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Which of the following gases do plants use in photosynthesis?
Select from the following.
* hydrogen;
* oxygen;
* carbon dioxide;
* carbon monoxide; | carbon dioxide | 0 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Easy:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
According to the Somali Economic Forum, the number of internet users in Somalia rose from only 200 in the year 2000 to 106,000 users in 2011, with the percentage continuing to rise. The number of mobile subscribers is similarly expected to rise from 512,682 in 2008 to around 6.1 million by 2015.
Is there an answer to this question (If it cannot be answered, say "unanswerable"): What was the number of mobile subscribers in Somalia in 2008? | 512,682 | 9 | Flan2021 | squad/v2.0:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
Trivia question: Which writer created the character Sergeant Cuff?
And the answer is? | wilkie collins | 8 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Write the answer: In which year was the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race declared a draw because it was said that the judge was asleep under a bush as the crews passed the finish line? | 1877 | 2 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Les chambres lumineuses et spacieuses vous accueilleront dans une ambiance intime.
Could you please translate this to English? | The luminous and spacious bedrooms will welcome you in an intimate atmosphere. | 2 | Flan2021 | wmt14_translate/fr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a sentence that describes the following data: United States, capital, Washington, D.C.; A Fortress of Grey Ice, country, United States; United States, ethnicGroup, Native Americans in the United States.
Sentence: | The US is home to Native Americans and is the origin place of A Fortress of Grey Ice. Washington, D.C. is the capital. | 5 | Flan2021 | gem/web_nlg_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
What is acceptable clothing/fashion for a tourist visiting South Korea in the fall/winter?
Why simply supported one way slab have bentup bars when bending moment is zero at simply support?
Multi-choice problem: Are these two questions inquiring about the same information?
Choices: (I). no. (II). yes. | (I). | 2 | Flan2021 | glue/qqp:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
The dictatorship of Franco forbade political parties and began a harsh ideological and cultural repression countenanced and sometimes even led by the Church. The financial markets were destabilised, causing a severe economic crisis that led to rationing. A black market in rationed goods existed for over a decade. The Francoist administrations of Valencia silenced publicity of the catastrophic consequences of the floods of 1949 with the attendant dozens of deaths, but could not do the same after the even more tragic flood of 1957 when the river Turia overflowed its banks again, killing many Valencians (officially, eighty-one died; the actual figure is not known). To prevent further disasters, the river was eventually diverted to a new course. The old river bed was abandoned for years, and successive Francoist mayors proposed making it a motorway, but that option was finally rejected with the advent of democracy and fervent neighbourhood protests. The river was divided in two at the western city limits (Plan Sur de Valencia), and diverted southwards along a new course that skirts the city, before meeting the Mediterranean. The old course of the river continues, dry, through the city centre, almost to the sea. The old riverbed is now a verdant sunken park called the 'Garden of the Turia' (Jardí del Túria or Jardín del Turia) that allows cyclists and pedestrians to traverse much of the city without the use of roads; overhead bridges carry motor traffic across the park.
Is there an answer to this question (If it cannot be answered, say "unanswerable"): What park is located in the previous river bed? | Garden of the Turia | 9 | Flan2021 | squad/v2.0:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
Medicine on board - another building block for the safety at sea
Make this lower case. | medicine on board - another building block for the safety at sea | 9 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
Multi-select problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to identify a sphynx cat
Look for a sphynx coat.
The sphynx is sometimes referred to as the hairless cat. However, this cat's coat can range anywhere from a very short covering of fur to none at all.
Options: 1). This is caused by a natural genetic mutation. It does have a bit of fine hair around its nose, even when there is no fur anywhere else on the cat's body.; 2). These cats are greyed at the base of their spines, and have sometimes dark spots. While some dyed fur may be a common feature, most sphynx cats only have stripes or patches.; 3). The sphynx is a clicker as opposed to a whistle. Avoid using a clicker if you are worried about hurting a dog.; 4). You can also compare the than a sphynx coat with the other cats in your household. You can then decide how you want to use the coat.; | 1). | 5 | Flan2021 | hellaswag:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
The London Eye in London, England sits 443ft over the River Thames. It has attracted more than 27 million visitors since its formal opening on December 31, 1999. Each compartment is set to be air-conditioned and hold up to 30 people. Three possible locations for the wheel to sit have been selected. This is not the first attempt by the Iraqi Tourism Board to bring tourists into the capital. The board are seeking investors for a resort island. The island would include a six star hotel and a 18 hole golf course.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
The River Thames flows through London.
Options are:
- yes.
- no. | yes | 3 | Flan2021 | super_glue/rte:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Context: Phil felt a rush the first time he won a hand in blackjack. He started going to the casino multiple times a week. His losses were piling up a lot faster than his wins. In less than a year, he was out of money completely.
Now do a next sentence writing task.
OPTIONS:
- He was ecstatic over his gambling wins.
- He decided he needed to do something about his addiction. | He decided he needed to do something about his addiction. | 4 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The main library at 101 E. Franklin St. changes its solo and group exhibitions monthly in the Gellman Room, the Second Floor Gallery, the Dooley Foyer and the Dooley Hall.
Q with options: Can we draw the following conclusion?
Dooley Foyer is located in Dooley Hall.
Select from:
[a]. yes.
[b]. no. | [b]. | 2 | Flan2021 | super_glue/rte:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Cats stretch with equal ease and agility beyond the point that breaks a man on the rack.
Stretch your legs!
Choose your answer: Does the word "stretch" mean the same thing in the above two sentences?
(1). different meanings;
(2). the same meaning; | (2). | 0 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wic:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Translate "Madam President, I would like to speak on the issue of Turkey." to German? | Frau Präsidentin! Ich möchte über das Thema Türkei sprechen. | 7 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/de-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
maplewood hotel information in english maplewood hotel information in chinese maplewood hotel information in german
Capitalize this past sentence correctly. | Maplewood Hotel information in English Maplewood Hotel information in Chinese Maplewood Hotel information in German | 3 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
Write the next sentence in this story.
A man was running down a path in a state park. He came to a gate in the path. The gate looked low enough to jump. The man leapt as high as he could while running.
Options:
[-] The man jumped over the gate.
[-] The man went under the gate. | The man jumped over the gate. | 6 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
I've seen a peanut stand heard a rubber band
Translate to Czech
Czech: | Viděl jsem burák s nožičkama a slyšel hrát gumovou kapelu | 0 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/cs-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
SENTENCE: seth . seth was what made everything worthwhile . my relationship with him was what had caused the rift between me and my former co-workers at the bookstore . they saw me as the reason for his breakup with doug 's sister . which , i suppose , i was . but no matter how much i 'd loved that job , giving it up was a small price to pay to be with | seth | 5 | Flan2021 | lambada:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
CHAPTER XXXV.
LILY DALE WRITES TWO WORDS IN HER BOOK.
John Eames saw nothing more of Lily Dale till he packed up his portmanteau, left his mother's house, and went to stay for a few days with his old friend Lady Julia; and this did not happen till he had been above a week at Guestwick. Mrs. Dale repeatedly said that it was odd that Johnny did not come to see them; and Grace, speaking of him to Lily, asked why he did not come. Lily, in her funny way, declared that he would come soon enough. But even while she was joking there was something of half-expressed consciousness in her words,--as though she felt it to be foolish to speak of his coming as she might of that of any other young man, before people who knew her whole story. "He'll come quick enough. He knows, and I know, that his coming will do no good. Of course I shall be glad to see him. Why shouldn't I be glad to see him? I've known him and liked him all my life. I liked him when there did not seem to be much about him to like, and now that he is clever, and agreeable, and good-looking,--which he never was as a lad,--why shouldn't I go on liking him? He's more like a brother to me than anybody else I've got. James,"--James was her brother-in-law, Dr. Crofts,--"thinks of nothing but his patients and his babies, and my cousin Bernard is much too grand a person for me to take the liberty of loving him. I shall be very glad to see Johnny Eames." From all which Mrs. Dale was led to believe that Johnny's case was still hopeless. And how should it not be hopeless? Had Lily not confessed within the last week or two that she still loved Adolphus Crosbie?
Answer the following questions:
1. Who departed their parent's house?
2. Where was he going?
3. What was her name?
4. What did he pack?
5. Whose home was he leaving?
6. Who hadn't he seen in awhile?
7. Will she be happy to see him?
8. Did the just recently meet?
9. How does she describe him?
10. Does she have a sibling through marriage?
11. Who?
12. What does he do?
13. What does she accuse him of fixating on?
14. Is Lily infatuated with him?
15. And in love as well?
16. Is she in love with anyone else?
17. Who?
18. Does she mention any other family members?
19. Who?
20. What is their relation?
Numbered answers: | 1. John Eames
2. to stay with his old friend
3. Lady Julia
4. his portmanteau
5. his mother's
6. Mrs. Dale
7. Yes
8. No
9. clever, agreeable, and good-looking
10. Yes
11. James
12. Dr.
13. his patients and his babies
14. Yes
15. No
16. Yes
17. Adolphus Crosbie
18. Yes
19. Bernard
20. her cousin | 0 | Flan2021 | coqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
City administrators can encourage energy conservation by
Select from the following.
1). lowering parking fees.
2). building larger parking lots.
3). decreasing the cost of gasoline.
4). lowering the cost of bus and subway fares.
| 4). | 8 | Flan2021 | unified_qa_science_inst | zs_opt |
Moreover, a conflict of interest between professional investment managers and their institutional clients, combined with a global glut in investment capital, led to bad investments by asset managers in over-priced credit assets. Professional investment managers generally are compensated based on the volume of client assets under management. There is, therefore, an incentive for asset managers to expand their assets under management in order to maximize their compensation. As the glut in global investment capital caused the yields on credit assets to decline, asset managers were faced with the choice of either investing in assets where returns did not reflect true credit risk or returning funds to clients. Many asset managers chose to continue to invest client funds in over-priced (under-yielding) investments, to the detriment of their clients, in order to maintain their assets under management. This choice was supported by a "plausible deniability" of the risks associated with subprime-based credit assets because the loss experience with early "vintages" of subprime loans was so low.
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. How are professional investment managers compensated?
2. what effect does this have?
3. did they feel pressure to grow the assets under their control?
4. who did they have a conflict of interest with?
5. what decision did they have to make when profits from credit assets went down?
6. which did many of them choose?
7. did this benefit their clientele?
8. what effect did too much global investment capital have?
9. was the danger with subprime mortgages considered high?
10. what could they have done instead of investing the client's money?
Numbered answers: | 1. on the volume of client assets under management
2. led to bad investments
3. yes
4. their clients
5. choice of either investing in assets where returns did not reflect true credit risk or returning funds to clients
6. to continue to invest client funds in over-priced investments
7. No
8. caused the yields on credit assets to decline
9. No
10. return funds to clients | 5 | Flan2021 | coqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
then he continues, “god is the creator, and nobody loves their creation more than the creator himself!
Can you repeat this sentence, but capitalize it correctly? | Then he continues, “God is the creator, and nobody loves their creation more than the Creator Himself! | 5 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
Ca alternativă la adoptarea noului buget, a sugerat misiunea, legea bugetului ar putea fi amendată pentru a permite o prelungire de trei luni a finanţării.
Translate this to English? | As an alternative to adopting the new budget, it suggested, the budget law could be amended in order to allow a three-month financing extension. | 3 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ro-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Miksi emme tee tästä oikeutta, kun otamme jo sen suuren riskin, että delegoituja säädöksiä on tuhansia?
Translate this to English? | Why do we not make this into a right, given that we are already taking the great risk of having thousands of delegated legislative acts? | 3 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Sen tarpeellisuus on tunnustettu alalla, erityisesti investoijaryhmissä, mutta markkinaosapuolet eivät vielä kolmenkaan vuoden kuluttua rahoitusvälineiden markkinoista annetun direktiivin täytäntöönpanosta ole yhdistäneet voimiaan ja laatineet eurooppalaista liiketoiminnan ilmoittamisjärjestelmää.
Which language is this? | Finnish | 9 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
1. After seeing this don't be surprised if your toaster goes missing and Jimmy becomes a fixture on big and small screens for years to come.
2. ...A serviceable piece of juvenile entertainment with high production values and low expectations.
3. The story is slow in parts but as this is a Nickelodeon film, it is filled with all sorts of fun moments that children are sure to love.
4. Apesar da trama engraзadinha, Jimmy Neutron falha em dois aspectos importantes: em seu roteiro e na qualidade de sua animaзгo.
5. Stylish 3-D computer animation, good characters.
6. Like a rollicking adventure from the fevered boyhood imagination of Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes: the gooey aliens, the boy-genius gadgetry. Except with Jimmy it's real.
7. ...[an] engaging and entertaining animated feature.
8. The characters are comical and dynamic -- especially Jimmy, Carl and Sheen -- and the outer space scenes are no less than stellar.
9. Una cinta para los pequeсines pero tambiйn disfrutable por toda la familia
10. One of those movies that you watch when you've got nothing better to do, munching jelly babies and smiling at the exuberance on the screen
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus? | What Jimmy Neutron lacks in computer animation, it makes up for in charm and cleverness. | 2 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
What happens next?
A boy approach a chair and sits, then he touch a radio. then
Options:
(1). , the boy repeats with other boy.
(2). , the boy ises the chair.
(3). , the boy starts to play two tam-tams using both hands.
(4). , the boy go and a man, then the boy jumps to plate. | (3). | 7 | Flan2021 | hellaswag:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Dorothy Dandridge was born on November 9, 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio, to aspiring entertainer Ruby Dandridge (nee Butler) (March 3, 1900 - October 17, 1987) and Cyril Dandridge (October 25, 1895 - July 9, 1989), a cabinetmaker and Baptist minister, who had separated just before her birth. Ruby created a song-and-dance act for her two young daughters, Vivian and Dorothy, under the name The Wonder Children, that was managed by Geneva Williams. The sisters toured the Southern United States almost nonstop for five years (rarely attending school), while Ruby worked and performed in Cleveland.
In 1957, Dandridge sued Confidential (magazine) for libel over its article that described a scandalous incident, fictitious as it turned out, that it claimed occurred in 1950. In May 1957, she accepted an out-of-court settlement of $10,000. Dandridge was one of the few Hollywood stars who testified at the 1957 criminal libel trial of Hollywood Research, Inc., the company that published Confidential as well as all of the other tabloid magazines from that era. Four months after her out-of-court settlement for $10,000, she and actress Maureen O'Hara, the only other star who testified at the criminal trial, were photographed shaking hands outside the downtown-Los Angeles courtroom where the highly publicized trial was held. Testimony from O'Hara, as well as from a disgruntled former magazine editor named Howard Rushmore, revealed that the magazines published false information provided by hotel maids, clerks, and movie-theater ushers who were paid for their tips. The stories with questionable veracity most often centered around alleged incidents of casual sex. When the jury and press visited Grauman's Chinese Theatre to determine whether O'Hara could have performed various sexual acts while seated in the balcony, as reported by a magazine published by Hollywood Research, Inc., this was discovered to have been impossible. Dandridge had not testified during her civil lawsuit earlier in 1957, but in September she gave testimony in the criminal trial that further strengthened the prosecution's case. Alleged by Confidential to have fornicated with a white bandleader in the woods of Lake Tahoe in 1950, she testified that racial segregation had confined her to her hotel during her nightclub engagement in the Nevada resort city. When she was not in the hotel lounge rehearsing or performing her singing, according to her testimony, she was required to stay inside her room where she slept alone. Dandridge's testimony along with O'Hara's testimony proved beyond any doubt that Hollywood Research had committed libel at least twice. The judge ordered Hollywood Research to stop publishing questionable stories based on tips for which they paid, and this curtailed invasive tabloid journalism until 1971 when Generoso Pope, Jr. moved the National Enquirer, which he owned, from New York to Lantana, Florida.
Using a quote from the above article, answer the following question: What did she go to court for? | Dandridge was one of the few Hollywood stars who testified at the 1957 criminal libel trial of Hollywood Research, Inc., | 1 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Paragraph: The little party in the cabin, so disastrously begun, finished, under the mellowing influence of wine and woman, in excellent feeling and with some hilarity. Mamie, in a plush Gainsborough hat and a gown of wine-coloured silk, sat, an apparent queen, among her rude surroundings and companions. The dusky litter of the cabin set off her radiant trimness: tarry Johnson was a foil to her fair beauty; she glowed in that poor place, fair as a star; until even I, who was not usually of her admirers, caught a spark of admiration; and even the captain, who was in no courtly humour, proposed that the scene should be commemorated by my pencil. It was the last act of the evening. Hurriedly as I went about my task, the half-hour had lengthened out to more than three before it was completed: Mamie in full value, the rest of the party figuring in outline only, and the artist himself introduced in a back view, which was pronounced a likeness. But it was to Mamie that I devoted the best of my attention; and it was with her I made my chief success.
Question: "How long did the last act of the evening take before it was completed?"
Answer: "Three hours"
Based on the paragraph, choose if the answer is correct:
Options are:
(a). no
(b). yes | (b). | 3 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Write a question you would see in a school textbook. | In New York State, the shortest period of daylight occurs during which month? | 7 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Easy:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Betty and I are best friends. Our birthdays are on the same day, so every year we have a birthday party together. But this year we had a costume party instead. While we were writing the invitations, my mom came in and asked, "Nancy, what about inviting John?" John had been in our class for only a few months, but he was already getting better grades in math than anyone else in our class. "Mom, he wears the same pants to school every day. How could he even afford a costume?" Mom said nothing. The next day, mom gave me an envelope with a shopping card in it. "I thought it would be nice for you to give this to John." Mom said. But how? We didn't want to make John embarrassed. We discussed it for a long time. Finally, Betty and I had a good idea. On the day of our party, John arrived, in an old sheet ,but still in the same brown pants as usual. Before eating the birthday cake, Betty said in a loud voice, "Now it's time for the great prize game." It was a math game. None of us were surprised when John gave the right answer first and walked off with the envelope. Everything went well as we planned. John wore a new pair of pants and a new shirt the next week. He felt happy. So did we.
Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.
1. John
2. Betty and I.
3. every year.
4. A few months
5. No.
6. Yes.
7. The same pants.
8. Yes he did.
9. Mom did.
10. A shopping card.
11. He might be emberassed.
12. Math.
13. John did.
14. New pants and shirt.
15. J an old sheet and the same pants.
16. The next week.
17. yes they were.
18. A shopping card.
19. Yes.
20. A costume birthday party.
Numbered questions: | 1. Who did my mom want me to invite?
2. Who has the same birthday as me?
3. Do we have a party together?
4. How long did we know John?
5. Was he the worst student in math?
6. Was he poor?
7. What did he wear every day?
8. Did he come to the party?
9. Who wanted to help John?
10. By giving him what?
11. How would he feel about that?
12. What was the big prize game about?
13. Who won?
14. What did he get?
15. What did he wear to the party?
16. When did he wear his new clothes?
17. Was everyone happy?
18. What was in the envelope?
19. Was John winning planned?
20. What kind of party was it? | 9 | Flan2021 | coqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is the sentiment of the following movie (choose your answer from the options) review sentence?
it also has a strong dramatic and emotional pull that gradually sneaks up on the audience
Available choices:
I. negative.
II. positive.
The answer is: | II. | 5 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
How does the sentence end?
Katrina impressed Emily with the marketing materials package she came up with.
Choose from:
(i) Katrina was a hiring manager.
(ii) Emily was a hiring manager. | (ii) | 5 | Flan2021 | winogrande:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Translate "the report by Hans-Peter Martin on behalf of the Committee on Budgetary Control on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Maritime Safety Agency for the financial year 2006 (C6-0382/2007 -," to Finnish? | Hans-Peter Martinin talousarvion valvontavaliokunnan puolesta laatima mietintö vastuuvapauden myöntämisestä Euroopan meriturvallisuusviraston talousarvion toteuttamisesta varainhoitovuonna 2006 (C6-0382/2007 -, | 7 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What sentence would provide a factual answer to this question: "mechanical weathering is breaking down what by mechanical means?" | mechanical weathering is when rocks are broken down by mechanical means | 7 | Flan2021 | openbookqa:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
eva nemcova , the cleveland rockers ' leading scorer , will miss the rest of the wnba season after tearing a ligament in her left knee .
Write a brief summary in a sentence or less. | rockers top scorer out for season | 4 | Flan2021 | gigaword:1.2.0 | zs_opt |
What sun-blasted , 14-mile wide valley is just north of the Mojave desert ?
What kind of thing would answer this question?
Choices:
(a). description.
(b). entity.
(c). abbreviation.
(d). human.
(e). numeric.
(f). location. | (f). | 6 | Flan2021 | trec:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate to German:
According to the proposal to make the team headed by Joshua Gomez, an old worker of popular culture in the country, the immediate objectives are to promote, disseminate, debate, ideas, concepts and positions that provide theoretical tools allow cultural work in municipality, and to favor local partnerships but open to other national and international collaborations.
German: | Nach dem Vorschlag an das Team von Joshua Gomez, ein alter Arbeiter der populären Kultur des Landes geleitet zu machen, sind die unmittelbaren Ziele zu fördern, zu verbreiten, Diskussionen, Ideen, Konzepte und Positionen, die theoretischen Werkzeuge liefern lassen kulturelle Arbeit in Gemeinde und lokale Partnerschaften, aber offen für andere nationale und internationale Kooperationen zu fördern. | 4 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/de-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Rate the similarity of the following two sentences on a scale from 0 to 5, where 0 is "no meaning overlap" and 5 is "means the same thing"?
Four U.S. Air Force helicopter crew members killed in UK crash
US Air Force helicopter crew killed in British crash
Choose your answer from: a. 0. b. 1. c. 2. d. 3. e. 4. f. 5. | e. | 5 | Flan2021 | glue/stsb:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Latest visit 18 August 2010 2127
What is the correctly punctuated version of this sentence? | Latest visit 18 August 2010 21:27 | 2 | Flan2021 | fix_punct | zs_opt |
Queen to name biggest ever carrier
Queen names giant aircraft carrier
Rate the textual similarity of these two sentences on a scale from 0 to 5, where 0 is "no meaning overlap" and 5 is "means the same thing".
Options are:
(i) 0.
(ii) 1.
(iii) 2.
(iv) 3.
(v) 4.
(vi) 5. | (v) | 0 | Flan2021 | glue/stsb:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Context: There were 58,110 households, of which 25.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.6% were married couples living together, 9.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 46.1% were non-families. 31.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27 and the average family size was 2.87. In the city, the population was 20.3% under the age of 18, 17.3% from 18 to 24, 28.5% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 12.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.0 males. The median income for a household in the city was $35,850, and the median income for a family was $48,527. Males had a median income of $35,549 versus $26,721 for females. The per capita income for the city was $21,315. About 8.7% of families and 17.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 14.8% of those under age 18 and 7.1% of those age 65 or over.
Question: Which age group was the largest?
Answer: | 25 to 44 | 6 | Flan2021 | drop:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Summarize the following movie reviews:
1. Intense drama asks what comes after death.
2. Skeptics and scoffers will find "Hereafter" the funniest film of the year. Others, however, might simply yawn at its pretentious cravings, funereal pace, and murky intentions.
3. Coincidences and improbabilities aside, the script sometimes borders on the absurd.
4. Hereafter is deep and deliberate. It requires patience and emotional maturity from its audience. Those willing to give it will be rewarded with a cinematic experience that is complex, heartfelt and spiritually uplifting.
5. Epic filmmaking is not Clint Eastwood's thing.
6. I realize it's bad manners to be flip about a movie that emblazons its heart on its sleeve. But Hereafter, soggy with portentous uplift, invites that response.
7. Skeptics and scoffers will find "Hereafter" the funniest film of the year. Others, however, might simply yawn at its pretentious cravings, funereal pace, and murky intentions.
8. The problematic concept keeps 'Hereafter' earthbound, but the film contains four sequences that affirm Eastwood's mastery, including the opening tsunami, which is not only spectacular but somehow intimate, thanks to the focus on the character of Marie...
9. Who knew conversing with the dead was so much like a visit to the therapist?
10. ... at once comforting and unsettling -- both in the best possible way.
Summary: | Despite a thought-provoking premise and Clint Eastwood's typical flair as director, Hereafter fails to generate much compelling drama, straddling the line between poignant sentimentality and hokey tedium. | 5 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
What is the job profile of fresh IEM graduates? Which departments and roles do they take up?
What exactly should I be prepared for before taking up a job after the completion of graduation?
Please tell me if those questions are the same.
pick from the following.
*no
*yes | no | 3 | Flan2021 | glue/qqp:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Juan Domingo Perón (] ; 8 October 1895 – 1 July 1974) was an Argentine lieutenant general and politician. After serving in several government positions, including Minister of Labour and Vice President, he was thrice elected President of Argentina, serving from June 1946 to September 1955, when he was overthrown in a "coup d'état", and then from October 1973 until his death in July 1974.
Can we infer the following?
Juan Domingo Perón serverd in the Argentine military.
Pick from:
--Yes;
--It's impossible to say;
--No;
The answer is: | Yes | 4 | Flan2021 | anli/r2:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Do these two sentences from wikipedia have the same meaning?
Encouraged by the use of fresh voices in `` Roja '' , Srinivas approached Rahman .
Encouraged by the use of fresh voices in `` Roja '' , Srinivas Rahman approached .
Options: * no; * yes;
The answer is: | no | 5 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
News article:
Are we really headed towards a government shutdown? As Congress and the White House grapple with the next steps, here's what you need to know:
1. How could we be facing a government shutdown?
Congress hasn't presented a funding bill for signature. Without the bill, the government isn't authorized to pay its bills which means that the lights won't stay on.
2. What's the deadline?
April 29. That's the day that the government runs out of money if Congress and the White House don't act.
3. Is that a real deadline?
Of course not. Even if Congress agrees on a plan, the chances of pushing something through the House and the Senate before the end of next week are pretty slim. Expect an extension (yes, Congress can do that).
Ideally, to stop the shutdown, Congress would pass an appropriations bill. Since that likely isn't going to happen (see #8 below), Congress can pass a continuing resolution (CR) to keep funding where it is now until a larger appropriations bill (a so-called omnibus bill) can be pushed through Congress. Congress could also pass a "CRomnibus" (yes, that awful term from 2014 is back in the news) which is part continuing resolution (CR) and part omnibus.
4. If we fix this now, how much time will it buy us?
Not much. A current bill would only fund the government through the rest of fiscal year 2017. The government's fiscal year ends on September 30, 2017, and the new fiscal year will begin on October 1, 2017. The Trump Administration is expected to submit its first complete budget, this one for the fiscal year 2018, in May of 2017.
5. Wait, now I'm confused. If the fiscal year begins in October, why are we having this discussion in April?
The fiscal year does begin in October. However, because of the November 2016 elections, Congress didn't pass a long term bill for fiscal year 2017. Then, the Trump administration advised Congress that it wanted to be involved in determining fiscal year 2017 spending and asked for a delay. Congress extended the deadline - without passing any significant budget bills - through April of 2017.
6. Why does it feel like we're under constant threat of a shutdown?
Maybe because we are.
There have been government shutdowns since at least the Ford administration. Over last several administrations, however, shutdowns have become more common. President Bush sent government workers packing over the long Columbus Day weekend in 1990. There were two multi-day government shutdowns during the Clinton administration: a five-day shutdown in 1995 and three-week shutdown in 1996. And in 2013, a 16 day shutdown held government hostage during the Obama administration.
Threats of a shutdown are a nearly annual occurrence. We barely avoided a shutdown in 2014, again in 2015, and in 2016. Notice a pattern?
7. What is Congress doing this week to avoid a shutdown?
Good question. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) is in Europe and Congress is on recess. Congress is scheduled to return to session on April 24. Any negotiations, such as they are, are happening outside of chambers.
8. What are the major budgetary sticking points?
Tax reform. It's a given that for tax reform to be successful, it will have to involve some serious discussions about spending and potentially, entitlements. Where to cut? That's a question not likely to be resolved before next week.
Obamacare. Repealing Obamacare was a key part of the GOP plan for tax reform. Efforts to repeal Obamacare failed last month and Speaker Ryan pulled the vote. Some Democrats and Republicans may view health care votes as their leverage for tax reform (hamster meet wheel).
The US/Mexico border wall. The White House insists that the wall will be built and that construction will start soon. The President had initially promised that Mexico would pay for the wall, but it now appears that U.S. taxpayers will foot the bill for the wall which is estimated to cost between $8 billion (Trump's estimate) and $70 billion. Democratic leaders and some fiscally hawkish Republicans have refused to sign off on those numbers if U.S. taxpayers have to pay out of pocket.
Defense spending. Increasing defense spending was a major promise during the Trump campaign. Some key Republican leaders - like Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) - support the increase but others are balking at significant increases to military spending.
9. So who is to blame?
Well, that depends on who you ask, doesn't it? With Republicans controlling both houses of Congress and the White House, it's likely that a lot of blame for a government shutdown would fall on the current administration. With midterm elections looming in 2018, that's not a charge that Republicans want to have to defend.
10. What are the chances that Congress and the White House will agree on a bill?
Sigh. Who knows? Remember, this bill just has to get the country through September so, in theory, it shouldn't be a huge deal. Congress ought to be able to do some kind of patchwork magic to stumble through until then - but then they've had months to get something done to date and are still bumping up against the deadline.
In addition, President Trump's 100-day benchmark is looming - also April 29 - and both supporters and critics believe that he needs a big win right now to maintain control. That makes what could have been a less important spending bill more important and why the President is pushing Speaker Ryan again on an Obamacare repeal effort.
That combination is somewhat volatile - and the GOP doesn't have much wiggle room. While Republicans control the majority in both Houses, the margin is slim in the Senate: they have just 52 votes. The GOP needs all of those votes plus support from Democrats (for a total of 60) for an appropriations package.
11. What does the President have to say?
The President has ordered federal agencies to began preparing for a potential partial government shutdown but has publicly dismissed the action as routine, telling reporters on Friday, "I think we’re in good shape." ||||| Congress won't shut down the government Friday. The House and Senate just passed a spending bill to keep the government open for one week, and President Trump is expected to sign it. That means that next Friday they're going to go to the brink all over again as they try to pass a spending bill that will last through this fiscal year, or Sept. 30.
The good news: Budget experts think Congress should be able to stave off a shutdown next week, as well. The players, including Trump, have all pushed aside their demands, hoping to avoid more drama. For now.
The bad news: In avoiding one trap, Congress could be setting itself up for an even bigger one in a few months. By getting nothing this time around, lawmakers on either side and the president may be less open to negotiation next time -- especially at the end of September, when Congress has to pass a spending bill for a full year.
That means that as the likelihood of a shutdown in April decreases, the likelihood of a shutdown in September increases. To better understand why, let's run down three scenarios for how the upcoming spending debates (on May 5 and in September) could play out:
The Crisis Averted Scenario
Republican and Democratic leaders bought themselves a little more time Friday to draft spending legislation that not everyone in Congress likes but that enough people in both parties can live with to pass a majority in both chambers. The goal is good, not perfect.
A spending bill designed to avert a crisis does not have any political lightning rods that could repel Democrats, like defunding for Planned Parenthood or including funding for Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall. Nor does it have anything that conservative House Republicans won't live with, like massive pending increases.
In this scenario, Congress passes a spending bill by midnight next Friday, President Trump signs it, and a government shutdown is averted for the next few months.
How likely is this? Right now our experts say this scenario is the most likely. The last thing Republican leaders want is another government shutdown on their watch, so they're going to do whatever they can to keep it from happening. The rest of the party seems eager to avoid a shutdown, too: On Friday's House vote for a one-week extension, just 16 House Republicans voted against it, less than half of the 35/40-member conservative House Freedom Caucus that usually opposes these kinds of bills.
The Crisis Scenario, version 1
Congressional budget leaders draft a spending bill that both Democrats and hard-right Republicans in the House Freedom Caucus loathe (it increases domestic spending too much and defense not enough, it doesn't do enough for Obamacare or it cuts Obamacare too much, and on and on and on). Congress can't pass something in time, and the government shuts down.
(Or they pass yet another bill extending government funding — and the shutdown threat — by a week.)
How likely is this? Our experts say this scenario is still a possibility. (The factions that shut down the government in 2013 and nearly again in 2015 are still very present in Congress). But it's a diminishing possibility because, this time almost all sides seem to be willing to negotiate. This time.
The Crisis Scenario, version 2
Congress passes a spending bill, but Trump says he won't support it because it doesn't contain enough of his priorities (funding for his U.S.-Mexico border wall being top of the list). Or Trump demands those priorities be in the spending bill, and outraged Democrats vote against it. Either way, the government shuts down.
How likely is this? A week ago, it was very likely.
....the wall is not built, which it will be, the drug situation will NEVER be fixed the way it should be!#BuildTheWall — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 24, 2017
By Monday, Trump had backed off his proposal. This was significant. It means Trump will finish his 100 days at 0-4 on legislative promises he made.
Don't let the fake media tell you that I have changed my position on the WALL. It will get built and help stop drugs, human trafficking etc. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 25, 2017
The dynamics in the first two scenarios aren't new: Torn between increasingly stubborn, polarized parties, Congress has faced a shutdown threat at least once or twice a year for the past couple of years.
With less than a week to pass a new spending bill, negotiations between the White House, Republicans and Democrats are ramping up to avoid a government shutdown on April 29. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)
It's the third scenario — what Trump wants — that's totally new. The unpredictability of the president is what threw many of our budget experts' predictions from “probably no shutdown this time” to “anything could happen" in September.
“It's going to come down to what Trump wants,” said nonpartisan budget expert Stan Collender. “And it's not clear that he knows what he wants.”
The September Crisis Scenario
Well, we can guess what the president will want in September, when Congress must pass a spending bill for the entire fiscal year 2018: a lot.
Trump won't get money for his wall this time. Trump has also given up on the cuts in domestic programs and the increase in defense spending he asked for. Basically, said Steve Bell, a former Senate GOP budget aide now with the Bipartisan Policy Institute, "the president is going to get zero out of this negotiation."
That only increases the chances he's going to demand everything a few months from now. "I really don't know when the president is going to say: 'I need a victory,'" Bell said.
As soon as Trump — or anyone else with leverage in this — puts a foot down on any number of the issues above, we'll be on shutdown watch all over again. That's not going to be Friday, and it's not likely to be next week, but a standoff could be coming sooner than we realize.
Graphics by Darla Cameron. Icons by Shashank Singh and Chelsea Carlson for the Noun Project. ||||| Next Saturday, April 29th, is President Trump’s hundredth day in office, a historical marker used by the press to assess a new President’s progress since the first term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. F.D.R. was grappling with the Great Depression, and he had a pliant Congress that would have passed almost anything he proposed. Presidents since then have often struggled to meet the expectations of the hundred-day report card but generally can point to a list of major legislative accomplishments. Trump does not have such a list. At the same time, the Trump White House is facing a much more consequential deadline, one that will help define his first months in office and perhaps his first term: absent a spending deal with Democrats and Republicans in Congress, next Saturday the government will shut down.
While the potential for a government shutdown has been overshadowed by other events—Syria, North Korea, the attempted repeal of Obamacare—the Trump White House is suddenly seized with the issue. “Next week is going to have quite high drama,” a top White House official, who sounded excited by the coming clash, told me. “It’s going to be action-packed. This one is not getting as much attention, but, trust me, it’s going to be the battle of the titans. And the great irony here is that the call for the government shutdown will come on—guess what?—the hundredth day. If you pitched this in a studio, they would say, ‘Get out of here, it’s too ridiculous.’ This is going to be a big one.”
The last government shutdown was in October, 2013, and was widely blamed on conservative Republicans in the House, with a major assist from Senator Ted Cruz, who demanded that Obamacare had to be defunded, a ludicrous strategy given that Barack Obama was President. Congress failed to pass the necessary legislation, and the government closed for two weeks before Republicans came back to the table. At the time, many predicted that the tactic would have dire political consequences for the G.O.P., but the following year the Party expanded its majority in the House and took over the Senate. Republican leaders have prevented their right wing from forcing shutdowns in the years since, but one lesson from 2013 is that the threat of a government shutdown is a powerful way to press for concessions without paying too high a political price.
In recent weeks, the prospect of a government shutdown seemed low. In the House and Senate, Democratic and Republican appropriators, who, despite ideological differences, are often united in their desire to spend money, were making steady progress. But there was an elephant in the room. In mid-March, the Trump Administration released a detailed spending request that included a large increase for the military and for immigration enforcement and massive cuts to domestic discretionary spending. While the budget was released with fanfare, the White House seemed to retreat from the talks, leaving congressional Democrats and Republicans to continue their work without much guidance from Trump.
Yesterday, that changed. Mick Mulvaney, a Republican and former congressman who was one of the House members who agitated for the 2013 shutdown and is now Trump’s budget director, announced that “elections have consequences.” The consequence, it would seem, was a divisive proposal. Mulvaney suggested that if Trump didn’t get his defense spending and border wall—which, it should be noted, he promised would be paid for by Mexico—then the federal payments, known as cost-sharing reduction subsidies, or C.S.R., that pay for health insurance for millions of Americans under Obamacare had to be cut from the spending bill. The ruination of Obamacare is once again tied up with keeping the government running.
The funding legislation likely can’t pass in the House without some Democratic votes, and it certainly can’t pass without Democratic votes in the Senate, where Republicans need eight Democrats to reach the sixty-vote threshold to prevent a filibuster. The two sides aren’t even close.
“There’s a big spread between the bid and the ask here,” the White House official said, noting that Trump wanted thirty billion dollars for defense, several billion for more ICE agents and the border wall, as well as eighteen billion dollars in cuts to domestic spending and the ability to withhold federal money from cities that don’t coöperate with immigration officials.
The big priorities for Democrats are the money for those people who need Obamacare subsidies, the protection of domestic spending, and increases for programs for opioid addiction and health care for coal miners, the last two being issues that Trump ostensibly campaigned on. These shouldn’t be a big deal, Democrats say, and they have accused the White House of throwing a grenade into negotiations in order to wrest some sort of political victory in the first hundred days. “For weeks, the House and Senate Democrats and Republicans have been working well together,” a Democratic aide said. “Then, all of a sudden, the White House is looking at next week and they have nothing to show for the first one hundred days, and they either want a health-care bill to pass next week, which seems like a heavy lift, or to get more on immigration from this process. Even Republicans don’t want this fight, and they don’t want a shutdown on Day One Hundred of the Trump Administration.”
The White House, which is trying to force another vote on an Obamacare repeal, seems desperate to either win some of Trump’s priorities in a deal next week, or force a government shutdown that it can blame on Democrats. That might energize Trump’s supporters, who don’t have much to celebrate yet.
But it’s not just the Democrats who oppose several Trump priorities. Congressional Republicans, who are generally united in support for the increase in defense spending, are divided on the border wall, which is not popular among border-state Republicans, and the deep domestic-spending cuts.
So far, it does not look like a bridgeable gap. “This is going to be high-stakes poker,” the White House official said. When I asked if a shutdown was likely, the official paused for several seconds. “I don’t know,” the official said. The official added, “I just want my wall and my ICE agents.” |||||
What is a shorter version of the above article? | – Once or twice a year recently, the federal government threatens to shut down. But the Washington Post reports this year's version of the crisis—the deadline to pass a spending bill is midnight April 28—has a brand-new wrinkle: President Trump. According to the New Yorker, things had been going pretty well to avoid a government shutdown, with Republicans and Democrats negotiating toward a compromise bill. Then on Friday, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said either the bill includes Trump's border wall and defense spending increase or it must defund a major part of the Affordable Care Act. (Interestingly, Mulvaney was also involved in the last government shutdown in October 2013, which also hinged on defunding the ACA.) The problem now is that even if Democrats and Republicans in Congress reach a compromise that allows them to pass a spending bill, there's no guarantee Trump will sign it. For example, Democrats don't want the border wall built, and conservative Republicans aren't too keen on paying for it either. Adding to the uncertainty, the deadline to avoid the shutdown falls on Trump's 100th day in office, and he could be desperate for a big win by the deadline. The New Yorker reports one top White House official actually "sounded excited" by the prospect of a shutdown. For his part, Trump says he thinks "we're in good shape" to avoid a shutdown, according to Forbes. And here's the kicker: Even if a spending bill somehow gets passed, it only funds the government through September. | 5 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
More importantly, it meant much needed, larger financial contributions from Paris.
Does it follow that "Paris would need to give bigger contributions."?
Pick your answer from:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no | yes | 9 | Flan2021 | glue/mnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a sentence in Spanish. | Esta usted en la categoría Intermitentes laterales para Subaru de AutoOutlet su tienda de accesorios y recambios del automovil en internet. Encuentre aqui todo en Intermitentes laterales para Subaru. Recuerde, tenemos el mejor precio con envio gratuito y contacte con nosotros si necesita ayuda | 9 | Flan2021 | para_crawl_enes | zs_opt |
Options:
I. yes.
II. no.
Does "Guinea-Bissau has started to show some economic advances after a pact of stability was signed by the main political parties of the country, leading to an IMF-backed structural reform program." correctly answer the question of What happened in Portugal that contributed to Guinea-Bissau's independence?
| II. | 3 | Flan2021 | glue/qnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
I have a "best friend" who has almost every quality that I hate in people. I will never tell that person though because I hate fights.
Describe the sentiment embodied by this tweet.
OPTIONS:
-negative;
-positive;
I think the answer is | negative | 2 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a dialog with this premise "Sam has bought a warm breakfast for Anna (tacitos hash browns with extra picante sauce, coffee and orange juice) and he is bringing it to her house. She's waiting for him. ". | Sam: Can you please come out I bought this warm breakfast please take it?
Anna: yes sure just a sec and btw thank you for this lovely surprise…
Anna: ok I am outside but you aint here?
Sam: oh your already there? I thought you would take time so I msgd you few minutes ahead
Sam: I am still here waiting for my order to be prepared :D
Anna: goodness!!!!! What are you getting anyway?
Sam: Tacitos hash browns coffee and orange juice
Anna: WOOOWWW… I cant wait to eat
Anna: love you ?(k)
Sam: love you too..
Anna: how long?
Sam: just got the order leaving now
Anna: wait!!!! Get extra picante sause
Sam: sureee! Now be ready and come out to help…
Anna: I am here on the door only waiting….
Anna: cant wait to eat
Sam: left
Anna: waitingggg | 9 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Pick your answer from:
(1). Lindsey was more forward thinking.;
(2). Angela was more forward thinking.;
Complete the following sentence.
Lindsey dwelled on the past while Angela thought more about the future since
| (2). | 3 | Flan2021 | winogrande:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Produce a long descriptive sentence that uses all these words: Alimentum eatType restaurant; Alimentum food French; Alimentum priceRange moderate; Alimentum customer rating 1 out of 5; Alimentum area city centre; Alimentum near Yippee Noodle Bar | Alimentum is a French restaurant near Yippee Noodle Bar in the city centre with a moderate price range and customer rating of 1 out of 5. | 7 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
a canadian appeals court ruled wednesday that three crew members of a russian tanker accused of ramming a trawler off massachusetts , killing three u.s. fishermen , can go home to russia for now .
What is a very short summary of the above text? | crew of tanker accused in trawler sinking free to return to russia | 5 | Flan2021 | gigaword:1.2.0 | zs_opt |
What drug did Sigmund Freud become fascinated with while experimenting with the treatment of neurasthenia ?
What kind of thing would answer this question?
pick from the following. * description; * entity; * abbreviation; * human; * numeric; * location; | entity | 6 | Flan2021 | trec:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-select: Is it possible to draw the conclusion that "Martin is very successful." if "Pete envies Martin although he is very successful."?
Available options: - no. - yes. | no | 7 | Flan2021 | glue/wnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Answer based on context:
His publications have focused on the history of Mataram, Kartasura, Yogyakarta, Surakarta, locations in Central Java. He has also regularly updated his history of Indonesia - A History of Modern Indonesia, ca. 1300 to the present. Professor Ricklefs has dedicated most of his academic career to understanding how Indonesian society reacted to both the European presence and the spread of Islam , with an emphasis on cultural as well as political history. Few other living English speaking writers can claim the scope of his knowledge of the history of Java from the 17th to the 21st century. In 2010 he edited and co-authored the New History of Southeast Asia, which continues the work of his friend and mentor D.G.E. Hall, who first published his own History of South East Asia in 1955. From 2004 to 2015, Professor Ricklefs was sectional editor for Southeast Asia for the new 3rd edition of Encyclopaedia of Islam . He is currently a member of the editorial boards of History Today, Studia Islamika, Journal of Indonesian Islam and Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. He co-edits the monograph series Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch der Orientalistik and Brill's Southeast Asia Library .
How many years passed between the publishing of the first History of South East Asia and the New History of Southeast Asia? | 55 | 0 | Flan2021 | drop:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Continue the following story.
The man packed his things in a box instead of a bag because the
Pick from:
--box held more items.;
--bag held more items.; | box held more items. | 7 | Flan2021 | winogrande:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Produce a brief English sentence that would be considered grammatically as category: (2).
All categories: Choose from:
(1). unacceptable.
(2). acceptable. | The kids have arrived safely. | 9 | Flan2021 | glue/cola:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
PlayingonlineJasmineandHerDoggame.ThisisAdventure&RPGgame.Nearbythegame,therearesimilarAdventure&RPGgames.EnjoywithfreeJasmineandHerDoggame
Generate a sentence using the above characters: | Playing online Jasmine and Her Dog game . This is Adventure & RPG game . Nearby the game, there are similar Adventure & RPG games . Enjoy with free Jasmine and Her Dog game | 0 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
it is a beautiful place filled with everything you could ever want or need . a place where you can all be happy forever . this is where mary wants us to go . '' and the crowd applauded-some actually even cheered . there was one problem , though : milos was lying . mary 's plan was to head west , and conquer ... but `` west '' was a direction , not a destination , and while these children could blindly trust mary to lead them , they were n't so blind when it came to | milos | 0 | Flan2021 | lambada:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
@Staceface82 Kelly C's in the country! She was on tv last night and will be on another show tonight.
Describe the sentiment embodied by this tweet.
Pick from: [-] negative; [-] positive;
I think the answer is | positive | 2 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article based on this summary:
– Joining the Army wasn't Bowe Bergdahl's first military experience: He was in the Coast Guard for 26 days. Due to his departure before 180 days of service, he was given an "uncharacterized discharge" in 2006, friends tell the Washington Post; military records confirm the story. He left due to psychological issues; friends were reportedly concerned about him at the time. How he was able to join the Army in 2008 is unclear, the Post notes. A discharge related to psychological health would generally prevent future recruitment. Involved in two wars at the time, however, the Army was providing waivers to one out of five recruits, according to 2008 data; these waivers allowed people with health issues and criminal records to join. One friend tells the Post that Bergdahl "told me he faked" his psychological problems after leaving the Coast Guard. "He believed he was in control, but I didn’t," says another. The paper has also obtained a wealth of Bergdahl's writings from the period before his capture, and they paint a portrait of a troubled young man. Among the writings: "The closer I get to ship day, the calmer the voices are. I’m reverting. I’m getting colder. My feelings are being flushed with the frozen logic and the training, all the unfeeling cold judgment of the darkness," he wrote, later adding: "I will not lose this mind, this world I have deep inside. I will not lose this passion of beauty." He made lists, including one of "Movies 4 My Insanity" (Mary Poppins and The Silence of the Lambs were among them). He also made plans: "One day, if I make it out of this, I will go around the world. I will not use airplanes, but only trains, boats, vehicles, and ... (if I still have them) my feet." Before joining the Army, he often told friends about planned adventures at home and abroad, but after disappearing from Ketchum, Idaho, for a short while, he would return. Given his personality, says a friend, “He is the perfect example of a person who should not have gone" into the military. Also today, secret details of the thinking behind the Bergdahl-Taliban swap emerged.
Article: |
This camouflage case arrived at the home of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s friend Kim Harrison several days after he disappeared in Afghanistan. Inside was Bergdahl’s laptop computer, a journal, a copy of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” and a cracked Kindle, as well as military papers in which Bergdahl named Harrison as the person who would receive his body should he be killed. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Before he became a Taliban prisoner, before he wrote in his journal “I am the lone wolf of deadly nothingness,” before he joined the Army, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was discharged from the Coast Guard for psychological reasons, said close friends who were worried about his emotional health at the time.
The 2006 discharge and a trove of Bergdahl’s writing — his handwritten journal along with essays, stories and e-mails provided to The Washington Post — paint a portrait of a deeply complicated and fragile young man who was by his own account struggling to maintain his mental stability from the start of basic training until the moment he walked off his post in eastern Afghanistan in 2009.
“I’m worried,” he wrote in one journal entry before he deployed. “The closer I get to ship day, the calmer the voices are. I’m reverting. I’m getting colder. My feelings are being flushed with the frozen logic and the training, all the unfeeling cold judgment of the darkness.”
A few pages later, he wrote: “I will not lose this mind, this world I have deep inside. I will not lose this passion of beauty.”
At another point, using his often unorthodox spelling, he wrote: “Trying to keep my self togeather. I’m so tired of the blackness, but what will happen to me without it. Bloody hell why do I keep thinking of this over and over.”
On June 9, 2009, two weeks before he walked away, Bergdahl sent an e-mail to a friend.
“l1nes n0 t g00 d h3rE. tell u when 1 ha ve a si coure 1ine about pl/-
s,” read the partly coded message, one of Bergdahl’s many references to unspecified plans and dreams of walking away — to China, into the mountains, or, as he says at one point, into “the artist’s painted world, hiding from the fields of blood and screams, hidden from the monster within himself.”
Several days after he vanished, a box containing his blue spiral-bound journal, his laptop computer, a copy of the novel “Atlas Shrugged,” military records and other items arrived at the home of his close friend Kim Harrison, whom Bergdahl designated in his Army paperwork as the person who should receive his remains.
Harrison said she decided to share the journal and computer files with The Post because she is concerned about the portrayal of Bergdahl as a calculating deserter, a characterization she says is at odds with her understanding of him as sensitive and vulnerable .
Bergdahl’s parents declined a request for an interview about their son’s writings and mental health. A military spokesman said questions could not be put to Bergdahl, 28, “at this point in his reintegration process.”
Harrison and others close to Bergdahl said his writing and the events surrounding the Coast Guard discharge raise questions about his mental fitness for military service and how he was accepted into the Army in 2008. Typically, a discharge for psychological reasons would disqualify a potential recruit.
An undated photo of Bergdahl provided to The Washington Post. (Courtesy of Kim Harrison)
Bergdahl dances with Kayla Harrison in this undated photo. (Courtesy of Kim Harrison)
According to Coast Guard records, Bergdahl left the service in early 2006 with an “uncharacterized discharge” after 26 days of basic training. The term applies to people discharged before completing 180 days of service. No reason is specified in such discharges, and a Coast Guard representative said no further information was available.
A senior Army official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed that the Army was aware of a prior “administrative discharge” when Bergdahl enlisted. A separate Army official, also speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that Bergdahl would have required a waiver to enlist under such circumstances. The official could not immediately confirm that Bergdahl received one.
With two wars raging in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008, the Army was meeting recruitment goals by issuing waivers that allowed people with criminal records, health conditions and other problems to enlist. According to a 2008 Army War College study on the subject, the Army was issuing waivers at a rate of one for every five recruits at the time.
Whatever the exact circumstances of Bergdahl’s enlistment, the Coast Guard discharge came as no surprise to Harrison and other friends who grew up with him in Ketchum, Idaho, and said he was a poor fit for military service.
“He is the perfect example of a person who should not have gone” to war, said Harrison, who spoke on the condition that she be identified by her former married name because she is concerned about threats. “The only person worse would be someone with a low IQ. In my mind, they didn’t care.”
Harrison only recently brought herself to watch the video of Bergdahl’s release, in which he walks stiffly from a battered Taliban truck to a U.S. helicopter.
In earlier Taliban propaganda videos, she said, she always recognized some part of the Bowe she remembered from Ketchum, some aspect of the good posture he kept or a familiar expression. As she studied his tense muscles and movements in the release video, she said, “I didn’t see any of Bowe left.”
‘Light in this darkness’
The writing in Bergdahl’s journal, e-mails and laptop spans the year before he walked off his post in eastern Afghanistan on June 30, 2009. Harrison has had custody of the material since a few days after that, except for a brief period when she provided it to U.S. government investigators. None of the writing in the journal or computer files references the Taliban, or the politics of the war in Afghanistan, although there are references to modern war generally.
“Really, how pathetic i feel as i listen to people talk of the hell I will be heading to . . . ” he wrote in a computer file titled, “my army memories.” “Compared to hell of the real wars of the past, we are nothing but camping boy scots. Hiding from children behind our heavy armored trucks and our c-wire and sand bagged operating post, we tell our selves that we are not cowards . . . ”
Mostly, the writing describes Bergdahl’s internal thoughts and struggles, from his first journal entry, dated June 11, 2008 — the month he headed to Army basic training in Georgia — to the last e-mail, dated June 27, 2009, three days before his disappearance.
“These are just thoughts in the start of this journey,” the first journal entry began in the careful, slanted handwriting that Harrison said Bergdahl practiced as a teenager to help overcome what she thought was dyslexia. “These thoughts insist on trying to overwhelm my mind. . . . I’ve spent a lot of my life thinking blackness was all I had in front of me, that it would be blackness to the very last instent. I know this is not right. I know that there is light in this darkness, and that I can actuly reach it if I keep walking, keep moving to it.”
Although Bergdahl’s friends in Ketchum were worried about his decision to join the Army, they also described it as “typical Bowe.”
After growing up as a home-schooled kid in the rural fringe of Hailey, Idaho, Bergdahl was drawn to an artistic, free-thinking crowd in the nearby ski town of Ketchum, where he met Harrison when he began taking ballet and fencing lessons at an arts center she ran. He started living away from home, bouncing from couch to couch, and became close friends with Harrison’s son, Shane, and daughter, Kayla. He befriended two other young men who spoke to The Post last week on the condition of anonymity because they also are concerned about threats.
They described Bergdahl as an introspective young man who sometimes painted his fingernails black and identified with Japanese samurai warriors and medieval knights. He was often seen writing in a notebook and reading. He liked to portray himself as a dark, adventurous soul with a chivalrous spirit, a dramatic persona his friends often teased him about.
“There were two sides; one was this guy who was super sweet,” one of his friends said. “At the same time, there was this heady introspection.”
When he turned 18, Bergdahl began taking off on short-lived adventures. He told friends he was joining a sailing crew in Florida, going to France to become part of the French Foreign Legion, or setting out to bike around South America, only to reappear in Ketchum after a month or so.
Then one day in 2006, Bergdahl announced that he was joining the Coast Guard, a decision his friends thought was unwise given his personality. Harrison said she tried to talk him out of it, but finally relented and drove him to a military office in Idaho Falls to take the entrance exam.
Soon after he left Ketchum for basic training, Bergdahl sent her a dozen or so notebook pages filled with tiny writing, diatribes against the rigors of military life. She was alarmed, she said. When he returned after a few weeks, he told her he had gotten out on a psychological discharge.
“He told me he faked it,” she recalled. “I said, ‘You don’t fake a psychological discharge, you have to become unfit.’ I told him that. The reality was it wasn’t okay. I saw it in the letters, the way the writing was changing, the anger.”
Another friend remembered having a similar conversation with Bergdahl.
“I said, ‘What happened?’ ” this friend recalled. “He said he started to feign a psychological disorder, saying strange things to get out. I remember flat out calling him out on it — I said, ‘There is something else going on.’ He said, ‘I chose to do it.’
“I know he believed he was in control, but I didn’t,” the friend added. “I sincerely doubted that.”
Two years later, in early 2008, Bergdahl revealed to Harrison that he had enlisted in the Army.
“I was like, ‘Why and how did you even get in?’ ” she said. “ ‘How did they let you?’ I was furious.”
Chronicling his worries
Bergdahl landed in Georgia for basic training in June 2008, and began filling the blue journal.
On the calendar in the back, he scratched out the days with uniform slashes and dots. Inside, he slipped cut-out Sudoku puzzles with the answers taped on the back.
“A wolf, mutt, hound, dog, I’ve been called these from my childhood,” he wrote in the first few pages. “But what good am I, my existence is that of exile. To live on the fringes of this world as a guard . . . ”
He wrote about what he described as “shallow” and crude minds around him, and “this hell that pools so many fools, and they are all part of the illusion.”
“Bullet sponges,” he wrote at one point. “This is what some of the SEALs call regular Army and other mass ground troops. Its right, the job of a soldier is to basically die.”
At another, “Lightning, there is nothing as truly beautiful as lightning . . . ”
And then, “Puddle of mud, skitsafrentic phyco.”
Bergdahl wrote many character sketches and stories about knights who were philosophers and about a girl who “loves the beauty that she sees in this world.”
“I’m worried,” he wrote a few pages later. “ . . . Remember. REMEMBER. Imagination. Realness. To dream. The Universes. REMEMBER. Cold. Swift. Clear. Calm. Logic. Nothingness. Die here. Become empty here.”
As he prepared to deploy to Afghanistan, Bergdahl began making long lists, including one labeled “Movies 4 My Insanity,” which included the Cary Grant film “Houseboat,” “Mary Poppins,” “The English Patient” and “The Silence of the Lambs.” He wrote about his fantasies and goals.
“One day, if I make it out of this, I will go around the world. I will not use airplanes, but only trains, boats, vehicles, and . . . (if I still have them) my feet.”
“I will learn Russian. I will learn Japanese. I will learn French. I will learn Chines.”
On the final journal page he wrote on, he listed story ideas, the last of which was “a story about one going-crazy-to wander the earth alone.”
On a scrap of paper tucked into the journal, he wrote, “Walk us to the end of this. Walk on. And walk us out of here . . . ”
An undated photo from Bowe Bergdahl’s laptop computer. (Courtesy of Kim Harrison)
‘Pulling away’
Bergdahl was sent to Fort Richardson in Alaska to finish out the year, and by March of 2009, he had arrived in Paktika, Afghanistan, where his post was a football-field-size swath of sand partly surrounded by barbed wire.
Into this beige landscape, Bergdahl brought his new laptop, loaded with dozens of photos of clouds — clouds at sunrise and sunset, in oranges and blues and grays.
As fellow soldiers have described him, Bergdahl was either a brooding, aloof figure, or “a good soldier” who did what he was asked. In a file titled, “threw the brain,” Bergdahl wrote of his new experience, “i’m at an odd place here.”
“Like i’m pulling away from the human world, but getting closer to people,” he continued. “Almost as if its not the people I hate, but society’s ideas and reality that hold them. . . . I want to change so much and all the time, but then my mind just locks down, as if there was some one else in my mind shutting the door in my face. . . . I want to pull my mind out and drop kick it into a deep gorge.”
In a file dated a few days later, repetitions of the phrase “velcro or zipper/velcro or zipper/velcro or zipper” cover nearly two pages.
Bergdahl’s platoon mostly avoided firefights. In May 2009, when the fighting season was underway in Afghanistan, there was one serious battle with the Taliban, and a bungled mission that left him and his fellow soldiers stranded in the mountains for four days.
Bergdahl started writing an account of it on his laptop, describing a mission intended to help recover an armored vehicle that went wrong when his convoy was hit by an improvised explosive device.
“The mission was extended, but little detail . . . for command acts like their guarding some kind of secrets when ever oders are passed out. . . . Hitting the mountain road, which is no more then a cart trail winding its way up a redicoulisly steep mountain face, seat belts are strapped, helmets are tightened, and your subconsciously bracing yourself with your hands and feet . . . ”
He didn’t finish.
“So I don’t care weather my body’s whole or ash,” he e-mailed that month to one of his friends in Ketchum, “preferably whole, it would just feel nicer if my body was thrown into the sea whole, instead of just the ashes being thrown overboard. . . . Thanks.”
On June 7, three weeks before he walked off post, Bergdahl e-mailed Harrison’s daughter, Kayla.
“if at any point in time, kim gets a call from red cross, or the mill, no matter when, in a week, month, or years. . . . Keep her from panic and bad ideas. You know what I do, and ash I am still perfecting, actions may become . . . odd. No red flags. Im good. But plans have begun to form, no time line yet. . . . love you! Bowe.”
Alarmed, Kayla wrote back, “Exactly what kind of plans are you thinking of?”
“l1nes n0 t g00 d h3rE tell u when 1 ha ve a si coure 1ine about pl/-
s,” Bergdahl wrote back the next day. “There is still time yet for thinking.”
“Just don’t do anything stupid or pointless,” Kayla replied.
“you know I plan better then that,” Bergdahl wrote back.
In a file titled, “If i’ve died_READ,” dated June 8, Bergdahl wrote about the reality of his life as a soldier and the idea of a life as a “storyteller.”
“Tomorrow i may be dead. The thoughts that have come to rest in my conscious and subconscious being. . . . These thoughts have placed themselves in my head. In my protection . . . I will try to use what little time this life gives me, to bring their beauty into the world. . . . This is the story teller’s life.”
On June 14, Bergdahl e-mailed Kayla again saying that he was “looking at a map of afghan” and asking if he could wire money to her or kim “to protect my money in the bank just in case things go bad.”
On June 21, he e-mailed her again.
“how far will a human go to find their complete freedom. . . ” he wrote. “For one’s freedom, do they have the right to destroy the world to gain it?”
On June 27, he sent an e-mail to his friends titled, “Who is John Galt?,” a reference to the hero of Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged,” about individualism in a dystopian America.
“I will serve no bandit, nor lair, for i know John Galt, and understand . . . ” Bergdahl wrote. “This life is too short to serve those who compromise value, and its ethics. i am done compromising.”
Three days later, Bergdahl walked off his post.
Several days after that, a box arrived at Harrison’s home. Bergdahl’s handwriting was on the label.
Among the things inside was his computer and a Ziploc bag containing his blue journal.
“I was freaked out,” Harrison recalled. “To me, it meant he did something stupid, or something crazy.”
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Julie Tate, Karen DeYoung and Greg Jaffe contributed to this report. |||||
Supporters of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl hold up a poster of him during a rally in front of the White House on Tuesday. A new Washington Post story published Wednesday reports that he previously joined the Coast Guard, but was discharged within weeks. AFP PHOTO/Saul LOEBSAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
Three years before Army. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl disappeared from his small military outpost in eastern Afghanistan, he enlisted in the Coast Guard and left after 26 days due to psychological reasons, according to a new Washington Post story published Wednesday.
The story reports exclusively that Bergdahl received an “uncharacterized discharge,” which applies to individuals who are released from duty before completing 180 days of service. No reason was specified, but friends of Bergdahl told The Post that they were worried about his emotional health at the time.
Bergdahl’s fleeting time in the Coast Guard had not been reported previously. It raises anew questions about how he later was approved to join the Army and deployed with an infantry unit to a volatile area of eastern Afghanistan in 2009.
Bergdahl’s past in the Coast Guard also underscores how little is known about the only U.S. soldier who was held by the Taliban. He was recovered May 31 by U.S. Special Forces as part of a swap in which the United States released five Taliban officials. The move has infuriated some lawmakers and some current and retired U.S. soldiers, who have described Bergdahl as a deserter and say he should not have been swapped for senior Taliban. ||||| | 8 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate "She was also very embarrassed by both the way the young woman's quite curvaceous body was wriggling about, and the way those green eyes impudently raked over her own form in a manner she could not help but feel was somewhat... inappropriate." to Russian? | Она была также очень смущена тем, как предстало перед ней весьма привлекательное тело молодой женщины, и как эти зеленые глаза нахально пропутешествовали по ней в манере, которая была несколько... несоответствующей. | 7 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ru-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Which movie is the following review about?
Although it can get a bit wearing on me to watch puppets, this is so well written and so tongue in cheek, that it was a pleasure.
Movie: | team america world police | 9 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
He lamented the fact that only 19 full-service marinas exist in a "very safe country with more than 5,000 islands and isles, beautiful waters and millennia of history and culture practically under every rock".
Translate to Turkish
Turkish: | Dernek başkanı, “5 binden fazla adası ve harika bir denizi olan, hangi taşı kaldırsanız altından bin yıllık bir tarih ve kültür fışkıran, böylesine güvenli bir ülkede” sadece 19 adet tam donanımlı marina bulunmasından büyük üzüntü duyuyor. | 0 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/tr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Read this and answer the question
From 2002 through 2008, the Bush Administration denied funding to UNFPA that had already been allocated by the US Congress, partly on the refuted claims that the UNFPA supported Chinese government programs which include forced abortions and coercive sterilizations. In a letter from the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns to Congress, the administration said it had determined that UNFPA’s support for China’s population program “facilitates (its) government’s coercive abortion program”, thus violating the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, which bans the use of United States aid to finance organizations that support or take part in managing a program of coercive abortion of sterilization.
What in the Chinese program caused trouble for UNFPA? | forced abortions and coercive sterilizations | 1 | Flan2021 | squad/v1.1:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
New Zealand and the European Union (EU) have solid relations and increasingly see eye-to-eye on international issues. The EU-New Zealand relations are founded on a Joint Declaration on Relations and Cooperation, first agreed in 2007. It covers not just economic relations, but broader political issues and cooperation.
Answer this question, making sure that the answer is supported by the text: is new zealand a part of the eu?
Choose your answer from:
[i] no;
[ii] yes; | [i] | 6 | Flan2021 | bool_q:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The interdimensional hypothesis (IDH or IH), is an idea advanced by Ufologists such as Jacques Vallée that says unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and related events involve visitations from other "realities" or "dimensions" that coexist separately alongside our own. It is an alternative to the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH).
Can we draw the following conclusion?
The interdimensional hypothesis (IDH or IH), is an idea advanced by Ufologists such as Jacques Vallée that says unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and related events involve visitations from other "realities" or "dimensions" is the stuff of dreams.
OPTIONS: +Yes +It's impossible to say +No | It's impossible to say | 2 | Flan2021 | anli/r2:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Translate "Sol de Nadine en conjuncion con Luna de Jackie" from Spanish to English. | The Sun of Nadine in conjunction to Moon of Jackie | 5 | Flan2021 | para_crawl_enes | zs_opt |
On July 30 , 2017 , Adrián Beltré gave up Miley 's 3,000th career hit .
On 30 July 2017 , Miley gave up the 3,000th Adrián Beltré career hit .
Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
Choices:
1). no;
2). yes; | 1). | 1 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Summarize this article:
The move follows an investigation into Indonesian abattoirs by Australia's ABC broadcaster, which showed graphic footage of animals being mistreated.
It prompted a public outcry and demands for the government to act.
Last week, Canberra suspended exports to abattoirs shown in the programme, but now it has issued a blanket ban.
Indonesian officials have rebuffed claims of widespread animal cruelty in their abattoirs.
Bayu Krisnamurti, the Vice Minister of Agriculture, told the BBC that the coverage had created a negative perception of Indonesia overseas.
"I think ABC practised unfair journalism, only the bad practices were portrayed. We see this as an isolated incident.
"It's against the law in Indonesia to be so harsh and cruel to animals. Indonesian regulations explicity say we must practise animal welfare in handling animals in the slaughterhouse."
He acknowledged that it could hurt the country's ability to procure cattle. He said that New Zealand and the US were being looked at as possible alternative suppliers, but Jakarta had not yet contacted either.
The ban is the result of public revulsion and outrage at the gruesome footage from Indonesia's abattoirs that was broadcast last week in an ABC TV documentary, says the BBC's Nick Bryant in Sydney.
It showed steers being whipped, beaten and slashed repeatedly, and suffering terrible pain before they are slaughtered.
Read more from Nick Bryant's blog
Australia first announced a ban on live exports to the 12 abattoirs featured in the programme.
But the public demanded more, signing online petitions to halt the trade with Indonesia and pressing lawmakers in Canberra to bring in a complete ban, our correspondent says.
Australia's Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig said Canberra would impose a six-month initial suspension on shipments to Indonesia.
"A sustainable live cattle export industry must be built on the ability to safeguard the welfare of the animals. The trade to Indonesia will only recommence when we are certain industry is able to comply with that."
Lyn White, who filmed the graphic images, and is the campaign director for Animals Australia, welcomed the move.
"There has been an extraordinary outpouring of rage that our cattle have been treated like this and have been supplied for such treatment. So this is a first step," she told Australian television.
An early indication that a blanket ban was about to come into effect came on Tuesday, when about 2,000 cattle were not allowed to board a ship in Western Australia that was about to set sail for Indonesia.
Australia exports more than 700,000 cattle each year - the vast majority to Indonesia.
Australian farmers have warned that a ban would destroy many rural livelihoods. Butchers have already reported that beef sales are down by up to 15%.
But Luke Bowen from the Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association said he accepted the government's action, even though it would prove costly.
"It is going to hurt, we know that," he said. "There's tens of thousands of cattle in the supply chains now. But we have to stay focused on the animal welfare outcome, and we're very encouraged by the government's commitment to the trade in the long term."
Summary: | The Australian government has suspended live cattle exports to Indonesia until safeguards are adopted to end the brutal slaughter of animals. | 1 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
What is a shorter version of this:
pepsico was adamant friday that its drinks are safe after an indian state banned the sale of pepsi and coca-cola beverages over allegations that they contain high pesticide levels .
Summary: | pepsi insists its drinks are safe after indian ban | 3 | Flan2021 | gigaword:1.2.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your answer: Jimbo was running from Bobbert because he smelled awful.
Tell me who he is.
Options:
(a). Jimbo;
(b). Bobbert; | (b). | 3 | Flan2021 | definite_pronoun_resolution:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Dialogue:
Rachel: Dear team, our lawyers are running a GDPR training session next week. I'm attaching a spreadsheet with two available days, Wednesday or Friday, please choose one and write your name in the appropriate column.
Joyce: Boss, next week I'll be at the expo in Paris, will I be able to receive the training at some other time?
Rachel: Yes, contact me when you're back, we'll figure something out.
David: I'm still on a sick leave, can I join the session via Skype?
Rachel: Of course. I'll have someone send you the link. Just tell me which date suits you better.
David: I'd prefer Wednesday.
Rachel: All right. Everybody else, I need you to sign up till the end of the day. If your name isn't in the spreadsheet by then, you'll be placed wherever there are available spots.
Timothy: Rachel, could you send us the link to the spreadsheet.
Rachel: Right, sorry.
What were the main points in that conversation? | Rachel created a spreadsheet for voting on which day the GDPR training should be held. | 5 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Choose from options: Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
Ill be available thursday
Well, look, if it's any weekday other than next Friday when I will not be available -- I'll be traveling next Friday -- I'll be available. And, you know, we'll work through that issue. And if you're otherwise taking the deposition and we're at trial, I'll tell you that we'll construct some mechanism -- and we kind of talked about this a little bit yesterday -- where you hold the thought if counsel instructs the reporters not to answer because it's a problematic question, and we can circle back and we'll deal with that later.
1. Yes. 2. It's impossible to say. 3. No. | 3. | 8 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Next question: who wrote the song if i were a carpenter?
| Tim Hardin | 8 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Single/multi-select question: If "A man wearing a baseball hat and jacket reads while sitting in an Italian restaurant.", can we conclude "People are eating off of the floor in the Chinese restaurant."?
Available choices:
(a). yes
(b). it is not possible to tell
(c). no | (c). | 1 | Flan2021 | snli:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Gloria: Are we staying later in library to study for the test?
Lily: I'm still down, I know nothing;/
Kitty: I am down too
Mary: Me as well ladies, count me in, but i'm gonna be a little late
What was that dialogue about, in two sentences or less? | Gloria, Lily, Kitty and Mary are meeting in the library later to study for the test. Mary will be late. | 3 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Sentence: "Cynthia gobbled on the pizza ."
Pick from options: would a linguist rate this sentence to be acceptable linguistically?
Pick from: (a). unacceptable (b). acceptable...I think the answer is | (a). | 0 | Flan2021 | glue/cola:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-choice problem: does word "check" have the same meaning in the following two sentences?
Check your luggage before boarding.
She checked for an instant and missed a step.
Possible answers: (i) different meanings. (ii) the same meaning. | (i) | 4 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wic:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Which of these would most likely improve the air quality in large Texas cities?
Pick your answer from: (i) Limiting the number of cars on the roads; (ii) Switching to wood stoves for home heating; (iii) Requiring large vehicles to use diesel fuel; (iv) Maintaining filters in large buildings;
| (i) | 5 | Flan2021 | unified_qa_science_inst | zs_opt |
Dialogue:
Alina: Has anybody seen Jason recently?
George: nope, since he changed his job, I've had no news from him
Mary: neither I
Alina: very strange...
Tom: Have you noticed he left the group some weeks ago?
Alina: I did, but I though he just didn't want to read what's going on in the office
Alina: I could understand it
Mary: sure, also we write here a lot of general bullshit
Alina: mostly mean gossips :P
George: so maybe just write him a private message
Alina: I wrote him on Friday, he hasn't responded since
Alina: I don't understand what's going on
Mary: hard to say really
Mary: seems he doesn't want to be in touch...
What is a summary of this dialogue? | Alina, George, Mary and Tom haven't heard from Jason since he changed his job. Jason left also their group some weeks ago. He hasn't responded to the private message Alina wrote him on Friday. | 2 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Premise:
"The Flytrap investigation is the only part of Starr's work that America a) understands and b) actually cares about." Based on this premise, is the hypothesis "America understands and cares about the Flytrap investigation." true?
Select from the following. (1). yes (2). it is not possible to tell (3). no | (1). | 7 | Flan2021 | glue/mnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Read this and answer the question
The city's location was chosen, in part, for being within 11 mi (18 km) of Isaac Hunter's Tavern, a popular tavern frequented by the state legislators. No known city or town existed previously on the chosen city site. Raleigh is one of the few cities in the United States that was planned and built specifically to serve as a state capital. Its original boundaries were formed by the downtown streets of North, East, West and South streets. The plan, a grid with two main axes meeting at a central square and an additional square in each corner, was based on Thomas Holme's 1682 plan for Philadelphia.
What were the original boundaries? | the downtown streets of North, East, West and South streets | 1 | Flan2021 | squad/v1.1:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
Premise: You're going to get some powerful legal muscle there, Mr. Black said.
Hypothesis: Mr. Black indicated that the legal team wasn't strong enough.
Is the hypothesis entailed by the premise?
OPT:
[-] yes.
[-] it is not possible to tell.
[-] no. And the answer is: | no | 1 | Flan2021 | glue/mnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a sentence that describes the following data: Real Madrid Castilla, manager, Luis Miguel Ramis.
Sentence: | Luis Miguel Ramis was a manager of Real Madrid Castilla. | 5 | Flan2021 | gem/web_nlg_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Can you generate a question with a factual answer? | Who condemned Microsoft for requiring devices to have secure boot enabled by default? | 9 | Flan2021 | glue/qnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Answer this question.
The Silver Fern is the national emblem of which country? | new zealand | 4 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Static electricity is like a teeter-totter. What happens if a teeter-totter is balanced? Correct! It does not move. What about when its not balanced? Yes, it will now begin to move. Charges move when they are not balanced. Charges can build up by friction. Maybe you rub your feet on a wool mat or carpet. Rubber soled shoes readily gain charges. The wool carpet easily gives up charges. The two items become unbalanced. One item has a positive charge. The other has a negative charge. The difference in charge is called static electricity. Just like the teeter-totter, something is going to move. Positive charges build up on the mat. Negative charges build up on you.
Question: "When static electricity is balanced like a teeter-totter, what happens?"
Response: "It moves to create imbalance"
Based on the paragraph, is the response to the question is factually correct?
OPTIONS: (a). no (b). yes | (a). | 1 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Diamondbacks continue infield shuffle
PHOENIX -- The Diamondbacks juggled their middle infield multiple times this season, and the experimentation is not about to stop now.
Starting second baseman Aaron Hill likely will see much of his playing time at third base over the final month, manager Kirk Gibson indicated Sunday in what seemed to be the natural extension of Saturday's news that Chris Owings will be used at second base when he returns from a rehab assignment at Triple-A Reno.
"Those young kids will probably play most of the time in the middle of the diamond" the rest of the year, Gibson said, referring to Owings and shortstop Didi Gregorius.
The news did not bother Hill much on Sunday, when he had two hits and scored a run in a 7-4 loss to San Diego.
Hill understands moves at this time of year are about getting a read on the 2015 roster, and he said after conversations with Gibson that he is fully onboard, even though he has not played third base since filling in for an injured Corey Koskie in Toronto during his rookie season in 2005.
"It will be fun. Challenging. Something kind of different," Hill said.
The move not only will create more playing time for Gregorius and Owings but it also will enable the D-backs to evaluate Hill at third base, where rookie Jake Lamb is considered the heir apparent and also is expected to get the majority of the time the rest of the season.
The shift is just another indication that infield is fully stocked just two years after there were concerns about depth. Handyman Cliff Pennington, who hit a pinch-hit home run Sunday, also is in the mix for a reserve infield spot as he enters his final season of arbitration eligibility in 2015, and shortstop Nick Ahmed has shown well at Triple-A Reno this season.
The D-backs are on record as saying they will seek an outfield bat and more starting pitching in the offseason, and it is logical to trade from depth. The shift of Hill, however extensive, will enable them to get a fuller read on the possibilities ahead.
"We have all of these middle infielders, these young guys ... it's just the way it is when you are trying to see what we are going to do next year," Hill said.
"If I'm a part of that, and I'm hoping so, whether it's keeping the young guys or trading whoever, it's just the big picture. I understand that. I told them I get it. We didn't have the season that we were expecting, so at this point that is just the way it goes. You have to look to next year and see what these guys can do. He told me I was going to get more time off so these guys are doing to be playing more."
Hill may not be having the season he hoped, but he still is third on the team with 10 homers runs and 55 RBIs while hitting .243. Hill is third in homers and RBIs among NL second basemen.
He was a candidate to be traded at the July 31 non-waiver deadline, but the D-backs received the barest of nibbles while managing to move Martin Prado and Gerardo Parra and save about $34 million. Hill's contract was an impediment. He is owed $24 million through 2016, and it is possible the D-backs would have to accept some of that salary if they were to move him over the winter.
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As anyone, Hill wonders what the offseason will bring.
"It's human nature to think about what is going on," said Hill, 32. "At the same time, you can't control any of that. Just go play, see what these guys got, see what happens."
Owings played his third rehab game at Reno on Sunday and could arrive in the near future. He is hitting .277 with 15 doubles, six homers and 21 RBIs in 72 games, and he was on a pace that made for Rookie of the Year consideration until a left shoulder injury sent him to the disabled list on June 30. Owings committed 11 errors, and most scouts believe that Gregorius is a better defender at shortstop. Gregorius, who also has played second base this season, is hitting .213 with six homers, 20 RBIs and five errors in 54 games.
"We've seen 'C.O.' play shortstop and he's played some second base in spring training. So we are going to put him over there and see how he does at the next level," Gibson said.
"We know Aaron can play second base. I want to have flexibility, as always, to move guys around. That's what we are thinking about in doing some things. We are going to see guys moving all around when rosters expand."
Center fielder Ender Inciarte went a long way to reach Yasmani Grandal's fly ball to the 413-foot sign in right center field in the first inning. Inciarte slid on the warning track to make the catch, taking at least a double away.
5 -- San Diego runs on two swings, on a three-run home run by Grandal and a two-run homer by Will Venable
* Miguel Montero has had his way with San Diego this season. He was 4-for-9 with a homer in the series, and his two-run single off Ian Kennedy extended his hitting streak to nine game against the Padres this season. He is 11-for-32 with 10 RBIs against them this season. The teams play seven more times.
* The pitch Padres first baseman Yasmani Grandal hit for a three-run home run in the fifth inning was at least shoulder-high, maybe higher, but he said he was looking for a fastball there because D-backs right-hander Chase Anderson had walked three batters in the inning. "It wasn't a strike," Grandal said. "That's what I was kind of going for, to get something up in the zone to see if I could drive it. Even if it is up, you can get to it. Unless you got Chapman (Cincinnati closer Aroldis) throwing."
* Jake Lamb had a sharp single to right field and scored in the sixth inning, and he would have had another single in the seventh had not Yangervis Solarte made a rangy play to his left to catch a hard grounder to his left.
* Cliff Pennington's pinch-hit homer in the eighth was the first of his career. He is hitting .320 since returning from the disabled list Aug. 6 after missing 10 weeks with a fractured left thumb.
*Ian Kennedy, 10-11 with a 3.75 ERA after the victory Sunday, said the move to San Diego was a good thing after spending a struggling seven-win season with the D-backs and Padres in 2013. "I fell like I'm closer to back where I was," said Kennedy, who was 21-4 with a 2.88 ERA here in 2011. "It was nice to Darren (Padres pitching coach Balsley) look over me. Just getting another set of eyes. Pitch selection, mechanical (adjustments) I love it."
A.J. Pollock was 1 for 4 with a single and two RBI in a rehab game at Triple-A Reno on Saturday, his first game back in Reno after taking almost a week off because of swelling in his injured right hand. Pollock has been on the disabled list since June 1 with a fractured fourth metacarpal in his right hand, and his rehab was interrupted after he was hit by a pitch in a rookie Arizona League game in early August. "That was the thing that set me back," Pollock said. "I wanted to make sure when I was playing here (majors), I was right." Pollock tried to play through the increased swelling his first time in Reno before taking time off.
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