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If you have decided that you are okay with him paying, then the first step is to thank him when he does. Appreciate the fact that you have a loving boyfriend who wants to treat you. Be specific and make sure you are thanking him for whatever experience he gave you. Try saying something like the following: ”Thank you for dinner. That was the most delicious lasagna I've ever had!” ”Tonight was great. Thank you. I'm so glad you were there; that movie was scary!” ”I can't believe I got to see my favorite band! I'm going to remember this forever. Thank you!” Even if you have talked about it and you have decided that you are okay with him paying for everything, make sure he knows he doesn't have to. Every once and awhile tell him he doesn't always have to pay. This way, as you go forward in your relationship he'll know it's okay if he has to cut back or stop at some point due to financial difficulties. He'll know that it is something he can talk to you about and not feel embarrassed. If he likes taking you out to treat you, find your own ways to treat him or make him feel special. If you are good at cooking or baking, make a meal or dessert for him on special occasions. If you are artistic, you can create something especially for him. You can also do an activity with him you don't normally do, like watching a sports match or game. Just spend a little extra time and effort making sure he feels valued, as well. You should not feel obligated to do anything in return for your boyfriend taking you out. Whatever you do, make sure you are comfortable with it and that it comes from a place of wanting to do it, not feeling like you have to. As a way to keep up on the maintenance of your relationship make sure you talk about the money issue from time to time. If you notice that there are little arguments popping up about who pays for what, or if you notice he is getting stressed out about paying for things, it's probably time to talk. Open up the topic. ”Hey, is everything okay? You seem stressed.” Change plans for the evening. “We don't have to go out tonight. How about we stay home and I'll whip something up?” Remind him that you are in this together. “You know you can talk to me about anything. I know we just want each other to be happy.”
Summary: | Thank him when he pays. Tell him he doesn't have to. Reciprocate. Revisit the conversation about it to avoid arguments. | 1 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Identify the most salient words in this sentence:
country launched a ballistic missile fell into sea | launch
missile
sea | 8 | Flan2021 | gem/common_gen:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
coloured lenses 2 tones (0)
Can you repeat this sentence, but capitalize it correctly? | Coloured lenses 2 tones (0) | 5 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
Write a sentence not in English. | Das Aussterben von Arten ist nur die Spitze des Eisberges. | 8 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/de-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
On 21 July, the Macdonough patrolled the waters off Guam to protect the assault craft from enemy submarines, continuing that role until departing for Hawaii on 10 August. After a day at Pearl Harbor, she departed for the Admiralty Islands.
Pick your answer from: (I). yes; (II). no;
Question: Can we infer the following?
The Macdonough left Hawaii on 10 August. | (II). | 4 | Flan2021 | super_glue/rte:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Trivia question: The then fictional ‘Sarah Siddons Award’, now a real award, is first referred to in the opening scene of which film starring Bette Davis?
And the answer is? | all about eve | 8 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
- the traces of job in the middle east
Make this proper case. | - The traces of Job in the Middle East | 7 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
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A pedestrian attempts to look through the windows of a closed McDonald's Corp. restaurant, the first to open in the Soviet Union, on Pushkin Square in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014.
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A pedestrian attempts to look through the windows of a closed McDonald's Corp. restaurant, the first to open in the Soviet Union, on Pushkin Square in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. Close
Russian consumer-safety regulators are conducting inspections at more than 200 McDonald’s Corp. (MCD) restaurants around the country.
Russian courts have temporarily closed nine restaurants, the Oak Brook, Illinois-based company said in a statement on its Russian corporate website. McDonald’s said it disagreed with the decisions and that it will appeal to a higher court.
McDonald’s arrived in Soviet-era Russia in 1990 and was seen as a symbol of the nation’s rising prospects, helping open the communist nation to foreign enterprise. While regulators have cited violations of sanitary rules by McDonald’s, the timing and scope of the shutdowns are seen as a response to Western sanctions in Russia.
The original restaurant in Moscow’s Pushkin square, which drew long lines when it first opened, is currently shut under the court order.
The U.S. and European Union imposed sanctions against Russian companies and officials after President Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea earlier this year, escalating the worst standoff between the two sides since the Cold War. In response to the sanctions, Putin banned $9.5 billion in food imports from Western countries.
McDonald’s has more than 35,600 restaurants worldwide, with 440 in Russia as of the end of August. The shares of the company rose 1.3 percent to $91.04 at the close in New York on Oct. 17.
Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg A pedestrian peers through the windows of a closed McDonald's Corp. restaurant on Pushkin Square in Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 21, 2014. Close A pedestrian peers through the windows of a closed McDonald's Corp. restaurant on... Read More Close Open Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg A pedestrian peers through the windows of a closed McDonald's Corp. restaurant on Pushkin Square in Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 21, 2014.
To contact the reporters on this story: Michael McDonald in Boston at mmcdonald10@bloomberg.net; Jason Corcoran in Moscow at jcorcoran13@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Nick Turner at nturner7@bloomberg.net Bruce Rule, Kenneth Pringle ||||| Food & Drink
Ronald McDonald appears to be caught in the economic crossfire between Moscow and Washington. More than 200 of McDonald’s restaurants in Russia—or roughly half the country’s total 440 locations—are now under government investigation, according to the company, and a regulator has already closed nine McDonald’s outlets in recent weeks.
The crackdown on one of the most visible U.S.-owned consumer brands in Russia is widely seen as retaliation for sanctions imposed by the U.S. and Europe over Moscow’s role in the Ukraine crisis. Health and safety regulation “is an instrument that’s often used” by the Kremlin to gain leverage in political disputes, says Nonna Crane, a lawyer with Chadbourne & Parke specializing in Russian business issues. For example, Russian health regulators in 2006 banned imports of wine and mineral water from Georgia amid deteriorating relations that led to a military conflict between the two countries.
McDonald’s (MCD) has been a hit with Russian consumers since 1990, when it opened what was then its biggest outlet in the world on Moscow’s Pushkin Square. The fast-food giant doesn’t disclose revenue by country, but market-research group Euromonitor estimates that McDonald’s Russia sales were $2.2 billion last year—or about 8 percent of its worldwide sales of $28 billion.
McDonald’s enjoyed good relations with the Kremlin as recently as last February, when the company was an official sponsor of the Sochi Olympic Games and built a wheelchair-accessible playground as a gift to local children. In August, however, Russia’s consumer-safety regulator closed the flagship Pushkin Square restaurant, along with several others, for alleged violations of sanitary rules.
In a statement released this weekend on its Russian website, McDonald’s says a court has “ordered the further temporary suspension of operations” at nine outlets, including Pushkin Square. “We disagree with the court’s decision and will appeal it.”
How far will the Kremlin go? If it wanted to close McDonald’s outlets en masse, there’s not much the U.S. company could do about it, says Crane of Chadbourne & Parke. The only avenue of appeal is the Russian court system, and prevailing there against the government would be “very, very difficult,” she says. On the other hand, a mass shutdown could jeopardize the jobs of some 37,000 people who work for the company in Russia, as well as Russian farmers and others who supply food to local outlets.
The trouble in Russia comes at a bad time for McDonald’s, which is expected to report disappointing third-quarter results. Analysts estimate that revenue fell 1.8 percent, while net income dropped 11 percent. The company also has been hit by a food-safety scare in China and by lagging sales in the U.S., where rising prices are driving away some budget-minded customers. ||||| McDonald's long has been the great commercial bellwether of Russian-American relations.
The company stepped proudly into that role in 1990, when it opened its first restaurant in Moscow's Pushkin Square and created an immediate sensation. There was worldwide coverage of the event, during which what was then the world's biggest McDonald's served a record 30,000 meals in a day.
Now the glow has worn off. As bilateral relations have cooled, many of the 435 McDonald's restaurants in the country have become targets of national and regional officials. The company says officially that nine have been closed -- including the landmark Pushkin Square location -- but acknowledges that "more than 200 inspections have been initiated." An earlier tally placed the closings at 12, but some may have been reopened. And there are scattered reports of shutdowns in far-flung regions of the country.
Reports in the Russian media say that some locations have been subjected to steep fines of as much as 500,000 rubles (that would be more than $12,000 at the current official exchange rate) as a condition of reopening.
Most of the shutdowns are for "sanitary" reasons, according to local officials and judges; in at least two locations, inspectors ostensibly found E. coli infestations, according to the Russian news website Iod (Russian for "Iodine"). The bacteria allegedly have been found in two restaurants in the far-flung outpost of Kaliningrad, according to the Russian news service RIA Novosti.
The closing of the very first branch is the writing on the wall for a lot of Russians. The message is clear... the window to the world is closing. — Moscow blogger Mitya Kushelevich
Iod published a "map of the hostilities," pinpointing the restaurants that have been closed, targeted with inspections or are under investigation for breaking the law.
Some of the investigations go beyond food quality. In one Moscow neighborhood, according to Iod, a McDonald's was fined 100,000 rubles, or about $2,400, for selling illegal toys with its Happy Meals. Earlier this month, a Moscow prosecutor reportedly launched an investigation of the city's Ronald McDonald House charity.
McDonald's closures Iod Map of the hostilities: The Russian news website Iod has posted a map of McDonald's locations closed or threatened with closure. Map of the hostilities: The Russian news website Iod has posted a map of McDonald's locations closed or threatened with closure. (Iod)
Observers of Russian government strategies don't have much doubt about what's driving the war on McDonald's -- the sheer number of investigations, their timing and their varied rationales give it away. It's harassment, a signal of President Vladimir Putin's unhappiness with Western criticism of his regime's adventure in Ukraine directed at the single most prominent symbol of Western commerce.
In the words of Mitya Kushelevich, a Moscow blogger on cultural affairs who grew up in the McDonald's era, "the closing of the very first branch is the writing on the wall for a lot of Russians. The message is clear and it’s not aimed at Americans, it’s aimed at us: the window to the world is closing."
Kushelevich's feelings aside, the crackdown almost certainly is aimed at the U.S. Russia's $2.2 billion in sales accounts for as much as 8% of the worldwide revenue of McDonald's, according to a market survey cited by Bloomberg. The Russian locations are almost all company-owned, according to the latest McDonald's annual report, which means that it has made a disproportionately sizable capital commitment to Russia. As recently as 2012, McDonald's was talking about expansion. To that end, it took a prominent role in promoting the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Now all that may be teetering, thanks to diplomatic and governmental maneuverings over which the company has absolutely no control. No one expects the Putin regime to order McDonald's out of Russia entirely -- among other things, it employs nearly 40,000 Russians and is a heavy purchaser of Russian produce. On the other hand, no one expected Putin to seize Crimea either. Until he did.
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Summary: | – Vladimir Putin wants to show the world who's the real Big Mac daddy. About half of Russia's 440 McDonald's restaurants are "now under government investigation," with nine locations recently shut down by court order, ostensibly for health and safety violations, Businessweek reports. But (most) others say that the real reason for the supposed watchdogging is that Putin is peeved at US and European sanctions against Moscow because of the ongoing situation in Ukraine and wants to hit the iconic American brand in its wallet. Fines to reopen closed-down locations are said to run as high as $12,000, the Los Angeles Times reports. At least two of the McDonald's in Kaliningrad have been shuttered because of alleged E. coli issues, reports the RIA Novosti news agency via the Times. Also closed: Moscow's flagship Pushkin Square McDonald's, which attracted hordes of hungry Russians when it opened in 1990, Bloomberg reports. Of course, by closing the restaurants, Putin could be cutting off his own nose (or the noses of his own people) to spite his face: The shutdown could lead to 37,000 jobs lost by employees, Russian farmers, and food vendors, Businessweek notes. "Nyet," McDonald's basically said yesterday in a short statement it issued on the matter: "We do not agree with the court’s decision and will appeal against it in the superior court." | 0 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
YoucanfindthebestpriceonAustriancrystalandseashellbeadearrings,Wewillmatchanycompetitor'spriceforthesamequalityofAustriancrystalandseashellbeadearrings!!!
What's a sentence that uses these characters? | You can find the best price on Austrian crystal and seashell bead earrings,We will match any competitor's price for the same quality of Austrian crystal and seashell bead earrings!!! | 1 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
Select your answer: Which is this about?
Two mortars hit a military base in a restive region south of Baghdad on Sunday where a battle group of British soldiers have recently arrived, causing no casualties, a spokesman said.
Pick from:
[+] World
[+] Sports
[+] Business
[+] Science/Tech | World | 5 | Flan2021 | ag_news_subset:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
3:8Youshallcommandthepriestswhobearthearkofthecovenant,saying,‘WhenyoucometothebrinkofthewatersoftheJordan,youshallstandstillintheJordan.’”
What's a sentence that uses these characters? | 3:8 You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’” | 1 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
Multi-choice problem: Is the next sentence syntactically and semantically acceptable?
John is shorter than five feet.
Pick your answer from:
1). unacceptable;
2). acceptable; | 2). | 6 | Flan2021 | glue/cola:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Data: Strada eatType pub; Strada food English; Strada customer rating 5 out of 5; Strada near Yippee Noodle Bar
What would a sentence about this data be like? | The English pub called Strada, is located near the Yippee Noodle Bar. It has a very high customer rating | 1 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Translate to Czech:
(Nick) Hey.
Czech: | Hej. | 4 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/cs-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
This question has options. Does the word "neighbour" have the same definition in the next two sentences?
My neighbour has an annoying cat.
They're our neighbours across the street.
Options are:
a). different meanings.
b). the same meaning. | b). | 6 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wic:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
When you hear his sermons, you will be able to believe, too.
After that night in the church, I believed.
Choose your answer: Does the word "believe" mean the same thing in the above two sentences?
Available choices: i. different meanings ii. the same meaning | ii. | 0 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wic:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
General relativity includes a dynamical spacetime, so it is difficult to see how to identify the conserved energy and momentum. Noether's theorem allows these quantities to be determined from a Lagrangian with translation invariance, but general covariance makes translation invariance into something of a gauge symmetry. The energy and momentum derived within general relativity by Noether's presecriptions do not make a real tensor for this reason. Einstein argued that this is true for fundamental reasons, because the gravitational field could be made to vanish by a choice of coordinates. He maintained that the non-covariant energy momentum pseudotensor was in fact the best description of the energy momentum distribution in a gravitational field. This approach has been echoed by Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz, and others, and has become standard. The use of non-covariant objects like pseudotensors was heavily criticized in 1917 by Erwin Schrodinger and others.
Question: "Did Landau use dynamical spacetime in his theory, if not, what?"
Answer: "No, it uses the energy momentum distribution"
Is this answer to the question correct?
Pick from: (i). no. (ii). yes. | (i). | 7 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Background: Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The group has seen many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member until his death in January 2015. The best known line-up of the group was its mid-70s trio of Froese, Christopher Franke, and Peter Baumann. In the late 1970s, Johannes Schmoelling replaced Baumann.
Context: Edgar Froese arrived in West Berlin in the mid-1960s to study art. His first band, the psychedelic rock-styled The Ones, disbanded after releasing only one single. After The Ones, Froese experimented with musical ideas, playing smaller gigs with a variety of musicians. Most of these performances were in the famous Zodiak Free Arts Lab, although one grouping also had the distinction of being invited to play for the surrealist painter Salvador Dali. The music was partnered with literature, painting, early forms of multimedia, and more. It seemed as though only the most outlandish ideas attracted any attention, leading Froese to comment, "In the absurd often lies what is artistically possible." As members of the group came and went, the direction of the music continued to be inspired by the Surrealists, and the group came to be called by the surreal-sounding name of Tangerine Dream, inspired by the line "tangerine trees and marmalade skies" from The Beatles' track "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." Froese was fascinated by technology and skilled in using it to create music. He built custom-made instruments and, wherever he went, collected sounds with tape recorders for use in constructing musical works later. His early work with tape loops and other repeating sounds was the obvious precursor to the emerging technology of the sequencer, which Tangerine Dream quickly adopted upon its arrival. The first Tangerine Dream album, Electronic Meditation, was a tape-collage Krautrock piece, using the technology of the time rather than the synthesized music they later became famous for. The line-up for the album was Froese, Klaus Schulze, and Conrad Schnitzler. Electronic Meditation was published by Ohr in 1970, and began the period known as the Pink Years (the Ohr logo was a pink ear). But starting with their second album, Alpha Centauri, the group has been a trio or occasionally duo of electronic instruments, commonly augmented by guitar from Froese (or, much later, other musicians as well), and occasionally also other instruments. Of these, drums from Christopher Franke and organ from Steve Schroyder (on Alpha Centauri) or Peter Baumann (on subsequent releases) feature prominently in the band's music during the early 70s. They also started their heavy usage of the Mellotron during this period.
Question: Are there any other interesting information pieces about the Psychedelia and krautrock?. Whats the answer? | The first Tangerine Dream album, Electronic Meditation, was a tape-collage Krautrock piece, | 5 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The Golden Heian Era: The geomancers in 794 decided that Heian-kyo (modern Kyoto) would be an auspicious site for the imperial family. It was indeed — until 1869. Grants of tax-free land over the years had been made to Buddhist temples and members of the court aristocracy. The most powerful families thus carved out for themselves whole regions that were to become the fiefdoms of Japanese feudalism. By the end of the eighth century the clans had created a hierarchy of shiki, or rights, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society. The aristocrat or court patron lent his prestige to a powerful provincial proprietor, who employed a competent estate-manager to oversee smallholders, who in turn worked their farms with dependent laborers. This elaborate structure of interdependent rights and obligations was to serve Japanese society right into the 20th century. Meanwhile, Heian court life blossomed in an effusion of aesthetic expression. Princes and princesses judged the merits of birds, insects, flowers, roots, or seashells. Literary party games held in ornate palace gardens required each guest to compose a small poem as his wine cup floated toward him along a miniature winding channel of water. Expeditions were organized to the best viewing points for the first spring cherry blossoms, and special pavilions were built to watch the rising of the full moon. Every gesture, from the most banal opening of an umbrella to the sublimest act of lovemaking, had its appropriate ceremonial. Conversation often took the form of elegant exchanges of improvised verse. The changing role of Chinese culture in Japanese life was epitomized in the language itself. In the absence of an indigenous alphabet, Japanese scholars had with the greatest difficulty tried to adapt the complex ideograms of monosyllabic Chinese to the essentially polysyllabic Japanese. Thus developed the katakana system used as a vehicle for writing Buddhist names and concepts. After rival Fujiwara factions had been struggling for years to gain control of the imperial throne, they turned to the Taira and Minamoto armies in 1156 to wage the four-year war that heralded the end of the golden age of the Heian court. The Taira, controlling the region along the Inland Sea, defeated the Minamoto armies based in the Kanto province east of the capital.
What question would one ask from this paragraph? | What led to the development of the katakana system? | 9 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
Prize Pie<br>Margaret entered a pie competition. She had the best recipe for a apple pie. Tonya had a very good recipe too. Margaret didn't know if she was going to win. Her pie came in first place.
Hypothesis: margaret knew she was going to win
Select from: * Yes; * It's impossible to say; * No; | No | 7 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
St. Patrick's Street, the main street of the city which was remodelled in the mid-2000s, is known for the architecture of the buildings along its pedestrian-friendly route and is the main shopping thoroughfare. The reason for its curved shape is that it originally was a channel of the River Lee that was built over on arches. The General Post Office, with its limestone façade, is on Oliver Plunkett Street, on the site of the Theatre Royal which was built in 1760 and burned down in 1840. The English circus proprietor Pablo Fanque rebuilt an amphitheatre on the spot in 1850, which was subsequently transformed into a theatre and then into the present General Post Office in 1877. The Grand Parade is a tree-lined avenue, home to offices, shops and financial institutions. The old financial centre is the South Mall, with several banks whose interior derive from the 19th century, such as the Allied Irish Bank's which was once an exchange.
What is St. Patrick's Street curved? | it originally was a channel of the River Lee that was built over on arches | 2 | Flan2021 | squad/v1.1:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate to Czech:
Which mama was that, baby?
Czech: | Která máma to byla? | 4 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/cs-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Please add punctuation to this: Active coulter and wing pressure ensures the same seed depth across the machines entire working width
Punctuation version: | "Active coulter and wing pressure ensures the same seed depth across the machine's entire working width. | 5 | Flan2021 | fix_punct | zs_opt |
Born in Moscow, Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen. By the time he finished school as part of the first graduating class of the prestigious Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo near Saint Petersburg, his talent was already widely recognized within the Russian literary scene. After school, Pushkin plunged into the vibrant and raucous intellectual youth culture of the capital, Saint Petersburg. In 1820 he published his first long poem, Ruslan and Lyudmila, amidst much controversy about its subject and style. Pushkin gradually became committed to social reform and emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals. This angered the government, and led to his transfer from the capital (1820). He went to the Caucasus and to the Crimea, then to Kamenka and Chisinau, where he became a Freemason.
Choose your answer: According to the above paragraph, the correct answer to the question "Was Pushkin a published author and recognized by the Russian literary scene?" is "Yes"?
Available choices: --no. --yes. | yes | 5 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Choose your answer: If "Vegetables being sold on the street", does it logically follow that "The Vegetables being sold look yummy."?
Choices:
[a]. yes.
[b]. it is not possible to tell.
[c]. no. | [b]. | 2 | Flan2021 | snli:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Leupold 3.5x10 with M1 turret It does have a few scratches from rings and a burn on the bottom from a muzzleloader but the glass is perfect and most of the scratches/burn would be covered by rings. Asking $350 shipped For sale is a Leupold vari x 111 3.5x10-40 with a M1 turret.It does have a few scratches from rings and a burn on the bottom from a muzzleloader but the glass is perfect and most of the scratches/burn would be covered by rings.Asking $350 shipped
Can we draw the following conclusion?
The Leupold 3.5x10 is the first scope ever offered by the seller.
Pick from:
[A]. Yes
[B]. It's impossible to say
[C]. No | [B]. | 2 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Sentence 1: Iran expands nuclear enrichment activities: IAEA report
Sentence 2: Iran steps up sensitive nuclear work - IAEA
From 0 to 5 (0="no meaning overlap" and 5="means the same thing"), how similar are the two sentences?
A). 0;
B). 1;
C). 2;
D). 3;
E). 4;
F). 5; | D). | 2 | Flan2021 | glue/stsb:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Article:
Interview: Megadeth's Dave Mustaine talks guitar, politics and today's music
Joe Bosso February 14, 2012, 11:46 GMT
Dave Mustaine in double neck glory, headlining Megadeth's Gigantour in Ontario, Canada, 7 February 2012. © Michael Hurcomb/Corbis
When we caught up with Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine last December, the guitarist spoke at length about topics ranging from the band's astonishing new album TH1RT3EN, his renewed relationship with Metallica, songwriting, riffs and how he welcomed bassist Dave Ellefson back into the fold.
It was a jam-packed interview, but even so, when it was all over, there seemed to be much more to discuss - and when you have a raconteur as skilled as Mustaine, there's always the need for more. So we sat down with him again the other day during a break in the current Gigantour that Megadeth is headlining (the bill also includes Motorhead, Volbeat and Lacuna Coil).
This time, the talk focused mainly on Mustaine's connection to the guitar, but we were soon asking the politically savvy musician for his thoughts on the coming US presidential election, as well as his opinion of today's musical climate. As always, Dave speaks his mind.
How would you say you've changed as a guitarist through the years?
"Well, I've learned to play the guitar three times now. The second time when my arm went numb [the result of falling asleep with his arm over a chair while recovering from pain medication dependence], and then there was the surgery I had last year."
Your neck surgery…
"Right. I had to have my neck fused - the vertebrae in my neck - from the damage that headbanging has done over the years. It had degenerated the discs. When they were taking out one of the discs to replace it, they discovered a big bone fragment that had broken off and was pushing against my spinal column. It was very painful.
"I was laying in a hospital bed on 12 September, my birthday is 13 September, and the Big Four concert was supposed to be 14 September in New York. We sent messages to everybody that I had to get surgery and I couldn't make it.
"As this was happening, I heard some pretty horrible things that were said about me because I wasn't coming. The gutless coward who said these things shall remain nameless, but I know who he is. But still, I said to myself, 'I'll show you…' They got me wrapped up and put me in a brace, and I went to New York and played the show. There you go."
Pre-neck surgery, on stage in Ohio, July 2011. © Amy Harris/Corbis
In having to learn how to play again, what have you discovered about the guitar?
"Sometimes, when I'm learning it again, I'll listen back to the old tracks to try to decipher what the solos were. It can be pretty eye-opening when I discover that I was playing something a little 'off.' It's kind of like a pilot flying a plane: if he's off even one degree at the beginning of a flight, he's going to wind up a long way from where he was supposed to land.
"The layman might not notice, but when I would listen back to live versions of solos, it was like, 'Wow! I am nowhere near what that should be.' So, as painful as it's been, I think my soloing has improved because of the work I've put in.
"Certainly with the numbness in my arm and hand, and the muscles atrophying in my fingers and arm and stuff, it forced me to make adjustments in how I played. The stuff that I couldn't play was put on kind of a waiting list, but as soon I could play it, we added it back into the set. Most of it was stuff I was having problems with before I had any injuries."
Injuries aside, what kinds of things can't you play on the guitar that you wish you could?
"It's not that I couldn't do them, I just flubbing them a little. There's a fill in one of the solo sections in Hangar 18, and there's a little part at the beginning of Head Crusher, and you know, there's a few really widespread riffs that I was doing, things that are stretched out over nine frets – that's a big area to fit your hand over. So when I was going back over and relearning them, I kept trying and trying. Now, I can play those parts better than ever before."
Do you get the same enjoyment from playing the guitar as you did when you were a teenager?
"Well, see, when I picked up the guitar as a teenager, I was hoping to be a rock star. Now, there's only a couple of things that have eluded me: the Grammy, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and getting some major acting parts. I've still got a couple of things that I'm striving for, but I'm not giving up.
Wait a second... Are you joking about the acting?
"No. You see television shows or movies, and any time they have cameos by musicians, these people can't act to save their lives. I've done some cameos, and I've done a lot of live TV for news and so on. I'm comfortable in front of the camera. If it came down to it, if I could get a part that would benefit the band, sure, I'd take it."
Above video: Mustaine at the 1992 Democratic National Convention for MTV News.
Speaking of news, you were a correspondent for MTV during the 1992 presidential election. What's your take on US politics in 2012?
"I'm just hoping that whatever is in the White House next year is a Republican. I can't bear to watch what's happened to our great country. Everybody's got their head in the sand. Everybody in the industry is like, 'Oh, Obama's doing such a great job...' I don't think so. Not from what I see.
"Looking at the Republican candidates, I've got to tell you, I was floored the other day to see that Mitt Romney's five boys have a $100 million trust fund. Where does a guy make that much money? So there's some questions there. And watching Newt Gingrich, I was pretty excited for a while, but now he's just gone back to being that person that everybody said he was – that angry little man. I still like him, but I don't think I'd vote for him.
"Ron Paul… you know, I heard somebody say he was like insecticide – 98 percent of it's inert gases, but it's the two percent that's left that will kill you. What that means is that he'll make total sense for a while, and then he'll say something so way out that it negates everything else. I like the guy because he knows how to excite the youth of America and fill them in on some things. But when he says that we're like the Taliban… I'm sorry, Congressman Paul, but I'm nothing like the Taliban.
"Earlier in the election, I was completely oblivious as to who Rick Santorum was, but when the dude went home to be with his daughter when she was sick, that was very commendable. Also, just watching how he hasn't gotten into doing these horrible, horrible attack ads like Mitt Romney's done against Newt Gingrich, and then the volume at which Newt has gone back at Romney… You know, I think Santorum has some presidential qualities, and I'm hoping that if it does come down to it, we'll see a Republican in the White House... and that it's Rick Santorum."
Let's get back to music. Now that Dave Ellefson is back in the band, would you say this is the best lineup of Megadeth you've ever had?
"Well, it's hard to answer that without risking hurting somebody's feelings. I mean, you've got Nick [Menza] and you've got [Jimmy] DeGrasso… But you know, Shawn [Drover] is the kind of drummer we wish we'd had in the beginning. David Ellefson commented on that, too – that if we'd met Shawn in the beginning, there would never have been any other drummers.
"As far as having Dave back in the band, yeah, it's been great. I think his self-inflicted time out [laughs] has been really good for us. He's matured a lot. I keep joking with him: 'Man, the last eight years you must have been practicing your butt off, 'cause you've gotten so much better.' But it's true. And Chris Broderick is great. He has no problem playing Chris Polland's music. When Marty [Friedman] was in the band, it was all about Marty. We let Chris Broderick spread his wings in the studio, and he's amazing – incredibly versatile."
Mustaine (with bassist Dave Ellefson, left, and obscured drummer Shawn Drover, center) rocks Germany during Megadeth's Big Four set, July 2011. © Friso Gentsch/dpa/Corbis
Pat Carney from The Black Keys caused quite a stir recently when he told Rolling Stone that rock 'n' roll is dying. Do you feel the same? What bugs you about rock these days?
"Rock isn't dead – it's just out of ideas. You've got a lot of people manufacturing music who aren't producers, and there's A&R guys who aren't A&R guys. When I started out in music, an A&R guy was like the fifth Beatle – he'd be there for you, and he'd help make the songs better. We don't have that now.
"If record companies were about breaking bands and selling records instead of just recouping costs, the music business would flourish again. It all comes down to our government and the taxations, what you can say and what you can't say. And then there's the outlets tightening up – MTV doesn't even play music anymore. I remember when I was a kid, you could put MTV on for days and it would be nothing but music.
"So, no, rock 'n' roll isn't dead, but the recording industry is like a bunch of bleached bones out in the desert – not a lot of life to it. I mean, when you have guys running record labels who are younger than I am? Come on…
"When I was coming up, there were guys like Irving Azoff and Ahmet Ertegun and Clive Davis and Jimmy Iovine. Those are the big wigs. I laughed my ass off the day I heard that Fred Durst had his own label. I thought that was silly. I mean, here's a guy who films his own sex tapes - and he's running a label? I would be ashamed to be on that label." ||||| Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine's not ready to cast his vote just yet.
"Contrary to how some people have interpreted my words, I have not endorsed any presidential candidate," the rocker said in a release after earlier reports had him backing Republican Rick Santorum on Wednesday. "What I did say was that I hope to see a Republican in the White House. I've seen good qualities in all the candidates but by no means have made my choice yet. I respect the fact that Santorum took time off from his campaign to be with his sick daughter, but I never used the word 'endorse.'"
In an earlier interview with MusicRadar.com, Mustaine had critical remarks for the rest of the Republican field.
"I was floored the other day to see that Mitt Romney's five boys have a $100 million trust fund. Where does a guy make that much money? So there's some questions there," he said. "And watching Newt Gingrich, I was pretty excited for a while, but now he's just gone back to being that person that everybody said he was - that angry little man. I still like him, but I don't think I'd vote for him."
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He added that Santorum, who won caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota as well as the Missouri primary last week, "has some presidential qualities."
"I'm hoping that if it does come down to it, we'll see a Republican in the White House... and that it's Rick Santorum," Mustaine was quoted as saying.
Mustaine is the latest rocker to come out in favor of a Republican candidate, with Kelly Clarkson drawing fire in recent weeks for her Twitter backing of Ron Paul. |||||
What is a summary? | – Rick Santorum and heavy metal—together at last? Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine took a look at the GOP field in an interview with Music Radar and picked Santorum over too-rich Mitt Romney, too out-there Ron Paul, and "angry little man" Newt Gingrich. Mustaine, who founded Megadeth after getting kicked out of Metallica in 1983 and became a born-again Christian a decade ago, praised Santorum's decision to leave the campaign trail to be with his sick daughter, and his lack of "horrible, horrible attack ads." "I think Santorum has some presidential qualities, and I'm hoping that if it does come down to it, we'll see a Republican in the White House and that it's Rick Santorum," Mustaine said. Santorum, however, can't brag about winning the Megadeth endorsement just yet: Mustaine has issued a statement saying that, contrary to how his words were interpreted, he hasn't endorsed anybody and isn't ready to make his choice yet, Billboard reports. | 2 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Ezra: Where are you?
Brandie: On my way, will be there in 5 minutes
Ezra: I can’t wait to see you <3
Brandie: Really ? ;p Don’t worry, I’ll be there soon
Ezra: I want to see you body…
Brandie: You will ;D
Ezra: That almost sounded like a promise!!! xP
Brandie: Maybe ;>
Ezra: Soooo?
Brandie: I’m sorry I won’t make it
Ezra: Whaaat seriously!!!!
Brandie: It’s just… Plan needed to change
Ezra: Perfect so I’ve been standing here for Brandie:0 minutes like an idiot, all for nothing!
Brandie: I’m sorry for that :[ We can meet some other time….
Ezra: No, thanks I’m not going through this again
Brandie: :[
Ezra: You should respect people more, girl
What was that dialogue about, in two sentences or less? | Brandie has stood Ezra up even though she promised she would be there in a few minutes. | 3 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What happens next?
How to treat adhd with behavior therapy
Work with a behavior therapist.
A behavior therapist specializes in creating, modifying, and enforcing behavior plans. A behavior therapist can work with you (and/or your child) to create a plan that leads to better outcomes in behavior and productivity.
Pick from: (I). Don't let your child go on a binge binge. It is illegal to have a child eat if he is diagnosed with adhd.. (II). A behavior therapist may work to modify responses to anger, use role playing, social skills modeling, and activities to promote focus. Meet with a behavior therapist to create a behavior plan and track progress over several weeks.. (III). You or your child can use that plan to improve your behaviors and resolve problems. Just because behaviors change, they can't be changed through acting out.. (IV). Psychotherapy helps both you and your child develop a behavior plan. Therapy, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt), works in tandem with cognitive behavioral therapy.. | (II). | 7 | Flan2021 | hellaswag:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
What type of thing is the question "Who was in Death of a Salesman original movie , not 1985 ?" asking about?
Select from the following. [+] description [+] entity [+] abbreviation [+] human [+] numeric [+] location
Answer: | human | 0 | Flan2021 | trec:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Как правило дома и виллы в Корал Геблс, Флорида расположены вдоль водного канала, по которому можно выйти в открытый океан.
Translate to English
English: | As a rule houses and properties in coral gables are located along the aqueous channel. | 1 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ru-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Do these two sentences from wikipedia have the same meaning?
Upland is mentioned in 2008 Hugh Laurie Film `` Street Kings '' as the home of the LAPD Internal Affairs Captain James Biggs ( played by Keanu Reeves ) .
Upland is mentioned in the 2008 Keanu Reeves Film `` Street Kings '' as the home of the LAPD Internal Affairs Captain James Biggs ( played by Hugh Laurie ) .
Choose from: (1). no (2). yes
The answer is: | (1). | 5 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Ziff Davis - In its ongoing war with SCO over Linux and Unix IP, IBM is trying a new tactic: declaring that SCO has no rights over its "homegrown" Unix code.
Q: Which is the best summary of this article?
Possible answers:
1). World.
2). Sports.
3). Business.
4). Science/Tech.
I think the answer is | 4). | 2 | Flan2021 | ag_news_subset:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Hatch has long been a proponent of expanding intellectual property rights, and introduced the Senate version of the Copyright Term Extension Act in 1997. Hatch believes intellectual property laws should, in general, more closely mirror real property laws, and offer greater protections to authors and creators. Hatch caused an overnight controversy on June 17, 2003 by proposing that copyright owners should be able to destroy the computer equipment and information of those suspected of copyright infringement, including file sharing, he stated that "This may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights." In the face of criticism, especially from technology and privacy advocates, Hatch withdrew his suggestion days later, after it was discovered that Sen. Hatch's official website was using an unlicensed JavaScript menu from United Kingdom-based software developer Milonic Solutions. Milonic founder Andy Woolley stated that "We've had no contact with them. They are in breach of our licensing terms." Shortly after the publication of that story in Wired magazine, the company that runs Hatch's website contacted Milonic to start registration. One year later, he proposed the controversial INDUCE Act that attempted to make illegal all tools that could be used for copyright infringement if said tools were intentionally used for illegal copyright infringement. On September 20, 2010, Hatch once again attempted to outlaw websites which could be used for trademark and copyright infringement through the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA). This bill would authorize the United States Department of Justice to blacklist and censor all websites that the department deemed to be dedicated to "infringing activities".
Answer this question "Who does the bill say should crry out this enforcement?" by extracting the answer from the text above. | illegal all tools that could be used for copyright infringement if said tools were intentionally used for illegal copyright infringement. | 6 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
By. Daily Mail Reporter. PUBLISHED:. 20:36 EST, 15 July 2012. |. UPDATED:. 21:30 EST, 15 July 2012. They may have been bitter enemies during the Cold War space race, but these days the U.S. and Russia work together to transport astronauts through the cosmos. And it's just as well - for since the demise of the space shuttle programme last year, NASA has been forced to piggy-back off other countries rockets for its space expeditions. This enforced co-operation was on show on Sunday, when American Sunita Williams joined colleagues from Russia and Japan on a Soyuz capsule headed to the International Space Station for a four-month mission. Scroll down for video. We have lift off: The Soyuz TMA-05M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan yesterday morning carrying three astronauts nearly 250 miles above the Earth to the International Space Station. Ms Williams, Yuri Malenchenko and Akihiko Hoshide launched successfully from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 0240 GMT. They are scheduled to berth early on. Tuesday, joining Nasa Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba and Russian. cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin aboard the ISS. 'The Soyuz had a very smooth ride into space,' a spokesman for Nasa said during a live broadcast on the agency's television channel. The Soyuz TMA-05M rocket blazed a bright orange trail through cloudy skies above the Kazakh steppe on the first stage of its journey to the ISS, a $100billion research complex orbiting 240 miles above Earth. Moscow hopes a successful mission will help to restore confidence in its once-pioneering space programme after a string of launch mishaps last year, including the failure of a mission to return samples from the Martian moon Phobos. The previous Soyuz launch on May 15 was delayed by more than a month after an accident during pressure tests damaged the Soyuz crew capsule. There were no such delays with Sunday's launch. Expensive trip: The U.S. is dependent on Russia's Soyuz TMA-05M rockets to carry personnel to the ISS since it scrapped its space shuttle programme last year. 'The most tense, the most difficult part (of the launch) has been successfully implemented,' said Vladimir Popovkin, head of Russian space agency Roscosmos. 'I have just spoken to the crew. They are feeling great,' Russian news agencies quoted Popovkin as saying in Baikonur. 'I have no doubts that all will go according to plan.' Colonel Malenchenko, a 50-year-old cosmonaut on his fifth space voyage, loosened his straps about 20 minutes after blast-off after conducting air pressure checks. Asked by Mission Control how the crew was feeling, he replied: 'Good.' A doll given to him by his daughter dangled from the roof of the capsule. Intrepid: Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, center, U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams, right, and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, left, walk to the capsule before the countdown. Explorers: Colonel Malenchenko, left, and Captain Williams, wave to the cameras prior to launch. Captain Williams, 46, and Mr Hoshide,. 43, a civilian engineer, are both on their second space flight and their. first aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. They, along with Colonel Malenchenko, are scheduled to return to Earth in mid-November. The previous crew of three at the ISS returned on July 1. Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, NASA astronaut Don Pettit and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers helped to dock the first privately owned spacecraft during a six-month stint in orbit. Destination space: The International Space Station is a $100billion research complex orbiting 240 miles above Earth. Sunday's launch took place less than three weeks after China's Shenzhou 9 spacecraft returned to Earth, ending a mission that put the country's first woman in space. Although China is far from catching up with the United States and Russia, the Shenzhou 9 marked China's fourth manned space mission since 2003. It comes as budget restraints and shifting priorities have held back U.S. manned space launches. Watch the video.
Write highlights for this article. | Russian, Japanese and U.S. crew blasts off successfully. Moscow hopes to restore confidence in space programme. | 2 | Flan2021 | cnn_dailymail:3.4.0 | zs_opt |
Which French naval officer invented the aqualung?
What is the answer? | jacques yves cousteau | 9 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
What is the sentiment of the following review?
Had previously had poor service but tried again because the food is good. This time we ended up leaving as our kids were ready to go. We won't try again. Our drinks were wrong but the waitress was nice to fix, and she said "everyone orders waffles on the weekends" so that backs things up. After 50 minutes waiting - and they did realize we were waiting because they did give us beignets - we bailed. Hope they can learn from these reviews. We used to really like this place. Two times is a trend.
OPT:
-- negative;
-- positive; | negative | 5 | Flan2021 | yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0 | zs_opt |
Choose from options: Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
Chas Fagan spent many years creating the sculpture.
Ronald Reagan is a bronze sculpture depicting the American politician of the same name by Chas Fagan, installed at the United States Capitol's rotunda, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. The statue was donated by the U.S. state of California in 2009, and replaced one depicting Thomas Starr King, which the state had gifted in 1931.
Possible answers:
(I) Yes.
(II) It's impossible to say.
(III) No. | (II) | 8 | Flan2021 | anli/r2:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
This question has options. Is the word "drag" used in the same way in the following two sentences?
Peeling potatoes is a drag.
He went to the party dressed in drag.
Options are: 1). different meanings 2). the same meaning | 1). | 5 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wic:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences?
1. In most cases , this is highly debatable . -RRB-
2. -LRB- Assuming that cannabis use is harmful .
3. However , regulation has been brought in to minimize the effects on others for alcohol and cigarettes , such as bans on smoking in public places , and the same thing could be done for cannabis .
4. Smoking cannabis may have effects on others , such as through the effects of passive smoking .
5. People are allowed to eat or drink to their detriment .
6. It is important that we have the liberty to do what we want to our own bodies .
7. Why then , should people not be allowed to harm themselves through cannabis use ?
8. In many countries it is legal to take one 's life . | People should be allowed to do whatever they want to their own bodies | 5 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
Choose your answer: Do "Janie" and "she" point to the same thing in the following sentence?
Emma did not pass the ball to Janie although *she* saw that she was open.
Options are: A). no. B). yes. | A). | 9 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wsc.fixed:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. It will strongly move you, but you won't be able to say exactly why. It illuminates 24 hours in the life of a Japanese family, and though it may appear that not much is happening, by the end everything is revealed.
2. Sensitively demonstrates how nothing much happening to this idiosyncratic family is the universal story of every family.
3. There's also a touch of Bergman-style family angst here, and in the tale of the drowned golden boy and the surviving son, even a little bit of Ordinary People.
4. ...seems more French than Japanese with its chaotic gathering and multi-layered and constant dialogue.
5. A gentle, absorbing drama that carefully modulates sentimentality with an eye for the way family members can be casually cruel to each other and outsiders.
6. Kore-eda, talented director that he is, never allows the story to sink into soap-opera melodrama, and he refrains from pointing fingers.
7. Hirokazu Kore-Eda's latest effort, further entrenches my belief he should be considered one of Japan's living treasures.
8. Kore-eda has an extraordinary grasp on his characters, modest people who clearly mean a great deal to him. They will to you, as well.
9. Hirokazu Koreeda has written and directed a family drama that tells a powerful story that can not be told through words alone.
10. The Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda has a deceptively simple touch with the quiet, stirring film Still Walking.
What was the overall consensus about the movie? | Hirokazu Kore-eda's film may seem modest at first, but this family drama casts a delicate, entrancing spell. | 4 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
Multi-select: Is it possible to draw the conclusion that "Mr. Schmidt's work was beautiful." if "Every day after dinner Mr. Schmidt took a long nap. Mark would let him sleep for an hour, then wake him up, scold him, and get him to work. He needed to get him to finish his work, because his work was beautiful."?
Choose your answer from: A). no B). yes | B). | 7 | Flan2021 | glue/wnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a question you would see in a school textbook. | Which object is powered by an electrical circuit? | 7 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Easy:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Summarize this article in one sentence.
Carwyn Jones stressed the workplace, family, schools and the planning process as the key areas for action.
Alun Davies, minister for the Welsh language, admitted it was a "deliberately ambitious" target.
But Plaid Cymru's Sian Gwenllian called the announcement "another superficial stunt".
The 2011 census reported a drop in the number of Welsh speakers from 582,000 in 2001 to 562,000, about one in five of the population.
Traditional Welsh-speaking communities have been said to be under threat from young people moving away to find work and new housing developments attracting incomers who do not speak the language.
Ministers who launched the consultation at the National Eisteddfod in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, on Monday cited a growing demand for Welsh-medium education as a reason to be positive.
Proposals were outlined under six key areas for discussion:
"We are a proudly bilingual nation," said Mr Jones.
"We are confident the discussion we are launching today will continue to help us grow the language so it thrives as a vibrant, living part of our communities."
Mr Davies added: "There are challenges ahead, but we can undoubtedly face those in the knowledge that we are building from a position of strength."
The Welsh Government ran a "national conversation" consultation on the use of the Welsh language three years ago in 2013, following the Census results.
Jamie Bevan, chairman of the Welsh language society Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, said many reports had been commissioned and published since then but "not implemented in full".
He said: "It's a shock that the government is beginning another consultation.
"Welsh as a vibrant community language is on its knees - we're losing 3,000 speakers a year at the moment."
Plaid Cymru's Sian Gwenllian welcomed the one million Welsh speakers pledge but said: "There's no need for another superficial stunt and there's no time to waste."
Neil Hamilton, leader of the UKIP group in the Welsh Assembly, also welcomed the commitment but added: "We need action not words."
The Welsh Conservatives' Suzy Davies AM said the "devil will clearly be in the detail of these plans".
In response to the claims that it was just another consultation, Mr Jones said: "The target didn't exist before the election.
"A million is ambitious and it is important that we ensure that we listen to experts around us so that the target is met."
Summary: | A drive to almost double the number of Welsh speakers to one million by 2050 has been unveiled by the first minister at the National Eisteddfod. | 2 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
1. This is more than enough material for two hours of summer-movie fun, and The X-Files delivers said fun reasonably well.
2. The movie, directed by Rob Bowman, plays more to the show's chief strengths: its macabre wit, its creepy-crawlie scares, and especially the tense, complex relationship at its center.
3. By the end of the picture I was almost in a frenzy to see the television show, after experiencing this two-hour nostalgic thriller that manages to make use of the limitations the series brought on.
4. Successful in two ways: for regular viewers, it whets their appetites to continue watching; for rookies, it just makes them want to watch the show on a regular basis.
5. Ultimately, in the film, Carter delivers the goods to die-hard fans.
6. As a movie, it generates a good atmosphere and has a pair of good performances from the leads...and that's about it.
7. Move along. Nothing to see here.
8. The X-Files is above-average television, and in the case of this movie it also makes for above-average science fiction cinema.
9. Conspiracy theorists, consider this: What if the hush-hush atmosphere and Internet mania surrounding the first X-Files feature film were part of a giant plot to hide the uneventfulness of one more summertime sci-fi fizzle?
10. This bigscreen version of the rampantly popular TV show is, as expected, exciting and compelling from start to finish, maintaining the intelligent writing, wry humor and character chemistry of the series.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus? | Results may vary for newcomers, but fans of the series will enjoy its big-screen transition. | 2 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
Translate "Nowadays it is a space for Barcelonans to enjoy nature, culture and their free time in the centre of Barcelona." to German? | Heute ist der Park Ciutadella Raum für Barceloneser um in Ihrer Freizeit etwas Natur zu genießen. | 7 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/de-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
How do you say "This change also replaces the existing use of /etc/apache2/conf.d/." in Spanish? | Este cambio también reemplaza el uso actual de /etc/apache2/conf.d/. | 0 | Flan2021 | para_crawl_enes | zs_opt |
"Joan made sure to thank Susan for all the help she had recieved." is a true sentence.
Does this mean that "Joan made sure to thank Susan for all the help Susan had recieved."?
Available choices: - no - yes | no | 4 | Flan2021 | glue/wnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is a question about this article? If the question is unanswerable, say "unanswerable".
In 1987, in Canada, Elizabeth publicly supported politically divisive constitutional amendments, prompting criticism from opponents of the proposed changes, including Pierre Trudeau. The same year, the elected Fijian government was deposed in a military coup. Elizabeth, as monarch of Fiji, supported the attempts of the Governor-General, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, to assert executive power and negotiate a settlement. Coup leader Sitiveni Rabuka deposed Ganilau and declared Fiji a republic. By the start of 1991, republican feeling in Britain had risen because of press estimates of the Queen's private wealth—which were contradicted by the Palace—and reports of affairs and strained marriages among her extended family. The involvement of the younger royals in the charity game show It's a Royal Knockout was ridiculed and the Queen was the target of satire.
Who was one of the younger royals who appeared on It's a Royal Knockout? | unanswerable | 2 | Flan2021 | squad/v2.0:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
Here is a question about this article: Official figures (as of July 21, 2008 12:00 CST) stated that 69,197 were confirmed dead, including 68,636 in Sichuan province, and 374,176 injured, with 18,222 listed as missing. The earthquake left about 4.8 million people homeless, though the number could be as high as 11 million. Approximately 15 million people lived in the affected area. It was the deadliest earthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, which killed at least 240,000 people, and the strongest in the country since the 1950 Chayu earthquake, which registered at 8.5 on the Richter magnitude scale. It is the 21st deadliest earthquake of all time. On November 6, 2008, the central government announced that it would spend 1 trillion RMB (about US $146.5 billion) over the next three years to rebuild areas ravaged by the earthquake, as part of the Chinese economic stimulus program.
What is the answer to this question: How high could the homeless number possibly go? | 11 million | 4 | Flan2021 | squad/v1.1:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
How to get an aol instant messenger buddy icon<br>Select your icon. Make sure it's an icon, not a photo because it has to be within a certain dimension. A really good site is Open up aim 6 , 6.8, whatever.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
Aol instant messenger does not have buddy icons.
1). Yes;
2). It's impossible to say;
3). No; | 3). | 2 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
The North Melbourne Advertiser was a local newspaper distributed throughout the inner-northern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, especially within the boundaries of what was then known as the borough of Hotham (later becoming the suburb of North Melbourne in 1887).
Can we infer the following?
The North Melbourne Advertiser was written in Indian.
Possible answers:
1). Yes.
2). It's impossible to say.
3). No.
The answer is: | 2). | 4 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Taiwan is also a member of the World Trade Organisation as a single customs territory.
Translate to Romanian
Romanian: | De asemenea, Taiwanul este membru al Organizaţiei Mondiale a Comerţului ca teritoriu vamal unic. | 0 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ro-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Do these two sentences mean the same thing?
The British ambassador to the United Nations , Sir Jeremy Greenstock , is scheduled to lead a Security Council Mission to the region in mid-May .
Sir Jeremy Greenstock , the UK 's ambassador to the UN , is due to lead a week-long Security Council mission to West Africa in mid-May .
Options: A. no B. yes...I think the answer is | B. | 8 | Flan2021 | glue/mrpc:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate to German:
But when she decides in favour of him, because she has heard from other people how handsome he is, then we talk about public relations.
German: | Wenn sie sich aber für ihn entscheidet, weil sie von anderen gehört hat, er sei ein feiner Kerl, so sind das Public Relations. | 4 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/de-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Single/multi-choice problem: Which of the following solutions is better for the following goal:
How to melt wax?
Choose your answer from:
1). Fill your pot half full of water and boil. Once water is hot , place cubes of wax in the water. With knife, stir the cubes until completely melted. Add scent cubes, if desired.;
2). Fill your pot half full of water and boil. Once water is hot , place cubes of wax in the aluminum can. With knife, stir the cubes until completely melted. Add scent cubes, if desired.; | 2). | 6 | Flan2021 | piqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar dangled near a record low against the euro on Monday after a meeting of the Group of 20 rich and developing nations produced no coordinated stance to stem the U.S. currency's decline.
What is a good title for this? | Dollar Near Record Low Vs Euro | 9 | Flan2021 | ag_news_subset:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Sentence 1: I've had enough of the fellow hanging about.
Sentence 2: He can stay for as long as he wants, he's a good fellow.
OPT:
a). yes.
b). it is not possible to tell.
c). no.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first sentence?
| c). | 3 | Flan2021 | glue/mnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Q: Red-clay bricks have a density of approximately 2000 kg/m^3. Air has a density of 1 kg/m^3. Which of the following has the lowest mass?
What is the correct answer to this question?
Available choices:
[I] 2 m^3 of bricks;
[II] 4 m^3 of bricks;
[III] 6000 m^3 of air;
[IV] 10,000 m^3 of air;...A: | [I] | 3 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Challenge:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Use the following highlights to write an article:
University of Minnesota students rioted in the streets after their team's loss to Union College. 19 people were arrested. Officers also used tear gas, pepper spray and shot rubber pellets and beanbags at the crowd to disperse it. The outbreak of violence comes after similar rioting on Thursday. In that case, the Gophers had won a semifinal.
Article: | Minnesota police say 19 people have been arrested after crowds filled the streets of the Dinkytown neighborhood following the Gophers' NCAA hockey title game loss. Union College defeated Minnesota seven to four Saturday at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. But crowds spilled into Dinkytown near the University of Minnesota campus after the game. Police say in a statement that two known incidents of arson were reported, along with an undetermined amount of property damage. Rioters: A rowdy crowd is seen following the Gopher men's hockey loss on Saturday night April 12, 2014 after the Gophers' loss in the NCAA final. Street-fighting men: These two men were arrested by police during the post-hockey match riot. All hands on deck: Minneapolis law enforcement detain a man during a disturbance in Dinkytown Saturday night. They say no law enforcement members were injured but declined to release further details. The Minnesota Daily reports police had vowed to thwart possible unrest following Saturday's game. The Daily says officers were armed with zip ties and nonlethal weapons that were fired into the crowd as a mounted patrol unit advanced and helicopters circled overhead. According to TwinCities.com, students streets, inexplicably chanting 'USA! USA!' and jumping, swearing at police officers and throwing rocks and bottles. Some lay down in the intersection of Fourth Street Southeast and 14th Avenue Southeast. Officers used tear gas and pepper spray and shot rubber pellets and beanbags to clear the most unruly of the crowd. Bloodied and bruised: Officers used rubber pellets and tear gas to clear the crowd and arrested 19 people. 19 arrests: A man is zip-tied by Minneapolis law enforcement during a riot Saturday evening in Dinkytown during the riots. Aerial view: Hundreds of students can be seen linking the streets as police attempt to wrest control. University of Minnesota students were warned Friday that a heavy police presence would be in place during the national hockey championships to prevent a repeat of the riotous behavior that erupted after Minnesota edged out North Dakota in the Frozen Four semifinals. Thursday night's unrest drew police in riot gear as hundreds of students and other hockey fans took to the streets in Dinkytown near campus to celebrate the Gophers' last-second win. Some fans threw beer bottles and cans at officers, others climbed light poles, and one video showed several young men jumping on top of a squad car. A State Patrol helicopter was called to illuminate the area. Live on air: A Fox reporter called the rioters 'idiots' and had difficulty reporting on the scene due to drunken rioters. Unrest: Lines of police in riot gear worked to disperse the on-edge crowd. Police arrested several people, and two officers were taken to Hennepin County Medical Center for, Minneapolis police said Friday. An undetermined amount of public and police property was damaged during the two-hour disturbance, police said. 'The actions of a few people in Dinkytown last night unfortunately marred the victory of our Gophers men's hockey team,' University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler wrote in an email sent to students Friday. 'These actions are unacceptable and must not be repeated.' Kaler said that any similar outbreak of misbehavior Saturday after Minnesota's game against underdog Union in Philadelphia, 'will be met with zero tolerance.' | 8 | Flan2021 | cnn_dailymail:3.4.0 | zs_opt |
Write a one sentence review of the movie "1075422-hamlet". | Kenneth Branagh's sprawling, finely textured adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece lives up to its source material, using strong performances and a sharp cinematic focus to create a powerfully resonant film that wastes none of its 246 minutes. | 6 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
I just took a test in school today. What question was I asked? | For his science project, Alan began a study of sugar maple trees. He noticed many differences among the sugar maple trees near his school. Which of the following three characteristics would vary the LEAST? | 9 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Challenge:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Based on the premise "The rest of us will stay here.", can we conclude the hypothesis "More than one person were staying. " is true (see options)?
Available options: (a). yes; (b). it is not possible to tell; (c). no; | (a). | 5 | Flan2021 | glue/mnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Article:
It is with heavy hearts, we are devastated to announce that Riley Hancey passed away from complications of a lung transplant. We are extremely thankful to all the wonderful doctors and staff at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Utah for their expertise and care that Riley received. We would also like to thank the donor family, who in their own grief chose to save a life. We will never forget your kindness and generosity. It has been a long battle to save Riley’s life. We know that in our hearts we gave him every opportunity to survive. He will live in our hearts forever. Riley is now free to climb every mountain, ski the back country, go fishing, and run every river. He will continue to do so with his family in spirit. In his honor, we ask that you take a moment to do a random act of kindness for someone. Riley’s kind spirit, laughter, and smile will be deeply missed by all that knew him.
More information will be posted soon regarding a celebration of Riley's life.
The Hancey Family
Update - April 22, 2017Updatetoday. His transplant surgery went well and the Dr. is optimistic. There is still a very long road ahead so please keep Riley and company in your thoughts. Rileys parents were both in town but he will be sedated for the next couple of days. Please keep sharing his story. Thank you everyonefor all your love, support and kindness.♡Update: Riley Hancey is in Philadelphia waiting for lungs. Thank you everyone for all your love and support. We still have a long journey ahead so please keep sharing Rileys story. We have been posting updates below. Thank you.Riley Hancey is 19 years old and has been hospitalized at the University of Utah Hospital ICU for going on 68+ days. What started out as the flu turned into pneumonia, and then quickly became a rare lung infection. Riley has lost all gas exchange function of his lungs due to scarring, as a result of the infection. He has been relying on a tracheotomy and an ECMO to provide oxygen to his blood. Riley now requires a double lung transplant, has been placed on the lung transplant list and is awaiting a donor.Riley was a healthy teen, engaged in summer and winter sports and took advantage of living in Utah. He worked for his brother and at a ski resort and loved to travel. He has amazing parents, an older brother and sister, a little sister, and giant support of family and friends but we need help.The University of Utah cannot provide Riley with the life-saving transplant he needs. His case is currently being reviewed by transplant programs out of state. His family is trying to work with insurance to ensure coverage but the finances are tight. Riley has a car payment, health insurance deductibles and out of pocket expenses, plus preparation to head out of state at a moments notice, and hospital bills!Riley and his family need all the help we can we can give them. Riley is young and should have his whole life ahead of him. His family is not prepared to let their son go without a fight. Please help them cover the out of pocket costs, transportation when they get the okay to travel, food and lodging, transit to and from the hospital, flights for his caregivers, cost of living, time away from work, and all other costs we are not thinking of right now.Please share his story, and pitch in anything you can for this young man to have his life-saving lung transplant! We will update you as much and as soon as possible. Please send Riley and his family good healthy thoughts. Thank you. ||||| The outdoor enthusiast was admitted to the U. Hospital on Dec. 2, his father said, and was put on life support two weeks later. He was denied transplant eligibility at the U. in early April after traces of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the main active ingredient in marijuana, were found in his system.
At the time, Mark Hancey said his son smoked it with his friends on Thanksgiving after a year of being drug-free.
In a statement at the time, the U. said it does not comment on individual patient cases, but university spokeswoman Kathy Wilets said under the hospital's transplant policy, "We do not transplant organs in patients with active alcohol, tobacco or illicit drug use or dependencies until these issues are addressed, as these substances are contraindicated for a transplant."
Patients remain ineligible at least until undergoing a treatment or cessation program, Wilets added. The policy is designed, she said, to give patients a higher chance of surviving surgery and recovery.
After Riley Hancey was denied from the U., Mark Hancey said the family searched for hospitals across the country for nearly two months. UPenn added him to its transplant list and moved him to Philadelphia on March 11, where he waited in ICU for matching donor lungs. Doctors there performed a double lung transplant on March 29.
Some family members took to social media and other online forums on Sunday to share the news of Riley's death. His older brother, Zachary Hancey, posted a statement from the family on his personal Facebook page that thanked the medical staffs of UPenn and the U. for their care, and he thanked the family of the donor whose lungs Riley received during his transplant.
"It has been a long battle to save Riley's life. We know that in our hearts we gave him every opportunity to survive," the statement continued. "He will live in our hearts forever. He is now free to climb every mountain and run every river and will continue to do so with his family in spirit."
Riley spent more than 68 days in the ICU at University Hospital, according to a YouCaring page created to help the Hancey family with out-of-pocket expenses related to Riley Hancey's care. The page further described how he relied on a tracheotomy and a lung machine to provide oxygen to his blood.
The page began posting in February and has raised almost $24,400 for Riley and his family, as of 6 p.m. Sunday. Nearly 250 people have made a donation to the page.
kgifford@sltrib.com Twitter @kelgiffo |||||Summary: |
– Riley Hancey, the Utah man who was turned away for a lung transplant by University of Utah Hospital after he was found to have traces of pot in his system, received new lungs in a different state months later, but it wasn't enough to give his story a happy ending. Riley, whose lungs collapsed after a severe case of pneumonia last fall, died on Saturday, KSL reports. He had just turned 20 last week, per the Salt Lake Tribune. A few weeks ago, he underwent transplant surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, which agreed to treat him after his parents searched the country for a willing hospital. His parents say that after being drug-free for around a year, he smoked pot on Thanksgiving, days before becoming ill, which was enough to get him kicked off the transplant list in Utah, BuzzFeed reports. Riley's family says he died of complications from the surgery. "We know that in our hearts we gave him every opportunity to survive," the family said on a YouCaring page. "He will live in our hearts forever. Riley is now free to climb every mountain ... and run every river [and] ... will continue to do so with his family in spirit." In an earlier statement, the Utah hospital said it does not transplant organs in "patients with active alcohol, tobacco, or illicit drug use or dependencies until these issues are addressed." BuzzFeed notes that, in a sad irony, the Pennyslvania doctors treated Riley with Marinol, an FDA-approved synthetic version of the marijuana ingredient THC, to stimulate his appetite after his weight dropped to 97 pounds. (A Canadian woman survived for six days without lungs in her body.) | 7 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Review: It's not just the plot alone that makes this movie an instant turn-off for bored audiences. It's the terrible direction with a horrible script and mistakes left and right that makes this too agonizing to watch. I'm sorry but I do not see the 'fun' in this. Just the thrill of pointing the many mistakes and stupid one-liners. Well I'm wondering how dumb the directors think of their producing company when this movie was first introduced. Probably as dumb as that sheriff who dove into the pickup truck full of antifreeze with a gaping bloody wound. Oops! Did I forget to mention this sheriff's not only a poor actor but also can shrug off an impalement with a load of antifreeze drenching the exposed flesh? I guess he kind of forgot when he won a not-so-thrilling victory over the snowman.
What is the sentiment of this review?
pick from the following.
(A). negative
(B). positive | (A). | 7 | Flan2021 | imdb_reviews/plain_text:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a text based on "un chief voices support for democratic process in bolivia"
Text: | un secretary-general ban ki - moon voiced support on friday for the process of democracy in bolivia . | 9 | Flan2021 | gigaword:1.2.0 | zs_opt |
Write a subject line for this message:
I have to leave the office at 10:30 to be at my home. I should be back after lunch. If you need to reach me, please feel free to call at (713) 664-3207. Thanks. Sara
Subject Line: | house problem | 1 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
By Jason Groves Last updated at 12:37 PM on 3rd October 2011 Tens of thousands of union activists laid siege to the Conservative conference yesterday in protest at Government cuts. Some 35,000 public sector workers staged a vocal, but peaceful protest as the conference got under way. Chants of ‘Tories out’ and ‘David Cameron on your bike’ could be heard clearly behind the security barriers protecting conference delegates. Taking to the streets: Thousands of union protesters marched through Manchester yesterday to show their anger at Tory cuts ahead of the party's conference in the city March: Thousands walked through the city centre streets carrying banners from a wide range of unions
Anger: A group of teenage protesters daubed themselves in fake blood and use it to paint their placards attacking the
OPTIONS:
- Conservative
- David Cameron
- Government
- Jason Groves
- Manchester
- Tories
- Tory
| Tories | 1 | Flan2021 | super_glue/record:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
1. From beginning to end, it's a very human story.
2. A genuine political psychodrama that makes its point with a sledgehammer.
3. A luminous central performance from Golshifteh Farahani distinguishes an ambitious if somewhat monotonously wordy adaptation of a prize-winning best-seller.
4. Golshifteh Farahani gives a memorable and moving performance in Atiq Rahimi's poetic and politically charged allegory.
5. The great Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani delivers what will doubtless be the year's most riveting series of monologues
6. Profoundly disturbing depiction of the grim realities and the oppression women endure under the Taliban regime - yet enthralling because of Golshifteh Farahani's performance.
7. While Atiq Rahimi's film may peel away the many layers of its female lead like an onion, the end result is still just an onion.
8. An astonishing film about an Afghan woman's close-encounter with sex, power, and female desire after a loveless marriage and years of oppression by all the men in her life.
9. The only ferociousness comes from Farahani... She gives The Patience Stone its gravitas.
10. There isn't a false step from the quietly devastating Farahani; her tour-de-force performance carries the film through its rocky stretches.
What is a brief summary of the following reviews? | It may prove frustratingly slow for some viewers, but more contemplative filmgoers will find themselves rewarded by The Patience Stone's quietly fierce storytelling, as well as a searing starring turn from Golshifteh Farahani. | 1 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
Select from options: How similar are the following two sentences?
NM County Prepares for Same-Sex Marriages Hearing
Some county officials pave the way for same-sex marriage
Give the answer on a scale from 0 - 5, where 0 is "not similar at all" and 5 is "means the same thing".
Choose from:
(A). 0.
(B). 1.
(C). 2.
(D). 3.
(E). 4.
(F). 5. | (E). | 3 | Flan2021 | glue/stsb:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Which factors can have the greatest effect on the health of a river system?
Options:
[1]. type of soil and salinity
[2]. nitrate levels and turbidity
[3]. human consumption and pH
[4]. natural disasters and tidal changes
| [2]. | 3 | Flan2021 | unified_qa_science_inst | zs_opt |
"he immediately started jamming it over brian 's head . when it popped through , alejandro pulled the hood up and over brian 's head . `` keep this up , '' alejandro said as he tied the drawstring under brian 's chin . brian wriggled his arms though the sleeves . `` okay , now , just walk , like we 're going to class or something , '' said _ ..." What is the word in the blank space (_)? The answer is | alejandro | 2 | Flan2021 | lambada:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Rózsa,in,describestheimprovingmathematicaleducationattheTechnicalUniversityofBudapest:
What's a sentence that uses these characters? | Rózsa, in , describes the improving mathematical education at the Technical University of Budapest: | 1 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
Write an email with the subject line "Month to Date CGAS numbers". | Would you guys please give the latest CGAS number for CES? You know, thats where you give the total volume delivered by day on ENA, CALP, and Dayton transport. Thanks | 9 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a one sentence review of the movie "the man who knew too much 1956". | Remaking his own 1934 film, Hitchcock imbues The Man Who Knew Too Much with picturesque locales and international intrigue, and is helped by a brilliantly befuddled performance from James Stewart. | 6 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
Choose the next sentence.Ultimately, he couldn’t see the job through to the end. Louis van Gaal’s dreams of heading to the Barclays Premier League with the ultimate stamp on his CV were dashed by the trauma of a penalty shoot-out at Arena Corinthians on Wednesday night. At Old Trafford, they will perhaps not rue Holland’s exit too much as they prepare for the arrival of a coach who must get things right quickly if the damage of the David Moyes months is to be undone over the course of the new season. Van Gaal’s schedule looks rather daunting. After a third-place play-off game against Brazil on Saturday, Van Gaal will fly back to Holland with his squad before heading to Manchester on Tuesday where his wife Truus has already found a house in Cheshire.
In
OPTIONS:
- Arena Corinthians, United have a coach willing to change his tactical approach dramatically for individual games and also make big calls during matches.
- Barclays Premier League, United have a coach willing to change his tactical approach dramatically for individual games and also make big calls during matches.
- Brazil, United have a coach willing to change his tactical approach dramatically for individual games and also make big calls during matches.
- Cheshire, United have a coach willing to change his tactical approach dramatically for individual games and also make big calls during matches.
- David Moyes, United have a coach willing to change his tactical approach dramatically for individual games and also make big calls during matches.
- Dutchman, United have a coach willing to change his tactical approach dramatically for individual games and also make big calls during matches.
- Holland, United have a coach willing to change his tactical approach dramatically for individual games and also make big calls during matches.
- Louis van Gaal, United have a coach willing to change his tactical approach dramatically for individual games and also make big calls during matches.
- Manchester, United have a coach willing to change his tactical approach dramatically for individual games and also make big calls during matches.
- Old Trafford, United have a coach willing to change his tactical approach dramatically for individual games and also make big calls during matches.
- Truus, United have a coach willing to change his tactical approach dramatically for individual games and also make big calls during matches.
- USA, United have a coach willing to change his tactical approach dramatically for individual games and also make big calls during matches.
- United, United have a coach willing to change his tactical approach dramatically for individual games and also make big calls during matches.
- Van Gaal, United have a coach willing to change his tactical approach dramatically for individual games and also make big calls during matches.
| Van Gaal, United have a coach willing to change his tactical approach dramatically for individual games and also make big calls during matches. | 4 | Flan2021 | super_glue/record:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
the u.s. standing in the middle east is at an all-time low and can be helped only by pressing israel to relinquish all occupied arab land and jerusalem to the palestinians , says saudi arabia 's ambassador to the united states .
Summarize the aforementioned text in a single phrase. | saudi ambassador criticizes bush administration on pace of mideast peacemaking | 6 | Flan2021 | gigaword:1.2.0 | zs_opt |
Triple: Midsummer House food Italian; Midsummer House priceRange more than £30; Midsummer House near All Bar One
What is a sentence that describes this triple? | Midsummer House serves Italian food at a high price. It is located near All Bar One. | 0 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Пятый элемент
Translate this to English? | The Fifth Element | 3 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ru-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Here are two sentences:
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI slipped 9.54 points , or 0.1 percent , at 9,558.92 .
The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average eased 44 points , or 0.47 percent , to 9,543 , after scoring five consecutive up sessions .
Do they have the same meaning?
Available choices: 1). no; 2). yes; | 1). | 0 | Flan2021 | glue/mrpc:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is a random fact? | if an animal takes a resource from another animal then that animal competes for resources successfully | 8 | Flan2021 | openbookqa:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Background: Foo Fighters is an American rock band, formed in Seattle, Washington in 1994. It was founded by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of Nirvana after the death of Kurt Cobain. The group got its name from the UFOs and various aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II, which were known collectively as "foo fighters". Prior to the release of Foo Fighters' 1995 debut album Foo Fighters, which featured Grohl as the only official member, Grohl recruited bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith, both formerly of Sunny Day Real Estate, as well as Nirvana touring guitarist Pat Smear to complete the lineup.
Context: In 1998, Foo Fighters traveled to Grohl's home state of Virginia to write music for its third album. However, Grohl and Stahl were unable to co-operate as songwriters; Grohl told Kerrang! in 1999, "in those few weeks it just seemed like the three of us were moving in one direction and Franz wasn't". Grohl was distraught over the decision to fire Stahl, as the two had been friends since childhood. Shortly after that, Mendel called Grohl to say he was quitting the band to reunite with Sunny Day Real Estate, only to reverse his decision the next day. The remaining trio of Grohl, Mendel, and Hawkins spent the next several months recording the band's third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose, in Grohl's Virginia home studio that he bought and built. The album spawned several singles, including "Learn to Fly", the band's first single to reach the US Billboard Hot 100. Other singles included "Stacked Actors", "Generator", "Next Year" and "Breakout". Before the release of the album, Capitol president Gary Gersh was forced out of the label. Given Grohl's history with Gersh, Foo Fighters' contract had included a "key man clause" that allowed them to leave the label upon Gersh's departure. They subsequently left Capitol and signed with RCA, who later acquired the rights to the band's Capitol albums. After recording for There Is Nothing Left to Lose was completed, the band auditioned a number of potential guitarists, and eventually settled on Chris Shiflett, who performs with Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, and previously performed with California punk band, No Use for a Name. Shiflett initially joined the band as touring guitarist, but achieved full-time status prior to the recording of the group's fourth album. In January 2000, Nate Mendel led a benefit concert in Hollywood for AIDS denialist group Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives with a speech by founder Christine Maggiore and free copies of her book, What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong? Additionally, the band's official website had linked to the group's website. The full band was shown in a documentary for Alive & Well declaring their support before a performance. Links and references to Alive & Well have since been removed and no further mentions or shows of support have been made. Around 2001, Foo Fighters established a relationship with rock band Queen, of whom the band (particularly Grohl and Hawkins) were fans. In March of that year, Grohl and Hawkins inducted the band into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and joined them on stage for a rendition of the Queen 1976 classic "Tie Your Mother Down", with Hawkins playing drums alongside Roger Taylor, while Grohl was playing rhythm guitar and handling vocal duties. Guitarist Brian May added a guitar track to Foo Fighters' second cover of Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar", which appeared on the soundtrack to the movie Mission: Impossible 2. In 2002, guitarist May contributed guitar work to "Tired of You" and an outtake called "Knucklehead". The bands have performed together on several occasions since, including VH1 Rock Honors and Foo Fighters' headlining concert in Hyde Park.
Question: any interesting facts about this article?
Answer: | Around 2001, Foo Fighters established a relationship with rock band Queen, of whom the band (particularly Grohl and Hawkins) were fans. | 4 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (25 February 1917 - 22 November 1993) - who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess - was an English writer and composer. From relatively modest beginnings in a Catholic family in Manchester, he eventually became one of the best known English literary figures of the latter half of the twentieth century. Although Burgess was predominantly a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best known novel. In 1971 it was adapted into a highly controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book.
In 1954, Burgess joined the British Colonial Service as a teacher and education officer in Malaya, initially stationed at Kuala Kangsar in Perak, in what were then known as the Federated Malay States. Here he taught at the Malay College (now Malay College Kuala Kangsar - MCKK), modeled on English public school lines. In addition to his teaching duties, he was a housemaster in charge of students of the preparatory school, who were housed at a Victorian mansion known as "King's Pavilion". A variety of the music he wrote there was influenced by the country, notably Sinfoni Melayu for orchestra and brass band, which included cries of Merdeka (independence) from the audience. No score, however, is extant. Burgess and his wife had occupied a noisy apartment where privacy was minimal, and this caused resentment. Following a dispute with the Malay College's principal about this, Burgess was reposted to the Malay Teachers' Training College at Kota Bharu, Kelantan. Burgess attained fluency in Malay, spoken and written, achieving distinction in the examinations in the language set by the Colonial Office. He was rewarded with a salary increase for his proficiency in the language. He devoted some of his free time in Malaya to creative writing "as a sort of gentlemanly hobby, because I knew there wasn't any money in it," and published his first novels: Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket and Beds in the East. These became known as The Malayan Trilogy and were later published in one volume as The Long Day Wanes. Answer this question using a quote from the following article:
Did he teach ? | In 1954, Burgess joined the British Colonial Service as a teacher and education officer in Malaya, | 7 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
(1) While prostitution is illegal in Canada , most activities related to prostitution are legal .
(2) While prostitution in Canada is legal , most activities relating to prostitution are illegal .
Do these two sentences mean the same thing?
OPTIONS:
1). no.
2). yes. | 1). | 3 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your answer: Do "the detective" and "he" point to the same thing in the following sentence?
Joe paid the detective after *he* delivered the final report on the case.
Pick from:
(a). no.
(b). yes. | (b). | 9 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wsc.fixed:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Multi-choice problem: Which entity is he this sentence?
Jimbo was running from Bobbert because he wanted to get to the car first.
Options are: a. Jimbo b. Bobbert | a. | 6 | Flan2021 | definite_pronoun_resolution:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
the visible things that are ruled, Say this using Spanish. | a las cosas visibles que siguen un orden, | 2 | Flan2021 | para_crawl_enes | zs_opt |
Do these sentences have the same meaning?
AMD will own a 60 percent interest in the new company and Fujitsu owns 40 percent .
Fujitsu will own 40 percent of the company , which will be headquartered in Sunnyvale , Calif .
OPTIONS:
[i] no.
[ii] yes. | [i] | 9 | Flan2021 | glue/mrpc:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
How does the sentence end?
By Anna Hodgekiss PUBLISHED: 06:35 EST, 20 November 2012 | UPDATED: 13:44 EST, 21 November 2012 Derek Burt had seen the ad just weeks before his wife Angela had a heart attack When Derek Burt’s alarm went off one chilly morning this February, it wasn’t just to rouse him for work. The impeccably timed alarm also saved his partner Angela’s life. She was having a heart attack and were it not for a TV advert he’d seen a few weeks previously, she wouldn’t be alive today. Mr Burt had seen ad starring Vinnie Jones, telling members of the public how best to resuscitate a cardiac arrest victim.
OPTIONS:
- Angela (see below), to help promote hands-only CPR among the next generation of
- Anna Hodgekiss (see below), to help promote hands-only CPR among the next generation of
- Burt (see below), to help promote hands-only CPR among the next generation of
- Derek Burt (see below), to help promote hands-only CPR among the next generation of
- Vinnie Jones (see below), to help promote hands-only CPR among the next generation of
| Vinnie Jones (see below), to help promote hands-only CPR among the next generation of | 9 | Flan2021 | super_glue/record:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Background: The Future Sound of London (often abbreviated to FSOL) is a British electronic music group composed of Garry Cobain (sometimes stylised as Gaz Cobain) and Brian Dougans. The duo are often credited with pushing the boundaries of electronic music experimentation and of pioneering a new era of dance music. Although often associated with ambient music, Cobain and Dougans usually resist being typecast into any one particular genre. Their work covers many areas of electronic music, such as ambient techno, house music, trip hop, ambient dub, acid techno.
Context: After a four-year hiatus, rumours of mental illness began to spread which turned out to be nothing more than exaggeration of Cobain's mercury poisoning from fillings in his teeth. Cobain gained much from the experience, realizing that music was a tool for psychic exploration and entertainment but also one for healing . The pair returned in 2002 with "The Isness", a record heavily influenced by 1960s and 1970s psychedelia and released under their alias Amorphous Androgynous. It was preceded by Papua New Guinea Translations, a mini album which contained a mixture of remixes of FSOL's track as well as new material from The Isness sessions. The album received mixed press due to the drastic change in sound which was inspired by Cobain's and Dougan's (separate) travels to India and immersion in spiritualism, nevertheless the majority was positive with Muzik magazine offering the album a 6/5 mark and dubbing it "...a white beam of light from heaven..." and other British publications such as The Times, The Guardian and MOJO praising the album and the band's ability to do something so completely different from what they had done before. Three years on, they followed the album with a continuation of the Amorphous Androgynous project, Alice in Ultraland. Rumoured to be accompanied by a film of the same title, the album took The Isness' psychedelic experimentation and toned it down, giving the album a singular theme and sound, and replacing the more bizarre moments with funk and ambient interludes. The album was ignored by the press, but was received more favourably among fans than its predecessor. Unlike The Isness, which featured almost 100 musicians over the course of it and the various alternative versions and remix albums, Alice in Ultraland featured a fairly solid band lineup throughout, which extended to live shows which the band had undertaken away from the ISDN cables from 2005 onwards. ...song form has just become too limited. And when I say 'psychedelic', it's not a reference to 60s music but to the basic outlook of a child, which we all have. I think this is the only salvation now. Dance music taught us how to use the studio in a new way, but we have to now take that knowledge and move on with it. This stuff, electronic music, is not dead. It's a process that is ongoing. We have to take hold of the past and go forward with it...
Question: What was different about their sound?
Answer: | heavily influenced by 1960s and 1970s psychedelia | 4 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is the version of the following sentence with correct punctuation?
Using the latest Adobe Camera Raw technology Lightroom supports over 120 Raw formats as well as native JPEG and TIFF and incorporates a Raw conversion to a single work experience
| Using the latest Adobe Camera Raw technology, Lightroom supports over 120 Raw formats as well as native JPEG and TIFF, and incorporates a Raw conversion to a single work experience. | 9 | Flan2021 | fix_punct | zs_opt |
Frank did not want to do his homework. He wanted to play video games instead. Frank's parents told him to do his homework first. Frank threw a tantrum and got punished.
What is the next sentence?
Choose your answer from:
+ Frank lost his video games for a week.;
+ Frank got an all new game.; | Frank lost his video games for a week. | 1 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a sentence in English. | Concentration was recorded by direct count. | 8 | Flan2021 | para_crawl_enes | zs_opt |
Translate "Even Mr Vandemeulebroucke should realize that." to German? | Meines Erachtens müßte selbst Herr Vandemeulebroucke dies wissen. | 7 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/de-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Choose from the options at the end. Are the following two questions the same?
What is the law of demand?
Define law of demand?
Select from:
[+] no;
[+] yes;
The answer is: | yes | 8 | Flan2021 | glue/qqp:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Choose from:
* negative;
* positive;Would the following phrase be considered positive or negative?
delivers more than its fair share of saucy hilarity .
| positive | 6 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
AP - LSU coach Nick Saban has talked to the Miami Dolphins about their vacant head coaching position.
What best summarizes the content of the above article?
Options are:
[1]. World
[2]. Sports
[3]. Business
[4]. Science/Tech | [2]. | 4 | Flan2021 | ag_news_subset:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
a group representing mainly white south africans called afriforum stated it would organize protests along the route to zimbabwe.
afriforum stated that the group would organize protests along the route to zimbabwe.
Rate the textual similarity of these two sentences on a scale from 0 to 5, where 0 is "no meaning overlap" and 5 is "means the same thing".
Pick your answer from:
1). 0
2). 1
3). 2
4). 3
5). 4
6). 5 | 5). | 0 | Flan2021 | glue/stsb:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
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