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How do I do a headstand?
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Start in a tabletop position with your knees on the ground and your hands placed underneath your shoulders. Draw your chin into your chest and lower the crown of your head onto the ground. Curl your toes under and lift your knees up off the ground. Place each knee on your tricep. Push into the heal of your palm to lift your knees off your tricep. With your low core deeply engaged, continue to lift your knees higher until your legs are fully extended. Make sure you keep your breath slow while inverted, and then slowly reverse the steps. You have now done your first head stand!
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Based on this paragraph, what is the diameter of a 10 F Foley catheter in mm?
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The relative size of a Foley catheter is described using French units (F). Alternatively, the size of a 10 F catheter might be expressed as 10 Ch (Charriere units – named after a 19th century French scientific instrument maker, Joseph-Frédéric-Benoît Charrière). The most common sizes are 10 F to 28 F. 1 F is equivalent to 0.33 mm = .013" = 1/77" of diameter. Foley catheters are usually color coded by size with a solid color band at the external end of the balloon inflation tube, allowing for easy identification of the size. Note: Colors for French sizes 5, 6, 8, 10 may vary significantly if intended for pediatric patients. Color for French size 26 may also be pink instead of black.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_catheter
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According to this paragraph, the diameter of a 1 F catheter is 1/77mm so the diameter of a 10 F catheter is 10/77mm.
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What is the definition of Vegan?
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Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal product—particularly in diet—and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals. An individual who follows the diet or philosophy is known as a vegan.
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Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal product
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What is an Ironman Triathlon?
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An Ironman Triathlon is a multi-sport event that consists of a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and 26.2 mile run.
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| 9,454 |
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How many slide positions are there on a trombone
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There are 7 slide positions on a trombone, where each slide position is a half step apart from the next slide position. In combination with changes in air pressure to change the pitch of the note, a trombone player adjusts the slide position to produce various tones at various octaves.
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Which Dutch explorer reached Tasmania and New Zealand in 1642?
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The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman reached Tasmania and New Zealand in 1642.
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What do the different ski slope colors mean?
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1) Green (usually represented by a circle): these are beginner slopes and are not very steep. A New skier should be able to navigate these without losing control or catching too much speed, but more advanced skiers tend to find these too flat.
2) Blue (usually represented by a square): These are intermediate slopes with some steeper or more narrow runs. Skiers of all skill levels can enjoy these, but beginners might need to take it slow on some of the steeper parts.
3) Black (usually represented by a diamond): These are for advanced skiers only and have steep drops and/or obstacles.
4) Double Black (usually represented by two diamonds): These are only for the most experienced and advanced skiers and usually include extreme drops with significant obstacles.
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What is Fortran?
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Fortran is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
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What is the capital city of Croatia?
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Zagreb is the capital city of Croatia
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How many atomic bombs have been used in combat in human history?
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Two atomic bombs have been deployed against populations in human history
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What are some common wilderness and survival skills?
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Some common survival skills are ones that do not rely on carrying specific equipment but do require a working knowledge of prior to being stranded int he wilderness. Being able to use a map and compass is top of mind, as if you are lost ,finding your way back to civilization in short order is critical, particularly if you have little to no supplies. Being able to create shelter in adverse weather is also necessary, as humans exposed to harsh elements to extended periods have a smaller chance of survival. Since food and water are also paramount to survival, understanding your best chances on locating water that is safe to drink or that can be purified using natural resources is a skill set most would consider critical; almost equally, knowing what in nature is edible for foraging will help fuel someone. An example is being able to identify which mushrooms or berries are safe versus toxic. Lastly, being able to monitor one's own vital signs to avoid situations like hypothermia are important, because hypothermia is considered a "silent killer."
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Why are shiba inus the best dogs?
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Shiba inus are the best dogs because they are intuitive, smart, independent, affectionate (at times) and easy to train. They are also the perfect size (moderately compact) and weighs on average 20-25 lbs, making them small enough to carry but sturdy enough to hug. This makes them great for smaller-sized homes or apartments. They tend to also be quite friendly to other humans and pets, so it's easy to take them to dog parks, on hikes and to beaches without having to worry about aggression towards humans or other dogs.
The most important reason -- shiba inus are just unbelievably cute -- they look like foxes, with their prick ears, lush curly tail and thick double coats.
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Who composed the 'Moonlight Sonata', and when?
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Commonly known as the Moonlight Sonata, the Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No. 2, was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven.
The composition was completed in 1801 and dedicated to the Countess Giulietta Guicciardi in 1802. It's one of the most popular musical compositions for the piano.
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You have been asked to join the School Health Advisory Council to develop a new policy that focuses on the development of a more sustainable food service. List the steps you would take to develop and implement the new policy. How would you involve staff, families, and children?
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Communicate with families to list out their children’s favorite food items and eating habits. Such as allergy items and if any family requests that no milk or milk-based substitute be given to their children. Also families' dietary restrictions due to religious beliefs, personal beliefs, cultural customs and health issues.
Based on those pieces of information, develop the food-from-home policy. Restrict all allergy items to school. Meeting with all staff involves, such as teachers, kitchen staff, nutrition professionals and parents who are interested, to have a planning menu together.
For children, we can ask about their favorite foods and talk about healthy choices to get prepared for them to enjoy the new food items. Through activities and discussions to help them experience the richness of all cultures through diversity in food and food customs. Practice emerging independence by using child-sized containers and utensils, allowing preschoolers to set tables, pour beverages, serve themselves and clear their places.
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Why is the band Phish so popular?
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Phish have taken influences from many genres of music including rock, metal, blues, jazz, country, latin, barbershop quartet, and americana and blended it into their own take on improvisational jam band rock. Their music often contains sections that are composed interspersed with long improvisational passages. Each time you hear one of their songs, in part, it has never been heard before. The setlists of their live shows are never been repeated, each one is different. Each of the musicians is virtuosic in their instrument - Trey Anastasio on guitar, Page McConnell on Keyboard, Mike Gordon on bass, and Jon Fishman on drums. Their live shows are high energy and the music takes fans on a journey. Their lighting director, Chris Kuroda, is known as the fifth member of the band as the lighting meshes seamlessly with the music. Phish has been together since 1983 and over the course of the past 40 years they have hundreds of original songs as well as incorporating their own take on many cover songs. The lyrics range from whimsical to melancholic but are more often geared towards the whimsical side. Phish is regarded as being one of the most influential bands, along with the Grateful Dead, in the jam band music scene. Like the Grateful Dead, their fans tend to be incredibly devoted, often traveling to see many shows in a single tour.
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What's Rockhopper Exploration PLC business?
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Rockhopper Exploration PLC is an oil and gas exploration company headquartered in Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom. It owns offshore exploration and production licences in the North Falkland Basin in the waters north of the Falkland Islands.
Rockhopper is listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.
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Rockhopper Exploration PLC is in the oil and gas business, headquartered in Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom.
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According to Sanderson's Law of Magic, what is the difference between hard and soft magic?
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The idea of hard magic and soft magic was popularized by Sanderson for world building and creating magic systems in fictional settings. The terminology of hard and soft originate from hard and soft sciences, which lends itself towards hard science fiction and soft science fiction. Both terms are approximate ways of characterizing two ends of a spectrum. Hard magic systems follow specific rules, the magic is controlled and explained to the reader in the narrative detailing the mechanics behind the way the magic 'works' and can be used for building settings that revolve around the magic system. Soft magic systems may not have clearly defined rules or limitations, or they may provide limited exposition regarding their workings. They are used to create a sense of wonder to the reader.
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Hard magic is always strictly constrained by a set of rules which can simulate a more ordered world to the reader, while soft magic if more flexible, has no clearly defined limitations and can be used to imbue a sense of wonder to the reader.
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What is the National Payments Corporation of India?
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The National Payments Corporation of India is an umbrella organization for operating retail payments and settlement systems in India, is an initiative of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) under the provisions of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, for creating a robust Payment & Settlement Infrastructure in India. It was created by RBI for operating retail payments and settlement systems in India.
Founded in December 2008, the NPCI is a not-for-profit organisation registered under Section 8 of the Companies Act 2013, established by the Reserve Bank of India and Indian Banks' Association. The organisation is owned by a consortium of major banks, and has been promoted by the country's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India. The NPCI was incorporated in December 2008 and the Certificate of Commencement of Business was issued in April 2009. The authorised capital has been pegged at ₹3 billion (US$38 million) and paid-up capital is ₹1 billion (US$13 million).
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Which TV series was narrated by Walter Winchell
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The Untouchables
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At what age can you get a driver's permit in the state of Washington?
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15
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What is YouTube?
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YouTube is a consumer video-sharing platform owned by Alphabet.
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Help me understand how I would grow a garden in my backyard
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Growing a garden in your backyard requires yearlong dedication. Gardens can be composed of a variety of different types of plants and trees, depending on the size of the garden. Some plants are seasonal and must be re-planted every year. To plant such plants in your backyard, you will need to plant them usually in the winter or spring seasons. Then, you will need to regularly water those plants so that they bloom. Other plants and trees can be planted once and continue to grow year-round. These kinds of trees need to only be planted once and cared for regularly with water and fertilizer.
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What is Cisco's formal company name, where is their headquarters, and how many employees are there in the company?
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Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products. Cisco specializes in specific tech markets, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), domain security, videoconferencing, and energy management with leading products including Webex, OpenDNS, Jabber, Duo Security, and Jasper. Cisco is one of the largest technology companies in the world ranking 74 on the Fortune 100 with over $51 billion in revenue and nearly 80,000 employees.
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Cisco Systems, Inc. is located in San Jose, California and has nearly 80,000 employees.
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What caused World War 1?
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There is no definite answer, however there are several speculations about what caused World War 1. An answer approved by many historians is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by the Black Hand, a Serbian nationalist organization. This assassination led to Austria-Hungary declaring war against Serbia. In response to this declaration, many countries joined forces under the guise of 'alliance'.
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What is database meaning?
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A database is an organized collection of structured information, or data, typically stored electronically in a computer system. A database is usually controlled by a database management system (DBMS).
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What is the Charles 'Chick' Evans Memorial Scholarship?
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The Charles "Chick" Evans Memorial Scholarship is given to deserving young caddies that have demonstrated excellence in the classroom, in their community and on the golf course. It is a full tuition paid scholarship and includes paid housing. The scholarship was referenced in the famous movie 'Caddyshack'.
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Given these paragraphs about Large language models, what corpus was the first model in OpenAI's GPT series trained in 2018 on?
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A large language model (LLM) is a language model consisting of a neural network with many parameters (typically billions of weights or more), trained on large quantities of unlabelled text using self-supervised learning. LLMs emerged around 2018 and perform well at a wide variety of tasks. This has shifted the focus of natural language processing research away from the previous paradigm of training specialized supervised models for specific tasks.
Properties
Though the term large language model has no formal definition, it often refers to deep learning models having a parameter count on the order of billions or more. LLMs are general purpose models which excel at a wide range of tasks, as opposed to being trained for one specific task (such as sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, or mathematical reasoning). The skill with which they accomplish tasks, and the range of tasks at which they are capable, seems to be a function of the amount of resources (data, parameter-size, computing power) devoted to them, in a way that is not dependent on additional breakthroughs in design.
Though trained on simple tasks along the lines of predicting the next word in a sentence, neural language models with sufficient training and parameter counts are found to capture much of the syntax and semantics of human language. In addition, large language models demonstrate considerable general knowledge about the world, and are able to "memorize" a great quantity of facts during training.
Hallucinations
Main article: Hallucination (artificial intelligence)
In artificial intelligence in general, and in large language models in particular, a "hallucination" is a confident response that does not seem to be justified by the model's training data.
Emergent abilities
On a number of natural language benchmarks involving tasks such as question answering, models perform no better than random chance until they reach a certain scale (in this case, measured by training computation), at which point their performance sharply increases. These are examples of emergent abilities.
Unpredictable abilities that have been observed in large language models but that were not present in simpler models (and that were not explicitly designed into the model) are usually called "emergent abilities". Researchers note that such abilities "cannot be predicted simply by extrapolating the performance of smaller models". These abilities are discovered rather than programmed-in or designed, in some cases only after the LLM has been publicly deployed. Hundreds of emergent abilities have been described. Examples include multi-step arithmetic, taking college-level exams, identifying the intended meaning of a word, chain-of-thought prompting, decoding the International Phonetic Alphabet, unscrambling a word’s letters, identifying offensive content in paragraphs of Hinglish (a combination of Hindi and English), and generating a similar English equivalent of Kiswahili proverbs.
Architecture and training
Large language models have most commonly used the transformer architecture, which, since 2018, has become the standard deep learning technique for sequential data (previously, recurrent architectures such as the LSTM were most common). LLMs are trained in an unsupervised manner on unannotated text. A left-to-right transformer is trained to maximize the probability assigned to the next word in the training data, given the previous context. Alternatively, an LLM may use a bidirectional transformer (as in the example of BERT), which assigns a probability distribution over words given access to both preceding and following context. In addition to the task of predicting the next word or "filling in the blanks", LLMs may be trained on auxiliary tasks which test their understanding of the data distribution such as Next Sentence Prediction (NSP), in which pairs of sentences are presented and the model must predict whether they appear side-by-side in the training corpus.
The earliest LLMs were trained on corpora having on the order of billions of words. The first model in OpenAI's GPT series was trained in 2018 on BookCorpus, consisting of 985 million words. In the same year, BERT was trained on a combination of BookCorpus and English Wikipedia, totalling 3.3 billion words. In the years since then, training corpora for LLMs have increased by orders of magnitude, reaching up to hundreds of billions or trillions of tokens.
LLMs are computationally expensive to train. A 2020 study estimated the cost of training a 1.5 billion parameter model (1-2 orders of magnitude smaller than the state of the art at the time) at $1.6 million.
A 2020 analysis found that neural language models' capability (as measured by training loss) increased smoothly in a power law relationship with number of parameters, quantity of training data, and computation used for training. These relationships were tested over a wide range of values (up to seven orders of magnitude) and no attenuation of the relationship was observed at the highest end of the range (including for network sizes up to trillions of parameters).
Application to downstream tasks
Between 2018 and 2020, the standard method for harnessing an LLM for a specific natural language processing (NLP) task was to fine tune the model with additional task-specific training. It has subsequently been found that more powerful LLMs such as GPT-3 can solve tasks without additional training via "prompting" techniques, in which the problem to be solved is presented to the model as a text prompt, possibly with some textual examples of similar problems and their solutions.
Fine-tuning
Main article: Fine-tuning (machine learning)
Fine-tuning is the practice of modifying an existing pretrained language model by training it (in a supervised fashion) on a specific task (e.g. sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, or part-of-speech tagging). It is a form of transfer learning. It generally involves the introduction of a new set of weights connecting the final layer of the language model to the output of the downstream task. The original weights of the language model may be "frozen", such that only the new layer of weights connecting them to the output are learned during training. Alternatively, the original weights may receive small updates (possibly with earlier layers frozen).
Prompting
See also: Prompt engineering and Few-shot learning (natural language processing)
In the prompting paradigm, popularized by GPT-3, the problem to be solved is formulated via a text prompt, which the model must solve by providing a completion (via inference). In "few-shot prompting", the prompt includes a small number of examples of similar (problem, solution) pairs. For example, a sentiment analysis task of labelling the sentiment of a movie review could be prompted as follows:
Review: This movie stinks.
Sentiment: negative
Review: This movie is fantastic!
Sentiment:
If the model outputs "positive", then it has correctly solved the task. In zero-shot prompting, no solve examples are provided. An example of a zero-shot prompt for the same sentiment analysis task would be "The sentiment associated with the movie review 'This movie is fantastic!' is".
Few-shot performance of LLMs has been shown to achieve competitive results on NLP tasks, sometimes surpassing prior state-of-the-art fine-tuning approaches. Examples of such NLP tasks are translation, question answering, cloze tasks, unscrambling words, and using a novel word in a sentence. The creation and optimisation of such prompts is called prompt engineering.
Instruction tuning
Instruction tuning is a form of fine-tuning designed to facilitate more natural and accurate zero-shot prompting interactions. Given a text input, a pretrained language model will generate a completion which matches the distribution of text on which it was trained. A naive language model given the prompt "Write an essay about the main themes of Hamlet." might provide a completion such as "A late penalty of 10% per day will be applied to submissions received after March 17." In instruction tuning, the language model is trained on many examples of tasks formulated as natural language instructions, along with appropriate responses. Various techniques for instruction tuning have been applied in practice. OpenAI's InstructGPT protocol involves supervised fine-tuning on a dataset of human-generated (prompt, response) pairs, followed by reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), in which a reward function was learned based on a dataset of human preferences. Another technique, "self-instruct", fine-tunes the language model on a training set of examples which are themselves generated by an LLM (bootstrapped from a small initial set of human-generated examples).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model
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BookCorpus.
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What is the recipe to make non-spicy Awadhi chicken biryani?
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2 lb bone-in chicken
2½ cups basmati rice, washed, rinsed, and soaked in water, for 30 minutes
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 bay leaves
4 cloves
4 green cardamom pods
2 black cardamom pods
10 black peppercorns
1" stick cinnamon
½ cup yogurt, beaten
½ cup red onion, sliced
2 teaspoon garlic paste
2 teaspoon ginger paste
salt, to taste
½ tsp red chili powder or to taste
½ cup red onion sliced and fried
1 teaspoon garam masala powder
Orange good color - a pinch
1 chicken bouillon cube (optional)
Prepare chicken
Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pot. To this, add 1 bay leaf, 2 cloves, 2 green cardamom pods, 1 black cardamom, peppercorns and 1/4" cinnamon. Sauté until fragrant. Next, add onion slices and fry on medium heat until onions turn golden brown.
Add garlic and ginger paste. Fry until the raw smell goes off.Add chicken and mix well. Add chilli powder, ½ tsp garam masala powder and yogurt. Mix well. Cover and cook on medium-low flame until chicken is cooked through. Add little water if needed to cook. However at the end, any remaining gravy should be evaporated.
Prepare rice
Add 10 cups of water to a large deep heavy bottomed pot. Add 2 tsp salt, 1 bay leaf, 2 cloves, 2 green cardamom pods, 1 black cardamom, and 1/4" cinnamon to the water. At this time, you can also add the bouillon. Once the water is boiling, add soaked rice and gently stir to combine. Cook on medium high heat until the rice is cooked 90% through, stirring gently. Drain the rice and keep aside
Layer chicken and rice
In the pot that you boiled the rice in, add 1/8 cup water. Take 1/3 cooked rice and spread a layer evenly. Then put a layer of 1/2 chicken. Generously sprinkle fried onions, oil, pinch of garam masala powder. Then repeat the rice and chicken layers alternating. The last layer should be rice on top. Add some oil and garam masala powder and fried onions on the top layer. Sprinkle orange food color. Close the lid and put on high heat until the water at the bottom of the pot starts steaming through. Then put the heat on low and cover the lid. Let it steam through for 15-20 min. Gently mix b folding over the chicken and rice layers. Biryani is ready!
Serve with cucumber "raita"
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What is the difference between medicare and medicaid?
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Medicare and medicaid are government-run health insurance programs designed to provide health care coverage for different qualifying groups.
Medicare is a federal program that provides healthcare coverage for people 65 years of age or older. It can also provide coverage for people under 65 years old if they have a qualifying disability. There are no income limits in order to qualify for medicare.
Medicaid is a state and federal program that provides health insurance for people with low income and assets. Individual states establish financial eligibility guidelines to determine who is eligible for coverage.
It's possible to enroll in medicare and medicaid at the same time if all qualifications are met for both programs.
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What is ice cream
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Ice cream is a frozen dessert, typically made from milk or cream and flavored with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative, and a spice, such as cocoa or vanilla, or with fruit such as strawberries or peaches. It can also be made by whisking a flavored cream base and liquid nitrogen together. Food coloring is sometimes added, in addition to stabilizers. The mixture is cooled below the freezing point of water and stirred to incorporate air spaces and to prevent detectable ice crystals from forming. The result is a smooth, semi-solid foam that is solid at very low temperatures (below 2 °C or 35 °F). It becomes more malleable as its temperature increases.
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What foods does a tortoise eat?
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Tortoises eat a range of fruit and vegetables although the mainstay of a tortoise’s diet should be green leafy vegetables such as dandelions, clover, lettuce, vetch and kale. Your tortoise will enjoy sweet fruits such as bananas, strawberries, peaches and apples but these should be given no more than twice a week as the sugar can interfere with their digestive system. They can also become addicted to sweet fruits and you will find they might refuse to eat their healthy greens in favour of something sweet.
Tortoises should eat a daily portion of food that is equivalent to their shell size. Ideally, they should also have 1 - 2 days a week when they don’t eat. This is because they have slow digestive systems and need a clear day or two for their systems to catch up.
You should give your tortoise a weekly supplement of calcium and D3. Use one specifically formulated for reptiles and simply sprinkle it onto a favourite food. Finally, always ensure your tortoise has access to fresh water by providing them with a bowl that they can climb into. They will drink by dipping their head under the water.
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Why do children love playing sports?
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There are many reasons why children love playing sports.
First, it's fun. Sports are a great way to have fun and get exercise.
Second, children learn teamwork and discipline.
Third, it's a great way to make new friends and learn social skills. They also learn how to cooperate with others and how to resolve conflicts.
Sports help kids stay healthy and fit. They also help them develop their muscles and coordination.
Activities can lead to a lifelong love of sports. Kids who play sports often continue to play them as adults.
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What is a good Indian restaurant in Redmond, WA
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Kanishka
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Who was Thomas Ransom
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Thomas Harvey Ransom (August 8, 1870 – June 3, 1946) was an American football and basketball coach and a doctor.
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Tell me about the MGB.
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The MGB is a two-door British sports car that was produced by the manufacturer MG from 1962 until 1980. The MGB was available in two bodystyles: a two seat convertible roadster known as the "tourer," and from 1967 a fastback 2+2 bodystyle known as the "GT." Most MGBs sold were of the convertible "tourer" variety. The MGB is one of the highest-volume British cars ever produced and was very popular both in the UK home market and overseas, particularly in America. The car was equipped with a 1798 cc four-cylinder gasoline engine and a four-speed manual transmission. All models were equipped with front disk brakes and rear drum brakes. The styling was modified throughout the long production run, with the most substantial change being the move from chrome bumpers to rubber bumpers midway through the 1974 model year to comply with changes in US federal automobile crash testing requirements.
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Why do children sometimes leave milk and cookies out on Christmas Eve?
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Leaving milk and cookies out the night before Christmas is a tradition based on the assumption that Santa Clause will come down the chimney overnight to deliver presents and he might enjoy a snack.
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Given this paragraph about salmon, give me an overview of their lifecycle.
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Salmon are typically anadromous: they hatch in the gravel beds of shallow fresh water streams, migrate to the ocean as adults and live like sea fish, then return to fresh water to reproduce. However, populations of several species are restricted to fresh water throughout their lives. Folklore has it that the fish return to the exact spot where they hatched to spawn, and tracking studies have shown this to be mostly true. A portion of a returning salmon run may stray and spawn in different freshwater systems; the percent of straying depends on the species of salmon. Homing behavior has been shown to depend on olfactory memory.
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Salmon hatch in fresh water streams, migrate to the ocean as adults, then return to fresh water to reproduce.
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What story does your family always tell about you?
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My family loves to tell the story from when I was little. I used to tell everyone that I thought I would own a large white airplane with pink seats. My parents have a video recording of me saying that I love to fly, and that when I am older, I would have a beautiful white airplane. I do not have an airplane, nor is it white. Nor does it have pink seats! I'm not sure why I thought this was important or possible. I believe my family tells this story because a toddler believing that they can have an airplane is surprising.
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is sales a great career
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yes
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What is disadvantage of naive algorithm of simple random sampling?
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Several efficient algorithms for simple random sampling have been developed. A naive algorithm is the draw-by-draw algorithm where at each step we remove the item at that step from the set with equal probability and put the item in the sample. We continue until we have sample of desired size
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k. The drawback of this method is that it requires random access in the set.
The selection-rejection algorithm developed by Fan et al. in 1962 requires a single pass over data; however, it is a sequential algorithm and requires knowledge of total count of items
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A very simple random sort algorithm was proved by Sunter in 1977. The algorithm simply assigns a random number drawn from uniform distribution
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(0,1) as a key to each item, then sorts all items using the key and selects the smallest
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J. Vitter in 1985 proposed reservoir sampling algorithms, which are widely used. This algorithm does not require knowledge of the size of the population
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Random sampling can also be accelerated by sampling from the distribution of gaps between samples and skipping over the gaps.
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The drawback of this method is that it requires random access in the set.
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Why is the ice smooth during ice hockey games?
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The ice hockey smoothing machine was invented in 1940 and is used to keep the ice rink smooth periodically between periods in the game.
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What are the signs and symptoms of Sensory processing disorder?
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Sensory integration difficulties or sensory processing disorder (SPD) are characterized by persistent challenges with neurological processing of sensory stimuli that interfere with a person's ability to participate in everyday life. Such challenges can appear in one or several sensory systems of the somatosensory system, vestibular system, proprioceptive system, interoceptive system, auditory system, visual system, olfactory system, and gustatory system.
While many people can present one or two symptoms, sensory processing disorder has to have a clear functional impact on the person's life:
Signs of over-responsivity, including, for example, dislike of textures such as those found in fabrics, foods, grooming products or other materials found in daily living, to which most people would not react, and serious discomfort, sickness or threat induced by normal sounds, lights, ambient temperature, movements, smells, tastes, or even inner sensations such as heartbeat.Signs of under-responsivity, including sluggishness and lack of responsiveness.
Sensory cravings, including, for example, fidgeting, impulsiveness, and/or seeking or making loud, disturbing noises; and sensorimotor-based problems, including slow and uncoordinated movements or poor handwriting.
Sensory discrimination problems, which might manifest themselves in behaviors such as things constantly dropped.
Symptoms may vary according to the disorder's type and subtype present.
Sensory integration and processing difficulties can be a feature of a number of disorders, including anxiety problems, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),food intolerances, behavioural disorders, and particularly, autism spectrum disorders. This pattern of comorbidities poses a significant challenge to those who claim that SPD is an identifiably specific disorder, rather than simply a term given to a set of symptoms common to other disorders.
Two studies have provided preliminary evidence suggesting that there may be measurable neurological differences between children diagnosed with SPD and control children classified as neurotypical or children diagnosed with autism. Despite this evidence, that SPD researchers have yet to agree on a proven, standardized diagnostic tool undermines researchers' ability to define the boundaries of the disorder and makes correlational studies, like those on structural brain abnormalities, less convincing.
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While many people with Sensory processing disorder can present one or two symptoms, it has to have a clear functional impact on the person's life:
Signs of over-responsivity, including, for example, dislike of textures such as those found in fabrics, foods, grooming products or other materials found in daily living, to which most people would not react, and serious discomfort, sickness or threat induced by normal sounds, lights, ambient temperature, movements, smells, tastes, or even inner sensations such as heartbeat.Signs of under-responsivity, including sluggishness and lack of responsiveness.
Sensory cravings, including, for example, fidgeting, impulsiveness, and/or seeking or making loud, disturbing noises; and sensorimotor-based problems, including slow and uncoordinated movements or poor handwriting.
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How do I become successful?
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Success is not a measure of wealth or assets as many people come to believe. And giving someone advice on how to be success can be very tricky as each person has such a diverse background, experiences, ability, strengths, weaknesses, networks, and everything else in between. Therefore a framework of thought is the best way to consider success. To be successful, you must find what you're best at and put yourself in an environment that allows you to do what you're best at.
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What is the current world population? Is it growing?
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In 2022 the world's population hit eight billion. But the number of people on earth will likely top out during this century. Population growth has been steady over past few decades, with billion person marks coming every dozen years or so. But the pattern is changing. Growth is beginning to slow and experts predict worlds population will top out sometime in 2080's at about 11 billion.
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Does the HP U32 4K HDR Monitor have built-in speakers?
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No. Built-in speakers are not listed in the manufacturers specification page for this monitor. "HP U32 4K HDR Monitor Product Specifications" https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c07721979.
A review of this monitor by PCMag lists "Lacks built-in speakers" as a Con against the monitor. https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/hp-u28-4k-hdr-monitor
The monitor does have a 3.5 mm Audio Jack (Audio Out) which can be used to connect external speakers.
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What is the best modern motorcycle for a beginning rider?
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If you have no or little experience with motorcycles, choosing a good first motorcycle can be challenging. While it is tempting to buy your dream supersport or touring cruiser, your first bike should be one that you can feel confident on so you can quickly master the skills necessary to ride a faster or larger bike more safely. Assess a new bike not from a place of desire, but from practical perspective, and consider these qualities:
- Seat height: For most new riders, confidence comes more quickly when you can place both feet on the ground with a little bend in the knees. If you have a 32" inseam, consider bikes with a 31" or less seat height. If you have a 28" inseam, consider bikes with a 27" or lower seat height. Note that some bikes have wider "waists" that require you to spread your legs farther apart, so visit a dealer and sit on a variety of bikes until you find ones that you can sit comfortable atop with both feet planted.
- Center of gravity: Bikes weigh from 250 lbs (dirt bikes) to over 800 lbs (large "dresser" cruiser bikes). Most bikes weigh between 400 and 600 lbs. However, weight isn't what makes a bike tip over easily -- rather, it's where the center of gravity is located. Sport bikes and adventure bikes carry their weight higher and more forward in the frame, where as standard and cruiser bikes carry it lower and closer to the rider. If you, as a new rider, grab a fistful of front brake during a low speed maneuver, what is going to cause the bike to start tipping over faster? Having a heavy weight high and forward. When assessing a first bike, look at where the engine and transmission mass seems to be centered relative to rider position. Sit on the bike with both feet planted and tilt it a little to the left and the right. Do you feel more or less strain on your shoulders as you bring it back it back to center? If you feel more, that sensation will become a danger when your learning low speed maneuvers and require more physical compensation, and will inhibit your ability to develop a good low speed riding technique.
- Ergonomics: Most people feel cool in a racer's lean on a supersport, or slung back in a feet-forward posture when riding a cruiser. However, starting in those positions as a new rider can lead to discomfort, or inhibit your ability to develop solid basic riding techniques. Ideally, you want to be upright, elbows loose and bent and even with the bars. Your back should be straight with about a 5 degree forward lean. Your feet should be below your hips with a comfortable bend to the knees. In this position, you have the flexibility to better compensate for a lack of experience and technique when you encounter challenging situations on the road.
- Engine displacement: Much ado is made about choosing the right displacement for a start bike. This is a bit of a myth: very few bikes, regardless of displacement, are fundamentally hostile to a new rider when it comes to engine performance: they are as fast or as slow as you treat the throttle. That said, smaller displacement bikes tend to be lighter, have lower seats, and are generally more newbie-friendly. However, some larger displacement bikes, including 650-900cc standards and 1100cc-plus cruisers can also be safe to learn on, as they favor low-revving torque over high-revving horsepower, with relatively gentle throttle response but plenty of grunt to push you forward from idle without extensive clutch feathering and rev management. Conversely, some smaller bikes, like the Kawasaki Ninja 250, require extensive revving and frequent gear shifting to get to street and highway speeds. Ask yourself: Do I want a light bike that will force me to learn good gear and rev management (a good idea if you have track aspirations), or a heavier bike that starts moving right off idle and requires less gear changing at street speeds? That's your answer to the question of displacement.
- Throttle and brake response. Modern fuel injection, ECU development, and environmental emissions regulations have led to a situation where many sportier bikes have notchy throttles at low speeds, where closing the throttle cuts fuel and causes the bike to lurch a bit. This can be unpleasant for new riders who have yet to learn partial clutch management skills. Additionally, powerful sport bikes with inline-4 or V4 engine configuration can stutter and lurch at very low revs, requiring careful clutch and rev management that might be unfamiliar or uncomfortable to new riders -- these are bikes designed to be ridden fast, high in their powerbands. Additionally, powerful supersports and "hooligan" supermotos have very powerful brakes, like Brembo's Stylema or M4 units, which can easily pitch a new rider over the bars if they haven't developed a light, progressive touch on the brakes. If you, as a new rider, are having to spend your riding time compensating for unpredictable throttle behaviors or aggressive brakes, you aren't in a place to quickly learn good techniques safely.
So with all that in mind, what are some good starter bikes?
- Kawasaki Ninja 400 or Z400: If your ambition is to ride a powerful supersport (like Kawasaki's own ZX-10R), start with a Ninja 400 or Z400. The Ninja is similar in style to supersport bikes, but has raised "clip-on" handle bars that convey the appearance of a racer but raise the incline of your posture to a more comfortable space. They also have a slightly lower seat height, and an accommodating 399cc parallel-twin motor with good throttle response and solid but unthreatening brakes. The Z400 is a more upright version of the Ninja 400 that shares the same engine and brakes, but lacks the plastic fairing and clip-on grips. Similar bikes include Yamaha's 321cc R3 and MT-03, Honda's CBR500F and CBR500R, KTM's RC390 and Duke 390, and BMW's G310. All of them perform very similarly, and are considered great gateway bikes to sport riding. Many track enthusiasts favor these bikes due to their light weight, engaging engines, and overall low cost of maintenance and insurance. If you really feel the need for speed so early in your riding career, Yamaha's MT-07 and Triumph's Trident 660 are relatively safe choices.
- Triumph Street Twin 900. While well over 400 lbs, Triumph's Street Twin 900 is a very newbie friendly bike with a smooth, slow revving 900cc parallel-twin engine that puts down a lot of grunt and requires very little rev management -- you can short shift it any gear and still have the torque to move away cleanly without any fuss. Its comfortable seat and neutral "standard" riding position, along with its traction control and ABS features, mean that riding it is effortless and you won't be sore when you step off it after a long day cruising the backroads. It carries its weight low and close to the rider, and has a low-ish seat height of approximately 30". Brakes are progressive without being intimidating, and a new rider will quickly learn good technique astride it. It also looks the part of a modern retro motorcycle, with clean curb appeal. Similar bikes include Moto Guzzi's V7 series, Kawasaki's Z650RS, and Royal Enfield's 650cc Interceptor.
- Honda's Rebel 500. While it may not be the most eye-catching cruiser at the local Starbucks, Honda's Rebel 500 is a great gateway to the cruiser world. The 500cc engine is tuned for torque, not speed, and its low seat height of around 26" means it is approachable by riders of all heights. It can keep up with larger bikes and serves as an effective commuter, with low costs of insurance and maintenance, and can be easily customized. Similar bikes include Royal Enfield's 350 Meteor and 650 Super Meteor, and Honda's 600cc Shadow line. For those not intimidated by weight, Harley-Davidson's 1700cc Heritage Softail is a surprisingly accommodating bike for new riders, with a low seat height and an impressive center of gravity that makes the bike feel a couple hundred pounds lighter once bumped off its kickstand. Avoid the older Sportster line, often inappropriately pitched as "the Harley for new riders" due to their relatively low displacements compared to KD's more upmarket models -- these bikes have very high-and-forward centers of gravity and weak front brakes that can easily inhibit your skills development.
Lastly, if you're looking at adventure bikes, Royal Enfield's 400cc Himalayan, Kawasaki's Versys 300X, and BMW's G310GS provide light weights, friendly engines, and reasonable seat heights all while being moderately well-equipped for gravel or graded dirt roads.
The most important thing, however, is to take the time to sit on the bikes at a dealer and think hard about the qualities discussed in this article. If you fall in love with the hobby, the bike you get today will not be the bike you have tomorrow. Focus on learning, not fashion, and make a choice that feels comfortable and safe to you.
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Who wrote the book that the TV show Shantaram is based on?
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Some types of oysters are commonly consumed (cooked or raw), and in some locales are regarded as a delicacy. Some types of pearl oysters are harvested for the pearl produced within the mantle. Windowpane oysters are harvested for their translucent shells, which are used to make various kinds of decorative objects.
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Gregory David Roberts wrote the novel Shantaram.
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In the series A Song of Ice and Fire, who is the founder of House Corbray?
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Corwyn Corbray
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What is a fun and cheap activity you can do in London when it's summer?
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In the summer it is nice to go to St James park, where you can feed squirrels and birds such as geese. If you first go to the Tesco's, you can buy some peanuts for under £2. At the park there will be several squirrels, little green birds, geese and swans. They can eat the peanuts out of your hand. For the little green birds you may have to peel the peanuts first, but it's worth it when a small green birds sits on your hand.
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What is SoulCycle?
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SoulCycle is 45-minute indoor cycling class. SoulCycle implements choreography on a stationery bike, making it rhythmic-based. When you go to a SoulCycle class, you are expected to rent or bring a pair of cycling shoes that clip into your bike and you then enter a dark candle-lit room with loud music.
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Does Gen Z appreciate Radiohead's music?
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Everyone appreciates Radiohead's music. It's timeless, the tune is catchy, the lyrics are deep, the vocal is excellent, the moodiness of the songs resonate with young people from every nation.
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How should a 30 year old invest their money to enable them to retire by the time they're 65?
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Saving for retirement is an important topic for any individual or family to consider.
In the US, most full-time employees are eligible for 401K or Roth IRA retirement savings programs through their employer, which enable you to defer taxes on your income and, in some cases, receive additional supplemental contributions up to a certain amount from your employer.
Through your 401K you often have access to a select range of what are call index funds, or mixes of securities that track specific groups of stocks, bonds, or other financial instruments. These can be actively managed, where a company or advisor controls the underlying investments in these funds, or passively managed, where the fund tracks a specific market or list of companies (example: XLF, a fund that tracks the broader banking industry).
In terms of managing risk, generally you have a higher percentage of stocks vs. bonds or cash in your portfolio earlier in your career, with this mix shifting toward lower risk bonds as you get closer to retirement. Generally speaking, while actively managed funds do in some instances perform well, they are, on average, very similar in their performance to passively managed index funds and, due to their associated fees, most experts agree it's wise to focus on broad market index funds.
A common retirement portfolio for a 30 year old might be comprised 50-75% of large capitalization domestic stock funds. It's typically wise to have some exposure to foreign markets and small/medium capitalization domestic stocks or specific market segments, with minimal bonds or cash until later in life.
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Given the following paragraph on the water cycle, what forms of precipitation do exist?
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Most water vapors found mostly in the ocean returns to it, but winds carry water vapor over land at the same rate as runoff into the sea, about 47 Tt per year whilst evaporation and transpiration happening in land masses also contribute another 72 Tt per year. Precipitation, at a rate of 119 Tt per year over land, has several forms: most commonly rain, snow, and hail, with some contribution from fog and dew. Dew is small drops of water that are condensed when a high density of water vapor meets a cool surface. Dew usually forms in the morning when the temperature is the lowest, just before sunrise and when the temperature of the earth's surface starts to increase. Condensed water in the air may also refract sunlight to produce rainbows.
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Water can precipitate in the form of rain, snow, and hail as well as in the form of fog and dew. Rain is the most common form of precipitation.
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I am working on a blog post on the effect of Snapchat on teenagers. Can you help me think of a few titles for the post? For background, I think Snapchat has a negative effect on our teenagers ability to focus, maintain healthy in-person relationships, and develop into productive adults.
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Sure, here are a few ideas: "Snapchat negatively affects our teens focus and ability to maintain healthy relationships," "Snapchat and the decline of youth productivity," Snapchat filters hide the complexities of teenage reality," "Snapchat wins when our teenagers lose themselves online," and "But first, let me take a selfie: teens put off college and the workforce to become social influencers."
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How do you like your ski trip to Whistler Blackcomb?
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It has been great. I really enjoyed it. It took about 4 hours to drive from Seattle to Whistler. It was a big ski town. The Whistler Blackcomb ski resort contains two big mountains. Blackcomb mountain and Whistler mountain. Each provides plenty of trails that can fit one's level. I personally rely enjoyed a run at Blackcomb. It started from 7th Heaven lift. I went from Cloud Nine, to Sunset Blvd, to Lower Gear Jammer. It's a 5.5 miles run. Really enjoyable! Highly recommended.
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List the ten episode titles from the second season of "Game of Thrones" in broadcast order.
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The North Remembers, The Night Lands, What is Dead May Never Die, Garden of Bones, The Ghost of Harrenhal, The Old Gods and the New, A Man Without Honor, The Prince of Winterfell, Blackwater, Valar Morghulis
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What is Passover?
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Passover is a major Jewish holiday that celebrates the Biblical story of the Israelites' escape from slavery in Egypt.
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What is the capital of California?
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Sacramento is the capital
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What started World War 1?
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Many historians consider the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria the start of World War 1. Soon after the assassination Austria declared war on Serbia. Within four weeks their allies declared war on one another.
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What NBA team has the most championships in the modern era? The modern era is defined as post NBA/ABA league merger, 24 second clock and three-point basket.
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The NBA professional basketball team with the most modern championships are the Los Angeles Lakers with 11 in 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2009, 2010, 2020.
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Name five NFL teams in the NFC.
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Five NFL teams in the NFC are the Carolina Panthers, New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants, and Detroit Lions.
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Given this paragraph about books, what is the Poison Book Project?
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The Poison Book Project is a project of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library and the University of Delaware to identify and catalog books known to contain poisonous substances, particularly arsenic in Paris green pigments. It was started in 2019 when Winterthur staff members Melissa Tedone and Rosie Grayburn identified a book containing Paris green in the institution's collection. The project has since confirmed at least 100 other books from libraries across the world that contain Paris green, allowing librarians to take measures to minimize the risk to those handling the books.
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The Poison Book Project is a project of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library and the University of Delaware to identify and catalog books known to contain poisonous substances, particularly arsenic in Paris green pigments.
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Why do people like playing games?
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There are many reasons why people like playing games. 1. Games are different from real world and hence players can usually do/achieve a lot more than what they can do in the real world. 2. Games give quick results 3. People/players can feel less responsibility (e.g. players can just quit the games if the games do not go well)
However, because of these very reasons, games also have side-effects such as making people be less responsible, want more quick responsive answers, and not be able to discern between real world and game world, etc.
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Who was declared as the winner of LIVA Miss Diva Universe 2021?
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Harnaaz Sandhu(Chandigarh)
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What is the story of the decline of Wang Computer?
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Wang Labs was one of a large number of New England-based computer companies that faltered in the late 1980s and 1990s, marking the end of the Massachusetts Miracle. For instance, the struggling Digital Equipment Corporation also downsized in the 1990s and was acquired by Compaq.
A common view within the PC community is that Wang Labs failed because it specialized in computers designed specifically for word processing and did not foresee and could not compete with general-purpose personal computers with word-processing software in the 1980s. Word processing was not actually the mainstay of Wang's business by the time desktop computers began to gain in popularity. Although Wang manufactured desktops, its main business by the 1980s was its VS line of minicomputer and "midframe" systems. The market for these minicomputers was conquered by enhanced microcomputers like the Apple Macintosh and the Wintel PC and Sun, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard servers.
An Wang's insistence that his son, Fred Wang, succeed him contributed to the company's failure. Fred Wang was a business school graduate, "but by almost any definition", wrote Charles C. Kenney, "unsuited for the job in which his father had placed him." His assignment, first as head of research and development, then as president of the company, led to resignations by key R&D and business personnel. Amid declining revenues, John F. Cunningham, an 18-year employee of the firm, resigned as president and COO of Wang Labs to become chairman and chief executive of Computer Consoles Inc. Cunningham resigned due to disagreement with An Wang on how to pull the company out of the slump, as well as being upset that Fred Wang was positioned, nepotistically, as An Wang's successor.
One turning point occurred when Fred Wang was head of R&D. On October 4, 1983, Wang Laboratories announced fourteen major hardware and software products and promised dates of delivery. The announcement was well received, but even at the time, there were warning signs. According to Datamation, Wang announced "everything but the kitchen sink. And if you could attach the kitchen sink to a personal computer, they would announce that too." Very few of the products were close to completion, and many of them had not even been started. All were delivered late, if at all. In retrospect, this was referred to as the "vaporware announcement," and it hurt the credibility of Fred Wang and Wang Laboratories.
In 1986, Fred Wang, then 36 years old, was installed as president of Wang Laboratories. However, the company's fortunes continued to decline. Unlike most computer companies that funded their growth by issuing stock, An Wang had used debt to avoid further dilution of family control of the company. By August 1989, that debt was causing conflicts with its creditors. On August 4, 1989, An Wang fired his son. Richard W. Miller, who had been with the company since 1988, replaced him as the president of Wang Laboratories.
Miller announced in December 1989 that the company would start to embrace established software standards rather than use traditional proprietary designs. An Wang died in March 1990, and Miller took on the additional posts of chairman and CEO. The company underwent massive restructuring and eliminated its bank debt in August 1990, but it still ended the year with a record net loss.
In November 1990, Wang announced their first personal computers running Unix. In 1987, Wang developed a new typesetting system in conjunction with Arlington, MA-based Texet Corp. The system used Xerox printers and UNIX workstations from Sun, but the product vanished before coming to market, because few Wang employees could use or support UNIX. UNIX ran on the VS – Interactive Systems first ported IN/ix (their IBM 360 version of SYS5 UNIX) to run in a VSOS Virtual machine circa 1985, and then Wang engineers completed the port so that it ran "native" on the VS hardware soon thereafter – but performance was always sub-par as UNIX was never a good fit for the batch-mode nature of the VS hardware, and the line-at-a-time processing approach taken by the VS workstations; indeed, the workstation code had to be rewritten to bundle up each keystroke into a frame to be sent back to the host when running UNIX so that "tty" style processing could be implemented. PACE, which offered its data dictionary, excellent referential integrity, and speedy application development, was in the process of being ported to UNIX under the name OPEN Pace. A client-server RDBMS model built on the original product's ideology, OPEN Pace was demonstrated at the North American PACE User Group Conferences in both Boston and Chicago. OPEN Pace, along with a new Windows-based word processor called UpWord (which was at the time considered a strong contender to retake Wang's original market leadership from Microsoft), were touted as their new direction. However, after a marketing study[citation needed] suggested that it would require large capital investments in order to be viable competitors against Microsoft, both products were abandoned.
Ira Magaziner, who was brought in by Miller in 1990, proposed to take Wang out of the manufacture of computers altogether, and to go big into imaging software instead. In March 1991, the company introduced its Office 2000 marketing strategy, focusing on office productivity.
In June 1991, Wang started reselling IBM computers, in exchange for IBM investing in Wang stock. Wang hardware strategy to re-sell IBM RS/6000s also included further pursuit of UNIX software.
In August 1991, Wang won a suit against NEC and Toshiba claiming violation of Wang's patents on single in-line memory modules (SIMMs). The company still recorded a net loss for the 1991 fiscal year.
Wang Laboratories filed for bankruptcy protection on August 18, 1992, at a time when the company's attempted concession from proprietary to open systems was deemed by some analysts as "too little and too late
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Founder An Wang forced his experienced son Fred Wang was going to lead the company after his death.
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List a few queer books made popular by TikTok
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Red, White, & Royal Blue, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Song of Achilles, Heartstopper, Boyfriend Material
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What is Dogecoin?
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Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency created by software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, who decided to create a payment system as a "joke", making fun of the wild speculation in cryptocurrencies at the time. It is considered both the first "meme coin", and more specifically the first "dog coin". Despite its satirical nature, some consider it a legitimate investment prospect. Dogecoin features the face of the Shiba Inu dog from the "doge" meme as its logo and namesake.
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Who composed The Planets suit (both names)
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Gustav Holst
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Q: Products online claim to prevent or treat COVID-19. Where can I report websites selling products with fraudulent claims?
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A: The FDA advises consumers to be beware of websites and stores selling products that claim to prevent, treat, or cure COVID-19. If you have a question about a product sold online that claims to prevent, treat, or cure COVID-19, talk to your health care provider or doctor.
Read this Consumer Update to learn how to protect yourself and your family from coronavirus fraud.
Please report websites selling products with fraudulent claims about treatment or prevention of COVID-19. If you have experienced a bad reaction to a product sold with COVID-19 claims, report it to the FDA’s MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program:
Complete and submit the report online; or
Download and complete the form, then submit it via fax at 1-800-FDA-0178.
Include as much information as you can about the product that caused the reaction, including the product name, the manufacturer, and the lot number (if available).
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What type of weather is typically associated with the desert?
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The desert is known for being very hot and very dry
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Where were the sunspots first observed?
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Galileo Galilei, Father of observational astronomy
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Given this paragraph about Love Island UK Season 9, Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan won the final vote by what percent?
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On 13 March 2023, the series was won by Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan with 43.75% of the final vote, becoming the first couple formed during the Casa Amor twist to win the series. Lana Jenkins and Ron Hall finished as runners-up.
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43.75%
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Given this reference text about Neonatology, tell me which specialty it is related to, and where it is typically practiced.
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Neonatology is a subspecialty of pediatrics that consists of the medical care of newborn infants, especially the ill or premature newborn. It is a hospital-based specialty, and is usually practiced in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The principal patients of neonatologists are newborn infants who are ill or require special medical care due to prematurity, low birth weight, intrauterine growth restriction, congenital malformations (birth defects), sepsis, pulmonary hypoplasia or birth asphyxia.
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Neonatology is a subspecialty of pediatrics, which is typically practiced in a hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, often referred to as a NICU.
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What is a 2FA?
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2-factor Authentication aka 2FA is an approach to add another layer of security on the top of baseline layer of username and password. Generally, it is achieved by asking user to add another code when logging into a service which can be generated via a registered application (e.g. Google Authenticator, password managers, etc), sending a code to registered mobile number or email address or other mechanisms like biosensor, touchpad, or other similar devices.
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Why do people like coffee?
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Many people all over the world rely on the caffeine in coffee to fully "wake up" in the morning. Coffee, a plant, that was utilized by nomadic tribes to focus during prayer, is now a daily necessity for millions of people around the world. Coffee beans were not roasted until the 1400s. Today, we see many variations of coffee-based beverages all over the world, ranging from espresso shots, made from finely grained coffee beans compressed with steaming water, to Starbuck's frappunicco: a line of blended iced drinks. The modernization of coffee has come to represent different cultures all over the world.
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Why are lunar eclipses more common than solar?
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The Earth is bigger and casts a large shadow on the moon and can be visible during night. So, more people see it and don't need to specifically be in the darkest part of the shadow
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What is the wealthiest zip code in the United States?
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Atherton, California
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What is Mozart’s contribution to the music?
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works of virtually every genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is widely regarded as among the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with his music admired for its "melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture".
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Mozart contributed more than 800 pieces of music that are known for melodic beauty, elegance and richness.
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Given the reference text about the Emancipation Proclamation, approximately how many enslaved African Americans were freed?
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The Emancipation Proclamation, officially Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the Civil War. The Proclamation changed the legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the secessionist Confederate states from enslaved to free. As soon as slaves escaped the control of their enslavers, either by fleeing to Union lines or through the advance of federal troops, they were permanently free. In addition, the Proclamation allowed for former slaves to "be received into the armed service of the United States".
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Approximately 3.5 million enslaved African Americans were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
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How do you ride a bike?
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You can learn to ride a bike by starting with training wheels. This will help you to develop your balance as muscle memory in body. After you ride for a couple weeks with training wheels you can remove the training wheels and use your feet to help you balance. With enough speed you will want to put your feet on the pedals and get enough velocity to keep your balance going in a straight line. Practice this for a couple days, and then you can practice turning and use your feet if you lose your balance. Do this for a couple more days and then you will be off to the races riding your own bike with perfect balance.
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Where is Laskowice?
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Laskowice [laskɔˈvit͡sɛ] (also known as Laskowice Pomorskie; German: Laskowitz) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jeżewo, within Świecie County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) south-west of Jeżewo, 8 km (5 mi) north of Świecie, 51 km (32 mi) north-east of Bydgoszcz, and 52 km (32 mi) north of Toruń.
The village has a population of 2,500. It is a major rail junction, where the Bydgoszcz-Gdynia line merges with the connection to Warsaw, via Grudziądz.
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Laskowice is a village in north-central Poland
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What are five different ground Pokemon?
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Five different ground Pokeon are Diglett, Cubone, Sandshrew, Dugtrio, and Marowak.
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Given this paragraph about the Last of Us TV Series, who was not cast in the show?
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Casting took place virtually through Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Casting director Victoria Thomas wanted to honor the game without being limited by it. Mazin and Thomas sought high-profile guest stars; Thomas said many of the actors "don't usually do one-episode guest spots". On February 10, 2021, Pascal and Ramsey were cast as Joel and Ellie. Earlier that day, it was reported Mahershala Ali was offered the role of Joel after Matthew McConaughey turned it down; The Hollywood Reporter noted Ali "did circle a role" in the show, but a deal was never formed. Any actresses considered for Ellie for the canceled film adaptation—such as Maisie Williams and Kaitlyn Dever—had aged out of consideration by the time the series was in production, resulting in a reset of candidates. The producers primarily sought actors who could embody Joel and Ellie individually as well as imitate their relationship.: 14:42 Though both were previously featured on HBO's Game of Thrones, Pascal and Ramsey had not met before the filming of The Last of Us began but found they had instant chemistry, which developed over the course of production.
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Matthew McConaughey turned down the role of Joel which was also reportedly offered to and turned down by Mahershala Ali afterwards. Maisie Williams and Kaitlyn Dever were considered for the role of Ellie but aged out of consideration by the time of production.
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What is a birdie in Golf
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Each hole in Golf is designated with the number of strokes it would take an expert to make to the hole. If the golfer makes it in the designated strokes it is called a Par. One stroke less than the designated will result in a Birdie. Example , for a Par 4 hole if a Golfer takes 3 strokes to get the ball in the hole , he has a Birdie.
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Do aliens exist?
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Although there is no definitive evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial life, pictures and videos of UFOs, although of low quality, have proven to many people that not only does extraterrestrial life exist, but it is visiting Earth regularly.
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Who is Cristiano Ronaldo?
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Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese professional footballer. Who played for major European clubs such as Sporing Cp, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus. He has won 32 trophies in his career and five Ballon d'Or. He is regarded as one of the greatest of all time aka GOAT. Currently he plays as a forward for Saudi Professional League club Al Nassr.
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How do I cook the best steak on the bbq?
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The best option for cooking a steak on the BBQ is to sear the steaks on the hottest part of the grill for a few minutes on each side, turning only once to form grill marks and then finishing the steaks on the cooler part of the grill for a few more minutes, until the desired doneness is reached.
Here are the directions for the best results. You’ll want to remove steaks from the refrigerator 20 minutes before grilling and let sit, covered, at room temperature. During this time, preheat your grill on high.
After 20 minutes, you’ll want to brush the steaks on both sides with oil and season liberally with salt and pepper, or your desired steak seasoning.
Once the steaks and grill are both ready, you’ll place the steaks on the grill and cook until golden brown and slightly charred, which should take roughly 4 to 5 minutes. Turn the steaks and continue to grill for an additional 4 – 5 minutes for medium-rare, which has an internal temperature of 135 degrees Fahrenheit. For medium, you’ll grill for 5 to 7 minutes or 140 degrees Fahrenheit, or 8 to 10 minutes for medium-well at 150 degrees Fahrenheit.
At the desired steak temperature, you will remove and transfer the steaks to a cutting board or platter, and let rest for 5 minutes before slicing and serving.
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What are some of the most popular womens sports in North America
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Popular sports include soccer, ice hockey, tennis & basketball. There is a wide variety of sports and some have more developed professional leagues while others are more mature NCAA sports or Olympic driven
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What is the primary advantage of a hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicle?
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No tailpipe emissions, emit only water vapour and warm air, fastest charging technology, Refilling of hydrogen very fast, Environment friendly
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What is HDFS?
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HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) is a distributed file system that handles large data sets running on commodity hardware. It is used to scale a single Apache Hadoop cluster to hundreds (and even thousands) of nodes. HDFS is one of the major components of Apache Hadoop, the others being MapReduce and YARN.
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What should we conserve electricity?
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When you conserve electricity you are actually helping the environment. You are helping the environment when you consider the way electricity is produced. Electricity is produced by steam generation, solar panels, dam power generators, windmills, gas turbines, and nuclear. Most of these methods use fossil fuels or other fuels that release greenhouse gas emissions during the electricity production process.
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what is the sunniest state in the US?
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Arizona has always been known for its dry, arid climate. With an annual sunlight average of 5,755 kJ/m², it tops the sunniest states in the US.
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Who wrote the song House of Love
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"House of Love" is a song by Australian duo Vika and Linda. It was released as the second single from her debut studio album Vika and Linda (1994). It peaked at number 98 in Australia and 32 in New Zealand.
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House of Love is a song by Australian duo Vika and Linda. It was released as the second single from her debut studio album Vika and Linda (1994). It peaked at number 98 in Australia and 32 in New Zealand.
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What are the primary causes of inflation?
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It is common for currency value to decline when the amount of money in an economy (the money supply) increases too rapidly.
Most economists believe an increased money supply monetary inflation causes the price of goods and services to increase over a longer period of time. However, they disagree on causes over a shorter period of time.
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Given a reference text about Tujhse He Raabta, tell me who played the main role in the film.
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Tujhse He Raabta is a 2015 Pakistani television film directed by Nivdeita Basu and written by Moomal Shunaid. This television film was produced by Saurabh Pandey and co-produced by Yasir Shah under the banner of White Light Army Pictures. It was first aired on Geo Television on 15 February 2015 at 7:00 p.m. in Pakistan.
It features Sara Khan as the lead role in this television film. She rose to fame with her appearance in the Indian soap “Bidaai” while her co-lead, Yasir Shah, is a Pakistani actor, producer, screenwriter and model who started his acting career in India. The special feature of this telefilm is the high-red production camera due to which it has feature film quality.
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Sara Khan played the lead role in the film Tujhse He Raabta.
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What Is Linux?
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The name "Linux" is used to refer to three similar yet slightly different things, which can be confusing to all but the hardcore geek. The three usages vary by how much of a complete software system the speaker is talking about.
At the lowest level, every Linux system is based on the Linux kernel — the very low-level software that manages your computer hardware, multi-tasks the many programs that are running at any given time, and other such essential things. These low-level functions are used by other programs, so their authors can focus on the specific functionality they want to provide. Without the kernel, your computer is a very expensive doorstop. It has all of the features of a modern operating system: true multitasking, threads, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared, copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, loadable device driver modules, video frame buffering, and TCP/IP networking.
Most often, the name "Linux" is used to refer to the Linux Operating System. An OS includes the kernel, but also adds various utilities — the kinds of programs you need to get anything done. For example, it includes a shell (the program that provides a command prompt and lets you run programs), a program to copy files, a program to delete files, and many other odds and ends. Some people honor the request of Richard Stallman and the GNU Project, and call the Linux OS GNU/Linux, because a good number of these utility programs were written by the GNU folks.
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What is a tennis leg injury?
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A tennis leg injury is an incomplete rupture of the inside of the calf muscle, where multiple muscles are attached. It is caused mostly because of tennis-like sports due to a sudden contraction of the calf muscles. Sports like tennis and squash are most likely causing this kind of trouble due to the short and intense moves it requires to practice.
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How many total fingers do most humans have?
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Most humans have 10 total fingers
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Should I immigrate to Canada?
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Canada is the third largest country in the world by landmass. It set a record in 2022 for most immigrants into the country, in large part to public health system, quality of living, and low crime rates. That said, Canada is experiencing very high real estate prices in major cities like Toronto and Vancouver due to lack of supply, making it very difficult for families to get ahead.
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What's the difference between Texas Hold'em and Poker?
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Poker is a class of gambling card games, which you can play according to different rulesets. Texas Hold'em is one of those rulesets. In Texas Hold'em players are first dealt two secret cards each, followed by a betting round, then three open, public cards are dealt (the flop), with a subsequent betting round. The flop is followed by the turn, one more public card, and then a betting round. The turn is followed by the river, the final public card. A last betting round follows, and if more than one player is still in the hand at the end, the winner of that round is determined.
The last player who bet on the river reveals his two secret cards, and makes the best poker hand out of the two secret cards and five public cards. Any other player who is still in the game may then reveal his two secret cards and make a better poker hand with the seven cards total if possible.
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