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Women groups that could not participate in the 1900 Boxer Rebellion of China organized themselves under what colorful name? Raise the ...??? | red lanterns | 7 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
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How to identify red poll cattle
Do a search on the internet or in your cattle breeds book on " red poll " cattle.
Study the characteristics of the breed. Note the following :
Colouration: red polls have a deep red colouration all throughout except on their tail switches, which is always white.
Choose from:
--Black polls color: red polls have a reddish coloration all over them, except in their throats. However, unlike red polls, red polls are white with their owners' acknowledgement of their red ancestry.
--Some red polls have brighter, or red profiles, or are both red, see below. Your industry issue Check the bucket equipment needed for the breed's production.
--There are even red antlers, mainly red polls, on animal organizations websites. Milder breeds: red polls sometimes have red cag-milks, while larger breeds, such as pruna chain of hippocampus, europe, and mexican cattle are red polls.
--Their noses are quite pink too, in contrast to the colouration of the rest of their bodies. Body type and characteristics: red polls are a british-type beef breed, with the same kind of muscularity that is found in angus, shorthorn and hereford cattle. | Their noses are quite pink too, in contrast to the colouration of the rest of their bodies. Body type and characteristics: red polls are a british-type beef breed, with the same kind of muscularity that is found in angus, shorthorn and hereford cattle. | 7 | Flan2021 | hellaswag:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
and the east side will be from hazar-enon, which is between hauran and damascus; and between gilead and the land of israel the jordan will be the limit, to the east sea, to tamar. this is the east side.
Repeat this setence, but with the correct capitalization. | And the east side will be from Hazar-enon, which is between Hauran and Damascus; and between Gilead and the land of Israel the Jordan will be the limit, to the east sea, to Tamar. This is the east side. | 4 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
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Write a subject line for this email. | Don't Wait! Receive $75 in Cash Rebates on Airline Tickets | 2 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
This is a question with answer options. Goal: To combine flour and cold butter for pie crust.
Which of the following methods is more reasonable for accomplishing this goal?
Select from the following. i. Chop with a spatula to combine.. ii. Chop with a knife to combine.....I think the answer is | ii. | 2 | Flan2021 | piqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Sentiment possibilities Possible answers:
(i). negative
(ii). positive. Generate a tweet that has the following sentiment: (ii). | my location of today http://yfrog.com/02gcvmj | 9 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
( K2Climb.net ) Every year , Everest draws attention from the entire world . Climbers scale the world 's tallest mountain virtually before an audience of millions , following the quests on their home computers . As Everest closes down , some time around the end of May , another drama unfolds .
Generate a question about the above context. | What may happen before the month of May ?
Pick your answer from: 1. Updates of mountaineers ' progress went online . 2. None of the above choices . 3. Millions of people signed up online to scale a peak . 4. A mountain was closed down permanently . | 9 | Flan2021 | cosmos_qa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to test a home for mold
Purchase a high-quality test kit.
Many companies make mold testing kits, but not all are equally effective. The test kits will come with many component parts (including multiple swabs and petri dishes), which allow you to test home surfaces and air for mold.
Available choices:
1). The results from swab and air tests will need to be mailed to a laboratory for testing. Brands to consider include the pro-lab mold test kit, the mold armor do it yourself kit, and the edlab evalu-aire basic review kit.
2). Obtain an electronic mold test kit, if you haven't already. Buying an electronic mold test kit is easily an easy option, but you can use a computer or a tablet device if you plan to test multiple surfaces in your home.
3). According to the american association of biologists, testing kits require a depth of between 6.0º and 6.18 inches to determine mold. Petri dishes test people's sub-termites, and are usually battery controlled.
4). The score can vary widely among companies, but the quality kits will show you how efficient and resilient the chemicals in the test equipment are. Make sure that you order a kit at the right size, strength, and well-ventilated environment. | 1). | 1 | Flan2021 | hellaswag:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
I wondered who had Medea poisoned.
How would you consider the linguistic integrity of the preceding sentence?
Pick your answer from: i. unacceptable; ii. acceptable; | i. | 1 | Flan2021 | glue/cola:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a sentence that about [Auburn, Washington IS_PART_OF Pierce County, Washington]. | Auburn is in Pierce County, Washington. | 6 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
In 1940, non-Hispanic whites constituted 86.8% of the city's population. The population peaked at more than two million residents in 1950, then began to decline with the restructuring of industry, which led to the loss of many middle-class union jobs. In addition, suburbanization had been drawing off many of the wealthier residents to outlying railroad commuting towns and newer housing. Revitalization and gentrification of neighborhoods began in the late 1970s and continues into the 21st century, with much of the development in the Center City and University City areas of the city. After many of the old manufacturers and businesses left Philadelphia or shut down, the city started attracting service businesses and began to more aggressively market itself as a tourist destination. Glass-and-granite skyscrapers were built in Center City. Historic areas such as Independence National Historical Park located in Old City and Society Hill were renovated during the reformist mayoral era of the 1950s through the 1980s. They are now among the most desirable living areas of Center City. This has slowed the city's 40-year population decline after it lost nearly one-quarter of its population.
If it is possible to answer this question, answer it for me (else, reply "unanswerable"): Why did the population decline after this time? | the loss of many middle-class union jobs | 5 | Flan2021 | squad/v2.0:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
John Charles Hockenberry (born June 4, 1956) is an American journalist and author, a four-time Emmy Award winner and three-time Peabody Award winner. From April 2008 until August 2017, Hockenberry was the host of "The Takeaway", a live national news program created by Public Radio International and WNYC New York.
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "John Charles Hockenberry was the host of "The Takaway" for more than 9 years."?
Options:
* Yes.
* It's impossible to say.
* No.
I think the answer is | Yes | 0 | Flan2021 | anli/r1:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Driving home from work the other day I got a flat tire. It was rainy and cold out. I could have called the towing company but chose not to. Instead I changed the tire myself.
What is the next sentence?
Available options: --I was miserable but saved a ton. --I was miserable that he had fun. | I was miserable but saved a ton. | 1 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The point system is applied in different ways, or not at all, in different states. If a red light running traffic violation is captured by red light camera, no points are assessed. Aspects of a motorist's driving record (including points) may be reported to insurance companies, who may use them in determining what rate to charge the motorist, and whether to renew or cancel an insurance policy.
Choose your answer: Is the following statement correct based on the text
can points ever be subtracted from your license
OPT: -- no; -- yes; | yes | 7 | Flan2021 | bool_q:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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Nearly every college student who has borrowed money to pay tuition over the past decade can thank Mark Kantrowitz for helping to make the process easier and cheaper.
Mr. Kantrowitz isn't a banker or a Washington bureaucrat. Working from his cluttered basement outside of Pittsburgh, he is the gadfly of the student-lending business, poking and prodding Washington and private-sector student lenders to make college more affordable, especially to lower-income students.
Mark Kantrowitz—with Blue Belle, his prize-winning cat—warns that students today may still be in debt when their own children head to college.
He identified a loophole in the Higher Education Act that enabled students to consolidate their federal student loans while in school and lock in record-low rates. He worked with the U.S. Department of Education to put the federal financial-aid form online and the Federal Trade Commission to shutter scholarship scams. His college financial aid and scholarship websites—FinAid.org and FastWeb.com—are among the most popular ones of their kind.
"All sorts of good things flow from higher education," he says. "The main problem is that there are a lot of people who would benefit from a higher education who can't afford to go."
Now, at a time when the government is taking over the private side of the federal student-loan business—amid skyrocketing tuition and swelling student debt—Mr. Kantrowitz is having something of a Lady Gaga moment. Members of Congress, the Department of Education, lenders and financial-aid administrators seek out his advice. His testimony in April 2008 before the Senate Banking Committee on the credit crunch in student loans helped lead to legislation that temporarily provided much-needed cash to education lenders and prevented a potential meltdown of the student-loan industry.
Just last week, he testified on a report issued by the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, which advises Congress and the secretary of education on financial-aid policy. His argument: Unless need-based grant aid is sharply increased, the number of people graduating with bachelor's degrees will decline.
"Mark provides a lens to look at the issues to help policy makers think through what they might do," says Bob Shireman, who left his post this past week as a deputy undersecretary of the Department of Education. He has consulted with Mr. Kantrowitz on a variety of topics ranging from student-loan default rates to simplifying the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or Fafsa.
Mr. Kantrowitz started FinAid as a hobby in 1994; five years later, he left his job as a research scientist to work on the site full-time, taking a 40% pay cut. He receives a salary from Monster Worldwide Inc., which bought FinAid.org and FastWeb.com in July 2001, but regularly distributes his original research for free to thousands of financial-aid administrators, plus more than 30 congressional staffers.
Mr. Kantrowitz sees an impending crisis unfolding in the next decade or two. "We're going to start hitting a situation where today's students will still be in debt when their own children are enrolling in college," he says. "If the current trends continue, families will soon be at a breaking point."
From his perspective, the most efficient way to increase college access is to provide more aid to low- and moderate-income students. The Obama administration has taken steps in that direction, such as raising Pell Grant limits to a maximum of $5,550. Mr. Kantrowitz says those limits need to be roughly doubled.
Mr. Kantrowitz, who tends a menagerie of four dogs, three puppies, two cats and five lizards, works at a cluttered desk, piled high with prospectuses, white papers and financial-aid information. He works from one of the six computers in his office, including a laptop in the bathroom. When inspired, he jots down mathematical equations on an electronic whiteboard that prints out a copy of whatever is written on it. Most recently, the equation on the board showed the derivation of a formula for loan amortization.
Mr. Kantrowitz, who also is an origami whiz and often leaves tiny paper frogs, foxes or dragons in his wake, isn't universally popular. Some college financial-aid administrators bristle at his involvement because he has never worked as an aid administrator himself.
He says he once received a threatening letter from a financial-aid consultant after he wrote about the strategies that students could use to get the most financial aid—providing free advice for which many consultants charge.
Still, most industry players—whether they agree with Mr. Kantrowitz or not—say his work helps inform their decisions because his analysis is balanced and fact-based. For his part, Mr. Kantrowitz watches his words and avoids superlatives to avoid the perception that he has an agenda. "He's not a political animal, but an analytic one," says Nancy Coolidge, coordinator of student financial support at the University of California's Office of the President, who often calls him for help or refers families and students to his Web site.
Mr. Kantrowitz never had to take out any student loans. In high school, he won enough math and science competitions and scholarships to cover his undergraduate tuition at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of Cambridge, Mass., and his graduate expenses at Carnegie Mellon University, of Pittsburgh.
Mr. Kantrowitz, who holds six—soon to be seven—patents, says he has been contacted by recruiters for Google Inc. and AOL Inc., as well as by investment banks and hedge funds, but has turned down all offers.
"It gives you a very good feeling knowing that you are helping millions of people pursue a college education," he says. "I think that is a more valuable and more beneficial result than building a better Web search engine."
Write to Jane J. Kim at jane.kim@wsj.com
Title: | A Student Loan Gadfly Gets a Starring Policy Role | 8 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-select: Is it possible to draw the conclusion that "I put the knife in the drawer." if "I used an old rag to clean the knife, and then I put it in the drawer."?
Options: --no. --yes. | yes | 7 | Flan2021 | glue/wnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Donald Christopher Barber (born 17 April 1930) is an English jazz musician, best known as a bandleader and trombonist. As well as scoring a UK top twenty trad jazz hit, he helped the careers of many musicians, notably the blues singer Ottilie Patterson, who was at one time his wife, and vocalist/banjoist Lonnie Donegan, whose appearances with Barber triggered the skiffle craze of the mid-1950s and who had his first transatlantic hit, "Rock Island Line", while with Chris Barber's band. His providing an audience for Donegan and, later, Alexis Korner makes Barber a significant figure in the British rhythm and blues and "beat boom" of the 1960s.
The 2017 line up is; Chris Barber and Bob Hunt (trombones); Mike Henry and Pete Rudeforth (trumpets), Bert Brandsma, Nick White and Ian Killoran (clarinets and alto sax, tenor sax, baritone sax). John Watson (drums), John Day (double bass), Joe Farler (banjo & guitar) Pat Halcox, trumpeter with the Chris Barber Band since 31 May 1954, retired after playing his last gig with the Big Chris Barber Band on 16 July 2008. Halcox and Barber were together in the band for 54 years - the longest continuous partnership in the history of jazz, exceeding even that of Duke Ellington and Harry Carney (48 years between 1926 and 1974). Tony Carter (reeds) also left the band at this time. Vic Pitt (double bass) retired in January 2007 after 30 years with the band. His feature duet with the drummers of the day - "Big Noise From Winnetka" was not only a feature of the Barber concerts, but also his time with the Kenny Ball band immediately before. When Amy Roberts joined the band in 2011, she was still a student at Royal Northern College of Music and thus not always able to be present. On several tours Bert Brandsma (reeds) replaced her. Brandsma joined as a permanent member in 2012. At St Luke's, London, on 9 June 2007 Barber appeared in the horn section of Nick Lowe's band during a concert. In 2008 Barber, along with Eric Clapton and others, were involved in a new co-operative record company, Blues Legacy. On 23 July 2009, Barber, Bilk and Ball played a one-off concert at Indigo2 at the O2 in Greenwich. The concert was presented by the British Music Experience. He performed at De Doelen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on 12 December 2010. Answer this question using a quote from the following article:
What is Chris Barber's most recent album? | 7 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt | |
Write a sentence about the following things:
city, cloud, weather | clouds in overcast weather over buildings in the city . | 4 | Flan2021 | gem/common_gen:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Spending this beautiful day...at the library
Describe the sentiment embodied by this tweet.
Select from the following.
(a). negative.
(b). positive.
I think the answer is | (a). | 2 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Premise: from all their experiences and and that's one of my favorite things to do sit around and listen to their stories
Hypothesis: I really enjoy listening to their stories.
Is the hypothesis entailed by the premise?
Options are: a. yes b. it is not possible to tell c. no And the answer is: | a. | 1 | Flan2021 | glue/mnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Here is some data: Abradab, associatedBand/associatedMusicalArtist, Magik (rapper); Abradab, activeYearsStartYear, 1994; Abradab, associatedBand/associatedMusicalArtist, Kaliber 44; Abradab, origin, Poland.
Write a sentence that describes this data.
Sentence: | Poland born Abradab began his career in 1994. He is associated with Kaliber 44 and Magik. | 2 | Flan2021 | gem/web_nlg_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
1. Dense with sound and information, but it moves with a swift, lilting rhythm that is of a piece with the musical heritage it explores.
2. A little repetitive at times, but it's an interesting way to review a period in history - through the music.
3. A beautiful movie about the power of music, about the power of being right.
4. Amandla! is a stirring tribute to the formidable role of black freedom music in the long and arduous struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
5. Whatever Amandla! lacks in cohesion is made up by the passion of those who lived through apartheid, and the power of their defiant, sad and joyous sounds.
6. A pleasure -- musically, intellectually and emotionally.
7. Johanna Demetrakas' editing is magnificent at orchestrating and balancing potentially conflicting moods to build a consistent tone all the movie's own.
8. Seeing Nelson Mandela walk out of prison a free man, backed by a nation in song, is sure to renew your faith in mankind.
9. Talking heads outnumber performing heads by a roughly 3-to-1 ratio.
10. Though overlong and repetitive, Hirsch's film is vitalized by the same music that helped keep the revolutionary spirit alive.
Write a one sentence summary of the reviews above. | The powerful singing in Amandla makes for an uplifting, compelling documentary. | 0 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
Flying a kite can be dangerous. When I was eight years old I went to the park with my dad to fly my new kite. We stood on the top of a hill and tried to catch the wind. It took us almost half an hour, but we finally got the kite into the air. As it lifted into the sky, the kite caught the edge of my jacket and I was pulled up into the wind with the kite. I flew higher and higher into the air until I my dad looked like an ant on the ground. The park was beautiful from up high, and I could see our car getting smaller. I flew all the way out of the city and over the lake. Eventually, the wind started to die down and I fell closer to the water. I called out to some people on a boat and they sailed over so I could land on their boat. I told them about my adventure and they sailed me back to land, where my dad picked me up. He took me out for ice cream and we went home.
Answer this series of questions:
1. Why did they go to the park?
2. Is she a little girl?
3. where were they standing?
4. why?
5. what happened to her
6. where did she go
7. where did she land
8. How long had she had this kite?
9. did the kite fly right away?
10. how far did she fly
11. how did she get down?
12. was anyone around when she came down?
13. did they help her
14. how
15. how did she get back to her dad?
16. how did her dad look from up in the sky
17. what kind of snack did they have
18. where did they go after?
19. how did the people know she needed help
20. how was she pulled off the ground?
Numbered answers: | 1. to fly a kite
2. yes
3. a hill
4. for wind
5. she was pulled up
6. in the air
7. next to water
8. she just got it
9. no
10. out of the city
11. the wind died
12. yes
13. yes
14. let her land on their boat
15. the people took her
16. small
17. ice cream
18. home
19. she yelled to them
20. the kite | 3 | Flan2021 | coqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is the subject line for this email?
Please be advised that the California Power Exchange Corporation has received a deposition subpoena from the California State Senate Select Committee to investigate price manipulation of the wholesale energy market. The subpoena seeks the testimony of George Sladoje, Chief Executive Officer, of the CalPX. Mr. Sladoje is scheduled to testify pursuant to the subpoena on April 2, 2002 at the legislative office Building, 1020 N Street, Room 288, Sacramento, California. The subpoena also seeks the production of the following documents, some of which may be considered confidential under Section 19.3.2 of the CalPX Tariff: 1. Any and all documents relating to the Market Monitoring Committee, including, but not limited to, any and all reports prepared by or for said Committee, notes, e-mail memorandum, correspondence, drafts, and documents supporting any Committee reports. 2. Any and all documents relating to the market compliance Unit including but not limited t, any and all reports prepared by or for said Committee notes, e-mails, memorandum, correspondence, drafts, and documents supporting any Committee reports. Counsel for the Senate Select Committee has stated that the confidential materials provided by CalPX in response to this subpoena will be treated by the Senate Select Committee in accordance with the terms of the May 15, 2001 letter from Senator Joseph L. Dunn that was previously posted on the CalPX web site. If you desire to assert a claim of confidentiality or privilege, you should direct your written statement by March 26, 2002 to the following:
Subject Line: | Deposition Subpoena by the California State Senate Select Committee | 0 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Question: Who invaded Tibet?
Is "However, when they ceased to pay tribute after Genghis Khan's death, his successor Ögedei Khan (r. 1229–1241) launched an invasion into Tibet." the correct answer?
OPT:
+yes.
+no. | yes | 8 | Flan2021 | glue/qnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Vianna was a full-time college student. She did not have a job and she needed money. She searched online for ways to make money from home. She found a site named amazon turk and started working from there.
What is the next sentence?
OPTIONS: (a). Vianna now works everyday.; (b). Vianna quit working.; | (a). | 1 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Here is an email: Hey there stranger: By the looks of your attire (very nice), and the pace of you walk the other night, looks like you're back in the working groove. Hope work is fun and your classes are good. I'm trying to get used to the "no life" thing again. And you slacked on the happy hour. Best,
What is a potential subject line for this email? | Hectic? | 3 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Yogurt will add additional creaminess and act as a base for the flavor of your strawberries. You can use non-fat, low-fat, or regular yogurt. You can use either fresh or frozen strawberries. If using frozen strawberries, you may not need as much ice. If using fresh strawberries, make sure to wash your strawberries and remove the crown (the green leafy stem at the top) before adding your strawberries. Blend for about 5 seconds, pause, then blend again. Repeat until mixed. You may need to stir your smoothie with a spoon between mixes to ensure that no strawberries or ice cubes get stuck. Listen to the sound of the blender. If the blender is making a lot of noise, keep blending until the sound is smooth. Stir one last time with a spoon to ensure that your smoothie is completely blended. You can use a fresh banana, or frozen pieces. Blend until smooth. Use about a tablespoon to start, then blend. Take a sip of your smoothie and add more honey if you desire additional sweetness. Avoid adding large amounts of honey to start. Your smoothie can get sweet very quickly and too much honey may ruin your smoothie. Serve in a tall chilled glass or cups to share. Top your smoothie off with a straw, and enjoy! Serve your smoothie over ice, or blend a few ice cubes into the mixture to chill your smoothie if desired.
Summary: | Pour 1 cup of plain yogurt (2 if you're feeling thirsty) into the blender. Add the strawberries. Blend until smooth. Add a sliced banana (optional). Add honey to taste. Enjoy your smoothie. | 0 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Here is a dialogue:
Theresa: are you back at the office?
Theresa: connie told me you had a lot of fun at the beach
Nina: we did!
Nina: it's a shame you couldn't come with us :-(
Nina: it was the perfect girls weekend!!
Theresa: what did you do?
Nina: we tanned on the beach and went on excursions
Nina: then at night we'd hit the clubs and meet cute guys
Nina: it was a-ma-zing!!!
Theresa: connie tells me you're planning on going again in 6 months
Nina: yes! and YOU HAVE to come with us
Nina: you're going to love it
Theresa: trust me, i will be going, i don't want to miss it
Nina: yes!!!! :-D
What were they talking about? | Nina was at a girls' weekend, they tanned on the beach, went on excursions and to the clubs. They are planning on going again in 6 months. Theresa will go with them. | 4 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-choice problem: Choose from the options at the end, and answer how do you do this: How can I make a hammock resistant to rain?
Pick from:
(1). Add a tent over the top made of a plastic tarp.
(2). Add a tent over the top made of a plastic net. | (1). | 4 | Flan2021 | piqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Summarize this article in one sentence.
The 22-year-old will complete his move to Bloomfield Road on 1 July after his deal with Bolton expires.
Clayton joined Wanderers from Crewe in 2014 and played 13 games last season as they won promotion to the Championship.
"I knew a few people here and I thought it was important for my development to come and work with people that I know," he told the Blackpool website.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
Summary: | Blackpool have signed Bolton forward Max Clayton on a two-year contract, with an option for a further 12 months. | 2 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
(CNN) -- Declaring 2010 "The best year in safety performance in our company's history," Transocean Ltd., owner of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig that exploded, killing 11 workers, has awarded its top executives hefty bonuses and raises, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. That includes a $200,000 salary increase for Transocean president and chief executive officer Steven L. Newman, whose base salary will increase from $900,000 to $1.1 million, according to the SEC report. Newman's bonus was $374,062, the report states. Newman also has a $5.4 million long-term compensation package the company awarded him upon his appointment as CEO in March 2010, according to the SEC filing. The latest cash awards are based in part on the company's "performance under safety," the Transocean filing states. "Notwithstanding the tragic loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico, we achieved an exemplary statistical safety record as measured by our total recordable incident rate and total potential severity rate," the SEC statement reads. "As measured by these standards, we recorded the best year in safety performance in our Company's history." The company called that record "a reflection on our commitment to achieving an incident-free environment, all the time, everywhere," the SEC filing states. The company did not respond to an e-mail from CNN seeking comment. The April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig injured 17 workers and killed 11 others, including nine Transocean employees, according to the SEC filing. It has been called the worst spill in U.S. history. The well was capped three months later, but not before millions of barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf. In January, President Barack Obama's National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released a report that spread blame for the accident among Transocean, BP -- which leased the rig -- and Halliburton, which installed the rig's cement casing.
After reading the above, is "2011" the correct answer to the question "In which year did Steven L. Newman receive a bonus of $374,062?"?
OPT:
1). no;
2). yes; | 1). | 6 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
In meinem Land wurde bereits im letzten Jahr beschlossen, ab dem Jahr 2000 für viele chemische Agenzien eine Ersatzpflicht einzuführen.
Which language is this? | German | 9 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/de-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Energieeffizienz hat nicht nur etwas mit Klimawandel zu tun.
Translate to English
English: | Energy efficiency is not only to do with climate change. | 1 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/de-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your answer?
The best example of heat transfer by convection is when
Available choices: [+] sunlight warms soil. [+] a ceiling fan blows air. [+] flames heat up a pan. [+] heat rises in a chimney. | heat rises in a chimney. | 4 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Easy:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Can you tell me the answer to who is the current lead singer for journey?? | Arnel Pineda | 7 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Why isn't DELTA FORCE acknowledged officially?
Why isn't Delta Force officially acknowledged or given recognition for their service?
Do those questions have the same meaning?
Possible answers: (1). no; (2). yes; | (2). | 1 | Flan2021 | glue/qqp:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Select from: *yes. *no.
Does "In the 2015 US News & World Report America's Best Graduate Schools, the law school is ranked 18th nationally, out of over 180 law schools." correctly answer the question of When does full-time coursework J.D. begin at the Washington University School of Law begin?
| no | 3 | Flan2021 | glue/qnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a dialog with this premise "The meeting starts at 11. Clara will be on time, Cindy will be late, she has a meeting before.". | Fran: guys please be on time today
Fran: we have to start at 11:00 the latest
Clara: ok! i'm already in the office
Albert: ok ill do my best :D
Fran: please to
Cindy: Fran it was scheduled 11:30 why 11 now?
Cindy: told you I had another meeting before
Fran: ok just come as soon as you can please but we will start before ok?
Cindy: ok | 9 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
This is some data: William Anders, mission, Apollo 8.
Generate a detailed description of this data.
Sentence: | William Anders was a member of Apollo 8's crew. | 3 | Flan2021 | gem/web_nlg_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
An Israeli judicial inquiry has ruled out prosecuting the police officers who shot dead 13 Israeli Arabs during a violent demonstration in 2000.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
Israel will not prosecute the police who killed 13 Israeli Arabs during pro-Palestinian protests in 2000, because of a lack of evidence, an official inquiry said yesterday.
Pick your answer from: a. yes; b. no; | b. | 3 | Flan2021 | super_glue/rte:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Which would cause the most soil to erode from a river bank in just a few days?
Available choices:
(A). animals climbing up the river bank.
(B). acid rain falling onto the river bank.
(C). heat from the sun drying the river bank.
(D). water from a flood flowing over the river bank. | (D). | 0 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Easy:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
How does the sentence end?
(CNN) -- Charges against a police officer jailed in a two-state shooting rampage will be formally dropped Wednesday, a prosecutor said. Brian E. Dorian, 37, was to be released on his own recognizance Tuesday night, Will County State's Attorney James W. Glasgow announced. "I feel horrible that Brian Dorian went through this," said Glasgow, adding that evidence at the time and identification in lineups merited the charges. "At no time did we stop looking for exculpatory evidence." A forensic analysis of Dorian's home computer and its activity put Dorian at home at the time of the shootings and verified his alibi, authorities said. The officer also told them he was watching sports programs and using e-mail.
Dorian was arrested Friday in the killing of one person and the wounding of three others in the spree, which occurred south of Chicago,
OPTIONS:
- Brian Dorian.
- Brian E. Dorian.
- CNN.
- Chicago.
- Dorian.
- Glasgow.
- Illinois.
- Indiana.
- James W. Glasgow.
- Will County.
| Illinois. | 9 | Flan2021 | super_glue/record:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
How to lose friends and Alienate people came out in 2008. It bombed at U.S. Box offices. It's an absolutely hilarious film with a great cast. Simon Pegg is great playing Sidney Young, who wrote the book "How to lose friends and Alienate people. I know it's not a true story. The only way I know that is because Sidney wants to go out with an actress named Sophie Maes. Sophie Maes doesn't exist, but other than that, the film could be real. How to lose friends and Alienate people is probably the funniest film of 2008, and I think you definitely should see it. As I said earlier, the film has a fantastic cast including: Kirsten Dunst(Spider-Man, The Virgin Suicides) Danny Huston(The Number 23, 30 days of night) Gillian Anderson(The X-Files) Megan Fox(Transformers, Confessions of a teenage drama Queen) Jeff Bridges(The Big Lebowski, The Vanishing) Overall, How to lose friends and Alienate people is hilarious. I think Simon Pegg and Kirsten Dunst do work well together, and I think you should see it. Though there is some odd nudity including Trans-sexuals, it's a hilarious and awesome comedy. One of Simon Pegg's best.
The Plot:Sidney Young, a journalist from England, travels down to New York to work at Sharp magazines. While there, he meets an actress named Sophie Maes and tries to sleep with her before his boss does.
Choose your answer. How would you describe the sentiment of this review?
Select from the following.
(1). negative;
(2). positive; | (2). | 2 | Flan2021 | imdb_reviews/plain_text:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The St George Illawarra second row has made five appearances for Wales and featured in the 2011 Four Nations and 2013 World Cup.
Born in Wollongong, Australia, the 24-year-old qualifies to play for Wales through his Swansea-born father.
Frizell can continue to represent Wales as they are a tier two nation and Australia are tier one.
Players for tier two nations - teams ranked fourth to 10th in the world - can also compete, where eligible, for one of the big three nations, Australia, England and New Zealand.
Frizell was left out of the Wales squad for the 2017 World Cup qualifiers with Serbia and Italy in October, after telling coaching staff he was unavailable for selection.
He is one of seven new names in the Kangaroos squad, who face Scotland in their opening game at Hull KR's Lightstream Stadium on 28 October.
Australia squad: Cameron Smith (captain), Darius Boyd, Shannon Boyd, Boyd Cordner, Cooper Cronk, Josh Dugan, Blake Ferguson, Jake Friend, Tyson Frizell, Matt Gillett, Valentine Holmes, Greg Inglis, David Klemmer, James Maloney, Josh Mansour, Trent Merrin, Michael Morgan, Matt Moylan, Justin O'Neill, Josh Papalii, Matt Scott, Sam Thaiday, Johnathan Thurston, Aaron Woods
What is a summary of this text? | Wales international Tyson Frizell has been included in Australia's squad for the Four Nations. | 3 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
Is the sentiment of the following sentence positive or negative (see options at the end)?
in a stunning fusion of music and images
Select from:
(a). negative;
(b). positive; | (b). | 4 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement in order to spend time with her ill husband.
OPT:
--yes.
--no.
Question: Can we infer the following?
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement. | yes | 4 | Flan2021 | super_glue/rte:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Bernard Lewis, FBA (born 31 May 1916) is a British American historian specializing in oriental studies. He is also known as a public intellectual and political commentator. Lewis is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Lewis' expertise is in the history of Islam and the interaction between Islam and the West.
In 1936, Lewis graduated from the School of Oriental Studies (now School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS) at the University of London with a BA in history with special reference to the Near and Middle East. He earned his PhD three years later, also from SOAS, specializing in the history of Islam. Lewis also studied law, going part of the way toward becoming a solicitor, but returned to study Middle Eastern history. He undertook post-graduate studies at the University of Paris, where he studied with the orientalist Louis Massignon and earned the "Diplome des Etudes Semitiques" in 1937. He returned to SOAS in 1938 as an assistant lecturer in Islamic History. During the Second World War, Lewis served in the British Army in the Royal Armoured Corps and as a Corporal in the Intelligence Corps in 1940-41 before being seconded to the Foreign Office. After the war, he returned to SOAS. In 1949, at the age of 33, he was appointed to the new chair in Near and Middle Eastern History. In 1974, aged 57, Lewis accepted a joint position at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, also located in Princeton, New Jersey. The terms of his appointment were such that Lewis taught only one semester per year, and being free from administrative responsibilities, he could devote more time to research than previously. Consequently, Lewis's arrival at Princeton marked the beginning of the most prolific period in his research career during which he published numerous books and articles based on previously accumulated materials. After retiring from Princeton in 1986, Lewis served at Cornell University until 1990. In 1966, Lewis was a founding member of the learned society, Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), but in 2007 he broke away and founded Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) to challenge MESA, which the New York Sun noted as "dominated by academics who have been critical of Israel and of America's role in the Middle East." The organization was formed as an academic society dedicated to promoting high standards of research and teaching in Middle Eastern and African studies and other related fields, with Lewis as Chairman of its academic council. In 1990, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Lewis for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. His lecture, entitled "Western Civilization: A View from the East", was revised and reprinted in The Atlantic Monthly under the title "The Roots of Muslim Rage." His 2007 Irving Kristol Lecture, given to the American Enterprise Institute, was published as Europe and Islam. Answer this question using a quote from the following article:
Was he injured during this? | 7 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt | |
I saw this in India on a delegation visit and it is very important that we invest more in water management and make sure that it does not become an impediment to the educational progress of young girls and women.
Translate to Romanian
Romanian: | Am văzut acest lucru în India, în timpul unei delegaţii, şi este foarte important să investim mai mult în gestionarea apelor şi să ne asigurăm că nu devine un impediment pentru evoluţia educaţiei tinerelor şi femeilor. | 0 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ro-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article based on this summary:
– When 39-year-old Kris Penny woke up in the hospital after experiencing shooting stomach pains one September morning last year, he didn't know why his wife was crying. "What's the matter? I'm still here," he tried to comfort her. The flooring company contractor quickly learned that a surgeon had just discovered cancer littering his abdomen, and when the results came in four days later his prognosis was grim: Penny had peritoneal mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer linked to asbestos exposure, report the Center for Public Integrity and NPR. Penny has determined that he breathed in microscopic asbestos fibers 10 years ago when he did work installing fiber-optic cable housed in underground pipe made of asbestos-laden cement, and he has sued AT&T. While the number of people diagnosed with mesothelioma is below 3,000 annually, some warn that a "third wave" of cases is here and set to intensify. The first wave claimed mostly miners and millers, the second insulators and shipbuilders, and now it is being disturbed in ceiling tiles, pipes, automobile brakes, and so forth, claiming a wider and younger range of victims. Indeed, the Courier Mail last month cited research that has found a "growing proportion" of mesothelioma sufferers were exposed in the home, not on the job. In Australia, martial arts champion Adam Sager was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2006 and died less than a year later; he was only 25, and his parents were "devastated" when they learned they'd accidentally exposed him as a baby while remodeling their first home, reports AAP News. "Investigate before you renovate," one advocate warns. As for Penny, after chemo and several operations, he's still alive; most patients with his cancer live a year or two. (One of Downton Abbey's stars just lost her fiance to a rare cancer.)
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America's 'Third Wave' Of Asbestos Disease Upends Lives
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Until the morning of Sept. 25, 2014, life was treating Kris Penny well. His flooring company had just secured its first big contract.
But that morning, Penny, of Clermont, Fla., was feeling lethargic. He pulled into a McDonald's for a cup of orange juice. Seconds after he drank it, he doubled over in pain. "It felt like someone stabbed me in the stomach with a machete," he said. A co-worker drove him to the emergency room.
When he awoke in the hospital, his wife, Lori McNamara, was beside him, crying. "I go, 'What's the matter? I'm still here,' " Penny said. The surgeon who'd opened up his abdomen had found it full of cancer — type to be determined. The doctor "pretty much told me to get my affairs in order, right there on the spot."
The pathology results came in four days later. Penny, 39, learned that he had peritoneal mesothelioma — a rare cancer of the lining of the abdomen almost always tied to asbestos exposure. He concluded, after consulting with a lawyer, that he'd inhaled microscopic asbestos fibers about a decade earlier while installing fiber-optic cable underground. He sued telecommunications giant AT&T.;
Enlarge this image toggle caption Courtesy of Maryam Jameel/Center for Public Integrity; Courtesy of Kris Penny Courtesy of Maryam Jameel/Center for Public Integrity; Courtesy of Kris Penny
The cable was housed in pipe made of asbestos cement. When workers maneuvered the cable into or out of the pipe, they generated dust. Penny says he didn't know the dust contained asbestos, a claim AT&T; disputes.
Physicians, scientists and union officials had people like him in mind when they convened in New York in 1990 to discuss what they called the looming "third wave" of asbestos disease.
The fire-resistant mineral first had killed asbestos miners, millers and manufacturing workers. Then it had taken out insulators, shipbuilders and others who worked with asbestos products. Eventually, conference attendees agreed, it would be roused from its dormant state in pipes, ceiling tiles and automobile brakes and kill again.
Environmental consultant Barry Castleman went to the New York conference. The takeaway, he said, was that "in-place asbestos was going to pose a continuing danger to millions of workers and to the general public."
The Environmental Protection Agency has banned some, but not all, asbestos products in the United States; 400 metric tons of the mineral were consumed in 2014, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. "The consumption's gone down by over a thousandfold" since the 1970s, said Castleman, who testifies almost exclusively for plaintiffs in asbestos-disease cases and was retained by Penny's lawyer. "The problem is the asbestos is still there."
Even brief, light exposures to asbestos can breed mesothelioma, diagnosed in about 2,700 people each year in the United States. Most get it in the lining of the lung, or pleura.
What's worse is when workers are covered in dust during asbestos-removal jobs — and possibly condemned to mesothelioma, lung cancer or the lung disease asbestosis years later — because their bosses cut corners on protections to save money.
Enlarge this image toggle caption Courtesy of Maryam Jameel/The Center for Public Integrity Courtesy of Maryam Jameel/The Center for Public Integrity
Craig Benedict went after such people as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York, working in tandem with criminal investigators from the EPA. He handled more than 100 prosecutions of so-called rip-and-run asbestos-abatement contractors over 15 years and put people in prison — perhaps most notably a father and son named Raul and Alex Salvagno. After being convicted by a jury, they were sentenced to 19 1/2 years and 25 years, respectively, and ordered to pay $23 million in restitution to workers for overseeing dangerously slipshod work at hundreds of locations over a 10-year period. The father-and-son team secretly owned a laboratory that falsified up to 75,000 asbestos sample results to convince clients the jobs had been done safely.
Benedict, who retired last year, saw victims of all stripes: homeless people, children, immigrants and inmates. "We found asbestos in a box of lollipops a bank handed out to customers," he said. In another case, two teenage brothers were told to tear open bags of asbestos from an abatement project and "put them in a dumpster with the regular trash. They would end up being coated head to foot with asbestos debris." Illegal work was done at New York's Asbestos Control Bureau and a state police barracks. It was done in a conference room used by state legislators and a supply room frequented by workers at a hospice.
Benedict said he was "never surprised" and "never jaded" by the things he witnessed. In the most egregious cases, he said, it was as if the employers "took their workers outside, lined them up against the wall and shot them with high-powered weapons. They knew — just as certainly as someone who actually did that — that their actions over time had a very high likelihood of resulting in death or serious bodily injury."
'I Just Didn't Worry About It'
Kris Penny was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, and grew up mostly on Air Force bases; both his father and stepfather were in that branch of the service. He held a series of trucking, sales and factory jobs in Ohio, Georgia and Tennessee after graduating from high school. He moved to Orlando in 2002, worked briefly for one cable-pulling firm and then moved to another, Danella Construction.
At Danella in 2003 and 2004, Penny squeezed into BellSouth manholes from Orlando to West Palm Beach. He and his co-workers would pull fiber-optic cable into asbestos-cement conduit runs, often after removing old copper-wire cable. Bursts of compressed air were used to propel string that dragged the cable between manholes. The practice kicked up dust, which at times got "pretty thick," Penny said. "If it became too much, we would jump out of the manhole."
In his lawsuit, Penny alleges that BellSouth, now part of AT&T;, never told him or other Danella workers that the conduit contained asbestos, even as it cautioned its own employees not to use compressed air or break the pipe without wetting it down. Such warnings were being delivered "by the mid-'90s at the latest, years before Kris ever got into a manhole," said his lawyer, Jonathan Ruckdeschel.
"BellSouth claims that they stopped installing new asbestos conduit in the early '80s, so any pipe he was working with had to have been in the ground for at least 20 years by the time he got there," Ruckdeschel said. "And yet there's nothing inside the manhole to tell the worker, 'Don't do the things that are going to cause you to get exposed. Be careful — this is asbestos-cement pipe. Invisible amounts of asbestos dust can cause you to die.' "
In a deposition in October, former BellSouth supervisor Jeffrey Rolfsen testified that the company relied on Danella to enforce safety rules, though BellSouth had the authority to stop the work if it was uneasy with the contractor's practices. "I just didn't worry about it," Rolfsen said. "They knew what they were doing better than I knew."
In a written statement to the Center for Public Integrity, AT&T; said, "We hire sophisticated contractors that are experienced in dealing with asbestos, and we require them to comply with [Occupational Safety and Health Administration] regulations." The company said in a court filing that Penny "knew and understood the risks and hazards of asbestos and voluntarily exposed himself to these risks" and that his "injuries, if any, were caused by his own negligent conduct, or by the negligent conduct of others."
Danella officials did not respond to repeated requests for comment from the Center for Public Integrity.
Jesse Davis, a safety coordinator for the Communication Workers of America union, says telecommunications workers nationwide are at risk of exposures similar to Penny's. "We're finding more and more where asbestos-containing conduit exists," Davis said. "Every manhole they go in, they should be asking about the presence of asbestos." He highlighted two incidents involving CWA members.
In 2011, 31 Verizon cable workers were on a job in Fairfax, Va., when a passerby told them the type of conduit they were handling contained asbestos. The Virginia Occupational Safety and Health Program later cited Verizon for three serious violations of its asbestos standard, all of which the company contested. Two of the citations were dropped as part of a settlement; Verizon agreed to improve worker training. In a statement, it said it did "not believe there was any actual employee exposure to asbestos-containing materials" in Fairfax.
In 2014, a member of a Verizon crew in Lynchburg, Va., mindful of CWA warnings, asked a union representative to test conduit he and 19 others had been working on. The pipe's asbestos content turned out to be 35 percent. The state issued six citations, which Verizon said it has contested. It declined to comment further.
Grim Prognosis
Ruckdeschel says it's unusual for him to represent someone as young as Penny. Most of his clients are in their 60s, 70s or 80s and were exposed to asbestos decades ago. Penny is at the low end of the latency period for mesothelioma, thought by experts to be at least 10 years.
Penny understands that his prognosis is bleak; most people with his disease survive only a year or two. Hoping to extend his life, he went to Baltimore in August for surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center. There Dr. H. Richard Alexander opened his abdomen, removed as much of the cancer as possible and hit Penny with a stiff dose of heated chemotherapy.
McNamara, Penny's wife, was distraught during the 8 1/2-hour procedure. Her husband's illness, she said at the hospital, "just changed our life completely. People get up and they go to work, and they come home and they have dinner. And they do all these things, and our life is just not like that." She worries most about their 6-year-old daughter, Cloey, who's close to her father and asks if he's going to die. Penny had choked up while talking about Cloey — "my best friend in the whole world" — the night before the procedure.
Penny came through the surgery reasonably well — "a strong guy, as fit as they come," Alexander reassured McNamara afterward — but has faltered since. He had two more operations in Baltimore, one to repair a rupture and the other so an infection could be flushed from his belly.
Enlarge this image toggle caption Courtesy of Maryam Jameel/The Center for Public Integrity Courtesy of Maryam Jameel/The Center for Public Integrity
He went home to Florida and did not improve. There were more procedures and hospital stays. His weight dropped from 200 pounds to about 130. In a videotaped deposition on Oct. 27 — taken as the discovery phase of his lawsuit was winding down — he looks exhausted and skeletal. He points out his feeding tube and colostomy bag in a photograph. He speaks of being so bereft of energy that he has to "think about every step" he takes and "time everything I do."
There will be more like him, Ruckdeschel predicts, relatively young people who get sick from even limited contact with asbestos. "And we have to just wait as the years and the decades go by."
This piece comes from the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news organization. To follow CPI's investigations into toxic chemicals and workplace diseases, go here. Or follow the organization on Twitter: @Publici. ||||| Physicians, scientists and union officials had people like him in mind when they convened in New York in 1990 to discuss what they called the looming “third wave” of asbestos disease. The fire-resistant mineral first had killed asbestos miners, millers and manufacturing workers. Then it had taken out insulators, shipbuilders and others who worked with asbestos products. Eventually, conference attendees agreed, it would be roused from its dormant state in pipes, ceiling tiles and automobile brakes and kill again.
Environmental consultant Barry Castleman went to the New York conference. The takeaway, he said, was that “in-place asbestos was going to pose a continuing danger to millions of workers and to the general public.”
The Environmental Protection Agency has banned some, but not all, asbestos products in the United States; 400 metric tons of the mineral were consumed in 2014, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. “The consumption’s gone down by over a thousand-fold” since the 1970s, said Castleman, who testifies almost exclusively for plaintiffs in asbestos-disease cases and was retained by Penny's lawyer. “The problem is the asbestos is still there.”
Even brief, light exposures to asbestos can breed mesothelioma, diagnosed in about 2,700 people each year in the United States. Most get it in the lining of the lung, or pleura.
What’s worse is when workers are covered in dust during asbestos-removal jobs — and possibly condemned to mesothelioma, lung cancer or the lung disease asbestosis years later — because their bosses cut corners on protections to save money.
Craig Benedict went after such people as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York, working in tandem with criminal investigators from the EPA. He handled more than 100 prosecutions of "rip-and-run" asbestos-abatement contractors over 15 years and put people in prison — perhaps most notably, a father and son named Raul and Alex Salvagno. After being convicted by a jury, they were sentenced to 19 ½ years and 25 years, respectively, and ordered to pay $23 million in restitution to workers for overseeing dangerously slipshod work at hundreds of locations over a 10-year period. They secretly owned a laboratory that falsified up to 75,000 asbestos sample results to convince clients the jobs had been done safely.
Benedict, who retired last year, saw victims of all stripes: Homeless people, children, immigrants and inmates. “We found asbestos in a box of lollypops a bank handed out to customers,” he said. In another case two teenage brothers were told to tear open bags of asbestos from an abatement project and “put them in a Dumpster with the regular trash. They would end up being coated head to foot with asbestos debris.” Illegal work was done at New York’s Asbestos Control Bureau and a state police barracks. It was done in a conference room used by state legislators and a supply room frequented by workers at a hospice.
Benedict said he was “never surprised” and “never jaded” by the things he witnessed. In the most egregious cases, he said, it was as if the employers “took their workers outside, lined them up against the wall and shot them with high-powered weapons. They knew — just as certainly as someone who actually did that — that their actions over time had a very high likelihood of resulting in death or serious bodily injury.”
‘I just didn’t worry about it’
Kris Penny was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, and grew up mostly on Air Force bases; both his father and stepfather were in that branch of the service. He held a series of trucking, sales and factory jobs in Ohio, Georgia and Tennessee after graduating from high school. He moved to Orlando in 2002, worked briefly for one cable-pulling firm and then moved to another, Danella Construction.
At Danella in 2003 and 2004, Penny squeezed into BellSouth manholes from Orlando to West Palm Beach. He and his co-workers would pull fiber-optic cable into asbestos-cement conduit runs, often after removing old copper-wire cable. Bursts of compressed air were used to propel string that dragged the cable between manholes. The practice kicked up dust, which at times got “pretty thick,” Penny said. “If it became too much we would jump out of the manhole.”
In his lawsuit, Penny alleges that BellSouth, now part of AT&T, never told him or other Danella workers that the conduit contained asbestos, even as it cautioned its own employees not to use compressed air or break the pipe without wetting it down. Such warnings were being delivered “by the mid-’90s at the latest, years before Kris ever got into a manhole,” said his lawyer, Jonathan Ruckdeschel.
“BellSouth claims that they stopped installing new asbestos conduit in the early ’80s, so any pipe he was working with had to have been in the ground for at least 20 years by the time he got there,” Ruckdeschel said. “And yet there’s nothing inside the manhole to tell the worker, ‘Don’t do the things that are going to cause you to get exposed. Be careful — this is asbestos-cement pipe. Invisible amounts of asbestos dust can cause you to die.’ ”
In a deposition in October, former BellSouth supervisor Jeffrey Rolfsen testified that the company relied on Danella to enforce safety rules, though BellSouth had the authority to stop the work if it had been uneasy with the contractor’s practices. “I just didn’t worry about it,” Rolfsen said. “They knew what they were doing better than I knew.”
In a written statement to the Center for Public Integrity, AT&T said, “We hire sophisticated contractors that are experienced in dealing with asbestos, and we require them to comply with [Occupational Safety and Health Administration] regulations.” The company said in a court filing that Penny “knew and understood the risks and hazards of asbestos and voluntarily exposed himself to these risks” and that his “injuries, if any, were caused by his own negligent conduct, or by the negligent conduct of others.”
Danella officials did not respond to repeated requests for comment from the Center for Public Integrity.
Jesse Davis, a safety coordinator for the Communication Workers of America, says telecommunications workers nationwide are at risk of exposures similar to Penny’s. “We’re finding more and more where asbestos-containing conduit exists,” Davis said. “Every manhole they go in, they should be asking about the presence of asbestos.” He highlighted two incidents involving CWA members.
In 2011, 31 Verizon cable workers were on a job in Fairfax, Virginia, when a passerby told them the type of conduit they were handling contained asbestos. The Virginia Occupational Safety and Health Program later cited Verizon for three serious violations of its asbestos standard, all of which the company contested. Two of the citations were dropped as part of a settlement; Verizon agreed to improve worker training. In a statement, it said it did “not believe there was any actual employee exposure to asbestos-containing materials” in Fairfax.
In 2014, a member of a Verizon crew in Lynchburg, Virginia, mindful of CWA warnings, asked a union representative to test conduit he and 19 others had been working on. The pipe’s asbestos content turned out to be 35 percent. The state issued six citations, which Verizon said it has contested. It declined to comment further.
Grim prognosis
Ruckdeschel says it’s unusual for him to represent someone as young as Penny. Most of his clients are in their 60s, 70s or 80s and were exposed to asbestos decades ago. Penny is at the low end of the latency period for mesothelioma, thought by experts to be at least 10 years. ||||| | 8 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
talks between israel and the plo on palestinian elections , scheduled to resume monday in cairo , have been delayed by a day at israel 's request , chief plo negotiator nabil shaath said saturday .
Can you generate a short summary of the above paragraph? | israeli-plo talks postponed until tuesday | 7 | Flan2021 | gigaword:1.2.0 | zs_opt |
Read the text and determine if the sentence is true:
President Bill Clinton on Tuesday passed the leadership of the Democratic Party to Vice President Al Gore, describing his deputy as the right person to be the first U.S. President of the 21st century.
Sentence: Bill Clinton belongs to the Democratic Party.
Choose from: A). yes. B). no.
A: | A). | 6 | Flan2021 | super_glue/rte:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Does the sentence "Additionally, cable-ready TV sets can display HD content without using an external box." answer the question "What features allow the cable-ready TVs to display HD content without an external box?"
pick from the following. * yes; * no; | no | 0 | Flan2021 | glue/qnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write the next sentence in this story.
Donna's toddler son, Ty, didn't like having his nails clipped. The child's nails had grown longer than she was comfortable with. Donna decided to wait until he was asleep. Once Ty was napping, Donna quietly clipped each nail.
Choose from: i. Donna had a much easier time because Ty was asleep. ii. Donna wished I would wake up. | i. | 6 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your story that continues the following story.
Sarah wanted to get in shape like Amy, so
* Sarah asked them for their workout plan to use.. * Amy asked them for their workout plan to use.. | Sarah asked them for their workout plan to use. | 2 | Flan2021 | winogrande:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Story highlights Williams earned just $62,000 in prize money in the last year
Eight of top 10 athletes are tennis players
Earnings of top 10 down 28% from five years ago
(CNN) Even though Serena Williams won just $62,000 in prize money during the last 12 months the tennis great has still topped Forbes' list of the world's highest-earning female athletes.
The $18.1 million the 23-time grand slam champion earned in endorsements was enough for her to top the list for a third straight year despite not playing competitively for 14 months after revealing in January 2017 that she was pregnant with her first child.
The 36-year-old made twice as much off the court than any other female athlete, while only 16 male athletes have earned more than Williams over the past 12 months from sponsorships.
The top 10 females earned a combined $105 million from June 2017 to June 2018 -- down 4% from last year and 28% from five years ago.
In comparison, the combined earnings of the world's top 10 highest-paid sports stars, who are all male, tops a billion dollars.
JUST WATCHED The most successful family affair in tennis Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH The most successful family affair in tennis 01:25 ||||| The best female tennis players in the world descend on New York City this week in advance of the U.S. Open, which kicks off on Monday. The top prize: $3.8 million for the women’s singles champ, the richest purse in tennis history.
The U.S. Open was the first tournament to offer equal prize money to men and women, in 1973, and tennis remains the prime outlet for the highest-earning female athletes, with eight of the top 10 slots. It is the one sport where earnings opportunities are at least in the same universe as they are for the men, as opposed to, say, basketball, in which average salaries in the NBA are 100 times their female counterparts in the WNBA.
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Despite the big prize money in tennis, the world’s top-earning female athlete received only $62,000 in winnings between June 2017 and June 2018. Serena Williams had a good excuse, though, as she took a 14-month break after revealing in January 2017 that she was pregnant. Her earnings of $18.1 million are still best among female athletes for the third straight year, thanks to an endorsement portfolio unmatched among women in sports.
Williams has more than a dozen sponsors, including Nike, Intel, Audemars Piguet, JPMorgan Chase, Lincoln, Gatorade and Beats. Only 16 athletes on the planet made more than Williams over the past 12 months from endorsements, and she made twice as much off the court as any other female athlete.
The Marketing Arm tracks the marketability of more than 4,500 celebrities through its Celebrity DBI, and Williams ranks among the top 1% of all celebrities because of a 91% awareness rate and high scores for aspiration and trust.
“She has a lethal combination as the best to play the sport and the story she has with Venus, breaking through as African-American tennis players,” says Matt Fleming, who runs the Marketing Arm’s practice of securing celebrities on behalf of brands and marketing campaigns. “Now, as a mother, it adds another layer of attractiveness from a marketers' standpoint.”
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The 10 highest-paid female athletes banked $105 million from prize money, appearances, royalties and endorsements in the 12 months ending June 1, 2018. The tally is down 4% from last year and 28% from five years ago. Blame the retirements of popular endorsement stars like Li Na, Danica Patrick and Ana Ivanovic. Another dent: The off-court income of Maria Sharapova, who was the top-earning female athlete for 11 straight years, is still down more than 50% after the fallout from her 16-month suspension for taking a banned substance. Sharapova ranks fifth this year at $10.5 million.
Caroline Wozniacki was widely considered the best player on the women’s tour without a Grand Slam title, but the former top-ranked player broke through at the Australian Open in January. The title was worth $3.1 million in prize money and pushed her total earnings, including off the court, to $13 million, second among female athletes.
Rounding out the top five are three more from the world of tennis in Sloane Stephens ($11.2 million), Garbiñe Muguruza ($11 million) and Sharapova ($10.5 million). The only non-tennis players in the top 10 are Indian badminton star P.V. Sindhu ($8.5 million) and racing's Patrick ($7.5 million).
1. Serena Williams — Total earnings: $18.1 million
Prize money: $62,000
Endorsements: $18 million
Williams launched her fashion collection, Serena, in May. After collections for HSN and Nike, this is her first solo compilation and includes dresses, denim and jackets. Her $86 million in career prize money is twice the total of her sister Venus, who ranks second all-time.
2. Caroline Wozniacki — Total earnings: $13 million
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Prize money: $7 million
Endorsements: $6 million
Her endorsement partners include Adidas, Rolex, Usana, Babolat and more. She partnered with Ovvo Optics this year for her own sunglasses line. The offerings include 11 men’s and women’s styles named after Wozniacki’s family, friends and fellow famous Danes.
3. Sloane Stephens — Total earnings: $11.2 million
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Prize money: $5.7 million
Endorsements: $5.5 million
Stephens’ timing was impeccable for her first Grand Slam title (2017 U.S. Open): All of her sponsorship deals had expired or were set to run out at the end of 2017. The result was a huge bump in her off-court income thanks to new deals as a Slam winner with Nike, Mercedes-Benz, Rolex, Colgate, Chocolate Milk and Biofreeze. She was the first American woman besides the Williams sisters to win a Grand Slam since 2002.
4. Garbine Muguruza — Total earnings: $11 million
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Prize money: $5.5 million
Endorsements: $5.5 million
Muguruza won her second Slam at Wimbledon last year. The title meant a big bonus from sponsor Adidas and also helped her land a deal with Rolex. Evian signed the Spanish-Venezuelan pro this year for a multiyear, global marketing campaign. Other sponsors include Babolat, Beats by Dre, Rolex, Maui Jim sunglasses and Caser Seguros insurance.
5. Maria Sharapova — Total earnings: $10.5 million
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Prize money: $1 million
Endorsements: $9.5 million
Sharapova added a multiyear deal with UBS last year to a portfolio that already included Nike, Head, Porsche and Evian. The candy mogul expanded her Sugarpova brand via agreements with the Hudson Group and SBE Hotel Group. The brand is available in 22 countries, and sales should hit $20 million next year.
6. Venus Williams — Total earnings: $10.2 million
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Prize money: $4.2 million
Endorsements: $6 million
Alcon tapped Williams this year to help launch a new lubricant to combat dry eye. Her awareness level of 81% in the U.S. ranks behind only her sister’s among female athletes in the U.S. Williams, 38, is a popular draw on the speaking circuit, commanding as much as $100,000 for an appearance. She plans to play in the 2020 Olympics.
7. P.V. Sindhu — Total earnings: $8.5 million
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The Indian badminton player burst on the scene with a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She was the first Indian female athlete to win a silver. The 23-year-old has a robust sponsor roster with Bridgestone, Gatorade, Nokia, Panasonic, Reckitt Benckiser and a half-dozen other brands.
Prize money: $500,000
Endorsements: $8 million
8. Simona Halep — Total earnings: $7.7 million
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Prize money: $6.2 million
Endorsements: $1.5 million
The world’s top-ranked tennis player had her deal with Adidas expire at the end of 2017. She reached the Australian Open final in January wearing a dress she designed herself. Nike inked the Romanian to a multiyear pact the following month.
9. Danica Patrick — Total earnings: $7.5 million
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Salary/prize money: $3 million
Endorsements: $4.5 million
The most successful female race car driver moved away from full-time racing after the 2017 Nascar season and hung up her fire suit for good after the Indy 500 in May. She launched a clothing line, Warrior by Danica Patrick, last year and authored the fitness book Pretty Intense. Patrick has made headlines in the gossip magazines through her romance with star NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Our earnings estimate includes six months of salary and winnings from the 2017 Nascar season.
10. Angelique Kerber — Total earnings: $7 million
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Prize money: $3 million
Endorsements: $4 million
Adidas is the biggest endorsement deal for the German tennis ace, and she also counts Generali, Porsche, Rolex, SAP and Yonex among her sponsors. Not included in Kerber’s earnings tally is the $3.3 million she pocketed for winning Wimbledon last month, after our counting period.
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What is a one-paragraph summary of the above article? | – A quick perusal of Forbes' list of the highest-earning female athletes of 2018 reveals why women were so upset with this male-dominated list. If all 10 combined their earnings, they wouldn't touch the highest-paid male athlete. Or the runner-up. Or the third-place finisher. As expected, Serena Williams leads the pack of what's almost exclusively tennis players, with the top 10 athletes taking home $105 million total between June 2017 and June 2018, or 4% less than a year earlier, per CNN. Read on to see how much Williams made, and who ranked after her: | 3 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Story: Ken was on vacation in the tropics. He was learning to scuba dive. He passed his certification course and then dived every day. Soon he was learning lots of facts about the ocean and exploring.
In the options below, what is the most likely to happen next?
a. It was the best vacation Ken had ever taken.; b. He was scared of the water.; | a. | 5 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write the next sentence.
In city square, the concrete was replaced with asphalt on the sidewalk as the
OPTIONS: 1). concrete was new. 2). asphalt was new. | 2). | 6 | Flan2021 | winogrande:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
syria today expressed its deep regret and great concern over the agreement on the military cooperation and training signed by turkey and israel in tel aviv in february .
Write a brief summary in a sentence or less. | syria expresses deep regret over turco-israeli agreement on military cooperation | 4 | Flan2021 | gigaword:1.2.0 | zs_opt |
The name for the newest James Bond film has been announced today. The 22nd film, previously known only as "Bond 22", will be called "Quantum of Solace". EON Productions who are producing the film made the announcement today at Pinewood Studios, where production for the film has been under way since last year. The name of the film was inspired by a short story (of the same name) from For Your Eyes Only by Bond creator, Ian Fleming.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that the sentence below is true?
James Bond was created by Ian Fleming.
Possible answers: [i] yes; [ii] no; | [i] | 1 | Flan2021 | super_glue/rte:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Polygamy is the act or condition of a person marrying another person while still being lawfully married to another spouse. As this is the very definition of bigamy, it is illegal in the United States. The crime is punishable by a fine, imprisonment, or both, according to the law of the individual state and the circumstances of the offense. Polygamy was outlawed federally by the Edmunds Act, and there are laws against the practice in all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Because state laws exist, polygamy is not actively prosecuted at the federal level, but the practice is considered ``against public policy'' and, accordingly, the U.S. government won't recognize bigamous marriages for immigration purposes (that is, would not allow one of the spouses to petition for immigration benefits for the other), even if they are legal in the country where bigamous marriage was celebrated. Any immigrant who is coming to the United States to practice polygamy is inadmissible.
What's the best answer to this question: can you have more than one wife in the usa?
Available choices: * no; * yes;...A: | no | 4 | Flan2021 | bool_q: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"?
Two shirtless young people playing in the water.
Lots of people play in the water at the beach.
Pick your answer from:
-- 0.
-- 1.
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-- 5. | 2 | 5 | Flan2021 | glue/stsb:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Answer the question...describe the two phases of civil war in china?? | White Terror | 5 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Here is an email: Cool girl, that'll work out fine. It sounds like Hope will be attending also. Kenny can't come, so that was disappointing, but I'll see him on Saturday for his daughter's party. Talk with you later. We need to talk!!! !
What is a potential subject line for this email? | Re | 3 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a sentence not in English. | Wir kommen dann nach Encumeada, einem ganz speziellen Ort zuoberst im Tal. Von hier aus haben Sie eine unglaubliche Aussicht, sowohl an die Süd- wie auch an die Nordküste unserer herrlichen Insel. | 8 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/de-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a "negative" movie review (Choose your answer from:
- negative
- positive). | a stab at soccer hooliganism , a double-barreled rip-off of quentin tarantino 's climactic shootout -- | 8 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Continue writing the following text.
The workout routine was beneficial to Donald but not Samuel because
Possible answers: - Donald was not developing any muscles.. - Samuel was not developing any muscles.. | Samuel was not developing any muscles. | 9 | Flan2021 | winogrande:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
How is "7.3. Use of addictive substances in risk groups The data analysis indicated that the young people acting more risky in their sexual life smoke and use both alcohol and drugs considerably more often than the young people with the lower risk level." said in Russian? | 7.3. Употребление вызывающих зависимость веществ в различных группах риска Анализ данных показал, что молодые люди, ведущие себя наиболее рискованно в половой жизни, курят и употребляют как алкоголь, так и наркотики существенно чаще, чем молодые люди с низким уровнем рискованного поведения. | 6 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ru-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Thrillseekers gather at Monte Piana in the Italian Alps every year to hang from 'highlines' stretched out over chasms. The International Highline Meeting first began in 2012, and is becoming a major event for daredevils in the Alps. Those with the nerve spend hours sitting in hammocks, and even playing guitar above the vertigo-inducing drops.
Write an article based on these highlights. | These daredevil highliners are the ultimate chillseekers - setting up hammocks hundreds of feet in the air. As they inch their way carefully along the thin wire, some are even happy to pull out a guitar and play some tunes. The extreme event, called the International Highline Meeting, is in its third year, and takes place at Monte Piana in Italy. It is a large gathering for fearless folks to hone their skills without any form of competitive edge. The idea of adding hammocks was put forward by hammock manufacturer Ticket To The Moon. Highliners attach the materials to a strengthened 'highline' as they walk out to their designated relaxation spots - 150ft high. Snapper Sebastian Wahlhuetter captured the breath-taking shots as 22 people hopped into 16 hammocks. The meeting ran from 6 to 14 September, with 500 people attending. Sebastian, who also helped to organise the event, revealed it was difficult to capture his shots due to the remote location and steep, rocky surroundings. He said: 'The action lasted around an hour and it was amazing to see all those people hanging out in their hammocks - it was exciting to watch. 'A special highline set up was rigged so that it could carry the weight of the many people on one line at the same time. 'Monte Piana Highline Festival was definitely the best highline event I have ever photographed.' Let's all hang out and do this again: The International Highline Meeting is now a regular event, and will take place again next September. A glorious place for a spot of relaxation on high: This spectacular image gives a hint of what the highliners find so appealing about a day in an elevated hammock. The view up here is smoking: One thrill-seeker shows he is utterly unfazed by his location as he enjoys a cigarette. It was hard work getting here, let's relax: A group of highliners take in the view in blissful peace and quiet. Feeling cosy: This thrillseeker takes matters to even more extreme lengths by opting for a mini hammock that barely holds his frame. All in a row: The event has been taking place since 2012, and - now into its fourth year - attracts a healthy crowd. Sing when you're winning: One daredevil keeps the afternoon going by playing a few tunes on his guitar. Heading for an early exit: The highliner on the right answers the question of how you get back to solid ground - you inch your way back along the wire. Up up and away: The hammocks look especially beautiful when photographed from the ground below. Time for another tune: Spirits - as well as locations - are high among the highliners as the afternoon progresses. A smile for the camera: The dramatic images were captured by photographer Sebastian Wahlhuetter. Strum enchanted evening: The highline was specially strengthened to ensure it could take the weight of a large number of people at once. Just chill out man: A guitarist strums a tune while all around him the high wire experts relax. But how did he get the guitar there? Come join! A highline walker heads towards his compadres who rest in a hammock on webbing stretched between rocks in the Italian Alps. Clingon: An extreme athlete makes the walk across a wire strung between the Italian Alps thousands of feet above ground level. Nearly there: After his long walk across this tightrope enthusiast is almost at the other side. Now get back up there: Losing your footing results in the inevitable, but a small safety rope stops this high wire enthusiast from plummeting to his death. Easy does it: A female highliner walks the line strung between rocks in the Alps as part of the gathering near Misurina in northern Italy. Walk the line: A dramatic shot from low down shows three of the highliners criss crossing the gorge. Cosy in there? This highliner is so happy to be resting in his snug hammock he's catching 40 winks. All tgether now, heave! Highliners tighten the webbings between rocks so they can continue to try new routes across the gorge. That's fairly high! This shot shows just how far above the ground these thrill seekers are as they nonchalantly walk across the webbings. Then three came along all at once: Highliners chat to each other, strung hundreds of feet above the ground. And so to bed: A huddle of tents forms the makeshift village for a week as the highliners get some well-deserved sleep before another day of thrill seeking. | 9 | Flan2021 | cnn_dailymail:3.4.0 | zs_opt |
Do these mean the same?
Cardinal Mazarin married Anne Marie Martinozzi , the daughter of Girolamo Martinozzi and Laura Margherita Mazzarini , the elder sister of Armand .
Cardinal Mazarin married Anne Marie Martinozzi , the daughter of Girolamo Martinozzi and Laura Margherita Mazzarini , elder sister of Armand . They had the following children :
Choose from: A). no; B). yes; | B). | 8 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Possible tweet sentiments: OPT: i. negative; ii. positive;
Write a tweet that is i.. | @stewpatty damn that sucks. I hope you find your dog. Poor Daisy. | 6 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The U.S. military on Dec. 2 began a large-scale sweep , dubbed Operation Avalanche , targeting the south and east of the country , where Taliban activity has been highest .
Since Dec. 2 the U.S. military has been engaged in a large-scale sweep , dubbed Operation Avalanche , targeting the south and east of the country .
Select from the options at the end. Are these sentences conveying the same meaning?
Available options:
(A). no
(B). yes | (A). | 4 | Flan2021 | glue/mrpc:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Komiteamenettely on pohjimmiltaan jokseenkin monimutkainen väline, mutta sen ansiosta säästyy aikaa täytäntöönpanossa. En vastusta kuitenkaan kyseisten tarkistusten taustalla olevaa ajatusta.
Which language is this? | Finnish | 9 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
From the following options, what is the question "How can I find out how much income tax is paid on Social Security income on the 1998 income tax ?" asking about?
(A). description;
(B). entity;
(C). abbreviation;
(D). human;
(E). numeric;
(F). location; | (A). | 5 | Flan2021 | trec:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
How does the sentence end?
(CNN) -- There is little about the horror that unfolded in a dark Aurora, Colorado, movie theater that Eugene Han and Kirstin Davis can forget. There's the sound of the gunfire, of the screams, of the chaos that followed as accused gunman James Holmes opened fire in a rampage that left 12 people dead and 58 wounded, among them Han and Davis. One year later, the couple are taking back THAT day, replacing the fear they felt with the love they have for one another, when they marry on Saturday -- a year to the day of the shooting rampage .
"When
OPTIONS:
- Aurora walked in that night, I knew something was going to happen because no one really walks through an exit door -- especially through an exit door," Han said.
- CNN walked in that night, I knew something was going to happen because no one really walks through an exit door -- especially through an exit door," Han said.
- Colorado walked in that night, I knew something was going to happen because no one really walks through an exit door -- especially through an exit door," Han said.
- Davis walked in that night, I knew something was going to happen because no one really walks through an exit door -- especially through an exit door," Han said.
- Eugene Han walked in that night, I knew something was going to happen because no one really walks through an exit door -- especially through an exit door," Han said.
- Han walked in that night, I knew something was going to happen because no one really walks through an exit door -- especially through an exit door," Han said.
- Hans walked in that night, I knew something was going to happen because no one really walks through an exit door -- especially through an exit door," Han said.
- James Holmes walked in that night, I knew something was going to happen because no one really walks through an exit door -- especially through an exit door," Han said.
- Kirstin Davis walked in that night, I knew something was going to happen because no one really walks through an exit door -- especially through an exit door," Han said.
| James Holmes walked in that night, I knew something was going to happen because no one really walks through an exit door -- especially through an exit door," Han said. | 9 | Flan2021 | super_glue/record:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Of Irish descent, Donovan was born in Buffalo, New York, to Anna Letitia "Tish" Donovan (nee Lennon) and Timothy P. Donovan, both American-born children of Irish immigrants. The Lennons were from Ulster, the Donovans from County Cork. Donovan's grandfather Timothy O'Donovan (Sr.) was from the town of Skibbereen; raised by an uncle who was a parish priest, he married Donovan's grandmother Mary Mahoney, who belonged to a propertied family of substantial means that disapproved of him.
While British authorities and the US military and State Department were relatively indifferent to the question of trying war criminals after the war, Donovan was lobbying Roosevelt as early as October 1943 to arrange for such prosecutions. Roosevelt tasked Donovan with looking into the legalities and technicalities, and in the months that followed Donovan collected testimonies about war criminals and related information from a wide range of sources. In addition to seeking justice, Donovan wanted to exact retribution for the torture and killing of OSS agents. When Truman named Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson to serve as chief U.S. counsel in the prosecution of Nazi war criminals, Jackson, discovering that the OSS was the only agency that had seriously explored the issue, invited Donovan to join his trial staff. On May 17, 1945, Donovan flew to Europe to prepare for the prosecutions, and eventually brought 172 OSS officers onto Jackson's team, interviewing Auschwitz survivors, tracking down SS and Gestapo documents, and uncovering other evidence. Donovan, whose idea it was to hold the trials in Nuremberg, also introduced Jackson to useful foreign officials and even released OSS funds to bankroll the prosecution effort. Eventually, Jackson, who had been a political rival of Donovan's in New York State, considered him a "godsend"; in return for Donovan's help, but also because the OSS had proven "vital for the prosecution team," Jackson lobbied Truman in person to approve of Donovan's plans for a permanent postwar intelligence agency. The effort, however, was unsuccessful. On September 20, 1945, Truman signed an executive order abolishing the OSS. In Nuremberg, Donovan interrogated many prisoners, including Hermann Goring, whom he spoke with ten times. But eventually Donovan fell out with Jackson. The latter wanted to indict the entire German High Command, not just men who had personally ordered or committed war crimes; Donovan considered this a violation of American principles of fairness. Donovan, a former prosecutor, also criticized Jackson's lack of skill and experience at putting together a strong case and at courtroom examination and cross-examination. Jackson removed him from the team, and Donovan returned to the U.S., where in January 1946 Truman presented him with the Distinguished Service Medal. Answer this question using a quote from the following article:
Did Donovan prosecute the criminals himself? | invited Donovan to join his trial staff. | 7 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Possible review types:
Available choices:
a). negative;
b). positive;.
Generate a b). review for a place | The best Mexican food in town! My husband and I have been going here for 6 years now and we are regulars. They are best known for their tamales, and rightfully so. My favorite is their chicken tamale with green sauce - so delicious! For me, the best item on their menu is the albondigas soup (meatball soup). I am a Mexican restaurant frequenter and I always order the albondigas soup. Dona Maria's is BY FAR the best in town. It's a must order. They also make their own flour tortillas (a must for authentic Mexican food) and they are great. The chips are good and the salsa is a bit "tomatoey" than what I prefer but it's still very good. The only downside (and the reason for 4 stars instead of 5) is the service can be pretty slow on a regular basis. Be ready for a minimum 45-minute meal anytime you come here to eat. But don't let that deter you, the wait is worth it! | 8 | Flan2021 | yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0 | zs_opt |
In 1915, during World War I, British and South African forces occupied it in the so-called South West Africa Campaign, and SW Africa later became a protectorate of South Africa. On 16 August 2004, 100 years after the war, the German government officially apologized for the atrocities. "We Germans accept our historic and moral responsibility and the guilt incurred by Germans at that time," said Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Germany's development aid minister. In addition, she admitted that the massacres were equivalent to genocide. Not until 2015 did the German government admit that the massacres were equivalent to genocide and again apologized in 2016. The Herero are suing the German government in a class action lawsuit.
What year did the German government apologize and admit to massacres equal to genocide? | 2 | Flan2021 | drop:2.0.0 | zs_opt | |
The Walt Disney Co. donated one of the world's most significant private collections of African artwork, yesterday, to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
Disney gave the Smithsonian a trove of sought-after African art.
Options are: i. yes ii. no | i. | 3 | Flan2021 | super_glue/rte:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
What debate topic are the following sentences about?
1. U.S. men and women have firstly died in the conflict , but secondly if troops were needed on the ground for a war , a U.S. president could potentially fire a thousand missiles at a country without the engagement being considered a war .
2. Further , even though the U.S. gave powers to NATO , it maintained a lead role in this coalition force .
3. `` For purposes of this chapter , the term ` introduction of United States Armed Forces ' includes the assignment of members of such armed forces to command , coordinate , participate in the movement of , or accompany the regular or irregular military forces of any foreign country or government when such military forces are engaged , or there exists an imminent threat that such forces will become engaged , in hostilities .3 Hence the U.S. is acting in violation of this condition .
4. Further , troops do not need to be on the ground to call the Libyan engagement hostilities .
5. The President himself admits that causing regime change would be unjustifiable in his speech justifying the war by pledging that broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake .2 However , regime change was the result of the mission and NATO and U.S. played a significant role in facilitating that change .
6. Secondly , the War Powers act covers the U.S. fighting in a supportive role in wars .
7. There are multiple arguments indicating why the U.S. might be engaged in hostilities under the War Powers Act , enough so that this single argument could make an entire two person case .
8. The U.S. has engaged in sustained hostilities in Libya which have resulted in regime change within the country .
9. As such , the engagement should still be subject to U.S. laws and rules .
10. Finally , the sheer cost of the engagement to the U.S. taxpayer implies that it should be considered a war . | This House believes that US intervention in Libya, lacking congressional approval, was illegal | 6 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
Here is a goal: To afford a vacation one a year or two,
How would you accomplish this goal?
Possible answers: *save a small amount of money every month.; *save ten dollars per year for as long as it takes.; | save a small amount of money every month. | 0 | Flan2021 | piqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
How do I get interest in studies?
How can i get interest in studying?
Choose your answer. Are these two questions paraphrases of each other?
Options are: (i) no; (ii) yes; | (ii) | 4 | Flan2021 | glue/qqp:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article that answers the following question: How many touchdowns did Shepard throw this season? | Trying to win their seventh game in a row, the Giants travelled to Pittsburgh to take on the Steelers' big three of Ben Roethlisberger, Le'Veon Bell and Antonio Brown. The Giants fell flat as Eli Manning kept getting pressured and threw two interceptions, one in the red zone. The Giants lost 24-14, snapping their winning streak. The Steelers kicked a late field goal to seal the win but despite the loss, rookie Sterling Shepard got his sixth touchdown of the season. Eli Apple was a bright spot, recording both his first career fumble recovery and interception in the 3rdquarter. | 7 | Flan2021 | drop:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is the title of this article:
In the course of this religious upheaval, the German Peasants' War of 1524–25 swept through the Bavarian, Thuringian and Swabian principalities. After the Eighty Years' War in the Low Countries and the French Wars of Religion, the confessional division of the states of the Holy Roman Empire eventually erupted in the Thirty Years' War between 1618 and 1648. It devastated much of Germany, killing between 25% and 40% of its population. The main tenets of the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years' War, were:
Title: | Protestantism | 9 | Flan2021 | squad/v1.1:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
1. Religions through the ages , and still today , have been agents of repression , sexism , elitism , homophobia , and - most of all - conflict , war , and racial hatred .
2. The very nature of belief in received wisdom means that it must be , at its core , a conservative and regressive force .
3. Moreover the positive moral rules that religions claim to promote tend to have existed independently of those religions the world did not have to wait for the ten commandments to learn that murder and theft was wrong , but it waited until the 19 Century to reach a consensus that Slavery was wrong .
4. Whatever small amount of psychological comfort religious belief may give , the evils it is responsible for in the social and political worlds easily outweigh it .
What is the general argument implied by these sentences? | Religions have no true claim to special moral knowledge | 0 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
Doing nothing makes Merkel and Germany look weak
Come up with some evidence to support this claim. | 1. Merkel has been invited to visit Washington at some point in 2014 by President Obama , Merkel cant afford for her own diplomacy to have as little result as Friedrichs .
2. Deutsche Welle , SPF , Greens slam Interior Minister Friedrich after US surveillance talks in Washington , , 13 July 2013 , Reuters , Obama invites Merkel to visit during call about trade , NATO , 8 January 2014 ,
3. Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich went to Washington in July but was accused of returning empty-handed and having not moved a single step forward on any of the key points .
4. The stonewalling by the United States provides an opportunity for opponents to Damage Merkels new government as well as potentially to show gaps between the SDP and CSU .
5. Politics is about action .
6. The German government has to take some action on the issue of NSA surveillance and German privacy or it will look weak . | 8 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
co-ordinate better decision making across silos with push reports and improve the running of your core operations.
Capitalize this past sentence correctly. | Co-ordinate better decision making across silos with push reports and improve the running of your core operations. | 3 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
Translate from English to Spanish:
Industria química en Estados Unidos
Spanish: | Carbón en Estados Unidos | 3 | Flan2021 | para_crawl_enes | zs_opt |
Choose the correct sentiment from candidates:
Select from the following. -- negative; -- positive;
TEXT:I chuckled a few times during this movie. I laughed out loud during the notarizing of the margarine company handover (pun intended).
There are three segments in this movie. The first one is supposed to be a spoof of "woman 'grows up' and launches career" movies. The Tampax® box was the funniest thing in this segment. Most of the cast members aren't listed here on IMDb. They are the lucky ones. Few other people will be able to connect this thing to the ruin of their acting careers.
The second segment is a spoof of "sharkish woman sleeps her way to the top and seizes control of huge industry" movies. Robert Culp has several funny moments, all physical humor, including the aforementioned handover. After his character dies the segment sinks lower and lower as Dominique Corsaire rises higher and higher. By the time she becomes First Lady I wanted to rip the cable out of the TV and watch "snow." I switched to Pakistani music videos instead. I don't understand Urdu, or whatever language the videos were in. It was still better than listening to the dialogue in this painfully dull "story."
Then came "Municipalians" with the *big* stars, half of them on screen for less than a minute: Elisha Cook, Jr., Christopher Lloyd, Rhea Perlman, Henny Youngman, Julie Kavner, Richard Widmark and ... *Robby Benson.* It's supposed to be a spoof of "young cop teams with hardened, substance abusing older cop who needs retirement *badly*" movies. The horizontal flash bar on the police car is very impressive. It was interesting seeing old RTD buses, and a Shell gas station sign, and an American Savings sign -- none of them are around anymore. Nagurski's "Never stop anywhere you might have to get out the car" made me smile momentarily. Then they discuss how boring the young cop is. A lot. Back and forth about how boring he is. That was as boring as this description of how boring it is. Nagurski's Law Number Four, "Never go into a music store that's been cut into with an acetylene torch," made me think that the music store is a real business at the actual location the dispatcher gave. Thinking about that was more interesting than the set-up for the gag which followed. Young Falcone (Benson) gets shot. A lot. He becomes a hardened cop like Nagurski. The segment keeps going. On and on. And on. It won't stop. It rolls relentlessly onward no matter how many times you wish he'd just *die* already so this thing will end. It doesn't. It goes on and on and on.... Then a "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" episode which I've seen four times already comes on. Thank God! This abysmal movie ended while I went to get the mail.
| negative | 6 | Flan2021 | imdb_reviews/plain_text:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Answer the question
In what type of rock would a geologist most likely find evidence of ancient life?
Options: A). sedimentary; B). foliated; C). metamorphic; D). volcanic; | A). | 5 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Easy:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Article:Premier League champions Chelsea have been linked with a move for the 26-year-old Brazil international.
Juve signed Sandro for 26m euros (£23m) from Porto in 2015.
Chief executive Giuseppe Marotta said: "If a player decides to leave... then at the end of the day he has to go."
Sandro has won back-to-back league and cup doubles at Juventus and played in the side that lost in the Champions League final to Real Madrid.
Juve have already agreed to let right-back Dani Alves, a target for Manchester City, leave after one season in Turin.
A summary of the above article is? | Juventus say they have received a "substantial offer" for Alex Sandro and will not prevent the left-back from leaving the club if he wants to. | 6 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
Answer this:
Which is the thickest layer of Earth?
Options are:
(A). crust
(B). inner core
(C). mantle
(D). outer core | (C). | 7 | Flan2021 | unified_qa_science_inst | zs_opt |
Linda Johnson, who lives with her husband, Charles, and two cats in a rented one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco's Mission District, said Katrina has made her realize she needs to gather together, in one accessible place, her scattered disaster supplies.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that the sentence below is true?
Linda Johnson is married to Charles.
Choose from:
-yes
-no | yes | 1 | Flan2021 | super_glue/rte:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Write an article based on this summary:
Tony Blair has said he thinks Scotland will leave the Union if the UK votes to break away from the European Union.
Article: | The ex-PM said he hoped voters in the forthcoming referendum would choose to stay a part of the 28-member bloc.
And speaking to French radio, he added: "In my opinion... if the United Kingdom votes to leave Europe, Scotland will vote to leave the United Kingdom".
Earlier, the UK government tabled a motion in the House Commons setting out some of the rules for the referendum.
There had been speculation Prime Minister Cameron was preparing for a vote as soon as June if his renegotiation plans were approved by European leaders next month.
The UK government will hold a vote on membership by the end of 2017.
On Sunday, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said a June EU referendum would be "disrespectful" given the number of elections in May.
She also repeated her belief that a UK vote to leave the EU, but a Scottish vote to stay, would lead to an "overwhelming demand" for a second independence referendum.
Following Mr Blair's radio interview, SNP MP Stephen Gethins said his party believed it "unacceptable for Scotland to be dragged out of the EU against its will".
He added: "If Scotland is taken out of the EU against its will then obviously there will have been a fundamental breakdown in what should be a partnership of nations and it is highly likely that this would trigger an overwhelming demand for a second Scottish independence referendum." | 8 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
How does the sentence end?
Spain manager Vicente del Bosque says he will remain 'stubborn' over the selection of Diego Costa. Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho blamed Del Bosque for Costa's recent injury problems, insisting the striker should not have played in Spain's Euro 2016 qualifiers against Luxembourg and Slovakia. And Del Bosque has responded to Mourinho's criticism by declaring that he will not leave Costa out just to satisfy the Chelsea manager. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Jose Mourinho say 'I don't speak with Vicente del Bosque' Striker Diego Costa pictured playing for Spain (left) and for Premier League leaders Chelsea (right) Spain manager Vicente del Bosque insists he will remain 'stubborn' over the selection of Costa
OPTIONS:
- Chelsea on Costa: 'In some things we are very flexible and in others stubborn, and in this we are stubborn'
- Costa on Costa: 'In some things we are very flexible and in others stubborn, and in this we are stubborn'
- Del Bosque on Costa: 'In some things we are very flexible and in others stubborn, and in this we are stubborn'
- Diego Costa on Costa: 'In some things we are very flexible and in others stubborn, and in this we are stubborn'
- Euro 2016 on Costa: 'In some things we are very flexible and in others stubborn, and in this we are stubborn'
- Jose Mourinho on Costa: 'In some things we are very flexible and in others stubborn, and in this we are stubborn'
- Luxembourg on Costa: 'In some things we are very flexible and in others stubborn, and in this we are stubborn'
- Mourinho on Costa: 'In some things we are very flexible and in others stubborn, and in this we are stubborn'
- Premier League on Costa: 'In some things we are very flexible and in others stubborn, and in this we are stubborn'
- Slovakia on Costa: 'In some things we are very flexible and in others stubborn, and in this we are stubborn'
- Spain on Costa: 'In some things we are very flexible and in others stubborn, and in this we are stubborn'
- Vicente del Bosque on Costa: 'In some things we are very flexible and in others stubborn, and in this we are stubborn'
| Del Bosque on Costa: 'In some things we are very flexible and in others stubborn, and in this we are stubborn' | 9 | Flan2021 | super_glue/record:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Choose from options: Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
Louth and Meath played against each other in 2014 too.
The 2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final was the last football match of the 2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship, played between Louth and Meath on 11 July 2010 in Croke Park, Dublin. Louth were appearing in their first Leinster Senior Football Championship Final in 50 years. The game is memorable for its controversial ending.
Choose your answer from:
[I] Yes
[II] It's impossible to say
[III] No | [II] | 8 | Flan2021 | anli/r1:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
President Clinton called it one of history's most remarkable triumphs of human freedom.
Does it follow that "Clinton's appointees agreed with him."?
Choose your answer from: +yes; +it is not possible to tell; +no; | it is not possible to tell | 9 | Flan2021 | glue/mnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write the next sentence.
Jennifer was able to make a juice smoothie more quickly than Victoria, because
1). Jennifer owned a juicer.;
2). Victoria owned a juicer.;
Answer: | 1). | 1 | Flan2021 | winogrande:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Does the following review have a positive or negative opinion of the movie?
much of it is funny , but there are also some startling , surrealistic moments
Options are:
(a). negative;
(b). positive; | (b). | 7 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Des règlements techniques mondiaux sont en préparation sur la base des priorités arrêtées d'un commun accord.
Translate this to English? | Global Technical Regulations are being prepared on the basis of agreed priorities. | 3 | Flan2021 | wmt14_translate/fr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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