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question:You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps. What's the most logical way to complete this passage? England began this summer wanting pace, bounce and carry in their Test pitches but have instead been confronted with surfaces more akin to Colombo and Kolkata than Lord’s, Headingley and Trent Bridge. The result on Wednesday was that India felt very much at home on the first day of a pivotal series for Alastair Cook. Certainly there was no home advantage in Nottingham for England on a low, slow batting paradise of a pitch that was prepared more to ensure that the first Investec Test will last into the weekend rather than produce compelling cricket. Duncan Fletcher never gives much away but the India coach would have been inwardly grinning like a Cheshire cat behind his inscrutable façade at the warm hospitality offered to his side here by his old employers at the ECB. Prize wicket: Stuart Broad celebrates his dismissal of
answer:India's top-order stalwart, Virat Kohli, on a pitch that barely offered any assistance to the English seamers. England's fast bowlers, who were keen to exploit any lateral movement, found it challenging to make early inroads against the Indian batting lineup. The rationale behind this approach is focused on the conditions offered at the wicket. Besides aiming for a longer Test match, the pitch conditions inadvertently benefitted India, as their batsmen have grown accustomed to playing on slow, low turners back home. Whereas England's bowlers typically excel on pitches that offer pace, bounce, and carry, the surface at Nottingham neutralized their primary weapons and failed to provide the much-needed advantage for the home side. In summary, the most logical way to complete the passage is by citing the impact that the unusual pitch conditions had on the respective sides' strengths and weaknesses, and describing how India stood to gain from the situation while England's bowlers struggled.
question:You are an AI assistant. Provide a detailed answer so user don’t need to search outside to understand the answer. Answer the following question given this paragraph: Q: What's the name for the process where pollen is transferred to the ovules of a seed plant? A: Answer:
answer:The name for the process where pollen is transferred to the ovules of a seed plant is called pollination.
question:You are an AI assistant. Provide a detailed answer so user don’t need to search outside to understand the answer. Please answer the following question: Information: - Witchcraft (also called witchery or "spellcraft") broadly means the practice of, and belief in, magical skills and abilities that are able to be exercised by individuals and certain social groups. Witchcraft is a complex concept that varies culturally and societally; therefore, it is difficult to define with precision and cross-cultural assumptions about the meaning or significance of the term should be applied with caution. Witchcraft often occupies a religious, divinatory or medicinal role, and is often present within societies and groups whose cultural framework includes a magical world view. Although witchcraft can often share common ground with related concepts such as sorcery, the paranormal, magic, superstition, necromancy, possession, shamanism, healing, spiritualism, nature worship and the occult, it is usually seen as distinct from these when examined by sociologists and anthropologists. It is said to have been an ancient religion. - The Bricket Wood coven, or Hertfordshire coven was a coven of Gardnerian witches founded in the 1940s by Gerald Gardner. It was notable for being the first coven in the Gardnerian line, though having its supposed origins in the pre-Gardnerian New Forest coven. The coven formed after Gardner bought the Fiveacres Country Club, a naturist club in the village of Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire, southern England, and met within the club's grounds. It played a significant part in the history of the neopagan religion of Wicca. - England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west. The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain (which lies in the North Atlantic) in its centre and south; and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Wight. - Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society. It could also be a formal admission to adulthood in a community or one of its formal components. In an extended sense it can also signify a transformation in which the initiate is 'reborn' into a new role. Examples of initiation ceremonies might include Hindu diksha, Christian baptism or confirmation, Jewish bar or bat mitzvah, acceptance into a fraternal organization, secret society or religious order, or graduation from school or recruit training. A person taking the initiation ceremony in traditional rites, such as those depicted in these pictures, is called an "initiate". - The Fellowship of Isis (FOI) is an international spiritual organization devoted to promoting awareness of the Goddess. It is dedicated specifically to the Egyptian goddess Isis because the FOI co-founders believed Isis best represented the energies of the dawning Aquarian Age. The FOI is a multi-faith, multi-racial, and multi-cultural organization, and despite worshipping pagan deities, does not consider itself to be a Neopagan faith. - The New Forest coven were an alleged group of Neopagan witches or Wiccans who met around the area of the New Forest in southern England during the 1930s and 1940s. According to his own claims, in September 1939, a British occultist named Gerald Gardner was initiated into the coven, and subsequently used its beliefs and practices as a basis from which he formed the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca. Gardner described some of his experiences with the coven in his published books "Witchcraft Today" (1954) and "The Meaning of Witchcraft" (1959), although on the whole revealed little about it, saying he was respecting the privacy of its members. Meanwhile, another occultist, Louis Wilkinson, corroborated Gardner's claims by revealing in an interview with the writer Francis X. King that he too had encountered the coven, and expanded on some of the information that Gardner had provided about them. - Wicca, also termed Pagan Witchcraft, is a contemporary Pagan new religious movement. It was developed in England during the first half of the 20th century and was introduced to the public in 1954 by Gerald Gardner, a retired British civil servant. Wicca draws upon a diverse set of ancient pagan and 20th century hermetic motifs for its theological structure and ritual practices. - A Craft name, also known as a magical (or "magickal") name is a secondary religious name often adopted by practitioners of Wicca and other forms of Neopagan witchcraft or magic. Craft names may be adopted as a means of protecting one's privacy (especially for those who are "in the broom closet"), as an expression of religious devotion, or as a part of an initiation ritual. It may also be used as a protective method, as it is believed by some that one's "true name" can be used as a taglock, to identify that person for the purpose of magical activities (predominantly curses). - Frederic Lamond ( born 1931 ) who also goes under the craft name Robert , is a prominent English Wiccan . He was an early member of the Gardnerian tradition having been initiated into the Bricket Wood coven in 1957 . He has since become involved in a number of Pagan organisations , including the Fellowship of Isis , and has participated in the interfaith movement . He has written a number of books on the subject of Wiccan theology and history . - Isis (original Egyptian pronunciation more likely "Aset" or "Iset") is a goddess from the polytheistic pantheon of Egypt. She was first worshiped in ancient Egyptian religion, and later her worship spread throughout the Roman Empire and the greater Greco-Roman world. Isis is still widely worshiped by many pagans today in diverse religious contexts; including a number of distinct pagan religions, the modern Goddess movement, and interfaith organizations such as the Fellowship of Isis. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'frederic lamond ' exhibits the relationship of 'occupation'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - civil servant - magic - occultist - religion - religious - united kingdom - writer A:
answer:The entity with which 'Frederic Lamond' exhibits the relationship of 'occupation' is writer.
question:You are an AI assistant. User will you give you a task. Your goal is to complete the task as faithfully as you can. While performing the task think step-by-step and justify your steps. Write a short summary for this text: a chinese diplomat said today that the u.n. department of public information -lrb- dpi -rrb- should take as its primary task the establishment of a new international information and communication order based on the recognition of differences among nations .
answer:Today, a Chinese diplomat emphasized that the main goal of the UN Department of Public Information (DPI) should be to create a new international information and communication order that acknowledges the differences among nations.