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Options:
A). negative;
B). positive; What would be an example of an B). review? | Easy to enjoy such clean fresh food. This restaurant would be a great addition to any city. It is wonderful to have restaurant owners who are responding to our community wanting more organic and healthier choices. | 9 | Flan2021 | yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0 | zs_opt |
This text is missing some spaces, please add them: Thebestdefenseisagoodoffense...
| The best defense is a good offense... | 5 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
Yhdysvaltojen näkökulmasta tavoitteena on vain ratkaista asia prosessin loppuvaiheessa.
Which language is this? | Finnish | 9 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Here is a premise: "The FedEx driver listens to the workman in the green hard hat while the equipment to ship is being loaded."
Here is a hypothesis: "The driver is in a car."
.Does the premise tell us whether the hypothesis is true?
Select from: (1). yes (2). it is not possible to tell (3). no | (2). | 6 | Flan2021 | snli:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Elton John Pays Tribute in England : People.com
06/15/2016 AT 07:00 PM EDT
wants fans, most importantly victims of the
, to know that love will always win.
The music legend paid tribute to those affected by
at his Liverpool Echo Arena concert on Tuesday.
"Now I have something to say but bear with me, in recent months I've been working on a project for my foundation called
, and it's about having the love to accept everyone for who they are, especially people who are different from you and the bravery to show it," John, 69, began his speech.
"When a horror like this massacre in Orlando comes along great agony like a tsunami and great grief. We feel shock, angry and we're devastatingly sad for the people who died and for the loved ones who are mourning," the father of two said.
were fatally shot and 53 people were injured at Pulse, a
south of downtown Orlando on June 12.
"What I find extraordinary and what really gives me strength and hope is the immediately behind that devastation came a different wave," he continued. "A rainbow colored wave of love and bravery. From Istanbul to Tel Aviv, from Sydney Opera House to the Eiffel Tower to the Empire State Building and the White House."
Adding, "So tonight while I would like to honor and mourn the LGBT community loss in Orlando and the loss of everyone who has been a victim of hate and stigma and dogma, I would like to say tonight we are winning the fight against prejudice. Prejudice and darkness because their rainbow wave around the world tells me we can and we will win against these people."
On Monday, Gaga, 30, gave a
at a vigil held outside Los Angeles City Hall.
"As we have now witnessed the largest mass shooting in American history, I can't help but feel that this level of hatred, like all prejudicial crimes, this is an attack on humanity itself. This is an attack on everyone," the singer said.
What are the most important parts of this text? | The music legend paid tribute at his Liverpool Echo Arena concert on Tuesday | 5 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Sentence from a movie review: and unrelentingly exploitative
Select your answer: was the movie seen positively or negatively based on the preceding review?
Choose your answer from:
[1]. negative;
[2]. positive; | [1]. | 2 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-choice question: Same meaning?
It is situated in the eastern end of Montgomery County and is south of the city of Amsterdam which borders it .
It is located in the eastern end of Montgomery County and borders south to the city of Amsterdam , which is it .
pick from the following. a). no. b). yes. | a). | 6 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Here is some data: Cotto eatType coffee shop; Cotto food Indian; Cotto priceRange high; Cotto customer rating 1 out of 5; Cotto area riverside; Cotto near The Portland Arms.
Write a sentence that describes this data: | Cotto is a coffee shop providing Indian food in the high price range. It is located in the riverside. It is near The Portland Arms. Its customer rating is 1 out of 5. | 3 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Чтобы сократить потери коралловых рифов вдвое, необходимо ежегодно вкладывать в это около 3 миллиардов долларов – и прибыль от этого составит не менее 72 миллиардов долларов.
Which language is this? | Russian | 9 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ru-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Today I placed second out of 6 in the interactive fiction contest I entered . I ' m pleased with the outcome , and flattered by some kind comments I received afterward . One neat thing the IF community does after these online award ceremonies , which I did n't know about beforehand , was that they congregate and play the entries together online , in real - time . It 's a public demonstration of the game , during which you can answer questions about your game .
Based on the preceding passage, choose your answer for question Why is the narrator flattered despite being on the computer ?
Available choices: a. They won their March Madness bracket challenge .. b. They won a prestigious video game .. c. They won a big time role playing game .. d. None of the above choices ..
The answer is: | d. | 3 | Flan2021 | cosmos_qa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Outbreak is a 1995 American medical disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and based on Richard Preston's nonfiction book The Hot Zone. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo and Morgan Freeman, and co-stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland and Patrick Dempsey.
Based on the above text, what's the best answer to this question: is the movie outbreak based on a true story?
Possible answers:
+no.
+yes. | yes | 5 | Flan2021 | bool_q:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What's the most logical way to complete this passage?
Beloved actor Tom Hanks’ aspiring hip-hop star son faced a barrage of ridicule this week for his use of rapper slang. Chet Haze AKA Chester Hanks got into a Twitter brawl with a former rapper named Jensen Karp starting on Sunday. The hilarious exchange between actor scion and quick-witted rapper had no official winner, but it highlighted the rift between Haze’s gangster online persona and affluent upbringing. Chester 'Chet' Hanks (left), the son of Oscar winner Tom Hanks got into an hilarious Twitter fight with comedic rapper Jensen Karp (right) that began over Hanks' liberal use of rapper slang Fishwrapper.com points out that it all started because of a tweet that Haze, whose mother is actress Rita Wilson, wrote on November 26 about an open mic he planned to attend near LA’s Fairfax High School.
By Sunday, Karp had noticed
OPTIONS:
- Brentwood’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
- California’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
- Castaway’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
- Chester’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
- Chester Hanks’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
- Chet Haze’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
- Chet Haze AKA Chester Hanks’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
- Chet' Hanks’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
- Fairfax High School’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
- Fishwrapper.com’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
- Hanks’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
- Haze’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
- Jensen Karp’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
- Jensen Karp AKA Hot Karl’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
- LA’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
- Oscar’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
- Rita Wilson’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
- Tom Hanks’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
- Twitter’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful.
| Chet Haze’s tweet and the comedic white former rapper aimed his sharp tongue at the music industry hopeful. | 3 | Flan2021 | super_glue/record:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
What is the sentiment of the following review?
I went to my first dentist in Phoenix for over 20 years. When the dentist took in a "partner" I knew the end was near. I conveniently forgot about the dentist until a crown fell off. My wife had been referred to Dr. Patel and was impressed with the staff, office and Dr. Patel. They were able to schedule an appointment for the next day. I think I've found my dentist for the next 20+ years!! Highly recommended! !
Pick your answer from: a). negative. b). positive. | b). | 5 | Flan2021 | yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0 | zs_opt |
(1) On February 17 , 2015 , Starlin collaborated with Universal Cable Productions to adapt Dreadstar as a script - TV - series with Chris Bender and J. C. Spink as producers .
(2) On February 17 , 2015 , Chris Bender teamed with Universal Cable Productions to adapt Dreadstar as a scripted TV series with Starlin and J. C. Spink as producers .
Do these two sentences mean the same thing?
Available choices:
+no;
+yes; | no | 3 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
When paying a state visit to Britain, foreign heads of state are usually entertained by the Queen at Buckingham Palace. They are allocated a large suite of rooms known as the Belgian Suite, situated at the foot of the Minister's Staircase, on the ground floor of the north-facing Garden Wing. The rooms of the suite are linked by narrow corridors, one of them is given extra height and perspective by saucer domes designed by Nash in the style of Soane. A second corridor in the suite has Gothic influenced cross over vaulting. The Belgian Rooms themselves were decorated in their present style and named after Prince Albert's uncle Léopold I, first King of the Belgians. In 1936, the suite briefly became the private apartments of the palace when they were occupied by King Edward VIII.
The Belgian Suite is located at the foot of which staircase? | the Minister's Staircase | 2 | Flan2021 | squad/v1.1:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article based on this "Swindon boxer Jamie Cox is to appear in court over an alleged assault in south-west London."
Article: | The 2006 Commonwealth Games gold medallist, real name James Russan, was charged following an incident on Lambeth Road, Kennington, on 16 July.
Mr Cox, 28, is charged with common assault, violence to secure entry, harassment and criminal damage.
He has been bailed to appear at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court on 14 August.
Mr Cox, who has won all 19 of his professional contests, was crowned WBO European super-middleweight last month. | 9 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
World No.2 Novak Djokovic extended his season's winning streak to 26-0 on Saturday, as he reached the Serbian Open clay court final after his semifinal opponent Janko Tipsarevic withdrew with a thigh injury. Writing on his Facebook page, Djokovic said: "Janko had to pull out from tonight's semi-final match because of a muscle injury. I sincerely hope he will manage to recover for the rest of the clay court season. I will try to get the title back where it belongs and that is Serbia." The 23-year-old will be chasing his fifth title of season on Sunday. Standing in his way is the Spaniard Feliciano Lopez who beat the Italian Filippo Volandri 7-6 (7-3) 6-2 in his semifinal. The reigning Australian Open champion will take an unblemished 3-0 career lead into the clash with the left-handed Lopez, who is currently ranked No.37 in the world. The Spaniard is looking forward to the challenge. "I've already won four matches this week. My confidence is really high at the moment and I feel great to play against Novak. I know it's going to be tough; he's been the best player this year. It will be a great experience," Lopez said, AFP reported. Meanwhile, at the Estoril Open in Portugal, Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro defeated Pablo Cuevas 6-2 7-6 (8-6) in Saturday's semifinal. Del Potro took one hour and 49 minutes to overcome the Uruguayan breaking Cuevas's serve in the first game helping him establish an 4-2 lead when rain intervened. On resumption, del Potro wasted no time taking the next two games to close out the set before taking the second in a tie break. The 2009 U.S. Open champion will face Spain's Fernando Verdasco in the final after his semifinal opponent Canadian Milos Raonic withdrew with a back injury during the first set of their semifinal.
What are highlight points for this article? | Djokovic to appear in final of Serbian Open after opponent Janko Tipsarevic withdraws. Australian Open champion has an unblemished record in 2011. The 23-year-old will face Spain's Feliciano Lopez in final. | 3 | Flan2021 | cnn_dailymail:3.4.0 | zs_opt |
Write the next sentence.
Randy was shown how to trade stocks by Nelson since
Available choices:
(a). Randy was quite experienced in the market..
(b). Nelson was quite experienced in the market.. | (b). | 6 | Flan2021 | winogrande:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Jaime: When speaking with you earlier, I completely forgot to mention that Carol St. Clair (Ext. 33989) will be addressing EOL issues arising in connection with Enron Mexico Corp. Please forgive me. I know that Carol is trying to finalize communications with our outside counsel in Mexico. It may be helpful for you to have a conversation with her about your goals, etc. for her to include in her discussions. I am still handling financial derivatives matters in general for Mexico. Please let me hear from you and I look forward to meeting with you later this week. Regards. Sara
Propose a subject line for this email? | EOL matters | 4 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Background: Herb Jeffries (born Umberto Alexander Valentino; September 24, 1913 - May 25, 2014) was an African-American actor of film and television and popular music and jazz singer-songwriter, known of his baritone voice. He was of African descent and Hollywood's first singing black cowboy. In the 1940s and 1950s Jeffries recorded for a number of labels, including RCA Victor, Exclusive, Coral, Decca, Bethlehem, Columbia, Mercury and Trend. His album Jamaica, recorded by RKO, is a concept album of self-composed calypso songs.
Context: From Detroit, at the urging of Louis Armstrong, Jeffries moved to Chicago where he performed in various clubs. One of his first gigs was in a club allegedly owned by Al Capone. Jeffries began his career working with Erskine Tate and his Vendome Orchestra. Tate signed the 19-year-old Jeffries to a contract with his Orchestra at the Savoy Ballroom in Chicago. His break came during the 1933 Chicago World's Fair A Century of Progress International Exposition singing with the Earl Hines Orchestra on Hines' national broadcasts live from the Grand Terrace Cafe. His first recordings were with Hines in 1934, including "Just to be in Carolina". By 1940, he was singing with the Duke Ellington Orchestra and then recorded with him from 1940 to 1942. His 1940 recording of "Flamingo" with Ellington, released in 1941, sold more than 14 million copies in its day. His name had been Herbert Jeffrey, but the credits on the record mistakenly called him Jeffries, so he renamed himself to match the typo. "Flamingo" was later covered by a white singer, the popular vocalist Tony Martin. During his time with the Duke Ellington Orchestra as a lead vocalist, Jeffries proved his talent as a mature singer, demonstrating his wide vocal range in such songs as "I Don't Know What Kind of Blues I've Got," "The Brownskin Gal," and "Jump for Joy" (all 1941). The 1944 single "My Little Brown Book" by Ellington and his Famous Orchestra, on which Jeffries provided vocals, reached No. 4 on Billboard R&B chart. Later on, Jeffries was replaced in the Ellington's band by Al Hibbler. In his teens, Jeffries had developed a fine voice, initially singing in higher registers. He started out his singing career as a lyrical tenor, but, on the advice of Duke Ellington's longtime music arranger, Billy Strayhorn, he lowered his range to mimic the vocal stylings of crooner Bing Crosby. Jeffries became a "silken, lusty baritone," according to music critic Jonny Whiteside. In 1945, Jeffries had a hit on the Billboard R&B chart with "Left A Good Deal In Mobile" (No. 2), on which he was accompanied by pianist Joe Liggins and his band Honeydrippers. Then, he moved to Europe and performed there for many years, including at nightclubs he owned. He was back in America by the 1950s, recording jazz records again, including 1957 collection of ballads, Say It Isn't So. In 1995, at age 81, he recorded The Bronze Buckaroo (Rides Again), a Nashville album of songs on the Warner Western label.
Question: How did Herb's music career begin?
Answer: | Jeffries began his career working with Erskine Tate and his Vendome Orchestra. | 4 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
News article:
Gwyneth Paltrow removes her coat, revealing a sleeveless black Atea Oceanie wrap dress. The dress is simple, trimmed in white and very lowcut, the effect both wholesome and daring. Her hair and skin glow. Her arms look soft and strong, like those of a woman decades younger than 42.
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Paltrow is the founder–and the living embodiment–of the lifestyle brand Goop and is in Chicago on this April afternoon to oversee the launch of a pop-up store in Chicago’s Waldorf Astoria hotel. She walks across the showroom, past racks of $2,000 Stella McCartney dresses and $400 Phillip Lim gym shorts, to sit beside Goop’s CEO, Lisa Gersh, on a burnished-steel French daybed. She folds her arms, clutches her elbows, and calls out to her head of brand collaborations, Brittany Weinstein, to turn up the heat. Then she crosses her legs, stretches her neck as high as it will go, poses her arms to one side, and looks off serenely into the distance. Paltrow is often criticized for seeming, at best, removed from the cares of ordinary life, and right now she does look like she belongs to a different, superior species. The public has always felt this way about her–simultaneously drawn to, and repelled by, her seemingly unattainable perfection. In 2013, for example, she was named People magazine’s Most Beautiful Woman and also Star magazine’s Most Hated Celebrity. Spend a little time on the Internet–or mention Paltrow’s name at a dinner party–and you’ll quickly see that people tend to have a strong, visceral reaction to her. Goop’s Chicago pop-up shop was designed to resemble an apartment. Photo: Ryan Lowry Paltrow knows that she has this effect on people. And she believes it has been good for her personal business, Goop, a website and newsletter that offers style, food, and wellness recommendations from Paltrow and her circle of elite chefs, spiritual thinkers, and alternative health professionals. This enterprise, which also sells fashion and home products, now has nearly 1 million newsletter subscribers, according to the company; analytics firm Alexa.com estimates Goop receives more than 3.75 million page views per month. Even people who’ve never heard of Goop (a play on Paltrow’s initials) may have heard of “conscious uncoupling” and “vaginal steaming“–just two of the phenomena that went viral after they were written about on Paltrow’s website, inviting both curiosity and mockery. They may have also heard that Paltrow’s product recommendations sometimes venture into rather exclusive price ranges: $300 pajamas, a $4,700 juicer, a $2,000 safety-pin earring (just one, not a pair). But while she is often criticized for being out of touch, it’s precisely her privileged lifestyle–she is the Oscar-winning daughter of the late television producer Bruce Paltrow and the actress Blythe Danner, and was married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin until last year–and her highly specific sense of style (she’s a red-carpet staple and a regular on the covers of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar) that gives her the authority to make recommendations about living the good life. Now the question is whether Paltrow can turn the public’s powerful feelings about her and her brand into a profitable business of scale. CEO Lisa Gersh (left) is helping Goop scale. “It couldn’t be Gwyneth and one person writing all of the content anymore,” she says. Photo: Ryan Lowry Advertisement In the past year, Goop has been gearing up for a major expansion, hiring Gersh as CEO, moving its headquarters from the U.K. to Los Angeles, amassing a 25-person team, pitching investors, building an advertising unit, and planning its first private-label product: an organic skin-care line due out in 2016. Gersh has restructured the company so that it’s in a position to realize a vision she and Paltrow share: to turn Goop into a “contextual commerce” brand, in which editorial and sales work hand-in-hand to sell product in a more seamless way than other lifestyle brands (such as Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, from which Gersh stepped down as CEO in 2013). Gersh and Paltrow hope to sell Goop fashion and home collections and make the brand synonymous with chic, minimalist, high-quality living. Pop-up stores like the one in Chicago may act as testing grounds for more Goop-branded brick-and-mortars in the future. The pop-ups seem to serve another purpose: exposing the brand to people who have a strong opinion about Paltrow but have never visited her website. “I do think a lot of the misperception comes from people who haven’t actually gone on the site, because a lot of the things you see or hear, we’re like, ‘We never said that, never wrote that, that’s not the price point, or this was totally out of context,'” Paltrow says. “It seems that when people really engage, they understand who we are and what we’re doing.”
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Goop Dreams From turkey ragù to skin care, Paltrow has grown her brand one well-sourced ingredient at a time.
Of all the activities on Paltrow’s professional pie chart these days–acting, investing, writing cookbooks, expanding her chain of high-end gyms with Tracy Anderson–Goop “is the biggest slice,” she tells me over the phone a month later, as she drives her car across Los Angeles. She started the company in 2008 at her kitchen table in her house in London, having reduced her acting schedule to about one film per year in order to spend more time with her children. For years she had been compiling notes on how to live an elevated life. At the same time, she found herself asking questions about food, fashion, health, and spirituality, and not finding a place on the web that answered them. So she decided to start one, sharing tips makeup artists gave her before magazine shoots, restaurants she loved, unique spa treatments in far-flung locations, even advice from her therapists. Paltrow would test newsletter recipes in her kitchen and call to her editor, Eliza Honey–who was working upstairs–when they were ready to taste. “Like many other things in my life,” Paltrow says, “I sort of found myself in the middle of doing them before I really understood how I got there. It was the same with my movie career, or my cookbooks.” As Paltrow was launching Goop, other fashion and lifestyle websites were popping up that would gradually expand into e-commerce. Refinery29, for example, had begun as an editorial site in 2005 (also at its founders’ kitchen table; it would open its shopping feature in 2012). Goop was also the first in a recent wave of celebrity-driven lifestyle brands. The actress Rachel Bilson launched her fashion collection, Edie Rose, the same fall that Paltrow started her newsletter. Jessica Alba cofounded the Honest Company, which sells nontoxic diapers and home cleaning products, in 2011. Blake Lively’s Preserve, which features shoppable lifestyle stories, launched last year, followed by Reese Witherspoon’s Southern-inspired fashion-and-home brand, Draper James. “I wasn’t aware, from a trending perspective, where the Internet was going,” Paltrow says. “I sort of just got lucky.” Advertisement Though the media presents these women as competitors, Paltrow bristles at the suggestion. “I feel there’s something slightly misogynistic about it,” she told Time magazine in June. And the comparisons are not entirely apt. Honest pulled in $150 million in revenue in 2014. Goop, with meager earnings in comparison, has always been a different kind of business, one that’s editorially driven and guided stringently by Paltrow’s voice and personal aesthetic. (For example, Paltrow is not a big fan of the color brown, according to the Chicago pop-up’s designer Kara Mann, favoring whites, pinks, and what Weinstein refers to as “Goop gray.”) The product offerings on Goop are therefore highly curated and, so far, available only in limited quantities. “The edit is really, really specific,” Weinstein says. “[Head buyer Patrick Devlin] always says that we should never sell anything we wouldn’t all want to wear.” Everything on Goop–including life advice and merchandise–represents something Paltrow does or would do or buy in her own life. Shopping on Goop is not unlike shopping in Paltrow’s closet. At first, Goop was mostly a writing project. Paltrow focused on sending subscribers a weekly newsletter that contained a little bit of content–recipes for a post-holiday cleanse, photos of herself modeling winter wardrobe suggestions, or advice from one of her many gurus. The website was simply an archive of past newsletters. “When I think back on it, I’m afraid to press send,” she says. “But at the time, I had this belief in what I was going to do.” She views this foolhardiness as a hallmark of her career. “My future self is always afraid when I look back,” Paltrow says. “I had this the other day where somebody was asking me about [the movie Emma], that I did in England when I was 22. It was really my first starring role, an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. And I remember at the time people saying, ‘Weren’t you intimidated to play this English heroine? You’re this American girl.'” Now, she says, “When I think about it, I would be petrified.” Many of the clothes Paltrow’s newsletter initially highlighted–$975 Bottega Veneta riding boots, $2,000 cashmere trench coats from Tod’s–were expensive, and critics quickly painted her as disconnected from “normal” people, even though her newsletter also featured less-pricey options from fashion chains like Zara. The health and wellness advice often came from high-end osteopaths and New Age spiritual experts. That Paltrow was showcasing her ability to spend money–including hundreds of dollars on cleanse diets–as a financial crisis was hitting America fueled the backlash. But her fans responded: The company says the newsletters boast almost a 40% open rate (the average number of subscribers who actually open the newsletter each day), double the lifestyle category average, and drive approximately 35% of Goop’s traffic.
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“I think it was a lot of idiot savant-ness,” Paltrow admits about her decision to start with email newsletters and only gradually build up a website. (“It’s not clear why she bothered to put [the site] up with so little content on it,” one Los Angeles Times blogger snarked. “I really wasn’t aware, from a trending perspective, where the Internet was going, or what was going to happen–that newsletters would become something that everybody did,” Paltrow continues. “I sort of just got lucky.” Goop evolved slowly–no one can accuse Paltrow of building or failing fast. Using her own money, Paltrow hired a COO, a website editor, and a CEO, Seb Bishop, in 2010. Bishop had been an investor in Summly, which Yahoo acquired in 2013, and was no stranger to celebrity-fronted projects; for three and a half years, he had been the international CEO of Red, U2 singer Bono’s licensing brand for raising funds to fight HIV. But the pace remained unhurried. When Paltrow’s company launched its travel app, Goop City Guides, in 2011, it featured just New York; it added one new city every year or so–Los Angeles, London, Paris–in part because Paltrow wanted every recommendation in the app to come personally from her or someone she trusted, down to every restaurant and menu item suggestion. Paltrow and Bishop explored options for monetizing the site and newsletters in a similarly patient way. “We used to have a lot of discussions about how we were going to do it,” Paltrow says. “There was ShoeDazzle, and there were all these subscription things–were we going to do that? Were we going to be only media? Were we going to sell physical product?” In 2012, Goop tested the commercial waters, offering one limited-edition product for sale per week, each an exclusive collaboration between Paltrow and an existing brand. Goop fans, after reading about the product in the newsletter or directly on the site, could instantly buy it. The first item for sale, a white Kain Label T-shirt, was embellished with grosgrain piping and sold for $90. Predictably, the Internet howled over the price point given how simple the item was, but the shirt quickly sold out. Over time, Goop evolved beyond the weekly single-product format, featuring products from hundreds of brands and collaborating with designers including Monique Lhuillier and Diane von Furstenberg. Advertisement One reason Goop grew so slowly, Paltrow admits, was simple nerves.”I had trepidation about taking that leap and defining myself as an entrepreneurial person,” she tells me as she drives, sounding looser and more open on the phone than when we chatted in Chicago.”I think that I felt, Who am I to start a business? If you’re already a public person, and you decide to become entrepreneurial, it just comes with a great deal of scrutiny.” (Even now, she adds, “Unless I see something very, very clearly, I don’t pull the trigger.”) “It wasn’t until Goop started getting a lot of traction in terms of moving tons of product for other people, like hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars of product, and millions of dollars of product for other brands, that I started to think, You know, there might be more of a business here,” Paltrow says. In 2012, the company made approximately $1.5 million in revenue, though it ended the year about $40,000 away from actually turning a profit and also carried about $1.2 million in debt, according to financial documents filed with Companies House in the U.K. (By the end of 2013, the company carried $1.7 million in debt.) But the pace of change was about to pick up. The next year, she moved her family back from the U.K. to her native California. Then she announced, via that now-infamous Goop post--which drove a wave of new attention–that she and Martin were separating. In the midst of all this change, she officially relocated Goop’s headquarters to L.A.; Bishop, who chose to stay with his family in London, remained on until a new CEO was in place.
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A few days after the Chicago pop-up launch, I meet Gersh at Goop’s New York offices at WeWork, near Bryant Park, where she and the company’s business teams are based. Gersh is wearing a tight-fitting black jacket, her blond hair pulled back. Trim and toned, Gersh is, like Paltrow, a Tracy Anderson fitness devotee–in fact, they met through the famous trainer. Paltrow invited Gersh over for dinner in Los Angeles last summer, and the two brainstormed about what Goop could become. By the end of the night, Paltrow had offered her the job. “I had trepidation about taking that leap and defining myself as an entrepreneurial person,” Paltrow says. “Who am I to start a business?” Gersh had recently left Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, where she’d been for a year and a half, most recently as CEO. The move to Goop was notable to anyone who had read what the grand doyenne of lifestyle media had said in Porter magazine a month earlier: “[Paltrow] just needs to be quiet,” Stewart had grumbled. “She’s a movie star. If she were confident in her acting, she wouldn’t be trying to be Martha Stewart.” (Gersh, according to a Goop insider, had to wait several months before joining Goop officially, due to a noncompete clause she’d signed at MSLO.) “I went to Martha Stewart with the purpose of creating contextual commerce,” says Gersh, referring to the strategy of allowing audiences to shop seamlessly as they consume content. But her efforts to bridge the editorial and business arms of the struggling empire–and enable buying through storytelling–were unsuccessful.”It’s hard because of traditional beliefs about content and traditional beliefs about commerce,” Gersh says. “It’s hard to change cultures.” Though Gersh oversaw a massive restructuring and helped grow MSLO’s digital ventures, a product-side deal she helped broker with JCPenney resulted in a high-profile breach-of-contract lawsuit between Martha Stewart and Macy’s. By Gersh’s own account, she and the company were never the right fit. (MSLO, which has had six CEOs since 1999, was acquired by Sequential Media in June for $353 million.) What attracted Gersh to Goop was Paltrow’s belief that editorial could be merged more seamlessly with the shopping experience. “The brand had what I think are the important components to contextual commerce,” Gersh says. “The recommendations have to be what you actually believe in, or it doesn’t work at all. And you need to have an audience that’s leaning in, in order to make it work.” Gersh has helped Paltrow raise a seed round of funding for Goop, as well as an approximately $10 million Series A led by Tony Florence at New Enterprise Associates. Investor Amanda Eilian, the cofounder of video-editing startup Videolicious, visited Paltrow in the actress’s apartment in New York’s Tribeca to hear her pitch. “The first time I met Gwyneth, she sat down and talked about her vision for the business–but also how committed she was to it,” Eilian says. “She wasn’t just endorsing it. It was her company, she started it, she put her own money into it. Up to that point it had really been all her. She made me very comfortable that she had the ability to make this a real business–and successful. She definitely wasn’t looking to Lisa and other people in the company to answer questions for her.” With expanding resources, Gersh set about diversifying Goop’s business model. She assembled an advertising team to drum up a second stream of revenue (brands like Chanel are already running sizable ads on the Goop website); she worked with head buyer Devlin and head of brand collaborations Weinstein to increase Goop’s product offerings on the site; and she beefed up the content teams. “It couldn’t be Gwyneth and one person writing all of the content anymore,” Gersh says. According to the company, revenue in the first half of 2015 was up 62% over the same period the previous year.
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“Lisa brings all the scaffolding,” Paltrow says. “She has taken a thousandth-floor view of what we could be.” Before Gersh came on board, editorial director Elise Loehnen says, “we were reporting to no one.” Gersh instituted basic concepts, like organization charts. “She’s been coaching everyone to get into their lanes, and building structure and creating process, and gearing us in a way that we’ll be able to scale,” Loehnen adds. Most importantly, Gersh installed Weinstein as a bridge between the content and product teams, helping to ensure a seamless reading-to-purchase experience. “We don’t buy anything we can’t tell a story around,” Weinstein says. “Generally, when people experience the site, they’re like, ‘Oh, I didn’t want to like it, but I loved it,’ ” editorial director Loehnen says. Gersh, a self-made, Bronx-born entrepreneur who put herself through college and law school and made partner at a New York law firm before cofounding Oxygen Media, enjoys the camaraderie at Goop.”I find women to be very collaborative in the workplace,” she says. “I love working with women who have kids, because they’re highly efficient, and they’re also problem solvers.” Plus, she adds, “It’s great to start a meeting talking about shoes rather than the hockey score.” Paltrow is surprisingly hands-on as a boss, overseeing Goop’s editorial team much like the head of a traditional magazine would. She leads brainstorming sessions with the L.A.-based edit staff–sometimes in the Goop office, but often while lying on the floor of her Brentwood living room “hanging out with the dogs and the kids,” as Loehnen puts it, or sitting around the kitchen table. (Weinstein often joins, to ensure that the product and edit teams are in alignment.) Paltrow approves all story ideas, as well as screen grabs of articles and visual spreads; she sends back “incredibly specific” notes, says Loehnen, before anything gets published. Paltrow is equally involved on the commerce side of the business. “Gwyneth sees every single piece that we sell on the site,” says Weinstein (who bears no relation to the film producer behind Paltrow’s Oscar-winning vehicle, Shakespeare in Love). “I’m at Goop every day,” Paltrow tells me in Chicago. “It’s my main job. I’ve made commitments to people and I’ve taken their money, so I’m going do everything in my power to make sure that the brand scales.” Paltrow’s relative absence from the big screen has left some wondering if her passion for film is waning. But Paltrow refutes the idea that she can only have one career. “I’m a big believer in the ampersand,” she says.”I don’t see it as I’m leaving something behind, I see it as this year I probably won’t make a movie or I probably won’t do a TV show or a play, and I’ll focus on the business. It’s our tendency to want to put women in one little category,” she continues, making a pinching gesture with her hand. “That’s where we like them.” Advertisement Despite advances on the business front, Goop continues to trigger intense skepticism, particularly on social media. While many Goop diehards Instagram meals prepared from Paltrow’s cookbooks or tweet articles when the weekly newsletter arrives in their inboxes, sniping often erupts simultaneously–about price points or the more unique aspects of certain recommendations, like a dessert recipe for “sex bark.” The phrase conscious uncoupling still triggers eye rolls from people who see it as a pretentious substitute for divorce, as if Paltrow even thinks she knows how to break up better than everyone else (the term is actually meant to describe a process, created by therapist Katherine Woodward Thomas, for peacefully ending a marriage). A tiny Goop item about an unusual treatment offered at an L.A. spa led to thousands of negative news articles and blog posts about Paltrow’s “vaginal steaming” advice. Paltrow once drew ire for writing about a book that, she said, claims that “negativity changes the structure of water”; in January, a book about pseudoscience was published bearing the title Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? “I think that it would be easy to feel crippled by some of the backlash,” Loehnen says, but Paltrow “really just encourages us not to ever feel scared, not to ever hold punches, because I think that she feels, and we all feel, that what we’re doing has value.”
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“I’ve made commitments to people, and I’ve taken their money, ” Paltrow says. “I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure that the brand scales.” Take, for example, that legendary term, which became a Goop headline that Paltrow didn’t even write. “When I announced that I was separating on the website, [Loehnen] titled the piece ‘Conscious Uncoupling’ and I had no idea,” Paltrow says. The Internet erupted in a swarm of jokes–and Paltrow knows that such moments can be a little scary for her staff. “When something like that happens, I think everybody is like, ‘Oh, shit,’ ” she says. “I just tell them that I think we are creating interesting discussions.” Paltrow also defends Loehnen for having written the vaginal-steaming piece. “This is a thousands-of-years-old practice in Korean spas,” she says. (Loehnen stands by the recommendation, too. “It feels good, it’s not harmful–it’s not like we’re urging people to go out and buy AK-47s,” she says.) Though Goop is still very much a small business in startup mode–editorial headquarters is a barn on Paltrow’s L.A. property–the decision to offer more product is working, especially when it comes to “elevated basics” like blazers, which regularly sell out. And then there’s its first proprietary launch, the organic skin-care line Goop will unveil in the first quarter of next year. Goop is collaborating with Juice Beauty, a company with its own chemists, to produce the line. (The partnership is a complex one: Juice is an investor in Goop, and Paltrow is an investor in Juice. As part of the deal, Paltrow became Juice’s creative director for makeup in January and is helping Juice design a makeup line, due out in January 2016, which will be sold on the Goop website.) Paltrow recognizes that it’s a luxury to have a strong brand. “You can put a lot of people in a room who have strategy, money, experience in marketing and say we want to do something and this is how we’re going to do it, but it’s actually a tricky thing to create a real brand,” she says. “I feel grateful that I started sort of unwittingly with a brand.” Questions about how to monetize the company, Paltrow says, “are much easier problems to have than how we are going to create something that people are going to resonate with and identify with.” Gersh, sitting near her at the pop-up, nods subtly in agreement. Looking back, Paltrow sees that part of the reason the email list grew was that she focused on the content before she ever thought about how Goop might make money. “I was doing something from a very real, very honest place,” she says of those early newsletters, her hands clasped lightly. “There wasn’t anything commercial about it. So when we decided to foray into commerciality, there was something to trust.” Goop understands that big brouhahas can bring big readership numbers, and that haters can wind up becoming unwitting Goop converts. “That’s the general trajectory,” Loehnen tells me. “People are resistant, and then someone gives them her cookbook and they’re like, ‘These recipes are kind of amazing,’ and then they become fans. Generally, when people experience the site, they’re like, ‘Oh, I didn’t want to like it, but I loved it.’ ” Paltrow is amused by these reactions, and heartened by them. “I always like it when there’s a big response to something because it tells me, ‘Oh we’ve touched a nerve here, this is really interesting,’ ” Paltrow laughs. “There are a lot of media companies that would die to have the kind of response that we get from our content.” “Love us or hate us,” Gersh says, “you want to know what we think.”
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Related: How Gwyneth Paltrow Created A “Real Brand” With Goop [Photos: Williams + Hirakawa, Set design: Mike Malandra & Bette Adams at Mary Howard Studio; Styling: Jill and Jordan at The Wall Group; Hair:
Derek Yeun at Starworks Group; Makeup: Jillian Dempsey at Starworks Group; Manicure: Tracy Clemens at Opus Beauty; Goop Dreams Section: Ragu Photo: Marvin Joseph, Getty Images; Stella McCartney Photo: Han Myung-Gu, Getty Images; DVF Photo: Celine Grouard for Fast Company; Lisa Gersh, Goop Location Photos: Ryan Lowry; Goop Pop-Up 2014: Michael Buckner, Getty Images for Goop] ||||| Gwyneth Paltrow now claims she didn’t come up with her infamous Goop terms “conscious uncoupling” and “vaginal steaming.”
While Paltrow approves all stories on her lifestyle website Goop, she claims the controversial “Conscious Uncoupling” headline on the 2014 piece, announcing her split from Chris Martin, and the January 2015 feature on “vaginal steaming” actually came from her editorial director, Elise Loehnen.
Paltrow told Fast Company’s September issue the headline on the Goop.com story on her split from Coldplay frontman Martin was Loehnen’s brainchild.
“When I announced that I was separating on the website [Loehnen] titled the piece ‘Conscious Uncoupling,’ and I had no idea,” she said.
Paltrow added Loehnen also penned the piece about a $50 vaginal steam treatment at an LA spa.
(The story included: “It is an energetic release — not just a steam douche — that balances female hormone levels.”)
“This [has] a thousands of years of practice in Korean spas.”
Paltrow explained the treatment to Fast Company, while Loehnen added of the feminine steam: “It feels good, it’s not harmful — it’s not like we’re urging people to go out and buy AK-47s.”
Paltrow said of the Internet backlash: “When something like that happens, I think everybody [in the Goop office] is like, ‘Oh s - - t,’ ” she says.
But, “I just tell them that I think we are creating interesting discussions.”
Goop may have detractors, but the site still gathers 1 million newsletter subscribers and 3.75 million page views a month. |||||
What is a shorter version of the above article? | – The divorce term that took the nation by storm can no longer be blamed on Gwyneth Paltrow. The actress, who appears on the cover of Fast Company's September issue, says she "had no idea" her Goop editorial director Elise Loehnen slapped the "Conscious Uncoupling" title on her 2014 post describing her split from Chris Martin, per Page Six. Fast Company explains the term "triggers eye rolls from people who see it as a pretentious substitute for divorce," but was meant to describe a peaceful breakup created by therapist Katherine Woodward Thomas. And now everyone can go back to loving Paltrow as, um, before. | 5 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is a random fact? | pluto has not cleared its orbit | 8 | Flan2021 | openbookqa:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
from the central post, panels go down to the ground through five arms. the fixing in the sand happens with special tent pegs of 1 meter length. alternatively we can deliver tent pegs of 30 – 35 cm for grassland use.
Make this proper case. | From the central post, panels go down to the ground through five arms. The fixing in the sand happens with special tent pegs of 1 meter length. Alternatively we can deliver tent pegs of 30 – 35 cm for grassland use. | 7 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
This is some data: Alimentum eatType restaurant; Alimentum food Italian; Alimentum priceRange high; Alimentum area city centre; Alimentum familyFriendly yes.
Generate a detailed description of this data. | Alimentum in city centre, is a family-friendly Italian restaurant at a high price. | 4 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your answer: Sarah tried to ignore the elephant in the room, but she could not bear the awkwardness.
Tell me who she is.
Options:
[A]. Sarah
[B]. the elephant in the room | [A]. | 3 | Flan2021 | definite_pronoun_resolution:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Attributes: name = The Punter, eatType = coffee shop, food = Japanese, priceRange = more than £30, customer rating = low, familyFriendly = no, near = Café Sicilia. Produce a detailed sentence about this restaurant. | The Punter near Café Sicilia is a coffee shop serving Japanese food with a low customer rating. It costs more than £30 and is not child friendly. | 0 | Flan2021 | gem/e2e_nlg:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Hoping to keep slim playoff hopes alive, the Bengals traveled to the Louisiana Superdome for a Week 11 fight with the Saints. In the first quarter, the Bengals drew first blood as quarterback Carson Palmer completed a 41-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Chad Johnson. The Saints would reply when quarterback Drew Brees completed a 72-yard touchdown strike to wide receiver Joe Horn. Midway through the second quarter, Cincinnati took the lead, when kicker Shayne Graham booted a 21-yard field goal. After a scoreless third quarter, New Orleans still trailed by three points. In the fourth quarter, Saints kicker John Carney tied the game with a 24-yard field goal. The Bengals offense awoke, and Palmer and Johnson connected with each other two times on 60-yard and 4-yard touchdown passes. The Bengal defense scored too, when rookie defensive back Ethan Kilmer returned a Brees interception 52 yards for a touchdown. The Saints offense could only manage one more score , when Brees completed a 27-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Terrance Copper. The Bengal defense then blocked the extra point attempt. Even though the Bengals were out-gained 595 yards to 385 yards, the Bengals snapped their three-game skid, and their record improved to 5-5.
Ask a question about this article. | Which player caught the longest touchdown pass? | 9 | Flan2021 | drop:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Sentence 1: He is an intellectual giant, and I have great respect for him.
Sentence 2: Be sure to give my respects to the dean.
Multi-choice problem: Does respect mean the same thing in these two sentences?
* different meanings.
* the same meaning. | different meanings | 1 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wic:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Which movie is the following review about?
A winky, interminable and rather cringe-inducing manifesto... whose characters stand as crude if attractive types rather than three-dimensional people.
Movie: | latter days | 9 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
Select from options: How similar are the following two sentences?
General Electric posts 9% profit drop for third quarter
GE posts 9% profit drop for third quarter
Give the answer on a scale from 0 - 5, where 0 is "not similar at all" and 5 is "means the same thing".
Possible answers:
- 0.
- 1.
- 2.
- 3.
- 4.
- 5. | 5 | 3 | Flan2021 | glue/stsb:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Answer the following question about this sentence:
The smoke alarm went off.
What is the cause?
Available choices:
--I lit a candle..
--I burnt my dinner.. | I burnt my dinner. | 7 | Flan2021 | super_glue/copa:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Which of the following could limit the supply of a renewable resource?
Choose from:
a). recycling aluminum cans.
b). cutting down trees in forests.
c). mining minerals such as gold.
d). conserving freshwater resources. | b). | 0 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Easy:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Possible tweet sentiments: Possible answers:
[A]. negative.
[B]. positive.
Write a tweet that is [A].. | @NANCY___ Ha, well.There's a pure delay on this when I type | 6 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
A week before Christmas, Abby and her family got together. They went to a local nursing home, wearing Santa hats. They went from room to room, singing Christmas carols. Some of the patients sang with them.
Available choices:
[1]. They all had a very memorable time together.
[2]. Everyone was miserable and angry.
Which option is the next sentence? | [1]. | 0 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-select: Knowing that "as the roughness of something increases , the friction of that something will increase when its surface moves against another surface", how would one answer "As a sled runs off the snow and on to the asphalt it's runners start"
Options are:
i. fly off;
ii. turn sideways;
iii. to heat up;
iv. cooling down;...A: | iii. | 3 | Flan2021 | openbookqa:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Holly: are you still at the corner store
Bob: I just left, why?
Holly: we have no ice D:
Bob: oh no lol
Bob: I'll head back
Holly: thank youuuuu
What was that dialogue about, in two sentences or less? | Holly needs Bob to go back to the corner store to purchase ice. | 3 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Read this: Yale's English and Comparative Literature departments were part of the New Criticism movement. Of the New Critics, Robert Penn Warren, W.K. Wimsatt, and Cleanth Brooks were all Yale faculty. Later, the Yale Comparative literature department became a center of American deconstruction. Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, taught at the Department of Comparative Literature from the late seventies to mid-1980s. Several other Yale faculty members were also associated with deconstruction, forming the so-called "Yale School". These included Paul de Man who taught in the Departments of Comparative Literature and French, J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Hartman (both taught in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature), and Harold Bloom (English), whose theoretical position was always somewhat specific, and who ultimately took a very different path from the rest of this group. Yale's history department has also originated important intellectual trends. Historians C. Vann Woodward and David Brion Davis are credited with beginning in the 1960s and 1970s an important stream of southern historians; likewise, David Montgomery, a labor historian, advised many of the current generation of labor historians in the country. Yale's Music School and Department fostered the growth of Music Theory in the latter half of the 20th century. The Journal of Music Theory was founded there in 1957; Allen Forte and David Lewin were influential teachers and scholars.
Now answer this question, if there is an answer (If it cannot be answered, return "unanswerable"): Who is known as the mother of deconstruction? | unanswerable | 8 | Flan2021 | squad/v2.0:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
• Produits couramment appelés suppléments diététiques
Could you please translate this to English? | • Products Commonly Described as Dietary Supplements | 2 | Flan2021 | wmt14_translate/fr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Note that this question lists possible answers. Which person is they referring to in the following sentence?
Video games are outselling movies because they are fun to play.
Pick from:
I. Video games;
II. movies; | I. | 8 | Flan2021 | definite_pronoun_resolution:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Arjen Robben scored a slick first-half goal to give Chelsea a 1-0 away win over CSKA Moscow and a place in the Champions League knock-out stages.
What best summarizes the content of the above article?
Pick your answer from: * World. * Sports. * Business. * Science/Tech. | Sports | 4 | Flan2021 | ag_news_subset:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The Bucs played one of their most heated rivals, the Carolina Panthers, at home. In the first half, it was a rout 20-7 with Bucs QB Chris Simms' first pass intercepted by the Panthers' Chris Gamble. In the second quarter, Tampa Bay finally scored its first touchdown of the season on a short pass from Simms to Joey Galloway, then followed that up in the third quarter with Carnell Williams scoring his first TD run of the season. Later that quarter, Simms led a drive that was wrapped up by a 2-yard bootleg by Simms on a fake to Mike Alstott, but Simms was hit hard on the play, and had to leave the game momentarily to let rookie Bruce Gradkowski take over. Simms returned in the fourth quarter to lead another scoring drive which ended with a long field goal by Matt Bryant. Unfortunately for the Bucs, the Panthers' kicker John Kasay hit his fourth field goal of the day, winning the game for the Panthers with only six seconds to spare. After the game, it was learned that Simms had a ruptured spleen and went into emergency surgery to remove it. Originally diagnosed as bruised ribs, it was only discovered shortly after the game ended. If discovery had been delayed any longer, Simms would have died. The injury cost Simms the rest of the season.
Answer this question: Who had 4 field goals | John Kasay | 3 | Flan2021 | drop:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Which type of water reservoir contains the largest volume of fresh water?
Options:
-- lakes
-- rivers
-- ice sheets
-- aquifers | ice sheets | 0 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Challenge:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your answer: Is "Frances A. M. Forbes writes that when the Patriarch Alexander was on his death-bed he called Athanasius, who fled fearing he would be constrained to be made Bishop." a good answer to the question "What did Athanasius do to avoid speaking to Alexander on his deathbed?"
Choices: (i). yes. (ii). no. | (i). | 2 | Flan2021 | glue/qnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Is the sentiment of the following sentence positive or negative (see options at the end)?
street gangs and turf wars in 1958 brooklyn -- stale cliches ,
pick from the following. a. negative b. positive | a. | 4 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Add spaces: Task2.Chooseyourownlocation
| Task 2. Choose your own location | 3 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
What is the best way to: how do you turn off the alarm on a car with the remote.
OPTIONS: 1). press the panic button on the remote.; 2). press the unlock button on the remote.;
Answer: | 2). | 5 | Flan2021 | piqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate the following sentence to Russian:
The plateau includes extensive birch woods, bogs and glacially formed lakes.
Russian: | Здесь есть большие березовые рощи, болота и озера ледникового происхождения. | 5 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ru-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a short movie review that has "[II]" sentiment (Pick your answer from:
[I] negative;
[II] positive;). | 's also nice | 9 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
The Armenian and the lost world 2009 watch online
Please remove spaces between words. | TheArmenianandthelostworld2009watchonline | 8 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
Choose the next sentence.By Freya Noble for Daily Mail Australia ACCC chairman Ros Sims said at the Federal Court on Wednesday petrol retailers worked together to drive up prices Five petrol retailers across Melbourne have been accused of colluding on bowser prices using a third-party service to share pricing information and drive prices up. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says five major petrol retailers - BP, Caltex and the fuel-selling arms of Coles, Woolworths and 7-Eleven - acted in a way that could increase the cost of fuel. The case launched in the Federal Court on Wednesday says the way the retailers used a statistics gathering service, run by the company Informed Sources, was a breach of Australian competition law.
BP told
OPTIONS:
- 7-Eleven in a statement they are 'confident that BP has acted lawfully at all times', but could not comment further due to the ongoing proceedings.
- ACCC in a statement they are 'confident that BP has acted lawfully at all times', but could not comment further due to the ongoing proceedings.
- Australian in a statement they are 'confident that BP has acted lawfully at all times', but could not comment further due to the ongoing proceedings.
- Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in a statement they are 'confident that BP has acted lawfully at all times', but could not comment further due to the ongoing proceedings.
- BP in a statement they are 'confident that BP has acted lawfully at all times', but could not comment further due to the ongoing proceedings.
- Caltex in a statement they are 'confident that BP has acted lawfully at all times', but could not comment further due to the ongoing proceedings.
- Coles in a statement they are 'confident that BP has acted lawfully at all times', but could not comment further due to the ongoing proceedings.
- Daily Mail Australia in a statement they are 'confident that BP has acted lawfully at all times', but could not comment further due to the ongoing proceedings.
- Federal Court in a statement they are 'confident that BP has acted lawfully at all times', but could not comment further due to the ongoing proceedings.
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| Daily Mail Australia in a statement they are 'confident that BP has acted lawfully at all times', but could not comment further due to the ongoing proceedings. | 4 | Flan2021 | super_glue/record:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
That is, if i'm not permanently banned from the computer. why cant i be an only child? =P anyway goodnight all! <3
Select your answer from the options. What is the sentiment of this tweet?
Options are: A. negative; B. positive;...I think the answer is | A. | 0 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
At present , the FCC will not request personal identifying information prior to allowing access to the wireless network .
The FCC said that it won 't request personal identifying information before allowing people to access the wireless network .
(See options at the end). If the first sentence is true, is the second one also true?
Choose your answer from: (i) no (ii) yes | (ii) | 5 | Flan2021 | glue/mrpc:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is an example of a tweet? | @zoeatthedisco lol hell yes i'm keen. WE'RE GOING SKIING AT TREBLE CONE SOMETIME THIS WINTER | 7 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Objective: How can I roast hazelnuts?
Which of the following solutions is more sound in terms of naive physics reasoning?
Choose from: -Place the hazelnuts in a single row on a cookie sheet and place in a 300-degree oven for 150 minutes.; -Place the hazelnuts in a single row on a cookie sheet and place in a 300-degree oven for 15 minutes.; | Place the hazelnuts in a single row on a cookie sheet and place in a 300-degree oven for 15 minutes. | 3 | Flan2021 | piqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a sentence not in English. | Bu iki konsorsiyum Kosova'nın yanı sıra Slovenya'da da rekabet halinde bulunuyorlar. | 8 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/tr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
In remarks during a ribbon-cutting ceremony here on Wednesday, Gov. George E. Pataki said he expected the facility to generate thousands more jobs in the Hudson Valley area for contractors and suppliers catering to the factory. He praised IBM for being "a critical partner in our economic development efforts" in New York state. In a brief speech, Samuel J. Palmisano, IBM's chief executive, emphasized that it was important to make long-term investments despite the current slump in the technology business. "To play to win in technology, you innovate and you lead," he said. But manufacturing technology products is a costly and cyclical business. In June, IBM announced that it was taking a charge of more than $2 billion against earnings. The largest single reasons for the charge were the cost of getting out of the business of manufacturing hard disks for storage, which it sold to Hitachi, and closing down some of its older semiconductor operations. But Kelly said the demand for advanced chips, like those produced at IBM's facility in Burlington, Vt., is strong. "I need more capacity in that end of the market," he said, "and this is factory is critical to meeting that growing demand." If IBM has miscalculated the demand, it will suffer badly as both the high operating costs and depreciation on the huge capital investment for the East Fishkill factory drag down earnings. But industry analysts said the plant should be insulated from a falloff in one or a few segments of the semiconductor market.
Question: "Who delivered a short speech about playing to win in technology?"
Response: "Samuel J Palmisano"
Based on the paragraph, is the response to the question is factually correct?
Pick your answer from:
A). no
B). yes | B). | 1 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Choose your story that continues the following story.
Hunter owned a lot of animals but not Ian because
Choices:
*Hunter had a hard heart..
*Ian had a hard heart.. | Ian had a hard heart. | 2 | Flan2021 | winogrande:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
What is the answer: Which actress played both Estella and Miss Havisham in 1946 and 1985 respectively? | jean simmons | 3 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Article: All companies who trade their stocks publicly are required to publish annual and quarterly financial statements showing the results of their operations, and you can find these reports (called the 10-Q and 10-K) on trading websites like Yahoo! or on the company websites themselves. These statements are a powerful research tool, as they allow you a glimpse into the nitty gritty numbers. An income statement shows what revenue and expenses the company had during a given period, and then whether or not the two netted together resulted in a profit or a loss. The most obvious value in reading the income statement is that you can see whether or not the company is generating a profit. Generally, stock prices for the company trend upwards as profits increase, and trend downward as they decrease or as the company experiences losses. You can compare the company’s income or losses over time, to see whether or not the company is in a pattern of growth. Remember that in choosing stocks to invest in, you are looking to predict the company’s future performance and hoping it does better than the market expects. For that reason, you can also consider investing in companies who show losses, if you believe that company is going to grow and turn a profit during the time you own the stock. Another important financial statement is the company’s balance sheet, which shows the company's assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity. Assets things like cash, accounts receivable, equipment, and buildings - all items of value the company owns and uses. Liabilities are the amounts the company owns to others, such as loans and accounts payable. Finally owner’s equity is the amount of the business that the company itself, or its stockholders, owns. The balance sheet, unlike the income statement, shows the company’s position on the last day of the quarter in terms of what it owns and what it owes. A key metric for predicting growth at a company is the ratio between the company’s cash and short-term investments (such as stock the company owns), and its short-term liabilities. You can tell by comparing the two whether the company has enough cash on hand to pay their upcoming debts - if they don’t, it’s bad news. You can use sites like Yahoo! Finance to view graphs showing the company’s trading price over time, going back to inception. You can use these reports to see whether the company’s stock price has been increasing or declining over time. Most new investors avoid stocks whose prices are dropping. While you may be able to turn a profit by purchasing stock at it’s lowest price, and then selling it when it becomes valuable again, these changes are very hard to predict. Besides financial performance, stock prices also reflect the market’s expectation for a specific company, based on things like how popular or necessary its products and services are, or how the company’s competitors are performing. For example, apple’s stock price often changes dramatically when the company announces the release of a new product, and then changes again based on how popular the new product is. If you have knowledge about a company that the general public does not, or could not figure out for themselves, you should watch out for insider trading laws when making trades. This generally applies mostly to employees of a company who know what’s going to happen before the company announces things to the public. Making trades based on this kind of information is illegal.
What is a summary? | Examine the company income statement. Check out the balance sheet. Look at the security's historical prices. Read news about the company. | 6 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
This is a test of commonsense with single/multi-choices. Complete the next sentence:
How to use a pay phone
Carry enough coins for a phone call.
Some pay phones-especially those in airports and train stations-also accept credit cards these days, but the charges for those can be extra high. Make sure you read the cost on the machine before paying.
Choices:
1). Some phones may charge towards the recipient's money card. Consider leaving one free jack on your service phone.
2). Know your minimum phone charges when charging. If you plan to call in cash, find out what the minimum number (4 , 100 canadian pounds) is to call instead of what is included for a credit card (7 , 200 us dollars).
3). If you are planning to make calls in the bathroom, remember to bring coins (around 20 euros worth). For emergencies, you might want to use a us post card or traveler's check instead of a credit card to receive you more coins.
4). Buy a small pack of wet wipes and gently wipe over the phone. You don't know who has used it before you.
The answer is: | 4). | 3 | Flan2021 | hellaswag:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Q: Why was Curious George curious ?
Which one of the following options would the answer to this be?
Pick from: a. description. b. entity. c. abbreviation. d. human. e. numeric. f. location.
A: | a. | 8 | Flan2021 | trec:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
SCO has also alleged that the generic Linux kernel contains code which is from its Unix property .
SCO claims that the Linux kernel holds Unix intellectual property owned by SCO .
Select from the options at the end. Are these sentences conveying the same meaning?
OPT: A). no. B). yes. | B). | 4 | Flan2021 | glue/mrpc:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Select the correct sentiment of the following review: I was electrified when I first saw this in 1983 or 1984. Steven Biko is gone half way through the film but the resonance of his courage and wisdom is not forgotten. I didn't when finally in South Africa in 1993. It is also largely a story about friendship and loyalty. When I was in South Africa and heard the audience at a dance recital in Natal sing Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika, my hair stood on its ends. There is a lot to learn from this story for all peoples.
Options are:
(I). negative
(II). positive | (II). | 5 | Flan2021 | imdb_reviews/plain_text:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Claim: Advanced study encourages deeper thinking and enhances research and critical skills, leading to a more informed citizenry
What evidence supports this claim? | 1. Although participation in the labor market is a primary concern for most , it is far from to the only reason to engage in post graduate study .
2. There is compelling evidence of the relationship between education and areas like civic participation as well as personal ; benefits in terms of health , life expectancy and family stability .
3. Equally , a Masters degree provides benefits to the individual in terms of a deeper understanding of both their subject and the world around them .
4. Life is not entirely about the world of work , and society as a whole benefits from a more educated citizenry .
5. The increasingly business and industry led courses that many UK universities are opting to run often understate the benefit to society that results from promoting learning for learnings sake . | 9 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
Mark Halperin accused of sexual harassment Several women spoke out to CNN detailing alleged incidents of sexual harassment during Halperin's tenure as the political director of ABC News over a decade ago. Halperin apologized for his behavior in a statement to CNN.
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "He is still sexually harassing people today."?
Choose your answer from:
[1]. Yes;
[2]. It's impossible to say;
[3]. No;
I think the answer is | [2]. | 0 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-choice question: What is the sentiment of the following tweet?
Tweet: @melmelsmell aww, i'm sure you're not that bad. I'm in year 10 so i've got a while to wait. phew. haha, np. <3
Choices:
(a). negative
(b). positive | (b). | 4 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a correctly punctuated version of the following text: 12 But I would ye should understand brethren that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel
| 12 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; | 8 | Flan2021 | fix_punct | zs_opt |
Baby Gorillas Are Just Like Us, Kind Of
From her C-section birth to her diapers and baby bottles, the San Diego Zoo’s newest gorilla is a lot like a human newborn — but not for long.
The baby girl, who has yet to be named, was born by a rare C-section March 12. Her mother, 18-year-old Imani, had been in labor for 12 hours — a normal stretch for human moms-to-be, but rare for gorillas.
“With gorillas, that’s very unusual,” zoo spokeswoman Christina Simmons told ABCNews.com. “Four hours is long for them.”
The 4-pound, 9-ounce baby was quickly wrapped in a blanket and given a tiny knit hat reminiscent of those seen in human nurseries. She was then moved to a neonatal intensive care unit, where oxygen and fluids kept her strong through treatment for a collapsed lung and pneumonia — problems sometimes seen in preemies.
But the tiny gorilla is growing faster, stronger (and hairier) than a human baby. Two days after her birth, she could hold her head up — a milestone typically reached around 3 months in human babies.
“She’s developing normally and very rapidly,” Nadine Lamberski, associate director of veterinary services at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, said in a statement. ”She’s getting a lot of calories [from infant formula] and you can see that she changes every day.”
The baby is also sucking her thumb, wearing diapers and clutching to her human caregivers, just like a human baby — well, almost.
“I would say that there are two things that differentiate her in how she acts compared to most babies that I take care of,” Dr. Dawn Reeves, a human neonatologist with UC San Diego Health System, said in a statement. “First, she’s a lot stronger when she grabs your hand. It’s very difficult to release her grip because that’s her instinct: to grab her mom. … Second, she can grab you with both her hands and her feet, which can be a little troublesome when trying to do procedures or exams.”
Most baby gorillas walk within three-to-six months, according to the National Zoo, and they’re ready to leave their moms by age 3.
By age 7, female gorillas are ready to have families of their own.
The baby gorilla is expected to grow to a whopping 200 pounds. The typical lifespan for gorillas in zoos is 54 years.
What are the most important parts of this text? | From her C-section birth to her diapers and baby bottles, the San Diego Zoo’s newest gorilla is a lot like a human newborn — but not for long. The baby girl, who has yet to be named, was born by a rare C-section March 12. Her mother, 18-year-old Imani, had been in labor for 12 hours — a normal stretch for human moms-to-be, but rare for gorillas. “With gorillas, that’s very unusual,” zoo spokeswoman Christina Simmons told ABCNews.com. “Four hours is long for them.” The 4-pound, 9-ounce baby was quickly wrapped in a blanket and given a tiny knit hat reminiscent… | 5 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Continue writing the following text: when the dragon came close again , the griffin tucked its wings and went into a wild dive that left seth 's stomach in his throat . presumably fearing another feint , the dragon hesitated to follow at first . by the time the dragon realized the dive was authentic , the griffin had spread its wings and seth was rapidly gliding toward the mansion , half blinded by the wind of their speed . the dragon surged after them , gaining until it became clear that the massive predator would overtake them before they reached the | mansion | 9 | Flan2021 | lambada:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
In 1901 who became the first Prime Minister of Australia?
What is the answer? | edmund barton | 9 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Q: The sound heard when a piano key is hit is caused by
What is the correct answer to this question?
Available choices:
(A). vibration.;
(B). refraction.;
(C). momentum.;
(D). acceleration.;...A: | (A). | 3 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Easy:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your answer.Choose from:
[-] no;
[-] yes;.
Dan had to stop Bill from toying with the injured bird. *He* is very compassionate.
Do "He" and "Bill" mean the same thing? | no | 3 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wsc.fixed:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
The Sisters of Mercy are an English gothic rock band, formed in 1980 in Leeds, United Kingdom (UK). After achieving early underground fame there, the band had their commercial breakthrough in mid-1980s and sustained it until the early 1990s, when they stopped releasing new recorded output in protest against their record company Time Warner. Currently, the band is a touring outfit only.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
The Sisters of Mercy had a record deal with Time Warner in the mid 80s.
Pick from: (A). Yes. (B). It's impossible to say. (C). No. | (A). | 3 | Flan2021 | anli/r2:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
A rocket began countdown . It was a common sound in the 1960s. But this was not just another countdown. It was the beginning of a historic event. It was the countdown of Apollo 11 -the space fligh that would carry men to the first landing on the moon.
In the spaceship at the top of the rocket were three American astronauts whose names would soon be known around the world: Neil Armstrong. Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins.
Neil Armstrong was the commander of the spaceship. Edwin Aldrin was the pilot of the moon lander. The astronauts gave it the name the Eagle. Michael Collins was the pilot of the command module , Columbia. He would wait in orbit around the moon while Armstrong and Aldrin landed and explored the surface.
On Earth, all activity seemed to stop. President Richard Nixon gave federal government workers the day off to watch the moon landing on television. Around the world, 500 million people watched the television report. Countless millions more listened on their radios.
Armstrong and Aldrin started the lander rocket engine. It slowed the spacecraft and sent it down toward the landing place. It was in an area known as the "Sea of Tranquility ".
The moon lander, controlled by a computer, dropped toward the airless surface of the moon. 140 meters from the surface, the astronauts look control of the lander from the computer. They moved the Eagle forward, away from a very rocky area that might have caused a difficult landing.
It took the astronauts more than three hours to complete the preparations for leaving the lander. It was difficult - in the Eagle's small space - to get into space suits that would protect them on the moon's surface.
Finally, Armstrong and Aldrin were ready. They opened the door. Armstrong went out first and moved slowly down the ladder. At 2:56 on July 20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong put his foot on the moon.
"That's one small step for man,"he said, "one giant leap for mankind."
1. Which astronauts were on the spaceship?
2. which spaceship?
3. who was piloting?
4. Who was commander?
5. what was so special about this flight?
6. who was pilot of the command module?
7. did he also explore the moon's surface?
8. what did he do?
9. who did get out and walk on the moon?
10. who got the day off that day?
11. how many watched it on TV?
12. who was president?
13. What area did the spaceship land?
14. how long did they prepare to leave the craft?
15. who went out first?
16. what was the exact time?
17. Did he say something?
18. where was the spacecraft moved from after initial landing?
19. what did they wear to protect them from the moon's atmosphere?
20. was the moon lander being manipulated by a computer?
Numbered answers: | 1. Neil Armstrong. Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins
2. Apollo 11
3. Edwin Aldrin
4. Neil Armstrong
5. It was the space flight that would carry men to the first landing on the moon
6. Michael Collins
7. No
8. He waited in orbit around the moon
9. Armstrong and Aldrin
10. federal government workers
11. 500 million people
12. Richard Nixon
13. in an area known as the "Sea of Tranquility "
14. more than three hours
15. Armstrong
16. 2:56 on July 20th, 1969
17. He said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
18. It was moved away from a very rocky area that might have caused a difficult landing
19. space suits
20. Yes | 6 | Flan2021 | coqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Sentence: name = The Wrestlers, eatType = coffee shop, food = Italian, priceRange = moderate, familyFriendly = yes, near = Raja Indian Cuisine
Can you represent the content in this sentence in data form? | The Wrestlers, sited near Raja Indian Cuisine, Luton, is a family-friendly coffee shop serving Italian food at mid-range prices. | 5 | Flan2021 | gem/e2e_nlg:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Tweet: YAY the first New Moon trailer is finally out!!! http://bit.ly/Zv7k4
Predict the sentiment of this tweet.
Available options:
-negative
-positive | positive | 3 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Summarize this article in one sentence.
Depending on the symptoms and the person, you may wish to call your primary care physician or 911. Pay close attention to symptoms. Prolonged heatstroke damages the brain, causing anxiety, confusion, seizures, headache, dizziness, lightheadedness, hallucinations, coordination problems, unconsciousness, and restlessness. Sunstroke can also affect the heart, kidneys, and muscles. It’s better to be safe than sorry. Call emergency services if you observe any of the following symptoms: Signs of shock (ex. bluish lips and fingernails, confusion) Loss of consciousness A temperature over 102F (38.9C) Rapid breathing and/or pulse Weak heartbeat, lethargy, nausea, vomiting, and dark urine In some cases, they may be collapsed, agitated or even in cardiac arrest, so take care and start CPR if necessary Seizures. If the person is having seizures, clear the area for the patient’s safety. If you can, place a pillow under his head so it does not bang on the ground during the convulsions. If milder symptoms persist for an extended time (longer than an hour), make the call. Our first instinct is to take medicine when we don't feel good. If someone is suffering from sunstroke, certain medications will only make the situation worse. Don’t use medications for fever like aspirin or acetaminophen. These can be harmful during a heatstroke because they may increase bleeding, which can be a very serious issue with blistered sunburns. Medications for a fever work well on someone with an infection, not on someone with heatstroke. Don’t give the person anything by mouth if he is vomiting or unconscious. Anything that enters the person’s mouth could become a choking hazard. While you wait for emergency services, get the person to a shady, cool (preferably air-conditioned) area. Remove all clothing and get the person into a cool bath, shower, stream, or pond if possible. Avoid very cold temperatures. The same goes for using ice, which may also mask the signs of a slow heartbeat and cardiac arrest. Do not do this if the person is unconscious. You can put a cool, wet rag on the back of the neck, on the groin, and/or under the armpits. If you can, mist and fan the person to promote evaporative cooling. Either mist the person with cool water or place a wet sheet over their body before fanning them; this will cause evaporative cooling, which is faster than simply wetting the person. Help the person remove any extra clothing (hat, shoes, socks) to aid in the cooling process. Do not rub the person’s body with alcohol. This is an old wives' tale. Alcohol cools the body too quickly, which can result in a dangerous temperature fluctuation. Rub the person’s body with cool water, never alcohol. Have the person sip either Gatorade or salty water (1tsp salt per qt water) to counteract both dehydration and the loss of salts through sweating. Don’t allow him to drink quickly, which can induce shock. If you don't have any salt or Gatorade, plain water will help also. Alternatively, you can administer salt tablets. Doing so can help balance electrolytes. Follow the instructions on the bottle. When the patient stays calm, the patient can help. Minimize their agitation by having them breath deeply. Have them focus on other things besides the sunstroke. Anxiety will only make their blood pump faster, raising their temperature a little more. Read How to Calm Yourself During an Anxiety Attack for more pointers about how to help them calm themselves. Massage the person's muscles. Massage gently. Your goal is to increase the circulation in the muscles. Muscle cramps are one of the early symptoms of sunstroke. Usually the calf areas are most affected. One of the most prominent effects of sunstroke is fainting. Protect against fainting by laying the person down. If the person does faint, turn him onto his left side with his right leg bent for stabilization. This position is called the recovery position. Check the person's mouth for vomit, so they do not choke.The left side is the best side for blood flow because our hearts are on that side.
Summary: | Call emergency services. Avoid medications. Cool the person down. Replenish fluids and electrolytes. Help the person stay calm. Lay the person down. | 3 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
(1) It was reopened in 2010 with new buses and upgraded in early 2011 .
(2) It was upgraded with new coaches in 2010 and reopened in early 2011 .
Do these two sentences mean the same thing?
I. no; II. yes; | I. | 3 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Would a linguist find the following sentence to be a valid English sentence grammatically?
Fluffy is sick, as surprises me.
(a). unacceptable; (b). acceptable; | (a). | 7 | Flan2021 | glue/cola:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
The Strangers: Prey at Night is a 2018 American slasher film directed by Johannes Roberts and starring Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, Bailee Madison and Lewis Pullman. A sequel to the 2008 film The Strangers, it is written by Bryan Bertino (who wrote and directed the first film) and Ben Ketai. Mike and his wife Cindy take their son and daughter on a road trip that becomes their worst nightmare. The family members soon find themselves in a desperate fight for survival when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park that's mysteriously deserted -- until three masked psychopaths show up to satisfy their thirst for blood.
Choose your answer: Is the following statement correct based on the text
is the strangers prey at night a sequel
Pick from:
*no.
*yes. | yes | 7 | Flan2021 | bool_q:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
"Tom said "Check" to Ralph as he took his bishop." is a true sentence.
Does this mean that "Tom said "Check" to Ralph as he took Ralph's bishop."?
(i). no. (ii). yes. | (ii). | 4 | Flan2021 | glue/wnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Test sentence: "A ball kicked the man."
Is this test sentence a correct grammatical English sentence?
Pick your answer from: a). unacceptable; b). acceptable; | b). | 2 | Flan2021 | glue/cola:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Answer the question
A road cut shows a layer of shale on top of a layer of limestone. This indicates
pick from the following. a. the shale layer is older than the limestone layer.. b. a fault occurred during the deposition of the layers.. c. the environment changed between the times of deposition.. d. volcanic activity occurred when these layers were deposited.. | c. | 5 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Challenge:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What concepts are described in the following sentence?
"Charlie Oliver represented district 5 on the 2010 commission and John Wilborn did so in 1999."
Return the answer as pairs of triples. | District 5 1999_COMMISSION John Wilborn
District 5 2010_COMMISSION Charlie Oliver | 8 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Answer by taking a quote from the following article:
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince was an American hip hop duo from West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Rapper Will Smith (the Fresh Prince) met disc jockey Jeff Townes (DJ Jazzy Jeff) in the 1980s, when they were both trying to make names for themselves in West Philadelphia's local hip hop scene. They had as a support live member Clarence Holmes (Ready Rock C) - who was not officially credited to the duo. Holmes left the group in 1990 and later sued unsuccessfully for earnings, claiming a breach of oral contract.
Jeff Townes and Will Smith were introduced to each other by chance in 1985. One night, Townes was performing at a house party only a few doors down from Smith's residence, and he was missing his hype man. Smith decided to fill in. They both felt strong chemistry, and Townes was upset when his hype man finally made it to the party. Soon after, the two decided to join forces. Smith enlisted a friend to join as the beatboxer of the group, Ready Rock C, who was not officially credited to the duo, only as a support live member. Philadelphia-based Word Up Records released their first single in late 1985 to 1986 when A&R man Paul Oakenfold introduced them to Word Up with their single "Girls Ain't Nothing but Trouble," a tale of funny misadventures that landed Smith and his former DJ and rap partner Mark Forrest (Lord Supreme) in trouble. The song sampled the theme song of "I Dream of Jeannie." Smith became known for light-hearted story-telling raps and capable, though profanity-free, "battle" rhymes. The single became a hit a month before Smith graduated from high school. Based on this success, the duo were brought to the attention of Jive Records and Russell Simmons. The duo's first album, Rock the House, which was first released on Word Up in 1986 debuted on Jive in March of 1987. The album sold about 300,000 units. That same year, the band found themselves on their first major tour with Run DMC, Public Enemy, and others.
Did Smith have a particular style of rapping? | Smith became known for light-hearted story-telling raps and capable, though profanity-free, "battle" rhymes. | 2 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What concepts are described in the following sentence?
"The Twenty Two is a family friendly restaurant serving English food in the riverside area."
Return the answer as pairs of triples. | The Twenty Two eatType restaurant
The Twenty Two food English
The Twenty Two area riverside
The Twenty Two familyFriendly yes | 8 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Write some highlights for the following article:
By. Julian Robinson for MailOnline. A guidebook has apologised to a seaside town for calling it 'brash' and 'full of kiss-me-quick hats'. The AA Guide to Cornwall also said Looe in east Cornwall was a place where 'you won't find the traditional Cornish thatched cottages or peaceful walks'. Local traders are furious and have threatened to withdraw membership of the guide. The AA Guide to Cornwall has angered traders by describing Looe, pictured, as 'brash' Traders in Looe, on the south east coast of Cornwall, are furious and have threatened to withdraw membership of the AA guide. They described the review as 'not a true view of Looe'. The AA has now apologised and promised to re-word the review in its next edition. One holidaymaker from York says the reviewer needed 'a trip to a well known opticians' and another slammed it was a 'very narrow perspective'. Gill Bridges, whose Polraen County House is advertised through the AA, said: 'Why should I pay a company to advertise when they then rubbish the town I trade in ? I feel like pulling my membership.' Town crier Roger Bennett offered to take the reviewer on a walk around the town to 'let them see and hear the quality of life in Looe'. The AA Guide to Cornwall, pictured, also said Looe in east Cornwall was a place where 'you won't find the traditional Cornish thatched cottages or peaceful walks' Town crier Roger Bennett offered to take the reviewer on a walk around the town, pictured, to 'let them see and hear the quality of life in Looe' The AA has vowed to work with the author of the review to reword the introduction with the revised version included in the next reprint of the guide. In a statement the AA said: 'Looe is a very popular place with plenty to offer visitors of all ages and we apologise for any offence that may have been caused by the wording used in the introduction. 'The section on Looe does highlight the array of great places to visit, however, with hindsight we agree that the opening could have been worded more sensitively. 'We will work with the author to reword the introduction and this will be included in the next reprint of the guide.' The review blames railway links for turning Looe into a holiday destination and the French for stopping the 'leisured classes' holidaying on the Continent. Walk some of the Smugglers' Way: A stunning trail from Boscastle on the north coast of Cornwall to Looe. The 36-mile route takes in Bodmin Moor and passes landmarks like the Jamaica Inn, Dobwalls and Sowden's Bridge. Visit the Wild Futures Monkey Sanctuary: Situated near the town, the active rescue centre features 37 animals. It is currently home to three different species - Barbary macaques, capuchins and woolly monkeys. A day out at East Looe Beach: Described by visitcornwall.com as a 'lovely bucket and spade-style beach' it is a long-time favourite with holidaymakers and a prime swimming spot right next to the bustling town. Crabbing on the harbour walls: Children can often be seen dangling lines off the harbour walls near East Looe Beach while others prefer to watch the world go by on nearby Banjo Pier. Take a boat trip: Many excursions leave from the town to explore the beautiful coastline and Looe Island, a wildlife sanctuary just off Hannafore Point and there is even a glass bottom boat so tourists can observe marine life.
Highlights: | Looe in east Cornwall described as 'brash' in new AA Guide to Cornwall. Described as place where 'you won't find the traditional Cornish thatched houses or peaceful walks' Furious local traders have threatened to withdraw membership of the guide. AA has apologised and promised to re-word the review in its next edition. | 1 | Flan2021 | cnn_dailymail:3.4.0 | zs_opt |
Mozilla revealed yesterday four Internet of Things IoT projects that it plans to concentrate on after stopping any further development of Firefox OS for smartphones
Can you repeat this sentence, but add in punctuation? | Mozilla revealed yesterday four Internet of Things (IoT) projects that it plans to concentrate on after stopping any further development of Firefox OS for smartphones. | 1 | Flan2021 | fix_punct | zs_opt |
These ruins are thousands of years old.
Translate to Czech
Czech: | Tyhle trosky jsou tisíce let staré. | 0 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/cs-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article that answers the following question: Who threw the second longest touchdown pass? | Coming off their win over the Cardinals the Chiefs flew to Qwest Field where they played their old division rival, the Seattle Seahawks. In the first quarter, the Chiefs took the lead with QB Matt Cassel getting a 7-yard TD pass to WR Dwayne Bowe. They had a problem maintaining this lead as Dustin Colquitt's punt was blocked and returned 10 yards for a touchdown by FS Earl Thomas. They soon got the lead back as Shaun Smith got a 1-yard TD run, followed by Cassel finding Bowe again on a 36-yard TD pass. The lead was narrowed when kicker Olindo Mare got a 43-yard field goal, followed by QB Matt Hasselbeck getting a 13-yard TD pass to TE Chris Baker. The Chiefs pulled ahead with RB Jamaal Charles getting a 3-yard TD run, followed by Cassel throwing to Bowe on a 9-yard TD pass. The Seahawks responded as Hasselbeck completed an 87-yard TD pass to WR Ben Obomanu, but the Chiefs increased their lead as Cassel got a 6-yard TD pass to TE Tony Moeaki. | 7 | Flan2021 | drop:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a context and a hypothesis. | Context: Two Saltillo teens arrested in June for vandalizing a Weaver Cemetery and a church near Pickton have been indicted by a Hopkins County grand jury. Canyon Ray Davis and Johnny Lyle Bench were charged with Tampering with Evidence and Criminal Mischief resulting in damage or destruction to a place of worship.
Hypothesis: the teens were suspended from school | 9 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article with the title: "The New York Times"
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When the psychedelic movement in San Francisco was at its artistic peak in the 1960's, the Grateful Dead and others tried to turn music making back into a folk activity. At the "Acid Test" parties of the writer Ken Kesey, the line between performer and audience was erased, and both were on equal footing in one free-wheeling community. But as the years wore on, optimism faded and psychedelic musicians became rock stars, the Grateful Dead soon rose to a top position in the community and a hierarchy took shape. Today, the Dead are neither part of nor leaders of the Deadheads they play to; they are simply the axis around which that community revolves.
There are few sure things at a Grateful Dead performance. The band changes its set every night, plays for anywhere from two to four hours and gives performances that can vary from lackluster to appropriately mind-blowing. It is probably the only surviving 60's band that can get away with not playing its most popular songs in concert, and the only one whose new songs are canonized immediately. — Neil Strauss
The Dead did a quick turnabout this week. First, band representatives told the Live Music Archive, at www.archive.org, to stop making available its trove of live Grateful Dead recordings, which have been free online for years. Fans were so furious that within days, the band was forced to relent partway.
The Grateful Dead established a basic template for performances through the 1980's and 90's: two sets, one bright and full of singable hits, the second stretching out into darker, more fractured group improvising but snapping back into the band's rock anthems at the end.
HEY, JERRY -- What's happening? I caught your funeral. Weird. Big Steve was good. And Grisman. Sweet sounds. But what really stood out -- stands out -- is the thundering silence, the lack, the absence of that golden Garcia lead line, of that familiar slick lick with the up-twist at the end...
Jerry Garcia never spoke much during Grateful Dead concerts. The Dead's lead guitarist, singer and main songwriter was a voluble, articulate man offstage. But he worried that any words he spoke to the Dead's audiences in sold-out arenas might be taken far too seriously by fans, who seemed willing to consider him an oracle.
Jerry Garcia, whose gentle voice and gleaming, chiming guitar lines embodied the psychedelic optimism of the Grateful Dead for three decades, died in his sleep yesterday at Serenity Knolls, a residential drug treatment center in Forest Knolls, Calif. He was 53.
In a recessionary pop music environment in which tours keel over and die and radio and MTV stars hit the road only to cancel their tours, the Grateful Dead, 26 years old and counting, are doing better than ever. | 7 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article with the title: "Why it's important to be nice to your flight attendant"
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Maybe you don’t want to please your cabin crew next time you fly. I know, I know, it’s their job to be nice; you're the customer, they're the employee. But if you're good to them, they'll be extra nice to you.
So here's how to charm them: 1. Say hello! If a flight attendant greets you upon boarding at the jetway, say hi back. Don't just ignore them. A simple "good morning" or "good evening" does it. How would you like to greet 20 people in a row and be greeted by silence? Well, that's what usually happens. 2. Listen to the safety demo. It's just polite. Put down your iPad and Kindle. When was the last time you really listened? If it was more than a few years ago, it's time for a refresher. At the very least don't talk loudly to your neighbor when a flight attendant is standing in front of you trying to keep you safe. 3. Headphones off! Take your headphones off when they ask you what you'd like to drink so they don’t have to repeat it three times. How would you like it if they were wearing headphones when talking to you? It's the golden rule. 4. Be specific when ordering. When you ask for coffee or tea, specify milk or no milk, sweetener or not, without being asked as in "I’d like coffee with milk please" or "I’d like coffee, black." Not only does it make their job easier, but everyone on the plane will get served more quickly. 5. Same for cold drinks. "I’d like Diet Coke, no ice please" or "Water, with ice and a slice of lemon please." 6. Say please and thank you. As in the examples above, say please and thank you when asking for and receiving something. Again, common courtesy that will get you treated extra well. A flight attendant once told me, "We thought you were company," (meaning that I worked for the airline) because I was so polite. 7. Magazines. Donate copies of your current magazines to the crew. After you finish reading this week's US Weekly or GQ, give it to your flight attendant. Flight attendants love to read magazines when they're off duty or on break. 8. Treats. It's perfectly permissible to bring a little tasty treat for your crew. Just make sure it’s safety-sealed—not your homemade muffins, which might be considered a safety hazard. I bring boxes of Walker’s Scottish shortbread or factory-sealed chocolates. They're always a big hit and you may be rewarded with a free cocktail or maybe even get reseated in the exit row. It happens! 9. Pens! People are always asking flight attendants for pens, whether to complete immigration and customs forms or to simply do the crossword puzzle. Bring a few extra cheap pens, bundle them up and give them to your crewmember. It may not be as enjoyable as a box of chocolates, but they will surely put them to good use. 10. Wheels in! Try to put your carryon bag with wheels or handles facing in before commandeering twice as much space putting it horizontally. And, for heaven's sake, don't put your jackets or tiny bags in the bin. That takes up space for larger items that have to go there, and these smaller items easily can fit atop existing bags once everyone has boarded or underneath the seat. Flight attendants will tell you that boarding is the most stressful part of their job, and by exhibiting an ounce of courtesy and common sense, it helps the entire plane get on the way more quickly. 11. Stay out of the aisles. Make your best effort to stay out of the aisles when the carts are brought out or when the plane is boarding. Try to use the bathroom before boarding or after takeoff, but if the crew begins their service, it is best to stay seated. The carts are heavy and awkward to maneuver, and there's no reason to become an obstacle to them unless absolutely necessary. And if a crewmember reminds you that the seatbelt sign is still illuminated, remember that they are just doing their job. 12. Tell the airline. If a flight attendant offers exceptionally nice service, most airlines have a mechanism for recognizing them. Ask for their employee number and note the flight number. Where will all this kindness get you? No, you probably won't get an inflight upgrade (although flight attendants do have the ability to offer them if there's room). Maybe the crew will forget to charge you for your cocktail. Maybe they'll reseat you if the child behind you is wailing like a banshee. I've been offered a bottle of wine at the end of the flight on more than one occasion. But sometimes being nice is its own reward.
See more to learn what your flight attendant really thinks about you.
George Hobica is a syndicated travel journalist and founder of the low-airfare listing site Airfarewatchdog.com. | 7 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is the answer to this question? when did the british first arrived in north america?
| 1607 | 6 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Read this: France started the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), and was defeated by the Kingdom of Prussia and other German states. The end of the war led to the unification of Germany. Otto von Bismarck annexed Alsace and northern Lorraine to the new German Empire in 1871; unlike other members states of the German federation, which had governments of their own, the new Imperial territory of Alsace-Lorraine was under the sole authority of the Kaiser, administered directly by the imperial government in Berlin. Between 100,000 and 130,000 Alsatians (of a total population of about a million and a half) chose to remain French citizens and leave Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen, many of them resettling in French Algeria as Pieds-Noirs. Only in 1911 was Alsace-Lorraine granted some measure of autonomy, which was manifested also in a flag and an anthem (Elsässisches Fahnenlied). In 1913, however, the Saverne Affair (French: Incident de Saverne) showed the limits of this new tolerance of the Alsatian identity.
What was the population of Lorraine?
What is the answer? (If it cannot be answered, return "unanswerable") | unanswerable | 7 | Flan2021 | squad/v2.0:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
Addyourhotel-SignuphotelsatChinaInstantBooking
Please segment the words: | Add your hotel - Sign up hotels at China Instant Booking | 2 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
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When experiencing pain, you may find yourself thinking, “this will never go away” or “I can’t endure this.”When you have these thoughts, you allow yourself to experience the emotional reactions that accompany these thoughts, such as feeling bad for yourself, uncomfortable, angry, or fearful. Practice re-programming your thoughts, and find that your emotions begin to change, too. When you catch yourself in a negative thought, think of a different thought to replace it. Instead of thinking, “I am so miserable” think, “I am improving each day.” Instead of thinking, “The pain is unbearable”, think, “ I can handle this pain and focus my mind elsewhere.” It’s easy to focus on what hurts, but choose to focus your attention to a part of your body that is fully functioning and healthy. Perhaps you observe your hands and fingers moving effortlessly, or wiggle your toes. Relax as you observe and feel these sensations, allowing them to the dominant sensation you feel in your body. Even if pain feels overwhelming, this can remind you that your whole body is not in pain. You can even focus on the sensation of blinking your eyelids, how effortless it feels and how your body monitors this action on its own most of the time. Suffering is a mindset based on reliving the past, blaming others, or telling yourself that you are miserable. Remember that suffering is relative and based on an emotional experience, not physical surroundings. While you cannot choose to experience a pain-free life, you can choose how you respond to the pain. Instead of thinking, “I have the worst luck ever”, say, “I’ didn’t chose this, but I will accept this situation and not feel bad for myself.” Create a practice or a ritual that allows you to practice not suffering. You may choose a mantra to say to yourself any time negative thoughts come up, such as “I choose to respond to physical sensation without having to suffer.” We spend most of our lives thinking it’s okay to suffer, so give yourself time to adjust to this new mentality. Realize that your mindset may not change overnight, and there may be days you want to feel sorry for yourself. Thinking positively helps you to live a happier, more stress-free life. Instead of focusing on the negatives in your life, focus on all that is positive. Focus on your recovery, the positive gains you are making, and the care you are receiving. Don’t get trapped in polarized thinking, or seeing things as “all good” or “all bad”. if you blame yourself for your pain or for making bad decisions, remember that many factors influence each outcome. Allow yourself to say all sides, even the gray areas. While you may not like your present situation, you can accept what is out of your control. You can’t, for example, take away your pain or injury, but you can accept its role in your reality. While acceptance isn’t an easy practice, it helps you to diffuse stress and live with more peace. When pain and difficult feelings arise, take some deep breaths and say, “I do not enjoy what I am experiencing, but I accept that it is part of my life right now.”
Summary: | Observe your thoughts. Shift your attention. Choose not to suffer. Be positive. Choose acceptance. | 1 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Answer the following question:
storm king art center in upstate new york is an example of? | an open-air museum | 2 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Use this fact to answer the question: if a habitat can no longer support animals then those animals will move to another area
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Pick from: 1. to side with the foxes; 2. to be made into chicken of the sea tuna fish; 3. their habitat was flooded; 4. because they crossed an evil sorcerer;
The answer is: | 3. | 6 | Flan2021 | openbookqa:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Here is a news article: No precognition required. Mostly it’s because there’s more of them than there are of you.
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Your friends know you better than you know yourself. They even know how long you’ve got to live. Well, roughly speaking they do.
It’s not that they’ve got extrasensory perception, time machines, or membership in the secret conspiracy that surrounds you. It’s just that psychological traits like conscientiousness and emotional stability are decent predictors of longevity, and your friends’ beliefs about your traits are, when averaged, more reliable than your own.
Psychological traits such as conscientiousness and emotional stability are decent predictors of longevity, and your friends’ beliefs about your traits are, when averaged, more reliable than your own.
Researchers know that personality traits affect health—conscientiousness, for example, turns out to be a pretty good predictor for risk of death. But the studies linking personality, health, and mortality are limited because they rely on participants’ assessments of their own personalities. Apart from the bias that might introduce, it’s also privy to external factors which could sway the participant—say, the weather that day. Fixing this validity problem would take a study in which researchers asked someone else—preferably friends, who see one another in a variety of situations—about individuals’ personalities.
That’s just what Joshua Jackson and colleagues did with the long-running Kelly Longitudinal Study, which began as an assessment of 300 young married couples in mid-1930s Connecticut. As part of the study, the late psychologist E. Lowell Kelly asked three to eight of each couples’ friends to answer a series of questions Kelly had constructed to probe personality.
Analyzing Kelly’s data in conjunction with death records—or confirmation that the original participants were still alive—for all but seven of the women, Jackson and team found that men viewed by their friends as more conscientious and open tended to live longer. The most conscientious men, for example, had about a 30 percent lower mortality risk compared with the average male participant. Similarly, the researchers estimated that women viewed as the most emotionally stable and the most agreeable had a 15 percent lower mortality risk.
Friends’ ratings were better than the individuals’ own assessments as well. Men’s self-reports of conscientiousness and openness were still related to mortality, and the effect was weaker. There were no such connections for women.
Much of the predictive value from friends’ ratings is because they were friends, the authors argue in Psychological Science. Single-friend ratings were, like self-reports, not particularly useful indicators of lifespan. “These analyses indicate that the superiority of peer ratings was due largely to the aggregation of ratings from multiple peers, which averaged out idiosyncratic tendencies of particular raters,” the authors write.
Before you go asking your pals about your personality, the authors note, it’s worth keeping in mind that Kelly’s 300 couples were not exactly representative of the United States of the time, let alone the modern world. Those 600 people were predominantly white, middle class, and well educated—not to mention they were in their mid twenties in 1935. ||||| What does your personality say about your health? More than you might think. And according to new research, what your friends say about your personality may reveal even more about your health.
A number of studies have found personality to be a fairly reliable predictor of future health and mortality. Stress-prone, ambitious Type A personalities, for example, are more likely to suffer from heart attacks than their more laid-back Type B counterparts. Neurotic people are more likely to develop Alzheimer's later in life. Conscientious people, on the other hand, live longer -- as do optimists.
But a challenge in research looking at these links has been self-reporting -- people are notoriously unreliable and biased when it comes to assessing their own personalities.
New research, led by psychologist Joshua Jackson of Washington University in St. Louis, may have found a way to sidestep this problem. Instead of just asking subjects about themselves, the researchers also compiled personality assessments from the subjects' close friends, to determine whether a friends' view is the more accurate predictor of health and longevity.
The researchers analyzed existing data from the Kelly/Connolly Longitudinal Study, which studied the personalities and new marriages of 600 men and women (all engaged couples) in their mid-20s, starting in the 1930s. The study included personality self-ratings for each subject, as well as personality rankings by five close friends.
Last year, which marked the 75th year after the study began, the researchers went back and tracked down either the participants themselves or their obituaries. They were able to use the data from the study to compare the subjects' views of their own personalities with the views of their friends, and found that friends' assessments of personality were more accurate in predicting longevity.
Men who were high in the personality domains of conscientiousness and openness to experience -- meaning that they are dependable, self-disciplined, intellectually curious and adventurous -- lived longer than those who were lacking in these traits. Men whose friends said they they were conscientious and open to experience lived the longest.
For women, the traits of agreeableness and emotional stability -- particularly as ranked by friends -- were most highly linked to longevity. It's important to note, however, that the data was collected in the 1930s when these traits probably suggested a woman who, as a wife and mother, was the "emotional leader of the family."
In the case of both sexes, the friends' assessments of personality were more accurate predictors of mortality, However, while the men's self-reports were somewhat accurate predictors of life and death, the researchers
The findings will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science. ||||| A new study shows that your friends’ assessments of your personality may offer insight into how long you’ll live. The findings are published in the journal Psychological Science.
Scientists have long known that personality is a strong indicator of future health and longevity. For example, traits such as openness and agreeableness are linked to longer lives, while neuroticism and pessimism are linked to shorter, unhealthier lives.
However, since self-reports of personality are notoriously biased, researchers wanted to know if the opinions of friends would give a more accurate picture of a person’s mortality; it turns out they do.
For the study, psychological scientist Joshua Jackson of Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues analyzed data from the Kelly/Connolly Longitudinal Study. The research began back in the 1930s, when 600 participants in their mid-20s — 300 engaged couples — volunteered for a study of personality and new marriages.
The questionnaire included personality ratings given by five close friends — most of them members of the wedding party. It also included self-ratings of personality.
Seventy-five years later (last year), the scientists tracked down most of the original volunteers or their obituaries. They then compared the friends’ views with the volunteers’ views of themselves to see which was a better predictor of life and death.
According to the findings, the men’s self-reports were fairly accurate at predicting life and death, though not as good as their friends’ assessments. The women’s self-reports, however, were fairly inaccurate at predicting mortality.
For all the young participants who were just entering adulthood 75 years ago, their friends picked up on traits in their personalities more strongly related to health and well-being — insights that could prove relevant to public health policy today.
For example, young men who were described by their groomsmen as conscientious and open to experience went on to live the longest lives.
Conscientiousness and openness are two of the so-called Big Five personality traits. Conscientious people are dutiful, disciplined, organized, and dependable, while open people are intellectually curious and inventive. Men with these two traits lived longer — or alternatively, those lacking these traits died earlier.
Females had a different set of traits linked to longevity. High levels of agreeableness and emotional stability — as identified by their bridesmaids and other close friends — were linked to the longest lives. Emotional stability is the opposite of neuroticism — the tendency toward anger and anxiety and depression — while agreeableness encompasses cooperation and compassion.
The findings should be viewed in historical context, however, say the scientists. The participants were coming of age in the 1930s, when the positive traits were indicative of a supportive and easy-going wife — typically considered the emotional leader of the family.
Source: Association for Psychological Science
Group of friends talking photo by shutterstock. |||||
A summary of this is? | – Scientists might be able to predict how long you'll live based on ... what your friends think of you. So says a study published in Psychological Science, in which researchers found that subjects whose friends viewed them as more conscientious and open tended to have longer lives. The men seen as the most conscientious had a 30% lower mortality risk than average; the women considered the most emotionally stable and agreeable had a 15% lower risk. How come you can't just rank yourself to predict when you'll die? As Pacific Standard explains, "your friends’ beliefs about your traits are, when averaged, more reliable than your own." (Researchers found a weaker connection between mortality and how men assessed themselves, while women's self-assessments were actually inaccurate at predicting longevity, Psych Central reports.) Not only might you be biased, the way you see yourself could change based on external variables. Other studies that have linked personality traits to health and mortality are more limited than this one, because they have relied on subjects rating their own traits. So, in this case, researchers used data from the Kelly Longitudinal Study, in which 300 young married couples were assessed starting in the mid-1930s. Part of the study involved three to eight friends of each couple answering questions about their personalities. Researchers then compared those results to death records (or confirmation, in some cases, that the subjects had not yet died) for all but seven of the subjects. Of course, it should be noted that the friends' assessments were taken decades ago—when, the Huffington Post notes, people may have had different ideas about what it means to be an "agreeable" and "emotionally stable" woman. (Another recent study found that optimism is good for your heart.) | 4 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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