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question:– As Virginia's former first couple faces trial for alleged graft, a former aide to ex-Gov. Bob McDonnell is offering some damning testimony. McDonnell's wife tried to pitch a nutritional supplement to Mitt Romney, the aide testified, and when that fell through, she pitched it to Ann Romney instead. The supplement, Anatabloc, is produced by Star Scientific—which was then headed by Jonnie Williams, who allegedly provided the couple with gifts while they allegedly used their power for his benefit. Maureen McDonnell and Williams arrived at a press conference aiming to pitch Anatabloc to Mitt Romney, whom Bob had recently endorsed, in 2012, ex-aide Phil Cox said, per the Washington Post. After Cox halted them, he testified, Maureen spoke to Ann Romney about the supplement on a Romney campaign bus. Ann Romney has multiple sclerosis, and Maureen told her Anatabloc could "potentially cure" it, Cox said. (In other words, as Wonkette sees it, Maureen McDonnell "offered to cure Ann Romney's MS with this one weird trick.") "I was horrified," Cox said. “I thought it was a train wreck." Meanwhile, a former McDonnell scheduler has testified that the first couple once went to a last-minute event with Williams even though the General Assembly was in session, the AP reports. Expand this summary.
answer:As Virginia's former Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen McDonnell, face trial for alleged corruption and graft, former aides to the ex-Governor are providing damaging testimonies. One of the incidents described involves Maureen McDonnell's attempt to pitch Anatabloc, a nutritional supplement produced by Star Scientific. At the time, Star Scientific was led by Jonnie Williams, who had allegedly provided lavish gifts to the McDonnells while supposedly benefiting from their political influence. In 2012, Maureen and Williams arrived at a press conference with the intention of pitching Anatabloc to then-presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney, whom Bob McDonnell had recently endorsed. According to former aide Phil Cox, he intervened and stopped Maureen from carrying out her plan. However, Cox testified that she then approached Ann Romney, Mitt's wife, who has multiple sclerosis (MS), and claimed that Anatabloc could "potentially cure" her condition. The revelation by Cox has been described as horrifying and thought of as a disaster in the making. Besides the Anatabloc incident, another former aide, a scheduler for Governor McDonnell, testified that the first couple once attended a last-minute event with Jonnie Williams when the General Assembly was in session, raising further questions about their relationship with Williams and Star Scientific.
question:Which of the following sentences is nonsensical? Options: - Sentence A: "People have to swim for a long distance in a marathon" - Sentence B: "People have to run for a long distance in a marathon" Let me think hard. Detailed solution:
answer:Sentence A: "People have to swim for a long distance in a marathon" is nonsensical. A marathon is specifically a long-distance running race, typically 26.2 miles (42.195 kilometers) in length. Swimming is not part of a marathon race. If the event involves swimming, it would be called a swimming race or, if combined with running and cycling, a triathlon. Sentence B accurately describes a marathon as a long-distance running event.
question:Question: Suggest a movie title for the following movie plot: While sketching a panther at the zoo, Serbian fashion artist Irena Dubrovna [Simone Simon] meets American Oliver Reed [Kent Smith]. She invites him to her apartment for tea. A few months later, they are married.Irena is a strange and lonely woman with no friends. She has a fascination with panthers, but animals don't seem to like her very much. When Oliver brings her a Siamese kitten as a gift, for example, the cat hisses at Irena, so they return to the pet store and exchange it for a bird. While in the pet store, Irena's presence sets all the animals to caterwauling. Several weeks later, the bird dies in fear when Irena reaches for it in its cage.Irena is haunted by a tale from her country that tells how the people of her village were witches, devil worshippers, and, under strong emotions like jealousy or anger, could change into panthers. She refers to them as the 'cat people.' Oliver takes it as a folktale, but Irena takes it for real, so real that she refuses to sleep with her husband because she believes that she might kill him.Oliver suggests that Irena see a psychiatrist, so she goes to see Dr Louis Judd [Tom Conway], who was recommended to Oliver by his co-worker, Alice Moore [Jane Randolph]. When Irena returns home after the first session, she finds Oliver and Alice seated on the couch, talking about her. Irena gets angry when Oliver reveals that he has told Alice about her problem.About a week later, Oliver runs into Dr Judd and learns that Irena has stopped seeing him. Concerned about Irena's belief in these folktales, Oliver again confides in Alice. Alice lets on that she's secretly in love with Oliver, and Oliver admits that he isn't so sure anymore that he really loves Irena. When Oliver gets home from work that evening, he and Irena quarrel about her not keeping her appointments with Dr Judd, so Oliver goes back to the office, stopping first at the snack shop around the corner. Irena calls the office, but when Alice answers the phone, she hangs up. When Alice learns from the cleaning lady that... Answer:
answer:"Whispers of the Panther's Curse"
question:Please answer the following question: - Magma rises from deep in the earth - The magma goes into volcanos - The volcanos pressure the magma upwards - The pressure causes the magma to push through the surface of the volcano - The lava cools - The lava forms new rock - New magma is pressured to the surface of the volcano What might be the last step of the process? A:
answer:A: The last step of the process could be: The new rock formed by the cooled lava eventually builds up, altering the shape of the volcano and potentially making it more likely for future eruptions or creating new vents for magma to escape.