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1. covering a wide canvas of animal welfare and rights issues that rightfully will provoke meaningful discussion
2. The most controversial, provocative, inflammatory and thought-provoking film of the year!
3. While avoiding the most important travesty--the use of animals for food--the documentary does efficiently illustrate the arguments for an against the use of animals for research and fur.
4. ...a flawed yet remarkably even-handed look at an extraordinarily contentious issue.
5. Your Mommy Kills Animals is eye-opening in the truest sense of the word. I was riveted from start to finish. This is one of the year's best films.
6. What may be the finest documentary of the year also is the most difficult to watch. I wept unashamedly at the brief videos of real-life animal abuse in "Your Mommy Kills Animals," and you may, too.
7. A documentary that both informs and entertains, and that will invite animated debate--which is precisely what a good documentary should do.
8. With a subject that holds as much venom as this one does, Mommy remains amazingly poised.
9. Terrific documentary on the animal rights movement that allows all sides in the debate to make their points.
10. David Martosko, of the Center for Consumer Freedom, carries the film's obscured theme that "morality" is a religious-based ploy used by all sides of the animal abuse debate that lead the FBI to rank animal-rights activists as the No.1 terrorist threat in
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus? | A thoroughly fascinating, well-presented examination of the animal rights debate that is both provocative and thought-provoking. | 2 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
The series starts in Baghdad at an undetermined time . The Sultan Shahryar has gone mad after accidentally killing his wife during a failed coup d' tat , Which she had planned with Shahryar's brother Schahzenan . In his madness , Shahryar believes that all women now want to kill him , but the law states that the Sultan must be married again or the throne will be passed to his brother . Shahryar therefore orders Grand Vizier Ja'Far ( ( ( Jim Carter to bring him a harem girl to marry and then have executed the next day . In order to prevent this , the Grand Vizier's clever daughter , Scheherazade , decides to marry the Sultan herself . Scheherazade has a plan to prevent her execution and at the same time cure the Sultan of his madness . With the help of some tutoring from a bazaar storyteller , Scheherazade tells the Sultan a story every night , stopping at dawn with a cliffhanger and refusing to continue until dusk . Shahryar must therefore let Scheherazade live for another day in order to hear the rest of the story . Cunningly , Scheherazade has hidden a moral within every story , to bring the Sultan out of his madness . Meanwhile , Schahzenan hears about the Sultan's madness and that he is unable to execute Scheherazade . Perceiving this as weakness , Schahzenan leads his army to Baghdad in an attempt to take the throne by force . However , by the time Schahzenan's army reaches the city , Scheherazade's plan has worked . As a result of her stories , Shahryar has overcome his madness and has fallen in love with Scheherazade .
Question: "In what ways did the sultan's brother try to oust him?"
Answer: "killing him"
Is this answer to the question correct?
OPT: (1). no (2). yes | (1). | 7 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Based on the following sentence, what is the effect?
The putrid odor filled the room.
Choose from: [-] I clamped my hand over my nose.. [-] I put the rubber gloves on.. | I clamped my hand over my nose. | 4 | Flan2021 | super_glue/copa:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Generate a sentence that describes the following data: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, runwayName, "04/22 'Oostbaan'".
Sentence: | Amsterdam Airport Schiphol runway name is 04/22 Oostbaan. | 5 | Flan2021 | gem/web_nlg_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
New Haven's economy originally was based in manufacturing, but the postwar period brought rapid industrial decline; the entire Northeast was affected, and medium-sized cities with large working-class populations, like New Haven, were hit particularly hard. Simultaneously, the growth and expansion of Yale University further affected the economic shift. Today, over half (56%) of the city's economy is now made up of services, in particular education and health care; Yale is the city's largest employer, followed by Yale – New Haven Hospital. Other large employers include St. Raphael Hospital, Smilow Cancer Hospital, Southern Connecticut State University, Assa Abloy Manufacturing, the Knights of Columbus headquarters, Higher One, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Covidien and United Illuminating. Yale and Yale-New Haven are also among the largest employers in the state, and provide more $100,000+-salaried positions than any other employer in Connecticut.[citation needed]
What sector originally provided the largest contribution to New Haven's economy? | manufacturing | 2 | Flan2021 | squad/v1.1:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
He operated a bank of switches.
A huge bank of earth.
Choose your answer: Does the word "bank" mean the same thing in the above two sentences?
Pick your answer from:
- different meanings
- the same meaning | different meanings | 0 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wic:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
What are the keywords in the following sentence:
One cooked and one uncooked pizza sitting on wooden paddles. | paddle, pizza, sit | 6 | Flan2021 | gem/common_gen:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Make use of the article to answer the questions.
(CNN) -- Reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel started his 2011 Formula One defense in emphatic style on Sunday, leading the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne from start to finish.
McLaren's 2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton did well to finish second after damaging his car on the first corner while Lotus Renault's Russian driver Vitaly Petrov achieved his first podium finish.
The 23-year-old German notched up his 11th win in his 63rd Formula 1 race.
Fernando Alonso finished fourth for Ferrari, with Mark Webber in his Red Bull in fifth place. Jenson Button came sixth in his McLaren.
Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said after the race his team did not use its KERS power-boost system because of technical issues, underlining the scale of Vettel's victory.
Following his triumph, Vettel said: "It was a good race. In the end things calmed down, Lewis didn't push, but it was not an easy race.
"The start was crucial, I was on the clean side, but didn't know if it was enough until we got through the first corner.
"With Lewis dropping off later in the race, there was no pressure, so I was able to control it."
Assessing the season ahead, Vettel added: "It's a long season, so we have to keep on doing what we are doing now, enjoying, but working hard."
Hamilton was satisfied with his runner-up spot, saying: "We can take this and be very proud of ourselves. A week or two ago we weren't expecting to be in the top five, so to come to second is a great achievement."
1. How old is the German?
2. The start was what?
3. Who was satisfied
4. In the end what?
5. Who lead the season
6. Who dropped of?
7. Who was champ in 2008?
8. Where did the season open?
9. What type of race?
10. Who was Red Bull boss?
Numbered answers: | 1. 23
2. crucial,
3. Hamilton
4. unknown
5. Sebastian Vettel
6. Lewis
7. Lewis Hamilton
8. Melbourne
9. Grand Prix i
10. Christian Horner | 8 | Flan2021 | coqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Steve Niehause was a defensive lineman in the NFL. He was the first ever draft pick for the Seattle Seahawks and the second player taken in the 1976 NFL Draft. Niehaus was the 1976 NFC Defensive Rookie of the Year and holds the Seahawk rookie record for sacks in a season with 9½.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
Steve Niehause would have rather been a quarterback.
Available options: + Yes; + It's impossible to say; + No; | It's impossible to say | 3 | Flan2021 | anli/r1:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
british intelligence agents thought the inhabitants of the channel islands lacked the will to fight against german occupation , according to war-time documents which were released tuesday .
Write a brief summary in a sentence or less. | britain releases last documents on channel islands occupation | 4 | Flan2021 | gigaword:1.2.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your answer: The judge was fond of the contestant so he voted favorably.
Tell me who he is.
Available options:
a). The judge.
b). the contestant. | a). | 3 | Flan2021 | definite_pronoun_resolution:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
What is the most logical next event?
How to get a bank account
Choose a banking institution.
Perhaps the most important step in opening an account is deciding which bank to do business with. Compare several banks in your area using criteria that are important to you, such as the branch hours and the availability of atms.
Available choices:
(I). From there, you can choose several which to open your bank with a schedule and/or a plan based on your financial situation. Talk to your bank or landlord about your bank needs..
(II). As an example, the branch hours are : 1.14 hours cash and debit card : 2.11 hours groceries: $5 a.m. atm : 4.33 Choose a place with high security..
(III). Generally, large national banks have the advantage of being available even if you travel or move, while small local banks tend to pride themselves on better service. You can also open an account with a credit union instead of a bank..
(IV). If the branch hours are advertised on the institution's website, make sure to check the website. These determinations can help you determine which bank is safe to open an account in.. | (III). | 8 | Flan2021 | hellaswag:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a short summary this sentence:
palestinian minister for security affairs mohammed dahlan announced that he will meet late thursday night with israeli defense minister shaul mofaz in jerusalem .
Summary: | dahlan says to meet with mofaz later thursday | 2 | Flan2021 | gigaword:1.2.0 | zs_opt |
Write the next sentence.
Rebecca was very handy with appliances compared to Tanya so
Options:
-- Rebecca asked her to install her dishwasher.
-- Tanya asked her to install her dishwasher.
Answer: | Tanya asked her to install her dishwasher. | 1 | Flan2021 | winogrande:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Click here to search our on-line Catalog for items matching - Polymer - Powders Say this using Spanish. | Haga clic aquí para buscar nuestro Catálogo on-line y encontrar artículos - Polimero - Polvos | 2 | Flan2021 | para_crawl_enes | zs_opt |
Fact: usually plants die or become dormant during the winter
Question: Your mom's garden she worked hard on in the Spring will eventually lose its green in the Winter because flowers need certain temperatures to survive. In the winter, they will all
What's the answer? pick from the following. [i] fly away; [ii] cry; [iii] run; [iv] perish; | [iv] | 5 | Flan2021 | openbookqa:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Ale stála za to, doufám.
Translate to English
English: | But worth it, I hope. | 1 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/cs-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
'Wonderland' looks curiouser, but Burton fills gaps in story
By Susan Wloszczyna, USA TODAY
's most perplexing riddle isn't the one posed by the Mad Hatter at the tea party: "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
Instead, the real stumper is this: Given the enduring appeal of Lewis Carroll's Victorian-era literary masterwork, why hasn't there ever been a wholly satisfying film or TV adaptation based on Alice's fateful tumble down the rabbit hole?
There has been no lack of trying to transfer Wonderland's jumbled universe of bizarre inhabitants, such as a hookah-smoking caterpillar and grinning Cheshire cat, into other mediums. Silent-film versions. An all-star ensemble in 1933 with Cary Grant as a weepy Mock Turtle. A stripped-down 1966 British TV movie with Peter Sellers as the King of Hearts. Animated attempts, most famously the 1951 Disney classic. Even a 1976 porn musical took on the challenge.
But few come close to overcoming the fact that the tale has no plot to speak of, relies heavily on clever wordplay and features a mind-blowing menagerie that perhaps is best captured by a reader's imagination.
The latest stab at solving the puzzle, however, benefits from modern-day digital magic. And it's the fruit of a creative partnership between one of animation's ace storytellers, who once conjured the Maurice Chevalier of candelabras, and a visually astute Hollywood wizard known for his way with the odd and unusual — especially his frequent star, Johnny Depp.
As perfect pairings go, writer Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast) and director Tim Burton aren't exactly Tweedledum and Tweedledee. But as collaborators, they hope to have cracked the conundrum that has plagued others when Disney's new 3-DAlice in Wonderland lands in theaters March 5.
"I knew more about these iconic characters from music and illustrators than from the stories," says the filmmaker, who has given the Burton treatment to such book-based works as Sleepy Hollow and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. "The problem is, they're interesting, but there's not a lot of narrative drive. Every version I've seen falls into the same category: A precocious girl meets a bunch of weirdos. The Disney cartoon is probably the best known and least successful."
Burton agreed to direct the sumptuous fantasy — with a budget estimated at $250 million because of its blend of live action and computer animation — after hearing it was in 3-D and then reading Woolverton's script.
"Her whole point was to focus and frame it, to explore what Alice is about," he says. "It didn't need more bells and whistles. It needed grounding."
It was Woolverton who flashed on the idea of exploring a 19-year-old Alice, who, when she's feeling pressured into an unwanted engagement and grieving over the death of her father, again escapes to the whimsical land she once dreamed about when she was 6.
Says the writer, "At first, the question I was answering was, 'What if she went back?' Not how I would re-adapt the material." That came only after she pondered the problems inherent in the source material's structure: "It's an incredible book. The characters are remarkable and unforgettable. I fall to my knees before Lewis Carroll, but Alice is a girl who doesn't change. There is no real jeopardy. There is no emotion, really."
She relied on such time-tested tactics as mixing details found in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1872 sequel, Through the Looking Glass.
The less-bellicose Queen of Hearts and the belligerent Red Queen are merged into one royal pain: Helena Bonham Carter's big-headed brat of a ruler.
But Woolverton also added a splash of swordplay action and a sense of menace by borrowing from Carroll's nonsense poem, Jabberwocky. It gave the usually passive Alice a chance to not only save the day but also to determine her own destiny. The girl-powered underpinnings were not unlike those the writer gave to Belle, the bookworm heroine of Beauty and the Beast andliberator of future Disney fairy-tale females.
Similarly, Alice is no longer the curious flaxen-haired lass in the blue pinafore. Instead, she is on the brink of womanhood and sadly has lost her sense of self — or "muchness," as Woolverton calls it: "The death of her father took something from her." No coincidence that the writer lost her own father at age 19.
Wonderland — or, rather, Underland as it is now known — has also fallen on hard times. While lush fields of overgrown exotic foliage, giant topiary beasts and plump mushrooms greet her arrival, there also are patches of scorched ruins and signs of decay — the result of the Red Queen's aggressive campaign to snatch the throne from her younger sister, Anne Hathaway's slightly daft White Queen.
When Woolverton learned Burton was to direct, she says she did "that happy dance" — which in Underland means a "futterwacken," a sort of herky-jerky jig with a few hip-hop moves that she invented for the film.
"I have a limited visual imagination," she says. "(Burton) sees the world in a very unique way and then he sort of invites you in. I found that a great invitation."
Some of the more macabre touches in the PG-rated fantasy that feel authentically Burton-esque, however — such as those bobbing noggins afloat in a moat (the result of the Red Queen's oft-repeated command: "Off with their heads!") or when an attack by the ferocious Bandersnatch is halted when his eyeball is plucked — actually sprang from Woolverton's fertile brain.
Instead, the director concentrated both on helping the screenwriter further develop the characters so they were as dimensional as the surreal images that popped off the screen (who knew the Red Queen could almost be sympathetic if given a sibling-rivalry back story?) as well as overseeing the complex technical aspects behind the camera.
"This was really the opposite of the way I usually make a movie," Burton says; the post-production involved inserts of characters, props, sets and backdrops. "I shoot for six months or longer and cut it. This all materialized at the very end."
Though the live-action portions were filmed on location in England, the 2,500 or so shots that required computer-generated and manipulated images were done in a green-screen-filled environment at Culver City Studios in Los Angeles.
"I prefer being on sets," says Burton, who built Willy Wonka's entire candy empire on soundstages for 2005's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. "And all that green screen makes you ill after a while. We all got green fever. The crew went nuts."
Of course, such disorientation is perfect for a trippy walkabout through Wonderland.
The filmmaker, who got his start in Disney's animation department, also made sure the characters, both real and computerized, were able to seamlessly share the same space. "We tried to avoid that big DreamWorks style and not over-animate the animal traits."
These days, no Burton film is complete without an indelible performance by Depp — this is their seventh film together — and there is more going on under his Hatter's chapeau than simply madness. Namely, a wild mop of red frizz. Whereas Depp's interpretation of Wonka was partly based on kid-show TV hosts like Captain Kangaroo and Mister Rogers, the flame-tressed Hatter was inspired by an orange-haired hall of fame that director and star slapped together.
"Their photos were all on a video monitor and I had to take them down, they were so disturbing," Burton says. "Bozo, Carrot Top, Mason Reese (a child actor who did TV ads in the '70s) and that guy from Room 222 who had the Afro." And don't forget Olympic snowboarder Shaun White, aka The Flying Tomato. The desired overall effect on Depp's Hatter? Says Burton, "I was going for a combination of Bozo and The Exorcist."
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What are the most important parts of this text? | Given the enduring appeal of Alice in Wonderland, why hasn't there ever been a wholly satisfying film or TV adaptation based on it?... | 5 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a sentence that describes the following data: Bacon Explosion, country, United States; Bacon Explosion, mainIngredient, "Bacon,sausage"; Bacon Explosion, ingredient, Bacon; Bacon Explosion, mainIngredient, Sausage.
Sentence: | Bacon Explosion comes from the United States. The main ingredients are bacon and sausage. | 5 | Flan2021 | gem/web_nlg_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Please capitalize where necessary: description: young elephant in care | Description: Young elephant in care | 8 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
He also accused royal courtiers of poisoning the brothers ’ “ little minds ” .
He said the royal family has poisoned the princes ' " little minds . "
(See options at the end). If the first sentence is true, is the second one also true?
Possible answers:
A). no;
B). yes; | B). | 5 | Flan2021 | glue/mrpc:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your answer?
Food webs show feeding relationships among different types of organisms. Those organisms each have a specific niche. Which of the following best describes a function of decomposers in food webs?
a). to recycle nutrients into soil
b). to convert solar energy into food
c). to provide food for secondary consumers
d). to compete with secondary consumers for oxygen | a). | 4 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Challenge:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write an email with the subject line "Wholesale Business Plan". | When: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 3:00 PM-5:00 PM (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada). Where: ECN 32c2 *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* At the request of Brenda Herod, you are invited to attend a meeting to discuss the Wholesale Business Plan on Tuesday, April 2, 2002 at 3:00 p.m. in conference room ECN 32c2. Please give me a call if, you are unable to attend. Thank you, | 9 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Richard Church Thompson (October 8, 1957 – July 27, 2016) was an American illustrator and cartoonist best known for his syndicated comic strip "Cul de Sac" and the illustrated poem "Make the Pie Higher". He was given the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year for 2010.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
Richard Church Thompson never won an award.
Choose from:
[1]. Yes;
[2]. It's impossible to say;
[3]. No; | [3]. | 1 | Flan2021 | anli/r2:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
What debate topic are the following sentences about?
1. Making them subject to the Geneva Conventions would uphold an incentive of restraint which might sometimes influence their conduct .
2. While this would provide a degree of protection for captured terrorists , it also means that terrorist organizations are subject to standards of conduct in war .
3. As such , the United Nations is both legally and institutionally capable of ensuring that the dictates of the Geneva Conventions are upheld , specifically the right of a combatant captured in a conflict zone to be granted prisoner of war status .
4. Furthermore , the International Court of Justice is able to bring cases against specific states that are clearly identified as having broken the protocols of war .
5. Such defendants , if convicted , can be ordered to pay the victims .
6. The International Criminal Court , established by the Rome Statute of 1998 , is able to prosecute those specific persons who are charged with war crimes .
7. The United Nations , as the institution that formed and maintains the Geneva Conventions and other restrictions on warfare , is able to use its structures to punish states that do not adhere to its protocols . | This House Believes That Terrorists Should Be Subject to the Geneva Conventions | 6 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
The Hun River (渾河, "the muddy river") is a river in Liaoning Province, China, and was formerly one of the largest tributaries of the Liao River. It was also formerly known as Shen River (瀋水). Two of Liaoning's most important cities, the provincial capital Shenyang and the seventh largest city Fushun, are located on the Hun River.
Possible answers:
(a). Yes
(b). It's impossible to say
(c). No
Hypothesis: The Hun River is a wide river.
| (b). | 5 | Flan2021 | anli/r2:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Dialogue:
Jorge: Hello everyone, thank you for volunteering to help out. I believe all the questions have been answered already but I'm here if anyone has any doubts.
Daniel: Hi, always happy to help and looking forward to this Sunday!
Marge: Hello! @Jorge - can we still bring someone in to the even or is it too late?
Jorge: Dear Marge, we are always looking for volunteers but I think we have currently all positions filled in! However, we will be starting another round next month, let your friends know!
What was going on in that conversation? | Jorge thanks the voluneers for their wilingness to help. Daniel is looking forward to this Sunday. Marge wants to take additional volunteer with her, but all the positions are already taken. | 6 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
How do you say "Almighty and everlasting God, You who want all men to be saved and to reach the recognition of truth, graciously grant that, with the fullness of peoples entering into your Church, all Israel may be saved." in Spanish? | Oremos […]: Dios todopoderoso y eterno, que quieres que todos los hombres se salven y lleguen al conocimiento de la verdad, concede en tu benevolencia que entrando en tu Iglesia la plenitud de las naciones, todo Israel sea salvo. | 0 | Flan2021 | para_crawl_enes | zs_opt |
The aftershocks were less in the past two months, but they seem to be starting again. We are really worried about the fate of these islands, Smriti Kana Saha of Ranjat village, in the Middle Andaman Island, told Reuters by phone.
Question with options: Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Smriti Kana Saha is a resident of Ranjat village."?
Choices: A. yes; B. no; | A. | 0 | Flan2021 | super_glue/rte:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Can you tell me the answer to how many vice presidents of the united states have there been?? | 48 | 7 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Paragraph: Take a look at this train in Figure 1.11. It looks very futuristic. What do you notice about it? Did you notice that the train has no wheels? How can a train have no wheels? It doesn't need wheels. It actually floats, or levitates, just above the track. Magnets enable the train to do this. This is not a normal train. This is a maglev train. The word maglev stands for magnetic levitation. Because it has no wheels, there is no friction. Some magnets hold the train up. Other magnets are used to move the train forward. This train can go very fast. It can reach speeds up to 480 kilometers (300 miles) per hour! Magnets are pretty cool. What exactly is a magnet? How is it able to exert such force?
Question: "How do magnets work to keep a maglev train moving?"
Answer: "Some magnets hold the train up and other magnets are used to move the train forward"
Based on the paragraph, choose if the answer is correct:
Options are:
- no
- yes | yes | 3 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
after having studied the holiness movement for a while, parham sought a larger personal manifestation of spiritual power, and returned to topeka, kansas in september 1900.
Write the above sentence using proper case. | After having studied the Holiness movement for a while, Parham sought a larger personal manifestation of spiritual power, and returned to Topeka, Kansas in September 1900. | 1 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
Choose your answer: What is "What is the Jewish bible called ?" asking about?
Available options:
[+] description.
[+] entity.
[+] abbreviation.
[+] human.
[+] numeric.
[+] location.
Answer: | entity | 4 | Flan2021 | trec:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Which entity is this text about?
Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (December 31, 1943 - October 12, 1997), known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, activist, and humanitarian, whose greatest commercial success was as a solo singer. After traveling and living in numerous locations while growing up in his military family, Denver began his music career with folk music groups during the late 1960s. Starting in the 1970s, he was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the decade and one of its best-selling artists. By 1974, he was firmly established as one of America's best-selling performers, and AllMusic has described Denver as "among the most beloved entertainers of his era".
Denver began his recording career with a group that had started as the Chad Mitchell Trio; his distinctive voice can be heard where he sings solo on Violets of Dawn, among other songs. He recorded three albums with the Mitchell Trio, replacing Chad Mitchell himself as high tenor. The group Denver, Boise, and Johnson, which had evolved from the Mitchell Trio, released a single before he moved on to a solo career. Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, credited as co-writers of Denver's song "Take Me Home, Country Roads", were close friends of Denver and his family, appearing as singers and songwriters on many of Denver's albums until they formed the Starland Vocal Band in 1976. The band's albums were released on Denver's Windsong Records (later known as Windstar Records) label. Denver's solo recording contract resulted in part from the recording by Peter, Paul, and Mary of his song "Leaving on a Jet Plane", which became the sole number-1 hit single for the group. Denver recorded songs by Tom Paxton, Eric Andersen, John Prine, David Mallett, and many others in the folk scene. His record company, Windstar, is still an active record label today. Country singer John Berry considers Denver the greatest influence on his own music and has recorded Denver's hit "Annie's Song" with the original arrangement. Olivia Newton-John, an Australian singer whose across-the-board appeal to pop, MOR, and country audiences in the mid-1970s was similar to Denver's, lent her distinctive backup vocals to Denver's 1975 single "Fly Away"; she performed the song with Denver on his 1975 Rocky Mountain Christmas special. She also covered his "Take Me Home, Country Roads", and had a hit in the United Kingdom (#15 in 1973) and Japan (#6 in a belated 1976 release) with it. In 1976, Denver appeared as a guest star, along with Olivia Newton-John, who made a cameo appearance, on The Carpenters Very First Special, a one-hour TV special broadcast on the ABC television network. A highlight of the program was John singing a duet with Karen Carpenter of a medley of "Comin' Thro' the Rye" and "Good Vibrations", although the medley was never released commercially as a single or on an album.
Entity: | John Denver | 8 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-select problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to catch lake trout
Use a light-action rod with 4 to 6 pound test line.
This is the best rod to use for trout fishing and allows you to use a variety of techniques to catch your trout. The lighter line has less friction with the water, allowing you cast your line to the very bottom of the lake with ease.
Select from the following.
(I) All you have to do is lightly tap the rod with your finger to get some water onto the rod. Get your hand used to the catch.;
(II) The slower you cast the rod, the more power your line will have. Be aware that certain fishermen only use lighter lines when they plan on doing something else.;
(III) Some lake trout can be over 35 pounds, you will need a heavier rod for these. If you know you're fishing a lake that has massive fish, bring a heavier rod as well.;
(IV) Watch out for small rocks in the water if you're unsure how to cast your line. The rocks reflect off of lake trout very easily.; | (III) | 5 | Flan2021 | hellaswag:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
I just took a test in school today. What question was I asked? | There are several different types of rock. Each type of rock is formed under different conditions. How are sedimentary rocks, such as shale and sandstone, formed? | 9 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Easy:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Answer this:
When Chemical X is added to a certain liquid, the chemical breaks into Substances Y and Z. It is not possible to break Substances Y and Z into simpler particles. Which statement is best supported by this evidence?
Select from the following. (a). Chemical X is an element.. (b). Chemical X is soluble in water.. (c). Substances Y and Z are elements.. (d). Substances Y and Z are compounds.. | (c). | 7 | Flan2021 | unified_qa_science_inst | zs_opt |
Q: In what year was Gregg v. Georgia decided?
A: In 1976, contemporaneously with Woodson and Roberts, the Court decided Gregg v. Georgia and upheld a procedure in which the trial of capital crimes was bifurcated into guilt-innocence and sentencing phases.
Does the answer correctly answer the question
Choose from: +yes +no | yes | 5 | Flan2021 | glue/qnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Do these two sentences from wikipedia have the same meaning?
Her family contacted Muriel Zazoui , who suggested Corentin Rahier as a potential partner .
Her family contacted Corentin Rahier , whom Muriel Zazoui suggested as a potential partner .
-no
-yes
The answer is: | no | 5 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Translate "The church plans to hold another inaugural ceremony at the Patriarchy in Pec, Kosovo, but has not set the date." to Romanian? | Biserica intenţionează să organizeze o altă ceremonie de instalare în funcţie la Patriarhia din Pec, Kosovo, dar nu a stabilit data. | 7 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ro-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is a question about this article? If the question is unanswerable, say "unanswerable".
In September 2005, West announced that he would release his Pastelle Clothing line in spring 2006, claiming "Now that I have a Grammy under my belt and Late Registration is finished, I am ready to launch my clothing line next spring." The line was developed over the following four years – with multiple pieces teased by West himself – before the line was ultimately cancelled in 2009. In 2009, West collaborated with Nike to release his own shoe, the Air Yeezys, with a second version released in 2012. In January 2009, West introduced his first shoe line designed for Louis Vuitton during Paris Fashion Week. The line was released in summer 2009. West has additionally designed shoewear for Bape and Italian shoemaker Giuseppe Zanotti.
What company worked with Kanye in 2009 to create his own shoe line? | Nike | 2 | Flan2021 | squad/v2.0:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a plausible story that ends with this sentence?
Last sentence: A).
Available options:
A). Joe eventually won the fight.
B). Joe finished the fight with no cuts or injuries. | Joe felt confident going into his boxing match. He dominated the first four rounds. He got hit with a left hook that cut his eye in the fifth. The last seven rounds were a back and forth affair. A). | 9 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-choice question: Same meaning?
reviews the previous three functional analyses and selects an approach
selects the three previous functional analyses and reviews an approach .
Pick your answer from:
-no;
-yes; | no | 6 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
The authorisation is an official form that can be obtained from your local town hall or police station and must be filled out and signed by the parents.
Translate to Russian
Russian: | Данное разрешение должно быть оформлено только на официальном формуляре, который можно получить в местном городском управлении или же в полицейском участке, и должно быть заполнено и подписано родителями. | 0 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ru-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Which substance is a compound?
Options are:
I. sodium.
II. chlorine.
III. table salt.
IV. salt water. | III. | 0 | Flan2021 | unified_qa_science_inst | zs_opt |
I just took a test in school today. What question was I asked? | Sooj learned that whales use vocalization to navigate and to communicate with other whales. Some scientists think that noise pollution in whale habitats may harm whale populations. What would be the most likely effect of noise pollution on whales? | 9 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Challenge:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
And that was something they had to take seriously.
Translate to Czech
Czech: | A to bylo něco, co museli brát vážně. | 0 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/cs-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate "Farman Aviation Works" to Finnish? | Farman | 7 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
– A new study out of Harvard puts forward what the New York Times calls a "startling hypothesis" about Alzheimer's. The research published in Science Translational Medicine suggests that old infections in the brain—or, more specifically, the body's attempt to fight them off—may be at the root of the disease. The study revolves around the telltale plaque in the brain associated with Alzheimer's, which is caused by a buildup of a protein called amyloid beta. Scientists have never been sure why the protein begins to build up as people age. “Does it play a role in the brain, or is it just garbage that accumulates?" is how Harvard's Rudolph Tanzi frames the question per New Scientist. His study suggests that it does indeed play a role, and an important one: The body produces the protein to fight off infections that pass into the brain through the blood-brain barrier; the problem occurs when it doesn't get properly cleared away after the fight. “It’s interesting and provocative,” an Alzheimer's researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, tells the Times of theory. It's been tested on mice and roundworms but not humans yet. "Most shocking of all," writes Scientific American, "was that when they injected bacteria into the brains of Alzheimer’s mouse models, amyloid plaques—the hallmark of the disease—formed within 48 hours." If further research backs up the notion, it could lead to new ways of treating the disease. For example, if this protein that eventually causes trouble comes into being originally as a way to fight pathogens, "you could vaccinate against those pathogens, and potentially prevent this problem arising later in life,” says Tanzi's co-author, Robert Moir of Massachusetts General Hospital. (Maybe memories lost to Alzheimer's aren't gone forever?)
Expand this summary. | General consensus among Alzheimer’s researchers has it that the disease’s main culprit, a protein called amyloid beta, is an unfortunate waste product that is not known to play any useful role in the body—and one that can have devastating consequences. When not properly cleared from the brain it builds up into plaques that destroy synapses, the junctions between nerve cells, resulting in cognitive decline and memory loss. The protein has thus become a major drug target in the search for a cure to Alzheimer’s.
Now a team of researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital are proposing a very different story. In a study published this week in Science Translational Medicine, neurologists Rudolph Tanzi and Robert Moir report evidence that amyloid beta serves a crucial purpose: protecting the brain from invading microbes.
“The original idea goes back to 2010 or so when Rob had a few too many Coronas,” Tanzi jokes. Moir had come across surprising similarities between amyloid beta and LL37, a protein that acts as a foot soldier in the brain’s innate immune system, killing potentially harmful bugs and alerting other cells to their presence. “These types of proteins, although small, are very sophisticated in what they do,” Moir says. “And they’re very ancient, going back to the dawn of multicellular life.”
Just as amyloid beta is known to do, these antimicrobial proteins can build up and form fibrils that, when not properly regulated, have harmful effects. Yet unlike amyloid beta, their role in the immune system has been widely accepted: They prevent microbes from adhering to host cells, and ultimately trap them. So five years ago the pair of researchers set out to determine whether amyloid beta could also act as a natural antibiotic. They had previously explored their hypothesis in vitro, but in this new study they used worms and mice. For these animal models they compared what happened when amyloid beta was overexpressed to when it was not produced, and found that the former led to increased resistance to infection and longer survival rates.
The team first infected cultured human and hamster cells with a type of fungus called Candida albicans and found that high expression of amyloid beta had a protective effect, doubling the number of cells that were not infected. The researchers then moved on to roundworms, or nematodes, which usually do not survive for more than two to three days once the fungus takes hold. The nematodes with overexpressed amyloid beta, however, were still going strong five to six days after they were infected. Finally, the researchers infected the brains of mice with a strain of salmonella to cause meningitis. Mice that were genetically altered to overproduce human amyloid beta survived nearly twice as long as mice that did not have the protein at all.
Most shocking of all, according to Tanzi and Moir, was that when they injected bacteria into the brains of Alzheimer’s mouse models, amyloid plaques—the hallmark of the disease—formed within 48 hours. “We didn’t know this was even possible,” Tanzi says, “that amyloid plaques would form rapidly overnight.” And in the middle of each plaque was one Salmonella bacterium, supporting the theory that the amyloid deposition had formed around the microbe as an entrapment mechanism—just like LL37 and other established antimicrobial proteins.
“These results are particularly intriguing,” says Anna Palamara, a microbiologist at the Sapienza University of Rome who was not involved in the study. “Previous [research] shows that several infectious agents, including viruses, trigger amyloid beta production and accumulation.” Herpes and influenza are just two of the infections that have been tested by other research teams.
The Harvard team’s new findings provide further evidence that Alzheimer’s could be inadvertently spurred by an infection that causes the formation of too much amyloid. As people get older the immune system and blood-brain barrier become increasingly compromised, making it easier for microbes to sneak into the brain. It wouldn’t take many of these pathogens, according to Tanzi, to cause amyloid buildup. “And that could rapidly start the cascade toward the disease,” he says, “causing tangles and inflammation. You’ve got all three pillars of Alzheimer’s right there.”
“It is possible to speculate that during a mild infection the production of amyloid beta may help,” Palamara says. “But in the presence of persistent or repeated infections, amyloid beta levels may accumulate, exceeding a threshold. In this case its protective role might change to the well-known neurotoxic one.”
The idea that amyloid beta has a positive function in the body could potentially change how scientists approach potential treatments. Instead of attempting to completely eliminate the protein, “we might want to think about just dialing it down,” Tanzi says. Moreover, Moir adds, the drugs in trials now are for the most part designed to reduce inflammation by targeting pathways in the adaptive immune system. But if amyloid production and deposition are innate immune responses, then targeting pathways of innate immunity or the microbes themselves may be the way to go.
They do not expect convincing the scientific community of this to be easy. “This is really going to cause a lot of unrest in the field,” Tanzi says. “Any new revolutionary discovery is first ridiculed, then violently opposed, and finally taken to be self-evident. We’re ready for the ridicule and the violent opposition, and we think we have enough data so that we can look forward to self-evident.”
But the pair has a long way to go. They are now moving forward with a plan to systematically characterize the microbes found in the aging brain. From there they hope to identify the pathogens that may be involved in the onset of Alzheimer’s—as well as those that potentially play a role in other amyloid diseases, such as diabetes.
“We’re at the top of a mountain with a freshly formed layer of snow,” Moir says. “Where you go is where you choose. There’s so much to explore.” ||||| Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library
It’s a double-edged sword. The protein plaques in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease could be created as our immune system fights off invading microbes.
Alzheimer’s disease has long been linked to the accumulation of sticky plaques of beta-amyloid proteins in the brain, but their function – if any – has remained unclear.
“Why does beta-amyloid accumulate in people as they get older? Does it play a role in the brain, or is it just garbage that accumulates,” asks Rudolph Tanzi of Harvard Medical School.
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Tanzi’s team has been working with Robert Moir at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston to look at the protein in other animals. The group has found that a certain sequence of particular amino acids in human beta-amyloid is shared widely – among 70 per cent of vertebrates, including in the coelacanth, an ancient type of fish.
That this sequence is shared so widely, and has not changed over time, suggests there is a reason it has been conserved. “This is a very old peptide doing something that’s important,” says Moir.
Brain defence
Moir had previously found that beta-amyloid kills microbes as well as does an anti-microbial peptide called LL-37. This molecule is a foot soldier for the primitive part of our immune system, which we share with many other animals.
So the team tested whether the purpose of beta-amyloid is also to kill microbes in the brain. When they injected bacteria into the brains of mice bred to be able to develop plaques much as humans do, the mice developed amyloid plaques overnight.
“When you look in the plaques, each one had a single bacterium in it,” says Tanzi. “A single bacterium can induce an entire plaque overnight.”
This suggests that microbial infection could be triggering the formation of plaques that cause Alzheimer’s disease. Somehow, bacteria, viruses or other pathogens may be crossing the blood-brain barrier and getting into the brain. The brain may be responding by using beta-amyloid to trap and kill them. But if these plaques aren’t cleared away fast enough, they may then lead to inflammation and tangles of another protein, called tau, causing neurons to die and the progression towards Alzheimer’s disease.
“The stickiness of amyloid is both a godsend and a curse,” says Samuel Gandy at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
Alzheimer’s vaccination
Other work has suggested that infections can cause Alzheimer’s disease, arguing that microbes lead to inflammation, directly causing neuron death and cognitive decline. Chlamydia and the herpes virus are among the suggested culprits.
But Tanzi and Moir believe it is beta-amyloid that causes the damage, not the microbes themselves.
The team now plans to look at the brains of people who have died from Alzheimer’s disease. If the team finds microbial DNA or RNA inside the plaques, the discovery could open up a new way to think about Alzheimer’s disease and how it might be treated.
“You could vaccinate against those pathogens, and potentially prevent this problem arising later in life,” says Moir.
Journal reference: Science Translational Medicine, DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf1059
Read more: Universal plaque-busting drug could treat various brain diseases ||||| | 9 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
By. Guy Aspin And Simon Peach, Press Association. Steven Lewis eked past Luke Cutts in an all-English jump-off to secure pole vault gold at Glasgow 2014. Having won bronze in 2006 and bagged silver in Delhi four years ago, the 28-year-old completed the Commonwealth set on a sunny night at Hampden Park. The British champion's jump of 5.55 metres - 27cm shy of his personal best - proved enough after a tense clash with countryman Cutts. Patriotic: England's Steven Lewis claimed Commonwealth gold in the pole vault at Hampden Park on Friday. Rising high: The Englishman produced a wonderful final jump to secure the Commonwealth title in Glasgow. Clear: Lewis pipped compatriot Luke Cutts (pictured) to gold with a jump of 5.55m. Neither managed to clear 5.60m in their three allotted leaps, so the gold was decided with a jump-off. Having both again failed to clear 5.60m, the bar was lowered five centimetres and, having seen Cutts fall short, Lewis managed to secure gold - the perfect response to losing lottery funding at the end of last season. Time out: Lewis lies on the track and takes a rest in between jumps during the men's pole vault final. Title: Lewis won bronze in 2006 and silver in 2010 but he can now call himself the Commonwealth champion.
What are the important parts of this article? | Lewis jumped 5.55 metres which is 27cm shy of his personal best. The jump was enough for the British champion to win gold at Hampden Park. Neither man managed to clear 5.60m so the gold was decided in a jump-off. Both failed at 5.60m again before bar lowered to 5.55m and Cutts fell short. | 5 | Flan2021 | cnn_dailymail:3.4.0 | zs_opt |
Context: Neil wanted to play hockey. He borrowed some gear from his friends. Then he geared up and headed to the rink. He practiced for days.
Now do a next sentence writing task.
OPT:
+ Neil played baseball.
+ Neil played in the competition. | Neil played in the competition. | 4 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
(WIRED) -- If you work for IBM, you can bring your iPhone to work, but forget about using the phone's voice-activated digital assistant. Siri isn't welcome on Big Blue's networks.
The reason? Siri ships everything you say to her to a big data center in Maiden, North Carolina. And the story of what really happens to all of your Siri-launched searches, e-mail messages and inappropriate jokes is a bit of a black box.
IBM CIO Jeanette Horan told MIT's Technology Review this week that her company has banned Siri outright because, according to the magazine, "The company worries that the spoken queries might be stored somewhere."
Apple's new 'spaceship' campus: What will the neighbors say?
It turns out that Horan is right to worry. In fact, Apple's iPhone Software License Agreement spells this out: "When you use Siri or Dictation, the things you say will be recorded and sent to Apple in order to convert what you say into text," Apple says. Siri collects a bunch of other information -- names of people from your address book and other unspecified user data, all to help Siri do a better job.
How long does Apple store all of this stuff, and who gets a look at it? Well, the company doesn't actually say. Again, from the user agreement: "By using Siri or Dictation, you agree and consent to Apple's and its subsidiaries' and agents' transmission, collection, maintenance, processing, and use of this information, including your voice input and User Data, to provide and improve Siri, Dictation, and other Apple products and services."
Answer the following questions:
1. Where is Siri not welcome?
2. Why?
3. Who is Jeanette Horan
4. What magazine did she talk to
5. What did she say
6. Does Apple have a new campus?
Numbered answers: | 1. IBM
2. Siri ships everything you say to her to a big data center in Maiden, North Carolina
3. IBM CIO
4. MIT's Technology Review
5. The company worries that the spoken queries might be stored somewhere."
6. Apple's new 'spaceship' campus: | 0 | Flan2021 | coqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Dialogue:
Micah: did you get my message?
Jayden: no, what's up?
Micah: aunt Maria is in the hospital, she had a stroke
Jayden: oh no, i'll call u in a minute, ok?
Micah: ok
What were the main points in that conversation? | Aunt Maria is in hospital, she had a stroke. Jayden will call Micah in a minute. | 5 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a sentence about this data: Ahmet Ertegun, origin, United States; Ahmet Ertegun, origin, Washington, D.C..
Sentence: | Ahmet Ertegun is originally from Washington D.C. which is in the United States. | 4 | Flan2021 | gem/web_nlg_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
having a big problems .... dont know when will she have a surgery ...
How would the sentiment of this tweet be described?
1). negative
2). positive | 1). | 1 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Context: This evening I walked next door to take a box of bottles to my neighbors . This is just a few of the many things I have and will be giving them over the next month or so . My neighbors Matt and Amy are becoming foster parents . I am so elated to know people that will take time in their YOUNG lives to help , love and protect children in need .
Question What might have happened before taking bottles to Matt and Amy ?
Possible answers:
(I). They might have walked next door
(II). Matt and Amy met them a month ago
(III). They might said they like bottles
(IV). They might have asked Matt and Amy if they needed anything
The answer: | (IV). | 5 | Flan2021 | cosmos_qa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
My friend and I decided to start a band and perform for our families. I was singer and my friend played guitar. We practiced in my garage. Eventually, we got pretty good.
What is a natural next sentence?
pick from the following.
(A). We stopped playing in a band together.
(B). We performed a small show for our families the next weekend. | (B). | 2 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Piedra natural en Polorós (La Unión, El Salvador) How do you say this sentence in English? | Marble stores in Guazapa (San Salvador, El Salvador) | 1 | Flan2021 | para_crawl_enes | zs_opt |
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Founded by a joint venture between private group TF1 and the public France Télévisions the new channel is managed by Alain de Pouzilhac, former Havas head. Employing 170 journalists and a total of 380 people, France 24 is funded by 86 million euro of public money.The motto of the new freely-available international channel is "un regard français", aiming to promote a French world-view the channel was a project with the blessing of the country's president, Jacques Chirac.
Choices: - Yes - It's impossible to say - No
Hypothesis: France 24 employs more than 250 people
| Yes | 5 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
A 19-year-old man was taken to hospital after being attacked in the O2 ABC, in the city's Sauchiehall Street, at about 02:20 on Friday 8 May.
Police said the three men in the CCTV images may be able to help them with their inquiries.
The men are described as being of Asian appearance and in their late 20s or early 30s.
At time of the incident, two of the men were wearing casual shirts and trousers.
The third man was wearing denim jeans and a dark top.
It is understood they were in the company of a fourth man who was wearing denim jeans and a blue and yellow t-shirt.
Det Con Tony Brady, of Police Scotland, said: "This type of activity at a city centre event cannot be tolerated and we seek the assistance of the public in tracking down those responsible."
What was that article about? | Police have released images of three men they want to trace over a serious assault at a Glasgow music venue. | 4 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
Write a sentence not in English. | L’insuffisance de rapports se traduit par des données incomplètes sur les résultats et les extrants des programmes. | 8 | Flan2021 | wmt14_translate/fr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Q: Which factor will prompt an animal's fight-or-flight response?
What is the correct answer to this question?
Options are:
1). population size;
2). competition for food;
3). seasonal temperatures;
4). protection of the environment;...A: | 2). | 3 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Challenge:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
John Le Mesurier ( , born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley; 5 April 191215 November 1983) was an English actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his comedic role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the BBC television situation comedy "Dad's Army" (1968–77). A self-confessed "jobbing actor", Le Mesurier appeared in more than 120 films across a range of genres, normally in smaller supporting parts.
Can we infer the following?
John Le Mesurier was actually born in Canada and moved to England when he was 2 years old.
Available choices: (A). Yes. (B). It's impossible to say. (C). No.
The answer is: | (B). | 4 | Flan2021 | anli/r2:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article based on this "Meditate every day to learn how to control your thoughts. Become a Bodhisattva by following the 10 Meritorious Deeds. Live a minimalist lifestyle to learn non-attachment. Erase any doubts you still have about Buddhism. Move to the 2nd stage of enlightenment by releasing the 3 poisons. Eliminate attachment to sexual desires to reach the 3rd stage. Reach nirvana by accepting the idea of no-self."
Article: | Meditation can change how your brain functions, building new neural pathways that make you happier and calmer. Sit or lay in a comfortable pose, close your eyes, and begin bringing your attention to your breath. As you meditate, notice any thoughts that come up (good or bad), then let them go instead of dwelling on them or avoiding them. Download a meditation app on your phone or follow along with a guided video online if you want help getting started. You can meditate on a mantra, like "be the change you wish to see in the world," if you have a specific intention you want to focus on that day. You can also try chanting “om” or listening to soothing sounds, like crashing waves or birds chirping. Meditate any time of the day for as long as you’d like. You can always start with 5 minutes, then slowly build up to 1 hour a day, for instance. A Bodhisattva is someone who is seeking enlightenment. Aim to live according to the Ten Meritorious Deeds, which are a set of commandments taught by Buddha himself that include things like helping others, learning the “right view,” and avoiding stealing or lying. The “right view” in Buddhism means seeing the world and yourself as they really are, instead of how you’ve been taught or influenced to see them by society. Write the 10 Meritorious Deeds somewhere that you see them everyday as a reminder, like in the notes app on your phone or on a piece of paper on the fridge. Part of becoming a Buddha is reducing how attached you are to material things, like money or clothes. Declutter your house by getting rid of anything you don’t need or use anymore. Pare it down to the basics, keeping only what is absolutely necessary, like the pillow you sleep on rather than the decorative throw pillows. Be picky when selecting what to keep and what to get rid of. Do you really need all of those shoes in your closet? Apply the minimalist mindset to your buying habits, too. Only purchase what you need and avoid impulse buys. The more uncluttered your life is, the more uncluttered your mind will be. There are 4 primary stages that a Buddha goes through to reach nirvana. The first stage, known as Sotapanna or "Stream-enterer," is mainly characterized by no longer questioning Buddhist readings. Once you accept Buddha's teachings as the ultimate truth, you will be confident in your spirituality. You'll know you're a stream-enterer when you're practicing Buddhism because you know it's the right thing to do, not because you feel like you should to fit in. If you're struggling to get rid of lingering doubts or insecurities, find a guru or teacher to help guide you and answer any questions you have about what you're learning. This stage is known as Sakadagami, or "Once-returner." In it, you'll let go of the 3 poisons, which are greed, anger, and ignorance. To do this, be mindful of when you're having poisonous thoughts, and then free yourself of those thoughts instead of dwelling on them. You can practice giving to overcome greed, empathy and compassion to overcome anger, and observing karma to overcome ignorance. You can also overcome greed by doing more service, like by volunteering in the community or helping others. Known as Anāgāmi or "Non-returner," this is the stage when you not only continue to calm your mind, you also are able to control impure thoughts and lust. Note that you don't have to forego sex or pretend you have no desires. The goal is to stop being obsessed with those desires. An easy way to do so is by practicing observation and imagination of our body simply as a vessel of blood, flesh, skeleton, pus, phlegm, urine and feces under a thin layer of skin. This method is particularly very helpful in resisting temptations. Buddha described in many sutras about the details of how our body decays and decomposes after we die as a mean to overcome greed over human body. Meditating on purity every day can help tame sexual thoughts. Some Buddhists do choose to be completely celibate to help prevent any attachment to lust or fantasies. No-self means that you are not a soul or identity, but rather a temporary existence formed by mental and physical parts. This stage is about letting go of ego and selfishness. Be patient if you don’t understand no-self completely. It’s a very abstract concept that can take years to grasp. As all sentient beings have the same buddhahood by nature, we are all equal by nature. You can practice the observation of karma and recognise the fact that everything as an unity to gradually achieve no-self. Nirvana also requires a very advanced meditation practice. Focus only on the sensation of your breath to completely clear your mind of all thoughts and achieve this state. A convenient way for people in this era to achieve this state is by substituting all wandering thoughts with one single yet powerful thought - Amitabha Buddha. Shakyamuni Buddha has foreseen that we egoistic people in this era are impossible to achieve the state without the help from a buddha who has yet to enter nirvana. He described in the Buddha Speaks of Infinite Life Sutra (Sukhāvatī-vyūhaḥ-sūtra) how Amitabha Buddha made 48 vows to help all sentient beings attain buddhahood in the most convenient and effective ways. | 9 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
What is the effect of the following sentence?
I ran the ice cube under warm water.
Options are:
* The ice cube stuck to my fingers.
* The ice cube vanished.
The answer is: | The ice cube vanished. | 6 | Flan2021 | super_glue/copa:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Generate a descriptive sentence about a restaurant using the following words:
name = Wildwood, eatType = pub, food = Japanese
Sentence: | Find pub quality Japanese for a high cost at Wildwood. | 9 | Flan2021 | gem/e2e_nlg:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
"Where does the surname 'Basak' come from?"
Where does the surname Economy come from?
Multi-choice problem: Would you say that these questions are the same?
Available options: A. no B. yes | A. | 0 | Flan2021 | glue/qqp:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Data: Glen Ridge, New Jersey IS_PART_OF Essex County, New Jersey
What would a sentence about this data be like? | Glen Ridge, New Jersey is situated in the Essex County. | 1 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Summarize this article in one sentence.
Keep your arms relaxed at your sides. Your feet should now be about a shoulder's width apart. . Your legs should now be crossing one another. Your feet should once again be a shoulder's width apart. The speed of the steps will be based on the rhythm of the song your are dancing to. The grapevine is used in popular line dances such as the Cowboy Boogie.
Summary: | Stand with your feet together. Step out with your right foot. Step your left foot behind and to the right of your right foot. Step out with your right foot. Place your left foot back in its original position so that you are now standing with your feet together. Repeat the steps, this time moving to the left. | 3 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Story: They had to pick out a stove for their new house. They couldn't decide on a particular brand. They liked the durability of the Viking. They also liked the deal with the Thermador.
In the options below, what is the most likely to happen next?
OPTIONS: (a). They didn't need a stove anymore. (b). They decided to buy the Viking stove. | (b). | 5 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-select problem: How does the next paragraph end?
Man is running in a blue race track doing big somersaults on a competition. girl
Options: a). is doing small dizzies from the nervous jumping.; b). is doing a slow jog and pass some green pen which is lifted by the cart.; c). is standing in green green cheering and a little baby holding a consider.; d). is reading a book in stands.; | d). | 5 | Flan2021 | hellaswag:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
The New York Times
In the meantime, in Niantic, Conn., the children of the Niantic Community Church wanted to donate money for a good cause. They decided to buy goats for African villagers through Heifer International, a venerable aid group based in Arkansas that helps impoverished farming families.
A dairy goat in Heifer’s online gift catalog costs $120; a flock of chicks or ducklings costs just $20.
One of the goats bought by the Niantic church went to Beatrice’s parents and soon produced twins. When the kid goats were weaned, the children drank the goat’s milk for a nutritional boost and sold the surplus milk for extra money.
The cash from the milk accumulated, and Beatrice’s parents decided that they could now afford to send their daughter to school. She was much older than the other first graders, but she was so overjoyed that she studied diligently and rose to be the best student in the school.
An American visiting the school was impressed and wrote a children’s book, “Beatrice’s Goat,” about how the gift of a goat had enabled a bright girl to go to school. The book was published in 2000 and became a children’s best seller — but there is now room for a more remarkable sequel.
Beatrice was such an outstanding student that she won a scholarship, not only to Uganda’s best girls’ high school, but also to a prep school in Massachusetts and then to Connecticut College. A group of 20 donors to Heifer International — coordinated by a retired staff member named Rosalee Sinn, who fell in love with Beatrice when she saw her at age 10 — financed the girl’s living expenses.
A few years ago, Beatrice spoke at a Heifer event attended by Jeffrey Sachs, the economist. Mr. Sachs was impressed and devised what he jokingly called the “Beatrice Theorem” of development economics: small inputs can lead to large outcomes.
Granted, foreign assistance doesn’t always work and is much harder than it looks. “I won’t lie to you. Corruption is high in Uganda,” Beatrice acknowledges.
A crooked local official might have distributed the goats by demanding that girls sleep with him in exchange. Or Beatrice’s goat might have died or been stolen. Or unpasteurized milk might have sickened or killed Beatrice.
In short, millions of things could go wrong. But when there’s a good model in place, they often go right. That’s why villagers in western Uganda recently held a special Mass and a feast to celebrate the first local person to earn a college degree in America.
Moreover, Africa will soon have a new asset: a well-trained professional to improve governance. Beatrice plans to earn a master’s degree at the Clinton School of Public Service in Arkansas and then return to Africa to work for an aid group.
Beatrice dreams of working on projects to help women earn and manage money more effectively, partly because she has seen in her own village how cash is always controlled by men. Sometimes they spent it partying with buddies at a bar, rather than educating their children. Changing that culture won’t be easy, Beatrice says, but it can be done.
When people ask how they can help in the fight against poverty, there are a thousand good answers, from sponsoring a child to supporting a grass-roots organization through globalgiving.com. (I’ve listed specific suggestions on my blog, nytimes.com/ontheground, and on facebook.com/kristof).
The challenges of global poverty are vast and complex, far beyond anyone’s power to resolve, and buying a farm animal for a poor family won’t solve them. But Beatrice’s giddy happiness these days is still a reminder that each of us does have the power to make a difference — to transform a girl’s life with something as simple and cheap as a little goat.
Write a one or two sentence summary. | One of the most remarkable of this year’s new college graduates, Beatrice Biira, credits her success to something utterly improbable: a goat. | 0 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate to German:
They are quick to point out that the first night elves began their rise to power by defeating a number of nearby troll tribes.
German: | Sie weisen darauf hin, dass die ersten Nachtelfen ihren Aufstieg an die Macht mit dem Sieg über einige benachbarte Trollstämme begannen. | 4 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/de-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a context and a hypothesis. | Context: A journalist for the French Daily Libération, Christophe Boltanski, was attacked on Friday by several men in a street of Tunis, where he was reporting on the repression of human rights activists. He was badly beaten and stabbed with a knife in the back by four unidentified assailants near his hotel in the embassy district. Boltanski was also hit in the face by pepper spray. He called for help, but the policemen on guard outside the nearby Czech Embassy did not react, according to Libération.
Hypothesis: A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia. | 9 | Flan2021 | super_glue/rte:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
The bus driver yelled at a kid after she broke a window.
Who is "she"?
--The bus driver.
--a kid. | a kid | 9 | Flan2021 | definite_pronoun_resolution:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Summer Phoenix did a great performance where you really feel what she's not able to feel and you just cannot understand what she has on her mind. Besides, she portrays a jewish girl who behaves really confronting the status quo of that century.
Would you say this review is positive or negative?
pick from the following. (I). negative; (II). positive; | (II). | 1 | Flan2021 | imdb_reviews/plain_text:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Available choices: I. negative II. positive What would be an example of an II. review? | Very diverse Asian menu! If you have a hang over go for the Fo! | 9 | Flan2021 | yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your answer: Knight Commander Roddick was plagued by a vision of his dead son because he was killed due to a lack of protection from his father.
Tell me who he is.
Available choices: (i). Knight Commander Roddick; (ii). his dead son; | (ii). | 3 | Flan2021 | definite_pronoun_resolution:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Data: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, abbreviation, "Acta Palaeontol. Pol."
Sentence about the following data: | Acta Palaeontologica Polonica's abbreviated name is Acta Palaeontol. Pol. | 1 | Flan2021 | gem/web_nlg_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
leaning close , she zoomed in on the vein of gold and snapped three pictures in rapid succession , then examined them on her small screen . the flash had washed out the impact of gold . pulling back , she took a few more . on inspection , she judged them washed out but passable . tucking the camera back in her pack , she looked around for something to collect a sample . in a burst of foresight , she had packed a plastic baggy to carry her specimen , so she could have it tested to be sure it was | gold | 0 | Flan2021 | lambada:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Answer the question
Which energy conversion process occurs whenever coal is burned?
Options are: (A). mechanical to electrical. (B). mechanical to thermal. (C). chemical to electrical. (D). chemical to thermal. | (D). | 5 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Easy:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
It is not enough to describe some objects by their location. We may also need to know its direction. For example, a wind blows a storm over your school. Where is that storm coming from? Where is it going? How can we describe a direction? The most common way is by using a compass. A compass is a device with a floating needle (Figure 2.1). The needle is a small magnet. The needle aligns itself with the Earth's magnetic field. The compass needle always points to magnetic north. If you have a compass and you find north. You can then know any other direction. See the directions, such as east, south, west, etc., on a compass rose. The Earth has two poles. It has a magnetic north pole. It also has a geographic north pole. These two poles are close to each other but not the exact same place.
Question: "What is a compass?"
Response: "A compass is a device with a floating needle that is magnetic."
Based on the paragraph, is the response to the question is factually correct?
Select from the following.
(i) no
(ii) yes | (ii) | 1 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Here is a goal: how do you work on a batch on mturk?
Which way makes more sense to accomplish this goal?
Possible answers: A. click on accept on the batch and then submit.; B. click on accept on the batch and then click no 'auto accept next hit'; | B. | 1 | Flan2021 | piqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
During which phase of the Moon could a solar eclipse take place?
Options are:
* full.
* new.
* quarter.
* crescent. | new | 0 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Challenge:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Complete the following text: as soon as they 'd hit the forty-eight hour mark on skye 's abduction , the cops had stopped looking for a live body . `` it 's ... it 's been a long time , trace , '' reese said softly . `` a lot can happen during all those hours ... '' trace 's hands fisted . he did n't want to imagine what had happened to | skye | 1 | Flan2021 | lambada:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Japanese funerals are highly ritualized affairs which are generally--though not always--conducted in accordance with Buddhist rites. In preparation for the funeral, the body is washed and the orifices are blocked with cotton or gauze. The encoffining ritual (called nokan), as depicted in Departures, is rarely performed, and even then only in rural areas. This ceremony is not standardized, but generally involves professional morticians (Na Guan Shi , nokanshi) ritually preparing the body, dressing the dead in white, and sometimes applying make-up. The body is then put on dry ice in a casket, along with personal possessions and items necessary for the trip to the afterlife. Despite the importance of death rituals, in traditional Japanese culture the subject is considered unclean as everything related to death is thought to be a source of kegare (defilement). After coming into contact with the dead, individuals must cleanse themselves through purifying rituals. People who work closely with the dead, such as morticians, are thus considered unclean, and during the feudal era those whose work was related to death became burakumin (untouchables), forced to live in their own hamlets and discriminated against by wider society. Despite a cultural shift since the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the stigma of death still has considerable force within Japanese society, and discrimination against the untouchables has continued. Until 1972, most deaths were dealt with by families, funeral homes, or nokanshi. As of 2014, about 80% of deaths occur in hospitals, and preparation of the bodies is frequently done by hospital staff; in such cases, the family often does not see the body until the funeral. A 1998 survey found that 29.5% of the Japanese population believed in an afterlife, and a further 40% wanted to believe; belief was highest among the young. Belief in the existence of a soul (54%) and a connection between the worlds of the living and the dead (64.9%) was likewise common. Motoki, by then in his early 40s and having built a reputation as a realist, was cast as Daigo. Veteran actor Tsutomu Yamazaki was selected for the role of Sasaki; Takita had worked with Yamazaki on We Are Not Alone (1993). Although the character of Mika was initially planned as being the same age as Daigo, the role went to pop singer Ryoko Hirosue, who had previously acted in Takita's Himitsu (Secret) in 1999. Takita explained that a younger actress would better represent the lead couple's growth out of naivety. In a 2009 interview, Takita stated that he had cast "everyone who was on my wish list". Motoki studied the art of encoffinment first-hand from a mortician, and assisted in an encoffining ceremony; he later stated that the experience imbued him with "a sense of mission ... to try to use as much human warmth as I could to restore [the deceased] to a lifelike presence for presentation to her family". Motoki then drilled himself by practising on his talent manager until he felt he had mastered the procedure, one whose intricate, delicate movements he compared to those of the Japanese tea ceremony. Takita attended funeral ceremonies to understand the feelings of bereaved families, while Yamazaki never participated in the encoffinment training. Motoki also learned how to play a cello for the earlier parts of the film. To provide realistic bodies while preventing the corpses from moving, after a lengthy casting process the crew chose extras who could lie as still as possible. For the bath house owner Tsuyako Yamashita, this was not possible owing to the need to see her alive first, and a search for a body double was unfruitful. Ultimately, the crew used digital effects to transplant a still image of the actor during the character's funeral scene, allowing for a realistic effect. The non-profit organization Sakata Location Box was established in December 2007 to handle on-location matters such as finding extras and negotiating locations. After deciding to shoot in Sakata, Location Box staff had two months to prepare for the eighty members of the film crew. Negotiations were slow, as many local property owners lost interest after learning that the filming would involve funeral scenes; those who agreed insisted that shooting take place outside of business hours. Toyama was both the setting of Coffinman and Takita's home prefecture, but filming was done in Yamagata; this was largely because the national Nokan Association, headquartered in Hokkaido, had a branch office in Sakata. Some preliminary scenes of snowy landscapes were shot in 2007, and primary filming began in April 2008, lasting 40 days. Locations included Kaminoyama, Sakata, Tsuruoka, Yuza, and Amarume. The NK Agent office was filmed in a three-storey, Western-style building in Sakata built between the mid-Meiji and Taisho periods (1880s-1920s). Originally a restaurant named Kappo Obata, it went out of business in 1998. The Kobayashis' cafe, called Concerto in the film, was located in Kaminoyama in a former beauty salon. From a hundred candidates, Takita chose it for its atmosphere as an aged building with a clear view of the nearby river and surrounding mountain range. The scene of the shooting of the training DVD took place in the Sakata Minato-za, Yamagata's first movie theatre, which had been closed since 2002. The soundtrack to Departures was by Joe Hisaishi, a composer who had gained international recognition for his work with Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. Before shooting began, Takita asked him to prepare a soundtrack which would represent the separation between Daigo and his father, as well as the mortician's love for his wife. Owing to the importance of cellos and cello music in the narrative, Hisaishi emphasized the instrument in his soundtrack; he described the challenge of centring a score around the cello as one of the most difficult things he had ever done. This score was played during shooting, which according to Takita "allowed [the crew] to visualize many of the emotions in the film" and thus contributed to the quality of the finished work. Upon completion, Takita declared Departures "perfect", and praised the crew for their self-reliance in developing the content and the humble, "hand-made" quality of the film. That the film's initial success depended largely on word-of-mouth was also a source of pride for the director. Coffinman author Shinmon Aoki praised Motoki's performance and the film's ability to show the importance of family and interpersonal connections, despite his disappointment at the dropping of the story's religious aspect.
Answer this question "Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?" by extracting the answer from the text above. | Motoki studied the art of encoffinment first-hand from a mortician, and assisted in an encoffining ceremony; | 6 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is the answer: Which English king was the son of John O'Gaunt? | henry iv | 3 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Translate to Russian:
Mstislav Rostislavich
Russian: | Мстислав Ростиславич Храбрый | 4 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ru-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
1. Hence , the consequences of CAP and high production in the EU can be the rise of unemployment and decline of self-sufficiency of these affected countries .
2. Agriculture makes a small fraction of GDP in Europe , but in developing countries of Africa or Asia it is entirely different with large numbers dependent on much smaller plots of land .
3. Castle , Stephen , EUs butter mountain is back , , 2 February 2009 ,
4. In 2008 the stockpiles of cereals rising to 717 810 tons while the surplus of wine was about 2.3 million hectolitres .
5. The current model of CAP results in major oversupply of food and beverages .
6. The low prices of European food can be attributed to the higher efficiency of producing food because of use of advanced technologies as well as the CAP .
7. This excess of supply is then often sold to developing countries for prices so low that the local producers can not cope with them .
What is the general argument implied by these sentences? | It harms the economies of developing world | 0 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
Does the sentence "The idea of Masonic brotherhood probably descends from a 16th-century legal definition of a brother as one who has taken an oath of mutual support to another." answer the question "Masons swear to protect their brethren unless they what?"
Select from: (A). yes. (B). no. | (B). | 0 | Flan2021 | glue/qnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate the following sentence to Russian:
Already in 1941, fluorescently marked anti-bodies were used to locate antigens in cells; nowadays they are widely used in medical examinations.
Russian: | Уже в 1941 г. флуоресцентно окрашенные антитела стали использовать для определения клеточных антигенов; в настоящее время их широко применяют в медицинских исследованиях. | 5 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ru-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Heat transfer is part of everyday life. Which of these examples involving heat transfer occurs mainly by conduction?
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Pick from:
(A). The sun warms the ground.
(B). A hot oven warms a cold kitchen.
(C). A campfire warms a person's hands.
(D). Hot soup warms a metal spoon handle. | (D). | 4 | Flan2021 | unified_qa_science_inst | zs_opt |
What is the most logical completion of this news story?.
(CNN) -- Diwali is one of the most important Hindu festivals in India -- but the colorful customs and meanings associated with it can vary dramatically depending on whether you reside in the countryside or the city. On the streets of densely populated conurbations like Mumbai, Diwali -- popularly known as the Festival of Lights -- is often a raucous affair, marked by a cacophony of firecrackers on the streets and a flourish of ceremonial gambling in the home. The wealthier urban dwellers splurge on gold, jewelry, clothes and expensive gifts such as electronics, which they buy for themselves and their loved ones.
Diwali also marks the start of the new
OPTIONS:
- CNN financial year and many businessmen, traders and shopkeepers, open new accounts books.
- Diwali financial year and many businessmen, traders and shopkeepers, open new accounts books.
- Festival of Lights financial year and many businessmen, traders and shopkeepers, open new accounts books.
- Hindu financial year and many businessmen, traders and shopkeepers, open new accounts books.
- Hindu god Rama financial year and many businessmen, traders and shopkeepers, open new accounts books.
- India financial year and many businessmen, traders and shopkeepers, open new accounts books.
- Indian financial year and many businessmen, traders and shopkeepers, open new accounts books.
- Lakshmi financial year and many businessmen, traders and shopkeepers, open new accounts books.
- Mumbai financial year and many businessmen, traders and shopkeepers, open new accounts books.
| Hindu financial year and many businessmen, traders and shopkeepers, open new accounts books. | 8 | Flan2021 | super_glue/record:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
The area between Belvidere Street, Interstate 195, Interstate 95, and the river, which includes Virginia Commonwealth University, is socioeconomically and architecturally diverse. North of Broad Street, the Carver and Newtowne West neighborhoods are demographically similar to neighboring Jackson Ward, with Carver experiencing some gentrification due to its proximity to VCU. The affluent area between the Boulevard, Main Street, Broad Street, and VCU, known as the Fan, is home to Monument Avenue, an outstanding collection of Victorian architecture, and many students. West of the Boulevard is the Museum District, the location of the Virginia Historical Society and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. South of the Downtown Expressway are Byrd Park, Maymont, Hollywood Cemetery, the predominantly black working class Randolph neighborhood, and white working class Oregon Hill. Cary Street between Interstate 195 and the Boulevard is a popular commercial area called Carytown.
Along with Newtowne West, to what neighborhood is Carver regarded as having comparable demographics? (If the question is unanswerable, say "unanswerable") | Jackson Ward | 3 | Flan2021 | squad/v2.0:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
Backcountry is a 2014 Canadian nature--survival horror film, written and directed by Adam MacDonald. It is loosely based on the true story of a man-eating bear and 30-year-olds Mark Jordan and Jacqueline Perry, in the back country of Missinaibi Lake Provincial Park, North of Chapleau, Ontario in 2005, events for which Mark later received the Star of Courage award from Governor General Michaëlle Jean. Theatrical release was scheduled for August 14, 2015.
Multi-choice problem: Is it true that backcountry movie is based on a true story?
OPT: (i) no. (ii) yes.
The answer is: | (ii) | 1 | Flan2021 | bool_q:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
(options at the end). Does the word "seat" mean the same thing in "He dusted off the seat before sitting down." and "There are two hundred seats in this classroom."?
Available options:
1). different meanings.
2). the same meaning. | 2). | 9 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wic:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Relying on an animal to come by is risky. A flower may have to wait a long time for the right animals to come by. What if one never passes close enough to the flower? Hoping the wind will blow is also risky for a plant. What if the wind does not blow? What if the blowing pollen does not land on another flower? The wind could even blow the pollen over the ocean where it is wasted. Giving free nectar is costly. It is not a good use of the plants energy. A plant uses a lot of energy to produce nectar. Some animals may just drink the nectar. They may not carry off any pollen in return. To improve their chances, plants evolved special traits. For example, they developed ways to hide their nectar. Only certain animals were able to get at the plants hidden nectar. These specific animals might be more likely to visit only flowers of the same species. This was also a benefit for some animals. Animals also evolved special traits to get to the nectar.
Question: "What is risky for a plant with its nectar?"
Answer: "Waiting for the wind to blow the right direction or waiting for the right animals to come by can be risky for the process of pollination"
Is this answer correct?
Possible answers: 1). no. 2). yes....I think the answer is | 2). | 2 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Write an article that answers the following question: Which group from the census is smaller: Asian or two or more races? | As of the census of 2010, there were 516,564 people, 140,602 households, and 114,350 families residing in the county. The population density was 259 people per square mile (100/km²). There were 148,350 housing units, at an average density of 74 per square mile (29/km²). The countys racial makeup was 89.4% Race (United States Census), 0.5% Black or African American, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 1.4% Asian, 0.8% Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, 4.6% some other race, and 2.7% from two or more races. 10.8% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. | 7 | Flan2021 | drop:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write an ordered list of reviews about "the beaver 2010". | 1. Flawed, but in an era of safe filmmaking with stories and characters tied in uniformly neat bows, The Beaver operates outside the box ... and then it kicks the box down the street.
2. A fairly uninvolving one-trick pony.
3. For a film about the real problem of mental illness, it never feels authentic. Depression is not something neatly tied up. If this is meant as an allegory, it's vague and unconvincing.
4. Gibson knows a thing or two about lost, troubled souls, and watching him navigate around the edge of the abyss is fascinating.
5. For all his recent travails, Gibson remains a formidable film-maker (Apocalypto was a tour de force) and a strong screen presence. He is simply not right for his role here.
6. It's still worth seeing, if only for Gibson's performance.
7. Gibson's performance as Walter Black ranks among the best of his career.
8. Someone like Walter Black is bruised in the brain. Like The Beaver, such a state is complicated, aggravating, but definitely worth fighting to understand and accept.
9. In case you haven't heard, Mel Gibson has a new movie out, with a dumb title and even dumber premise. That's three reasons to not buy a ticket to The Beaver, but I'm guessing Gibson's polarizing presence is enough for most folks. It has been, so far.
10. If anyone can see past the suggestive title, the oddball premise and the controversial casting of this film, they might be surprised to find it surprisingly tolerable. | 7 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
Last week a coroner ruled soldiers were not justified in their use of lethal force against Bernard Watt.
Teresa Watt said her husband was a good man, who was just "looking after his home, like everyone else".
The 28-year-old died after being shot by the Army during a riot in Ardoyne, Belfast, in February 1971.
The coroner ruled he was not a member of a paramilitary organisation and was not holding a bomb before he was shot, as soldiers had told the court.
"I've been hearing [he was a bomber] for 46 years, and they can't say that any more," Mrs Watt told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.
"I always knew, because I knew what sort of fella he was - he was never part of any organisation.
"He went out to riot, he got out like the rest of them. But he was looking after his home, like everyone else"
She described him as a man's man with plenty of friends who liked dog racing.
Mrs Watt said it had been incredibly hard to give evidence at the inquest into her husband's death.
"You learn to live with it," she said. "Everyone has their problems."
The first inquest into his death was held in July 1971 and resulted in an open verdict.
The latest inquest was ordered in 2012 by Attorney General John Larkin QC - one of a number of controversial Troubles killings by the security forces which are being re-examined.
Counsel for the coroner told the court there had been difficulties in tracing and identifying soldiers involved in the case.
In February, the Ministry of Defence defended a Parachute Regiment Facebook appeal asking former soldiers for information about Mr Watt's killing.
But Mrs Watt told the BBC she was "not out for vengeance".
"Let them run on," she added. "They'll face their own maker yet."
Ten months after her husband was killed, Mrs Watt's brother Joe was also killed by the Army and an inquest into his death is due to take place later this year.
This article was about: | The widow of a man shot dead by the Army during a Belfast riot has expressed relief his name his finally been cleared 46 years after his death. | 5 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
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