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How is "She was fucking blind." said in Czech? | Oslepla. | 6 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/cs-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a sentence in English. | Our goal was to look back when we first met on our Executive MBA Business School classes that… | 8 | Flan2021 | para_crawl_enes | zs_opt |
Note the options at the end. Select the topic that this about:
IBM (Quote, Chart) secured the top spot in the rankings for world #39;s fastest supercomputer as Blue Gene/L ran at a sustained speed of 36.
OPT:
(i) World.
(ii) Sports.
(iii) Business.
(iv) Science/Tech. | (iii) | 7 | Flan2021 | ag_news_subset:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Cole: Hey babe ;)
Morgan: Hey you :) whats up?
Cole: just wonderin if you've got plans for tonite ;)
Morgan: soory, im meeting the girls :/ raincheck?
Cole: :(
Cole: Don't know if I can last that long x
Morgan: poor baby :P ill make it up to you :)
Cole: can't wait ;)
Morgan: get ur mind out of the gutter, babe
Cole: ;)
Cole: hwat about tomorrow?
Morgan: cant - im visitin my nan's :> sorry...
Cole: its alrite :) we'll talk when you get bck :)
Morgan: :)
Cole: hey babe...
Morgan: yeah?
Cole: stay safe tonight xx love you
Morgan: love you to xxx
Briefly summarize that dialogue. | Morgan is seeing the girls tonight. Morgan is visiting nan tomorrow and will talk to Cole after that. | 0 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Are "Susan" and "she" the same in this sentence?
Susan knew that Ann 's son had been in a car accident, because *she* told her about it.
Available options: (A). no (B). yes
The answer is: | (A). | 7 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wsc.fixed:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Produce a long descriptive sentence that uses all these words: St. Louis, leader, Francis G. Slay.
Sentence: | Francis G Slay is the leader of St Louis. | 6 | Flan2021 | gem/web_nlg_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was the gathering of 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, situated in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of World War II.
Based on the above text, what's the best answer to this question: international organization is the product of the bretton woods conference?
OPT: 1. no; 2. yes; | 2. | 5 | Flan2021 | bool_q:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a sentence, and then tell me the concepts included in that sentence. | Sentence:
people walking on a stone bridge over the moat of the old palace
Concepts:
bridge
moat
walk | 9 | Flan2021 | gem/common_gen:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Article: Life can get pretty busy as a teenager, but it's important that you spend time with yourself as well. Find something you love and make sure you do it regularly. This will allow you to be refreshed and happy when it comes to other parts of your life. Don't be surprised if your interests change in the space of months or years; that's natural while you're still working out what you enjoy most but don't try too hard. Just follow your interests to see where they lead and remain open-minded about new possibilities too. Depression is a very common condition that tends to show up in your preteen or teenage years. Seek professional help if you think you may be depressed. You may or may not get family support to help you through (depending on your family circumstances) but don't let a lack of such support stop you from caring for your mental health; there is always someone who can help you sort out depressive or negative feelings and problems and the earlier you are treated, the easier it will be to recover and gain both confidence and resilience for a happier future. Allow yourself to goof off from time to time. Always trying to be serious or focused can make you feel unhappy. Give yourself space to do fun things regularly to balance your studies, activities, and relationships. . This can help you relax and relieve some of the stress from a busy day at school or with friends. Music is a good way of expressing yourself too – if you don't already know how to play an instrument, consider learning one now, such as the guitar, piano or keyboard. And don't forget that your voice is an instrument too! Learning to enjoy time spent alone is an important part of realizing that you're whole without another person. This can help to prevent the development of co-dependent relationships or to seek to make another person the source of your life's happiness. Solitude also helps you to learn more about what makes you tick as a person and what your life's values are. Some ways to find effective and enjoyable solitude include meditation, walks by yourself, writing in a journal and spending time with pets.
What is a summary of what this article is about? | Schedule some me-time. Figure out your hobbies and interests. Stay happy. Listen to music Learn ways to enjoy solitude. | 7 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Use evidence from the fact that an animal 's brain controls that animal to answer the following question. Choose from options. "Animals make decisions based on"
Pick from:
-- their feet;
-- inside their heads;
-- their spines;
-- their homes; | inside their heads | 4 | Flan2021 | openbookqa:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Review: I was surprised, that ''The Secret Fury'' was an enjoyable good film...... Probably because, I didn't have any expectations for this movie..... Though, the film does have it's plot holes..... I would say, that you couldn't guess who was behind the whole scheme, until the very end of the movie..... At first, I thought, it was Robert Ryan, using the same method, like ''Gaslight'' where husband tries to drive his wife mad, but I was wrong...... The main problem, with the movie is, they drive at a whole other direction, which gave no clues at the beginning...... I thought, Robert Ryan & Claudette Colbert carried their parts well...... Plus, Vivian Vance, a fine character actress, who steals scenes in this one...... Those who like movies, that keeps you guessing, will like this one......
What is the sentiment of this review?
Pick your answer from:
(1). negative
(2). positive | (2). | 7 | Flan2021 | imdb_reviews/plain_text:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate to Czech:
Article 6 By way of derogation from Article 2 and section 7.3.2.1 of Annex I, Member States may refuse to grant national type-approval of, or refuse or prohibit the sale, registration or entry into service or use of buses or coaches the width of which exceeds 2,50 m until 31 December 1999, as provided by Article 9 of Directive 96/53/EC.
Czech: | Článek 6 Odchylně od článku 2 a bodu 7.3.2.1 přílohy I mohou členské státy do 31. prosince 1999 odmítnout udělit vnitrostátní schválení typu pro autobusy nebo autokary nebo odmítnout nebo zakázat prodej, registraci, uvedení do provozu nebo užívání autobusů nebo autokarů, jestliže jejich šířka přesahuje 2,50 m, jak povoluje článek 9 směrnice 96/53/ES. | 4 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/cs-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Which entity is this text about?
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, (; 22 May 1907 - 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles. Late in his career, he had considerable success in television roles.
Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, the youngest of the three children of the Revd Gerard Kerr Olivier (1869-1939) and his wife Agnes Louise, nee Crookenden (1871-1920). Their elder children were Sybille (1901-1989) and Gerard Dacres "Dickie" (1904-1958). His great-great-grandfather was of French Huguenot descent, and Olivier came from a long line of Protestant clergymen. Gerard Olivier had begun a career as a schoolmaster, but in his thirties he discovered a strong religious vocation and was ordained as a priest of the Church of England. He practised extremely high church, ritualist Anglicanism and liked to be addressed as "Father Olivier". This made him unacceptable to most Anglican congregations, and the only church posts he was offered were temporary, usually deputising for regular incumbents in their absence. This meant a nomadic existence, and for Laurence's first few years, he never lived in one place long enough to make friends. In 1912, when Olivier was five, his father secured a permanent appointment as assistant priest at St Saviour's, Pimlico. He held the post for six years, and a stable family life was at last possible. Olivier was devoted to his mother, but not to his father, whom he found a cold and remote parent. Nevertheless, he learned a great deal of the art of performing from him. As a young man Gerard Olivier had considered a stage career and was a dramatic and effective preacher. Olivier wrote that his father knew "when to drop the voice, when to bellow about the perils of hellfire, when to slip in a gag, when suddenly to wax sentimental ... The quick changes of mood and manner absorbed me, and I have never forgotten them." In 1916, after attending a series of preparatory schools, Olivier passed the singing examination for admission to the choir school of All Saints, Margaret Street, in central London. His elder brother was already a pupil, and Olivier gradually settled in, though he felt himself to be something of an outsider. The church's style of worship was (and remains) Anglo-Catholic, with emphasis on ritual, vestments and incense. The theatricality of the services appealed to Olivier, and the vicar encouraged the students to develop a taste for secular as well as religious drama. In a school production of Julius Caesar in 1917, the ten-year-old Olivier's performance as Brutus impressed an audience that included Lady Tree, the young Sybil Thorndike, and Ellen Terry, who wrote in her diary, "The small boy who played Brutus is already a great actor." He later won praise in other schoolboy productions, as Maria in Twelfth Night (1918) and Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew (1922). From All Saints, Olivier went on to St Edward's School, Oxford, from 1920 to 1924. He made little mark until his final year, when he played Puck in the school's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream; his performance was a tour de force that won him popularity among his fellow pupils. In January 1924, his brother left England to work in India as a rubber planter. Olivier missed him greatly and asked his father how soon he could follow. He recalled in his memoirs that his father replied, "Don't be such a fool, you're not going to India, you're going on the stage."
Entity: | Laurence Olivier | 8 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The production of sweat is typically a response to an increase in the body's
Pick the answer from these options
Select from:
A). blood circulation.;
B). temperature.;
C). respiration.;
D). heart rate.; | B). | 6 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Easy:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Read the text and answer the questions.
Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. As of July 1, 2016, Madison's estimated population of 252,551 made it the second largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and the 82nd largest in the United States. The city forms the core of the United States Census Bureau's Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Dane County and neighboring Iowa, Green, and Columbia counties. The Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area's 2010 population was 568,593.
Founded in 1829 on an isthmus between Lake Monona and Lake Mendota, Madison was named the capital of the Wisconsin Territory in 1836 and became the capital of the state of Wisconsin when it was admitted to the Union in 1848. That same year, the University of Wisconsin was founded in Madison and the state government and university have become the city's two largest employers. The city is also known for its lakes, restaurants, and extensive network of parks and bike trails, with much of the park system designed by landscape architect John Nolen.
Since the 1960s, Madison has been a center of political liberalism, influenced in part by the presence of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Madison's origins begin in 1829, when former federal judge James Duane Doty purchased over a thousand acres (4 km²) of swamp and forest land on the isthmus between Lakes Mendota and Monona, with the intention of building a city in the Four Lakes region. He purchased 1,261 acres for $1,500. When the Wisconsin Territory was created in 1836 the territorial legislature convened in Belmont, Wisconsin. One of the legislature's tasks was to select a permanent location for the territory's capital. Doty lobbied aggressively for Madison as the new capital, offering buffalo robes to the freezing legislators and promising choice Madison lots at discount prices to undecided voters. He had James Slaughter plat two cities in the area, Madison and "The City of Four Lakes", near present-day Middleton.
1. WHat is the capital of the U.S state of Wisconsin?
2. When was it founded?
3. What is the City known for?
4. What was it's populationi as of July 1, 2016?
5. Is it also known for it's extensive network of parks and bike trails?
6. What Wisconsin city is it second largest after?
7. When did it become the state capital?
8. What University is said to be a factor as it being a center of political liberalism?
9. What former Judge purchased over 1000 acres to begin Madison's origins?
10. How much did he purchase the 1,261acres for?
11. What did Doty use to aggressively lobbie Madison as the new capital?
12. What is Madisons two largest employers?
13. Who was it's park system designed by?
Numbered answers: | 1. Madison
2. 1829,
3. lakes
4. 252,551
5. yes
6. Milwaukee
7. 1848
8. University of Wisconsin-Madison
9. James Duane Doty
10. $1,500
11. promising choice Madison lots at discount prices to undecided voters
12. the state government and university
13. John Nolen | 1 | Flan2021 | coqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Here is some data about a restaurant: name = The Waterman, eatType = restaurant, food = English, priceRange = more than £30, customer rating = high, area = city centre, familyFriendly = yes. Write a sentence that includes the above data about a restaurant | The Waterman is an expensive English restaurant located in the city centre. It is not recommended for children, but it has received a high customer rating. | 4 | Flan2021 | gem/e2e_nlg:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Please answer this question: who played violet in charlie and the chocolate factory? | Denise Nickerson | 4 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Read this: Sanskrit originated in an oral society, and the oral tradition was maintained through the development of early classical Sanskrit literature. Writing was not introduced to India until after Sanskrit had evolved into the Prakrits; when it was written, the choice of writing system was influenced by the regional scripts of the scribes. Therefore, Sanskrit has no native script of its own. As such, virtually all the major writing systems of South Asia have been used for the production of Sanskrit manuscripts.
Now answer this question, if there is an answer (If it cannot be answered, return "unanswerable"): Under what type of tradition did Sanskrit begin? | oral tradition | 8 | Flan2021 | squad/v2.0:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
Victoria's Secret
The first Polish store opened in July 2012 at the Złote Tarasy shopping mall in Warsaw and is operated by M.H. Alshaya Co. It was the first Victoria's Secret franchise store in Europe, and it opened just a day before the first British store in London.
Choose your answer from: a). no. b). yes.
Is this statement correct "do they have victoria's secret in europe"? | b). | 8 | Flan2021 | bool_q:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Is it true that is oakley and ray ban the same company based on the following text?
As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes and retails its eyewear brands, including LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Sears Optical, Target Optical, Eyemed vision care plan, and Glasses.com. Its best known brands are Ray-Ban, Persol, and Oakley.
Available options:
(I). no;
(II). yes; | (II). | 9 | Flan2021 | bool_q:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Text: In optics, a virtual image is an image formed when the outgoing rays from a point on an object always diverge. The image appears to be located at the point of apparent divergence. Because the rays never really converge, a virtual image cannot be projected onto a screen. In diagrams of optical systems, virtual rays are conventionally represented by dotted lines. Virtual images are located by tracing the real rays that emerge from an optical device (lens, mirror, or some combination) backward to a perceived point of origin.
Question: can you see a virtual image on a screen?
Pick from:
a). no;
b). yes; | a). | 3 | Flan2021 | bool_q:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The tornadoes that tear through this county every spring is more than just a nuisance.
How would you consider the linguistic integrity of the preceding sentence?
Possible answers: (I). unacceptable; (II). acceptable; | (I). | 1 | Flan2021 | glue/cola:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
News article: What does an airline owe you when your flight times change?
By Linda Burbank, special for USA TODAY
Question: I have been a travel agent for 28 years. I take great pride in my customer-service oriented approach to my loyal clients and to say I have been greatly dismayed at the airlines' declining concern for customer service is a major understatement.
My most recent disappointment involves a honeymoon couple whose flights to Saint Lucia I booked on American Airlines. The airline tickets were purchased at the end of April, and at the end of May we were notified that a schedule change would force my clients to stay overnight in Miami on their return trip.
Both my office and my clients have contacted American several times by telephone and by email. Our e-mails to American's customer service office remain unanswered. When we spoke to American agents by telephone we were told that even though their schedule change caused the overnight, they would not compensate our clients.
We checked the American website for their policy on delays and found the following: "If the delay or cancellation was caused by events within our control and we do not get you to your final destination on the expected arrival day, we will provide reasonable overnight accommodations, subject to availability."
After reading this, we contacted American. We were told that this policy does not apply to schedule changes and no further explanation was offered. American did say they would send my clients $100 in vouchers that could be used for future travel within the next year.
Answer: Airlines' contracts of carriage and customer service plans delineate their policies and procedures, and reading through them can help you understand—and ask for—what you're due if there's trouble. But you have to make sure you're quoting the relevant section to get satisfaction.
When Bourgault didn't get the answers she wanted from American's reservations agents, she and her clients turned to American's customer service plan online. That was a good start. But she mixed up two clauses of that plan which spell out completely different scenarios, confusing flight delays and cancellations with schedule changes.
When flights are delayed or canceled, airlines may have some responsibility to assist customers. Depending on the airline, it may pay for your hotel room if you're stuck for the night, plus give you meal vouchers and telephone calling cards, but only if the problem was something under the carrier's control. There are no federal requirements that airlines do anything for its delayed passengers; that's when it's helpful to check the contract of carriage to know your rights.
But a schedule change is another matter entirely. An airline ticket is an agreement to transport you from point A to point B, but not always according to schedule. American's contract of carriage puts it this way: "American will endeavor to carry you and your baggage with reasonable dispatch, but times shown in timetables or elsewhere are not guaranteed and form no part of this contract."
Airlines change their schedules all the time. Most of the time, changes are relatively inconsequential; a few minutes' shift in arrival or departure times typically don't affect most fliers. Sometimes, though, a schedule change will wreak havoc on your plans, whether that means preventing you from making a connecting flight or simply cutting into your hard-earned vacation time.
But the airlines won't take responsibility for that either. On that point, American's contract of carriage says "Schedules are subject to change without notice. American is not responsible for or liable for failure to make connections, or to operate any flight according to schedule, or for a change to the schedule of any flight. Under no circumstances shall American be liable for any special, incidental or consequential damages arising from the foregoing."
That doesn't mean travelers are necessarily left in the lurch. If an airline makes a significant schedule change that renders your itinerary unworkable (or just doesn't jibe with your own schedule), it will try to rebook you on an alternate flight, on a space available basis. If that doesn't work, the airline will refund your fare without penalty. What qualifies as a substantial schedule change depends on the carrier. American's contract of carriage doesn't specify a timeline, while United's rules stipulate that a two-hour shift in arrival or departure time is grounds for rebooking or a refund.
A schedule change on Bourgault's clients' return flight from their Saint Lucia honeymoon meant that they couldn't make the minimum connection time in Miami, according to American representative Tim Smith.
"We offered them an earlier flight out of the George F. L. Charles Airport (the other airport also in St. Lucia) that would not require an overnight stay," says Smith. "They did not accept it."
Bourgault indicated that her clients had already booked a morning tour on their departure day, so the alternate flight wasn't an attractive option. Since American does not typically place passengers on another airline due to schedule changes, that left only the refund option. But this too hit a glitch, because according to American, Bourgault's clients' record locator did not contain any passenger contact information, so the airline was unable to contact them to verify the refund request made through its customer relations department.
After I sent Bourgault's complaint to the airline, American refunded the couple the full $434 per ticket. It also told them to keep the $100 in vouchers it previously sent as a gesture of goodwill.
How can you avoid trouble?
• Allow extra time around your flights, since schedule changes can make a mess of your plans. Take steps to prevent expensive disappointments: Don't book nonrefundable excursions on your arrival or departure day, for example, and don't fly into port within hours of your cruise departure.
• Make sure your passenger record has your contact information. Airlines attempt to notify its customers of significant schedule changes, but I often hear from travelers who don't learn about changes ahead of time. Give the airline a number where they can reach you during your trip—a voice mailbox you won't check until you get home won't help much. Set your spam filter to accept notification e-mails from the airline or your travel agency.
Linda Burbank first began troubleshooting travelers' complaints for the Consumer Reports Travel Letter. She now writes regularly for Consumers Union publications and is a contributing editor for National Geographic Traveler. E-mail her at travel@usatoday.com. Your question may be used in a future column.
You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference.
What are the most important parts of this news article? | Schedule change can wreak havoc on your plans, so know your rights. | 6 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Complete the following sentence.
The circus was in town and Brian wanted to go but Aaron didn’t because
Select from: [+] Brian was really spooked by clowns.; [+] Aaron was really spooked by clowns.; | Aaron was really spooked by clowns. | 8 | Flan2021 | winogrande:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
In the Tour de France, the leader of which classification wears the 'polka dot jersey'?
What is the answer? | king of mountains | 9 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your answer: The Secretary and the President met about him being appointed.
Tell me who him is.
Options are: a. The Secretary; b. the President; | a. | 3 | Flan2021 | definite_pronoun_resolution:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Dennis Princewell Stehr (born 15 May 1984), better known by his stage name Mr Probz, is a Dutch singer, musician and actor. In 2013, he released the song "Waves", which was remixed in 2014 by Robin Schulz, becoming an international hit. He has released one album and featured in the film Bolletjes Blues.
Can we infer the following?
Mr. Probz was a Dutch singer.
OPTIONS: (a). Yes; (b). It's impossible to say; (c). No;
The answer is: | (a). | 4 | Flan2021 | anli/r2:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Add punctuation to the following sentence: When the Robert ceremony took place in January the teams behind ANTBOY and The BRIDGE II did not go home emptyhanded
| When the Robert ceremony took place in January, the teams behind ANTBOY and The BRIDGE II did not go home empty-handed. | 7 | Flan2021 | fix_punct | zs_opt |
Matt is an adult. He is looking for a job. He hopes to become a clown someday. He wants to be a clown because he loves making people laugh. In order to be a clown, Matt must go to clown school.
One day, Matt's friend tells him about a clown school in St. Louis. Matt becomes excited!
The next day, Matt goes to the clown school in St. Louis. Matt's friend does not go with him. Matt's friend does not want to be a clown because he doesn't like to look weird.
When Matt arrives at clown school, he sees a clown riding on a blue tricycle. The clown asks, "What are you doing here?"
Matt says, "I want to become a clown."
"Well, can you ride this blue tricycle?" the clown asked.
"Yes," Matt said. He rode the blue tricycle all around the clown school. In the classrooms, in the gym, and in the lunchroom.
"You have what it takes to be a clown," the clown said, "you are accepted to clown school."
Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:
1. What is Matt?
2. What is he looking for?
3. Of what?
4. why?
5. What does he have to do?
6. Does he know of one?
7. how?
8. Where?
9. How does he feel?
10. What happens the next day?
11. with who?
12. what does he see there?
13. What does the clown say?
14. How does he respond?
15. And the clown's response?
16. What did Matt do?
17. where?
18. Did he get accepted?
Numbered answers: | 1. an adult
2. a job.
3. a clown
4. he loves making people laugh
5. go to clown school.
6. yes
7. HIs friend tells him.
8. St. Louis
9. excited!
10. he goes to the clown school
11. no one
12. a clown riding on a blue tricycle.
13. What are you doing here?
14. I want to become a clown
15. can you ride this blue tricycle?
16. He rode it
17. around the clown school
18. yes | 5 | Flan2021 | coqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Summarize the following movie reviews:
1. Little of the material feels distinctive, fresh, or insightful -- let alone edgy.
2. There's no world view, no scathing insight, no moment when you find your perceptions genuinely challenged.
3. At times the material grows as repetitive as it is profane.
4. Some of the humor on display in the movie is very funny, but much of it is offensive and demeaning.
5. This is not cutting-edge comedy at all, but four strangely repetitive stand-up routines.
6. Is it funny? Sure -- although not as funny as the comics themselves seem to think it is.
7. While not making for the most visually inventive of cinema, the straightforward approach puts in proper focus the film's appeal: four talented guys simply being very funny.
8. For about 3/4 of its length, The Original Kings of Comedy feels like the funniest movie of the year.
9. The comics really are good at what they do, provoking laughter from people of any race.
10. Live comedy ... is a singularly difficult experience to capture on film, but Lee's done his level best here.
Summary: | If you want lots of laughs and don't mind some profanity, The Original Kings of Comedy can deliver. | 5 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
Im Lombardy Hotel verweilen Sie im Martini Bistro bei erlesenen Cocktails und wählen aus der breitgefächerten Weinkarte.
Could you please translate this to English? | On-site at the Lombardy, guests can enjoy signature cocktails and an extensive wine list at the Martini Bistro. | 2 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/de-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a text based on this summary: european shares jump on us rate news london hits five-year high
Text: | european stock markets rebounded on wednesday as global markets welcomed a hint from the us federal reserve that its policy of raising interest rates could be approaching an end , dealers said . | 8 | Flan2021 | gigaword:1.2.0 | zs_opt |
Do these mean the same?
The functional structure of the Suhrkamp publishing house is located in Lindenstraße , the literary reputation of the residence corresponds inversely to its architectural importance .
The functional structure of the Suhrkamp publishing house is located in the Lindenstraße , the literary reputation of the residence corresponds in reverse to its architectural importance .
Available choices: * no * yes | yes | 8 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Text complete: `` it might take you a few tries to get used to it . '' `` thanks , '' she grudgingly replied as she slammed the locker shut and followed him back to homeroom . by the time they walked in , everyone else had their schedules in hand and was preparing to head off to first hour . she retrieved her bag and purse and went to the teacher 's desk to get her | schedule | 7 | Flan2021 | lambada:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
1. Just middling funny, with no truly memorable high points and a sum impact that goes poof! before you've left the parking garage.
2. Be afraid, be very afraid.
3. It's better than the second film...
4. This PG-13 has R-rated stuff.
5. Fun, stupid stuff with no sense of a narrative arc or plot structure ... but hey, it made me laugh anyway.
6. As with Scary Movie parts one and two, you pays your money, you gets your laughs, and you won't remember a thing in a few months.
7. Zucker's slapstick may have the satiric delicacy of a chainsaw lobotomy, but it hasn't harmed the franchise.
8. Basically, any movie that suffers from a lack of Charlie Sheen has got problems.
9. If you're looking for anything other than a parody clipshow, you won't find it.
10. This is just a stab in the dark, the wildest of guesses on my part, but I don't think Michael Jackson would recommend "Scary Movie 3."
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus? | Though an improvement over the second Scary Movie, the laughs are still inconsistent. | 2 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
Which of these is an example of liquid water?
Pick the answer from these options
OPT:
a). Frost;
b). Ice;
c). Rain;
d). Steam; | c). | 6 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Challenge:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article with the title: "Finding Bargains When You’re Unemployed"
Article: |
Several weeks ago, Rochelle Rachelson walked into a salon near her Upper East Side apartment in New York City and inquired about their cheapest cut.
“Too much,” said Ms. Rachelson. The receptionist came back with a $48 cut from a junior stylist.
“That’s still too much,” Ms. Rachelson replied, “I’m not working.”
“How about a student for $10?”
“I’m in,” Ms. Rachelson said.
It was a typically hard-won triumph for Ms. Rachelson, who has had to struggle for things she once took for granted ever since she went from living on a $57,000-a-year salary to living on $16,000 a year in unemployment checks.
One remarkable thing abou t this recession is the speed of many people’s transition from shopping at Saks to cutting out coupons. People with lucrative professions and vacation homes are learning that they have been living closer to the edge than they thought. As a result, many of them are reassessing which expenditures are necessities and which amount to luxuries—and they are learning new consumer skills, such as bargaining, to help them afford what they can.
The transition has been harsh for Ms. Rachelson, a 58-year-old woman who once enjoyed daily restaurant meals, weekly manicures, regular shopping trips to Bergdorf’s, and summers in the Hamptons. Ms. Rachelson was never wealthy, but for many years she worked as a project manager with an office-furniture company, living in a rent-stabilized apartment at 80th Street on Manhattan’s upscale Upper East Side. She had a closet full of well-made clothes and more than 100 pairs of shoes. “Everything had to be from Italy,” she says. “I have a good eye.”
But then, two years ago, the economy began to falter, and Ms. Rachelson was restructured out of her job with the office-furniture company. She had never been out of work for more than a few weeks, so she was surprised when it took several months to find another job. She landed her next position, albeit a temporary one, as a result of her luxury shopping habits: She was hired as a sales specialist at Fortunoff, the jewelry and home retailer. “I’d been shopping there for years—I knew the products,” she says.
When that holiday-season job ended, she wound up back on unemployment. Since then, she has been living on her unemployment payments, grateful for several extensions of the program’s time limits. She has had regular job interviews but no offers.
“Apparently, I’m unemployable,” she said recently with a wry humor that often belies how concerned she is. “I say to my friends, ‘Hey, you still got that basement?’ ” she said another day. “I make jokes.”
So far, seven million jobs have been lost in the U.S. during this recession, according to the Department of Labor. The national unemployment rate climbed to 9.4% in May, and jobless rates are already in the double digits in Michigan, Ohio, California and other states.
The number of the long-term unemployed—people who, like Ms. Rachelson, have been jobless for 27 weeks or more—has tripled since the beginning of the recession to 3.9 million. Despite a few signs of economic improvement—such as rising home prices in parts of the country—most forecasts suggest the recession is far from over. By the time it does end, many of us are likely to have permanently altered the way we make daily consumer choices.
For Ms. Rachelson, there are no more weekly manicures. The annual vacations to Acapulco and summers in the Hamptons with a rented car are a thing of her past. “I took a house in the Hamptons for 33 years,” she says. “For me, it symbolized a season. People don’t say, ‘How’s your winter?’ They ask, ‘What are you doing for the season?’ ”
In those days, she used to call weeks in advance to secure reservations at the hottest restaurants, she recalls with relish. She ate in “anything that was new, all the new places,” she says.
Now, she spends summer weekends in Manhattan. For fun, she sees her friends and goes to movie matinees, buying tickets with a senior-citizen discount.
Ms. Rachelson has changed the way she thinks about shopping. Though she always liked a bargain, she used to shop without qualms. One time, a woman friend didn’t see a need for new shoes while the two were out shopping. “I said, ‘What are you talking about? Aren’t you a woman? Who needs anything?’ ” Ms. Rachelson says.
Now, she has replaced shopping at Bergdorf’s and Bloomingdale’s with trips to Bed, Bath & Beyond. She asks friends to collect that store’s $5-off coupons, which she stores in a zippered pencil case full of coupons for makeup, toiletries and food. “I work the system,” she says.
Indeed, she has become canny about maintaining her small luxuries. She cooks a lot now, but to replace her dinners out, she takes advantage of the $5.95 lunch specials at restaurants in her neighborhood, which are served until 5 p.m. Ms. Rachelson shows up at 4:50. “I get the lunch price for dinner,” she says.
Maintaining her looks—finding ways to get her hair cut and colored, her makeup done—is a necessity when she’s job-hunting. But it’s also a point of pride: She’s been blond, pretty and vivacious all her life. Still, she has had to compromise. She recently replaced her professional highlights with $5.79 hair color she applies herself and buys her makeup at drugstores.
A morning coffee at Starbucks, once a daily ritual, is now a carefully managed luxury. Each morning, Ms. Rachelson heads down to Starbucks carrying a cup of yogurt or a bowl of oatmeal. She buys the cheapest coffee for $2 and reads the paper for several hours (the shop’s personnel have never objected, she says).
When she discovered a cracked tooth last month, Ms. Rachelson asked around until she discovered it’s possible to have the expensive repair work done at a discount at New York University’s dental school. She sold the 14-carat-gold jewelry she received for her “Sweet 16” birthday to raise money for the down payment on the $2,800 repair job and is currently trying to figure out how she’ll raise the remaining $1,400. It would be cheaper to simply have the tooth pulled, but she fears that having a missing tooth would make it even harder for her to land a job.
Ms. Rachelson recently applied for a sales position at Bed, Bath & Beyond.
“If I get through this,” she says, “I won’t return to that lifestyle. I don’t need 140 pairs of shoes. I need health care.” | 7 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Produce a long descriptive sentence that uses all these words: Turkey LEADER_NAME Ahmet Davutoğlu; Turkey CAPITAL Ankara; Atatürk Monument (İzmir) INAUGURATION_DATE "1932-07-27"; Atatürk Monument (İzmir) LOCATION Turkey | Turkey's leader is Ahmet Davutoglu and the capital is Ankara. Turkey is the location of the Ataturk Monument (Izmir) which was inaugurated on 27 July 1932. | 7 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Sentence: "If Jim feels good, he will go."
Pick from options: would a linguist rate this sentence to be acceptable linguistically?
Pick your answer from:
(a). unacceptable
(b). acceptable...I think the answer is | (b). | 0 | Flan2021 | glue/cola:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Options are:
(1). yes;
(2). no;
Does "On October 28, 1989, the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet decreed that effective January 1, 1990, Ukrainian would be the official language of Ukraine, while Russian would be used for communication between ethnic groups." correctly answer the question of Who decided Ukraine's official language?
| (1). | 3 | Flan2021 | glue/qnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
CNN -- Sebastian Junger found him crouched on a battlefield in Afghanistan, fighting to stay alive.
Ahmad Shah Massoud, center in white shirt, leads his men in his beloved Afghan mountains.
The Taliban had the man cornered and outnumbered. A sniper's bullet came so close to the man that it plucked dirt between his feet. But Junger watched him coolly orchestrate a cunning counterattack by his soldiers -- all while discussing his favorite poetry and international news.
"He had tremendous magnetism," says Junger, a noted journalist and author who has written bestsellers like "The Perfect Storm," and "A Death in Belmont."
"You didn't even need to speak his language to fall under his sway. That's the only time I've ever really felt that from another person."
The man Junger met was Ahmad Shah Massoud, the "Lion of Panjshir." Today, Massoud is a national hero in Afghanistan, but he's also become something else: the prototype for the tough but enlightened leader Afghanistan desperately needs today, some Afghans say. Watch how images of Massoud are everywhere in Afghanistan »
Massoud was assassinated two days before the September 11 terrorist attacks by agents linked to al Qaeda. Though he died eight years ago, his legacy looms over any would-be leader in Afghanistan, Afghans and scholars say. See current key players in Afghanistan »
'He would have found bin Laden'
Afghanistan's government has been accused of being corrupt and weak. Massoud had a reputation for integrity and strength, says Junger, who traveled to Afghanistan in 2000 to profile Massoud for his book, "Fire."
Answer the following questions:
1. What was Ahmad wearing?
2. Where does he live?
3. What is Junger's job?
4. Is Massoud alive?
5. How did he die?
6. What was his nickname?
7. Is he portrayed positively in Afghanistan?
8. Who would he have found if he was still alive?
9. What was the name of Junger's novel?
10. When did he travel to see him for the book?
11. What is another book he has written?
12. What's another?
13. What was the government accused of?
14. What traits did Massoud have?
Numbered answers: | 1. a white shirt
2. Afghanistan,
3. \journalist
4. no
5. he was assassinated
6. Lion of Panjshir
7. yes
8. bin Laden
9. Fire
10. 2000
11. he Perfect Storm
12. A Death in Belmont
13. being corrupt and weak.
14. integrity and strength | 0 | Flan2021 | coqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a context and a hypothesis. | Context: DP_San Francisco 3, Oakland 1. LOB_San Francisco 8, Oakland 9. 2B_Pence (5), Piscotty (26). HR_Belt (14). SB_McCutchen (9), Pence (3), Piscotty (2). CS_Semien (5). S_Pinder (1). Bumgarner pitched to 5 batters in the 5th Watson pitched to 2 batters in the 9th HBP_by Holland (Lowrie). WP_Cahill, Treinen. Umpires_Home, Brian Knight; First, Gerry Davis; Second, Ryan Additon; Third, Pat Hoberg. T_4:04. A_56,310 (46,765).
Hypothesis: san francisco batters to 5 | 9 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Morningtemperatureswillbearound22°C.Duringthedaytheywillreachamaximumof29°C.Lowtemperaturesatnightwillbearound24°C.Wehaveweaknortheasterlywinds.
What's a sentence that uses these characters? | Morning temperatures will be around 22 °C. During the day they will reach a maximum of 29 °C. Low temperatures at night will be around 24°C. We have weak northeasterly winds. | 1 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
Translate to French:
Europeans modified these designs and developed the basket sled with its load raised off the snow and supported by 2 narrow runners for hauling over packed trails.
| Les Européens ont modifié ces designs et conçu le traîneau à panier surélevé monté sur deux lisses étroites pour le transport sur pistes durcies. | 4 | Flan2021 | wmt14_translate/fr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Given the fact "as distance from a source of light increases , that source of light will appear dimmer", what is the answer to the question or completion "A plane takes off from the ground, lights blazing, and flies into the sky. As the plane ascends and travels to its destination,"
Select from the following. (1). the lights are brighter. (2). the lights appear duller. (3). the lights are closer. (4). the lights are bigger. | (2). | 2 | Flan2021 | openbookqa:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Our mistress hired a room for my crippled sister Nelly , and she gave *her* knitting and needlework when she was able to do it, and when she was ill she sent her dinners and many nice comfortable things and was like a mother to her.
Multi-choice question: Do "Nelly" and "her" have the same meaning?
Pick from: [-] no [-] yes | yes | 1 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wsc.fixed:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Write the answer: What name is given to a young goat? | kid | 2 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Sentences: 1. Geographically , Turkey is astride the divide between Europe and Asia , it is uncontestable that Turkey is in part a European country and so has the right to become a member of the European Union .
2. Turkeys biggest city , Istanbul , is located within Europe .
3. One of the core values of the EU stands as every country on the European continent after having completed all the necessary preparations has the right to join the EU .
4. Furthermore , Turkey and its predecessors , the Ottoman Empire and Byzantine Empire were major European and World powers from the end of the Roman Empire until the breakdown of the World War I .
5. The Ottoman Empire took part in the European states system from its birth even if as in some ways an outsider , until the end of the eighteenth century Turkey was considered to be much more a part of the European system than Russia .
6. Turkey since the first world war has been orientated towards the west using western methods to modernize including for example making the state secular ; building a law system based not on Islamic law but on Swiss civil law .
7. Turkey can therefore be said to be as much a western nation as an Islamic one .
8. The EU : A Community of Values .
9. Accessed on September 3 , 2010 .
10. Anderson , M.S. , The Origins of the Modern European State System 1494-1618 , Longman London , 1998 , p. 57 Huntington , Samuel P. , The Clash of Civilizations and the remaking of world order , Simon & Schuster London , 1996 , pp.144-145
What claim can be made from these sentences? | Turkey is actually part of the European continent both geographically and historically. | 1 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
Select from options: How similar are the following two sentences?
The Nazis increases the longevity of a handgun permit from to years.
The Nazis lowered the minimum age to buy a firearm from to .
Give the answer on a scale from 0 - 5, where 0 is "not similar at all" and 5 is "means the same thing".
Choices:
(a). 0.
(b). 1.
(c). 2.
(d). 3.
(e). 4.
(f). 5. | (c). | 3 | Flan2021 | glue/stsb:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Paragraph: (CNN) -- A Christian evangelical group said Thursday that a Bible school -- backed by American evangelist Franklin Graham -- was destroyed in the latest bombing raid to hit South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly created independent country of South Sudan. At least eight bombs were dropped in the area Wednesday during the school's first day of classes, according to a statement by Samaritan's Purse, Graham's Christian humanitarian group, which supports the school. Two bombs landed inside the compound -- located in the region's Nuba Mountains -- destroying two Heiban Bible College buildings and igniting grass fires across the area, the group said in a statement No injuries were reported. "It was a miracle that no one was injured," the statement added. Graham, who has called on the international community to take out Sudan's air assets and establish a no-fly zone in the region, said in a statement Thursday that he blamed Sudan's air force for the strike. At least four churches have been destroyed since August, the group said. "We are deeply concerned for the welfare and lives of the people of South Kordofan and we condemn the bombing of churches and Christian facilities," added Graham, son of the famed Rev. Billy Graham. More than 78,000 people have fled South Kordofan and Blue Nile states since August of last year after an armed rebellion took root, the United Nations reported. The Sudanese government is thought to have responded to the rebellion by conducting sustained air raids with the use of Russian-made Antonov bombers, which have raised concerns over civilian casualties. Decades of civil war between the north and south, costing as many as 2 million lives, formally ended with a U.S.-brokered peace treaty in 2005.
Question: "Of the eight bombs dropped how many hit within the bible school compound?"
Answer: "2"
Based on the paragraph, choose if the answer is correct:
OPTIONS:
(a). no
(b). yes | (b). | 3 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Generate an approximately fifteen-word sentence that describes all this data: Asser Levy Public Baths, location, New York City; New York City, country, United States; New York City, isPartOf, New Netherland.
Sentence: | The Asser Levy Public Baths are located in the United States in New York City, which used to be part of New Netherland. | 7 | Flan2021 | gem/web_nlg_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Answer the question...who won season 11 celebrity worst cooks in america?? | Perez Hilton | 5 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is the best way to: screws
Available choices: a). can pin a refrigerator. to a board.; b). can pin a box to a board.;
Answer: | b). | 5 | Flan2021 | piqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
! In other fun stuff news , the week after next is my vacation from work , and how 's this for lucky : it happens to fall on the week of Chris ' birthday . So he 's gon na try to get a few of those days off and we 'll do something rad for his 24th . We do n't know what yet , but we 'll find something . Hopefully you will take a few days off , SHANE , so we can at least hang and party for a few days .
Question with options to choose from: Why is the narrator excited about having some days off ?
OPT:
[+] None of the above choices ..
[+] The days line up with Chris ' special day ..
[+] The days line up with July 4th ..
[+] The days line up with their own birthday .. | The days line up with Chris ' special day . | 0 | Flan2021 | cosmos_qa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Farrow was born in Los Angeles, California, the third child and eldest daughter of Australian film director John Farrow (John Villiers Farrow) and Irish actress Maureen O'Sullivan. Both Farrow's mother and father were from Catholic families. She is one of seven children, with older brothers Michael Damien (1939-1958), Patrick (1942-2009), younger brother John Charles (born 1946); and younger sisters Prudence and actresses Stephanie and Tisa. Her eldest brother, Michael Farrow, died in a plane crash in 1958, at age 19; Patrick, a sculptor, committed suicide in 2009; and John Charles was in 2013 sentenced to 25 years in prison for child molestation, for sexually abusing two boys over a period of eight years.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Farrow's relationship with director Woody Allen resulted in numerous film collaborations. She appeared in nearly all of Allen's films during this period, including leading roles in Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days and Alice (1990). Farrow played Alura, mother of Kara (Helen Slater), in Supergirl (1984) and voiced the title role in the animated film The Last Unicorn (1982). She narrated several of the animated Stories to Remember. Allen said that the way she played her character in Broadway Danny Rose was a "very, very brave thing for her to do," as she had to play her role without ever using her eyes. Citing the need to devote herself to raising her young children, Farrow worked less frequently during the 1990s. Nonetheless, she appeared in leading roles in several films, including the Irish film Widows' Peak (1994), Miami Rhapsody (1995) and Reckless (also 1995). She appeared in several independent features and made-for-television films throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s and wrote an autobiography, What Falls Away, in 1997. Farrow appeared as Mrs. Baylock, the Satanic nanny, in the remake of The Omen (2006). Although the film itself received a lukewarm critical reception, Farrow's performance was widely praised, with the Associated Press declaring "thank heaven for Mia Farrow" and calling her performance "a rare instance of the new Omen improving on the old one." Filmcritic.com added "it is Farrow who steals the show", and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer described her performance as "a truly delicious comeback role for Rosemary herself, Mia Farrow, who is chillingly believable as a sweet-talking nanny from hell." She worked on several films released in 2007, including the romantic comedy The Ex and the first part of director Luc Besson's trilogy of fantasy films, Arthur and the Invisibles. In 2008, in director Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind, she appeared opposite Jack Black, Mos Def and Danny Glover. In 2011, Farrow appeared in the film Dark Horse, directed by Todd Solondz. In September 2014, Farrow returned to Broadway in the play Love Letters. The play was well received by critics with the New York Times calling Farrow's performance "utterly extraordinary... as the flighty, unstable and writing-averse Melissa Gardner." Answer this question using a quote from the following article:
What are other movies that she acted in? | Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters, | 7 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
When patients interrupt a course of antibiotics, the surviving bacteria return with a vengeance, often having rapidly mutated to resist the therapy.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that the sentence below is true?
Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics.
Select from the following. (i). yes (ii). no | (ii). | 1 | Flan2021 | super_glue/rte:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Question: who did the united states support in the chinese civil war??
Answer: | Republic of China | 0 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Here is a news article: CLOSE Adnan Syed was convicted for murdering his ex-girlfirend in 1999 at the age of 17. Now his case might be getting a second chance. USA TODAY
Adnan Syed enters Courthouse East in Baltimore prior to a hearing on Feb. 3, 2016. (Photo: Barbara Haddock Taylor, AP)
Adnan Syed, a convicted killer and focus of the hit podcast Serial, returned to a Maryland courtroom Wednesday to argue for a new trial.
Syed, now 35, was found guilty in 2000 of strangling his former high school girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999. Lee went missing and was found weeks later buried in Leakin Park in Baltimore.
Syed, who arrived in court in shackles and a blue prison jumpsuit, drew international attention after Serial cast doubt on the conviction.
Syed's attorney, C. Justice Brown, says Syed wasn't given a fair trial and that his trial lawyer, Cristina Gutierrez, who was later disbarred, failed to contact alibi witness Asia McClain. McLain, who attended high school with Syed and Lee, says she saw Syed in the school library when the prosecutors say the murder took place.
Baltimore Circuit Judge Martin Welch is presiding over the three-day hearing to determine whether Syed's case will be retried.
The case was heavily centered on two incoming phone calls that put Syed at the location where his victim was buried. But AT&T said at the time that incoming calls were not reliable for determining locations. In August, Syed's lawyer claimed that "cell tower evidence was misleading and should have never been admitted at trial."
The case will take a look at whether the cell tower evidence should be dismissed and McClain's affidavit, signed in January 2015, examined.
"Reopening the post-conviction proceedings would be in the interests of justice for all parties," Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Martin Welch wrote last year.
Serial is a podcast produced by Sarah Koenig that uses investigative journalism to tell a non-fiction story over multiple episodes. It was first released in 2014 as a spinoff of the radio program This American Life.
Contributing: John Bacon
Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1SXL7v2 ||||| For more than a decade, Asia McClain was confident that she had seen Adnan Syed at a Woodlawn library during the time when prosecutors said he had killed his former girlfriend.
Defense attorneys never asked about her account, she said, and a prosecutor later dismissed the potential alibi as irrelevant. But before a packed courtroom on Wednesday, McClain described how a popular podcast about the case had persuaded her that she needed to speak up.
"In order for justice to be served, all information has to be out on the table," McClain testified in Baltimore Circuit Court.
It was the first day of a three-day hearing. Syed's attorneys argued Wednesday that he should receive a new trial in the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend and Woodlawn High School classmate Hae Min Lee. The hearing was the first since the "Serial" podcast raised questions about Syed's conviction.
A hush fell over the courtroom full of supporters, spectators and news media as Syed, 34, was escorted in, shackled at the hands and feet.
Syed's attorneys say McClain's account should not have been dismissed. They say her testimony and newly scrutinized cellphone tower evidence provide grounds for a new trial.
Attorneys for the state urged retired Judge Martin P. Welch to deny the request. Deputy Maryland Attorney General Thiru Vignarajah said Syed received sufficient representation during his trial in 2000 and that any decision by his attorneys not to follow up on McClain's account then was strategic.
"Mr. Syed was convicted on the basis of overwhelming evidence," Vignarajah said. "Mr. Syed was convicted because he did it, and the state proved it."
A jury convicted Syed of kidnapping and strangling the 18-year-old Lee, and he was sentenced to life in prison. No physical evidence tied Syed to the crime, but a witness testified that he helped Syed bury her body.
Lee's family did not participate in the "Serial" podcast and has not spoken out in any of the articles, spinoff podcasts and websites that followed. After the hearing concluded for the day, Vignarajah read a statement from the family from the courthouse steps, in which they said the new proceedings were forcing them to "relive a nightmare we thought was behind us."
"We believe justice was done when Adnan was convicted in 2000, and we look forward to bringing this chapter to an end so we can celebrate the memory of Hae instead of celebrating the man who killed her," the family said.
The family said Lee was the "true victim."
Much of the testimony Wednesday centered on the effectiveness of M. Cristina Gutierrez, Syed's trial attorney. Gutierrez died in 2004.
Two former associates testified that Gutierrez had begun to fall apart physically and mentally, and was no longer the same top attorney when she took on Syed's case.
Welch dismissed arguments to reopen Syed's case in 2012, when the defense raised questions about Gutierrez's work and introduced McClain's account as an alibi.
Kevin Urick, a prosecutor in Syed's case, testified at the 2012 hearing that McClain had told him she had claimed in an affidavit that she had seen Syed at the library on the day of Lee's killing "because she was getting pressure" from Syed's family.
McClain did not testify then, and now says that Urick misrepresented the case to her — and misrepresented her position to the court.
"He flat out said, 'He killed that girl,'" McClain testified Wednesday. She said Urick told her that defense attorneys were trying to game the system and that he was confident of Syed's guilt.
Witnesses in the hearing have been sequestered and directed not to speak to reporters. Urick told The Baltimore Sun last year that he never dissuaded McClain from testifying. He did say he told her that the evidence was "strong" against Syed.
Urick, now a prosecutor in Cecil County, is listed as a potential state witness in the current hearing.
McClain first raised the potential alibi immediately after Syed's arrest in 1999. She testified that she was stuck at the Woodlawn library on Jan. 13 waiting for her boyfriend and struck up a conversation with Syed.
He was "completely normal," she said.
McClain wrote a letter to Syed after his arrest, offering to help him if he thought the information would be useful in mounting a defense. She wrote a second letter a day later, she said, but never heard from Syed's defense.
Vignarajah provided notes from Gutierrez's case file. He had obtained them in recent weeks by arguing that the contents had been shared widely with the public through the "Serial" podcast, which was downloaded millions of times.
The files, he said, showed Gutierrez dividing up tasks, assigning clerks and attorneys to pursue them, and making strategic decisions about what to pursue and what to withhold.
Gutierrez determined that the "pursuit of Ms. McClain would not be a worthwhile endeavor," Vignarajah said, countering the contention that Gutierrez was not of sound mind.
Vignarajah said McClain's account did not mesh with Syed's own account to police of his movements that day, and raised a number of "warning signs and red flags" that Gutierrez could reasonably have chosen to shy away from.
He told Welch that the defense must prove not only that Gutierrez made questionable decisions in defending Syed, but was "constitutionally deficient" and "below the standard of conduct."
McClain sat just feet from Syed, whom she described as a former acquaintance. By the time his trial started a year after his arrest, she said, she was concentrating on college and did not follow the proceedings.
Syed has been incarcerated for 16 years. He entered the courtroom wearing a blue prison top, jeans, work boots, and a round gray-and-white skullcap, or topi.
McClain, meanwhile, has moved to Washington state, where she said she is married with two children, and expecting a third.
McClain described participating in the "Serial" podcast unwittingly. She said she assumed it was a sparsely followed Internet radio show. But her account became a crucial chapter in the 12-episode series, and she "binge-listened" to the program.
Before "Serial," "I didn't think I was very important at all," McClain testified. "I came to find out, as [creator] Sarah [Koenig] said, maybe it is important."
Koenig, the former Baltimore Sun reporter who produced and narrated "Serial," also attended the hearing. ||||| Adnan Syed’s mother stood in the middle of a room in the basement of the Dar Al Taqwa Islamic center near Baltimore.
“I haven’t seen her smile like this in a very long time,” said Kasif Ali, a lifelong friend of the Syed family. He said that when Yusef, Adnan’s brother, let his mother Shamim Syed see all the Facebook posts from around the world, she was overwhelmed and stayed up half the night reading them. And now, as the basement room fills up with television cameras and well-wishers wearing #FreeAdnan T-shirts who came to pray and mobilize before Syed’s hearing, Shamim Syed is both excited and nervous.
Syed was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999. On Wednesday, he will receive another chance to argue his innocence, after he was granted a hearing to consider new evidence.
Millions of people around the world became familiar, if not obsessed, with Syed’s case when it became the subject of Serial, a podcast spinoff of the public radio hit This American Life. Sarah Koenig, a former Baltimore Sun reporter, spent 12 weeks digging into the details of the crime, its investigation and the trial that has kept Syed, who has always insisted on his innocence, behind bars for the past 17 years.
“My brother was broken and alone,” said Yusef Syed. “Then came Serial.”
The hearing this week will be Syed’s last chance – and the first time the world has seen him post-Serial.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Adnan Syed enters the courthouse in Baltimore prior to a hearing on Wednesday. It is his first public appearance since the Serial podcast aired. Photograph: Barbara Haddock Taylor/AP
“It took a lot to get here,” said Rabia Chaudry, a lawyer and friend of the family who first took the case to Koenig, the producer and narrator of Serial. “It’s not the appeals process that brought us here. We lost the appeal.”
She said that only 1.2% of cases receive leave to appeal the denial of post-conviction, the technical name for Syed’s hearing.
But Syed’s supporters think the case is stronger now. New evidence can’t be introduced in appeals, so this post-conviction remedy is the first chance Syed’s team has had to present new evidence, which they say could dramatically change the case and lead to Syed’s freedom.
The first issue is that of a witness, Asia McClain, who has maintained that she was with Syed when the murder took place and said that she was pressured not to testify by the prosecution. The second issue involves the use of incoming calls to a cellphone to determine location – a new technology at the time which Justin Brown, Syed’s lawyer, says should not have been admitted.
“It’s our position that the alibi issue all by itself is an issue strong enough to win a reversal of Adnan’s conviction,” Brown said. “But also the cell tower evidence even by itself is also strong enough to merit his sentence being vacated.”
Brown maintains that Syed’s original attorney, Cristina Gutierrez, who was disbarred the following year, provided ineffective counsel in Syed’s original trial in 2000.
The state’s case was based primarily on the testimony of Jay Wilds, Syed’s friend and pot dealer, who testified that Syed showed him Min Lee’s body in the trunk of a car and coerced him into helping bury her in Baltimore’s Leakin park, where numerous other bodies have been hidden over the years.
This testimony was bolstered by cellphone records which seemed to place Syed at the scene of the crime. But the new evidence, a cover letter to a fax sent by service provider AT&T, casts doubt on that. “Outgoing calls only are reliable for location status. Any incoming calls will NOT be considered reliable information,” the letter reads.
Without those records, the defense maintains there is little to corroborate the testimony of Wilds, whose courtroom version of events differed significantly from what he originally told investigators. “The state has been trumpeting that evidence,” said Brown. “That evidence should not have come in at trial. Incoming phone calls should not have been admissible.”
Add to that the new witness – whose testimony is expected to show that she was with Syed at the library when the crime was committed – and Syed’s family and supporters hope that he may finally go free.
Chaudry says that over the past 17 years, the community has raised more than $300,000 for Syed’s defense, but it wasn’t until Koenig and the Serial team tackled the case that it captured the world’s attention.
Though Koenig ended the podcast with doubts – she was never sure, she said, whether Sayed did it or not – Brown acknowledges that Serial has greatly helped Syed’s case. “I felt it was very fortuitous,” he said of the podcast. “It’s helped us a great deal – it’s helped us turn this case around. And it’s put [us in the] position we’re in today.”
Chaudry started her own podcast, Undisclosed, which followed up on Serial and gave internet sleuths a further chance to geek out on the question of whether or not there were pay phones at the Best Buy store near Woodlawn high school in 1999. Another podcast, Truth and Justice, has dealt with the case and its creator Bob Ruff was in the audience of the Islamic Center filming Chaudry’s talk for Periscope as a film crew scurried around.
“People know more about this case and the details of it than probably any other case in US history,” Brown suggested, acknowledging that the case of Steven Avery, the subject of Making a Murderer, Netflix’s new true-crime mega hit, may come close. “One of the positives of it is that it has made a lot of people pay attention to the criminal justice system and some of the injustices that are part of that system. And it’s opened people’s eyes up to the fact that a lot of people are wrongly convicted.”
For Brown, the fact that the court will hear the new evidence shows not that the system is broken, but that the system works. “We are hopeful that at the end of the day this case will prove that the justice system does work,” he said. “Maybe things take a long time. If his conviction is vacated, to me that would show that there’s something right about the justice system. Mistakes were made, but the mistakes were brought to light and the justice system reacted to them.”
There was a lot of talk about the justice system and wrongful convictions at Tuesday’s meeting, which was moved from the Islamic Center of Baltimore where Syed’s family members are congregants, because Barack Obama will visit the mosque – his first visit to a US mosque as president – on Wednesday, the day Syed’s hearings begin.
Some of Syed’s supporters, such as Kashif Ali, think this could be a good sign. “I think he must know about it,” Ali said. “Maybe his daughters listened or something.”
Chaudry said she was on the president’s list of attendees – but even though she says she is an Obama fan, she will be at the court. ||||| The convicted killer at the center of the wildly popular investigative podcast "Serial" finally got his day in court today, after questions were raised about his guilt and whether he had a fair trial in Maryland 16 years ago.
Lawyers for Adnan Syed argued at a court hearing for a new trial, and called a key witness who was featured in the podcast but was never called to testify during Syed's original trial.
Asia McClain is a potential “alibi witness” who said she was with Syed at the public library near Baltimore’s Woodlawn High School at the time prosecutors previously said they believe his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee was murdered.
McClain, who goes by her married name now, Chapman, said she previously wrote to Syed twice to say she was with him that afternoon and that she was willing to speak up if needed. During her testimony today, she was asked why she is speaking out now.
"I felt it was the right thing to do. All the information needs to be on the table in the interest of telling the truth," she said today in court, sounding confident on the stand.
Brown had described McClain as a “big piece of the puzzle” at the beginning of the three-day, post-conviction hearing.
Syed's new defense team, led by Justin Brown, is arguing that Syed’s former lawyer, the late Cristina Gutierrez, failed to provide him with effective counsel during his 2000 trial and the cellphone tower evidence used by prosecutors was unreliable.
Syed, now 35, is serving a life sentence for Lee's death in 1999. Syed walked into court today wearing shackles and a blue jumpsuit, and sporting a long beard and a prayer cap.
Family, supporters and journalists were in attendance during the opening statements by the state and Syed’s defense team. “Serial” podcast creator Sarah Koenig, and former Baltimore Sun reporter, sat in the front row of the courtroom.
Syed and Lee were both students at Woodlawn High School. Lee went missing in January 1999, and was found weeks later, strangled and buried in Leakin Park, a few miles from the school.
The defense called two witnesses to the stand this morning, both of whom had worked with Gutierrez. Brown and his team say Gutierrez failed to provide Syed with effective counsel because of health issues, financial hardships and a family life in turmoil.
Phillip Dantes, who worked with and mentored Gutierrez, called her a “zealous” worker, but that she struggled with health issues, including multiple sclerosis. His testimony was largely denied because of numerous sustained objections from the state, who said the character-take down was a form of “smearing.”
The state also says Syed received a fair trial.
“He was convicted because he did it and the state proved it,” said Maryland Deputy Attorney General Thiruvendran Vignarajah, who is leading the charge against Syed.
The second witness, William Kanwisher, worked as an investigator for Gutierrez. During a somewhat testy testimony, Kanwisher called Gutierrez “accomplished,” but also says he noticed a lack of energy, and a decrease in focus from the lawyer because of her crumbling health.
“She became more erratic,” he said. “I had to do more of her cases,” going on to say that often times, Gutierrez would hand over entire cases for him to take on with just a handful of days to prepare. She died in 2004.
The post-conviction proceedings are meant to determine whether Syed will receive a new trial.
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals issued an order in May directing Syed’s case to a lower court so the testimony of McClain could be added to the record. After his conviction, McClain, another high school classmate, wrote him letters in jail, saying she had seen him in the library around the same time Lee was killed.
In November, Retired Circuit Court Judge Martin P. Welch granted Syed’s request to introduce the alibi witness testimony, as well as cell tower records that were later claimed to be unreliable, according to the carrier, saying it would “be in the interests of justice.” (It is not unusual for retired judges to hear cases).
“I don’t want to say it’s unusual, but he’s definitely beating the odds here,” said Becky Feldman, chief of the post-conviction defenders division at the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. “Filing motions to reopen a post-conviction are fairly common. We probably get hearings on motions to reopen on maybe 20 percent of the cases. Most of them are just denied.”
So what happens next?
“I would be shocked if we get a ruling on Friday,” Feldman said. “There’s no time requirement on when a court must issue a post-conviction ruling.”
Syed’s fate rests in the hands of Welch, who could issue an oral ruling on Friday, determining if Syed will get a new trial or not. The likelihood is that he will issue a written decision at a later time, which could take weeks to months. If Syed is granted a new trial, the state will likely appeal, Feldman says. Syed could be stuck in this process for months – even years, should the court take its time.
Syed’s lawyer tweeted last week about the hearing. |||||
A summary of this is? | – Serial subject Adnan Syed will soon know whether he'll be granted a new trial in the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Syed, serving a life sentence for the crime, appeared in court Wednesday for the start of a three-day hearing to review new evidence, including documents regarding the reliability of the cellphone tower technology used to place Syed at the spot Lee's body was buried, reports the Baltimore Sun; Serial producer Sarah Koenig was also in attendance. An expert at Syed's 2000 trial testified that incoming call data placed Syed in Baltimore's Leakin Park on the night of Lee's death, per USA Today. However, Syed attorney Justin Brown argues the data should never have been accepted because AT&T warned incoming calls weren't reliable for determining location. Court documents reveal the state will call experts who believe the cellphone evidence is in fact reliable, reports ABC News. But the judge's decision also rests on an affidavit from Asia McClain, a former classmate of Syed's who says she saw him at a school library around the time Lee was strangled. Brown argues Syed's trial lawyer violated his right to due process when she failed to contact the alibi witness; she was disbarred a year later. "It's our position that the alibi issue all by itself is an issue strong enough to win a reversal of Adnan's conviction," Brown tells the Guardian. "But also the cell tower evidence even by itself is also strong enough to merit his sentence being vacated." The judge could issue an oral ruling Friday, but a written ruling is more likely and could take weeks or even months. | 4 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Review: This film is more about how children make sense of the world around them, and how they (and we) use myth to make sense of it all. I think it's been misperceived, everyone going in expecting a stalkfest won't enjoy it but if you want a deeper story, it's here.......
Now, what is this review like?
Choices: [-] negative; [-] positive;
| positive | 8 | Flan2021 | imdb_reviews/plain_text:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Oklahoma examines what went wrong in botched execution
Okla. inmate dies of heart attack after botched execution
On a scale from 0 to 5, where 0 is "no meaning overlap" and 5 is "means the same thing", how closely does the first sentence resemble the second one?
Choose your answer from: 1). 0 2). 1 3). 2 4). 3 5). 4 6). 5 | 4). | 1 | Flan2021 | glue/stsb:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
(CNN) -- Tomas Berdych has hovered around the edge of the "big four" of men's tennis for the past three years, but on Sunday he will take center stage in what could be a historic moment for his country. The Czech Republic has not won the Davis Cup since its split from Slovakia in 1993, but its men's team are poised follow up its women's success in the Fed Cup after taking a 2-1 lead in the final against defending champions Spain. The women retained their title in the tournament's 50th staging, and the men are battling to follow up Czechoslovakia's sole 1980 victory as the 100th edition of the Davis Cup comes to a climax in Prague.
If he beats Berdych in their first encounter this year, then the final will hinge on the fifth rubber between 37th-ranked
OPTIONS:
- Berdych and world No.
- CNN and world No.
- Czech Republic and world No.
- Czechoslovakia and world No.
- Czechs and world No.
- David Ferrer and world No.
- Davis Cup and world No.
- Fed Cup and world No.
- Marc Lopez and world No.
- Marcel Granollers and world No.
- Prague and world No.
- Radek Stepanek and world No.
- Slovakia and world No.
- Spain and world No.
- Tomas Berdych and world No.
| Radek Stepanek and world No. | 1 | Flan2021 | super_glue/record:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Summarize this article:
It's a white app with a multicolored musical note on it. It's at the top of the drop-down menu. If you instead see your name and Apple ID email address here, you're already signed in. These credentials must match the ones you entered on your iPad. Doing so will log you into the same Apple ID account that you're using for Home Sharing on your iPad. It's either a menu item in the top-left side of the screen (Mac) or a tab near the top-left corner of the iTunes window (Windows). It's about halfway down the drop-down menu. Doing so will invoke a pop-up window. This will enable Home Sharing on your current network for your Apple ID. You should now be able to view any videos that are in your computer's iTunes library while on your iPad (and vice versa).
Summary: | Open iTunes. Click Sign In. Enter your Apple ID email address and password. Click Sign In. Click File. Select Home Sharing. Click Turn on Home Sharing. Enter your Apple ID password. Click Turn on Home Sharing, then click OK. | 2 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Summarize the following movie reviews:
1. A bracingly vivid sense of style and character ... bewildering, abrasive, jarring and surprisingly emotional.
2. The world's most convoluted (and expensive) game of Calvin-ball.
3. The coolest part is those closing credits, in which the entire movie is recapped in three minutes. Somehow, those three minutes seem more compelling than the 110 that preceded them.
4. It's a must-see for anyone who's willing to risk logic and accept a mundane conclusion to enjoy the fruit of a creative mind.
5. There is a lot of buildup throughout the entire piece that's never released. The climax is almost laughable and when the credits finally role, you'll no doubt find yourself yearning for more, which is both a good thing and a bad thing.
6. This mostly incoherent, enormously eccentric helping of mayhem breaks into so many fragments that watching the movie can be a bit like trying to assemble the pieces from several jigsaw puzzles.
7. Night Watch was one of the most popular movies ever released in Russia. That just proves there's no accounting for taste, in film or in human sacrifice.
8. A grim, humorless slog in which even the subtitles are flashy, irritating and completely meaningless.
9. Though too many headstones are left unturned -- the incorporation of ancient folklore into the grimy ghoul hunting balances the Matrix-esque choreography quite nicely.
10. All that matters ... is the onslaught of hallucinogenic images, copious bloodshed and editing that would make a meth addict say, 'Dude, slow down.'
Summary: | This Russian horror/fantasy film pits darkness and light against each other using snazzy CGI visuals to create an extraordinary atmosphere of a dank, gloomy city wrestling with dread. | 5 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
This question has options. Does the word "wash" have the same definition in the next two sentences?
He managed to wash out the stains.
He washed the dirt from his coat.
Options: I. different meanings; II. the same meaning; | II. | 6 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wic:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Summarize this article:
Of some 1.7 million journeys made across the entire rail network during this week last year, more than 337,000 were made on 16-25 Railcards - 13% higher than the usual weekly average.
And for railcard journeys originating in university towns, the figure was 28% higher than the usual weekly average.
The only busier period was Christmas.
The five top cities from which 16- to 25-year-olds were travelling in the third working week of October last year were:
With freshers' week already a blurred memory and the workload starting to build, many decide it is time to head home, the data suggests.
"It's interesting to see such a clear spike in Railcard journeys in October," said Andrew Robertson, of Atoc.
"Going to university for the first time can be an exciting but daunting experience for young adults. And our research indicates that for many, the reality of living away from parents can really kick in after just a few weeks."
Mr Robertson suggested that budget constraints, a lack of home-cooked food or maybe even running out of clean clothes could spark a yearning in students for the comfort of their teenage bedroom.
"A trip home seems to be just what students need to recharge the batteries after a few hectic weeks at university," he said.
Summary: | Homesickness among students peaks in the third week of October, Association of Train Operating Companies (Atoc) research suggests. | 1 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
Problem: Solve -39*n = -121 + 116 - 201 - 223 for n.
And the answer is... | 11 | 8 | Flan2021 | math_dataset/algebra__linear_1d:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Here are two sentences:
The matriarch - who celebrates her 81st birthday next month - was yesterday thanked for her generosity by model and actor Sarah O 'Hare , the National Breast Cancer Foundation patron .
The matriarch , who celebrates her 81st birthday next month , was thanked personally yesterday for her generosity by actress Sarah O 'Hare , National Breast Cancer Foundation patron .
Do they have the same meaning?
Available choices:
[A]. no
[B]. yes | [B]. | 0 | Flan2021 | glue/mrpc:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Note that this question lists possible answers. Which person is she referring to in the following sentence?
Kate Middleton is viewed as a newer generation Princess Diana because she is also being compared as a fashion symbol.
(1). Kate Middleton;
(2). Princess Diana; | (1). | 8 | Flan2021 | definite_pronoun_resolution:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Write a dialog based on this summary:
Timothy used the wrong fuel for the car, he forgot it's a diesel. He will have this fuel pumped out and the car checked at the station. Carol needs to get Macy to classes and then she will join Timothy. . | Carol: When will you be back?
Timothy: I'm already done, so I'll be heading home
Carol: I need the car to get Macy to classes
Timothy: I need to fill up the tank first.
Carol: Ok
Timothy: Uhm... we may have a problem
Carol: What is it?
Timothy: I'm afraid I used the wrong fuel.
Carol: ... what do you mean "wrong fuel"?
Timothy: I forgot it's a diesel ;(((
Carol: Oh for god's sake
Timothy: What should I do now?
Carol: Don't start the engine! Stay at the station and ask for help.
Timothy: Ok
Carol: They'll probably pump it out and maybe take for a check up.
Carol: Don't leave the car, keep an eye on it. I need to go with Macy, then I'll try to join you. Text me the address. | 8 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
1. The filmmakers end up making a rather gloomy chick-flick, rather than the war drama with a modern heroine, which it might have been
2. A cinematic and moving coming-of-age love story, sticky with the personal fallout that comes with news from the trenches.
3. A compassionate, distressing tale of a woman's determination to find her own purpose, full of heartbreaking moments that pile up until they're unbearable.
4. A superb feature film adaptation that more than measures up to the beloved five-part BBC TV series from 1979.
5. This is a year awash with memories of World War I, but Vera and her story offer an angle unlikely to be found anywhere else.
6. Contemplative, untidy and more than a little bit depressing, Testament of Youth confounds expectations by conforming to the outline of history rather than a purely cinematic structure. It's all the better for it.
7. Led by Vikander's skilled performance, the remainder of the cast fulfil their roles with style, the standout being Morgan's Victor, whose unrequited feelings towards Vera are subtly handled.
8. Vikander's performance, and the ultimate effect of Brittain's story, are powerful enough to raise the film above its own shortcomings. It's ultimately a powerful and memorable experience.
9. Testament Of Youth is hampered by a failure to effectively convey exactly what made it such an important work for the post-war generation.
10. If grief is the proper subject of any film about that war, then Testament of Youth is a masterful look into that grief.
What is the consensus? | Testament of Youth is well-acted and beautifully filmed, adding up to an enriching if not adventurous experience for fans of British period dramas. | 3 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
Solve this math problem
Solve 0 = -33*g - 53 + 193 - 74 for g. | 2 | 1 | Flan2021 | math_dataset/algebra__linear_1d:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
If "The trophy doesn't fit into the brown suitcase because it is too large.", can we conclude that "The suitcase is too large."
OPTIONS: 1). no 2). yes
I think the answer is | 1). | 0 | Flan2021 | glue/wnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
What debate topic are the following sentences about?
1. The idea that the best place to learn an artform is a classroom is fantastically modern .
2. The idea of teaching them at all is fairly recent .
3. If ever there were an example of those who can , do ; those who cant , teach , then its the arts .
4. Novelists , poets , painters , dancers , composers , musicians and others have been learning from each other as they practiced their art for , quite literally , millennia .
5. Practitioners learning by doing has worked perfectly well for most of history and produced , for example , the extraordinary works of the renaissance or classical art mostly without the benefit of a university degree .
6. All a degree in this area does is extend the period of delusion that an individual is good enough to cut it as a professional artist .
7. Goldman , Jeremy , Actors dilemma : Theatre major vs. No theatre major , 25 June 2012 . | This House believes degrees in the creative arts are luxuries society can no longer afford | 6 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
Briefly summarize this sentence: the u.s. navy and marine corps have embarked on a shift in strategic focus away from the atlantic and europe and toward the pacific and asia .
Summary: | asia is new strategic focus for u.s. navy and marines | 1 | Flan2021 | gigaword:1.2.0 | zs_opt |
Question: The rate of growth for a species of grass was measured in a treeless yard and tree-shaded yard. The grass grew twice as fast in the treeless yard. Which factor most likely contributed to the difference in growth rate?
What is the correct answer to the question from the following choices?
Possible answers:
(A). amount of animals
(B). amount of light
(C). amount of soil
(D). amount of rain | (B). | 2 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Challenge:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Complete the following text: `` do n't know the details . the grievers do bad things to you , make your whole body go through something awful . when it 's over , you 're ... different . '' thomas sensed a chance to finally have a solid answer . `` different ? what do you mean ? and what does it have to do with the | grievers | 1 | Flan2021 | lambada:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The mother punished the daughter because she was provoked.
Based on this sentence, who is she?
Choices: (1). The mother; (2). the daughter; | (1). | 4 | Flan2021 | definite_pronoun_resolution:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Article: This method describes how to use the HTML <center> tag, which is now obsolete. As of December 2018, this tag may still work in some web browsers, however, it's not advised to rely on this tag in the long run. Scroll down until you find the header, paragraph, or other text that you want to center. The center tag is in the format <center>text</center> where "text" is your text. If your text has tags on it (e.g., "<p></p>" for paragraph text), the "center" tags can go outside the existing tags: <center><h1>Welcome to My Website</h1></center> <center>Make yourself at home!</center> Your document should look something like this: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <h1><center>Welcome to My Website</center></h1> <center>Make yourself at home!</center> <p1>The purpose of this website is to display information about things.</p1> </body> </html>
What is a summary? | Open your HTML document. Find the text you want to center. Add the "center" tag to each side of the text. Review your HTML document. | 6 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
By. Anthony Bond. PUBLISHED:. 16:48 EST, 11 December 2012. |. UPDATED:. 18:20 EST, 11 December 2012. A mother and her three daughters were tonight at the centre of a major police hunt after going missing from their home. Donna Fenn, 29, and girls Chloe Webb, 2, Jasmine Webb, 6, and Summer Webb, 4, disappeared four days ago. They have not been seen since and this evening detectives said they were becoming increasingly concerned for the young family. Missing: Donna Fenn, 29, left, and her three daughters were tonight at the centre of a major police hunt. Officers believe they could be in Weymouth, Dorset, with Ryan May, right who lives in the area. Ms Fenn was last seen with her daughters in Basingstoke, Hampshire, on December 7. Officers believe they could be in Weymouth, Dorset, with Ryan May, who lives in the area. Detectives said they wanted to hear from anyone who may have seen the family since their disappearance. Chief Inspector Steve Wallace said: 'We are becoming increasingly concerned for their welfare and would like to hear from anyone who has seen them since Friday morning. Concerns: Summer Webb, left, and Jasmine Webb, right ,disappeared four days ago with their mother. Worrying: Chloe Webb, 2, pictured, is also missing with her two sisters. 'I would appeal to anyone who may know where Donna-Marie and her children are to contact us as soon as possible. 'I would also appeal directly to Donna to make contact and let us know she is okay.' Speaking to the Basingstoke Gazette, he added: 'We have been trying to bring this to a successful conclusion. 'Most. missing person enquiries do not drag on, but it has been a few days now. and we are concerned. We want to confirm the safety of the children.'
What are highlight points for this article? | Donna Fenn, 29, and girls Chloe Webb, 2, Jasmine Webb, 6, and Summer Webb, 4, disappeared four days ago. They have not been seen since and this evening detectives said they were becoming increasingly concerned for the young family. | 3 | Flan2021 | cnn_dailymail:3.4.0 | zs_opt |
Ask a question about Bern. | Are the sessions of City Parliament private or public? | 8 | Flan2021 | squad/v1.1:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
CHAPTER TWENTY.
BENJY'S ENJOYMENTS INTERRUPTED, AND POLOELAND OVERWHELMED WITH A CATASTROPHE.
One pleasant morning, towards the end of summer, Benjamin Vane went out with his gun in the water-tramp on the large lake of Paradise Isle.
Leo and he had reached the isle in one of the india-rubber boats. They had taken Anders with them to carry their game, and little Oblooria to prepare their dinner while they were away shooting; for they disliked the delay of personal attention to cooking when they were ravenous! After landing Benjy, and seeing him busy getting himself into the aquatic dress, Leo said he would pull off to a group of walruses, which were sporting about off shore, and shoot one. Provisions of fowl and fish were plentiful enough just then at the Eskimo village, but he knew that walrus beef was greatly prized by the natives, and none of the huge creatures had been killed for some weeks past.
About this time the threatened war with the northern Eskimos had unfortunately commenced.
The insatiable Grabantak had made a descent on one of Amalatok's smaller islands, killed the warriors, and carried off the women and children, with everything else he could lay hands on. Of course Amalatok made reprisals; attacked a small island belonging to Grabantak, and did as much general mischief as he could. The paltry islet about which the war began was not worthy either of attack or defence!
Then Amalatok, burning with the righteous indignation of the man who did not begin the quarrel, got up a grand muster of his forces, and went with a great fleet of kayaks to attack Grabantak in his strongholds.
1. What happened while the hunting party was away?
2. Who started it?
3. How could his character be described?
4. Whose territory did he invade?
5. The mainland?
6. How many people were in the hunting party?
7. Where did they go?
8. How did they get to their destintion?
9. Was it wooden?
10. What was it constructed out of?
11. Was there a cook in the group?
12. What was the cook's name
13. What the cook a large person?
14. Why did they bring him?
15. Was there a lot of food stored in their village?
16. Of every variety?
17. What food had they not gotten recently?
18. Who offered to kill one?
19. Whom had they already put ashore?
20. How long had it been since they had gotten a walrus?
21. How did Benjy start his journey?
22. What did he bring with him?
Provide a numbered list of answers. | 1. The war with the northern Eskimos commenced
2. Grabantak
3. Insatiable
4. Amalatok's
5. No
6. four
7. The large lake of Paradise Isle.
8. By boat
9. No
10. Rubber
11. Yes
12. Oblooria
13. No
14. They disliked cooking when they were ravenous
15. Yes?
16. No
17. Walrus
18. Leo
19. Benjy
20. Some weeks
21. By water-tramp
22. A gun | 7 | Flan2021 | coqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Review:
what 's missing from this material
Is this movie review sentence negative or positive?
pick from the following. A). negative; B). positive;
The answer is: | A). | 0 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Generate an approximately fifteen-word sentence that describes all this data: Binignit MAIN_INGREDIENTS Sweet potato; Binignit COUNTRY Philippines; Binignit INGREDIENT Banana
| Binignit contains the ingredients sweet potato and banana and comes from the Philippines. | 2 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Forest Hill Vineyard (also referred to as Forest Hill Wines) is an Australian winery business based in the Great Southern wine region of Western Australia. Its vineyard is west of Mount Barker, and its winery and cellar door are further south, at Denmark.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
Forest Hill Vineyard is located in northern Australia
Available options: --Yes. --It's impossible to say. --No. | No | 3 | Flan2021 | anli/r2:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
A man is inside a room in front of a table. he
Pick from: [i] is using a putty trimmer to drill a hole in the flooring. [ii] talks about his game, showing a game of lacrosse. [iii] demonstrates how to properly lay a shirt on the table. [iv] is sitting in front of several drums. | [iii] | 1 | Flan2021 | hellaswag:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Here is a premise: "A hippie playing his guitar."
Here is a hypothesis: "A hippie plays his white guitar."
.Does the premise tell us whether the hypothesis is true?
Pick from:
(1). yes
(2). it is not possible to tell
(3). no | (2). | 6 | Flan2021 | snli:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Translate "Jews sources assert, that the pharaoh was contemporary Solomon [1]." to Russian? | Иудейские источники утверждают, что фараон был современником Соломона [1]. | 7 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ru-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate "En su comentario sobre la participación de 1st PMF Bancorp, Stephen Perl, CFO y vicepresidente, manifestó, "hemos sido partidarios de las empresas hispanas desde hace largo tiempo, ofreciendo asistencia a los emprendedores de negocios con capital de trabajo inicial y líneas de crédito cuando los bancos tradicionales no pueden." from Spanish to English. | Commenting on 1st PMF Bancorp's participation, Stephen Perl, CFO and Vice President, stated, "We have been a long-time supporter of Hispanic businesses, assisting entrepreneurs with start-up working capital and lines of credit when traditional banks cannot. | 5 | Flan2021 | para_crawl_enes | zs_opt |
Někdo ho střelil do zad.
Translate to English
English: | He's got a gunshot wound in the back. | 1 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/cs-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Continue the following story.
Josh had to clean sand off his feet but not his hands after going to the beach because the
OPT:
[I] feet generally touch the sand less often.
[II] hands generally touch the sand less often. | [II] | 7 | Flan2021 | winogrande:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Which of the following tools is most useful for tightening a small mechanical fastener?
Select from the following.
[+] chisel
[+] pliers
[+] sander
[+] saw | pliers | 0 | Flan2021 | unified_qa_science_inst | zs_opt |
Q: The items listed below were found in a science classroom. * a heart made of plastic with many of its parts labeled * clay formed to look like Earth and other planets * a giant plastic plant cell with removable cell parts These items are all examples of
What is the correct answer to this question?
Pick from: (a). models. (b). experiments. (c). variables. (d). controls....A: | (a). | 3 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Easy:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Is the question "What is the cause of endangered species ?" asking about an entity, an abbreviation, a description, a human, a location, or a numeric entity?
I. description II. entity III. abbreviation IV. human V. numeric VI. location | I. | 1 | Flan2021 | trec:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Choose from options. Continue the following story.
A man bought his young son a bicycle. It was the same brand of bike he'd owned himself as a boy. His bike had lasted until he outgrew it. His son's bike, though, fell apart after only a few weeks.
Options: (A). The man marveled at the bike's new engineering.; (B). The man was very annoyed.; | (B). | 7 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write the next sentence.
In preparation for the hiking adventure the couple ended up buying boots while leaving out the tents since the
OPTIONS: 1. boots were required. 2. tents were required. | 1. | 6 | Flan2021 | winogrande:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Das ermöglicht ein anderes Herangehen, ein wirksameres Herangehen an diese Art von Fragen, obwohl wir ganz klar von einer annehmbaren Minimallösung weit entfernt sind.
Translate this to English? | This is allowing this issue to be handled differently and more effectively, although we are clearly still a long way from achieving a minimally acceptable solution. | 3 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/de-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Perşembe günü, Sırbistan Cumhurbaşkanı Boris Tadiç "Sırbistan'ın AB aday statüsü elde etmek için kuzey Kosovalı Sırpları KFOR'a ateş etmemeleri konusunda ikna etmesi gerektiğini" söyledi.
Which language is this? | Turkish | 9 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/tr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article based on this summary:
– A recent study shows romantic comedies could have an even more insidious effect on society than continuing to give Katherine Heigl work. The Guardian—citing a study published last year in Communication Research—reports rom-coms portraying obsessive behavior as romantic can make women more likely to tolerate stalkerish behavior in their real lives. Examples of "romantic" stalking in films can be found in everything from Love Actually to Beauty and the Beast to High Fidelity. "Stalking often seems to be trivialized in our culture," the study's author, Julia Lippmann, tells Global News. "It can encourage women to discount their instincts." And she says those same Instincts "serve as powerful cues to help keep us safe." For her study, Lippmann asked women questions about "aggressive romantic behavior"—as the Guardian puts it—after having them watch various movies. Women who watched Ben Stiller hire a private detective to track down Cameron Diaz in There's Something About Mary were more likely to accept "stalking myths" than women who watched March of the Penguins or Enough, in which Jennifer Lopez is terrorized by an obsessive ex. “Stalking myths are false or exaggerated beliefs about stalking that minimize its seriousness," Lippmann explains to the Guardian. The study found this kind of normalization could have legal ramifications for actual stalking victims. For example, a security guard in Australia successfully used his love of Bollywood romances to defend himself against harassment charges. (Here's why When Harry Met Sally is so wrong about men and women.)
Article: |
University of Michigan report suggests women who watch movies such as High Fidelity and Love Actually are more accepting of aggressive male behaviour
If you ever felt a little uncomfortable watching Andrew Lincoln’s cue-card delivered confession of devotion for Keira Knightley in Love Actually, or wondered whether it was appropriate for Ben Stiller to hire a private eye to track down his high school crush in There’s Something About Mary, it turns out science is on your side. A new study suggests romcoms that feature men engaging in stalker-like behaviour can make women more likely to tolerate obsessiveness from prospective romantic partners.
I Did It Because I Never Stopped Loving You, a report by the gender and sexuality expert Julia R Lippman, of the University of Michigan, examined women’s response to questions about aggressive romantic behaviour after watching a series of films with differing themes. Lippman found that women who watched films featuring persistent romantic pursuit, including There’s Something About Mary and Management, were more likely to accept so-called stalking myths than those who watched films depicting frightening male aggression – in this case Sleeping With the Enemy and Enough – or benign nature documentaries such as March of the Penguins and Winged Migration.
“After watching excerpts from one of these six films, participants completed a series of survey measures, including one that assessed their endorsement of stalking myths,” Lippman said. “Stalking myths are false or exaggerated beliefs about stalking that minimise its seriousness, which means that someone who more strongly endorses these tends to take stalking less seriously.”
Does Bollywood normalise stalking? Read more
Lippman said exposure to films that depicted persistent pursuit in a negative way made participants less likely to tolerate stalker-like males, while women who watched romcoms were more likely to accept such behaviour as normal.
“[Such movies] can encourage women to discount their instincts,” Lippman told Canada’s Global News. “This is a problem because research shows that instincts can serve as powerful cues to help keep us safe.
“At their core, all these films are trading in the ‘love conquers all’ myth,” she added. “Even though, of course, it doesn’t. Love is great, but so is respect for other people.”
Hollywood’s sympathetic depictions of stalker-like behaviour – as with John Cusack’s hounding of an ex-partner in High Fidelity, or even the Beast’s behaviour towards Belle in Disney animated musical Beauty and the Beast – has echoes in India, where films routinely show males in aggressive pursuit of their romantic targets. In January this year a 32-year-old Indian security guard escaped a jail term in Australia after his lawyer successfully argued his harassment of women with unwanted texts, messages and personal advances was a byproduct of his passion for Bollywood movies. ||||| MONTREAL – If there’s one thing many girls love, it’s romantic comedies.
Since day one (think Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast), girls have been taught that in order for a relationship to work out, they have to play hard-to-get, and it’s not worth it unless the boys are being persuasive enough to woo them (think Romeo throwing rocks at Juliet’s window).
But what does all that mean when we become adults and the relationships turn from cartoons and fairy tales to real life?
Julia R. Lippman’s latest study, I Did It Because I Never Stopped Loving You from the University of Michigan looks at the plot lines of romantic comedies.
She discovered many of the most popular rom-coms show men (or women) who have stalker-esque tendencies.
“I was inspired to pursue this research by observing that stalking often seems to be trivialized in our culture. We joke about ‘Facebook stalking’ crushes, for example,” Lippman told Global News.
“This led me to wonder if this cultural tendency to trivialize stalking might shape the beliefs people hold about stalking.”
She discovered that women who watch romantic comedies are more likely to tolerate some form of stalking in real life.
The female-only participants in the study were randomly assigned to watch a half-hour excerpt from one of six films.
Two of these films exemplified romantic persistent pursuit (There’s Something About Mary and Management).
Two others depicted scary persistent pursuit (Sleeping With The Enemy and Enough).
The last two were control films that did not depict persistent pursuit or relationships that could serve as a baseline for comparison (March of the Penguins and Winged Migration).
“After watching excerpts from one of these six films, participants completed a series of survey measures, including one that assessed their endorsement of ‘stalking myths,'” Lippman explained.
“Stalking myths are false or exaggerated beliefs about stalking that minimize its seriousness, which means that someone who more strongly endorses stalking myths tends to take stalking less seriously.”
Her paper concluded: “exposure to a film that depicted persistent pursuit as scary led participants to endorse fewer stalking-supportive beliefs,” while women who watched rom-coms were more likely to accept the behaviour as normal.
“It can encourage women to discount their instincts,” Lippman told Global News.
“This is a problem because research shows that instincts can serve as powerful cues to help keep us safe.”
So, how do we change the narrative?
Lippman observed that films, and romantic comedies in particular, can have great power on the way people view love and romance.
“At the core, all these films are trading in the ‘love conquers all’ myth. Even though, of course, it doesn’t,” said Lippman, adding that the rom-com film industry is unlikely to change, so it’s up to people to question what they’re watching.
“Love is great, but so is respect for other people. This is true even when people tell you things you don’t want to hear.”
What do you think? Are the main male characters in these films simply head-over-heels in love, or leaning a tad on the stalker side?
rachel.lau@globalnews.ca
Follow @rachel_lau ||||| Abstract
This experiment examines the effects of media portrayals of persistent pursuit on beliefs about stalking. Exposure to a film that depicted persistent pursuit as scary led participants to endorse fewer stalking-supportive beliefs. Although exposure to a film that depicted persistent pursuit as romantic did not lead to greater endorsement of stalking-supportive beliefs for all participants, it did have this effect among those higher in perceived realism or transportation. Possible mediators of the relation between media exposure and beliefs about stalking are also explored. Results indicate that media portrayals of gendered aggression can have prosocial effects, and that the romanticized pursuit behaviors commonly featured in the media as a part of normative courtship can lead to an increase in stalking-supportive beliefs. This latter finding may have implications for the legal support female stalking victims are able to access. ||||| | 8 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Dialogue:
Ben: What time is the landing?
Melanie: 6.45 but remember it may be late
Ben: But now everything’s ok?
Melanie: Yes the gate was open exactly at the expected time
Ben: Ok, so I’ll be there waiting, see you soon
What was going on in that conversation? | Melanie will land at 6.45. The gate was open as expected. Ben will be waiting for her. | 6 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Problem: Solve 571 - 4101 = 353*t for t.
And the answer is... | -10 | 8 | Flan2021 | math_dataset/algebra__linear_1d:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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