ of Harvey Weinsteinâs serial sexual abuse as it is about the way that women in Hollywood are deliberately seen but not heard.
Early on in the episode we go through the timeline of McGowanâs assault. She explains that âWhen it happened to me I was in the middle of my second movie for him. I had a 10 a.m. meeting in the restaurant. The maître dâ said heâs not ready yet they want you to go up to his officeâ¦I get up there two male assistants come outâ¦I had an MTV crew following me that morning it was supposed to be Rose McGowan a day in the life. I turn to the cameras right when I was about to go into the hotel and I say âI think my life is finally getting easier.ââ
In a larger conversation about sexual-assault survivors itâs important to point out that McGowan a famous white actress comes from a place of immense privilege. Still the history that she recalls is a painful one from a childhood spent in the Children of God cult to what she calls âthe cult of Hollywood.â McGowan went from being a young star with all of the opportunities in the world to an assault survivor working on a movie for her alleged rapist. Over decades just trying to do her job she was consistently forced to interact with Weinstein and made to remember that he was the one in power. McGowan describes turning on the TV âto see Gwyneth Paltrow giving him humanitarian awards â or going to the movies and seeing his name. âI saw him all the time â she breaks down to her mom in one scene. âI didnât get to be me for 17 yearsâ¦youâre literally trapped in the tiniest town in the world.â
| Solution: Rose McGowan | 5 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Consider Input: James Harden scored a game-high 41 points for the Rockets. (Photo: Isaiah J. Downing USA TODAY Sports)
James Harden had 41 points and eight rebounds Chris Paul scored 23 points and the Rockets beat the Nuggets 119-114 on Sunday night for their 12th straight victory.
Harden had 27 in the first half and seven in the fourth quarter when the Rockets held off a late Denver rally. Harden has scored 40 or more points nine times this season. He finished with seven assists.
"Having a 17-point lead in the fourth quarter we've got to finish games off like that " Harden said. "It was a good thing we finished the game off the right way down the stretch. We got stops when we needed to and we made shots."
That was when Harden took over. He scored 14 points in the last 2:47 of the period and assisted on Houston's other two baskets to end the period when the Rockets extended the lead from five to 13.
Houston led by as many as 18 but Denver rallied in the fourth. Jokic's tip with 2:12 left made it 110-106 and after Joe Johnson missed from the corner Gary Harris had a chance to cut it to a point with a 3-pointer. But the Nuggets' leading scorer who finished with six points on 2-of-12 shooting misfired and Harden hit two more free throws to make it 112-106 with 1:17 left.
DIFFERENT DEFENSE SAME RESULT: The Nuggets lost by 25 and 30 points in Houston earlier this season so they changed how they guarded the Rockets on Sunday by switching more on defense. Harden found himself going against the 7-foot Jokic and 6-11 Mason Plumlee a lot of the night. The new look didn't bother him .
"We've seen a lot of defenses and no matter who they put on James it's a pretty good chance he 's going to score " Trevor Ariza said. "We give him the ball and let him make plays. It's been working out for us."
SIDELINE ASSIST: With Houston ahead 106-99 and 4:51 left Ariza tried to save a ball off Harden 's miss as it went into the crowd but a fan sitting courtside grabbed the ball before he could get to it. Ariza pleaded with the referee that he had a chance to save it and then had a lighthearted exchange with the fan.
Output: James Harden
Input: Consider Input: LONDON (Reuters) - When Comcast (CMCSA.O) boss Brian Roberts was weighing up a $31 billion offer for British broadcaster Sky (SKYB.L) a trip to see Skyâs products in store and the knowledge of the London cab driver that took him there helped to make up his mind.
Chief Executive Roberts said the visit was one of a number of things that confirmed Sky as a âjewelâ that his company should try to acquire as Comcast looks to boost international revenues as growth in the United States slows.
Roberts said he had closely tracked what Sky had been doing for years but last November he had an unexpected reminder of Skyâs influence as Europeanâs biggest pay-TV provider while in a cab with a colleague.
âI suggested that we jump in a taxi and go to one of the malls and get a demo of Sky in one of their shops. And we had a fabulous experience â Roberts told reporters on a call.
Roberts said that while the experience wasnât the deciding factor in moving forward with the bid it reiterated the media groupâs value to the chief executive.
Output: Brian Roberts
Input: Consider Input: Louna Dennis said Friday that her son Matthew McCree "loved everyone."
McCree was fatally stabbed Wednesday at the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation in the Bronx. A second student was wounded and remains hospitalized in critical condition.
Louna Dennis left the mother of Matthew McCree is comforted by a family member as she holds a news conference at her attorney's office Friday Sept. 29 2017 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Fifteen-year-old McCree was stabbed to death in his Bronx high school history class by Abel Cedeno on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Louna Dennis the mother of Matthew McCree holds a news conference at her attorney's office Friday Sept. 29 2017 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Fifteen-year-old McCree was stabbed to death in his Bronx high school history class by Abel Cedeno on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
| Output: Matthew McCree
| 2 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Output: Raheem Morris
Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
New input case for you: SEATTLE (AP) â In the view of Mike Hopkins his first season as the head coach at Washington will be filled basically with freshmen.
That's not to be taken in the literal sense. What Hopkins means is that with a new coaching staff a new style and new expectations even the players that are returning from last year are just like the incoming freshmen.
"I think the biggest thing is we've focused on the day-to-day how we're going to do the process of getting better " Hopkins said. "That's the standard of excellence every day and everybody here is learning a new system. A lot of the players end up being freshmen again because they're learning from our zone to our press to how we're going to play offensively defensively. I think they've made the transition pretty smooth."
After spending 22 seasons as an assistant at Syracuse and being the presumptive replacement for Jim Boeheim when he retired Hopkins left behind everything he knew in upstate New York and accepted the job of rebuilding the Washington program after the Huskies fired Lorenzo Romar following 15 seasons.
Hopkins also had to recruit those who slogged through a 9-22 record a season ago to keep them around. A number considered leaving. Most including starters David Crisp Noah Dickerson and Matisse Thybulle all ended up staying with the chance to create the new foundation for the next chapter at Washington.
"The biggest concern with a new coach is the buy-in there " Hopkins said. "I think from the beginning our staff did a great job of really connecting with the kids working with them developing them getting them to stay that was our first priority. I'm very happy with the guys."
IN THE ZONE: Yes Washington will play zone. Yes it will be the same zone defense that Hopkins helped teach at Syracuse.
Defense was a major problem in the waning years of Romar's tenure. The Huskies' defense was more of a liability that an asset. How Hopkins is able to implement the zone will be important since the Huskies don't have a lot of size on the interior. A year ago Washington allowed 81 points per game 11th in the conference.
"I know the benefits of it. The biggest thing I want to do is control tempo. So if you're fast I can slow you down; if you're slow I can speed you up " Hopkins said.
FINDING SCORING: One of Hopkins ' first tasks will be finding enough scoring. Crisp is Washington's leading returning scorer at 13.8 points per game while Dickerson averaged 12.5 points last season. But the Huskies don't have an obvious scorer on the roster that can carry the load or get points in crucial situations. In recent seasons the Huskies have had Markelle Fultz Andrew Andrews and C.J. Wilcox. Fultz averaged 23.2 points last season while Andrews scored 20.9 per game the season before.
"You try and figure out how you're going to score 70 to 75 points per game and who is going to do it " Hopkins said. "That's been one of the processes."
DIFFICULT BEGINNING: Hopkins certainly isn't shying away from having a challenging schedule to begin his Washington tenure.
Output: | Mike Hopkins | 1 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Q: Stephen Colbert discusses 'Our Cartoon President ' Showtime's new animated series at the Television Critics Association. The late-night host is an executive producer. (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert â who can thank Trump for vaulting him to the top-rated late-night host â is behind Our Cartoon President an animated series due on Showtime Jan. 28. The half-hour series will open by anticipating Trump's first State of the Union address two days later. The show will then settle into its regular time slot Feb. 11 when Homeland also returns.
More: Stephen Colbert to produce 'truish' cartoon series about Trump White House
Stephen Colbert is behind Showtime's animated series 'Our Cartoon President' (Photo: Showtime)
"The show is the interpersonal relationships of people you don't see; the relationships you imagine they have " Colbert told the Television Critics Association Saturday. "What we're trying to capture with this show is how stable his genius is."
A: Stephen Colbert
****
Q: MANILA Philippines -- Human rights groups condemned the Philippine president on Tuesday for saying that troops should shoot female communist rebels in the genitals to render them "useless " which they said could encourage sexual violence and war crimes. The left-wing group Karapatan said President Rodrigo Duterte "has distinguished himself as a frothing-in-the-mouth fascist who incites the worst violations of international humanitarian law."
Duterte 's remarks "are but the latest of the series of this madman's display of tyranny lunacy and machismo " Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said.
In a rambling speech before surrendered communist rebels Duterte spoke about the futility of their decades-old insurgency and how his administration can help them return to normal life.
Duterte asked why even women join the insurgency and abandon their families.
At one point he said without elaborating: "Tell the soldiers. There's a new order coming from the mayor. We won't kill you. We will just shoot your vagina so that ... if there is no vagina it would be useless."
Duterte spoke in the Bisaya dialect. An official transcript of the president's speech issued by the government omitted the word "vagina" and expletives from his remarks.
A longtime mayor of southern Davao city where he built a reputation for his extra-tough approach to criminality and his brash often sex-laden remarks Duterte has acknowledged his rough ways but suggested many Filipinos have come to accept him .
Western governments and human rights watchdogs have expressed alarm over his crackdown on illegal drugs which has left thousands of mostly poor suspects dead. He has lashed out at critics including European governments which he told Monday "to go to hell" for imposing conditions on financial aid.
Duterte said he has told European officials he won't attend an upcoming meeting between Southeast Asian and European leaders.
"They say that I have a bad mouth. It's true. They say that I'm not a statesman not fit for a president and that's true " Duterte said in a speech Monday referring to his critics. "But the problem here is that I won."
Steve Rood a Manila-based political analyst said many Filipinos like Duterte 's unorthodox style and his charm when he talks to them in an intimate way as if his speeches were not being broadcast.
With crime easing and recent public surveys showing satisfaction with Duterte 's administration the president's opponents may do better if they focus on issues such as traffic jams in the capital and rising rice prices he said.
A: Rodrigo Duterte
****
Q: Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (C) speaks during an event related to the Sowing Plan "North Summer 2017" in Araure Venezuela September 27 2017. Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela âs President Nicolas Maduro railed at two of his main international critics on Wednesday chiding Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy for âmeddlingâ and mocking U.S. President Donald Trump for geographical ignorance.
The United States has recently imposed sanctions on Venezuelan officials and Spain is pressing for the European Union to follow suit as international pressure grows on Maduro over his record on human rights and democracy.
âWhy is the global right wing so obsessed with our homeland?â leftist Maduro responded in an address on state TV.
Lampooning âlittle Marianoâ for mispronouncing his name âMaderoâ Maduro said the conservative leader should focus instead on Spainâs internal problems Cataloniaâs independence push and Europeâs problematic relations with Washington.
âForget talking about Venezuela which is a homeland of dignity â Maduro said. âI reject and repudiate Mariano Rajoyâs meddling rude absurd comments against Venezuela.â
Maduro faces global criticism that he has turned Venezuela into a dictatorship with the creation of an all-powerful Constituent Assembly jailing of political opponents and quashing of protests this year in which 125 people died.
Having in recent days labeled Trump a âHitlerâ and âimperial emperorâ supporting violent coup-plotters in Venezuela Maduro took aim this time at the Republicanâs intellect.
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (C) speaks during an event related to the Sowing Plan "North Summer 2017" in Araure Venezuela September 27 2017. Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY
Maduro repeatedly calls opposition leaders pawns of the United States intent on toppling him by force. He says the Constituent Assembly elected in August in a vote boycotted by the opposition and condemned by various foreign powers has brought peace to the nation of 30 million.
A: | Nicolas Maduro
****
| 4 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Ex Input:
Justin Timberlake announced his Man of the Woods Tour the singer's 27-date North American trek in support of his upcoming new LP.
"The outdoors is the inspiration for a lot of these songs. That's the main idea. The tour will be able to bring the outside in. How can we bring that to life?" Timberlake says in the tour's trailer. "I want people to see the inspiration for how it ended up sounding. I've never seen that done before: Bring the outside in."
The Man of the Woods Tour launches just five weeks after Timberlake 's halftime performance at Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis with the first date scheduled for March 13th at Toronto's Air Canada Centre. The leg currently concludes on May 30th with a hometown show at Memphis' FedEx Forum.
General on-sale for the trek begins January 16th at Ticketmaster. Check out Timberlake 's website for full ticket information.
Justin Timberlake Tour Dates
Ex Output:
Justin Timberlake
Ex Input:
Hamlin who said the 2018 games will be her last said receiving the honor from her fellow American athletes has been a bit surreal and she expects she'll be emotional.
"Winning a medal is the effort you put in and the time and the work and sacrifice to succeed and achieve something " Hamlin said. "That's all on me. That's something I've done. Getting this honor is different because its people looking at the work you've put in and acknowledging that. It's my fellow Team USA athletes who gave me this. That means a ton."
"The nerves will be flying for sure " Hamlin said. "I slide that's what I do. Put me at the top of a track; that's my happy place. Walking out in front of a lot of people and even more people watching from home ... that's going to be way more nerve wracking."
Luger Erin Hamlin poses with U.S. flag after it’s announced Team USA athletes picked her to serve as flag-bearer for opening ceremonies. pic.twitter.com/tZFiFgkQsd — Aamer Madhani (@AamerISmad) February 8 2018
She joked that one of her siblings offered sage advice.
Ex Output:
Luger Erin Hamlin
Ex Input:
Dolly Parton's long literacy efforts for children continued Tuesday when the country icon presented her 100 millionth book from her Imagination Library to the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and announced a new partnership.
"I just want to say how honored I am before we pull that little thing off that . . . you have taken this to heart and that you've taken this in and we will now have this book that I can actually have here forever for all the little children all over the world certainly in the United States of America here in D.C. " Parton said as she donated her book "Coat of Many Colors" to the children in attendance.
" Dolly Parton's work through her Imagination Library is awe-inspiring " Hayden said in the Library of Congress statement. "They have counted the number of books given away — 100 million — but there is no way to truly quantify the impact this program has had on developing young readers across America and in other parts of the world.
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library started in 1995 as a book-gifting organization that has mailed 100 million books to children in Australia Canada United Kingdom and the United States according to the Library of Congress.
Ex Output:
| Dolly Parton
| 1 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Teacher: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Solution: Raheem Morris
Reason: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Now, solve this instance: "I believe history will remember him like John Dean " said Italian-born Simona Mangiante referring to the former White House counsel who pleaded guilty to his role in the Watergate coverup and then became a key witness against other aides to President Richard Nixon.
Mangiante said she was advised by Papadopoulos' lawyers not to answer specific questions about his activities during the 2016 presidential campaign or what he has told the FBI.
But she indicated in an interview that she believes he ultimately will emerge as more than a bit player in the Russia probe â and that his decision to cooperate after he was arrested getting off an airplane at Dulles International Airport in July was a key turning point.
Without offering specifics Mangiante said there is much more that has not yet been told publicly about Papadopoulos' 10 months as an informal national security adviser to Trump and his interactions with a London-based professor who told Papadopoulos according to court filings that the Russians had "dirt" on Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
"There's a lot to come " she said. "He was the first one to break a hole on all of this."
She said Papadopoulos was not a "coffee boy " as he was once tagged by former Trump adviser Michael Caputo a nickname she found especially galling. "I know what it means as a young person to do all the efforts you do to build your career and be dismissed as a coffee boy " she said.
Despite restraints placed on her by the terms of Papadopoulos' ongoing cooperation agreement with the special counsel Mangiante said she has been speaking to reporters to defend his reputation and try to explain how the lives of her and the Chicago-born former energy consultant have been upended by the events of the last year.
Mangiante said she has been extensively interviewed by Mueller's team who asked about her own brief stint working for Joseph Mifsud the same London professor who offered to connect the young Trump aide with the Russians.
Mangiante who was born near Naples and trained in law and international relations said she met Mifsud while working with the European Parliament in Brussels.
Mifsud a former Maltese government official who had an affiliation with an Italian university was friendly with the head of the parliament's socialist party and was often at receptions or events she recalled. Eventually Mifsud offered her a job at one of his London organizations.
Mangiante accepted in July 2016 but said she only worked for the group for three months quickly concluding that it was "a facade for something else."
She said she never heard Mifsud discuss Russians but quit when she was asked by his partner to attend a secret meeting to discuss Iraq in Tripoli. "I thought it was very suspicious " she said.
Mangiante said she heard about Papadopoulos who at the time was serving as a Trump adviser during her brief time at Mifsud's group. But she said did not meet him until the spring of 2017 after his involvement with Trump had ended. He sent her a message through LinkedIn noting that they had both had connections to Mifsud's group.
Soon the two were communicating online and after meeting in London quickly fell into a romance she said. They spent the spring and summer traveling together in Europe. Though Papadopoulos had been quietly interviewed by the FBI in January and again in February she said he did not seem concerned at the time about what could be coming.
"We went from paradise to hell " she said.
She said she was in Chicago with his family at the time and the following weeks were stressful and scary. His decision to make a deal with prosecutors and plead guilty to one felony while cooperating with the FBI she said was ultimately not a tough one.
Student: | Simona Mangiante | 2 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example Input: Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Katie Snooks posted videos online of her skin's transformation with a new treatment
Lorde said some people simply assume her skin is unclean.
"'Do you wash your face?' It's like yes I wash my face I'm just genetically cursed " she said.
The singer added that she believes it can get better.
Example Output: Katie Snooks
Example Input: Amber Harding a staff attorney at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless said her organization is arguing for multiple changes to the legislation including requirements for proof of residency and the creation of a presumption absent proof to the contrary that anyone named as an occupant on a lease is ineligible for shelter.
She said both provisions would be especially burdensome for the young parents â commonly between the ages of 18 and 24 â who often seek shelter since they may not have adequate documentation of where they live or may still be listed on leases at the homes of parents unwilling to host their families.
âThe purpose of the right to shelter is to prevent people from freezing to death â Harding said. With the current bill she added âWe will guarantee that people will be left out on freezing nights who are D.C. residents and are eligible for shelter just because theyâve put up these bureaucratic hurdles.â
Nadeau said the bill has evolved in a way that softens some of the original shelter eligibility rules proposed by the mayor. It now includes a provision that shelter applicants would meet the residence requirement if they are already receiving certain other D.C. government benefits for the poor she said. The bill has also been modified to require only one proof of residency rather than the original two she said.
âWhen we say that we canât keep spending $80 000 a night . . . itâs not because we donât want to support the people in hotels â she said. âItâs because we want a better intervention for them. We can spend $80 000 a night in so many ways that help people more.â
Example Output: Amber Harding
Example Input: (Reuters) - CBS and other networks on Monday suspended Charlie Rose one of the most prominent American interviewers after eight women told the Washington Post he sexually harassed them and prompted Rose to apologize for his âinappropriate behavior.â
FILE PHOTO: Journalist Charlie Rose speaks after winning a Peabody Award for his work in "One on One with Assad" in New York U.S. on May 19 2014. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo
âThese allegations are extremely disturbing and we take them very seriously â CBS News said in a statement. Rose is a co-host on the morning show âCBS This Morningâ and a correspondent for its long-running Sunday night news magazine â60 Minutes. â
âI deeply apologize for my inappropriate behavior â he said in a statement. âI am greatly embarrassed. I have behaved insensitively at times and I accept responsibility for that though I do not believe that all of these allegations are accurate.â
âI always felt that I was pursuing shared feelings even though I now realize I was mistaken â he added.
Eight women who worked at Charlie Rose Inc or aspired to a job there have accused Rose of making unwanted sexual advances toward them the Washington Post reported on Monday the latest in a wave of sexual harassment allegations against prominent men in the entertainment and media industries and American politics.
âAll of us including me are coming to a newer and deeper recognition of the pain caused by conduct in the past and have come to a profound new respect for women and their lives â Rose said.
Charlie Rose became the top U.S. trending topic on Twitter late Monday with more than 98 000 tweets discussing the host.
Rose routinely landed the biggest names in international politics entertainment and letters for his interview show âCharlie Rose â which was broadcast on PBS and Bloomberg TV.
An acute listener Rose employed an engaging yet serious style in contrast to the bitter partisan arguments cross-talk and raised voices on cable television. True to the showâs sober tone the set was simply a table and chairs with an all-black background.
His persona on âCBS This Morningâ was a little more whimsical given the lighter subject matter of morning news shows in the United States.
FILE PHOTO: CBS news host Charlie Rose departs after meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in the Manhattan borough of New York U.S. on November 21 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo
The eight women who were employees or aspired to work for Rose at the âCharlie Roseâ show from the late 1990s to as recently as 2011 told the newspaper he made unwanted sexual advances toward them walked in the nude around them and groped their breasts buttocks and genital areas.
PBS in announcing its suspension said it does not fund the âCharlie Roseâ show or supervise its production but expects its producers to provide a safe work place. Bloomberg said it was âdeeply disturbedâ by the allegations.
The networks had little choice as the allegations against Rose would have likely overshadowed the subjects of his stories said Quinnipiac University journalism professor Ben Bogardus.
FILE PHOTO: TV host Charlie Rose arrives for the Time 100 Gala in the Manhattan borough of New York New York U.S. on April 25 2017. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
Example Output: | Charlie Rose
| 3 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Ex Input:
''If Orrin Hatch came in third place in the Iowa caucuses that would be bigger news that George Bush winning '' said James Camp Mr. Hatch's national political director. ''The headlines would not be that Bush wins but that Hatch takes third.''
Even Mr. Hatch said his goal was to ''do fourth or better.''
To that end the Hatch campaign is heavily depending on local newspaper interviews and small-town radio call-in and television talk shows to spread his word since there is no cost.
Speaking talk-show style on the same level as the audience rather than from the stage Mr. Hatch attacked his opponents. ''How many of those people have the experience yes the knowledge and the ability to work with Congress and really fulfill all those campaign promises?'' Mr. Hatch asked. ''I understand Congress to the last person. I passed 43 bills in the last Congress. Sure I can't get everything passed but Orrin Hatch will die trying.''
He also said the Democrats in the race Vice President Al Gore and former Senator Bill Bradley were ''far left and you better understand that.''
It was difficult to tell if Mr. Hatch won any converts. Jack Croft said that while he liked what Mr. Hatch said on ''our need for more military readiness '' he was not swayed enough to vote for him .
David Holzinger who said he was trying to decide between Mr. Hatch and Mr. Forbes said: ''I came because he 's a giant in the Senate. I like what he said on the ethics of the Clinton administration.''
Ex Output:
Orrin Hatch
Ex Input:
(Reuters) - Saks Fifth Avenue owner Hudsonâs Bay Co (HBC.TO) said on Wednesday it had received a bid for its German department store chain Kaufhof from Signa Holding the Austrian property and retail group that owns Karstadt another German retail chain.
The announcement came after Reuters reported earlier on Wednesday citing sources that Signa had made a 3 billion euro ($3.5 billion) offer for Kaufhof. Hudsonâs Bay did not comment on the bidâs value and Signa declined to comment.
Signaâs offer comes one week after Hudsonâs Bay agreed to sell its flagship Lord & Taylor building in New York for $850 million to WeWork Cos.
The Reuters sources said that Signa expects Toronto-based Hudsonâs Bay which has been reluctant so far to engage in negotiations to sell Kaufhof to respond to the offer by the middle of November.
Hudsonâs Bay called the offer incomplete non-binding and unsolicited with no evidence of financing.
The sources said that in its offer letter to Hudsonâs Bay Signa stated its bid for Kaufhof would not be contingent on any third-party financing since it already has 700 million euros in approved financing from European banks and also has cash available from a 1 billion euro equity raise last month.
Signa has also offered to assume all of Kaufhofâs liabilities including a 1.34 billion euro real estate loan by German bank LBBW the sources added.
Hudsonâs Bay said it plans to review the offer in due course. It added that its European business is an important element of the companyâs strategy and that it remains focused on executing its strategy and plans for the upcoming holiday season.
At a valuation of 3 billion euros including debt Signaâs bid values Kaufhofâs real estate at 2.63 billion euros the sources said.
Signa tried to buy Kaufhof in 2015 but Hudsonâs Bay outbid it by paying 2.5 billion euros including debt for the German chain and its Belgian subsidiary. Since then Kaufhofâs finances have deteriorated to the point where vendors are finding it more difficult to find trade credit insurance to make shipments.
âHudsonâs Bay board of directors should consistent with its fiduciary duties seriously consider the reported Signa fully financed 3.0 billion euro offer for Hudsonâs Bay European business which is above the Companyâs purchase price and stated net asset value â Lands and Buildings CEO Jonathan Litt said in a statement.
Privately held Signa founded 17 years ago by property developer Rene Benko now runs more than 125 retail locations in Northern Europe generating annual revenue of about 3.8 billion euros according to its website. It owns a big real estate portfolio with a gross asset value of more than 10 billion euros.
Signa bought Karstadt from the brink of bankruptcy in 2014 for the nominal consideration of just one euro from its majority owner Nicolas Berggruen son of an international art dealer.
Signa restored Karstadt to profitability: realigning its offerings closer to the tastes of German consumers cutting costs and making operations more efficient. Karstadt and Kaufhof are now the two largest department store operators in Germany.
Last month Signa said it had completed an equity raise of 1 billion euros giving it more firepower to pursue acquisitions.
Ex Output:
Signa
Ex Input:
Worth area are searching for an Uber driver that allegedly sexually assaulted an elderly Uber passenger . The Daily Mail reports that an Uber driver in the Dallas Fort - Worth area allegedly sexually assaulted a 77 - year - old passenger during an Uber trip last month . On the evening of October 22 40 - year - old driver Hashem Ramezanpour picked up an unnamed 77 - year - old woman from a church in Dallas and allegedly stopped the car in a wooded area ordered the woman to get out and sexually assaulted her . advertisement Ramezanpour faces a charge of aggravated sexual assault of an elderly victim but police are currently unable to find him and are now worried that he has fled the country . Uber has stated that Ramezanpour has been “ immediately removed ” from the Uber app and is now permanently banned from operating as an Uber driver . “ What has been described and reported to police is a violent act no person should ever have to go through . We are working with law enforcement officials to fully support their investigation ” a spokesperson stated . “ This former driver ’ s access was immediately removed from the app and he has been permanently banned .”
Ex Output:
| Hashem Ramezanpour
| 1 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Teacher: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Solution: Raheem Morris
Reason: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Now, solve this instance: in restaurants to offer customers plastic straws without first being asked . Since introducing his bill last week Democratic Assemblyman Ian Calderon has been the target of scorn from critics who call his proposal " absurd " and an overreach of government . " It really is a reasonable measured approach that I think will make a difference " Calderon told ABC News on Monday about his proposed bill . California State Asssembly He explained that when he sent the proposal to the state legislative rules committee health and safety code penalties were automatically tacked on making it a misdemeanor punishable by six months in jail and a $ 1 000 fine for dine - in restaurants caught offering plastic straws without being requested . " I didn ' t actually ask for penalties " Calderon said . " They were more or less prescribed to my bill by the code section ." But critics immediately jumped on him . Assemblyman Travis Allen a Republican candidate for governor of California asked people on his campaign Facebook page to protest the bill by flooding Calderon ' s office with plastic straws . California State Assembly " Instead of tackling the real issues today ' s California Democrats are more interested in giving jail time to waiters offering their customers the convenience of having a straw " Allen told ABC News on Monday . " This is one absurd bill but it highlights how ridiculous the California Democrats have gotten . This is clearly the last straw ." Paul Preston said such laws are the reason he co - founded a movement to break up the state and form a New California where regulations aren ' t overbearing and discouraging to businesses . " It ' s absolute lunacy " Preston told ABC News of Calderon ' s bill . " They are criminalizing everything we do . It ' s over the top ." Calderon brushed off the bashing saying an estimated 500 million plastic straws are used every day in the United States and most are just used once and discarded . He said plastic straws and stirrers were the sixth most common items collected during California Coastal Cleanup Days between 1989 and 2014 . " We need to create awareness around the issue of one - time use of plastic straws and its detrimental effects on our landfills waterways and oceans " Calderon said . STOCK PHOTO / Getty Images He said he ' ll work to get the bill ' s language rewritten so that no one fears going to jail or paying hefty fines for handing out plastic straws . He said he expects the bill to reach Gov . Jerry Brown ' s desk for approval in about two months . " Nobody is going to jail nobody is going to be getting a $ 1 000 fine " said Calderon adding that the bill does not affect fast - food restaurants or grocery stores . He said critics like Allen are " grasping at straws " by saying such legislation is hurting businesses in California . " It ' s a ridiculous argument " he said . Sharokina Shams -- a spokeswoman for the California Restaurant Association which represents more than 20 000 restaurants in the state -- told ABC News her group is taking a wait - and - see approach on Calderon ' s bill . " The association will study the bill ' s potential impacts and consult with its membership before taking an officials stance on the bill " said Shams adding that Calderon ' s proposal " is preferable to an outright ban on straws ." Matt Davis a spokesman for the national environmental group Clean Water Action said Calderon ' s proposal makes sense . " It ' s great he ' s doing it " Davis told ABC News . " It does reduce the amount of straws that restaurants are giving out and that ' s a good thing ." He said cities such as Alameda California have passed local straws - on - request ordinances and that many restaurants have saved money by not having to provide so many straws . He compared it to the plastic shopping bag ban passed by California voters in 2016 or water - on - request ordinances used to combat the state ' s drought saying people got used to it . In New Jersey too local businesses have been participating in an initiative to reduce plastic straw use . And it has dramatically reduced the number of straws the companies are giving out according to the Montclair Local . A local eatery said it was using about a tenth of the straws it had previously used on a monthly basis from 6 800 straws to 650 the paper reported . Back in California Davis said Calderon ' s concerns that plastic straws are fouling up the ocean are real . " There is going to be more plastic in the ocean than there are fish by 2050 " Davis said citing a study by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation that was presented to the World Economic Forum in 2016 . He said that plastic breaks down into minute particles that fish mistake for food . " I don ' t want plastic in my sushi " he said .
Student: | Ian Calderon | 2 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
--------
Question: Stephen Paddock fired hundreds of rounds out of a 32nd story window in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Sunday night police have said killing 59 and injuring over 500 in the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history.
Paddock had no military training. According to Paddockâs family and the ongoing police investigation he had a penchant for guns and some experience hunting. But there is no indication he had formal training.
Nevertheless he managed to kill dozens and wound hundreds from 32 stories above the ground and a distance of three to five football fields between him and his victims.
The reason he was able to carry out the massacre lies largely with the tools at his disposal and the completely helpless nature of his targets.
Some of the weapons had scopes to increase his effective range. The length of the bursts of fire suggest Paddock likely used extended magazines to store many times a firearmâs normal capacity in ammunition.
All of Paddockâs guns legally belonged to him. Nevada where Paddock lived allows the sale of high-capacity magazines high-caliber weapons and ammunition and military-style weapons but it doesnât allow fully automatic weapons.
Paddock got around the limitation of government-mandated semi-automatic weapons by using something called a âbump stock â which effectively turns a semi-automatic rifle into an automatic according to The Associated Press.
From 300 to 500 yards away the crowd of 22 000 were essentially âfish in the barrel â which is how country singer Jake Owens who was on stage in Las Vegas described that night. It wouldnât take a military operative or master marksman to inflict grievous damage on a crowd with the tools Paddock had available.
Paddock simply rained down bullets on an unsuspecting crowd that was focused on the stage. Because bullets from high-powered rifles travel at supersonic speeds the first shots probably hit the victims before the sound of the rifle even rang out.
Answer: Stephen Paddock
Question: (CNN) Nadia was just 15 when ISIS fighters swarmed into her homeland. She says she was kidnapped bought and sold by men who told her they owned her and repeatedly raped by them.
Three years on the traumatized Yazidi is finally free of her captors but remains trapped in a living nightmare fearing the ISIS militants could still get to her or worse kill members of her family.
The frail 18-year-old former slave doesn't even know if her mother father and brother are still alive.
At a meeting in the Kurdistan region of Iraq she hides behind her cousin one hand clenching her relative's shirt the other holding tight to her own dress. Shell-shocked she cannot remember how many younger siblings she has and struggles to recall their names.
Nadia was kidnapped by ISIS fighters who took over her Yazidi homeland when she was 15.
Nadia (not her real name) was among thousands of Yazidis captured by ISIS in August 2014 when the terror group launched an assault on Sinjar then home to more than half a million members of this minority group.
Nadia and and her older sister Amira were separated from the rest of the family. Their mother was pregnant at the time and Nadia doesn't know where she - or her baby - is now.
It was here Nadia says that she witnessed an incident that still haunts her : ISIS militants took a child away from his mother as she screamed for him. Her captors responded by hitting her on the head. Nadia still doesn't know what happened to the pair at the hands of the terrorists.
"They would tell us we sold you we bought you " she says. "There were days we would wish we would die so no one says they sold us ... Beating and everything else is bearable but not selling."
An Iraqi Kurdish investigator who asked to be identified as Shaima has heard stories like Nadia's dozens of times as she interviews freed Yazidis. "Some of them are eager to tell their story. Some of them are reluctant because they can't go into the details -- it's difficult for them " she says.
From Mosul Nadia and her sister were taken to Syria where Nadia spent a year being moved between Homs Tabqa ISIS' self-declared capital Raqqa and Deir Ezzor.
Nadia says her sister Amira killed herself after she was forced to "marry" an ISIS fighter.
Nadia says she was repeatedly raped at the hands of her kidnappers. Her sister killed herself in captivity.
After her suicide Nadia says she was determined to get away. She and some other Yazidi captives tied their headscarves together to form a rope they used to climb out of the house where they were being held captive.
Sold to a Syrian ISIS fighter Nadia says she became pregnant; to avoid having a child conceived by rape she threw herself from walls and took pills to terminate the pregnancy.
"I did not want it what else could I do?" she asks.
Answer: Nadia
Question: White House aide Stephen Miller – who really just looks like an obnoxious guy – made a Sunday appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union ” with Jake Tapper.
Miller was brought on to defend some of President Trump’s statements but it became clear pretty early on that he was sent to the network with a mission of playing court jester and administration fool on live TV.
As Tapper attempted to get through a line of straight questioning Miller lurched into a babbling filibuster avoiding anything resembling replies and opting to simply use the annoyingly childish vernacular of the Trump Twitter feed to describe CNN.
Miller spent a good portion of the interview defending Trump and bashing the network and Tapper eventually cut him off suggesting Trump was the only viewer Miller cared about. “I think I’ve wasted enough of my viewers’ time. Thank you Stephen ” Tapper added as he ended the interview.
Tapper was right of course. I’m going to say it’s a very safe bet that Miller was briefed before the appearance to be as combative and uncooperative as possible no matter what the questions.
Miller had been instructed on how to behave during the interview but he apparently wasn’t sure of what to do in the event the interview was stopped early so he just decided to hang around.
Yup. Stephen Miller attempted a sit-in on the CNN set or something equally idiotic.
Miller was asked to leave the set multiple times but refused to leave after which he was escorted out by security a CNN employee confirmed to The Hill.
Answer: | Stephen Miller
| 7 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Output: Raheem Morris
Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
New input case for you: White House aide Stephen Miller – who really just looks like an obnoxious guy – made a Sunday appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union ” with Jake Tapper.
Miller was brought on to defend some of President Trump’s statements but it became clear pretty early on that he was sent to the network with a mission of playing court jester and administration fool on live TV.
As Tapper attempted to get through a line of straight questioning Miller lurched into a babbling filibuster avoiding anything resembling replies and opting to simply use the annoyingly childish vernacular of the Trump Twitter feed to describe CNN.
Miller spent a good portion of the interview defending Trump and bashing the network and Tapper eventually cut him off suggesting Trump was the only viewer Miller cared about. “I think I’ve wasted enough of my viewers’ time. Thank you Stephen ” Tapper added as he ended the interview.
Tapper was right of course. I’m going to say it’s a very safe bet that Miller was briefed before the appearance to be as combative and uncooperative as possible no matter what the questions.
Miller had been instructed on how to behave during the interview but he apparently wasn’t sure of what to do in the event the interview was stopped early so he just decided to hang around.
Yup. Stephen Miller attempted a sit-in on the CNN set or something equally idiotic.
Miller was asked to leave the set multiple times but refused to leave after which he was escorted out by security a CNN employee confirmed to The Hill.
Output: | Stephen Miller | 1 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Let me give you an example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
The answer to this example can be: Raheem Morris
Here is why: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
OK. solve this:
Bernie Sanders to visit SF on Friday for state nurses convention .
Photo : Tom BrennerThe New York Times Image 1 of 6 Caption Close Image 1 of 6 Sen. Bernie Sanders -LRB- I-Vt . -RRB-
less Sen. Bernie Sanders -LRB- I-Vt . -RRB-
The former presidential candidate will be in San Francisco on Friday to address a ... more Photo : Tom BrennerThe New York Times Image 2 of 6 Sen. Bernie Sanders -LRB- I-Vt . -RRB-
On the same day that Republican lawmakers were pitching a last-gasp effort to undo the Affordable Care Act , Sanders said that 15 Democratic senators have signed on to what he called a a Medicare-for-all , single-payer health care system .
-LRB- Tom BrennerThe New York Times -RRB- less Sen. Bernie Sanders -LRB- I-Vt . -RRB-
, holds a news conference regarding health care policy , on Capitol Hill in ... more Photo : TOM BRENNER , NYT Image 3 of 6 Senator Kamala Harris , a Democrat from California , speaks as Senator Bernie Sanders , an independent from Vermont , left , listens during a health care bill news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington , D.C. , U.S. , on Wednesday , Sept. 13 , 2017 .
Photographer : Andrew HarrerBloomberg less Senator Kamala Harris , a Democrat from California , speaks as Senator Bernie Sanders , an independent from Vermont , left , listens during a health care bill news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington , D.C. , ... more Photo : Andrew Harrer , Bloomberg Image 4 of 6 Sens. Elizabeth Warren -LRB- D-Mass . -RRB-
look on as Sen. Bernie Sanders -LRB- I-Vt . -RRB-
Sanders said that 15 Democratic senators have signed on to what he called a "a Medicare-for-all , single-payer health care system ."
look on as Sen. Bernie Sanders -LRB- I-Vt . -RRB-
spoke at a news conference on health care policy , on Capitol Hill in Washington , ... more Photo : TOM BRENNER , NYT Image 5 of 6 Sen. Bernie Sanders , I-Vt. , second from right , declines to speak with a reporter as he walks to a luncheon with Democrats on Capitol Hill in Washington , Tuesday , Sept. 12 , 2017 .
-LRB- AP PhotoSusan Walsh -RRB- Sen. Bernie Sanders , I-Vt. , second from right , declines to speak with a reporter as he walks to a luncheon with Democrats on Capitol Hill in Washington , Tuesday , Sept. 12 , 2017 .
-LRB- AP PhotoSusan Walsh -RRB- Photo : Susan Walsh , Associated Press Image 6 of 6 A doctor and other supporters gather before Sen. Bernie Sanders , I-Vt. , and other democratic Senators arrive for a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington , Wednesday , Sept. 13 , 2017 , to unveil their Medicare for All legislation to reform health care .
-LRB- AP PhotoAndrew Harnik -RRB- less A doctor and other supporters gather before Sen. Bernie Sanders , I-Vt. , and other democratic Senators arrive for a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington , Wednesday , Sept. 13 , 2017 , to unveil their ... more Photo : Andrew Harnik , Associated Press Bernie Sanders to visit SF on Friday for state nurses convention 1 6 Back to Gallery .
Sen. Bernie Sanders will visit San Francisco on Friday to promote his recently introduced Medicare for All plan at a convention of California nurses .
Sanders introduced his Medicare for All bill on Sept. 13 .
The California Nurses Association , though , welcomes Sanders ' legislation as part of a "common fight for health care for all and social justice ," RoseAnn DeMoro , the union 's executive director , said in a press release announcing Sanders ' visit .
The event begins on Thursday and will feature speakers , including Sanders ' wife , Jane O'Meara Sanders , founder of the Sanders Institute .
Also set to speak are playwright Eve Ensler , political commentator Van Jones and Nina Turner , president of Our Revolution , an organization founded by leaders of Sanders ' campaign .
Sanders is scheduled to take the stage at 1 p.m. Friday .
Answer: | Bernie Sanders | 8 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Consider Input: Chui's election was a formality as he was the only candidate. He won the support of 282 or 94 percent of the southern Chinese city's 300-strong chief executive electoral committee formed mostly by people with ties to Beijing.
Chui said after Sunday's vote that the city needed to do more to reduce its economic reliance on the casino business.
"Since we opened up the gaming market we have seen a big change in the operation mode and the scale of the business " he told reporters.
Chui said that he would actively develop the convention Chinese medicine logistics and education sectors.
He also said he planned to work to attract more Taiwanese tourists to Macau taking advantage of recently improved relations between Beijing and Taipei.
The new Macau leader has also pledged to fight corruption which has cast a shadow over the territory's success.
Output: Fernando Chui
Input: Consider Input: Another participant Nicolette 22 was surprised by how much fellow students asked her about being on social media.
"And it doesn't just end at school. It continues you know when you go home " Nicolette said. "So you're basically being judged twice as much and all day every day."
Although their age and identity were kept a secret Nicolette said her friendships "were all real."
"We were going into this to help them to raise awareness to make a difference in not just this school but all the schools in this country " she said.
Output: Nicolette
Input: Consider Input: Karen Byrne's left hand sometimes operates on its own terms. It has unbuttoned shirts and stubbed out cigarettes without her permission. Oh and a few times her own hand has slapped her across the face.
Invisibilia featured Byrne and her alien hand last summer and Giant Ant Studios recently created an otherworldly animation of Byrne 's story.
Byrne says she 's gotten used to her left hand's new attitude but alien hand syndrome is a pesky strange condition.
The pianist's corpus callosum showed missing connections on an MRI and Byrne 's left hand developed its disobedience after a surgeon severed her corpus callosum in an operation to treat epileptic seizures.
| Output: Karen Byrne
| 2 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
One example is below.
Q: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
A: Raheem Morris
Rationale: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Q: Skill was everywhere. Patrick Kane had his first multi-goal game of the season. Victor Hedman made a spectacular drop pass that led to a shorthanded goal for the Lightning. And the overtime kept the arena breathless until Brayden Point won the game at 3 minutes 25 seconds on a power-play goal.
Sandwiched around that were Kane 's goals. The first came on a wrist shot from the left circle at 3:49 the second he stuffed in from a narrow angle on a 5-on-3 Hawks power play. Kane 's breakout came after he had scored just one goal in his last 10 games.
"I guess you measure yourself by production so it's never fun when you're not scoring for a little bit of a period of time " Kane said. "But you know you're going to have those stretches during the season. Just try to do the right things in practice work on your game and hopefully it comes around."
Kane wasn't totally thrilled with himself however after a giveaway led to a Lightning shorthanded goal in the second. He lost the puck and Hedman tracked it down dropped it back to Ryan Callahan on a heady pass and Callahan set up Ondrej Palat for a one-time goal at 4:27.
"I have to be better on that play for sure " Kane said. "Make sure sometimes it's better to make the easy play and play it safe especially that time of the game when you're up 2-0 and it's better not to get anything at all than give them one."
Brandon Saad and Richard Panik two members of the snake bit top line missed consecutive choice chances 5:30 into the period. Nick Schmaltz fired wide on a 2-on-1 and 1:51 into the overtime. Kane had a breakaway on Andrei Vasilevskiy that Vasilevskiy stopped with a pad.
"If you're going to make a move on him he has such long legs you're going to have to get it up " Kane said. "I made the move I wanted just maybe got a little bit too close and got it up but not enough."
2. Patrick Kane Blackhawks: Had first multi-goal game of season.
A: | Patrick Kane | 9 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Output: Raheem Morris
Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
New input case for you: Majed Shafie grew up in a prominent Muslim family in Egypt. But even at a young age he struggled with Islamic beliefs and practices.
He was also troubled by the persecution of people in other religions especially when he started making Christian friends in college.
Majed says âI saw how peaceful they are. I saw how forgiving they are. I saw the principles and the values that they have. So I didnât understand why you want to persecute people that they are that peaceful. And I needed to know what truth that this Christians have that I was not even allowed to hear.â
To get answers Majed went to his Christian friend tamer who in turn gave him a bible.
Majed committed his life to Jesus Christ.
âThis feeling of freedom this feeling of liberation there is nothing like when you know that youâre a child of God and youâre not a slave â says Majed .
Majed escaped and continued his work.
3 months later Egyptian police forced their way into his home and arrested him .
Majed remembers âAn officer came and he said I need to know everything about you who you are who working with you. I told him I don't know anything I don't know what youâre talking about I don't know what organization and He told me you want to play tough we can play tough together. I told him tough is my middle name you donât need to worry about that. Next day they transfer me to Abu Zaabel Prison. For the locals Abu Zaabel Prison is called hell on earth.â
Trying to get information interrogators began systematically torturing Majed .
After two days Majed feared he would betray his friends.
âLying down in a pool of my own blood this was my prayer. I told Him Lord I want to thank you for your gift on the cross. I donât regret believing in you. You died for me and I will live and I will die for you. However Lord You made me out of flesh and blood you know how weak I am. And my only request to you is to kill me before tomorrow morning â says Majed .
The next day his captors brought in dogs. Majed braced himself for the attack.
âThere was absolute quiet and calm. So I removed my hand away from my face just little by little and thatâs what I saw. By God all three dogs sitting around me . None of them moved one single step. Then another three dogs came. Sat in the same position with one little difference. The middle one took a step forward and he licked my face. I got the same message that the officers got. That maybe Iâm alone but Iâm not lonely. Somebody else here with me.â
His interrogator returned the following day. This time he made him an offer.
Majed says â He said you tell me the name of your friends I will release you. I will make you witness in the case I will release you. He listed everything that any man will desire. I looked at him I told him oh thatâs thatâs a very good deal. I-I will take it. Go get me food and water and after that weâll talk together. He said whatever you like I will bring it to you. I told him shish kebab. He went he bring an Egyptian food I sit down I ate. He told me now you tell me the name of your friends. I told him listen. We are a big group. Thousands of us. I will not remember all of us // But I can give you the name of our leader. He told me okay give me the name of your leader. I told him the name of our leader is Jesus Christ. If you can catch Him catch Him.â
Output: | Majed Shafie Christian | 1 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
[Q]: Donald Trump Jr. echoed the condemnation of his father regarding the probe into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia â calling it "probably the greatest" witch hunt since Salem.
"Obviously this has been a witch hunt probably the greatest since the Salem witch trials " the younger Trump said of the Russia collusion probe.
Trump Jr. added the memo "sounds disturbing."
"I think we need more information " he said.
The younger Trump has become embroiled in the Russia investigations underway as a result of his June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer and other campaign officials in Trump Tower.
[A]: Trump Jr.
[Q]: * * * France isn’t the first killjoy to quit the smartphone party. In 2015 the Canadian artist Garnet Hertz invented a cheeky device called “Phonesafe ” a masochistic lockbox designed to incarcerate smartphones for a set period of time. Hertz meant Phonesafe as a provocation but the same idea quickly became a product. Today you can buy similar but mass-produced containers on Amazon and multi-phone lockers have become a mainstay in corporate offices and schools around the world. A McDonald’s in Singapore has even installed a locker designed to promote “family togetherness” and face-to-face conversation. If you attend a Guns n’ Roses concert or a comedy performance by Dave Chappelle ushers will require you to lock your device in a neoprene pouch and take it into the show in that state. The phone-locking pouch made by a San Francisco company called Yondr has a wide opening at the short end for inserting a smartphone. A magnetic locking mechanism similar to those on anti-theft tags in retail stores engages to hold it closed. After the show this clasp is swiped across a counter-magnet which releases the lock. Yondr is a surefire way to cut down on bootleg YouTube videos. In Wired Alice Gregory recently took a tough look at the device. Gregory recounts her experience at a Chris Rock performance where audience members waiting in the lobby had to forgo smartphone usage. The affair reduced them to “a roomful of jonesing fiends ” as she puts it. Ultimately Gregory connects Yondr to a thorny question about civil liberties: the right of the people to keep and bear smartphones.
It’s an ironic conclusion because Yondr is sold as a tool to provide freedom rather than to take it away. To “Be Here Now ” as the company’s tagline puts it. It’s a promise to deliver presence—a tricky calling to say the least. Presence has a long history in religion and philosophy from Buddhist practices to the metaphysics of the 20th-century philosopher Martin Heidegger. Today presence is most common in the various mindfulness trends that have overtaken individual and corporate life in Silicon Valley in particular—collectively the critic R. John Williams has called them “technê-zen.” Cutting through the history and the rhetoric it’s productive to think about presence in terms of attention. You’re present where you focus your attention—and you only have so much attention to pay. In the case of Chris Rock he wants attention directed toward him live on stage. Rock’s show might involve awkward improvisation or new material that he doesn't want circulated online. Teachers are less concerned about copyright than comedians are but they still demand attention. I have tested Yondr’s effects on mind-wandering in classroom experiments with Dan Smilek of the University of Waterloo Vision and Attention Lab. Our research is based in part on the assumption that instructors want students to focus on the course materials and not on Instagram Facebook or other distractions. Yondr can be a remarkably effective tool for enforcing digital abstinence in these contexts thanks primarily to its portability. Rather than locking away devices inside lockers or even inside a disused Catholic tabernacle as I have done in a performance piece Yondr buffers the anxiety of being isolated from your device.
Given that the mere presence of one’s smartphone can reduce cognitive capacity Yondr offers a way to surf between the waves of a device’s presence and absence. You can hold it but you can’t use it. This might be an especially important balance in classroom situations where students see a teacher’s “phone shoebox” as an unwelcome imposition of authority. * * * Needless to say Yondr is still an imposition. And controlling attention requires more than just locking a device in a binge-breaking neoprene pouch. Joelle Renstrom has reported the results of her own Yondr experiment in a class at Boston University where she had her 30 students lock away their devices over the course of a semester. At first 37 percent of the students found the policy annoying but by the end of the term that figure had dropped to 14 percent. Those are promising if tentative results but Renstrom’s anecdotal comments about the experiment may be more instructive than the data she collected. Renstrom describes her students’ initial experience of Yondr as “akin to caging a pet a clear denial of freedom.” Moreover she observes that some students left their cases unlocked as a sign of rebellion even though they didn’t remove the phones from them. Rather than becoming “active resistors to technology ” as the scholars Christine Satchell and Paul Dourish call people who choose to ignore their devices Yondr users are ultimately the victims of technological disenfranchisement. When implemented as a mandatory smartphone prophylactic Yondr becomes a means of control not of choice let alone of presence.
Such top-down tactics might be enforced easily at live performances as one of my research assistants observed firsthand at a Chris Rock show in Niagara Falls. However as a daily ritual for high-school students all-or-nothing digital abstinence enforced by an authority figure seems destined to backfire possibly leading to rejection—or even worse a legal complaint. In an attempt to tackle this disciplinary problem I have been offering workshops to schoolteachers that riff on and revise the design Yondr originated. In the workshops I provide a kit that allows students to make their own digital abstinence case but with an obnoxiously loud Velcro enclosure rather than a silent magnetic clasp. This semipermeable design—the Resistor Case I call it—is intended to promote self-regulation not authoritarian control. The Velcro acts as a gateway to conscience: It provides just enough resistance and noise to make its owner think twice before opening it. Michael I. Norton Daniel Mochon and Dan Ariely coined the “IKEA effect” to name the increase in value people assign to self-made products. With the Resistor Case I’m counting on a similar effect that students who fist construct and then choose to make use of their DIY phone lockers might be more compelled to use them. Of course the kit will only work if the teacher provides a context for it that includes a discussion of responsible smartphone use. (The kit provides a series of cards to prompt this conversation.)
[A]: Yondr
[Q]: (CNN) For the first time since he took office a little more than 11 months ago President Trump has signed into law sweeping new legislation -- a wide-ranging tax cut that will fundamentally remake the US tax code .
Perhaps most notably the cuts favor corporations more than individuals and over time skew sharply in favor of the rich and big business. Trump 's response has been in many cases to ignore those details and instead focus on the cuts he says will benefit lower-income taxpayers -- though he couldn't help but note on Friday that "corporations are literally going wild" over this.
Here are a few examples from his recent remarks:
Trump : "The individual mandate is being repealed. When the individual mandate is being repealed that means Obamacare is repealed. Because they get their money from the individual mandate. So the individual mandate is being repealed."
Reality: Expect to see and hear Trump 's words a lot in 2018 as Democrats tie the tax bill (which is very unpopular) to GOP efforts to repeal Obamacare (also unpopular). They'll also note estimates that show Expect to see and hear Trump 's words a lot in 2018 as Democrats tie the tax bill (which is very unpopular) to GOP efforts to repeal Obamacare (also unpopular). They'll also note estimates that show 13 million people could lose coverage as a result with premium hikes for others.
Excited to be heading home to see the House pass a GREAT Tax Bill with the middle class getting big TAX CUTS!#MakeAmericaGreatAgain🇺🇸 — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 14 2017
While 80 percent of tax filers will see some kind of cut they aren't the main target of the bill. As Trump himself conceded on Wednesday the corporate cut -- from 35% to 21% -- is "probably the biggest factor in this plan." It's also a permanent cut unlike everyone else's. Those expire in 2025 and could lead to higher taxes for some middle class families. Additionally by capping state and local tax deductions at $10 000 people in higher tax states like anti-Trump power bases New York and California could end up owing more right away.
[A]: | Donald J. Trump
| 5 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
--------
Question: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) arrives for a weekly Republican Party luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 17. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters).
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) last week helped kill the bipartisan immigration deal in Congress. He didn't think the bill went far enough in transforming the U.S. immigration system. Like President Trump Cotton thinks the United States should cut legal immigration. The senator's reasoning?
âIt can't simultaneously be true that robots will take all the jobs & that the West needs millions of new immigrants to do the grunt work â tweeted Cotton in late January quoting a Wall Street Journal op-ed from a conservative commentator.
âI think itâs certainly critical that we reduce unskilled and low-skilled workers. It canât both be true ... that we need both more unskilled and low-skilled workers but robots are going to take all the jobs â Cotton told Vox.
âTom Cotton is woefully misinformed â said Joe Brusuelas chief economist at RSM. âRobots will create more jobs.â
Answer: Tom Cotton
Question: If your mum posted a video of you belting out Madonna's "Holiday" in the car on your birthday you'd probably want to melt into a puddle of embarrassment.
Unless your mum happens to be Madonna.
Celebrating the birthday of her son David Banda Madonna posted an Instagram video to her 10.2 million followers on Sunday. The video features David having a delightful singalong worthy of Carpool Karaoke to his own mum's 1983 hit single "Holiday."
Go David!! ððð¦.Its your birthday!!! ðððððð We Gonna Party! â½ï¸â¥ï¸â½ï¸â¥ï¸â½ï¸ðâ½ï¸ Like its your birthday!! ððð¦ðð¦ðððððððð!! Its Time to Celebrate! ðð𤡠pic.twitter.com/W1WcENjb0R â Madonna (@Madonna) September 24 2017
Madonna adopted David from Malawi in 2006. Here's another Instagram post from pop's proud proud mum posted on Sunday and featuring a mini David:
Happy Birthday to My Beautiful baby Boy!! ðððððððððð David Banda!! ð¦ð¦ð¦ððððð I wish I could stilll carry you Bapu Style! â¥ï¸ð¯â¥ï¸ð¯â¥ï¸ð¯â¥ï¸ð¹ð²ð¼ð²ð¼ð²ð¼â¥ï¸ðð» A post shared by Madonna (@madonna) on Sep 24 2017 at 3:10am PDT
Answer: Madonna
Question: CRAWFORD , Texas - Military veterans injured during their service are participating in former President George W. Bush 's annual Warrior 100K bike ride at his Central Texas ranch .
Three buses brought 52 soldiers Saturday to Bush 's Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford , about 20 miles west of Waco , for the seventh annual 100-kilometer ride on trails at the ranch .
President Bush welcomes warriors for the 2017 W100K .
President Bush and the Team 43 warriors take off for the final day of the #W100K pic.twitter.com1TpxsVj2vZ -- TheBushCenter -LRB- @TheBushCenter -RRB- October 8 , 2017 .
Answer: | George W Bush
| 7 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Ex Input:
French President Emmanuel Macron right and Hungarian President Janos Ader leave after their talks at the Elysee Palace in Paris Tuesday Dec. 12 2017. (Photo: Francois Mori AP)
PARIS – More than 50 world leaders are joining bankers energy magnates and others Tuesday in Paris for a summit that President Emmanuel Macron hopes will give new momentum to the fight against global warming — despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s rejection of the Paris climate accord.
Some 3 100 security personnel are fanned out around Paris for Tuesday’s event including extra patrol boats along the Seine River. Macron will accompany the visiting leaders to the summit site on a river island by boat.
On Monday Macron awarded 18 climate scientists — most of them based in the U.S. — multimillion-euro grants to relocate to France for the rest of Trump’s term. Trump has expressed skepticism about global warming and said the Paris accord would hurt U.S. business.
The “Make Our Planet Great Again” grants — a nod to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan — are part of Macron ’s efforts to counter Trump on the climate change front. Macron announced a contest for the projects in June hours after Trump declared he would withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord.
The summit co-hosted by the U.N. World Bank and Macron is being held on the second anniversary of the Paris climate accord ratified by 170 countries.
Ex Output:
Emmanuel Macron
Ex Input:
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Lili Fini Zanuck has directed a new documentary about rock legend Eric Clapton
Lili Fini Zanuck who was only the second woman to ever win a best picture Oscar when she took the award for Driving Miss Daisy in 1990 also produced Cocoon and directed 1991's Rush.
"No we haven't turned a corner " she says when asked whether the tumultuous events of 2017 meant the climate was changing for women in the entertainment industry.
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Zanuck won a Critics' Choice TV Award for Bessie starring Queen Latifah (second left) in 2015
Zanuck also warns of "tokenism" rather than real change following the allegations of sexual assault and harassment made against prominent Hollywood figures in 2017 including producer Harvey Weinstein.
For part of her career Lili Fini Zanuck made films with her husband Richard D Zanuck a producer on the original Jaws movie who died in 2012. While he co-produced Driving Miss Daisy she was the force behind it.
The story of an elderly woman and her African American chauffeur played by Morgan Freeman started as an independent film and went on to win four Oscars including for Miss Daisy herself Jessica Tandy. It was nominated for another five.
Zanuck says she didn't necessarily think she'd come back to directing but her decades-long friendship with Clapton ( he did the score for her movie Rush) meant that he approached her to make Life in 12 Bars.
" He was asked to do the film and he said he would only participate if I directed it " she says. She wasn't surprised she adds that the 18-time Grammy winner hadn't been willing to put his name to a film about his career before now.
Zanuck says the "luxury" of directing only came after Driving Miss Daisy adding that she used the Oscar "to grab my chance but one doesn't necessarily lead into the other".
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars is released in the UK on 12 January. A Q&A with Clapton and Zanuck will be broadcast live to cinemas around the UK with a preview screening of the film on 10 January.
Ex Output:
Lili Fini Zanuck
Ex Input:
In the end whether it was by design or not Brian Cashman’s choice for the next manager of the Yankees had come down to two huge risks — Aaron Boone who had absolutely no experience as a manager or coach or Hensley Meulens whose only managerial experience had been as a largely ceremonial skipper of the Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic.
From the get-go Boone made it clear he was serious about wanting to manage; that this wasn’t just whimsy on his part and once given his audience with Cashman and his baseball people did a bang-up job of selling himself.
After practicing his repelling from the Landmark Building in Stamford Conn. for the annual Lights and Heights Christmas event Sunday Cashman said Friday he had closed the doors on further interviews and was ready to make his recommendation to Yankees general partner Hal Steinbrenner from among Boone Meulens Carlos Beltran Eric Wedge Rob Thomson or Chris Woodward for the successor to Joe Girardi. In truth he had already made up his mind it was Boone and once word leaked out of San Francisco early Friday night that Meulens was staying with the Giants it was pretty much official.
Based on sourced information from how all the interviews went down Boone Meulens and Beltran all made the strongest impressions on Cashman and his team of close advisors that included VP of Baseball Operations Tim Naehring assistant GM Mike Fishman and Senior VP Jean Afterman. Just the same you had to immediately eliminate Beltran if only because there was no way Cashman was going to take THAT big of a risk turning the managerial reins over to someone fresh out of the player ranks. Of course no one knows either if Boone or Meulens have any idea of how to handle a pitching staff which is why in retrospect Cashman made sure to retain the services of Larry Rothschild recognized as one of the best pitching coaches in the business.
Boone — Checked the three most important boxes with Cashman: A willingness to embrace analytics communication skills with the players and experience with handling the New York media. All of that made him an instant popular choice but it didn’t hurt that he also came from a three generational major league family in which his father Bob managed the Royals and the Reds. Cashman fancies himself as an “out-of-the-box” thinker and this was the ultimate bold “out-of-the-box” choice.
Beltran — Impressed Cashman and his staff with the sheer force of his personality and knowledge of the game. If he hadn’t just retired and had spent perhaps just one year as a coach or minor league manager he might have been the favorite. As it is he will be with the Yankees in some capacity next year either as a bench or hitting coach for Boone or a special assistant to Cashman . Whatever he wants to do.
Eric Wedge — The only candidate with major league managing experience Cashman only interviewed him because other GMs former and present gave him high grades. But there was no way Cashman was going to go to Steinbrenner with a recommendation of a manager who had failed in two other places Seattle and Cleveland with seven losing seasons in 10 years. In addition his bland personality would have never gone over in New York.
Rob Thomson — He was only in the process out of loyalty to the Yankee organization — 28 years in various capacities most importantly spring training coordinator the past few seasons. Ordinarily going from bench coach to manager would have been a natural ascension. The fact that it wasn’t — and Thomson was again thrown into the mix of candidates — told you he was never a serious candidate for the job. He now leaves the Yankees to go to the Phillies as their bench coach.
Chris Woodward — It’s not quite clear as to why the Dodger third base coach was one of the candidates other than perhaps Cashman wanted to talk to someone who was part of Dave Roberts’ staff in Los Angeles. Early on he had talked about wanting a “Dave Roberts-type ” someone who was into the analytics and had good communication skills especially with young players. Whatever it doesn’t appear as if Woodward the former light-hitting utility infielder who spent a couple of seasons with the Mets and had never before interviewed for a manager’s job knocked anyone’s socks off.
Ex Output:
| Brian Cashman
| 1 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Let me give you an example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
The answer to this example can be: Raheem Morris
Here is why: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
OK. solve this:
TALLAHASSEE Fla. (AP) — Willie Taggart grew up a Florida State fan and dreamed of playing for the Seminoles.
He never donned the garnet and gold as a player but has managed to one-up that goal.
Taggart was introduced as the 11th head coach in Florida State history on Wednesday as he returns to the Sunshine State after one season at Oregon. The 41-year old Bradenton native coached at South Florida from 2013-16 before taking the Ducks job.
Willie Taggart gestures as he is introduced as Florida State's new football coach during an NCAA college football news conference in Tallahassee Fla. Wednesday Dec. 6 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Wallheiser)
Three days after Fisher resigned Taggart met with Florida State President John Thrasher athletic director Stan Wilcox and board of trustees member Ed Burr on Monday in Scottsdale Arizona. After weighing the offer overnight Taggart accepted on Tuesday and informed his players at Oregon .
He arrived in Tallahassee early Wednesday morning and met with the team before the news conference. Taggart said he appreciated Oregon athletic director Rod Mullens for giving him his first chance at a Power Five job but that the chance to coach at the school he has followed since childhood was too good to pass up.
"I know I let him down and I'm sorry. The timing was probably not right but it is never right " Taggart said. "This one chance was perfect. To be closer to family and coach in a Power Five and an opportunity to win a national championship are personal goals."
Wilcox said there were a number of candidates for the job but that Taggart was his top choice.
"We had a number of candidates but knew his passion would rise to the top " he said.
Thrasher said he had a feeling early last week that Fisher was going to leave and that it was time to look at their options.
Willie Taggart does the Seminole chop in front of Doak Campbell Stadium before being introduced as Florida State University's new NCAA college football coach in Tallahassee Fla. Wednesday Dec. 6 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Wallheiser)
The Seminoles ran a pro-style offense under Fisher but Taggart 's "Gulf Coast Offense" is spread based. Taggart 's offenses have ranked in the top 20 in scoring the past two years.
Willie Taggart left is greeted by Florida State University president John Thrasher and his wife Jean as he arrives to be introduced as the school's new NCAA college football head coach in Tallahassee Fla. Wednesday Dec. 6 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Wallheiser)
Taggart 's immediate goals will be completing his staff and trying to salvage a recruiting class — at least six players have de-committed over the past week. This is the first year football has an early-signing period which will take place Dec. 20-22.
Answer: | Willie Taggart | 8 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then an example. Follow the example to solve a new instance of the task.
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Solution: Raheem Morris
Why? Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
New input: BIRMINGHAM Ala. (AP) — A batch of letters handwritten by "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee to a friend has sold for more than $12 000.
"On this Inauguration Day I count my blessings ... I'm also thinking of another friend Greg Peck who was a good friend of LBJ. Greg said to him 'Do you suppose we will live to see a black President?' LBJ said 'No but I wish her well '" Lee wrote.
The letters track years of correspondence between Lee and Itzkoff a New York resident whom the author referred to as "Clipper " short for "Yankee Clipper." Itzkoff died in 2011.
In a Christmas card from 2009 Lee wrote: "Most-loved Clipper: Don't know if you celebrate Christmas but it makes not a jot of difference to me . I am at heart a heathen."
Other letters talked about Lee 's Southern heritage and her father A.C. Lee the model for Finch.
Lee died in her hometown of Monroeville Alabama in February 2016 about seven months after publishing "Go Set a Watchman " a companion book to her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Solution: | Harper Lee | 0 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
One example is below.
Q: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
A: Raheem Morris
Rationale: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Q: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump formally endorsed embattled Republican Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race on Monday looking past sexual misconduct allegations against the GOP candidate to argue that Moore 's vote is needed in Congress.
Trump tweeted early Monday that "Democrats refusal to give even one vote for massive Tax Cuts is why we need Republican Roy Moore to win in Alabama."
Trump also spoke with Moore by phone. White House Spokesman Raj Shah said the two discussed the state of the Alabama Senate race and that the president "endorsed Judge Moore 's campaign."
It was Trump's strongest show of support for Moore since allegations surfaced that the candidate had sexually assaulted teenage girls decades ago including one who said he molested her when she was 14 and he was in his 30s. Many national Republicans have called on Moore to step aside in the wake of multiple sexual assault and harassment allegations.
Shortly after Trump's tweet Moore responded on Twitter: "Thankful for President Trump's support. The America First agenda will #MAGA. Can't wait to help him #DrainTheSwamp."
Trump also had assailed Moore 's Democratic rival Doug Jones tweeting that "Putting a Pelosi/Schumer Liberal Puppet Jones into office in Alabama would hurt our great Republican Agenda of low on taxes tough on crime strong on military and borders...& so much more."
FILE - In this Nov. 28 2017 file photo Alabama U.S. Senatorial candidate Doug Jones talks with the media after touring the Northport Medical Center in Northport Ala. Jones is the democratic candidate facing republican Roy Moore for Alabama's U.S. Senate seat in the Dec. 12 special election. (Vasha Hunt/AL.com via AP File)
Trump for weeks was silent after the allegations against Moore surfaced and the White House has said he had no plans to make campaign appearances before the Dec. 12 election. But Trump in recent days has raised doubts about the allegations against Moore and he has agreed to headline a campaign-style rally in Pensacola Florida — less than 20 miles from the Alabama border — just four days before the Alabama election.
And Trump tweeted of Moore on Monday: "We need his vote on stopping crime illegal immigration Border Wall Military Pro Life V.A. Judges 2nd Amendment and more. No to Jones a Pelosi/Schumer Puppet!"
Short said Trump's point is that "when allegations arise 38 years later when Roy Moore has been a very public figure for those 38 years he 's run multiple times statewide in Alabama the people in Alabama have an opportunity to choose and make some decisions about Roy Moore 's character. Putting all that together he 's encouraging the people of Alabama to make the right decision."
A: | Roy Moore | 9 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
My name is Graham Weinschenk and I am a Democrat. Among other things I believe in a womanâs right to choose that diversity strengthens us that love will always win and that protecting the environment is a necessity. These are not things that âDemocraticâ Congressional candidate Sergio Coppola (6th CD) believes in.
There are a number of problems with the âIssuesâ page of Cappolaâs website. First he fails to actually take a position on most of the issues listed. He walks a fine line of attempting to take both sides of most issues. In the process of doing this he reveals some pretty outrageous things which are enumerated below:
Coppola Does Not Support Common Sense Gun Control
Coppola âs position here is incredibly unclear. He argues that guns are essential for âthe ability to form a militiaâ and that âaccess to guns is a constitutional right for self-protectionâ. However he does support regulations that would prevent the mentally ill from buying guns. But that seems to be where he draws the line. Coppola then makes a non-specific statement that gun holders need to face more accountability. What does that mean?
Coppola is Both Pro-Life and Pro-Choice?
This one is one of the strangest because Coppola seems to make both arguments here. He says that he âbelieves all life is importantâ and that he â[does] not support abortion as a method of birth controlâ. Then he does an immediate 360 and says that he believes âthat a woman has a right to decide what should happen to her bodyâ. Which is it?
Coppola Doesnât Understand Being LGBT
Although Coppola does say that he is against limiting access to government programs and benefits based on sexual orientation he also says that a personâs sexual orientation is a DECISION. Itâs 2017. Really.
Coppola Believes that America Was Created Based on Christian Principles
Again there are some positives and negatives here. He believes that our laws should be further separated from religion yet he also believes that America was founded based on âChristian principlesâ. This is just factually incorrect. The principal behind both of these are very different.
Coppola Is All Over the Place on Immigration
This one just really doesnât make sense. First he says that immigration is key to American culture. Then he says that immigrants must âassimilateâ to American culture.
Coppola Wants a Flat Tax
Again Coppola got this right out of The Heritage Foundation. Having a flat tax is extremely regressive and would do absolutely nothing for the struggling working class. He claims that he wants a flat tax of 23% and he says that this would lead to everyone paying their âfair share.â Really? 23% for someone making $30 000 a year is a lot different than someone making $300 000 a year or $3 000 000 a year.
Coppola Is an Isolationist
Coppola apparently has an issue with the amount of money that the United States spends overseas on goodwill projects and development (a tiny percentage of the budget by the way with most of the money coming back to the U.S. in military sales purchases of American goods and services etc.). In other words Coppola would rather see the US isolate itself than operate as the leader of the free world. We canât afford to take a step back from our spot on the world stage. I must add that Coppola also supports cutting military spending.
Sergio Coppola
Henda Ayari a 39-year-old French Muslim author says she was emboldened by all the French women outing and denouncing their sexual aggressors.
"I thought these women are no different from me " said Ayari in an interview with Le Parisian. "I also have to denounce what he did to me ."
So this week five years after the alleged incident she did just that.
Her alleged aggressor is Tariq Ramadan a top scholar of Islam. The 55-year-old theologian's bona fides include being professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford University.
Ayari says Ramadan assaulted and raped her when she turned up for a meeting with him in a hotel suite in Paris in 2012. She says he slapped her in the face when she resisted.
" He told me I came for that and I deserved what I got. That I didn't wear the veil so I was a prostitute " she told Le Parisian.
Ayari says it never entered her mind that she was in any danger when she went to his room. "I considered him like a father figure " she said.
Henda Ayari
I had my white secretary who typically booked my band and assisted me with my music business set up a meeting with the Maryland grand dragon Roger Kelly explaining that her boss was writing a book on the Klan and would like his input. Per my instructions she did not reveal the color of my skin.
Kelly agreed to participate and we secured a room at a Frederick Md. motel where my secretary filled an ice bucket with cans of soda so I could offer my guest a drink. Regardless of how and what he felt about me if he entered my room after seeing the color of my skin I was going to treat him with hospitality.
Punctual to the minute there was a knock on the door. The grand nighthawk (the grand dragon’s bodyguard) entered first and then the dragon himself. “Hello ” I began “I’m Daryl Davis.” I offered my palm and Kelly shook my hand as he and the nighthawk introduced themselves. He sat in the chair I had set out and the nighthawk stood at attention beside him .
We were both apprehensive of the other and the interview started haltingly. We discussed what he had hoped to achieve by joining the Klan; what his thoughts were on blacks Asians Jews and Hispanics; and whether he thought it would ever be possible for different races to get along. A little while later we heard an inexplicable crackling noise and we both tensed. The dragon and I stared each other in the eye silently asking “What did you just do?” The nighthawk reached for his gun. Nobody spoke. I barely breathed.
Even though Kelly had told me he knew that white people were superior to blacks our dialogue continued over the years. He would visit me in my home and I would eventually be a guest in his . We would share many meals together even though he thought I was inferior. Within a couple of years he rose to the rank of imperial wizard the top national leadership position in the Klan.
| Roger Kelly
| 0 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Consider Input: At a time when so many young Americans are ineligible to even be considered for the military extending protections for "Dreamers" also would have a positive impact on the armed forces former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote in a column for The New York Times.
"That is why we need legislation that will provide a pathway to citizenship for those immigrants who among other attributes are serving or have served in the military whether they are in America legally or were brought here illegally as children " Gates wrote for the NYT.
"That kind of policy will help the military recruit new service members and improve readiness " Gates wrote.
"In light of the service and sacrifice of those immigrants — legal or not — it is also the right thing to do " Gates wrote.
Output: Robert Gates
Input: Consider Input: CLEVELAND (AP) â LeBron James couldnât get to 30 000 career points and he and his Cleveland teammates couldnât stop Paul George Russell Westbrook or Carmelo Anthony as the Oklahoma City Thunder thumped the Cavaliers 148-124 on Saturday for their fourth straight win.
James finished with 18 points and is seven shy of becoming the seventh player in NBA history to reach the 30 000-point plateau. His next chance is Tuesday when the Cavs visit San Antonio.
James entered the fourth within reach of 30 000. But after he missed two shots James was replaced with 6:37 remaining and the Cavs trailing 128-101. The 33-year-old wanted to make history in front of his home fans and family but it wasnât to be and he dejectedly took a seat on the bench as the Thunder finished off the rout.
James will eventually get to 30 000 and join Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38 387 points) Karl Malone (36 928) Kobe Bryant (33 643) Michael Jordan (32 292) Wilt Chamberlain (31 419) and Dirk Nowitzki (30 808) on the select list.
The Cavs made one last push with James making a layup to cut the Thunderâs lead to 12. But Oklahoma City didnât let up and eventually pushed the lead to 31.
Thunder: G Andre Roberson played his second game after missing eight with left patellar tendinitis. He had a forgettable six-second span missing four straight free throws and committing a foul. ⦠Coach Billy Donovan first watched James play as a high school sophomore when he stood out more than others. âIn seeing him at that age you see a lot of times young kids that are sophomores with his ability â maybe not all of his ability â but you see talented players â Donovan said. âThey never get better. A lot of times itâs difficult to get better because thereâs such a microscope. The thing thatâs amazing to me is heâs had a lot of attention on him and a very very young age and he always got better.â
Output: LeBron James
Input: Consider Input: Santa Cruz proposed a ballot measure that said if an oil company wanted to build facilities on land residents would have to vote on it first. It passed. The measure also designated funds to spread the idea so Santa Cruz hired Dan Haifley to be an anti-oil Johnny Appleseed.
"I would sleep on couches and I would travel the state in my little car tiny little thing " Haifley says.
He visited local officials along the coast slide projector in hand. "It was grassroots democracy and grassroots activism at its best " he says.
In all Haifley convinced 26 coastal cities and counties to adopt similar policies. They were challenged by the oil industry but upheld by a federal court.
Even today oil companies can't build new infrastructure without voter approval in most of those places. The zoning rules create what Haifley calls "a coastal wall of resistance" against offshore drilling.
| Output: Dan Haifley
| 2 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example input: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Example output: Raheem Morris
Example explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Q: Almost four years after George W. Bush left office , neoconservatives still have n't grappled with his worst failures , as Jennifer Rubin reminds us in the clip above .
Asked to name Bush 's biggest mistake , she offers two answers : -LRB- 1 -RRB- "His failure to forcefully and promptly reply about the scurrilous allegation that he lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq ;" and -LRB- 2 -RRB- his choice at the beginning of his second term to pursue private Social Security accounts before immigration reform .
As I see it , the Bush Administration was constantly avowing that it did n't lie about pre-war intelligence , and immigration reform was unlikely to pass regardless of when it was attempted .
But the larger problem with these answers is the notion that Bush 's political mistakes were more grave than the numerous substantive errors that he made while in the White House .
My own list of Bush Administration mistakes is much longer , but even controlling for the dramatically different ideological perspective of neoconservatives , Rubin 's picks betray a profound failure to grapple with a presidency that needlessly weakened America in multiple ways .
A: | George W Bush | 3 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example Input: DORTMUND Germany (Reuters) - Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice in his 150th European appearance to give Real Madrid a 3-1 victory at Borussia Dortmund their first against them in Germany and make it two wins out of two matches in their Champions League Group H.
Soccer Football - Champions League - Borussia Dortmund vs Real Madrid - Westfalenstadion Dortmund Germany - September 26 2017 Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates scoring their second goal with Gareth Bale REUTERS/Leon Kuegeler
Daniel Carvajal responded with a fine solo effort and Ronaldo also came close a little later but the Spaniards were lucky not to concede a penalty when Ramos cleared a Maximilian Philipp effort on the line with his hand.
Soccer Football - Champions League - Borussia Dortmund vs Real Madrid - Westfalenstadion Dortmund Germany - September 26 2017 Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates scoring their third goal with Sergio Ramos and Luka Modric REUTERS/Leon Kuegeler
“We had our chances but Real did it really well ” said Dortmund’s Gonzalo Castro. “With players like Bale and Ronaldo they really know how to take advantage of the gaps. It is too dangerous against such teams to stand too high up the pitch.”
It was Real who scored again when Bale was given far too much space to cut in and find Ronaldo in the heart of the box in the 50th.
The Germans quickly pulled a goal back with Aubameyang stabbing in a Castro cross to keep the game tight until Ronaldo broke clear and fired in their third goal and their 14th in the last seven Champions League matches.
Example Output: Cristiano Ronaldo
Example Input: Kaitlyn Murphy a 31-year-old resident was arrested earlier this week on felony defraud charges after she admitted to using glass to get out of paying for her food a trick the woman claims to have learned from someone she knew in rehab.
Murphy confessed that she would carry glass in her purse when she went out to eat and would sprinkle it over her food. She even intentionally cut her mouth by chewing the glass to make her story more realistic.
The police reported that Murphy had visited eleven restaurants in Stuart FL from September 15 to September 26 â claiming to find glass in her food âafter eating most of her meals â Local 10 News reports.
After Murphy reported the hazard the restaurants would either eat the cost of the meal or offer gift cards and free food.
The police were eventually tipped off about Murphy âs crime spree after restaurants started describing the same woman on social media coming into their establishments and making the same claims.
The pressure of social media forced Murphy to turn herself in where police found more glass shards in her purse.
In total the police say Murphy cost restaurants hundreds of dollars in comped meals gift cards lost tips and lost food as well as damaged the reputation of some servers and restaurants.
Murphy originally claimed that she did it because she couldnât afford the food but later a manager said Murphy confessed she did it for the adrenaline rush â a high she was searching for after she had quit drugs and alcohol.
Just before her arrest Murphy was hired to work as a server in the area.
Example Output: Kaitlyn Murphy
Example Input: Five months after the deadliest human smuggling tragedy in more than a decade unfolded in his city San Antonio Police Chief William McManus did something unusual: He opted to retain local control over a similar investigation rather than hand the case off to his federal counterparts at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In the process the police chief released a dozen immigrants found in a tractor trailer from government custody and opened himself up to criticism from proponents of President Donald Trumpâs hard-line immigration agenda.
According to a police report shared with The Intercept and comments McManus made to reporters Thursday the story began on December 23 when an SAPD officer responded to a call regarding a suspicious 18-wheeler parked with its trailer door open. A man who identified himself as the owner of the truck was pacing around the vehicle the responding officer reported. Inside the trailer along both sides were a dozen people â 10 men and two women. When the officer asked one of the men where he was from the man responded âGuatemala.â
By the time McManus arrived the 12 individuals suspected of being undocumented immigrants were seated on a curb. Consistent with past investigations special agents with ICEâs Homeland Security Investigations wing had already been notified. McManus said Thursday that he was at the scene âfor probably a good hour and a halfâ before he made a highly uncommon call: Breaking with tradition his department would handle the case on its own pursuing it as a state-level smuggling investigation.
The driver Herbert Alan Nichols was arrested. Under questioning at police headquarters the 58-year-old reportedly admitted to picking up the migrants at a warehouse in the border city of Laredo. Under the state smuggling charge he could serve as many as 20 years in prison. Following interviews with detectives the men and women found in the trailer ranging from ages 16 to 41 were released to local organizations working on immigration issues. McManus told the press that his officers did not have the jurisdiction to hold the individuals and enforce immigration laws against them.
While McManus âs decision to handle the investigation in-house might seem less than noteworthy layers of context suggest otherwise.
The state smuggling charge McManus and his department chose to pursue in the case is similarly uncommon at least in the frequency it has been used. At Thursdayâs press conference San Antonio District Attorney Nico LaHood said it was the first time the charge had been brought to his office since taking the job in 2015. The Express News reported the statute has only led to one conviction in Bexar County where the truck was found since it was signed into law in 2011. McManus said his decision to keep the investigation under the SAPD umbrella and pursue the state-level smuggling charge was âsituationalâ and âbased on a fairly fluid situation on the scene â not the result of a change in policy.
âThis is not necessarily the way every case is going to be handled going forward â he said.
The San Antonio police chiefâs careful description of his decision in December is likely linked to the tumultuous state of immigration enforcement politics playing out in Texas which in turn reflects debates swirling around immigration policies nationwide. By noting that his decision was not part of any change in policy McManus appeared to be making an effort to avoid any accusations that he was in violation of the controversial newly passed Texas law known as SB4 which penalizes public officials who oversee policies that prevent police officers from asking individuals about their immigration status. Although SB4 has been challenged in the courts this particular provision remains in place. Locally McManus is already facing pushback for his decision. Mike Helle president of the union for San Antonio police officers told the Express News âIf any one of our guys did this any one of them theyâd probably be put on administrative duty and terminated from the Police Department.â
Asked if the deportation of material witnesses in the July case informed his decision in December McManus told reporters Thursday that it did not. âI donât want to point fingers at any other agency â he added. âWe have a very very very good working relationship with HSI and intend to continue having a good relationship.â McManus said he met with the head of HSI in San Antonio that morning to discuss protocols for the handling of similar cases though he would not say what those protocols include.
McManus did however add that his department was abiding by an agreement made with local immigrant rights organizations following the July tragedy to utilize a DOJ grant designed to help local law enforcement support victims in similar circumstances. Immigration advocates are hopeful that the police chiefâs decision could mark a turn to a more compassionate victim-centered approach in such cases. Whether such a shift is actually underway or if it would survive the ultra-heated climate surrounding immigration enforcement politics remains to be seen.
Example Output: | William McManus
| 3 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Let me give you an example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
The answer to this example can be: Raheem Morris
Here is why: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
OK. solve this:
Five months after the deadliest human smuggling tragedy in more than a decade unfolded in his city San Antonio Police Chief William McManus did something unusual: He opted to retain local control over a similar investigation rather than hand the case off to his federal counterparts at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In the process the police chief released a dozen immigrants found in a tractor trailer from government custody and opened himself up to criticism from proponents of President Donald Trumpâs hard-line immigration agenda.
According to a police report shared with The Intercept and comments McManus made to reporters Thursday the story began on December 23 when an SAPD officer responded to a call regarding a suspicious 18-wheeler parked with its trailer door open. A man who identified himself as the owner of the truck was pacing around the vehicle the responding officer reported. Inside the trailer along both sides were a dozen people â 10 men and two women. When the officer asked one of the men where he was from the man responded âGuatemala.â
By the time McManus arrived the 12 individuals suspected of being undocumented immigrants were seated on a curb. Consistent with past investigations special agents with ICEâs Homeland Security Investigations wing had already been notified. McManus said Thursday that he was at the scene âfor probably a good hour and a halfâ before he made a highly uncommon call: Breaking with tradition his department would handle the case on its own pursuing it as a state-level smuggling investigation.
The driver Herbert Alan Nichols was arrested. Under questioning at police headquarters the 58-year-old reportedly admitted to picking up the migrants at a warehouse in the border city of Laredo. Under the state smuggling charge he could serve as many as 20 years in prison. Following interviews with detectives the men and women found in the trailer ranging from ages 16 to 41 were released to local organizations working on immigration issues. McManus told the press that his officers did not have the jurisdiction to hold the individuals and enforce immigration laws against them.
While McManus âs decision to handle the investigation in-house might seem less than noteworthy layers of context suggest otherwise.
The state smuggling charge McManus and his department chose to pursue in the case is similarly uncommon at least in the frequency it has been used. At Thursdayâs press conference San Antonio District Attorney Nico LaHood said it was the first time the charge had been brought to his office since taking the job in 2015. The Express News reported the statute has only led to one conviction in Bexar County where the truck was found since it was signed into law in 2011. McManus said his decision to keep the investigation under the SAPD umbrella and pursue the state-level smuggling charge was âsituationalâ and âbased on a fairly fluid situation on the scene â not the result of a change in policy.
âThis is not necessarily the way every case is going to be handled going forward â he said.
The San Antonio police chiefâs careful description of his decision in December is likely linked to the tumultuous state of immigration enforcement politics playing out in Texas which in turn reflects debates swirling around immigration policies nationwide. By noting that his decision was not part of any change in policy McManus appeared to be making an effort to avoid any accusations that he was in violation of the controversial newly passed Texas law known as SB4 which penalizes public officials who oversee policies that prevent police officers from asking individuals about their immigration status. Although SB4 has been challenged in the courts this particular provision remains in place. Locally McManus is already facing pushback for his decision. Mike Helle president of the union for San Antonio police officers told the Express News âIf any one of our guys did this any one of them theyâd probably be put on administrative duty and terminated from the Police Department.â
Asked if the deportation of material witnesses in the July case informed his decision in December McManus told reporters Thursday that it did not. âI donât want to point fingers at any other agency â he added. âWe have a very very very good working relationship with HSI and intend to continue having a good relationship.â McManus said he met with the head of HSI in San Antonio that morning to discuss protocols for the handling of similar cases though he would not say what those protocols include.
McManus did however add that his department was abiding by an agreement made with local immigrant rights organizations following the July tragedy to utilize a DOJ grant designed to help local law enforcement support victims in similar circumstances. Immigration advocates are hopeful that the police chiefâs decision could mark a turn to a more compassionate victim-centered approach in such cases. Whether such a shift is actually underway or if it would survive the ultra-heated climate surrounding immigration enforcement politics remains to be seen.
Answer: | William McManus | 8 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
instruction:
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
question:
CLOSE Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Baker Mayfield won the 2017 Heisman Trophy. USA TODAY Sports
Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Baker Mayfield wins the 2017 Heisman Trophy. (Photo: Todd J. Van Emst USA TODAY Sports)
Baker Mayfield had been to this New York City ceremony before. This time he left with a statue.
There was little suspense Saturday night with the announcement that the Oklahoma quarterback is the 2017 Heisman Award recipient. Mayfield the fifth man to finish in the top four of the Heisman race three times is the sixth Sooner so honored overall and the third OU signal caller since 2003 to claim the trophy.
Mayfield received 732 first-place votes Love had 75 and Jackson got 47.
AWARDS: Baker Mayfield wins Walter Camp Award
Mayfield 22 directed the nationâs most productive offense averaging 583.3 yards a game while leading the Sooners to another Big 12 title and a Rose Bowl date with Georgia in the College Football Playoff. His passing numbers were impressive enough â 4 340 yards with 41 touchdowns to just five interceptions and a 71% completion rate. But the fiery competitor did some of his best work in the biggest games like his 386-yard three-TD performance at Ohio State and his 598-yard day in a 62-52 shootout win against Oklahoma State. He capped the regular season with four scoring tosses in the Big 12 final against TCU.
"Wow. This is unbelievable for me " Mayfield said. "Being up her among these greats is something words can't describe. ... It's such an honor."
Baker Mayfield got choked up while thanking Lincoln Riley and his parents pic.twitter.com/eQf16E7MpM â Sports Illustrated (@SInow) December 10 2017
Mayfield â the first Heisman winner to begin his career as a walk-on since athletic scholarships started in the 1950s â is an old-school winner. For decades seniors dominated the Heisman but over the last 10 years four juniors four sophomores and two redshirt freshmen have won the Heisman. By comparison Mayfield has been around forever that first season at Texas Tech coming in 2013. He has played 47 college games. Only USCâs Carson Palmer with 50 had played more when he won his Heisman in 2002.
Mayfield is in many ways the perfect college football player: Good enough to play at an elite level but because he is not an ideal NFL prospect he stuck around long enough to lead Oklahoma to three Big 12 championships and two Playoff appearances.
He also is among the most polarizing college football players of recent vintage.
Mayfield was arrested in February and pleaded guilty to three misdemeanors including public intoxication. He was also punished by Sooners coach Lincoln Riley after making an obscene gesture toward Kansas players during a game in November.
And in Week 2 he showed his exuberance with an act that brought his first apology of the season.
After the Sooners' 31-16 win at Ohio State Mayfield ran around the field at Ohio Stadium with a crimson OU flag then took it to the âOâ at midfield and tried to stick it in the ground as his teammates celebrated around him.
The next step for for the former walk-on: To once again prove some folks wrong. Listed at 6-1 220 pounds â and that might be a stretch â Mayfield is not the prototype NFL quarterback prospect but that hasnât stopped him from becoming one of the most prolific passers in college football history.
answer:
Baker Mayfield
question:
SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) - A California neuroscientist vying to unseat Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher stepped up his criticism of the conservative on Tuesday demanding he return a $1 000 contribution from indicted Trump adviser Paul Manafort.
FILE PHOTO: Republican U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher speaks at a news conference in Moscow Russia on June 2 2013. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
The Orange County seat held by Rohrabacher is key to Democratsâ hopes to increase their numbers in the U.S. House of Representatives in next yearâs elections. Neuroscientist Hans Keirstead a stem cell researcher and entrepreneur from Laguna Beach is one of seven Democrats aiming to beat him according to the Federal Election Commission.
Rohrabacher a senior member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs has frequently praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and was considered for a role in U.S. President Donald Trumpâs cabinet.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) speaks during a House Foreign Affairs Europe Eurasia and Emerging Threats Subcommittee hearing about the attack on demonstrators by members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security detail on Capitol Hill in Washington DC U.S. on May 25 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein/File Photo
answer:
Dana Rohrabacher
question:
South Africa's parliament spokesman says the speaker has received Jacob Zuma's resignation letter and his departure as president is effective immediately.
Zuma announced his resignation late Wednesday after the ruling African National Congress ordered him to step down. The ANC has been hurt by multiple corruption allegations around Zuma who has denied wrongdoing.
South Africa's government says acting President Cyril Ramaphosa is in charge until parliament elects a new leader Thursday afternoon following the resignation of Jacob Zuma .
Zuma resigned late Wednesday after the ANC which has lost popularity because of corruption scandals during his tenure instructed him to leave. Ramaphosa has promised to fight graft.
The South African currency strengthened against the dollar in early trading Thursday after Zuma 's resignation which ended a leadership crisis that had stalled some government business.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation welcomes Zuma 's departure but says the state must act against "networks of criminality" that have hurt South Africa's democracy.
answer:
| Jacob Zuma
| 9 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Ex Input:
Businessman Chris Kennedy jumped in with his take: âThatâs why we have a divided government â he said. âFor gosh sakes if weâre not going to call out other parts of government â if you donât see your role as governor to call out a mayor whoâs not representing the people of a certain city if youâre not willing to call out an assessor whoâs violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act â if you donât think thatâs the proper role of government you should go read the Constitution ...
Well yes Iâm all for calling politicians to account â pointing out their failings and demanding they do better. And while I understand that constructive criticism and attempts at engagement and compromise arenât politically fashionable I donât think Kennedy set the table for long-term success should he be elected with his over-the-top accusation earlier this month that Mayor Rahm Emanuel is leading a âstrategic gentrification planâ to drive African-Americans and other minorities out of the city.
Iâd say the same thing about Kennedy âs repeated claims one example seen above that successful property-tax appeals result in less money for our schools.
Thatâs not how property taxes work. Schools set an overall levy and that amount is divvied up among all the property taxpayers in the district. When your tax bill goes down after an appeal everyone elseâs goes up fractionally to compensate. Candidate Daniel Biss a state senator from Evanston explained this clearly to Kennedy during a similar session Wednesday before the Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board.
Ex Output:
Chris Kennedy
Ex Input:
Two recent books look at the very human (sometimes all-too-human) process of trying to make sense of the known universe: The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries Phantoms and Fakes by Malachy Tallack and The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth by Elizabeth Tasker . They 're so stylistically and scientifically disparate as to seem unrelated but reading them in close succession makes for something greater than the sum of its parts â a joint atlas of human guesses in a world that seems destined to confound us.
Elizabeth Tasker knows all about that; The Planet Factory is all about the formation of worlds humanity might never clap eyes on. And if you're hoping for definitive answers about how things work closer to home think again; Tasker 's very clear that the scientific method is as often about being proven wrong. "The problem (and there is always a problem)" isn't just an aside on a particular theory but a thesis for the field. This is a book about trying to map unknown seas in real time; the ghosts of the sailors peering into the dawn looking for Thule live in every telescopic survey.
The Planet Factory can feel intimidating; certainly you must come to it wanting to know everything there is to know about making planets and hang in there as long as you can before the variables overwhelm you. ( Tasker offers easy analogies by the handful and while at first they may seem too easy you'll appreciate them by the time you're trying to understand the optimum timing of planetary migration.)
The Planet Factory Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth by Elizabeth Tasker Hardcover 336 pages purchase close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How?
Ex Output:
Elizabeth Tasker
Ex Input:
LAURA SULLIVAN BYLINE: There are two ways to describe the man called Khraish Khraish in West Dallas . He 's either a landlord saving the poor from homelessness or he 's one of the city's worst slumlords.
SULLIVAN: Khraish works out of a small West Dallas office where he manages about 300 homes he and his dad own in the neighborhood. They're mostly crumbling 1940s one-story wooden houses but at 400 or 500 a month they're some of the cheapest in the city.
SULLIVAN: Neighbors stop by. So does her daughter. Pearline Brown Harper wastes no time when I ask her about Khraish .
SULLIVAN: Harper is right about at least one thing. The homes have brought in a lot of money. With 300 homes at 400 or 500 a month Khraish could be collecting as much as $150 000 a month in rent. But Khraish isn't the only one to see the investment potential here. Across the country mom-and-pop landlords are on the decline and studies show owners with dozens or hundreds of properties are on the rise. The less a landlord has to spend on repairs the more money he or she stands to make. In Brown's house a neighbor pops in to see what's going on.
SULLIVAN: And she's right not just in West Dallas but in cities all across the country. Median rent has increased 70 percent over the past two decades while housing conditions haven't improved. And according to government data the majority of poor families are spending more than half of their already small incomes just to cover rent. In Dallas two years ago the city decided it was going to get serious about living conditions in West Dallas. Assistant City Attorney Melissa Miles and others went into dozens of Khraish 's homes.
SULLIVAN: They sent Khraish a binder with hundreds of citations. He said it was devastating.
KHRAISH : It was just bankruptcy. And they want me to bring them to a standard that these houses cannot attain. It's like how do you make a 1930s engine meet modern-day emission standards? You cannot.
SULLIVAN: But the bigger question looming over all of this is not why the city intervened but why they intervened now. And Khraish had a theory.
KHRAISH : The city of Dallas does not want low-income households in the city.
SULLIVAN: Khraish 's theory goes like this. The city wants him to renovate his homes because if he renovates he'll have to charge more to recoup the costs. His tenants can't pay more so they'll go live somewhere else somewhere other than revitalized West Dallas or maybe all of Dallas.
KHRAISH : Their affordable housing policy is not to have one.
SULLIVAN: But the answer Khraish came up with was not what anyone was expecting. Last spring he decided he wasn't going to renovate his homes. Instead he said he was going to tear them down and evict the tenants.
SULLIVAN: As he said this we stopped in front of a lot where Khraish had already demolished the house that was on it. I told him city officials said they were stunned he was tearing houses down.
SULLIVAN: Except in those ashes he says only wealthy people get to live and you don't even need to do code enforcement. And that could have been the end of the story except Khraish had one more coda to add. A few months ago he announced he was sparing half his tenants from eviction. Instead he says he's making them homeowners.
SULLIVAN: He's going to loan the tenants the money to buy the houses from him. Seller-financed deals are often controversial and can sometimes leave buyers with less-than-favorable terms. For example Khraish's contract says if buyers miss one payment he can demand that they pay off the entire house immediately or lose it. Whether or not that happens Khraish will collect payments but will no longer have to worry about repairs.
Pearlie Mae Brown signed a similar contract with Khraish . She can't afford to fix the house but she told us she has no choice. She has nowhere to go. When we asked Mayor Mike Rawlings about this he said it was a happy ending. More than a hundred people will get to stay in West Dallas.
Ex Output:
| Khraish Khraish
| 1 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
[EX Q]: Then-director of Oval Office Operations Keith Schiller stands in the Red Room before President Trump speaks at an event at the White House in July. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Keith Schiller told the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that he rejected the offer from the man who appeared to be Russian or Ukranian according to two people familiar with the discussion. He quickly dismissed what appeared to be a suggestion of procuring prostitutes for Trump they said.
âNo man weâre not interested in that â Schiller told the man the people said.
The offer came at the end of a late-morning planning meeting that Schiller attended when he accompanied Trump to Moscow for the annual Miss Universe pageant which was produced by a company that Trump owned.
Schiller Trumpâs longtime bodyguard who frequently accompanied him on trips told congressional investigators that he saw no compromising illicit or illegal behavior by Trump while in Moscow according to the people.
The offer to send women to Trumpâs room came after Schiller said he attended a meeting in Moscow with about 15 people to discuss details of the pageant. Among those in attendance were Russian pop star Emin Agalarov and his father Aras Agalarov a business magnate with close ties to the government of President Vladimir Putin according to the people familiar with his interview.
As the meeting broke up Schiller said a man he did not know approached him and asked if he would like five women to visit Trump at his hotel room later that night he told investigators.
Schiller told the committee that he joked about the offer with Trump later that evening as they headed back to their hotel the people said.
âCan you believe one of these guys wanted to send some women up to your room?â Schiller recalled saying.
An attorney for the Agalarovs said they had no knowledge of the offer to Schiller .
âCategorically neither one of them has any knowledge of that happening â said Scott Balber a lawyer for Emin and Aras Agalarov. âThey didnât do it they didnât hear it and they have no reason to believe it âs true.â
A White House attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. An attorney for Schiller declined to comment on the details of his interview.
NBC News first reported that the House Intelligence Committee asked Schiller for details about the episode.
Schiller âs long and close relationship with Trump makes him a potentially valuable witness to investigators examining Russiaâs meddling in the 2016 election. The former director of security at the Trump Organization joined Trump at the White House serving as director of Oval Office Operations until September.
In his House interview Schiller said he traveled as many as five and six days a week with Trump when the businessman ran the Trump Organization adding that he could not remember the precise details of all their trips.
Schiller told investigators that he and Trump stayed at a luxury hotel during their 2013 Moscow trip although he said he could not recall its name. He said he was not certain if he stayed on the same floor as Trump although he acknowledged that they usually had adjoining rooms.
[EX A]: Keith Schiller
[EX Q]: Mariah Carey undeterred by last yearâs performance will take to the stage once again in Times Square to ring in the new year on live TV.
The star along with Dick Clark Productions issued a joint statement on Friday announcing Carey as the headliner for âDick Clarkâs New Yearâs Rockinâ Eve with Ryan Seacrestâ broadcast.
Careyâs manager blamed the production and technical difficulties that producers knowingly failed to fix. Dick Clark Productions called the accusations âoutrageous and frankly absurd.â Carey eventually broke her silence on the troubled performance saying she was âmortifiedâ and that she intended to take a break from social media.
Now it seems as though everyone is ready to put the messy past behind them. Carey will join the likes of Britney Spears Nick Jonas Kelly Clarkson and Shawn Mendes as the world rings in 2018.
Careyâs forthcoming New Yearâs Eve performance will top an already merry holiday season for the star. In addition to performing her annual Christmas tour Careyâs famous single âAll I Want For Christmas Is Youâ has been played more than 100 million times this month alone according to Forbes.
[EX A]: Mariah Carey
[EX Q]: Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) chairman of the House Judiciary Committee will not seek re-election in 2018 he announced Thursday ending a 13-term run representing Virginiaâs solid-red Sixth Congressional District.
Goodlatte made his decision known via Twitter thanking his constituents and in a longer statement posted on his website:
Itâs been an honor to serve #VA06 â thank you for your support and trust. Itâs time to step aside. Iâve decided I will not seek re-election. â Bob Goodlatte (@BobGoodlatte6) November 9 2017
âWith my time as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee ending in December 2018 this is a natural stepping-off point and an opportunity to begin a new chapter of my career and spend more time with my family particularly my granddaughters â Goodlatte wrote adding:
A reliable conservative vote and a former immigration lawyer Goodlatte took the reins at the powerful Judiciary Committee in 2013. Immigration and Border Security being one of the Judiciary Committeeâs subcommittees had been the most prominent issue dealt with there at the time. He has been a consistent border security hawk and ally of President Donald Trumpâs immigration agenda.
In perhaps his most important move as chairman Goodlatte made known that 2013âs so-called âGang of Eightâ amnesty bill would have a tough time in his committee contributing to the political pressure that prevented the bill from passing the Senate and thereby stopping the âpath to citizenshipâ that would potentially have added tens of millions of Democratic voters to the rolls.
Goodlatte later warned against the Obama administrationâs encouragement of the so-called âunaccompanied minorâ surge in these pages working in the House to oppose President Barack Obamaâs continual attempts at executive amnesty.
Other major issues during Goodlatte âs tenure as judiciary chairman included human trafficking legislation government wiretapping authorization and efforts to combat so-called âovercriminalizationâ from administrative regulation.
With Goodlatte âs departure the stakes are raised for 2018âs GOP primary in his district. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+13 VA-6 is a prime target for solid conservatives looking to carry on Goodlatte âs legacy.
[EX A]: | Bob Goodlatte
| 6 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example Input: SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) - A California neuroscientist vying to unseat Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher stepped up his criticism of the conservative on Tuesday demanding he return a $1 000 contribution from indicted Trump adviser Paul Manafort.
FILE PHOTO: Republican U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher speaks at a news conference in Moscow Russia on June 2 2013. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
The Orange County seat held by Rohrabacher is key to Democratsâ hopes to increase their numbers in the U.S. House of Representatives in next yearâs elections. Neuroscientist Hans Keirstead a stem cell researcher and entrepreneur from Laguna Beach is one of seven Democrats aiming to beat him according to the Federal Election Commission.
Rohrabacher a senior member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs has frequently praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and was considered for a role in U.S. President Donald Trumpâs cabinet.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) speaks during a House Foreign Affairs Europe Eurasia and Emerging Threats Subcommittee hearing about the attack on demonstrators by members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security detail on Capitol Hill in Washington DC U.S. on May 25 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein/File Photo
Example Output: Dana Rohrabacher
Example Input: BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon believes Saad al-Hariri is held in Saudi Arabia from where he resigned as prime minister two top Lebanese government officials said amid a deepening crisis pushing Lebanon onto the frontlines of a power struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
FILE PHOTO: Lebanon's prime minister Saad al-Hariri gestures during a press conference in parliament building at downtown Beirut Lebanon October 9 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo
In a televised statement indicating deep concern at Hariri âs situation his Future Movement political party said his return home was necessary to uphold the Lebanese system describing him as prime minister and a national leader.
Hariri âs shock resignation read out on television from Saudi Arabia came as a shock even to his aides and embroils Lebanon further in a regional contest between Riyadh and Tehran.
Hariri âs exit fueled wide speculation that the Sunni Muslim politician long an ally of Riyadh was coerced into stepping down by Saudi Arabia as it seeks to hit back against Iran and its Lebanese Shiâite ally Hezbollah.
In his resignation speech Hariri denounced Iran and Hezbollah for sowing strife in Arab states and said he feared assassination. His father a veteran former prime minister was killed by a bomb in 2005.
âKeeping Hariri with restricted freedom in Riyadh is an attack on Lebanese sovereignty. Our dignity is his dignity. We will work with (foreign) states to return him to Beirut â said the senior Lebanese official speaking on condition of anonymity because the government had yet to declare this position.
Saudi Arabia says Hariri resigned because Hezbollah which was included in Hariri âs coalition government had âhijackedâ Lebanonâs political system.
Hariri aides had until Thursday denied he was under house arrest but took a dramatically different tone after a meeting of the Future Movement convened at Haririâs Beirut residence on Thursday.
Hariri âs aunt Bahia sat next to Siniora as he read the statement. The party stood behind his leadership it said.
Hariri came to office last year in a political deal that made the Hezbollah-allied Christian politician Michel Aoun head of state and produced a coalition government grouping most Lebanese parties including Hezbollah.
Saudi Arabia blessed the government at the time but has been fiercely critical of the Hariri-led government since he stepped down saying it failed to act against Hezbollah whose guerrilla army is far more powerful than the weak state.
FILE PHOTO: Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri attends a general parliament discussion in downtown Beirut Lebanon October 18 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo
Saudi Arabia had wanted Hariri to take a tougher stance toward Hezbollah and he failed to do so the fourth source said. â He was functioning as if it is business as usual so the Saudis had to accelerate the process and to force a resignation.â
Hariri flew to Saudi Arabia last Friday.
The top Lebanese government official speaking on condition of anonymity said: âLebanon is heading toward asking foreign and Arab states to put pressure on Saudi Arabia to release Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri.â
Example Output: Saad al-Hariri
Example Input: ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Monday said his government will push ahead with plans to seize control of charities run by an Islamist designated a terrorist by Washington and warned the United States not to weaken Pakistan.
Abbasi brushed off U.S. President Donald Trumpâs recent tweet accusing Pakistan of âlies and deceptionâ in its commitment to fighting terrorism as he raised the prospect of charging the United States to use Pakistanâs airspace to resupply NATO troops in Afghanistan.
Abbasi said Pakistan had made progress in curbing terrorist financing after meetings with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) an international body that warned Islamabad could be put on a watchlist for not doing enough to stop the practice.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi speaks during an interview with Reuters in Islamabad Pakistan January 22 2018. REUTERS/Caren Firouz
âWeâve had several meetings on that and from what Iâve seen a large part of those actions have been taken â Abbasi said.
Former petroleum minister Abbasi said any sanctions against Pakistan would be counter-productive to the countryâs own battle against Islamist militants which he called âthe largest war on terror in the worldâ.
âAny constraints put on Pakistan actually only serve to degrade our capability to fight the war against terror â he said.
Abbasi said Trumpâs tweet was âunacceptableâ in its tone and that Pakistan should not be âscapegoatedâ for U.S. failures in Afghanistan.
âThat is something ... we cannot accept because nobodyâs suffered more than Pakistan â Abbasi said adding that tens of thousands of Pakistani have died from militancy that has inflicted damage worth $120 billion to the economy.
Abbasi said much of the suspended aid was from the Coalition Support Fund (CSF) a U.S. Defence Department program to reimburse allies for the costs of supporting counter-terrorist and counter-insurgency operations.
He said the U.S. needed to respect Pakistanâs contribution to the fight against Islamist militancy and raised the prospect of charging Washington for air transport flights that have been resupplying U.S.-led troops and Afghan forces in landlocked Afghanistan.
âIf somebody wants to start quantifying expenses and aid I think letâs put this on the table also. Letâs discuss that â Abbasi said though he added that such talk was âhypotheticalâ.
Abbasi dismissed media reports that Islamabad has ended intelligence sharing with the U.S. military as false.
And he also spoke fondly about a brief discussion he had with Trump in September at a reception at the U.N General Assembly in New York.
âI found him to be fairly warm â he said. âSomebody that you would like to engage with and talk to.â
Example Output: | Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
| 3 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Example solution: Raheem Morris
Example explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Problem: Hakeem Nicks and Eli Manning of the New York Giants forged a friendship over cookouts of alligator crawfish and fried quail. Nicks mostly abstained from eating at the barbecues. It was the conversation that mattered.
In July Nicks joined Manning on a four-day trip in Thibodaux La. for the Manning Passing Academy an offensive skills camp for high school players. The getaway brought them together helping to bond a young play-making wide receiver with a veteran quarterback who could use a big-play target.
During the day Nicks served as a counselor and played catch with Manning. By night Nicks and Manning came together for group dinners before retreating to their dormitories at Nicholls State University about an hour west of New Orleans.
Nicks and Manning came together for group dinners before retreating to their dormitories at Nicholls State University about an hour west of New Orleans.
Still the coaches are looking for Nicks who showed explosiveness as a rookie in 2009 to show more consistency in his second season. (On Sunday Nicks also tipped the first pass his way which resulted in an interception). Nicks the type of deep threat the Giants have been missing since the departure of Plaxico Burress was drafted into an important position. "That's something I want to do " Nicks said. "That's something that I've always done in my career in my past been that big-target receiver coming deep down the field. I just want to get my game to that and bring it to the team the best way possible."
Manning invited Nicks and Steve Smith to join him for the camp this summer. Although Smith could not attend he said that he has seen the effect the trip has had on the relationship between Nicks and Manning.
"It showed Eli he's serious about football and that he wants to get better " Smith said of Nicks. "I've seen him take it more seriously in the film room and get in here in the offseason."
When discussing certain plays at the camp Manning would explain his thinking then Nicks would share his thoughts. It helped their timing which was important because Nicks missed practices during organized-team activities and in training camp while recovering from knee and toe injuries.
Off the field Nicks and Manning watched sports in their rooms and shared insights into each other's lives. Manning was shocked to hear that Nicks had only one scholarship offer in high school. Nicks was shocked to see the type of food the Manning family served in New Orleans.
The Cajun flavor was new to Nicks -- "out of my bracket " the North Carolina native said -- but he enjoyed learning more about the area.
Nicks and Manning watched sports in their rooms and shared insights into each other's lives. Manning was shocked to hear that Nicks had only one scholarship offer in high school. Nicks was shocked to see the type of food the Manning family served in New Orleans.
Like Burress Nicks is the X receiver known also as the split end in the Giants' offense. The X receiver frequently represents the deep threat and often finds himself in one-on-one coverage as Nicks did on his second and third touchdowns Sunday.
| Solution: Nicks | 5 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
TASK DEFINITION: Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Kate Winslet condemned Harvey Weinstein for allegedly sexually harassing multiple women over three decades.
âThe fact that these women are starting to speak out about the gross misconduct of one of our most important and well regarded film producers is incredibly brave and has been deeply shocking to hear â Winslet said in a statement given exclusively to Variety.
Winslet joins a chorus of prominent actresses including Meryl Streep Judi Dench and Glenn Close who all voiced their disapproval on Monday of Weinsteinâs alleged conduct.
Winslet won the best actress Oscar in 2009 for her role in The Weinstein Companyâs âThe Reader.â
SOLUTION: Kate Winslet
PROBLEM: LONDON (AP) — A British judge is set to decide Tuesday whether to quash or uphold an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has spent more than five years evading the law inside Ecuador's London embassy .
Assange 's lawyers argue that it's no longer in the public interest to arrest him for jumping bail in 2012 and seeking shelter in the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden where prosecutors were investigating allegations of sexual assault and rape made by two women. He denied the allegations.
Swedish prosecutors dropped their investigation last year saying there was no prospect of bringing Assange to Sweden in the foreseeable future. But the British warrant for violating bail conditions still stands and Assange faces arrest if he leaves the embassy.
Assange 's lawyers asked for the warrant to be withdrawn since Sweden no longer wants him extradited but the judge rejected their request last week.
Assange 's attorney went on to argue that arresting him is no longer proportionate or in the public interest. Lawyer Mark Summers said that the 5½ years Assange has spent inside the embassy were "adequate if not severe" punishment for his actions and cited a report by a U.N. committee which said the 46-year-old was being arbitrarily detained.
He said the fact remained that Assange had chosen to enter the embassy to avoid arrest
Even if the judge lifts the British arrest warrant Assange 's legal problems may not be over. He suspects there is a secret U.S. grand jury indictment against him for WikiLeaks' publication of classified documents and that American authorities will seek his extradition
SOLUTION: Julian Assange
PROBLEM: BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese President Michel Aoun who has refused to accept Saad Hariri’s resignation as prime minister unless Hariri returns from Saudi Arabia welcomed comments from Hariri that he plans to come home soon palace sources and visitors said on Monday.
Aoun has said he believes Hariri does not have free control over his own movements while in Saudi Arabia and that this casts doubt on any statements Hariri makes. Nevertheless those close to Aoun said the president welcomed Hariri ’s comments.
“President Aoun expressed his pleasure at Hariri ’s announcement of his return to Lebanon soon ” a source said.
Aoun said that Hariri was “leaving all doors open including rescinding his resignation” according to one of a group of visitors who met Aoun. The visitors declined to be identified while discussing the closed-door conversations.
The visitors quoted Aoun as saying that Hariri ’s remarks showed that the political deal underpinning Lebanon’s coalition government -- which includes both Hariri ’s Sunni party and the heavily armed Shi‘ite movement Hezbollah -- still stands.
Aoun has been convening high level meetings with Lebanese politicians and diplomats since Hariri stepped down and the visitors said the president believed that Hariri ’s comments showed such efforts were working.
Nearly 24 hours after Hariri ’s interview which appeared on a TV station he owns Hezbollah had still not commented on his remarks. Hezbollah’s allies in Iran said Hariri ’s remarks gave hope he would return to Lebanon.
In his resignation speech Hariri whose father also a former prime minister was killed by a bomb in 2005 said he feared assassination. He said in his interview eight days later that he was free to leave Saudi Arabia but that his movements were also guided by concern for his family’s safety.
In a televised statement Future Movement lawmaker Ammar Houri said it supported Hariri ’s statement that Lebanon should stay out of regional conflicts and reject Iran’s interference.
Saudi Arabia denies that it coerced Hariri into resigning or has kept him from leaving. It has accused Lebanon of declaring war on it because of Hezbollah and has advised Saudi citizens to leave Lebanon. Hezbollah says it was the Saudis who have declared war on Lebanon.
Hariri ’s comments encouraged a recovery on Monday in Lebanese dollar bonds which slumped last week.
SOLUTION: | Saad Hariri
| 8 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Let me give you an example: At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
The answer to this example can be: Raheem Morris
Here is why: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
OK. solve this:
Another woman has come forward to accuse former President George H. W. Bush of touching her inappropriately.
The woman alleged that Bush groped her during a 1992 photo op.
Former President George H. W. Bush has been hit with new accusations of sexual misconduct from a Michigan woman who alleges that he touched her inappropriately in April 1992 while he was president CNN reported Thursday.
The woman who did not wish to disclose her name for fear of unwanted media attention said that Bush grabbed her buttocks while she took a photo with him and her father during a fundraiser for the president's re-election campaign in Dearborn Michigan.
Several other women who have accused Bush of nonconsensual touching say that the incidents occurred as they were taking photos with the former president .
Rosalyn Corrigan says Bush grabbed her behind during a photo op at a 2003 gathering of CIA officers with her mother and father who was an intelligence officer. Corrigan was 16 at the time and Bush was 79.
Bush 's spokesperson Jim McGrath previously said that because Bush is confined to a wheelchair his hands fall at the waists of those with whom he takes photos and that he "has patted women's rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner."
" George Bush simply does not have it in his heart to knowingly cause anyone harm or distress and he again apologizes to anyone he may have offended during a photo op " McGrath told Time in response to Corrigan's allegations.
But both the Michigan woman and Corrigan said that when Bush groped them they were both standing.
"All the focus has been on ' He 's old.' OK but he wasn't old when it happened to me " the Michigan woman told CNN. "I've been debating what to do about it."
Answer: | H. W. Bush | 8 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
--------
Question: FAIRFAX Va. (AP) â Jon Axel Gudmundsson hit four 3-pointers and scored 24 points and Davidson took control early for an 86-59 win over George Mason on Sunday.
Pritchett had the first five points of an early 10-0 spurt that gave Davidson the lead for good 13-8. Grady had five in another 10-0 run that put the lead into double figures at 30-18. Gudmundsson then scored six in a third 10-0 run for a 45-24 lead before Livingston knocked down a 3 at the buzzer. The Wildcats shot 56 percent (18 of 32) and George Mason shot 42 (10 of 24) despite going 6 of 12 behind the arc.
Gudmundsson scored 15 points in the second half and Davidson shot 55 percent (17 of 31) for the easy win.
Davidson players had to Uber to the game after their bus broke down in the hotel parking lot.
Answer: Davidson
Question: (Reuters) - Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) said on Friday it has increased its borrowing capacity for a car lease program to $1.1 billion from $600 million.
The move comes as the electric car maker spends heavily to fix production bottlenecks of its new Model 3 sedan.
The company increased the borrowing capacity under certain warehouse agreements the company said in a filing. (bit.ly/2yx2P58) A spokesman said it was related to Tesla 's car lease program.
In August Tesla said it would raise about $1.5 billion through its first-ever offering of junk bonds as it seeks fresh sources of cash to ramp up production of its new Model 3 sedan.
Answer: Tesla
Question: Washington (CNN) On Thursday night in New Hampshire former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon offered a simple explanation for the bombshell report in The Washington Post that Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore pursued sexual relationships with four teenagers when he was in his early 30s.
"The Bezos Amazon Washington Post that dropped that dime on Donald Trump is the same Bezos Amazon Washington Post that dropped the dime this afternoon on Judge Roy Moore " Bannon said . "Now is that a coincidence? That's what I mean when I say opposition party right?"
It's an echo of what Moore himself said after the Post story went live: "The Washington Post has already endorsed the judge's opponent and for months they have engaged in a systematic campaign to distort the truth about the judge's record and career and derail his campaign " read the statement in part . (The Post's editorial board endorsed Doug Jones Moore 's Democratic opponent. The newsgathering end of the organization has zero interaction with the editorial board.)
It's easy for Bannon (or Moore ) to make the "fake news hates conservatives" argument. Hardcore conservatives will believe it. Because they hate the media.
Using Bannon's logic that the whole Moore story was cooked up by the media to get Moore you must also believe the following things:
* The Post convinced four women who were willing to put their names forward publicly and risk the scrutiny that comes with that decision to lie about their interactions with Moore when they were teenagers. The Post was able to do this despite the fact that the four women did not know one another. And they did not reach out to the Post in an effort to get their stories told.
* These women created detailed stories about how they met Moore where he took them on dates and how he sought to make the relationship more romantic or sexual.
* That these women were motivated by political dislike for Moore (or Republicans) to make up these tales. (Worth noting: Leigh Corfman the woman at the center of The Post story voted for the Republican nominee in each of the last three elections -- including for Trump in 2016.) Or that they were paid somehow to do it. Or they just lied to lie. Or something.
* More than two dozen other people who helped corroborate the Post story were also in on this ruse. (The Post said it interviewed more than 30 people who said they knew Moore between 1977 and 1982 which is when these episodes allegedly took place.) That's a whole lot of people to organize into a grand scheme to lie about Moore 's sexual misconduct.
Again if you believe Bannon go back and read what I wrote above. Because if you believe that this is all a targeted effort to take out Moore because of his beliefs you need to believe all of the rest of that stuff is true too.
Answer: | Roy Moore
| 7 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
instruction:
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
question:
Razer's new smartphone is only expected to launch on Nov. 1 but the leaks have already begun.
According to Phone Radar a listing has already appeared on GFXBench titled "Razer Phone" that could just very well be the phone we're set to see in a little over two weeks.
So the upcoming Razer should be a lot more adept at handling heavy 3D games and multitasking going by its specs. This should come as no surprise given Razer 's plan to position its phone as a gaming powerhouse.
We could also see aspects of the Nextbit Robin smartphone incorporated thanks to Razer's acquisition of the smartphone startup back in January. Some of its hyped features include the ability to manage and offload data in the cloud.
And for those curious to see what the phone will look like here's the tiniest of sneak peeks courtesy of Razer SVP Tom Moss who had earlier last week tweeted a photo of him with CEO Tan Min Liang.
answer:
Razer
question:
President Trump on Friday called the wife of Sen. John McCain the Arizona Republican who was hospitalized this week as he battles brain cancer the White House said.
An official said Trump spoke by phone with Cindy McCain on Friday afternoon to âcheck in on Sen. McCainâs condition.â
McCain 81 was diagnosed with brain cancer in July. On Wednesday his office said he had been admitted to the hospital.
â Senator McCain is currently receiving treatment at Walter Reed Medical Center for normal side effects of his ongoing cancer therapy â his office said. âAs ever he remains grateful to his physicians for their excellent care and his friends and supporters for their encouragement and good wishes. Senator McCain looks forward to returning to work as soon as possible.â
âOf course we all wish for Sen. McCain to have a great health for as long as possible â Sen. Rob Portman R-Ohio said Friday on Fox News. âMy sense is that everybody's made a commitment to be there next week. And we will certainly be able to have the vote. Our prayers go to him and his family.â
McCain isnât the only Republican senator with health issues. Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran had a procedure this week to remove a non-Melanoma lesion on his nose his spokesman said.
answer:
Cindy McCain
question:
Study author David Kaufman director of Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center noted that ibuprofen and other NSAIDs are among "the most-used medicines in the U.S.
"[But] most NSAID use is over-the-counter " he added "with users deciding what to take without involvement by health care providers."
Kaufman downplayed the notion that users might be popping too many NSAIDs to avoid using addictive opioid painkillers.
"My guess " he said "is that while avoidance of opioids may influence prescribing decisions by doctors it may not affect consumer behavior very much."
Instead Kaufman believes some consumers may simply decide to take an excessive number of pills â regardless of label instructions. But that behavior is "potentially modifiable with better education of users " he added.
answer:
| David Kaufman
| 9 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
[Q]: Bay Area political events : Bernie Sanders , no-hate march .
Bernie Sanders : Sen. Bernie Sanders , independent-Vt. , speaks at a California Nurses Association-sponsored rally in favor of a single-payer health care system .
Fifteen Senate Democrats are flirting with a ... more Photo : Andrew Harrer , Bloomberg Bay Area political events : Bernie Sanders , no-hate march 1 1 Back to Gallery .
[A]: Bernie Sanders
[Q]: Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari head of Iranâs Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps added that Iran had the capability to expand its missile range beyond that limit the Washington Free Beacon reported citing information from U.S. officials and regional reports.
The comments by Jafari appeared to be an effort by Iranian authorities to contrast their missile program which they often describe as being for defensive purposes against those of countries like North Korea which has talked about launching missiles that can hit any U.S. city.
Speaking on the sidelines of a conference in Tehran Jafari told journalists that the capability of Iran's ballistic missiles was "enough for now. "
Jafari said he didnât believe that the U.S. and Iran would go to war anytime soon though some may question his reasoning.
Referring to the United States he said: "They know that if they begin a war between Iran and the United States they will definitely be the main losers and their victory will by no means be guaranteed. Therefore they won't start a war."
[A]: Mohammad Ali Jafari
[Q]: "Our growth was driven by gains in almost all regions of the world particularly China and other emerging markets " CEO Yang Yuanqing said in a conference call.
Still Yang cautioned that corporate spending was not expected to revive until at least the second half of 2010 which could weigh on revenues. He said Lenovo also faces pressure from rising component costs.
Yang said Lenovo plans to expand aggressively in mobile Internet after launching a netbook and a Web-enabled smart phone last month. The company paid $200 million in November to buy back mobile phone assets that it sold earlier to focus on PCs.
"We believe Lenovo's mobile Internet products have high potential " Yang said. "We will continue to invest heavily in emerging markets and in consumer businesses -- especially mobile Internet -- to achieve sustainable growth."
[A]: | Yang Yuanqing
| 5 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Part 1. Definition
Given a document, find the main entity about whom the author is writing. Write the full name if mentioned in the text. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Part 2. Example
At least Raheem Morris finally has the name of the Bucs' starting quarterback in the back of his mind.
He wants to make sure he made the decision with his head and not just his heart.
That's why Morris declined to name his choice between Byron Leftwich and Luke McCown on Friday until after one last consultation with his coaching staff.
After that Morris said he would inform the owners then his team before making the eagerly awaited announcement. Players were off Friday so an announcement could come this morning.
"We'll have a decision here in the near future " Morris said. "I think we've got to go with who we think gives us the best chance to win.
Answer: Raheem Morris
Explanation: Here the main entity is Raheem Morris since the main topic of the document is about him starting as quarterback.
Part 3. Exercise
In the wake of the Russian troll campaign against Ukrainian activists several Facebook users brought up the issue to Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg when he called for questions to be submitted prior to a May 2015 town hall the report found.
Zuckerberg touched on the issue during his town hall in May 2015 and said that several posts that had been flagged contained "hate speech" and anti-Russian "slurs."
" We did the right thing according to our policies in taking down the posts. I support our policies in taking down hate speech " he told attendees.
Zuckerberg extended an apology to users whose posts had been taken down despite being in compliance with community standards and attributed the error to a bug in Facebook's software.
Former President Barack Obama tried to warn Zuckerberg about the threat of fake news and its effect on the 2016 election less than two weeks after Donald Trump won the presidency The Washington Post reported on Sunday.
Nine days before Obama warned him about the effect fake news had on the November result and the problem it would pose in future elections Zuckerberg struck down the notion as a "crazy idea" that "surely had no impact" on the end result.
Following the president's warning Zuckerberg acknowledged the problem but said fake news wasn't widespread on Facebook according to The Post. He added at the time that there was no easy solution to the issue according to those familiar with the matter.
Answer: | Mark Zuckerberg | 7 | NIv2 | task419_persent_answer_generation | fs_opt |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.