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Answer the question
When a battery operated train is turned on, it moves along the track. Which best identifies the order of the types of energy used to make the train move?
pick from the following.
+mechanical, chemical, electrical.
+electrical, chemical, mechanical.
+electrical, mechanical, chemical.
+chemical, electrical, mechanical. | chemical, electrical, mechanical | 5 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Challenge:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Они, очевидно, намерены повторить успех 11 сентября в других формах, и я не был бы так спокоен по поводу их способностей это сделать.
Translate this to English? | They definitely wish to do another 9-11 in other forms meaning to kill thousands and I wouldn't be too relaxed about their capability to pull out another stunt like that. | 3 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ru-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Who is him referring to in the following sentence?
Jacob misled Amen so David helped him.
OPTIONS:
- Jacob;
- Amen; | Amen | 7 | Flan2021 | definite_pronoun_resolution:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
News article:
Great Britain and Ireland’s David Beckham smiles before the Unicef Match for Children charity soccer match. (Jon Super/AP)
In a shocking twist, People magazine did not choose a movie star for its annual Sexiest Man Alive cover, which was revealed on Tuesday night. Instead, for the first time ever, the magazine went with a professional athlete: British soccer superstar David Beckham.
Beckham won the honor because … okay, honestly? Besides the fact that he’s known as one of the more attractive people on the planet, we have no idea. Sexiest Man Alive is about more than looks! Generally, the magazine chooses someone who just had a big year, or needs some image repair, or has upcoming projects to promote. Beckham, 40, retired from soccer a couple years ago. These days he makes headlines when he plays in a UNICEF charity match with his kids.
Fittingly, People only focuses on Beckham’s family for its cover, as the headline reads “He’s a romantic husband, a devoted dad — and he vacuums!” It goes without saying that his wife is pop star/fashion icon Victoria Beckham. Even the preview of People’s cover story simply notes that he’s a proud father to three sons (Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz) and a four-year-old daughter, Harper. Then there are the usual quotes about how he is surprised that he’s considered sexy. That’s it.
Beckham didn’t even have anything to plug when he appeared briefly via video on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” as the late-night host announced the honor for the third year in the row.
“It’s the best moment of my career — I can’t believe it,” Beckham said, with the required embarrassed grin. “I would obviously like to thank my parents for bringing me into this world, of course.”
Still, as the New York Times wrote when Beckham announced his retirement in 2013, “Beckham was not merely an athlete; he was an international brand that smartly fused a handsomeness that bordered on beauty with athleticism, marketing savvy and an eager embrace of the role of pop idol.” For Sexiest Man Alive, maybe that’s all it takes.
Here’s every winner since People started awarding the prize:
1985: Mel Gibson
1986: Mark Harmon
1987: Harry Hamlin
1988: John F. Kennedy Jr.
1989: Sean Connery
1990: Tom Cruise
1991: Patrick Swayze
1992: Nick Nolte
1993: Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford (sexiest couple)
1994: No one — possibly a lack of sexiness that year.
1995: Brad Pitt
1996: Denzel Washington
1997: George Clooney
1998: Harrison Ford
1999: Richard Gere (again)
2000: Brad Pitt (again)
2001: Pierce Brosnan
2002: Ben Affleck
2003: Johnny Depp
2004: Jude Law
2005: Matthew McConaughey
2006: George Clooney (again)
2007: Matt Damon
2008: Hugh Jackman
2009: Johnny Depp (again)
2010: Ryan Reynolds
2011: Bradley Cooper
2012: Channing Tatum
2013: Adam Levine
2014: Chris Hemsworth
Retired soccer star David Beckham has been named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive. He is the first professional athlete to earn the title. (Reuters)
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David Beckham Is PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive! Subscribe now and get instant access to the special double issue full of all things sexy, only in PEOPLE! David Beckham is a global superstar, devoted husband and down-to-earth dad of four. And now, the humble British heartthrob is this year's Sexiest Man Alive."It's a huge honor," Beckham, 40, tells PEOPLE of scoring our 30th anniversary Sexiest Man crown. "And I'm very pleased to accept."Although he's been a sex symbol for nearly two decades, the self-effacing soccer icon isn't sure he's even deserving of the mantle. "I never feel that I'm an attractive, sexy person," he says in this week's cover story."I mean I like to wear nice clothes and nice suits and look and feel good, but I don't ever think of myself that way."Still, when Beckham shared the news with his wife, fashion mogul Victoria Beckham , 41, she was totally on-board.For more on the Sexiest Man Alive – and to see who else made the cut – pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday"I would hope that she feels this way about me all the time anyway!" he says with a shy smile. "But she said, 'Congratulations!' ""We kind of laughed about it with the boys and the boys kind of laughed at me and said, 'Really?! Sexiest man alive? Really?' " hands-on father of Brooklyn, 16, Romeo, 12, Cruz, 10, and Harper, 4, Beckham says he's getting the most ribbing from his eldest: "Brooklyn was the one who was like, 'Are you sure it's not me that's meant to be there today?'"Check out "People's Sexiest Man Alive 2015: 30 Years of Sexy" on Lifetime Television Network on Wednesday at 9pm ET/PT ||||| It is decided: David Beckham is officially the sexiest man alive.
People magazine’s pick was announced during Tuesday night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! After the studio audience played a version of 20 questions to guess his identity — “Have you every played a superhero?” “Were you ever in a boy band?” “Has Taylor Swift ever made a song about you?” — Kimmel introduced Beckham via video call and unveiled People’s cover (check it out below), featuring the hunky former soccer star.
“It’s the best moment of my career,” Beckham joked. “I would obviously like to thank my parents for bringing me into this world. And I’d like to thank my hairdresser, my stylist, and Photoshop.”
Beckham, who retired from professional soccer in 2013, is the first non-performer to earn the coveted title since John F. Kennedy Jr. in 1988. The 40-year-old athlete, fashion icon, and father of four joins an elite club of men plucked primarily from Hollywood, including last year’s honoree Chris Hemsworth (Thor), and previous title holders Adam Levine, Channing Tatum, Bradley Cooper, Ryan Reynolds, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Hugh Jackman, and many more.
The English Football Hall of Famer won league titles in four different countries, and played in three World Cups. He’s appeared in ads for Adidas, Armani, H&M, and Pepsi. And he’s married to fashion designer (and former Spice Girl) Victoria Beckham and father to their daughter and three sons.
“We kind of laughed about it with the boys, and the boys kind of laughed at me and said, ‘Really?! Sexiest man alive? Really?’” Victoria Beckham told People. “Around the house, David is just David, not the Sexiest Man Alive! … He’s a really good person. He’s a really great dad, he’s very kind, charitable and he inspires me every day.”
Head over to People for more from the Sexiest Man Alive issue, on newsstands Friday. |||||
What is a shorter version of the above article? | – David Beckham has been named People's sexiest man alive, marking the first time an athlete has received the honor, per the Washington Post. Jimmy Kimmel broke the news Tuesday after first getting his audience to play 20 questions with the veiled father of four. "It's the best moment of my career," Beckham, 40, joked, per Entertainment Weekly. "I'd like to thank my hairdresser, my stylist, and Photoshop." He tells People that wife Victoria Beckham was pleased to hear the news, but his 16-year-old son Brooklyn "was like, 'Are you sure it's not me that's meant to be there today?'" Beckham's response: "Dad's still up and running." | 5 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
This is a question with answer options. What kind of thing would the answer to the question "Who invented television ?" be an entity, an abbreviation, a description, a human, a location, or a numeric value?
Pick your answer from:
A). description;
B). entity;
C). abbreviation;
D). human;
E). numeric;
F). location; | D). | 3 | Flan2021 | trec:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Multi-select: Knowing that "wiring requires an electrical conductor", how would one answer "which of these would make a better material for an electronic device component?"
Pick your answer from: (i) a brown copper panel. (ii) a string of cotton. (iii) a coil of rubber. (iv) a strip of plastic....A: | (i) | 3 | Flan2021 | openbookqa:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Triple: Bananaman STARRING Tim Brooke-Taylor; Bananaman BROADCASTED_BY BBC; Bananaman CREATOR Steve Bright; Bananaman FIRST_AIRED "1983-10-03"; Bananaman LAST_AIRED "1986-04-15"
What is a sentence that describes this triple? | The BBC began broadcasting Bananaman on 10/03/1983 and its last episode went to air on April 15th, 1986. Steve Bright is one of the creators of Bananaman which has Tim Brooke-Taylor as one of its stars. | 0 | Flan2021 | gem/dart:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
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– Madelyn Linsenmeir's obituary, giving a face to America's ongoing opioid crisis, resonated around the country. A police chief's rebuttal is now doing the same. "Please elect this man to replace Bernie Sanders, Vermont," a journalist tweeted Wednesday after Burlington police Chief Brandon del Pozo aired his "problem" with the viral obituary in a Facebook post shared hundreds of times. "It's a much better obituary than the rest of us deserve," he wrote, per the Burlington Free Press, noting the feelings it inspired should've been felt long ago. "Why did it take a grieving relative with a good literary sense to get people to pay attention for a moment and shed a tear when nearly a quarter of a million people have already died in the same way as Maddie as this epidemic grew?" After all, "Maddie's death was nothing special at all. It happens all the time, to people no less loved and needed and human," he wrote. Had we acted sooner, "maybe Maddie would still be here." But her death gives us "the gift of focusing our attention," Del Pozo continued, laying out steps to reduce opioid addiction deaths, from increasing access to buprenorphine, used to treat opioid addiction, to ending prosecution of addicts for misdemeanor-level drug possession. Per the Free Press, Del Pozo has received plenty of feedback, mostly words of thanks. He seems unconcerned by a few angry responses. "When the mayor hired me, one of his requirements was that he and I work together to help Burlington address the opioid crisis," he says. (A Tennessee family has been especially hard hit.)
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CLOSE Kate O'Neill, sister of Madelyn Ellen Linsenmeir who died after a 14-year battle with opioid addiction, says police chief's reaction to obit is right. Ryan Mercer, Free Press Staff Writer
Buy Photo Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo on Thursday, February 23, 2017. (Photo: GLENN RUSSELL/FREE PRESS)Buy Photo
At 11:49 p.m. on Tuesday, Burlington police Chief Brandon del Pozo posted a Facebook response to the Madelyn Ellen Linsenmeir obituary. By the next morning, it seemed the whole world knew about it.
It's been read by more than four times the population of Burlington on BurlingtonFreePress.com alone. His words have been shared a few thousand times on social media, his bluntness echoed and criticized.
"Did readers think this was the first time a beautiful, young, beloved mother from a pastoral state got addicted to Oxy and died from the descent it wrought?" the police chief wrote. "And what about the rest of the victims, who weren't as beautiful and lived in downtrodden cities or the rust belt? They too had mothers who cried for them and blamed themselves."
More: Vermont family speaks about reaction to obituary detailing struggle with opioid addiction
Democratic candidate for governor Christine Hallquist shared his post, thanking him for his words. Timothy Burke, a journalist for the Daily Beast, tweeted the post with the words, "Please elect this man to replace Bernie Sanders, Vermont."
What happened next for Brandon del Pozo
All of this national attention emerged on Wednesday as the chief attended a Burlington police leadership retreat at Hotel Vermont. He'd arranged for two scientists specializing in addiction science and addiction psychiatry to give a presentation to his officers.
"It couldn't have been more of a good coincidence," del Pozo said Thursday. "As we're teaching our officers about addiction science, there's a parallel national conversation growing around the topic."
The officers, he said, were visibly impressed during the presentation, and gained a deeper understanding of some of the department's new approaches in policing people struggling with addiction.
"It made me realize how important it was that my post be out there," he said.
He's gotten a flood of responses, he said. Many are from people who have been touched by the opioid epidemic, thanking him for his words. Others praised him for bringing the issues to their attention and said his recommendations — such as ending prosecution of persons with addiction for misdemeanor-level drug possession — are interesting.
Vermont obituary tells of opioid struggle. Here's where to find treatment.
And a few people — not many, but a few, he said — sent him angry messages asking why he had a problem with such a beautiful obituary.
He's had some interview requests, including Boston news outlets, MSNBC and NPR. He said he was glad for the opportunity to spotlight some of the ways Burlington has tackled the opioid epidemic, such as pushing to lower access to buprenorphine.
Great news: @HowardCenterVT's syringe exchange will soon start prescribing buprenorphine to walk-in users who feel they need it, even if they aren't ready to commit to long-term treatment. It will lead many there, and it will *definitely* save lives. #BTVhttps://t.co/LO1c6sKqtA — Brandon del Pozo (@BrandondelPozo) October 16, 2018
Being vocal about approaches to addiction has been a fundamental part of his role as police chief, he said.
"When the mayor hired me, one of his requirements was that he and I work together to help Burlington address the opioid crisis," he said.
Would he ever run for office, as the one tweet suggested?
"It's a crazy question," said del Pozo, who holds a bachelor degree from Dartmouth College and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard. He worked 18 years with the New York City Police Department before he was chosen as Burlington's top cop three years ago.
Right now, he's satisfied as the city's chief of police, he said.
"I'm flattered that people feel like they're well-led in the hands of the Burlington Police Department. I'm going to need another job after this, but I have no idea what's that going to be," he said, laughing.
Contact Jess Aloe at 660-1874 or [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @jess_aloe. Contact Evan Weiss at 660-1854 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at @eaweiss.
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Burlington police Chief Brandon del Pozo posted this to his Facebook account on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018.
I have a problem with this obituary.
Born here in Burlington, Madelyn was the 30-year old mother of a toddler. She was beloved by her family. She became addicted to opiods when she was 16 after she tried Oxy at a party. When her addiction finally killed her last week, after she battled it for nearly half her life, a family member with a talent for expression wrote her the honest and moving obituary she truly deserved. It went viral. It's being read across the country. It's in People, the Globe, HuffPost, and the Daily News. My problem with it is that it's a much better obituary than the rest of us deserve.
Why did it take a grieving relative with a good literary sense to get people to pay attention for a moment and shed a tear when nearly a quarter of a million people have already died in the same way as Maddie as this epidemic grew?
Did readers think this was the first time a beautiful, young, beloved mother from a pastoral state got addicted to Oxy and died from the descent it wrought? And what about the rest of the victims, who weren't as beautiful and lived in downtrodden cities or the rust belt? They too had mothers who cried for them and blamed themselves.
More: Vermont obituary tells of opioid struggle. Here's where to find treatment.
She died just like my wife's cousin Meredith died in Bethesda, herself a young mother, but if Maddie was a black guy from the Bronx found dead in his bathroom of an overdose, it wouldn't matter if the guy's obituary writer had won the Booker Prize, there wouldn't be a weepy article in People about it.
Why not?
But if there had been, early enough on, and we acted swiftly, humanely, and accordingly, maybe Maddie would still be here. Make no mistake, no matter who you are or what you look like: Maddie's bell tolls for someone close to you, and maybe someone you love. Ask the cops and they will tell you: Maddie's death was nothing special at all. It happens all the time, to people no less loved and needed and human.
Related: Vermont family speaks about reaction to obituary detailing struggle with opioid addiction
So Maddie, in death, has given us a final gift, thanks to her family's moving tribute to her: the gift of focusing our attention for a moment. Thank you, Maddie and family. This is what I'm tired of: Arguing with sheriffs about their deputies carrying Naloxone at national conferences. Arguing with corrections officials at home about getting all inmates who need it on medication-assisted treatment early on in their sentence and keeping them on it even after they leave. Getting mocked by reactionaries because I won't arrest desperate people for using non-prescribed addiction treatment meds.
If nothing else I will be able to be sanctimonious and know for certain I was doing the right thing. But the NYPD didn't raise me that way, and it's not what a city needs in a chief of police. It raised me to win: to protect and rescue people, and to vanquish threats, not just to be smug about being right. To get the Maddies of a city home.
Buy Photo Police Chief Brandon del Pozo address the Burlington City Council on Monday night, Aug. 28, 2017, speaking to the need for stronger measures to enforce quality of life violations such as public intoxication. (Photo: RYAN MERCER/FREE PRESS)
The science is clear. We have medicines and protocols that work to effectively reduce the risks of death by overdose or other addiction-related causes. If you're ignoring or denying them, then I'll wonder if your tears for Maddie are crocodile tears. This spring, at the direction of our mayor, Miro Weinberger, Burlington police teamed up with Johns Hopkins, the American Health Initiative, and the Police Executive Research Forum to give police and city leaders things they could do, or advocate for, to reduce the nation's opioid addiction deaths.
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They are based on science, and medicine, and they *will work* to lower the number of fatal overdoses and addiction-related deaths. And they're not especially police-like, which wasn't an accident because the police aren't going to stop the dying themselves. Here are some of the highlights and of our city's general strategy, which is a good one for the nation:
- Support and propagate needle exchanges (done in BTV);
- Give out buprenorphine at needle exchanges to basically any user who requests it (BTV is doing it);
- Give out buprenorphine at the emergency room to anyone who presents with an addiction and requests it (BTV doing it);
- Treat every prisoner who needs it with buprenorphine, methadone or vivitrol as best fits them (Vermont is at least trying);
- Stop arresting and prosecuting for simple misdemeanor-level possession of non-prescribed addiction treatment meds (our city's police & prosecutor policy);
- Stop requiring total abstinence in recovery housing and allow people stabilized on addiction treatment meds to live in them (not even close);
- Equip users with the tools to test their drugs for fentanyl (Vermont is doing it);
- Create enough capacity to eliminate wait lists at treatment hubs (almost there in VT);
- Train primary care doctors to treat addiction and prescribe addiction meds (making progress in VT);
- Return the opioid prescribing rate to pre-epidemic levels (on the way in VT);
- Recognize addiction as a chronic disease and that abstinence-based therapy only works a small percent of the time, for certain people (old stigmas die hard);
- Saturate communities with Naloxone (done in Vermont)
Maddie's gone. She can't feel your sorrow. But others are next. Some aren't beautiful. Others look nothing like you. Some are like Maddie's twin, and have little children too. They are all human beings and they need our help. Go. Get to work. We still need to earn the feelings her obituary inspired in us. We should have felt them years ago.
Follow Brandon del Pozo on Twitter @BrandondelPozo.
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the head of the international monetary fund says the debt crisis in greece is serious and no `` silver bullet '' is available to resolve the issue easily .
What is a very short summary of the above text? | imf chief describes greek debt crisis as serious | 5 | Flan2021 | gigaword:1.2.0 | zs_opt |
In this context of wholesale change, and in order to prevent our nation States vanishing again, in the wake of globalisation which is creating hitherto unprecedented scales and challenges, Europe needs to be economically strong, because globalisation demands unity, because every day we hear news of new agreements at world level and news of changes at European level too.
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Finnish: | Kun tarkastelemme asiaa näiden suurten muutosten valossa on todettava, että voidaksemme välttää kansallisvaltioidemme katoamisen historiassamme ennennäkemättömän laajoja haasteita tarjoavan globalisaation myötä, tarvitsemme ehdottomasti taloudellisesti voimakasta Eurooppaa, koska globalisaatio edellyttää yhtenäisyyttä, sillä päivittäin kuulemme uutisia uusista maailmanlaajuisista sopimuksista samoin kuin muutoksesta myös Euroopan tasolla. | 0 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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Matthew Paris, known as Matthew of Paris (Latin: Matthaeus Parisiensis, lit. "Matthew the Parisian"; c. 1200 - 1259), was a Benedictine monk, English chronicler, artist in illuminated manuscripts and cartographer, based at St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire. He wrote a number of works, mostly historical, which he scribed and illuminated himself, typically in drawings partly coloured with watercolour washes, sometimes called "tinted drawings". Some were written in Latin, some in Anglo-Norman or French verse.
In some of Paris' manuscripts, a framed miniature occupies the upper half of the page, and in others they are "marginal" - unframed and occupying the bottom quarter (approximately) of the page. Tinted drawings were an established style well before Paris, and became especially popular in the first half of the 13th century. They were certainly much cheaper and quicker than fully painted illuminations. The tradition of tinted drawings or outline drawings with ink supplemented by coloured wash was distinctively English, dating back to the Anglo-Saxon art of the mid-10th century, and connected with the English Benedictine Reform of the period. A strong influence on one branch of the style was the Carolingian Utrecht Psalter, which was at Canterbury from about 1000 to 1640. This was copied in the 1020s in the Harley Psalter, and in the Eadwine Psalter of the mid-12th century. Recent scholarship, notably that of Nigel Morgan, suggests that Paris' influence on other artists of the period has been exaggerated. This is likely because so much more is known about him than other English illuminators of the period, who are mostly anonymous. Most manuscripts seem to have been produced by lay artists in this period. William de Brailes is shown with a clerical tonsure, but he was married, which suggests he had minor orders only. The manuscripts produced by Paris show few signs of collaboration, but art historians detect a School of St Albans' surviving after Paris' death, influenced by him. Paris' style suggests that it was formed by works from around 1200. He was somewhat old-fashioned in retaining a roundness in his figures, rather than adopting the thin angularity of most of his artist contemporaries, especially those in London. His compositions are very inventive; his position as a well-connected monk may have given him more confidence in creating new compositions, whereas a lay artist would prefer to stick to traditional formulae. It may also reflect the lack of full training in the art of the period. His colouring emphasises green and blue, and together with his characteristic layout of a picture in the top half of a page, is relatively distinctive. What are probably his final sketches are found in Vitae duorum Offarum in BL MS Cotton Nero D I.
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Answer this question.
St Michael’s Mount is situated three miles east of which Cornish town? | penzance | 4 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Write a plausible story that ends with this sentence?
Last sentence: (A).
Pick from:
(A). Everyone had a great time.
(B). Bindu hates her friends and parties. | Bindu planned a party with her friends. They met at her house to discuss what food and band to use. One of Bindu's friends brought samosas and doogh. Four friends played music at the party. (A). | 9 | Flan2021 | story_cloze/2016:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson (September 24, 1893 - December 19, 1929) was an American blues and gospel singer, songwriter, and musician. He was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s and has been called the "Father of the Texas Blues". Jefferson's performances were distinctive because of his high-pitched voice and the originality of his guitar playing. His recordings sold well, but he was not a strong influence on younger blues singers of his generation, who could not imitate him as easily as they could other commercially successful artists.
Largely because of the popularity of artists such as Jefferson and his contemporaries Blind Blake and Ma Rainey, Paramount became the leading recording company for the blues in the 1920s. Jefferson's earnings reputedly enabled him to buy a car and employ chauffeurs (this information has been disputed); he was given a Ford car "worth over $700" by Mayo Williams, Paramount's connection with the black community. This was a common compensation for recording rights in that market. Jefferson is known to have done an unusual amount of traveling for the time in the American South, which is reflected in the difficulty of placing his music in a single regional category. Jefferson's "old-fashioned" sound and confident musicianship made it easy to market him. His skillful guitar playing and impressive vocal range opened the door for a new generation of male solo blues performers, such as Furry Lewis, Charlie Patton, and Barbecue Bob. He stuck to no musical conventions, varying his riffs and rhythm and singing complex and expressive lyrics in a manner exceptional at the time for a "simple country blues singer." According to the North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s, at which time Davis and the entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar. Jefferson was reputedly unhappy with his royalties (although Williams said that Jefferson had a bank account containing as much as $1500). In 1927, when Williams moved to Okeh Records, he took Jefferson with him, and Okeh quickly recorded and released Jefferson's "Matchbox Blues", backed with "Black Snake Moan". It was his only Okeh recording, probably because of contractual obligations with Paramount. Jefferson's two songs released on Okeh have considerably better sound quality than his Paramount records at the time. When he returned to Paramount a few months later, "Matchbox Blues" had already become such a hit that Paramount re-recorded and released two new versions, with the producer Arthur Laibly. In 1927, Jefferson recorded another of his classic songs, the haunting "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" (again using the pseudonym Deacon L. J. Bates), and two other uncharacteristically spiritual songs, "He Arose from the Dead" and "Where Shall I Be". "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" was so successful that it was re-recorded and re-released in 1928.
Answer the following question by taking a quote from the article: Did he ever win an award? | 0 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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Washington (CNN) -- The Pacific island nation of Palau has agreed to take in 17 Chinese Muslims held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the country's ambassador to the United States said Wednesday. The map shows the Pacific island nation of Palau in relation to China. Details of the transfer are still being worked out, Ambassador Hersey Kyota told CNN. But Kyota said his country, a former U.S. Pacific trust territory, has agreed to take in the ethnic Uighur detainees "for humanitarian reasons" and because of the "special relationship" between Palau and the United States. U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly would not comment on the announcement, telling reporters, "We're still involved in ongoing discussions." The agreement includes some U.S. aid for Palau, Kyota said, but he said those details remained to be worked out as well. The country, with a population of about 20,000, is about 1,000 miles southeast of Manila, Philippines, and about 4,600 miles west of Hawaii. Palau has received nearly $900 million in U.S. aid since independence in 1994, according to congressional auditors, and depends on Washington for defense. The "Compact of Free Association" between Palau and the United States is up for review, but Kelly said any additional aid offer "is not linked to any other discussions we may be having with the government of Palau." The Uighurs were accused of receiving weapons and military training in Afghanistan.
Choose from options: Based on the paragraph, does the response "Phillipines" correctly answer the question "Where were the prisoners being transferred to?"?
(i) no (ii) yes | (i) | 4 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
The Auditor General, in his 1997 report, confirmed the importance of habitat restoration; yet this winter the federal government cancelled a mapping and inventory program developed on the coast to standardize essential salmon habitat mapping and inventory services and put displaced fishermen back to work.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
The Auditor General did not exist in 1997.
Select from the following. a. Yes. b. It's impossible to say. c. No. | c. | 2 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
By Associated Press Reporter and Matthew Blake The price of your morning latte, espresso or skinny caramel macchiato with an extra shot could be about to soar due to a killer fungus that is ravaging coffee harvests across Latin America. Coffee rust, or roya, is a yellow and orange-colored fungus that has devastated coffee fields from Mexico to Peru over the past two years, causing more than $1 billion in damage across the region. Its damage has become so severe that the U.S. government has launched a $5million drive to help farmers in the worst-hit regions in a desperate bid to save the industry and keep coffee cheap.
Aside from fears for the price of a cappuccino on the
OPTIONS:
- Associated Press Reporter high street,
- Central America high street,
- Latin America high street,
- Matthew Blake high street,
- Mexico high street,
- Peru high street,
- U.S. high street,
- Washington high street,
| U.S. high street, | 1 | Flan2021 | super_glue/record:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
What is the solution to this math problem?
Solve 0 = -5*r - 22*r + 27 for r. | 1 | 5 | Flan2021 | math_dataset/algebra__linear_1d:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
How to ride the disneyland (california) monorail<br>Research the locations the monorail can be boarded from. The monorail has two stops, downtown disney (across from the lego store, near rainforest cafe) and tomorrowland station (inside the disneyland park, between the finding nemo submarine voyage and autopia's tracks). Prepare to complete a bag check.
Can we infer the following?
Downtown Disney is outside Disneyland Park.
OPTIONS:
-Yes;
-It's impossible to say;
-No;
The answer is: | Yes | 4 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences?
1. But the West has failed to protect civilian lives , to bring the development it promised , to wean the economy off its poppy-addiction and to ensure fair electionsand failed even to agree about what it is trying to do in the country .
2. Locally , NATO forces have done fine and heroic work .
3. But too often the best initiatives are dropped when the best commanders end their tours .
4. The Afghan conflict , it is often said , has been not an eight-year war , but eight one-year wars .
5. The US overthrew the Taliban in the winter of 2001 .
6. It has a moral obligation to ensure that when it does leave Afghanistan it does so secure in the knowledge that the country will never again be a launching pad for the worlds deadliest terrorist groups , and that the country is on the way to a measure of stability and prosperity .
7. Withdrawal before this has been achieved would amount to a terrible betrayal of the Afghan people , some of whose troubles are the result of Western intervention .
8. Millions of refugees have returned and millions of children have the chance to go to school .
9. NATO comes off worse each time .
10. US and NATO forces should persist in Afghanistan because they can do much better in terms of helping Afghanistan , and because they have a moral obligation to do so . | American and NATO moral responsibility to Afghanistan | 5 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
Write an email with the subject line "STCA Hour24 Schedule, 10/10/01". | A hour ahead 24 has been sent to the ISO for 10.10.01. HE 13-20 APX1 SP15 purchase increased by 25 MW STCA SDG1 load decreased by 25MW This was due to a scheduling problem which occurred with BPs (SC ID APX1) sale to STCA on 10.09.01 They preferred to schedule their sale hour ahead and we have agreed. This will be a one time arrangement. Thanks, Serena | 9 | Flan2021 | aeslc:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Four held as raid uncovers #39;plot to buy dirty bomb #39;
Four men have been arrested on suspicion of terrorist offences as part of a planned operation by the Metropolitan Police. The men are suspected of attempting to buy radioactive material for
Multi-choice problem: What is this text about?
OPTIONS: a). World; b). Sports; c). Business; d). Science/Tech; | a). | 0 | Flan2021 | ag_news_subset:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Given the fact "usually plants die or become dormant during the winter", what is the answer to the question or completion "Usually, plants naturally decrease their intake of water in roots and branches to withstand"
Available options: A. springtime; B. rising temperatures; C. cool breezes; D. very cold temperatures; | D. | 2 | Flan2021 | openbookqa:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context (see options)?
Context:
Art of Dying is a Canadian rock band fronted by Jonny Hetherington. The band is currently signed to Better Noise Records. Bassist Cale Gontier is the cousin of Adam Gontier, the lead singer of Saint Asonia and former lead singer of Three Days Grace. Prior to joining the band, Gontier and guitarist Tavis Stanley played in another band, Thornley.
Hypothesis: Art of Dying is fronted by Hetherington.
Options are:
-- Yes.
-- It's impossible to say.
-- No. | Yes | 7 | Flan2021 | anli/r2:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Summarize this article in one sentence.
The ban will be preceded by a 14-month interim period, in which companies can still add surcharges - but at a reduced rate.
A deal, reached on Tuesday, also sets out rules requiring telecom operators to treat most internet traffic equally.
But the net neutrality rules will allow firms to favour some services, such as internet TVs.
From April 2016, telecoms operators will be able to add a surcharge of no more than:
The cap would make roaming within the EU 75% cheaper during the interim period, the European Commission said.
The agreement is the culmination of years of campaigning to cut roaming charges and to define the EU nations' approach to regulating internet traffic - particularly in light of the US adoption of net-neutrality rules.
It largely follows proposals put forward in March this year, which analysts said were a weaker version of what European regulators had originally promised.
But it will enshrine the principle of net neutrality, which stops internet service providers (ISPs) favouring some internet traffic, in European law for the first time.
However, as mooted in March, there will be exceptions to those rules.
ISPs will be able to favour services that require high-quality internet connections, such as internet TVs, as long as they do not impinge on the overall quality of internet traffic.
The commission said they would also be able to throttle traffic if it was in the public interest to do so.
For example, to combat the proliferation of images of child sexual abuse or a terrorist attack.
The agreement will be presented to the EU's member states between July and December this year for formal adoption.
The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) - the fourth largest grouping of MEPs in the European Parliament - has previously criticised regulators for trying to water down plans to end data roaming.
But it welcomed Tuesday's announcement.
The president of the ALDE group, Guy Verhofstadt, said the "great roaming rip-off" was to be brought to an end.
The group blamed the delay in successfully negotiating the deal on member states, which have been accused of seeking to protect their national operators in the past.
But Marietje Schaake MEP, another member of the group, renewed the attack on the net-neutrality deal, saying: "The compromise reached now is a watered-down version of the strong ambitions of the European Parliament."
Renata Avila, global campaign manager at the World Wide Web Foundation added: "Despite claiming to protect net neutrality, the deal agreed by the Commission, Parliament and Council has decided to allow 'specialised services', but has then failed to define what is meant by this, leaving the door open for a two-tier internet... specialised services should be tightly defined and seen as the exception, not the rule."
However, Gunther Oettinger, the commissioner for the digital economy and society, defended the net-neutrality proposals as a "pragmatic" approach.
Summary: | Data roaming charges are set to be abolished within the European Union by June 2017, it has been announced. | 2 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds. Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful. As one NSC staff note put it, "Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists." In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban. In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation. Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy. He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden. They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything," given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan." President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India. The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan. The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life. Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit. But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia. His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969. At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden. President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden." I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two." The U.S. effort continued.
Choose your answer: According to the above paragraph, the correct answer to the question "On what subject did the State Department disagree with the Secret Service and the CIA?" is "Fixing Computers"?
Available options: 1). no. 2). yes. | 1). | 5 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
On a scale from 0-5, where 0 is "not similar" and 5 is "very similar", how similar is the sentence "Gunman kills 6 in shooting at Wisconsin Sikh temple" to the sentence "Gunman kills six in shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin"?
Options:
A). 0.
B). 1.
C). 2.
D). 3.
E). 4.
F). 5. | F). | 6 | Flan2021 | glue/stsb:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write a question about the following article: Hoping to build on their win over Tampa Bay, the Saints stayed at home for a Week 6 fight with the Philadelphia Eagles. In the first quarter, New Orleans jumped out to an early lead with kicker John Carney kicking a 39-yard field goal and quarterback Drew Brees completing a 14-yard touchdown pass to WR Joe Horn. In the second quarter, Philadelphia would get on the board with kicker David Akers kicking a 47-yard field goal. Fortunately, the Saints managed to further themselves, as Brees completed a 7-yard touchdown pass to WR Marques Colston. However, in the third quarter, the Eagles started to get back into the game, as quarterback Donovan McNabb completed two touchdown passes (a 60-yarder to WR Reggie Brown and a 4-yard to TE L.J. Smith). In the fourth quarter, Philadelphia took the lead on a 15-yard touchdown run by Brown. Fortunately, after Brees completed a 48-yard touchdown pass to Horn, Carney helped give New Orleans the win as he kicked a 31-yard field goal as time ran out on the game. With the win, the Saints maintained their lead in the NFC South with a 5-1 record going into their bye week.
Question about the article: | How many yards shorter was John Carney's second field goal compared to his first? | 8 | Flan2021 | drop:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
What kind of task would test someone's ability to perform physical reasoning? | How do you untwist your thread. | 9 | Flan2021 | piqa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is a shorter version of this:
president clinton will hold talks with chinese president jiang zemin at a summit of pacific rim leaders next week in what will likely be their last meeting before clinton leaves office .
Summary: | clinton china president to meet | 3 | Flan2021 | gigaword:1.2.0 | zs_opt |
Wyman, whose photographs were first exhibited in 2011, has handed over some of his prints to artists including the great cartoonist Gerald Scarfe who will rework and use them as the basis for new pieces.
Another is the young artist James Mylne, who produces photorealistic work using ballpoint pens.
"I gave Gerald Scarfe a few choices and and he chose the Keith Richard boxer pose, which is a mad one," he says.
"He's a lovely natural man and we seem to bump into each other and we always have a chat. It's nice to have that close relationship which I don't have with the other artists."
Scarfe - whose work includes illustrations for the film of Pink Floyd's classic album The Wall and Disney's animated Hercules movie - recently found himself at the centre of a row over a cartoon of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in The Sunday Times.
Wyman admits he never saw the offending cartoon, for which Scarfe apologised, but added he is a huge fan of the illustrator, whose career has spanned five decades.
"He gave me two cartoons he did of Mick in the '80s which are hilarious and he signed them for me," he says.
"They have this great huge mouth with a little body behind it with skinny legs."
Wyman, 76, who has been taking pictures since childhood, says it is only in recent years that he has thought about exhibiting them.
"They do say I have a better eye than the average person, I always call them snaps but people say they're a bit better than snaps so that's a nice compliment.
"But I mustn't get big-headed about it."
Wyman's photos cover landscapes and wildlife but it is his cataloguing of his former bandmates which naturally generates the most interest.
His four decades with the band have afforded him the type of access that other photographers can only dream about.
But, he admits, it was the boredom of life on the road, rather than the glamour of fame, which led to most of his great shots.
Particularly enlightening is a portrait of drummer Charlie Watts, who - some time ago - described 25 years of being in the Stones as "five years of work and 20 years of waiting around".
"It can be a boring life in the music business and I imagine the film business," says Wyman. "It gets boring when you're locked up in a hotel room and I'd be taking pictures out of a hotel room and people below."
The Watts picture - which shows the great sticksman resting his chin on his hand with a weary, benign smile - is one of just a few where Wyman's subject is looking directly at the camera.
"If you look at photos of people, celebrities, friends, 90% of them are not looking at the camera," says Wyman.
"If people start looking at a camera, they start posing and pulling silly faces. So you wait and engage them when they're looking the other way, distracted and then you get good shots."
Since leaving The Rolling Stones in 1993, Wyman's activities have included amateur archaeology and gastronomy - he has owned several restaurants. He has also written several books and is touring with his band The Rhythm Kings.
Wyman reunited with his former band briefly for their 50th anniversary show at the O2 Arena in London.
"Very briefly, short and sweet. I thought it was going to be heavily involved but in the end they only wanted me to do two songs, they chose them," says Wyman.
"I didn't know which ones until the day before, good job I'd rehearsed them. I said, 'Do you want me to come to rehearsals?' and they said, 'You know 'em all!'
"I didn't go to America for two minutes on stage, I had more important things to do in my life.
"It was nice to do the two songs though at the O2 and the fans went mad and my daughter saw me for the first time with the Stones, so that was special.
"It was worth doing it for that reason alone."
With rumours rampant about the Stones possibly playing at this year's Glastonbury festival, would Wyman consider reuniting with them again?
"There's an old saying, once bitten twice shy," he smiles.
Bill Wyman: Reworked is at the Rook & Raven gallery in London from 27 February until 31 March.
What is a summary of this text? | The photographic work of former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman is being given an artistic twist for a new show at a London gallery. | 3 | Flan2021 | huggingface:xsum | zs_opt |
The football coach lost his voice after the game.
cause:
Choose your answer from: [+] He yelled whenever a player fumbled the ball.; [+] He whistled whenever a player scored a touchdown.; | He yelled whenever a player fumbled the ball. | 5 | Flan2021 | super_glue/copa:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true. Select from options at the end:
San Salvador, Jan. 13, '90 (Acan-Efe) -The bodies of Hector Oqueli and Gilda Flores, who had been kidnapped on the 12th of January, were found in Cuilapa, Guatemala, near the border with El Salvador, the relatives of one of the victims have reported.
Hypothesis: A kidnapping took place in San Salvador.
OPT: (A). yes. (B). no.
The answer is | (B). | 5 | Flan2021 | super_glue/rte:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Premise: All this led a friend to conclude, reports the Globe , He won't be long behind his beloved Tammy.
Hypothesis: The friend knew them since childhood.
Does the premise entail the hypothesis?
Choices: [+] yes. [+] it is not possible to tell. [+] no. | it is not possible to tell | 0 | Flan2021 | glue/mnli:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Claim: Professional cheerleading sexualises teenagers and young women
What evidence supports this claim? | 1. It reinforces the glamour of being a macho man and these men can begin to feel entitled to sexual gratification .
2. This can lead to anger when they are turned down , which can escalate to sexual violence against women , for example , the case of the high school cheerleader who was sexually assaulted by a member of her basketball team that she cheered for .
3. In addition , their routines tend to be more obviously sexual , and less focused on gymnastic stunts .
4. When young girls at high school level are encouraged to do so , it is problematic because the sexualisation of cheer routines reinforces the idea that macho men , playing sports -LRB- a traditionally male field -RRB- are sexually rewarded or gratified for their macho performance .
5. Professional cheerleaders are bad role models for women , and especially for teenagers who take part in cheerleading .
6. They tend to wear shorter skirts and show more of their skin than college and high school cheerleaders . | 9 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
The Calais - Milltown Border Crossing connects the towns of Calais, Maine and St. Stephen, New Brunswick on the Canada–US border. This crossing is located at the Milltown International Bridge. Various bridges have existed at this location since 1825. Canada built its border crossing station in 1967. The US border station was built in 1938 and is planned to be replaced in 2014.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
The Milltown Bridge facilitates trans-border travel
Pick your answer from:
(1). Yes
(2). It's impossible to say
(3). No | (1). | 3 | Flan2021 | anli/r3:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Conform Autorităţii Europene pentru Siguranţa Alimentară, producţia de alimente din animale clonate nu se justifică în prezent din motive etice: animalele clonate au probleme grave de sănătate, majoritatea murind în primele zile sau săptămâni de viaţă.
Translate this to English? | According to the European Food Safety Authority, the production of food derived from cloned animals is not currently justified for ethical reasons: cloned animals have serious health problems, with most of them dying during the first days or weeks of life. | 3 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/ro-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Do these two sentences mean the same thing?
Fidelity Investments , the nation 's largest mutual-fund company , said it received a subpoena from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer 's office regarding its investigation to potential fund-trading abuses .
Fidelity Investments has received a subpoena from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer , who is investigating charges of market-timing and late-day trading in the mutual fund industry .
Options:
--no;
--yes;...I think the answer is | no | 8 | Flan2021 | glue/mrpc:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Sonuçlar muhteşem - eski sanayi kantarları, asansör motorları ve kaynak makineleri elden geçirildi ve masa ve koltuk gibi pratik objelere dönüştü.
Translate this to English? | The results are amazing -- old industrial scales, lift engines and welding devices were reconditioned and turned into practical objects, such as tables and couches. | 3 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/tr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Generate short a sentence that can be linguistically classified as b. (Pick your answer from: a. unacceptable b. acceptable) | Who will they recommend? | 8 | Flan2021 | glue/cola:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Slunce vychází, musím jít!
Could you please translate this to English? | The sun is rising, I've to go! | 2 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/cs-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Translate "Bienvenidos a la ceremonia de entrega de los II Premios MRO." from Spanish to English. | Welcome to the II MRO awards ceremony. | 5 | Flan2021 | para_crawl_enes | zs_opt |
How might one describe the sentiment of this review?
I don't know if this is the Arizona answer to Chinese food, but the food was blah. First, there were more garnishes than actual dish. Lots of water chestnuts, but not so much shrimp. Lots of peanuts, but very little mongolian beef. The brown rice was so hard, it was almost as if it was half-cooked. The chow fun was bland and uninspired. Nothing to write home about....OPT: 1. negative 2. positive I think the answer is | 1. | 6 | Flan2021 | yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0 | zs_opt |
How is "Transparent Traffic Shaper with software & hardware in one, so that your IP telephone quality does not suffer, even if you use the same infrastructure for other Internet services." said in German? | Transparent Traffic Shaper mit Software & Hardware in einem, damit Ihre Telefonie-Qualität nicht leidet, auch wenn Sie die gleiche Infrastruktur für andere Internet Dienste nutzen. | 6 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/de-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a context and a hypothesis. | Context: Linyi University (LYU, ) is a public university based in Lanshan district of Linyi, Shandong province, China. It offers studies in 62 different undergraduate degrees, organized among nine major disciplines: Economics, Law, Education, Literature, History, Science, Engineering, Agriculture and Management.
Hypothesis: LYU offers degrees in over 5 major disciplines | 9 | Flan2021 | anli/r2:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO_{3}) is commonly known as baking soda. Sodium bicarbonate is a white solid that can dissolve in water. Under the proper conditions, sodium bicarbonate can release carbon dioxide (CO_{2}) gas. Which of the following is not a physical property of sodium bicarbonate?
Pick the answer from these options
Available options:
(a). It is white.;
(b). It is a solid.;
(c). It can dissolve in water.;
(d). It releases carbon dioxide.; | (d). | 6 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Easy:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Enjoy your holidays in private homes in Upper Austria.
Translate to German
German: | Spannende Ausflugsziele, Urlaub am Bauernhof oder Kinderhotel – Familienurlaub mit Spaß! | 0 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/de-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Is do used to mean the same thing in the next two sentences (see options)?
What will you do this afternoon?
A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school.
Pick your answer from:
a). different meanings;
b). the same meaning; | a). | 7 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wic:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Q: who sang i've been through the desert on a horse with no name lyrics? A: | America | 9 | Flan2021 | natural_questions_open:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Claim: A fat tax levels out the playing field for healthier food
What evidence supports this claim? | 1. Thus it is only reasonable to levy a tax against unhealthy , fatty food in order to give healthy food a fighting chance .
2. A similar conclusion was reached by a group of Australian researchers , who found that the prices of healthy food have risen 20 per cent above inflation , while the harmful counterpart have actually dropped below inflation as much as 20 per cent below .
3. Noting that obesity is more prevalent in groups of lower socioeconomic status , we find that the price of food is a substantial incentive for consumption .
4. An important reason why people continuously turn to unhealthy , fat , sugar and salt laden food , is the simple fact that its often cheaper than a more wholesome meal comprised at least in part of fresh produce .
5. A study done at the University of Washington found that when they compared the prices of 370 foods junk foods not only cost less but junk food prices are also less likely to rise as a result of inflation . | 9 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_idebate | zs_opt |
Sentence: AZ Alkmaar played in the 2014 season.
What structured data could we extract from this sentence? | AZ Alkmaar, season, 2014 | 9 | Flan2021 | gem/web_nlg_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Select from:
[1]. There's no need to come right up and touch your crush on the cheek or shoulder. If this is your first time approaching this person and you don't know him or her, simply grab onto his or her arm in a healthy way, give them a big hug, and then let go..
[2]. As for a hug, keep it gentle. Don't pressure your crush by starting the hug with a peck on the cheek..
[3]. Hugs often happen at celebratory events like birthday parties, graduations, or when two people are reunited after a long absence (that may be the right time to give someone a nice hug). Lean forward and put your two arms around your crush, pressing the person you are hugging warmly toward you..
[4]. It's best to try to avoid the awkwardness and stay casual, rather than provoking feelings. See if he or she wants to be kissed..Choose from options above and answer: What most naturally follows?
How to hug
Approach your crush carefully.
Smile and say some caring words or compliments. Make sure that he or she is expecting a hug! It can be awkward if you come up and hug someone out of the blue, especially in the city.
Answer: | [3]. | 6 | Flan2021 | hellaswag:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Context:The mothers of Arthur and Celeste have come to the town to fetch them. They are very happy to have them back, but they scold them just the same because *they* ran away.
Is "they" the same as "mothers"? Possible answers:Choices:
I. no;
II. yes;
Answer: | I. | 5 | Flan2021 | super_glue/wsc.fixed:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Note the options at the end. Select the topic that this about:
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (Sports Network) - The Atlanta Falcons Monday signed Pro Bowl tight end Alge Crumpler to a six-year contract extension.
Choose your answer from:
[-] World;
[-] Sports;
[-] Business;
[-] Science/Tech; | Sports | 7 | Flan2021 | ag_news_subset:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Write the following list of characters into a correctly formed sentence: ...Whocausesalltheplanetsnottorevolveinoneplane(theplaneoftheecliptic)?
| ... Who causes all the planets not to revolve in one plane (the plane of the ecliptic)? | 7 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
Background: Ayaan Hirsi Ali (; Dutch: [a:'ja:n 'hi:rsi 'a:li] ( listen); born Ayaan Hirsi Magan, 13 November 1969) is a Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist, author, scholar and former politician.
Context: Ayaan was born in 1969 in Mogadishu, Somalia. Her father, Hirsi Magan Isse, was a prominent member of the Somali Salvation Democratic Front and a leading figure in the Somalian Revolution. Shortly after she was born, her father was imprisoned due to his opposition to the Siad Barre government. Hirsi Ali's father had studied abroad and was opposed to female genital mutilation, but while he was imprisoned, Hirsi Ali's grandmother had a man perform the procedure on her, when Hirsi Ali was five years old. According to Hirsi Ali, she was fortunate that her grandmother could not find a woman to do the procedure, as the mutilation was "much milder" when performed by men. After her father escaped from prison, he and the family left Somalia in 1977, going to Saudi Arabia and then to Ethiopia, before settling in Nairobi, Kenya by 1980. There he established a comfortable upper-class life for them. Hirsi Ali attended the English-language Muslim Girls' Secondary School. By the time she reached her teens, Saudi Arabia was funding religious education in numerous countries and its religious views were becoming influential among many Muslims. A charismatic religious teacher, trained under this aegis, joined Hirsi Ali's school. She inspired the teenaged Ayaan, as well as some fellow students, to adopt the more rigorous Saudi Arabian interpretations of Islam, as opposed to the more relaxed versions then current in Somalia and Kenya. Hirsi Ali said later that she had long been impressed by the Qur'an and had lived "by the Book, for the Book" throughout her childhood. She sympathised with the views of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, and wore a hijab with her school uniform. This was unusual at the time but has become more common among some young Muslim women. At the time, she agreed with the fatwa proclaimed against British Indian writer Salman Rushdie in reaction to the portrayal of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in his novel The Satanic Verses. After completing secondary school, Hirsi Ali attended a secretarial course at Valley Secretarial College in Nairobi for one year. As she was growing up, she also read English-language adventure stories, such as the Nancy Drew series, with modern heroine archetypes who pushed the limits of society. Also, remembering her grandmother refusing soldiers entry into her house, Hirsi Ali associated with Somalia "the picture of strong women: the one who smuggles in the food, and the one who stands there with a knife against the army and says, 'You cannot come into the house.' And I became like that. And my parents and my grandmother don't appreciate that now - because of what I've said about the Qur'an. I have become them, just in a different way."
Question: Did get obtain a degree?. Whats the answer? | 5 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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(1) Anton Kreisl ( bass/vocals ) joined in early 2008 to replace Philip Galitzine ( currently a member of the band Atomic Tom ) .
(2) In early 2008 , Philip Galitzine joined ( bass / singing ) to replace Anton Kreisl ( currently a member of the band Atomic Tom ) .
Do these two sentences mean the same thing?
OPTIONS:
[A]. no;
[B]. yes; | [A]. | 3 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
What is the sentiment of the following review?
Very overrated. Our food was cold and my vegetarian dish was awful. Overall a bad experience.
OPTIONS:
(a). negative.
(b). positive. | (a). | 5 | Flan2021 | yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0 | zs_opt |
Around 3,000 jobs will be lost at Abbey National if the UK banks takeover by Spains Santander Central Hispano (SCH) goes ahead, it emerged today.
What is a good title for this? | Spanish takeover will mean 3,000 Abbey job cuts | 9 | Flan2021 | ag_news_subset:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
B: and both of those seem very easy to use compared to D Base. A: Uh-huh. Do you think D Base is more flexible or allows you to do more. Or do you think the others are pretty much compatible these days?
Select from options. Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
the others are pretty much compatible these days
Options: A. Yes. B. No. C. It's impossible to say. | C. | 3 | Flan2021 | super_glue/cb:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Which interaction within an ecosystem is characterized by gradual change from one community of organisms to another?
Select from the following. I. symbiosis. II. food webs. III. energy pyramids. IV. succession. | IV. | 0 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Easy:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Belle de Jour (] ) is a 1967 French drama film directed by Luis Buñuel and starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, and Michel Piccoli. Based on the 1928 novel "Belle de jour" by Joseph Kessel, the film is about a young woman who spends her midweek afternoons as a high-class prostitute while her husband is at work.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
1928 novel "Belle de jour is about a young woman who spends her midweek afternoons as a high-class prostitute while her husband is at work.
Available options:
1). Yes.
2). It's impossible to say.
3). No. | 2). | 1 | Flan2021 | anli/r1:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
Write a title for this article:
WASHINGTON — In conversations last week with Middle East experts from the U.S. government and from the region, a disturbing set of themes recurred. First, there was a growing sense that absent some major initiative that currently lacks a leader, concept and resources, Bashar Assad's regime in Syria could hold on for years to come, perhaps even as long as another decade. Next, were that to be the case or even if Assad were to fall sooner, Syria would remain an open wound, an ever more desolate, violent, chaotic battleground. Finally, even in the wake of a conflict-ending settlement, if Syria were to land in the hands of extremists, the aftershocks would reverberate around the region, spreading outward from Syria to Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Combine all this with the growing sense of unease about the outcomes of "Arab Spring" upheavals in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt and concerns regarding regimes in the Persian Gulf — not to mention Afghanistan and sub-Saharan Africa — and there is a credible scenario that calls for years of unending ebbing-and-flowing upheaval from Mali to Pakistan with few reliable pockets of stability in between. It is by no means a certainty, but one possibility is that we go from having been concerned about failed states to having to grapple with the harsh realities of a failed region.
We could be in the midst of what will someday be seen as decades of interconnected conflicts. For this reason and because most of the world's major powers fear this outcome and the potential costs it would pose for them, there is a growing sense that rather than focusing on democratic outcomes to all this upheaval, the United States and others will soon be contenting themselves with another generation of strongmen throughout the Greater Middle East. The U.S. willingness to embrace dubious "partners" like Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai or Iraq's Nouri al-Maliki and U.S. reluctance to publicly criticize leaders with questionable values such as Egypt's Mohammed Morsi are seen as signs of this growing predisposition.
Similarly, these analysts see U.S. reluctance to undertake policies that might meaningfully affect outcomes in some of these at-risk countries as a contributing factor both to the coming era of protracted instability and to the likely rise in our appetite for strongmen. Syria is again a signature case. While the United States has in recent weeks ratcheted up its rhetoric and its peripheral involvement in the situation there, America's inaction is still seen as more important to the situation on the ground as its action.
Sending 200 troops into Jordan, making a commitment to provide more night-vision goggles, or having the CIA sort through the opposition in the hopes of finding a leader we can live with are all positive steps. But they are offset, and their true character as symbolic or halfway measures is revealed, by articles such as that in Tuesday's New York Times once again noting that the Israelis (like others) have concluded that Assad has used chemical weapons in his own country, thus crossing U.S. President Barack Obama's "red line."
When the red line was established, it was hardly thought that the potential U.S. response would be sending over more body armor. But now that using a new tougher list of adjectives appears to be the prime change in U.S. behavior, an inadvertent message has been sent: America's bark is worse than its bite. This is a dangerous message to send to dangerous people. Thus, while drawing red lines is risky behavior, Obama appears now to be on a course toward demonstrating that ignoring them after the fact is even riskier.
It could be argued that the U.S. intelligence community is still evaluating the evidence of the chemical attacks. Perhaps it is doing much more behind the scenes than the public knows. The reality, however, is that the situation is deteriorating. Further, U.S. efforts to marshal others into a constructive role have produced mixed results. Some, like the government of Qatar and to a degree that of Turkey, stand accused of supporting extremists. Others, like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have sought a different path but think that without stronger U.S. leadership, effective international action is not going to be possible.
The problem of course, is that the American people's appetite for further deep involvement in the region is near zero. Iraq and Afghanistan have proved to be costly disasters. Americans have very serious problems at home. New energy resources in the United States have led to a sense that Americans will find it ever easier to distance themselves from the region's problems. America's European allies have no organized foreign policy to speak of, have less appetite than the United States does to be involved on the ground in the region, and have even greater problems at home. The Russians are being systematically unhelpful. The Chinese are only willing to get involved at the margins, essentially making the case themselves that they are not ready for prime time. Regional actors range from the malevolent in Iran to the relatively weak, at risk, motivationally questionable, or all of the above among most of the moderate states. And none of these factors seems likely to change anytime soon.
Thus, we face a region in which there are few effective external or regional stabilizing forces. At the same time, Syria has illustrated that even if the United States, Europe or others are slow to take significant action, extremist groups seeking to capitalize on the action are moving quickly to take advantage of the void. Estimates have Syria's al-Nusra Front, which has pledged its fealty to al Qaida, now surpassing 12,000 in strength, with foreign fighters drawn from every corner of Europe and the surrounding region.
This leaves a choice between protracted chaos and autocrats. It doesn't take an Einstein to do the math. In that equation, democracy and the hope for real political reform in the region seem likely to lose out.
Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) is CEO and editor at large of Foreign Policy.
Title: | Foreign Policy: The ugly choice in the Middle East | 8 | Flan2021 | newsroom:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Here is a dialogue:
Raphael: I'm leaving this shithole
Ricky: wait, I have some quite good stuff here
Amalia: let him go, it doesn't make sense
Raphael: sorry guys, I've already left
Write a short summary! | Raphael has left Ricky and Amalia. | 1 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your story that continues the following story.
Joe never heard any responses on the phone about the school meeting. And then the
Possible answers: a). phone activized.; b). meeting activized.; | a). | 2 | Flan2021 | winogrande:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your answer: is the following review positive or negative?
What an insanely rude group of people. Even the Gold counter. I inquired about possible upgrades and waiving the 1 hour $15 charge. Totally rude rude.
OPTIONS:
(a). negative;
(b). positive; | (a). | 4 | Flan2021 | yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0 | zs_opt |
Wewehadtopacktherecorderinbubblewrapandaluminumfoil,soitwasimpossibletooperateit.After3attempts,thesoundwasfinallycorrectly.
What's a sentence that uses these characters? | We we had to pack the recorder in bubble wrap and aluminum foil, so it was impossible to operate it. After 3 attempts, the sound was finally correctly. | 1 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
This text is missing some spaces, please add them: RussiaGosloto645numbers-Thursday15September2016
| Russia Gosloto645 numbers - Thursday 15 September 2016 | 5 | Flan2021 | word_segment | zs_opt |
Energy is stored in chemical compounds. This energy is called chemical energy. Chemical energy is a form of potential energy. When bonds between atoms are broken, energy is released. The wood in fireplaces has chemical energy. The energy is released as heat and light when the wood burns. Most living things get their energy from food. When food molecules are broken down, the energy is released. It may then be used to do work, like playing ball or studying science. If you have ever heard, "Eat a good breakfast", thats why. You need energy to do things during the day. To do those things you need energy. You get your energy from the food you eat. That energy is stored in your body until you need it. How did you get to school today? If you walked, you used chemical energy from the food you ate. What if you rode the bus or were driven in a car? Where did that energy come from?
After reading the above, is "Solar energy" the correct answer to the question "What type of energy does wood have?"?
Pick from: (i) no. (ii) yes. | (i) | 6 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
On Sunday, Republican Rep. Todd Akin said:
"First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sunday. "If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
Just about everyone on the planet condemned his remarks. Heck, even Mitt Romney's campaign issued a statement—admittedly, the mildest statement possible—disagreeing with the statement. Mitt slept on it and then decided he's also "offended."
But there was one person who thought Akin raised a really good point: Politico reporter Dave Catanese, who is officially covering Akin's Senate race in Missouri. What followed was nothing short of amazing.
@davecatanese via web Ok, I'm gonna (ask for it) & defend @ToddAkin for argument's sake. We all know what he was trying to say . . .
Catanese should have stopped there, of course. What kind of asshole announces that he's going to defend someone whom the rest of the world agrees has said something indefensible? But he didn't stop there.
@davecatanese via web Poor phrasing, but if you watch the intv @ToddAkin meant to convey that there's less chance of getting pregnant if raped.
How does Catanese know what Akin really meant to say? No idea. Not that it matters since what Catanese says Akin really meant to say is still completely 100 percent wrong.
@davecatanese via web So perhaps some can agree that all rapes that are reported are not actually rapes? Or are we gonna really deny that for PC sake?
Aaaaaand here Catanese pulls out the old "bitches be lying" canard. It's a classic among rape apologists who think that women are asking to be raped if they wear a dress or go out at night, or maybe they just secretly hope to be raped when they say "no" but really mean "yes," or that women are just flat-out lying about being raped so they can cash in on fabulous gifts and prizes. That's the official position of the Republican Party, after all.
@davecatanese via web So looks like he meant to say -- "If a woman was REALLY raped, it's statistically less likely for her to get pregnant." What's the science?
What's the science? Um, well, Dave, the science is pretty easily available if you want to take half a second to actually Google it. But hey, why bother when you can just keep spouting nonsense, right? So much easier to continue defending the indefensible.
@davecatanese via web So maybe. Just maybe, @ToddAkin didn't really mean 'legitimate.' Perhaps he meant if 'someone IS really raped' or 'a rape really occurs'
Riiiiight. If only Akin had said "real" rape instead of "legitimate" rape, that would have made everything he said okay. Which is, of course, exactly what Akin tried to do today when he explained that he meant to say "forcible rape" instead of "legitimate rape." Of course, putting any kind of qualifier in front of the word "rape" just perpetuates the false distinction between real/legitimate/forcible rape and not-really-rape. So you can see why this slimy dodge would be appealing to Akin.
Catanese should have stepped away from the computer. That's what everyone on Twitter was telling him to do—in between pointing out how pathetically wrong he was. But that only made him pull out the other classic canard.
@davecatanese via web The left is often 1st to shut down debate as "off limits" when it deems so. Aren't these moments supposed to open up a larger debate?
That's right. There's nothing wrong with what Akin said, or with Catanese defending and explaining what Akin said. It's those damned lefties who are always correcting people with their lefty "facts." After all, someone somewhere said something, which automatically makes it worthy of "larger debate."
@davecatanese via web Perhaps we should take @ToddAkin exactly at his word. And those who do believe he thinks there are some rapes that are 'legitimate.'
Well, actually, no one disputed that we should take Akin at his word. He thinks women have magic ladyparts that can distinguish between consensual sperm and rape sperm, allowing their bodies to "shut it down" so they don't get pregnant. No reason to think Akin doesn't believe it. But of course, no one except Catanese was saying that. But Catanese decided to stop while he was behind, until, like Mitt Romney, he had a chance to sleep on it.
@davecatanese via Twitter for iPhone Re last night: Bad idea trying to have nuanced conversation on highly charged issue on here. Did not intend to take a side. Lesson learned.
So cute. Poor little victim Dave Catanese was just trying to "open up a larger debate" and "have nuanced conversation" about whether women do, in fact, have magic rape-sperm-detecting ladyparts. It's not like he was trying to take a side—even though he started the conversation by announcing that he was going to defend Akin.
But Catanese is right about one thing: This does seem like a moment to open up a larger debate:
POLITICO reporter Joe Williams has been suspended pending review of recent controversial comments he made on television and Twitter, POLITICO editors informed staff late Thursday night. On MSNBC today, Williams made a remark suggesting Mitt Romney was only comfortable around white people. The video was first flagged by conservative website Washington Free Beacon. Breitbart.com ran the video and also flagged a series of tweets Williams had written that made fun of the Republican candidate, particularly in regard to his wealth. "Regrettably, an unacceptable number of Joe Williams's public statements on cable and Twitter have called into question his commitment to this responsibility," POLITICO's founding editors John Harris and Jim VandeHei wrote in a memo to the staff. "His comment about Governor Romney earlier today on MSNBC fell short of our standards for fairness and judgment in an especially unfortunate way."
So is Politico going to suspend Catanese as well? Do his tweets meet their "standards for fairness and judgment"? Why should Politico keep on its payroll a reporter who defends the indefensible, doesn't understand what rape is, isn't clear on the science of where babies come from (and is too lazy to look it up), and blames "the left" for pointing out how wrong he is about everything?
If Politico doesn't get rid of Catanese double quick does that mean Politico stands by Catanese's Twitter meltdown?
This seems like a nuanced conversation we should definitely be having.
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Todd Akin, beneficiary of experimental tweets from Politico reporter. (Jeff Roberson/Associated Press)
Catanese was among the few to attempt a defense of Akin, who made a stream of boneheaded and plain wrong statements about rape, pregnancy and female biology to a St. Louis TV station.
For the sake of “argument,” Catanese tried to see the controversy from Akin’s side, writing, “We all know what he was trying to say.”
A genuine Twitter beatdown then materialized.
Here’s the memo in response from Politico Editor-in-Chief John Harris and Executive Editor Jim VandeHei:
From: John Harris
Sent: Mon 8/20/2012 5:33 PM
To: TP-Edit
Subject: Twitter
We have had newsroom conversations about the importance of good judgment on social platforms like Twitter and the perils of letting that slip.
Unfortunately, today offered a good example. David Catanese crossed a line a reporter shouldn’t cross on Twitter when he seemed to weigh in on the merits of Todd Akin’s comments — especially in a way many people, including many POLITICO colleagues, understandably found offensive.
Dave’s tweets on Akin created a distraction to his own work, and to the newsroom as a whole. They also made himself part of the story, requiring us for now to remove him from Akin coverage.
Today’s episode is a reminder that we need to be paying more attention to the ongoing issue of the right way for POLITICO journalists to be using social media. We have raised this issue before, and if you have questions about how this applies to your own work please speak with your direct editor.
John
Jim
[UPDATED at 7:53 p.m.]
Analysis: Expect some static on Twitter and elsewhere slighting Politico for a double standard: That is, why does it suspend and then part ways with former White House correspondent Joe Williams, yet only tweak the beat assignment of Catanese?
Such chatter, in fact, is already available:
So there’s the allegation: A double standard prevails at Politico. A fun story line, if only all the facts were at hand to support it. They’re not.
Williams, during the spring, had been tweeting out some stuff that drew the notice of his supervisors at Politico. The tweets suggested a political tilt on his part. He did a penis joke aimed at Mitt Romney and hammered Republican views on voter fraud, among other thoughts. As first reported on this blog, Williams got a talking-to regarding the tweets. Cool it, came the message from Politico leadership. Okay, responded Williams.
Weeks after that episode, Williams appeared again on the radar of Politico brass, when he appeared on MSNBC and suggested that Romney didn’t felt comfy only in the presence of white people. Suspension time! Not long thereafter, Williams was out the door.
That sequence of events speaks well for Politico’s move on Catanese, at least in terms of disciplinary consistency. When Politico saw an issue with Williams’s tweets back in May, they reprimanded him; when Politico saw an issue with Catanese’s tweets, they reprimanded him and adjusted his responsibilities.
The brushback from Politico bosses has the feel of appropriateness. An all-staff memo starring Catanese has gone out to the world; he has to face his colleagues, knowing how much embarrassment he has caused; he has to somehow navigate around one of the best stories of the political season. And Twitter won’t let him forget it, either. Every tweet the guy produces post-Akin-experiment surely produces an ounce or two of viscous sweat. Catanese has got to be an apocrine mess at this point. |||||
What is a one-paragraph summary of the above article? | – Politico has yanked a reporter off coverage of controversial Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin after the writer defended the congressman's comments about "legitimate rape" victims, reports the Washington Post. Akin claimed—then apologized for his comments—that some mysterious biological mechanism stops "legitimate rape" victims from getting pregnant, so they don't need abortions. Politico reporter David Catanese tweeted: "Ok, I'm gonna (ask for it) and defend Todd Akin for argument's sake. We all know what he was trying to say. Poor phrasing, but if you watch the interview, Todd Akin meant to convey that there's less chance of getting pregnant if raped." In fact, there's no medical evidence that chances of pregnancy are reduced in cases of rape. Catanese also wrote: "Perhaps some can agree that all rapes that are reported are not actually rapes? Or are we gonna really deny that for PC sake?" Politico editor-in-chief John Harris said in a memo to staff that Catanese "crossed a line a reporter shouldn't cross when he seemed to weigh in on the merits of Todd Akin's comments—especially in a way many people, including Politico colleagues, understandably found offensive. Dave's tweet created a distraction to his own work, and to the newsroom," Harris added. "They also made himself part of the story, requiring us for now to remove him from Akin coverage." Catanese then tweeted: "Bad idea trying to have nuanced conversation on highly charged issue on here. Did not intend to take a side. Lesson learned." | 3 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
What is an example of a tweet? | home now. make sure to watch anand chandrasekher's keynote at next week's computex. i'm the one who set up and tested the demo machines. | 7 | Flan2021 | sentiment140:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a sentence that includes all the following words: grow, tree, trunk | trees with ivy growing up the trunk | 5 | Flan2021 | gem/common_gen:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Translate to French:
Significant biomass reductions have also been found in clover species in South and Central Europe; The programme has identified ozone injury on over 20 important crops growing in commercial fields in Europe.
| Des réductions sensibles de la biomasse ont également été observées sur diverses espèces de trèfles en Europe méridionale et centrale; b) Le programme a constaté des lésions dues à l'ozone sur plus de 20 cultures commerciales importantes en Europe. | 4 | Flan2021 | wmt14_translate/fr-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
The hijackers attacked at 9:28. While traveling 35,000 feet above eastern Ohio, United 93 suddenly dropped 700 feet. Eleven seconds into the descent, the FAA's air traffic control center in Cleveland received the first of two radio transmissions from the aircraft. During the first broadcast, the captain or first officer could be heard declaring "Mayday" amid the sounds of a physical struggle in the cockpit. The second radio transmission, 35 seconds later, indicated that the fight was continuing. The captain or first officer could be heard shouting:" Hey get out of here-get out of here-get out of here." On the morning of 9/11, there were only 37 passengers on United 93-33 in addition to the 4 hijackers. This was below the norm for Tuesday mornings during the summer of 2001. But there is no evidence that the hijackers manipulated passenger levels or purchased additional seats to facilitate their operation. The terrorists who hijacked three other commercial flights on 9/11 operated in five-man teams. They initiated their cockpit takeover within 30 minutes of takeoff. On Flight 93, however, the takeover took place 46 minutes after takeoff and there were only four hijackers. The operative likely intended to round out the team for this flight, Mohamed al Kahtani, had been refused entry by a suspicious immigration inspector at Florida's Orlando International Airport in August. Because several passengers on United 93 described three hijackers on the plane, not four, some have wondered whether one of the hijackers had been able to use the cockpit jump seat from the outset of the flight. FAA rules allow use of this seat by documented and approved individuals, usually air carrier or FAA personnel. We have found no evidence indicating that one of the hijackers, or anyone else, sat there on this flight. All the hijackers had assigned seats in first class, and they seem to have used them. We believe it is more likely that Jarrah, the crucial pilot-trained member of their team, remained seated and inconspicuous until after the cockpit was seized; and once inside, he would not have been visible to the passengers.
Choose your answer: According to the above paragraph, the correct answer to the question "How many seconds into decent was the second call?" is "35 seconds"?
Available choices:
+no;
+yes; | no | 5 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Which of the following groups of organisms uses sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugar and oxygen?
Choices: I. carnivores; II. decomposers; III. herbivores; IV. producers;
| IV. | 3 | Flan2021 | unified_qa_science_inst | zs_opt |
To finish the story- we get to a taxi by 3 am and off we go to the bus station . We got a little tour of NYC and went through time square which was crazy busy for 3:30am . We get our tickets and wait until 5 am to take the bus home . Finally we got home at 3:30pm .
Possible answers: A. They were on a long taxi ride .; B. They were on a long bus ride .; C. They were in a taxi for a long time .; D. They were on a long subway ride .;
Q: Why is the narrator so tired when they got home ? | B. | 1 | Flan2021 | cosmos_qa:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
size of the room: 15.6 m²
Repeat this setence, but with the correct capitalization. | Size of the room: 15.6 m² | 4 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
Continue writing the following text.
Erica went to the boutique to buy the balm instead of the cream she usually used because the
Select from the following.
(A). balm was pricey.;
(B). cream was pricey.; | (B). | 4 | Flan2021 | winogrande:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Background: The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential music band. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several musical styles, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways. In 1963 their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania"; as the group's music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the band were integral to pop music's evolution into an art form and to the development of the counterculture of the 1960s.
Context: Touring internationally in June and July, the Beatles staged 37 shows over 27 days in Denmark, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand. In August and September they returned to the US, with a 30-concert tour of 23 cities. Generating intense interest once again, the month-long tour attracted between 10,000 and 20,000 fans to each 30-minute performance in cities from San Francisco to New York. In August, journalist Al Aronowitz arranged for the Beatles to meet Bob Dylan. Visiting the band in their New York hotel suite, Dylan introduced them to cannabis. Gould points out the musical and cultural significance of this meeting, before which the musicians' respective fanbases were "perceived as inhabiting two separate subcultural worlds": Dylan's audience of "college kids with artistic or intellectual leanings, a dawning political and social idealism, and a mildly bohemian style" contrasted with their fans, "veritable 'teenyboppers' - kids in high school or grade school whose lives were totally wrapped up in the commercialised popular culture of television, radio, pop records, fan magazines, and teen fashion. To many of Dylan's followers in the folk music scene, the Beatles were seen as idolaters, not idealists." Within six months of the meeting, according to Gould, "Lennon would be making records on which he openly imitated Dylan's nasal drone, brittle strum, and introspective vocal persona"; and six months after that, Dylan began performing with a backing band and electric instrumentation, and "dressed in the height of Mod fashion". As a result, Gould continues, the traditional division between folk and rock enthusiasts "nearly evaporated", as the Beatles' fans began to mature in their outlook and Dylan's audience embraced the new, youth-driven pop culture. During the 1964 US tour, the group were confronted with the reality of racial segregation in the country at the time, particularly in the South. When informed that the 11 September show at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida was to be held at a segregated venue, the Beatles expressed astonishment and announced that they would refuse to perform unless the show become integrated. Lennon stated: "We never play to segregated audiences and we aren't going to start now ... I'd sooner lose our appearance money." The group's stand drew controversy in the local media, but city officials relented and agreed to allow an integrated show. On the tour the group also refused to stay in segregated hotels. Documents reveal that for their subsequent US tours in 1965 and 1966, the Beatles included clauses in contracts stipulating that shows be integrated.
Question: Where else did they play in 1964?
Answer: | 4 | Flan2021 | quac:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
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Which children's TV show featured a rag doll called Madeleine, a toad called Gabriel, a group of mice and a woodpecker called Professor Yaffle? | bagpuss | 1 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a context and a hypothesis. | Context: "Breathe" is a country pop song written and performed by American singer-songwriters Taylor Swift and Colbie Caillat. Produced by Nathan Chapman and Swift, it is the seventh track from Swift's second studio album, "Fearless" (2008). The song was written about the end of a friendship. Musically, the song is driven by acoustic guitar.
Hypothesis: "Breathe" by written by Taylor Swift and Colbie Caillat is a song about the end of a friendship. | 9 | Flan2021 | anli/r1:0.1.0 | zs_opt |
1. Jones admirably steers clear of the pitfalls of what could potentially be a preposterous (and borderline offensive) character.
2. A mixed-genre mutt that cribs liberally from John Ford to fashion a tale of families battling the elements, the frontier, and each other.
3. The movie often works against its own best interests.
4. Where The Searchers challenged assumptions and attitudes still current in 1956, Howard's film embraces, if not panders to, politically correct current attitudes
5. The film will resonate deeply not only with parents, but with all of us who followed the Elizabeth Smart case and, sadly, dozens more like it.
6. There's a pretty good Western hidden somewhere amid the extraneous scenes, unnecessary characters and adoring shots of the New Mexico wilderness, but Howard didn't have the heart to cut his movie.
7. A movie is only as good as its villain, so they say, and the new film The Missing has a particularly lousy one.
8. The elements of popular entertainment are in place, but there's frustration in the failure of the script to delve further into issues it raises, but never really explores.
9. Ron Howard's answer to 'The Searchers' is a tone poem -- whose tone has gone disastrously, horribly wrong.
10. It's an entertaining and gripping film, with stunning production values and magnetic performances. And yet the script's continual pandering to Hollywood cliches lets it down.
Write a one sentence summary of the reviews above. | An expertly acted and directed Western. But like other Ron Howard features, the movie is hardly subtle. | 0 | Flan2021 | opinion_abstracts_rotten_tomatoes | zs_opt |
A plant produces tiny plants around the edges of its leaves. When these tiny plants fall to the ground, they take root and become new plants. This process is an example of
Choose from:
+ sexual reproduction.
+ asexual reproduction.
+ evolution.
+ extinction.
| asexual reproduction | 3 | Flan2021 | unified_qa_science_inst | zs_opt |
Here is a dialogue:
Marisa: did someone delete the ppt presentations that were in our inbox?
Luke: i was about to ask you the same. can't find it nowhere
Austin: what presentations
Marisa: Lopez sent it like 3 weeks ago
Emilia: hey the test is tomorrow, right?
Marisa: yes Em, that's why i'm trying to find these fucking presentations
Emilia: shit, i wanted to download them today
Luke: well, now you can't
Austin: do you guys have those emails forwarded to your private address
Marisa: good question. I think some dum-dum deleted them from their own account
Luke: news flash - when ya delete smth from your private inbox, it also gest deleted from our group inbox
Emilia: no shit guys... I know that
Marisa: yeah but someone maybe did not
Doug: omg overreacting much? i've checked trash and it's still there
Marisa: yeah but why do we have to rescue it from trash, just don't be an idiot in the first place
Doug: jeeeez, calm down Marisa
Luke: wellll she's kinda right, we sometimes empty he trash folder coz it takes up the cloud storage
Emilia: ok, good thing we have those emails at all
Marisa: i think I know who did this
Emilia: i don't fucking care tbh
Doug: whoever did this, just remember not to delete anything forwarded please
Write a short summary! | Marisa and Luke can't find the presentations they need for tomorrow's test. Someone deleted them by accident and they ended up in trash. | 1 | Flan2021 | samsum:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Select from options: Continue writing the next sentence.
How to yodel
Identify the break between the chest and upper registers.
Yodeling requires you to switch between your chest register (normal voice) and upper register (falsetto). Where normal voice transitions to falsetto, there will be a break or voiceless gap in your tone.
Possible answers: (a). You can identify a pause in the conversation. Switch between these two volumes, and figure out whether you will need to hum to achieve the spoken falsetto. (b). You'll have to vocally jump back-and-forth across this break when yodeling. Your normal voice will vibrate your chest and have a mellow sound. (c). Think about what type of voice you have, what tone, and when. Thus, you might block out certain vowel sounds using the inside register (falsetto), which are the lower registers of your voice. (d). Your falsetto is the higher register, and gives you a distinctive tone. Falsetto refers to a slow or slowing stutter-phrase.
Answer: | (b). | 2 | Flan2021 | hellaswag:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Marsha loves playing with her noodle friend. She had it for a long time so it is now a dark brown color. When her mom first made it, it was white. The night she met her noodle friend was spaghetti night. Marsha's favorite dinner was spaghetti, which happened to be every Tuesday night. On one Tuesday, a piece of spaghetti fell on the kitchen floor. To Marsha, it looked like a stick man so she kept him. She named her new noodle friend Joey and took him everywhere she went. Sometimes Joey gets a little dried out so Marsha's mom told her to soak him in water every few days. There were a couple times that the family dog, Mika, has tried to take Joey from Marsha and eat him! So from now on, Marsha takes extra special care to make sure Joey is safe and sound at all times. During the day she keeps him in a plastic bag in her pocket. At night, she puts him under her pillow. She loves Joey and wants to always be friends with him.
Question: "What time of day did Marsha's mom make the noodle?"
Response: "Night"
Based on the paragraph, is the response to the question is factually correct?
pick from the following.
[i] no.
[ii] yes. | [ii] | 1 | Flan2021 | super_glue/multirc:1.0.2 | zs_opt |
Answer this question.
Lightning McQueen, Doc Hudson and Fillmore are all characters in which 2006 animated Disney film? | cars | 4 | Flan2021 | trivia_qa/rc:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
What is the sentiment of the following movie (choose your answer from the options) review sentence?
, er , bubbly
OPTIONS: 1. negative. 2. positive.
The answer is: | 2. | 5 | Flan2021 | glue/sst2:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Answer this question: Cats are most closely related to which of the following animals?
Pick your answer from:
+ crocodiles.
+ whales.
+ frogs.
+ penguins.. Answer: | whales | 9 | Flan2021 | unified_qa_science_inst | zs_opt |
I would like to thank everyone who made this outcome possible: the co-rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs who have co-signed the compromise.
Translate to Finnish
Finnish: | Kiitän kaikkia, jotka ovat mahdollistaneet tämän tuloksen: apulaisesittelijöitä ja varjoesittelijöitä, jotka ovat myös allekirjoittaneet kompromissin. | 0 | Flan2021 | wmt16_translate/fi-en:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Generate a sentence, and then tell me the concepts included in that sentence. | Sentence:
politician during his speech at a rally
Concepts:
politician
rally
speech | 9 | Flan2021 | gem/common_gen:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
The Race (United States Census) of the city was 60.3% White, 24.7% Black or African American (2013 ACS doesnt say Davenport is 25% African American, but 11%-14%, depending on how the population was measured), 0.4% Native American, 2.0% Asian, and 2.4% from two or more races. 10.2% of the population was Hispanics in the United States or Latino of any race. There were 39,124 households out of which 31.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.0% were married couples living together, 13.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.6% were non-families. Of all households, 29.5% were made up of individuals and 9.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.44 and the average family size was 3.03.
Ask a question about this article. | How many percent were not homes with children under the age of 18? | 9 | Flan2021 | drop:2.0.0 | zs_opt |
Please capitalize where necessary: on that day there came to him sadducees, they that say that there is no resurrection: and they asked him, | On that day there came to him Sadducees, they that say that there is no resurrection: and they asked him, | 8 | Flan2021 | true_case | zs_opt |
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. --A missing Connecticut man texted his son the day he vanished that he was worried about being set up for murder, according to a criminal complaint obtained by 48 Hours' Crimesider charging the son with a federal gun offense.
Fifty-six-year-old Jeffrey Navin and his wife, 55-year-old Jeanette Navin of Easton haven't been seen since Aug. 4, and the mystery of their disappearance has garnered national headlines. Their car was found in a commuter lot off the Merritt Parkway in Westport Aug. 9 by state troopers, according to Connecticut State Police, reportedly with a smashed window.
Police said they learned that the couple owed more than $2 million, much of it tied to a home in Guilford. But relatives have denied that the debt was related to their disappearance. Searches of landfills in the area have turned up no trace of human remains.
Their son Kyle Navin, 27, appeared in federal court in Bridgeport Monday afternoon on a charge of possession of a firearm by an individual who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance. Kyle Navin was questioned by investigators following his parents' disappearance, and state police spent hours searching his Bridgeport home, reported CBS affiliate WFSB. Police have called him a "person of interest" in the case, according to the station.
He has not been charged in connection to the disappearance.
A federal affidavit in support of the gun charge reveals new details about the last known activities of Jeanette and Jeffrey Navin and Kyle Navin's statements to investigators, some of which allegedly don't match evidence collected by investigators. It also details items uncovered during the search of Kyle Navin's home -- allegedly including two firearms, numerous rounds of ammunition, prescription bottles for Xanax and Oxycodone, hypodermic needles and glassine bags with apparent heroin residue -- and outlines cell phone records.
According to the complaint, released by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut, Kyle and Jeffrey Navin exchanged text messages between 11:40 a.m. and 1:14 p.m. on the day Jeffrey and his wife disappeared. Jeffrey Navin allegedly texted his son, "I'm not going home till I know mom is okay" and "Did you hurt mom?" to which the younger Navin replied, "No absolutely not. Why would you think"
Jeffrey Navin allegedly texted back, "I go home and get framed for murder" and "I'm going to the police first." Later, according to the complaint, the elder Navin texted his son, "UR setting me up."
The exchange stands in contrast to the younger Navin's statement to investigators that he only discussed work with his father the day he disappeared, the complaint alleges. Kyle Navin worked for the family business, J & J Refuse, a Westport-based trash removal and recycling collection service. The company's website listed Jeffrey Navin as the president and Kyle Navin as its operations manager.
The couple was reported missing Aug. 7 by Jeffrey Navin's brother William, who co-owns the refuse company, according to the complaint. William Navin told Easton Police Jeffrey Navin hadn't shown up for work, which was unusual, he said, because he never missed work without making arrangements to have his refuse pickup route covered.
According to the complaint, Kyle Navin was interviewed by law enforcement three times -- on Aug. 9 and Aug. 11 at the Easton Police Department and Aug. 13 at the Connecticut State Police barracks in Bridgeport. He allegedly told investigators on Aug. 9 that he last spoke with his father "sometime around noon" Aug. 4 when his father called to ask about a new customer. He said his parents often went away on short trips, but acknowledged it was unusual for his father to miss work.
On Aug. 11, Kyle Navin allegedly told investigators that he met his mother on the morning of Aug. 4, at the park and ride near Exit 42 on the Merritt Parkway, and that his mother got into his garbage truck and they collected refuse along his usual route. He said his back started hurting between 9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., so he called his father and arranged to meet him at a nursery, where his mother got into his father's truck around 10:30 a.m, according to the complaint. Kyle Navin said he drove back to his home in Bridgeport and remained there until around 12:30, when he drove to his parents' home in Easton to pick up a paycheck his father had left taped to the door before returning to Bridgeport.
He allegedly said he spent the next three days at his home because of his back injury.
Interviewed again at the state police barracks on Aug. 13, Kyle Navin repeated the story, but this time also told investigators that he returned to his home around 9:20 a.m. Aug. 4 with his mother. He allegedly said he needed to pick up paperwork delineating his refuse route for his mother, because he had asked her to complete his route for the day.
Kyle Navin "denied discussing any issue related to his mother or her safety" on the phone with his father that day, according to the complaint.
Jeanette Navin's cellphone last registered at a cell tower near her son's home at 9:20 a.m. Aug. 4, according to the complaint -- her husband's last call was placed the same day around 1:23 p.m. and accessed the same cell tower. At both times, Kyle Navin's phone also pinged off the same cell tower, the complaint says.
Investigators also outline an interview with Kyle Navin's girlfriend, who allegedly told them Kyle asked her to follow him in her car to his parents' house in Easton as Kyle drove his father's truck. The woman said Kyle parked his father's car at the Easton house and the two returned to Bridgeport together in her car. The movement of the two vehicles was captured on security cameras, according to the complaint.
In searching Kyle Navin's home based on the cell records and surveillance footage, the complaint says investigators uncovered a Home Depot receipt issued Aug. 5 indicating Kyle Navin purchased "germicidal bleach, hair/grease drain opener, 'Goo Gone' stain remover and contractor cleanup bags."
In a search of his cellphone, investigators uncovered texts between Kyle Navin and his girlfriend about doing drugs, the complaint alleges. When investigators asked the woman about guns uncovered in the home, she allegedly told investigators Kyle "really likes his gun" and carries it often.
Investigators interviewed an unidentified person who appeared to be contacting Kyle Navin in order to buy Oxycodone, according to the complaint -- Kyle allegedly told the person Aug. 5 "he was dealing with a lot of family issues and that it looked like his parents were missing," though he told police he first learned of the disappearance from his uncle Aug. 6.
Reached by phone Tuesday, Kyle Navin's lawyer Eugene Riccio had no comment on the allegations outlined in the complaint. He said his client is in federal custody and a detention hearing will be set for later in the week.
The federal gun charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut. Kyle Navin hasn't yet entered a plea, Riccio said. ||||| Kyle Navin, the son of the Easton couple who have been missing since Aug. 4, is being held on federal gun charges after his arrest Tuesday, and startling new details found in the arrest affidavit further deepen the mystery surrounding his parents' disappearance.
Navin was detained after appearing in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport. He was charged with possession of a firearm by an individual who is an unlawful user of, or addicted to, a controlled substance.
In an Aug. 4 text-message conversation, detailed in a 15-page FBI arrest warrant, Navin's father, Jeffrey, asked his son if he hurt his mother, Jeanette Navin. This is part of the conversation between Kyle Navin, 27, and his father that investigators found on Kyle's phone:
12:39 p.m., Jeffrey: I'm not going home till I know mom is okay.
12:42 p.m., Jeffrey: Did you hurt mom?
12:43 p.m., Kyle: No absolutely not. Why would you think
12:44 p.m., Jeffrey: I go home and get framed for murder
12:45 p.m., Kyle: Oh stop
12:48 p.m., Jeffrey: I'm going to the police first
12:50 p.m., Kyle: Ok and reason being?
12:57 p.m., Jeffrey: U R setting me up
12:58 p.m., Kyle: Dad really what are you talking about?
Kyle Navin has not been charged in his parents' disappearance. Navin's lawyer declined comment after the court appearance.
The affidavit says the text conversation between Kyle and Jeffrey Navin led investigators to search Kyle Navin's Bridgeport home. It then details the findings of drugs, weapons and ammunition at the home.
In addition, police discovered a receipt from Home Depot that was issued on Aug. 5 at 8:36 p.m. The receipt showed that Kyle Navin purchased germicidal bleach, hair and grease drain opener, Goo Gone stain remover and contractor cleanup bags.
Lawyer For Son Of Missing Easton Couple Leaves Court Tuesday Attorney Eugene J. Riccio, the lawyer for Kyle Navin, the son of the missing Easton couple, was seen leaving court Tuesday after defending Navin on gun charges. Attorney Eugene J. Riccio, the lawyer for Kyle Navin, the son of the missing Easton couple, was seen leaving court Tuesday after defending Navin on gun charges. See more videos
Written by FBI Special Agent Michael Zuk, the affidavit also states that "the cell phone activity and text messages between (Kyle) Navin and Jeffrey (Navin) on August 4, 2015 do not accord with (Kyle) Navin's statements to law enforcement."
Investigators have examined the cellphone records of all three Navins. They determined that the last time Jeanette's phone was used was at 9:20 a.m. on Aug. 4 near Park Avenue in Bridgeport. The last time Jeffrey's cellphone was turned on was 1:23 p.m. on the same day from the same area in Bridgeport, records show.
On Aug. 4, the affidavit states, security cameras in Easton captured a video of someone driving Jeffrey's garbage truck on Center Road. The camera caught Kyle Navin's girlfriend's vehicle following closely behind the truck.
Approximately 29 minutes later the same video camera showed the girlfriend driving the opposite way on Center Road away from the Navins' house. Jeffrey's garbage truck was found at the house when police went there on Aug. 7, the document indicates.
When state police interviewed the girlfriend she initially "lied," until confronted with the video, the affidavit said. She then admitted to following Kyle Navin back to his parents' house and giving him a ride home to Bridgeport. The affidavit said the girlfriend "could offer no reason as to why or how Jeffrey's truck came to be in Bridgeport or why Kyle Navin needed to drive it back to Easton."
Jeffrey Navin is the president of J&J Refuse in Westport. Jeanette Navin works for the Weston school system. Kyle Navin works for the refuse company.
Jeffrey's truck was found near Exit 42 off the Merritt Parkway in Westport by a state police trooper on routine patrol on Aug. 9. The passenger's side window was smashed and police found a "physiological fluid" on the floor mat, police sources have said.
On Aug. 9, according to the affidavit, Kyle Navin told investigators he last saw his parents on Aug. 4 at work. Two days later, the document says, Kyle Navin again spoke with investigators.
"This time" he told investigators he met his mother at a parking lot near Exit 42, the document states. He said his mother got into his garbage truck and "that he and his mother went to collect garbage along his usual route." He told investigators he dropped his mother off at a nursery near the exit where they met his father. Jeanette Navin got into Jeffrey Navin's truck at that point, Kyle Navin told investigators.
Kyle Navin told investigators he went to his Bridgeport home before driving to his parent's home in Easton to pick up his paycheck, which his father taped to the door. He went back home and remained there for the majority of the next three days, he said.
On Aug. 13, the affidavit indicates, Kyle Navin told police he met both his parents at the parking lot on the morning of Aug. 4. He told investigators he could not finish his garbage route because of back pain. He said that because his mother did not know his route, he drove her to his Bridgeport home to get paperwork that showed the route. They drove back to Westport, where Jeneatte got out of his truck and into Jeffrey's, he told investigators.
He told investigators that the only other contact he had that day with his parents was "telephonic contact with his father that related solely to work." Sources said that Kyle Navin has refused to take a polygraph test when questioned by state police detectives.
Investigators searched Navin's Bridgeport home on Aug. 13. They seized two firearms and rounds of ammunition from Navin's bedroom, the arrest affidavit unsealed Tuesday indicates. A second search, on Aug. 19, uncovered brand-stamped glassine baggies with heroin residue, hypodermic needles, empty prescription bottles for oxycodone and prescription bottles containing other controlled substances, the affidavit indicates.
A court-authorized search of Navin's cellphone revealed text messages that discuss his use of heroin, oxycodone and Xanax, the complaint alleges. The charge carries a maximum term of 10 years in prison.
The affidavit states that an unidentified person told investigators they talked to Kyle Navin on Aug. 5 about buying oxycodone from him and that Kyle Navin told the buyer that "it looked like his parents were missing." That affidavit notes that conversation took place one day before "(Kyle) Navin allegedly first learned from his uncle that Jeffrey had not shown up for work on August 6, 2015."
A family member reported the Navins missing on Aug. 7 after Jeffrey Navin failed to pick up the garbage on his route for two days. In a search of the couple's Easton home police discovered a to-do list on the refrigerator, including such tasks as unplugging the dehumidifier and turning off all the lights. Police noted it seemed to be a list of things to do before taking a trip, the affidavit said.
Neither of the Navins' phones has been used since Aug. 4, and their bank accounts have been untouched, law enforcement records indicate. |||||
What is a one-paragraph summary of the above article? | – On the day he was last seen, police say Jeffrey Navin texted his son Kyle because he feared Kyle was about to frame him for the murder of Jeanette Navin, Jeffrey's wife and Kyle's mom, the Hartford Courant reports. It's only the latest wrinkle in the mysterious disappearance of the Connecticut couple last seen Aug. 4 while more than $2 million in debt. Kyle, 27, was arrested on federal gun charges this week, which led to the revelation of the strange Aug. 4 text conversation between him and his father. According to the Courant, the texts indicate Jeffrey was concerned Kyle had harmed Jeanette and that Jeffrey was being framed for her murder. "U R setting me up," Jeffrey texted Kyle. "Dad really what are you talking about," Kyle replied. At another point, Jeffrey asked, "Did you hurt mom?" and his son answered, "No absolutely not." But those texts are only part of what Kyle's arrest revealed about the case. Police say Kyle—an accused user of heroin, oxycodone, and Xanax—bought bleach, drain cleaner, stain remover, and cleanup bags the day after his parents were last seen, the Courant reports. According to CBS News, Kyle allegedly changed his story about when he last saw his parents more than once, and his girlfriend, faced with surveillance video, admitted to police they returned Jeffrey's work truck to the Navins' home Aug. 4 but couldn't explain why. The Courant reports Kyle has refused a polygraph test and may have also lied about when he first knew his parents were missing. According to CBS, Kyle is considered a person of interest in the disappearance of his parents, but police still have no idea what happened. (Click to read about what happens to America's missing and unidentified.) | 3 | Flan2021 | multi_news:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
Please check if these have the same meaning. OPT: (1). no. (2). yes.
McCreary is the brother of Bill McCreary Sr. , uncle of Bill McCreary Jr. and Bob Attwell , and the brother of Ron Attwell .
McCreary is the brother of Bill McCreary Sr. , the uncle of Bill McCreary Jr. and Bob Attwell , and the brother-in-law of Ron Attwell . | (1). | 9 | Flan2021 | paws_wiki:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
I just took a test in school today. What question was I asked? | Which statement is true about the particles of a liquid compared to the particles of a gas? | 9 | Flan2021 | ai2_arc/ARC-Challenge:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
UN probing alleged abuse by staff in DRC
The United Nations is investigating around 150 allegations of sexual abuse by UN civilian staff and soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Multi-choice problem: What is this text about?
Options:
+World;
+Sports;
+Business;
+Science/Tech; | World | 0 | Flan2021 | ag_news_subset:1.0.0 | zs_opt |
This is some data: Belgium, leader, Charles Michel; Antwerp International Airport, cityServed, Antwerp; Belgium, language, German language; Antwerp, country, Belgium.
Generate a detailed description of this data.
Sentence: | Antwerp International Airport serves the city of Antwerp which is a popular tourist destination in Belgium. One of the languages spoken in Belgium is German, and the leader is Charles Michel. | 3 | Flan2021 | gem/web_nlg_en:1.1.0 | zs_opt |
Choose your answer: is the following review positive or negative?
ATMOSPHERE WAS GREAT!!! SERVICE GREAT!!! FOOD AND WINE....TERRIBLE!!! if you have to go there TAKE YOUR OWN WINE....and ask for a stem glass, otherwise you get a water or juice glass. Do not order the Caesar salad, we were told the kitchen REFUSES to cut up the romaine or to split that salad. The main courses were only 1/2 bad due to over cooking....The "loaded baked potato" came without some of the what is was to be loaded with so I asked that they bring it to me and a tiny bit of chives came in a medicine cup of the smallest possible size. The bread could not be chewed as the crust was like leather. Parking is not good and there is no valet...so "gentlemen" drop your date at the door and then park....only 3 handicapped spots. When children misbehave or a baby continually screams a normal person would leave the restaurant but when then don't, I expect the management to handle the situation....they did not handle it last night and we had 2 ;hours of screaming. If the food was good then I would say the prices are fair.....now that is the best thing I can say about Vic's.
Choose from:
(i) negative;
(ii) positive; | (i) | 4 | Flan2021 | yelp_polarity_reviews:0.2.0 | zs_opt |
(CNN)Italy's former soccer coach Arrigo Sacchi has told CNN he's been misunderstood over comments attributed to him that there were "too many black players" in the country's youth ranks. Sacchi, who won back-to-back European Cup titles with AC Milan and led Italy to the World Cup final in 1994, has come under fire after speaking at an awards ceremony in Tuscany. "I'm not racist and my history as a coach shows that, but watching at the Viareggio Cup makes me think there are too many colored players," Sacchi was quoted as saying by the Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The Viareggio Cup is an important Italian youth tournament. "Business interests now come first. Italy has no dignity, it has no pride: you shouldn't have squads including 15 foreigners," added the 68-year-old in the Gazzetta interview. When contacted by CNN the former director of football at European champions Real Madrid explained: "It's the media -- some of them, not all of them -- which are always looking for scoops. "There's nothing I have to clarify, if there is ignorance and bad faith you can't clarify." Sacchi's successive European triumphs with AC Milan in 1988 and 1989 were completed with a team for whom black players Frank Rijkaard and Ruud Gullit were instrumental. He pointed to the Dutch pair as proof that he wasn't racist when clarifying his comments but reiterated his belief there were too many foreign players in Italy. It's a widely held belief in football that the more overseas players there are in a league the less likely it is a country's national team will be successful on the international stage. Italy last won the World Cup in 2006 and failed to escape the group stages at the 2010 and 2014 events. According to the respected CIES Football Observatory -- specialists in statistical analysis for football -- Italy has seen a bigger spike in overseas players than any of Europe's other big leagues since 2009. In an article published in November 2014, it said the percentage of non-Italian nationals had risen from 42.4% to 54.8%. "I just said that we don't have the Italian pride, we are losing our identity. I was watching a match today and I saw four black guys in a team," Sacchi told CNN. "They weren't labeled as foreigners, they were guys. I am 68, I have a 40-year history. Thirty years ago I made (Ruud) Gullit and (Frank) Rijkaard play, when you weren't even born. What do you want? "It's not a matter of color. I think the problem is having too many foreigners." Sacchi left his role as technical coordinator of youth development with the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) in July after four years, citing stress as the main factor. "I am leaving behind an assignment which I care a lot about, but I have a terrible adversary -- one I was able to manage for 22 or 23 years but that is now winning the battle -- and that is stress," he said on the FIGC's website at the time. When contacted by CNN, the FIGC said it would not be commenting directly on Sacchi's remarks given he was no longer an employee. But Diego Antenozio, from the FIGC, said: "Our engagement against racism both inside and outside the pitch is transparent and consistent. "I can firmly state that the FIGC believes and operates before the FIFA Regulations and Statutes, aims to include people without any sort prejudice and by granting everybody the opportunity to practice football beyond any race or gender as you can understand from this whole story." Sacchi's five-year stint in charge of the national team saw him guide Italy to its first World Cup final in 12 years when it faced Brazil in the 1994, only to lose on penalties. As well as his storied stint at Milan, Sacchi also had two spells at Italian club Parma and coached current Spanish champions Atletico Madrid. This is the latest in a line of incidents involving race to cloud Italian football. Last year world football's governing body FIFA banned the current FIGC president Carlo Tavecchio for six months after he referred to African players as "banana eaters." The 71-year-old waded into the debate that followed Italy's disappointing performance at the 2014 World Cup and said there should be more stringent criteria for foreign players to operate in Italy's leagues. Tavecchio was running to become president of the FIGC when he made the comments and though several Italian clubs withdrew their support, he was elected with 63% of the vote. UEFA also banned Tavecchio for six months but though the FIGC investigated his remarks it decided not to take any disciplinary action.
What are the important parts of this article? | Former Italy coach Arrigo Sacchi says his comments on black players were misunderstood. Sacchi was quoted as saying there were "too many black players" in the country's youth ranks. 68-year-old led Italy to the 1994 World Cup final and won two European Champions League titles with Milan. Sacchi: "I just said that we don't have the Italian pride, we are losing our identity." | 5 | Flan2021 | cnn_dailymail:3.4.0 | zs_opt |
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