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Premise: On the other hand, Fish never claimed to be right.
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Question: Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Zulu: [gelZhejile'kisa 'zhuma]; born 12 April 1942) is a South African politician who served as the fourth President of South Africa from the 2009 general election until his resignation on 14 February 2018. Zuma is also referred to by his initials JZ and his clan name Msholozi. Zuma served as Deputy President of South Africa from 1999 to 2005, but was dismissed by President Thabo Mbeki in 2005 after Zuma's financial adviser, Schabir Shaik, was convicted of soliciting a bribe for Zuma. Zuma was nonetheless elected President of the African National Congress (ANC) on 18 December 2007 after defeating Mbeki at the ANC conference in Polokwane.
While serving as deputy president, Zuma enjoyed considerable support in parts of the left wing of the ANC, including many in the ANC Youth League, the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). While Zuma faced corruption charges, these organisations remained supportive of him. Zuma's dismissal was interpreted in two ways. Many international observers hailed it as a clear sign that the South African government was dedicated to rooting out corruption within its own ranks. On the other hand, some within South Africa focused on the fact that Zuma and Mbeki represent different constituencies within the African National Congress. Some left-wing supporters claimed that Mbeki and his more market-oriented wing of the party had conspired to oust Zuma to entrench their dominance in the ANC. Zuma's cause rallied large crowds of supporters at each of his corruption-related court appearances in 2005. At one court date, Zuma supporters burned T-shirts with Mbeki's picture on them, which earned the condemnation of the ANC; Zuma and his allies urged a return to party discipline for subsequent gatherings. At the next court date in November, Zuma supporters numbering in the thousands gathered to support him; he addressed the Durban crowd in Zulu, urging party unity and singing the apartheid-era struggle song Lethu Mshini Wami with lyrics that translate literally as "bring me my machine" but understood to refer to a machine gun. At an October tour for the ANC Youth League elsewhere in the country, Zuma also earned the cheers of large crowds. While his political strength was at least partly based on his relationships within intra-party politics, one analyst argued that his supporters' loyalty could be explained as rooted in a Zulu approach to loyalty and mutual aid. Because of his support among elements of the party, Zuma remained a powerful political figure, retaining a high position in the ANC even after his dismissal as the country's deputy president. A panel of political analysts convened in November 2005 agreed that if he was to be found innocent of the corruption charges brought against him, it would be hard for any other potential ANC candidate to beat Zuma in the race for the country's presidency in 2009. However, these analysts also questioned whether Zuma was indeed a left-wing candidate of the sort that many of his supporters seem to seek, and noted that the global and national economic constraints that have shaped Mbeki's presidency would be no different in the next presidential term.
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NEW YORK – David Letterman was back at Late Show on Monday after a two-week vacation, his first day at work since a threat against his life was posted on a jihadist website.
David Letterman has been on vacation for two weeks, but he's back on the air tonight.
David Letterman has been on vacation for two weeks, but he's back on the air tonight.
CBS has declined to comment on any special security measures being taken at Letterman's midtown Manhattan theater for the taping.
Last week, a frequent contributor to a jihadist website posted a threat to Letterman. He urged Muslim followers to "cut the tongue" of the late-night host because of a joke and gesture the comic had made about al-Qaida leaders on his CBS show. The website is a popular Internet destination for radical Muslims.
One joke among several about al-Qaida that may have helped inspire the threat was part of Letterman's monologue on his June 8 show. This was just days after the death of al-Qaida leader Ilyas Kashmiri, who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan. Though Kashmiri was rumored to be a long-shot choice to succeed Osama bin Laden, he wouldn't have worked out even had he lived, Letterman cracked, pointing to Kashmiri's "rocky start": "He botched up the story of Paul Revere."
The real butt of that joke: Sarah Palin, potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate, who in early June on her "One Nation" bus tour claimed that Paul Revere's famous ride was intended to warn British soldiers as well as his fellow colonists.
The contributor, who identified himself as Umar al-Basrawi, wrote that Letterman had referred to both bin Laden and Kashmiri and said that in talking about Kashmiri's death, Letterman had "put his hand on his neck and demonstrated the way of slaughter."
"Is there not among you a Sayyid Nosair al-Mairi … to cut the tongue of this lowly Jew and shut it forever?" Al-Basrawi wrote, referring to El Sayyid Nosair, who was convicted of the 1990 killing of Jewish Defense League founder Meir Kahane. Letterman is not Jewish.
Al-Basrawi, which is likely to be an alias, has made some 1,200 postings to the Muslim website, according to Adam Raisman, an analyst for the Site Monitoring Service. The private firm, part of the Site Intelligence Group, provides information to government and commercial clients on what jihadists are saying on the Internet and traditional media. Raisman said the online forum is often used by al-Qaida.
The FBI said last week that it was looking into the threat.
It was unknown whether Letterman planned to address the threat on the air.
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CLOSE Get an overview of how Eddie Tipton created one of the largest lottery scams in history. Wochit
Eddie Tipton arrives in the courtroom Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017, for his sentencing hearing at the Polk County Courthouse in Des Moines. (Photo: Michael Zamora/The Register)
This story is from March 2018
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Eddie Tipton jotted down the numbers on a yellow sticky note as he sat at his desk in Urbandale, Iowa more than a decade ago.
Around him were more sticky notes filled with number sets that he carefully wrote down as they spun up on his computer screen. The numbers were generated by a cryptic two-line software code Tipton had planted in his employer’s computer system at the Multi-State Lottery Association.
The office building was virtually empty as Tipton ran test after test, zeroing in on the possible winning numbers for an upcoming $4.8 million lottery jackpot drawing in Colorado.
His code would let him narrow the drawing’s winning odds from 5 million to 1 to 200 to 1.
And, over time, it would allow him to hijack at least five winning drawings totaling more than $24 million in prizes in Colorado, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma — the biggest lottery scam in U.S. history.
The largest jackpot, a $16.5 million Hot Lotto prize in Iowa in 2010, was never paid. And ultimately, it would be the one that would do Tipton in.
The seed that started it all
Eddie Tipton, the cyber security expert and brainpower behind a lottery rigging scandal that netted $2 million in illegal winnings from five state lotteries, pleaded guilty Thursday, June 29, 2017, to a felony charge of ongoing criminal conduct charge at the Polk County Courthouse. (Photo: Rodney White/The Register)
Tipton, who loved playing the fantasy game “Dungeons and Dragons,” told himself he wasn’t trying to crack the code for the money.
Instead, the Texas native described by his brother as “a very large” and “kind of lonesome” man, was inspired by the challenge.
An offhand conversation with a co-worker, Gene Schaller, in 2005 set the challenge in motion, Tipton told investigators.
“Hey, did you put your secret numbers in there?” Schaller asked him.
“What do you mean?” Tipton replied.
“Well, you know, you can set numbers on any given day, since you wrote the software.”
Schaller, who remains an accountant for the Multi-State Lottery Association, wouldn't comment for this article.
That night in 2005, the 41-year-old bachelor began a fraud that even he had no idea would eventually shake the lottery industry to its core.
"It was never my intent to start a full-out ticket scam,” Eddie told investigators during his June 29 post-conviction confession sessions in the Hoover State Office Building in Des Moines.
A criminal past and a job offer
To be truthful, Tipton never expected he’d land an interview with the Multi-State Lottery Association, let alone be hired and eventually become one of the most entrusted lottery security officials in the nation.
The association is owned and operated by 36 member lotteries, mostly state organizations such as the Iowa Lottery. It's responsible for many of the nation's most popular and richest lotteries, including Powerball and Hot Lotto.
Tipton had pleaded guilty in 1982 for his part in a warehouse burglary. The then 19-year-old faced up to 20 years in prison for the felony conviction, but instead was given two years of probation and was ordered to pay $1,719 in restitution, court records show.
And before his burglary conviction, Tipton had been convicted of stealing computer software from a department store. Tipton told federal investigators more than 20 years later that the software theft was a “Jerry Springer-style” incident that was “more of an argument with a Sears employee.”
In 2003, as he sat for an interview, Tipton told Ed Stefan, his prospective boss at the Multi-State Lottery Association, about both convictions. So he was surprised when the association paid to fly him from Texas to Des Moines for an in-person job interview.
Why lottery association executives overlooked Tipton’s criminal convictions isn't entirely clear. MUSL knew about the burglary when Tipton was hired, according to court documents.
State law prohibits felons working for the Iowa Lottery. But that law does not apply to MUSL employees.
Bret Tyone, CEO of the Multi-State Lottery Association, said he couldn't comment or provide a copy of the association's employee code of conduct, citing ongoing litigation. Stefan did not return calls for comment.
But former deputy Iowa Attorney General Thomas H. Miller made it clear in an interview this year that he believes Tipton should never have been given the opportunity to land a job where he would design the software that randomly picked the winning numbers for the Multi-State Lottery Association.
"A thief is a thief,” Miller told Game Show Network.
A Bigfoot hunt, a lottery win and a duped FBI
Tipton’s initial late-night sticky note session resulted in his scam’s first win — a Nov. 23, 2005, drawing in Colorado.
The stars aligned for that game: It was a major jackpot — $4.8 million — and it landed on one of the three dates during the year that he was able to manipulate with his secret code.
The opportunity was especially convenient because of his brother’s hunt for Bigfoot.
Tommy Tipton’s fascination with folklore surrounding the ape-like creature began as a child, when his grandmother retold stories about a critter that would spook their farm animals in Arkansas.
And it just so happened that Tommy’s pursuit of Bigfoot was taking him to Colorado in November 2005.
Eddie, who said few people possessed the "geekiness" necessary to understand his work, seized the opportunity to try out his rigged coding.
“My brother was going on a trip, and I suggested that I had some numbers that he could play," he told investigators. "And that was pretty much it."
But the story, according to his brother, was far more nuanced.
Tommy, who by 2005 was a magistrate in Fayette County, Texas, was skeptical whether it was legal for him to play the hundreds of sets of numbers given him by his brother, an employee of the lottery association.
Tommy told investigators he contacted a friend, Texas defense attorney Luis Vallejo, to consult about the matter. Vallejo could find no reason that it would be illegal for him to play, even though Eddie worked for the lottery association, Tommy said.
After the winning numbers were drawn Nov. 23, 2005, three people came forward to claim the $4.8 million prize: a Colorado resident not linked to the conspiracy; Alexander Hicks, a friend of Tommy’s whom he had recruited to cash the ticket; and Texas lawyer Thad Whisenant, who had created a Nevada limited liability-corporation called Cuestion de Suerte (Question of Luck).
The Colorado resident’s claim came from an “easy pick” ticket, meaning the numbers were selected by a machine. Investigators ruled that purchase legitimate.
But the others drew their suspicion. Whisenant and Vallejo were publicly named by investigators, who in August 2016 asked the public for assistance in the case.
They were never arrested.
Whom can you trust?
Tommy told investigators during his June 29, 2017, deposition that he believed Vallejo somehow stole the numbers he had been given by his brother, although Tommy said he never directly confronted him about it.
Hicks — who was never charged with a crime — gave 90% of the nearly $570,000 cash-option prize payout from the jackpot to Tommy. Cuestion de Suerte collected the same amount.
Neither Vallejo nor Whisenant returned calls for this article. Whisenant was never asked to return the money he collected.
Tommy remains bitter about the outcome.
“It was a big shock to me to hear that an attorney whom I went to for advice played the lottery," he said of Vallejo.
Soon after the 2005 win, Tommy fell from a 31-foot tree stand while Bigfoot hunting and “almost died,” he told investigators. He was in the hospital in 2006 when the FBI questioned him about why he was trying to exchange $450,000 in consecutively marked bills.
Tommy truthfully told the agents the money came from the 2005 Colorado lottery win. But he told them he was trying to exchange the bills because he couldn’t tell his wife of the win since gambling was contrary to her Christian faith.
In neither the first nor a subsequent interview did the FBI ask about the work his brother was doing for the Multi-State Lottery Association — and Tommy never volunteered the information.
Eventually, the FBI dropped its inquiry, and the Tiptons resumed their lottery scheme.
Frustrated Eddie warns his bosses
As the head of the Multi-State Lottery Association's IT security, Eddie Tipton was making almost $100,000 a year. But he felt underappreciated and overworked at the time he wrote the code to hack into the national lottery system.
He was working 50- to 60-hour weeks and often was in the office until 11 p.m. His managers expected him to take on far more roles than were practical, he complained.
"I wrote software. I worked on Web pages. I did network security. I did firewalls," he said in his confession. "And then I did my regular auditing job on top of all that. They just found no limits to what they wanted to make me do. It even got to the point where the word ‘slave’ was used."
Nobody at the Multi-State Lottery Association oversaw his complete body of work, and few people truly cared about security, he said. That lack of oversight allowed Tipton to write, install and use his secret code without discovery.
Tipton said he even warned lottery officials about the system's security risks and alerted them in 2006 about an error in the random-drawing software after the same numbers were drawn in the same order in the same year in a Wisconsin game.
Soon after his first successful lottery scam, Eddie said he offered a fix that would have thwarted his ability to predict winning numbers — appointing a second person to oversee some of the most crucial processes of the random-generator software.
His immediate boss, Stefan, took the concerns seriously, he said, but others in the organization did not. Most of his concerns were dismissed or inadequately addressed, Tipton complained.
“I’d do reviews and I’d find stuff — gaping holes in their procedures — and I would tell them, but if it wasn't in my rules, the MUSL rules, I couldn’t write it down," he said. "I couldn’t document that I saw this gaping hole because they didn’t want to hear it or they didn’t want it written down anywhere.”
And so the secret code survived.
That code was replicated on as many as 17 state lottery systems as MUSL integrated the random-number software Tipton designed. For nearly a decade, it allowed Tipton to rig the drawings for games played on three dates each year: May 27, Nov. 23 and Dec. 29.
Tipton's software version is no longer used.
The big mistake
It was on Dec. 23, 2010, that Eddie made a miscalculation that ultimately unraveled his scheme: He bought a winning ticket himself.
Before, he had always funneled winning numbers to others.
Video captured his ticket purchase at a Des Moines convenience store about 10 miles from the Multi-State Lottery Association offices.
Robert Rhodes pleaded guilty Monday Jan. 9, 2017, to an Iowa fraud charge admitting his role in a now-infamous attempt to cash in on a winning Hot Lotto ticket worth more than $14 million, at the Polk County Courthouse in Des Moines, Iowa. Eddie Tipton, a former information security director for the Multi-State Lottery Association, has already been convicted of two fraud charges for allegedly tampering with computers to rig the outcome of the Dec. 29, 2010, drawing. (Photo: Rodney White/The Register)
Though he knew the Iowa Lottery had retained a video of the purchase, Eddie told one of his best friends, Robert Rhodes, that he could claim the ticket if he wanted.
But Eddie gave Rhodes one caveat: Don’t wait until the last minute to claim the ticket.
That advice was ignored.
Rhodes participated in an intricate plan to claim the prize anonymously — less than two hours before the 4 p.m. deadline on Dec. 29, 2011.
The 11th-hour scheme to claim the ticket captivated the public's attention. The $16.5 million jackpot was the third-largest prize in Hot Lotto's history.
For weeks, lottery officials had peppered news media across the country to publicize the unclaimed ticket. Then, just as the year-long window was to expire, two attorneys representing a trust showed up at Iowa Lottery headquarters to claim the prize.
But Iowa law requires Iottery winners' names and addresses to be made public, and the mystery over who was behind the claim dominated newscasts for weeks.
Despite the intense scrutiny, it would take investigators roughly three years to connect Tipton to the Hot Lotto rigging. On Jan. 15, 2015, he was charged with two counts of felony fraud.
He later faced other charges, mostly related to money laundering and fraudulent wins in other states.
His brother Tommy and Rhodes also were charged with felonies related to the rigged drawings.
Rhodes, of Sugar Land, Texas, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of being party to a computer crime and was sentenced in March 2017 to six months of home confinement in Texas and ordered to pay $409,000 in restitution.
He agreed to testify against Eddie and Tommy Tipton as part of his plea deal.
Tommy and Eddie pleaded guilty to felony crimes related to the rigging scheme in June 2017 and agreed to repay $2.2 million in restitution.
Tommy admitted claiming prizes in Colorado and Oklahoma using numbers Eddie provided. He was sentenced to 75 days in jail.
Eddie was sentenced in August to up to 25 years in prison.
Eddie, 54, did not respond to a request to speak for this article. He is serving his sentence in Iowa's Clarinda Correctional Facility.
It's uncertain how many years Eddie will spend in prison. He could be paroled within three or four years, his attorneys noted at his sentencing last year.
He has paid $25,000 of his $16.8 million in restitution, according to the most recent court records filed in January.
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Eddie Tipton, 54, who was a computer programmer in Multi State Lottery Association in Iowa, messed with the system to allow him and his brother Tommy to win jackpots in several states, according to the Des Moines Register.
Tipton was arrested for the fraud along with his brother in 2015. He pleaded guilty last June to installing software that enabled him to rig lottery numbers in his own favor starting in 2005. The hack affected systems in his home state, along with Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. His brother Tommy also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit theft.
In all, the pair won more than $2 million — they’ll have to pay back $3 million as part of a plea deal, according to USA Today.
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With the cash from the illicit wins, Tipton built a massive house, complete with a movie theater and a gym, authorities said.
Tipton said Tuesday he regrets his actions.
“It’s difficult even saying that with all the people I know behind me that I hurt, and I regret it,” Tipton said in court, according to the Register. “I’m sorry.”
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– The Iowa man behind the biggest US lotto scam ever was a "very large" and "kind of lonesome" geek, according to his own brother, and he didn't set out to rig more than $24 million for the money: Eddie Tipton says he did it for the challenge. USA Today lays out Tipton's "untold story" in full, starting in 2005, when a co-worker at the Multi-State Lottery Association, where Tipton was a software programmer and head of IT security, uttered the sentence that changed everything. "Hey, did you put your secret numbers in there?," accountant Gene Schaller asked, tipping Tipton off that since he wrote the code for the lottery's numbers-generating software, there was nothing stopping him from placing code in there to get the numbers to go the way he wanted. And that's exactly what Tipton did, finagling the system so that he and his brother, Tommy, could win big time. The Tiptons were arrested in 2015 for fraud, per Time, and pleaded guilty to felony charges; Tommy got 75 days behind bars, while Eddie, now 54, is still serving up to 25 years in prison, with a chance for parole in three years or so, per his lawyers. But it's the story of what happened in between that first conversation with Schaller and his sentencing that's most intriguing, including how he was hired by the lottery system with a criminal background (he'd been involved with a warehouse theft and also in stealing software from Sears as a teen), how he'd actually tried to clue his employers in to the vulnerability of their software, and how the Tiptons' first big win was helped along by … a search for Bigfoot. As for Schaller, the guy who first planted the seed in Tipton's head? He still works for the MSLA. More in USA Today, which also details the mistake that was Tipton's undoing.
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In the 12th century CE the Andalusian Muslim philosopher and novelist Abu Bakr Ibn Tufail (known as "Abubacer" or "Ebn Tophail" in the West) included the theory of tabula rasa as a thought experiment in his Arabic philosophical novel, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan in which he depicted the development of the mind of a feral child "from a tabula rasa to that of an adult, in complete isolation from society" on a desert island, through experience alone. The Latin translation of his philosophical novel, entitled Philosophus Autodidactus, published by Edward Pococke the Younger in 1671, had an influence on John Locke's formulation of tabula rasa in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
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These styles generally have either two f-shaped soundholes like a violin (F-5 and A-5), or an oval sound hole (F-4 and A-4 and lower models) directly under the strings. Much variation exists between makers working from these archetypes, and other variants have become increasingly common. Generally, in the United States, Gibson F-hole F-5 mandolins and mandolins influenced by that design are strongly associated with bluegrass, while the A-style is associated other types of music, although it too is most often used for and associated with bluegrass. The F-5's more complicated woodwork also translates into a more expensive instrument.
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However, early farmers were also adversely affected in times of famine, such as may be caused by drought or pests. In instances where agriculture had become the predominant way of life, the sensitivity to these shortages could be particularly acute, affecting agrarian populations to an extent that otherwise may not have been routinely experienced by prior hunter-gatherer communities. Nevertheless, agrarian communities generally proved successful, and their growth and the expansion of territory under cultivation continued.
What could sensitivity to cultivation be?
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A cappella music was originally used in religious music, especially church music as well as anasheed and zemirot. Gregorian chant is an example of a cappella singing, as is the majority of secular vocal music from the Renaissance. The madrigal, up until its development in the early Baroque into an instrumentally-accompanied form, is also usually in a cappella form. Jewish and Christian music were originally a cappella,[citation needed] and this practice has continued in both of these religions as well as in Islam.
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At the architectural appealing and at the same time state-of-the-art hotel in Zurich’s upland you will face a new spirit of hospitality. The Bauhaus styled and renovated hotel offers a special living experience.
OUT: Cet hôtel le plus moderne de l’Oberland zurichois est doté d’une architecture intéressante et vous accueille avec une hospitalité innovante.
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Those caveats point to important issues that will require the focused attention of UNDP management in the coming years.
OUT: Ces mises en garde mettent en évidence les questions importantes qui exigeront toute l'attention de la direction du PNUD au cours des prochaines années.
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Office of the Treaty Commissioner in Saskatchewan Mandate:
OUT: Office national du film Mandat :
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PASADENA, Calif. - The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal Thursday of a class action accusing Fresh Inc. of deceiving consumers about the quantity of lip balm in its Sugar Lip Treatment.
The class complained that oversized packaging and the lip tube's screw mechanism keep customers from getting to the bottom 25 percent of the product. ||||| Cosmetics-maker Fresh Inc had no duty to disclose that its Sugar Lip Treatment tube was designed to hold back as much as 25 percent of the lip balm, a federal appeals court affirmed Thursday.
A unanimous panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the win for Boston-based Fresh and its attorneys at Winston & Strawn in a proposed class action filed by Angela Ebner, who had accused the company of violating California consumer protection laws governing product labels and packaging.
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summary: – Can't get that last bit of lip balm out of the tube? Scrape it out with your finger. That's basically what a federal appeals court told a California woman Thursday when it dismissed her class-action lawsuit alleging Fresh Inc. conned consumers into thinking there was more of its Sugar Lip Treatment in the tube than they could actually access, Courthouse News Service reports. The US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected Angela Ebner's claim that the company tried to mislead consumers about the quantity of its pricey lip balm, which sells for roughly $24 a tube, per the AP. Ebner had insisted that the way the company packaged and dispensed the lip treatment was in violation of her state's consumer protection laws, Reuters notes. To be more specific, Ebner said that the lip balm tube employs a twist-up mechanism that allows only 75% of the product to dispense beyond the tube opening. But the court noted that no state or federal laws were breached because the package labels accurately indicate just how much balm is in each tube. The court opinion stated, probably not to Ebner's liking, that "the reasonable consumer understands the general mechanics of these dispenser tubes" and that "it is up to the consumer to decide whether it is worth the effort to extract any remaining product with a finger or a small tool." (Why a "lip balm to the stars" was hit with a suit.)
input: FILE PHOTO - Brazil's President Michel Temer is pictured before a meeting with Paraguay's President Horacio Cartes at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil August 21, 2017. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil’s government has abolished a vast national reserve, created in 1984, to open the area to commercial mineral exploration, according to a notice in the official government gazette on Wednesday.
The area, which straddles the northern states of Amapá and Pará, is thought to contain rich deposits of gold, iron, manganese and other minerals.
A decree from President Michel Temer published in the gazette dissolved the protected area, known as the National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca) that covered roughly 4.6 million hectares (17,800 square miles).
Temer has been seeking to stimulate economic activity as Latin America’s top economy emerges from the worst economic crisis in more than a century.
Brazil’s mining and energy ministry had proposed lifting the protections in March to stimulate economic development.
The abolition of Renca does not lift other protections for native vegetation, nature conservation areas and indigenous land in the area, the decree said.
More than two-thirds of the Renca area that lies in Amapá state are subject to conservation controls or protections for indigenous areas that would limit mining, leaving only 31 percent open to research and exploration after the areas abolition, according to a 2010 government report. ||||| Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The reserve was created in 1984 by the then-military government
Brazil's government has abolished a vast national reserve in the Amazon to open up the area to mining.
The area, covering 46,000 sq km (17,800 sq miles), straddles the northern states of Amapa and Para, and is thought to be rich in gold, and other minerals.
The government said nine conservation and indigenous land areas within it would continue to be legally protected.
But activists have voiced concern that these areas could be badly compromised.
A decree from President Michel Temer abolished a protected area known as the National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca).
Its size is larger than Denmark and about 30% of it will be open to mining.
The mining and energy ministry says protected forest areas and indigenous reserves will not be affected.
"The objective of the measure is to attract new investments, generating wealth for the country and employment and income for society, always based on the precepts of sustainability," the ministry said in a statement.
But opposition Senator Randolfe Rodrigues denounced the move as "the biggest attack on the Amazon of the last 50 years", O Globo newspaper reported (in Portuguese).
Maurício Voivodic, head of the conservation body WWF in Brazil, warned last month that mining in the area would lead to "demographic explosion, deforestation, the destruction of water resources, the loss of biodiversity and the creation of land conflict".
Amazon culture clash
Loss of Indigenous lands threatens climate
Indigenous leaders fight for survival
According to the WWF report, the main area of interest for copper and gold exploration is in one of the protected areas, the Biological Reserve of Maicuru.
There is also said to be gold in the Para State forest, which lies within the area.
The WWF says there is potential for conflict too in two indigenous reserves that are home to various ethnic communities living in relative isolation.
WWF's report said that a "gold rush in the region could create irreversible damage to these cultures".
"If the government insisted on opening up these areas for mining without discussing environmental safeguards it will have to deal with an international outcry."
Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning ||||| Just under a third of the area (30 percent) was expected to be opened up to mining, which the government said will help create jobs, generate income and combat illegal mining. But activists argued that the move could damage the world's largest and most diverse tropical rainforest.
In a statement released last Wednesday, the government said permission to conduct mining would only be granted in areas not currently used for vegetation or homes.
"Permission to develop research and mining applies only to areas where there are no other restrictions, such as protection of native vegetation, conservation units, indigenous lands and areas in border strips."
However, Brazilian public policy coordinator of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Michel de Souza, said at the time that the announcement was a "catastrophe", which failed to consult the public and could leave the region vulnerable to corruption and conflict, O Globo reported.
The plans later prompted widespread campaigning by activists, celebrities, and Brazil's influential Catholic hierarchy, who criticized the plans.
Judge Ronaldo Spanholo, who ordered the suspension, said Wednesday that the government's plans were unconstitutional as they had failed to consult Congress, and added that the decree would "put at risk the environmental protection (of Renca) and the protection of local indigenous communities."
The government has said it will appeal the decision.
A report released by the WWF earlier this month warned that mining in the area would cause "demographic explosion, deforestation, the destruction of water resources, the loss of biodiversity and the creation of land conflict".
Renca has been protected from private mining since it was established as a national reserve in 1984.
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– The government says it's looking out for the economy and job growth; critics say it's "the biggest attack on the Amazon of the last 50 years." The BBC reports on a big move out of Brazil, where a protected area will be protected no more—at least in part. Located in Brazil's north, the 17,800-square-mile National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca) will be opened to commercial mining following Wednesday's scrapping of its protected status. The area is thought to be home to stores of gold, iron, and other minerals. Reuters explains much of Renca will actually still be protected, as nearly 70% of it is earmarked for indigenous peoples or under the conservation mandates of Amapa state, which it partially occupies. But critics see the potential for disaster. As the head of WWF-Brazil puts it, mining there could spur "demographic explosion, deforestation, the destruction of water resources, the loss of biodiversity, and the creation of land conflict." CNBC has the government's response: "Permission to develop research and mining applies only to areas where there are no other restrictions, such as protection of native vegetation, conservation units, indigenous lands, and areas in border strips."
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Stanley Donwood created all the album artwork for Atoms for Peace.
Stanley Donwood (born 29 October 1968) is the pen name of English artist and writer Dan Rickwood. He is best known for his work with the English alternative rock band Radiohead, having created all of their album and poster art since 1994, often in collaboration with Radiohead singer Thom Yorke. He also creates artwork for Yorke's solo albums and Yorke's band Atoms for Peace.
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Yes: Firefall, Red 5 Studios, а также все соответствующие логотипы и элементы дизайна являются зарегистрированными торговыми марками или торговыми марками компании Red 5 Studios, Inc.
Q: Translate "We tried to make lyrics as correct as possible, however if you have any corrections for J-Rump U Make Me Sick (Dopey-Dying Mix) lyrics, please feel free to submit them to us." to Russian?
Yes: Вы так же можете скачать перевод текста песни Eminem J-Rump U Make Me Sick (Dopey-Dying Mix) здесь . Мы стараемся сделать так, чтобы слова песни J-Rump U Make Me Sick (Dopey-Dying Mix) были наиболее точными, поэтому если у вас есть какие-то корректировки текста, пожалуйста отправляйте их нам.
Q: Translate "Promo-Lex Association also regrets the attitude and the behavior lacking neutrality from the behalf of representatives of the Russian Federation controlled peacekeeping forces." to Russian?
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output answer: Toisaalta esimerkiksi Holmes oli puheenvuorossaan huolissaan siitä, että edetään liian nopeasti lainsäädännön harmonisoinnissa ja hallintokäytäntöjen yhtenäistämisessä.
Q: Translate "Given the far-reaching consequences of demographic change, it needs to be considered from the point of view of the public administration and the social fabric, requiring the mobilisation of all economic, cultural and social operators in a structured analysis and debate on the various options as regards the measures to be taken." to Finnish?
Yes: Kun otetaan huomioon väestönkehitysmuutosten kauaskantoiset seuraukset, asiaa on harkittava julkishallinnon ja sosiaalisten rakenteiden näkökulmista. Tällöin taloudellisten, kulttuuristen ja sosiaalisten toimijoiden on lähdettävä liikkeelle suunnitelmien mukaan, ja eri toimenpidevaihtoehdoista on keskusteltava.
[Q]: Olemme samaa mieltä myös siitä, että askel on merkittävä myös Bosnia ja Hertsegovinalle sekä Euroopan unionille Bosnia ja Hertsegovinan eurooppalaisen tulevaisuuden vuoksi.
Translate this to English?
[A]: We also agree on the fact that it is important for them and also for the European Union because of the European perspective on Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Ensinnäkin mielestäni on tehtävä kaikki mahdolliset toimenpiteet, jotta voidaan vahvistaa Euroopan teollisuuden keskeinen asema maailmassa ja tarjota erityistä tukea pienille ja keskisuurille yrityksille, jotka ovat sisämarkkinoiden keskeinen pilari.
Could you please translate this to English?
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First of all, I think every possible effort must be made to reaffirm the key role of European industry on the world stage and to offer particular support to small and medium-sized enterprises, which form a vital pillar in the internal market.
test: Työntekijöiden oikeuksia on parannettava paitsi Euroopan unionin kansalaisten myös kaikkien muiden maiden kansalaisten hyväksi.
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translation: We need to enforce these rights, not only for the citizens of the European Union, but also for the citizens of other countries around the world.
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Yes: Emme voi jatkaa näin enää kauan.
Q: Translate "So we absolutely must do something about it!" to Finnish?
Yes: Meidän on siis ehdottomasti tehtävä tälle asialle jotain!
Q: Translate "Too often people would have us believe that the ultimate objective of a European common fisheries policy is to adapt the fisheries sector to globalised trade in fishery products, the extremely harsh effects of which we can see today, whether it be socially, economically or, of course, environmentally." to Finnish?
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Premise: Cheerleader, dressed in black and yellow, engage in a routine by an American football field.
Hypothesis: penguin at zoo
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Premise: A boy in red shorts is jumping into a swimming pool with a red chair beside it.
Hypothesis: A boy jumping into a pool.
Is the hypothesis true?
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Premise: A man in red scarf and white hat sits on a blanket on the ground, surrounded by cakes of a brown, fiber-like substance that he is apparently selling.
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F = ma is a common simplification of what?
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Bonnie Bartlett
Please answer this: who plays prince richard in the white princess?
Ned Elliott
Please answer this: where on earth was the hottest temperature ever recorded?
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The memoirs of an illegal alien
Being an undocumented worker in the United States has become more of a hot-button issue as there are now an estimated 11.2 million such people living in the U.S., and as the state of Arizona signed into law the country’s toughest bill on illegal immigration in April 2010.
With the specific aim to identify and deport illegal immigrants, Arizona’s law has been met with mixed feelings. Supporters of undocumented worker rights say the United States is a melting pot land, and should embrace its tradition of welcoming people of all origins to American shores. On the other hand, there are those who argue that America has limited resources to spare -– including water, roadways, healthcare and government services –- and that it’s unfair for those in the country illegally to have American rights and privileges.
One undocumented worker Fernando Briceño has told his personal story in a book, “Memoirs of an Illegal Alien,” in which he lays bare how he came to this country, why he wanted to stay, how his visa ran out, and how long it took him to obtain a green card.
It’s a humble story –- in 1986, he came to the U.S. from Ecuador. At age 19, he was a table tennis player in the U.S. Open in Miami; on that same visit he traveled to and fell in love with New York City. He wanted to stay in the country. He returned to the U.S. that same year and got married but was divorced before he obtained a green card. His first jobs were in places that offered no health insurance -– including a basement-level textile factory in Hoboken, N.J., where he earned $3.35 per hour.
“My first paycheck was $166. I was so proud,” he said.
Through a work permit, he says, he eventually worked for the Drug Enforcement Agency as a translator. He finally obtained a green card in July 2010.
From the chemicals he inhaled at the textile factory, he has developed pulmonary fibrosis, and now uses a portable oxygen machine.
When asked whether he regrets the work that was detrimental to his health, he said, “If I had to live my life all over again, I would do it all again.”
The self-published tome is a recollection of his experiences discovering this country, his hardships trying to become a citizen, and what it was like to live as an outsider. He dedicates the book to the undocumented workers currently in the U.S.
He said of illegal immigrants: “We live in the shadows. The good things we do –- we cannot publicize it. But when someone is caught with a backpack full of drugs or in a car accident, it’s all over the news.”
“We are the people who do the jobs that Americans don’t want to do. Who’s going to be picking the lettuce? The tomatoes for all the salads we are going to be eating for the next month?”
His take on the American Dream is inclusive and expansive; for him, he says, it is not about owning a car or a house. “The American Dream is not just for America. It lives in Africa, in Libya, in Japan. It lives everywhere. It would be selfish for Americans to think that the American Dream is just for Americans. It’s for everybody.”
He writes: “My initial years in the United States were very difficult, but I accepted the life I had to live, always thanking God for what I got. I believe it takes a fool to live his life thinking and regretting for the things that he doesn’t possess, and in the process, he will forget to enjoy the things that he does.”
Briceño is now 44 years old. He currently resides in Atlanta, and is still in need of a lung transplant.
Note: CBS Atlanta ran a feature on Briceno this week.
Photo: An immigration rally in downtown Los Angeles on May 1, 2010, heightened by the controversial Arizona law. Credit: Tony Pierce / Los Angeles Times
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Being an undocumented worker in the United States has become more of a hot-button issue as there are now an estimated 11.2 million such people living in the U.S., and as the state of Arizona signed into law the country’s toughest bill on illegal immigration in April 2010. With the...
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Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger whose posting of a sexually explicit photo of former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner led to the congressman's downfall, has died, his attorney confirmed Thursday. He was 43. Joel Pollak, editor-in-chief and in-house counsel for Breitbart's website, Breitbart.com, posted a statement confirming his death. "Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles," the statement read. "We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior." Ed Winter, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Coroner, said Breitbart was pronounced dead 19 minutes after midnight at UCLA Medical Center. An autopsy is planned for Friday, Winter said, but the Los Angeles Police Department said it is not investigating the circumstances of his death. Compassion and politics: Strange bedfellows. Breitbart was the first to post Weiner's infamous Twitter photos last year, in which the married congressman appeared barechested and in his underpants in pictures sent to a woman online. Weiner eventually stepped down amid the scandal. Breitbart's regular appearances on FOX News, his websites and his speeches to conservative groups made him a star on the right and a villain to the left. Republican presidential candidates quickly responded to news of Breitbart's death. Former Sen. Rick Santorum called him a "powerful force" who was "constantly out there driving and pushing." "What a huge loss, in my opinion, to our country and certainly to the conservative movement," Santorum said. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich tweeted: "Andrew Breitbart was the most innovative pioneer in conservative activist social media in America. He had great courage and creativity." And former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney called Breitbart a "brilliant entrepreneur, fearless conservative, loving husband and father." Breitbart was a driving force in the conservative tea party movement. In a posting on the Tea Party Nation website, blogger Judson Phillips wrote that Breitbart was an "amazing patriot" who "relished fighting those who would destroy this great country." Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a former GOP presidential contender, said Breitbart "fought for what he believed in, exposing government corruption and media bias. His spirited voice will be missed, but not forgotten." Breitbart came under heavy criticism in 2010 for posting an edited and incomplete video of a speech by Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod, who is black, appearing to say she discriminated against a white farmer looking for assistance. Sherrod was forced to resign over the video, which appeared on another of Breitbart's websites, BigJournalism.com. A full version of the speech showed that Sherrod had assisted the farmer. The department later offered her job back when it was clear she had been misrepresented. Sherrod issued a brief statement Thursday saying only she was surprised by the news and that her prayers go out to Breitbart's family. Opinion: How Andrew Breitbart changed news. "The news of Mr. Breitbart's death came as a surprise to me when I was informed of it this morning. My prayers go out to Mr. Breitbart's family as they cope during this very difficult time." Breitbart also posted video of a sting operation against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which showed conservative activists posing as a pimp and a prostitute seeking advice on how to set up a brothel. The video prompted a groundswell of action against the organization, including a limited investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and a slashing of funds from the federal government and several states. ACORN went bankrupt and closed its doors. Breitbart got his start helping to run the original right-wing online media behemoth the Drudge Report and helped launch The Huffington Post before founding his own websites. Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge on Thursday said Breitbart was a "constant source of energy, passion and commitment" in the site's early days and that the two "shared a love of headlines, a love of the news, an excitement about what's happening." The statement on Breitbart.com Thursday included a portion of the new conclusion he wrote to his book, "Righteous Indignation":. "I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and -- famously -- I enjoy making enemies. "Three years ago, I was mostly a behind-the-scenes guy who linked to stuff on a very popular website. I always wondered what it would be like to enter the public realm to fight for what I believe in. I've lost friends, perhaps dozens. But I've gained hundreds, thousands -- who knows? -- of allies. At the end of the day, I can look at myself in the mirror, and I sleep very well at night." CNN's Stan Wilson, Mark Preston, Richard Allen Greene, and Rachel Clarke contributed to this report.
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Breitbart was known for posting the Anthony Weiner Twitter photos last year. He was also criticized for an edited clip of federal worker Shirley Sherrod. He was a star on the right and a villain to the left. Breitbart got his start at the Drudge Report.
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The child was very good at reading, but not at math, because
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1. an amazing technical achievement, as the cameras get so close to the birds you would almost swear you could reach out and touch their feathers.
2. One of the most beautiful and stirring adventures in the natural world that I've ever seen on film.
3. In the tradition of the also nearly wordless Atlantis and Microcosmos
educational voiceover narration is superfluous: It's enough simply to see.
4. The movie is, in three words, beautiful beautiful beautiful.
5. It's a movie you sit back and marvel at.
6. Winged Migration soars, and lets us fly along for the ride.
7. A superior wildlife film, featuring such breathtaking images of wild birds in flight that the audience is constantly wondering 'how in the world did they get that shot?'
8. While the film is astonishing in its scope and accomplishment, categorizing Winged Migration as a documentary may be misleading.
9. All in such extreme close-up that you think the birds will whack the camera with their wings at any moment.
10. Um filme para ser visto na telona, e năo na tevę.
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input: What is the answer to this question? who played tom buchanan in the great gatsby?
output: Joel Edgerton
input: What is the answer to this question? who has been appointed as the new comptroller and auditor general of india?
output: Prime Minister of India
input: What is the answer to this question? who was the first black woman to win a grammy?
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Problem: Abdali invaded the Mughal Empire seven times from 1748 to 1767. According to Jaswant Lal Mehta, Durrani aroused the Afghans "religious passions" to fire and "sword into the land of infidels India." He crossed the Khyber pass in December 1747 with 40,000 troops for his first invasion of India. He occupied Peshawar without any opposition. He first crossed the Indus River in 1748, the year after his ascension - his forces sacked and absorbed Lahore. The following year , the Mughal ruler was induced to cede Sindh and all of the Punjab including the vital trans Indus River to him, in order to save his capital from being attacked by the forces of the Durrani Empire. Having thus gained substantial territories to the east without a fight, Durrani and his forces turned westward to take possession of Herat, which was ruled by Nader Shah's grandson, Shah Rukh. The city fell to the Afghans in 1750, after almost a year of siege and bloody conflict; the Afghan forces then pushed on into present-day Iran, capturing Nishapur and Mashhad in 1751. Durrani then pardoned Shah Rukh and reconstituted Khorasan, but a tributary of the Durrani Empire. This marked the westernmost border of the Afghan Empire as set by the Pul-i-Abrisham, on the Mashhad-Tehran road.
Which city was captured first by Abdali, Herat or Nishapur?
Answer: Herat
Problem: In the county, the population was spread out with 23.20% under the age of 18, 7.70% from 18 to 24, 27.00% from 25 to 44, 28.00% from 45 to 64, and 14.10% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.00 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.40 males.
How many percent were not 65 years of age or older?
Answer: 85.9
Problem: The Carolina Panthers earned their fourth straight victory by defeating the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium 23-21. QB Jake Delhomme passed for a career-high 365 yards while WR Steve Smith racked up 189 receiving yards and a touchdown, including a 72-yarder late in the fourth quarter. Also, WR Drew Carter had 4 receptions for 65 yards and a touchdown. Ravens quarterback Kyle Boller threw two touchdowns to WR Mark Clayton that both came off tips by the Panthers secondary after Ravens starter Steve McNair left the game in the first quarter with a concussion. With the victory, the Panthers improved to 4-2 and second in the NFC South, trailing the 5-1 Saints by one game.
Who is in first place in the NFC South?
Answer: Saints
Problem: Alluvial diamond and gold mining activities also account for some economic activity. In recent years , foreign investment from ArcelorMittal Steel, BHP Biliton, and China Union is aiding the revitalization of the iron-ore mining sector. Liberia has begun exploration for offshore oil; unproven oil reserves may be in excess of one billion barrels. The government divided its offshore waters into 17 blocks and began auctioning off exploration licenses for the blocks in 2004, with further auctions in 2007 and 2009. An additional 13 ultra-deep offshore blocks were demarcated in 2011 and planned for auction. Among the companies to have won licenses are Repsol, Chevron, Anadarko and Woodside Petroleum.
How many minerals being mined accounted for some economic activity?
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answer: The boy is alone in his house.
question: Write a brief sentence.
answer: Two woman are planting flowers in the garden.
question: Write a brief sentence.
answer: The man is hanging up a balloon.
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How is "Kovacevic explained that the figure excludes the cost of building new facilities." said in Romanian?
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Kovacevic a explicat că această cifră nu include costul construcţiei de noi centrale.
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Geri kalan 1,05 milyar avroluk kısmı ise portföy ve diğer yatırım türleri oluşturuyor. 1,9 milyar avroluk doğrudan dış yatırımın yüzde 68'i iyelik sermayesi biçiminde gerçekleşirken, geri kalanı da şirketler arası krediler ve diğer yatırım biçimlerinde görüldü.
Could you please translate this to English?
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Portfolio and other types of investment accounted for the other 1.05 billion euros. Out of the 1.9 billion euros of direct foreign investments, 68 per cent was in the form of ownership capital, while the rest was from intercompany loans and other forms of investment.
Question:
Fakat artık bu durum değişti.
Could you please translate this to English?
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Not any more.
Question:
Üsküp'e 20 km'den az mesafedeki Matka Kanyonu yeşil Makedon kırsalını keşfetmek için ideal bir yer.
Could you please translate this to English?
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Less than 20km southwest of Skopje, the Matka Canyon is an ideal spot to explore the green Macedonian countryside.
Question:
Romanya'nın 2006'daki ekonomik performansına ilişkin tahmin yürütmek riskli bir iş.
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Forecasting Romania's economic performance in 2006 is a risky business.
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Mei Li:
How many events are there in a decathlon ??
Shuai Zheng:
10
Mei Li:
Who plays Mrs Kay Miniver in the 1942 film ‘Mrs Miniver’??
Shuai Zheng:
greer garson
Mei Li:
The Bible. Who was the royal person who questioned the wisdom of Solomon??
Shuai Zheng:
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Sentence 1: is to have the drug testing
Sentence 2: It will happen on a random day.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?
Answer: it is not possible to tell
Sentence 1: so anyway i think that's the other side that
Sentence 2: I think that's the same side.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?
Answer: no
Sentence 1: They adopted Egyptian gods as their own and did much to prolong Egyptian culture rather than simply converting it to Greek.
Sentence 2: They adopted Egyptian gods as their own, replacing their Greek gods.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?
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Continue writing the following text.
Lawrence was out walking their dog when they ran into Donald who they did not like very well, so
Available choices:
(a). Lawrence got scared of the dog..
(b). Donald got scared of the dog..
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Does "The second controller lacked the START and SELECT buttons, but featured a small microphone." contain the correct answer to "What did the second Famicom controller have as a unique feature?"
OPTIONS:
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- no
A: yes
Does "Contemporary a cappella includes many vocal groups and bands who add vocal percussion or beatboxing to create a pop/rock/gospel sound, in some cases very similar to bands with instruments." contain the correct answer to "In place of instruments, what do some modern a cappella groups implement?"
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Does "The figure of the "tragic octoroon" was a stock character of abolitionist literature: a mixed-race woman raised as if a white woman in her white father's household, until his bankruptcy or death has her reduced to a menial position She may even be unaware of her status before being reduced to victimization." contain the correct answer to "What story was written by Child in 1842?"
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test: Anschließend laden Sie das Diablo JRE-Paket von http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml herunter und installieren es mit pkg_add(1) .
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translation: Then, download the Diablo JRE package from http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml , and install it with pkg_add(1) .
test: Die Möbeln und Dekorationen eines jeden Zimmers wurde so entworfen, damit Sie die Möglichkeit haben, die Umgebung verschiedener Zeitabschnitte der Geschichte auszuprobieren, in denen diese Generäle lebten.
English?
translation: The furniture and decoration of each room is designed to offer a unique opportunity to taste the ambiance of the various historical periods of these generals.
test: Es war kinderleicht, von Java 1.5 auf Java 1.6 Testen umzusatteln.
English?
translation: It's been a piece of cake to switch from testing with Java 1.5 to testing with Java 1.6.
test: Stören sie nicht die ruhe im bereich des ortes - alle häuser sind bewohnt.
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question: Answer this question.
At which Paris airfield did Charles Lindbergh complete the first solo transatlantic flight in 1927?
answer: le bourget
question: Answer this question.
According to the Bible, what was the name of Noah’s second son?
answer: ham
question: Answer this question.
What was the first spin-off from The Beverly Hillbillies called?
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Q: Who featured on Melanie C's number one single Never Be The Same Again in 2000, and died in a car accident in 2002?
A: lisa left eye lopes
Q: Who designed the Cenotaph in London?
A: lutyens
Q: What is the name of the eponymous hunch-backed court jester in Verdi’s opera of 1851?
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Input: OPTIONS:
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- It's impossible to say
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Well, I'm not for photo licensing. Let me say something about Columbine. Listen, we've got gun laws. He says we ought to have gun-free schools. Everybody believes that. I'm sure every state in the union has got them. You can't carry a gun into a school. And there ought to be a consequence when you do carry a gun into a school.
Sentence: The speaker knows people from Columbine.
Output: It's impossible to say
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
How to grow african daisy (arctotis )<br>Find an area with plenty of sunlight. African daisies thrive in full sun exposure. The spot you choose shouldn't experience any prolonged periods of shade (no more than an hour or so) during daylight hours.
Sentence: Some daisies are African.
Output: Yes
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A Kenyan lady, Kidd Aj posted photos of her bloodied face, writing: “This nigga jus beat me like a dog.. Most f**ked up part is I didn’t even throw the first hit Oh and I’m pregnant with this Nigga second child but obviously nobody gaf. This is the first this nigga ever laid his hands on me & this will Be the LAST. I left & I’m not Lookin Back”
Sentence: The couple's favorite song to dance to was one dance by drake
Output: It's impossible to say
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
"I Don't Know What It Is" is a song written and performed by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright. It was the first single from Wainwright's third studio album "Want One" and was released in a slim-line jewel case format on July 26, 2004.
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input: TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Police in Georgia have detained a high-profile priest who is suspected of plotting to poison a senior cleric, prosecutors said on Monday.
The announcement comes after well-respected Rustavi 2 television channel reported about an attempt to poison Patriarch Ilia, head of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
Irakli Shotadze, chief prosecutor in the former Soviet republic, told reporters on Monday that Father Georgi Mamaladze was arrested at the Tbilisi airport on Friday with cyanide in his suitcase. Mamaladze, chief of the property department of the Georgian Orthodox Church, was on his way to Germany where Ilia is undergoing hospital treatment.
Shotadze said the arrest was made after prosecutors received a tip from a man who reported that he had been contacted by a priest looking to buy cyanide. Police also found weapons at Mamaladze's home.
Shotadze refused to name the senior cleric that Mamaladze is suspected of having targeted.
The 84-year old Ilia has been in poor health for several years, and was visibly frail when he welcomed Pope Francis to Georgia in October.
Eka Beseliya, chairwoman of the parliamentary committee on legal issues, said Mamaladze's arrest "has prevented a grave crime" but she said she was unable to disclose details of the case since it is classified. Beseliya added, however, that the patriarch's "security and health are protected absolutely."
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This story has been corrected to show that prosecutors have not linked the plot to Ilia. ||||| Image copyright AP Image caption There are suspicions that Georgian Church Patriarch Ilia II was the target
Georgian police have arrested a priest suspected of plotting to poison a top figure in the Georgian Orthodox Church.
Prosecutors said cyanide was found in Fr Giorgi Mamaladze's luggage when he was detained at Tblisi airport on Friday, before he could fly to Germany.
The head of the Georgian Church, Patriarch Ilia II, is being treated in hospital in Germany. Ilia might have been the target, but that is not clear.
The government said Georgia had "averted a major disaster".
"A treacherous attack on the Church has been prevented," said Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili.
The patriarch underwent successful gallbladder surgery on Monday.
Image copyright AFP Image caption More than 80% of Georgia's 4.5m people call themselves Orthodox Christians
Fr Mamaladze heads the Church's property department and manages a medical centre in Georgia.
Speaking on Georgian Rustavi-2 TV, Prosecutor-General Irakli Shotadze said a home-made gun was found when police searched Fr Mamaladze's home.
The priest had asked someone - not identified - to sell him cyanide, and that person had tipped off the police, Mr Shotadze said.
Patriarch Ilia, 84, has run the Georgian Orthodox Church since 1977. Repressed in Soviet times, the Church has enjoyed a big revival since Georgian independence in 1991.
More than 80% of Georgia's 4.5m people call themselves Orthodox Christians, according to census figures. |||||
summary: – It sounds like an odd espionage thriller, but it's all too true in the Republic of Georgia: Police busted a priest traveling with cyanide and say he meant to kill a high-ranking member of the Georgian Orthodox Church. Father Georgi Mamaladze, who runs the church's property department, was arrested Friday as he was attempting to fly to Berlin with the cyanide in his suitcase, reports the BBC. Police say they were tipped off by an individual whom Mamaladze had asked for the chemical. Authorities haven't identified his alleged target, but Mamaladze was on his way to meet with the church's longtime leader, Patriarch Ilia II, reports the Guardian. The 84-year-old patriarch, head of the church since 1977, was in Germany awaiting gallbladder surgery at the time of Mamaladze's arrest, reports Christian Today. The surgery went off without a hitch on Monday. A Georgian government official wouldn't comment on whether Ilia was the target but said his "security and health are protected absolutely," per the AP. Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili said "a crime against our country, a perfidious attack on our church, has been prevented." Mamaladze has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder. Authorities did not speculate about a motive.
input: A woman with a wooden stick in her hand tried to rob a San Pedro bank Monday morning but was quickly arrested, police said.
The woman walked into the Bank of America branch at Ninth Street and Pacific Avenue about 9 a.m. She had the stick in her hand and handed a note demanding cash to a teller. She also claimed to have a gun.
The teller did not give her anything, so she walked away. A security guard followed her, giving police her location. Officers arrived and took her into custody, police said.
The woman’s name was not immediately released. ||||| A woman armed with a stick attempted to rob a bank in San Pedro Monday morning, police said.The incident was reported at a Bank of America near W. 9th Street and S. Pacific Avenue at about 9 a.m.The female suspect, who claimed to have a gun, threatened customers and employees inside the bank. It was unclear if she fled the scene with money.Witnesses followed the suspect and alerted police, who then took her into custody a few blocks away. |||||
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– In what's surely the saddest bank-robbery attempt of 2016 so far, cops say a California woman tried to rob a bank, and it may have been her intimidating weapon-of-choice that caused her criminal endeavors to crash and burn. Per the Daily Breeze, the woman allegedly walked into a Bank of America in San Pedro Monday morning, sauntered up to a teller, and handed over a note demanding cash. Police report she claimed to have a gun in her pocket, and in one hand she wielded … a stick. The Breeze says the teller didn't give her anything, and KABC notes she fled the scene and was nabbed by cops a few blocks away thanks to some witnesses who followed her. (Not quite a spaghetti-sauce bomb, though.)
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How is "Officials say both developments reflect the country's desire to become a key contributor to regional stability and security." said in Turkish?
Yetkililer, iki gelişmenin de ülkenin bölgesel istikrar ve güvenliğin önemli yapı taşlarından biri olma arzusunu yansıttığını söylüyorlar.
How is "He has attacked his predecessor, Andro Vlahusic, for signing the computerisation contract just three days before leaving office." said in Turkish?
Bakan öncülü olan Andro Vlahusiç'e, bilgisayara geçiş anlaşmasını görevi bırakmadan üç gün önce imzaladığı için eleştirdi.
How is "But critics say the increase is uncalled for at a time when the country's water reserves are at an all time high." said in Turkish?
Ancak zammın, ülkenin su rezervlerinin rekor seviyede yüksek olduğu bir dönemde gereksiz olduğunu görüşünde olanlar da var.
How is "Southeast European Times: Mr Ambassador, what do you think about recent developments in Southeast Europe?" said in Turkish?
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Southeast European Times: Sayın Büyükelçi, Güneydoğu Avrupa'da yaşanan son gelişmelere ilişkin görüşleriniz neler?
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Q: Minnesota Vikings running back has been suspended for the rest of the 2014 season. NFL says he violated league's personal conduct policy in incident with 4-year-old son. Appeals officer holds up the suspension.
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A: The NFL has denied Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson's appeal of a season-long suspension, league spokesman Greg Aiello tweeted Friday night. The decision was made by appeals officer Harold Henderson. Henderson said, "I conclude that the player has not demonstrated that the process and procedures surrounding his discipline were not fair and consistent," according to Aiello's tweet. In November, Peterson was suspended without pay for the rest of the 2014 season because he violated the league's personal conduct policy "in an incident of abusive discipline that he inflicted on his 4-year-old son last May," the league said. The National Football League Players Association said: "The NFLPA expected this outcome, given the hearing officer's relationship and financial ties to the NFL. The decision itself ignores the facts, the evidence and the collective bargaining agreement. "This decision also represents the NFL's repeated failure to adhere to due process and confirms its inconsistent treatment of players. Our union is considering immediate legal remedies." Henderson is a former NFL executive, according to the ESPN website.
Q: The newly released photo was taken last year when the couple dined out at a Los Angeles steak house. On Tuesday, Sterling talked about the recent sale of the Clippers while attending a charity dinner. The 80-year-old said 'everything is just the way it should be' The NBA's Board of Governors was set to vote Sterling to sell his team, but that vote was cancelled when he transferred ownership to his wife. Last week, Shelly Sterling sold the team to ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2billion. Shelly Sterling was also spotted out last night, dining at Craig's Steakhouse in West Hollywood.
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A: A new picture of V. Stiviano and ex-lover Donald Sterling was released today, giving another taste of the May-December couple's strange dynamic. In the image exclusively obtained by InTouch, Stiviano jokingly holds a knife up to Sterling's throat while dining out at a Los Angeles steak house a year ago - a symbolic omen of the backstabbing to come. 'It was typical V., being crazy,' Rachel Rodriguez, a former friend of the couple, told the magazine. Scroll down for video. Donald Sterling smiles while ex-girlfriend V Stiviano holds a steak knife to his throat in a never-before seen image of the couple taken last year. Stiviano went on to get Sterling banned from the NBA, when she recorded Sterling's racial slurs during private conversations. This. latest photo was released just a day after Sterling told a reporter he's. 'feeling fabulous' after losing ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers. The. 80-year-old real estate mogul attended a charity event for the homeless. in Los Angeles Tuesday night were he was cornered by a reporter for NBC 4 who asked him how he's dealing with the loss. 'I. feel fabulous, I feel very good,' Sterling said. 'Everything is just. the way it should be really. It may have worked out differently, but. it's good. It's all good.' 'I'm OK, I'm OK,' Sterling added. 'Is the NBA OK? I'm not sure about that. Is (NBA Commissioner) Adam Silver OK? I'm sure he's OK.' Sterling said he's ready to 'move on' from the scandal. ''It's all good': Donald Sterling said he's feeling fine after losing ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers over racist remarks. Cornered: Sterling was asked about the ownership change while attending a charity event in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday night. The NBA's Board of Governors was. prepared to force Sterling to sell his team after tapes were leaked in. which he told his girlfriend V.Stiviano not to bring black people to his. games. But that vote was called off by the NBA on Friday, after he transferred ownership to estranged wife Shelly Sterling. Last week, Shelly sold the team to ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for a record $2billion. Shelly Sterling also dined out Tuesday night, and was photographed outside celebrity hotspot Craig's Steakhouse in West Hollywood. Payday: Shelly Sterling is pictured smiling as she enters Craig's Steakhouse in West Hollywood Tuesday evening. She sold the Clippers to ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last week for a whopping $2billion. Mrs Sterling was overwhelmed by cameras as she exited the restaurant later Tuesday evening. Shelly Sterling is seen leaving Craig's steak house Tuesday evening. She is currently in the process of finalizing the sale to Ballmer. The Board of Governors will need to vote to approve the sale to finalize it. The vote was called off the same day Sterling's attorneys filed a lawsuit against the NBA and Silver, asking for damages over $1billion. It's still uncertain whether he plans to continue with the suit. Meanwhile, V. Stiviano is facing problems of her own. In New York on Sunday, Stiviano claims she was beat up in a racial-motivated attack outside the Gansevoort Hotel. She says she was attacked by two men and called a 'n***** b****'. She shared pictured of her battered face, but when she later stepped out that day she was blemish free. Bruises: Stiviano was allegedly injured in a racially-motivated attack on Sunday, outside the Gansevoort Hotel in New York City.
Q: Florida Gov. Charlie Crist wants BP to pay $35 million for tourism ads. BP says it will continue using Corexit dispersant to clean up Gulf spill. Corexit has been rated more toxic, less effective than other EPA-approved products.
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Officials in Panama City, Florida, have beaten construction delays, permit problems and the ever-present threat of hurricanes to arrive at this day: a new airport that will open the region to the world and bring in planeloads of tourism dollars. But as regular air service begins Sunday, authorities never thought they'd have to contend with a new threat: an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that continues to gush thousands of gallons of crude every day. "We've been getting calls ever since the oil spill occurred," said Dan Rowe of the Panama City Visitors' Bureau. "You know, wondering about their vacation plans." Tourism, Rowe said, is the largest industry in Panama City. The $318-million Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport is the first international airport to open in the country since 1997. "It is really going to be an economic driver for all of northwest Florida's economy for years to come," he said. The new airport is expected to generate approximately $80 million in new state revenues over the first 20 years of operation. But the challenge, now, is to convince tourists that the water is clean. "We'll get through the oil spill," Rowe said. "There's no oil on Panama City Beach or any of the beaches in northwest Florida." Indeed, the spill is more than 100 miles away from Panama City Beach's coastline. Local officials have said that if it comes ashore, they will swiftly deal with it. Yet, beach towns across the Gulf coast have seen business slide precipitously as tar balls -- pieces of emulsified oil -- wash ashore along the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist asked oil company BP, which owns the damaged well at the heart of the slick, to pay for a $35 million advertising blitz to reassure tourists that Florida beaches remain untarnished by the spill. Oil has been gushing into the Gulf at the rate of about 5,000 barrels a day (210,000 gallons) since late April, when the drill rig Deepwater Horizon blew up and sank about 40 miles off Louisiana. Some estimates have put the amount of oil spewing from the well far higher. Eleven workers are missing and presumed dead after the explosion and sinking, and the cause has not been determined. Efforts to shut down the well that was ripped open by the accident have failed so far, though BP says it has been able to capture some of the escaping oil and pump it to a ship on the surface. The company also said it will continue using a controversial subsea dispersant to break up the plume of oil, pushing back against a directive from the Environmental Protection Agency to find a less toxic alternative, the EPA indicated Saturday. The EPA issued the directive on Thursday, ordering BP to find within 24 hours a less toxic but equally effective chemical than its current product, Corexit 9500, and one that is available in sufficient quantities. The directive also gave the company 72 hours to stop applying it to the undersea gusher. Corexit has been rated more toxic and less effective than many others on the list of 18 EPA-approved dispersants, according to testimony at a congressional hearing Wednesday. The EPA released BP's response to the mandate on Saturday. The response, which BP submitted late Thursday night, said that the oil company identified the only other effective, less toxic alternative available in mass quantities as Sea Brat 4. However, BP said the Sea Brat product "contains a small amount of a chemical that may degrade to a nonylphenol." Nonylphenol is an organic chemical that is toxic to aquatic life and may persist in the environment for years. Corexit, however, "does not contain chemicals that degrade into NP (and) the manufacturer indicates that Corexit reaches its maximum bio-degradability within 28 days of application" and does not persist in the environment, BP's response said. "Based on the information that is available today, BP continues to believe that Corexit was the best and most appropriate choice at the time when the incident occurred, and that Corexit remains the best option for subsea application," BP said. Also Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will lead a bipartisan Senate delegation to inspect the Louisiana coastline after globs of thick, heavy oil began washing into some of the state's marshlands this week. The delegation will meet with federal officials and BP representatives to discuss the ongoing response efforts. CNN's Ed Lavandera contributed to this report.
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Summarize the argument implied by these sentences. 1. Wealthy business owners and corporations use state utilities far more than poorer individuals quite often , when for example they use public roads to move their vast fleets of trucks , while individuals only drive their personal car .
2. Warren Buffett , for example , has argued that he could never have amassed anywhere near the sort of wealth he has in a country without the rule of law , such as Bangladesh .
3. First , they have more to lose in the absence of the state .
4. Wealthier people benefit from the state more than do those who are worse off for two reasons .
5. A rich person has much more to lose should there be a reversion to the state of nature ; nothing would shield him from the mob .
6. Without the rule of law , people would no longer be bound by any power to respect one anothers property rights .
7. It does so by funding it through taxation , and those who have more to lose have a greater interest in paying more to ensure its continuity .
8. For this reason it is in the interest of the wealthy to preserve the just rule of law in the state and to uphold its institutions .
9. It is only within a state system that maintains order and provides vital services that markets can form and be maintained .
10. The second benefit the rich have is that they have gained more from the state than have the poor and less well off .
Answer:
Those who have more owe more to the state
Question:
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences. 1. Attempting to avoid this through a limited system which allowed for the prosecution of apolitical crimes but immunity for political decisions would fail to accomplish the goals of prosecution of politicians , which is primarily to protect against political abuses of state power which threaten the rights of the citizenry .
2. Crawford , Robert , Torture and the Ideology of National Security , Vol .12 No. 1 , Winter/Spring 2010 , -LRB- A Risk-Averse CIA subsection -RRB- -LSB- Accessed 22 September 2011 -RSB-
3. While documented instances of policy-makers choosing not to act for a particular reason are rare , several senior CIA officials stated that they had become risk averse merely because the idea of prosecuting officials who made security policy had entered the public discourse .
4. We ought to place politicians in a situation where the only factor in their decision-making process is what serves the public interest , rather than having to weigh what they consider to be the right action against the chance it will lead to their incarceration .
5. While it is certainly possible to brazenly abuse this power , in many cases politicians are presented with options which are , if at all illegal , marginally so , and made with the good faith interest of the nation at heart .
6. There are even conceivable situations in which a politician may exercise options that are clearly illegal but serve an overwhelming state interest ; consider an illegal raid on a private building in order to prevent a nuclear bomb from going off .
7. This results in the tremendous responsibility of deciding when the overwhelming power of the state is exercised .
8. This pertains to a variety of areas , such as police action against civil unrest , the interrogation of both alleged and convicted terrorists , and economic policies that subsidize industries with state resources .
9. By the most popular definition , a state is the entity with the monopoly on the legitimate use of force within a defined territory .
10. Politicians , as the government of that state , necessarily wield the institutions of that state force .
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Politicians should be able to make difficult decisions without fear that selecting one option will lead to their incarceration.
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Summarize the argument implied by these sentences. 1. Australias introduction of a graduate tax has been successful enough to allow university places to grow rapidly following its introduction with participation from both high and low income groups increasing by approximately one third .
2. -LRB- Chapman , B. 1997 -RRB- .
3. A graduate tax is the best way to increase access to higher education without massively burdening the government with an open-ended financial commitment .
4. It is not a deterrent to the poorer students in the way fees and loans-based schemes are and which simply appear to block access , yet it still delivers sufficient extra capital to fund the increase of students entering university .
5. Therefore , a graduate tax removes the expensive barriers to entry that had previously kept out low-income groups , whilst not discouraging the high-income groups from tertiary education .
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Here is an email: John, Attached is the Transco guaranty with further revisions. The following items of note were revised. 1. Transco added language stating that this is a performance guaranty. Enron will only provide a payment guaranty. Enron does not have the means to ensure performance by the LLC. Thus the language needs to clearly identify that this is a payment guaranty. As long as Transco gets paid for the transport, I am not sure why this matters. 2. Transco would be able to collect interest for late payments under their tariff. Putting late payment interest in the guaranty would give Transco the ability to recover double interest on late payments. Thus, the interest language in the guaranty was removed. Please review the revised guaranty. I would be happy to discuss these issues with Transco's attorney's at their convenience. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks.
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Twelve people have won all four major annual American entertainment awards in a competitive, individual (non-group) category of the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards. Respectively, these awards honor outstanding achievements in television, recording, film, and theater. Winning all four awards has been referred to as winning the ``grand slam'' of American show business.
Can we conclude that has anyone won a tony oscar emmy and grammy?
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Just as we saw co-operation between the various levels of governments, the business community and the community at large to establish this park, so too will we see those types of partnerships come together to make sure that this park has both the protection of the ecosystem as well as the generation of new economic development primarily through tourism in this important area in the province of Quebec.
The government helped establish this park. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
input hypothesis: There are multiple parts in ruby rose hair.
Context: How to do ruby rose hair<br>Begin with clean hair. Use the handle of a rat-tail comb to make a part just above your left and right eyebrows. Angle both of the parts so that they meet at the back-center of your head.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: Yes
Context:
The University of Maine at Machias held its annual Honors Convocation on April 25 and presented more than $71,000 in scholarships and awards. The event was held in the campus Performing Arts Center and featured a welcome message from Susan Hunter, President of University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias.
Hypothesis: The event was held off campus OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
No
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
How to shoot a lacrosse ball<br>Grip toward the bottom of the stick with your non-dominant hand. The bottom hand acts as a fulcrum, or pivot point, for the leverage of the stick. Your hand should be wrapped around the stick with your thumb near your body and your knuckles outward.
Sentence: If you grip the stick by utilizing your dominant had as the bottom fulcrum or pivot point, the other hand should be holding the bottom of the stick.
Output: No
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
New Zealand's Qualifications Authority said Friday that it still strongly discourages students from using anything other than full English, but that credit will be given if the answer "clearly shows the required understanding," even if it contains text-speak.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: New Zealand's Qualifications Authority encourages students to use their native language, whatever it may be.
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Answer:
No
When it was first announced there would be another Grinch movie, not many were pleased. After the flop that was the 2000 live-action adaptation, another version of the green Christmas-hating creature was always going to be under heavy scrutiny. The Grinch, voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, premiers in cinemas on Friday, November 9. Some like to know whether it's worth heading to the cinemas before taking the risk.
"Grinch" has more than one letter but less than ten letters. OPTIONS:
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- It's impossible to say
- No
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In the following years, the Lüneburg countryside was devastated by numerous battles and campaigns. These, however, were only partly due to the succession conflict - in addition there was wanton arson and looting by robber barons. In addition to the Ascanians and the Welfs, foreign towns and princes were increasingly involved as allies. Thus Magnus entered into a military alliance with the Danish king. In 1373, at an specially arranged meeting in Pirna, an imperial mediation attempt took place. Since Magnus did not appear, however, the Imperial Ban against him was renewed and fighting continued. In 1373, Duke Magnus was killed in a battle at Leveste on the Deister on 25 July 1373. After his death, a treaty - the Reconciliation of Hanover - was agreed between Wenceslas and his nephew Albert, on the one hand, and the widow of Magnus II and her sons on the other. According to the treaty, the estates of the Principality were to pay homage both to the Welfs and to the Ascanians, and the two noble houses would govern the state alternately. Initially, the land would be given to the two Ascanians from Wittenberg, and after their death it would go to the sons of the fallen Duke Magnus II. After their death, rule of the Principality was to revert to the Ascanians. In order to underpin the agreement, in 1374 Albert of Saxe-Lüneburg married Catharina, the widow of Magnus II. The two still underage sons were also married in 1386 to members of the Ascanian house. Frederick of Brunswick-Lüneburg married Anna of Saxe-Wittenberg and Bernard of Brunswick-Lüneburg married Margareta of Saxony, both women were daughters of Wenceslas. The treaty also envisaged the creation of a statutory body representing the estates, which was to supervise the treaty.
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Nous félicitons vivement le Gouvernement et le peuple panaméens d'avoir été choisis, par le Groupe des États d'Amérique latine et des Caraïbes et à l'initiative du Guatemala et du Venezuela, pour être candidats au siège à pourvoir par notre région au Conseil de sécurité pour la période 2007-2008.
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To the Government and people of Panama, we extend our heartfelt congratulations for their selection by the Latin American and Caribbean Group, on the initiative of Guatemala and Venezuela, to be proposed to the General Assembly as the consensus candidate to represent our region in the Security Council during the 2007-2008 biennium.
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Hokkien /hɒˈkiɛn/ (traditional Chinese: 福建話; simplified Chinese: 福建话; pinyin: Fújiànhuà; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hok-kiàn oē) or Quanzhang (Quanzhou–Zhangzhou / Chinchew–Changchew; BP: Zuánziū–Ziāngziū) is a group of mutually intelligible Min Nan Chinese dialects spoken throughout Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and by many other overseas Chinese. Hokkien originated from a dialect in southern Fujian. It is closely related to the Teochew, though mutual comprehension is difficult, and is somewhat more distantly related to Hainanese. Besides Hokkien, there are also other Min and Hakka dialects in Fujian province, most of which are not mutually intelligible with Hokkien.
Try to answer this question if possible (otherwise reply "unanswerable"): What language is Hokkien distantly related to?
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input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER X.
HAL IS ACCUSED.
When Hal Carson locked himself into the closet of the club-room, he realized that he was in a perilous position.
Supposing somebody undertook to open the door? They might suppose it very strange to find the door locked, and think it necessary to open it, in which case he would be discovered in short order.
He remained perfectly quiet for a long while and heard Churchley admitted, and heard the man seat himself at the center table, and rustle the paper he was perusing.
Of the conversation carried on by Ferris and Hardwick, he heard nothing further, and he was, consequently, totally in the dark concerning the nefarious plot that had been formed to get him into serious trouble.
Ten minutes passed, and the youth began to wonder how long he would have to remain a self-made prisoner.
Then all became quiet in the room beyond, and he wondered if Churchley had not joined the two in the adjoining apartment.
He peered through the key-hole, but could see nothing but a portion of the wall opposite.
Growing bolder, he turned the key in the lock, and cautiously opened the door for the space of several inches. Looking out, he saw that Churchley still sat at the table, which was but a few feet away.
At that instant the man moved and gave a deep breath. Hal thought he intended to look around, and hastily closed the door once more.
The youth's movement was so quick that the door made a sharp sound as the catch clicked. This was followed by the sound made by the key in the lock as Hal once more imprisoned himself. 1. Who was having a conversation?
2. Who closed himself into the closet?
3. Where was the closet?
4. How long passed before he started to wonder how long he'd be there?
5. Who was still sitting at the table when he opened the door a little?
6. How far away was he?
7. What made a sharp sound?
8. What did he see when he looked through the key hole?
9. What did he realize once he locked himself in?
10. What did he think someone might do if they found the door locked?
11. What did he hear Churley rustle?
12. What was he in the dark about?
13. What did he wonder after it became quiet?
14. What chapter is this?
15. What's the title?
16. Is Hal old?
17. Where was Churchley sitting?
18. How old was he?
19. Why did the door make a sound?
20. What sound was it followed by?
numbered_answers: 1. Of the conversation carried on by Ferris and Hardwick
2. Hal Carson
3. the club-room
4. Ten minutes
5. Churchley
6. a few feet
7. the door
8. a portion of the wall opposite.
9. that he was in a perilous position.
10. think it necessary to open it,
11. the paper he was perusing.
12. the nefarious plot that had been formed to get him into serious trouble
13. if Churchley had not joined the two in the adjoining apartment.
14. X.
15. HAL IS ACCUSED.
16. no
17. at the table
18. unknown
19. the catch clicked.
20. the sound made by the key
input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Los Angeles (CNN) -- The co-author of a study on propofol addiction funded by AEG Live and used in their defense in the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial lost his medical license for writing illegal drug prescriptions, according to testimony.
Dr. Torin Finver was hired to help with the AEG Live study after he lost his job at a pizza parlor and took a job driving a Goodwill truck, said Dr. Paul Earley, who testified Wednesday as an expert witness for the concert promoter.
Finver was "destitute, dead broke, and I wanted to help him," Earley, himself a recovering heroin addict, testified.
The revelation was a bizarre twist in the trial of the billion-dollar lawsuit filed by Jackson's mother and three children, which is being heard by a Los Angeles jury. The four-month-long trial is nearing a conclusion.
AEG Live lawyers will announce if they have any more witnesses to call before playing the video depositions of three more doctors on Friday. Jackson lawyers would then take several days to call rebuttal witnesses before closing arguments are heard, which is likely to happened around September 23.
Earley testified that he never disclosed to AEG Live lawyers that his co-author had lost his medical license. Ironically, the company is being accused of the negligent hiring of Dr. Conrad Murray, convicted in Jackson's death because it allegedly failed to check Murray's background before hiring him.
Jackson lawyer Kevin Boyle also grilled Earley over his nondisclosure that he was working as a paid consultant in AEG Live's defense when he submitted the study for publication in a medical journal. 1. What was the study about?
2. Who funded it?
3. What was the case about?
4. Who is Dr. Torin Finver?
5. Where did he worked before?
6. Is Earley a Heroin addict?
7. Who filed the lawsuit?
8. Where was it filed?
9. How long was the trail?
10. Which date is the likely date of conclusion?
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1. propofol addiction
2. AEG Live
3. MJ wrongful death trial
4. Dr. Torin Finver was hired to help with the AEG Live study
5. pizza parlor
6. YEs
7. Michael Jackon's mother and 3 kids
8. Los Angeles
9. 4 months
10. September 23
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CHAPTER ELEVEN
EXPERIMENTS
"The first of June! The Kings are off to the seashore tomorrow, and I'm free. Three months' vacation--how I shall enjoy it!" exclaimed Meg, coming home one warm day to find Jo laid upon the sofa in an unusual state of exhaustion, while Beth took off her dusty boots, and Amy made lemonade for the refreshment of the whole party.
"Aunt March went today, for which, oh, be joyful!" said Jo. "I was mortally afraid she'd ask me to go with her. If she had, I should have felt as if I ought to do it, but Plumfield is about as gay as a churchyard, you know, and I'd rather be excused. We had a flurry getting the old lady off, and I had a fright every time she spoke to me, for I was in such a hurry to be through that I was uncommonly helpful and sweet, and feared she'd find it impossible to part from me. I quaked till she was fairly in the carriage, and had a final fright, for as it drove of, she popped out her head, saying, 'Josyphine, won't you--?' I didn't hear any more, for I basely turned and fled. I did actually run, and whisked round the corner where I felt safe."
"Poor old Jo! She came in looking as if bears were after her," said Beth, as she cuddled her sister's feet with a motherly air.
"Aunt March is a regular samphire, is she not?" observed Amy, tasting her mixture critically. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. When will the Kings depart?
2. what date?
3. Is Meg happy about it?
4. Who was home when she arrived?
5. Did Jo greet her at the door?
6. what was she doing?
7. Was Beth making lemonade?
8. who did?
9. What was Beth doing?
10. were they clean?
11. Why was Amy making lemonade?
12. What was Jo afraid of?
13. to where?
14. why didn't she want to go?
15. What did Beth say Jo looked like?
16. Are Jo and beth cousins?
17. are they related?
18. how?
19. what did she do to Jo's feet?
20. with what?
Answer: 1. tomorrow
2. "The first of June
3. yes
4. Jo, Beth and Amy
5. no
6. laying upon the sofa
7. no
8. Amy
9. taking her boots off
10. no
11. for the refreshment of the whole party
12. that Aunt March would ask her to go with her
13. Plumfield
14. because she says it's as gay as a churchyard
15. as if bears were after her,
16. no
17. yes
18. they're sisters
19. cuddled them
20. a motherly air
Problem: Mr. Laurence was not allowed to see Beth, and Meg felt unhappy writing letters to her mother saying nothing about Beth's illness. Jo nursed Beth night and day, but the time came when Beth did not know her and called for her mother. Jo was frightened, and Meg begged to be allowed to write the truth, but Hannah said there was no danger yet. Then a letter came saying that Mr. March was worse and could not think of coming home for a long time.
How dark the days seemed. How sad and lonely. The sisters worked and waited as the shadow of death lay over the once happy home. It was then that Meg realized how rich she had been in the things which really mattered--love, peace, good health. And Jo, watching her little sister, thought about how unselfish Beth always was--living for others and trying to make home a happy place for all who came there. Amy, sad and lonely at Aunt March's house, just wanted to come home so that she could do something to help Beth.
On the first day of December, the doctor came in the morning. He looked at Beth, then said quietly, 'If Mrs. March can leave her husband, I think she should come home now.'
Jo threw on her coat and ran out into the snow to send a telegram. When she arrived back, Laurie came with a letter saying that Mr. March was getting better again. This was good news, but Jo's face was so unhappy that Laurie asked, 'What is it? Is Beth worse?'
'I've sent for Mother,' said Jo, beginning to cry. 'Beth doesn't know us any more.'
Laurie held her hand and whispered, 'I'm here, Jo. Hold on to me. Your mother will be here soon, and then everything will be all right.'
1. Who felt bad about writing letters?
2. To whom?
3. What''s her name?
4. Was Mr. Laurence barred from seeing someone?
5. What happened to her?
6. did the doctor see her?
7. When?
8. Did he suggest something?
9. Where did Jo go?
10. How was the weather then?
11. What did Laurie bring?
12. Was that a good message?
13. How Jo reacted?
14. Why?
15. Did anyone console her?
16. Did she expect her mother will be okay?
17. What Meg realized in a sad day?
18. What Jo thought about Beth then?
19. Where Amy wanted to go?
20. Where she is now?
Answer: 1. Meg felt unhappy writing letters
2. writing letters to her mother
3. 'If Mrs. March can leave her husband,
4. Mr. Laurence was not allowed to see Beth
5. ame when Beth did not know her and called for her mothe
6. , the doctor came in the morning. He looked at Beth,
7. On the first day of December, the doctor came
8. f Mrs. March can leave her husband, I think she should come home now.'
9. ran out into the snow to send a telegram
10. snow to send a telegram.
11. Laurie came with a letter
12. This was good news
13. aid Jo, beginning to cry.
14. Beth doesn't know us any more.'
15. Laurie held her hand and whispered
16. and then everything will be all right.'
17. how rich she had been in the things which really mattered
18. thought about how unselfish Beth always was
19. just wanted to come home
20. sad and lonely at Aunt March's house
question: CHAPTER VIII.—AMONG THE CLOUDS IN A THUNDERSTORM.
A cry arose.
“The balloon has gone up!”
“Why, the balloonist is nothing but a boy!”
“My! but ain’t it going up fast!”
Daniel Hawkins could do nothing but stare after the balloon.
“Foolish boy, he will be killed!” he gasped.
Ben Barkley was also amazed.
“He said he would go up,” he murmured, “but I never supposed that he meant it.”
The crowd continued to shout. They wondered what it all meant, and some asked the men who had had the balloon in charge, but those individuals had no time to explain.
They sprang into a wagon and prepared to follow the direction of the balloon, supposing it would come down as soon as the hot air began to cool off.
Meanwhile, what of Leo?
So sudden was the upward rush of the balloon that the boy was thrown to the bottom of the basket ere he was aware.
He clutched the sides and then ventured to look down. The earth seemed to be fading away beneath him.
For a few minutes he was deadly sick at the stomach and there was a strange ringing in his ears.
The balloon was moving in the direction of Hopsville. Soon it passed over the town.
Leo could see the few streets and the brook laid out like a map beneath him.
He was growing accustomed to his novel situation.
On and on went the balloon.
The wind appeared to blow stronger the higher he went.
1. What appeared to fade away
2. What town was passed over?
3. By what?
4. Who was inside?
5. named?
6. Who followed the balloon?
7. Did Leo know how to fly?
8. did he like being in air?
9. who was ill?
10. where was the ringing?
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1. The earth
2. Hopsville
3. The balloon
4. A boy!
5. Leo
6. Daniel Hawkins and Ben Barkley
7. unknown
8. He was growing accustomed to his novel situation.
9. Leo
10. His ears.
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Если Вашей любимой песни или альбома Tha Mexakinz нет в списке песен, то Вы можете добавить их в нашу коллекцию с помощью этой формы . Добавить видео-клипы к песням Вы можете на соответствующих страницах.
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Ich bedanke mich bei unserem Berichterstatter.
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Let me express my thanks to the rapporteur.
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Summarize this article:
The second-placed U's were reduced to 10 men after just 16 minutes when John Lundstram was shown a straight red for a reckless challenge on Michael Tonge.
Oxford skipper Liam Sercombe then had his second-half penalty saved after Jones manhandled Danny Hylton, but he made amends in the 58th minute with his 14th goal of the season.
But Boro equalised when Byron Harrison fired home from Greg Luer's pass.
Stevenage sit 22nd in the League Two table, seven points above the drop zone.
Lundtsram's red card means the 22-year-old playmaker will now miss Oxford United's Johnstone's Paint Trophy final against Barnsley at Wembley on 3 April.
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Problem: About 75% of the population is employed in subsistence agriculture upon Swazi Nation Land (SNL). In contrast with the commercial farms, Swazi Nation Land suffers from low productivity and investment. This dual nature of the Swazi economy, with high productivity in textile manufacturing and in the industrialised agricultural TDLs on the one hand, and declining productivity subsistence agriculture (on SNL) on the other, may well explain the country's overall low growth, high inequality and unemployment.
In terms of Swaziland, what does SNL refer to?
The answer is the following: Swazi Nation Land
Problem: While the distribution of Somalis per country in Europe is hard to measure because the Somali community on the continent has grown so quickly in recent years, an official 2010 estimate reported 108,000 Somalis living in the United Kingdom. Somalis in Britain are largely concentrated in the cities of London, Sheffield, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, and Leicester, with London alone accounting for roughly 78% of Britain's Somali population. There are also significant Somali communities in Sweden: 57,906 (2014); the Netherlands: 37,432 (2014); Norway: 38,413 (2015); Denmark: 18,645 (2014); and Finland: 16,721 (2014).
How many Somalis lived in Finland as of 2014?
The answer is the following: 16,721
Problem: Summers are generally warm and sometimes hot. London's average July high is 24 °C (75.2 °F). On average London will see 31 days above 25 °C (77.0 °F) each year, and 4.2 days above 30.0 °C (86.0 °F) every year. During the 2003 European heat wave there were 14 consecutive days above 30 °C (86.0 °F) and 2 consecutive days where temperatures reached 38 °C (100.4 °F), leading to hundreds of heat related deaths. Winters are generally cool and damp with little temperature variation. Snowfall does occur from time to time, and can cause travel disruption when this happens. Spring and autumn are mixed seasons and can be pleasant. As a large city, London has a considerable urban heat island effect, making the centre of London at times 5 °C (9 °F) warmer than the suburbs and outskirts. The effect of this can be seen below when comparing London Heathrow, 15 miles west of London, with the London Weather Centre, in the city centre.
How far from the center of London is London Heathrow Airport?
The answer is the following: 15 miles west
Problem: In June 1917, the U.S. Congress passed the Espionage Act of 1917 which was later extended by the Sedition Act of 1918, enacted in May 1918. In February 1918, the Montana legislature had passed the Montana Sedition Act, which was a model for the federal version. In combination, these laws criminalized criticism of the U.S. government, military, or symbols through speech or other means. The Montana Act led to the arrest of over 200 individuals and the conviction of 78, mostly of German or Austrian descent. Over 40 spent time in prison. In May 2006, then-Governor Brian Schweitzer posthumously issued full pardons for all those convicted of violating the Montana Sedition Act.
What were these acts make do to laws?
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Read the text and determine if the sentence is true (see options at the end):
"Paint It Black" (originally released as "Paint It, Black") is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones, written by the songwriting partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and first released as a single on 6 May 1966. It was later included as the opening track to the US version of their 1966 album, "Aftermath".
Sentence: Paint It Black was not written by George Harrison.
Possible answers:
1). Yes.
2). It's impossible to say.
3). No.
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In the county, the population was spread out with 24.90% under the age of 18, 7.20% from 18 to 24, 28.10% from 25 to 44, 23.60% from 45 to 64, and 16.30% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 97.10 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.60 males.
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How many more females per 100 were there than males?
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By the end of the century one in 10 species of birds in the world will be extinct and a further 15 per cent will be on the brink of extinction according to one of the largest studies of avian biodiversity.
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A quarter of bird species in danger of extinction, study warns
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[Q]: Tadpoles is the third album by the Bonzo Dog Band. It is largely a compilation of their work from the television show "Do Not Adjust Your Set", on which they were the house band. The US version of the album had a track list slightly different from that of the UK version: the US version removed "I'm the Urban Spaceman" and added "Readymades" the B-side of their follow-up single "Mr. Apollo". Bonzo Dog Band was founded in 1997. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say
[Q]: Virginia's Eleventh Congressional District is a U.S. congressional district in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The district stretches from Herndon to Quantico, comprising most of Fairfax County, all of the city of Fairfax, and part of eastern Prince William County. The residents of the 11th district are represented by Democrat Gerry Connolly. Virginia's Eleventh Congressional District consists of some of the lowest paying politicians in the US OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say
[Q]: Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. there's more female students than male students OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say
[Q]: The Instituto Ayrton Senna (English: Ayrton Senna Institute; abbreviated IAS) is a Brazilian non-governmental organization founded by Ayrton Senna's family in November 1994, six months after Senna's death. It is presided by Viviane Senna da Silva Lalli, Ayrton's sister and mother of Formula One driver Bruno Senna. Ayrton Senna had only one sibling. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
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Q: Translate "stairs, poor cleaning, old kitchen and non matching dishes, views from room - not very nice seeing roof after roof, noise, cost, broken dishes, chipped glasses, chips in microwave !" to German?
Yes: Firenze , in the city is for travelers, I thougt that is a reason. Near the apartment there was no supermarket or something like that.
[Q]: betreffend das Aktionsprogramm: Beschleunigte Aktion zur Bekämpfung von HIV/AIDS, Malaria und Tuberkulose im Rahmen der Armutslinderung (KOM(2001) 96 - C5-0112/2001 - 2001/2006(COS))
Translate this to English?
[A]: a Programme for action: Accelerated action on HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in the context of poverty reduction (COM(2001) 96 - C5-0112/2001 - 2001/2006(COS))
Question:
Frau Präsidentin! Zunächst möchte ich dem Berichterstatter Saryusz-Wolski ein Kompliment aussprechen.
Could you please translate this to English?
Answer:
(DE) Madam President, first of all I would like to compliment the rapporteur, Mr Saryusz-Wolski.
test: Mit dem Level-2-Trader kann man aus dem Orderbuch heraus handeln.
English?
translation: The Level2-Trader gives you a detailed view of the order-book.
VOYTAN TRAVEL organisiert Turisten- und Businessaufenthalte für individuelle Kunden und Gruppen, die KRAKAU und POLEN besichtigen möchten.
In English?
xxxxx
VOYTAN TRAVEL - licensed travel bureau for incoming customers to KRAKÓW and POLAND.
Während dieses Verfahrens konnten wir nicht sicher davon ausgehen, dass dies der Fall sein würde.
In English?
xxxxx
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Q: Damian Jones can be expected to see increased action.
McGee (lower body) has been cleared for Friday's tilt with the Grizzlies. McGee will play through a glute contusion Friday night, but the injury will definitely be something to keep an eye on. He may see his minutes monitored more closely, in which case expect Damian Jones to see increased action.
OPTIONS:
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- It's impossible to say
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A: Yes
Mr. Olsen paid $20 million for the space trip, but says that in the future space travel will likely become as routine as air travel is today.
Olsen did not travel beyond the ionosphere. OPTIONS:
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- It's impossible to say
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A: No
input hypothesis: I want to stay for a while.
Context: You work that out. Let's get back on the record here, because we've got people waiting and I want to get going. You'll have to work that out. But I will tell you in concluding that if it is at night, if you do it at night, I will give you my home number, and you can contact me so we get this finished. If we have to do that, we'll do it so we get it finished. I will not attend the deposition, though. I stopped doing that when I got this job. Anything else?
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true or false: No
Context:
"This newsletter has been produced to help explain the changes in the biology curriculum. Unfortunately, a great deal of misinformation has been spread regarding this policy. We hope this publication will help those interested better understand the substance of the policy while eliminating any misconceptions some may have about the curriculum change. We sincerely appreciate your understanding on this matter."
Hypothesis: They are hopeful that the newsletter will clear up the misinformation that has been spread. OPTIONS:
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- It's impossible to say
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Yes
Input: OPTIONS:
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This government had better be prepared to reinforce the budgets of these institutions that we rely on to protect our security, the security of our industries and the high tech development occurring, to protect those secrets from encroachment and incursion by forces outside of our country that have almost an open door to move across our borders into our country and set up their espionage organizations to take these secrets from our very high tech society in this country and use them against us.
Sentence: This government had better not be prepared to reinforce the budgets of these institutions that we rely on to protect our security
Output: No
Input: OPTIONS:
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- It's impossible to say
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De Montfort University (DMU) is a public university in the city of Leicester, England. It ranked 53rd in the Times University rankings for young universities in 2016. University staff include the second highest number of National Teaching Fellows of all UK universities.
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New Zealand's Qualifications Authority said Friday that it still strongly discourages students from using anything other than full English, but that credit will be given if the answer "clearly shows the required understanding," even if it contains text-speak.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
New Zealand's Qualifications Authority encourages students to answer questions in languages other than English.
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Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
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Can the Minister of National Defence tell us whether such a program is indeed in the works and whether the government is getting ready not to renew the lease with the Fort Saint-Jean campus in order to resume full possession of the royal military college facilities in Saint-Jean?
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How is "For reasons similar to those applied by the Court in Morgan and Bucher, ( 15 ) they consider that the three-year rule is liable to discourage an EU citizen from moving to another Member State to start study or training there or, if such study or training abroad has already commenced, to put pressure on the student to discontinue the studies and return to Germany." said in Czech?
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Z důvodů obdobných důvodům uplatněným Soudním dvorem ve věci Morgan a Bucher( 15 ) mají za to, že pravidlo tří let může odradit občana EU od stěhování do jiného členského státu za účelem zahájení studia nebo odborné přípravy, nebo pokud už takové studium nebo odbornou přípravu zahájil, vytvářet na studenta tlak, aby studium přerušil a vrátil se zpět do Německa.
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»O podemos ser todo lo opuesto: en cada lugar en el que nos encontremos, sentir a Dios en el Templo construido en nuestro corazón espiritual. How do you say this sentence in English?
“Or it could be the other way around: in every place, where we find ourselves, we feel God in the Temple built in our spiritual hearts.
Nuevo diseño de la perla y collar blanco Seashell partido con la cadena de color oro How do you say this sentence in English?
New Design Pearl and White Seashell Party Necklace with Golden Color Chain
Llegar a ese punto de la Corte Suprema y que no les permitieran una revisión de un caso tan complejo, hizo que estos propios Premios Nobel y personalidades políticas demanden al presidente Obama el indulto. How do you say this sentence in English?
To arrive at this point with the Supreme Court and not allow even for the review of such a complex case is what made these Nobel prizewinners and political personalities demand that Obama grant a pardon.
Bernd Lange, presidente de la Comisión, dijo que el acuerdo incluirá medidas “para asegurar que el comercio y la inversión que cree contribuya a aliviar la pobreza y desigualdades”. How do you say this sentence in English?
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Bernd Lange, president of the Commission, said the agreement would include measures “to ensure that the trade and investment it creates contribute to the alleviation of poverty and inequalities”.
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Tambien disponibles para GSM, mira GSM Mobile.
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Woman was detained at Dungavel Detention Centre in South Lanarkshire. She has been taken to hospital where she has undergone tests for Ebola. Scottish Government spokesman said results confirmed she tested negative.
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By. Gemma Mullin for MailOnline. Tests for a woman from Sierra Leone showing symptoms of Ebola have come back negative after she was held at a Scottish immigration removal centre. The woman was detained at Dungavel Detention Centre in South Lanarkshire after she fell ill and was taken to hospital where doctors carried out tests. Health chiefs confirmed last night that she did not have the disease. A Scottish Government spokesman said: 'The results have now been returned and they have confirmed that she tested negative'. Scroll down for video. The Dungavel Detention Centre in South Lanarkshire where the woman was being held before undergoing tests. She was placed in isolation in the. infectious diseases ward of a Lanarkshire hospital until the results became. known. It is understood she was treated at Monklands Hospital in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, while limited numbers of staff were allowed in contact with the patient. The detention centre near the town of Strathaven is used as a holding unit for failed asylum seekers waiting deportation. Officials from the Home Office suspended the detention or release of people from the unit during the investigation to islolate the risk in case it was positive. Health officials across the UK were alerted to the situation and a full emergency plan was prepared. The latest Ebola epidemic in Africa began in Guinea in February and has since spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. It is transmitted through direct contact with the body fluids of an infected person. Initial flu-like symptoms can be followed by external haemorrhaging from areas such as the eyes and gums, and internal bleeding leading to organ failure. This latest incident in Scotland comes weeks after two athletes from Sierra Leone were tested for the deadly virus during the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The results were negative and the pair went on to compete. A group of international doctors yesterday admitted they did not know the true scale of the deaths from the deadly outbreak. Doctors Without Borders (Medecin Sans Frontieres) resembled the outbreak in west Africa to a state of war and said that the epidemic could last another six months. Their warning follows an announcement by a World Health Organisation official, who claimed that Ebola treatment centres are filling up faster than they can be provided in west Africa. A woman lies sick in bed while awaiting transport from her home in Liberia to an Ebola isolation ward. WHO spokesman in Geneva Gregory Hartl said: 'The flood of patients into every newly opened treatment center is evidence that the numbers aren't keeping up.' The Organization also said today that the death toll has risen to 1,145, the World Health Organization, as 76 new deaths were reported in the two days to August 13 in the four West African nations affected by the epidemic. The U.N. health agency said that a total of 152 confirmed, probable and suspected new cases of the deadly hemorrhagic fever were reported in the two day period in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, bringing the total for the outbreak to 2,127. Joanne Liu, president of Medecins Sans Frontieres, said the pace of outbreaks in Guinea had slowed but other countries, particularly Liberia, now had to be the focus of efforts to contain the disease. She said: ‘If we don’t stabilise Liberia, we will never stabilise the region. In terms of timeline, we’re not talking in terms of weeks, we’re talking in terms of months ... at least I would say six months, and I’m being ... very optimistic.’ Her warning came after the World Health Organization said the toll of 1,069 deaths and a further 900 sufferers could ‘vastly underestimate the magnitude’ of the outbreak. The first European victim of Ebola, Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, died on Monday - five days after being airlifted from Liberia to Madrid for expert care. The 75-year-old's condition was described as stable on arrival in Spain and it is thought he was given ZMapp, an experimental drug credited with the ‘miraculous’ recovery of two American aid workers. His body was cremated to prevent the virus spreading. International doctors today admitted they did not know the true scale of the deaths from the deadly outbreak. What is Ebola virus disease? Ebola is a severe, often fatal illness, with a death rate of up to 90 per cent.The illness affects humans as well as primates, including monkeys, gorillas and chimpanzees. How do people become infected with the virus? Ebola is transmitted through close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals. In Africa infection in humans has happened as a result of contact with chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines found ill or dead in the rainforest. Once a person becomes infected, the virus can spread through contact with a sufferer's blood, urine, saliva, stools and semen. A person can also become infected if broken skin comes into contact with a victim's soiled clothing, bed linen or used needles. Men who have recovered from the disease, can still spread the virus to their partner through their semen for seven weeks after recovery. Who is most at risk? Those at risk during an outbreak include:. What are the typical signs and symptoms? Sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. That is followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function and internal and external bleeding. The incubation period is between two and 21 days. A person will become contagious once they start to show symptoms. When should you seek medical care? If a person is in an area affected by the outbreak, or has been in contact with a person known or suspected to have Ebola, they should seek medical help immediately. What is the treatment? Severely ill patients require intensive supportive care. They need intravenous fluids to rehydrate them. But there is currently no specific treatment for the disease. Some patients will recover with the appropriate care.Can Ebola be prevented? Currently there is no licensed vaccine for Ebola. Several are being tested but are not available for clinical use. Is it safe to travel to affected areas? The World Health Organisation reviews the public health situation regularly, and recommends travel or trade restrictions if necessary. The risk of infection for travellers is very low since person-to-person transmission results from direct contact with bodily fluids of victims.
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Question: Which section specifically states that receipts for public money must be published?
Answer: The Constitution provides that "a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time".
A single-select problem: Is the question answered in a satisfactory fashion?
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Q: The Mason-Dixon Line, surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, which became a popular name for the dividing line between the slave and free states, is the boundary between which two states of the USA?
A: pennsylvania and maryland
Q: What are 'Potemkin villages' which were purportedly erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigori Potemkin to impress Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787?
A: fake settlements
Q: Who rests in the Hotel des Invalides, Paris?
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Input: Goodyear Tire Rubber Co. said\on Friday it will cut 340 jobs in its engineered products and\chemical units as part of its cost-reduction efforts, resulting\in a third-quarter charge.
Output: Business
Input: Liverpool, Nov 9 -- Emlyn Hughes, the former Liverpool and England football captain and TV personality, has died of cancer after battling a brain tumour for the last 15 months on Tuesday, aged 57.
Output: Sports
Input: America should be an overwhelming favorite in the Ryder Cup golf matches that begin Friday on Detroit #39;s Oakland Hills course that Ben Hogan once called a monster.
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AB sözcüsü Maja Kocijanciç belgeyi eleştirdi.
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Read the text and determine if the sentence is true:
A Wake County sheriff's deputy was not seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday afternoon in Raleigh.It happened about 4 p.m. on Rock Quarry Road near Barwell Road.The front end of her patrol car sustained extensive damage. The patrol car had to be towed away.The North Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating.No serious injuries were reported.Law officers were directing traffic at the scene. Motorists are advised to avoid the area.
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Transforming Your Cellphone to Make Cheap International Calls
Recently, my parents returned from Italy with a few bottles of Chianti and $750 in AT&T calling charges. Buon giorno!
With Skype Mobile, users can make free calls to other Skype phones, or calls to non-Skype phones for a fee.
Truphone permits you to make free calls to other Truphone users or to sign on to your Skype account.
Racking up exorbitant mobile charges is easy to do if you are not careful about using your cellphone internationally. AT&T charges 99 cents a minute to use your phone in Italy (rates vary by country), and that is if you pay for the carrier’s international calling plan. If you do not, the charge goes up to $1.29 a minute.
What my parents did not realize was that they could have nearly eliminated those charges if they had set up their (in this case) iPhone and BlackBerry to take advantage of mobile Internet calling services: That $1.29-a-minute charge would have gone down to a much more reasonable 2.4 cents a minute (or nothing at all if they were on a Wi-Fi network).
The Internet has been used to make calls for some time. One of the largest providers of the service, Skype, was founded in 2003 and has more than half a billion user accounts. And while many people gather around the PC to talk to far-flung friends and family, new apps and services can replicate that experience (and that savings) on cellphones.
To transform your mobile phone into a device capable of making cheap international calls, you need to consider a few things. Ideally, you have a smartphone that can access Wi-Fi, like an iPhone or a Droid. Wi-Fi ensures the best call quality, since it’s carried over a high-speed Internet connection rather than through third-generation, or 3G, cellular networks.
But if you don’t have a Wi-Fi-enabled smartphone, you are not out of luck. There are calling services that use local phone numbers rather than wireless data connections to place calls, making them compatible with a wide range of devices. Applications can dial a local access number as if you were placing a regular call; and your call is routed over the Internet at similarly discounted rates.
There are also free calling mobile applications, each with its own layout, feature list and call quality. In my tests of more than six different applications by calling friends in Europe and Africa, these stood out:
SKYPE FOR MOBILE Like the program for Mac and PCs, Skype Mobile lets you make free calls and send instant messages to fellow Skype users. You can also call non-Skype landlines and cellphones using Skype Credit, a fee-based service that charges pennies per minute for international calls.
Skype offers several mobile versions, including Skype for the iPhone and iPod Touch, Skype Lite for Java and Android phones, and Skype for Windows phones.
The application for the iPhone and iPod Touch most closely resembles Skype’s familiar desktop program. Though I could send text-based chat messages to my Skype-using friend in Belgrade over AT&T’s 3G network, I needed to connect the phone to a Wi-Fi network to make a call. (You currently cannot make Skype or other Internet-based calls on the iPhone via AT&T’s 3G network, though that could change soon.) After a simple tap of the call button, I could clearly hear his familiar accent without any noticeable lag or choppiness.
Similarly, a call I made to a friend’s cellphone in Senegal using Skype Credit was crystal clear in sound and connected in only 15 seconds. We chatted for 10 minutes, which cost me only $2.40. That same call on AT&T, even if I signed on to its international calling plan (which costs $4 a month), would have cost $8.80. Without the international calling plan, the fee would have climbed to $27.80.
For those without iPhones or Windows Mobile devices, Skype provides its Skype Lite application. Skype Lite cannot make calls over Wi-Fi or 3G networks, but instead routes calls through a local cellphone number.
It isn’t as complicated as it sounds: when using a MyTouch 3G phone, I selected a Skype contact in London. The application started the phone’s dialer and automatically routed the call to a local number. My British pal came through clear and static-free.
One thing to remember is that while calls made with Skype Lite are local and your carrier won’t exact a long-distance fee, you are technically making a call. So those calls will count against the minutes in your calling plan.
FRING Picking up where Skype Mobile leaves off, Fring provides an even richer experience on more phones. It supports calling over Wi-Fi and 3G on Android and Nokia devices; iPhone 3G calling is on the way. In addition to free calling to Fring members anywhere in the world, the service connects to Skype, Google Talk and MSN Messenger contacts.
After installing the Fring application from the Android Marketplace on Sprint’s HTC Hero, I tapped into my Skype account to call my Belgrade friend over Sprint’s network. Since I didn’t need to be in a Wi-Fi hotspot, I made the call while walking down a noisy New York street.
summary: Internet services can reduce the cost of international cellphone calls to just pennies a minute.
White House: US can meet climate goals
The White House has promised that it would be able to uphold US commitments to an international climate change agreement.
It came as a court ruling heightened concerns about the stability of the global carbon reduction pact reached last year.
Shares of coal companies reflected the uncertainty the day after the US Supreme Court ruling. After jumping nearly 7 per cent early in the session, the Thomson Reuters US coal index was down 3 per cent in afternoon trading.
The court dealt a serious blow to the Obama administration's climate change agenda on Tuesday when it took the unusual step of delaying implementation of the Clean Power Plan until legal challenges to the regulation are completed.
A centrepiece of the Obama administration's climate change policy, the Clean Power Plan was designed to lower carbon emissions from US power plants by 2030 to 32 per cent below 2005 levels.
The decision to temporarily block the rule came after the United States entered into a landmark agreement in December with countries around the world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
While the Clean Power Plan was expected to be the main tool for the United States to fulfil its part of the pact, White House spokesman Eric Schultz told reporters in a briefing that it was only one part of the nation's response to climate change.
The long-term extension of the tax credits for renewable energy last year will continue to provide momentum that will transition the power sector toward cleaner sources of energy, Schultz said.
US negotiators have spent time over the past few years convincing sceptical countries that the United States can meet its emission reduction goals regardless of legal challenges.
But the high court ruling seemed to rattle some diplomats.
French government spokesman Stephane Le Foll quoted outgoing Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius as saying after a cabinet meeting that the decision was "not good news", even if the debate will continue in the United States.
Claudia Salerno, a Venezuelan diplomat who leads the country's delegation at UN climate talks, said in a Twitter message late on Tuesday the ruling was "truly damaging" to the outcome of the pact.
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Q: Translate "This Union of ours is unique." to Romanian?
A: Această Uniune a noastră este unică.
Q: Translate "The unrest in Lhasa, which broke out two years ago on the anniversary of the anti-Chinese uprising, as well as the events of two weeks ago, have shown most emphatically that the Tibetans feel persecuted in their own land." to Romanian?
A: Tulburările din Lhasa, care au izbucnit acum doi ani cu ocazia comemorării revoltei populare împotriva Chinei, precum şi evenimentele de acum două săptămâni, au arătat cât se poate de empatic faptul că tibetanii se simt persecutaţi pe propriul pământ.
Q: Translate "We hope that the Commission will continue its technical cooperation with the Member States, which has led to various points being identified for debate and further clarification, especially as regards abuses." to Romanian?
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Sperăm că în viitor Comisia va continua cooperarea tehnică cu statele membre, cooperare ce a condus la identificarea mai multor aspecte în vederea unor discuţii şi clarificări ulterioare, mai ales în ceea ce priveşte abuzurile.
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Ryan Beitz owns over 500 copies of the movie Speed on VHS. He also owns 26 laser discs of the film, but those aren’t part of the collection. He just holds onto them so he can use them as bargaining chips to get more on VHS. His goal is a simple one: To collect every copy of Speed on VHS ever made. His other goal? To trick out his 15-passenger van to look just like the bus in the movie.
In order to see the World Speed Project in action, I decided to visit him at his current residence in Moscow, Idaho, where he has scattered all his copies of Speed throughout the van in anticipation of my arrival, and lined the ceiling with them. As we talk, he drives me and a handful of his friends out through the woods via a restricted-access sheep farm on his college campus. As he drives, copies of Speed periodically fall from the ceiling onto the floor.
VICE: Are we allowed to be back here?
Ryan Beitz: Yeah, whatever. The signs just say “No Public Access.” We got official business. I don’t have car insurance now, but that’s OK because I only drive the van around for show. We’re going like 35, and I feel like we’re being respectful. We’re not trying to scare the sheep or like, steal them. Although we could put a sheep in here.
Why don’t you tell me what got you started collecting the Speeds?
I lived in Seattle and was super broke, and I had to come up with Christmas presents for my family. Usually I would just, like, dumpster-dive books or something and give them to them, but when I was at the pawn shop they had six copies of Speed, and I thought it would be really funny to get everybody in my family the same gift, even me. I wanted to watch them open them one at a time and go, “Oh, Speed. Don't we already have this?” Somebody else would go, “Oh, Speed. Really funny, Ryan.” Then by the time you went around, everybody would have gotten the same gift from me. Then I could tell them that I love them all equally, you know? Just some bullshit.
Then when I bought all six it was, like, way too good. I realized it was really fascinating to have that many, like, same copies of a thing. What really cemented it was when I went to another pawn shop, and they had, like, 30 copies. I said, “I’ll take them all.” They sold them to me for 11 cents a copy.
How many copies do you have right now?
I don’t know, like 550 or something. I haven’t counted in a while 'cause who really cares?
And you’re going to collect them all.
Yeah. People always go, “Dude how many of these things are you going to get?” And I'm like, “All of them, duh.”
Isn’t that impossible?
I mean, probably, because of unknown human forces, the logistics of tracking them all down, and just the sheer expense. I don’t want to spend money on this. If a copy’s more than $4, I’ll just steal it. But that’s not going to make me stop. That’d be the same as somebody saying like, “It’s impossible to make the world a good place, so I’m not going to try.” If the idea is awesome, I’m just going to devote myself to it regardless.
So you’d say the World Speed Project is awesome?
I think the World Speed Project is awesome in the truest sense of the word. It's larger than life. Imagine all of them in one place! It’s uncompromising.
Yeah, it’s like a radical dedication to uselessness.
Totally. I don’t give a shit whether what I do is practical or not; I just don’t want to perpetuate society’s shitty capitalism forever. If you see everything needs a use or an instrumental value as like part of a capitalistic worldview, then the World Speed Project is anti-that.
Cool. Why does it says something about Freud on the World Speed Project's Facebook page?
I say it’s a practice in the repetition compulsion, which is Freud. Basically, Freud thinks that the goal of your unconscious is to repeat. You just have to repeat over and over again. I can’t remember exactly why. I think it has something to do with eros—you know, the life force or whatever?
The World Speed Project is satisfied by a compulsion to repeat because when you get one, you want to get another! And another! And another! Like the bus in Speed, we collectively cannot—and will not—stop.
Ryan is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fix up his bus to resemble the one in the movie, and to purchase auto insurance so he can tour his collection around the country. Take part in the global effort and send any and all copies of Speed to:
Chairman Ryan Beitz
The World Speed Project
20204 SR 195
Pullman, WA
99163 USA ||||| It is the goal of The World Speed Project™ (WSP) to obtain every available VHS copy of the hit 1994 action/adventure film Speed, starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Daniels, and Joe Morton. Currently, the collection is at over 500 copies (we haven't counted in awhile; it's boring).
To this end, the WSP purchased its very own bus in 2012 with the express purpose of converting our bus into a small scale replica of the bus in the film Speed.
This bus will be used for a national tour wherein the WSP will display the collection at gallery showings, county fairs, diy punk basement shows, collector's conventions, and the like; as well as hunt for VHS copies hidden all over the U.S. and World.
Project 2525: The World Speed Project Bus Conversion, then, is the first phase in the overall project. Through Project 2525, we hope to raise the funds necessary to complete all the repairs and painting to convert our bus into a likeness of the bus from the film. Hence Project 2525, is a derivation of the bus number in the film.
The WSP's bus is a 1988 Dodge Ramvan B350 van converted to a bus. The van was originally used as a patient shuttle for a small outpatient clinic in Spokane, Washington. The van has seating for 14 passengers, as well as a genuine bus door that must be operated using a handle by the driver. In other words, it's a real bus.
Currently, the van needs a few minor repairs to prevent its overheating a la vapor lock. It is estimated that the $2,500 we're asking for will cover both the engine repair and the paint job. Any additional funds accrued will go solely toward upgrades on the van, as the $2,500 is bare minimum needed to repair the engine and paint the van alone.
In addition to the engine repair and paint job, the van needs new tires, a new engine cover, holes in the floor sealed, various repairs to the body, and the windows tinted to protect the copies from sun damage during travel. Every donation goes toward things of this nature.
We at the World Speed Project are asking you to help us complete the first phase of our project. Remember: the funding deadline for this project is June 10th 2014; which, is the 20th anniversary of the release of the film.
If you would like to connect personally with the project, here are number of ways to become involved:
1. "Like" The World Speed Project Facebook page Here.
2. Join The World Speed Project Facebook Group Here.
3. Visit The World Speed Project Blogspot Here.
4. Send us your VHS copies of the film! Address copies as follows:
Chairman Ryan Beitz
The World Speed Project
20204 SR 195
Pullman, WA 99163
U.S.A.
5. Send us an email at: [email protected] |||||
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– Own a copy of Speed you're not watching? Donate it to Ryan Beitz—but only if it's on VHS. The guy is trying to collect every VHS copy of the movie that exists, Vice reports, and so far, he's at "like 550 or something," he says. "I haven’t counted in a while, 'cause who really cares?" It seems he cares, at least enough to create a blog about his World Speed Project, which he calls "larger than life." (And perhaps logistically impossible; he admits he doesn't "want to spend money on this." But, he says, he won't give up, because "that’d be the same as somebody saying like, 'It’s impossible to make the world a good place, so I’m not going to try.'") It all started when he was buying gifts for his family, he tells Vice. "When I was at the pawn shop they had six copies of Speed, and I thought it would be really funny to get everybody in my family the same gift," he says. "Then when I bought all six it was, like, way too good. I realized it was really fascinating to have that many, like, same copies of a thing." His passion for Speed extends beyond the tapes: He's also trying to turn his van into the bus from the movie. For that project, he's got a Kickstarter page. The risks involved? "Ultimately," he writes on Kickstarter, "for the World Speed Project there are no risk because the project itself IS risk!" (Another hilarious recent Kickstarter involved raising $8 to buy a burrito.)
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for many people , an e-mail address has become as important a fixture in their lives as a phone number or house address .
A summary about the text above: with comcast in brace for new address
the right-handed power bat that got away this offseason squared off against the angels on wednesday , as paul konerko faced the team he nearly joined .
A summary about the text above: konerko was close to joining angels
south american leaders will discuss the creation of a single trade bloc for the continent in a summit scheduled for december , the head of the mercosur trade bloc announced here sunday .
A summary about the text above: s. american leaders to discuss creation of single trade bloc
the widening federal probe into a pennsylvania congressman with huge sway over `` big dig '' funding has crossed a threshold , as a boston businessman , granted immunity by prosecutors , has described in detail a loan he made to the son of the congressman 's top aide .
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key congressman focus of big dig testimony
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Question: Write a text based on "kenya airways to increase fare to counter steep fuel prices"
Text: national flag carrier kenya airways on tuesday announced plans to increase its fare over the next two months to counter the soaring cost of fuel .
Question: Write a text based on "obama thanks dominican leader for helping americans in haiti"
Text: president barack obama thursday called his counterpart from the dominican republic leonel fernandez to thank him for helping evacuate us citizens from quake-stricken haiti , the white house said .
Question: Write a text based on "new zealand shares rally on greater war certainty"
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the new zealand sharemarket followed global trends by rallying tuesday in response to the news that the united states had issued an ultimatum to iraq .
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Translate from English to Spanish:
With the Fix wall bearing you can attach a 25 mm steel tube between two walls or two vertical wardrobe shelves.
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Con el soporte mural Fix se puede colocar un tubo de acero de 25 mm entre dos paredes o entre dos estantes de armario verticales.
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Q: Which Michael Frayn play is based around a 1941 meeting between Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr?
A: copenhagen
Q: Passiflora edulis, a vine native to South America, is also called passionfruit, maracuj or maracuy in South America, lilikoi in Hawaii and by what name in South Africa?
A: granadilla
Q: Who, according to Pseudo-Apollodorus, was the only woman on the crew of the Argo?
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Translate to French:
The investor may gain partial or total control of the enterprise.
Answer: (Non-Tariff Barriers - Measures) CA4 (GROUPE DES QUATRE DE L'AMÉRIQUE CENTRALE) :
Translate to French:
Chart 4
Answer: Graphique 4
Translate to French:
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Si oui, veuillez préciser.
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Translate "I'm-- No dime?" to Czech?
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Ani za deset centů?
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Before the establishment of the People's Republic, Albania's illiteracy rate was as high as 85%. Schools were scarce between World War I and World War II. When the People's Republic was established in 1945, the Party gave high priority to wiping out illiteracy. As part of a vast social campaign, anyone between the ages of 12 and 40 who could not read or write was mandated to attend classes to learn. By 1955, illiteracy was virtually eliminated among Albania's adult population. Today the overall literacy rate in Albania is 98.7%; the male literacy rate is 99.2% and female literacy rate is 98.3%. With large population movements in the 1990s to urban areas, the provision of education has undergone transformation as well. The University of Tirana is the oldest university in Albania, having been founded in October 1957.
What question would one ask from this paragraph?
QUESTION: What school was established after the World War I and World War II scarcity?
What a time of it Dawson's Landing was having! All its life it had been asleep, but now it hardly got a chance for a nod, so swiftly did big events and crashing surprises come along in one another's wake: Friday morning, first glimpse of Real Nobility, also grand reception at Aunt Patsy Cooper's, also great robber raid; Friday evening, dramatic kicking of the heir of the chief citizen in presence of four hundred people; Saturday morning, emergence as practicing lawyer of the long-submerged Pudd'nhead Wilson; Saturday night, duel between chief citizen and titled stranger. The people took more pride in the duel than in all the other events put together, perhaps. It was a glory to their town to have such a thing happen there. In their eyes the principals had reached the summit of human honor. Everybody paid homage to their names; their praises were in all mouths. Even the duelists' subordinates came in for a handsome share of the public approbation: wherefore Pudd'nhead Wilson was suddenly become a man of consequence. When asked to run for the mayoralty Saturday night, he was risking defeat, but Sunday morning found him a made man and his success assured.
What question would one ask from this paragraph?
QUESTION: How do we know Dawson's Landing was a dull town?
Static electricity is like a teeter-totter. What happens if a teeter-totter is balanced? Correct! It does not move. What about when its not balanced? Yes, it will now begin to move. Charges move when they are not balanced. Charges can build up by friction. Maybe you rub your feet on a wool mat or carpet. Rubber soled shoes readily gain charges. The wool carpet easily gives up charges. The two items become unbalanced. One item has a positive charge. The other has a negative charge. The difference in charge is called static electricity. Just like the teeter-totter, something is going to move. Positive charges build up on the mat. Negative charges build up on you.
What question would one ask from this paragraph?
QUESTION: Charges can move when they are unbalanced by what?
Surely, you have noticed the tall poles along the roadside. Do you know what is on top of those poles? Thats right, wires that carry electric current. These wires carry electric current to your home. But what is electric current? Electric current is actually the flow of electrons. You may recall, an electron is the outer-most particle in an atom. They have a negative charge. Electricity is the continuous flow of these particles. Electrons are able to move through wires. Their speed can even be measured. The SI unit for electric current (or speed) is the ampere (A). Ampere is often shortened to amp. Electric current may flow in just one direction, or it may keep reversing direction. Direct current (DC) flows in only one direction. Direct current is what is used in devices like flashlights. Alternating current (AC) flows in two directions. This is the type of current that flows into your home through wires.
What question would one ask from this paragraph?
QUESTION:
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Where do the wires carry electric current?
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super_glue/multirc:1.0.2
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fs_noopt
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Question: Dialogue:
Mandy: I have been trying to call the Welden But he is not picking up :/
Billy: I am on my way back to home. I will bring him along
Mandy: Waiting
Answer: Mandy has been trying to call Welden. Billy in on his way back home and will bring Welden along.
Robert: guys, can anyone take my morning shift tomorrow?
Robert: sorry for late notice, but my son is ill and I must take him to a doctor.
Mack: Im sorry for you:/ I cant:/ They come to fix my heating system in the morning.
Sean: I can take it.
Sean: you start at 7 am, dont you?
Robert: correct
Robert: thanks, man!
Sean: you're welcome
What was that dialogue about?
Sean will take Robert's 7 am shift. Robert needs to take his son to the doctor.
IN: Dialogue:
Sadie:
Samantha: <3
Sadie: happy birthday sweetie!
Samantha: thank you! :*
Sadie: :*
What was going on?
****
OUT: Sadie is sending Samantha birthday wishes.
Mila: Hi love
Peter: Hi, are you on the way?
Mila: yes, but the train was late
Peter: Italy all over!
Mila: oh, it happens even more often in the UK!
Peter: hehhe, stereotype
Mila: exactly, I hope I will manage to catch the flight. A bit of stress
Peter: I'll keep my fingers crossed, let me know as soon as you land
Mila's train was late so she's worried about catching her flight. Peter wants Mila to let him know as soon as she lands.
Part A --- Kate: Hi. Can you do sth with the printer on the 1st floor?
Andy: What's wrong this time?
Kate: Same as always. Paper gets stuck.
Andy: OK.
Kate: When?
Andy: Today.
Kate: That's not the answer. I need to print documents now. I mean NOW.
Andy: OK.
Kate: You must be kidding.
Andy: What's wrong with you? I'll do it as soon as I finish with in the server room.
Kate: Can you be quick about that? It's really urgent.
Andy: I can't speed things up just because you want to print NOW.
Kate: You're the IT maintenance specialist. Not me.
Andy: I am. Any problems with that?
Kate: Do your job properly. I report issues with that printer at least every other week.
Andy: It's not my fault.
Kate: Whose then?
Andy: If you stop nagging me here, it'll be better for everyone.
Kate: I'm not nagging you. I need to do my job and I don't have the tools I need.
Andy: Bad luck.
Kate: You're such a hopeless jerk.
Part B --- Kate cannot work properly, because paper got jammed in the printer. She is very frustrated and angry. Andy can't help Kate right now, because he is busy in the server room.
Part A --- Natalie: Do we still need to drop Elena off at the hospital?
Jill: Yes please. So Maria is free to come back
Evan: Took ages for Caleb to find the code in a Dyson game!!!!!! Not the "brightest" lad 😂
Jill: Caleb… 🙈
Caleb: Peer pressure 😅
Jill: Mmhmmmm
Maria: Where is Elena?
Jill: She is coming with Natalie back from work. No teleport available yet... But Caleb is working on that... together with Dyson 🙈😜
Maria: Ok, Natalie, let me know when you will be there, we are in the restricted zone, I need to ask someone to let her in. Caleb, shame on you.
Evan: No! He gave up Jill. Cracking the code took all his energy...
Jill: You’re fired Caleb 🤦🏼♀
Natalie: Maria, I’m going to you now.
Maria: Great
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Elena needs to be dropped off at the hospital. Now Natalie is going to Maria who is in the restricted zone.
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Q: Translate "(PL) Mr President, I would like to ask a question: where did Mrs Gomes get this information about secret detention centres in Poland?" to Finnish?
A: (PL) Arvoisa puhemies, haluan esittää kysymyksen: mistä jäsen Gomes sai tiedot, jotka koskevat Puolassa sijaitsevia salaisia vankiloita?
input question: Write a sentence not in English.
output answer: Onko neuvostolla tietoa asiasta?
Q: Translate "In fact Parliament' s position in favour of applying the Regulation to drivers from European Union Member States as well after a transitional period is interesting." to Finnish?
Yes: Itse asiassa pidän kiinnostavana parlamentin kantaa soveltaa asetusta siirtymäajan jälkeen myös unionin jäsenvaltioiden kuljettajiin.
[Q]: Mitenkään vähättelemättä joidenkin näiden järjestöjen työtä emme kuitenkaan voi olla huomaamatta, miten rahoitusmekanismi tyypillisimmillään toimii. Yksi esimerkki on Euroopan nuorisofoorumi, jossa näkyy EU:n pyrkimys puuttua suoraan nuorisojärjestön toimintaan nuorison radikalisoitumisen estämiseksi.
Translate this to English?
[A]: Without wanting to belittle the work of some of these organisations, we cannot but identify certain typical cases of funding, such as that of the European Youth Forum, which are an attempt at direct intervention in the youth movement in a bid to prevent the radicalisation of young people.
Question:
Vaikka parlamentin neuvottelijat onnistuivat saamaan kahden miljardin euron lisäyksen seitsemää vuotta kohti, ero EU:n tavoitteiden ja talousarvion karun todellisuuden välillä on räikeä.
Could you please translate this to English?
Answer:
Even though Parliament’s negotiators succeeded in obtaining an extra EUR 2 billion over seven years, the difference between Europe’s ambition and the sad reality of the budget is striking.
Question:
Pyynnöt liittyvät kahden neuvoston päätöksen uudelleen tarkastelemiseen; toinen koskee terrorismin torjuntaa ja toinen ehdotusta eurooppalaisesta pidätysmääräyksestä.
Could you please translate this to English?
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These relate to re-consultation on two framework decisions from the Council, one on combating terrorism, the other on a proposal for a European arrest warrant.
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- хотят Более Большое или Более малое изоБражение?
In English?
xxxxx
- Want a Bigger or Smaller Image?
У нас более чем 25-летний опыт по продаже недвижимости и инвестированию, а также по аренде недвижимости за границей во многих странах, от Болгарии до Турции и Египта.
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We have over 25 years collective expertise in Property Sales and Investment and rentals overseas, commencing with Bulgaria and expanding to many other countries including Egypt and Turkey.
Здесь же на берегу озера Суоненярви расположены хорошо обустроенные бревенчатые коттеджи. Неподалеку расположен известный горнолыжный центр Вуокатти куда можно добраться на нашем фирменном такси.
In English?
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For us, producing services for our guests is the way of living.
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16 Y beberan, y temblaran, y enloqueceran delante del cuchillo que yo envio entre ellos. How do you say this sentence in English?
16 And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Desde que nacen están limitados por todo y todos. How do you say this sentence in English?
From the time they were born they were and are limited by everything and everyone.
No depende de los sucesos externos pues son las condiciones preferidas que llevarán a un gran salto hacia delante en lo concerniente a vuestros estándares de vida. How do you say this sentence in English?
It does not rely on the outer happenings as they are the preferred conditions that will lead to a great leap forward where you living standards are concerned.
Durante el día, esto se puede ver como un brillo adicional en los cielos, con un Sol demasiado intenso. How do you say this sentence in English?
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During the day this is seen as an extra bright sky, the Sun too intense.
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Translate "With regard to international registrations effected at the International Bureau at the request of theAuthorities of the said countries outside the Special Union which become party to this Act, such countries recognize that the aforesaid country of the Special Union may demand compliance with the requirements of the original Act of October 31, 1958." to Spanish.
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En cuanto a los registros internacionales efectuados en la Oficina Internacional por mediación de una Administración de dichos países externos a la Unión particular que se haga parte en la presente Acta, ésta admite que el país antes indicado exija el cumplimiento de las condiciones prescritas por el Acta del 31 de octubre de 1958.
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Translate the following sentence to Russian:
Carl Eduard Hellmayr
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Хелльмайр, Карл Эдуард
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Flan2021
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wmt16_translate/ru-en:1.0.0
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Q: Translate "The noble ends of animal protection cannot be achieved without financial layout and without creating material incentives to introduce increased standards." to Romanian?
Yes: Scopul nobil al protejării animalelor nu poate fi atins fără un plan financiar şi fără crearea stimulentelor materiale necesare introducerii unor standarde mai ridicate.
Q: Translate "However, politics alone cannot guarantee good schools, good education or good jobs for young people." to Romanian?
Yes: Totuși, politica de una singură nu poate să garanteze școli bune, educație bună sau locuri de muncă bune pentru tineri.
Q: Translate "It is particularly disturbing to see how the Chinese Government ignores its international commitments in the field of human rights." to Romanian?
Yes:
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Este deosebit de deranjant felul în care guvernul chinez îşi ignoră angajamentele internaţionale asumate în domeniul drepturilor omului.
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How is "In addition, if we opened this chapter this year, we would demonstrate with our actions that we in the European Union are fit for purpose, able and effective in recognising the challenges and pitfalls of the past and future." said in Finnish?
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Avaamalla tämän luvun tänä vuonna osoittaisimme myös, että Euroopan unioni täyttää tehtävänsä ja pystyy tehokkaasti tunnistamaan menneitä ja tulevia haasteita ja sudenkuoppia.
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The Cardigans are a Swedish rock band formed in Jonkoping, Sweden, in 1992, by guitarist Peter Svensson, bassist Magnus Sveningsson, drummer Bengt Lagerberg, keyboardist Lars-Olof Johansson and lead singer Nina Persson, with the line-up remaining unchanged to this day. Their debut album Emmerdale (1994) gave them a solid base in their home country and enjoyed some success abroad, especially in Japan. It was not until their second album Life (1995) that an international reputation was secured. Their popularity rose when their single "Lovefool", from the album First Band on the Moon (1996), was included in the soundtrack to the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet.
The Cardigans returned in 2002 to record Long Gone Before Daylight (2003), a collection of songs mainly written by Persson and Svensson. Long Gone Before Daylight became one of the best selling albums in Sweden in 2003. After a two-year hiatus from their last album, it was released in Japan on March 19, 2003 and in Europe on March 24, 2003. Later it was also released in Canada (April 22, 2003) and the United States (May 25, 2004). The album differs from the band's earlier works. Their familiar "happy" pop sound takes on a change to pop songs with more of an American country music influence. It is a much darker album than their previous works, and quieter than Gran Turismo. Indeed, even lead singer Nina Persson dyed her once light blonde hair to jet black, reflecting the band's change of mood. The album was produced by Per Sunding after the group's regular producer Tore Johanssen stepped down, feeling himself unable to provide the country sound the group wanted. Criticism was generally mixed to positive. Some found the change of direction welcome, and felt the band had matured, making songs that were even better than other experienced country-pop styled artists. Others missed the old pop sound, and accused the band of possibly being ashamed of their former "happy" pop sound. The first single of the album, "For What It's Worth" was released on February 17, 2003. The second single was "You're the Storm" released on June 2, 2003. The third and final single was "Live and Learn" released on December 3, 2003. In the summer of 2004, The Cardigans toured with Liz Phair, Katy Rose and Charlotte Martin on the Chicks With Attitude tour. On 28 April 2005 the band's iTunes Originals album was released through iTunes. On 19 October 2005 the band released their sixth album Super Extra Gravity to generally favourable reviews. Super Extra Gravity went straight to the #1 spot on the Swedish album chart and was certified gold (sales over 40,000). After the band finished promotional activities in fall 2006, the band entered an extended hiatus and devoted themselves to other projects.
What happened in 2006?
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devoted themselves to other projects.
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Write an article based on this summary:
Ask your friend to sign an IOU. Put the repayment plan in writing. Use apps to make repayment simple. Assess your friend before lending money. Avoid lending to friends you don't want to lose.
Article:
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Many people do this prior to lending money to ensure they are protected later, if the friend refuses to repay. This is a great way to start the lending relationship off on the right foot because the terms of the agreement are clear from the very beginning. An IOU can easily be changed down the line, if your friend needs a little extra time for repayment. Starting with an IOU also makes it easier for you to take legal action later, if this step is necessary. Check out How to Write an IOU for more information. If you haven't asked your friend to sign an IOU prior to lending the money, you should still ask them to agree to a plan once they're able to start paying you back. Put this plan in writing and have it notarized. This makes it more legally binding, if you need to go to court later, and it will likely encourage your friend take the repayment more seriously. There are numerous apps available that make paying friends back any amount of money, from $50 for dinner to $50,000 for a small business loan, quick and easy. Use apps like Splitzee, Venmo, Square Cash, Splitwise, Pay Pal, or Google Wallet to simplify asking for and receiving money. Splitzee, Splitwise, and Square Cash are your best options, when the money lending situation is for a shared expense. For instance, if you pay the monthly bills in your apartment and have roommates who pay you back. Venmo, Pay Pal, and Google Wallet are better for large amounts of money. These applications allow you to send bills and reminders to your friend, and most of them have no fees, if you're simply transferring money from bank to bank. Ask questions about why they haven't gone through more traditional channels (banks, credit cards, etc.) for financing. Try to find out whether their current hardship truly is temporary or if understanding finances are something the friend struggles with regularly. You may not want to lend money to a friend, if they are very unlikely to repay the loan. Start by asking something as simple as, "Why are you asking me for a loan?" It may be uncomfortable, but ask you friend, "Do you have a large amount of outstanding debt?" Before you lend them money, it's fair to expect them to be honest about their financial situation. Ask if they can agree to a repayment timeline before lending, "I understand you're struggling financially now, but when do you think you'll be back on your feet?" Perhaps most importantly, ask you friend what they're doing to get out of debt. Say something like, "What are you doing right now to change your financial situation? Can you get a second job or take on more hours at work?" Despite your best efforts, you may still lose your friend, your money, or both if you lend to a friend. Before you get financially involved with your friend, make sure you're willing to lose them or the amount of money you've loaned them.
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If Tarzan is a momma's boy., can we conclude that "Tarzan and his mother enjoy a close relationship."?
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yes
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Flan2021
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