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Generate a correctly punctuated version of the following text: Please make sure that the credit card is sufficiently funded
| Please make sure that the credit card is sufficiently funded. | 8 | Flan2021 | fix_punct | zs_opt |
Generate a context and a hypothesis. | Context: During an interview with ET on Tuesday, Kris Jenner gushed about her daughter being in such a great place in her life. "We love Tristan so much, and she's so happy, and she's been through so much," Jenner said. "Just seeing her be able to do something so creative with [her denim line] Good American -- that's her passion. On top of it, to be in such a great place in her personal life is amazing. She's really happy." See more in the video below.
Hypothesis: Kris Jenner was talking about her male child in this paragraph. | 9 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
One look at Fred Rooney, and you just know he's the good guy. A trace of childish innocence in his face gives the lanky Bethlehem lawyer a Jimmy Stewart-like quality of quiet trust. In black jeans and button-down shirt, he's a kind of folk hero in the south Bethlehem melting pot where he's crafted a law practice catering to working-class families - mostly Latino - in the shadow of the hulkish remnants of Bethlehem Steel. A two-hour drive away, at City University of New York Law School in Queens, Rooney spends several days a week helping upstart lawyers develop storefront practices that, like his, provide legal representation to folks who can't afford a $250-an-hour legal counselor. Kristin Booth Glen, the law school's dean, took one look at Rooney and knew he was the right person to head the innovative Community Legal Resources Network. ''Fred's so low-key, he's Midwestern in effect,'' says Glen, a former New York Supreme Court judge. ''He captivates people, he inspires loyalty.'' For bringing legal representation to the poor and a host of other social causes, including finding medical care for seriously ill children in Latin America, the Moravian College Alumni Association has chosen Rooney for its prestigious Haupert Humanitarian Award. The award, given to only a select few alumni, will be presented at 7:30 tonight at a reception on Moravian's Priscilla Payne Hurd campus. Moravian, where he was an undergraduate in the early 1970s, inspired Rooney's deep sense of social justice. The son of a Bethlehem Steel executive in New York, he came to the Bethlehem campus from an affluent upbringing on Long Island. The young Rooney might have set his sights on Washington, D.C., like his uncle, former U.S. Rep. Fred Rooney of Bethlehem. After all, politics run in the Rooney family. His brother, state Rep. T.J. Rooney of Bethlehem, is a power in the state Legislature and the Democratic Party. But on a trip to Colombia when he was a junior at Moravian, the child of privilege saw human suffering, malnutrition and poverty the likes of which he had never imagined. ''I couldn't understand why we live this way and they live that way,'' Rooney recalled. ''It's been the guiding light of my life ever since.'' After graduating in CUNY Law School's first class in 1986, he took a job with Lehigh Valley Legal Services.
After reading the above, is "Fred Rooney and his brother" the correct answer to the question "Who has a Jimmy Stewart-like quality of quiet trust?"?
Pick your answer from:
(a). no
(b). yes | (a). | 6 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
The table was piled high with food , and on the floor beside *it* there were crocks, baskets, and a five-quart pail of milk.
Multi-choice question: Do "food" and "it" have the same meaning?
OPT: a. no. b. yes. | a. | 1 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wsc.fixed:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Here is a news article: Last Updated, Saturday, 1:08 p.m. As my colleague Ellen Barry reports on Twitter from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, Human Rights Watch released the first image of Edward Snowden in Russia, taken at a meeting with rights groups on Friday.
The image was sent to reporters by Tanya Lokshina, a researcher for Human Rights Watch in Russia who was invited to the meeting. The woman seated to Mr. Snowden’s right was Sarah Harrison, a British WikiLeaks activist; at his left was a translator. After the meeting ended, WikiLeaks released a full transcript of Mr. Snowden’s statement to the group and a brief video clip of the meeting was published on a Russian news site.
Video
In the video, obtained by Life News, Mr. Snowden read the beginning of his statement, saying: “A little over one month ago, I had family, a home in paradise, and I lived in great comfort. I also had the capability without any warrant to search for, seize, and read your communications. Anyone’s communications at any time. That is the power to change people’s fates. It is also a serious violation of the law. The 4th and 5th Amendments to the Constitution of my country, Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and numerous statutes and treaties forbid such systems of massive, pervasive surveillance.”
After a pause for translation, he continued, “While the U.S. Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings —” at which point he was interrupted by an airport announcement, provoking laughter from the room. He commented wryly, “I’ve heard that many times in the last couple of weeks.”
More video of his statement, apparently shot from the same angle, was broadcast on Russian television later.
Ms. Lokshina also revealed that Mr. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, said that he has decided to apply for political asylum in Russia. When asked about Mr. Snowden earlier this month, President Vladimir V. Putin told reporters, “If he wants to stay here, there is one condition: He must cease his work aimed at inflicting damage to our American partners, as strange as it may sound from my lips.” (More information on the meeting, which was still in progress when this post was first published, will be added in updates below as it reaches us via @EllenBarryNYT and other reporters.)
Another photo of Edward Snowden by @TanyaLokshina //t.co/QryAe6IEVR — BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) 12 Jul 13
Big news is that #Snowden is applying for political asylum in Russia, despte Putin’s condition that he stop publishing. from @TanyaLokshina — Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) 12 Jul 13
Snowden says he has received offers from Venezuela, Russia, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and thanks them. — Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) 12 Jul 13
Word from mtg prtcipnt: #Snowden says he accepts all offers, present and future. With Venezuela the asylum state is formal. — Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) 12 Jul 13
Updates are from @TanyaLokshina @hrw: He wants help in guarantee of safe passage to Latin America — Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) 12 Jul 13
From @TanyaLokshina @hrw Today, he will submit an asylum claim to Russia, plans to go to Latin America eventually. — Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) 12 Jul 13
From @TanyaLokshina @hrw #Snowden says he can only have guaranteed safety to stay temporarily in Russia is with asylum, so asking for it. — Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) 12 Jul 13
From @TanyaLokshina @hrw : #Snowden says govts in W. Europe, N.America are acting outside the law, preventing me from traveling. — Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) 12 Jul 13
From @TanyaLokshina @hrw : “I am only in a position to accept Russia’s offer because of my inability to travel.” #Snowden — Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) 12 Jul 13
Russia has sought to avoid coming down on either side of #Snowden asylum request. — Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) 12 Jul 13
Snowden is saying he seeks to remain in Russia and travel. He wants intl orgs to petition the United States, EU not to interfere. from @hrw — Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) 12 Jul 13
Snowden wants the people present at the meeting to intervene with Putin on his behalf, @TanyaLokshina @hrw reports — Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) 12 Jul 13
“No actions I take or plan are meant to harm the US,” Snowden says, so Putin’s condition poses no obstacle, @TanyaLokshina @hrw reports — Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) 12 Jul 13
Snowden said he cannot appeal to intl organizations bc they require you to come to them, he is in airport, @TanyaLokshina says — Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) 12 Jul 13
Snowden says he is recognized as asylum seeker by UNHCR but US doesn’t acknowledge, as evident in Morales situation, @TanyaLokshina reports — Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) 12 Jul 13
Fuller #Snowden quote: “No actions I take or plan are meant to harm the US…I want the US to succeed.” from @TanyaLokshina @hrw — Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) 12 Jul 13
Earlier on Friday, Ms. Lokshina had posted the complete text of the mysterious invitation she received to the meeting at the airport on her Facebook page.
yes, i was invited to the “meeting with snowden” – https://t.co/tT1FQyZijZ — Tanya Lokshina (@TanyaLokshina) 12 Jul 13
As the meeting started, her colleague Hugh Williamson pointed to a Human Rights Watch statement calling for his request for asylum to be evaluated fairly.
As mtg w #Snowden gets started, here’s @HRW’s stance – fair treatment 4 his asylum claim //t.co/bDT6WEs5FZ — Hugh Williamson (@HughAWilliamson) 12 Jul 13
Tanya Lokshina of @HRW tells that Snowden feels fine, sleeps here at the airport and feels safe in Russia — Olaf Koens (@obk) 12 Jul 13
According to the Russian news agency Interfax, Mr. Putin’s press secretary, Dmitri S. Peskov, stressed that the conditions outlined by the president still apply.
Peskov tells Ifax that previous conditions are in force: #Snowden can stay if he fully stops activities that cause damage to US. — Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) 12 Jul 13
After the meeting ended, participants were besieged by a large number of journalists at the airport, the journalist Olaf Koens reported on Twitter.
Russian humanrights-advocates now out and talking to the press //t.co/R9ULodG0Cd — Olaf Koens (@obk) 12 Jul 13
Shaun Walker, the Moscow correspondent for London’s Independent, noted that Vyacheslav Nikonov, a member of the Russian Parliament, was among those invited to meet Mr. Snowden. ||||| @TanyaLokshina @hrw Replying to @EllenBarryNYT @TanyaLokshina @hrw "I am only in a position to accept Russia's offer because of my inability to travel." #Snowden via @EllenBarryNYT ||||| Fuller #Snowden quote: "No actions I take or plan are meant to harm the US...I want the US to succeed." from @TanyaLokshina ||||| Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain. |||||
A summary of this is? | – Edward Snowden will seek political asylum in Russia, at least temporarily, he told human rights groups in a meeting today at Sheremetyevo International Airport. The news comes via New York Times reporter Ellen Barry, who cites a Human Rights Watch researcher at the meeting. Snowden say he's fine with Vladimir Putin's condition that he stop activities intended to harm the US because, in his alleged words, "No actions I take or plan are meant to harm the US. … I want the US to succeed." Snowden's ultimate plan, however, is to go to Latin America. "I am only in a position to accept Russia's offer because of my inability to travel," he reportedly said. Snowden called the meeting with the human rights groups in the apparent hope that they can help petition the US and EU not to interfere with his movements. A WikiLeaks activist is also present, the Times reports, and WikiLeaks tweeted that it would release Snowden's statement from the meeting later tonight. | 4 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Single/multi-select question: If "An blue electric trolley turns a corner on a busy Asian street.", can we conclude "Trolley turns a corner."?
Pick your answer from: (a). yes. (b). it is not possible to tell. (c). no. | (a). | 1 | Flan2021 | snli:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Options:
(I). The mood you want to have is stable and positive. Don't try to keep your balance when cartwheels happen.
(II). Find an open environment with a soft surface. Find a space that is free of furniture or other objects.
(III). Try wearing loose, lightweight tops over tight dresses or other loose, lightweight clothing. Make sure you want to feel confident! Keep your arms free.
(IV). For example, if your school doesn't allow cartwheels, ask your parents to arrange for a class that does. Make sure your clothes aren't too tight.Choose from options above and answer: What most naturally follows?
How to do a cartwheel
Wear loose, comfortable clothing.
Make sure you put on loose fitting, comfortable clothing that'll allow you some flexibility when moving. You don't want to split your jeans while doing a cartwheel!
Gym clothes will work great.
Answer: | (II). | 6 | Flan2021 | hellaswag:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Select your answer from the options. How would one describe the sentiment of this tweet?
just got back from a great weekend in oxford....experiencing serious miami withdrawals. ugh.
Choices: A). negative; B). positive; | A). | 5 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Note that this question lists possible answers. Which person is he referring to in the following sentence?
Field Reporter Chris Johnson interviewed Corporal Mason because he can provide information from fighting on the front line.
Available options:
(i). Field Reporter Chris Johnson.
(ii). Corporal Mason. | (ii). | 8 | Flan2021 | definite_pronoun_resolution:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Rosaria Halma from Grenada of PCMAG.COM: After our technical detection and feedback research from Hungary, Bangladesh, Jersey, Sweden, Grenada, I need to say that DLL Suite is the most outstanding DLL Fixer in this field with its high efficiency and effect.
Make this lower case. | rosaria halma from grenada of pcmag.com: after our technical detection and feedback research from hungary, bangladesh, jersey, sweden, grenada, i need to say that dll suite is the most outstanding dll fixer in this field with its high efficiency and effect. | 9 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
Math Problem
Solve -18*l + 22*l = 16 for l. | 4 | 3 | Flan2021 | math_dataset/algebra__linear_1d:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
1. A squeamishly self-aware bloodbath in which Lola, superbly portrayed by Robin McLeavy with hellish zeal, reveals her ambition to be the next Hannibal Lecter.
2. Grueling in the best possible way, this is easily the best Australian horror film since Wolf Creek.
3. The savagery here has no redeeming social value and the characters are not especially interesting, but who cares when the terror is this relentless?
4. Byrne announces his emphatic arrival with this movie. Australian horror has another distinctive new voice.
5. Producers Mark Lazarus and Michael Boughen have stuck to their guns (and hammers and knives and kettles) and delivered a visceral and fiercely original blast of great film terror.
6. Byrne's confident feature debut takes the coming-of-age tropes of John Hughes, and adds a hefty dose of campy psychosis, creating a tale of small-town adolescent horror where the growing pains really do hurt.
7. Aussie filmmaker Byrne merges teen romance and torture horror genres to unsettling effect with this pitch black comedy. And as a result, he finds a surprising level of drama within the violence.
8. If John Waters and John Hughes ever conceived the idea for a modern day "Misery," we'd essentially get this Australian horror gem...
9. Scarcely slowing down since its Wolf Creek second wind, Australian horror continues to mate grue and giggles in this sardonic blood tide
10. It's like a psychotic re-imagining of PRETTY IN PINK!
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus? | Successfully mixing the conventions of the teen and horror genres with a twist, Australian director Sean Byrne makes a striking directorial debut. | 2 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
Generate a context and a hypothesis. | Context: ROCHESTER, Minn. – There was an unplanned landing at the Rochester International Airport Friday night. According to Rochester Fire officials, Delta Airlines Flight 1484 was flying from Las Vegas to Detroit when a passenger suffered a medical emergency. That forced the aircraft to be diverted to Rochester to make an emergency landing. The aircraft touched down just at 7:17 p.m. The passenger was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital. Rochester police, firefighters and gold cross ambulance all assisted on scene. The aircraft refueled and departed at 8:20 pm.
Hypothesis: The plane was not scheduled to land in Rochester | 9 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Write highlights for this article:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI has hit a dead end in its search for a missing 3-year-old Arkansas boy and is asking the public for help. The FBI is hoping the public can help find 3-year-old Dominick Wesley Arceneaux. Dominick Wesley Arceneaux was last seen by an aunt Tuesday afternoon in the front yard of a mobile home in Chidester, in south-central Arkansas, authorities said. In a missing-person alert, the FBI described Dominick as 3 feet tall, weighing 38 pounds, with brown hair and eyes. Kimberly Brunell, a special agent with the FBI in Little Rock, said authorities have made "an exhaustive search" of White Oak Lake, close to where the boy was last seen. National Guardsmen have also done a grid search covering a one-mile radius around the home, she said, and are currently expanding it to a two-mile radius. Investigators also have looked at registered sex offenders in the area, Brunell said. They have also found Dominick's father, who lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "We have not ruled anyone out at this point," she said. The investigation has included looking at patrons of a bar next to the mobile home where Dominick has lived with his mother since December, she said. "There is not the normal traffic of just neighbors." Brunell said investigators have run down every lead and are looking for new ones, including "suspicious vehicles, suspicious persons ... anyone who might have a nugget that might lead us on our way to finding out what happened to him." Anyone with more information is asked to call an FBI hot line, 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324).
Highlights: | Dominick Arceneaux last seen by an aunt Tuesday in Chidester, Arkansas. FBI says it has made an "exhaustive search" of nearby White Oak Lake. Investigators looking at sex offenders in area and have found boy's father. Special agent: "We have not ruled anyone out at this point" | 0 | Flan2021 | cnn_dailymail:3.4.0 | zs_opt |
Is the premise "Three women in white hats in a line." true if "Three women in purple hats in a line."?
Select from the following. - yes - it is not possible to tell - no | no | 8 | Flan2021 | snli:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Dialogue:
Debra: I spilled some wine on the ceiling
Debra: Any idea how to remove the stains??
Heather: How did you do that???
Debra: Don’t ask :D
Debra: I need to get rid of the stains otherwise they will take my deposit
Heather: I guess you’ll need to paint it
Heather: White paint is easy to get. Buy the smallest can.
What is a summary of this dialogue? | Debra stained the ceiling with wine. She has to remove the stains in order not to lose a deposit. | 2 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Kyseiset hankkeet liittyvät jäteveden käsittelylaitosten ja viemäriverkkojen rakentamiseen tai uudenaikaistamiseen.
Which language is this? | Finnish | 9 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article based on this summary:
Use long, complicated sentences. Drop references to obscure connections. Use complex vocabulary. Pretend you have an in-joke with someone.
Article: | Prepare these in advance, so you can say them quickly as though they were part of a natural conversation. These sentences and words make sense, but many people will not be able to untangle the meaning. Here are a few that you can adapt to other subjects: "I wouldn't be talking to you about this if I didn't think that I wasn't alone in my views." (An unnecessary amount of negatives, meaning "I think we agree.") "The government plans to raise taxes were defeated." (The word "government" and the word "plans" can both be two parts of speech, and the listener must switch their interpretation halfway through.) "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." (A meaningless truth.) For example, say "That reminds me of my father's ex-roommate's friend's dog who loves eating samosas." You can make up these connections, or trace actual paths to friends or family you know. If you want to trigger mild surprise or a laugh, this is a good tactic to choose. Expand your vocabulary and practice slipping unnecessarily lengthy or obscure words into a conversation. This is more likely to work on people who don't know you well, and on people who don't have a larger vocabulary than you. Here are a few example sentences: "It's a good idea, but could you iterate on the excogitation?" (Could you think it through again in more detail?) "Velleity led me here, but I had a convivial experience." (I came here on a whim, but I had a pleasant time.) When in a group conversation, choose one of the people you're talking to and act as though you both know an incredible secret. Occasionally, when a different person makes an ordinary remark, turn to the selected person and laugh, wink, or nudge them. This works best if the other person is in on the joke, but with practice and finesse you can keep a conversation moving fast enough that an unwitting target doesn't have a chance to deny the in-joke. | 8 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Here is some data: United States LEADER_TITLE President of the United States; 1634: The Ram Rebellion COUNTRY United States; United States ETHNIC_GROUP Asian Americans.
Write a sentence that describes this data: | 1634 The Ram Rebellion comes from the United States where one of the ethnic groups is Asian Americans and the leader of the country is called the President. | 3 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Claim: Without affordable housing, first-time buyers are forced into unwise relationships.
What evidence supports this claim? | 1. This means that most young people will not be able to enter the housing market As house prices are high compared to income , most young people will not be able to buy a property unless they have a partner .
2. This will force people into pragmaticbut artificialrelationships , and compel people to stay in these relationships for financial reasons , and this can not be socially ideal .
3. To buy a house in England , you need to earn31 ,000 per year .
4. If you wish to buy a house in London , you need to earn 50,000 .
5. These figures are much higher than the average income per person .
6. In England the average annual wage is 20,000 , whilst in London it is 26,000 . | 9 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
Text complete: although my father was n't a performer himself , they considered him a part of the crew . i held his hand as we traveled . finally , father weakly broke the quiet . `` you agreed to perform with malec after the parade , correct little piper ? '' i scowled . `` little ? i have n't been little for a long time now , | father | 7 | Flan2021 | lambada:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Pakistan Appoints Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa as Army Chief of Staff in Unusually Smooth Transition
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Pakistan’s government appointed a new army chief of staff on Saturday, a boost for democracy in the coup-prone nation and the first smooth transition for the top military job in 20 years.
Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa was named to succeed Gen. Raheel Sharif, who became the first head of the army since 1996 to make way for his successor after completing a standard three-year term.
What are the most important parts of this text? | Pakistan’s government appointed a new chief of army staff on Saturday, a boost for democracy in the coup-prone nation and the first smooth transition for the top military job in 20 years. | 5 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a question you would see in a school textbook. | Suppose a new fuel for cars is derived from coal. Cars can go twice as far on a tankful of the new fuel as they can on the same amount of gasoline. How would you categorize the new fuel? | 7 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Challenge:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a text based on "paris denies report of contact with exiled algerian leader"
Text: | the french foreign ministry friday denied a report that envoys sent by prime minister edouard balladur had contacted rabah kebir , an exiled leader of the outlawed algerian islamic salvation front -lrb- fis -rrb- . | 9 | Flan2021 | gigaword:1.2.0 | zs_opt |
Read the following article and answer the question by choosing from the options.
Jeezus ... I really wanted to see this though , but hopefully they come back . Atleast I did n't have to see someone I did n't want to see that probably would ' ve been there . COME BACK DETHKLOK ! AND CHIMAIRA !
What are they wanting to come back ?
Select from the following. A). They want their friends to come back to a venue .. B). They want a singer to come back for a concert .. C). None of the above choices .. D). They want the bands they had missed to return .....A: | D). | 6 | Flan2021 | cosmos_qa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
See the multi-choice question below:
Sentence 1: it shouldn't be looked at something to do to make up for other things that you did
Sentence 2: It should only be used as a punishment.
If the first sentence is true, then is the second sentence true?
Available choices:
(1). yes.
(2). it is not possible to tell.
(3). no. | (3). | 4 | Flan2021 | glue/mnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu (Japanese: ファンシージゴロ ペル , Hepburn: Fanshī Jigoro Peru , a.k.a. "Fancy Gigolo Pelu") is a three "tankōbon" manga series written and illustrated by Junko Mizuno and published by Enterbrain. The series has been licensed in North America and France where the first volume received mostly positive reviews.
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "The Fancy Pelu series got international publishing"?
Choose from: (a). Yes; (b). It's impossible to say; (c). No;
I think the answer is | (a). | 0 | Flan2021 | anli/r2:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article based on this summary:
– Matt Damon plays a botanist-astronaut stuck on Mars while NASA debates whether to risk six lives in an attempt to save one in The Martian. It seems to be a winner, with a 93% favorable rating from both fans and critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Here's what critics are saying: Peter Howell says the film is "out of this world." Not only does Matt Damon deliver a performance worthy of Oscar attention, but he does so in "one of the year's best movies and widescreen 3D experiences, a crackerjack adventure that celebrates human ingenuity over mechanical contrivance," Howell writes at the Toronto Star. He adds the flick is "'real-fi' rather than 'sci-fi,' because it's so down-to-Earth in its realism." The film is "a hopeful love letter to science and math, American resolve, the power of friendship, and the dream of a world in which nations set aside their differences to unite to bring one man home," writes Richard Roeper at the Chicago Sun-Times. The entire cast is strong, but "Damon strikes just the right notes of comedy, nerdy tech talk, moments of despair, and triumph," he writes. "The movie lives and breathes on his performance, and he comes through in every scene." If director Ridley Scott was aiming for a good time, "mission accomplished," writes Adam Graham at the Detroit News. But at almost 2.5 hours, the film is too long. "There's one big action set piece too many, one more disco joke than was needed. It's not a deal breaker, but it does dull its impact." Keep an ear out for ABBA's "Waterloo," which might be "Scott's sly wink to his rumored knowledge of the presence of water on Mars far ahead of this week's surprise announcement." Yes, it's long, but The Martian "feels as bouncy and light as a beach ball," writes Dana Stevens at Slate. "In a way, it's Saving Private Ryan without the World War II setting," she writes. "It's a wry tribute to the qualities that got our species into space in the first place: our resourcefulness, our curiosity, and our outsized, ridiculous, beautiful brains." She adds Dariusz Wolski's 3D cinematography is "dazzling."
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And The Martian isn’t just an excellent yarn. It’s one of the year’s best movies and widescreen 3D experiences, a crackerjack adventure that celebrates human ingenuity over mechanical contrivance.
This triumphant return to outer space for Scott, who directed Alien and Prometheus, adapts the best-selling novel by Andy Weir, which began as a self-published e-book. (The screenplay is by Drew Goddard, director and co-writer of The Cabin in the Woods, an ingenious horror thriller.)
Matt Damon’s stranded Mars astronaut Mark Watney also has to employ do-it-yourself strategies if he hopes to survive. He’s left alone but not forlorn, after a six-person expedition to the red planet led by Jessica Chastain’s Commander Lewis is forced to make an emergency evacuation.
Lost in a dust storm, Watney is presumed dead. The shock of his miraculous survival quickly turns to sky-high suspense, as NASA and his crewmates contemplate a high-risk rescue mission, one that on paper could take years -- unless they find a way to speed things up.
Houston has more than one problem. Politics and public relations also intrude, as hardnosed NASA chief Teddy Sanders (Jeff Daniels) considers the very real possibility that a failed rescue bid could result in six dead astronauts rather than one.
Watney must use his wits and science knowledge to buy time. NASA this week announced it has found water on Mars, which seems like a fantastic (and deliberate) promotion for the movie. But that could actually detract from the exceedingly clever and scientifically accurate methods Watney employs to deal with urgent food and water issues. ||||| Photo by Giles Keyte. Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
A few dozen days (or, as a rotation of the planet is referred to in NASA jargon, “sols”) into his lonely survival ordeal on Mars, the stranded astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) delivers a kind of mission statement into the video log he’s recording for posterity. Faced with the challenge of finding or creating enough food and water to survive the four years until the next mission is scheduled to reach the red planet, Mark decides, with the beleaguered optimism of a born survivor, to “science the shit out of this.”
Dana Stevens Dana Stevens is Slate’s movie critic.
That was pretty much also the strategy of Andy Weir, who wrote the best-selling sci-fi novel on which The Martian is based. Weir, a software engineer and the son of a physicist, put in meticulous research to support his speculations about the viability of, say, indoor agriculture in a Mars habitat (Mark’s eventual, if temporary, solution to the what-to-eat problem). I couldn’t say to what degree Ridley Scott’s adaptation, in turn, sciences the shit out of Weir’s source material. But Scott has, against all odds, broken one of the most fundamental laws of physics: the tendency of systems toward entropy. Scott’s recent films, many of them grand-scale spectacles (Prometheus, Exodus: Gods and Kings) have grown progressively longer, slower, and more ponderous. Now, suddenly, the director has changed course with a movie that, while certainly long—The Martian approaches 2½ hours—feels as bouncy and light as a beach ball.
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If that’s not the metaphor you prefer for your sci-fi blockbusters—if you like them on the more philosophically weighty side—then there are plenty of movies out there for you already. The Martian is a nerdy process film about outer space survival, with a boyish indifference to archetypal symbolism (cf. Gravity) or brooding debates about fate and free will (cf. Interstellar). Don’t bother asking Damon’s Mark Watney how he feels about being completely alone on a planet inhospitable to human life, where it’s very likely he’ll starve to death before help can reach him. He’ll simply throw a spade over his shoulder, repair a crack in his helmet with duct tape, and head out to shovel some more good red Mars dirt.
In that dirt—fertilized by the human waste left behind in vacuum-sealed packs by Mark and his former crewmates—he will grow enough potatoes to buy himself a few hundred more sols’ worth of food supply. Meanwhile the Hermes, the spaceship on which Mark was serving as team botanist, is on its way back to earth, its crew members still unaware that their colleague survived the dust storm that forced them to cut their mission short.
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The final hour of The Martian is pure hokum, albeit of the most satisfying kind.
As many observers have noted, The Martian isn’t Matt Damon’s first go-round as the sole inhabitant of a hostile alien world: Last year, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar landed the actor in a similar pickle. (Damon has also done his share of plodding through barren desertscapes here on Earth, in Gus Van Sant’s black-comic parable Gerry.) It’s easy to see why Damon would be your go-to stuck-on-a-planet actor. He’s Robinson Crusoe via the Hardy Boys, stalwart without being stolid and hopeful without being (thank God) chipper. And as written by Buffy the Vampire Slayer veteran Drew Goddard—whose touch with snappy dialogue is largely responsible for The Martian’s unexpected buoyancy—Mark Watney is funny, a quality too seldom exhibited by leading men in space. Mark’s ability to see the comic absurdity of his predicament even in moments of extreme peril comes to seem inseparable from his iron will to live, and Damon conveys that connection without ever straining for bathos. The early scenes have an austere one-man show element, with Damon interacting only with the video monitor where he records his log and the harsh Martian environment that constantly threatens to engulf him. (Many exteriors were filmed in the Wadi Rum desert in Jordan, a frequent movie stand-in for the fourth planet from the Sun.)
By about halfway through, though, the solar system of The Martian has gotten pretty crowded. In addition to a following the progress of the Hermes—captained by Jessica Chastain, with a crew that includes Michael Peña and Kate Mara—the audience is gradually introduced to a boatload of supporting characters at NASA’s Houston headquarters: Jeff Daniels as the PR-conscious head of the space program. Chiwetel Ejiofor as the mission director who presses him to prioritize Watney’s rescue once they realize the stranded botanist is still alive. Kristen Wiig as NASA’s snippy director of PR (who, confusingly, has the same first name as her Bridesmaids character, making you wonder how she went from cupcake entrepreneur to aerospace bureaucrat). Donald Glover as an entry-level astrodynamicist with a left-field idea about how to speed up the rescue mission.
The plan for Watney’s rescue may rely on solid science (even if some of the last-minute MacGyvering with tarps and duct tape seems a little sketchy). But dramatically, the final hour of The Martian is pure hokum, albeit of the most satisfying kind. Watney tinkers with the space junk at his encampment to engineer a solar-powered roving vehicle, all to the accompaniment of a left-behind playlist of vintage disco, ABBA, and David Bowie (no, not “Life on Mars,” but something almost as thematically apropos). Back on Earth, the Chinese and the Americans agree to collaborate on an unprecedented international mission to save the stranded astronaut. ||||| Finally! A botanist superhero!
What took you so long, Hollywood?
Ridley Scott’s “The Martian” is arguably the warmest, cuddliest film ever made about the Red Planet, and that’s all the more surprising given Scott’s mastery of beautiful, haunting nearly cold-to-the-touch futuristic movies such as “Blade Runner,” “Alien” and “Prometheus.”
We love those films, but they aren’t exactly warm and fuzzy. “The Martian,” on the other hand, is a hopeful love letter to science and math, American resolve, the power of friendship and the dream of a world in which nations set aside their differences to unite to bring one man home.
It’s also a visual stunner, and it features one of our most likable and dependable actors giving a performance that ranks with anything he’s ever done.
“The Martian” is set in the near future, in a world where NASA apparently has kazillions of dollars, and the third manned (and womaned) mission to Mars has set up camp on the Red Planet and is going about its daily business of collecting samples, monitoring the atmosphere and doing other astronaut-type stuff.
Matt Damon is Mark Watney, a brilliant botanist with a corny sense of humor, undying loyalty to the Cubbies, love of deep-dish pizza — and an explorer’s spirit, as evidenced by his joining the Ares 3 team on this mission. Jessica Chastain is the commander, Kate Mara is the computer expert, Michael Pena is the wisecracking, family man, comic relief astronaut. They’re a neat team, and for the first few scenes, “The Martian” feels like it’s going to be a prototypical ensemble-cast space adventure.
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But then a massive dust storm hits harder and faster than anticipated, forcing the crew into emergency evacuation mode. Believing Mark has been killed by a flying piece of a communications tower, Cmdr. Lewis tearfully issues the order to take off.
When Mark regains consciousness, he wakes up to a world of hurt (he has a suffered a severe abdominal injury) and the brutal truth of his circumstances: He’s injured, he’s alone, he has no means of communication and a limited supply of food, and he is almost certainly going to die on Mars.
Not that Mark is the type to give up. “I’m going to have to science the s— out of this,” he says in his running video diary, and in one case he means that literally.
Damon strikes just the right notes of comedy, nerdy tech talk, moments of despair and triumph. Mark cannot believe the music library of Cmdr. Lewis (it’s heavy on cheesy 1970s tunes), or the nerdy video games left behind. When he builds a greenhouse of sorts and successfully engineers actual plant growth, he hops around with glee, calls himself the first Martian and says, “In your face, Neil Armstrong.”
And when he miraculously hears from his crew, he’s overcome with emotion.
“The Martian” is three movies in one:
• The primary story of Mark’s solo adventures on Mars, where he tries to grow food, establish communication, repair a transportation vehicle and simply survive.
• Cmdr. Lewis and crew on the ship, well on the way home, and the decision they’ll have to make when they learn their friend is alive.
• A tense thriller of sorts back on Earth. Jeff Daniels is perfectly cast as the head of NASA, who wonders if it’s worth risking lives and spending untold millions to save one man. Chiwetel Ejiofor is the NASA scientist and Sean Bean is the home-base chief of the Ares 3 crew, and in their own ways, both answer yes. Welcome faces such as Kristen Wiig, Donald Glover, Benedict Wong and Mackenzie Davis have small but pivotal roles.
All three stories work, though we get a few too many scenes of the scientists on Earth saying they need six months to build this or that, only to be told it has to be done in two months, now get to work! (Overall, though, even with a running time of 2 hours, 21 minutes, “The Martian” moves along at a steady clip.)
Damon is terrific. The movie lives and breathes on his performance, and he comes through in every scene.
Chastain is her usual brilliant self in a smallish role, Ejiofor is the guy we’re rooting for to get it done on Earth, and Sean Bean brings that Ned Stark/Boromir nobility to his performance.
You look at the names in this cast and you’d be correct in assuming this is going to be one helluva fun movie to watch.
Twentieth Century Fox presents a film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Drew Goddard, based on the book by Andy Weir. Running time: 141 minutes. Rated PG-13 (for some strong language, injury images, and brief nudity). Opens Friday at local theaters. ||||| | 8 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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This is a question with answer options. Goal: bat
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Solve this math problem
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Single/multi-select question: Do the following sentences say the same thing?
Morals have absolutely nothing to do with it !
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If "A bunch of people wearing white shirts with a red handkerchief around their necks coming out of a stadium, while two men with a cup in their hand stare at something.", does this mean that "The soccer team has won and the players look at the cup while watching the stadium empty."?
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First becoming famous in her native Ukraine in the 1990s, long-haired self-described "Amazon" Ruslana gained international recognition for winning the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest with her song "Wild Dances," inspired by the musical traditions of the Hutsul people of the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains. In the five years since, Ruslana has decided to use her name and public status to represent a number of worthy causes, including human trafficking, renewable energy, and even the basic concept of democratic process, becoming a public face of Ukraine's Orange Revolution and later serving in Parliament.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
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one of the defense lawyers in the defamation lawsuit against three advisers of tawana brawley said on monday that he planned to call former gov. mario cuomo and former state attorney general robert abrams to the witness stand .
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Multi-choice problem: Based on the sentence "Cowboy riding a black bull in a ring.", is the sentence "A cowboy is sleeping on a black bull in the ring." a true sentence?
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Generate a sentence that includes all the following words: fell, tree, winter | ash tree and mountain range fells in winter . | 5 | Flan2021 | gem/common_gen:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Have you ever seen an egg? Some animals do not have live births. Instead, they lay eggs. The eggs contain the embryo. The embryo matures in the egg. With time, it will hatch. Some animals hatch and do not need care from their parents. They are ready to live on their own. Other animals will still need the care of their parents. Sea turtles break out of their shells. They immediately walk to the ocean. They do this with no help from an adult. Birds stay in the nest for many weeks. They are cared for by their parents. They leave the nest when they are strong enough to fly. Some animals give birth to live offspring. Animals like horses, cows, and whales give live birth. Their offspring are born looking like mini adults.
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Translate "Ride your snowboard down the hill, perform stunts while in the air and collect gems." to Spanish. | Monta tu tabla de snowboard colina abajo, realizar acrobacias en el aire y recoger gemas. | 6 | Flan2021 | para_crawl_enes | zs_opt |
1. I wanted to scream at Osama: Look, your life is at stake, stop crying and climb the tree like a boy!
2. What you see isn't surprising, but living through it -- experiencing the cruel and arbitrary justice of the Taliban through a 12-year-old's eyes -- puts a knot in your stomach that lasts beyond the film's closing credits.
3. Imagine if we could see films from previous centuries -- records of slavery, the Great Fire of London, the Black Plague. Osama is like a film from some long-ago age.
4. Despite an absence of subtlety, the film has a very real impact.
5. Barmak tells his story without a ton of explanation... often, we have no more idea of what's going on than our hero does, which increases the film's sense of danger and fear.
6. Works simply as the story of one unlucky young girl.
7. We feel her fear and are moved by her plight because her will and childhood are torn from her not only by the Taliban but her own family.
8. ...the sad truth is that potential viewers would be far better off watching a documentary on the rise and fall of the Taliban.
9. captures with a terrifying purity . . . the claustrophobia of being trapped . . .within the confines of one's own body in a land where being female has been criminalized
10. Derives most of its power from providing a clear window on a previously obscured world.
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Write the following list of characters into a correctly formed sentence: •MaxiDex®offersgoodlevelsofthermalinsulationidealforworkingoutsideinhotclimatesandpickingupobjectsthatcanbecomehotinthesune.g.scaffolding,metal,worktools.
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Write an article with the title: "After unexpected vacation, Navy football enters a rough stretch of work"
Article: |
The 24th-ranked Navy football team received an extended break this past week and a half when its game against East Carolina, scheduled for Oct. 13, was postponed until next month in the wake of Hurricane Matthew.
Coach Ken Niumatalolo conducted only a handful of practices during the unexpected hiatus, allowing his players to rest and recover. The Midshipmen won’t have much opportunity for either over the remainder of the regular season, playing each of the next six weeks against the most demanding portion of their schedule .
The rugged stretch begins Saturday against visiting Memphis, with the winner moving into first place alone in the American Athletic Conference West Division . Then comes a short turnaround on the road against South Florida, unbeaten in the East Division, on Friday night, followed by Notre Dame.
[Week 8 Kickoff: Playoff picture could become crystal-clear, or shatter]
Navy’s next three AAC opponents have a combined record of 15-4.
“Obviously it’s a tough run,” Niumatalolo said. “We recognize that, but all we can focus on is Memphis. If we look too far down the road, we’re setting ourselves up for failure. We recognize this is a really, really good team, and we’re going to have to play our best to have a chance to beat these guys.”
The Midshipmen (4-1, 3-0) will be playing for the first time since a 46-40 upset of then-No. 6 Houston at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on Oct. 8. It was Navy’s first victory over a top-10 opponent since defeating No. 2 South Carolina, 38-21, in 1984 and pushed the Midshipmen back into the national rankings for the first time since finishing last year at No. 18.
[Viewing guide: Texas A&M-Alabama is clearly the game to watch]
Navy’s biggest recent upset prior to toppling Cougars came last season when it beat No. 15 Memphis, 45-20, at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium for its first road win against a top-15 opponent since 1974. The Tigers had won 15 in a row entering the game, but Navy amassed 374 rushing yards and pulled away with 21 unanswered points in the third and fourth quarters .
This year, Navy’s triple-option attack sputtered for only rushing 57 yards in the team’s only loss, 28-14 to Air Force, on Oct 1. A week later, the Midshipmen rushed for 306 yards against Houston, which entered with the top-ranked run defense among the 128 schools in major college football. The Cougars had been allowing 42 rushing yards per game.
“There’s not a whole lot of teams that are running an offense like Navy presents,” said Mike Norvell, Memphis’s first-year coach. “It still comes down to the base fundamental of football. At the end of the day, we’ve got to be able to get off of blocks. We’ve got to make tackles, and we can’t give up any of the vertical plays over the top.”
When Navy has completed passes, they have frequently been for long gains. The Midshipmen’s average per completion of 18.5 yards ranks second in the country, and five Navy players have at least one reception of 30 yards or longer. Wide receiver Brandon Colon and slotback Calvin Cass Jr. are averaging 31 and 30 yards per catch, respectively.
Cass, a reserve, left the game against Houston late in the first quarter after absorbing a blow to the helmet and did not re-enter. One play earlier, starting fullback Chris High exited for good as well with a sore hip. Both are expected to play against the Tigers, who are coming off a 24-14 win at Tulane.
Memphis (5-1, 2-0) is ranked first nationally in turnovers gained (18), 16th in points per game (40.2) and 23rd in scoring defense (19.3).
“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out how important this game is for both teams,” Niumatalolo said. “Both of us control our own destiny. Whoever wins is going to be in the driver’s seat, so it’s a huge game for both of our programs. Both teams started off the year with high aspirations to represent the West and then play and win the conference championship. That’s always the goal.”
No. 24 Navy vs. Memphis
Where: Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
When: Saturday, 3:30 p.m. Eastern
Home cooking: The Midshipmen have won 13 consecutive home games at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium dating from 2014. It’s the third-longest home winning streak in the country behind Clemson (20) and Air Force (15), which dealt Navy its only loss this season, 28-14, at Falcon Stadium on Oct. 1. The run also matches the program’s longest home winning streak. Navy won the first 13 games in the history of the stadium, which opened in 1959.
Red-zone alert: One season after finishing first in major college football in red-zone offense, Navy ranks 88th. The Midshipmen have failed to score five times in the red zone through their first five games, including going 3 of 6 against Connecticut. Navy came away without any points just three times all of last season when reaching the red zone. The defense, meantime, has allowed opponents to score in 13 of 14 red zone chances this year, which ranks 115th. | 7 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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Q: In Sinclair Lewis ' `` Main Street , '' what was the name of the typical American town ?
Which one of the following options would the answer to this be?
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Consider this sentence: Sir Clifford wants me to find him a new groom , about twenty or twenty-one, who knows his business. His old coachman is getting feeble, and he wants a man to work with him and get into *his* ways, who would be able, when the old man was pensioned off, to step into his place.
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When “The Great Gatsby” was published, on April 10, 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, living high in France after his early success, cabled Max Perkins, his editor at Scribners, and demanded to know if the news was good. Mostly, it was not. The book received some reviews that were dismissive (“F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LATEST A DUD,” a headline in the New York World ran) and others that were pleasant but patronizing. Fitzgerald later complained to his friend Edmund Wilson that “of all the reviews, even the most enthusiastic, not one had the slightest idea what the book was about.” For a writer of Fitzgerald’s fame, sales were mediocre—about twenty thousand copies by the end of the year. Scribners did a second printing, of three thousand copies, but that was it, and when Fitzgerald died, in 1940, half-forgotten at the age of forty-four, the book was hard to find.
The tale of Fitzgerald’s woeful stumbles—no great writer ever hit the skids so publicly—is suffused with varying shades of irony, both forlorn and triumphal. Fitzgerald was an alcoholic, and no doubt his health would have declined, whatever the commercial fate of his masterpiece. But he was a writer who needed recognition and money as much as booze, and if “Gatsby” had sold well it would likely have saved him from the lacerating public confessions of failure that he made in the nineteen-thirties, or, at least, would have kept him away from Hollywood. (He did get a fascinating, half-finished novel, “The Last Tycoon,” out of the place, but his talents as a screenwriter were too fine-grained for M-G-M.) At the same time, the initial failure of “Gatsby” has yielded an astounding coda: the U.S. trade-paperback edition of the book currently sells half a million copies a year. Jay Gatsby “sprang from his Platonic conception of himself,” and his exuberant ambitions and his abrupt tragedy have merged with the story of America, in its self-creation and its failures. The strong, delicate, poetically resonant text has become a kind of national scripture, recited happily or mournfully, as the occasion requires.
In 1925, Fitzgerald sent copies of “Gatsby” to Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, and T. S. Eliot, who wrote thank-you notes that served to canonize the book when Wilson reprinted them, in “The Crack-Up” (1945), a miscellany of Fitzgerald’s writing and letters. All three let the young author know that he had done something that defined modernity. Edith Wharton praised the scene early in the novel when the coarsely philandering Tom Buchanan takes Nick Carraway—the shy young man who narrates the story—to an apartment he keeps for his mistress, Myrtle, in Washington Heights. Wharton described the scene as a “seedy orgy.” With its stupid remarks leading nowhere, its noisy, trivial self-dramatization, the little gathering marks a collapse of the standards of social conduct. In its acrid way, the episode is satirical, but an abyss slowly opens. Some small expectation of grace has vanished.
I thought of Wharton’s phrase when I saw the new, hyperactive 3-D version of “The Great Gatsby,” by the Australian director Baz Luhrmann (“Strictly Ballroom,” “Moulin Rouge!”). Luhrmann whips Fitzgerald’s sordid debauch into a saturnalia—garish and violent, with tangled blasts of music, not all of it redolent of the Jazz Age. (Jay-Z is responsible for the soundtrack; Beyoncé and André 3000 sing.) Fitzgerald’s scene at the apartment gives off a feeling of sinister incoherence; Luhrmann’s version is merely a frantic jumble. The picture is filled with an indiscriminate swirling motion, a thrashing impress of “style” (Art Deco turned to digitized glitz), thrown at us with whooshing camera sweeps and surges and rapid changes of perspective exaggerated by 3-D. Fitzgerald wrote of Jay Gatsby, “He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty.” Gatsby’s excess—his house, his clothes, his celebrity guests—is designed to win over his beloved Daisy. Luhrmann’s vulgarity is designed to win over the young audience, and it suggests that he’s less a filmmaker than a music-video director with endless resources and a stunning absence of taste.
The mistakes begin with the narrative framing device. In the book, Nick has gone home to the Midwest after a bruising time in New York; everything he tells us of Gatsby and Daisy and the rest is a wondering recollection. Luhrmann and his frequent collaborator, the screenwriter Craig Pearce, have turned the retreating Nick into an alcoholic drying out at a sanatorium. He pulls himself together and, with hardly any sleep, composes the entire text of “The Great Gatsby.” He types, right on the manuscript, “by Nick Carraway.” (No doubt a manuscript of “Lolita by Humbert Humbert” will show up in future movie adaptations of Nabokov’s novel.) The filmmakers have literalized Fitzgerald’s conceit that Nick wrote the text—unnecessarily, since, for most of the rest of the movie, we readily accept his narration as a simple voice-over. Doubling down on their folly, Pearce and Luhrmann print famous lines from the book as Nick labors at his desk. The words pop onto the screen like escapees from a bowl of alphabet soup.
When Luhrmann calms down, however, and concentrates on the characters, he demonstrates an ability with actors that he hasn’t shown in the past. Tobey Maguire, with his grainy but distinct voice, his asexual reserve, makes a fine, lonely Nick Carraway. He looks at Leonardo DiCaprio’s Gatsby with amazement and, eventually, admiration. As Nick slowly discovers that his Long Island neighbor is at once a ruthless gangster, a lover of unending dedication, and a man who wears pink suits as a spiritual project, some of the book’s exhilarating complexity comes through. (The love between Nick and Gatsby is the strongest emotional tie in the movie.) DiCaprio, thirty-eight, still has a golden glow: swept-back blond hair, glittering blue-green eyes, smooth tawny skin. The slender, cat-faced boy of “Titanic” now looks solid and substantial, and he speaks with a dominating voice. He’s certainly a more forceful Gatsby than placid Robert Redford was in the tastefully opulent but inert adaptation of the book from 1974. DiCaprio has an appraising stare and he re-creates Fitzgerald’s description of Gatsby’s charm: that he can look at someone for an instant and understand how, ideally, he or she wants to be seen. ||||| Watch a clip from the film "The Great Gatsby." Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, a Midwestern war veteran (Tobey Maguire) finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor (Leonardo DiCaprio). (Photo/Video: Warner Bros)
Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" is a tale told idiotically, full of noise and furor, signifying next to nothing.
The production is not insipid, let's give it that. An exercise in absurdist excess, this fourth screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role, means to dramatize the excesses of the Jazz Age, with hints of Weimar decadence thrown in for bad measure. But that's a banality by this late date, and it's as far as Mr. Luhrmann goes in making sense of the book. The film's only governing principle is maximalism—everything has been made as big as possible, apart from conversational interludes, when big feelings are displayed, like bullet points, by actors striking static poses.
Enlarge Image Close Warner Bros. Pictures ALL THAT BAZ: Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan in 'The Great Gatsby.
For a while the sheer scale of the thing keeps you engaged, if not agog. (I watched through 3-D glasses that weren't worth the bother.) Gatsby's mansion is a cross between Neuschwanstein Castle and what San Simeon might have been if Hearst had been more gregarious; partygoers swarm like cicadas, and make as much of a racket. A road trip between Long Island and Manhattan takes on the thunderous intensity of a Grand Prix; the mere arrival of Gatsby's gorgeous yellow Duesenberg in Nick Carraway's driveway is enough to set teacups rattling on a kitchen shelf. (Nick, the novel's narrator and aspiring writer, is played by Tobey Maguire.) Fitzgerald's valley of ashes, a desolate strip half way between West Egg and New York City, has become an expressionist Hades where doomed workers slave away on giant slag heaps. (That's as close as the movie comes to the author's complex attitude toward American capitalism.)
The artistic elephantiasis takes many forms. When young James Gatz, who hasn't yet transformed himself into Jay Gatsby, first encounters his benefactor-to-be, Dan Cody, he doesn't just row a borrowed rowboat out to Cody's yacht on Lake Superior, as in the book; Gatz saves Cody and his vessel from incipient calamity during a storm of sufficient ferocity to scuttle the Titanic. And when the camera first catches sight of the fully formed Gatsby, presiding like a god over one of his parties, fireworks fill the summer sky behind him and a symphony orchestra summons up the majestic strains of "Rhapsody in Blue."
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It's a moment that makes you smile, even if you recall that Woody Allen used Gershwin's anthem, and fireworks, to far greater effect in the preface of "Manhattan." There's something touching—again, for a while—in the filmmaker's desire to please, in his fevered efforts to define a time in American history by the way it looks. (He's so eager to cram in pieces of period detail that one camera pullback reveals high-steel workers constructing a skyscraper, even though it's the middle of the night.) But many of the borrowings—from Busby Berkeley, from "The Crowd," from "Citizen Kane"—begin to ring hollow, especially because Mr. Luhrmann borrows, well beyond the point of self-parody, from the same bag of tricks he opened up more than a decade ago in "Moulin Rouge!"
The problem isn't those tricks per se. When the camera swoops and darts ecstatically, or in this case plummets into Manhattan's stone canyons, the effect can be impressive, never mind that Spider-Man has claimed such aerobatics for his own. One fleeting but striking image is that of an apartment building, with each window expanding or contracting, like a window on the screen of a giant computer, as it frames a half-seen life.
Nor is the music problematic, notwithstanding the film's much-hyped use of hip-hop, or the presence of the rapper Jay-Z as one of the producers. In fact, the hip-hop is used judiciously; it kicks in mainly during party scenes, when there's monstrous pounding from other sources, and it's no more intrusive than all the other efforts to heighten the story's reality. (The screenplay is credited to Mr. Luhrmann and Craig Pearce. Catherine Martin designed the lustrous production and the stunning costumes. Simon Duggan did the cinematography, which seemed of variable quality at the studio screening I attended.)
Enlarge Image Close Warner Bros. Pictures Revelers in 'The Great Gatsby.'
What's intractably wrong with the film is that there's no reality to heighten; it's a spectacle in search of a soul. For all of its glittery fragmentation, "Moulin Rouge!" came around to moments of genuine passion. None of these new trappings means a thing because the people who populate them are stylish sticks, unsinged by the spark of life.
That's almost surely not the fault of the actors, for the director turns them into lifelike props. Mr. DiCaprio, who's no more comfortable with the phrase "old sport" than Robert Redford was in the previous version, is elaborately sincere when he isn't frowning like Jack Nicholson; being charming like, well, Leonardo DiCaprio, or being mysterious, except that people who are genuinely mysterious don't look mysterious. Carey Mulligan's Daisy is either languorous or amorous, not a lot in between. Mr. Maguire's Nick is cheerlessly impressionable. Joel Edgerton's Tom is charmlessly brutish. Elizabeth Debicki's Jordan Baker is a flouncing cipher. And Mr. Luhrmann uses Amitabh Bachchan, a legendary star in his native India, to make the Jewish gangster Meyer Wolfshiem a leering Fagin.
Given the lifelessness of the enterprise, there's little point in belaboring its failure to convey the novel's themes, let alone the emotional and social resonance of what has come to be considered a masterpiece of world literature. Although the hero created himself out of the whole cloth of romantic yearning, we see almost nothing of that self-creation, only the conflicted result. Although the Nick of the novel arrives at a new and tragic understanding of the American Dream, the Nick on screen can't be more than an earnest observer, since any vestige of the story's tragic sense has been replaced by melodramatic sadness.
This dreadful film even derogates the artistry of Fitzgerald, who wrote "The Great Gatsby" while living on Long Island and in Europe. In a deviation from the book that amounts to a calumny against literary history, Nick, the author's surrogate, is discovered in a psychiatric hospital where, as an aging alcoholic, he struggles to comprehend the vanished figure at the center of the long-ago story, and finally completes his treatment by writing the novel. It's literature as therapy, and Gatsby as Rosebud.
'Something in the Air'
Watch a clip from the film "Something in the Air." In the months after the heady weeks of May '68, a group of young Europeans search for a way to continue the revolution believed to be just beginning. (Photo/Video: Sundance Selects)
As a longtime admirer of Olivier Assayas, I've heaped praise on his previous two films: "Summer Hours," a richly textured drama that examines the emotional content of material possessions, and "Carlos," which isn't a single film, but an epic achievement, starring Edgar Ramírez, in the form of a 5½-hour miniseries about the international terrorist of the 1970s and early 1980s.
Enlarge Image Close Sundance Selects Lola Créton and Clement Metayer in 'Something in the Air.'
"Something in the Air" is a fictionalized reminiscence of the writer-director's youthful involvement in radical politics—high-school revolutionaries seized by the drama of their day and graduating from distributing mimeographed pamphlets to throwing Molotov cocktails. Too bad it isn't more engaging—and dramatic—than it is, but this new film, in French with English subtitles, is still worth seeing for what it says of the turbulent state of France in the early 1970s, when Mr. Assayas was a high-school student in Paris, and of the zigzag pursuit—of painting, beautiful girls and independence from a demanding father—that finally culminated in his becoming the filmmaker he was meant to be.
—J.M.
DVD Focus
'Django Unchained' (2012)
Leonardo DiCaprio is deliciously expansive as Calvin Candie, a pretentious fool of a plantation owner, in a Quentin Tarantino film that is wildly extravagant, ferociously violent, ludicrously lurid and outrageously entertaining, yet also, remarkably, very much about the pernicious lunacy of racism and, yes, slavery's singular horrors. This reminds us of at least two things relevant to "The Great Gatsby"—that Mr. DiCaprio is a fine actor when he's given substantial material, and that stylistic extravagance, far from being the hollow thing it is in Baz Luhrmann's hands, can be an effective adjunct to artistry.
Enlarge Image Close Sony Pictures Classics/courtesy Everett Collection Carey Mulligan in 'An Education'
'An Education' (2009)
Here's another reminder—that Carey Mulligan, who is so inexpressively decorative as Gatsby's Daisy, has done superb work in recent years, most notably in this tale of an English schoolgirl's hard-won wisdom. The time is 1961, a year before the outbreak of Beatlemania, in a London that Ms. Mulligan's Jenny, at the age of 16, finds sedate if not downright sedative. Peter Sarsgaard is David, the ostensible sophisticate who awakens her, and seduces her. Lone Scherfig directed from Nick Hornby's screenplay, which took its inspiration, in the fullest sense of the word, from a short memoir by Lynn Barber.
'Irma Vep'
'Irma Vep' (1996)
Olivier Assayas wrote and directed this delightful French-language film about the perils of filmmaking and, not incidentally, vampires. The matchless Maggie Cheung plays a version of herself—a Hong Kong martial-arts star named Maggie who speaks no French. Jean-Pierre Léaud (the star of so many classic New Wave films by François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard) is René Vidal, a New Wave director who wants to keep from being completely washed up by remaking the silent serial "Les Vampires" with Maggie as his leading lady. Nathalie Richard is Zoë, a wardrobe mistress with a special feeling for Maggie's body.
—J.M. ||||| Still courtesy of Daniel Smith/Bazmark Film III Pty Limited
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Dana Stevens Dana Stevens is Slate’s movie critic.
As Nick Carraway, the mild-mannered but eagle-eyed narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, observes in the book’s early pages, “Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.” So it was with a Zen mind that I tried to approach Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of the book, which, intelligent debunkings aside, I really do regard as one of the great American novels of the 20th century—and probably inherently unfilmable. Literary adaptations of books in which the language is all—particularly the work of high-modern prose stylists like Fitzgerald, Proust, Nabokov, Woolf—seem doomed to either plodding literalism or airy insubstantiality. (Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita had a nasty sense of humor all its own, but the script, written by Nabokov himself, dispensed almost entirely with the narrative voice that makes the novel so perversely seductive.)
Then there was the fact that Baz Luhrmann, the Australian director of such grand-scale entertainments as Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge, and Australia, was the one who would be turning Fitzgerald’s economic tone poem of a novel into a big, glitzy 3-D spectacle. I’ve never been fond of Luhrmann’s films, and have only been able to tolerate a couple. (I think I walked out of Moulin Rouge, back when I wasn’t a film critic and could indulge in such luxuries.) His mania for heaping one visual excess atop another—look at this! No, look at this!— strikes me as a form of directorial ADD, an inability to let himself or the audience rest. And as a member of that winded audience, I sense an implicit condescension in Luhrmann’s tendency to flag and then re-flag a film’s major themes as his films go on—themes that were not introduced subtly the first time around. In Baz Luhrmann movies, ideas arrive with an ensemble.
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But of course, The Great Gatsby is the story of a supremely unsubtle man given to bold gestures and flashy set pieces, so maybe Luhrmann was born to adapt it. At any rate, his Great Gatsby was nowhere near as terrible as I feared. It is, as I suspected, a gargantuan hunk of over-art-directed kitsch, but it makes for a grandiose, colorful, pleasure-drenched night at the movies. And far from betraying the spirit of Fitzgerald’s novel, Luhrmann (along with his co-screenwriter Craig Pearce) treats the book with a loving mix of straight-ahead reverence and postmodern playfulness. During the huge, highly choreographed party sequences that structure the story (this isn’t a musical, but the recurring music- and dance-heavy sequences make it feel like one), you’re more likely to hear Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Lana Del Rey than you are a tinny vintage recording of “Ain’t We Got Fun?”, the flapper-age standard that figures in a scene in the novel and that played at the end of the stillborn 1974 Robert Redford version. Luhrmann’s use of contemporary pop may spring mainly from a desire to sell soundtrack albums, but the notion of using hip-hop as a backdrop for Jazz Age euphoria makes sense: With his new wealth, loud pink suit, and impossibly sweet crib, Gatsby is a rap star before his time.
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Dance-floor playlists aside, this Gatsby unfolds in a fairly conventional period setting (though this is the ’20s as seen through a distorting kaleidoscope, everything a little bigger and louder and lusher than life). In a klutzy frame story that’s absent from the novel, we meet Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) at a sanatorium where he’s recovering from “morbid alcoholism” and assorted mental maladies. He begins to tell his story to a benevolent, Santa Claus-like shrink, who provides him with a pen and paper with which to write it down. Later Nick will trade these tools in for a typewriter; whatever writing tool he uses, the words will occasionally drift up around him on the screen, then break apart and drift around him in a cloud of floating 3-D letters. It’s a hokey device, but the Nick-as-author conceit gives us an excuse to listen to some choice passages of Fitzgerald’s prose, which Maguire, giving a surprisingly quiet performance at this chaotic movie’s heart, delivers beautifully. Thematically, though, it does seem a mistake to turn The Great Gatsby into a self-referential bildungsroman about a young man’s journey to healing through authorship. When Nick finally pens in “The Great” over his manuscript’s original title Gatsby, we don’t so much feel pride in his accomplishment as annoyance at his smugness—he’s supposed to be telling us this story out of necessity, not ambition.
The story Nick has to tell is one that anyone who’s graduated high school in the United States surely knows, at least in CliffsNotes form: The mysterious tycoon Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) owns a gaudy estate next door to Nick’s rented cottage in the fictional Long Island village of West Egg. At one of his extravagant all-night flapper blowouts, Gatsby asks Nick to arrange a meeting with Nick’s cousin Daisy (Carey Mulligan), a dazzling former debutante whom Gatsby once loved and lost as a younger, poorer man. Daisy lives directly across the sound in old-money East Egg with her rich brute of a husband, Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton), and is constantly flanked by her best friend Jordan Baker (Elizabeth Debicki), an icy-cool golf champion. Over the course of a summer, Nick is drawn into the orbit of these wealthy, powerful, lost people, whom he recognizes as a “rotten crowd” only after their unthinking cruelty has already caused irreparable harm.
Every image and set piece you remember from the novel—the crumbling oculist’s billboard that looms over the action with judging eyes; Gatsby flinging his collection of custom-made shirts at an overcome, weeping Daisy (and, thanks to the 3-D format, directly at us); the hot afternoon at the Plaza Hotel when the rivalry for Daisy’s affections comes to a head—is rendered in broad, operatic gestures. There were many moments when that broadness made me cringe: Does the CGI-aided camera always have to race at jet-ski speed across the water toward the symbolic green light on Daisy’s dock? Must Gatsby’s face really be seen for the first time against a backdrop of fireworks, as the climax of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” surges on the soundtrack? And yet for every slab of processed cheese, there’s another moment whose visual inventiveness pays off. In an early scene, Luhrmann turns one image in the novel—Nick looking out the window at a party, “simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life”—into a clever Rear Window-style tableau of a Manhattan apartment building bursting with untold stories.
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Leonardo DiCaprio makes as good a Jay Gatsby as any living actor I can think of—he captures the character’s fixed-in-time boyishness as well as his innocent hucksterism, and he looks like a (dubiously ethical) million bucks in the splendiferous costumes by Catherine Martin, the director's wife (who also designed the dizzyingly lavish, champagne-and-confetti-drenched production—she must have been one tired woman by the time shooting ended). But DiCaprio’s physical presence seems almost superfluous in some key scenes, as Maguire’s voice-over narrates the idealistic striver’s actions faster than he can complete them. Our first glimpse of Gatsby, before even the Gershwin-accompanied debut described above, is a shot of his be-ringed hand reaching toward that oft-revisited green light as Nick describes watching his enigmatic neighbor … reach for a green light off a dock. Luhrmann doesn’t just gild the lily, he spray-paints it with glow-in-the-dark sparkles. |||||
Summary: | – Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby arrives with much fanfare—but, based on the reviews, it looks like those high hopes might be dashed. Critics are mixed on the film as a whole, though no one disputes that it's as bombastic as might be expected from Luhrmann. Among the bad reviews is Joe Morgenstern's in the Wall Street Journal. He calls the film "dreadful," noting that the tale of American excess is "told idiotically, full of noise and furor, signifying next to nothing." It's "a spectacle in search of a soul." Another ouch: "Given the lifelessness of the enterprise, there's little point in belaboring its failure to convey the novel's themes." "Luhrmann’s vulgarity is designed to win over the young audience," writes David Denby in the New Yorker, "and it suggests that he’s less a filmmaker than a music-video director with endless resources and a stunning absence of taste." Other critics are more measured. "The best way to enjoy Baz Luhrmann’s big and noisy new version of The Great Gatsby—and despite what you may have heard, it is an eminently enjoyable movie—is to put aside whatever literary agenda you are tempted to bring with you," recommends AO Scott in the New York Times. Sure, it's "a gargantuan hunk of over-art-directed kitsch, but it makes for a grandiose, colorful, pleasure-drenched night at the movies," writes Dana Stevens at Slate. "Far from betraying the spirit of Fitzgerald’s novel, Luhrmann treats the book with a loving mix of straight-ahead reverence and postmodern playfulness." | 1 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Read this: Chopin's mazurkas and waltzes are all in straightforward ternary or episodic form, sometimes with a coda. The mazurkas often show more folk features than many of his other works, sometimes including modal scales and harmonies and the use of drone basses. However, some also show unusual sophistication, for example Op. 63 No. 3, which includes a canon at one beat's distance, a great rarity in music.
Now answer this question, if there is an answer (If it cannot be answered, return "unanswerable"): Chopin's mazurkas contain more of what than his other compositions? | folk features | 8 | Flan2021 | squad/v2.0:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
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What is a summary of what this article is about? | Prepare the sweet potato. Cube the fish. Mix the ceviche. Serve the ceviche. | 7 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Write a sentence about a restaurant with all the following attributes: name = The Eagle, eatType = coffee shop, food = Fast food, priceRange = moderate, customer rating = low, area = riverside, familyFriendly = no, near = Burger King
Sentence: | The Eagle is a riverside coffee shop offering fast food at average prices. Located near Burger King, it has a low customer rating and does not welcome children. | 6 | Flan2021 | gem/e2e_nlg:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Context: Wendy landed her first job as a nurse at a nursing home. She really loved her job and connected with the residents. She really enjoyed talking to a little old lady in particular. One day, the lady showed her pictures of her children.
Now do a next sentence writing task.
Choices:
(I) Wendy ran out of the room crying..
(II) Wendy enjoyed seeing the photos.. | (II) | 4 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Sentence: name = Clowns, eatType = coffee shop, food = Japanese, area = riverside, near = Clare Hall
Can you represent the content in this sentence in data form? | Clowns is a coffee shop near Clare Hall. It is located in the riverside area. Clowns serves coffee and Japanese food. The customer satisfaction for this coffee shop is high. | 5 | Flan2021 | gem/e2e_nlg:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Maddie decided it was time for back to school shopping. It was mid August and classes were beginning soon. She looked up her course requirements and shopping lists. Than, she looked through all the ads in the paper for the best deals.
What is the next sentence?
pick from the following. (a). Maddie borrowed all of her school equipment.; (b). She found the best places to shop and purchase all her supplies.; | (b). | 1 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Cheesecake is better than fruitcake because it is gross.
Who is "it"?
Choices: [i] Cheesecake; [ii] fruitcake; | [ii] | 9 | Flan2021 | definite_pronoun_resolution:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Solve this math problem
Solve -99*l + 305*l - 105*l = 64*l + 296 for l. | 8 | 1 | Flan2021 | math_dataset/algebra__linear_1d:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a subject line for this message:
I have been asked to verify whether ENA has any current transactions with the subject company. Please reply ASAP whether your group does or does not have any current transactions or interests with this company. Thank you.
Subject Line: | LTX Corporation | 1 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Secţiile de votare din Republica Moldova au atras un număr neaşteptat de mare de alegători în alegerile de duminică (28 noiembrie). [Reuters]
Which language is this? | Romanian | 9 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ro-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
First question: What are ductile materials?
Second question: What is a ductile material and what are some examples?
Are these two questions asking the same thing?
Available choices:
A). no;
B). yes; | B). | 5 | Flan2021 | glue/qqp:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-select problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to choose the perfect light bulb for your lighting fixture
Look for the right wattage.
The first thing to consider when matching a lightbulb to a light fixture is the wattage amount. Every light bulb has a matching wattage-the amount of energy it is capable of producing.
Select from the following.
[1]. The more energy the bulb uses, the longer it will function. Set the wattage of the lightbulb up to 66% or more depending on the light fixture size, but above 14 watts may produce greater light.
[2]. This will depend on the style of the room you are in and how many watts you have. Therefore, because your light fixture won't have much extra energy, you should only match a single wattage.
[3]. For instance, an 400 watt light fixture will create a shine when it is fluorescent, and an 80 watt bulb will produce one if it is fluorescent. You want the wattage of each bulb to be at the proper proportion for each fixture.
[4]. This number will range anywhere from 40-watts to 120-watts for a traditional light fixture. On the flip side, every light fixture has a maximum wattage amount. | [4]. | 5 | Flan2021 | hellaswag:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
The Age of Adaline is a 2015 American romantic fantasy film directed by Lee Toland Krieger and written by J. Mills Goodloe and Salvador Paskowitz. The film stars Blake Lively in the title role, with Michiel Huisman, Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, Harrison Ford, and Ellen Burstyn in supporting roles. Narrated by Hugh Ross, the story follows Adaline Bowman, a young woman who stops ageing after an accident at the age of 29.
Choose your answer: Is the following statement correct based on the text
is the age of adaline based on a book
OPT:
[a]. no.
[b]. yes. | [a]. | 7 | Flan2021 | bool_q:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your answer?
Hookworms live inside the intestines of dogs. As the dog eats, the hookworms consume partially digested food. As a result of this nutrient diversion, the dog can become malnourished and weakened. Which best describes the relationship between the hookworms and the dog?
Options:
A). a parasitic relationship.
B). a mutualistic relationship.
C). a predator-prey relationship.
D). a producer-consumer relationship. | A). | 4 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Easy:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Review:
is effective
Is this movie review sentence negative or positive?
Options are:
(A). negative
(B). positive
The answer is: | (B). | 0 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is the effect of the following sentence?
The woman betrayed her friend.
OPTIONS: I. Her friend sent her a greeting card. II. Her friend cut off contact with her.
The answer is: | II. | 6 | Flan2021 | super_glue/copa:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Balkanları aylarca etkisi altına alan kuraklık,kimi bölge ülkelerinde enerji tedariğini, kimilerinde ise tarımı olumsuz yönde etkiledi.
Could you please translate this to English? | The months of drought have packed a double punch: affecting energy supplies in some Balkan countries and agricultural production in others. | 2 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/tr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Two Virginia Tech students carefully planned the kidnapping and killing of a 13-year-old girl, buying cleaning supplies and a shovel at separate Wal-Mart stores, and then hiding her body in the trunk of a Lexus, a prosecutor alleged on Thursday.
Montgomery County Commonwealth's Attorney Mary Pettitt described how authorities believe David Eisenhauer and Natalie Keepers plotted the stabbing death of Nicole Lovell, a seventh-grader who used social media as an escape from bullying at school after surviving a liver transplant and other health scares that left her with a disfiguring scar.
Pettit did not suggest a possible motive in court, or describe the killing itself, but said messages on the girl's phone led police to the college freshmen. She said they decided together that Eisenhauer would cut the girl's throat.
Keepers spoke in court as well, telling the judge that she began cutting her own body after being bullied in school, and has been on Prozac and in therapy since then. Her lawyers argued that her mental health will unravel behind bars.
But the prosecutor urged the judge to keep her jailed. While Keepers is adamant that she was not present at the killing, she "is in the same position as the person who carried out the murder," Pettitt said.
Judge Robert Viar Jr. denied bail.
Eisenhauer initially denied his involvement when police found his messages on Nicole's phone, but eventually admitted driving to the girl's home and watching her climb out of her window, Pettitt said.
Eisenhauer told authorities he greeted the girl with a side hug, and then brought her to Keepers, Pettitt said.
The 18-year-old distance runner at Virginia Tech is jailed without bond on charges of kidnapping and first-degree murder. The police report on his arrest Saturday says he told officers: "I believe the truth will set me free."
Keepers, 19, is charged with being an accessory to kidnap and murder before and after these crimes, and accused of helping her fellow engineering major dispose of the body at a remote spot in North Carolina, two hours south of campus.
Nicole was being remembered Thursday at a private funeral.
By all accounts, she was a lovely but awkward girl, clinging to childhood ways while also telling 8-year-old friends she planned to sneak out to meet her 18-year-old "boyfriend," a man named David whose picture she displayed on her phone.
Police said she probably carried her "Minions" blanket with her when she vanished.
Like others her age, Nicole was tech-savvy, posting on Facebook and chatting using the Kik messenger app. But she also had to take daily medicine to keep her transplanted liver from failing, and survived other harrowing health problems that left her with a tracheotomy scar in her neck.
Defense lawyers argued that Keepers had a troubled past of her own, and would become mentally unstable if kept in isolation for her own protection from other inmates.
Shackled, handcuffed and wearing orange jail garb, Keepers told the judge she's not getting her full dosage of anti-anxiety medicine in jail.
"I've learned how to love myself and to take care of myself and deal with any stress that I have," Keepers said, describing how she had promised a friend that if she stopped cutting herself, she would get a tattoo of a semi-colon, representing that her life was not ending, but taking a new path.
Her father, Tim Keepers, said he and his wife, Sara, learned of Eisenhauer in October, and that the young man had "dropped everything" last year to rush their daughter to a hospital for an emergency appendectomy.
Eisenhauer and Keepers went to high schools five miles apart in Columbia, Maryland. Excelling in the classroom and on the track, Eisenhauer drew raves from his coach and principal at Wilde Lake High School, and was focused on competing with top college runners.
Keepers, for her part, displayed a packed resume on her LinkedIn profile, including a summer internship with NASA, where she made how-to videos for engineers. She planned for follow her father's footsteps into aerospace engineering, Tim Keepers said.
Sara Keepers, an X-ray technician, said the whole situation is "devastating."
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Nuckols reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Allen G. Breed in Blacksburg, Jessica Gresko in Washington and Juliet Linderman in Columbia, Maryland, contributed to this report.
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Follow Ben Nuckols on Twitter at https://twitter.com/APBenNuckols . His work can be found at https://bigstory.ap.org/content/ben-nuckols . ||||| This undated photo provided by Tammy Weeks shows her daughter, Nicole Lovell, posing when she was 10 in Blacksburg, Va. The 13-year-old girl was found dead just across the state line in Surry County,... (Associated Press)
ATLANTA (AP) — Kik Messenger, a smartphone app popular among younger teens, is on the defensive following the stabbing death of a 13-year-old girl in Virginia who told friends she was using Kik to connect with an 18-year-old man.
Like Instagram, Snapchat and other messaging rivals, Kik provides free, easy and instant connections to other users anywhere. Kik enables people to message each other one-on-one or in group chats, and to share photos, videos and other content. By enabling people to identify themselves only by an invented username, it provides more anonymity than services such as WhatsApp, which connect people through their phone numbers.
Law enforcement officials say the application is dangerous in part because parents cannot reliably prevent anonymous strangers from contacting their children if they use it.
Kik made an updated guide for parents available on its website following the arrests of two Virginia Tech students in the slaying of Nicole Lovell, a seventh-grader who lived two miles from their campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Kik also pushed out an update to the app, available on Google Play and Apple's iTunes store, and had Apple raise Kik's age-appropriate rating on Monday from 9+ to 12+, closer to its requirement that no one under 13 use the service, terms that are shared by Kik's rivals.
"We are trying to educate all users, parents and teens," company spokesman Rod McLeod told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The parents' guide stresses that teens between 13 and 18 need a parent's permission to use Kik, but there's no technical way to enforce that or to prevent a child from entering a false birthdate, McLeod acknowledged.
"A lot of blame has been placed on Kik in the last two days," McLeod said, but he noted that many other social media networks operate the same way. "It's a problem that's spread around the industry," he said.
Kik Interactive Inc., the privately held Waterloo, Ontario-based company that launched the app in 2010, claims more than 200 million registered users, including 40 percent of U.S. teens and young adults. Investors recently valued their collective stakes in the company at $1 billion.
Asked whether making technical changes to remove the anonymity feature would harm Kik's business model, McLeod said. "I think part of the allure of Kik is that it is anonymous."
Many parents have vented their concerns on social media since the girl's body was found Saturday. "Attention all Parents: If your child has the APP "KiK" on their phone.......lose it!!" one woman posted on Facebook.
"There are a lot of bad elements out there. We certainly saw that in Blacksburg this week," said Adam Lee, special agent in charge of the FBI in Richmond, Virginia.
"Kids do all their communication on their phone," Lee added. "It's a lot harder to keep that computer in the kitchen like we used to. They are mobile with their communication. For parents to think they can go in after the fact and see what they are doing is a little naive."
McLeod said the company responded quickly when the effort to find Nicole turned to her use of Kik, acting on an emergency FBI request to provide information that the company believes led to the arrests of both suspects.
David Eisenhauer, 18, is charged with kidnapping and first-degree murder. His fellow engineering major, Natalie Keepers, 19, is accused of helping Eisenhauer before and after the crime, as well as helping to hide the body.
Police have not said whether they have recovered any of their electronic devices.
The company's website advises law enforcement that it does not have access to the text of Kik conversations but, with a court order or in an emergency, can provide users' location information, including their device's most recent IP address and timestamps of their chat messages, though not their content.
The company also can give authorities some user-provided details, such as name, email address, profile picture and birthdate, but says "this information isn't verified by Kik, meaning we don't have any way to know if it's accurate."
Jenkins said Kik's changes do little to alleviate his concerns, since there's no way to verify a user's age or parental permission.
"Kids are going to find a way around that ... You can have a 10-year-old with a cellphone claiming to be 18 and be on there," he said. "I don't know that it changes a whole lot in the way things go forward."
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Associated Press Writer Larry O'Dell in Richmond, Virginia, contributed to this report.
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Follow Ron Harris at http://twitter.com/Journorati ||||| One of the two Virginia Tech students facing charges in connection with the alleged abduction and fatal stabbing of a 13-year-old girl had her bond request denied today as investigators said she admitted to planning the alleged murder.
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Natalie Keepers, 19, broke down on the stand today in court as prosecutors detailed what she told investigators.
"I was excited to be part of something secretive and special," Keepers told FBI investigators, according to commonwealth prosecutor Mary Pettitt.
Keepers told police she bought a shovel with David Eisenhauer, the other Virginia Tech student who has been arrested in the case, before the alleged murder and then the pair went to a Walmart together to buy cleaning supplies while Nicole Lovell's body was still in the trunk of Eisenhauer's car, Pettitt said.
Keepers gave detectives information about where in her dorm room they could find a suitcase containing a blanket that Nicole had with her when she went missing and cleaning supplies that Keepers and Eisenhauer had used, according to Pettitt.
She also told police where to find the body, Pettitt said in court today.
Keepers was initially charged with a felony count of improper disposal of a dead body and a misdemeanor count of accessory after the fact in the commission of a felony. But later, on Feb. 2, the commonwealth's attorney said they were adding an additional charge of accessory before the fact to the first degree murder of Nicole Lovell.
Keepers was arrested Jan. 31, the day after Lovell's body was found in Surry County, North Carolina.
The first arrest made in connection to Lovell's alleged abduction and slaying was Eisenhauer, an 18-year-old Virginia Tech student.
Tammy Weeks via AP Photo
"Based on the evidence collected to date, investigators have determined that Eisenhauer and Nicole were acquainted prior to her disappearance,” Blacksburg police said in a statement released Sunday. “Eisenhauer used this relationship to his advantage to abduct the 13-year-old and then kill her.”
Eisenhauer and Keepers had separate arraignments at Montgomery County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court on Monday, appearing briefly while wearing orange jumpsuits and shackles. At the time, Keepers was only facing charges of improperly disposing a body and being an accessory after the fact. Their preliminary hearings were set for late-March and neither has had to enter a plea. Neither of their attorneys has made any public statements about the case. |||||
What is a one-paragraph summary of the above article? | – Virginia authorities have released disturbing details of the kidnapping and killing of 13-year-old Nicole Lovell, the AP reports. Suspects David Eisenhauer and Natalie Keepers planned the crime, they said Thursday, deciding together that Eisenhauer would cut Lovell's throat at a remote location they pre-selected, and going to separate Walmart stores to buy a shovel and cleaning supplies. According to the commonwealth prosecutor, Keepers, 19, told FBI investigators that she "was excited to be part of something secretive and special," and admitted to going with Eisenhauer, 18, to buy the shovel before the alleged murder and the cleaning supplies after, while Lovell's body was in the trunk of Eisenhauer's Lexus. The prosecutor says Keepers told police where Lovell's body was and where to find the cleaning supplies and a Minions blanket of Lovell's in Keepers' dorm room, ABC News reports. Authorities say the duo planned for Eisenhauer to "lure" Lovell away from home "on the guise of a date," according to the Roanoke Times. But Keepers insists she wasn't present at the actual murder, and says she's long struggled with her mental health and self-mutilation. The relationship between her and Eisenhauer isn't entirely clear; they went to high schools five miles apart in Columbia, Maryland, and then both attended Virginia Tech. Keepers' dad says they just learned about Eisenhauer in October, and that he "dropped everything" last year to rush Keepers to the hospital when she needed an emergency appendectomy. As for Lovell, she's said to have used social media to escape the bullying she experienced in seventh grade, including Kik Messenger, an app on which she apparently met Eisenhauer. She told 8-year-old friends she was going to sneak out to meet "David," her 18-year-old "boyfriend." Eisenhauer initially denied all involvement, but ultimately admitted he watched Lovell climb out her window, gave her a side hug, and brought her to Keepers. | 3 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Taylor has been signed as a replacement for injured South African Vernon Philander.
Glamorgan have called up batsman Will Bragg after back trouble to bolster their batting.
Fast bowler Timm Van der Gugten is also named in the squad after a shoulder injury.
Glamorgan have two points and Sussex one from the opening two rounds of matches in the South Group.
Glamorgan captain Jacques Rudolph scored a club record 169 not out on their last Cup visit to Hove in 2014 and also made 87 in the Championship in 2016.
"I've thoroughly enjoyed playing there, and I've been very happy with my own form over the last few games," he told BBC Wales Sport. "But it's important to extend that.
"After making 57 [against Surrey]. it allows me an opportunity to go big, which I didn't.
"Sussex as a whole are always very competitive, I know David Wiese and Stiaan van Zyl, I've played with David and against Stiaan back in South Africa quite a lot and they're obviously class players."
Sussex are still without fast bowlers Tymal Mills and Chris Jordan, who are playing in the Indian Premier League, while Academy spinner Nick Oxley is included in a 13-man squad.
Sussex (from): Chris Nash, Luke Wright (capt), Harry Finch, Stiaan van Zyl, Laurie Evans, Ben Brown, David Wiese, Jofra Archer, Danny Briggs, Will Beer, George Garton, Jerome Taylor, Nick Oxley.
Glamorgan (from): Jacques Rudolph (capt), David Lloyd, Will Bragg, Colin Ingram, Kiran Carlson, Chris Cooke, Aneurin Donald, Andrew Salter, Owen Morgan, Craig Meschede, Marchant De Lange, Michael Hogan, Lukas Carey, Timm Van der Gugten.
What is a summary of this text? | Sussex are set to give a debut to West Indian seamer Jerome Taylor in the One-Day Cup match against Glamorgan at Hove. | 3 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
Question: After what movie portraying Etta James, did Beyonce create Sasha Fierce?
Is "Her marriage to rapper Jay Z and portrayal of Etta James in Cadillac Records (2008) influenced her third album, I Am..." the correct answer?
Pick your answer from:
(1). yes.
(2). no. | (1). | 8 | Flan2021 | glue/qnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-select: Knowing that "the moon 's surface contains many craters", how would one answer "The moon's surface"
Options: [i] is smooth on the entire surface. [ii] contains large cavities cause by explosions. [iii] contains an internal core of cheese. [iv] is filled with lakes....A: | [ii] | 3 | Flan2021 | openbookqa:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Write the next sentence in this story.
Wendy bought some bath oil online. She misread the directions and applied it all over her body. To her horror, her skin had turned pink. She complained to the company promptly.
Available choices: 1. Wendy happily bought more of the bath oil. 2. The company gave Wendy a full refund and apology. | 2. | 6 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Answer a question about this article:
With filming completed in Rome, production moved to Mexico City in late March to shoot the film's opening sequence, with scenes to include the Day of the Dead festival filmed in and around the Zócalo and the Centro Histórico district. The planned scenes required the city square to be closed for filming a sequence involving a fight aboard a Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm Bo 105 helicopter flown by stunt pilot Chuck Aaron, which called for modifications to be made to several buildings to prevent damage. This particular scene in Mexico required 1,500 extras, 10 giant skeletons and 250,000 paper flowers. Reports in the Mexican media added that the film's second unit would move to Palenque in the state of Chiapas, to film aerial manoeuvres considered too dangerous to shoot in an urban area.
Which areas were shown in the Day of the Dead scene in Spectre? | the Zócalo and the Centro Histórico district | 3 | Flan2021 | squad/v1.1:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
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What are the most important words in the following sentence:
Beach lounge chairs are scattered under an umbrella on a beach. | beach, chair, scatter, umbrella | 7 | Flan2021 | gem/common_gen:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
You will be given a text below. Complete the text.
commandos will be all around us and will be heavily present at your home so we can sleep in peace . '' sol said . later , after all had showers , everyone was heading to bed . bud was already snoring softly . `` sol , '' said candace . stryker looked at her . `` i need you to hold me while we sleep . please . '' `` i would like that , too , '' answered | stryker | 3 | Flan2021 | lambada:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Based on a 1980 filmof the same name, what is the title of the musical written by Dolly Parton that is due to open on Broadway next year (2009)? | 9 to 5 | 1 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
"What would you do?" is a question that will stick in your mind for weeks after watching the emotional Brokedown Palace. You will also be left wondering if Alice (Danes) was telling the truth or not - a issue that is left unresolved, and rightly so. This is a particularly well acted and beautifully shot film. Although it is slow at times, its pace is reflective of the story line - but a lot of the film will have you on the edge of your seat; wanting to know what happens next. The ending will also leave you imagining yourself in the shoes of the lead characters, which are brilliantly played by Kate Beckinsale and Claire Danes. Bill Pullman's performance is commendable, too.
Did this review think positively or negatively of the movie (see options below)?
Select from:
[A]. negative;
[B]. positive;...I think the answer is | [B]. | 4 | Flan2021 | imdb_reviews/plain_text:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The Whitewater controversy, Whitewater scandal (or simply Whitewater), was an American political episode of the 1990s that began with an investigation into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, in the Whitewater Development Corporation, a failed business venture in the 1970s and 1980s.
Can we infer the following?
The Whitewater controversy lasted for a year
OPTIONS:
+ Yes;
+ It's impossible to say;
+ No;
The answer is: | It's impossible to say | 4 | Flan2021 | anli/r1:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Choose from the possible answers, would the following sentence, by the strictest standards, be considered correct by a linguist?
The horse jumped out of the stream.
Select from: (A). unacceptable; (B). acceptable; | (B). | 5 | Flan2021 | glue/cola:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a sentence about a restaurant with all the following attributes: name = The Wrestlers, eatType = coffee shop, food = French, priceRange = less than £20, area = city centre, familyFriendly = yes, near = Raja Indian Cuisine
Sentence: | Low priced French coffee shop The Wrestlers can be found in the city centre close to Raja Indian Cuisine. Not recommended for families. | 6 | Flan2021 | gem/e2e_nlg:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Choose from the options at the end. Are the following two questions the same?
What are the best restaurants in Las Vegas?
Where are the best places to eat in Las Vegas?
Possible answers: a). no. b). yes.
The answer is: | a). | 8 | Flan2021 | glue/qqp:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
From the following options, what is the question "What woman pitcher has struck out Ted Williams and Hank Aaron ?" asking about?
OPTIONS:
- description
- entity
- abbreviation
- human
- numeric
- location | human | 5 | Flan2021 | trec:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is the solution?
Solve -100*k + 232 - 1912 = 12*k for k. | -15 | 2 | Flan2021 | math_dataset/algebra__linear_1d:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article that answers the following question: Which player scored the last field goal of the game? | Coming off their Sunday Night divisional home win over the Bengals, the Steelers flew to Gillette Stadium for a Week 14 intraconference duel with the undefeated New England Patriots. In the first quarter, Pittsburgh struck first with kicker Jeff Reed getting a 23-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Patriots took the lead with QB Tom Brady completing a 4-yard TD pass to WR Randy Moss. In the second quarter, New England increased their lead with Brady and Moss hooking up with each other again on a 63-yard TD pass. Afterwards, the Steelers responded with QB Ben Roethlisberger completing a 32-yard TD pass to RB Najeh Davenport, along with Reed kicking a 44-yard field goal. New England would end the half with kicker Stephen Gostkowski getting a 42-yard field goal. In the third quarter, the Patriots took control as Brady lateraled to Moss, who lateraled back to Brady, and then threw a 56-yard TD pass to WR Jabar Gaffney. Afterwards, New England increased its lead with Brady completing a 2-yard TD pass to WR Wes Welker. In the fourth quarter, the Patriots sealed the win with Gostkowski nailing a 28-yard field goal. The loss also made the Steelers' road record fall to 2-4. | 7 | Flan2021 | drop:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Solve this math problem
Solve 7 = 25*o + 32 for o. | -1 | 1 | Flan2021 | math_dataset/algebra__linear_1d:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Please add spaces between words: Therearealwaysnewchallenges,anditcanbeveryhardtofindyourway,butitisalsofunandopensnewdoorstonewknowledgeandmakesyouwanttotrysomethingnew.
| There are always new challenges, and it can be very hard to find your way, but it is also fun and opens new doors to new knowledge and makes you want to try something new. | 4 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
This is the content of an email: Sally, Do we know what the corp groups like GSS are doing yet ? Is there someone co-ordinating the whole effort, Oxley ? Mark Pickering Chief Technology Officer Enron Net Works, LLC
What was the subject line for this email? | Corp Groups | 5 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Only one percent of natural diamonds are of this kind , and most are blue to grey .
Only one percent of blue diamonds are of this type , and most are natural to grey .
Select your answer from the options. Do these sentences mean the same thing?
pick from the following. (i) no (ii) yes | (i) | 0 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
(a). description; (b). entity; (c). abbreviation; (d). human; (e). numeric; (f). location;Would the answer to the question "What month of the year is there no television in Iceland ?" be an entity, an abbreviation, a description, a human, a location, or a numeric value?
| (e). | 2 | Flan2021 | trec:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Yay. The exterminator came. And he said that my 2 roaches weren't a big deal?
How would the sentiment of this tweet be described?
Possible answers:
--negative;
--positive; | negative | 1 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Solve -371*f - 1414*f - 30961 - 87059 = 1025*f for f. | -42 | 0 | Flan2021 | math_dataset/algebra__linear_1d:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Concepts: arrival, clock, time
Write a sentence that includes all these words. | A clock and various arrival and departure times at a station. | 0 | Flan2021 | gem/common_gen:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Make use of the article to answer the questions.
CHAPTER XXX
FINAL SCENES OF THE GREAT FIGHT
"Si has fallen overboard!"
The cry came from half a dozen throats at once, and Walter's heart almost stopped beating, so attached had he become to the Yankee lad.
"If he's overboard, he'll be sucked under and drowned," he groaned. "I wonder if I can see anything of him."
Without a second thought he leaped on the gun and began to crawl out, on hands and knees, as perilous a thing to do, with the vessel going at full speed, as one would care to undertake.
"Come back!" roared Caleb, trying to detain him. "You'll go overboard, too."
At that moment came a cry from below, and looking down the steel side of the _Brooklyn_, Walter beheld Si clinging to a rope ladder, one of several flung over, to be used in case of emergency. "Si, are you all right?" he called loudly.
"I--reckon--I--I am," came with a pant.
"But I had an awful tumble and the wind is about knocked out o' me." And then Si began to climb up to the deck.
"He's on the ladder and he's all right," shouted Walter, to those still behind the gun. Then a sudden idea struck him. "Hand me another rammer, Stuben."
"Mine cracious! don't you try dot," cried the hose-man. "You vos fall ofer chust like Si."
"Yes, come in here," put in Caleb, and Paul also called upon him to return.
"I'm all right," was the boy's reply. "Give it to me, Stuben." And catching the rammer from the hose-man, Steve Colton passed it forward. "In war we have got to take some risks," he reasoned, as Caleb gave him a severe look.
1. What chapter is this?
2. Who fell overboard?
3. What was he?
4. Who went looking for him?
5. Who tired to stop him?
6. How did Si get back on the ship
7. Was he okay?
8. What was Walter calling for when struck with inspiration?
9. Did the other men think it was a good idea?
10. What did steve colton say as he passed the rammer?
Numbered answers: | 1. Chapter 30
2. Si
3. A Yankee lad.
4. Walter
5. Caleb
6. a rope ladder
7. Yes
8. another rammer
9. No
10. "In war we have got to take some risks," | 8 | Flan2021 | coqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
turnbull's london blended not produced anymore
How would the previous sentence be correctly capitalized? | Turnbull's London Blended Not produced anymore | 2 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
Choose your answer: is the following review positive or negative?
Went here with 3 friends to experience a different kind of Vegas.........boy is it ever! So fun! $15 for an 1 1/2 hours of pure entertainment plus free drinks. Totally worth it. Hit the 9pm session and your adrenaline (keeping up w/numbers called is VERY stressful) will be pumping. You'll be ready to hit the town after with loads of laughs already in the vault. :)
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60 And they blessed Rebekah and said unto her Thou art our sister be thou the mother of thousands of millions and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them
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