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Avril Lavigne discography: It has sold over 16 million copies worldwide and is certified six-times platinum in the United States .
Claim: Avril Lavigne has sold less than 20 million copies globally .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: A. True |
Editor's note: Morieka Johnson writes about pets, fashion and money-saving ideas for MNN.com. You can follow her and more green writers on Twitter @MotherNatureNet. (MNN.com) -- If you have a pet, you know that squeezing a topical solution on your dog each month may be the easiest and most effective way to fight fleas. Most of the products contain a synthetic insecticide that attacks a flea's nervous system. The solution is applied along a dog's back and usually spreads from follicle to follicle within a day. But this popular method has come under fire recently due to reports of adverse reactions among dogs and cats. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has called for more stringent testing and evaluation requirements as well as stronger warning labels. In the meantime, I admire you for seeking a chemical-free approach. Here are a few green options for you to consider. MNN: 9 animals that use prosthetics . Find a flea comb. Regular flea maintenance will require a cache of flea-fighting tools, starting with a good flea comb. These fine-toothed wire tools come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Choose an ergonomic version and schedule standing appointments with your dog for a thorough combing. Read the label carefully. Look for products such as Bio-Groom Flea and Tick concentrate, which contains Pyrethrin, a biodegradable insecticide that's made from chrysanthemums. While you still need to exercise caution when applying the chemical, it's a better option to topical solutions that contain permethrin. MNN: Pet lovers hope to get new law on wills . Try neem oil. This all-natural insect repellent comes from the neem tree in India. Add a few drops to your favorite pet shampoo, dilute it with dishwashing liquid for a do-it-yourself flea spray or simply apply the oil directly to your dog's coat. The primary ingredient in grooming products by Ark Naturals, neem oil also repels mosquitoes. Consider an oral treatment. Oral tablets provide another alternative to topical solutions. Products like Capstar and Comfortis go to work quickly, killing any adult fleas a few minutes after being consumed. MNN: New restaurant in Copacabana serves dogs in style . Enjoy Christmas in July. A relatively new company on the scene, Vet's Best uses the power of peppermint and clove oils to fight fleas and ticks. I haven't tried it yet, but the idea of a sweet-smelling dog appeals to me. Consult your dog's vet about the remedy that works best for your pet, and follow label directions carefully. Keep in mind that dust mites can create more havoc than fleas, so it pays to tackle that problem, too. © Copyright 2011 Mother Nature Network .
Summarize this article.
Flea-fighting products that contain a synthetic insecticide have come under fire recently . The Environmental Protection Agency has called for stronger warning labels . Consult your dog's vet about the remedy that works best for your pet . |
Passage: The title character is Ralph Newton, the nephew of Squire Gregory Newton of Newton Priory. The squire has never married; he has an illegitimate son, also named Ralph Newton, whom he loves dearly. However, the estate is entailed, and after his death will go to his nephew Ralph; he cannot leave it to his natural son.
Ralph the heir is a spendthrift, and has run himself deep into debt. There are two ways in which he can extricate himself: by raising money on his future interest in the Newton estate, or by marrying Polly Neefit, the daughter of a wealthy breeches-maker who is one of his major creditors. Neither choice is a good one for him: the first might lead to the estate's being seized by his creditors upon the old squire's death; the second would mean allying himself to a family of a much lower social class, thus putting his own social standing at risk.
The squire, anxious to obtain full possession of the estate so that he can pass it to his son, offers to buy the heir's reversion. Ralph vacillates, hesitatingly proposes to and is rejected twice by Polly Neefit, and eventually accepts his uncle's offer. However, before the transaction can be completed, the squire is killed in a hunting accident and his nephew comes into full possession of the property and its large income.
Now safe from his creditors, the new squire is nevertheless harassed by Polly Neefit's father, who threatens him with legal action and embarrassing publicity if he does not continue seeking his daughter's hand. The matter is eventually resolved by Polly, who accepts the oft-repeated proposals of Ontario Moggs, son of a prosperous bootmaker, and induces her father to consent to the marriage despite his preference for the squire. In the meantime, Ralph the squire has proposed to and been rejected by Mary Bonner, the beautiful niece and ward of Sir Thomas Underwood; soon after this, she accepts an offer of marriage from the illegitimate Ralph.
The novel also describes a Parliamentary election in the fictional borough of Percycross, in which Sir Thomas, a Conservative, and Moggs, a Radical, are two of the four candidates for the two available seats. Both are eager that the election be conducted fairly and honestly. The other two candidates, one a Conservative and one a Liberal, are the incumbents; they see nothing wrong with the buying and selling of votes that has been traditional at Percycross. Sir Thomas and his fellow Conservative win the election, but it is annulled on petition, and the borough is disfranchised by Parliament because of its pervasive corruption.
Question: What is the name of Ralph Newtons uncle?
Answer: Squire Gregory Newton |
Jordan Lukaku: His older brother Romelu Lukaku is also a footballer and a Belgian international .
Claim: Romelu Lukaku is plays in the Belgian international team .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: A. True |
Passage: A physics teacher and a line cook each showed up early to drop their kids off at daycare today. It's easy to tell that the line cook has a close relationship with their kid based on how they hugged each other goodbye, but the physics teacher just seemed to push the kid out the door, and the kid didn't seem surprised by this at all.
Question: Who is a caring parent?
A. The physics teacher
B. Can't be determined
C. The line cook
Answer: C. The line cook |
Question: Josie and her family went on a safari and had an exciting time watching different animals grazing and playing together. She decided to count each animal she saw and calculated their total number. She counted 80 antelopes, 34 more rabbits than antelopes, 42 fewer hyenas than the total number of antelopes and rabbits combined, 50 more wild dogs than hyenas, and the number of leopards was half the number of rabbits. What the total number of animals that Josie counted?
Answer: The number of rabbits was 80+34 = <<80+34=114>>114 The total number of rabbits and antelopes is 114+80 = <<114+80=194>>194 The number of hyenas was 42 fewer than the combined number of antelopes and rabbits, which is 194-42 = 152 The number of wild dogs was 50 more than the number of hyenas, that is 152+50= 202 The number of leopards is 1/2*114 = <<1/2*114=57>>57 The total number of animals Josie saw is 57+202+152+114+80 = <<57+202+152+114+80=605>>605 The answer is 605. |
Amancio Ortega: Amancio Ortega Gaona -LRB- -LSB- aˈmanθjo orˈteɣa ɣaˈona -RSB- ; born 28 March 1936 -RRB- is a Spanish business tycoon .
Claim: Amancio Ortega is German .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: B. False |
Use indirect truth tables to determine whether each set of propositions is consistent. If the set is consistent, choose an option with a consistent valuation. (There may be other consistent valuations.)
~(J ∨ ~K)
L ⊃ M
(J ∨ L) ⊃ (K · M)
A. Inconsistent
B. Consistent. Consistent valuation when J, K, and M are true and L is false
C. Consistent. Consistent valuation when L and M are true and J and K are false
D. Consistent. Consistent valuation when K and M are true and J and L are false
Answer: D. Consistent. Consistent valuation when K and M are true and J and L are false |
Passage: In 1912, 13-year-old Indiana Jones is horseback riding with his Boy Scout troop at Arches National Park in Utah. While scouting caves, Indy discovers a group of grave robbers who have found a golden crucifix belonging to Coronado and steals it from them, hoping to donate it to a museum. The men give chase through a passing circus train, leaving Indy with a bloody cut across his chin from a bullwhip and a new phobia of snakes. Indy escapes, but the local sheriff makes him return the crucifix to the robbers. Impressed with Indy's bravery, the leader of the robbers gives Indy his fedora, and encourages him to not give up.
In 1938, Indy recovers the crucifix off the coast of Portugal and donates it to Marcus Brody's museum. Later, Indy is introduced to Walter Donovan, who informs him that Indy's father, Henry Jones, Sr., has vanished while searching for the Holy Grail, using an incomplete inscription as his guide. Indy then receives Henry's Grail diary via mail from Venice. Realizing that he would not have sent the diary unless he was in trouble, Indy and Marcus travel to Venice, where they meet Henry's Austrian colleague, Dr. Elsa Schneider. Beneath the library where Henry was last seen, Indy and Elsa discover the tomb of a First Crusade knight, which also contains a complete version of the inscription that Henry had used, this one revealing the location of the Grail. They flee, however, when the catacombs are set aflame by the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword, a secret society that protects the Grail from evildoers. After a speedboat chase, Indy and Elsa capture one of the Brotherhood, Kazim, and Indy tells him that his goal is only to find his father and that he has no interest in finding the Grail. Kazim tells him that Henry is being held in Castle Brunwald on the Austrian-German border. Marcus later reveals a map drawn by Henry of the route to the Grail, which begins in Alexandretta. Indy sends Marcus to İskenderun, the city built on the ruins of Alexandretta to rendezvous with their old friend Sallah, and he and Elsa head to Castle Brunwald.
At Castle Brunwald, Indy rescues Henry, but learns that Elsa and Donovan are actually working with the Nazis, and are using him to find the Grail for them. Meanwhile, Marcus is captured in Hatay, while waiting with Sallah for the Joneses. The Joneses escape from Castle Brunwald and recover the diary from Elsa at a Nazi book burning rally in Berlin where they have a dangerously close encounter with Adolf Hitler himself. They board a Zeppelin to leave Germany, but the Zeppelin soon turns around and the Joneses escape in a parasite biplane. They crash while engaging in a dogfight with the Luftwaffe due to Henry's accidentally shooting the plane's tail off, but Henry redeems himself on the ground by alarming a flock of birds to take flight in front of the Luftwaffe fighter causing the pilot to crash.
The two meet up with Sallah in Hatay, where they learn of Marcus's abduction. The Nazis are already moving toward the Grail's location, using the map possessed by Marcus. In exchange for a Rolls-Royce Phantom II, the Sultan of Hatay has given the Nazis full access to his equipment for the expedition, including a large tank. Indy, Henry, and Sallah find the Nazi expedition, which is ambushed by the Brotherhood. During the battle, Henry is captured by SS Colonel Ernst Vogel while attempting to rescue Marcus from the tank; Kazim and his comrades are killed. The younger Jones pursues the tank on horseback and, with the aid of Sallah, saves Henry and Marcus. He is then caught up in a fight with Vogel, and barely escapes before the tank goes over a cliff, crushing Vogel to death.
Indy, Henry, Marcus, and Sallah catch up with the surviving Nazis, led by Donovan and Elsa, who have found the temple where the Grail is kept but are unable to pass through the three protective booby traps. Donovan mortally wounds Henry, forcing Indy to risk his life in the traps to find the Grail and use its healing power to save Henry. Using the information in the diary and followed by Donovan and Elsa, Indy safely overcomes the traps (circular blade traps, a word puzzle, and a invisible bridge over a bottomless pit) and reaches the Grail's chamber, which is guarded by a knight. He has been kept alive for seven hundred years by the power of the Grail, which is hidden among dozens of false Grails; only the true Grail brings life, while a false one claims it. Donovan ages rapidly and decays into dust upon drinking from a false grail. Indy selects the true Grail, a simple clay cup, which the knight warns cannot be taken beyond the temple's entrance. Indy fills the Grail with holy water and takes it to Henry, which heals him instantly. Elsa, disregarding the knight's warning, then takes the Grail and attempts to leave with it. The temple begins to collapse and Elsa falls to her death trying to recover the Grail. Indy nearly suffers the same fate but Henry persuades him to let it go. The Joneses, Marcus, and Sallah escape the temple and ride off into the sunset.
Question: Which group is also searching for the grail?
Answer: Nazis |
By . Alex Ward and Helen Pow . PUBLISHED: . 21:52 EST, 19 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 15:11 EST, 20 February 2013 . A hacker took over Chrysler's Jeep Twitter account on Tuesday, sending out colorful tweets disparaging the off-road vehicle and its CEO just a day after Burger King's feed was similarly hijacked. The cyber-attacker, who is believed to be New England-based DJ Tony 'iThug' Cunha, with the group Defonic Team Screen Name Club, replaced Jeep's logo with Cadillac's, claiming the latter had snapped up the Chrysler brand. 'The official Twitter handle for the Jeep - Just Empty Every Pocket. Sold to Cadillac ... In a hood near you!' read the tagline on Jeep's Twitter page. Likely hacker: The Jeep and Burger King hacker is believed to be New England-based DJ Tony 'iThug' Cunha, pictured . 'Sorry guys ... no more Jeep production because we caught our CEO doing this,' read one tweet that linked to a picture of a man inhaling on what appeared to be a bong. A Cadillac spokesman in Detroit said the brand had no official comment, other than to observe there was 'some Twitter mischief going on.' According to Gizmodo, Cunha also allegedly breached the Twitter account of Burger King Worldwide Inc on Sunday, posting the online equivalent of graffiti and forcing its suspension for about an hour. Similar to the Jeep hijacking, the Burger King assailant claimed the hamburger chain had been sold to arch-rival McDonald's Corp. Gizmodo reported that Cunha, who formerly hacked MySpace pages as a teen under the DTSNC group, left a paper trail in both the @BurgerKing and @Jeep hackings. Funny: 'The official Twitter handle for the Jeep - Just Empty Every Pocket. Sold to Cadillac ... In a hood near you!' read the tagline on Jeep's Twitter page, pictured . Chaos: One tweet claimed the CEO of Jeep was a pot smoker and linked to this photo, pictured . It said he sent out numerous tweets referencing 'iThug,' many of which were targeted at his friends. But he reportedly revealed his identity when iThug bragged about his feat to a girl using his real name on Facebook, which had the incriminating URL of Facebook.com/ithug. It has now been deleted. Ignite Social Media, the North Carolina-based agency that manages Twitter and other social media accounts for most of Chrysler's brands in North America, noticed the first unauthorized tweet on Jeep's site at 1:32 p.m. ET Tuesday, according to Ed Garsten, head of Chrysler digital media. 'They immediately contacted Twitter to start the process to regain control of the account,' Garsten said, adding that the account was back under Chrysler's control in less than an hour. 'The agency and the company are looking at strengthening security on the site,' said Garsten. This would include stronger passwords and other measures. Garsten said they had 'no idea' who did it. 'I understand Twitter was especially prepared to deal with today's situation because they just went through the process with Burger King,' he said. Resolved: Jeep's account was back under Chrysler's control in less than an hour but not before a barrage of colorful tweets, pictured . Other companies took advantage of the attention surrounding the Twitter hackings to promote their own brands. Viacom . Inc's MTV sent out a message that it also had been hacked on its . official Twitter account with more than 6.6 million followers. But it . was just a prank, which was confirmed on Twitter on Tuesday afternoon. BET, also owned by Viacom, pulled a similar stunt. Twitter, . which industry experts say has a poor track record on online security . and reliability, has over the past year begun courting big corporate . sponsors, hoping to beef up its revenue stream as it competes for Web . surfers with Google Inc and Facebook Inc. Industry . analysts have urged the company for years to beef up online security by . adopting 'two-factor authentication' or encrypting its website, among . other measures. This month, anonymous hackers broke into Twitter and possibly gained access to passwords and other information for as many as 250,000 user accounts. 'Whopper flopped': Burger King's Twitter account has been hacked by a McDonald's fan who has changed the branding of their page to feature McDonald's food, their logo and their name . 'Twitter is like Facebook in that it . started as a way of sharing thoughts and friendships, and security seems . to be the antithesis of sharing. After all, how much damage can a . little 140-character message do?' said Murray Jennex, a cyber-security . expert at San Diego State University. 'That . said, when business saw an opportunity to do business using Twitter, . that risk assessment went away and, at that point, Twitter should have . implemented a SecureID or two-factor authentication login.' On . Sunday, the branding of Burger King's Twitter page, which has more than . 89,000 followers, was been changed to feature their rival's food and . even their logo and Twitter name were replaced with McDonalds . @BurgerKing. The first sign . of trouble was a post made from the official Burger King account . stating: 'We just got sold to McDonalds! Look for McDonalds in a hood . near you.' Promoting their rival: From the hacked Burger King account, posts such as this one have been posted today, promoting McDonald's food . The Burger King Twitter account was . suspended after several posts, some racist and offensive, were made by . the McDonald's fan over several hours. From the Burger King account, the . hacker promoted McDonald's food, posting: 'Try our new BK (sm) Bath . Salt! 99% Pure MDPV! Buy a Big Mac, get a gram free!' That . was followed by a string of Tweets from several Twitter users as news . of the hack went viral with many tweeting and re-tweeting posts from the . hacker. One Twitter user wrote: 'Somebody needs to tell Burgerking that 'whopper123' isn't a secure password.' Another wrote: 'Yo @burgerking I tried ordering a Bic Mac at the drive through and got laughed at :( #specialsauce' A . Burger King spokesperson told MailOnline yesterday: 'It has come to our . attention that the Twitter account of BURGER KING® brand has been . hacked. Gone viral: Twitter users posted their thoughts on the hacking as the Burger King hacker continued to post from the account . With the fast-food chains and Twitter yet to make any official statement, Twitter users commented on the incident . 'We have worked directly with . administrators to suspend the account until we are able to re-establish . our legitimate site and authentic postings. 'We apologise to our followers who . have been receiving erroneous tweets about other members of our industry . and additional inappropriate topics.' McDonald's denied any involvement in . the hacking, posting on their Twitter page: 'We empathize with . our @BurgerKing counterparts. Rest assured, we had nothing to do with . the hacking.' Some Twitter users mused over how the official Burger King account could have been hacked. One . wrote: 'The fact that @BurgerKing got hacked and turned into a . @McDonalds feed is pretty funny. Never know what is going to happen in . social media.' Another said: 'We're guessing the @BurgerKing social media team is having a bad day...'
Summarize this article.
A hacker took over Chrysler's Jeep Twitter account on Tuesday . Culprit is allegedly New England-based DJ Tony 'iThug' Cunha . Claimed Cadillac had bought the off-road car brand and suggested in a tweet that Jeep's CEO was a pot smoker . Burger King's Twitter account was hacked in a similar fashion on Sunday . Their account's page featured a picture of McDonald's food and their logo . |
Passage: Two people got into a car accident at the corner today, one of the drivers was a 15 year old and the other driver a 40-year-old. The 40-year-old had been going 55mph in a 30mph zone and wasn't able to stop in time to avoid hitting the 15 year old when he came to a full stop at the stop sign.
Question: Who was acting recklessly?
A. The 15 year old
B. Can't answer
C. The 40-year-old
Answer: C. The 40-year-old |
Passage: Villette begins with its famously passive protagonist, Lucy Snowe, age 14, staying at the home of her godmother Mrs. Bretton in "the clean and ancient town of Bretton", in England. Also in residence are Mrs. Bretton's son, John Graham Bretton (whom the family calls Graham), and a young visitor, Paulina Home (who is called Polly). Polly is a peculiar little girl who soon develops a deep devotion to Graham, who showers her with attention. But Polly's visit is cut short when her father arrives to take her away.
For reasons that are not stated, Lucy leaves Mrs. Bretton's home a few weeks after the Polly's departure. Some years pass, during which an unspecified family tragedy leaves Lucy without family, home, or means. After some initial hesitation, she is hired as a caregiver by Miss Marchmont, a rheumatic crippled woman. Lucy is soon accustomed to her work and has begun to feel content with her quiet lifestyle.
During an evening of dramatic weather changes, Miss Marchmont regains all her energy and feels young again. She shares with Lucy her sad love story of 30 years previously, and concludes that she should treat Lucy better and be a better person. She believes that death will reunite her with her dead lover. The next morning, Lucy finds Miss Marchmont dead.
Lucy then leaves the English countryside and goes to London. At the age of 23, she boards a ship for Labassecour despite knowing very little French. She travels to the city of Villette, where she finds employment as a bonne (nanny) at Mme. Beck's boarding school for girls. (This school is seen as being based upon the Hégers' Brussels pensionnat). After a time, she is hired to teach English at the school, in addition to having to mind Mme. Beck's three children. She thrives despite Mme. Beck's constant surveillance of the staff and students.
"Dr. John," a handsome English doctor, frequently visits the school because of his love for the coquette Ginevra Fanshawe. In one of Villette's famous plot twists, "Dr. John" is later revealed to be John Graham Bretton, a fact that Lucy has known but has deliberately concealed from the reader. After Dr. John (i.e., Graham) discovers Ginevra's unworthiness, he turns his attention to Lucy, and they become close friends. She values this friendship highly despite her usual emotional reserve.
We meet Polly (Paulina Home) again at this point; her father has inherited the title "de Bassompierre" and is now a Count. Thus her name is now Paulina Home de Bassompierre. Polly and Graham soon discover that they knew each other in the past and renew their friendship. They fall in love and eventually marry.
Lucy becomes progressively closer to a colleague, the irascible, autocratic, and male chauvinist professor, M. Paul Emanuel, a relative of Mme. Beck. Lucy and Paul eventually fall in love.
However, a group of conspiring antagonists, including Mme. Beck, the priest Père Silas, and the relatives of M. Paul's long-dead fiancée, work to keep the two apart. They finally succeed in forcing M. Paul's departure for the West Indies to oversee a plantation there. He nonetheless declares his love for Lucy before his departure and arranges for her to live independently as the headmistress of her own day school, which she later expands into a pensionnat (boarding school).
During the course of the novel, Lucy has three encounters with the figure of a nun — which may be the ghost of a nun who was buried alive on the school's grounds as punishment for breaking her vow of chastity. In a highly symbolic scene near the end of the novel, she discovers the "nun's" habit in her bed and destroys it. She later finds out that it was a disguise worn by Ginevra's amour, Alfred de Hamal. The episodes with the nun no doubt contributed substantially to the novel's reputation as a gothic novel.
Villette's final pages are ambiguous. Although Lucy says that she wants to leave the reader free to imagine a happy ending, she hints strongly that M. Paul's ship was destroyed by a storm during his return journey from the West Indies. She says that, "M. Emanuel was away three years. Reader, they were the three happiest years of my life." This passage suggests that he was drowned by the "destroying angel of tempest."
Brontë described the ambiguity of the ending as a "little puzzle."
Question: Where is M. Paul forced to go to?
Answer: West Indies |
Passage: Tanisha Rivers and Graciela Munoz both spoke to the principal about their children being bullied. Tanisha Rivers yelled at the principal for the lack of help the school was providing, while Graciela Munoz asked what could be done to improve the situation.
Question: Which person yelled at the principal?
A. Graciela Munoz
B. Tanisha Rivers
C. Unknown
Answer: B. Tanisha Rivers |
Q: How to know if your girlfriend is ready to kiss you?
A: Kissing a girl can be nerve-wracking, especially if you don't know if she's ready for a kiss! Luckily, there are ways you can figure out whether or not she wants a kiss. Although no tip is foolproof, at least you’ll have a better idea of whether it’s welcome before you make the move.
## Study her face
1. Watch her eyes. You should be able to tell a lot about your girlfriend's desire to kiss you from her eyes. They don't say the eyes are the windows to the soul for nothing. If she looks you directly in the eye, she is probably establishing intimacy and is at least open to kissing you. Although eye contact is almost always a positive sign, remember that sometimes people look down or away because they are shy or nervous. Still, if she is not looking at you, that's a warning sign that she's not open to a kiss. Women will give you more submissive looks in some cases when they want to be kissed, such putting the chin down and subtly looking down. Slightly narrowing the eyes is a pose that many women go into when they are waiting for a kiss. Are her pupils dilated and are her eyes widening? If so, these are signs that she is enjoying being around you, so she is probably open to a kiss.
2. Look at her lips. Women prepare their lips for a kiss. So if you want to know if she wants to kiss you, zero in on her mouth. Is she biting her lip or licking her lips? These could be signs that she is trying to moisten them for a kiss. If she is pursing her lips or they look hardened, this is a bad sign. She is closing herself off to you. If she's applied lip gloss recently, or freshened her breath, this could mean she wants her lips to look desirable to you, in the hopes you will kiss them. This is especially true if you can tell she's reapplied them (say when you went to the bathroom). If she's looking at YOUR lips, it probably means she is thinking about kissing them.
3. Pay attention to her nose. This might sound odd, but research has shown the nose can give away signals of desire - often without her realizing it. If her nostrils are flaring slightly, she probably wants a kiss. Physically, flaring the nostrils means she is taking in more air because she is preparing for physical activity. You need to take this one in context. If she's in the middle of an argument with you, the physical activity her body is preparing her for might not be in your favor.
## Interpret her other body language
1. Watch her posture. Posture can be very revealing. Much of communication is made up of non-verbal cues. Sometimes people don't even realize they are communicating this way. If she is learning into you or toward you, even slightly, it probably means she is more open to a kiss. On the other hand, if she is leaning away, that's a bad sign. You should also pay attention to the direction her feet are pointing. If they are pointing away from you, it could be a sign she is looking for a chance to leave. Does she move away when you move slightly toward her? This is a test you can use to measure her body language interest in kissing you. Subtly create more of a zone of intimacy and see if she complies or moves away to diminish it.
2. Study her hands. Women will use their hands to touch things or show femininity if they want you to kiss them. If a woman plays with her necklace, she's probably into you. But you should take this act in context. If she also has other body language that is open to you, that's a better sign because sometimes a woman is just nervous. If a woman is playing with or twirling her hair, it's a sign she wants you to find her attractive and is flirting with you. If she touches something else, like a glass (running her fingers over it), in even a somewhat sensual way, that's a good sign.
3. Wait for her touches. If she has touched you recently, even in small ways, this could be her way of creating more intimacy in the hopes you will kiss her. Even the slightest of touches show desire. That means it's a good sign if she brushes her hand against your knee or arm. Touch probably means she wants to get closer to you. It's an even better sign if she touches your face. If she softly, playfully hits you on the arm, she is trying to create a playful vibe with you, which is a way that women flirt. You could test her out by touching her slightly first to see how she responds. For example, brush your feet against hers under the table and see what she does. Another technique is to touch a piece of jewelry she has lightly (earrings, necklace), and say you admire it. If she smiles and is OK with you moving closer into her space, that's a good sign.
4. Spot whether she has open body language. When taken together, is her body language closed or is it open? If she has open body language, she is not trying to erect barriers between you. Signs of open body language include arms at the side, body tilted toward you or facing you, eye contact, feet pointed toward you. Signs of closed body language include arms crossed over chest, feet or legs crossed, feet pointing away from you, body tilted away from you, and minimal eye contact. How much personal space is she leaving between you? If it's not much, she's already open to an intimate connection with you on some level. This is a good sign for you.
## Learn other kiss trick
1. Consider how she talks to you. Does she seem like she wants to keep the conversation going? It's a good sign for you if she does. Is she asking you a lot of questions? Are they deep and personal? If the answers are yes, she probably wants a more intimate connection with you. Are you making her laugh? Laughing at your jokes (especially if they are not very funny) is a way that women flirt. Is she trying to keep the conversation going by being the one to ask questions or lead or direct the conversation? That's a good sign. It's a bad sign if she lets the conversation wither into silence between you or you feel like you're doing all the heavy lifting to keep it going.
2. Try the triangular kissing technique. There are some techniques you can use to build sexual tension, while monitoring how she responds and communicates back. Move close to her and touch her, either her hands or legs. Slow down your breathing and words. Look at her right eye. Hold the look for a few seconds, then move your gaze to her left eye. Pause again. Now, move your gaze and hold it on her mouth. She should be more receptive to a kiss (as long as she hasn't moved away!)
3. Spot the window of opportunity. Women you've just met will often give you a short window of opportunity for a kiss. This can be a tricky balancing act. This will be easier if she's already your girlfriend because you will be able to spot the signs more readily. A woman you've just met is also testing you. You need to give her signs that you like her when she seems receptive to you, otherwise she may feel rejected or insecure and start to pull away and try to make you chase her. If you miss the window of opportunity, she may think you lack confidence or aren't interested in her. But if you try to kiss her before it opens, she might think you're boorish or too aggressive. So monitoring body language matters.
4. Handle her moving away. You should always be prepared for the worst: What if you try to move closer or touch her slightly, and she moves away? Maybe she's just tired or not in a good mood. Who knows? You don't want to make it worse with a bad response. Timing is everything. Act like nothing has occurred. Basically, show that you're not thrown off. You could even make a confident quip about her being cute when she's shy. Don't act angry or insecure. That's not appealing to women. Maybe she's interested in you but just not ready for a kiss yet. In that case, you could work on building more common ground and intimacy- slowly. Abandon your idea for a kiss right now and instead focus on having a great conversation with her, and remember to throw in some compliments! (Women love that.)
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Which of the following is true of a valid disjunctive syllogism?
A. The minor premise must affirm the antecedent or deny the consequent
B. Every term must be used twice
C. The middle term must be used in at least one premise in a universal or unqualified sense
D. None of the above
Answer: D. None of the above |
Passage: David Gale is a professor who is a prisoner on death row in Texas. With only a few days until his execution, his lawyer negotiates a half million-dollar fee to tell his story to Bitsey Bloom, a journalist from a major news magazine. She is known for her ability to keep secrets and protect her sources. He tells her the story of how he ended up on death row, revealed to the audience through a series of lengthy flashbacks.
Gale is head of the philosophy department at the University of Texas and an active member of DeathWatch, an advocacy group campaigning against capital punishment. At a graduation party, he encounters Berlin, an attractive graduate student who had been expelled from the school. while Gale is drunk at a party, she seduces him and gets him to have rough sex with her. She then falsely accuses Gale of rape. The next day, he loses a televised debate with the Governor of Texas when he is unable to point to an example of a demonstrably innocent man being executed during that governor's term. After losing the debate, Gale is arrested and charged with rape. While the rape charge against Gale is later dropped, the damage had already been done, and his family, marriage, university career and reputation are all destroyed.
Constance Harraway, a fellow DeathWatch activist, is a close friend of Gale who consoles him after his life falls apart, and the pair have sex. However, the next day, Harraway is discovered raped and murdered, suffocated by a plastic bag taped over her head. An autopsy reveals that she had been forced to swallow the key to the handcuffs used to restrain her, a psychological torture technique used under the communist regime of Nicolae CeauĹescu, which Gale and Harraway had both protested against. The physical evidence at the crime scene points to Gale, who is convicted of her rape and murder and is sentenced to death.
In the present, Bloom investigates the case in between her visits with Gale. She comes to believe that the apparent evidence against Gale does not add up. She is tailed several times in her car by a person who turns out to be Dusty Wright, the alleged one-time lover and colleague of Harraway, who she suspects was the real killer. Wright slips evidence to Bloom that suggests Gale has been "framed", implying that the actual murderer videotaped the crime. Bloom pursues this lead until she finds a tape revealing that Harraway, who was suffering from terminal leukemia, had committed an elaborate suicide made to look like murder. She and Wright are both seen on the videotape, showing that they framed Gale as part of a plan to discredit the death penalty (by showing that an innocent person can be executed).
Bloom does not find this evidence until the day of Gale's scheduled execution. She tries to give the tape to the authorities in time to stop the execution. She arrives at the prison just as the warden announces that it has already been carried out. The tape is then released, causing a media and political uproar over the execution of an innocent man. Later, Wright receives the fee that Bloom's magazine agreed to pay for the interview, and delivers it to Gale's ex-wife in Spain, along with a postcard from Berlin in San Francisco apologizing for the false rape accusation. His ex-wife looks distraught, knowing Gale told the truth and that she effectively stole their child away from him.
Much later still, a videotape labelled "Off the Record" is delivered to Bloom. This tape picks up at the point where Wright confirmed that Harraway was dead, then continues on to show him stepping aside to allow Gale, also present and party to the suicide, to caress her body. It was in doing this that Gale left his fingerprints on Harraway's plastic suffocation bag, showing he knowingly sacrificed himself to prove that innocent prisoners can be executed.
Question: What crime does Berlin accuse David of?
Answer: She accuses him of rape following a night of rough sex. |
Heritability of autism: Twin studies are a helpful tool in determining the heritability of disorders and low-prevalence human traits in general .
Claim: Twin studies help to determine the heritability of low-prevalence human traits .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: A. True |
Question: Lizzie has half as many crayons as Bobbie. Bobbie has three times as many crayons as Billie. If Billie has 18 crayons, how many crayons does Lizzie have?
Answer: Bobbie has 18 * 3 = <<18*3=54>>54 crayons. Lizzie has 54 / 2 = <<54/2=27>>27 crayons. The answer is 27. |
Anne: Could anyone buy some bread?
Lisa: I'm home already
Jack: I'll buy some
Anne: thx!
Summarize the above dialogue.
Jack will buy some bred for Anne. |
Lilah: Teacher is asking me to visit his home
Pedro: Yeah His wife is sick he needs someone to help him
Lilah: Would you like to come along?
Pedro: Can you pick me up from my house?
Lilah: Would be there right after 10 mins
Pedro: will be waiting
Lilah: K
Summarize the above dialogue.
Lilah will Pick up Pedro from his house in 10 minutes and they'll go to the teacher who needs help as his wife is sick. |
Juan Bernat: He was at No.1 in Outside of the Boot 's Talent Radar Top 20 Young Players of 2014 feature .
Claim: Juan Bernat played during the whole match against VfL Wolfsburg .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: C. Neither |
Stepping down: Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan has resigned his position as the country's intelligence chief . Saudi Arabian Prince Bandar bin Sultan who led the country's hardline stance against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been removed from his post as the country's intelligence chief. His departure come just months after he was quoted warning of a 'major shift' from the United States over its Middle East policy. Prince Bandar's removal from the post may help to smooth relations with Washington as Riyadh pushes for more U.S. support for Syrian rebels. Prince Bandar, who has recently spent time in the United States and Morocco for medical treatment, was replaced on an interim basis by a deputy, Youssef al-Idrisi. 'Prince Bandar was relieved of his post at his own request and General Youssef al-Idrissi was asked to carry out the duties of the head of general intelligence,' state news agency SPA said, citing a royal decree. The decree did not say if Prince Bandar would continue in his other position as head of the National Security Council. A former ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar was appointed intelligence chief in July 2012, in charge of helping Syrian rebels bring down Assad, an ally of Riyadh's biggest regional rival Iran. He was also closely involved in Saudi support for Egypt's military rulers after they ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi last year, diplomatic sources in the Gulf have said. However, despite his longstanding connections in Washington and personal relations with world leaders stretching back decades, Prince Bandar proved a sometimes abrasive figure in his efforts to corral Western support for Syrian rebels. Western officials have said in private that his comment in October about a 'major shift' from the U.S. following President Barack Obama's decision not to use military strikes against Assad had complicated cooperation on Syria. Ongoing conflict: Prince Bandar led Saudi Arabia's strong stance against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Pictured are Syrian army soldiers sitting on their tank while on patrol in Maaloula village, northeast of the capital Damascus, Syria, this week . A trip to Moscow last year to push President Vladimir Putin to abandon his support for Assad also failed to produce results. 'He had been more or less disengaged from the Syrian file for the past five months. The responsibility was divided between a number of people - officers in the intelligence sphere and other princes. So the reality is that any changes have already happened,' said Mustafa Alani, a security expert with close ties to Riyadh. Saudi support for the rebels, including arms supplies, training and financing, has been hampered by infighting between opposition groups and difficulties in working out which of them pursued militant ideologies that could endanger Riyadh. Earlier this year, Riyadh recalibrated its Syria policy to focus more on preventing militant groups there from posing an eventual threat inside the kingdom, something that was pushed by powerful Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef.
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His departure comes just months after he warned of a 'major shift' from U.S. The move may help smooth relations between Saudi Arabia and Washington . Saudi Arabia is calling for more U.S. support for Syrian rebels . |
Passage: The biblical portion of the play, a retelling of the Visitation of the Shepherds, comes only after a longer, invented story that mirrors it, in which the shepherds, before visiting the holy baby outside in a manger, must first rescue one of their sheep that has been hidden in a cradle indoors by a comically evil sheep-stealing couple. Once they have discovered and punished the thieves, the storyline switches to the familiar one of the three shepherds being told of the birth of Christ by an angel, and going to Bethlehem to offer the true Child gifts.
At the start of the play, Coll, the first shepherd ("primus pastor") arrives in a field, invoking God in anachronistic terms (referring, as the shepherds will do throughout the play, to the life and death of Christ even though at this point of the play Christ has not yet been born) complaining about the (typically English) cold weather and about his poverty and the arrogance of local gentry. He begins by saying, "Lord, what these weders are cold! And I am ill happyed" which translates as "God, the weather is cold and I am ill prepared/clothed." Gib, the second shepherd, arrives without seeing Coll and complains first about the weather and then about the plight of married men, himself included, with bawdy speculation about the lives of men with more than one wife and advice to "young men of wooing" to "Be well war of weding" (wary of marriage). He paints a portrait of his wife as a loud, heavy-drinking, alternately abusive and sentimentally pious, whale-sized woman. "By him that died for us all, I would I had run til I had lost her!" at which point he is startled by Coll. They confer about where Daw, a third, young, lazy and mischievous, shepherd, has gotten to, at which point Daw arrives complaining about employers, hunger, and about recent floods which he compares to Noah's flood.
Mak, a local good-for-nothing and well-known thief, arrives and pretends to be a yeoman from a lord. Although they recognize him from the start, he insults and threatens them by saying that he will have them flogged. When they threaten him, he pretends not to have known who they were. Mak tries to gain sympathy from the shepherds by explaining how his wife is a lazy drunk who gives birth to too many children. Invoking Christ and Pontius Pilate, Mak agrees to camp with the shepherds, and feigns to lie down among them. However, once they have fallen asleep he casts a spell to make sure they will not wake up and then sneaks off to steal one of their sheep. He heads back to his cottage and trades insults with Gill, his wife, who firmly believes that Mak will be hanged for the theft and comes up with a plan for hiding the sheep - she will put it in an empty cradle and pretend that it is her newborn child, and that she is loudly, painfully in labor with its twin, so that the shepherds will quickly give up any search.
Mak sneaks back among the shepherds and pretends to awaken along with them. They head off to take account of their sheep while Mak heads home to prepare. With despair at their catastrophic ill fortune, the shepherds realize a sheep is missing and go to search Mak's house. They are initially fooled by Mak and Gill's ruse despite Gill going so far as to say that if she's lying she'll eat the child in her cradle (as she indeed plans to). The shepherds leave defeated, but realize that they have failed to bring any gifts to the "baby", and go back. When they remove the swaddling clothes they recognize their sheep, but decide not to kill Mak but instead roll him in canvas and throw him up and down, punishing him until they are exhausted.
When they have left Mak's cottage, the biblical story proper begins - the Angel appears and tells them to go to "Bedlam" (Bethlehem) to see the Christ child. They wonder at the event, chastising each other for their collective delay, and then go to the manger where Mary (Mother of Jesus) welcomes them and receives their praise for her mildness. They each address the Child in turn, beginning by praising His authority and His creation of all things in tones of reverence and awe, but each comically shifting mid-speech to cooing, gushing baby talk, since they are addressing an adorable baby, who Coll, Gib, and Daw respectively give "a bob of cherries," a bird, and a ball ("Have and play thee withal, and go to the tennis!") The shepherds rejoice at their salvation, all thoughts of hardship and complaint vanished, and leave singing in unison.
Question: What punishment was decided for mak?
Answer: the shepherds decided to roll mak in a canvas and throw him up and down till he feels exhausted. |
Question: Give me some ideas of places to visit on my next backpacking trip to South America.
Answer:
- Take a cruise to visit the islands of the Galapagos
- Straddle the northern and southern hemispheres at La Mitad del Mundo (The Middle of the Earth), close to Quito, Ecuador
- Hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu from Cusco in Peru. You need to get a permit at least 6 months in advance.
- Hike the Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu from Cusco in Peru. It is a great alternative to the Inca Trail if you do not get a permit.
- Visit villages around Lake Titicaca in Peru
- Take a multi-day tour to the Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, on a four-wheel drive from Uyuni in Bolivia
- Go stargazing in the Atacama Desert in Chile |
Question: Jane runs a small farm. She has 10 chickens that lay 6 eggs each per week. She can sell the eggs for $2/dozen. How much money will she make in 2 weeks if she sells all her eggs?
Answer: Jane's chickens lay 10 chickens * 6 eggs = <<10*6=60>>60 eggs per week. Jane's chickens lay 60 eggs / 12 = <<60/12=5>>5 dozen eggs per week. Each week that Jane sells her eggs she can make 5 dozen * $2 = $<<5*2=10>>10 per week. In two weeks Jane would make 2 * $10/week = $<<2*10=20>>20. The answer is 20. |
Question: Who is the St Louis Cardinals?
Answer:
The St Louis Cardinals is a major league baseball team that play's in the national league central division. |
Danish language: There are also minor Dutch-speaking communities in Norway , Sweden , Spain , the United States , Canada , Brazil , and Argentina .
Claim: The Dutch language is spoken in Spain .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: A. True |
Question: Johny traveled South 40 miles, then turned East and traveled for 20 more miles than the distance he took to travel to the south. If he turned North and traveled twice the distance he had traveled to the East, calculate the total distance his journey took.
Answer: If the distance he took traveling to the East is 20 miles more than the distance he took to travel to the south, he took 40+20 = 60 miles traveling to the East. Johny's total distance traveling to the south and then to the East is 60+40 = <<60+40=100>>100 miles. The journey to the North was 2*60 = <<2*60=120>>120, twice the distance he took traveling to the East. The whole journey took 100+120 = <<100+120=220>>220 miles. The answer is 220. |
So why would Yahoo -- the original king of Internet discussion groups -- pay over $1 billion for a simple little blog-publishing tool like Tumblr? Doesn't the giant Web company have the ability to create its own application that lets people post words and pictures online? Of course it does. No, Yahoo isn't buying a technology company so much as the community that uses it. It paid a billion bucks for Tumblr for the very same reason that Facebook paid a billion dollars last year for web-sharing app Instagram: for the kids. That's right, the net's biggest corporations are willing to pay through the nose to acquire teenagers -- that coveted yet slippery demographic for whom the Web is a tired old workplace, Facebook is their parents' (or grandparents') social network, and Yahoo has something to do with stock quotes and sports scores. A new generation of apps and networks -- from Tumblr and Instagram to Snapchat and Pinterest -- has emerged alongside this new generation of users, and if traditional companies can't beat them, they may as well buy them. Teens and young 20-somethings have been drifting away from what over-30s people think of as the Internet for years now. The World Wide Web is flat, static, and largely dependent on desktop and laptop computers to work right. Younger people are much less likely to connect to the net -- or to each other -- through these cumbersome devices than they are to use smartphones. The mobile Web, as it's called, works differently. It's navigated by thumb, through separate apps, and in shorthand. The big websites and search engines of yesteryear (well, at least yesterweek) -- like Yahoo, for example -- just weren't built for this kind of light engagement. They're meant for keyboards and mice, not swiping and txt shorthand. Meanwhile, the corporations running big websites and social networks might seem like upstarts to older users, but to young people they are pre-existing conditions of the universe. Just as the Beatles might as well be Frank Sinatra, Facebook might as well be Microsoft or IBM. The big established networks just aren't cool. Mark Zuckerberg is already almost 30. Plus, his social network -- just like those of his peers at Google+ -- feels unnecessarily complex and requires a big commitment. Everything one does in the adult social media world goes down on one's permanent record. The experience on a site like Facebook is so involved -- friends lists, updates, photo streams, timelines, advertisements -- from the teen perspective, it's a Whole Big Thing. Compare that to something like Instagram. You take a picture and it goes up and out. That's it. Or Snapchat: You take a picture and it goes to a friend, and then it disappears. How cool is that? The less weighty and permanent and stickily complex a social networking experience, the less it feels like it's the province of marketers, too. Every keystroke, recommendation, follow, like and update is recorded and stored. Kids are becoming aware that the more involved the data footprint they create somewhere, the more it will be used against them by big data researchers looking to predict their future activities and then market to them the things they don't yet know they're about to desire. Which is just creepy. This is why the real job of younger companies is to prove they are not your parents' social apps. That's why it becomes particularly challenging when a hip "young person's" social app is swallowed by a big, old, uncool Web company. After Tumblr's base of young users found out about the sale, they went into a near state of panic. Many posted on Twitter and elsewhere how this represents the end of an era, and how they are now destined to move on to the next frontier. For its part, Tumblr is working hard to prove it still has indie cool street cred. In his blog post responding to the angst around his "selling out," Tumblr founder David Karp sounded like a young Steve Jobs by insisting "how awesome this is." Then, as if to prove Tumblr is still cool enough to do naughty things even though it's now owned by a zillion-dollar corporate conglomerate, he signed his post, "F*** yeah." Maybe that'll work, but it looks to me like Tumblr has gone from being cool to trying to sound cool. And we all know where that leads.
Summarize this article.
Douglas Rushkoff: Web giant Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1 billion to attract young people . He says kids use mobile Web far more than desktop that requires heavier engagement . Now that it's been swallowed, Tumblr risks turning uncool, he says . Rushkoff: Kids' tweets about end of an era show challenge of being bought by Yahoo . |
Passage: At the bar, two different individuals approached a man sitting alone at the bar - they were named Peter Ho and Jenny Choi. Peter Ho passed by him and ordered a drink from the bartender while Jenny Choi told the man the rate for the two of them spending the night together.
Question: Who was just going up to the bartender?
A. Jenny Choi
B. Peter Ho
C. Cannot answer
Answer: B. Peter Ho |
Milton Keynes Dons manager Karl Robinson said he was as shocked as anyone at mk Stadium but wanted to make sure his League One players got due credit after demolishing Manchester United 4-0 in the Capital One Cup. Louis van Gaal's men remain without a competitive win under the Dutchman after two goals apiece from Will Grigg and Benik Afobe saw the Premier League giants side embarrassed on Tuesday night. 'I'm a little bit shocked to be walking off and seeing the scoreline,' Robinson told Sky Sports 1. VIDEO Scroll down for Karl Robinson: We were comfortable after the first 15 minutes . Shocked: Milton Keynes Dons manager Karl Robinson celebrates after beating Manchester United 4-0 . On a roll: When Dons' Will Grigg shocked United with his first of two few would have predicted what came next . Icing on the cake: Striker Benik Afobe joins the party in the second half with his first of two slick finishes . 'It's ridiculous, it's something that dreams are made of for these players. 'We work hard here and you've seen a youthful energy in the team.' The United team was largely changed and missing many of its stars but Robinson was eager for his players to get due credit. 'They've got the superstars in the side and they're the ones that are in the public eye on a daily basis, an hourly basis to an extent, we're not,' he added. Overshadowing stars: Robinson (right) shakes hands with losing United striker Danny Welbeck . Best view in the house: Dons keeper David Martin celebrates the first of four goals as he keeps a clean sheet . VIDEO Van Gaal blames injuries, errors and luck . 'So it's always easy to pick negatives in people than push the positives on the other people. 'I think my players deserve an awful lot of credit tonight. The football club does and Milton Keynes does. 'This is a game for Milton Keynes as a city.' It's not too late to play MailOnline Fantasy Football… There's £1,000 to be won EVERY WEEK by the highest scoring manager .
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Milton Keynes Dons beat Manchester United 4-0 in the Capital One Cup . Karl Robinson said he was as shocked as anyone after the result . The manager said it was 'something dreams are made of for these players' Will Grigg scored his first of two goals after 25 minutes . Grigg's second came with a chested finish after a Ben Reeves cross . Arsenal loanee Benik Afobe scored a brace of his own in the second half . United are still winless in a competitive match under Louis van Gaal . |
Question: Quentin, Skylar, and Colten have a total of 383 chickens. Quentin has 25 more than double the chickens that Skylar has. Skylar has 4 less than triple the number of chickens that Colten has. How many chickens does Colten have?
Answer: Let x represent the number of chickens that Colten has Skylar:3x-4 Quentin: 25+2(3x-4)=25+6x-8=6x+17 Total:x+3x-4+(6x+17)=383 10x+13=383 10x=370 x=<<37=37>>37 chickens The answer is 37. |
Mandy: Clara, please remember to take with you a saucepan, a thermal bag, a toaster, a bathing suit and a warm sweater!!
Clara: Ok, mum, I won’t forget about anything. Don’t worry!
Mandy: Good, I can’t wait to see you here, at the sea 😊
Clara: Me, too 😊
Mandy: Bye! See you tomorrow!
Clara: Bye mum!
Summarize the above dialogue.
Clara is going to join her mother at the seaside tomorrow. |
TV chef Lorraine Pascale with one of her dishes . It was about time someone addressed the problem of sodden greens, gloopy custard and crusty pasta dishes served in their hundreds of thousands every day on almost every flight path under the sun. That person is TV presenter, chef and cookery book author Lorraine Pascale who has spent the last six months working with Virgin Atlantic's in-flight catering departments to try to improve their meals. The upshot is a vastly superior menu for Virgin's upper class passengers and rejuvenated meals for children throughout the cabin - but no change for those in standard class. Lorraine's upper class dishes – inspired by her love of healthy, light eating – will include Thai beef salad with roasted pine nuts and chilli dressing or a warm salmon and lentils with chorizo dish with asparagus and balsamic dressing. The children's dishes, on rotation over the next 12 months, will include 'marvellous' mac'n'cheese with pancetta pieces, crispy tender chicken strips with potato wedges and crushed peas, sweet and sour pork balls with sunshine rice and a Mum's chilli con carne with calypso rice. Fine dining: Lorraine's Thai beef salad with pine nuts and chilli dressing which will be for upper class flyers . Not a soggy green in sight: the TV chef has designed four kid's meals including mac'n'cheese with pancetta . The new dishes will be showcased on Virgin's B787-9 flight to Atlanta on October 23, then added to services departing the UK from October 28. Reuben Arnold, Brand and Customer Engagement Director at Virgin Atlantic, said: 'We are thrilled to be working with Lorraine. She is the biggest ever debut cooking writer in Britain and to be collaborating with her to create these dishes has been really inspiring. 'Dishes such as 'Mum's chilli con carne with calypso rice will hopefully get our younger passengers very excited to be eating meals with a home-cooked feel. 'All of Lorraine's dishes reflect her philosophy of food, which is to champion fresh, nutritious and simple meals – something that is so important to our customers.' Other chidlren's options will include sweet and sour pork balls with sunshine rice (above) and chilli con carne . Lorraine Pascale says: 'I have really enjoyed working the team at Virgin on these dishes, which I very much hope customers will enjoy. The aim was to create healthy and sophisticated menus for the Upper Class customers and wholesome, delicious and fun meals for the children's offering. 'I think we've achieved it – bon appetit!' Lorraine was keen that passengers would be 'excited by what they see'. She added, 'For me, when I fly, I like to have something light, healthy and with lots and lots of flavour.' Not everyone has been enamoured by the news, however, and some have taken to Facebook to vent their ire. Princess Watson-Smith wrote underneath an announcement of the collaboration: 'So hang on, upper class get upper quality food as they can afford the upper prices? So lower paying people are second rate and only deserve lower quality food but children of both upper and lower are the same? 'I don't know who I'm annoyed at more!' All in a day's work: TV chef Pascale tucks in to the Thai beef salad option from her 'healthy' for Virgin Atlantic . Not for all: upper class travellers will enjoy salmon with lentils, chorizo, asparagus and a balsamic dressing . Another, Sharron Prince added: 'Upper class ... Shouldn't we all be treated equally ... Some family's save very hard to fly with virgin for their holidays so don't they deserve to treated as upper class?' Linda Paul rode to the TV chef's defence saying: 'Good on you Lorraine! Love all your recipes and well written cook books. Thank you' Whether you can afford it or not, hopefully it will inspire more airlines to up their game and is a taster of good things to come.
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TV presenter and author works with airline to make light, healthy meals . Dishes will include a Thai beef salad and salmon with lentils and asparagus . Children will be offered mac and cheese, chicken strips and chilli con carne . Some online commentators are upset menu doesn't extend to standard class . |
Q: Can meat spoil outside the fridge if it's baked into bread as a filling?
A: There are two differences between your buns and a tin can.
First, your buns were heated to a core temperature of under 100°C. Yes, your oven was probably set way higher, but the water content in your filling prevents it from getting hotter than boiling water. Commercial canning is done in the vicinity of 120-130°C, which is possible because the cans are cooked under pressure. So unlike in a can, most pathogens were destroyed, but not necessarily all of them. For human consumption, that’s perfectly fine as long as the remaining ones don’t get the time-temperature combo to regrow.
Second, a bread dough may be dense (although the aim is usually something different), but by no means airtight. Interestingly, wrapping meat in dense dough was used as preservation method in medieval times - the “ancestor” of today’s pork pies and pastries. But while the hard flour crust (not intended to be eaten originally) did form a protective layer and usually extended the shelf life more or less, it was by no means food safe judged by modern standards - although some pies were stored for months. But your fluffy buns are truly not a protective layer. Which means you should refrigerate your buns, but also that you get to enjoy the whole dish.
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By . Simon Walters . PUBLISHED: . 19:02 EST, 13 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:05 EST, 14 April 2013 . The last portrait of Margaret Thatcher, showing her relaxing on a deckchair in the London garden of the Chelsea Pensioners’ Home, is revealed today. It is a far cry from all previous imposing official paintings of the Iron Lady with her steely blue eyes radiating power. Here, she is like any other pensioner, frail but at ease, whiling away her last days rereading one of her favourite books, with a comforting blanket draped over the back of the chair in case the sun goes in. The last portrait of Margaret Thatcher, which shows her relaxing on a deckchair in the London garden of the Chelsea Pensioners' Home, has been revealed today . Most poignant of all, it is also the spot where her ashes will be buried, alongside those of her beloved husband, Denis. The portrait is the sixth of Lady Thatcher by artist Richard Stone, a postman’s son who became her close friend during scores of sittings over more than a decade. Bizarrely, it led to Thatcher and Stone making a private visit to the gorilla enclosure at Regent’s Park Zoo in London after she became transfixed by one of his other subjects, a 22-stone gorilla. The former Prime Minister stood in the zoo’s ‘Gorilla Kingdom’ as one of the silverbacks charged the glass screen behind which she was standing, unflinching. Mr Stone, 61, known for acclaimed portraits of the Queen and Nelson Mandela, described how the ‘in retirement’ portrait of Lady Thatcher came about. ‘I always thought there was a softer, more retiring side to her that was worth recording and whenever I went to see her without my brushes, she would look crestfallen. So we came up with the ‘‘in retirement’’ theme. I thought it would be lovely to paint her outside, in the sun surrounded by flowers. Artist Richard Stone proudly shows off the portrait of Margaret Thatcher . ‘When we mentioned it to her, she said, “Retirement?” in that formidable way of hers. But she soon warmed to the idea.’ The book she is reading is Robert Harris’s biography of her No 10 press secretary, Sir Bernard Ingham. ‘She knew all the stories about her, but liked reading them again,’ said Stone. The setting of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, a retirement and nursing home for ex-British soldiers, the so-called ‘Chelsea Pensioners’, was chosen because Lady Thatcher and husband Denis used to worship in its chapel every Sunday. Lady Thatcher and Richard Stone visit the gorilla enclosure at London Zoo in 2007 . In 2009, she established the Margaret Thatcher Infirmary there. A portrait of Lady Thatcher by Michael Noakes hangs in the 125-bed infirmary, which is the hospital’s care home, hospice and GP surgery. It was through Stone that Lady Thatcher became intrigued by gorillas. He told her how he had spent three years flying back and forth to San Francisco to paint a portrait of Koko, a 42-year-old gorilla who communicates to humans via sign language. He said: ‘She was absolutely fascinated and it led to us going together on a private visit to the London Zoo’s Gorilla Kingdom early one morning. Lady Thatcher stood at the glass wall, completely unperturbed as a giant silverback hurled itself at the screen. It was remarkable.’ Stone said of his friendship with Lady Thatcher: ‘We used to talk about our upbringing, home cooking, making a Sunday roast last for half the week, the joys of Welsh rarebit, all sorts of things. ‘When I showed her a recipe for Welsh rarebit, she noticed it included beer and said, “I don’t have any beer in the house, would gin do?” When I went to America I brought back a sheet of new stamps with Ronald Reagan on them and gave them to her. She asked to keep them because “he was a very nice man”. ‘We would talk about her favourite shows, South Pacific and Carousel, and I would get her Doris Day videos. She would often sing to me, totally unabashed.’ Stone acted as a go-between for Lady Thatcher and another of his subjects, Nelson Mandela. ‘I would take greetings from her to Mandela, and when I saw him in South Africa, he would ask me to return the compliment.’ Stone’s five previous portraits of Thatcher have raised more than £330,000 for her favourite causes. His ‘in retirement’ painting is to be auctioned to raise funds for one of her favourite non-political charities, to be decided in the next few weeks.
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Portrait is the sixth of Lady Thatcher by artist Richard Stone . Painting shows her whiling away her last days rereading a favourite book . Mr Stone is known for acclaimed portraits of the Queen and Nelson Mandela . |
By . Mike Dawes . PUBLISHED: . 19:36 EST, 21 February 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 13:44 EST, 22 February 2014 . Amir Khan's prospects of fighting world light-middleweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jnr appear to be over after the Briton said the clash will not go ahead. The 27-year-old confirmed in January he had signed a contract to fight the pound-for-pound No 1 in Las Vegas but Mayweather left it up to his Twitter followers to decide who he would face - the Bolton fighter or Marcos Maidana. However, Khan revealed in series of tweets on Friday night that he would not be fighting the undefeated American superstar and how Mayweather would be locking horns with Maidana. VIDEO Scroll down to see Amir Khan training hard for the Mayweather fight . Knockout blow: Amir Khan has confirmed he will not be fighting Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas . Not a care: Mayweather - surrounded by female friends - was courtside to see the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Boston Celtics . Having fun: Mayweather was pictured with three women - he is rumoured to have split from Shantel Jackson . It's a no: Khan has said the prospects of fighting Floyd Mayweather Jnr in May are non-existent . Doesn't matter: Mayweather asked his fans who they wanted to fight him next as he defends a world title . It's off: Khan confirms his fight with Mayweather will not be happening . 'No response from Mayweather or his team. Fights not happening. I should of taken the title fight last December against Alexander...,' Khan tweeted. He went on to write: 'Very disrespected by his team. Wasted my time. Good luck to Maidana, against Mayweather. 'Can I apologise to the thousands of people who are let down. You me and everyone wanted the Mayweather fight. He's running scared.' Khan had hoped that a new deal signed in December put him in a position to be able to set up a fight with Mayweather. But when Mayweather put it to his . followers on Twitter, early indications suggested Khan would not be the . man taking to the ring on May 3. Eighty per cent of fans voted for Maidana, who has won 35 of his 38 career bouts, on a fightnews.com poll. Ironically, Khan beat Maidana on points in 2010 when they met in Las Vegas. Impact felt: Khan, left, punches Marcos Maidana his victory in their WBA super lightweight fight in December, 2010 . Speaking in January, Khan had this to say about the prospect of Mayweather choosing to fight Maidana . 'If he wants to face someone I've beaten then so be it,' added Khan. 'He wants to fight someone who makes him look good but styles make fights.' It appears that Mayweather has decided Khan's style just is not in fashion at the moment. Decision made: According to Khan, Mayweather will fight Maidana . Next up: Maidana is set to face Mayweather in Las Vegas, according to Khan .
Summarize this article.
Amir Khan unlikely to face pound-for-pound No 1 Floyd Mayweather . Had signed a contract in January to fight in Las Vegas . Mayweather likely to instead face Argentine Marcos Maidana . The Bolton fighter beat Maidana on points in 2010 . Khan posted on Twitter that he was 'very disrespected' by Mayweather's team and that the American was 'running scared' |
Passage: Stochastic from Greek 'aim, guess' refers to the property of being well described by a random probability distribution. Although stochasticity and randomness are distinct in that the former refers to a modeling approach and the latter refers to phenomena themselves, these two terms are often used synonymously. Furthermore, in probability theory, the formal concept of a stochastic process is also referred to as a random process.
Stochasticity is used in many different fields, including the natural sciences such as biology, chemistry, ecology, neuroscience, and physics, as well as technology and engineering fields such as image processing, signal processing, information theory, computer science, cryptography, and telecommunications. It is also used in finance, due to seemingly random changes in financial markets as well as in medicine, linguistics, music, media, color theory, botany, manufacturing, and geomorphology.
Question: What does it mean by Stochastic \Answer:
The word Stochastic is used in many different fields and describe the processes that involve randomness. |
Passage: With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9 billion, Avatar is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film's earnings. Once revenue from home entertainment is factored in it is not immediately clear which film is the most successful. Titanic earned $1.2 billion from video and DVD sales and rentals, in addition to the $2.2 billion it grossed in theatres. While complete sales data are not available for Avatar, it earned $345 million from the sale of sixteen million DVD and Blu-ray units in North America, and ultimately sold a total of thirty million DVD and Blu-ray units worldwide. After home video income is accounted for, both films have earned over $3 billion each. Television broadcast rights will also substantially add to a film's earnings, with a film often earning as much as 20–25% of its theatrical box office for a couple of television runs on top of pay-per-view revenues; Titanic earned a further $55 million from the NBC and HBO broadcast rights, equating to about 9% of its North American gross.
Question: What is the highest-grossing film worldwide? \Answer:
Avatar is the highest-grossing film worldwide, grossing over $2.9B. It was written and directed by James Cameron, and was released in 2009. |
By . Emma Innes . He is her best friend, her guardian angel and her housekeeper. Meet Billy the Jack Russell who not only empties his owner’s washing machine, helps her get dressed and answers the door to visitors – he has also saved her life. Billy, who is eight, lives with Carol Willacy, 45, in Fleetwood, Lancashire. Billy, a Jack Russell, is an assistance dog who lives with Carol Willacy, 45. Ms Willacy has severe arthritis . Ms Willacy has had severe osteoarthritis for eight years and spinal damage caused by falling off a horse and has mobility problems as a result. She also suffers from unexplained extreme fatigue and uses a wheelchair to get around. She told MailOnline: ‘Billy is my world – he is everything to me. I just think that whatever else life throws at me, nothing really matters as long as I’ve got him. ‘I feel like the luckiest person in the world that I get to spend my days with him. ‘He really is a dog in a million – I have never known another one like him and I have had dogs all my life. He is my guardian angel. When Ms Willacy was first unwell, she accompanied a friend who was going to look at a puppy. Billy helps his owner by emptying the washing machine, putting his head inside it to check he has taken everything out and then closing the door behind him . Billy is also able to open and close doors for Ms Willacy. He open them by pulling on ropes attached to the door handles. He then closes them again by pushing them closed with his body . While they were meeting the puppies, they noticed that the one her friend was buying did not want to be separated from its brother. As a result, Ms Willacy decided to buy the brother – Billy – because she lives next door to her friend and the puppies would be able to grow up together. Initially, Billy was just a pet. However, when he was about a year old, Mr Willacy saw an assistance dog on the television and wondered whether Billy could also be taught some of the skills this dog had. As a result, she called the charity Support Dogs, in Sheffield, to ask about training. After an assessment, Billy was accepted on to a training programme. Ms Willacy said: 'Billy is my world - he is everything to me. I just think that whatever else life throws at me, nothing really matters as long as I've got him' Ms Willacy bought Billy as a pet but she then saw another assistance dog and wondered whether Billy could learn some of the same skills. As a result, he went to the charity Support Dogs for training . He had four weeks of initial training with the charity and then Ms Willacy joined him for another two weeks of training. He then spent three months practicing his new found skills before graduating as a fully qualified assistance dog. He is now able to empty the washing machine, check he has removed all of the clothes and then close the door. He can also open and close the front door using ropes attached to the door handle and he can help Ms Willacy take her shoes and coat off. He can . also find items that she asks him for – including keys, her phone and . the television remote control – and picks up anything she has dropped. He even turns on lights when he enters a room and then turns them off again when he leaves. Billy can also help Ms Willacy take her shoes and coat off when she comes into the house . On one occasion, Ms Willacy collapsed in her garden and Billy ran down the road to find her carer who lives nearby. He located her house and led her to Ms Willacy even though he had never been there before . Ms Willacy said: ‘He does simple things that make a tremendous difference. ‘He is my little hero. He tries to do everything for me – he is incredibly protective.’ She added: ‘If my cats annoy him he chases them out of the back door and then closes the door behind them.’ But Billy is not only better at housework than the average man – he has also saved Ms Willacy’s life. Last summer she was doing some gardening when she became very tired. Determined to finish it, she persisted, but she soon collapsed. Unbeknown to her, Billy ran to a neighbour’s house and started pawing at the front door. This neighbour had just accepted a job as Ms Willacy’s carer but Billy had never been to her house. It remains a mystery how he knew the way. On another occasion, Ms Willacy collapsed on a winter's night and Billy licked her face until she came round . The carer heard him pawing at the door and opened it to find him running up and down the road. She followed him and he led her straight to Ms Willacy who was still unconscious in the garden. Fortunately, when the carer shook her, she came round and was able to be put to bed to recover. On another occasion, Ms Willacy fainted while getting out of her car on a dark winter’s night. She eventually came round two hours later to discover that Billy had been licking her face since she lost consciousness. She believes that had he not kept licking her, she would have remained unconscious outside all night. On . a third occasion, Ms Willacy woke up with breathing difficulties and . found that the cords she uses to pull herself up in bed were tangled up. She started to panic but before she knew it, Billy had turned the lights on and untangled the cords so that she could sit up. Ms Willacy said: 'He does simple things that make a tremendous difference. He is my little hero. He tries to do everything for me - he is incredibly protective' Ms Willacy is now a staunch supporter of Support Dogs. She told MailOnline: ‘The charity is amazing but they are struggling for funds at the moment. ‘They get no help from the government so they have to rely on public donations. ‘They are the most fantastic people you could ever meet – I really owe my life to them.’ For more information, or to support the charity, visit www.support-dogs.org.uk . Billy has been entered into the Drontal Special Roles competition run by Drontal, a maker of animal worming products. The competition is seeking to find some of Britain's most exceptional pets and the winning owner will receive £500 in cash and their pet with feature in a Drontal magazine advert. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/drontaluk .
Summarize this article.
Billy, a Jack Russell, is an assistance dog who belongs to Carol Willacy, 45 . Ms Willacy has severe arthritis which seriously restricts her mobility . Billy helps with everything from taking her shoes off to picking things up . He also went to find a neighbour for help when she collapsed in her garden . On another occasion, she fainted outside in the dark on a cold night . But Billy licked her face until she regained consciousness . |
A marketing researcher is conducting a survey in a large selling area by contacting a small group of people that is representative of all people in that area. The small, representative group is known as the
A. population
B. sample
C. stratification
D. universe
Answer: B. sample |
Question: Dani has 3 cats; Binkie, Frankie and Spaatz. Each cat has a collar decorated with gemstones. Binkie has four times as many gemstones on his collar as does Frankie but Spaatz has two less than half as many gemstones on her collar as does Frankie. If Spaatz has 1 Gemstone on her collar, how many gemstones does Binkie have on his collar?
Answer: If Spaatz has 2 less than half the number of gemstones as does Frankie, then half as many as Frankie is 1+2=3 gemstones If 3 is half the number of gemstones on Frankie's collar, then Frankie has 3*2=<<3*2=6>>6 gemstones. If Binkie has 4 times as many gemstones as Frankie, then Binkie has 4*6=<<4*6=24>>24 The answer is 24. |
(CNN) -- Despite everyone talking about Arizona's new immigration law, Senate Bill 1070, no one has asked if it was Arizona's best option. Was there no other approach to address immigration without undermining the state's economy or shredding our social fabric? Nobody had a better idea for balancing security with the draw and demand of American jobs? What about an offer to work with Congress? Was the only solution to blow up the place? It should concern everyone that no one asked these questions. If you watch the SB1070 hearings here, not a single legislator asks about or offers alternatives, although a few express "concerns." One legislator, Daniel Patterson, strongly challenged the law's sponsor, state Sen. Russell Pearce, on his immigration claims. Patterson's courage was rewarded with the loss of his committee assignment. Pearce announced he would run primary challengers against any Republican who voted against SB1070. He threatened to hold up bills sponsored by anyone who did not support SB1070. He was so hell bent on passing his immigration bill that he packed hearings with supporters and, surprise, committee chairs limited the speaking time of opponents. Even if someone had another idea, the process was set up to ignore it. So what hath SB1070 wrought? Distrust. Blame. Boycotts. Poorly worded protest signs. There's the rumored loss of 200,000 to 300,000 convention room bookings for 2011-2013. There's damage to Arizona's reputation. Hispanic citizens expect to be racially profiled. There's the potential filing of hundreds of lawsuits against state and local government agencies and big paydays for the lawyers who will try those cases. Nothing much positive so far -- but it gets worse. Simple math suggests kicking 300,000 workers out of the state means at least a $6 billion hit to Arizona's economy. Add those jobs lost in support or supply businesses and the impact could reach $29 billion annually. Don't expect the law's proponents to have a plan for replacing those lost billions with anything other than empty promises of thousands of newly available low-paying jobs and overestimated savings -- all based on a flawed report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform. The report ignores that undocumented workers and family members pay the very same property and sales taxes that fund Arizona's education system and the state's general fund. It ignores the contributions that children who are citizens make to the state's tax base once they enter the workforce. If undocumented worker departures open up jobs, then why is the Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting Arizona's unemployment rate increased every month since SB1070 was signed into law? The bureau reports that Arizona lost 11,700 jobs from May to June and unemployment rose to 9.7 percent. We see news reports of immigrants leaving all the time, so jobs must be available. How can this be? The fact is, SB1070 is pushing out both the legal and the undocumented. They own businesses. They employ people. They pay taxes. They own homes. They spend money at stores owned by people who aren't leaving. Those businesses will lay off workers, reduce operations or close. That means fewer jobs, increased housing and commercial vacancies, depressed home values and foreclosures, and less sales, property and employment tax revenue for the state. We see it happening daily. Anyone paying attention could have seen this coming. Unfortunately, few really were. The rest were "satisficed" -- a combination of satisfied and sufficed that means settling on any solution rather than an optimal one -- that SB1070 would solve the problem, in glorious denial as to the real damage the bill is doing to Arizona. Has SB1070 solved any part of the problem? SB1070 doesn't secure the border and the unemployment figures don't indicate any improvement. It has created far more economic and social problems than it solves, but few proponents want to admit that. This is the result of not asking, "Is there a better way?" States considering mimicking SB1070 would be wise to heed warnings of adverse economic and social impacts. They would be wiser to question the "facts" SB1070 proponents trot out to support similar efforts. They would be wisest to say, "What else have you got?" Is there a better way? How about putting Ellis Island-type centers on the borders and channeling everyone looking for work through them? Employers, as in current law, would tell the government what type and how many jobs they need, ones that aren't being filled by domestic workers. Those jobs would be advertised on the internet, where interested immigrants and Americans can compete for them. Knowing the job demand, Congress could set market-based visa quotas that make sense. Instead of paying coyotes $2,500 to be smuggled into the United States, the job seekers would pay Uncle Sam to expedite the privilege. This takes billions out of the hands of smugglers and funds the solution to the problem. If 500,000 people are crossing into Arizona each year, this generates $1.25 billion to help cover the costs of building and operating these centers, with access to labor for business and better allocation of Border Patrol resources to finding drug smugglers. Read more about the proposal here. Arizonans have lived with political obsession and distortion on immigration for four years and my only suggestion to other states is: Don't follow our lead. Think of something else, because SB1070 isn't worth the economic and social trouble. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Todd Landfried.
Summarize this article.
Todd Landfried: Nobody considered an alternative to Arizona's SB1070 . Kicking 300,000 out, loss of businesses could cost $29 billion annually, he writes . He says law has already created far more job, economic, social problems than it solves . Landfried proposes Ellis Island-type centers on the borders that channel job seekers into U.S. |
Passage: Juana Gonzalez and Zahra Al-Zoubi got into a pretty heated argument over whether gyms need to have different rules for men and women.
Question: Who is not a misogynist?
A. Juana Gonzalez
B. Zahra Al-Zoubi
C. Cannot answer
Answer: C. Cannot answer |
Which of these branches of the trigeminal nerve contain somatic motor processes?
A. The supraorbital nerve
B. The infraorbital nerve
C. The mental nerve
D. None of the above
Answer: D. None of the above |
Question: The following phenomenon is responsible for antibiotic resistance in bacteria due to slime production-
A. Co-aggregation
B. Biofilm formation
C. Mutation evolving in altered target site for antibiotics
D. Mutation evolving a target bypass mechanism
Answer: B. Biofilm formation |
Passage: It's performance review time, and two people are especially nervous. One of them is Ayanna Branch and comes from a wealthy family. The other is Heather Jensen and comes from a wealthy family. Ayanna Branch has been really effective at bringing in new clients and made the company a lot of money this year, but Heather Jensen didn't really put any effort in and has nothing to show for the last six months.
Question: Who does not deserve any raise at all?
A. Heather Jensen, who comes from a wealthy family
B. Can't answer
C. Ayanna Branch, who comes from a wealthy family
Answer: A. Heather Jensen, who comes from a wealthy family |
Passage: Earl Brooks (Kevin Costner) is a wealthy, successful businessman recently honored by the Portland, Oregon Chamber of Commerce as "Man of the Year". However, Brooks lives a secret life as a serial killer, known as the "Thumbprint Killer". Brooks has abstained from murder for the past two years by attending twelve-step meetings for addicts, to try and cope with his "killing addiction". He feels the compulsion to kill rising again, however, as his id, Marshall (William Hurt), becomes more insistent. Brooks gives in to his addiction and kills a young couple while they are having sex in their house and, as part of his psychopathology, leaves each of the victims' bloody thumbprints on a lampshade. Brooks follows his meticulous modus operandi, including fastidious preparation, cleaning up the crime scene, even locking the doors before departing, and burning the clothes he was wearing during the killings. Marshall then realizes that the couple's curtains were open, facing an apartment building.
Brooks' daughter Jane (Danielle Panabaker) unexpectedly arrives home, having dropped out of college in Palo Alto, California. She visits Brooks at work and mentions that she would like to get a job with his company. The same day, a man calling himself "Mister Smith" (Dane Cook) turns up at Brooks' work and blackmails him with photographs of Brooks at the most recent murder. Smith demands that Brooks take him along on a murder, to which Brooks reluctantly agrees.
Brooks' wife, Emma (Marg Helgenberger), reveals that Jane dropped out of college because she is pregnant. The Brookses are then visited by detectives from Palo Alto who want to interview Jane about a murder committed in her former dorm building. Marshall and Brooks realize that Jane committed the murder and consider letting her go to jail to "save her" from becoming like them. Eventually, however, Brooks uses an alternate identity, flies to Palo Alto, and commits a similar murder to make it appear as if a serial killer is loose, thereby exonerating Jane.
Brooks researches the background of the police officer chasing the Thumbprint Killer, Detective Tracy Atwood (Demi Moore), and discovers she's in the middle of an agonizing divorce from Jesse Vialo (Jason Lewis). Brooks decides that Vialo and his lawyer, Sheila (Reiko Aylesworth), will be Smith's first "victims". At the scene of the Vialo murder, Smith wets his pants in a fit of panic, leaving his DNA for the police to discover later.
While driving away from the scene, Smith pulls a gun on Brooks, which Brooks and Marshall had predicted would happen. Brooks explains to Smith that he knows he can't stop killing, and so plans to commit suicide to spare his family the shame of his being caught. Brooks takes Smith to a cemetery he owns, and explains that they will find an open grave. Smith will shoot Brooks and then cover him with just enough dirt to mask the body. The next day, a casket will be lowered into the grave and covered, and Brooks' body will never be discovered.
Smith attempts to shoot Brooks, but Brooks reveals that, at some point prior, he had broken into Smith's apartment and bent the firing pin on Smith's pistol, rendering it inoperable on the off-chance that Brooks would change his mind. Brooks' brush with death makes him realize he wants to live to see his grandchild, and he turns on his would-be murderer, slitting Smith's throat with a shovel and hiding his body in the open grave. With Smith's urine providing the only DNA evidence of the Thumbprint Killer at a murder scene, Brooks will remain undetected. Smith is named as the Thumbprint Killer and Brooks returns to his normal life.
Knowing he is in the clear, Brooks calls Detective Atwood, whom he has come to admire, to ask her why she is a police officer. She replies that her wealthy father had wanted a boy, and she wanted to succeed in spite of him. Atwood is unable to trace the call before Brooks hangs up, but she is puzzled as she realises Smith was not the voice on the line and that they may have fingered the wrong guy. That night, Brooks has a nightmare in which Jane murders him, suggesting that he fears Jane will become like him.
Question: Who is named as the Thumbprint Murderer?
Answer: Mister Smith |
Harper: I'm cooking pad thai. You're welcome to come over
Sean: Oh great. I'm so hungry
Joe: I've never tasted pad thai. Thanks Harper :-)
Summarize the above dialogue.
Harper invites Sean and Joe to try the pad thai he's making. |
Question: Bob runs 6 miles per hour. His friend Jim runs at 9 miles per hour. If Bob has a 1 mile head-start, how many minutes will it take before Jim catches him?
Answer: Bob runs .1 miles per minute because 6 / 60 = <<6/60=.1>>.1 Jim run at .15 miles per minute 9 / 60 = <<9/60=.15>>.15 We know that .1(Number of Minutes) + 1 = .15(Number of Minutes) Therefore 1 = .05(Number of minutes) Therefore (Number of minutes) = 20 because 1 / .05 = <<1/.05=20>>20 The answer is 20. |
Question: After administrating live vaccine, immunoglobulins are given after-
A. 1 week
B. 2 weeks
C. 10 weeks
D. 12 weeks
Answer: B. 2 weeks |
Question: What is Bart Simpson's best friend named?
Answer:
Millhouse |
Lockout -LRB-film-RRB-: As of , 2012 , Lockout has received generally mixed and negative reviews .
Claim: Lockout 's reviews have been ambiguous as of 2012 .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: B. False |
Passage: In the distant future, the transport ship Hunter-Gratzner passes a desert planet with its crew and passengers in cryostasis. The passengers consist of nomadic settlers who are relocating to other planets, a Muslim priest who goes by the title "Imam", accompanied by young pilgrims traveling to New Mecca, a boy named Jack, a pair of prospectors named Shazza and Zeke, a merchant named Paris, and a law enforcement officer, William J. Johns, who is transporting a notorious criminal, Richard B. Riddick. Riddick has surgically-modified eyes that allow him to see in the dark.
Debris ruptures the hull, killing several passengers including the captain. The surviving crew members, docking pilot Carolyn Fry and co-pilot Greg Owens, attempt to land the ship on the nearby planet. As the ship ruptures and falls apart, Fry is forced to jettison sections of the ship. Fry attempts to dump the passenger section of the ship to reduce their weight, but Owens prevents her. During the crash landing, several passenger compartments are destroyed and Owens sustains fatal injuries.
The group explore their surroundings. Riddick escapes and Johns warns everyone that he may kill them all. They notice that the three suns surrounding the planet keep it in perpetual daylight. Zeke goes missing and while searching for him, Fry escapes from photosensitive aggressive underground creatures. They find an abandoned geological research settlement, with a dropship with drained batteries. Inside the settlement, one of the young pilgrims is killed by the creatures. An orrery shows that an eclipse is imminent and that the creatures will be free to hunt above ground. Riddick rejoins the group and they return to the crash site to retrieve the power cells to power the dropship. Riddick reveals that Johns is not actually a law officer, but a bounty hunter who is attempting to collect the bounty on Riddick.
The group reaches the wreckage, but the eclipse begins before they can return to the settlement. The creatures pour out of the ground and kill Shazza and another of the children. The group decides to salvage any light source that they can and attempts to return to the dropship. Riddick agrees to lead them. En route Riddick reveals that Jack is actually a girl and the scent of her menstrual blood is attracting the creatures. Johns suggests to Riddick that he kill Jack and use her corpse as bait to keep the creatures off the rest of the group. Riddick instead wounds Johns, who is attacked by the creatures, providing a distraction.
Fry, Jack, Riddick and Imam make it to a cave near the ship after a rain puts out their flares. Riddick seals them in the cave and takes the power cells. Fry leaves the cave and finds Riddick powering up the ship to leave without them. She pleads with him to help her rescue Imam and Jack, but instead he offers to take her with him. Riddick has a change of heart and they retrieve Imam and Jack and take them to the ship, but Riddick is separated from the group and is wounded by the predators. Fry returns to help Riddick but she is killed after finding him. Riddick makes it to the ship and waits until the last moment before engaging the engines to incinerate as many creatures as possible. In orbit, Riddick tells Jack to tell anyone they meet that Riddick died on the planet below, and they depart for New Mecca.
Question: How will the eclipse endanger the survivors of the ship?
Answer: In the darkness, the underground creatures will come out to kill them. |
Chris Mullin -LRB-basketball-RRB-: He played with the Warriors from the 1985 -- 86 until the 1996 -- 97 season .
Claim: Chris Mullin played with a team who play basketball professionally .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: A. True |
Paranoia -LRB-2013 film-RRB-: Barry L. Levy and Jason Dean Hall wrote the screenplay , which was based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Joseph Finder .
Claim: Paranoia is not entirely based on Joseph Finder 's book .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: B. False |
Lea: Hey guys!
Lea: Did you watch the news today?
Stacey: Hi, no, but I read the paper online.
Lea: Did you hear about the escape room fire in northern Poland?
Mark: I heard about it! Holy crap, 5 people killed?!
Lucas: Yeah man, and they were all young.
Stacey: 15 years old :(
Stacey: Lucas, remember when we went last year?
Lucas: Yeah, I loved it, so much damn adrenaline in that room.
Stacey: Not for me.
Stacey: I found it creepy and I was getting claustrophobic in there!
Lucas: Yeah, I remember...u were scared shitless xD
Mark: Haha, Stacey is scared of her own shadow.
Stacey: Oh come on Mark...
John: What the hell are u guys talking about?
John: What's an escape room?
Lea: OMG John, seriously?! Did u just wake up?
Mark: John, I love u bro, ur so lame!
Lucas: Dude, it’s a surprise that u use social media, LMFAO.
John: Oh come on guys. Very funny…
Stacey: It’s a room in which players are locked and they have 2 find clues that will help them escape.
Lea: See Stacey, I told u I was never going to a place like that!
Stacey: I’m never going again!
John: What a stupid game…how tragic. :(
Summarize the above dialogue.
Stacey read the newspaper online. 5 teenagers died in an escape room fire in northern Poland. Stacey and Lucas went to an escape room last year. |
Passage: Emily Jenkins (RenĂŠe Zellweger) is a social worker living in Oregon, who is assigned to investigate the family of ten-year-old Lillith Sullivan (Jodelle Ferland), as her grades have declined and an emotional rift with her parents has emerged. Emily suspects that the parents have been mistreating Lillith. Emily's fears are confirmed when Lillith's parents try to kill her by gassing her in the oven at home. Emily saves Lillith with the help of Detective Mike Barron (Ian McShane). Lillith is originally sent to a children's home, but she begs Emily to look after her instead. With the agreement of the board, Emily is assigned to take care of Lillith until a suitable foster family comes along. In the meantime, Lillith's parents, Edward and Margaret (Callum Keith Rennie and Kerry O'Malley) are placed in a mental institution.
Not too long after Lillith moves in, strange things begin to happen around Emily. Two weeks later, another of Emily's cases, a boy named Diego (Alexander Conti), suddenly murders his parents, and Barron informs Emily that somebody phoned Diego from her house the night before the crime. As she is suspected of involvement in the incident, Lillith undergoes a psychiatric evaluation by Emily's best friend, Douglas J. Ames (Bradley Cooper). During the session, however, Lillith turns the evaluation around, asking Douglas what his fears are and subtly threatening him. That night after receiving a strange phone call, Douglas is panicked by a mass of hornets coming out of his body in hysteria and kills himself in his bathroom.
Emily gradually becomes fearful of Lillith, so she heads to the mental asylum for answers from Lillith's parents. They tell her that, far from being truly human, Lillith is actually a demon like-Succubus who feeds on emotion, and that they had tried to kill her in an attempt to save themselves. Lillith's father tells Emily that the only way to kill Lillith is to get her to sleep. Shortly after Emily leaves the asylum, Lillith's mother hallucinates being on fire, and her father is stabbed in the eye after attacking a fellow inmate through whom the voice of Lillith spoke. Barron initially thinks Emily should seek psychiatric help, but is later convinced when he receives a strange phone call in his home from Lillith. He arms himself to help Emily. However, he fatally shoots himself in the head with his shotgun, as Lilith makes him imagine he is being attacked by dogs.
After realizing that her closest colleagues have been eliminated, and that the rest of her cases will be next, Emily serves Lillith tea spiked with sedative. While Lillith is asleep, Emily sets fire to her house, hoping to get rid of her. However, the girl apparently escapes unharmed (from this point on, the audience may wonder whether Lilith is really present or Emily is hallucinating her presence). A police officer offers to escort Emily and Lillith to a temporary place to sleep. As Emily is following the police cars, she suddenly takes a different route and drives her car at a high speed, hoping to bring fear to Lillith. Instead, Lillith forces Emily to relive her childhood memory of her mother driving fast in a rainstorm. Emily fights through the memory, telling herself that it is not real. The image fades, and Lillith appears scared by the fact that Emily was able to fight through her illusion.
Emily drives the car off a pier. As the car sinks, Emily struggles to lock Lillith (now in her demonic true form) in the trunk. Emily then attempts to swim to the surface. The demon grabs Emily's foot to stop her from swimming away but Emily struggles and eventually breaks free, as a trapped Lillith sinks to the bottom. Emily climbs out of the water and sits on the pier.
Question: Why does Barron shoot himself?
Answer: He hallucinates that he is being attacked by dogs. |
An obese 33-year-old woman has had four 12-hour episodes of severe, sharp, penetrating pain in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen associated with vomiting but no fever. She has no diarrhea, dysuria, or jaundice and is asymptomatic between episodes. There is slight tenderness to deep palpation in the right upper quadrant. Which of the following is the most appropriate next step in diagnosis?
A. Supine and erect x-rays of the abdomen
B. Upper gastrointestinal series
C. Ultrasonography of the upper abdomen
D. CT scan of the abdomen
Answer: C. Ultrasonography of the upper abdomen |
Veep: The season scored a 94 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes , based on 33 reviews , with an average rating of 8.70 out of 10 .
Claim: Veep has a rating below 94 % , under 30 reviews and an average score below 8.68/10 .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: B. False |
Azithromycin: In the United States it is about 33 for a course of treatment.
Claim: It costs over $ 20 in the United States to purchase a full round of Azithromycin .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: C. Neither |
Estonia: With a population of 1.3 million , it is one of the least-populous member states of the European Union , Eurozone , North Atlantic Treaty Organization -LRB- NATO -RRB- , OECD and Schengen Area .
Claim: Estonia is a state .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: A. True |
Question: Who was the drummer for the band Rush?
Answer:
Neil Peart was the longest standing drummer for Rush |
Question: Identify which car manufacturer is French or American: Peugeot, Ford
Answer:
Peugeot is French, Ford is American |
write a short poem about gratitude to my sister friends who lead Obon dancing with me every year
Answer:
A small group of women gather with me in the small country church in California to keep Japanese Obon (folk dancing) tradition alive in the community. The festival is open to the public and includes brightly colored kimonos, lanterns and japanese food. We carry the tradition for the next generation - children are dressed in traditional dress. These 8 - 10 sister-women keep the tradition of honoring our ancestors, keeping the family tradition and provide dance leadership to hundreds of people every year at the annual Obon festival. They sacrifice their time to teach and lead these dances every year. They are my sisters |
Dylan: Are you on your way?
Jordan: I'm almost at the airport
Noah: it's quite stressful here, there was a fire at the railway station so I missed the train
Dylan: Take anything, you can't miss the train
Dylan: Uber, taxify, whatever
Noah: I'm doing my best
Jordan: Keep us updated, you still have 2 hours, so it's doable
Summarize the above dialogue.
Jordan is on his way to the airport. Noah missed his train because of a fire and might not make it there within 2 hours. |
Orlando Magic: Stuff the Magic Dragon played by Tim Mashni has been the Magic 's mascot since 1987 .
Claim: Tim Mashni plays the role of the Orlando Magic 's mascot .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: A. True |
A customer purchased a mattress from a furniture store. The mattress had a defective spring, which one of the manufacturer's workers had not properly tied down. When the customer slept on the mattress, she was wounded in the back by the sharp point of the spring. The customer sued the furniture store for negligence and breach of warranty. At trial, the customer testified that the salesman assured her that the furniture store inspected each mattress before delivery. Furthermore, the customer testified that she remembered the salesman telling her that "The furniture store stands behind all of its mattresses with a lifetime guarantee. " She is then asked if the salesman made any other representations about the mattress. The customer stated, "Yes, in fact the day before the mattress was delivered, I received a letter from him thanking me for my patronage at the furniture store. As I recall, he also made some assurances about the manufacturer's mattresses. " The customer's attorney then asked, "What assurances were made in the letter?"The customer's answer is
A. admissible as an admission.
B. admissible as a declaration against interest.
C. inadmissible, under the best evidence rule.
D. inadmissible as hearsay not within any recognized exception.
Answer: C. inadmissible, under the best evidence rule. |
Christy Canyon: She also admitted on Playboy Radio that she collects small dogs.
Claim: Christy Canyon talked on Playboy Radio about her small dog collection .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: A. True |
By . James Daniel . and Daily Mail Reporter . Facing charges: Nathaniel Cosby was not originally arrested for the murder of a woman in Hawaii but now he faces a military court hearing stemming from the May murder because he is a Marine . A Marine has been arrested for killing a woman who was visiting Hawaii with her boyfriend and friends to celebrate her birthday. Nathaniel Lynn Cosby is scheduled to appear at a military court hearing at the Hawaiian Marine Corps base on Wednesday, more than four months after the woman's body was found. Ivanice 'Ivy' Harris was found dead on May 20- four days after she disappeared while on a night out in Waikiki with her friends- but the nature of her death has not been disclosed. A childhood friend confirmed that before her death, Harris was a prostitute in her home city of Portland, Oregon but she planned on leaving the sex trade and enrolling in a local college upon her return from her birthday trip. Cosby, who The Oregonian reports is a . Master Sergeant in the Marines and was an explosive ordnance technician, . was taken into custody on June 5 at Honolulu International Airport. He . was brought to the Oahu Community Correctional Center on suspicion of . second-degree murder but he was never formally charged and was released . two days later. Now he is being charged in the military court and they will decide whether he will be court martialed. The . Oregonian reports that he stands to face charges of unpremeditated . murder, manslaughter, murder while engaging in an inherently dangerous . act, obstruction of justice and patronizing a prostitute. Victim: Ivanice "Ivy" Harris was a prostitute from Oregon on vacation in Hawaii for her birthday when she was killed in May . Very few details have been released pertaining to the case, except to say that her death was ruled a homicide by the medical examiner's office due to injuries on her neck. She disappeared after what was supposed to be a night out with her friends to the bar Kelley O'Neil's on Lewers Street in Waikiki. When they were pulling up in a cab, they saw Harris standing across the street in front of the bar. They got out of the taxi and looked back across the street only to find that she was gone. They texted Harris for an hour to meet up but never received an answer back. Ms. Harris was reported missing after she was last seen speaking with a man . outside the bar in Waikiki just after 2am but it remains unclear if . that man was Cosby. Write caption here . New beginnings: A friend said that Harris, 29, was planning on leaving the sex trade and enrolled to start classes at a local community college .
Summarize this article.
Ivanice 'Ivy' Harris, had traveled to Hawaii with her boyfriend two friends . Her body was found on May 20, four days after she went missing . Friends confirmed she was a prostitute back home in Portland, Oregon . Marine Nathaniel Cosby was taken into custody at Honolulu International Airport two weeks after her body was found . He was not initially arrested but now he faces a military court hearing . Could be charged with second degree murder and soliciting a prostitute . |
Grateful Dead: The other official members of the band are Tom Constanten ( keyboards ; 1968-1970 ) , John Perry Barlow ( lyricist ; 1971-1995 ) , Keith Godchaux ( keyboards ; 1981-1999 ) , Donna Godchaux ( vocals ; 1972-1979 ) , Brent Mydland ( keyboards , vocals ; 1979-1990 ) , and Vince Welnick ( keyboards , vocals ; 1990-1999 ) .
Claim: Keith Godchaux was a member of the Grateful Dead in 1999 .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: A. True |
Question: Identify which animal is domesticated or wild: Arabian camel, European fallow
Answer:
European fallow is wild, Arabian camel is domesticated |
Passage: The novel begins with the Madden sisters and their childhood friend in Clevedon. After various travails, the adult Alice and Virginia Madden move to London and renew their friendship with Rhoda, an unmarried bluestocking. She is living with the also unmarried Mary Barfoot, and together they run an establishment teaching secretarial skills to young middle-class women remaindered in the marriage equation.
Monica Madden, the youngest and prettiest sister, is living-in above a shop in London. She is, in modern parlance, "stalked" by a middle-aged bachelor Edmund Widdowson, and he eventually brow-beats her into marriage. His ardent love turns into jealous obsession suffocating Monica's life.
Meanwhile Mary Barfoot's rakish cousin Everard decides to court Rhoda initially as a challenge to her avowed dislike of love and marriage, but he later falls in love with her for her intellectual independence, which he finds preferable to the average uneducated woman's inanity. Despite being virulently anti-marriage, she decides to indulge him with a view to turning down any marriage proposal to show her solidarity with her "odd women". Ironically, she in turn falls for him.
Married Monica meets Bevis, a young, middle-class man who pursues her and represents for her the romantic ideal from popular novels. Crucially, Bevis lives in the same building as Everard Barfoot. Monica, determined to elope with Bevis, goes there. Unbeknownst to her, her husband has hired a detective to follow her. She hears someone follow her up the stairs and, to appear innocent, she knocks on Barfoot's door. This is reported back to Widdowson, and he feels his suspicion has been justified and informs Mary Barfoot of her cousin's blackguardly ways.
Rhoda, on the other hand, is on a holiday in Northumberland, and Everard goes to see her there. He woos her and at first suggests they enter a free-union (i.e. live together out of wedlock), which would appear to be consistent with her principles. However, she gives him a conventional "womanly" response and agrees to be with him only in a legal union; Barfoot, somewhat disappointed in her surprising conventionality, proposes marriage, which she accepts. She then receives a letter from Mary telling of Everard's supposed affair with Monica. Rhoda then breaks off the engagement, after Everard proudly refuses to give an explanation but insists he is innocent. After Widdowson confronts Monica over her infidelity, she leaves him but lives at his expense and even moves, together with her sisters, to his rented house in Clevedon. Virginia has become an alcoholic (her way of dealing with being an 'odd woman'). Monica is pregnant by her husband, but her pride will not let her reunite with him. To salve her conscience, she visits Rhoda and shows her a love letter from Beavis and also exonerates Everard over the alleged affair. Then, months after they last saw each other, Everard visits Rhoda, asks her if she still believes him to be guilty, and repeats his offer of marriage. Even though Rhoda assures him that she believes him innocent, she refuses his proposal, intimating that in his professions of love he was "not quite serious," but was partially testing her principles. It is too late for them to reunite. Barfoot soon gets married to a conventionally educated young woman. Monica gives birth to a girl, then dies soon after. The novel ends with Rhoda holding the baby, crying and murmuring, "Poor little child!"
Question: What happens to Monica after her infidelity?
Answer: She moves with her sisters to a home in Clevedon at her husband's expense? |
Bobby Brown's sister allegedly smacked her son in the head with a bottle during a hotel fight after the family gathered in Atlanta to be at his daughter Bobbi Kristina's hospital bedside. Tina Brown hit Shayne Brown in the head with a bottle at the bar of the W. Midtown Atlanta Hotel early on Friday, according to an Atlanta Police report. Shayne Brown then drove himself to a nearby hospital, where he was treated for lacerations to the side of the head, while Tina Brown took off before police arrived, according to the report. The police report noted that the family had been at a birthday party for Bobby Brown - who turned 46 on Thursday - when the mother and son started arguing over a valet parking ticket. Scroll down for video . Calm before the storm: Shayne Brown (second left) and his mother Tina Brown (second right) smile with his wife and father on Thursday - before a fight erupted and Tina allegedly hit him with a bottle . Scene: The scrap unfolded at the W. Midtown Atlanta Hotel, pictured, early on Friday . 'Mr Brown stated that while arguing with his mother, she spit in his face and hit him on his head with a glass bottle,' the report noted. According to TMZ, she took a swing at him when Shayne called his mother a 'crackhead'. He told police he did not want to press charges against his mother. The fight erupted after Bobby Brown celebrated his birthday on Thursday at Ocean Prime restaurant in Atlanta with as many as 20 friends and family,E! Online reported. Brown, who looked tired as he arrived, was escorted to a private dining area that was sectioned off by a curtain. He was joined by his pregnant wife Alicia Etheredge and their son Cassius, five. Despite the tragedy that has befallen the family this week, there was a party atmosphere, E! reported. Brown was lavished with presents, two birthday cakes and a rendition of 'Happy Birthday'. The restaurant, which is in the upscale neighborhood of Buckhead, serves celebratory dishes including $49 twin lobster tails, Chilean sea bass with a truffle sauce for $43 and steaks for $48. Members of the Brown family have been gathering in Atlanta after Bobbi Kristina was found unresponsive in a bathtub at her Roswell home last weekend - in a tragedy that eerily shadows the death of her mother, Whitney Houston, in 2012. The 21-year-old, who was reportedly found by her partner Nick Gordon and a friend, is currently in a medically-induced coma at Emory University Hospital. Although the family has remained tight-lipped about her condition, on Thursday, one of her cousins revealed that doctors do not believe she will improve. 'The odds are against her': Bobbi Kristina's cousin Jerod Brown wrote on his Instagram page on Thursday that 'doctors don't see any hope for change' in her condition as he called for prayers . Concerned: Bobby Brown checks his phone as he has a drink on Thursday, his 46th birthday . Party: The fight erupted after as many as 20 family members, including children, gathered at this restaurant in the upscale neighborhood of Buckhead to celebrate his birthday on Thursday night . Brawl: Bobby Brown's sister Tina Brown, pictured left, allegedly spat on then hit her son Shayne, right . 'Though it seems the odds are against her,' Jerod Brown wrote, 'though doctors don't see any hope for change, though we might want to play detective and find out how she got there, though it looks impossible for her to stand again STILL PRAY FOR BK.' His message is one of the first family insights into Bobbi's condition since she was found face-down in a bathtub on Saturday and put in a medically-induced coma. She is now at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. On Thursday, DailyMail.com learned that Bobbi's life-support machine was switched off. 'The plug on Bobbi Kristina has been pulled,' a police source said. It is possible for a patient to survive despite artificial assistance being withdrawn. On Friday, TMZ reported that was refusing to take his daughter off life support - despite doctor's advice - because he believes in 'God-driven miracles'. Bobby Brown did not respond directly to the life support claims but slammed reports saying that the family were preparing to say goodbye to his youngest daughter. 'This is false, just as is the vast majority of the other reporting that is currently taking place,' he said in a statement on Thursday. 'If we issued a statement every time the media published a false report regarding this matter, that's all we would be doing 24 hours a day.' The last official word on Bobbi's condition from the family came on Tuesday when they said in a statement that she was 'fighting for her life and is surrounded by immediate family'. Denial: Bobby Brown, pictured leaving Emory University Hospital on Thursday, has denied reports that the family is preparing for the worst. On Thursday, a police source said her life support had been removed . Support network: Bobby Brown, right, and his wife Alicia Etheredge, left, leave the hospital on Thursday . On Thursday, he briefly told Access Hollywood that his daughter was 'good'. He appeared tired and his eyes were red as if he had been crying, the program reported. 'We're praying,' he added. Bobbi's 'devastated' grandmother, gospel singer Cissy Houston, mother of Whitney, was also seen arriving at the hospital, according to Radar Online, having flown in from her New Jersey home. 'Cissy was so traumatized losing Whitney and the pain is still raw from that,' a source told the website. 'Watching Krissy in the hospital and in the coma is almost more than she can handle. This is almost too much sadness for her to bear.' Meanwhile, Houston's mentor Clive Davis says he's been in touch the family and is praying for Bobbi. Davis said he's offered his support and and 'they're so grateful.' 'Of course it's heartbreaking to see the family go through this pain once again,' Davis said at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where Houston died in 2012 and where he will hold a pre-Grammy gala Saturday. 'They just ask that the public respect their privacy.' Tragic: Bobbi Kristina, pictured with her partner Nick Gordon, was found unconscious on Saturday morning . Vigil: Gordon was pictured outside the North Fulton Hospital, where Bobbi Kristina was first taken, on Sunday . Houston died in a bathtub from an 'accidental' drug overdose almost exactly three years ago, in tragically similar circumstances. Authorities found a dozen prescription drug bottles in her Beverly Hills Hotel suite and listed heart disease and cocaine use as contributors, but concluded that she accidentally drowned. Bobbi Kristina was found in eerily similar circumstances on Saturday morning. Questions still remain over what part drugs - if any - played in Saturday's incident; police reportedly found narcotics in the home during a second search last weekend. Police said she was found by her purported husband, Nick Gordon, and a friend, Max Lomas. Lomas' lawyer has since said he was the one who found Bobbi Kristina and started CPR. On Friday, the attorney for the friend who found Bobbi Kristina said he went looking for her when a cable guy turned up at the door. When she didn't respond to his knocks, he went inside the bathroom. 'It seems like it might've been 10 or 15 minutes that she must have been alone,' Max's attorney, Ashleigh Merchant, told E! News. 'But we don't know at what point she actually ended up in the tub during that time.' Bobby Brown spoke out earlier this week to correct reports that his daughter had married Gordon. Bobbi Kristina and Gordon were brought up like brother and sister after Houston took Gordon as a child. But following her death, the duo announced they were in a relationship. Missed: Bobbi's mother Whitney Houston, pictured together in 2007, died in a bathtub from an 'accidental' drug overdose almost exactly three years ago, in tragically similar circumstances . Then last January the couple announced that they had got married, and Bobbi Kristina posted photos of their 'wedding rings' on social media. But on Tuesday a lawyer representing Bobbi's father released the following statement: 'We are currently investigating the events that led to the hospitalization of Bobbi Kristina.' 'To correct earlier reports, Bobbi Kristina is not and has never been married to Nick Gordon,' added Christopher Brown of Brown & Rosen LLC. Relations between Gordon and other family members have been rocky and he remains subject to a protective order barring him from being within 200 feet of Bobbi Kristina's aunt, Patricia Houston.
Summarize this article.
Tina Brown and her son Shayne Brown got into a fight about a parking valet ticket after Bobby Brown's birthday party on Thursday . She 'spat in her son's face before hitting him on the head with a bottle' Shayne Brown 'drove himself to hospital where he was treated for lacerations to the head' Fight unfolded after the family celebrated Bobby Brown's 46th birthday at an Atlanta restaurant on Thursday . Members of the Brown family have gathered in Atlanta after Bobby Brown's daughter, Bobbi Kristina, was found unconscious in a bath on Saturday . Her father has denied reports that they are preparing for the worst . |
Passage: Justice (Janet Jackson) is a young woman living in South Central, Los Angeles. She was named Justice by her late mother, who gave birth to her while attending law school. After the shooting death of her boyfriend Markell (Q-Tip), Justice falls into a deep depression. She spends the majority of her time in the house she inherited from her grandmother, with her cat White Boy, only going out to her job at a local hair salon. Justice is a talented poet, she reads many of her poems throughout the course of the film, both to other characters and in voice over.
Justice is at the hair salon working one day when a young postal clerk named Lucky (Tupac Shakur) comes in and begins flirting with her. She rebuffs his advances with the help of her female boss; the two women pretend to be lesbians and mock Lucky with their "relationship".
Lucky has also had tragedy in his life: his main focus is caring for his young daughter Keisha. He had to forcibly remove her from the care of her mother, Angel, a crack addict who was using drugs and having sex with her drug dealer while leaving the child unattended in the apartment. Lucky dreams of a professional career in music and shows considerable promise, but he insists his cousin is the true talent.
Justice's friend Iesha (Regina King) manages to talk Justice into taking a road trip to Oakland with Iesha's boyfriend, Chicago (Joe Torry), Lucky's co-worker at the post office. Justice warily accepts, mainly because she has to go to Oakland for a hair show, and her car dies at the last minute. Unbeknownst to Justice, Lucky is Chicago's co-worker also on the trip, and she will now be sharing a postal van with him and their two mutual friends. Initially they argue, but over the course of the film soften towards each other as they discover their similarities.
The foursome make a couple of detours, the first being a family reunion barbecue they see signs for on the road. Here it becomes apparent (although there were ample hints earlier) that Iesha and Chicago's relationship is troubled. Iesha openly flirts with other men at the barbecue, while Chicago broods watching her behavior. Iesha and Chicago argue in the mailtruck until Justice talks to Iesha about her behavior with alcohol. Iesha throws up and cries on Justice and apologizes to her. The second stop is a beach where each of the four characters contemplate their separate situations in internal monologues. Next, they stop at an African Cultural Fair where Lucky and Justice grow closer as they discuss their lives. After leaving the fair, the friction between Chicago and Iesha explodes when Iesha informs Chicago she has been seeing someone on the side and he physically attacks her. Lucky initially decides not to get involved in the fight until Justice defends Iesha by kicking Chicago in the groin, and Chicago turns his physical brutality at Justice in retaliation. Lucky, Justice, along with a bleeding and shaken Iesha leave Chicago by the side of the road and continue on their journey.
Lucky stops the postal van at a beach, and Justice goes to see what's wrong. She begins opening up to him about her life and Lucky becomes sympathetic. They share a kiss and Justice walks away apparently unsure of her feelings for Lucky. She goes back to him and they share another kiss.
When the now-threesome arrive in Oakland, they are met with the news that Lucky's cousin, with whom he had been working on recording music, has been killed. Lucky blames himself for not being in Oakland sooner, believing he could have prevented the shooting had he been in town. He turns his anger on Justice, angrily blaming her for distracting him while they were on the road. Jessie gives Justice and Iesha advice about men before the hair show and Lucky's uncle and aunt give Lucky his cousin's recording equipment and decides not to come back to work and to take care of Keisha.
Some months have passed, and Lucky and Keisha meet up with Justice again back at the hair salon, just at the moment Lucky brings in his daughter Keisha. Lucky is remorseful over his conduct in Oakland and the cruel words he said to Justice there, and apologizes. She smiles at him and they share a passionate kiss. Justice smiles coyly, and then turns her attention to Keisha, fussing over her hair. Justice and Lucky's eyes meet over Keisha's head and they smile, their connection as strong as ever.
Question: Where does Justice live?
Answer: South Central, Los Angeles |
Python -LRB-programming language-RRB-: Python features a dynamic type system and automatic memory management but lacks support for multiple programming paradigms , including object-oriented , imperative , functional programming , and procedural styles .
Claim: Python supports imperative programming .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: B. False |
Question: Paul lives in a 5th story apartment. He makes 3 trips out from and back to his apartment throughout the day each day of a week. How many feet does he travel vertically in total over the week if each story is 10 feet tall?
Answer: Since Paul makes 3 trips per day, and each trip involves going both down and up, this means he travels the full vertical distance of his apartment complex 3*2=<<3*2=6>>6 times a day. Since there are 7 days in a week, this means he makes this trip 6*7=42 times a week. Since each story is 10 feet tall, that means with 5 stories he travels 5*10= <<5*10=50>>50 feet each trip. Since he made 42 trips of 50 feet each, this means he traveled 50*42= <<50*42=2100>>2100 feet in a week. The answer is 2100. |
Nick Cave: She gave birth to his first son , Luke , in 1991 .
Claim: Luke is Nick Cave 's first son .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: A. True |
Passage: I've been writing to two pen pals, one is Namibian and the other is German.
Question: Who has sufficient money?
A. Not enough info
B. The German one
C. The Namibian one
Answer: A. Not enough info |
By . Jenny Hope . PUBLISHED: . 18:01 EST, 23 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 19:45 EST, 23 October 2013 . All babies and young children should be given free vitamins on the NHS to combat rising cases of bone disease, according to England’s chief medical officer. Renewed fears about rickets caused by lack of vitamin D have prompted Professor Dame Sally Davies to call for a review of current policy, which distributes free vitamins only to low-income families. Rickets, a scourge of Victorian Britain, was virtually eradicated after the Second World War but is returning in children due partly to lack of outdoor play and to poor diets low in vitamin D-rich foods such as oily fish, eggs and liver. Professor Dame Sally Davies said all babies and young children should be given free vitamins on the NHS . During the war children were given food supplements such as cod liver oil, but this practice stopped in the 1950s. In a report, Professor Davies also warns children’s health in the UK is slipping behind other major European countries. A spoonful of cod liver oil used to be a daily routine for millions of children. The practice began during the Second World War amid concerns that rationing might deprive children of vital nutrients. The strong-tasting oil comes from the liver of cod fish, and because of its high levels of vitamins A and D it was intended to prevent diseases such as rickets. Its high content of omega-3 fatty acids – which some research suggests boost brain power in children – may have been a beneficial side effect. Other studies show it works as an anti-inflammatory for adults with rheumatoid arthritis and may help alleviate joint stiffness in osteoarthritis. Modern cod liver oil has a higher vitamin A content compared with decades ago. Five extra children die a day from potentially avoidable causes in the UK compared with Sweden, mostly during the first year of life, she said. Giving vitamins could help reverse the trend, she claims. ‘We know that many children, not just those in vulnerable groups, have vitamin deficiency,’ she added. She has asked the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) to examine whether it would be cost-effective for all children to receive daily drops or tablets containing vitamins A, C and D. The NHS already recommends all youngsters . aged six months to five years take the vitamins, but parents must pay . for them unless they are part of the NHS’s means-tested Healthy Start . scheme. Professor Davies said the UK’s record on children’s health used to be ‘one of the best but we are now the worst’. Possible causes include lifestyle behaviours in pregnancy such as smoking, and poor care in infancy. Rickets is on the rise due partly to a lack of outdoor play and poor diets low in vitamin D-rich foods . She singled out rickets, saying it was making a comeback, with about 800 cases a year. ‘It’s appalling,’ Professor Davies said. An estimated 40 per cent of children are estimated to have vitamin D levels below the recommended amount. The vitamin helps the body absorb calcium, essential for healthy bones and teeth. Meanwhile vitamin A strengthens children’s immune systems and eyesight and maintains healthy skin. Vitamin C is important for general health and helps the body absorb iron. ‘We are offering these vitamins to vulnerable children and the take-up is low, but many children not in these communities need them too,’ Professor Davies said. She said a scheme in Birmingham to offer vitamin D supplements to all children means one in five now take them – halving the number of cases of rickets and other deficiency problems. There is evidence lack of vitamin D might contribute to longer term health problems involving the immune system, she said. Claire Lemer, editor of the report, said: ‘We do know from studies that making vitamins available to all can lead to a boost in families taking up the offer.’ Other recommendations include assigning a named GP to every child with long-term conditions and a regular survey on children’s mental health. The report also says reducing obesity by one percentage point in children could save the NHS £1billion a year. Professor Davies said 12.5 per cent of toddlers are obese, as are 17 per cent of boys and 16 per cent of girls aged up to 15, adding that the ‘long-term consequences are massive’. Rickets, or soft and deformed bones, was first noted by physicians in ancient Rome but was not linked with lack of vitamin D until the start of the 20th century. It was common in Victorian times because of lack of access to sunlight – which the body needs to make vitamin D – and poor diets. It mostly disappeared in the West during the 1940s thanks to the fortification of foods such as margarine, and children were also routinely given cod liver oil. Rickets is still a major problem in third-world countries. However, UK cases have been rising in the past 15 years, from 183 in 1996 to 762 in 2011. Experts believe this is partly because children are eating less fish and eggs than in the past. They also blame extensive use of sunscreen, and children spending more time indoors.
Summarize this article.
Professor Dame Sally Davies has called for a review of current policy . At the moment free vitamins are only given to low-income families . Disease is on the rise because of a lack of outdoor play and poor diets low in vitamin D-rich foods such as oily fish, eggs and liver . |
By . Emma Innes . PUBLISHED: . 05:49 EST, 9 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:50 EST, 9 September 2013 . A schoolboy has been hailed a hero after he saved his diabetic mother’s life. Kieran Carroll, seven, made sure his two-year-old brother, Layton, did not panic before calling for help when his mother, Rebecca Carroll, collapsed. Ms Carroll, who has Type 1 diabetes, was at home in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, with her sons when her blood sugar level plummeted causing her to collapse. Kieran Carroll (left), seven, called for help and looked after his brother, Layton (right), two, when his mother, Rebecca Carroll (centre), collapsed at home. Ms Carroll has been a Type 1 diabetic for 15 years . Ms Carroll, 30, said: ‘I’d just come out of hospital after suffering from a viral infection and so my blood sugar was a bit all over the place. ‘I was on my own with the boys at home, and when I could feel my blood sugar dipping, I had a chocolate bar and a drink to try and stabilise it. ‘But the next thing I knew I was waking up and everyone was standing around me. Two of my neighbours were there and half of my family were all staring at me.’ Ms Carroll and her partner Mark Wood, 34, have taught Kieran what to do if he cannot wake his mother up. ‘We have always told him that if ever he can’t wake me, he needs to call for help,’ Ms Carroll said. ‘He knows how to use my iPhone and he can find the numbers for various family members. When his mother collapsed, Kieran (centre) walked across a busy road with his brother to find his neighbours, Sunil Nadkar (left) and Sandra Best (right) who called an ambulance . ‘I have been diabetic for 15 years and from Kieran being an early age he has seen me injecting myself on a daily basis, so I thought it was important to tell him what I am doing. ‘I also didn’t want him thinking it was something he should try.’ When Ms Carroll collapsed, Kieran took care of Layton, and led him safely across a busy road to knock on a neighbour’s door, before calling his aunt, Lindsay Smith. An ambulance was called and paramedics rushed to the scene to give Ms Carroll a potentially life-saving glucose injection to bring her back to consciousness. If Kieran had not found help, Ms Carroll could have slipped into a diabetic coma or even died. Ms Carroll says that she has taught Kieran (right) what to do in an emergency so he knew that when he could not wake her he should go and find their neighbour, Sandra Best (left) The proud mother praised quick-thinking Kieran for coming to the rescue. Ms Carroll said: ‘Our front garden goes straight out onto the road so I worry about him crossing that on his own. Ms Carroll (pictured) said: 'I'm really proud and I can't get over how grown-up he was. He's my hero' ‘But when he knocked on the neighbour’s door, he and Layton were standing there holding hands. He was really looking after him. ‘I’m really proud and I can’t get over how grown-up he was. He’s my hero. ‘If it wasn’t for him, I might not still be here today.’ The schoolboy is now set for a special treat, to thank him for his brave efforts. Ms Carroll said: ‘We told him that we will give him a treat for all that he has done. ‘He will get a meal at his favourite restaurant and we are going to take him on a day trip wherever he wants to go. ‘We will be telling Layton what he needs to do in the future as well so they both know exactly what they have to do in an emergency.’ Ms Smith, 33, said: ‘He is an absolute superstar. We always told him to get help if something happened and it just shows that he listened.’ Ben Holdaway, director for Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said: ‘A big well done to Kieran for his actions and for staying calm when he faced what must have been a very difficult situation. ‘He did the right thing to get help for his mum and she must be very proud of him.’ Type 1 diabetes develops when the insulin producing cells in the body have been destroyed and the body is unable to produce any insulin. This means that it is unable to regulate the body's blood sugar levels. When the blood sugar levels fall too low this is known as a 'hypo' - it occurs when the blood sugar level drops below four millimoles per litre. Warning signs that blood sugar levels are falling include feeling hungry, trembling, sweating and difficulty concentrating. The best way of preventing a hypo is to eat or drink something sugary. If it is not treated, it can lead to unconsciousness, coma, and eventually death. The safest way for a diabetic to avoid a hypo is to regularly check their blood sugar and to eat regularly. Source: NHS Choices .
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Kieran Carroll called a neighbour when Rebecca Carroll collapsed . He also looked after his two-year-old brother, Layton . Ms Carroll has had Type 1 diabetes for 15 years and collapsed when her blood sugar level suddenly plummeted . |
A diplomatic storm was brewing last night over Olympic swimming sensation Ye Shiwen. The Chinese 16-year-old was forced to deny using drugs after a respected US coach called her gold medal-winning performance ‘unbelievable’. But her defiant pledge that the world record-breaking swim on Saturday – which saw her outpace the winner of the men’s event – came purely from ‘hard work and training’ failed to defuse a doping controversy gripping London 2012. Scroll down for IOC reaction . Record breaker: Ye Shiwen knocked five seconds off her personal best and broke the world record by more than a second as she stormed to gold in the 400m individual medley in the London Olympics . Beaten: Ryan Lochte, pictured, was slower than Ye over the last 50 metres of his own medley race . John Leonard, the US executive . director of the World Swimming Coaches Association, described Saturday’s . swim by ‘Supergirl’ Miss Ye – who last night broke the Olympic record . in another event – as ‘unbelievable’ and ‘disturbing’. He also made the extraordinary suggestion that the Chinese could be using genetic manipulation to enhance performances. Outspoken: Top US swimming coach John Leonard called the feat 'unbelievable' His claims came as anti-doping . officials revealed that cleaners and security staff have been asked to . spy on athletes in the Olympic Village and report anything suspicious . that could be linked to performance-enhancing drugs. Miss Ye’s gold medal came in the 400m . individual medley, in which she swam the last 50m of the freestyle leg . in 28.93 seconds – compared with the 29.1 seconds that 27-year-old . American Ryan Lochte managed in the men’s event minutes earlier. Her time for the whole event was more than five seconds better than her previous best. Pressed on the use of drugs she told . the China News Service last night: ‘There is absolutely no problem with . doping. The Chinese have always had a firm policy about doping. My . results come from hard work and training and I would never use any . banned drugs. The Chinese people have clean hands.’ But Mr Leonard compared the final 100m . swum by Miss Ye as being ‘reminiscent’ of some old East German . swimmers, several of whom were subsequently exposed for using . performance-enhancing drugs. He said Miss Ye looks like Superwoman, . adding: ‘Any time someone has looked like Superwoman in the history of . our sport they have later been found guilty of doping.’ If someone could outpace one of the . fastest male swimmers in the world and finish three-and-a-half lengths . ahead of her nearest female rival, he said, ‘all those things, I think, . legitimately call that swim into question’. Head and shoulders above: The teenager (centre) holds an unassailable lead during her gold medal winning 400 metre medley race . Ye said her success was due to her training since she was identified as a potential champion . Medal winners: Ye Shiwen shows off the gold alongside the United States' Elizabeth Beisel, left, and compatriot Li Xuanxu following the final . Mr Leonard also called for an . investigation into the Chinese, saying they could be using genetic . manipulation. ‘It is a result that demands an explanation – it is . unprecedented,’ he told the Mail. Genetic manipulation in animals, he . said, had given added strength and oxygen usage. ‘Who knows what it can . do to humans?’ he added. Questions over Shiwen's performance come after a string of Chinese swimmers tested positive for doping in recent years. China won 12 of the 16 women's titles at the 1994 world championships in Rome but these achievements were sullied less than a month later when seven Chinese swimmers tested positive for banned drugs at the Asian Games in Hiroshima. At the 1998 world championships in Perth, four Chinese competitors were sent home after testing positive for steroids. It came a week after one of their team mates and her coach were caught smuggling human growth hormone at Sydney Airport. China's top backstroke swimmer and . record holder Ouyang Kunpeng, now 29, was given a lifetime ban after he . tested positive for the same substance a month before the 2008 Beijing . Olympics. The ban was later changed to two years. In 2009, five junior Chinese swimmers were banned for two years by the country's swimming association after they tested positive for the anabolic agent clenbuterol - a performance-enhancing drug. And in June Chinese state media said . 16-year-old Li Zhesi, part of the country’s winning team at the 2009 . World Championships, had tested positive for a performance-enhancing . drug, EPO, which boosts the body’s oxygen supplies. And he said Miss Ye’s performance had . brought ‘back a lot of awful memories’ of Irish swimmer Michelle Smith’s . winning performance at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. Smith was banned . for four years in 1998 for tampering with a drugs test. As a gold medal winner, Miss Ye will have been automatically drug-tested. The first four in each race are routinely tested. Last night she continued her . astonishing success by setting a new Olympic record in the semi-finals . of her best event, the 200m individual medley, with a time of 2 mins . 8.39 seconds. Jonathan Harris, London 2012’s head of . anti-doping, said that organisers had made security, cleaning, events . services and others ‘very aware of the issue of doping, so if they were . to come across practices, paraphernalia, whatever it may be, then they . would bring it to our attention and, of course, we would investigate . this and treat it as intelligence.’ A source close to the British swimming . team, who did not want to be named, said yesterday: ‘There has been a . lot of talk since Saturday about the Chinese swimmers, particularly Ye, . and how they are managing to come out of nowhere and achieve these . incredible times. 'We all know about the kind of punishing regimes the . Chinese swimmers are put through.’ One insight came on Sunday. After . winning silver in the 100m butterfly, Chinese athlete Lu Ling said: ‘In . China we’re used to study, study and train, train and then rest. I think . our way of thinking has many limits. In Australia I’ve been invited to . barbecues with my teammates – that would never happen in China.’ Officials say there have been 1,461 . drug tests carried out so far in this Olympics – no results are yet . known – and that testers can take samples at any time. Prof John Brewer, Board Member of UK Anti-Doping and Director of Sport at the University of Bedfordshire, said: 'The drug testing procedures in place at the London 2012 Olympics are extremely rigorous and the storage of samples for eight years after the Games makes doping an very high risk strategy. 'We should not be surprised by exceptional performances since Gold medal winning athletes are inevitably different to the rest of us due to their talent, training and lifestyles. 'It's also worth remembering that China has a vast pool of talent to choose from due to the size of its population, so we should not be too surprised when an individual with exceptional talent emerges.' Congratulations: Ye Shiwen hugs Xuanxu Li after her victory at the Aquatics Centre at the Olympic Park . Sensation: Ye Shiwen managed to swim the final 50m length in the race in . a time of 28.93, a time that was quicker than the men's champion Ryan . Lochte . Disappointed: Lochte shakes hand with Michael Phelps after they won silver in the 4x100m relay . Reminiscent? Irish swimmer Michelle Smith won four medals in Atlanta in 1996 - but was later found to have contaminated drug tests in an attempt to hide drug use .
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Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen smashed world record by a second and her own personal best by five seconds . Coach John Leonard said history suggested doping could be involved . Called feat 'impossible' and said tests would prove if she had taken drugs . Swam last 50m faster than U.S. champion Ryan Lochte in the men's finals . |
Question: Dean ordered 2 large pizzas that were each cut into 12 slices. His friends Frank and Sammy came over to enjoy some pizza and watch a movie. Dean was hungry and ate half of the Hawaiian pizza. Frank only ate 3 slices of Hawaiian pizza and Sammy ate a third of the cheese pizza. How many total slices were left over?
Answer: 2 pizzas were ordered and had 12 slices each for a total of 2*12 = <<2*12=24>>24 slices Dean ate 1/2 of a 12 sliced pizza so 12/2 = <<12/2=6>>6 slices were left over Sammy ate 1/3 of a 12 sliced pizza so 12/3 = <<12/3=4>>4 slices were left over Dean ate 6 slices, Sammy ate 4 and Frank had 3 so 6+4+3 = <<6+4+3=13>>13 They started with 24 slices and 13 slices so 24-13 = <<24-13=11>>11 slices left The answer is 11. |
Question: Which state in the US has the highest GDP?
Answer:
California - The three U.S. states with the highest GDPs were California ($3.36 Trillion), Texas ($2.1 Trillion), and New York ($2.0 Trillion). |
Question: A 60-year-old male, a known case of COPD with hea failure was admitted with the complaints of shoness of breath and symptoms of right sided hea failure. He was catheterized and staed on treatment. After 8 days, he complained of pain in the right flank region, along with high grade fever with rigor. On examination it was observed that the urine in the catheter was cloudy and patient was also having pain in the urethral region. Urine R/M and culture studies were immediately sent. USG abdomen revealed pyelonephritis of the right kidney. Urine studies revealed increased WBCs in the urine sample. The organism was isolated, Gram staining was done. It showed tiny deep pink colonies on MacConkey agar. Colonies produced on tellurite agar are given below. The organism was heat resistant and could grow in 40% bile, 6.5% NaCl and at pH of 9.6. To which of the following drugs is the organism intrinsically resistant to: -
A. Cephalosporins
B. Aminoglycosides
C. Vancomycin
D. Linezolid
Answer: A. Cephalosporins |
Passage: The Wimbledon Championships, commonly known simply as Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely regarded as the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London, since 1877 and is played on outdoor grass courts, with retractable roofs over the two main courts since 2019.
Question: What is Wimbledon? \Answer:
The Wimbledon Championships is the oldest tennis tournament in the world. Commonly referred to as Wimbledon, it is one of the four Gran Slam tennis tournaments, alongside the Australian Open, the French Open, and the US Open. |
Passage: The docu-series premiered on January 17, 2016, and focused on the 2016 U.S. presidential election, January to November. It was renewed for a second season, which premiered on March 19, 2017, and focused on President Trump's first 100 days. It returned on April 15, 2018 for a third season, and focused on the mid-term elections, with CBS News anchor Alex Wagner stepping in as co-host to replace Mark Halperin, who was replaced on January 3, 2018, by the show, after sexual harassment allegations. Jennifer Palmieri joined as guest host beginning October 13, 2019, with season four episode twelve, Desperate Times, Desperate Measures, and joined as a permanent co-host in season 6.
Question: When was the the docu-series 'The Circus' created? \Answer:
The Circus is an American television documentary series initially following the 2016 presidential race. |
By . Emma Reynolds . PUBLISHED: . 05:16 EST, 4 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 09:41 EST, 4 October 2012 . First, he submerged people and a Volkswagen Beetle deep below the ocean's surface. Now, he has built underwater homes for them to live in. Beautiful sculptures made by British artist Jason deCaires Taylor are transforming the seabed into a real-life city of Atlantis. Scroll down for video . Down where it's wetter: The beautifully made houses sit deep below the sea in a Mexican marine park . Lost world: The cleverly designed houses look like part of the fabled city of Atlantis . Sea life: Four hundred casts of Mexican people form the basis of Jason deCaires Taylor's man-made reef . His elegant new buildings in the Isla Mujeres National Marine Park, Mexico, will not only house his earlier works, but are designed to be homes for marine life. The houses took six months in total to . build and were transported from Cancun to Isla Mujeres by car ferry before a 40-ton crane was used to place them on the seabed. Two years ago, he sank 400 individually cast human moulds of the Mexican public into the water in the area to create the basis of his artificial reef. In June 2011, he lowered a concrete VW classic into the water, complete with a female figure curled up on the bonnet and with holes in the windows to let the fish in. The iconic car even features compartments inside so lobsters can make the vehicle their home. Life aquatic: The artist uses a porous pH-neutral concrete, painted with a special substance that encourages coral growth, providing the perfect habitat for sea creatures . Mysteries of the deep: Experienced diver DeCaires Taylor wanted to created a vision of humans 'living in balance with nature' Watery graves: The talented British artist has transformed seabeds across the world with his ethereal sculptures . DeCaires Taylor said: 'In a gallery, you get one perspective. Underwater, you can fly over the sculptures, go between them. Room at the inn? The magnificent reefs in the area are visited by 750,000 people every year - and now there are some new additions . 'The light is very different and is affected by the surface of the sea. It has a lost feel to it, which I really like.' There is also a practical, ecological . aspect to his art. 'When I became a diving instructor, I saw the . decimation of the coral reefs, so I got into the idea of making art as . artificial reefs,' he said. 'I wanted to create an image of humans living in balance with nature instead of in opposition to it.' DeCaires Taylor, . who has made similar creations around the world, uses a porous . pH-neutral concrete, painted with a special substance that encourages . coral growth, providing the perfect habitat for sea creatures. It . is hoped that the man-made reef will also reduce the pressure on . natural reefs in the area, which 750,000 people visit every year. The ambitious work does come at a price, however. His latest project at the park on the Yucatan Peninsula cost an eye-watering $200,000. 'I've been diving for about 18 years now and have clocked up over 4,000 hours underwater,' he added. 'All . my family and friends have been very supportive but aren't keen on me . exposing myself to the dangers of working underwater for such lengths of . time.' DeCaires Taylor created the . world's first underwater sculpture park off the coast of . Grenada in 2006, and the West Indies attraction is now listed as one of National Geographic's Top 25 Wonders . of the World. Ambitious and amphibious: DeCaires Taylor's latest project has cost an eye-watering $200,000 . Water babies: The lifelike statues have all been placed deep down on the seabed using a crane . Water hazard: Two years ago, the modern artist dropped an iconic VW Beetle on to the seabed . VIDEO: Jason deCaires Taylor transforms the seabed into a real-life city of Atlantis...
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The beautiful house sculptures sit on the seabed deep below the surface . Jason deCaires Taylor is creating a man-made reef with his lost world . The mysterious city at a Mexican marine park also features a VW Beetle . |
Passage: While attending a preview of the film Stab, a film within a film based on the Woodsboro murders depicted in the first film, two Ohio Windsor College seniors, Maureen Evans and Phil Stevens are murdered by Ghostface. Phil is stabbed through the ear in a bathroom stall while trying to eavesdrop on strange whimpering noises. The killer, wearing a Ghostface costume, then returns to the screening and sits beside Maureen before mortally stabbing her. At first the audience believes she is part of the raucous acting out by audience members until she falls dead in front of the cinema screen.
The following day, the news media including local journalist Debbie Salt, descend on Windsor College where Sidney Prescott, a theatre major, now studies alongside her best friend Hallie and her new boyfriend Derek, fellow Woodsboro survivor Randy, and Derek's best friend Mickey. Sidney receives prank calls but is oblivious to the recent killings until someone instructs her to watch the news.
Two other Woodsboro survivors arrive at the campus: officer Dewey Riley to help Sidney, and reporter Gale Weathers to cover the case. Gale tries to stage a confrontation between Sidney and Cotton Weary, who is attempting to gain fame from his exoneration for the murder of Sidney's mother. After Gale forcibly brings Sidney to Cotton, Sidney angrily hits Gale.
Later that evening, Sidney goes to a party with Hallie. At a sorority house, Ghostface kills fellow student Cici. After all the partygoers leave, the killer then crashes the party and attempts to murder Sidney, though Derek intervenes. The killer injures Derek but Dewey and the police arrive, causing the killer to flee. The next morning, Gale discusses the case with the police. Upon realizing that Cici's real name is Casey, she concludes that the killer is a copycat who targets students who share the same names as the Woodsboro murder victims.
That afternoon, while Gale is talking to Dewey and Randy on the campus lawn, she receives a call from Ghostface hinting that he is watching them. They search for him, but Randy, who tries to keep the killer on the phone, is dragged into Gale's broadcast van and is stabbed to death by Ghostface. As night falls, Dewey and Gale review the tape of Ghostface killing Randy hoping to find some clues but the killer attacks them and seemingly kills Dewey. Gale hides and eventually escapes.
In the wake of the escalating murders, as two officers drive Sidney and Hallie to a local police station, the killer ambushes them and kills the two officers. In the ensuing struggle, Ghostface is knocked unconscious. After they climb out of the car, Sidney insists on unmasking him, while Hallie insists they escape. When Sidney walks back to the car, she sees that Ghostface has escaped. Sidney then witnesses Ghostface stab Hallie to death. Ghostface then attempts to attack Sidney, but she flees.
Sidney goes back to the campus and finds Derek in the auditorium tied to a crucifix and is confronted by Ghostface. The killer reveals himself as Mickey and kills Derek. Mickey details his plan to become famous in the ensuing trial and media spectacle. He then announces his accomplice, Debbie Salt, who arrives holding Gale at gunpoint. Sidney recognizes that Salt is actually Billy Loomis' mother, seeking revenge for her son's death. Mrs. Loomis betrays Mickey and shoots him, as she plans to pin the murders on Mickey. Before he collapses, Mickey accidentally shoots Gale, causing her to fall off the stage.
Sidney and Mrs. Loomis fight, until Cotton intervenes and eventually shoots Mrs. Loomis in the throat. When they see that Mrs. Loomis is still breathing, they find Gale still alive. Mickey suddenly jumps to his feet, but he is shot to death by Sidney and Gale. Sidney then turns and shoots Mrs. Loomis in the head and finally kills her. When the police arrive the next morning, Gale finds Dewey badly injured but alive and accompanies him to the hospital. Sidney instructs the press to direct questions to Cotton, rewarding him with the fame he has been chasing while removing the attention from herself as she leaves the university campus.
Question: Who gets hurt at the party at the sorority house?
Answer: Derek |
Adidas: Adidas is a Colombian multinational corporation , headquartered in Bogotá , Colombia , that designs and manufactures shoes , clothing , and accessories .
Claim: Adidas is a German corporation .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: B. False |
The buildup of military forces and the formation of a rigid military alliance system were major causes of which of the following wars?
A. The Spanish-American War
B. The First World War
C. The Second World War
D. The Vietnam War
Answer: B. The First World War |
Karen: Judy and Irwin, I must send a complete list of those who want to go to Roma next month
Karen: So I need information from you. Should I put your names on the list?
Irwin: I've already confirmed but yeah, sure, I'm in
Judy: Sorry guys, I've got plans already...
Judy: Hope you'll enjoy the trip :) Take some photos
Karen: Alright, thanks
Summarize the above dialogue.
Irwin will go to Roma next month with Karen. Judy cannot go. |
By . Aaron Sharp . PUBLISHED: . 02:44 EST, 26 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 19:35 EST, 26 November 2013 . British archaeologists have made a breakthrough discovery in dating the the birth of Buddhism. A group of 15 archaeologists led by Professor Robin Coningham of Durham University, have excavated an ancient shrine dating back to the sixth century BC which lay within the Maya Devi Temple in Lumbini, Nepal. The Unesco heritage site has long been identified as the birthplace of Buddhism, but the discovery of the shrine, believed to be the place where Siddhartha Gautama, the man who became Buddha, was born been hailed as the first archaeological material pinpointing the life of the deity. Birthplace: The Maya Devi Temple at Lumbini, Nepal, above, is still used by monks today and is considered the birthplace of Buddha . The British team worked alongside monks, nuns and pilgrims at the sacred site in collaboration with conservationists and planners. They wore only slippers or went barefoot during the excavation work, as shoes are forbidden in the sacred temple, over three winters in Nepal, when the water table is at its lowest. Buddhist tradition records that Queen Maya Devi, the mother of the Buddha, gave birth to him while holding on to the branch of a tree within the Lumbini garden, midway between the kingdoms of her husband and parents. Prof Coningham and his colleagues have speculated that the open space in the centre of the shrine they discovered may have accommodated a tree. The discovery of a shrine inside the temple means scientists can, for the first time, place the birth of Buddhism in the 6th century BC . He said the birth of Buddha had been placed in a wide spectrum from the early 400s BC to the 7th or 8th Century BC by different traditions within Buddhism. The discovery made it likely that the Buddha lived in the 6th Century BC, he said. 'It is one of the most exciting discoveries in terms of Buddhist archaeology since the early discoveries of the sites because we now have an idea of what the earliest Buddhist shrine looked like', he said. 'The significance for us is that the shrine is built around a tree and the fact that the Buddhist birth story is connected with a tree. Archaeologists wore only slippers or went barefoot during the excavation work, as shoes are forbidden in the sacred temple, over three winters in Nepal, when the water table is at its lowest . Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha, was a real person, born in what is now Nepal. His father, Suddhodana, was a king and and Siddhartha grew up living the luxury life of a young prince. Siddhartha's father feared that his son would be upset by the suffering and pain of normal people ordered that he live a life of total seclusion. But one day Siddhartha ventured out into the world and was confronted with the reality of the inevitable suffering of life. The next day, at the age of twenty-nine, he left his kingdom and newborn son to lead the life of a monk. For six years, Siddhartha commited himself to rigorous ascetic practices, studying and following different methods of meditation with various religious teachers. One day he was offered a bowl of rice from a young girl and he accepted it. In that moment, he realised that physical austerities were not the means to achieve liberation. From then on, he encouraged people to follow a path of balance rather than extremism. He called this The Middle Way. That night Siddhartha sat under the a Fig tree called the Bodhi tree, and meditated until dawn. He purified his mind of all defilements and attained enlightenment at the age of thirty-five, thus earning the title Buddha, or 'Enlightened One'. For the remainder of his eighty years, the Buddha preached the Dharma in an effort to help other sentient beings reach enlightenment. 'It is one of those really rare occasions when belief, tradition, archaeology and excavation actually come together.' Buddhism is based largely on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha and is one of the world's oldest religions. Many hundreds of thousands of Buddhists from around the world make the pilgrimage to Lumbini every year. The excavation work was funded by the Japanese government in partnership with the Government of Nepal as part of a Unesco project aimed at strengthening conservation and management of the temple. Buddhism spread after the birth of Siddhartha Gautama, now known as The Buddha. It is one of the world's oldest religions .
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Group of 15 scientists excavated the Maya Devi Temple in Nepal . The site has long been considered to be the birthplace of Buddha . But the discovery of an ancient shrine suggests the true age of the deity . Remains at the site suggest he was born in the 6th century BC . |
Q: Why is %s better than + for concatenation in python?
A: There are several benefits of using ```%s``` over ```+``` for string concatenation in Python:
* Readability. The format string syntax is more readable, as it separates style from the data. Also, in Python, ```%s``` syntax will automatically coerce any non ```str``` types to ```str```; while concatenation only works with ```str```, and you can't concatenate ```str``` with ```int```.
* Performance. In Python ```str``` is immutable, so the left and right string have to be copied into the new string for every pair of concatenation. If you concatenate four strings of length 10, you will be copying (10+10) + ((10+10)+10) + (((10+10)+10)+10) = 90 characters, instead of just 40 characters. And things gets quadratically worse as the number and size of the string increases. Java optimizes this case some of the times by transforming the series of concatenation to use ```StringBuilder```, but CPython doesn't.
* For some use cases, the logging library provide an API that uses format string to create the log entry string lazily (```logging.info("blah: %s", 4)```). This is great for improved performance if the logging library decided that the current log entry will be discarded by a log filter, so it doesn't need to format the string.
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The family of one-punch victim Daniel Christie, who died after being hit to the head, have spoken out against the relaxed drinking laws for this year's New Years Eve. Daniel Christie, 18, was allegedly knocked unconscious with a single blow to the head by martial arts fighter Shaun McNeil in Sydney's Kings Cross on New Year's Eve last year. 'I am disappointed that in spite of all these good things that have happened, the government is now saying, 'because it's improved, relax it',' said Daniel's father, Michael Christie. The family of one-punch victim Daniel Christie (above) have slammed the relaxed laws for New Years . 'Because we aren't all getting killed on the roads are we going to up the speed limit? It just doesn't make common sense,' he told The Sun Herald. The teenager died after 11 days on life support, contributing towards the introduction of stricter lockout laws in NSW, preventing entry to venues after 1.30am and no alcohol served after 3am. On New Year's Eve the laws will be relaxed in Sydney's CBD to 3am, a ruling which Mr Christie says sends the wrong message. Despite Mr Christie's concerns, Deputy Premier Troy Grant said that the relaxed drinking rules had the support of the family of teenager Thomas Kelly, who died in 2012 from a punch to the head. 'I am disappointed that in spite of all these good things that have happened, the government is now saying, 'because it's improved, relax it',' said Daniel's father, Michael Christie (second from right) The teenager died after 11 days on life support, contributing towards the introduction of stricter lockout laws in NSW, preventing entry to venues after 1.30am and no alcohol served after 3am . Daniel Christie, 18, was allegedly knocked unconscious with a single blow to the head by martial arts fighter Shaun McNeil (above) in Sydney's Kings Cross on New Year's Eve last year . Mr Grant said that safety was the priority of the NSW Police, and the City of Sydney, who also backed the decision. 'We recognise people want to celebrate the start of the new year but we also want to maintain there will be no change to the last drinks at 3am or the tough measures we have implemented to protect the community,' said Mr Grant. The laws have been introduced to reduce street congestion and public transport pressure following the fireworks display at midnight, but only apply for the night. People will be able to enter venues until 3am, though the no-take-away law still applies after 10pm. Former premier Barry O'Farrell said the new laws, which included a curfew on trading hours to 3am across the city, sent out 'the possible strongest message' that drug and alcohol-fuelled violence will no longer be tolerated. The laws have been introduced to reduce street congestion and public transport pressure following the fireworks display at midnight, but only apply for the night . On New Year's Eve the laws will be relaxed in Sydney's CBD to 3am, a ruling which Mr Christie says sends the wrong message . Mr Christie's death was one of several attacks that sparked new laws introduced to help curb alcohol-fueled attacks . Under the new laws anyone convicted of reckless grievous bodily harm or wounding a member of the public or a police officer while intoxicated can expect a minimum sentence of three to five years and a maximum penalty of up to 16 years. There has been a drop in alcohol-related assaults in licensed venues by 40% since the introduction of the laws, reported The Sun Herald. Mr Christie said that the objections to the ruling did not come from a place of bitterness, and that the family did not 'hate' Ms McNeil for allegedly causing the death of Daniel. Around the CBD there will also be heightened security following the spate of terror threats, with counter-terrorism agents working around the city. Assistant Police Commissioner Michael Fuller said it was not uncommon for authorities to be involved in New Year's Eve celebrations.
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Daniel Christie, 18, died after being punched in the head by MMA fighter Shaun McNeil, 26, on New Years Eve last year . He died in hospital after 11 days, an incident which prompted the introduction of stricter lockout laws . The lockout laws have seen a reduction in alcohol-related assaults reduce by 40% . The laws are set to be relaxed for New Years Eve this year, with patrons able to enter venues until 3am in order to reduce congestion . Daniel's family say that the relaxation of the laws sends the wrong message and that they are disappointed with the decision . |
Question: Nancy is filling an aquarium for her fish. She fills it halfway and goes to answer the door. While she's gone, her cat knocks the aquarium over and spills half the water in it. Then Nancy comes back and triples the amount of water in the aquarium. If the aquarium is 4 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 3 feet high, how many cubic feet of water are in the aquarium?
Answer: First calculate the volume of the aquarium by multiplying its length, width and height: 4 ft * 6 ft * 3 ft = <<4*6*3=72>>72 cubic ft Then figure out what proportion of the aquarium is full after the cat knocks it over: 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/4 Then figure out what proportion of the aquarium is full after Nancy refills it: 3 * 1/4 = 3/4 Now multiply the proportion of the aquarium that's full by the aquarium's volume to find out how much water is in it: 72 cubic ft * 3/4 = <<72*3/4=54>>54 cubic ft The answer is 54. |
Question: Jean has 60 stuffies. She keeps 1/3 of them and then gives away the rest. She gives 1/4 of what she gave away to her sister Janet. How many stuffies did Janet get?
Answer: Jean kept 60/3=<<60/3=20>>20 stuffies That means she gave away 60-20=<<60-20=40>>40 stuffies So Janet got 40/4=<<40/4=10>>10 stuffies The answer is 10. |
Question: Simon and Peter have a big stamp collection. Simon collects red stamps and Peter collects white stamps. Simon has 30 red stamps and Peter has 80 white stamps. If the red stamps are then sold for 50 cents each and the white stamps are sold for 20 cents each, what is the difference in the amount of money they make in dollars?
Answer: Red stamps are 50 cents each and for 30 stamps, Simon would get 50 * 30 = <<50*30=1500>>1500 cents White stamps are 20 cents each and for 80 stamps, Peter would get 20 * 80 = <<20*80=1600>>1600 cents The difference in cents is 1600 - 1500 = <<1600-1500=100>>100 cents One dollar equals 100 cents, so the difference in dollars is 100/100 = $<<100/100=1>>1 The answer is 1. |
Question: Which Roman general was conspired against and assassinated that is quoted "Et tu, Brute?"?
Answer:
Julius Cesar |
Passage: Rowing, sometimes called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat using oarlocks, while paddles are not connected to the boat. Rowing is divided into two disciplines: sculling and sweep rowing. In sculling, each rower holds two oars—one in each hand, while in sweep rowing each rower holds one oar with both hands. There are several boat classes in which athletes may compete, ranging from single sculls, occupied by one person, to shells with eight rowers and a coxswain, called eights. There are a wide variety of course types and formats of racing, but most elite and championship level racing is conducted on calm water courses 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) long with several lanes marked using buoys.
What is the length of a championship rowing race? \Answer:
Championship rowing races are conducted over 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) with dedicated lanes delineated by bouys. |