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Summarize this article in one sentence.
Choose a firm, unwrinkled root with fresh, crisp-looking leaves. These rhizomes may not be readily available since they are local only to Japan and are grown in limited areas of Canada and northwestern United States. However, check your local Asian grocery stores for availability. If you can’t find fresh wasabi rhizome, look for the ground powder and try that recipe instead. You do not need the leaves to make wasabi paste. The leaves do not necessarily need to be discarded, however—they can be eaten and make a flavorful addition to salads. Wash the outside of the rhizome with cool water to get rid of any dirt and debris. Use a sharp knife to trim off any odd bumps, discolorations, and marks. Then, lay the root on a paper towel and let it air-dry. If you’re in a hurry, you can pat the exterior dry with a clean paper towel. This recipe has no other ingredients, so the amount of fresh wasabi you shave off the root is the amount of paste you’ll end up with. Use slow, circular motions to grate the root to release its intense flavor compounds. Be sure to choose a sharp grater with small teeth. The fine teeth on the grater will create the paste-like consistency. Use your fingers to form and press the wasabi into a tight ball. Then, let the paste sit 1-2 minutes to allow the flavor to develop. Be sure to wash your hands after handling wasabi. If you accidentally touch your eyes or nose without washing them, it will burn. Prolonged contact with your skin will cause irritation. Place the ball of paste on the side of your main dish or in a separate bowl and serve it right away for the best flavor. Fresh wasabi starts losing its potency after being exposed to air for 20 minutes. Storing the fresh paste isn’t recommended, so make as much as you need for 1 meal and enjoy it right away.
Summary: | Buy fresh wasabi rhizome from an Asian grocer. Cut off the leaves from the end of the rhizome with a knife. Rinse the wasabi and trim off any bumps or marks on the surface. Use a grater to shave off the amount you want. Gather the wasabi in a neat pile and let it rest for 1-2 minutes. Serve the wasabi paste immediately at room temperature. | 3 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Write the following list of characters into a correctly formed sentence: TherevolutionaryBC3FileAnalysisTool™scans,analyzes,andreportsbackeverydetailaboutyourBC3file.
| The revolutionary BC3 File Analysis Tool™ scans, analyzes, and reports back every detail about your BC3 file. | 7 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
Write an ordered list of reviews about "charlie and the chocolate factory". | 1. Of the somewhat overlong 115-minute running time, there's an entertaining 90 minutes of eye candy with a dark, daring center.
2. Dahl/Burton: El dulce-amargo chocolate de dos entes de oscura naturaleza artítsica.
3. By turns dazzling, inventive, and amusing... this Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one that ought to appeal to children of all ages.
4. [B]rilliant. It's a gleaming, candy-colored fantasy that teems with mad invention ... There's no other film quite like this one.
5. It's hard to imagine a more fitting interpreter of Roald Dahl, particularly his beloved 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,' than director Tim Burton.
6. More madcap than the original, with even more spectacular set designs and production values.
7. A visual carnival of colour and fantasy, dripping with quirk and seriously eccentric.
8. Yes, it's pretty hilarious, but it's also delightfully deranged in all the best ways.
9. Throughout his fey, simpering performance, Depp seems to be straining so hard for weirdness that the entire enterprise begins to feel like those excruciating occasions when your parents tried to be hip.
10. ...[Depp] just seems to be getting better and better. | 7 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
Generate a descriptive sentence about a restaurant using the following words:
name = The Olive Grove, eatType = pub, food = Indian, priceRange = high, area = city centre, familyFriendly = yes
Sentence: | In the city centre there is a high price, children friendly pub called The Olive Grove that serves Indian food. | 9 | Flan2021 | gem/e2e_nlg:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Produce a long descriptive sentence that uses all these words: The Punter eatType coffee shop; The Punter priceRange more than £30; The Punter customer rating high; The Punter familyFriendly yes; The Punter near Café Sicilia | The high priced coffee Shop The Punter is located near Café Sicilia. It is family friendly and has a 5 star rating. | 7 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
You will be given a text below. Complete the text.
`` maybe this is your chance , '' thorn said . rich 's eyes went unfocused again as a grin spread slowly across his face . `` i 'll have to redesign the frame to handle the extra torque , and i do n't mean just reinforcing everything . i mean a complete redesign . i was looking at some plans that could channel the excess energy back into the | engine | 3 | Flan2021 | lambada:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is the most logical completion of this news story?.
For a week away skiing with the family Bulgaria is where Britons will find the best value while Austria's St Anton will hit the budget hardest. Bulgaria's Bansko topped a poll of 42 European ski centres that factored in average hotel, ski pass, ski hire, ski lesson, evening meals and drinks for over the course of seven days for a family of four. In Bansko, southwestern Bulgaria, the whole package costs £1,631 compared while for a similar break in St Anton the cost was more than three times as high at £5,026, according to a new survey by Tripadvisor. Bansko in Bulgaria is the best value ski resort for a family of four according to a TripAdvisor study
St Anton's place on the list is decided most significantly by its high price for hotels,
OPTIONS:
- Austria, Austria has the most expensive average rate for a week’s stay, coming in at £3,424.
- Bansko, Austria has the most expensive average rate for a week’s stay, coming in at £3,424.
- Britons, Austria has the most expensive average rate for a week’s stay, coming in at £3,424.
- Bulgaria, Austria has the most expensive average rate for a week’s stay, coming in at £3,424.
- Europe, Austria has the most expensive average rate for a week’s stay, coming in at £3,424.
- European, Austria has the most expensive average rate for a week’s stay, coming in at £3,424.
- St Anton, Austria has the most expensive average rate for a week’s stay, coming in at £3,424.
- Switzerland, Austria has the most expensive average rate for a week’s stay, coming in at £3,424.
- TripAdvisor, Austria has the most expensive average rate for a week’s stay, coming in at £3,424.
- Tripadvisor, Austria has the most expensive average rate for a week’s stay, coming in at £3,424.
| St Anton, Austria has the most expensive average rate for a week’s stay, coming in at £3,424. | 8 | Flan2021 | super_glue/record:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
But in Germany a long time only one real professional Internet Bootsbörse existed, believe the CEO of Boot24 Networks, Göran Holst und Stefan Mantwill, still great potential in the online boat market.
Please remove spaces between words. | ButinGermanyalongtimeonlyonerealprofessionalInternetBootsbörseexisted,believetheCEOofBoot24Networks,GöranHolstundStefanMantwill,stillgreatpotentialintheonlineboatmarket. | 8 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
1. While tackling politically sensitive subject manner, this daring satire manages to offer both hilarity and poignancy.
2. Be warned: this is the blackest comedy you'll see all year. Some may find it in bad taste. Then again, if there is one thing that fanaticism hates it's the sound of laughter.
3. From the ludicrous to the tragic, Four Lions is a bit of a hit and miss affair, churning jihadism through the mincer of satire. When it scores a hit, it's very funny; when it flops, it just fizzles
4. The film has mined a treasure trove of stupidity in the Jihad as waged by men who are committee. Or rather, who should be committed, on the grounds of inanity
5. An appealing mix of witticisms, pitch-black social commentary and dimwit farce.
6. More than anything, the film works as a conceptual prank, a parody of the supposedly universal cliches of "humanist" cinema.
7. At its best, the film is very serious because it asks us to think about how such men are created. It's not uniformly successful, but it's far from being just silly or offensive.
8. I think Chris Morris is a bit too clever for me. I didn't find this film funny at all, except for a couple of moments.
9. At the heart of Four Lions is the idea that we should perceive fanatics as humans, rather than demons. There is much to be said for this...
10. One could compare this to SOUTH PARK, but at the risk of hyperbole, this may also be the War on Terror's very own DR. STRANGELOVE
What is the consensus? | Its premise suggests brazenly tasteless humor, but Four Lions is actually a smart, pitch-black comedy that carries the unmistakable ring of truth. | 3 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
24 and the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.
Capitalize this past sentence correctly. | 24 And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy. | 3 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
Who has presented City Hospital, Departure Lounge and Last Choir Standing?
What is the answer? | nick knowles | 9 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Villa signed the 19-year-old from Barcelona on a five-year deal for a fee reported to be around £7m (US$11m).
He has represented Spain at under-16s, under-17s and under-19s levels.
The Mali Football Federation confirmed to BBC Sport it has met with Troare who said he wanted to swap national allegiances to his parents' homeland once his club future was secured.
His brother Mohamed, who plays for Spanish club Cordoba in their B team, has already played for Mali Under-23s this year.
Football's world governing body, Fifa, has told BBC Sport as yet it has received no official request for a change of allegiance.
What was that article about? | New Aston Villa signing Adama Traore has indicated he wants to commit his international future to Mali. | 4 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
Possible review types:
Options:
a). negative
b). positive.
Generate a a). review for a place | Very disappointing. Ordered the Elcaliente burger, it was OK, the toppings were all thrown in the middle and very greasy. I was ashamed at the price I paid for that burger. Maybe worth $3. The appetizers were decent I will give them that. The waiter on the other hand wasn't great. He kept saying everything was amazing. Like a robot. I had to set my drink on the end of the table to final get a refill as our waiter sat at the bar and talked with another employee. I was there during the day midweek so maybe things are better at night. | 8 | Flan2021 | yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0 | zs_opt |
The Gaza Empire (1824–1895) was an African empire established by the powerful general Soshangane and was located in southeastern Africa in the area of southern Mozambique and southeastern Zimbabwe. The Gaza Empire, at its height in the 1860s, covered all of Mozambique between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
The Gaza Empire (1824–1895) was established by the general Soshangane. The Gaza Empire, at its height in the 1860s, covered all of Mozambique between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers.
Choose your answer from:
[a]. Yes.
[b]. It's impossible to say.
[c]. No. | [a]. | 3 | Flan2021 | anli/r1:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Dialogue:
Judy: What does John’s last message mean?
Anne: Judy! Stop reading my messages!
Judy: Why?
Anne: I don’t see what’s so private about them. After all, you haven’t changed your password yet.
Judy: I’m going to.
Anne: Good, but until then – what does his message might mean?
What were the main points in that conversation? | Judy wants to know what John's last message to Anne might mean. Anne wants Judy to stop reading her messages. | 5 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What's an example of a grad-school level question? | Directions Read the information about wind erosion then answer the question. Wind can cause erosion that changes the surface of the Earth. Wind erosion can have negative effects on the environment by removing soil and polluting the air during dust storms. Walter wanted to find out if faster wind speeds increased the amount of wind erosion. Which instrument should he use to measure wind speed? | 8 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Easy:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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The WARC files associated with this crawl are not currently available to the general public. ||||| Toronto Police were called to deal with a dispute between two roommates Tuesday morning that they say began when one roommate got upset that the other was up too early for a shower.
"Is it the most effective use of police resources? No," Toronto police constable Craig Brister said in a phone interview with CBC News.
"But when people call, we've got to go."
The altercation happened close to York University, near the intersection of Boake Street and Assiniboine Road, with police responding to a report of an assault with minor injuries.
Toronto Police Operations tweeted about the incident:
Police near Boake St and Assiniboine Rd, report of an assault, minor injuries, one roommate upset the other gets up too early to shower ^cb — @TPSOperations
An officer at 31 Division said he had no further information about the incident and was not aware of any charges.
Toronto Police Constable Craig Brister said calls to resolve disputes between roommates are not uncommon.
"We want people to know we're there when they need to call us," Brister said. "If you've been attacked, you need to feel you can call the police."
Brister said one of the oddest calls he's responded to was when a man complained his neighbour had thrown a snowball at him. |||||
Summary: | – "Is it the most effective use of police resources? No." That's what a Toronto officer had to say after authorities responded to an alleged assault that resulted in minor injuries at an apartment in the city on Tuesday. The problem? Someone apparently got upset that their roommate had woken up too early to take a shower, reports the CBC. After police shared the story on Twitter, a woman noted that "there has got to be more to this story." "Sadly, probably not," authorities responded. "We get calls like this frequently." It's not clear which roommate suffered the injuries. (A woman allegedly beat up her husband because he farted.) | 1 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Produce a long descriptive sentence that uses all these words: Maple Ridge Township, Alpena County, Michigan IS_PART_OF United States; Alpena County Regional Airport LOCATION Maple Ridge Township, Alpena County, Michigan | Alpena County Regional Airport is located in Maple Ridge Township, Alpena County, Michigan, USA. | 7 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-select: Let's say that "The father carried the sleeping boy in his bassinet."
Can we now say that "The father carried the sleeping boy in the father's bassinet."?
(A). no; (B). yes; | (A). | 3 | Flan2021 | glue/wnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Overgenerous offers of fuel subsidies meant the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme vastly overspent.
The minister in charge planned to close it, but it remained open for two more weeks after Mrs Foster's challenge.
The DUP said Jonathan Bell extended the scheme "following representations".
MLAs will return to the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday for an urgent discussion on public concerns over the energy scandal.
And Mrs Foster could face a motion of no confidence in her position as first minister if she does not stand aside while the scheme is investigated, the SDLP has said.
But the DUP's deputy leader Nigel Dodds has given her his backing, saying that her opponents are engaged in a "witch-hunt".
Set up by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (Deti), the RHI scheme offered incentives to businesses and other non-domestic users to install renewable heating systems, mostly burning wood pellets.
But the subsidies it paid out were greater than the cost of the fuel, meaning users could claim more cash the more fuel they burned.
Stormont could have to find about £400m over the next 20 years to cover the overspend.
BBC Radio Ulster's The Stephen Nolan Show revealed that Mrs Foster had a "heated conversation" with her DUP colleague Mr Bell, the then enterprise minister, over his plan to end the initiative in January.
Senior civil servants at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (Deti) had told him that the scheme had to close as it had gone far beyond its budget.
When Mrs Foster intervened, the source said, a deal was struck that saw the scheme remain open for a further 14 days.
Analysis
Chris Buckler Ireland Correspondent
Of course, publicly this scheme was being touted as a success. And Arlene Foster may well have been trying to protect businesses who were investing in boilers and trying to enter the scheme.
It's worth going back to February and looking at how upset politicians from all of the main parties were at the final closure of this scheme. There wasn't the outrage over it remaining open that there is now.
But at that stage for Assembly officials it wasn't about helping businesses or the environment - Stormont simply couldn't afford it. And that delay undoubtedly allowed more firms to enter the scheme, adding to the financial drain on Stormont.
The DUP said Mr Bell kept the scheme open "following representations, including those from other political parties".
The party added: "The first minister and deputy first minister supported this decision in light of the concerns expressed at the time and the fact that cost controls had already been introduced from November 2015.
"Civil servants expressed no objection to the two-week extension in light of the legal dangers of the lack of adequate notification period."
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said Mrs Foster must account for her role in what he described as "the biggest public finance scandal in the history of devolution".
He called on Sinn Féin, the DUP's executive partners, to sign a no-confidence motion in the first minister, which will need the support of 30 members to go through.
"If [Mrs Foster] will not stand aside, then the assembly must act to remove her from office and fully scrutinise this scandal," Mr Eastwood said.
"She has lost all credibility and anything less will further erode faith in our institutions."
The Stephen Nolan Show also revealed internal emails that suggest civil servants came under pressure from Stormont's Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) in autumn last year to delay crucial changes to the scheme that could have curbed its costs.
Deti officials became concerned in summer 2015 that the RHI scheme was running out of control and made it clear that it should be closed or at least changed to ensure it did not become unaffordable.
The department's top civil servant Andrew McCormick said he wanted the scheme to be closed in September 2015.
But emails show that Deti staff had concerns that political pressure was applied to keep the original scheme open.
In an email, a DUP official challenged a note of decisions made by the department.
Crucially, the scheme continued unchanged until mid-November.
During that period, there was a spike in applications to the RHI scheme - 429 in October and 452 in November.
When the spike in applications for the ill-fated RHI scheme took place the minister responsible was mostly away from his desk.
Jonathan Bell had been removed from office by the DUP as part of the rolling resignation policy in response to a Stormont crisis.
Read more from political correspondent Gareth Gordon
The approved applications during those two months are expected to cost the public purse £485m.
Mr McCormick said "wider reluctance delayed the debate" around the scheme and prevented the changes from being made.
In a statement, the DUP said: "For the avoidance of any doubt, no-one at the then OFMDFM sought to delay the closure of the scheme.
"No DUP special advisor or any other individuals from the then OFMDFM sought to prevent the 'closure of the original scheme'."
"Indeed, the date from which the scheme was to be amended and terms of any such amendment of the scheme were a matter for the responsible minister."
What was that article about? | First Minister Arlene Foster personally fought a decision by an executive colleague to close a flawed energy scheme that could cost taxpayers £400m, a senior source has told the BBC. | 4 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
Answer the question
Which has the greatest effect on the color of a young eagle's eyes?
Choose from: - parents; - nest; - diet; - behavior; | parents | 5 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Challenge:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is the most logical next event?
How to do kundalini yoga and meditation
Know when and how often to do this breathing exercise.
This breathing exercise can be done when you're feeling tired or drained emotionally. The result of doing this exercise should be that you feel revived, re-energized and ready-to-go.
Select from the following.
+You should practice this exercise for at least 20 minutes at a time each morning. It can be used as part of any yoga practice for at least 30 minutes.
+Put the water bottle in your mouth. Drink 30 minutes prior to the practice.
+These exercises can be done 2-3 times a day. Experts recommend trying this exercise in the mid-afternoon (2-4 pm) to help avoid that afternoon slump.
+Make a list of questions you might want to ask yourself during these sessions. Looking at your list could help you stay on track with your exercises and other habits. | These exercises can be done 2-3 times a day. Experts recommend trying this exercise in the mid-afternoon (2-4 pm) to help avoid that afternoon slump. | 8 | Flan2021 | hellaswag:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Translate to Czech:
Such information may also be passed on to the Commission whenever it is in the interest of the Union for the purposes of this Regulation.
Czech: | Takové informace mohou být předány rovněž Komisi, je-li to v zájmu Unie, a to pro účely tohoto nařízení. | 4 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/cs-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Summarize:
Forest led in controversial fashion through substitute Zach Clough's shot, much to the disgust of the Seagulls, who felt Britt Assombalonga got the final touch from an offside position.
Brighton went close to levelling through Lewis Dunk, substitute Solly March and Anthony Knockaert.
But Ben Osborn and Clough's late injury-time penalty sealed victory.
Osborn's simple 89th-minute tap-in, after keeper David Stockdale made a mess of Liam Rosenior's backpass, settled the nerves at the City Ground following a run of three defeats in Forest's previous four Championship matches.
And Clough's second goal for the club, eight minutes into stoppage time following a foul by Dunk on teenage striker Ben Brereton, added a comprehensive feel to a result which lifted them six points clear of the relegation zone.
Brighton - who would have gone above leaders Newcastle with a win - offered little until they fell behind, but were still a long way short of their best.
They produced just one shot on target in a largely uneventful first half, with Forest keeper Jordan Smith making a decent save from the lively Knockaert.
Seagulls top scorer Glenn Murray did have the ball in the net when he smashed in from close range after a smart turn and shot following a long throw, but an 18th goal of the season was ruled out for handball.
Clough's opener put the hosts ahead and they were able to resist Brighton's best spell of the game soon after and close out the win late on.
Nottingham Forest interim boss Gary Brazil: "In key moments in the game we were strong. If we have got a little bit of luck, I think we have earned it. Our all-round performance was one that deserved victory.
"It was not a defining moment in the game, because there was still a lot of football to play.
"In the first half we got a real grip of the game and then we pushed on from that in the second half.
"I am chuffed to bits for the players and the staff, but particularly for the fans who stuck with us throughout the game.
Brighton manager Chris Hughton: "Whether the referee knew if Assombalonga had touched the ball or not, I am not so sure. He must have been made aware of it.
"I was disappointed that the goal was not overturned. It looked as though he was in an offside position. The person with the best view of that is the linesman and you would expect him to give that decision.
"We got through to half-time without being at our best. We knew we needed to raise our game, which we have been able to do in the past.
"We did do that, but they got the first goal which made things tougher. Then we conceded really poor goals after that."
Match ends, Nottingham Forest 3, Brighton and Hove Albion 0.
Second Half ends, Nottingham Forest 3, Brighton and Hove Albion 0.
Liam Rosenior (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 3, Brighton and Hove Albion 0. Zach Clough (Nottingham Forest) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Penalty conceded by Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Nottingham Forest. Ben Brereton draws a foul in the penalty area.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Aaron Tshibola replaces Jamie Ward.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Liam Rosenior with a cross.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 2, Brighton and Hove Albion 0. Ben Osborn (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Solly March with a cross.
Attempt missed. Oliver Norwood (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Anthony Knockaert.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Lewis Dunk.
Foul by Oliver Norwood (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Ben Brereton (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Zach Clough (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ben Brereton.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Daniel Fox.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Ben Brereton replaces Britt Assombalonga.
Attempt missed. Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Oliver Norwood with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Daniel Fox.
Attempt missed. Anthony Knockaert (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high.
Attempt missed. Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Oliver Norwood with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Joe Worrall.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Tomer Hemed replaces Sam Baldock.
Attempt missed. Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Bruno with a cross.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Jordan Smith.
Attempt saved. Solly March (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Oliver Norwood.
Bruno (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Britt Assombalonga (Nottingham Forest).
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Oliver Norwood replaces Steve Sidwell.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Solly March replaces Jamie Murphy.
Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Glenn Murray (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Daniel Fox (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 1, Brighton and Hove Albion 0. Zach Clough (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jamie Ward.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Zach Clough replaces Hildeberto Pereira.
Delay in match Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Shane Duffy (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from very close range misses to the left. Assisted by Lewis Dunk with a headed pass following a set piece situation.
Summary: | Nottingham Forest scored two late goals to seal victory as Brighton missed the chance to go top of the table. | 0 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
Do these two sentences mean the same thing?
Two of the Britons , Sandy Mitchell from Glasgow and Glasgow-born William Sampson , face the death penalty .
Sandy Mitchell , 44 , from Kirkintilloch , Glasgow , and William Sampson , a British citizen born in Glasgow , face beheading in public .
Available choices: (a). no; (b). yes;...I think the answer is | (b). | 8 | Flan2021 | glue/mrpc:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
This is the content of an email: Here is some preliminary research on the Commercial Group's question of whether we can have a tariff provision in which shippers pay cash for fuel rather than providing fuel in kind. If you want the attachments (examples of other pipelines' tariff provisions) I will send you a hard copy. Comments? Are there any rate case implications I should be aware of?
What was the subject line for this email? | TW fuel question | 5 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Is the sentiment of the following sentence positive or negative (see options at the end)?
are poorly
Pick your answer from: A. negative. B. positive. | A. | 4 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
(Financial Times) -- The increasing amount of personal information that can been gleaned by computer programs that track how people use Facebook has been revealed by an extensive academic study. Such programmes can discern undisclosed private information such as Facebook users' sexuality, drug-use habits and even whether their parents separated when they were young, according to the study by Cambridge university academics. In one of the biggest studies of its kind, scientists from the university's psychometrics team and a Microsoft-funded research centre analysed data from 58,000 Facebook users to predict traits and other information that were not provided in their profiles. The algorithms were 88 per cent accurate in predicting male sexual orientation, 95 per cent for race and 80 per cent for religion and political leanings. Personality types and emotional stability were also predicted with accuracy ranging from 62-75 per cent. Facebook declined to comment. The study highlights growing concerns about social networks and how data trails can be mined for sensitive information, even when people attempt to keep information about themselves private. Less than 5 per cent of users predicted to be gay, for example, were connected with explicitly gay groups. Michal Kosinksi, one of the report's authors, told the Financial Times that the university's techniques could easily be replicated by companies to infer personal attributes a person did not wish to share, such as sexual orientation or political views: "We used very simple and generic methods. Marketing companies and internet companies could spend much more time and resources, and hence get much higher accuracy than we did." Last week , the EU agreed to water down proposals for a radical overhaul of data privacy regulation. The move reflects governments' reluctance to impede internet businesses that might spur economic growth, and follows fierce lobbying from technology companies including Facebook and Google. Personal data has become big business. Wonga, the UK online lender, makes credit judgments within seconds based on thousands of pieces of information, including an applicant's Facebook profile. Tesco, the supermarket chain, this month started to use its customers' shopping histories to sell targeted online advertising. The report also revealed some unexpected correlations -- such as people who liked 'curly fries' having higher IQs, while those who like Facebook's "Sliding on Floors With Your Socks On" page were unlikely to use drugs.
What question would one ask from this paragraph? | Has Facebook commented on the ability of computer programs that track how people use Facebook to discern undisclosed private information? | 9 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
How is "A great variety of patterns for outer and inner doors, which can be modified in any way, enables to make the choice entirely in reference to a customer's requirements." said in German? | Die Vielfalt der Muster von äußeren und inneren Türen, die man beliebig modifizieren kann, ermöglicht, die Wahl völlig nach Gefallen des Kunden zu treffen. | 6 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/de-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Here is a news article: HONG KONG (AP) — Run Run Shaw built a Hong Kong movie and TV empire that nurtured rising talents like actor Chow Yun-fat and director John Woo, inspired Hollywood filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and produced the 1982 sci-fi classic "Blade Runner."
In this Tuesday, Sept, 28, 2010 photo, Hong Kong movie producer Run Run Shaw poses for a photograph during the Run Run Shaw prize presentation ceremony in Hong Kong. Pioneering Hong Kong movie producer... (Associated Press)
In this Tuesday, Sept, 28, 2010 photo, Hong Kong movie producer Run Run Shaw poses for a photograph during the Run Run Shaw prize presentation ceremony in Hong Kong. Pioneering Hong Kong movie producer... (Associated Press)
In this Tuesday, Sept, 28, 2010 photo, Hong Kong movie producer Run Run Shaw, right, poses with Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang during the Run Run Shaw prize presentation ceremony in Hong Kong.... (Associated Press)
Shaw's prolific studio helped bring kung fu films to the world but he also passed on the chance to sign one of the biggest names in that genre: the young Bruce Lee.
The missed opportunity was a rare misstep for Shaw, who died Tuesday, according to a statement from Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), which he helped found in 1967. No cause of death was given.
His studio gave his age as 107, but his age according to the Western counting method may have been 106 because Chinese traditionally consider a child to be 1 at birth. TVB said he was born in 1907, but would not provide his birth date.
His Shaw Brothers Studios, once among the world's largest, churned out nearly 1,000 movies and gave young directors like Woo their start. He produced a handful of U.S. films that also included the 1979 disaster thriller "Meteor."
His television empire, which remains a dominant force in Hong Kong, was where stars like Chow got their first breaks. Wong Kar-wai, the director behind critically acclaimed art-house movies like "Chungking Express" and "In the Mood for Love," got his start through a TVB training course and worked at the station briefly as a production assistant.
Shaw (pronounced Shao in Mandarin) led TVB until retiring as chairman in December 2011 at the age of 104. He is survived by his second wife and four children from his first marriage.
Shaw was born the sixth of seven children near Shanghai to a wealthy textile merchant. Elder brother Runme Shaw, set up a silent film studio, Unique Film Production Co. Shaw, and another brother, Runje, went to Singapore in 1923 to market films to southeast Asia's Chinese community and eventually opened 139 movie theatres across the region.
After surviving World War II, the company was faced with growing competition from rivals in Hong Kong and Singapore, so Shaw moved to Hong Kong in the late 1950s to modernize the company. He shifted focus from exhibiting films to producing them and renamed the company Shaw Brothers.
His path to Asian moviemaking dominance began in earnest in 1961 when he opened Movie Town, a vast, state-of-the-art studio in Hong Kong's rural Clearwater Bay. With 1,500 staff working on 10 soundstages, Movie Town was reputed to be the most productive studio in the world. At its busiest, actors and directors churned out 40 movies a year, most of them featuring kung fu, sword fighting or Asian gangsters known as triads.
The result was a library of nearly 1,000 movies such as "The One Armed Swordsman" and "The Five Fingers of Death," the latter being one of Shaw's most successful in the United States.
The studio's logo — the initials SB on a shield — was inspired by the Warner Brothers emblem, in a nod to its Hollywood aspirations. It came full circle when Tarantino appropriated the Shaw Brothers logo for use in his two "Kill Bill" movies, which were in homage to the studio and other Hong Kong martial arts movies.
"For a year, I'd watch one old Shaw Brothers movie a day — if not three," Tarantino told the Los Angeles Daily News in 2003, discussing his preparation for filming.
Films were produced with assembly-line methods and stars and technical staff lived in dorms on site. Budgets were low and production schedules were quick — 35 days to three months, according to a 1976 Time magazine report.
The producer acknowledged that the quality of the films was not his foremost concern. "We're here to make money," he told Time. Even Shaw protege Raymond Chow complained about the B-movie quality of the films when he was first hired to work in the publicity department.
"I told Sir Run Run to forget it," Chow told Asiaweek magazine in 1983. "I said I did not think I could keep my job because the pictures were so bad," said Chow, whose comments earned him a promotion to the production department.
While Shaw didn't create the kung fu movie, he was quick to capitalize on the genre's trendiness and used a modernized studio system and centralized production techniques to pump out films quickly, beating out rivals to satisfy audience demands.
In their heyday, Shaw films were reportedly seen by 1.5 million people a week, many of them in the cinemas owned by Shaw and his brothers in southeast Asia.
The movie mogul failed to spot the potential of an up-and-coming Bruce Lee, who had returned to Hong Kong after a stint in Hollywood. Lee wanted a bigger salary and creative control of his films. But Shaw wouldn't budge from the standard contract given to all his actors.
Lee signed instead with rival upstart Golden Harvest, founded by Chow to get away from his former boss's standardized factory-like studio system. Other up-and-coming stars like Jackie Chan also spurned Shaw's factory-like approach.
Movie audiences moved on to grittier, more realistic or contemporary action fare, though Shaw movies still have a solid cult following globally. The Shaw film library was eventually sold in 2000 to Celestial Pictures, which has been restoring them and re-releasing them digitally.
Film production ceased in 1983, but by then Shaw had switched his focus to television. In 1973 he took control of TVB, which remains Hong Kong's dominant TV station. It served as the launching pad for the careers of talents including Chow Yun-fat, Wong Kar-wai, heartthrob Andy Lau and comedian Stephen Chow.
The broadcaster's Chinese language channel is also popular in southern China and its Chinese programs, many dubbed into other languages, are seen by 300 million households around the world. Shaw, knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974, was also a philanthropist. In 2002 he founded the annual Shaw Prizes, Asia's version of the Nobel Prizes. The honor offers US$1 million annually to winners in mathematics, medicine and astronomy.
Shaw preferred to stay out of the spotlight and rarely gave interviews, even about his philanthropy. A journalist for the South China Morning Post newspaper recounted mentioning during a 1984 interview that a medical team fighting leprosy in southwestern China had trouble traveling over the rugged, mountainous terrain. On hearing this, Shaw immediately decided to donate off-road vehicles but demanded there be no publicity.
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TVB statement: bit.ly/1knaVjY ||||| Hong Kong film magnate Run Run Shaw, who built the Shaw Bros. studio into the largest in Asia in the 1960s and ’70s, popularized the kung fu genre around the world and later became a major philanthropist, died Tuesday at 106.
Shaw’s studio – which he ran with his brother, Runme – churned out more than 1,000 films over more than five decades, from romances and musicals to action pictures. He even co-produced American films, including Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner.” The legacy of Shaw Bros. films can be seen in the works of contemporary filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to John Woo and Ang Lee.
“The influence of their martial arts movies is almost impossible to understate,” said David Desser, an emeritus professor of film at the University of Illinois who now teaches at Chapman University. “There are almost no fight scenes in Hollywood movies today that don’t rely on Asian martial arts. And that’s directly attributable to these martial arts movies that the Shaw Bros. brought over in the 1970s.”
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Born in 1907 to a Shanghai textile merchant, Shaw was the sixth of eight children. He joined his elder brothers Runje and Runme in the film business in the 1920s. Runje Shaw had a silent film studio, and his brothers bought cinemas in places such as Singapore and Malaysia to show movies that were being made in Shanghai – then the center of the Chinese-filmmaking world. By the mid-1930s, they owned more than 100 theaters.
World War II and the Communist revolution, however, left the Shanghai industry in tatters. The Shaws, frustrated with the quality of films available to show in their theaters, decided to make a production base in Hong Kong. Run Run Shaw moved to the British colony in the 1950s and singlehandedly shifted the creative center of gravity of the film world to the territory, said Stefan Hammond, author of several books on Hong Kong film, including "Sex and Zen & A Bullet in the Head" and "Hollywood East."
“They chose Hong Kong because it was the only place they had the freedom to make the films they wanted to make,” Hammond said.
Emulating the style of Hollywood studios in the 1930s, the Shaws set out to build an elaborate and massive studio in a then-remote part of Hong Kong. At its opening in 1961, it was said to be the largest private film studio in the world, with more than 1,000 employees, more than a dozen stages and state-of-the-art equipment.
Actors and directors were put under contract and cranked out dozens of pictures each year. The studio spent significant sums on their movies, working in color and wide screen.
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“He set up Hollywood East when he built that big studio,” said USC professor Stanley Rosen, an expert in Chinese cinema.
“Run Run was like a Louie B. Mayer type – he had a very paternal attitude toward his stars,” Desser said “They modeled themselves after the Hollywood studios of the 1930s, with even greater control.”
(The Shaw Brothers logo, with the initials SB over a shield, looked much like that of Warner Bros.; viewers of Tarantino’s film “Kill Bill Vol. 1” may recall seeing the SB logo in the opening credit sequence, accompanied by the words “Shaw Scope” and a cheesy trumpet fanfare.)
By the early 1960s, the Shaw Bros were the kings of regional filmmaking, producing the most popular movies in Asia. With many top actresses under contract, they released a string of romances, dramas and musicals, such as the 1963 hit “The Love Eterne,” from star director Li Han Hsiang.
But their turn toward martial arts pictures starting in the mid-1960s would bring them their greatest claim to fame. King Hu’s “Come Drink With Me” (1966) helped usher in the era, and Chang Cheh’s 1967 hit “The One Armed Swordsman” broke box-office records for the studio, luring audiences with violence and bloodletting.
By the late 1960s, they were producing nearly 40 films a year; production reached a peak in 1974, when the Shaw Bros. made 50 films, according to Zhan Youpeng, a Chinese author who writes on film history.
(The Shaws, however, did not work with Bruce Lee. Turning down what he considered a low-paying offer from the Shaws, Lee in the early 1970s took up with the Golden Harvest studio, founded by former Shaw executives Raymond Chow and Leonard Ho.)
The Shaws expanded their global reach by setting up theaters in places with significant populations of Chinese emigres, including San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, Desser said. Their martial arts movies attracted multiple generations of Chinese American families – as well as film buffs and cineastes, popularizing the kung fu genre stateside.
At the same time, Run Run Shaw began moving into the then-infant business of television in Hong Kong, launching TVB in 1967 and largely exiting the film business by the 1980s. TVB now operates five channels in Hong Kong and is one of the biggest private producers of Chinese programming in the world.
But even Shaw’s move to TV, Desser noted, had an influence on film, as TVB gave opportunities to a new generation of directors, many of whom would become key players in the Hong Kong New Wave cinema of the late 1970s and early '80s.
Celestial Pictures acquired rights to the extensive Shaw Bros. film library in 2003 and has released scores of titles on DVD.
Starting in the early 1970s, Shaw launched his own foundation, and over the next 40 years gave hundreds of millions of dollars to fund schools and universities in mainland China, Hong Kong and around the world –including an institute of Chinese studies at Oxford University.
In 2002, he also established the Shaw Prize, which awards $1 million each year to researchers who have made breakthroughs in three areas: astronomy, life science and medicine and math. He continued to work; in his late 90s he was still going into his office in his Rolls-Royce and screening films, and he gave up his title as chairman of TVB in 2011.
Shaw had two daughters and two sons. His first wife, Wong Mei-chun, died in the 1980s. In 1997, he married Mona Fong, TVB’s deputy chairwoman.
julie.makinen@latimes.com |||||
A summary of this is? | – Run Run Shaw might not be a household name, but these are: Chow Yun-fat and John Woo, who got their starts at his studio, and Quentin Tarantino, who was one of many filmmakers inspired by him. Shaw, the Hong Kong producer who is considered the father of the kung fu movie genre, died today at home in Hong Kong, aged 106. Shaw was born Shao Yifu; "Run Run" was a nickname. He and his older brother, the similarly-nicknamed Run Me, made their first film in 1924. By 1927, they had moved to Singapore and were producing movies as well as importing others to play in their theaters, the New York Times reports. After World War II, Run Run ended up in Hong Kong, where, by the late 1960s, he was enjoying great success making modern martial arts movies including Five Fingers of Death and Shaolin Avenger. The Shaw Bros. studio was the largest in Asia at that time, and produced the region's most popular films, the Los Angeles Times reports. "We were like the Hollywood of the 1930s," Shaw once said; he had created Shaw Movietown, a huge complex where his employees both lived and worked. "We controlled everything: the talent, the production, the distribution and the exhibition." But he lost out on one very big name: Bruce Lee. Lee wanted $10,000 per movie and a long-term contract, which Shaw rejected; a competing company, founded by a former Shaw employee, ended up backing Lee instead. But Shaw's success continued: In addition to the nearly 1,000 films his companies released, he eventually expanded into television, publishing, real estate, and more—he became one of Macy's biggest shareholders in the 1990s, to help save it from bankruptcy—and even co-produced US movies including Blade Runner. He was also a generous philanthropist who was eventually knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He is survived by his second wife and four children, the AP reports. | 4 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Background: Tremaine Aldon Neverson was born on November 28, 1984, in Petersburg, Virginia. He is the son of April (Gholson) Tucker, who was seventeen when he was born, and Claude Neverson Jr. Raised as a military brat by his mother and stepfather, Songz did not have aspirations for a musical career as a child due to his shyness, saying "Singing wasn't a reality for me, until other people started noticing I sounded good." He recognized his vocal abilities at the age of 14.
Context: On August 18, 2011, it was announced Songz will be working on his fifth studio album titled Chapter V. In an interview Trey said the album, which will act as the follow-up to Passion, Pain & Pleasure, is said to be nearing completion. He also carried on to say "It's my sixth year in the game so I've been here for a while now. You can expect the best me you've ever heard. I don't have any release dates in mind right now but I'm just making music and enjoying myself in the studio and having fun. When I get to a place where I feel comfortable saying a date or all of that, people will definitely know. I have a few dream collaborations on that album that I want, but they say if you blow out your candle and make a wish you can't tell people what you ask for or it won't come true". On November 28, 2011, on his birthday, Songz released his Inevitable EP to prepare for the release of his album. The EP opened with first week sales of 27,000 landing it at No. 23 on the Billboard 200 and No. 4 on Billboard's Top Hip-Hop R&B Albums chart. As of October 18, 2012 the EP has sold 91,000 copies in the United States. In February 2012, Songz will embark on his Anticipation 2our to promote his mixtape Anticipation 2 and to raise awareness of his new album. In July 2011, he was cast in Texas Chainsaw 3D as Ryan, the male lead role. The film was released on January 4, 2013. Chapter V was released on August 21, 2012, by Atlantic Records, and on August 17 as a digital download. Trey Songz toured in promotion of the album on his Anticipation 2our, a tour spanning from February 9 to March 11, 2012, in North America. Rapper Big Sean was the tour's supporting act. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, with first week sales of 135,000 copies. It was Songz' first album to top the chart.Chapter V was also Songz' first album to chart in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number 10 on the UK Albums Chart. As of October 3, 2012, the album has sold 238,400 copies in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album's lead single, "Heart Attack", was released as a digital download on March 26, 2012. It charted at number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100, and number 28 on the UK Singles Chart. Its music video was released on May 4 and featured then girlfriend Kelly Rowland playing Songz' love interest. The second single "2 Reasons" was released on June 12. Its video was premiered on June 12 by BET's 106 & Park. "Simply Amazing" was released in the United Kingdom on August 12. It charted at number eight in the UK. Its music video, directed by Justin Francis, was released on July 23. "Never Again" was released as a single in the UK in November. Its music video was released on November 21.
Question: were there any other well known songs on the album. Whats the answer? | 2 Reasons" was released on June 12. | 5 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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Generate a sentence using the above characters: | Registration 1 October 2004 09:47 | 0 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
Read this and answer the question
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 656.3 square miles (1,700 km2); this comprises 634.0 square miles (1,642 km2) of land and 22.3 square miles (58 km2) of water. The Piney Woods is north of Houston. Most of Houston is located on the gulf coastal plain, and its vegetation is classified as temperate grassland and forest. Much of the city was built on forested land, marshes, swamp, or prairie which resembles the Deep South, and are all still visible in surrounding areas. Flatness of the local terrain, when combined with urban sprawl, has made flooding a recurring problem for the city. Downtown stands about 50 feet (15 m) above sea level, and the highest point in far northwest Houston is about 125 feet (38 m) in elevation. The city once relied on groundwater for its needs, but land subsidence forced the city to turn to ground-level water sources such as Lake Houston, Lake Conroe and Lake Livingston. The city owns surface water rights for 1.20 billion gallons of water a day in addition to 150 million gallons a day worth of groundwater.
What is the square mile area of Houston? | 656.3 square miles | 1 | Flan2021 | squad/v1.1:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
Solve 29*p - 56 = p for p. | 2 | 0 | Flan2021 | math_dataset/algebra__linear_1d:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-choice problem: Based on the sentence "A one man band with a red umbrella stops in front of a woman with a child in a stroller.", is the sentence "A one man band stops to visit with a mother and her child." a true sentence?
Select from the following.
(i) yes.
(ii) it is not possible to tell.
(iii) no. | (ii) | 3 | Flan2021 | snli:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-choice problem: Choose from the options at the end, and answer how do you do this: To cut perfect cookies
Possible answers: - With scissors, cut a large rectangle of baking parchment and lay it out on a cutting board. Still in the bowl, take your cookie dough and roll it into a ball with your clean hands. Place the ball in the center of the baking parchment and start rolling it back and forth with your hands, so that it starts to elongate into a fat cylinder. Keep rolling back and forth, keeping the shape evenly cylindrical as it lengthens, until it's a long, fat sausage the width of the cookies you want to make. Tuck the ends of the parchment over the ends of the dough, and starting at one side tightly wrap the sausage of dough up in the parchment. Place it in the refrigerator overnight to cool. When you're ready to bake it, take it out of the oven, unwrap the dough, slice it in equally width pucks, place them on a lines cookie sheet and bake in the oven.. - With scissors, cut a large rectangle of baking parchment and lay it out on a cutting board. Still in the bowl, take your cookie dough and roll it into a ball with your clean hands. Place the ball in the center of the baking parchment and start rolling it back and forth with your hands, so that it starts to elongate into a fat cylinder. Keep rolling back and forth, keeping the shape evenly cylindrical as it lengthens, until it's a long, fat sausage the width of the cookies you want to make. Tuck the ends of the parchment over the ends of the dough, and starting at one side tightly wrap the sausage of dough up in the parchment. Place it in the refrigerator overnight to cool. When you're ready to bake it, take it out of the oven, and with the dough still wrapped slice it in equally width pucks, place them on a lines cookie sheet and bake in the oven.. | With scissors, cut a large rectangle of baking parchment and lay it out on a cutting board. Still in the bowl, take your cookie dough and roll it into a ball with your clean hands. Place the ball in the center of the baking parchment and start rolling it back and forth with your hands, so that it starts to elongate into a fat cylinder. Keep rolling back and forth, keeping the shape evenly cylindrical as it lengthens, until it's a long, fat sausage the width of the cookies you want to make. Tuck the ends of the parchment over the ends of the dough, and starting at one side tightly wrap the sausage of dough up in the parchment. Place it in the refrigerator overnight to cool. When you're ready to bake it, take it out of the oven, unwrap the dough, slice it in equally width pucks, place them on a lines cookie sheet and bake in the oven. | 4 | Flan2021 | piqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Însă analistul politic kosovar Besim Abazi declară că documentul ar putea fi un test al opiniei publice, incitat probabil de guvernul sârb -- care este în favoarea diviziunii Kosovo -- pentru a evalua reacţiile din Serbia, din Kosovo şi din cadrul comunităţii internaţionale.
Translate this to English? | But Kosovo political analyst Besim Abazi says the document may have been a trial balloon, possibly incited by the Serb government -- which favours the division of Kosovo -- to gauge reactions within Serbia, Kosovo, and the international community. | 3 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ro-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Tweet: @x_Beckiie_x Yep That Would Be #jonasparanoid ! How Was The Movie ?! x
Predict the sentiment of this tweet.
Pick your answer from: (I) negative; (II) positive; | (II) | 3 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire. Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire. We might call it the first Chinese invention. Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire. Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight. He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat. Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued. And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down. Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology. The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel. Europeans did not yet have a word for "coal," nor had they discovered a use for it. The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty. This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees. And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes — China's first scholars. During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art. Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements. And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago. The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government.
Question: "Who were the second dynasty to create art?"
Response: "The Shang"
Based on the paragraph, is the response to the question is factually correct?
Possible answers:
+ no;
+ yes; | yes | 1 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Multi-select: Is it possible to draw the conclusion that "She had left poor little Dora to do the best Dora could, alone." if "All the buttons up the back of Dora's plaid dress were buttoned outside-in. Maude should have thought to button her up; but no, she had left poor little Dora to do the best she could, alone."?
Choose from: [i] no [ii] yes | [ii] | 7 | Flan2021 | glue/wnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write the next sentence in this story.
Teresa was an artist. She made a beautiful sculpture of an angel. She entered it into an art contest. The judges liked the sculpture very much.
Choose from:
(1). She won the contest and was proud of herself..
(2). She was disqualified from the contest.. | (1). | 6 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Add spaces: Additionally,itmaybeasignificantadvantagetocarryoutrollingofpipestobeusedforlinepipes,heatexchangersorinstrumentationinstallations.
| Additionally, it may be a significant advantage to carry out rolling of pipes to be used for line pipes, heat exchangers or instrumentation installations. | 3 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
Generate a sentence about this data: The Phoenix priceRange cheap; The Phoenix customer rating average; The Phoenix area city centre
Sentence: | The Phoenix, in the city centre area, serves cheap fast-food. It receives an average customer rating. | 5 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
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Write a subject line for this email. | PIRA's Daily Demand Forecast 04/20/01 | 2 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences?
1. 2007 .
2. Faith in Schools ?
3. : Autonomy , Citizenship and Religious Education in the Liberal State .
4. Jeffries , Stuart , To abolish only non-Christian faith schools would be taken as an affront .
5. The answer is that they all have to go , , 28 July 2006 , MacMullen , Ian .
6. Instead they have to learn about all religions to encourage tolerance .
7. It is totally acceptable for children to have religious education outside of school and to brought to places of worship but school is a place of education and they should be given an education that is not tainted by trying to ensure that they grow up with a certain attitude towards their religion .
8. The state should not allow the education of a child to be polluted by what is tantamount to brainwashing .
9. Amartya Sen argues Under this system , young children are placed in the domain of singular affiliations well before they have the ability to reason about different systems of identification that may compete for their attention . | State has a responsibility to protect and educate its citizens. | 5 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
What is the answer to this question? what is the name of the island in the seine river?
| Île Saint-Louis | 6 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is the sentiment of the following movie (choose your answer from the options) review sentence?
bad sitcom
Pick your answer from:
-negative
-positive
The answer is: | negative | 5 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Sentence 1: Fall prey to an imposter.
Sentence 2: Fall in love.
Multi-choice problem: Does fall mean the same thing in these two sentences?
(a). different meanings.
(b). the same meaning. | (b). | 1 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wic:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Please answer this question: how did the dupont family make their fortune? | black powder manufacturing | 4 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The Philippines has developed into a natural hub for U.S. contact center support with the use of English as the second national language and primary language of business.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that the sentence below is true?
English is the primary language of the Philippines.
Options: (a). yes; (b). no; | (b). | 1 | Flan2021 | super_glue/rte:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Answer this question: After a windstorm, Niko called the electric company to report that he had no electricity. His phone call is an example of which of the following elements of a universal systems model?
(a). designing a process; (b). generating output; (c). giving feedback; (d). setting a goal;. Answer: | (c). | 9 | Flan2021 | unified_qa_science_inst | zs_opt |
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
The Columbus Comets are a women's professional American football team based in Columbus, Ohio. They play in the Women's Football Alliance. The Comets played in the National Women's Football Association from their inception in 2003 until 2008 (in 2003 they were known as the Columbus Flames). Their home games are played at Grove City Christian School in Grove City, Ohio.
Available choices:
(a). Yes
(b). It's impossible to say
(c). No
Hypothesis: Although based in Columbus, Ohio most of the girls are from Grove City which is just a couple miles away.
| (b). | 5 | Flan2021 | anli/r1:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Are these paraphrases?
The 1980 Atlanta Braves season was the 110th season in Atlanta together with the 15th season as a franchise .
The 1980 Atlanta Braves season was the 110th season in Atlanta along with the 15th season as a franchise overall .
Available options:
- no.
- yes. | yes | 7 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Most videos enable users to leave comments, and these have attracted attention for the negative aspects of both their form and content. In 2006, Time praised Web 2.0 for enabling "community and collaboration on a scale never seen before", and added that YouTube "harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred". The Guardian in 2009 described users' comments on YouTube as:
Most videos enable users to do what | leave comments | 2 | Flan2021 | squad/v1.1:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate "AIDS and the politics of food will look at the critical role that rural agriculture plays in the economy of South Africa, and how the HIV/AIDS epidemic is changing the way that food production in rural areas is managed and controlled." to French? | Le sida et la politique de la nourriture regarderont le rôle critique que l'agriculture rurale joue dans l'économie de l'Afrique du Sud, et comment l'épidémie de VIH/sida change la manière que la production de nourriture dans des secteurs ruraux est contrôlée et commandée. | 7 | Flan2021 | wmt14_translate/fr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Please write a short summary for the following article:
Exercises to Banish Love Handles from Harley Pasternak
Harley Pasternak is a celebrity trainer and nutrition expert who has worked with stars from Halle Berry and Lady Gaga to Robert Pattinson and Robert Downey Jr. He’s also a New York Times best-selling author, with titles including The Body Reset Diet and The 5-Factor Diet. Tweet him @harleypasternak.
Call it what you want — love handles, spare tire, muffin top — but people ask me a lot about how to eliminate that extra padding on the sides of their waists. The following are my three keys to trimming down your “side fat.”
Tone Up. These three moves are excellent at toning the muscles that run along the side of the midsection — the internal and external obliques — which help us hinge sideways at the waist.
Side Bend on Back Extension Bench Start on your left side leaning against the center inside of the back extension bench with both of your feet stacked together. Place your right hand against your right temple and let your left arm hang straight down. Slowly bend your torso down to the left as you feel your right obliques stretch, then move back to the right as you contract your right obliques. When you’ve completed the reps on that side, turn and do the same on the other side.
Side Plank Lie on your right side on the floor or a mat, placing your forearm in front of you and stacking your feet one upon the other. Exhale and raise your body, supporting it on your forearm and feet. Inhale, and contract your abdominal muscles. Hold for 30 to 60 seconds, depending upon your skill level. Return to starting position, and repeat, then do two planks while lying on your left side.
Standing Dumbbell Side Bends Stand with feet a little wider than shoulder width apart, right arm hanging down your side with a light weight (dumbbell or jug of water). Bend your left arm slightly so fingers are touching your left temple. Start by tipping over like a tea pot toward your left side as you slide your right arm up your leg and your left elbow toward your left foot, then move in the opposite direction with the dumbbell sliding down your leg. Do an equal amount on each side. As a variation, you can leave both arms down at your sides as shown above.
Eat Better. You can be doing all the exercising in the world, but it won’t do any good if you’re not eating well. Eating three meals and two snacks a day with protein, fiber and healthy fat is the best way to banish fat on your belly — and everywhere else.
Meals should have one of each category: Protein (like salmon, eggs, organic chicken, etc.) Fiber (like spinach, broccoli or blueberries) Healthy fat (like Hass avocado, almonds, olives, etc.)
Snacks should be a combination of protein and fiber to fill you up and help you stay full. Try: Cut veggies (the fiber) and a bean dip like hummus (the protein) Oberto turkey jerky (the protein) and apple slices (the fiber) Greek yogurt (the protein) with chia seeds and raspberries (the fiber)
Burn Fat. You don’t need a gym membership or marathon training to burn fat. I tell all of my clients the best way to stay trim is to move all day. While you’re on the phone, when you’re waiting in line, when you’re waiting for your coffee to brew, just move around. Your Fitbit (activity monitor) should have no fewer than 10,000 steps at the end of the day. In fact, some of my clients are above 14,000 a day!
If you do have a gym membership but detest cardio (I’m the first to admit how boring the treadmill can be), stream some new or favorite shows on Netflix from your phone or your iPad, and you’ll have thousands of steps in no time.
Even two minutes of intense cardio bursts throughout the day can add up in a big way. Keep a jump rope by your desk and jump for a couple minutes or run up and down the steps a few times a day. By the time you break a sweat, you’re done. And keep in mind — it really does all add up!
Summary: | The celebrity trainer offers three easy moves to tone up your sides | 1 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Context:Tom threw his schoolbag down to Ray after *he* reached the top of the stairs.
Is "he" the same as "Tom"? Possible answers:Available choices: A). no B). yes
Answer: | B). | 5 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wsc.fixed:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Neelix is a character in the science fiction television series "", played by actor Ethan Phillips since the series' inception. Neelix is an alien native to the distant far side of the galaxy, who has joined the crew of the United Federation of Planets starship USS "Voyager" as cook after its being captured by a mysterious shock wave to the Delta Quadrant.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
Neelix was in every episode of the show.
OPT:
1). Yes.
2). It's impossible to say.
3). No. | 2). | 1 | Flan2021 | anli/r2:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
The power struggle for Wyoming’s wind
Wyoming is an ideal place to generate electricity from wind. But getting current from turbines to customers is a political and economic puzzle. How it plays out will have lessons for renewable-energy projects nationwide.
FORTUNE — The best wind in America is in Wyoming. It is a door-snapping, heart-pounding wind that barrels in from the west, chasing the truckers along Interstate 80 as they race to make Omaha by nightfall. It is sometimes described with words ordinarily associated with dark chocolate or exceptional pinot noir. It has been called dense, world-class, consistently extraordinary, special, and fabulous.
It is all these things and more. The best wind in America is also harsh and divisive. Across Wyoming, whose vast resources of coal and natural gas help keep state taxes low and the nation’s lights on, there is a sprawling battle under way about the future of this renewable energy, how to develop it, and how to get it to market.
They are fighting here over policy, taxes on wind farms, and the legal rights of the companies that want to build the networks of power lines and towers needed to move electricity to Oregon, Nevada, and California. And they are fighting over things that can’t be so easily quantified, such as how best to preserve the sweeping views of mountains that seem to tumble down from the sky, and whether an energy source that still depends on tax credits and set-asides is worth all the trouble.
The residents of Wyoming aren’t the only ones wondering where the wind leads. In a sense, we all are — or should be. The Obama administration, like its predecessor, has a goal to increase the amount of power generated from wind to 20% by 2030. It’s now at about 2%. We have the wind, on land and offshore. What we lack is the infrastructure. And the scale of the footprint that would be required to generate and then move all this power is only starting to come into view, igniting battles in Wisconsin, Maine, and elsewhere.
There’s good wind across the nation’s midsection, but Wyoming’s wind is given an extra boost by a 100-mile stretch in the state’s southern half, where the Continental Divide all but disappears and the wind gathers force as it pushes through from the west. Beyond power and speed, Wyoming has consistency — what’s known as capacity. At many places in the state, the wind blows more than 40% of the time.
Along the highways around Cheyenne and Casper, plenty of turbines rise out of the sagebrush and scrublands. Wind energy here is already generating about 1,400 megawatts of power, but that’s perhaps a tenth of the state’s potential. And in the past year the industry has come to a dead halt. There are political obstacles, but the main problem is this: Wyoming has run out of power lines connecting it to the rest of the country. And until it gets more, that epic wind is just moving dust and dirt eastward, one gust at a time.
“It’s all about transmission,” says Loyd Drain, executive director of the Wyoming Infrastructure Authority, a little office tucked between a Quiznos and a bed-liner shop in downtown Cheyenne. “A lot of people will tell you it’s all about wind. That’s hogwash. If we don’t get new transmission built, we’re not going to build any type of generation.”
Some of the biggest names in the energy business are trying to launch power-line projects here, planning routes and dealing with the scrum of federal agencies that have a hand in approving interstate transmission projects. The list includes Rocky Mountain Power, which is part of Berkshire Hathaway’s brk.a MidAmerican Energy Holdings; TransCanada TRP ; and LS Power. The company that is furthest ahead and getting the most buzz is run by Anschutz Corp., headed by billionaire Philip Anschutz.
Anschutz’s Overland Trail Ranch is a few miles east of the Continental Divide near Rawlins, in Carbon County, named for the coal reserves still being worked there today. Overland, which started life in the mid-1800s as a land grant to the Union Pacific UNP , covers some 500 square miles of rolling high country, with the North Platte River looping through as it starts a wide arc into Nebraska.
I’m bouncing along in a pickup on the ranch’s rutted trails with Bill Miller, who runs the Anschutz operations here. He explains the plan. The company bought the property in 1997 to run cattle. In 2007, Anschutz decided it wanted to be in the renewables business, complementing its oil and gas holdings, and it realized that Overland had astonishing wind. It also realized that the wind was handcuffed — stranded, in the parlance of the energy crowd — because of a lack of transmission. So one Anschutz affiliate, Power Co. of Wyoming, is developing a 1,000-turbine wind farm that can generate 2,500 megawatts, enough power for a medium-size city. Another, TransWest Express, wants to build a $3 billion line to carry all that power to southern Nevada and on to California.
Getting the power out of Wyoming
There are two basic ways to transmit power. The first uses alternating current, or AC. It’s how electricity is generated, and it allows ready access to the power at lots of places along the route. The other is direct current, or DC, and it’s more like a highway. The power moves more efficiently, but the conversion stations, which function like on and off ramps, can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, so there tend to be few connecting points. For long runs through the desert Southwest, DC makes the most sense, even if it’s more expensive upfront.
TransWest wants a DC line, and to reduce its costs, it is trying to bring in a partner. The federal Western Area Power Administration, which distributes power from the Hoover Dam and elsewhere in 15 Western states, is considering signing on as an equity partner. The deal also would let Anschutz benefit from the government’s power to use eminent domain, a potent negotiating tool with stubborn landowners.
Building interstate power lines is a daunting task. There’s a regulatory thicket at the state and federal level, and transmission projects tend to isolate perceived costs from benefits. The landowner who has to look at a line often doesn’t get to use the power running through it. Rocky Mountain, the Berkshire Hathaway company, is in the permitting stage for a transmission project that would move power from Wyoming to its customers in Idaho and Oregon. Unlike Anschutz’s company, Rocky Mountain is a regulated utility. That gives it the advantage of a built-in customer base for wind energy, but also ties its hands on building larger lines than its existing ratepayers need. A separate project, to help carry Wyoming power to the Southwest, is being scaled back because the company hasn’t been able to find partners to help build a larger, more efficient line. And it’s running into fierce opposition over where to place power lines for wind projects in eastern and western Wyoming.
Near the town of Glenrock, east of Casper, Wasatch Wind has a contract with Rocky Mountain to sell power from two wind farms it hopes to develop in a broad expanse set amid the peaks of the Laramie Range. The turbines of the 100-megawatt Wasatch project would be visible from the home office that an investment banker and former World Bank official named Ken Lay has at his weekend ranch. “We do not want industrial-scale development in the mountains,” says Lay, one of the founders of the Northern Laramie Range Alliance. “People are sophisticated enough to do the math. They start thinking where all these projects are going to go. How are 100 of those wind farms going to get connected to the grid, and what is southeast Wyoming going to look like when they’re done.”
Not everyone in the alliance is as well-heeled as Lay, but there’s a perception tinged with just enough reality that the second-home crowd — trophy ranchers as they are derisively called — are out to protect their views at the expense of the less fortunate.
Rich Walje, the president of Rocky Mountain Power, has toured the property, and the company moved proposed transmission lines in part to avoid a fight with Lay and his allies, but he says there’s only so much the utility can do. State regulators require the company to use the least expensive routes. Federal regulations push for separating power lines for safety and security. “We’re now embroiled in a bit of a societal issue in Wyoming,” Walje says, “which is that some people really want to develop wind energy, and then there is a percentage of the citizenry who don’t want the state industrialized, if you will, with a plethora of wind towers tied together by transmission lines somewhat described as spaghetti lines.”
Making the grid a national priority
From a technical standpoint, it’s not really any harder to build a power line than a natural-gas pipeline. But from a regulatory standpoint, it is. Unlike electricity, natural gas has always relied on third parties to move fuel from the gas fields, and it often needs to travel across state lines. Those differences — and the fact that pipelines are underground and largely out of sight — carry enormous implications for licensing and construction. The permitting for pipelines is done almost exclusively at the federal level, controlled by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and there’s a history of case law that keeps the process moving forward. The 1,700-mile Rex pipeline, which brings natural gas from Wyoming to the Midwest, went from start to finish in four years. By contrast, the rules for building merchant transmission lines across the West are still being sorted out, and there’s no federal agency in charge. TransWest started planning in 2007 and is still in the permitting process with the Bureau of Land Management and others; it faces at least two more years of paperwork before construction can start. With luck, the power would begin flowing to customers in 2015.
Our old model of power distribution revolved around regulated utilities operating within a single state. In that equation, moving power to the customer was just an expense. Merchant transmission is different. It’s not an expense, it’s the business. The companies that want to play aren’t utilities. They don’t have the same responsibilities, of course, but they don’t get the same rights when running power lines. Add to that local zoning ordinances, Indian reservations, raptor studies, and state industrial siting commissions and you can see the sheer scope of the challenge of bringing the power from the source to the plug.
“If we’re ever going to get serious, you won’t do it with the current regulatory structure,” says Stephen Burnage, the president of Renewable Energy Transmission Co. and a developer of the TransWest project before it was sold to Anschutz. “Something has to radically change.” The country, he says, needs to treat the grid as a coordinated national asset, no different or less important than the Interstate system.
Congress studied interstate transmission issues two years ago, pushed by Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, a big fan of solar power, with the idea of giving better structure to the process and more power to FERC, but the idea went nowhere, in part because so many players aren’t sure they want FERC to have more power and in part because for most of us the grid right now seems to work just fine. We worry that the cure may be worse than the disease.
When we talk about the grid, we are really talking about three grids. There’s one for the East. One for the West. And one that covers most of Texas. It’s worth noting that Texas — which like Wyoming is an energy powerhouse — leads the nation in wind-energy production, and one reason is that all its production and transmission can be coordinated. That creates predictability for investors and supply reliability when the wind doesn’t blow.
Before TransCanada and Anschutz and the others can build transmission, they need power-purchase agreements with the California utilities that have large — and growing — renewable-energy portfolios to fill. None now exist, but Miller has faith in the quality of Wyoming’s wind. “The project will stand on its economic merit,” he says. “I’m confident that our purchase price — should we get to a point sooner or later with a power purchase agreement — will be competitive with anybody.”
Price is only part of the delivery equation, though, and the utilities might need to line up renewable-energy sources before the transmission companies are able to get their lines built. In that scenario, the state’s wind is stuck, without a ride, and for many people here that would be just fine.
The independent state of Wyoming
As I drive around Wyoming, I keep coming back to a scene from Dog Day Afternoon where Sonny and Sal are inside the bank with their hostages, surrounded by cops and trying to negotiate a flight to somewhere, anywhere.
Sonny: Is there any special country you want to go to?
Sonny: No, Wyoming is not a country.
They’re both right, sort of. Wyoming is different. It is the least-populated state, with 564,000 people in an area twice the size of Pennsylvania. There is only one traditional university and only one law school, which binds its political class. People call the state a very small town with a very long main street, and there is a dance between distance and intimacy that is woven through the Wyoming way.
And there is this, which is central to making sense of just about any issue in Wyoming, but particularly renewable energy: The rancher — independent and tall in the saddle — may dominate the state’s psyche, but it’s the miner who pays the bills.
A third of state spending — $1.6 billion last year — comes from severance taxes and federal mining royalties for coal, gas, and oil. In essence, utility customers across the nation are footing Wyoming’s tax bill. New power plants run on cleaner-burning natural gas. And older coal plants have switched to the low-sulfur, less-polluting variety mined in the state’s Powder River Basin, now home to nearly 40% of U.S. coal output. Energy discussions here get heated quickly.
“The issue is really one of thinking through how you recognize that there are a set of values in Wyoming that need to be accommodated even though what the wind industry is really after is a larger national set of values,” says Dave Freudenthal, who finished his second term as governor in 2010. He is pure Wyoming in all its complexities: a brainy ranch kid, a popular Democrat in the reddest of states, and a Subaru driver who sits on the board of Arch Coal ACI , the nation’s second-largest coal company. He is not exactly a beloved figure among wind’s boosters. They think he invited the industry in, and then yanked away the welcome mat with new taxes and land-use regulations when too many developers showed up.
Freudenthal is unapologetic and says he changed course after realizing that the state’s wind was so good that it didn’t need incentives. “This is a case of an industry that feels like it’s been promoted to second-coming status and suddenly encounters a world that says, ‘Well, maybe, but you’ve got to recognize that you’re going to be doing it here.'”
Wyoming’s resistance involves more than tax policy. The idea of renewable energy as slightly illegitimate is pervasive here. Sue Wallis is a poet, rancher, and state legislator from the tiny town of Recluse, in the state’s northeast corner. The coal trains there stretch to the horizons, and the mines have brought growth and prosperity to her district and the state. The wind industry’s lack of traction doesn’t surprise her. “This is a state full of climate-change skeptics,” says Wallis. “If you’re basing your whole support for clean energy on climate change, we’re not buying it.”
Gov. Matt Mead, who took office in January, is also one of those skeptics, but he’s focused on jobs and smart enough to understand that his views on science don’t matter much in the marketplace. His grandfather Clifford Hansen was governor and later a U. S. senator, and he led the fight to increase the states’ share of federal mining royalties, a singular act that transformed Wyoming and the West.
“To me the first question is, Do we agree with renewables?” says Mead during a talk in the state capitol, a handsome sandstone building with a gold dome, and a stuffed bison just off the rotunda. “That’s the start of the question. Wyoming doesn’t need to produce renewables for our state to do well financially.”
But beyond Wyoming’s borders, there is a huge demand for clean energy, and Mead says Wyoming ought to stay agnostic about the sources of power that flow from the state. He says leases to wind farms could keep some ranch families on the land, and the appeal of wind energy might help lure data centers here. “And it will help us solve transmission or not,” says Mead. “If you have the wind farms but no transmission, you just have things blowing in the wind.”
With the big projects moving so slowly, Mead and the legislature have time to tinker with state laws on generation and transmission and maybe strike a balance that helps the industry move forward. This past session, the wind industry failed in an effort to swap reductions in sales taxes (a big upfront cost) in exchange for higher generation taxes (which spread the costs over the life of the turbine). Making matters worse, the legislature also extended a ban on the use of eminent domain for some power lines.
On a visit to the Overland Ranch, Bill Miller and I step down from his truck in the middle of a treeless expanse. We are greeted by a blast of wind that shoves us with an insistence bordering on rudeness. Miller points to a place in the distance and says that the wind on that ridge blew more than 80% of the time last January.
There is pride in his voice, and that must have been how early industrialists felt at Spindletop or Niagara Falls, when they looked upon an energy source with so much potential that the obstacles of harnessing it seemed almost an afterthought and well worth the effort.
—Ken Otterbourg is a Fortune contributor who lives in North Carolina.
This article is from the September 26, 2011 issue of Fortune.
What is a short summary of the above article? | Wyoming is an ideal place to generate electricity from wind. But getting current from turbines to customers is a political and economic puzzle. How it plays out will have lessons for renewable-energy projects nationwide. FORTUNE -- The best wind in America is in Wyoming. It is a door-snapping, heart-pounding wind that barrels in from the… | 4 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
This is an email
In light of the rising frequency of human-grizzly bear conflicts, the Montana Department of Fish and Game is advising hikers, hunters, and fishermen to take extra precautions and keep alert of bears while in the field. We advise that outdoorsmen wear noisy little bells on their clothing, so as not to startle bears that aren't expecting them. We also advise outdoorsmen to carry pepper spray with them in case of an encounter with a bear. It is also a good idea to watch out for fresh signs of bear activity. Outdoorsmen should recognize the difference between black bear and grizzly bear dung. Black bear dung is smaller and contains lots of berries and squirrel fur. Grizzly bear dung has little bells in it and smells like pepper. You guys around this weekend?
What is the subject of this email? | Bear Alert | 6 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What happens next in this paragraph?
How to update your notification settings on paypal
Log into your paypal account.
Head to www. Paypal.com using your preferred web browser and log in with your username and password.
OPTIONS: (a). Make sure your email address, facebook account, your business email address, and any personal details are public. Once you log in, you will be brought to an account page that will allow you to customize your notification settings.; (b). On the first page, you will see an " search " link. From here, click that link and select " settings.; (c). This can be done by entering your information in the boxes on the top right of the screen then by clicking on log in to continue. Make sure that you are on the " my account " page once you have logged in.; (d). If you don't have a paypal account, get one now. Click on your account's " shop " heading.; | (c). | 0 | Flan2021 | hellaswag:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
What are some examples of statutory law?
What are statutory laws? What are some examples?
Choose your answer. Are these two questions paraphrases of each other?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes | yes | 4 | Flan2021 | glue/qqp:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Tim was entering a baking contest. He decided to make his famous donuts. He made a big batch and entered them into the contest. The judges thought they were delicious.
What is a natural next sentence?
Options are: -The judges vomited from the taste of the donuts.. -Tim won the baking contest.. | Tim won the baking contest. | 2 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
This is the content of an email: I have set up a meeting in 32C2 at 1:00 pm central time to discuss the citizens deal and booking issues associated with it. Chris, we will call you from the speaker phone in that conference room. Let me know if there are any conflicts. thanks,
What was the subject line for this email? | Citizens | 5 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Choose from: A). hamburger was much less refreshing to eat. B). fruit was much less refreshing to eat.
Complete the following sentence.
Gerald went to the grocery store to buy something for lunch and, instead of buying a hamburger, he bought fruit instead because the
| A). | 3 | Flan2021 | winogrande:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Select your answer: Which is this about?
You could be forgiven for thinking a military coup has just taken place on the south coast of England. Sven Goran Eriksson, Rupert Lowe and some other bloke.
Available options:
A). World.
B). Sports.
C). Business.
D). Science/Tech. | B). | 5 | Flan2021 | ag_news_subset:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Here is one sentence: Tea has fragrant white flowers.
Here is another sentence: We met at the Dean's tea for newcomers.
Q: Does the term tea mean the same thing in both these sentences?
Pick your answer from: a). different meanings. b). the same meaning. | a). | 2 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wic:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Translate the following sentence to Russian:
This is exactly where McConnell and other national leaders did not want their party to be.
Russian: | Это именно то, чего опасался Макконнелл и другие национальные лидеры, которые не хотели, чтобы их партия была такой, которой она является сейчас. | 5 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ru-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Kuten vuosikertomuksesta käy ilmi, asetuksen uudistamisessa on kuitenkin sivuutettu eräät tärkeät periaatekysymykset, jotka on mainittu ehdotettuja muutoksia koskevassa tilintarkastustuomioistuimen lausunnossa, minkä vuoksi varainhoidosta saattaa tulla hyvin monimutkaista.
Translate to English
English: | However, as you will see from our Annual Report, some important matters of principle stated in the Court' s opinion on the proposed changes have not been followed, which may lead to serious complexity in financial management. | 1 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate to Turkish:
Berisha is a prominent local producer of theatre performances, movies and TV shows.
Turkish: | Berişa tiyatro performansları, filmler ve televizyon programları yapan tanınmış bir yerel yapımcı. | 4 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/tr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Here is a dialogue:
Doug: My car got keyed in Walmart!
Mia: Oh no! Wasn't it new?
Doug: Brand new!
Mia: That sucks! People are dicks!
Doug: I'm soooo pissed!
Mia: Don't blame you!
Doug: Guess I'll call insurance. Sux.
Mia: I'd get an estimate first. You might want to skip insurance cause your deductible will go up.
Doug: True. If I can get it fixed cheap I might as well pay for it.
Mia: Yep.
Doug: Just sucks! I don't have time for this!
Mia: Gotta work to pay for that new scratched car! LOL!
Doug: Exactly...
Mia: It could be worse.
Doug: I know...
Mia: It does suck though, sorry!
Doug: Thanks!
Mia: If I can help, let me know.
Doug: Yeah, fix the scratch?
Mia: Very funny.
Doug: J/K
What were they talking about? | Mia advises Doug to get an estimate and skip insurance to fix his brand new car that got keyed in Walmart. | 4 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
This question has options. How would someone go about accomplishing this goal?
to boost energy in the afternoons.
Available options:
(a). A great way to boost energy for your afternoon is to take a quick diphenhydramine during lunch, even 20 pills are enough to give you more energy..
(b). A great way to boost energy for your afternoon is to take a quick nap during lunch, even 20 minutes is enough to give you more energy.. | (b). | 7 | Flan2021 | piqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Note the options at the end. Select the topic that this about:
Gary Winnick, the former chairman of Global Crossing, the Bermuda-based telecommunications group which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January 2002, will not be fined
Choices:
1). World.
2). Sports.
3). Business.
4). Science/Tech. | 3). | 7 | Flan2021 | ag_news_subset:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Attributes: name = The Golden Curry, food = Japanese, priceRange = cheap, familyFriendly = yes, near = The Bakers. Produce a detailed sentence about this restaurant. | The Golden Curry, a cheap place serving Japanese food, is near The Bakers and is family friendly. | 0 | Flan2021 | gem/e2e_nlg:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Test sentence: "Stephen persuaded Ben to be careful."
Is this test sentence a correct grammatical English sentence?
Select from the following. A. unacceptable. B. acceptable. | B. | 2 | Flan2021 | glue/cola:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Continue writing the following text.
Karen could not fit the antique chest she just bought in car's trunk because the
a). trunk was too small..
b). chest was too small.. | a). | 4 | Flan2021 | winogrande:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Answer a question about this article:
On April 22, 1971, Kerry appeared before a U.S. Senate committee hearing on proposals relating to ending the war. The day after this testimony, Kerry participated in a demonstration with thousands of other veterans in which he and other Vietnam War veterans threw their medals and service ribbons over a fence erected at the front steps of the United States Capitol building to dramatize their opposition to the war. Jack Smith, a Marine, read a statement explaining why the veterans were returning their military awards to the government. For more than two hours, almost 1000 angry veterans tossed their medals, ribbons, hats, jackets, and military papers over the fence. Each veteran gave his or her name, hometown, branch of service and a statement. Kerry threw some of his own decorations and awards as well as some given to him by other veterans to throw. As Kerry threw his decorations over the fence, his statement was: "I'm not doing this for any violent reasons, but for peace and justice, and to try and make this country wake up once and for all."
How many vets participated in the protest? | almost 1000 | 3 | Flan2021 | squad/v1.1:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
This House would, as the African Union, create a standing army
What argument could one make about this debate topic? | Showing Africa can solve its own problems | 2 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
Klid.
Could you please translate this to English? | Relax. You're fine. | 2 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/cs-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What's the most logical way to complete this passage?
Clearwater, Florida (CNN) -- Jury selection in the Casey Anthony murder trial continued Saturday afternoon following the rejection of nine potential jurors, including one man who posted to his Facebook account that he had a "title, cover and all" ready for a book about the case. Attorneys and Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr. of the Orange County Superior Court had allowed four potential jurors through from questioning by day's end, one a 22-year-old man who said he paid no attention to the news and another a grandmother of a 2-year-old girl who described herself as "firm and fair." Anthony, 25, is charged with capital murder in the death of her daughter, 2-year-old Caylee, whose body was found in woods near her family's home in 2008. She has pleaded not guilty.
Jury selection was moved from
OPTIONS:
- Anthony to Clearwater amid intense media coverage of the case, which could make it difficult to select an impartial jury.
- Belvin Perry Jr. to Clearwater amid intense media coverage of the case, which could make it difficult to select an impartial jury.
- CNN to Clearwater amid intense media coverage of the case, which could make it difficult to select an impartial jury.
- Casey Anthony to Clearwater amid intense media coverage of the case, which could make it difficult to select an impartial jury.
- Caylee to Clearwater amid intense media coverage of the case, which could make it difficult to select an impartial jury.
- Clearwater to Clearwater amid intense media coverage of the case, which could make it difficult to select an impartial jury.
- Facebook to Clearwater amid intense media coverage of the case, which could make it difficult to select an impartial jury.
- Florida to Clearwater amid intense media coverage of the case, which could make it difficult to select an impartial jury.
- Orange County Superior Court to Clearwater amid intense media coverage of the case, which could make it difficult to select an impartial jury.
- Orlando to Clearwater amid intense media coverage of the case, which could make it difficult to select an impartial jury.
| Orlando to Clearwater amid intense media coverage of the case, which could make it difficult to select an impartial jury. | 3 | Flan2021 | super_glue/record:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Generate a descriptive sentence about a restaurant using the following words:
name = Loch Fyne, eatType = restaurant, food = Fast food, familyFriendly = yes
Sentence: | Loch Fyne is a child Friendly restaurant serving Fast food. | 9 | Flan2021 | gem/e2e_nlg:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
What type of thing is the question "How many Gutenberg Bibles are there ?" asking about?
a). description. b). entity. c). abbreviation. d). human. e). numeric. f). location.
Answer: | e). | 0 | Flan2021 | trec:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The stepdaughter of Jesse Browning, the star of a reality show about loggers, was attacked and killed by the family's dog in Astoria, Oregon, an investigator said. Her mother found 4-year-old Ashlynn Anderson in the yard of their home after the attack Sunday afternoon, Clatsop County Sheriff Chief Deputy Paul Williams said Tuesday. The child was pronounced dead on arrival after she was flown by helicopter to a Portland hospital, Williams said. The family's two Rottweilers were placed in quarantine, he said. The dog believed to have bitten the child was 2½ years old, he added. Ashlynn's stepfather, Jesse Browning, is a logger who appears on the reality show the History Channel describes as a series about "the treacherous life of Pacific Northwest timber cutters."
Summarize the highlights of this article. | "Ax Men" star Jesse Browning's stepdaughter was attacked, killed by dog. Girl was 4 years old; family's Rottweilers placed in quarantine. "Ax Men" is about loggers in Pacific Northwest. | 4 | Flan2021 | cnn_dailymail:3.4.0 | zs_opt |
Enlace a la posición en las Estadísticas Mundiales de BOINC combined basado en la actualización incremental 264,144 de 3,857,274 How do you say this sentence in English? | Link to position in BOINC combined World stats based on incremental update 264,000 out of 3,853,353 | 1 | Flan2021 | para_crawl_enes | zs_opt |
How do you say "Fig.1 Right rear door: Button for adjusting front passenger seat" in Spanish? | Fig.1 Puerta trasera derecha: Tecla para desplazar el asiento del acompañante | 0 | Flan2021 | para_crawl_enes | zs_opt |
In a desert environment, cactus wrens often build their nests in cholla cacti to avoid predators. This behavior does not hurt the cacti. Which type of relationship do cactus wrens and cholla cacti demonstrate?
Pick from: a. competitive; b. commensalism; c. mutualism; d. parasitism; | b. | 0 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Easy:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Please add punctuation to this: Transfer from Prato to Florence FLR airport
Punctuation version: | Transfer from Prato to Florence (FLR) airport | 5 | Flan2021 | fix_punct | zs_opt |
Westminster, Ellesmere Port is a suburb of the town of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England. It is located to the north of the town centre and it is the location of the M53 motorway. Westminster is famous for its terraced houses and the Joseph Groome Towers, three thirteen-storey tower blocks built as public housing . It is also known as the wezzy.
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Westminster has a smaller population than Ellesmere Port."?
Select from the following.
[I] Yes;
[II] It's impossible to say;
[III] No;
I think the answer is | [II] | 0 | Flan2021 | anli/r1:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Read Joshua through Chronicles to get a good history of Israel. Reading Psalms through Song of Solomon will give you a good feel for Hebrew poetry and wisdom.
Make this lower case. | read joshua through chronicles to get a good history of israel. reading psalms through song of solomon will give you a good feel for hebrew poetry and wisdom. | 9 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
Answer the questions at the end based on the text.
The man who dared to boldly go where no one had gone before has revealed that he can't go as many places as he used to.
"I'm doing OK," Leonard Nimoy tweeted Friday. "Just can't walk distances. Love my life, family, friends and followers."
Nimoy announced last week that he has been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- 30 years after having given up cigarettes.
"Not soon enough," tweeted the 82-year-old actor and director who played Spock, the half-human science officer aboard the Starship Enterprise from 1966 to 1969 on the TV series "Star Trek" and in movies during the decades since. "I have COPD. Grandpa says, quit now!!! LLAP."
The last reference is to his signature phrase, "Live long and prosper."
Nimoy, who told an interviewer last year that he flunked chemistry in high school, may not have grasped the long-term risks associated with smoking, but his announcement is not surprising, said Dr. Richard Casaburi, a pulmonologist at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute in Torrance, California.
Smoking could very well be responsible for the appearance of symptoms of COPD decades after quitting, because it is a progressive disease and lung function declines with age, said Casaburi, who is not involved with Nimoy's treatment.
COPD is the third-leading cause of death in the United States -- after heart disease and cancer -- and smoking is responsible for the vast majority of cases, he said.
Some 12 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with the disease, and perhaps another 12 million have it, but don't know, he said, adding that about 30% of people who smoke will get clinically significant COPD. "The mystery really is why everybody doesn't get it."
1. Who is the man who dared to go to bold places where no body had gone?
2. What sickness has he got?
3. Is he still taking cigarettes or smoking?
4. What's his last wordings?
5. Who mentioned that his speaking out is kind of amazing?
6. Where does he work at?
7. Did he mention that COPD is the third reason for several people dying in the USA?
8. How many individuals according to him already have it?
9. What are the first 2 major causes of individuals dying in the USA according to him?
10. Is he suggesting that this sickness is a puzzle?
Numbered answers: | 1. Leonard Nimoy
2. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
3. No
4. LLAP
5. Dr. Richard Casaburi
6. Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute
7. Yes
8. 12 million people in the US
9. Heart disease and cancer
10. No | 2 | Flan2021 | coqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Question: when does the new season of star vs the forces of evil come out??
Answer: | in early 2019 | 0 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Have you are burned something on the stove or in the oven? Do you know why things burn? It all has to do with temperature. Changes in matter are affected by temperature. For example, what if you place a cake in the oven and you leave it in too long? What do you think will happen? Thats right, it will probably burn. The same thing will happen if the oven setting is too high and you apply too much heat. In either case, heat has affected the rate of change in matter. Its probably obvious that when the temperature is increased a chemical change, like cooking, will occur faster. What about a physical change? Are physical changes affected by temperature? Most of us have seen steam rising off a wet road after a summer rainstorm. This happens because the road surface is very warm. The warm road and warm air temperature causes the water to evaporate quickly. The liquid water is turning into water vapor, but it is still water. The evaporation of water is a physical change. So yes, temperature affects the rate that physical change occurs.
Choose your answer: According to the above paragraph, the correct answer to the question "Give two examples of how heat affects the matter." is "It helps to form ice and to form a solid"?
Choices:
1). no
2). yes | 1). | 5 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Translate "I want to conclude on this point if I might." to German? | Ich möchte mit diesem Punkt zum Schluss kommen, wenn ich darf. | 7 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/de-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Store bought bread, pasta SOAKED in sauce, Caeser dressing with a small portion of lettuce, over priced wine menu, other than that the staff is adequate and the restaurant is in a filthy hotel. Don't waste your time.
Choose the sentiment of this review?
Pick from:
(i) negative
(ii) positive | (i) | 1 | Flan2021 | yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0 | zs_opt |
Are "James" and "he" the same in this sentence?
James asked Robert for a favor but *he* refused.
(1). no; (2). yes;
The answer is: | (1). | 7 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wsc.fixed:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Choose your reply from the options at the end. Does "Beyoncé's music is generally R&B, but she also incorporates pop, soul and funk into her songs." contain the correct answer to "What album did the Spanish songs come from?"
pick from the following. (I). yes. (II). no. | (II). | 4 | Flan2021 | glue/qnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Here is a premise: "A young woman in a yellow bathing suit laying on a surfboard observes a surfing lesson."
Here is a hypothesis: "A woman is laying outside"
.Does the premise tell us whether the hypothesis is true?
Possible answers:
-- yes
-- it is not possible to tell
-- no | yes | 6 | Flan2021 | snli:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
What's an example of a grad-school level question? | Which substance should a student apply to the skin if he or she gets splashed with an acid? | 8 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Challenge:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Story: Chase really wanted a new toy. His mom would not purchase a new toy for him. She advised he save his allowance. He saved his allowance.
In the options below, what is the most likely to happen next?
Choose from:
1). Chase bought himself a new toy.;
2). Chase ran away from home.; | 1). | 5 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Can you tell me the answer to part of the earth's structure 6 letters?? | mantle | 7 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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