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jakarta , indonesia -lrb- dow jones\/ap -rrb- _ indonesia 's east kalimantan province announced tuesday it had dropped a lawsuit against an anglo-australian mining company , possibly ending a long-running legal dispute over the ownership of the country 's most profitable coal mine .
Summary: | indonesian province drops lawsuits against anglo-australian mining company | 2 | Flan2021 | gigaword:1.2.0 | zs_opt |
Read this: Thus, Buckingham Palace is a symbol and home of the British monarchy, an art gallery and a tourist attraction. Behind the gilded railings and gates which were completed by the Bromsgrove Guild in 1911 and Webb's famous façade, which has been described in a book published by the Royal Collection as looking "like everybody's idea of a palace", is not only a weekday home of the Queen and Prince Philip but also the London residence of the Duke of York and the Earl and Countess of Wessex. The palace also houses the offices of the Queen, Prince Philip, Duke of York, Earl and Countess of Wessex, Princess Royal, and Princess Alexandra, and is the workplace of more than 800 people.
Which Duke is not allowed at Buckingham Palace?
What is the answer? (If it cannot be answered, return "unanswerable") | unanswerable | 7 | Flan2021 | squad/v2.0:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
He acknowledged, however, that concerns about the independence of the Assembly may be valid.
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Turkish: | Ancak Bitiki, Meclisin bağımsızlığıyla ilgili endişelerin geçerli olabileceğini de kabul ediyor. | 0 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/tr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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Green Man makes cheap Indian food along the riverside, near All Bar One, with a family friendly atmosphere.
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Green Man priceRange cheap
Green Man area riverside
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Green Man near All Bar One | 9 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
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Christian Dior Jogger Pants
Kevin Hart is not only “the first comedian to ever make more than Jerry Seinfeld,” according to Forbes, he is also a savvy style savant. And what makes him so fun to watch on the red carpet is how incredibly strategic he is about what he wears for events big and small, be it coordinating his suit piping with his wife for the Golden Globes or matching tuxes with his son for his wedding.
Last night, he proved his fashion thoughtfulness yet again when he attended the Men’s Fitness Game Changers party in West Hollywood, which celebrated his new cover with the magazine, in a Christian Dior look that combined all of his favorite things.
“Being that I was coming and this is Men’s Fitness I said, ‘I’m going to come and be dapper but I want to hit them with an athletic side as well,’” the 37-year-old told PEOPLE.
RELATED VIDEO: Kevin Hart Fights Back Tears as he Celebrates Getting a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
“So it’s a Christian Dior suit but it’s like a jogger dress pant,” he said of the look, above. “It’s like I’m ready to work out but then I’m ready to take a picture, too. So I’m giving you the best of both worlds in a chic, casual way.”
Behold, Kevin Hart is helping to usher in a new era of red carpet athleisure.
“Everything I’m doing now is to make history, it’s to set myself apart for our generation to be special,” he told PEOPLE. “Stand-up comedy has given me an amazing platform to do so.”
—With reporting by Brianne Tracy
Summary: | “I’m going to come and be dapper but I want to hit them with an athletic side as well,” he says | 2 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
A former New York computer help desk technician yesterday pleaded guilty to playing a key part in what prosecutors reckon is the largest identity theft case to date.\
What is a good title for this? | News: World's largest ID theft felon faces 14 years' jail | 9 | Flan2021 | ag_news_subset:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Taloudellinen tilanne ja vapaamielinen elämäntapa syrjivät naisia, joilla on lapsia, ja moraalisesti kunniallisia perheitä.
Which language is this? | Finnish | 9 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
How is "Elevated exposure resulting from spills, contaminated groundwater supplies, or other localized conditions were not considered." said in French? | On n'a pas retenu les valeurs d'exposition élevées dues à des déversements, à des approvisionnements d'eaux souterraines contaminées ou à d'autres conditions locales. | 6 | Flan2021 | wmt14_translate/fr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The International Monetary Fund approves a \$436m emergency reconstruction loan for Iraq, the first loan from an international body.
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(PEOPLE.com) -- Katy Perry's parents, who are evangelical ministers, mentioned their famous daughter a number of times at religious services in Ohio on Wednesday, but sidestepped the issue of her divorce from Russell Brand. Keith and Mary Hudson, who arrived at Church on the Rise in Westlake, outside Cleveland, to host two nights of "prophetic services," said they attend Perry's concerts even though they don't love the idea of people worshiping pop idols. "I only go for one reason and one reason only ... because I love my daughter and I will always love her," Keith Hudson said. "It was almost like church," he added of the concert experience, adding that Perry's fans "want to worship and they want to love, they are just worshiping and loving the wrong person."
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OPTIONS:
- Church's parents are religious.'
- Cleveland's parents are religious.'
- Internet's parents are religious.'
- Katy's parents are religious.'
- Katy Perry's parents are religious.'
- Keith's parents are religious.'
- Keith Hudson's parents are religious.'
- Mary Hudson's parents are religious.'
- Ohio's parents are religious.'
- PEOPLE.com's parents are religious.'
- Perry's parents are religious.'
- Russell Brand's parents are religious.'
- Westlake's parents are religious.'
| Katy's parents are religious.' | 7 | Flan2021 | super_glue/record:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Answer the question...when is the movie fifty shades freed coming out?? | February 9, 2018 | 5 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your reply from the options at the end. Does "The rest of the central nervous system is generally "ladder-like", consisting of a pair of nerve cords that run through the bottom part of the body and have in each segment paired ganglia linked by a transverse connection." contain the correct answer to "What is an annelid's brain in a ring around?"
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*yes.
*no. | no | 4 | Flan2021 | glue/qnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
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Liverpool Football Club made a £60m pre-tax profit for the last financial year thanks to the £75m it made from selling Luis Suarez.
Article: | Without the boost from the Uruguayan footballer - which the club invested in eight new players - Liverpool would have broken even for the year.
This compares to a £900,000 profit in the previous 12 months.
Total revenue rose by 16.5% to £297.9m, including a 21.5% uplift in media sales to £122.6m.
Commercial revenue also increased, up 12% to £116.3m and matchday sales rose 15.9% to £59m.
"Our real financial position is closer to break even and it is the underlying revenue growth that's important and provides us with the long-term stability," said Liverpool FC chief executive Ian Ayre.
"We continue to make solid financial progress and reported growth in our commercial, media and matchday revenues, which continues to add strength to our financial position," he added.
Fenway Sports Group, the American owner of Liverpool FC, converted £69m of debt into equity in the year as well as sinking £49m into stadium expansion costs. | 8 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
Generate a short movie review that has "negative" sentiment (OPT: *negative *positive). | as well as rank frustration from those in the know about rubbo 's dumbed-down tactics | 9 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Inter Milan have been hit with a €50,000 ($65,500) fine after their fans racially abused AC Milan striker Mario Balotelli during Sunday's derby match at the San Siro. Balotelli was making just his fourth appearance for Milan against city rivals Inter, a team with which he spent four years between 2006 and 2010. The sanction comes after Inter's fans chanted racial slurs at the 22-year-old Italy star, as well as displaying offensive banners and aiming a laser pen at the 22-year-old, who signed from English Premier League champiins Manchester City in January. Balotelli himself was fined €10,000 ($13,000) for aiming a gesture at fans as he headed down the tunnel at the end of the 1-1 draw. A statement from the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) cited chanting which started in the 11th minute and was repeated in the 15th, 16th and 19th minutes. The punishment is also for similar chants directed at another player in the 30th and 44th minutes of the first half. Reports suggested Inter fans waved inflatable bananas, although there was no evidence connecting the objects with any incidents of racism. Inter were fined €15,000 ($19,000) earlier this month after their fans chanted racist abuse about Balotelli during a match with Chievo. It is the second time in recent months an AC Milan player has been the target of abuse. During an exhibition match with Fourth Division team Pro Patria in January, Ghanaian midfielder Kevin Prince-Boateng walked off the pitch after he was subject to monkey chants. Balotelli was at the center of an embarrassing incident for the AC Milan hierarchy just days after signing for the team. Paolo Berlusconi, the club's vice president and younger brother of owner and former Italian prime minister Silvio, referred to Balotelli as "the family's little black boy." Balotelli has made an instant impact on his return to Serie A, scoring four goals in four games as Milan climbed above Inter in the table and into fourth place. The striker's time at Manchester City was dominated by controversy, including an altercation with manager Roberto Mancini on the club's training ground.
What are the important parts of this article? | Inter Milan fined $65,500 for racist abuse during Sunday's derby with AC Milan. Inter fans directed taunts at their former player Mario Balotelli. Fans also displayed offensive banners, used a laser pen and abused a second player. Balotelli fined for gesturing at fans as he left the pitch. | 5 | Flan2021 | cnn_dailymail:3.4.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your answer: Is "From an institutional perspective, the rules of the House assign a number of specific responsibilities to the minority leader." a good answer to the question "Minority leader may appoint individuals to what government roles?"
Choose from:
* yes.
* no. | no | 2 | Flan2021 | glue/qnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Article: Starting with the lowest layer of hair, separate a lock of hair 1–2 inches (2.5–5 cm) wide. This should be small enough that you can fit the flat iron around it easily, and straighten it in one pass.
What is a summary of what this article is about? | Separate a lock of hair. Finished. | 7 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Question: when do you take the usmle step 2??
Answer: | typically | 0 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
How is "The flooding caused damage to the agricultural sector, residential properties, businesses and road networks and infrastructures." said in Romanian? | Inundațiile au cauzat daune sectorului agricol, proprietăților rezidențiale, întreprinderilor, rețelelor rutiere și infrastructurilor. | 6 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ro-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Sentence 1: In 1854 , Cooper left London and returned to Australia where he lived , a confirmed bachelor , until his death at the age of ninety .
Sentence 2: In 1854 he left London and returned to Australia , where he lived until his death at the age of 90 , a confirmed bachelor .
Do these two sentences convey the same information?
Possible answers: (i) no (ii) yes | (ii) | 4 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Translate the following sentence to Russian:
Mule
Russian: | Наркокурьер | 5 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ru-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a text based on "bevan to remain in australia 's world cup squad"
Text: | michael bevan will stay in australia 's world cup squad despite suffering a groin injury , the australian cricket board -lrb- acb -rrb- said on monday . | 9 | Flan2021 | gigaword:1.2.0 | zs_opt |
This is some data: Alan Shepard DATE_OF_BIRTH "1923-11-18".
Generate a detailed description of this data. | Alan Shepard was born on the 18th of November 1923. | 4 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
I placed and order for 3 pizzas and they said it would be about 45 mins. 1.5hrs later and after having to call twice the food finally shows up. One pizza is burnt and of course all 3 were no longer hot. For $50...not worth it. Overpriced, bad service and poor delivery.
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2). positive.
Answer: | 1). | 0 | Flan2021 | yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article based on this "A woman who suffered life-changing injuries in a car crash said she is shocked the man responsible was released from jail after serving a quarter of his sentence."
Article: | Adam Hill, 35, from Lincolnshire, was jailed for 15 months in July for causing the head-on collision which left Beth Tyson unable to walk unaided.
He was released after four months, subject to a home detention curfew.
Ms Tyson, 20, said she felt like the one who had been punished.
Hill, of Caistor, was on the wrong side of the A46 when he hit the vehicle Ms Tyson and her friend Kate Hunter were in, in December 2013.
He denied causing injury by dangerous driving but was convicted, jailed for 15 months and disqualified from driving for three years.
Ms Tyson, from Tealby, who was an avid horse rider, said she needed pain relief every day and had to give up on her dream to become a paramedic.
"Some days I just don't want to do anything," she said.
"The pain makes it harder to accept and get over the accident because I wasn't like that before.
"I feel like I'm the one who has been punished for something that I didn't do and had no control over."
Amy Aeron-Thomas, from the charity Road Peace, said it was usual to serve half the total jail term, but that should have been seven-and-a-half months.
"If he had pleaded guilty he would have got a sentence discount of 30% - that would reduce his total to 10 months and he then would have served half, five months.
"But he didn't do that, he put the families through so much more extended trauma."
The Ministry of Justice said it could not comment on individual cases but said only prisoners who passed a strict risk assessment can be released on a home detention curfew (HDC).
Prisoners who are serving sentences of between three months and four years will usually be considered for HDC unless they have committed certain violent or sexual offences.
If eligible they are released between two weeks and four-and-a-half months before their automatic release date. | 9 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
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Coast Guard will "take a good, hard look" at handling of exercise, official says. FAA official: Flights delayed at Reagan National Airport for about 20 minutes. Exercise occurs near where president observed 9/11 anniversary at Pentagon. White House spokesman criticizes CNN for reporting event.
Article: | The U.S. Coast Guard promised a "thorough review" Friday after a training exercise intended to have been "normal" and "low profile" wound up instead triggering concerns about the security of the president on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. U.S. Coast Guard vessels participate in a training exercise Friday on the Potomac River. "We are going to take a good, hard look at what we did here today and ensure that, if we need to modify procedures, if we need to modify communications, we will do so in the future," Vice Adm. John Currier of the Coast Guard said. The incident began shortly before 10 a.m., when CNN journalists monitoring video from a Washington TV station saw Coast Guard vessels apparently trying to keep another vessel from passing. The Coast Guard vessels were moving rapidly in the water as the president's motorcade drove on the nearby Memorial Bridge, after a September 11 commemoration event at the Pentagon. In a Coast Guard radio transmission audible over police scanners monitored by CNN, a voice could be heard saying, "You're approaching a Coast Guard security zone. ... If you don't stop your vessel, you will be fired upon. Stop your vessel immediately." Later, someone could be heard saying "bang, bang, bang, bang" and "we have expended 10 rounds." CNN called the Coast Guard immediately after the initial reports suggesting possible trouble in the water; a spokeswoman said she had no information about activity in that area. Over the next 20 to 25 minutes, CNN made several phone calls and sent several e-mails to the USCG spokeswoman, asking for information. The spokeswoman said she was attempting to get information but was not able to get any. After CNN heard the radio transmission saying 10 rounds had been expended, CNN went to air with the story. At 10:23 a.m. ET, after CNN had aired its initial report, the spokeswoman said that she had heard the incident may have been an exercise but that she did not know the source of that information. At 11:09 a.m., CNN received a Coast Guard e-mail confirming that it was a training exercise. The Coast Guard said that a training frequency had been used for communication. Currier said that such radio transmissions generally begin with an announcement that they are training exercises but added that he did not know whether that was done in this case. Watch as Currier describes a "normal training exercise" ». Officials said that no shots were fired and that the radio announcements were a standard part of the exercise. Other agencies, including the Secret Service, which protects the president, had not been notified of the exercise in advance. The Secret Service said Obama had returned to the White House by the time reports surfaced of possible shots fired in the area. Watch how the exercise on the Potomac stirs up commotion ». Federal agency emergency operations centers were neither aware of nor notified about the exercise and began implementing response procedures as though it had been a real event, a federal source said. The report led officials at Reagan National Airport to ground flights from 10:08 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., said Diane Spitaliere of the Federal Aviation Administration. The FBI, upon hearing media reports, dispatched agents who had reached the water's edge before they learned from other law enforcement agencies that the incident was an exercise, said Supervisory Special Agent Katherine Schweit, a spokeswoman for the Washington Field Office. The Metropolitan Police Department Harbor Patrol, which is responsible for patrolling the Potomac, was not notified either, law enforcement sources in Washington said. The patrol has now demanded that the Coast Guard notify it in before carrying out any training exercises on the Potomac, the sources said. Currier said such exercises take place four times a week, and other agencies are generally not informed. Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, was critical of the way the exercise was handled. "The anxiety caused by this situation on such a solemn day is extremely disturbing," he said in a statement, adding that he would like to hear from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. "It sounds very much like the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing." Military Families United, an advocacy group, called for an investigation. The incident was "at the height of irresponsibility," the group said in a statement, adding that whoever commissioned it "should be held accountable." "These families have traveled from all over the country to convene at the Pentagon on this tragic anniversary, and this training exercise not only caused unwarranted stress for these families but it was a distraction from the purpose of today. ... This kind of incompetence and insensitivity cannot be permissible and should be addressed at the highest levels of government." Frances Townsend, a CNN contributor and homeland security adviser under former President George W. Bush, called the incident an act of "felony stupidity." The Coast Guard said in its statement, "The best way that we in the Coast Guard can remember September 11 and our security obligations to the nation is to be always ready and this requires constant training and exercise. To ensure the appropriate readiness posture we conduct training scenarios across the nation on a daily basis." Asked whether the Coast Guard's action was appropriate, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, "That's a decision that's made by the Coast Guard." He said he saw no parallels to an incident in April, when a plane resembling Air Force One flew low over New York as part of a government-sanctioned promotional photo shoot. The incident triggered security fears and angered the White House. Regarding Friday's incident, Gibbs instead criticized the media -- specifically CNN, which reported the incident as it was unfolding. "I think, it appears as if a lot of this might have been avoided," he said, referring to what was "on television." Expressing frustration, he said to a CNN correspondent, "It's not directed at you, just writ large at CNN." "If anybody was unnecessarily alarmed based on erroneous reporting that denoted that shots had been fired, I think everybody is, uh, everybody is apologetic of that," Gibbs said. In a statement, CNN said, "Given the circumstances, it would have been irresponsible not to report on what we were hearing and seeing. As with any breaking news story, information is often fluid, and CNN updated the story with the official explanation from the Coast Guard as soon as it was provided." | 8 | Flan2021 | cnn_dailymail:3.4.0 | zs_opt |
US Airways Group (otc: UAIRQ - news - people ) on Thursday said it #39;ll seek a court injunction to prohibit a strike by disaffected unions.
Q: Which is the best summary of this article?
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2). Sports.
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Question: In 1960, who became the first Sub-Saharan African to win an Olympic Gold Medal?
Answer: | abebe bikila | 6 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
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Brendan Marrocco says after roadside bombing, being alive was "all that mattered" The quadruple amputee underwent a successful double-arm transplant. He is one of only seven people to undergo the surgery. The procedure took 13 hours and 16 surgeons to complete.
Article: | A U.S. Army infantryman who lost all four limbs in a 2009 roadside explosion in Iraq has undergone radical transplant surgery that may help him regain use of his arms. Last month, the 26-year-old infantryman had successful surgery -- a rare double arm transplant -- at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. "It feels amazing," Marrocco told reporters Wednesday. "It is something that I was waiting for for a long time, and now that it happened, I don't know what to say, because it is such a big thing for my life." The last thing Marrocco remembers before being hit by an explosion in 2009 was that he was driving an armored vehicle. When he woke up at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, Marrocco was alive, but missing all four of his limbs. "When it happened, I didn't remember too much," Marrocco said. "I was still alive, so that's really all that mattered to me at the time." Marrocco is one of only seven people in the country to successfully undergo the surgery, and the first quadruple-amputee soldier, according to Johns Hopkins. The surgery, which took 13 hours and 16 orthopaedic and microvascular surgeons from five hospitals -- was also the first bilateral arm transplant performed at Johns Hopkins. All of the surgeons volunteered their services; the surgery and rehabilitation costs were paid by the Department of Defense's Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Hopkins. The team of surgeons rehearsed the procedure on cadaver arms four times over the past 18 months, said lead surgeon Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, director of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Johns Hopkins. "On his right side we did an above-elbow transplant by connecting the bone, muscles, blood vessels, nerves and skin between the donor and recipient," Lee said. On Marrocco's left side, "in order to preserve the elbow joint, we transplanted the entire donor forearm muscles over his remaining tissues, then rerouted the nerves to the new muscle." While Marrocco is doing well, his recovery will be long and risky, the doctor said. "The nerves regenerate at the maximum speed of 1 inch per month. The therapy will continue for a few years, first at Johns Hopkins, then at Walter Reed. The progress will be slow, but the outcome rewarding." Marrocco is taking anti-rejection medication, which can lead to side effects like infection and organ damage. But he's received an infusion of the donor's bone marrow cells to further prevent rejection of his new arms. That infusion allows him to take only one anti-rejection drug instead of the usual three-drug cocktail. Doctors call his recovery so far remarkable. Watch: Mom eyes double arm transplant. "Now, I can move my left elbow," Marrocco said. "This was my elbow, the one I had before. I can rotate a little bit. This (right) arm is pretty much not much movement at all -- not yet at least. Hopefully, we are hopeful for the future to get some pretty good function out of it, out of both of them." Doctors said rehabilitation therapy is an integral part of the healing process. "The next two to three years, Brendan's full-time job is doing hand therapy, six hours a day, every single day, once nerves grow in," said Dr. Jaimie Shores, clinical director of hand transplantation at Johns Hopkins. "He's going to be working very hard." Marrocco said he's up to the task. The thing he's looking forward to most? "Driving. Absolutely, driving. I used to love to drive and it was a lot of fun for me. So, I am really looking forward to getting back to that. And just becoming an athlete again. One of my goals is to hand-cycle a marathon." Lee hopes the new anti-rejection regimen performed on Marrocco will become the new standard of care for limb and face transplants. Marrocco will participate in a anti-rejection regimen study that's being funded by the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine. For his family, the surgery means moving forward with their lives. "Our lives have been on hold for the last almost four years waiting for this surgery, getting him through Walter Reed and getting to the point where he was pretty independent," said mother Michelle Marrocco. "And now he will be independent, and when he comes home, he'll be the Brendan we've all been looking for." Marrocco's message to other's facing similar challenges? Don't give up hope. "Life always get better. You're still alive ... just be stubborn. Work your ass off." Lee agreed. "Advances in medicine are being made every day in different areas, whether it's tissue transplantation or tissue regeneration," he said. "Research is being performed throughout the world with different ways of regenerating tissues and replacing arms, so they should be optimistic, as we are that there will be new treatments and modalities currently not available." Marrocco said he's is very optimistic about his future. "I just want to get the most out of these arms and just as goals come up, knock them down, and take it as absolutely far as I can. So really, I just want to get to the point that I can be completely on my own and just get back to enjoying life." | 8 | Flan2021 | cnn_dailymail:3.4.0 | zs_opt |
Trivia question: What does a barometer measure?
And the answer is? | atmospheric pressure | 8 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Kuznetsova Tops Dementieva for Open Title (AP)
AP - Pounding ferocious forehands and covering the baseline with the muscular legs of a Tour de France rider, Svetlana Kuznetsova overwhelmed Elena Dementieva 6-3, 7-5 Saturday night in the U.S. Open's first all-Russian final.
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The Sultanate of Ifat, led by the Walashma dynasty with its capital at Zeila, ruled over parts of what is now eastern Ethiopia, Djibouti, and northern Somalia. The historian al-Umari records that Ifat was situated near the Red Sea coast, and states its size as 15 days travel by 20 days travel. Its army numbered 15,000 horsemen and 20,000 foot soldiers. Al-Umari also credits Ifat with seven "mother cities": Belqulzar, Kuljura, Shimi, Shewa, Adal, Jamme and Laboo.
What was the capital of the Sultanate of Ifat? (If the question is unanswerable, say "unanswerable") | Zeila | 3 | Flan2021 | squad/v2.0:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
@BTToronto yup I lost BT dalhousie st just past dundas and younge! Give it back!!
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Muslim Rep Keith Ellison added to list after chastising Bachmann's inquiry. Huma Abedin, the Muslim wife of disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner, was targeted as potential threat while aid to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann wrote a letter alleging that Abedin's family has connections to the Muslim Brotherhood but provided no proof of the statements.
Article: | By. Meghan Keneally and Nina Golgowski. PUBLISHED:. 20:05 EST, 21 July 2012. |. UPDATED:. 20:50 EST, 21 July 2012. One day after accusations that the U.S. government has been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood leading to heavy criticism of Rep Michele Bachmann in both political parties, she's not backing down. Instead, the former presidential candidate has added a fellow congressman to her list of U.S. suspects she believes needs investigating. Rep Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to congress and whom Bachmann shares the state of Minnesota with, has been added to her list of names. Scroll down for video. Taking names: One day after Rep Michele Bachmann accused the U.S. government of being infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood she has added Rep Keith Ellison (right) , a Muslim who challenged her views, to her list. Ellison was added following his defense of Secretary of State. Hillary Clinton's top aid Huma Abedin, a Muslim, whom Bachmann accused of having relations to the Islamic society. He said she should apologize to Ms Abedin for her accusations, coupled with four other Republicans, that had zero merit. Responding to that request, Bachmann voiced concern of Ellison. as well and suggested he be added to the list also. 'He has a long record of being associated with (the Council. on American-Islamic Relations) and with the Muslim Brotherhood,' she told radio. and TV host Glenn Beck on Thursday night. Ellison, addressing Bachmann's curt accusation, said it is. false and believes the congresswoman who's currently running for re-election. just wants attention. Questioned: Huma Abedin (left), aide to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (right), has been subjected to inquiry by Rep Michele Bachmann and four other fellow House Republicans for having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. What rights: Rep Bachmann questioned the high security clearance Ms Abedin has working for Secretary Clinton which Rep Ellison chastised the congresswoman for. 'I think she thinks that we're evil because we don't. understand God the way she does,' Mr Ellison told the Huffington Post. 'It must. be very frightening to see the world through her eyes.' It. was only Wednesday the typically press shy Ms Abedin made headlines. instead of her husband, disgraced former New York Congressman Anthony. Weiner. First, she and Weiner appeared in a People magazine spread where she declared that she is proud to be married to her husband even after the Twitter sexting scandal that forced him to resign his position as a Democratic representative for part of the Queens borough in New York. Then she was a hot topic by Bachmann and other Republican politicians deriding her with claims that her deceased father, mother, and brother has connections to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. Calling her out: Though John McCain (right) never mentioned her explicitly, he gave a seven-minute speech slamming a letter that Michele Bachmann (left) wrote deriding one of Hillary Clinton's top aides. 'The concerns about the foreign. influence of immediate family members is such a concern to the U.S. Government that it includes these factors as potentially disqualifying. conditions for obtaining a security clearance, which undoubtedly Ms. Abedin has had to obtain to function in her position,' Ms Bachmann wrote. in a responding letter to Mr Ellison who called her claims baseless. '...in questioning how Ms Abedin. received a high-level security clearance, you imply that our top. intelligence agencies did not adequately investigate Ms Abedin,' Ellison. responded. 'Accusing the. men and women of the U.S. intelligence community of failing to do their. jobs requires far more substantial information than what you have. provided to date,' he wrote. Trusted: Bachmann says Ms Abedin's position is highly sensitive and she could abuse it, effectively because of falsified rumors about her Muslim family's connections. Republican Arizona Senator John McCain, like Ellison, also came to Ms Abedin's defense. The former presidential candidate spoke. passionately about Ms Abedin’s years of dedicated public service in her. role with Secretary Clinton, and denounced the senseless character. attacks that were made by some of his more conservative party members. 'Huma represents what is best about America: the daughter of immigrants, who has risen to the highest levels of our government on the basis of her substantial personal merit and her abiding commitment to the American ideals that she embodies so fully.' McCain said in his speech on the Senate floor. 'I am proud to know Huma, and to call her my friend.' Bachmann, who rose to national prominence during her failed bid for position of this year’s Republican presidential candidate, alleged that Ms Abedin’s deceased father, mother, and brother are connected to the Muslim Brotherhood, the controversial political opposition group who often works against American interest in Arab states. Touting her role on the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Bachmann wrote a letter- which was co-signed by four other congressmen- alleging that given Ms Abedin’s highly-sensitive position in Ms Clinton’s staff, she is effectively a national security threat due to her fictitious connections to the Brotherhood. In the letter, which was sent to the deputy inspector general of the State Department and the Director of National Intelligence among others, Mrs Bachmann and her co-signers gave no traces of evidence of their findings. Stay at home dad: Weiner has been taking care of his new son Jordan while his wife Huma Abedin continues her high-powered job at Hillary Clinton's top aide. Well connected: Ms Abedin has stood quietly by her husband Anthony Weiner in the wake of his sexting scandal last year that lead to his resignation. Mr McCain made a clear attack on the. statements, drawing on his own personal experience having been the. victim of false rumors during his multiple presidential campaigns, and. having his heroism questioned in spite of his strong military record. which included many years as a prisoner during the Vietnam War. He said that he knows the pain that is cause 'when a person's character, reputation and patriotism are attacked.' 'When anyone, not least a member of Congress, launches specious and degrading attacks against fellow Americans on the basis of nothing more than fear of who they are and ignorance of what they stand for, it defames the spirit of our nation, and we all grow poorer because of it,' he said. ‘To say that the accusations made in both documents are not substantiated by the evidence they offer is to be overly polite and diplomatic about it. In the shadows: A then-pregnant Abedin (left in both shots) was the one to hand Clinton her Blackberry when the news came through that Muammar Gaddafi had been killed. Defender: John McCain dismissed the letter about Abedin as reckless and said that he was honored to call her a friend. ‘The letter in the report offer not one. instance of an action, a decision or a public position that Huma has. taken while at the State Department or as a member of then-Senator. Clinton's staff that would lend credence to the charge that she is. promoting anti-American activities within our government.’ Mrs Clinton’s staff clearly appreciated the bi-lateral support that he showed in renouncing the move. Mrs Clinton’s spokesman Philippe Reines dismissed the accusations, calling them 'nothing but vicious and disgusting lies, and anyone who traffics in them should be ashamed of themselves. I would hope that hearing the remarkable statement from someone of Senator McCain's stature gives her (Bachmann) pause in doing so any further.' In response, Mrs Bachmann said that her words were being twisted and that the point of her letters was 'to outline the serious national security concerns I had and ask for answers to questions regarding the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical group's access to top Obama administration officials.' Watch the video here:. | 8 | Flan2021 | cnn_dailymail:3.4.0 | zs_opt |
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Readers: Do you think that frequent travelers tend to tip hotel staffers better than less-frequent travelers?
I raise the question because of the comment written by Hotel Check-In reader thedesertdude on my recent post about hotel tipping strategies. Referring to a time when he worked as a overnight Hilton Hotel front-desk agent and had to juggle multiple tasks including room service, thedesertdude noticed a distinct pattern when it came to tipping... (Bold emphasis mine.)
"Nothing was more disheartening than delivering 2 rollaway beds, 7 pillows, 4 blankets and extra towels to the 4th floor
for the lady that was too cheap to get a bigger room, then get a $1 tip for the trouble. I once made nearly a dozen trips to a persons room making deliveries, just to get a $2 tip as an afterthought," the reader wrote. "But the seasoned travelers would tip $1 just for a book of matches or a tube of toothpaste."
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Write a title for it. | Do frequent travelers make better tippers? | 9 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a sentence not in English. | Вы так же можете скачать перевод текста песни Disney Stories (From Beauty & The Beast:The Enchanted Ch здесь . Мы стараемся сделать так, чтобы слова песни Stories (From Beauty & The Beast:The Enchanted Ch были наиболее точными, поэтому если у вас есть какие-то корректировки текста, пожалуйста отправляйте их нам. | 8 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ru-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your answer: Is "Washington University's North Campus and West Campus principally house administrative functions that are not student focused." a good answer to the question "For what department does the north campus location of Washington University provide off-site storage?"
Options are:
(1). yes;
(2). no; | (2). | 2 | Flan2021 | glue/qnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
исправлен сборочный скрипт, а ссылку на предудущую версию с кривыми скриптами (да еще и не собирающуюся из опубликованых исходников) я снес.
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English: | fixed bugs in build script. Link to previous version with buggy scripts (which could not even be built from published sources) I've removed. | 1 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ru-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a sentence not in English. | Pyydän teiltä vielä hieman kärsivällisyyttä. | 8 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Answer the following question. Which children's TV programme is set in 'Sunflower Valley'? | bob builder | 5 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
Well, I understand, and Africa is important. And we've got to do a lot of work in Africa to promote democracy and trade, and there are some -- Vice President mentioned Nigeria is a fledgling democracy. We have to work with Nigeria. That's an important continent.
Hypothesis: The Vice President mentioned a country located in Africa.
OPT:
A). Yes
B). It's impossible to say
C). No | A). | 7 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Premise: A man in a yellow suit climbs over a broken fence while another man looks on.
Hypothesis: the men are in a race
.Multi-select problem: Can we conclude that the hypothesis is true if the premise is true?
Choose your answer from: 1. yes. 2. it is not possible to tell. 3. no. | 2. | 4 | Flan2021 | snli:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
The three inexperienced pilots were allowed to attack it , but they only managed to damage the bomber .
The three inexperienced pilots were allowed to damage it , but they managed only to attack the bomber .
Select your answer from the options. Do these sentences mean the same thing?
(A). no
(B). yes | (A). | 0 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Sentence 1: This one's name was Popeye, and he was a gelding.
Sentence 2: Popeye happened to be a gelding.
Choices:
(a). yes;
(b). it is not possible to tell;
(c). no;
Is this second sentence entailed by the first sentence?
| (a). | 3 | Flan2021 | glue/mnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate the following sentence to Czech:
The jungle was vast and unchanging, and he could find no distinguishing features to mark his passage.
Czech: | Džungle byla rozlehlá a neměnná, druid nedokázal najít žádný orientační bod. | 5 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/cs-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Wants attention. [/attentionwhore] and now that I have that out of my system...
Describe the sentiment embodied by this tweet.
(1). negative;
(2). positive;
I think the answer is | (1). | 2 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
If "A toddler boy rides the playground horse.", does this mean that "A toddler is playing with its parent."?
Possible answers:
(1). yes
(2). it is not possible to tell
(3). no | (2). | 0 | Flan2021 | snli:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Read this article and answer this question The majority of mercenaries recruited by Gustavus Adolphus were German, but Scottish soldiers were also very numerous. These were composed of some 12,000 Scots already in service before the Swedes entered the war under the command of General Sir James Spens and colonels such as Sir Alexander Leslie, Sir Patrick Ruthven, and Sir John Hepburn. These were joined by a further 8,000 men under the command of James Marquis Hamilton. The total number of Scots in Swedish service by the end of the war is estimated at some 30,000 men, no less than 15 of whom served with the rank of major-general or above. With Tilly dead, Ferdinand II returned to the aid of Wallenstein and his large army. Wallenstein marched up to the south, threatening Gustavus Adolphus's supply chain. Gustavus Adolphus knew that Wallenstein was waiting for the attack and was prepared but found no other option. Wallenstein and Gustavus Adolphus clashed in the Battle of Lützen , where the Swedes prevailed, but Gustavus Adolphus was killed. Ferdinand II's suspicion of Wallenstein resumed in 1633, when Wallenstein attempted to arbitrate the differences between the Catholic and Protestant sides. Ferdinand II may have feared that Wallenstein would switch sides, and arranged for his arrest after removing him from command. One of Wallenstein's soldiers, Captain Devereux, killed him when he attempted to contact the Swedes in the town hall of Eger on 25 February 1634. The same year, the Protestant forces, lacking Gustav's leadership, were smashed at the First Battle of Nördlingen by the Spanish-Imperial forces commanded by Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand.
Who killed Wallenstein? | Captain Devereux | 4 | Flan2021 | drop:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
From where can I learn Algorithms online for free?
What is the best algorithms and data structures MOOC?
Please tell me if those questions are the same.
Options: -no -yes | no | 3 | Flan2021 | glue/qqp:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
What are the proper terminologies for a complex computer setup at home?
How do I connect a setup box (cable) to a computer?
Choose your answer. Are these two questions paraphrases of each other?
Pick your answer from:
(1). no
(2). yes | (1). | 4 | Flan2021 | glue/qqp:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Premise: blond woman and girl examining plants growing in a window box.
Hypothesis: a man examining plants
.Multi-select problem: Can we conclude that the hypothesis is true if the premise is true?
Choose from:
--yes
--it is not possible to tell
--no | no | 4 | Flan2021 | snli:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Please answer this question: who called for resistance to the stamp act? | the Sons of Liberty | 4 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Grocery chains leave food deserts barren, AP analysis finds
Pablo Salazar shops for fruits and vegetables in the Fresh Stop bus, a mobile market, at the Taft Community Center, in Orlando, Fla. The Fresh Stop brings fresh fruits and vegetables to communities with no supermarkets. (AP)
As part of Michelle Obama's healthy eating initiative, a group of major food retailers promised in 2011 to open or expand 1,500 grocery or convenience stores in and around neighborhoods with no supermarkets by 2016. By their own count, they're far short.
Moreover, an analysis of federal food stamp data by The Associated Press reveals that the nation's largest chains — not just the handful involved in the first lady's group — have since built new supermarkets in only a fraction of the neighborhoods where they're needed most.
The Partnership for a Healthier America, which also promotes good nutrition and exercise in its anti-obesity mission, considers improving access to fresh food a key part of the solution. But the AP's research demonstrates that major grocers overwhelmingly avoid America's food deserts instead of trying to turn a profit in high-poverty areas.
— The nation's top 75 food retailers opened almost 10,300 stores in new locations from 2011 to the first quarter of 2015, 2,434 of which were grocery stores. Take away convenience stores and "dollar stores," which generally don't sell fresh fruits, vegetables or meat, and barely more than 250 of the new supermarkets were in so-called food deserts, or neighborhoods without stores that offer fresh produce and meats.
— As the largest supermarket chains have been slow to build in food deserts, dollar stores have multiplied rapidly. Three chains — Dollar General, Family Dollar and Dollar Tree — made up two-thirds of new stores in food deserts. And the dollar store sector is consolidating: Dollar Tree merged with Family Dollar this year, creating the largest dollar-store chain in the nation and, in the process, less competition and less incentive to diversify what these stores offer.
— Excluding dollar stores and 7-Elevens, just 1.4 million of the more than 18 million people the USDA says lived in food deserts as of 2010 got a new supermarket in the past four years.
On top of all that, it's difficult to say how many more people live in newer food deserts created by recent store closures.
Viola Hill used to walk several times a week to a Schnucks supermarket a block away from her apartment in her struggling north St. Louis neighborhood, until that store shuttered last year. Now, she can get to a supermarket only once a month, when she pays a friend $10 to drive her to one several miles away.
"I have to get enough food to last me a whole month," said Hill, a retiree who likes to cook chicken and green beans. "It hurt us really badly when they closed because we depended on the Schnucks for medication and my food there. It was a lot of people hurt, not just me."
Schnucks officials said they were losing money on the store, which now sits boarded up with weeds growing in its parking lot.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture considers a neighborhood a food desert if at least a fifth of the residents live in poverty and a third live more than a mile from a supermarket in urban areas, or more than 10 miles in rural areas, where residents are more likely to have cars.
The first lady's group's 2014 progress report, its most recent, says the companies that made pledges have opened or renovated 602 grocery stores or other food retail locations, well below halfway toward their collective goal.
The partnership counted companies as having met their commitments if the stores they opened or renovated fell within a mile of a USDA-designated food desert in a city, or within 10 miles of a rural one. The AP analyzed which of the new stores that opened lie directly within food deserts.
Research has shown that a lack of access to healthy foods contributes to health problems, such as obesity and diabetes. Proximity to a supermarket can make a big difference in what people eat, especially if they don't drive, although other factors such as food culture also play a role.
Even though a neighborhood without a supermarket may have a corner grocer, the large chains have much greater leverage and economies of scale to bring a wider of variety of products at cheaper prices.
Jock Riggins likes to cook and tries as often as he can to make his favorite meal of cube steak with bell peppers, rice and gravy. But getting to the supermarket nearest to his home in Eatonville, Florida, north of Orlando, requires pedaling his rusted bicycle down a clogged, six-lane road with narrow shoulders, and balancing bags of groceries in each hand on the way back.
"If I don't have my vegetables for my food I substitute with sandwiches," said Riggins, 51, who gets by working odd jobs. "If there was a supermarket closer, I wouldn't have to go way out on Lee Road. It would be better."
Less than 3 miles from Eatonville is what could only be described as a food oasis. In the span of a little over a mile on a single avenue in the tony Orlando suburb of Winter Park, there are two Publix supermarkets, a Trader Joe's, a Chamberlin's Natural Food Market and the site of a future 40,000-square-foot Whole Foods Market. With the exception of Chamberlin's, where the offerings are mostly organic or specialized, prices in the food oasis are cheaper than what Riggins gets in his neighborhood, and the selections are boundless by comparison.
There are no fresh fruits, vegetables or meats at the Family Dollar or Poncho's Market corner store in Eatonville, and a $3 loaf of Nature's Own wheat bread at those stores cost $2.19 at Publix on a recent visit. The same half-gallon of milk was 11 percent more expensive at the Family Dollar than at Publix, and Poncho's was out of milk.
Some of the dollar store chains have started dipping their toes into selling fresh produce. Dollar General has opened up about 150 Dollar General Market stores that sell fresh vegetables, fruit and meat, though that format makes up only 1 percent of the chain's 12,000-plus stores.
"The dollar stores are popping up everywhere in the food deserts, but that doesn't mean anything if the owners don't give customers the opportunity for fresh produce," said Norman Wilson Sr., a food desert activist who is pastor of a Pentecostal church in Orlando.
Florida lawmaker Dwight Bullard introduced legislation this year with incentives to build stores in food deserts, which tend to have higher unemployment than other neighborhoods. In urban areas, food deserts also tend to have a high percentage of minorities.
"Part of the frustration was centered around the fourth Publix I'd seen servicing the same community. ... It made me scratch my head and say, 'Geez, what about those communities where you can go blocks and blocks and blocks without seeing a real grocery store?' It doesn't make sense to me," said Bullard, a Democratic state senator, whose district covering urban and rural parts of South Florida is overwhelmingly black and Hispanic.
Publix spokesman Dwaine Stevens said he couldn't comment on how store locations are decided due to their "strategic and proprietary nature."
Supermarkets often build stores close to each other to compete in an area and highlight each store's niche, said Ira Goldstein, president of policy solutions at The Reinvestment Fund, a Philadelphia-based community development firm that has invested in grocery store construction in low-income neighborhoods. The stores typically look for neighborhoods that can support their format rather than changing their format to fit the neighborhood.
"That brings choice and variety to the market but it doesn't necessarily solve the problem in an inadequately served area," Goldstein said.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack believes stores that open in food deserts need to be attuned to the particulars of their communities to succeed.
"You have to cater to the people who live there. You have to know who they are," Vilsack said during a recent visit to Orlando.
That's where the large supermarket chains often run into trouble, since they have rigid formats that often miss the nuances of a community, said Jeff Brown, CEO of Brown's Super Stores in the Philadelphia area.
"They're not selling what they should be selling because they don't understand," said Brown, whose company has seven stores in underserved neighborhoods.
Stores that succeed generally have other amenities, such as a pharmacy, doctor's clinic or a bank embedded in the supermarket, he said.
Building stores in low-income neighborhoods comes with unique complications, according to the Food Marketing Institute, a Washington-based trade group for food retailers. A large customer base on food stamps creates erratic flows with a rush of business in the beginning of the month when food stamps are issued, but slow business at the end of the month. Insurance and security can be more costly in neighborhoods perceived to be high crime, and workers from neighborhoods with high unemployment sometimes need extra training for basic job skills.
The average supermarket operates on a 1 or 2 percent profit margin and must be sustainable for at least a decade to recoup any profit, so retailers can't afford to pick unprofitable locations, said David Fikes, vice president of consumer and community affairs for the Food Marketing Institute.
The industry also is in flux. Two of its biggest players — Stop & Shop owner Ahold USA and Delhaize Group SA, the Brussels conglomerate that owns the Food Lion and Hannaford chains in the U.S. — recently announced merger plans. Safeway Inc. and Albertsons merged earlier this year, and Kroger announced last month that it would buy Roundy's Supermarkets stores in Illinois and Wisconsin.
One of the nation's oldest large food retailers, A&P, recently returned to bankruptcy court, and SuperValu recently announced plans to spin off its Save-A-Lot stores. Even Wal-Mart warned recently that its profits would take a hit.
All of that, analysts say, suggests the grocery industry isn't likely to change its patterns for where it does business, and where it doesn't.
"We would love to have a supermarket in every neighborhood across America, whether if it's a food desert or not," Fikes said. "But it's got to be sustainable for all involved."
What is a short summary of the above article? | Grocery chains aren't expanding to food deserts. | 4 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article that answers the following question: Who were the first hostages released by the guerillas? | On 3 May, 2000, Abu Sayyaf guerillas occupied the Malaysian dive resort island Sipadan and took 21 hostages, including 10 tourists and 11 resort workers - 19 foreign nationals in total. The hostages were taken to an Abu Sayyaf base in Jolo. Two Muslim Malaysians were released soon after. Abu Sayyaf made various demands for the release of several prisoners, including 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and $2.4 million. In July, a Filipino television evangelist and 12 of members of the Jesus Miracle Crusade Church offered their help and went as mediators for the relief of other hostages. They, three French television crew members and a German journalist, all visiting Abu Sayyaf on Jolo, were also taken hostage. Most hostages were released in August and September 2000, partly due to mediation by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and an offer of $25 million in "development aid". Abu Sayyaf conducted a second raid on the island of Pandanan near Sipadan on 10 September and seized three more Malaysians. The Philippine army launched a major offensive on 16 September 2000, rescuing all remaining hostages, except Filipino dive instructor Roland Ullah. He was freed in 2003. Abu Sayyaf coordinated with the Chinese 14K Triad gang in carrying out the kidnappings. The 14K Triad has militarily supported Abu Sayyaf. | 7 | Flan2021 | drop:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
How might one describe the sentiment of this review?
My husband and I were visiting from Seattle, but he is originally from Chicago. Aurelio's has always been one of his favorite pizza places, and he thought this one in North Las Vegas was no exception. The sauce is absolutely what makes the pizza one of the best. They also use very good ingredients and high quality cheese. We ordered the garlic bread with cheese and a large thin crust pizza with sausage and green peppers. The green peppesr and the Italian sausage were both fresh and very tasty. We did not take advantage of the specials, but they were offering two salad bars, two drinks and a medium (two topping) thin crust pizza for 20.99. They also had two mediums with two toppings for 19.99. There was also a family special that was 25.99 which included wings and pizza. Overall, this has been one of my husband's favorite pizza places growing up in Chicago, and he says it is the same here in Las Vegas... Just as great as the original. Aurelio's pizza has truly become one of my favorites as well....Pick from:
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b). positive I think the answer is | b). | 6 | Flan2021 | yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0 | zs_opt |
Article: Internal financing is generally cheaper than seeking outside funding for a project. Conduct a review of your company's financials to uncover areas where you can save money or redirect funds. Some areas to check include within subsidiaries, executive perks, capital expenditure, and recruitment expenses, among others. If you determine that outside funding is necessary, consider selling stock or acquiring a loan. A loan can reliably provide capital to the company, however it can also restrict their activities and may charge a higher interest rate than a bond issuance would. With stock issuances, companies can get even cheaper capital, however now they have sold even more of their equity to investors and may be held responsible for fulfilling investor requests. Bonds should not be issued by companies who already carry large amounts of debt, as a bond issuance simply increases debt and makes an already unstable company more so. Private placement involves the selling of unregistered (not registered with the SEC, that is) stocks or bonds to institutional investors. This type of bond may be advantageous to a company as the costs of the issuance are cheaper due to smaller regulatory and marketing costs. However, this type of issuance still requires the assistance of an investment bank, both to file the proper letter of intent and private placement memorandum and to connect the issuing company with institutional investors (large, non-bank funds). Private placements are advantageous for smaller companies. The process of issuing them is simpler and minimum size requirements are lower. In general, a regular corporate issue will require a minimums in the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. However, private placements can be issued with much lower total values. In order to issue corporate bonds, the company will have to be sure that it is able to make payments on the bonds. That is, future cash flows will have to be substantial enough to cover both the coupon payments every six months or every year and the par value of the bonds when they reach maturity. This will require both a schedule of potential bond payments and the future expenses and earnings of the company. The company will also have to factor in transaction costs associated with the issuance of the bonds, which will be charged by the investment bank. For these reasons, bond issuances are usually not a good idea for startups, because their revenues may be low or negative for the first couple years of operation, leaving them unable to service their debt obligation. Bonds are issued with specific durations and the duration and payment frequency of your bonds will depend on your capital needs. In addition, your bond will be rated for risk based on your company's risk profile. The combination of these factors will determine the interest rate on the bond. In addition, market analysis will determine the price on the bond. These are the basic terms of the bond, however there may be others, including: Whether or not the bond is secured by the company's assets. These "collateralized" bonds allow investors to claim the company's assets in the event the bond payments go unpaid. Collateralized debt may carry less interest expense for the issuer, as it is considered less risky. Callable bonds. These bonds are able to be "called," or paid off, before the maturity date. Convertible bonds. These are bonds that can be converted into a set number of the company's shares of stock. Ideally, these allows for the investor to benefit from rising stock prices and the company can then be off the hook for repaying the bonds.
What is a summary? | Consider internal financing first. Look into alternative external fundraising options. Consider private placement. Calculate the cost of issuing bonds. Decide on bond terms. | 6 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Premise: A little girl in a pink dress lays her head on a woman's lap, sucking her thumb.
Hypothesis: A small person has their thumb in their mouth.
.Multi-select problem: Can we conclude that the hypothesis is true if the premise is true?
(a). yes;
(b). it is not possible to tell;
(c). no; | (a). | 4 | Flan2021 | snli:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a short movie review that has "[B]." sentiment (
[A]. negative.
[B]. positive.). | teeth-clenching | 9 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Please answer a question about the following article about Napoleon:
In the Treaty of Fontainebleau, the Allies exiled him to Elba, an island of 12,000 inhabitants in the Mediterranean, 20 km (12 mi) off the Tuscan coast. They gave him sovereignty over the island and allowed him to retain the title of Emperor. Napoleon attempted suicide with a pill he had carried after nearly being captured by the Russians during the retreat from Moscow. Its potency had weakened with age, however, and he survived to be exiled while his wife and son took refuge in Austria. In the first few months on Elba he created a small navy and army, developed the iron mines, and issued decrees on modern agricultural methods.
When Napoleon was exiled, where did his wife and son go for shelter? | Austria | 0 | Flan2021 | squad/v1.1:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
where are the largest palm oil plantations located?? | Indonesia | 1 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Are these paraphrases?
According to Hernandez , TNA wanted to create a more stereotypical stable , but Hernandez refused to use Mexican jargon , so gave TNA the promos to Anarquia .
According to Hernandez , TNA wanted to create a more Mexican stable , but Hernandez refused to use stereotypical jargon , so TNA gave the promos to Anarquia .
OPTIONS:
(1). no
(2). yes | (1). | 7 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Rebel attacks hit Baghdad as Rumsfeld visits
quot;They know they cannot defeat us militarily. But they are hoping they can win the test of wills. It #39;s a battle of morale.
Multi-choice problem: What is this text about?
OPTIONS: (a). World (b). Sports (c). Business (d). Science/Tech | (a). | 0 | Flan2021 | ag_news_subset:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Question: what is the scientific name for a red fox??
Answer: | Vulpes vulpes | 0 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article based on this "Add more growing medium as the plant shoots up. Water your potatoes when the top 2 inches (5.1 cm) of soil is dry. Expose your potatoes to a maximum of 6-8 hours of sunlight each day. Harvest your potatoes when their foliage turns yellow."
Article: | As a general rule, you only want a maximum of 1 inch (2.5 cm) of each potato shoot exposed. Check your shoots daily to see if they are starting to emerge too far out of the soil. Then, simply add more growing medium to the pot. You'll likely need to repeat this process multiple times during the growing cycle. The process is similar to mounding potatoes that were planted in the ground. There is a quick and simple way to determine when/if you need to water. Stick a single finger into the soil. If the soil feels dry, then it is time to water again. Add water to the pot until it begins to drain out the bottom. If your potatoes do not get enough water, then they will be undersized or more susceptible to diseases and pests. In warmer temperatures, this may mean that you'll need to water your potato pots twice a day. Tailor your watering schedule to the needs of your particular potatoes. Position your potato pots so that they receive direct sun either in the morning or afternoon. While potatoes need the sunlight, they do not do well in temperatures over 80 °F (27 °C). This is why it is important that they get ample shade as well. Your potatoes may be receiving too much sun if the sprouts turn yellow or dry out shortly after shooting out of the dirt. This is the best sign that your potatoes are ready to dig up. You can either sift through the container's dirt by hand or dump it out and dig for the potatoes. Set aside each potato and make sure to wash them carefully before eating or storing. It's also a good idea to inspect each potato for fungus or mold. The outer skin should be firm and uniform in color without any white or mushy spots. | 9 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
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On the roof of the Mercedes building in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix paddock, Lewis Hamilton sat burnished in golden desert light.
Article: | Reclining on a sofa, fashionable flat-peak cap, designer sunglasses, white shorts. As if he did not have a care in the world.
If the tension of one of the most important races of his career was getting to him, Hamilton was hiding it well.
Apart from his Mercedes team shirt, he looked like a film star relaxing on a beach. And he was certainly not acting like a man who by the end of the weekend will be facing one extreme of emotions or another.
Hamilton, like his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg, will leave Abu Dhabi either on top of the world or in the pits of despair.
By Sunday evening, one of them will be world champion, riding a wave of confidence into the close season; the other a beaten man who must spend the winter building himself back up to do it all over again next year.
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Whether by design or not, both Hamilton and Rosberg have generally projected an air of composure and calm so far at the Yas Marina circuit - smiling and matter of fact in their many media interviews on Thursday, walking about the paddock with typically quick, directed intent during the first practice day on Friday.
The mask has slipped just once, just enough to lay bare the pressure that has been building up through this hyper-intense season.
In the official news conference on Thursday, a provocative question to Hamilton brought a reply in kind - and an even spikier rejoinder from Rosberg.
Two controversial incidents have proved turning points in one way or another this season - in Monaco, where Rosberg ran wide on his final qualifying lap and prevented Hamilton from having a chance to beat him to pole; and in Belgium, where the two collided.
For both, Hamilton feels Rosberg was guilty of gamesmanship, to put it politely.
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And when he was asked whether they needed to talk before the race to ensure there was no 'argy-bargy' here in Abu Dhabi, Hamilton said: "We don't need to. It's already been discussed at the beginning of the season and several times through the season and particularly after Spa.
"So there's no reason to revisit it. We're not children; we should know what is wrong and what is right."
Rosberg, for his part, has all season smarted over various incidents in which he feels Hamilton has wronged him - particularly in chopping across his nose to prevent himself being passed in Bahrain and in not acceding to a request to let Rosberg pass him in Hungary, when they were on different strategies.
Do you have anything to add, Rosberg was asked?
"Just that, yes, Lewis can do something to keep it clean, which is drive cleanly himself," he said.
Sitting in the row in front, McLaren driver Jenson Button widened his eyes and smiled at that. It was not hard to work out where he stands on the incidents in question.
This, it is clear, is not "just another race", as the two Mercedes drivers have been at pains to paint it in the run-up.
But there is a reason for their feigned nonchalance.
"You need to go through the processes, as boring as it sounds," says former F1 driver Mark Webber, who has his own experience of an Abu Dhabi title decider.
"You need to get through your Friday session, get to qualifying and have a clean grand prix.
"In 2010, I was running lots of scenarios through my head, which I believe Nico and Lewis will be as well.
"There is the double points in the background. Lewis can sit in second place. He will have rolled that through his head many, many times: 'Will it be enough just to sit there and close the championship out?'
"I found myself going through those scenarios more than you would do in any other race because you know this race when the flag drops there is going to be a championship decided."
Webber's experience of a title decider came in 2010, with his own team-mate Sebastian Vettel and two other drivers, Hamilton and Fernando Alonso.
"The tension inside the whole team starts to build up to a point it has never been to in the year," said the Australian, in an interview for a film to be shown in the BBC One coverage this weekend.
"All the engineers and mechanics are focusing on their job like they never have done in their lives. They can see the rivalry between the drivers get to this pivotal point."
The fear for everyone at Mercedes, bar Rosberg, is that a mechanical problem of some kind will hit Hamilton and prove decisive in the championship.
Team boss Toto Wolff has already described this as a "nightmare" scenario, not least because Hamilton has already had more car failures this year than Rosberg, to the extent that three times he has had to come back from about a victory's worth of points deficit.
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The advantage between the two has ebbed and flowed through the season, heightened by each man's frustration at the other's behaviour, and the battle has tested the relationship of these two former friends to its limit.
"Those two guys are learning more about themselves," Webber says. "How it has ebbed and flowed, the dynamics between the pair of them and how they're dealing with each other under extreme pressure; you only learn that stuff when the kitchen is absolutely boiling and that has absolutely been the case this year.
"The relationship will probably never be the same again. In twenty years, over a glass of red, maybe, but at the moment it is personal and they both want to win the world title."
Hamilton is the man in the best position to achieve that goal. Double points will be awarded controversially here but even so, with a 17-point lead, Hamilton needs only to finish second to be sure of the title even if Rosberg wins the race.
With the best car in the business by far, that should be eminently do-able, reliability permitting.
But that's not the only reason to suspect that the most likely outcome is Hamilton doing what he says he has set out to do, and taking the title in style with a victory.
Hamilton was in better shape on Friday, both on single-lap pace and in race trim, but he was again beaten to pole position by Rosberg - and by the substantial margin of 0.386secs.
But plenty of times this season Hamilton has proved capable of beating Rosberg after qualifying behind him and this time he does not even need to. It would be out of character for Hamilton not to try if he sees the opportunity but he has already hinted he may just sit behind his team-mate, saying in his BBC Sport column this week: "I am certainly not going to take any stupid risks, because I don't need to."
"Lewis has been on fire around Abu Dhabi in previous years," Webber said. "I've seen him do things around there… He's destroyed the field in many seasons in a car that has been pretty mediocre to be honest.
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"So Nico's going to have his work cut out because Lewis is phenomenally quick around Abu Dhabi."
Rosberg arrives in Abu Dhabi fresh from a convincing weekend in Brazil, in which he topped every session and won the race, halting a run of four consecutive successes by Hamilton.
"Nico has proved this year many times he has what it takes to be a world champion," Webber says. "Brazil was a pivotal weekend. Lewis had many victories leading up to it. Brazil is not an easy track to nail. it had a resurfaced circuit, they had to get on top of things really quickly. Nico dealt with that race extremely well.
"But Lewis has the upper hand, of course he does. He has the points on the table."
"They've both done super jobs," said Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, "but if Lewis doesn't win it after winning 10 grands prix you'd have to say there is something wrong. He deserves it. But a puncture, these power-units are coming to the end of their lives, anything can happen."
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix coverage details
Full qualifying results | 8 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
Answer the question...when does blacklist return after mid season break?? | January 3, 2018 | 5 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Concepts: beach, extend, tree
Write a sentence that includes all these words. | dead trees on the beach extending into the sea | 0 | Flan2021 | gem/common_gen:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
The Christian Democrats (CDU) won 35.2% of the vote, or 225 seats, against 34.3% for Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD).
Can we infer the following?
The Christian Democrats are all bald
Pick from:
+ Yes.
+ It's impossible to say.
+ No.
The answer is: | It's impossible to say | 4 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Translate "The debate is closed." to Romanian? | Dezbaterea a fost închisă. | 7 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ro-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Premise: Three guys, with a guitar, yelling.
Hypothesis: No guitars.
.Multi-select problem: Can we conclude that the hypothesis is true if the premise is true?
OPT:
(a). yes
(b). it is not possible to tell
(c). no | (c). | 4 | Flan2021 | snli:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Write a "b." movie review (Choices: a. negative b. positive). | one very funny joke and a few other decent ones | 8 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Keywords: beach, perform, yoga
What is a sentence that includes all these keywords? | young woman performing yoga on a beach | 1 | Flan2021 | gem/common_gen:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Chambres standards à deux lits avec salle de bain ou douche, téléphone, point internet, télévision, sèche-cheveux, coffre-fort.
Translate this to English? | Standard rooms with two beds with bath or shower, telephone, internet point, TV, hairdryer and safe deposit box. | 3 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/de-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a brief sentence. | A child is drinking from a cup. | 9 | Flan2021 | snli:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
What are the most important words in the following sentence:
A woman leaves work late in the middle of the city. | city, leave, work | 7 | Flan2021 | gem/common_gen:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
The debate was presented by the anchors John Nery of GMA News and Jessica Soho and Mike Enriquez , editor-in-chief of `` Inquirer.net '' .
This debate was presented by the anchors Jessica Soho and Mike Enriquez of GMA News and John Nery , editor of `` Inquirer.net '' .
Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
Select from the following.
[1]. no
[2]. yes | [1]. | 1 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Thin Man Films is a British film production company, based in London. It was founded in 1988 by director Mike Leigh and producer Simon Channing Williams to produce Mike Leigh's films. They chose the company name because both founders were the opposite of it.
Possible answers:
+ Yes;
+ It's impossible to say;
+ No;
Hypothesis: Thin Man Films was founded IN 1802
| No | 5 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
How might one describe the sentiment of this review?
Great Place!! We had the Only 8 which has only 8 ingredients and is awesome tasting. WAY WAY Cheaper than MOJO! We had two medium sized yogurts with a couple toppings and it was only $4.07 I was shocked! Only downside is they don't let you get your own samples which is my favorite part at Mojo, and there cups are as generic as they get, not the cute little green spoons and decorated cups like other places, but for half the price WHO CARES!!...Available choices:
(a). negative.
(b). positive. I think the answer is | (b). | 6 | Flan2021 | yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0 | zs_opt |
Write a sentence not in English. | Décisions : 2007 Décision no 582-A-2007 le 16 novembre 2007 DEMANDE présentée par Corsair, en vertu du paragraphe 78(2) de la Loi sur les transports au Canada, L.C. (1996), ch. | 8 | Flan2021 | wmt14_translate/fr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
WTO:n sääntöjen noudattaminen ei kuitenkaan saa olla tärkeämpää kuin kestävää kehitystä edistävät ja köyhyyden torjuntaa koskevat kansainväliset sitoumuksemme.
Which language is this? | Finnish | 9 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Why do I require -15 degree C temperature (or close to it) before I feel cold when wearing a T-shirt?
What are the ways to make a foreigner feel jealous about India?
Please tell me if those questions are the same.
Select from: a). no; b). yes; | a). | 3 | Flan2021 | glue/qqp:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Scrub<br>Ana spilled candle wax on her floor. It was so hard to remove! She scrubbed it with metal, plastic, nothing worked. Then she scraped off the wax with a razor blade. That did the trick!
Can we infer the following?
Candle wax is easily removed with metal and plastic.
Options are: (I). Yes. (II). It's impossible to say. (III). No.
The answer is: | (III). | 4 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro (April 29, 1830 – August 8, 1898) was a German-American engineer, politician and philanthropist who served as the 24th mayor of San Francisco from 1895 until 1897. Born a German Jew, he moved to Virginia City, Nevada and made a fortune at the Comstock Lode. He is today perhaps best remembered for the various San Francisco lands and landmarks that still bear his name.
Hypothesis: Sutro was born on 29 of April and was also was number 24 in the sequence of San Francisco mayors.
Available options: *Yes *It's impossible to say *No | Yes | 7 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
The striker, 28, last played for Chelsea in the FA Cup final in May, and was sent a text in June by boss Antonio Conte telling him he would not be part of the squad for next season.
Costa says the club are now demanding he return to train with the reserves.
"Why won't they let me go if they don't want me?" he told the Daily Mail.
"I have to do what I have to do. I have to think of myself. I've been a good boy here and tried to do the right thing. My desire is to go to Atletico."
Costa joined Chelsea from Atletico Madrid in 2014 and has won two Premier League titles and the League Cup with the London club.
In January, he was left out of the Chelsea side for an away match at Leicester after he was involved in a dispute with a fitness coach.
It followed reports of an offer from China that would have been worth £30m a year in salary.
"In January, things happened with the coach," said Costa. "I was on the brink of renewing my contract and they put the brakes on it. I suspect the manager was behind it. He asked for that to happen.
"His ideas are very fixed and clear. I have seen the sort of person he is. He has his own opinion and that will not change.
"I respect him as a great coach. He has done a good job and I can see that, but as a person, no. He is not a coach who is very close with his players. He is very distant. He doesn't possess charisma."
In June, Costa said Conte sent him a text telling him he would not be part of the squad for next season.
"I have not deleted the message," he added. "If people accuse me of lying, I can show them. It was clear, saying that he didn't count on me and wishing me the best for the future. Full stop."
The Spain striker was given extra time off by Chelsea last month, but now claims he is being fined for his absence and is considering legal action or seeing out the remaining year of his contract unpaid in his native Brazil.
"You know that the manager doesn't want me," added Costa.
"I am waiting for Chelsea to set me free. I didn't want to leave. I was happy. When the manager does not want you, you have to go."
What is a summary of this text? | Diego Costa has described his treatment by Chelsea like that of a "criminal" and confirmed he wants to join Atletico Madrid. | 3 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
Q: In diffuse-porous woods, if the demarcation between rings is obvious, what type of difference within the ring might not be?
A: In the diffuse-porous woods, the demarcation between rings is not always so clear and in some cases is almost (if not entirely) invisible to the unaided eye.
Does the answer correctly answer the question
Choices:
i. yes.
ii. no. | ii. | 5 | Flan2021 | glue/qnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Concepts: cottage, flower, front
Write a sentence that includes all these words. | flowers over the front of a cottage | 0 | Flan2021 | gem/common_gen:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article with the title: "CHECK 'MARX' ON BALLOT"
Article: |
WASHINGTON Once billed as the "Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx" of American politics, Ross Perot, Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan might be coming soon to a presidential ballot near you. And the possibility of third, fourth and even fifth-party bids leaves Republicans and Democrats trying to figure out what it could mean to their chances of victory. If, in the end, it means anything at all. "At this juncture, my basic judgment is that their impact if they run will be minimal," said Curtis Gans, who heads the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate. "This is not the year for a big protest vote.
" Public surveys back the analysis that most voters are ready to choose between President Clinton and Republican Bob Dole. The most obvious reason for voters to rally around either of the two major candidates is the months-long confrontation between the White House and GOP Congress over issues that touch nearly all Americans, such as Medicare and tax cuts. Still, voters also know Perot and Buchanan. No longer are they just vehicles for protest votes against the mainstream parties. And as familiar figures, their unfavorable ratings are high. Maybe most telling is that Perot, Nader and Buchanan might confuse and split support based on the hot campaign issue: economic insecurity. All three opposed the free-trade deals of NAFTA and GATT earning them the Marx brothers crack from then-House GOP leader Bob Michel of Illinois. And all have stressed the influence of big corporations on government. "There is potential for someone to tap into a sentiment that's very real in American households stagnant incomes that leave families struggling to make ends meet, and concerns over job security," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College poll. "But, for a variety of reasons, I don't think any of these candidates really appeal to voters.
" That allows Dole and Clinton to keep trying to make the issue theirs. Even if this year's protest vote comes out smaller than in 1992, when Perot won 19% of the vote, a few percentage points drawn from Dole or Clinton in competitive states could tip the election. The calculations get tricky in trying to figure out how Perot, Buchanan and Nader separately and in different combinations would tilt the Clinton-Dole race. The simplest is a Buchanan candidacy. Almost all his votes would come out of Dole's hide. Buchanan also appears the most unlikely to mount an independent bid with the U.
S. Taxpayers Party. "If you move in that direction, what you are saying, in effect, is goodbye forever to the Republican Party," Buchanan said this month. "It is irredeemable, and you'd be working for its defeat.
" Nader, 62, who is running on the Green Party ticket, apparently would take most of his votes from Clinton. With Clinton's current lead in California, Nader would fall far short of tipping the state from the President. This month's Los Angeles Times poll shows in a four-candidate race that Clinton would get 47%, Dole 31%, Perot 12% and Nader 7%. Without Nader, Clinton would beat Dole by 22 percentage points. Even if the race tightens, many question whether current Nader backers will sacrifice a Clinton win. The California poll also suggests that Perot, 65, who has not yet declared his candidacy on his Reform Party ticket, no longer will mean electoral death for the GOP candidate as it was for President George Bush in 1992. In a three-candidate race, Perot draws support from Dole and Clinton, though slightly more from Dole. THIRD PARTY POSSIBILITES PAT BUCHANAN Age: 57 Hometown: Washington Marital status: Married, no children. Day job: TV commentator. Government service: Started as golf caddy for Richard Nixon, later became his speechwriter; communications director under President Ronald Reagan. Campaign experience: Unsuccessful '92 run against President George Bush, but gave "cultural war" speech at GOP convention that many blame for driving moderates away from Bush. Why run? "It is my hope and present intention to support the Republican Party in the fall. But that intention is not something I think we can be held to if the Republican Party moves in a leftward direction.
" Top issues: Stop even legal immigration for five years; tariffs to protect U.
S. workers; end all abortions; term limits; end foreign aid. Dubious deeds: "Dirty tricks" during the 1992 campaign; blaming the 1991 Gulf War on "the Israeli Defense Ministry and its `amen corner' in the United States.
" Memorable quote: "I think God made all people good, but if we were to take a million immigrants in, say, Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?
" Political party: Possible bolt to U.
S. Taxpayers Party. RALPH NADER Age: 62 Hometown: Winsted, Conn. Marital status: Single. Day job: Consumer advocate, author. Government service: Staff consultant for then-Assistant Labor Secretary Daniel Patrick Moynihan from 1962 to 1965. Campaign experience: On 1992 ballot in Massachusetts and New Hampshire Democratic primaries. Campaigned that year for letting voters cast ballots for "None of the Above.
" Why run? "Every four years, the choice between the bad and the worst gets worse.
" Top issues: Against NAFTA and GATT free trade deals; opposes limiting product liability awards; calls for return to 55 mph federal speed limit; pro-environment. Dubious deeds: Does not own a credit card. Memorable quote: "I do enjoy life. I just don't enjoy conspicuous consumption.
" Party: Green Party ROSS PEROT Age: 65 Hometown: Texarkana, Tex. Marital status: Married, five children. Day job: Billionaire from data processing, investment and real estate Government service: As a midshipman, gave President Dwight D. Eisenhower a tour of Naval Academy; close contacts with Nixon White House; led failed 1969 effort to deliver supplies to U.
S. POWs in Vietnam; headed Texas' war on drugs in 1979. Campaign experience: Spent $60 million on his independent candidacy in 1992 and won 19% of the vote. Why run? "Both parties are bought and paid for by the special interests.
" Top issues: Campaign finance reform; balanced budget; against free trade treaties. Dubious deeds: Won a $15 million individual tax break from Congress one of the largest ever in 1970 after contributing $55,000 to members of the Ways and Means Committee. Memorable quote: "Money doesn't mean anything to me ... Don't get me wrong. I'd rather be rich than poor. | 7 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write down the solution for this math problem: Solve 139*r = -147*r + 100*r + 14508 for r. | 78 | 4 | Flan2021 | math_dataset/algebra__linear_1d:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
@ShellDillon that doesn't sound good. As long as you don't need to answer the great white telephone whilst on the blower..
Select your answer from the options. What is the sentiment of this tweet?
Pick from:
(I). negative
(II). positive...I think the answer is | (I). | 0 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
I am leaving my job for a better one. I can think of one person who is upset with me. What's wrong with me doing better for myself?
Will I have time to adapt as a fresh Software Engineer in a new country?
Do those questions have the same meaning?
Available choices:
- no
- yes | no | 1 | Flan2021 | glue/qqp:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a context and a hypothesis. | Context: GM established grounds for suspicion of industrial spying by presenting affidavits from its employees. The aim will be to determine if VW's project was copied from GM data - essential if industrial espionage is to be proved.
Hypothesis: VW knew that they would be caught. | 9 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Premise: Two people, one man and one women in the woods putting something in a tub.
Hypothesis: A couple of people are sleeping in a bed.
.Choose the correct answer: Given the premise, can we conclude the hypothesis?
Choices:
a). yes;
b). it is not possible to tell;
c). no; | c). | 5 | Flan2021 | snli:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Magnanimity<br>Charles felt his elders were mean but his little cousins were nice. Charles' parents, uncles and big cousins didn't like him. They said because he was broke, financially. But Charles marketed a self published book on Facebook. He made $300,000 and bought only kids expensive Christmas gifts.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
Charles had elders that were mean to him.
Possible answers:
(i) Yes;
(ii) It's impossible to say;
(iii) No; | (i) | 3 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Is the sentiment of the following sentence positive or negative (see options at the end)?
is a phenomenal band with such an engrossing story that will capture the minds and hearts of many
Available options:
(i). negative.
(ii). positive. | (ii). | 4 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Tweet: want to go out, but got to make blooming maps and write about them
Predict the sentiment of this tweet.
Pick from: A. negative; B. positive; | A. | 3 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
several dozen young activists protested sunday against a new law granting president vladimir putin the power to appoint russia 's regional leaders , while voters in the frigid north cast ballots in what was to be the last gubernatorial election under the old system .
What is a very short summary of the above text? | small protest as russia conducts last gubernatorial election | 5 | Flan2021 | gigaword:1.2.0 | zs_opt |
Puhuitte joustavuudesta, ja joustavuudelle on todellakin olemassa hyvät taloudelliset perusteet.
Could you please translate this to English? | You spoke of flexibility, and indeed there are good economic reasons for flexibility. | 2 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What are the most important words in the following sentence:
aerial footage of a forest in autumn revealing multiple colored trees | autumn, footage, forest | 7 | Flan2021 | gem/common_gen:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Based on the premise "you go during the week", can we conclude the hypothesis "The journey takes all days between Monday and Friday. " is true (see options)?
Choose your answer from: * yes; * it is not possible to tell; * no; | it is not possible to tell | 5 | Flan2021 | glue/mnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Article:Campaigners say Spanish government plans to restrict water flow could destroy the fragile landscape.
They are worried that ultimately these waters could be transferred to other, drier regions of Spain.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Amposta in Catalonia on Sunday to protest against the plans.
Running for 930km (578 miles) the Ebro is the third longest river flowing into the Mediterranean.
Its journey begins in Asturias on the north coast of Spain but it flows through nine autonomous communities before joining the sea in a Catalan delta that stretches over 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres).
The delta is a national park and it is recognised internationally as being a critical resource for birds and wildlife. In addition the rich waters help produce huge amounts of foodstuffs including rice, fruit and vegetables.
The most important element in the preservation of the delta, which faces huge challenges from human development and the sea, is the flow of water and sediment from the river. The sediments protect the integrity of the wetlands and guard against the ingress of saline water.
But development, irrigation and dams along the length of the river have cut the sediments by 90%.
"The most important problem is the lack of large floods," said Dr Carles Ibanez, who studies aquatic ecosystems at IRTA, the Catalan government's research institute.
"In the past this was the way to bring sediment especially sand to the mouth of the delta but this is not happening anymore not just because of regulation but because of dams. We are looking for an environmental river flow that should include these floods in a controlled way."
The Spanish government has been trying for decades to put in place a plan to regulate the river and put the rights to use the waters on a firm legal footing. In January it finally agreed on what is termed the Ebro River Basin Management Plan.
But the approach has drawn huge criticism from local campaigners who believe they have prioritised the interests of farmers and developers over the environment.
"Under EU law you have to set the minimum environmental flow to conserve the river and the delta and then you can start to talk about any excess water and what to do with it," said Brian Cutts, who lives in the region and is a long time member of PDE (Plataforma en Defensa de l'Ebre).
"But Spain has always gone about it the opposite way - They write down the amount of water they need for the nuclear power station upriver, and for irrigation and whatever is left would be the environmental flow that the river would have."
But the Spanish ministry of agriculture rejected the idea that the plan would be bad for the river or the region.
"The Spanish rivers will have better storage conditions, contributing to the protection of ecosystems and improve the quality of life of citizens," they said in a statement about the plan.
As well as the threat posed by dams and irrigation, campaigners are also worried that the government intends to transfer water out of the river and send it to more arid parts of the country.
This plan was also tried in the early 2000s but collapsed in the face of public and EU opposition. The government is set to put in place a national hydrological plan this year but this time round, campaigners believe the authorities will attempt the same outcome but by different means.
"They will award water concessions to different groups of irrigation farmers, who may not be able to pay for the water they have been conceded," said Brian Cutts.
"They may then be able to sell it via water banks to other users in other parts of Spain."
One key change in the dispute has been the rise of Catalan nationalism. When the transfer plan was first mooted at the turn of the century the Catalan government did not object. Now it is being seen as the frontline in the battle to win power back from Madrid.
The turnout at the weekend protest in Amposta was designed to impress on the national government that people in the region see the future of the Ebro and the delta as a huge political issue. They were also hoping to impress a visiting delegation of European parliamentarians that the EU should intervene.
"It's become a big symbol of the Catalan Spain conflict, a lot of people seeing it as the red line," said Brian Cutts.
"The last thing the Catalan people are going to accept at this moment is Spain saying what they can do with the river Ebro and Spain diverting the river to other parts of the country.
"It's like Spain doesn't care and is willing to see the end of one the most important national areas that we have here."
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