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question:You are a helpful assistant, who always provide explanation. Think like you are answering to a five year old. News article: The myth of Obama’s comeback Just a week after a shellacking at the polls, Barack Obama is back! Or so has been the suggestion this week -- on the heels of Obama's aggressive endorsement of net neutrality, his big climate deal with China, and leaks suggesting he's still going to go big on immigration. The New York Times says Obama's "defying label of lame duck." Politico observes that "there’s already some swagger returning to his step." The Washington Post notes Obama has said he wants to "squeeze every last little bit of opportunity" to push his agenda and in recent days "he has shown that he meant it." The New Yorker says, simply, that he's had an "unexpectedly good week." This is a grand slam of assessment -- his brand is doing much better post-election than he says it did pre-election -- but it's way too early to suggest that he's somehow crawled out of the dark place that voters put him last week. 1. His job approval rating is still in the gutter. There haven't been many polls since last Tuesday, but Gallup's daily tracking poll shows Obama with a 41 percent approval rating, near the all-time low of 39 percent reached in the survey immediately following the mid-term election. His disapproval rating of 53 percent ranks just south of the 56 percent of Americans who disapproved of his performance in the same survey following the election. It's a bit better than what George W. Bush faced at this time, but much worse than how Americans rated Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton at the end of their sixth year. 2. His endorsement of net neutrality was no profile in courage, and he may not even get what he wants. On Monday, Obama surprised many Internet activists and telecommunications firms with an unequivocal endorsement of net neutrality. Obama said he believes telecom companies like Verizon and Comcast should be regulated by the Federal Communications Commission effectively as utilities, requiring that the firms treat all Internet traffic equally. While it generated much buzz and was unusually flashy, this wasn't quite as dramatic as Obama's endorsement of gay marriage, for example, before the 2012 presidential election. As far back as 2007, after all, Obama had said, "I am a strong supporter of net neutrality." What makes Monday's pronouncement even less impressive is that the FCC may not embrace his view, as my colleagues Brian Fung and Nancy Scolla reported in a blockbuster story. Obama has appointed all five of the independent agency's commissioners, three of whom are Democrats, including Chairman Tom Wheeler. Yet Wheeler hasn't committed to Obama's preferred path. 3. The China deal is unlikely to be enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change and relies in big part on Obama's successor. The deal is no doubt important: It commits the U.S. to stringent goals for limiting the emission of greenhouse gases and, more importantly, represents the most significant pledge by China, one of the worst polluting nations, to take a leap forward in combating global warming. Yet, on its own, it will unlikely be adequate to stem the 2 degree Celsius rise in temperatures (over pre-industrial levels) that climate scientists warn would cause severe harm to the planet. What's more, Obama relies on his successors following through. With the enactment of limits on emissions by coal-fire power plants and other measures, the president has put the United States on a path toward meeting its commitment. But a Republican president could attempt to dismantle or interfere with the new power plant rules, or show much less interest in continuing to increase fuel efficiency standards. An array of lawsuits also likely faces the power plant rules, which the EPA is still working to implement. President Obama, speaking at a news conference in Burma on Friday, said he would take action to reform U.S. immigration policy before the end of the year. (Reuters) 4. By acting on immigration, Obama is belatedly doing what he promised to do, and it has risks. Obama is not backing away from his pre-election commitment to use executive authority to address the nation's broken immigration system in lieu of action by Congress, contemplating a proposal that might stop the deportation of up to five million illegal immigrants. In Burma on Friday, he said "this is something that needs to be done. It’s way overdue." But, like with net neutrality, this is not a sudden, post-election assertion of power. Obama is merely, finally fulfilling a broken promise he made to the nation's immigrants back in June. When it became clear that House Republicans were not going to pass a broad overhaul of immigration law, the president promised to use his unilateral authority by summer's end. Conservative Democrats begged him to delay, worried that such an action could cost the party their hold on Congress. Obama acquiesced to the political pressure, breaking his word, but lost the Senate anyway. For failing to uphold his promise, Hispanic Americans shredded him, calling him "deporter in chief," and warned that 60,000 to 70,000 people would be deported just as a result of the delay. The imminent executive action, meanwhile, is not cost-free. It almost certain kills any chance for comprehensive reform, not that the odds were great. And it could sour relations with lawmakers in the middle, like Sen. Angus King of Maine, an independent that caucuses with Democrats, who's said that “it will create a backlash in the country that could actually set the cause back and inflame our politics in a way that I don’t think will be conducive to solving the problem." 5. The American people are looking to Republicans to make a difference. Six years into Obama's presidency, Americans surveyed by Gallup say that they are looking, by a 53-to-36 percent margin, "to have more influence over the direction of the nation." That's even more unbalanced than it was after the 2010 electoral drubbing. Meanwhile, 34 percent of Americans say the country will be better off as a result of Republicans' win, compared to 19 percent who believe we'll be worse off. Obama faces deep and broad skepticism among the American public, and that gives him a weak hand going into legislative battles to come. 6. Obama faces many obstacles and little time. Republicans have a healthy majority in the Senate and the largest majority in the House since 1949. After brutal disagreements about 2014 strategy, there's little love lost between the White House and Senate Democrats. As a result, Obama faces probably the most antagonistic Congress he's faced since coming to office. Not a great place to be during your final two years. First up, the Senate is set to approve the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline on Tuesday after the House passed a measure authorization the project Friday. Obama has assiduously tried to avoid allowing the project to move forward, given concerns of many of his advisers that it would be harmful, symbolically if not substantively, to efforts to stem global warming. If Obama vetoes Keystone, as expected, he could worsen the already-bad odds of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), who's pushing for construction of the pipeline, in next month's run-off. If he signs the legislation, he would have had his hand forced on a high-profile policy just two weeks after the mid-terms. Next spring, Obama could suffer another bad defeat if the Supreme Court rules unfavorably in the King v. Burwell case, which challenges the constitutionality of tax subsidies offered to low- and moderate-income American in states that did not create their own insurance marketplaces. Declaring those subsidies unconstitutional would undermine a key part of the law and cost millions of people health insurance. And finally, the president has little time. There have been few achievements in the final quarter of a presidency, but many problems: For Bush, it was a financial crisis. For Clinton, it was impeachment and the dotcom bubble bursting. For Reagan, it was Iran-Contra. Richard Nixon resigned and Lyndon Johnson was consumed by the Vietnam War. That's why some close observers say there is a "second term curse." 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answer:This news article is talking about President Obama and how, even though he has been making announcements and trying new things recently, he still has a lot of challenges ahead. It mentions his low approval rating, how his ideas might not always be followed by others, and the difficulties with immigration issues. The article also says that many people in America are looking to Republicans to make a difference, and that President Obama has only a short time left in office to make changes.
question:You are an AI assistant. You will be given a task. You must generate a detailed and long answer. Idichapuli Selvaraj (c. 1939 – 30 January 2012) was a veteran Tamil comedy actor. He acted in more than hundreds of films. He acted along with lot of actors. His brother Pandu is also a comedy actor. He also worked as an assistant director for the M. G. Ramachandran films like "Idhayakkani" and "Ulagam Sutrum Valiban". Can we infer the following? Selvaraj was born in 1939.
answer:Yes, it can be inferred that Idichapuli Selvaraj was born around 1939, given the information provided in the text. The text specifically says "Idichapuli Selvaraj (c. 1939 – 30 January 2012)," which implies that the actor was born approximately in 1939. The "c." here stands for "circa," which is often used to indicate that the date is an approximation or estimate. Therefore, based on the available details, one can reasonably conclude that Selvaraj was born around 1939.
question:You are a helpful assistant, who always provide explanation. Think like you are answering to a five year old. Please briefly summarize this news article: SEE IT: Venezuela begins evacuation 45-story squatters' tower deemed 'world’s tallest slum' (PHOTOS) Venezuelan officials have begun a mass eviction of a skyscraper in Caracas known as "the world's tallest slum," a 45-story half-built office tower home to moer than 3,000 squatters. The building, known as the Tower of David — or "Torre de David" — has loomed over the city for two decades since construction was abandoned in 1994. Locals viewed the crumbling tower, the country's third-tallest, as both a gritty refuge for local gangs and commune-like village, where squatters partitioned raw spaces into well-kept apartments and pitched in to provide makeshift services. Each floor had its own manager, and there were cafes, shops and even a basketball court. The tower was even featured on the hit Showtime series "Homeland." In a third-season episode, Damian Lewis' ex-POW character, Nicholas Brody, is held there by gangsters while on the run from the CIA. But Venezuelan officials deemed the high-rise unsafe — there were no elevators and residents had tumbled off ledges — and began what they described as a "peaceful," floor-by-floor eviction of mobs of squatters this week. Residents were being relocated to public housing in the town of Cua, south of Caracas. Many said they were sad to go. "Necessity brought me here, and the tower gave me a good home," Yuraima Parra, 27, told Reuters, as soldiers loaded her possessions into a truck. "I was here for seven years. I'm going to miss it, but it's time to move on." Construction on the three-building complex began in 1990. It was intended as an office center. But work halted after the project's chief financier, David Brillembourg, died in 1993. President Nicolas Maduro's government has not yet said what it will do with the complex once it is empty. There were rumors that Chinese developers were gunning to buy it and convert it into commercial space. Ernesto Villegas, minister for the transformation of Caracas, wouldn't speculate on the site's future, saying that the focus was currently moving more than 1,150 families into safer digs. "The tower does not meet the minimum conditions for safe, dignified living," Villegas told reporters at the site. Robinson Alarcon, 34, spent five years living on the ninth-floor. He packed up his belongings and moved out with his wife and three children on Tuesday. "The view was so beautiful," Alarcon told Reuters. "People are excited but sad too." Summary:
answer:There is a very tall building in Venezuela called the Tower of David. It is 45 stories high and many people have been living there without permission. The people turned the big building into a place to live with shops and even a basketball court. But, the building is not very safe, so the people in charge of the city are asking everyone to leave and go live in safer houses. Some people are sad to leave their big building, but it is important for them to live in a safer place.
question:You are an AI assistant that follows instruction extremely well. Help as much as you can. Please answer the following question: The exercise is to decide whether the question accepts the proposed suggestion as a correct answer. If yes, write "True", otherwise write "False". Question: what are the official languages of nigeria Suggestion: Sign in English, outside the University of Lagos Answer:
answer:False