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Write the last sentence in this story.
(CNN) -- Penn State has hired a new permanent coach to head its embattled football program, with the team's quarterback saying that he and other players are "excited" for a "fresh start." Matt McGinn told CNN affiliate WBRE that he hopes the selection of New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien will help "erase some of the things that have happened in the past year." "It should be exciting for everyone," said McGinn, acknowledging that some Penn State alumni have voiced dissatisfaction with the move since O'Brien didn't attend the State College school. "The most important thing is that the players are happy."
We have that leader in Coach
OPTIONS:
- Bill O'Brien, and I look forward to working with him in his new role."
- CNN, and I look forward to working with him in his new role."
- Jerry Sandusky, and I look forward to working with him in his new role."
- Joe Paterno, and I look forward to working with him in his new role."
- Matt McGinn, and I look forward to working with him in his new role."
- McGinn, and I look forward to working with him in his new role."
- New England Patriots, and I look forward to working with him in his new role."
- O'Brien, and I look forward to working with him in his new role."
- Penn State, and I look forward to working with him in his new role."
- State College, and I look forward to working with him in his new role."
- WBRE, and I look forward to working with him in his new role."
| Bill O'Brien, and I look forward to working with him in his new role." | 6 | Flan2021 | super_glue/record:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Earthquakes seemed to outline a special feature of earth's crust. Earthquakes let scientists know where the crust was moving. This led to the discovery that the Earths crust was broken up into regions, or plates. Earthquakes happen most often along these plate boundaries. This was evidence that continents can move. The movements of the plates are called plate tectonics. The Earths crust is divided into plates. There are about a dozen large plates and several small ones. Each plate is named for the continent or ocean basin it contains. Scientists know he plates are in motion. They now know the direction and speed of this motion . Plates dont move very fast. They move only a few centimeters a year. This is about the same rate fingernails grow. So you might wonder, what could cause this motion? What supplies the energy to cause this change?
After reading the above, is "Regions" the correct answer to the question "What led scientists to discover plates?"?
Available choices:
[A]. no
[B]. yes | [A]. | 6 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Write a sentence about the following things:
afternoon, fishing, spend | spending a blissful afternoon on the fishing . | 4 | Flan2021 | gem/common_gen:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Read this and answer the question
Coop et al. (2009) found "a selected allele that strongly differentiates the French from both the Yoruba and Han could be strongly clinal across Europe, or at high frequency in Europe and absent elsewhere, or follow any other distribution according to the geographic nature of the selective pressure. However, we see that the global geographic distributions of these putatively selected alleles are largely determined simply by their frequencies in Yoruba, French and Han (Figure 3). The global distributions fall into three major geographic patterns that we interpret as non-African sweeps, west Eurasian sweeps and East Asian sweeps, respectively."
Something that is found at high frequency in Europe could be what elsewhere? | absent | 1 | Flan2021 | squad/v1.1:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
FURIOUS Jewish settlers besieged the Israeli parliament last night in a last-ditch effort to persuade wavering legislators to vote down Ariel Sharons controversial plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
What is a good title for this? | Gaza settlers lay siege as MPs vote | 9 | Flan2021 | ag_news_subset:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a question about the following article: Hoping to rebound from their devastating Sunday Night loss to the Cardinals, the Vikings went home and met the Cincinnati Bengals in a Week 14 duel. After a scoreless first quarter, Minnesota took first blood as kicker Ryan Longwell nailed a 41-yard field goal. They increased their lead later in the quarter with quarterback Brett Favre finding wide receiver Sidney Rice on a 9-yard TD pass. Cincinnati responded with quarterback Carson Palmer finding wide receiver Chad Ochocinco on a 15-yard TD pass, however the Vikings quickly scored two field goals by kicker Ryan Longwell (from 23 and 44 yards out) to put the Vikings up 16-7 at halftime. In the third quarter, the Vikings scored the period's only points as running back Adrian Peterson got a 1-yard TD run. In the fourth quarter, Cincinnati tried to rally with kicker Shayne Graham nailing a 22-yard field goal, but the Vikings put the game away with running back Adrian Peterson's 3-yard TD run. With the win, the Vikings not only improved to 11-2 on the season, they also secured a playoff berth for the second consecutive season and improved upon the record from the previous season (10-6). Their "magic number" decreased to one, meaning that either a Green Bay loss at Pittsburgh or a Vikings win against Carolina on Sunday night would make Minnesota repeat division champions for the first time since 1978, when they won six consecutive NFC Central titles. Also, if the Eagles lost against San Francisco, the Vikings would also clinch a first-round bye in the NFC playoffs.
Question about the article: | What is the Viking's record after winning this game? | 8 | Flan2021 | drop:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
The 26 letters directly shown by bopomofo are transcribed in the following table .
The 26 letters transcribed directly from bopomofo are shown in following table .
Select your answer from the options. Do these sentences mean the same thing?
OPTIONS:
1). no
2). yes | 1). | 0 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
What's an example of a task that requires knowledge of physical objects to perform? | Deskin a roasted pepper on the stove. | 8 | Flan2021 | piqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
This House believes the prevalence of African mercenaries is decreasing
What is a possible side to this debate? | Private corporations have replaced mercenaries | 3 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
Twelve people have won all four major annual American entertainment awards in a competitive, individual (non-group) category of the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards. Respectively, these awards honor outstanding achievements in television, recording, film, and theater. Winning all four awards has been referred to as winning the ``grand slam'' of American show business.
has anyone ever won an oscar and a grammy?
Possible answers: -- no -- yes | yes | 2 | Flan2021 | bool_q:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
OPTIONS:
-description.
-entity.
-abbreviation.
-human.
-numeric.
-location.Would the answer to the question "What is the highest waterfall in the United States ?" be an entity, an abbreviation, a description, a human, a location, or a numeric value?
| location | 2 | Flan2021 | trec:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Next question: the cells in the testes that produce testosterone are called?
| Leydig cells | 8 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is the sentiment of the following review?
Honestly guys? You can do better- I'd bet the only reason it's still up and running is because it's convenintly placed beside campus. Personally, I'm a big fan of good customer service and after a brief visit I found NONE. I was mocked by employees because of the way I look and I was told that the design I wanted HAD to be larger than what I had planned. Guess what? The very next shop I went to finished that same "one-size-too-small" tattoo in less that 45 minutes and it was practically painless. Did I buy anything from here? No. Do I plan to? Hell no. Go somewhere more professional and save yourself the trouble.
OPTIONS:
[+] negative.
[+] positive. | negative | 5 | Flan2021 | yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0 | zs_opt |
Article:The Yorkshire club have put a £300,000 valuation on Hardaker, a key member of the Rhinos' treble-winning 2015 season.
The club have agreed to allow the 24-year-old to leave after he revealed he wanted to play in Australia's NRL, with Canberra believed to be among the favourites to sign him.
Leeds sit bottom of this season's Super League after 17 rounds.
Hardaker joined Leeds from Featherstone in 2011 and scored a try in the Rhinos' Grand Final victory over St Helens later that year.
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He has since scored 67 tries in 154 appearances for Leeds, winning three Super League titles, two Challenge Cups, the League Leaders' Shield and World Club Challenge.
"I explained my desire to leave and test myself in the NRL to Gary [Hetherington, Rhinos chief executive] several weeks ago and I am pleased the club is prepared to release me," Hardaker said in a statement on the club's website.
"I have had five great years here and have had so many wonderful times. I will continue to help the team whilst I am here but I am also excited with what the future may hold for me."
Rhinos head coach Brian McDermott said: "Zak is a special talent and a fierce competitor who will do well wherever he plays.
"We won't be quite the same without him, but we've come to this decision and he will leave with our best wishes."
The England international's expected exit follows the departures of Kevin Sinfield, Jamie Peacock, Kylie Leuluai and Paul Aiton from last season's all-conquering squad.
A summary of the above article is? | Last year's Man of Steel Zak Hardaker has been placed on the transfer list by Leeds Rhinos. | 6 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
Complete the passage: pick from possible candidates.
Jeb Bush name-checked Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Mark Zuckerberg on Monday while telling University of South Carolina graduates that "young people and newcomers are often the great discoverers." The former Florida Republican governor's commencement speech -- short, optimistic and apolitical -- came the day after he'd said he planned to release 250,000 emails from his days in office. He will also write an accompanying eBook that he'll release next year. Bush's preemptive approach is one of the clearest signs yet of how seriously he is considering a run for president and allows him to address potential areas of criticism before opposition researchers dig in.
"
OPTIONS:
- Albert Einstein was 29 when he developed the theory of natural selection.
- Bush was 29 when he developed the theory of natural selection.
- Charles Darwin was 29 when he developed the theory of natural selection.
- Florida was 29 when he developed the theory of natural selection.
- Jeb Bush was 29 when he developed the theory of natural selection.
- Mark Zuckerberg was 29 when he developed the theory of natural selection.
- Republican was 29 when he developed the theory of natural selection.
- University of South Carolina was 29 when he developed the theory of natural selection.
- eBook was 29 when he developed the theory of natural selection.
| Charles Darwin was 29 when he developed the theory of natural selection. | 0 | Flan2021 | super_glue/record:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Grant worked hard to harvest his beans so he and his family would have enough to eat that winter, His friend Henry let him stack *them* in his barn where they would dry. Later, he and Tatyana would shell them and cook them for their Sunday dinners.
Are "them" and "beans" the same thing in the aforementioned sentence (choose from options)?
pick from the following.
--no;
--yes; | yes | 4 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wsc.fixed:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Choose from options: Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
The Jerome Cooperative Creamery was built in 1915, 1924, and 1933 by master stonemason H.T. Pugh.
The Jerome Cooperative Creamery is a cooperative creamery and also refers to historic lava rock structures used by the creamery on Birch Street in Jerome, Idaho, United States. The structures were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. They were built in 1915, 1924, and 1933 by master stonemason H.T. Pugh who popularized the use of lava rock in the Jerome area.
Select from:
(a). Yes;
(b). It's impossible to say;
(c). No; | (c). | 8 | Flan2021 | anli/r1:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?
1. This is known as chasing losses .
2. Because of this addictive nature , many people end up gambling to try to recover money they have already lost .
3. According to the Emotional Neuroscience Centre in Massachusetts , Monetary reward in a gambling-like experiment produces brain activation very similar to that observed in a cocaine addict receiving an infusion of cocaine .
4. Gambling can become a psychologically addictive behavior in some people .
5. A gambling addiction , in addition to the long term effects it has , can result in financial ruin in a few short hours . .
6. Once that happens , it is often too late .
7. People start to gamble without thinking that they will become addicted .
8. It results in people staking more and more money , most of which they will lose , and sinking deeper and deeper into debt . | Gambling is addictive and psychologically harmful | 4 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
Question with options: can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
Context:
LISBON, Jan. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Anibal Cavaco Silva, a former prime minister, won Portugal's presidential election on Sunday.
Hypothesis: New Portuguese prime minister is elected.
Select from the following.
- yes
- no
A: | no | 7 | Flan2021 | super_glue/rte:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Choose your answer?
Life is more likely to be found on a planet whose atmosphere contains abundant
Choices:
(1). neon.
(2). oxygen.
(3). hydrogen.
(4). sulfur dioxide. | (2). | 4 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Easy:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Claim: The state should ban trans fats to protect the public
What evidence supports this claim? | 1. The majority of us are reliant on the research of others for most of what we know .
2. Non-specialists capacity to absorb information on complex chemical and biological subjects is quite limited .
3. Do they think there should be no inspections of restaurants by health inspectors ?
4. The commentators who denounce the ` nanny state ' do not indicate what , if any , regulations or styles of regulation they approve of .
5. The fact that some government regulations seem ` silly ' or misplaced , or can not easily be understood by lay-people is not a compelling argument for having no regulations at all , or for not having regulations in the case of trans fat .
6. One of the purposes of government is identify possible threats to health and protect the people from these threats .
7. It makes sense to delegate the research to a central authority , so that instead of 300 million people trying to learn about trans fats and every other lurking menace , a handful of experts can make recommendations based on the likely responses and desires of the average , informed citizen .
8. But people have limited time to do research on such matters .
9. Some commentators think that people should be encouraged to study the dangers of trans fats and make their own judgements about what to eat .
10. No regulation at all of food or drug safety by the Food and Drug Administration ? | 9 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
(CNN) -- Shain Gandee, one of the stars of the MTV reality show "Buckwild," has been found dead along with two other people in Kanawha County, West Virginia, authorities said Monday. "This is a very sad and tragic event," Kanawha County Commissioner Kent Carper said. "We live in a very small community. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Gandee family." Gandee, 21, was found dead in a vehicle along with his uncle, David Dwight Gandee, 48, and Donald Robert Myers, 27, authorities said. 'Buckwild' producer talks about the show "Earlier this day after releasing information Shain Gandee was missing, the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office received word of a disabled vehicle in a wooded area near Thaxton Hollow, Sissonville, Kanawha County WV," said a statement from the Sheriff's Office. "Deputies and members of the Sissonville Volunteer Fire Department used all terrain vehicles to access that vehicle, a 1984 Ford Bronco belonging to the Gandee family. The vehicle was in a muddy area along a worn path. Inside were the bodies of three people." In a subsequent release, the Sheriff's Office said the vehicle was partially submerged in mud. It was uneven but upright; its muffler was below the surface. Mud covered the lower part of the Bronco's passenger side door, but the driver's side, where the younger Gandee sat, was free, the Sheriff's Office said. Gandee was happy with life before death He was one of the nine cast members of "Buckwild." The show follows a group of young adults trying to have fun in Sissonville, West Virginia, pulling stunts such as turning a dump truck into a swimming pool or just riding around the woods on their all-terrain vehicles. Gandee was billed as a former high school prom king who had done "every job from coal mining to being a garbage man."
Question: "Is Kanawha County a large or small community?"
Answer: "A very small one"
Is this answer to the question correct?
OPT:
(i). no.
(ii). yes. | (ii). | 7 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Multi-choice question: What is the sentiment of the following tweet?
Tweet: is lovin Nevershoutnever! Oh and she's happy she won ERS His Grace is enough....Yep it is, i wish i would remember that more often
Options: [I] negative; [II] positive; | [II] | 4 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Choose from options. Continue the following story.
Tim loved his motorcycle. He rode it whenever he could. Up until last week when he wrecked. Now he almost never rides it.
pick from the following. (A). Tim feels safe when he rides his motorcycle.. (B). Tim is scared to ride his motorcycle.. | (B). | 7 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
sl: did you often discuss things with him?
Capitalize this past sentence correctly. | SL: Did you often discuss things with him? | 3 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
Generate short a sentence that can be linguistically classified as b). (Available choices:
a). unacceptable;
b). acceptable;) | The plums were weighed by the grocer. | 8 | Flan2021 | glue/cola:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Sentence from a movie review: at once visceral and spiritual , wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty --
Select your answer: was the movie seen positively or negatively based on the preceding review?
Pick from:
[i] negative;
[ii] positive; | [ii] | 2 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Here are some concepts: bleed, bull, matador
What is a sentence about these concepts? | bleeding bull looking at the matador | 2 | Flan2021 | gem/common_gen:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a short movie review that has "(B)." sentiment (Select from: (A). negative. (B). positive.). | a very good time at the cinema | 9 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
I have scheduled a meeting for Thursday, November 8, 2001, at 3:00 p.m. in conference room EB3824. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions. Thanks!
Propose a subject line for this email? | Texaco Arbitration Meeting | 4 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Mr. Thorndike had risen, and, in farewell, was holding out his hand to Andrews. He turned, and across the court-room the eyes of the financier and the stenographer met. At the sight of the great man, Spear flushed crimson, and then his look of despair slowly disappeared; and into his eyes there came incredulously hope and gratitude. He turned his head suddenly to the wall. Mr. Thorndike stood irresolute, and then sank back into his chair. The first man in the line was already at the railing, and the questions put to him by the judge were being repeated to him by the other assistant district attorney and a court attendant. His muttered answers were in turn repeated to the judge. "Says he's married, naturalized citizen, Lutheran Church, die- cutter by profession." The probation officer, her hands filled with papers, bustled forward and whispered. "Mrs. Austin says," continued the district attorney, "she's looked into this case, and asks to have the man turned over to her. He has a wife and three children; has supported them for five years." "Is the wife in court?" the judge said. A thin, washed-out, pretty woman stood up, and clasped her hands in front of her. "Has this man been a good husband to you, madam?" asked the young judge. The woman broke into vehement assurances. No man could have been a better husband. Would she take him back? Indeed she would take him back. She held out her hands as though she would physically drag her husband from the pillory. The judge bowed toward the probation officer, and she beckoned the prisoner to her.
After reading the above, is "Judge" the correct answer to the question "What was the profession of the first man in line?"?
Pick your answer from:
(A). no.
(B). yes. | (A). | 6 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
1.
Translate to Romanian
Romanian: | 1. | 0 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ro-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate the following sentence to Turkish:
It paid out 117m DM in the next six months and 74m DM in March of 1998.
Turkish: | Şirket sonraki altı ayda 117 milyon DM, 1998 Mart'ında ise 74 milyon DM ödedi. | 5 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/tr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate to Finnish:
This is no way to treat a small country.
Finnish: | Näin ei voi kohdella pientä maata. | 4 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Choose the correct sentiment from candidates:
pick from the following.
A). negative.
B). positive.
TEXT:Now this is one of Big's Best, Jack Hulbert's single role in 1931 split into two for the Band Waggon radio team Askey & Murdoch. It boasts a great stalwart cast, who ham the play up for all they're worth, especially Askey of course. Histrionics were provided by Linden Travers, melodramatics by Herbert Lomas, and pragmatics by Richard Murdoch.
The group of rail passengers stranded at the lonely country station for the night find more than they bargained for, ghostly trains, spectral porters, hairy sausage rolls and Arthur trying to entertain them all. His repartee with everyone falls between side-splitting and ghastly dull. When the formula works it's very good, but it sometimes gets very contrived and forced making the film seem more dated than it is. But those damn treacherous fifth columnists - thank any God Britain hasn't got any nowadays!
Ultimately a nice harmless film, to welcome back to the TV screen as an old friend, but if you were expecting to be shivered out of your timbers you'll probably be very disappointed!
| B). | 6 | Flan2021 | imdb_reviews/plain_text:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is the cause of the following sentence?
The librarian located the book in the stacks.
Pick your answer from:
(A). I requested the librarian's help..
(B). The book was checked out..
The answer is: | (A). | 6 | Flan2021 | super_glue/copa:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Q: What ill-fated craft was captained by Ernst Lehmann ?
Which one of the following options would the answer to this be?
Possible answers: (I). description. (II). entity. (III). abbreviation. (IV). human. (V). numeric. (VI). location.
A: | (II). | 8 | Flan2021 | trec:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Hadn't talked with you in a while and thought that I would send a quick note to say hello. Saying it is busy here sounds a bit like a broken record, but it is busy here! Big challege currently is juggling our huge day-to-day business for Enron Americas, starting the absorption of some pieces of EES (my part alone looks like an additional 120 employees, with the intent to find ways to assimilate that business and ultimately reduce overall support costs for Enron), the sale of Houston Pipeline to AEP that should conclude in June or July and the commercialization of mid and back office services. All of these of course with top priority! I am really enjoying having Beth Apollo on the team. She has already made a very positive impact, while she is learning the details of the operations side. How is life treating you? I know that their is a lot going on in the London office, as well. How has Ted Murphy's assimilation into the London office been? Do you have plans to be in Houston any time soon? Keep me posted tomorrow on any news that you hear from Mike Jordan regarding their baby. Hope that all is well with you. --Sally
Write a subject line for this email. | Head above water? | 2 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Forgive the pun: Want a slice of early Apple history? Three of the legal documents that detail the founding of the revolutionary computer company are going up for auction soon -- some two months after the death of co-founder Steve Jobs. Sotheby's, the auction house that's hosting the sale, expects the legal papers to sell for $100,000 to $150,000. "The 1976 document, which once belonged to Ronald G. Wayne, one of Apple's founders along with Steven P. Jobs and Stephen G. Wozniak, is the first chapter in the story of one of America's most important companies," Sotheby's says in a press release. Here's a list of what's included in the auction:. -- Apple's original partnership agreement, signed on April 1, 1976, by Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Apple's "forgotten founder," Ron Wayne. According to Walter Isaacson in his new "Steve Jobs" biography, Jobs signed the document in lower-case letters, "Wozniak in careful cursive and Wayne in an illegible squiggle." The trio signed the document in Wayne's apartment and split their stakes in the company unevenly: Jobs and Wozniak both got 45%; Wayne, who came to the confab late as a consultant of sorts, got a 10% share. -- A dissolution of contract, in which Wayne excused himself from the company for $800. He later received an additional $1,500 payment. Bad move, right? His stock options today would be worth more than $30 billion. But Wayne told CNN in 2010 that he doesn't regret the decision, which he based on the fact that another company he founded had gone poorly. "What can I say? You make a decision based on your understanding of the circumstances and you live with it," he said. -- And a second founding agreement, in which Jobs, the marketing master, and Wozniak, the coding genius, outlined their plans for the company that would help bring about the personal computer revolution and create the iPod, iPhone and, most recently, the iPad. The documents originally belonged to Wayne and were given to Sotheby's through a university archives, the auction house's website says. A Sotheby's spokesman said the company could not provide more information but emphasized that Wayne had not sold the documents directly to the auction house. "The consigner bought the documents in the mid-1990s from a manuscript dealer who had acquired them from Wayne," Bloomberg reports, citing Richard Austin, head of manuscripts at Sotheby's in New York. Austin told that news organization: "It was right before Jobs rejoined Apple. At the time, everyone thought that Apple was pretty much finished." The auction will be held on December 13 in New York. People can also bid on the documents simultaneously online. So far, Twitter chatter about the sale is mostly positive, with online pundits joking that they want to add the documents to their holiday shopping lists and pondering what will be the ultimate sticker price of these bits of history.
Here is a summary of the highlights for this article: | Original 1976 Apple contract is going up for auction on December 13. Sotheby's New York is auctioning off three original Apple documents. The founding agreement is signed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne. The auction house expects the docs to fetch at least $100,000. | 6 | Flan2021 | cnn_dailymail:3.4.0 | zs_opt |
Kartoittakaamme ensin yhteisön politiikan perusta ja sisältö eli toisin sanoen se, mikä tosiasiassa liittää meidät yhteen, sillä millään menettelyllä ei voida luoda yhteistä kantaa asioissa, joissa yhdistäviä tekijöitä ei ole.
Translate to English
English: | Let us first find the basis and substance for a common policy, or in other words what actually binds us, because no procedures on earth are capable of creating a common position where no such substance exists. | 1 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write the next sentence in this story.
Burke doesn't have many friends. He always walks around with a scowl on his face. One day, a stranger tells him that he should smile more. Burke decides to try smiling.
Pick from:
(1). Burke soon reverts back to being grumpy.;
(2). Burke loves interference from strangers.; | (1). | 6 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
How might one describe the sentiment of this review?
Had an incredible meal there for my brother-in-laws bachelor party. The steak (filet) was excellent, the wine (2000 Turnbull Old Bull Red) was perfect and the chocolate desert with the 20 year Tawny Port was mood altering....Pick your answer from: A. negative B. positive I think the answer is | B. | 6 | Flan2021 | yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0 | zs_opt |
The critic consesnsus is: Boasting an entertaining villain and deeper emotional focus, this is a nimble sequel that improves upon the original.. What reviews supported this critic consensus? | 1. Exciting sequel that improves dramatically on the effects of the first, but also has an emotional depth that is surprising in a blockbuster this big.
2. 'Llegу para quedarse y hacernos pasar un gran rato en compaснa del mбs humano de los superhйroes, quien nos recuerda nuestra propia condiciуn humana. Estupenda.'
3. This isn't just great filmmaking, it's great filmgoing.
4. We've at last come to a point when the most well-rounded, psychologically complex character on any movie screen in town happens to wear spandex tights and swing from webs.
5. Go, Tobey, go!
6. In every frame, the saga is carried forward rather than stopped just for the sake of an action sequence.
7. Being a superhero has big financial and psychological drawbacks.
8. Like the first installment, refreshingly perverse in its intent.
9. It's a blast.
10. The film strikes just the right balance between dizzying aerial action (with special effects and high-flying fisticuffs far more heart-stopping than in the original) and grounded human drama. | 8 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
The U.N. speech was well received but the Soviets never acted upon it, due to an overarching concern for the greater stockpiles of nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal. Indeed, Eisenhower embarked upon a greater reliance on the use of nuclear weapons, while reducing conventional forces, and with them the overall defense budget, a policy formulated as a result of Project Solarium and expressed in NSC 162/2. This approach became known as the "New Look", and was initiated with defense cuts in late 1953.
Is there an answer to this question (If it cannot be answered, say "unanswerable"): What did Eisenhower reduce as he increased nuclear weapons stockpiles? | conventional forces | 9 | Flan2021 | squad/v2.0:3.0.0 | zs_opt |
Football fans often complain about the sky-high prices of food and drink at matches but they will be in for a pleasant surprise at the World Cup. Instead of paying £5-a-pint for watered-down beer, a 473ml can of Brazil's own Brahma 'cerveja' will cost R$10, around £2.65. Budweiser is also available, at the slightly more costly £3.50, for the same amount. Pleasant reading: The price list for food and drink at World Cup stadiums has been revealed. Soft drinks like Coca-Cola, Kuat Guarana and Sprite (600ml) will be around £2.15, while mineral water (500ml) is £1.60. But what other nourishment will you be able to find in Brazil's 12 World Cup stadiums? All the chocolate on offer costs £2.15, including the Talento Castanha do Para - a 100g block of milk chocolate with Brazil nuts (what else?). There's also a three-pack of Fuleco crunchy chocolate and a four pack of Baton milk chocolate, both for the same price. Brazil nuts: A volunteer poses inside the Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro's iconic home of football. Salted peanuts, cheese tortilla chips, and crisps are also £2.15, if fans want something to snack on to ease the nerves ahead of a penalty shoot-out. A double cheeseburger is available for £3.50, while vegetarians can pick up the veggie sandwich for £2.65. Meanwhile, a double hot-dog is available at the same price, along with a chicken salad sandwich and a turkey and cheese sandwich. Furthermore, each region can offer a local delicacy, with Manaus serving up Tambaqui fish and chips for £3.50 and Belo Horizonte selling Tropieiro beans for £4. Unless FIFA make any sudden adjustments, it looks like football isn't the only thing the fans will be feasting on this summer.
What are highlight points for this article? | World Cup 2014 is expensive for fans but match-day prices for refreshments are lower than expected. Beer will cost around £2.65 a can, chocolate is £2.15, and burger is £3.50. | 3 | Flan2021 | cnn_dailymail:3.4.0 | zs_opt |
(options at the end). Does the word "order" mean the same thing in "The machinery is out of order." and "IBM received an order for a hundred computers."?
Choose your answer from:
(1). different meanings
(2). the same meaning | (1). | 9 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wic:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
This is a question with answer options. What kind of thing would the answer to the question "What causes the body to shiver in cold temperatures ?" be an entity, an abbreviation, a description, a human, a location, or a numeric value?
OPTIONS:
--description.
--entity.
--abbreviation.
--human.
--numeric.
--location. | description | 3 | Flan2021 | trec:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The inhabited history of the Las Vegas Valley stretches to 23,000 b.c. , when much of the area was covered by a prehistoric lake. During this period, the indigenous people lived in caves, hunting the mammals that gathered at the shoreline. The landscape of the valley changed dramatically over the next 200 centuries. The glaciers feeding the lake melted away and the lake evaporated. Fossils tell an obscure story of man's slow and sporadic development. Around 3000 b.c. , native Archaic Indians began to develop a lasting hunting and gathering culture. By this time, the valley was in much the same geographic state as it exists in today, with one exception — the presence of artesian springs that bubbled to the surface in several areas. These springs fed a network of streams draining through the Las Vegas Wash to the Colorado River. The areas surrounding the springs were desert oases: sprawling collections of grasses, trees, and wildlife. Many springs lay in areas that would eventually become the center of the modern Las Vegas metropolis. For about 4000 years, the Archaics thrived in a culture that included many signs of early civilization. Signs of even more advancement appeared halfway through the first millennium a.d. , when the Anasazi Indians inhabited the valley. Far more progressive than the Archaics, the Anasazi utilized such formal agricultural techniques as irrigation to assist their harvest. This permitted the Anasazi to achieve a benchmark of advanced society — the ability to live in permanent shelters year-round without need to follow wildlife. Mysteriously, the Anasazi vanished from the valley around a.d.
Choose from options: Based on the paragraph, does the response "The shoreline" correctly answer the question "Where were animals commonly found for food in Las Vegas dating back to 23,000bc?"?
Pick from:
(A). no
(B). yes | (B). | 4 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 - November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American author, painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, The Problem
Norman Rockwell was born on February 3, 1894, in New York City, to Jarvis Waring Rockwell and Anne Mary "Nancy" Rockwell, born Hill. His earliest American ancestor was John Rockwell (1588-1662), from Somerset, England, who immigrated to colonial North America, probably in 1635, aboard the ship Hopewell and became one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut. He had one brother, Jarvis Waring Rockwell, Jr., older by a year and a half. Jarvis Waring, Sr., was the manager of the New York office of a Philadelphia textile firm, George Wood, Sons & Company, where he spent his entire career. Rockwell transferred from high school to the Chase Art School at the age of 14. He then went on to the National Academy of Design and finally to the Art Students League. There, he was taught by Thomas Fogarty, George Bridgman, and Frank Vincent DuMond; his early works were produced for St. Nicholas Magazine, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) publication Boys' Life, and other youth publications. As a student, Rockwell was given small jobs of minor importance. His first major breakthrough came at age 18 with his first book illustration for Carl H. Claudy's Tell Me Why: Stories about Mother Nature. After that, Rockwell was hired as a staff artist for Boys' Life magazine. In this role, he received 50 dollars' compensation each month for one completed cover and a set of story illustrations. It is said to have been his first paying job as an artist. At 19, he became the art editor for Boys' Life, published by the Boy Scouts of America. He held the job for three years, during which he painted several covers, beginning with his first published magazine cover, Scout at Ship's Wheel, which appeared on the Boys' Life September edition.
Answer the following question by taking a quote from the article: When did he start painting? | His first major breakthrough came at age 18 with his first book illustration for Carl H. Claudy's Tell Me Why: Stories about Mother Nature. | 0 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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If you’re overloaded by your own or someone else’s emotional experience, it’s best to delay any decision- making. Take a moment to reorient yourself before acting. When you’re caught up in an emotional reaction, it’s easy to say things you later regret or act impulsively. Ask for a break. Go outside and get some fresh air. Get a drink of water. Return when you’ve gotten your emotions back in check. You may often find yourself annoyed because others don't seem to respect your feelings, but you may not have conveyed them clearly. When you learn to clearly say what you are thinking, feeling, or wanting in a certain situation, you can avoid misunderstandings. A great route to effectively stating your feelings is with "I" statements. This helps you convey your own experience without making the other person upset or defensive. You might say, "I feel ignored. I really need you to listen to me right now. I need your support." This is far better than, "You are a terrible listener." or "You are always ignoring me!" ” It can be hard to balance your feelings with others’ if you say "yes" to requests that don’t benefit you. You need to know when to say “no” and have the courage and discipline to do it. This simple strategy is a hallmark in emotional self-regulation. For example, your mom suggests you drive down for the weekend to attend the family picnic. But, you have a major essay to finish for a college course. It’s completely normal to feel guilt, but that guilt (or your mom’s shaming you) shouldn’t force you to give in. The smartest response would be to say, “I’m sorry, Mom. I’d like to come, but I haven’t gotten started on my paper due on Tuesday. I can’t.” It’s also ok to just say “No.” You don’t always have to offer an excuse or an explanation. In some cases, the other person will take an explanation as an invitation to try to talk you out of your decision. One of the most important ways you can meet your own needs and others' is through compromise. This allows your own thoughts and feelings to be considered while also honoring those of others'. Compromise involves weighing the importance of a situation and coming to a mutual agreement. You can weigh the importance of a situation by asking yourself how significant it is in the scheme of things. Will you care about this in a week, a month, or a year? If not, you might honor the other person's feelings or needs and set yours aside for the time being. If you both care equally about the issue at hand, you'll have to find common ground. For instance, you and your friend both want to see a movie, but can't agree on a choice. You might ask a third party to select one or you might decide to watch whichever one starts next when you arrive at the theater. If you consistently feel guilty, bullied, or manipulated when you interact with a person, consider whether they may be emotionally manipulating you. If so, you should try to limit your interactions with that person. A person may be manipulating you if they: Frequently lie or make excuses. Blame you for their own poor behavior or mistreatment of you. “Jokingly” insult or criticize you. Exploit your weaknesses to make you feel guilty, sad, or angry.
Summary: | Pause before making decisions. Express your feelings and needs clearly. Learn to say “no. Learn the art of compromise. Recognize the signs of emotional manipulation. | 4 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Create a set of triples that describes the content in the following sentence.
Massimo Drago has been the manager of A C Cesena and previously played for the club SSD Potenza Calcio.
| A.C. Cesena MANAGER Massimo Drago
Massimo Drago CLUB S.S.D. Potenza Calcio | 9 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
I watched this on a weekend afternoon as there was simply nothing else on, it would have been more entertaining to chew off my feet and probably less painful. I urge anyone to watch this just to see how turgidly awful a movie can be, surely it was deliberate. I cringed at every futile attempt at humour carried out in such a childish, unrehearsed, badly executed way that it was beyond belief. This is the movie that makes Spiceworld look like Goodfellas, think I am exaggerating? Well give it airtime and think again. Dreadful, utterly dreadful. If this wasn't a prank then the director and anyone else responsible for this should be removed and promptly shot after being forced to watch this film again.
Did this review think positively or negatively of the movie (see options below)?
Choose your answer from:
-negative.
-positive....I think the answer is | negative | 4 | Flan2021 | imdb_reviews/plain_text:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The house was ready to take over in 2012 and I agreed to a 5-year prepaid lease as this made the price of the property approximately 20% lower. I have now had my Hua Hin property for four years, and when the lease expires next year I have agreed with Flemming that we can continue with the rental and share 50/50 on income, plus that I can rent the place out to friends and acquaintances and only have to pay a small service fee.
Please remove spaces between words. | Thehousewasreadytotakeoverin2012andIagreedtoa5-yearprepaidleaseasthismadethepriceofthepropertyapproximately20%lower.IhavenowhadmyHuaHinpropertyforfouryears,andwhentheleaseexpiresnextyearIhaveagreedwithFlemmingthatwecancontinuewiththerentalandshare50/50onincome,plusthatIcanrenttheplaceouttofriendsandacquaintancesandonlyhavetopayasmallservicefee. | 8 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
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Where have all the big international relations theories gone?
In many ways, the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia was really just a warm-up act for the main event — the American Political Science Association (APSA) annual meeting earlier this month. No, not really, but that was a fun sentence to write.
Noted neoconservative and former political science professor William Kristol also attended, but was apparently underwhelmed at the plethora of panels. A sample tweet:
Off to another #APSA2016 panel. Good to see old friends. Can't say I'm struck by great political science breakthroughs in recent decades.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) September 3, 2016
Now, given that I saw Kristol spending his downtime before a panel checking his phone rather than, you know, listening to other political scientists, it’s possible that he had some motivated reasoning going on. Nonetheless, I’m beginning to wonder if, in international relations, he has something of a point. What was striking about my APSA experience this year was the number of friends, colleagues and acquaintances asking some variation of the same question: “Where are the big ideas in international relations?”
See, back in the 1980s and 1990s, international relations was roiled by “paradigm wars,” pitched theoretical battles between realists, institutionalists and constructivists over the best model to explain world politics. Beyond those grand paradigms, the end of the Cold War unleashed an additional wave of speculative theorizing about what the future would hold, ranging from Francis Fukuyama’s “End of History” thesis to Samuel Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations” counterargument, to pitched debates over the meaning of the democratic peace or American hegemony. In contrast, international relations has experienced two similar inflection points in this century (9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis) along with the rise of China, but there has been no similar outpouring of theory to explain the meaning of these events.
Now it could be that international relations theory is simply part of a larger trend in which ideas don’t seem to matter as much as they used to — but I don’t buy that claim at all. One of the conclusions I’ve reached in my Ideas Industry project is that the demand for big ideas has, if anything, surged. Furthermore, this trend in international relations theory has been going on for quite some time. Some scholars are overjoyed at the prospect. Some are very sad about this development, nostalgic for the old days. But both sides would agree that there simply has not been much new theorizing in the 21st century.
This is a shame, for several reasons. First, it’s not like the old paradigms have done all that great a job explaining world politics in this century. Realism has remarkably little to say about terrorism or financial panics. Institutionalists are hard-pressed to discuss the lack of cooperation in regulating cyberspace. Constructivists are not of much use in discussing the global governance of pandemics. The world is pretty interesting right now, but we seem to lack the theoretical machinery to get a good grasp on it. And the notion that we don’t need good theory is absurd. All individuals use mental models to try to understand the state of the world. What matters is whether those models are implicit or explicit, and whether they are any good.
Now is normally the moment in these mini-essays when I offer some tentative solution or pathway for the future. In this case, I’m tapped out. Unless and until the international relations discipline rewards quality theory-building as much as quality hypothesis-testing, scholars have ceded this intellectual ground to others. Considering the current marketplace of foreign policy ideas, I’m not even remotely sure that this is a good thing.
Summary: | The problems of the world have not gotten smaller, but the theories to explain them seem diminished. | 1 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article based on this "Purchase small pots or plastic gardening trays if starting your eggplants from seed. Choose a large pot to house your mature eggplant. Opt for a clay pot. Clean your containers, especially if the containers once held other plants. Prepare a growing medium. Invest in a small support system."
Article: | You need one pot for every two seeds. Seedling trays and other containers made of cheap plastic may make it easier to transfer your seedlings into larger pots later on. The pot must have a 5-gallon (20-liter) capacity, at minimum, and each eggplant should have approximately 1 foot (30.5 centimeters) of space to grow. As a result, you may wish to plant only one eggplant per pot. Eggplants love heat, and clay pots retain heat better than plastic. Select an unglazed pot if you can remember to water your plants frequently, but go with a glazed pot if you have a history of forgetting to water your plants. Unglazed pots dry the soil out more quickly than glazed pots, so eggplants living in unglazed pots will need more frequent watering. Clay pots are also heavier than plastic pots, making it easier for them to support the weight of a mature eggplant. The pot should also have large drainage holes to help balance out the moisture level of the soil. Drainage holes will allow excess water to leave the pot, minimizing the risk of root rot. Gently scrub the inside and outside of each pot with soap and warm water. If you do not clean your containers, microscopic insect eggs and harmful bacteria inside the pots could damage your eggplants. A good, simple option is a mix of two parts potting soil and one part sand. The soil provides your plant with the nutrients it needs, while the sand controls moisture. Mix in a timed-release, pelleted fertilizer using the instructions on the fertilizer label. Initially, it's best to start with a balanced ratio of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium: e.g., 20-20-20 or 20-30-20. Reapply the pelleted fertilizer after 10-12 weeks. After the plant flowers, switch to a fertilizer with high potassium, such as 9-15-30. Without any support, your eggplants will have very little upward growth and, as a result, they will yield very little fruit. A tomato cage or teepee stake should be enough to provide your plant with adequate support. | 9 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Don’tjustgothespeedlimit—putSCORMEnginethroughtheringer.SCORMEngineisthemosthighlycompatibleSCORMdeliverymechanismonthemarket,andweencourageyoutothrowanycoursesortrainingmaterialsatitthatyouwant.
What's a sentence that uses these characters? | Don’t just go the speed limit — put SCORM Engine through the ringer. SCORM Engine is the most highly compatible SCORM delivery mechanism on the market, and we encourage you to throw any courses or training materials at it that you want. | 1 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
Fact: reproduction is when an organism passes genetic information from itself to its offspring
Question: An animal needs another animal to
What's the answer? Choose from: a. fly. b. eat. c. eliminate waste. d. pass genetic information. | d. | 5 | Flan2021 | openbookqa:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Yksi ratkaisu olisi se, että direktiiviä muutettaisiin, koska steriloitu maito on jätetty tämän direktiivin ulkopuolelle.
Translate to English
English: | In order to reach a solution, the directive should be modified since it excludes sterilized milk. | 1 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Attached you will find the 2002 Group Plan Meeting Schedule. Please mark your calendars. If you have any questions, please contact me at X58113. Thanks.
Generate a subject line for this email. | 2002 Group Plan Meeting Schedule | 7 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article with the title: "Laces Out - NFL on FOX Blog"
Article: |
The Lions wide receiver must have been feeling pretty good early Tuesday morning. After watching Monday Night Football, he ducked out to get a couple pizzas and was heading home around 2:25 a.m.
That’s when disaster struck. Burleson apparently noticed one of the pizza boxes sliding off the other and leaned over to save it, when he lost control of his 2009 GMC Yukon and crashed.
“It was actually a whole pizza,” Michigan State Police Lt. Michael Shaw said. “He was reaching over to push it back onto the seat and overcorrected and hit the median wall.”
When police arrived at the scene, Burleson complained of his pain in his arm and was taken to a local hospital. According to Lions head coach Jim Schwartz, Burleson broke his arm in two places and will have surgery on Wednesday. However, he is expected to return this season.
And for all you jabronis who are gonna ask if Burleson was intoxicated, stop right there. Alcohol did not play a factor in the crash and police didn’t do a drug screen because Nate didn’t appear under the influence at all.
So, who is to blame for this? I’m gonna have to put the entire pizza industry on blast. As someone who has almost lost control of my car while trying to save a sliding pizza box, I can relate. Why must every pizza box be made out of that crappy cardboard which soaks up all the sauce and turns into a puck on an air-hockey table?
Explain that to me. Can the people who make the big pizza decisions not cheap out and make a receptacle that doesn’t become an airborne weapon? Look at what happend to Burleson! His blood is on your hands!
At least his teammates are sending along their best wishes:
Wow thoughts and prayers with my fallen teammate Nate Burleson wishing him a speedy recovery! Hate having to learn about this on ESPN
— Reggie Bush (@ReggieBush) September 24, 2013
We hate that you heard it on ESPN, too. FOX Sports 1 is a great place for breaking news.
Questions? Comments? Send them to [email protected] and we might respond in our weekly mailbag! | 7 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write an article with the title: "NRA Makes Biggest Ad Buy Yet in Support of Donald Trump"
Article: |
The National Rifle Association cut a new ad for Republican presidential Donald Trump that will begin airing Wednesday.
The NRA spent $6.5 million on a 30-second spot that will run on national cable channels as well as broadcast networks in Ohio, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Politico reported. While the organization has run other ads opposing Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, the new ad indicates direct support for Trump, and it’s the group’s biggest ad buy yet.
The ad features a millennial woman, in an apparent play at two demographic groups that polls suggest are siding with Clinton. The woman in the ad, identified by Politico as 26-year-old lawyer Kristi McMains, describes defending herself with a pistol when she was attacked in a parking garage by a man with a knife.
“Every woman has a right to defend herself with a gun if she chooses,” McMains says in the ad. “Hillary Clinton disagrees with that. Don’t let politicians take away your right to own a gun. Donald Trump supports my right to own a gun.”
While Trump has often falsely argued that Clinton wants to “abolish” the Second Amendment, Clinton has said she supports the right to own a gun, but she believes in gun safety measures, including expanded background checks.
“I’m not here to repeal the Second Amendment. I’m not here to take away your guns,” Clinton said at the Democratic National Convention. “I just don’t want you to be shot by someone who shouldn’t have a gun in the first place.” | 7 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Based on the following sentence, what is the cause?
The woman was wrongly convicted for the crime.
Possible answers:
a). The jury was fair..
b). She was framed.. | b). | 4 | Flan2021 | super_glue/copa:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Kisses<br>The baby smiled up at me sweetly. I cuddled her close to my chest. She reached up to my face with her chubby hands. I leaned down toward her. She covered my nose in kisses.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
She had just been delivered
Options:
[+] Yes
[+] It's impossible to say
[+] No | It's impossible to say | 1 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
The 4th Lux Style Awards ceremony was held in Expo Center in Karachi, Pakistan. The show was hosted by Junaid Khan and Aamina Sheikh and from the members of BNN. The show had the performances by Humayun Saeed, Zara Sheikh, Veena Malik, Ali Zafar, Meesha Shafi and Sadia Imam. Some of the film and music categories were removed from the award.
Can we infer the following?
Some music categories were taken away from the award
Pick your answer from: -Yes. -It's impossible to say. -No.
The answer is: | Yes | 4 | Flan2021 | anli/r1:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-select: Let's say that "Emma did not pass the ball to Janie although she was open."
Can we now say that "She saw that Janie was open."?
Possible answers: [I] no; [II] yes; | [II] | 3 | Flan2021 | glue/wnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a sentence about the following things:
perch, rain, tree | organism perched in a tree after a period of heavy rain | 4 | Flan2021 | gem/common_gen:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Question 1: Get IIT by gate mechanical?
Question 2: Which is the movie you have watched repeatedly and even today you feels entertaining?
Available options: *no. *yes.
Are questions 1 and 2 asking the same thing? | no | 6 | Flan2021 | glue/qqp:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your answer: is the following review positive or negative?
I totally agree with Chad. Almost all the so-called authentic restaurants are Americanized to cater most people's taste bugs here. I went to Italy & saw their Italian cooking. I tried to go there last night (Satursday evening) as invited by my neighbor who has never been there. I told him its nice to go at least once to experience instead of just listening. Beside, their food is not bad though commercial. What do we expect when they are so busy. On the way, I asked if he's reserved. He said no. So I called. The lady said, " we don't reserve except a party of eight. We only do first come, first serve." " thanks!" We arrived at around 6:00 pm, there were always tons of waiters (I mean waiting customers) both waiting inside & outside the restaurants, even it was around OMG 30 degrees. I walked up to ask how long I've to wait. She said, at least 50 minutes for party of two. I turned around to ask my friend, even it is a Food Bank, I couldn't wait as we were starving. I saw there are many restaurants around, perhaps we could find somewhere. So they lose our business. Want to respond to some of the reviews. It looks like this place was acceptable years ago. Recently, none good comments. They're still packed by their marketing skill, no reservation, just wait.... Besides, not everyone will research over the yelp to see reviews like shopping for a merchandise.
Possible answers:
A). negative.
B). positive. | A). | 4 | Flan2021 | yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0 | zs_opt |
Whether you want to spend nearly 2 hours of your life watching this depends how you like your horror movies. If you like them so god damn awful they're hysterical, watch away. Jigsaw is without a doubt the worst movie i've seen in my life (and i've seen 'Long Time Dead'), and i say this as a fan of the low-budget horror/gore genre and having seen a good few to compare it to. I'm not even going to go into the specifics of what makes this movie was bad as it is, the only good thing about it is it's so so terrible it's one of the funniest things i've seen in years. If you can find this to rent cheap it's definitely worth watching, if you were involved in making it - shame on you. :o) IMDb need to introduce a 0/10 ranking especially for this movie, it thoroughly deserves it.
Did this review think positively or negatively of the movie (see options below)?
Available options:
+ negative.
+ positive....I think the answer is | negative | 4 | Flan2021 | imdb_reviews/plain_text:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
We got your distress signal.
Translate to Czech
Czech: | Zachytili jsme vaše volání o pomoc. | 0 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/cs-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Yasser Arafat: why he still matters
Hated and venerated in equal measure, Yasser Arafat dominated the Palestinian landscape, and with it, much of the Middle East’s political map for almost five decades. His death 10 years ago, besieged and in miserable isolation, marked the beginning of the end of the revolution that reawakened the national consciousness of Palestinians and allowed them the possibility of determining their own fate on their own land.
Authentic national leaders do not arise often. They are forged more by fate and circumstance than by human design. Ten years on, the full implications of Arafat’s era – a period in which he acted as founder of the political movement Fatah, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation and president of the Palestinian National Authority – have yet to be understood. His most enduring legacy was to lead the Palestinians out of the material, political and moral devastation of the 1948 Nakba – the catastrophe which saw more than 700,000 Palestinians lose their homes in what became Israel – as a people and a cause. The fact that the Palestinian problem today occupies a central place in world affairs is in no little measure due to the man and his work. His other legacies may be open to dispute and it may also be too early to pass a final verdict on them.
Arafat’s supporters would claim that without armed struggle, the Palestinian issue would have remained no more than yet another refugee problem alongside the many other displacements lingering on the periphery of the world’s conscience. His detractors would claim that the use of violence marred his reputation, and that his idiosyncratic rule did not serve his people well. After Arafat’s death, his successor Mahmoud Abbas sought to distance himself from these ways. As Arafat’s long-time comrade and associate, Abbas inherited much of his legitimacy from their years of common struggle and dedication to the cause, but he took a different approach. Attempts at state-building and an unwavering commitment to negotiations and diplomacy have substituted for Arafat’s revolutionary ethos. Whether this will prove to be a more successful path for fulfilling Palestinian aspirations has yet to be seen, but as Abbas’s era reaches its limits – Abbas is 79 – the next phase of Palestinian politics is unlikely to replicate what has passed before.
The political future of Palestine appears bleak. True authority has been depleted by long years of struggle, by death, detention, occupation, and the seemingly fruitless search for freedom and restitution. The diaspora, in which the majority of Palestinians live, has never been so marginalised or voiceless, and the refugees, the heartland of Arafat’s revolution and the core of the struggle, have never faced such denial and deprivation. After Arafat and Abbas, it is unlikely that a new national leadership that cuts across political and geographical boundaries and embodies the will and aspirations of most Palestinians will surface any time soon. The upshot of the inevitable scramble is likely to be a truncated authority with limited credibility; a leadership that reflects the lowest common denominator rather than the popular will.
Exasperating even to his most ardent admirers, Arafat was never an easy man to read, with few of the obvious characteristics of leadership. Physically unprepossessing, even diminutive, he failed to meet the impressive physical standards set by some of his contemporaries (Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, in particular) and had no evident rhetorical or oratorical skills to compensate for his somewhat disadvantaged appearance. His Egyptian accent, acquired during his childhood in Cairo, marked him out as an ostensible outsider – an unlikely contender for the leadership of an often fiercely insular national movement.
Appearance and accent notwithstanding, Arafat’s extraordinary life and career provide a record of unparalleled dedication, uncommon self-confidence and almost foolhardy persistence against all odds. His untiring work ethic was one of his most powerful assets: this was a man who took no break or time off during the five decades or so of his active political career, which stood him in good stead when compared with the generally more relaxed pace of most of his lieutenants and associates. He manipulated his time to suit his purposes: staying up very late at night to challenge the endurance of his friends and adversaries. He would think nothing of summoning lieutenants, emissaries, journalists, or scheduling political meetings at 2am; a test of faith and dedication laced with macho challenge, as if those who could not keep up with him were not really serious enough to warrant his attention. He made up for this brutal schedule by napping during the afternoon when normal people had normal duties to attend to.
With no traditional tools of power or control over land, resources, or his people, Arafat’s working habits became an essential part of his influence and moral persuasion. From its very early stirrings in the late 50s, the Palestinian struggle was complicated by the geographic and demographic divisions separating the clusters that constituted the Palestinian political universe. Welding these disparate elements together, and maintaining them on some consistent political course was a constant challenge. Unlike most national liberation movements, the Palestinians never acquired an independent base or long-lasting territorial haven. They were subject to severe constraints imposed by foreign powers and vulnerable to outside intrusions. Arafat’s unwavering presence when others were absent, his vigilance when his peers were otherwise engaged and his constant devotion were integral to his appeal and to the leadership that helped him impose his will on his dispersed and quarrelsome subjects.
But lies and hard work were not his only method. Like a practised politician, he knew well how to charm his audience
His occasional economies with the truth were politically driven. If he lied, it was, he believed, only in the service of his people and to make best use of whatever tactical opportunity it could afford him – including protecting those to whom he felt some obligation. One infamous incident concerned the then relatively unknown Mohammad Deif, Hamas’s military commander, a long-term resident at the top of Israel’s wanted list. Asked about Deif’s whereabouts by senior Israeli officials, Arafat pretended that he had no idea who they were talking about: “Mohammad who? Never heard of him!” This may have helped to protect Deif, but was used by Israelis thereafter as evidence of his bad faith.
Yet, despite his reputation, Arafat could be nonplussed when confronted with someone with an apparently greater capacity for mendaciousness. “Do you lie?” the then Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi once asked him over dinner, “I lie all the time …” Arafat did not quite know how to respond.
But lies and hard work were not his only method. Like a practised politician, he knew well how to charm his audience, directing his undivided attention towards relative juniors and making a special effort to claim familiarity and remember names. He was capable of wit and had a dry sense of humour. While visiting Yemen, he was greeted by dancing tribesmen whom he leapt up to join with a bit too much enthusiasm, tripping and falling to the ground. He made the best of the moment by pretending it was deliberate, and loudly proclaimed: “I kiss the sacred soil of Yemen.” Such performances were as much sheer instinct as part of his much‑needed armoury of survival.
Solicitous and unfailingly polite, he would insist on hosting visitors, serving them their dinner with his own hands (usually simple chicken, cheese and honey). His attempts to put his interlocutors at ease were genuine, if sometimes gauche, verging on the farcical. Upon meeting Israeli General Uzi Dayan, Moshe Dayan’s nephew, after the 1993 Oslo agreement, Arafat fondly reminisced about kicking a ball with the general’s uncle near the Wailing Wall in pre-1948 Palestine – an event that almost certainly never happened.
Arafat’s company could also be awkward and unsatisfying. He constantly jiggled his knees, his eyes darted around, his pronouncements were opaque, if not incoherent, at times deliberately so, and his line of thought confusing – at least to those more accustomed to western discourse. He could lapse into extended and embarrassing silences lasting for hours. He may not have had the most rigorous formal education, but his unquestionable intelligence, piercing political sense, and tactical acumen were polished by years of clandestine activity and informed by numerous plots and schemes, both real and imagined.
He was not an intellectual or a man of ideas. A pragmatist and activist to the core, he had little time for theory and long-winded analyses, and tended to dismiss his more literary-inclined critics as kataba (scribes). His knowledge of the world outside Palestine was limited by the necessities of dedication to the struggle, the constraints of opportunity, and the vagaries of fate. Until he became uncontested Palestinian leader in the 1970s, he had seen little of the world. When he subsequently pursued a preposterously long itinerary of international visits (including a record 25 trips to the Clinton White House), his understanding of global affairs remained relatively parochial, a product of his 50s schooling.
Apart from an alleged taste for American cartoons, Arafat seems to have had no interests besides politics. But the “old man” was particularly fond of female company, happy to receive the many women reporters who navigated the shifting sands of the Palestinian struggle. Despite a genuinely austere lifestyle that hardly changed with his rise to global prominence, Arafat remained susceptible to affairs of the heart until his marriage at the age of 61.
In the absence of a healthcare system, he effectively ran a one-man health service for the Palestinian people
His paternalistic view of his role allowed him to be generous with his favours and his cash. In the absence of a healthcare system, he effectively ran a one-man health service for the Palestinian people and made a special effort to cover the medical needs of those who approached him, which helped to sustain his authority and popularity. Yet he was no stranger to bursts of anger, petulance or vindictiveness. Those who knew him best suffered from his moods most. Indeed, reading his mood grew into an art at which aides and colleagues competed, almost to the point of obsession. But he rarely, if ever, displayed his temper in public, except in the presence of those before whom he felt no obligation to pretend. Arafat also knew how to deploy his authority. In one instance in Beirut in the mid-70s, upon hearing that his most senior and highly respected military commander Abu Jihad (Khalil al-Wazir) had shared secret information with a leader of one of the Palestinian leftist factions whom Arafat totally distrusted, Arafat berated and admonished his colleague in the presence of others. Abu Jihad shrunk and turned every shade of crimson but accepted his verbal lashing with grace.
Arafat’s courage in the face of threats was legendary. His exploits in collecting discarded Syrian weapons on the Golan Heights in the aftermath of the 1967 war, alone in a battered and badly camouflaged Volkswagen, helped to establish his reputation, as did his attempt to set up Fatah cells in the West Bank in the wake of the Israeli occupation. The way he kept his cool under the fierce Israeli bombardment that repeatedly targeted him in Beirut in 1982, and in the face of the Syrian assault in Tripoli, Lebanon in 1983, bore witness to his readiness to put himself in harm’s way. This was a function of his self-image as a leader and driven by his religious belief.
He survived multiple efforts to assassinate him (he was proud to have evaded at least 13 attempts by the Syrians alone), and lived through a serio us air crash in the Libyan desert in 1992 that killed several fellow passengers. There were those who argued that he never recovered his full mental faculties, but the very fact that he lived to see another day enhanced his aura of leadership and sense of mission.
Arafat was conscious of his Muslim credentials and audience; he carefully cultivated his standing as a Muslim leader in order to enhance his global profile as well as to ward off competition from political Islam. Despite his early Muslim Brotherhood sympathies, as well as those of many of his original colleagues in Fatah, he believed that political Islam was a threat to the national character of the Palestinian movement. His antipathy to political Islam, shared by his closest associates, including Mahmoud Abbas, was manifest in his interest in projecting himself as leader and protector of Palestinian Christians – a role that he somewhat naively believed would endear him to the west.
He was a supreme and assiduous manipulator; constantly playing factions and personalities against each other. Using money as an instrument of power and control, he would withhold it or release it in carefully calculated doses: every detail of every expense of every cadre eventually had to pass through his eager and tireless scrutiny. Long queues of supplicants would stand outside his office; he was almost always ready to offer some help. In the end, he became the private financier of almost the entire Palestinian people and others beyond – including some of his opponents who were vocal in their public criticism of him but happy to take his lucre. This was another of his deliberate means of manipulation. By holding the purse strings, he kept the opposition at a disadvantage and within his control. But his readiness to deploy his monies for political purposes good or bad was not matched by any business acumen. Over the years, vast amounts were wasted on failed businesses and dodgy enterprises, from chicken farms in Uganda to a failed airline in the Maldives.
His position as leader was secure by the early 70s, but his authority was not absolute; his dealings with his peers were careful and balanced. His style of leadership was consensual. He was conscious of the need to maintain support among the broader leadership of Palestinians and their institutions. He cultivated and heeded the opinions of his associates, and often gave way to their demands, sometimes using their objections as a foil to avoid difficult decisions. He never moved too far without the support of those he felt were important in lending political legitimacy to his stance. He would have welcomed Anwar Sadat’s 1977 trip to Jerusalem and the ensuing Camp David political process had he been free to decide on his own. In a room packed with most of the Palestinian leadership and senior cadres at which the Sadat initiative was being discussed and volubly denounced, Arafat sat with eyes half-shut, pretending to show no interest, until one of the present authors was asked his opinion. When he suggested that anything that would free Arab land from occupation without bloodshed would be in the national interest and proposed that the Palestinian leader should join the Egyptian-Israeli meeting at Mina House, as invited by Sadat, Arafat’s eyes popped open and he nodded in vigorous assent. But his close aides rejected any such notion and he had to go along with the prevailing mood. After the meeting was over, Arafat took the author aside, saying that while he was convinced of what he had said, the Syrians – then in control in Lebanon – would never allow it, and made a cut‑throat gesture with his hand.
Stubborn and wilful, Arafat could also be ready to submit to his peers on sensitive personal matters. When seeking to bring his wife to the Oslo ceremony on the White House lawn in September 1993, he was faced with unyielding opposition from his associates, who had been less than enthusiastic about his choice of partner, and who felt that her public presence alongside him on such a historic occasion would somehow diminish his standing as leader and father of the nation. “It’s either me or her,” Arafat’s most senior colleague is reported to have said. Reluctantly, Arafat conceded.
His inner circle argued, debated, and regularly fell out for reasons petty and grand. Although they could be vicious, such arguments remained subject to a sense of comradeship and shared struggle. Arafat was first among equals and would seek to ensure no permanent damage was caused by these differences. He would also try to placate his opponents. To elicit his ire, however, was to risk being cut off in a setting where money was the vital lubricant for military and political activity.
An inveterate political opportunist, he was always open to initiating secret contacts as a preferred means of low-risk and deniable diplomatic engagement. He encouraged back channels and covert action and would rarely say no to any scheme that brought him into closer contact with his adversaries. “Ala barakatilah” (“with God’s blessings”) or a wry “Why not?” (in English) was his usual response to credible requests to initiate such endeavours. He was surprisingly open to dealing with alleged spies. Upon being cautioned that a member of his retinue was a possible CIA spy, Arafat immediately took him closer under his wing, thinking that this would provide him with a direct line to the heart of the US establishment.
His pragmatism sometimes got him into trouble with his colleagues and confused his opponents, who often had no idea what he was up to or why, or how he managed to keep multiple and often contradictory channels going at any one time. Arafat was mindful that politics is not about words but about harsh realities. He remained open to dealing with even the most hardline elements in Israel. Given the choice, he would have preferred to deal with the Israeli right and its security hawks, rather than the more moderate elements whom he indulged but believed were unable to carry out the necessary difficult decisions. His hard-headed, non-ideological attitude to Israeli politics lay at the heart of his conviction that Yitzhak Rabin rather than Shimon Peres was his real “partner” and that, bloodshed and personal history notwithstanding, it was best to make peace with Ariel Sharon.
Arafat was not a man for textual detail. His senior associates insist that he never read the 1993 Oslo Accords or fully understood their implications. He exploited ambiguities and misconstrued agreements, sometimes wilfully and at other times out of genuine misunderstanding. His grasp of geography could be eccentric, and his confidence in the veracity of his own version of events unwarranted. But Arafat had an instinctive grasp of the bigger picture and a powerful sense of opportunity. For him, Oslo represented the prospect of relocating the Palestinian national movement back to its own soil and putting it on the path to statehood; the detailed text was irrelevant. He may not have developed any elaborate plan of action, but his sense of strategic purpose was clear and grounded in reality.
Dissent and open criticism were tolerated, and he did not resort to violence to silence those who disagreed with him. He steadily sought to rise above the repeated rifts and divisions, to bully, cajole, bluster or charm in pursuit of a lasting consensus. The Palestinian movement never suffered from the collective arrests, mass purges, or summary executions that characterised violent repressive Arab regimes and marred so many revolutionary and liberation movements. Arafat’s relative tolerance was informed by a national purpose that needed to be safeguarded regardless of differences of opinion or belief. He moulded Fatah not as a political party (hizb) with strict dogmas, but as an all-encompassing national movement (haraka) within which different political beliefs, competing ideologies and clashing agendas could jostle and compete, but nevertheless coexist.
Arafat’s rise to uncontested leadership was not inevitable or secure. His hard work and political acumen were key factors, but not the sole foundation of his success. The historical moment was propitious and he knew how to take advantage of it. Fatah was born from the debris of 1948 and the fertile soil of Gaza, where dispossession, dispersal and statelessness provided determined recruits. Israel’s first occupation of Gaza, in 1956, resulted in hundreds of killings and executions. It drove leading members of the energetic Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Gaza branch to believe that the time had come to adopt a more activist national role than the Brotherhood’s broader Islamist approach. The small group of defectors, within whose orbit Arafat operated, included the founding fathers of Fatah and its youthful core.
The moment seemed ripe for a more self-reliant and muscular form of action that did not depend on the Arabs. Independent decision lay at the heart of Fatah’s political philosophy and captured the essence of its appeal. Inspired by the struggle in Algeria, Fatah was founded on the belief that revolutionary violence was a necessary means of confronting an obdurate enemy, as well as a tool of popular mobilisation and an instrument of national awakening.
From Gaza, Fatah’s seed was carried to the diaspora by Arafat and his colleagues. A small, isolated, and seemingly deluded band, Fatah’s founders initially made little headway, particularly against the rising tide of Nasserite Arab nationalism and the more established Islamists. Yet the Palestinian diaspora slowly came to embrace the new movement. As in Gaza, it was the refugee camps that provided the most hospitable environment for Arafat’s revolutionary appeal. Thread by thread, almost person by person, with Arafat often at the helm, Fatah’s small leadership circle tirelessly sought to mend the ruptured fabric of Palestinian identity and weave a new Palestinian political personality. Very few Palestinians in the diaspora escaped Arafat and his colleagues’ attention, though not everyone was convinced of the credibility of their call. With his relentless efforts, Arafat played a decisive part in reconstructing the shattered remnants of a pulverised and dispersed political system. The Palestinian national movement developed not under occupation, but out of exile and dispossession.
Arafat was not a man for textual detail. His senior associates insist that he never read the 1993 Oslo Accords
The 1967 war brought Arafat out of the shadows; more importantly, it allowed for the reinvention of the Palestinians as a people and a cause. Compared with the defeated Arab armies and the disgraced nationalist regimes, Fatah’s guerrillas projected a new image of defiance and sacrifice and a determination not to bow to Israel’s evident military might. Along with Arafat’s first appearance on the cover of Time magazine in December 1968, the Palestinian “commandos” were described as the “defiant new force in the Middle East”. By the mid-70s the Palestinian as freedom fighter captured the imagination of the world. Fatah soon transmuted into a broad church that encompassed all shades of Palestinian creed, opinion, and ideology. Indeed, it became synonymous with the Palestinians themselves.
A measure of Arafat’s leadership was his readiness to shift from the desirable to the attainable: from the absolutist, ill-defined aim of liberating all of Palestine to a pragmatic programme of statehood on only part of the patrimony – an objective that seemed both realisable and internationally acceptable. This historic decision paved the way for a potential settlement of the conflict based on a partition of the land. More than a quarter of a century later, it remains the only likely negotiable resolution to the conflict. Arafat’s decisive and historic role in making this possible is too often ignored. Without Arafat, there would have been – and would be – no prospect of a negotiated settlement at all.
There are those who judge Arafat for what he was not. He was not a ruler, administrator or strategist; he was the unquestioned leader of a national movement that faced extraordinary obstacles and a man who felt compelled to resort to extraordinary means in pursuit of its goals. State-building and governance were neither his forte nor his mission.
Corruption may have been tolerated as a political tool, but this was largely in lieu of other means of compulsion; Arafat’s creed was that it is better to lubricate than to liquidate. Only those who fail to understand the realities of Palestinian politics and the culture of the region would dismiss this out of hand. Arafat’s election as president in 1996 was the only example of an Arab electoral count that was deliberately manipulated downwards to avoid the embarrassment of comparison with the more than 90% support claimed by Arab dictators.
Arafat was not a pacifist and Fatah was nothing if not an armed revolutionary movement. Armed struggle was its raison d’être and its most powerful appeal. The movement’s decline began with its attempt to reinvent itself as a political or governing party after Oslo. Without armed struggle the Palestinian awakening heralded by Fatah was unlikely to have occurred, yet Arafat and his colleagues knew both the value and limits of force. They were aware of the need to modulate or discard force entirely when necessary. Their political programme developed accordingly, from an emphasis on armed action as the sole means of struggle in 1968 to its eventual disappearance from the PLO’s political programme altogether after 1990.
Arafat’s image as peacemaker peaked with his partnership with Yitzhak Rabin and their shared Nobel peace prize in 1994. The 2000 Camp David debacle, when negotiations brokered by president Clinton ended without an agreement, and the outbreak of the second intifada saw an abrupt and irreversible change. Arafat was accused of instigating or turning a blind eye to violence, which paved the way to his eventual political ostracisation and demise. His actual role in fomenting and supporting the second intifada is open to question. The Israeli intelligence community was itself divided at the time between the head of military intelligence Amos Malka and his immediate subordinate Amos Gilad; the former saw no evidence of Arafat’s complicity in the violence, whereas the latter was convinced otherwise. Gilad’s views prevailed and the “there is no partner” school helped to sustain the campaign started by Ehud Barak after Camp David and pursued by Sharon to delegitimise Arafat and rebrand him as an incorrigible man of violence who was incapable of turning his hand to peace.
Whatever his role in 2000, Arafat was part of a moment in history when “revolution” and its violent tools were widely seen as a legitimate means of liberation from oppression and foreign occupation – from Algeria, to Cuba, to Vietnam. His legacy of revolution was not confined to the Palestinian cause. He saw himself as part of a global movement and as a member of an international revolutionary fraternity against injustice – part of the global struggle of oppressed peoples for freedom and liberation. As Fatah developed, Arafat hosted revolutionary movements from all over the world, offering them refuge, military training, political support, and moral succour. Fatah became an incubator for numerous armed revolutionary movements in Africa, Latin America, and perhaps most significantly, in regional terms, Iran. Most Iranian anti-Shah cadres – Islamist, leftist and liberal – passed through Fatah’s camps in Lebanon.
The kaffiyeh Arafat wore came to symbolise revolution, not just the Palestinian struggle. After his 1994 return from exile to Palestine, he continued to embody the totality of the Palestinian spirit, not only within Palestine itself, but, just as crucially, in the broader realms of exile. Arafat’s end – trapped and humiliated by Israeli forces in his compound in Ramallah and later left to his fate in a suburban Parisian hospital – was poignant. He was abandoned by alleged allies and friends who had spent decades courting him and seeking his favours. As his energy faded and his body withered, it was as if the movement he built, nurtured, and led had suffered the same fate. Collective resignation in the face of overwhelming odds, fatigue after years of struggle, or perhaps a sense that Arafat’s fate had finally caught up with him sealed the public mood. His death passed without the expected expressions of revulsion against Israel and those who allowed him to die, despite the outpouring of grief among the mass of his people.
Arafat’s most important legacies were threefold. First, to lead the Palestinian people out of the state of political concussion that befell them after the loss of their homeland in 1948 and to put them and their cause back on the political map. Second, to lay the foundations for a potential resolution of the conflict with Israel. And third, to grasp the moment and relocate the Palestinian national movement back on its own soil. The first may be the most enduring, the second remains a tenuous and uncertain prospect at best, and the third has yet to yield significant fruit.
As the memory of his achievements and misdemeanours, real or imagined, fade, today’s dire circumstances evoke a popular Palestinian nostalgia for the era of genuine leadership. In many ways, Arafat’s standing among his people today, 10 years after his death, is as high as it ever was. The post-Arafat era, although different in significant respects, has had strong elements of continuity with its revolutionary past. Abbas is in many ways “the last Palestinian” – the last of that band of one-time revolutionaries whose life and experience have provided a moral claim to national leadership that transcends the more routine manipulations of political life. The next leaders for better or for worse, will not be in Arafat’s mould.
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What is a short summary of the above article? | The long read: He neither looked nor sounded like a natural leader. Yet Yasser Arafat dominated Palestinian politics for a generation before his death 10 years ago. How did he do it, and how much of a shadow does he still cast? | 4 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Briefly summarize this sentence: will robert bork be appointed the new special prosecutor in the inquiry regarding agriculture secretary mike espy ? if last week 's selection of republican stalwart kenneth starr as the special prosecutor for whitewater is any indication of how the three-judge panel makes decisions , the selection of bork might not be as absurd as it sounds .
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Paragraph: Billy had a pet turtle that he took good care of, everyday. His turtle's name was Tumble. Tumble liked to walk around outside in the garden and dig small holes to sleep in. Billy loved Tumble and would visit him outside when he got home from school. Tumble's favorite food was oatmeal. So, every day after school, Billy would make Tumble a big bowl of oatmeal and take it outside for Tumble to enjoy. Tumble would see Billy and walk up to him as fast as a turtle can go. Billy would put the bowl down and wait for Tumble to come up to the bowl to eat from it. When Tumble reached the bowl, he put his nose on it. But, the oatmeal was too hot to eat. Billy reached down and blew on the hot oatmeal, to cool it down for Tumble to eat. Once the oatmeal was cool enough, Tumble could dig in and eat his big bowl of oatmeal. Billy loved to watch as Tumble ate his bowl of oatmeal, because Billy took good care of Tumble, everyday.
Question: "What kind of pet did Billy own?"
Answer: "Billy had a pet turtle named Tumble"
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Con un diseño de filigrana única asemejando los nervios de una hoja, esta vela representa el crecimiento y la fortaleza tal como el más pequeño de los brotes de una planta. A medida que la vela se quema, la cera adapta una nueva forma, como si estuviese floreciendo. How do you say this sentence in English? | With a unique filigree pattern resembling the veins of a leaf, this candle represents growth and potential, just as the tiniest floral bud does. As the candle burns, the wax takes new shape, unfurling just like a flower in bloom. | 1 | Flan2021 | para_crawl_enes | zs_opt |
"`` but the golems are yet to arrive . '' `` by estimate they would be here in roughly three hours at the least , '' said valao . `` tomorrow at the latest . '' `` that 's quite a long time span , '' said mordon with a smirk . thetra smiled . `` well , start fighting is my suggestion , '' said _ ..." What is the word in the blank space (_)? The answer is | mordon | 2 | Flan2021 | lambada:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Dutch raid Kurd 'training camp'
Dutch police arrest 29 in a raid on a suspected training camp of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party.
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Text: By March 2015, after not playing any matches, India reached their lowest FIFA ranking position of 173. A couple months prior, Stephen Constantine was re-hired as the head coach after first leading India more than a decade before. Constantine's first major assignment back as the India head coach were the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. After making it through the first round of qualifiers, India crashed out during the second round, losing seven of their eight matches and thus, once again, failed to qualify for the World Cup.
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They 're absolutely wonderful . Hmm . What to talk about now ... Oh ! I saw Max yesterday and he gave me an awesome present . First of all it was awesome because there is no reason for me to be recieving presents on September 10ths .
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ConocoPhillips, the third-largest US oil company by sales, is set to pay at least \$1.9 billion for the Russian government #39;s remaining stake in OAO Lukoil, the nation #39;s largest oil producer.
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Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
people can have power over spirits
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- No;
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If there are spirits at work at the time, they come only from yourself, not from the fume of the incense. Why should spirits aid living beings? What arrogance is it that drives people to believe they can have power over them?
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Who is they referring to in the following sentence?
Verizon Fios provides hundreds of channels to millions of viewers, but they sometimes want even more than what is available.
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"The foxes are getting in at night and attacking the chickens. They have gotten very nervous." is a true sentence.
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The teachers failed the students because they answered the test incorrectly.
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Müzik dersi kitaplarının yanında verilen CD’ler sayesinde öğrenciler daha fazla pratik yapma fırsatı buluyor.
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Richard Breeden had n't noticed that his new desk had just four telephone lines and one phone .
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
Richard Breeden's new desk had just four telephone lines and one phone
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i woke up this morning to my mother asking me to clean my room . i never got around to it . i was fucking tired because i had to listen to my sister talk to two different guys on her fucking cell phone until five in the morning . and she likes to embarass me whilst talking to said boys by saying " nicole what are you DOING you 're so weird .
Q with options: Give answer the following question using evidence from the above passage: What might Nicole 's mother do after the passage ?
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Here is a premise: The children ran through the sprinkler.
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Alfons: Where are you now?
Arnold: in Bregenz, at the lake
Alfons: how long do you want to stay there?
Arnold: not more than 2-3 days
Jenny: is it nice?
Mico: lovely, the weather is beautiful, and the mountains
Mico: what about you?
Jenny: we're in Vaduz but we make day trips to different places
Mico: where?
Jenny: mountains, Hohenems, Feldkirch
Mico: do you like it?
Jenny: it's lovely
What was that dialogue about, in two sentences or less? | Arnold is staying in Bregenz, at the lake for 2-3 days. Jenny is in Vaduz and they are making day trips to different places, such as the mountains, Hohenems, and Feldkirch. | 3 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
My ex and I have been together for 4 yrs until i recently found out that he was cheating on me . We have an 18 month old daughter and i have been a stay at home mom off and on since she was born , i have been the sole caregiver while he works and pays the bills . since he has cheated he has become mean and rude but then the next moment acts all nice . , He tells people he is here for our child yet he comes home at 4 am sleeps till 2 pm which is when she is napping and sometimes only sees her for minutes a day .
Choices:
(I). They will end up making it work ..
(II). None of the above choices ..
(III). They will continue to be unhappy ..
(IV). They will get along and be happy ..
Answer the following question: What may happen if he stays ?
| (III). | 2 | Flan2021 | cosmos_qa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write the next sentence.
The hamster left the lettuce untouched while he munched on the carrot because the
Choose from: 1. lettuce was unappetizing.. 2. carrot was unappetizing.. | 1. | 6 | Flan2021 | winogrande:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
In the late 1970s , Willie Francis lived in Canada and worked for several years in Jamaica before returning to England .
In the late 1970s , Willie Francis worked in England and lived in Canada for a number of years before returning to Jamaica .
Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
Choose your answer from:
*no;
*yes; | no | 1 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Read the text and determine if the sentence is true (see options at the end):
Snake in the Hen house<br>Woody went to the hen house to feed the chickens. He first fed his favorite chicken Betty. Betty was very happy to see him and immediately ate her food. Woody then started to feed another chicken named Lorena. Then out of nowhere a snake struck at him!
Sentence: The snake frightened the chickens
Pick your answer from:
1). Yes.
2). It's impossible to say.
3). No. | 2). | 6 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Read the text and determine if the sentence is true:
The decision by French President, Jacques Chirac, to invite Robert Mugabe to a Franco-African summit in Paris, in February, has angered those across Europe who want Zimbabwe's president to remain an international pariah.
Sentence: France invited Mr. Mugabe to attend a Franco-African summit in Paris.
OPT:
(1). yes
(2). no
A: | (1). | 6 | Flan2021 | super_glue/rte:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Undead is a 2003 Australian zombie science fiction horror comedy film written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig and starring Felicity Mason, Mungo McKay and Rob Jenkins. It was then-relatively-unknown "Good Game" presenter Steven O'Donnell's first film role.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
In 2003, Australian zombie movie introduced Steven O'Donnell's first role.
Choose your answer from: +Yes; +It's impossible to say; +No; | Yes | 1 | Flan2021 | anli/r1:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Would a linguist find the following sentence to be a valid English sentence grammatically?
All lizards will die.
Available options:
[+] unacceptable
[+] acceptable | acceptable | 7 | Flan2021 | glue/cola:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Here is a premise: "A man with a long maroon hat is drumming on a black metal bowl."
Here is a hypothesis: "The man is playing as part of a steel drum band."
.Does the premise tell us whether the hypothesis is true?
Possible answers:
a). yes;
b). it is not possible to tell;
c). no; | b). | 6 | Flan2021 | snli:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Visible light passes through glass. Other types of electromagnetic radiation are able to pass through other materials in a similar way. Which of the following are used in medical technology because they can pass through some parts of the human body?
OPTIONS: (1). x-rays; (2). infrared waves; (3). microwaves; (4). ultraviolet rays;
| (1). | 3 | Flan2021 | unified_qa_science_inst | zs_opt |
Test sentence: "Aphrodite said he freed the animals and free the animals he did"
Is this test sentence a correct grammatical English sentence?
OPT:
1). unacceptable;
2). acceptable; | 2). | 2 | Flan2021 | glue/cola:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Summarize this article:
Seed starting kits are available at most garden centers. However, annual seeds can be planted in almost any type of container, from egg cartons and plastic cups to muffin tins and milk cartons. Be sure to poke a drainage hold in the bottom of each container. Use a seed starting mix, available at most garden centers, to grow your seeds indoors. Regular garden soil will compress the seeds and prevent root growth. Wet the soil before adding it to the growing containers. Consult the directions on the seed packet to determine at what depth to plant the annual seeds. A good rule of thumb is to plant the annual seed at a depth that is 2 or 3 times the seed's diameter. Some experts recommend keeping containers on top of a refrigerator, which is warm and usually out of direct sunlight. Ideal temperatures for seed growth are usually between 60 and 75 degrees F (15.56 and 23.89 degrees C). The soil should be moist, but not too wet. Do not overwater the seeds or they may rot. Once the seeds sprout, transfer the container to a warm, sunny location. For best result, choose a bright south-facing window or place the seedlings under fluorescent grow-lights. Thin seedlings to 1 plant for every 1.5 inches (3.8 cm), or 1 seedling per small container. Plant the seedlings on a cool, cloudy day. Excessive heat, sun and wind can stress to seedlings and may kill tender transplants. If the transplant day is sunny, plant the seedlings late in the day to avoid the harsh mid-day sun. Remove weeds from the garden soil where the seedlings will be planted. Plant the seedling. Dig a hole that is large enough for the seedling's root system, and place the seedling in the hole. Cover the hole with garden soil and gently tap down the soil around the plant using the palm of your hand. Water the annuals after transplanting. During the first few weeks, keep the soil moist while the plant's roots become established. If plants start to wilt, water immediately. Fertilize the seedlings with an organic, granular slow-release fertilizer.
Summary: | Select containers for planting the annual seeds. Add soil to the growing containers. Plant the seeds. Choose a warm location to grow the seeds. Water the seeds every other day, or as needed. Care for the seedlings. Transplant the seedlings after the last frost date in your area. | 2 | Flan2021 | gem/wiki_lingua_english_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Translate from Spanish to English:
La estructura cuenta con restaurante, aparcamiento interno, aire acondicionado y calefacción.
English: | The structure has parking, air conditioning and heating. | 4 | Flan2021 | para_crawl_enes | zs_opt |
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