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Please capitalize where necessary: kbdarmw.dll blue screen, slow pc, program and system crashing fix | KBDARMW.DLL blue screen, slow PC, program and system crashing Fix | 8 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
Question: who was known for his policy of massive retaliation and his approach to war called brinkmanship??
Answer: | Adlai Stevenson | 0 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a context and a hypothesis. | Context: The We're Not Invisible Tour was the third headlining tour by American country musician Hunter Hayes. The tour was opened by Dan + Shay and Danielle Bradbery. The tour began on March 20, 2014, in Pikeville, Kentucky and ended on May 31, 2014, in Estero, Florida.
Hypothesis: The tour began on March 20, 2014, in Pikeville, Kentucky and ended on May 21, 2014, in Estero, Florida. | 9 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Translate the following sentence to Romanian:
A coordinators' meeting was held in the Committee on Budgetary Control that I myself chaired.
Romanian: | În cadrul Comisiei pentru control bugetar a avut loc o reuniune a coordonatorilor pe care am prezidat-o eu însumi. | 5 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ro-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Dick Turpin is a 1933 British historical drama film directed by Victor Hanbury and John Stafford it starred Victor McLaglen, Jane Carr, Frank Vosper, James Finlayson and Cecil Humphreys. The film depicts the adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York. It is based on a historical novel by Harrison Ainsworth.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
Dick Turpin is a 1933 drama film.
Select from the following.
* Yes
* It's impossible to say
* No | Yes | 3 | Flan2021 | anli/r1:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Другой аргумент в пользу более мягкого отношения к марихуане заключается в том, что она не вызывает привыкания.
Could you please translate this to English? | Another argument for relaxing our attitude to cannabis is that it is non-addictive. | 2 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ru-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Use the following highlights to write an article:
Floodwater washes a family's vehicle away in Pittsburgh. The car gets stuck next to a tree and is submerged. One more person whose car is found remains unaccounted for.
Article: | A mother and two children drowned inside a car Friday after floodwater washed their vehicle away, a Pittsburgh city official said. The city experienced a heavy storm and flooding shortly after 4 p.m. Friday, said Michael Huss, Pittsburgh director of Public Safety. "The manhole covers began to lift from the rush of water, and the roadway flooded," Huss said. CNN affiliate WTAE reported that the incident took place in the eastern Pittsburgh neighborhood of Highland Park in Pennsylvania. Huss said the family's vehicle washed down the roadway and got stuck next to a tree. "The three could not get out of the car before it was submerged," Huss said. "The water had a lot of force behind (it), and all three inside drowned." In addition, Huss said, "We have one person whose car was located, but that person is still unaccounted for." Dive units were searching late Friday night. | 8 | Flan2021 | cnn_dailymail:3.4.0 | zs_opt |
Possible tweet sentiments: Select from: * negative. * positive.
Write a tweet that is negative. | first day and kena 12 hrs ..... can die !!!! | 6 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Johnnie had a set of small volumes of English verse, extensively annotated by his own hand, which Stoddard had brought to her early in their acquaintance, leaving it with her more as a gift than as a loan. She kept these little books after all the others had gone back. She had read and reread them--cullings from Chaucer, from Spenser, from the Elizabethan lyrists, the border balladry, fierce, tender, oh, so human--till she knew pages of them by heart, and their vocabulary influenced her own, their imagery tinged all her leisure thoughts. It seemed to her, whenever she debated returning them, that she could not bear it. She would get them out and sit with one of them open in her hands, not reading, but staring at the pages with unseeing eyes, passing her fingers over it, as one strokes a beloved hand, or turning through each book only to find the pencilled words in the margins. She would be giving up part of herself when she took these back. Yet it had to be done, and one miserable morning she made them all into a neat package, intending to carry them to the mill and place them on Stoddard's desk thus early, when nobody would be in the office. Then the children came in; Deanie was half sick; and in the distress of getting the ailing child comfortably into her own bed, Johnnie forgot the books. Taking them in at noon, she met Stoddard himself.
What question would one ask from this paragraph? | What caused Johnnie to have to return the books in person to Stoddard? | 9 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 - October 18, 1893) was a prominent U.S. orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and against slavery at a time when women were discouraged and prevented from public speaking. Stone was known for using her birth name after marriage, the custom at the time being for women to take their husband's surname.
Lucy Stone was born on August 13, 1818, on her family's farm at Coy's Hill in West Brookfield, Massachusetts. She was the eighth of nine children born to Hannah Matthews and Francis Stone; she grew up with three brothers and three sisters, two siblings having died before her own birth. Another member of the Stone household was Sarah Barr, "Aunt Sally" to the children- a sister of Francis Stone who had been abandoned by her husband and left dependent upon her brother. Although farm life was hard work for all and Francis Stone tightly managed the family resources, Lucy remembered her childhood as one of "opulence," the farm producing all the food the family wanted and enough extra to trade for the few store-bought goods they needed. Although Stone recalled that "There was only one will in our family, and that was my father's," she described the family government characteristic of her day. Hannah Stone earned a modest income through selling eggs and cheese but was denied any control over that money, sometimes denied money to purchase things Francis considered trivial. Believing she had a right to her own earnings, Hannah sometimes stole coins from his purse or secretly sold a cheese. As a child, Lucy resented instances of what she saw as her father's unfair management of the family's money. But she later came to realize that custom was to blame, and the injustice only demonstrated "the necessity of making custom right, if it must rule." From the examples of her mother, Aunt Sally, and a neighbor neglected by her husband and left destitute, Stone early learned that women were at the mercy of their husbands' good will. When she came across the biblical passage, "and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee," she was distraught over what appeared to be divine sanction of women's subjugation, but then reasoned that the injunction applied only to wives. Resolving to "call no man my master," she determined to keep control over her own life by never marrying, obtaining the highest education she could, and earning her own livelihood. Kerr writes "Stone's personality was striking: her unquestioning willingness to take responsibility for other peoples actions; her "workaholic" habits; her self doubt; her desire for control."
Answer the following question by taking a quote from the article: Where did she go to school | Resolving to "call no man my master," she determined to keep control over her own life by never marrying, obtaining the highest education she could, and earning her own livelihood. | 0 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Options:
(A). Remember to ask beforehand if the cat's body language indicates a calm individual. If your cat is growling, meowing, or hissing, this indicates a calm individual..
(B). Your cat may jump up to grab the measuring tape or unlike with its usual behaviour. Make sure your cat stays still and seem both calm and alert..
(C). If your cat is hyper, play with him for a while and gradually calm him down. For example, let your cat chase a toy for a while, then let him catch the toy..
(D). Cat fur is a delicate fabric, and your cat will be easily scratched if you mess up the measurements. Put your cat in a comfortable place..Choose from options above and answer: What most naturally follows?
How to measure clothing for your cat
Measure a calm cat.
Catch your cat in a good mood, or a sleepy mood. Wait until your cat is holding still, and take his or her measurements.
Answer: | (C). | 6 | Flan2021 | hellaswag:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Write a dialog based on this summary:
Mary finishes her lessons at 2pm. Jack won't be there on time, so Mary has to wait for him in the common room.. | Jack: Honey, what time does Mary finish her lessons?
Pat: At 14:00.
Jack: I will not be on time :(
Pat: She will wait for a while at the common room.
Pat: I would prefer she not to go by bus in such terrible weather.
Jack: Okay, no problem.
Pat: Thx | 8 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Princess Juliane Henriette Ulrike of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Coburg, 23 September 1781 – Elfenau, near Bern, Switzerland, 15 August 1860), also known as Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna of Russia (Russian: Анна Фёдоровна ), was a German princess of the ducal house of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (after 1826, the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) who became the wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia.
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Princess Juliane Henriette Ulrike of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld only loved her husband Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia."?
Select from the following.
A). Yes;
B). It's impossible to say;
C). No;
I think the answer is | B). | 0 | Flan2021 | anli/r2:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Write a text based on this summary: annan urges renewed efforts for peace and partnership
Text: | united nations secretary-general kofi annan believes the new century can and should be a time of renewed efforts to forge peace and partnership within and among nations . | 8 | Flan2021 | gigaword:1.2.0 | zs_opt |
Keep open the possibility of a merger.
Keep my job for me while I give birth.
Choose your answer: Does the word "keep" mean the same thing in the above two sentences?
Select from the following. a. different meanings; b. the same meaning; | b. | 0 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wic:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
high power led products > dmx512 high-power led wall washer > lww-1
Can you repeat this sentence, but capitalize it correctly? | High power led products > dmx512 high-power led wall washer > lww-1 | 5 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
CHAPTER IX.
IN WHICH MR. HAMLIN PASSES.
With his lips sealed by the positive mandate of the lovely spectre, Mr. Hamlin resigned himself again to weakness and sleep. When he awoke, Olly was sitting by his bedside; the dusky figure of Pete, spectacled and reading a good book, was dimly outlined against the window--but that was all. The vision--if vision it was--had fled.
"Olly," said Mr. Hamlin, faintly.
"Yes!" said Olly, opening her eyes in expectant sympathy.
"How long have I been dr--I mean how long has this--spell lasted?"
"Three days," said Olly.
"The ---- you say!" (A humane and possibly weak consideration for Mr. Hamlin in his new weakness and suffering restricts me to a mere outline of his extravagance of speech.)
"But you're better now," supplemented Olly.
Mr. Hamlin began to wonder faintly if his painful experience of the last twenty-four hours were a part of his convalsecence. He was silent for a few moments and then suddenly turned his face toward Olly.
"Didn't you say something about--about--your sister, the other day?"
"Yes--she's got back," said Olly, curtly.
"Here?"
"Here."
"Well?" said Mr. Hamlin, a little impatiently.
"Well," returned Olly, with a slight toss of her curls, "she's got back and I reckon it's about time she did."
Strange to say, Olly's evident lack of appreciation of her sister seemed to please Mr. Hamlin--possibly because it agreed with his own idea of Grace's superiority and his inability to recognise or accept her as the sister of Gabriel.
"Where has she been all this while?" asked Jack, rolling his large hollow eyes over Olly.
Answer the following questions:
1. Who had returned?
2. What was her name?
3. Who else was she related to?
4. How long had the man been passed out?
5. Was he alone when he woke up?
6. Who was nearest to him?
7. Where was she?
8. Was anyone else there?
9. Who?
10. Where there was he?
Numbered answers: | 1. oLLY'S SISTER
2. Grace
3. Gabriel.
4. 3 days
5. no
6. Olly
7. by his bedside
8. yes
9. Pete
10. nearer the window | 0 | Flan2021 | coqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
1. Rather than resembling a traditional hierarchical organisation -LRB- such as an early twentieth century business , an army or a monastic order -RRB- where everyone has their own clearly defined role and are told how to proceed by a top-down central authority , open-source software development is more like an open market where everyone is engaged in the same activity but come at it from different directions .
2. Open source software starts from a completely different viewpoint of how products should be created .
3. The basic advantage of open source software is that , as users can read , redistribute , and modify the source code for a piece of software , it evolves .
4. Out of this cacophonous market , a more fluid product emerges .
5. The highly collegiate culture in which contemporary approaches to coding evolved continues to create programmers who are naturally curious about the functions and features of new software .
6. This means that users and programmers can improve , adapt and fix the software at a much faster pace than Microsoft or another closed source developer can match .
7. Open source software solicits a wide variety of solutions to particular coding problems ; the more solutions that coders generate , the more likely it is that an optimal solution will be discovered .
8. Open source software harnesses the wide range of ideas and methodologies that different coders use to writer software to refine and improve existing programmes .
9. Monopolistic producers like Microsoft have an incentive to slow the pace of change , whereas the open source community will simply choose the best solution .
10. Not only does the approach described above result in the creation of higher quality programmes , it also allows businesses and individual coders to easily adapt existing programmes to their needs .
What is the general argument implied by these sentences? | Open source software is more adaptable to government needs. | 0 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
See context followed by options. Is "Emma's mother" the same as "her" in this sentence?
Emma's mother had died long ago, and *her* place had been taken by an excellent woman as governess.
Available choices:
(a). no;
(b). yes; | (b). | 8 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wsc.fixed:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
The mountainous areas of Northwestern Greece (parts of Epirus, Central Greece, Thessaly, Western Macedonia) as well as in the mountainous central parts of Peloponnese – including parts of the regional units of Achaea, Arcadia and Laconia – feature an Alpine climate with heavy snowfalls. The inland parts of northern Greece, in Central Macedonia and East Macedonia and Thrace feature a temperate climate with cold, damp winters and hot, dry summers with frequent thunderstorms. Snowfalls occur every year in the mountains and northern areas, and brief snowfalls are not unknown even in low-lying southern areas, such as Athens.
Answer this question, if possible (if impossible, reply "unanswerable"): Northern Greece inland features what type of climate? | temperate | 6 | Flan2021 | squad/v2.0:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; 16 June 1890 – 23 February 1965) was an English comic actor, writer and film director, who was part of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. He appeared with his comedy partner Oliver Hardy in 107 short films, feature films, and cameo roles.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
Stan Laurel died the same month he was born
Available options:
A). Yes
B). It's impossible to say
C). No | C). | 1 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Question: In 1972 Mother and Child Reunion was the first solo UK hit for which artist?
Answer: | paul simon | 6 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
This question has options. How would someone go about accomplishing this goal?
how to easily clean your baseboards
Options are: I. attach a dryer sheet to your Swiffer in place of a microfiber cloth; II. attach wool dryer balls and velcro strips to your Swiffer in place of a microfiber cloth; | I. | 7 | Flan2021 | piqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a negative yelp review (Choices: -negative. -positive.). | Bad service and super long wait! Not worth the time! We were told it was a 25 minute wait and when it was all said and done it was actually 2 hours and 2 people out of our 4 person party didn't even get to ride because of undisclosed "adjustments" they needed to make to the cables. Overall pretty much just a waste of time! | 7 | Flan2021 | yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0 | zs_opt |
What sentence would provide a factual answer to this question: "Which of the following has a population of zero?" | if a population decreases to zero then that organism is extinct | 7 | Flan2021 | openbookqa:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Independence with Partition: The British began to see India's independence as inevitable; however, only a few seemed to understand the vital role of the religious groups. Britain prepared a parliamentary democracy with majority rule, but the majority were Hindus — and Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs had been killing each other in war for many centuries. Nehru's Congress Party, largely Hindu with a socialist leadership, wanted a parliamentary democracy. As counterweight, British legislation reserved parliamentary seats for religious minorities, but the Punjab and Bengal had such a complicated mixture of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs that it was not possible to avoid fights over how separate constituencies were to be formed. The seeds of future trouble were sown. The legislation on reserving seats gave the Muslims the basis for an alternative to an India in which they were only a quarter of the population: Partition. In 1930, the poet Muhammad Iqbal proposed a separate Muslim homeland in the northwest of India. A small group of Indian Muslims at Cambridge came up with the name Pakistan, using the initials of the Punjab, Afghania (N.W. Frontier Province), Kashmir, and Sind (at the same time producing the word pak, meaning "pure"), and adding "stan," the Persian suffix for the word "country. " The Muslim campaign for Partition was led by London-trained Bombay lawyer, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Meanwhile, Gandhi vehemently opposed any dismemberment of the country, and tried to keep people united by fasting to uphold the spirit of love, and by focussing on the common adversary: the British. Advocating civil disobedience, he led his famous Salt March to the sea, to scoop up salt and circumvent the hated British salt tax. This put more than 60,000 in jail. Against this militancy, World War II did not elicit the solidarity of the first. Indians courageously fought alongside the British troops, in Burma, the Middle East, and Europe, but Gandhi saw the British as a provocation for Japanese invasion and was jailed yet again, for launching a "Quit India" campaign in the year 1942. Some anti-British extremists saw the Japanese as an Asian liberator. Winston Churchill didn't want any Indian independence and so it was probably as well for India that he was defeated by Attlee's Labor Party in 1945. With riots growing ever more bloody in Bengal, Bihar, and the Punjab, India's last viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, kept a mandate to make the British departure as quick and as smooth as possible. Quick it was — six months after his arrival — but not smooth.
Question: "How long did the British departure from India take?"
Response: "Four months"
OPTIONS:
a). no
b). yes
Does the response correctly answer the question?
| a). | 0 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
@USOuljah Ohh Emmm Geee. Souvlaki from Dimitris...I wanna go homeeee LOL
Select your answer from the options. What is the sentiment of this tweet?
pick from the following. a. negative; b. positive;...I think the answer is | a. | 0 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Cut a check.
Cut the rope.
Choose your answer: Does the word "cut" mean the same thing in the above two sentences?
[i] different meanings;
[ii] the same meaning; | [i] | 0 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wic:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
The jury verdict , reached Wednesday after less than four hours of deliberation , followed a 2 1 / 2 week trial , during which Waagner represented himself .
The quick conviction followed a 2 1 / 2 week trial , during which the Venango County man represented himself .
Select from the options at the end. Are these sentences conveying the same meaning?
Possible answers:
i. no
ii. yes | ii. | 4 | Flan2021 | glue/mrpc:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
How do I apply for a PAN card?
I have applied for a PAN card but not received it. It's been about six months. When I check for my PAN card status online it shows no matching record found. What should I do?
Choose your answer. Are these two questions paraphrases of each other?
Select from: A). no. B). yes. | A). | 4 | Flan2021 | glue/qqp:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article that answers the following question: How many points did the Ravens win by? | Coming off of the bye week, the Steelers traveled to Baltimore to take on their division rival Ravens. The game received much hype, including QB Ben Roethlisberger returning from injury. Through the first half it was all Ravens when Joe Flacco found Mike Wallace on a 95-yard touchdown pass to move up 7-0 in the first quarter. This was followed by Justin Tucker's 49-yard field goal in the second to make it 10-0 at halftime. In the third quarter, the Ravens went back to work as Tucker went for a 42-yard field goal to make it 13-0. In the fourth quarter, Chris Moore blocked a punt and returned it 14 yards for a touchdown with a (successful two-point conversion) to make it 21-0. Later on in the game, the Steelers finally got on the board as Roethlisberger found Antonio Brown on a 23-yard touchdown pass making the score 21-7. They wrapped up the scoring later on when Roethlisberger ran for a touchdown himself from 4 yards out making the final score 21-14. With their third straight loss, the Steelers fell to 4-4 and move into a tie with the Ravens for the lead in the AFC North. The loss was also the Steelers' fourth straight loss to the Ravens as well as the fourth straight year losing to their top division rivals in Baltimore. | 7 | Flan2021 | drop:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Does "send" mean the same thing in these two sentences? See options at the end.
To send a message, or a letter.
Every day at two o'clock, he sends his secretary out to buy him a coffee.
Select from: 1). different meanings. 2). the same meaning...Answer: | 2). | 8 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wic:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Write a sentence not in English. | (EL) Dle președinte, dezbaterea privind așa-numita politică de coeziune în Uniunea Europeană nu a scos în evidență caracteristici de bază, precum: în primul rând, faptul că nicio politică de coeziune europeană nu poate elimina inegalitățile la nivelul creșterii economice, generate de metoda capitalistă de producție, care operează numai pe criteriul profitului pentru capital. | 8 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ro-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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Greg, Condolences for the turbulent times Enron is going through. We remain excited and optimistic about the possibilities of a joint project. We realize that you and Vince may have limited bandwidth in the immediate future, but when you have time we hope you will consider the draft proposal we sent Vince. We are still fully behind it. Yours truly, Norman
Subject Line: | Enron and Prediction Company | 1 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
After I saw Bill catching flies and pulling off their wings, I boxed his ears. I showed the master the flies, some crushed and some crawling about helpless, and I showed him the wings on the window sill. I never saw him so angry before; but as Bill was still howling and whining, like the coward that he was, he did not give *him* any more punishment of that kind, but set him up on a stool for the rest of the afternoon, and said that he should not go out to play for that week.
Which option(s) below is/are correct for question: are "the master" and "him" the same entity?
Choose from:
(A). no
(B). yes | (A). | 0 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wsc.fixed:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Powerful and easy to use Electric Lawnmower with the PowerPlus highpower motor with hightorque gear drive delivering excellent precision cutting results and optimised grass collectionFor effortlessly dealing with every type of lawn even tall or damp grassIn addition this technology reduces the total weight of the mower and thereby allows significantly easier work
Can you repeat this sentence, but add in punctuation? | Powerful and easy to use Electric Lawnmower with the PowerPlus: high-power motor with high-torque gear drive delivering excellent, precision cutting results and optimised grass collection.For effortlessly dealing with every type of lawn, even tall or damp grass.In addition, this technology reduces the total weight of the mower and thereby allows significantly easier work. | 1 | Flan2021 | fix_punct | zs_opt |
Terrorists are trying to use a European court ruling to wipe stories about their trials from Google in a move which amounts to censorship by the back door, Sajid Javid warned today. The Culture Secretary condemned ‘Luxembourg’s unelected judges’ who created the so-called ‘right to be forgotten’ by forcing search engines to remove links to news stories. In a forthright speech to newspaper editors, Mr Javid accused European courts of ‘trying to restrict media freedom’ and took aim at the BBC for competing with news websites like MailOnline. Culture Secretary Sajid Javid warned unaccountable European judges were 'trying to restrict media freedom’, creating a new right to be forgotten which amounted to 'censorship by the back door'
Sajid Javid questioned whether the
OPTIONS:
- BBC website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Culture Secretary website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Djanogly website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Dorset website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- EU website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Edward Stanbury website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- European website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Google website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Harper Collins website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Hugh Wilson website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Javid website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Jonathan Djanogly website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Josef Fritzl website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Lesley Molseed website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- London website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Luxembourg website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- MailOnline website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Old Etonian website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Richard Kay website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Ronald Castree website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Sajid Javid website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Sherborne website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Stanbury website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- The Crimes of Josef Fritzl: Uncovering the Truth website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- Tory website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
- William website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline.
| BBC website should be competing with commercial news sites like MailOnline. | 1 | Flan2021 | super_glue/record:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Multi-select: Let's say that "I was trying to open the lock with the key, but someone had filled the keyhole with chewing gum, and I couldn't get it in."
Can we now say that "I couldn't get the chewing gum in."?
OPTIONS: [i] no [ii] yes | [i] | 3 | Flan2021 | glue/wnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
What are the keywords in the following sentence:
yachts and other boats moored | boat, moor, yacht | 6 | Flan2021 | gem/common_gen:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
I've been reading posts here concerning Wonder Woman's costume for this TV movie. It should be pointed out at the time the movie was made, she wasn't wearing her traditional outfit. The producers were actually sticking to the comic book writer's conception of WW for the early seventies.
As for the movie itself, I have to agree with many of the other posters here. Snoozefest! I was a kid when it appeared on ABC in 1974, so I was at the right age to have appreciated a movie about a comic book hero. Yet I was so "engrossed" with the plot, I stopped watching it three quarters into the movie.
Of course, I wasn't at the right age to appreciate Cathy Lee! :-)
Is the sentiment of this review positive or negative?
Choose from:
A). negative
B). positive | A). | 3 | Flan2021 | imdb_reviews/plain_text:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate "It is immoral, and we have to say so here loud and clear, because while the annual average CO2 emissions of a European are 10 tonnes, the average for an American is 24 tonnes and developing countries are way below the average." to Finnish? | Tämä on moraalitonta, ja se on tuotava täällä kuuluvasti julki, koska Euroopassa keskimääräiset hiilidioksidipäästöt henkeä kohden ovat 10 tonnia vuodessa, mutta Yhdysvalloissa keskimääräiset päästöt ovat henkeä kohden 24 tonnia ja kehitysmaissa päästöt ovat selvästi keskiarvon alapuolella. | 7 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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Beginning this week an Origination report will be given to Fred Lagrasta each morning. The information for this report is taken from the Origination schedule tab of your P&L file. It is imparative that all the information is filled out for each origination granted. The item most commonly overlooked is deal volume. There is also additional information that is now required for all Middle Market Nymex Originations. Please add the following columns to your Origination Schedule: Buy/Sell Term of the Deal Price Pub Code If you have any questions or you are no longer responsible for updating the origination schedule, please call me. Thank you for your help.
Subject Line: | Origination | 1 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Competition is most likely to occur between which two organisms?
Pick your answer from:
A). deer and butterflies.
B). owls and bacteria.
C). goldfish and rabbits.
D). grass and strawberry plants. | D). | 0 | Flan2021 | unified_qa_science_inst | zs_opt |
Teď nemůžeš odejít, Alex.
Translate to English
English: | You can't leave now, Alex. | 1 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/cs-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Пока мой ноут еще жив, а читатели делают ставки, я решил перед сном еще расковырять django-debug-tolbar.
Translate this to English? | Sometimes it’s good to hide things instead of deleting them. | 3 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ru-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
If She felt morally battered to the ground after her conflict with Julius's vigorous personality., can we conclude that "She felt morally refreshed after her constructive conversation with Julius."?
Options:
1). yes
2). it is not possible to tell
3). no | 3). | 8 | Flan2021 | glue/mnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Is the premise "Two soccer players rush towards the ball." true if "The players are going towards the ball."?
Available choices: (i). yes; (ii). it is not possible to tell; (iii). no; | (i). | 8 | Flan2021 | snli:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
The Australian Labor Party (ALP, also Labor, was Labour before 1912) is a political party in Australia. The party has been in opposition at the federal level since the 2013 election. Bill Shorten has been the party's federal parliamentary leader since 13 October 2013. The party is a federal party with branches in each state and territory. Labor is in government in the states of Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, and in both the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory. The party competes against the Liberal/National Coalition for political office at the federal and state (and sometimes local) levels.
Labor's constitution has long stated: "The Australian Labor Party is a democratic socialist party and has the objective of the democratic socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange, to the extent necessary to eliminate exploitation and other anti-social features in these fields". This "socialist objective" was introduced in 1921, but was later qualified by two further objectives: "maintenance of and support for a competitive non-monopolistic private sector" and "the right to own private property". Labor governments have not attempted the "democratic socialisation" of any industry since the 1940s, when the Chifley government failed to nationalise the private banks, and in fact have privatised several industries such as aviation and banking. Labor's current National Platform describes the party as "a modern social democratic party", "the party of opportunity and security for working people" and "a party of active government".
Answer this series of questions:
1. What happened in 1921?
2. What is the ALP?
3. Since when has it been in opposition of at the federal level?
4. Where does the party have branches?
5. Can you name two of the states where Labor is in government?
6. Who is Bill Shorten?
7. When did he start?
8. Which government failed to nationalise the private banks?
9. How does the current National Platform describe the party?
10. And how else?
11. What have governments not attempted since the 1940's?
12. Who does the party compete against?
13. What has Labor's constitution said for a long time?
14. How was Labor spelled before 1912?
Numbered answers: | 1. This "socialist objective" was introduced.
2. The Australian Labor Party
3. Since the 2013 election.
4. In each state and territory.
5. Victoria and Queensland,
6. The party's federal parliamentary leader
7. October 13 2013
8. the Chifley government
9. "a modern social democratic party"
10. "the party of opportunity and security for working people" and "a party of active government".
11. "democratic socialisation" of any industry
12. the Liberal/National Coalition
13. "The Australian Labor Party is a democratic socialist party and has the objective of the democratic socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange, to the extent necessary to eliminate exploitation and other anti-social features in these fields".
14. Labour | 3 | Flan2021 | coqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Question 1: How did you become a dentist?
Question 2: How do you become a dentist?
OPT:
+ no;
+ yes;
Would the answer to these two questions be the same? | yes | 7 | Flan2021 | glue/qqp:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Are "The fish" and "It" the same in this sentence?
The fish ate the worm . *It* was hungry.
Choose from:
[-] no
[-] yes
The answer is: | yes | 7 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wsc.fixed:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Write a sentence not in English. | Pořád rovně, zadními dveřmi na zimní zahradu.“ | 8 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/cs-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
On January 31, 1958, nearly four months after the launch of Sputnik 1, von Braun and the United States successfully launched its first satellite on a four-stage Juno I rocket derived from the US Army's Redstone missile, at Cape Canaveral. The satellite Explorer 1 was 30.8 pounds (14.0 kg) in mass. It carried a micrometeorite gauge and a Geiger-Müller tube. It passed in and out of the Earth-encompassing radiation belt with its 194-by-1,368-nautical-mile (360 by 2,534 km) orbit, therefore saturating the tube's capacity and proving what Dr. James Van Allen, a space scientist at the University of Iowa, had theorized. The belt, named the Van Allen radiation belt, is a doughnut-shaped zone of high-level radiation intensity around the Earth above the magnetic equator. Van Allen was also the man who designed and built the satellite instrumentation of Explorer 1. The satellite actually measured three phenomena: cosmic ray and radiation levels, the temperature in the spacecraft, and the frequency of collisions with micrometeorites. The satellite had no memory for data storage, therefore it had to transmit continuously. Two months later in March 1958, a second satellite was sent into orbit with augmented cosmic ray instruments.
Try to answer this question if possible (otherwise reply "unanswerable"): The first US satellite to launch without failure was on what date? | January 31, 1958 | 4 | Flan2021 | squad/v2.0:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
Math problem: Solve 351*i + 6100 + 6836 = 2055 for i.
What is the solution? | -31 | 6 | Flan2021 | math_dataset/algebra__linear_1d:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Diqing Shangri-La Airport (IATA: DIG, ICAO: ZPDQ) is an airport serving Shangri-La City, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. The airport does not have any taxiways(other than the one leading to the terminal building), requiring planes landind there to backtaxi to the terminal building.
Available choices:
* Yes.
* It's impossible to say.
* No.
Hypothesis: The pilots at this airport are good at their jobs.
| It's impossible to say | 5 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Richard Michael Nolan (born December 17, 1943) is an American politician and member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party who has been the U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 8th congressional district since 2013 and previously served as the U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 1975 to 1981.
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Richard Nolan is an American politician who also happens to live in a state that is not in the south or the pacific northwest."?
OPT:
[a]. Yes.
[b]. It's impossible to say.
[c]. No.
I think the answer is | [b]. | 0 | Flan2021 | anli/r1:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
The American Wrestling Association (AWA) was an American professional wrestling promotion based in Minneapolis, Minnesota that ran from 1960 to 1991. It was owned and founded by Verne Gagne and Wally Karbo. The territory was originally part of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), becoming an independent territory in the late 1950s.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
Verne Gagne and Wally Karbo like wine
OPTIONS:
1). Yes.
2). It's impossible to say.
3). No. | 2). | 3 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Article:The wind direction forced balloons to fly low to avoid being blown towards Bristol Airport.
Blue skies and light winds have helped make the four-day event one of the most successful in years, organisers say.
Another mass ascent will take place at 18:00 BST and a nightglow at 21:15.
Jane Oakland, from the Fiesta Committee, said: "This really has been one of the best fiestas we've had."
She said: "We can plan and plan them but the one thing we can't plan for is the weather.
"We've had up to 100 balloons away on the mass ascents - so we're more than pleased."
About 500,000 people are expected to attend over the four days.
Speaking about the wind, flight director Clive Bailey said: "We got very strict with the pilots this morning and they weren't allowed south towards the airport.
"But the airport are fantastic. Normally you wouldn't be able to fly in that direction but they've let 100 balloons take off as long as we obey the basic rules."
A summary of the above article is? | About 100 balloons took to the skies over Bristol in the fourth mass ascent of the 37th International Balloon Fiesta. | 6 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
Dışişleri Bakanı Antonio Milososki, "Merkez ilk temasını Selanik'teki Makedonya Başkonsolosluğu ve AB'nin Slovenya başkanlığını takdir işareti olarak Makedonya'nın Ljubljana Büyükelçiliği ile yapacaktır." dedi.
Which language is this? | Turkish | 9 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/tr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The woman is dicing garlic.
What is a sentence that would be (on a scale from 0 to 5) a (4). out of 5 in terms of textual similarity to the above sentence? | A woman is slicing some vegetables. | 9 | Flan2021 | glue/stsb:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Sentence from a movie review: hardest
Select your answer: was the movie seen positively or negatively based on the preceding review?
Select from the following.
+ negative;
+ positive; | positive | 2 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-choice problem: Which entity is they this sentence?
The cops maced the protesters because they blindly follow orders.
Available choices: a. The cops; b. the protesters; | a. | 6 | Flan2021 | definite_pronoun_resolution:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Hi twitter friends! If you are in the pet business or just love pets, add your business or build a profile free on www.vivapets.com!
Describe the sentiment embodied by this tweet.
(a). negative
(b). positive
I think the answer is | (b). | 2 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
although his research was in applied mathematics, it was through the problem of accretion of gas by a large gravitating body which ray lyttleton discussed with him that hoyle's interests turned towards mathematical problems in astronomy.
Please write the text above using proper case. | Although his research was in applied mathematics, it was through the problem of accretion of gas by a large gravitating body which Ray Lyttleton discussed with him that Hoyle's interests turned towards mathematical problems in astronomy. | 0 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
Review:
irredeemably awful .
Is this movie review sentence negative or positive?
pick from the following.
A). negative.
B). positive.
The answer is: | A). | 0 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Wash yourselves.
How would you consider the linguistic integrity of the preceding sentence?
Choices:
(a). unacceptable
(b). acceptable | (b). | 1 | Flan2021 | glue/cola:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate to French:
To that end, the CPSI will:
| À cette fin, l'ICSP : | 4 | Flan2021 | wmt14_translate/fr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What's an example of a grad-school level question? | When moist air comes in contact with a cold surface in the winter, one result can be frost. What has happened to the water vapor in the air to cause frost? | 8 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Challenge:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What type of thing is the question "How many `` eyes '' does a coconut have ?" asking about?
Choose from:
a). description.
b). entity.
c). abbreviation.
d). human.
e). numeric.
f). location.
Answer: | e). | 0 | Flan2021 | trec:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The second major point on which the principals had agreed on March 10 was the need to crack down on terrorist organizations and curtail their fund-raising. The embassy bombings of 1998 had focused attention on al Qaeda's finances. One result had been the creation of an NSC-led interagency committee on terrorist financing. On its recommendation, the President had designated Bin Laden and al Qaeda as subject to sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. This gave theTreasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) the ability to search for and freeze any Bin Laden or al Qaeda assets that reached the U.S. financial system. But since OFAC had little information to go on, few funds were frozen. In July 1999, the President applied the same designation to the Taliban for harboring Bin Laden. Here, OFAC had more success. It blocked more than $34 million in Taliban assets held in U.S. banks. Another $215 million in gold and $2 million in demand deposits, all belonging to the Afghan central bank and held by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, were also frozen. After October 1999, when the State Department formally designated al Qaeda a "foreign terrorist organization," it became the duty of U.S. banks to block its transactions and seize its funds. Neither this designation nor UN sanctions had much additional practical effect; the sanctions were easily circumvented, and there were no multilateral mechanisms to ensure that other countries' financial systems were not used as conduits for terrorist funding. Attacking the funds of an institution, even the Taliban, was easier than finding and seizing the funds of a clandestine worldwide organization like al Qaeda. Although the CIA's Bin Laden unit had originally been inspired by the idea of studying terrorist financial links, few personnel assigned to it had any experience in financial investigations. Any terrorist-financing intelligence appeared to have been collected collaterally, as a consequence of gathering other intelligence. This attitude may have stemmed in large part from the chief of this unit, who did not believe that simply following the money from point A to point B revealed much about the terrorists' plans and intentions. As a result, the CIA placed little emphasis on terrorist financing. Nevertheless, the CIA obtained a general understanding of how al Qaeda raised money.
Question: "In 1999 the president decided to apply the same designations of freezing assets of the Taliban held in the United States and it resulted in how much money being frozen?"
Answer: "$2 million"
Is this answer correct?
Choose your answer from:
[+] no
[+] yes...I think the answer is | no | 2 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Answer this question:
what were two examples of proxy wars that were fought during the cold war?? | Chinese Civil War | 3 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
TEXT: `` there are but four more ribs to add , and then the gumming , and you shall have your own birch bark canoe , '' he said . caleb groaned inwardly . gumming the seams on mallett 's canoe had quickly displaced picking stone during mud season as his least favorite chore . there was no doubt in his mind that it was worth the effort , but that did n't make it any more pleasant . captain mallett interrupted his ruminations , saying , `` let us be off to find a quiet table , then , | caleb | 4 | Flan2021 | lambada:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Ask a question about MP3. | What kind of music is sold by these companies? | 8 | Flan2021 | squad/v1.1:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
Travis are a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 1990, composed of Fran Healy (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Dougie Payne (bass guitar, backing vocals), Andy Dunlop (lead guitar, banjo, backing vocals) and Neil Primrose (drums, percussion). The band's name comes from the Harry Dean Stanton character Travis Henderson from the film Paris, Texas. The band is widely claimed by the media as having paved the way for other bands such as Keane and Coldplay to go onto achieve worldwide success throughout the 2000s, particularly through the band's The Man Who (1999) album. The band released their debut album, Good Feeling (1997) to moderate success where it debuted at number nine on the UK Albums Chart and went onto achieve a silver certification from the BPI in January 2000.
The band that would become Travis was formed by brothers Chris Martyn (bass) and Geoff Martyn (keyboards) along with Simon Jarvis (drums). Andy Dunlop, a school friend at Lenzie Academy, was drafted in on guitar. The line-up was completed by a female vocalist, Catherine Maxwell, and the band's name became "Glass Onion", after the Beatles song of the same name. Neil Primrose joined to replace Jarvis. Parting company with their singer in the spring of 1991, they auditioned for a new vocalist. Having met each other through Primrose pouring him a pint, an untrained art student, Fran Healy, then joined after being invited to audition by Primrose. Healy joined the band on the day he enrolled at The Glasgow School of Art, in the autumn of 1991. Two years later, with the option of music holding more appeal, Healy dropped out of art school, and inspired by songwriters such as Joni Mitchell, assumed songwriting responsibilities. With brothers Chris and Geoff Martyn on bass and keyboards, in 1993, the fivesome released a privately made CD, The Glass Onion EP, featuring the tracks "Dream On", "The Day Before", "Free Soul" and "Whenever She Comes Round". 500 copies of the EP were made and were recently valued at PS1000 each. Other songs they recorded but were left off are "She's So Strange" and "Not About to Change". The band won a talent contest organised by the Music in Scotland Trust, who promised PS2,000 so that Travis could deal-hunt at a new music seminar in New York. Two weeks before they were due to leave, however, the prize was instead given to the Music in Scotland Trust Directory. When sent a copy of the directory, the band noticed that it seemed to feature every single band in Scotland--except for them. The band showed promise but had yet to evolve into a decent line-up capable of fulfilling it and spent several years treading water. According to their publisher Charlie Pinder: "They were a band that everyone in the A&R community knew about and would go and see every now and then. But they weren't very good. They had quite good songs; Fran always did write good songs." While on a visit to Scotland, American engineer and producer Niko Bolas, a long-time Neil Young and Rolling Stones associate, tuned into a Travis session on Radio Scotland, and heard something in the band's music which instantly made him travel to Perth to see them. Healy: "He told us we were shit, took us in the studio for four days, and taught us how to play properly, like a band. He was ballsy, rude, and New York pushy. He didn't believe my lyrics and told me to write what I believed in and not tell lies. He was Mary Poppins, he sorted us out." The band recorded a five-song demo, which included the song "All I Want to Do Is Rock". Answer this question using a quote from the following article:
Did they tour? | 7 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt | |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
Finally South America<br>For a long time I have desired going to South America. One year my church decided to take a mission trip to Peru. I learned that they were past the deadline for accepting participants. I quickly emailed my pastor to ask if I could go. Fortunately there was a spot open and the next March I went to Peru!
Hypothesis: The church helped the Peruvians.
pick from the following.
+ Yes.
+ It's impossible to say.
+ No. | Yes | 7 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Answer this question: New carpet is being measured for a room that is 5.5 m by 4.6 m. On a measuring tape, what is the smallest unit that is necessary to measure the room accurately for the carpet?
(1). millimeters
(2). centimeters
(3). meters
(4). kilometers. Answer: | (2). | 9 | Flan2021 | unified_qa_science_inst | zs_opt |
This question has options. How would someone go about accomplishing this goal?
use mouthwash
Choose your answer from:
- Start by pouring the right amount out of the bottle. ... Rinse vigorously for 30 seconds, making sure that the mouth wash comes into contact with all areas of your teeth. Gargle for 30-60 minutes, in order to ensure that your mouthwash can deal with bacteria at the back of the tongue. Spit out the mouth wash.
- Start by pouring the right amount out of the bottle. ... Rinse vigorously for 30 seconds, making sure that the mouth wash comes into contact with all areas of your teeth. Gargle for 30-60 seconds, in order to ensure that your mouthwash can deal with bacteria at the back of the tongue. Spit out the mouth wash. | Start by pouring the right amount out of the bottle. ... Rinse vigorously for 30 seconds, making sure that the mouth wash comes into contact with all areas of your teeth. Gargle for 30-60 seconds, in order to ensure that your mouthwash can deal with bacteria at the back of the tongue. Spit out the mouth wash. | 7 | Flan2021 | piqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below. Choose from options.
The parts of Jakarta away from the coast are on slightly higher land.
Jakarta lies on a low, flat alluvial plain with historically extensive swampy areas; the parts of the city farther inland are slightly higher.
OPT: (1). yes (2). no | (1). | 8 | Flan2021 | super_glue/rte:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Choose from options: Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
The 2010 Duke Blue Devils football never lost by more than two touchdowns.
The 2010 Duke Blue Devils football team represented Duke University in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Blue Devils were led by 3rd year head coach David Cutcliffe and played their home games at Wallace Wade Stadium. They are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference in the Coastal Division. They finished the season 3–9, 1–7 in ACC play.
Select from the following.
A). Yes.
B). It's impossible to say.
C). No. | B). | 8 | Flan2021 | anli/r1:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Write an email with the following subject:
Global Contracts/Facilities new responsibilities
Email: | Attached please find the UPDATED responsibilities for the Global Contracts and Global Facilities teams. Due to restructuring within our group, we have lost three team members (Anthony Campos, Cyndie Balfour-Flanagan, and Ryan Sheeren) to the physical gas confirmation group. Our team members' individual responsibilities have changed as a result. Please forward the attached information to your staff and coworkers. Please call me at x30569 if you should have any questions. Thanks, | 8 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Summarize this article:
Baking soda and water is not always as effective as expected. If the method does not work for you, you can try adding different liquids in place of or in addition to water to the paste. Baking soda and honey, which is naturally antibacterial, can be added to wet skin for an exfoliating cleanse. You could dry dabbing a cotton ball soaked in rubbing alcohol on your skin before applying baking soda and water. Rubbing alcohol disinfects the skin, which may increase the overall effectiveness of the treatment. Adding salt to baking soda and water can help dry out oily skin. You can also try adding a bit of honey to the mixture. Baking soda is not only effective at treating blackheads. Overall skin acne can be lessened by using baking soda. If baking soda worked on your blackheads, you might want to try a baking soda bath to treat acne of the back, thighs, and face. Add half a cup of baking soda to a tub of warm bathwater. Mix thoroughly and get in. This can be an especially good treatment is your skin is irritated after being exposed to the chemicals in pool water. If you have acne at your hairline, adding 2 to 3 grams of baking soda to your shampoo can help with acne reduction. However, it's a good idea to talk to a hair stylist before attempting this to make sure it won't damage your hair.
Summary: | Add other liquids to baking soda. Try a baking soda bath. Add baking soda to shampoo. | 2 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Text complete: the three medium-sized pinkish-toned pigs ambled quickly towards me once they saw me coming and grunted their joy . they knew i was the one who fed them , and they recognized me from a distance . as i started unloading the food from the outside of the pen onto their trough , the pigs squealed with frenzied sounds . i glanced over at the emptiness of the huge | pen | 7 | Flan2021 | lambada:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Dialogue:
Helen: nice job. Did you already book the Plaza?
Rob: yes at 8pm. Be ready on time
Helen: I have to meet John at 7pm . It won't take long
Rob: Don't forget to bring my jacket.
Helen: don't worry.
What is a summary of this dialogue? | Rob booked the Plaza at 8 p.m. Helen has to meet John at 7 p.m. She will bring Rob's jacket. | 2 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Does the following review have a positive or negative opinion of the movie?
of the finest
OPTIONS:
[1]. negative
[2]. positive | [2]. | 7 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate the following sentence to Turkish:
Thus young Muslim women in BiH look and behave far more like their peers in Paris and London than like women in Kabul or Tehran.
Turkish: | Dolayısıyla Bosna Hersekli genç müslüman kadınlar, Kabil ya da Tahran'daki yaşıtlarından cok, Paris ve Londra'da yaşayan gençlere benziyor. | 5 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/tr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
In Costa Rica a small tree, the acacia, provides shelter and food for ants. The ants protect the acacia by removing other insects and vines that might harm it. Which term best describes the relationship between the acacia and the ants? OPT:
- competition
- mutualism
- parasitism
- predation
| mutualism | 6 | Flan2021 | unified_qa_science_inst | zs_opt |
On the film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, films which are reviewed by at least five critics, and which all of these critics consider to be good films, have a 100% approval rating. Many of these films, particularly those with a high number of positive reviews, have achieved universal critical acclaim and are often considered among the best. A number of these films also appear on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies lists, but there are many others and several entries with dozens of positive reviews, which are considered surprising to some experts. As of June 2018, Paddington 2 is the best reviewed movie of all time on the site, with an approval rating of 100% and 198 positive reviews.
is a high score on rotten tomatoes good?
Pick your answer from:
[+] no;
[+] yes; | yes | 2 | Flan2021 | bool_q:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is the origin of a.m. and p.m. ?
What kind of thing would answer this question?
Possible answers: (a). description; (b). entity; (c). abbreviation; (d). human; (e). numeric; (f). location; | (a). | 6 | Flan2021 | trec:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire. The term is sometimes used to refer only to the kingdom and republic periods, excluding the subsequent empire.
See options at the end. Can we conclude that is ancient rome and the roman empire the same thing?
Choices:
A). no
B). yes | A). | 0 | Flan2021 | bool_q:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
There are also open compression formats like Opus and Vorbis that are available free of charge and without any known patent restrictions. Some of the newer audio compression formats, such as AAC, WMA Pro and Vorbis, are free of some limitations inherent to the MP3 format that cannot be overcome by any MP3 encoder.
Answer this question, if possible (if impossible, reply "unanswerable"): Opus and Vorbis are two explans of what kind of compression format? | open | 6 | Flan2021 | squad/v2.0:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
What's an example of a movie review? | Finally i thought someone is going to do justice to H.G. Wells's classic , not another version set in the wrong locale or era , but one based firmly on the book . Well it definitely follows the book pretty closely , and that is the only plus to this mess.
This is 180 Min's (yes 3 hours) long , the book is only around 150 pages .
If Timothy Hines had the nerve to come on here and say "if you can do any better ..." i would say "yes , i could" and i have never used a video camera or been to any sort or drama school in my life.
I paid good money to get this crap over to the UK from the USA , do not make the same mistake as me . | 9 | Flan2021 | imdb_reviews/plain_text:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Please briefly summarize this news article:
Johnny Fratto, frequent Howard Stern guest, dies of cancer
Thursday, November 5, 2015, 2:54 PM
Johnny Fratto, a frequent guest on the 'Howard Stern Show,' has died at the age of 61.
Johnny Fratto, Hollywood man about town, self-described Mafia guru and frequent guest on Howard Stern's radio program, has died at age 61 in Los Angeles.
Fratto's wife, Jowanka, says her husband died early Thursday of lung cancer.
The dapper Fratto dabbled in several businesses, including film and TV, and was owner of the custom motorcycle business Beverly Hills Choppers.
But he was likely best known for his appearances on Stern's radio program and for his friendship with one of Stern's most popular guests, Eric "The Actor" Lynch, the diminutive, profanity-spouting caller who specialized in insulting Stern.
Fratto met Lynch through the show and eventually became his agent.
Fratto's father, Louis Fratto, was a prominent Midwest mob figure from the 1930s until his death in 1967.
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How Wal-Mart’s Waltons Maintain Their Billionaire Fortune
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How the Waltons Maintain a $100B Fortune
Visitors to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, leave appreciative notes on a glass wall near the entrance.
“Thanks Alice!” reads one. “Merci Alice Walton, pour la vision!” reads another.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) heiress Alice Walton founded Crystal Bridges in 2011 in a wooded ravine next to her childhood home, supplying dozens of paintings from her personal collection. Bankrolled by more than $1 billion in donations from her family, the museum attests to the Waltons’ generosity and vast wealth. It’s also a monument to their skill at preserving that fortune across generations.
America’s richest family, worth more than $100 billion, has exploited a variety of legal loopholes to avoid the estate tax, according to court records and Internal Revenue Service filings obtained through public-records requests. The Waltons’ example highlights how billionaires deftly bypass a tax intended to make sure that the nation’s wealthiest contribute their share to government rather than perpetuate dynastic wealth, a notion of fairness voiced by supporters of the estate tax like Warren Buffett and William Gates Sr.
Estate and gift taxes raised only about $14 billion last year. That’s about 1 percent of the $1.2 trillion passed down in America each year, mostly by the very rich, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers estimated in a December blog post on Reuters.com. The contrast suggests “our estate tax system is broken,” he wrote.
Alice Walton’s mother and brother poured more than $9 billion into trusts since 2003 that fund charitable projects like Crystal Bridges and are also designed to protect gifts to heirs from taxation. Another Walton pioneered a tax-avoidance maneuver that is now widely used by U.S. billionaires.
“I hate to say it, but the very rich pay very little in gift and estate tax,” said Jerome Hesch, a lawyer at Berger Singerman LLP in Miami who reviewed some of the Walton family’s trust filings for Bloomberg. “At the Waltons’ numbers, the savings are unbelievable.”
A family spokesman, Lance Morgan, said in a statement that “any charitable or estate planning practices employed by the Walton family are broadly available and commonly used.”
Morgan represents the branch of the family that includes Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton’s three surviving children and eight grandchildren. Their Wal-Mart stake is worth enough to fill a large backyard swimming pool with solid gold.
Spurred by historically low interest rates that magnify the tax savings, the richest Americans have amassed at least $20 billion in trusts like those used by the Waltons. They include Elaine Marshall, the Koch Industries Inc. director, and Fidelity mutual funds’ Johnson family.
A 40 percent tax is levied at death on estates of more than $5.25 million for an individual or $10.5 million for a couple. Total lifetime giving to heirs that exceeds those thresholds is also taxed at 40 percent, preventing people from avoiding the estate tax through early handouts.
Closing just two estate tax loopholes -- ones that the Waltons appear to have used -- would raise more than $2 billion annually over the next decade, according to Treasury Department estimates. That doesn’t count taxes lost to the type of charitable trusts the Waltons used to fund projects like the museum; the department hasn’t estimated that cost.
In a sign of just how much money is at stake, the IRS is trying to collect as much as $2.8 billion from the estate of the Michigan industrialist William M. Davidson, according to a petition filed by Davidson’s family in U.S. Tax Court in June. The IRS is challenging the validity of some of Davidson’s maneuvers, which were different from the ones the Waltons use.
“The whole tax structure since I came to Congress actually has gotten more and more unfair,” said James McDermott, a Washington Democrat who’s been in the House since 1989 and has sponsored unsuccessful bills to close estate-tax loopholes.
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Guarding the Waltons’ wealth as it passes from one generation to the next is the task of a handful of staffers laboring in an unmarked suite in Bentonville, above a bike shop called Phat Tire. Walton Enterprises LLC manages the world’s biggest fortune in a nondescript office that even employees of the coffee shop next door have never heard of.
The family’s estate-planning efforts are well shielded from public view. The wills of Alice’s parents, Sam and Helen, on file in an Arkansas probate court, reveal little about their financial arrangements. That of her brother John, who died in 2005, was sealed by a Wyoming judge.
Still, professional planners have sometimes held up the Waltons as a model. Patriarch Sam Walton, who founded Wal-Mart in Bentonville, cultivated an image as a regular guy from Oklahoma who enjoyed quail hunting and drove a beat-up Ford pick-up truck. He also showed unusual foresight about estate planning.
According to his autobiography, “Made in America,” Sam Walton started arranging his affairs to avoid a potential estate tax bill in 1953. His five-and-dime-store business was still in its infancy and his oldest child was 9.
That year, he gave a 20 percent stake in the family business to each of his children, keeping 20 percent for himself and his wife.
“The best way to reduce paying estate taxes is to give your assets away before they appreciate,” he wrote in the book.
Sam’s retailing success made his family the richest since the Rockefellers, who themselves were pioneers in estate-tax avoidance. As soon as the tax was enacted in 1916, John D. Rockefeller, then the world’s richest man, circumvented it by simply giving much of his fortune to his son. Congress closed that loophole eight years later by adding a parallel tax on living gifts to heirs.
Not all of Rockefeller’s Gilded Age contemporaries sought to found dynasties. Andrew Carnegie donated almost his entire fortune to charity, building thousands of libraries across the country. In this era, Warren Buffett and William Gates III have pledged publicly to give away all but a nominal amount to philanthropy.
“We shouldn’t have a situation where gimmicks allow rich people to avoid estate taxation,” Gates’s father, William Gates Sr., the author of a 2004 book that advocated for the estate tax, said in an interview. “A value in our lives is having children who make their own way to some extent. It’s unfortunate to have people who, when Mom and Dad pass on, they leave you a billion dollars for which you’d done nothing.”
At the end of the 1990s, an effort to repeal the estate tax gathered force, supported by a group of billionaire families and their lobbyists at Patton Boggs LLP, a Washington law firm. Walton Enterprises paid Patton Boggs to lobby on tax matters during that time.
A Patton Boggs lawyer, Aubrey Rothrock, said in a statement that the Waltons’ lobbying supported “private foundation reforms to create new incentives for charitable giving” and did not involve “the specific issue of repealing the estate tax.”
Aided by Democrats such as Blanche Lincoln, an Arkansas senator, Congressional Republicans in 2001 passed a temporary measure that would phase out the tax over 10 years. The tax was restored in 2011.
As a senator, Lincoln was one of the few Democrats to whom the Waltons donated. She’s now a lobbyist whose clients include Wal-Mart.
Lincoln’s opposition to the estate tax wasn’t driven by the Waltons or Wal-Mart, she said in a telephone interview. Her views were shaped by growing up on a farm and representing a state with many small family businesses that could be hurt by the tax, she said.
Contributors to Lincoln included Alice Walton, the youngest of Sam and Helen Walton’s four children. Alice, 63, is a former money manager who founded and ran her own financial firm, Llama Co. She now lives on a ranch in Texas known as the Rocking W., where she raises award-winning cutting horses and collects art. One of her favorite paintings, now hanging at Crystal Bridges, is a vivid full-length 1904 Alfred Maurer portrait of a model in a huge feathered boa, clutching a cigarette and sneering at the viewer.
In 2005, Walton grabbed the art world’s attention with a series of purchases. Spending as much as $35 million for a single work, she quickly amassed the collection that would form the basis of Crystal Bridges.
Walton stepped up to a lectern to christen the museum on a bright November day in 2011. Her sunglasses shielding her eyes from the glare, she thanked just about everyone else who had played a role, from the architect and construction workers to the Northwest Arkansas Council.
“This project exemplifies the way one single gift grows and becomes greater, as many more give generously,” she said in her Ozarks twang.
She didn’t mention one side-benefit of the gifts -- estate tax avoidance. Most of the money for Walton’s museum -- more than $1 billion, including endowments -- came from the Walton Family Foundation, the family’s main charitable arm, which also spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year on education reform and environmental protection.
The Foundation, in turn, is funded mostly by a series of 21 trusts. Sam Walton’s widow, Helen, to whom the family land where the museum stands is dedicated, set up four of the trusts in 2003. Her estate established 12 more after her death in 2007. Her son John, who died in an ultra-light plane crash in 2005, provided for five more in his estate.
These trusts are often called “Jackie O.” trusts after Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the former First Lady who died in 1994 and whose will called for one. According to IRS data, the Waltons are by far the biggest users of Jackie O. trusts in the U.S.
The money put into these trusts is ostensibly for charity. If the assets appreciate substantially over the years, though, the trusts have another desirable feature: they can pass money tax free to heirs.
A donor locks up assets in these trusts, formally known as charitable lead annuity trusts, or CLATs, for a period of time, say 20 or 30 years. An amount set by the donor is given away each year to charity. Whatever is left at the end goes to a beneficiary, usually the donor’s heirs, without any tax bill.
The type of Jackie O. trust used by the Waltons doesn’t generate a break on income taxes. Instead, the big potential saving is on gift and estate taxes. When a donor sets one up, the IRS assesses how much gift or estate tax is due, based on how much of the trust’s assets will end up benefiting charity and how much will go to heirs. Most donors structure the trusts so that the heirs’ estimated leftover is zero or close to it.
The IRS makes its estimate using a complicated formula tied to the level of U.S. Treasury bond yields during the time when the trust is set up.
If the trust’s investments outperform that benchmark rate, then the extra earnings pass to the designated heirs free of any estate tax. The rate has been hovering near all-time lows since 2009. For trusts set up this month, it’s 1.4 percent.
With a big enough spread between the actual performance and the IRS rate, a Jackie O. trust can theoretically save so much tax that it leaves a family richer than if it hadn’t given a dime to charity.
Alice’s mother, Helen, chose an auspicious time to set up her first four Jackie O. trusts in January 2003. The IRS rate of 3.6 percent was the lowest since 1970, and Treasury yields rose the next month.
Those trusts can only save taxes if they beat that 3.6 percent rate. From 2007 to 2011 -- the years for which the IRS provided public copies of the trusts’ tax returns -- they did so handily.
The trusts returned about 14 percent a year before taxes during that period, according to a Bloomberg analysis of IRS filings. That growth means the four Helen Walton trusts have been accumulating assets faster than they give them away. As of 2011, they held a combined $2 billion, up from $1.4 billion in 2007.
Barring a stark reversal of fortune, at least that much money will probably pass to Helen Walton’s heirs.
Jackie O. trusts “are primarily charitable planning tools whose only general guarantee is that 100 percent of the assets, plus an assumed return approved by the IRS, will be distributed to charity,” family spokesman Morgan said in a statement. He declined to answer detailed questions about the trusts.
Because assets are locked up for decades, such trusts are attractive only to the wealthiest families, said John Anzivino, a principal at Kaufman Rossin & Co. in Miami.
“You have to be someone who’s willing to say, ’I don’t need this extra money,’” Anzivino said. “‘At the same time, we hope to shift it down a generation, without tax.’”
Wealthy families held a record $20.9 billion in Jackie O. trusts in 2011, the last year for which IRS figures are available, almost twice the amount they held in 2000.
Leon Hess, the late oil magnate and New York Jets owner, created one at his death in 1999 that’s now worth $682 million. Hedge-fund billionaire David Tepper’s trusts are worth $155 million. Elaine Marshall’s Jackie O. trusts are worth $169 million, and the Johnson family’s is worth $91 million. Representatives of all these donors or their families declined to comment or didn’t return calls.
The historically low U.S. interest rates since 2009 are making Jackie O. trusts more popular and spurring tax planners to develop variations designed to squeeze out even more tax savings.
“This time in history is probably going to go down as a unique opportunity” to “transfer assets out of an estate at the lowest cost,” said Charles J. McLucas, president of Charitable Trust Administrators Inc. in Tustin, California.
The interest rates have prompted calls for reform even by some estate planners who set up Jackie O. trusts and the non-profit groups that benefit from them. One alternative floated at a Senate Finance Committee hearing in 2008 was to value the donation when the trusts actually give the money to charity, rather than guessing at the amount beforehand.
Back in 1989, when Congress chose Treasury yields for the trust calculation, the move effectively raised the rate from 10 percent to more than 11 percent, diminishing the potential to use the trusts to avoid taxes.
“Nobody in 1989 ever envisioned we would be in a zero interest-rate environment,” said Hesch, the Miami tax lawyer. “Once something is in the statute, and is a benefit to taxpayers, it is extremely difficult to get it out.”
Helen Walton took pride in her charitable giving. “It’s not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived,” she used to say, a phrase memorialized on the walls of the company’s Sam’s Club stores. She did much of that giving through her Jackie O. trusts.
Jay Friedman, an accountant at Perelson Weiner LLP in New York, examined data compiled by Bloomberg about one of the Jackie O. trusts set up in 2003. He estimated that single trust would last 39 years and would leave $2.2 billion for Helen Walton’s heirs.
Friedman relied on some assumptions, because the public filings don’t show the term of the trust or whether Helen Walton paid any gift tax when she set them up. He assumed the trust was worth about $330 million in 2003, when it was established. And he assumed the trust would earn 7.5 percent a year, more than twice the 3.6 percent rate used by the IRS, but about half its actual rate of return during the period reviewed by Bloomberg.
“It’s an enormous amount of wealth transfer, with avoidance of gift tax,” Friedman said. “At the end of the term, you see those gigantic numbers.”
Helen Walton funded her first Jackie O. trusts not with Wal-Mart stock, the family’s biggest asset, but with a stake in Walton Enterprises LLC, the family office upstairs from the bike shop. That may have allowed her to exploit another loophole in the tax code -- one that lets the wealthy discount the value of their fortunes by 30 percent or more.
Walton Enterprises is essentially a vehicle for holding the family’s Wal-Mart stock. Individuals can claim that the value of a stake in such holding companies is far less than that of the underlying shares -- even if the family can liquidate the stock whenever it wants.
The IRS used to challenge that concept, but it lost a series of Tax Court cases in the 1990s to taxpayers who contended that holding assets through such companies diminished their value. For instance, the taxpayers would point out that stakes in family holding companies themselves weren’t publicly traded and often didn’t carry any voting rights.
One clue in the IRS filings from the 2003 trusts suggests Helen Walton claimed such a discount, according to Hesch, the Miami lawyer. The trusts own stakes in Walton Enterprises that generated dividend yields of about 7 percent a year, more than three times what Wal-Mart stock paid out during the same period, and better than any stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. (INDU)
Such high-dividend yields signal that the family may be valuing the Walton Enterprises stake at far less than the value of the underlying stock, Hesch said. The technique can be used to “super-charge” the tax savings from a charitable trust, he said.
After the IRS’s Tax Court losses, estate planners began recommending that taxpayers create family holding companies, just to generate the discount. The Waltons have held their Wal-Mart stake in a family limited partnership or similar structure since 1953. Typical discounts are 20 to 30 percent.
“It’s beyond belief,” said Wendy Gerzog, a professor at the University of Baltimore and a former U.S. tax court lawyer who has written extensively about the discounts. She said the practice creates “a world of unreality.”
Morgan, the Walton family spokesman, declined to say whether the Waltons have ever claimed such discounts.
McDermott and other lawmakers, and the Treasury Department under both U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, have proposed eliminating some discounts involving transfers between family members. The Obama administration estimated that its most recent proposal, submitted in 2012, would raise an extra $18.1 billion over 10 years. None of the proposals have gone anywhere.
Not long before Helen Walton created her first Jackie O. trust, her former sister-in-law won a court victory validating another tool to fend off the estate tax.
As with the Jackie O. trust, this maneuver exploits the inevitable discrepancy when tax officials try to value future gifts.
In 1993, Audrey Walton put $200 million of Wal-Mart stock into a pair of “grantor retained annuity trusts” or GRATs, to benefit her daughters, Ann and Nancy.
Audrey Walton is the ex-wife of James L. “Bud” Walton, Sam’s younger brother and a co-founder of the retail chain. Sam’s children know her as “Aunt Audie.” A resident of tiny Versailles, Missouri, Audrey Walton, 89, has been a major supporter of University of Central Missouri, where the Mules play in the Audrey J. Walton Stadium.
The difference between the GRAT and the Jackie O. trust is that the GRAT pays an annuity back to the person who set up the trust, rather than to a charity.
The trusts were set up to last for two years, and to pay out $217 million in stock and cash to Audrey Walton. If the stock rose in value so that money was left over at the end, it would go to her daughters tax free.
Here’s the catch: Walton claimed she owed no gift tax when she set up the trusts, because, under the IRS’s valuation formula, nothing would remain for her daughters. She claimed, in essence, she was just shifting money out of one pocket and into another, with no tax consequences.
The result is a bet with the IRS that anyone would take -- one that tax planners sometimes describe as a “heads I win, tails we tie.”
Audrey Walton’s bet turned out to be a tie because nothing was left over for her daughters. She declined to comment on the case.
Still, recognizing the potential loophole, the IRS attacked Walton’s trust, demanding a gift tax payment. Walton fought back, and in 2000 the U.S. Tax Court declared the Walton move legitimate and forced the IRS to rewrite federal regulations to allow it.
The “Walton GRAT,” as it’s now known, has become a common estate-planning technique for people with large amounts of liquid assets, such as CEO’s of publicly traded companies. The current low interest rates make it all the more likely that a GRAT bet will be a win rather than a tie. Users of GRATs, according to SEC filings, include the Coors brewing family and billionaire Nike Inc. founder Philip H. Knight.
President Obama has repeatedly called for closing the Walton loophole in his annual budget proposal, estimating it would save $3.9 billion over 10 years. So far, the proposals have gotten no traction.
Sam Walton’s death in 1992 wouldn’t have resulted in an estate tax bill, assuming he left the bulk of his estate to his widow, Helen. Money flowing to a surviving spouse is exempt from the tax. Helen died in 2007, leaving billions in Jackie O. trusts.
There’s little sign that the estate tax has significantly eroded the family’s fortune. Since Helen Walton died, Walton Enterprises has shed just 4 percent of its Wal-Mart stock, some of which remains in the Jackie O. trusts. Because of share buybacks, its control of the company has actually increased, from 40 percent to 49 percent.
While the Waltons’ savvy use of the tax law may have left less for the government, residents of Bentonville -- where Sam Walton was known as “Mr. Sam” and his daughter as “Miss Alice” -- are gladly reaping the benefits.
Crystal Bridges museum welcomed its millionth visitor last month, far earlier than anticipated. Maureen Seymour, 64, from nearby Bella Vista, took admission at an exhibit across from a reflecting pool. She volunteers in the museum because “it’s a happy place,” she said. “We have a lot of people here who have never seen a museum, ever.”
As for the tax implications of the Waltons’ philanthropy, “I’m not privy to all that.” Seymour said. “I think about what it’s done for the community. It’s added such a dimension here. Think of all the jobs they’ve created, at all levels. The Waltons have been very, very generous.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Zachary R. Mider in New York at zmider1@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Daniel Golden in Boston at dlgolden@bloomberg.net
Sept. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg’s Zachary Mider talks about how the Walton family, heirs of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. founder Sam Walton, legally bypass paying estate taxes. America’s richest family, worth more than $100 billion, has exploited a variety of legal loopholes to avoid the estate tax, according to court records and Internal Revenue Service filings obtained through public-records requests. (Source: Bloomberg)
Alice Walton, from left, Jim Walton, chairman and chief executive officer of Arvest Bank Group Inc., and Rob Walton, chairman of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., present the Entrepreneur Award during the company's annual shareholders meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on June 7, 2013.
Alice Walton, from left, Jim Walton, chairman and chief executive officer of Arvest Bank Group Inc., and Rob Walton, chairman of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., present the Entrepreneur Award during the company's annual shareholders meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on June 7, 2013. Photographer: Sarah Bentham/Bloomberg
Ketih Myers/Kansas City Star/MCT via Getty Images
In 2005, Alice Walton grabbed the art world’s attention with a series of purchases. Spending as much as $35 million for a single work, she quickly amassed the collection that would form the basis of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
In 2005, Alice Walton grabbed the art world’s attention with a series of purchases. Spending as much as $35 million for a single work, she quickly amassed the collection that would form the basis of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Photographer: Ketih Myers/Kansas City Star/MCT via Getty Images
Ketih Myers/Kansas City Star/MCT via Getty Images
Arched wood beams form the ceiling of the cafe at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Arched wood beams form the ceiling of the cafe at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Photographer: Ketih Myers/Kansas City Star/MCT via Getty Images
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman Warren Buffett, right, and Microsoft Corp. Founder Bill Gates have pledged publicly to give away all but a nominal amount of their fortunes to philanthropy.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman Warren Buffett, right, and Microsoft Corp. Founder Bill Gates have pledged publicly to give away all but a nominal amount of their fortunes to philanthropy. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
Summary: | Visitors to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, leave appreciative notes on a glass wall near the entrance. | 1 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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The man used a lamp in his house instead of turning on the lights because the
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(options at the end). Does the word "turn" mean the same thing in "Turn the earth in the Spring." and "The cream has turned -- we have to throw it out."?
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Before I Disappear is a 2014 American drama film directed by Shawn Christensen. The film is a feature-length adaptation of his 2012 Oscar-winning short film, "Curfew". The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest Film on March 10, 2014. The film was acquired for distribution by IFC Films on August 5, 2014 and released on November 28, 2014.
Sentence: Before I Disappear is an Oscar winning film
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