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[ { "role": "user", "content": "In 1994 , the Polish ambassador to South Africa , Mr Durrant , presented the `` Warsaw Cross of Insurrection to SCieniuch 's widow .\nIn 1994 , the Polish ambassador to South Africa , Mr Scieniuch , presented the `` Warsaw Cross of Insurrection to Durrant 's widow .\n\nAre these two sentences paraphrases of each other?\nOptions are:\n 1). no.\n 2). yes.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "1)." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Answer by taking a quote from the following article:\n\nTedder was born the son of Sir Arthur John Tedder and Emily Charlotte Tedder (nee Bryson) at the Glenguin Distillery (now Glengoyne) in the Campsie Fells, north of Glasgow. His father was distinguished as the Commissioner of the Board of Customs who devised the old age pension scheme. His father's occupation meant that the young Tedder saw different parts of the British Isles, spending 1895 to 1898 in Lerwick on the Shetland Isles and 1899-1901 in Elgin, in the County of Moray. In 1902 the family moved to Croydon in Surrey and Tedder attended the Whitgift School until 1909, when he went up to the University of Cambridge.\n\nTedder was promoted to lieutenant in the Dorset Regiment on 14 October 1914, and arrived back in Britain in December. He was posted to a reserve unit at Wyke Regis on the Dorset coast where he seriously injured his knee in February. Following his injury Tedder was unable to carry out full infantry service and, although he briefly carried out duties at a base camp in Calais, he pressed for a transfer to the Royal Flying Corps. In January 1916, Tedder was accepted into the Royal Flying Corps and he was asked to attend the No. 1 School of Aeronautics. in Reading. He was promoted to captain on 21 March 1916. In April he attended the Central Flying School where he learned to fly and gained his 'wings'. In June 1916, Tedder served as a pilot with No. 25 Squadron RFC flying the Bristol Scout C on the Western Front. On 9 August 1916, Tedder was given additional responsibilities as he was made a flight commander with 25 Squadron. The first day of 1917 saw Tedder promoted to major and appointed officer commanding No. 70 Squadron RFC. Tedder remained on the Western Front and his new squadron was equipped with the Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter. He was awarded the Italian Silver Medal for Military Valour on 26 May 1917. Tedder was appointed officer commanding No. 67 Squadron at RFC Shawbury on 25 June 1917 and became commander of the School of Navigation and Bomb Dropping in Egypt the following year. Another change soon followed and on 24 June 1918 Tedder was appointed officer commanding 38th Wing, also based in Egypt. He was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant colonel on 23 July 1918 (rank relinquished on 2 April 1919).\n\nDid he earn any medals?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "He was awarded the Italian Silver Medal for Military Valour on 26 May 1917." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Tratatul de la Lisabona nu face inutil referire, pentru prima dată în istoria Uniunii Europene, la drepturile persoanelor care aparţin acestor minorităţi şi la valorile proprii acestora.\n\nWhich language is this?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Romanian" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Write an article based on this \"LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling has reversed course and decided not to sell the team to ex-Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer, his lawyer has said.\"\n\nArticle:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Mr Sterling, 80, will also pursue a lawsuit against the National Basketball Association (NBA), which he had said he would drop, Maxwell Blecher said.\nMr Ballmer was set to buy the team for $2bn (£1.2bn).\nMr Sterling was fined $2.5m and banned for life from the league after racist comments he made became public.\nOn Monday evening, Mr Blecher told the Associated Press news agency that Mr Sterling had decided not to support a deal to sell the team to Mr Ballmer.\nThe sale had been brokered by Mr Sterling's wife Shelly.\nIn April, an audio recording surfaced in which Mr Sterling appeared to be telling a woman, subsequently identified as his girlfriend or companion V Stiviano, not to associate in public with black people nor to bring them to Clippers games.\nThe remarks, published on celebrity news and gossip website TMZ, drew widespread scorn from everyone from retired basketball legends to current stars to President Barack Obama.\nSoon after, the NBA's leadership banned Mr Sterling from the game for life, fined him, and moved to force him to sell the team.\nMr Sterling sued the league, alleging it had violated his constitutional rights by relying on information from an \"illegal\" recording in taking action against him.\nHe also sought damages for the forceful termination of his ownership.\nOn 4 June, Mr Blecher told reporters his client had agreed to the sale to Mr Ballmer and had decided to drop his legal action against the NBA.\nExplaining the reversal of course, Mr Blecher said on Monday that Mr Sterling changed his mind upon learning the NBA would not revoke the ban and fine after the sale.\nIn a statement to NBC News, Mr Sterling said categorically \"I intend to fight to keep the team\".\n\"From the onset, I did not want to sell the Los Angeles Clippers,\" he said in the statement, according to NBC. \"I have worked for 33 years to build the team.\"\nHe apologised for the \"hurtful statements I made privately\" and said NBA commissioner Adam Silver acted illegally and in haste with the fine, ban and forced sale." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "The chosen stud for my 1999 litter was CFA GRC Mayopun Chakotay of Kiriki, bred by Juanita Carlson, owned by Ann Segrest in US. Chakotay was chosen for his interesting lines and because he was normal for both GMs. This mating resulted in 4 kittens - one boy, three girls:\n\nMake this lower case.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "the chosen stud for my 1999 litter was cfa grc mayopun chakotay of kiriki, bred by juanita carlson, owned by ann segrest in us. chakotay was chosen for his interesting lines and because he was normal for both gms. this mating resulted in 4 kittens - one boy, three girls:" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "(1) In connection with Taffy's report, please note the following: Aquila Canada Corp. - follow up Christiania Bank - need to send for execution Ospraie - send revisions (2) Also, what have you heard from Laurie about the Australian ISDA's and brokerage agreements? We should begin incorporating into our database. If we use your assistant, we should input data during the regular business day. (3) I have Jason helping me on about seven different brokerage arrangements and will soon need appropriate backup to send together with execution copies. I am keeping dummy files until these are finalized. \nPropose a subject line for this email?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Legal/Credit meeting, etc." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Seit dem Apes-Debüt ist er mit uns im Studio, wir vertrauen ihm einfach.\n\nWhich language is this?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "German" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Attributes: name = Loch Fyne, eatType = restaurant, food = Fast food, priceRange = less than £20, familyFriendly = yes. Produce a detailed sentence about this restaurant.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Loch Fyne fast food restaurant is inexpensive and family friendly." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "pick from the following. (a). W cleanses is a stylish job that you can do for the entirety of your couch. It's pricey and not a good idea, but a good price tag suggests that you might be making a home-made home.; (b). The letter w indicates water cleaning only, while s indicates solvent cleaning only. The tag sw means either a water or solvent based cleaner is safe.; (c). A basic 100% white polyester couch should have 2 stains as well as 2 other stains as a result of regular coffee spills, stains, and other stains. A homemade suede couch may have stains that show up in bright colors.; (d). For example, if you store a polyester couch in your home, you could use gray, oak, and either burgundy or red cushions as stains. In a kitchen, you could use white, maroon, and deep reds as stains.;Choose from options above and answer: What most naturally follows?\n\nHow to clean a polyester couch \nDecipher the couch tag. \nPolyester couches should have a tag, usually found somewhere underneath the cushions. The tag will have one of the following letters or letter combinations written on it: w, s, sw, or x. these codes let you know what kind of cleaners you can use on your couch.\nAnswer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "(b)." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Bangalore: The ultimate tussle of contemporary Test cricket begins in Bangalore on Wednesday as Australia launch a quot;well-planned quot; mission to conquer the quot;Final frontier quot; and record their first series win on Indian soil in 35 years.\n\nWhat best summarizes the content of the above article?\nPick from:\n (1). World\n (2). Sports\n (3). Business\n (4). Science/Tech\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "(2)." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Q: What can power lines, wind farms and oil rigs affect?\n A: For example, in the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, up to 65% of key intertidal habitat at the Yellow Sea migration bottleneck has been destroyed since the 1950s.\n Does the answer correctly answer the question\n\nPick your answer from:\n1). yes.\n2). no.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "2)." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "The Broncos traveled to Arrowhead Stadium for an AFC West rematch with the Kansas City Chiefs. This was a historic game as NFL Network began their season with a 3rd NFL game on Thanksgiving. In the 1960s, Kansas City hosted three Thanksgiving Day games. For this battle, QB Jake \"The Snake\" Plummer was fighting for his starting job. In the first quarter, the Broncos trailed early as K.C.'s Lawrence Tynes kicked a 24-yard field goal for the only score of the period. In the second quarter, Denver's defensive problem continued as RB Larry Johnson got a 1-yard TD run. The Broncos would finally score as kicker Jason Elam nailed a 31-yard field goal. In the third quarter, Tynes helped the Chiefs get a 34-yard field goal, while Plummer completed a 1-yard TD pass to TE Stephen Alexander. In the fourth quarter, Tynes gave Kansas City a 29-yard and a 21-yard field goal. The Broncos tried to respond, but K.C.'s improved defense stopped any hope of a comeback. With the loss, Denver fell to 7-4.\nAnswer this question: How many field goals did Tynes kick in the last quarter?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "2" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Add punctuation: Yahweh sent Jerubbaal and Bedan and Jephthah and Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side and you lived in safety\n\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yahweh sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you lived in safety." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Generate a short movie review that has \"2).\" sentiment (\n1). negative.\n2). positive.).\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "to provide an enjoyable 100 minutes in a movie theater " } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "He attends football training for three hours a day to accelerate the healing process , and has lost 17 kilograms since October .\nMr Hughes , who trains three hours a day to accelerate the healing process , has lost 17 kilos since October .\n(See options at the end). If the first sentence is true, is the second one also true?\nChoose from:\n[A]. no;\n[B]. yes;\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "[B]." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "This text is missing some spaces, please add them: Thisseemstobeamajorbugandrendersthisgreatplugincurrentlyuseless.\n\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "This seems to be a major bug and renders this great plugin currently useless ." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Write some highlights for the following article:\n\nBy. Adam Crafton for the Daily Mail. Mathieu Flamini believes Arsenal are finally getting to grips with the perils of life on the road in the Barclays Premier League after the Gunners rallied to hold Everton to a 2-2 draw at Goodison. The Londoners were humbled 3-0 on this ground late last season and looked to be heading for further embarrassment on Merseyside after Seamus Coleman and Steven Naismith gave Everton a two-goal lead going into the break. But, after Aaron Ramsey cut the deficit after 83 minutes, substitute Olivier Giroud headed a late equaliser from Nacho Monreal's cross. Scroll down for videos... On the road: Mathieu Flamini claims that Arsenal have learned how to play difficult away games. One downbeat note for the Gunners was the half-time substitution of Chilean Alexis Sanchez, their £35million summer signing, who manager Arsene Wenger felt 'struggled with the physicality' and which saw the lively Giroud brought on. But French midfielder Flamini said: 'We've learned a lot from last year about playing these kind of teams away and we came back today and tried to be stronger. 'We didn't give up until the last second so it was a game to remember for us. It was a great performance from the team because being 2-0 down was not easy for us. Even though we were losing in the first half we had a few occasions to score so it was a bit unfair for us.' Hope: Aaron Ramsey collects the ball after scoring late to bring the score to 2-1 at Goodison. Game changer: Olivier Giroud came off the bench to score the equaliser before a late ankle injury. Meanwhile, Arsene Wenger praised Giroud for changing the game after coming on as a second-half substitute. 'We looked much more dangerous (after Giroud came on),' the Arsenal manager said. 'I knew we were dominating the game in the second half and we needed some physical presence up front. That presence was very important. 'He had a very good second half.' Unfortunately for Wenger, Giroud suffered an ankle injury in the dying minutes and could now miss the second leg of Arsenal's Champions League play-off against Besiktas. 'It is a big game and I hope we have not lost him,' said Wenger of Giroud, who left Goodison Park with a protective boot on his left foot. 'In the final minute he stretched his ankle. At the moment it doesn't look too good. ' Not fit enough! Alexis Sanchez was withdrawn at half-time after an ineffectual performance. Sanchez is likely to lead the line against the Turks, who gained a 0-0 draw against the Gunners in Istanbul on Wednesday. Wenger said he had no option but to withdraw the £35million signing at half-time on Saturday. 'At the moment he is not completely ready physically,' Wenger said. 'He knows he is not at his best physically but when he is his confidence will come back.' It’s not too late to play MailOnline Fantasy Football… There’s £1,000 to be won EVERY WEEK by the highest scoring manager. CLICK HERE to start picking your Fantasy Football team NOW! There’s £60,000 in prizes including £1,000 up for grabs EVERY WEEK….\n\nHighlights:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Arsenal came back from two goals down to draw with Everton away. The Gunners lost the same fixture 3-0 in the Premier League last season. Mathieu Flamini insists his side has learned how to cope away from home. Aaron Ramsey and sub Olivier Giroud scored for Arsene Wenger's side. Giroud suffered an ankle injury that looks set to keep him out of the Champions League qualifier with Besiktas." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Choose from options: Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:\nYou can only get the sauce premade\n\nHow to substitute for mustard seed<br>Use prepared horseradish to add spice. Prepared horseradish is made by combining ground horseradish with vinegar, and sometimes other spices, to form a sauce. You can get it from your local supermarket.\nOPTIONS:\n *Yes\n *It's impossible to say\n *No\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "No" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "This is a test of commonsense with single/multi-choices. Complete the next sentence:\n\nHow to control fleas by using peppermint \nKnow the benefits of using peppermint as flea repellant and ways to use it on your pet. \nThough peppermint does not fully work to kill the fleas but it helps in restricting the attack on pets. \nUse it in a correct way and you will have a healthy and flea free pet at home.\n\npick from the following.\n[1]. Keep the peppermint oil in the spray bottle to repel fleas. Mix 3 small cups of rubbing alcohol with a quarter cup of peppermint oil and allow the solution to get settled.;\n[2]. Peppermint tends to work on small fleas that are fully under control but they are less aggressive. Experiment with peppermint to see if the effectiveness is working or not.;\n[3]. Look into applying peppermint oil to minimize flea outbreaks. This item is advertised as having come in an affordable form, similar to those offered at pet stores.;\n[4]. Peppermint has a potent smell, making it an excellent, effective insect repellent. It is safe for humans and not suitable for sensitive dog and cat breeds.;\nThe answer is:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "[1]." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "schriftlich. - Die Wälder und die Forstwirtschaft leisten bereits heute einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Erzeugung einheimischer Rohstoffe, bieten einen Erholungsraum für viele europäische Bürger und sind wichtig für den Klimaschutz.\n\nWhich language is this?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "German" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Sentence: The AMC Matador is a station wagon equipped with an AMC V8 engine and is considered a full-size car. It was assembled in Thames, New Zealand and is alternatively known as the American Motors Matador.\n\nWhat structured data could we extract from this sentence?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "AMC Matador, alternativeName, \"American Motors Matador\"; AMC Matador, assembly, Thames, New Zealand; AMC Matador, bodyStyle, Station wagon; AMC Matador, class, Full-size car; AMC Matador, engine, AMC V8 engine" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Available options:\n(i). negative.\n(ii). positive. What would be an example of an (i). review?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I went there looking for Lennie because a friend recommended her to me. She does shellac nails that lasts very long and always comes out perfect for my friend. Yet, when I came to the shop one of the ladies there told me that Lennie doesn't work there anymore. Not only that but she rudely told me in a non friendly way. I don't recommend coming here unless you want to be yelled at. Absolutely rude. I'm not setting foot in that spot again." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Tihomir Oreskovic won the support of only a handful of MPs, as 125 of the 151 deputies voted against him.\nThe motion was put forward by the biggest party in the governing coalition, HDZ, which fell out with the PM over a conflict of interest case.\nThe Croatian president will now hold talks on forming a new government.\nThe conservative HDZ plans to propose Finance Minister Zdravko Maric to lead a new cabinet. The opposition Social Democrats want parliament to be dissolved so new elections can be held.\nIf no cabinet can be formed within 30 days, President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic must call a snap election.\nCroatia is one of the weakest economies in the EU and analysts say an election may delay badly-needed reforms.\nMr Oreskovic, a Canadian-educated financial expert, became prime minister after inconclusive elections last November.\nBut the coalition he headed was riven by internal disputes.\nThe disagreements came to a head when Mr Oreskovic accused HDZ leader Tomislav Karamarko of a conflict of interest over ties with Hungary's state oil company.\nSpeaking in parliament shortly before he was ousted, Mr Oreskovic said: \"Unfortunately, instead of discussing reforms... we discuss this no-confidence motion.\"\nWhat is a summary of this text?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Croatia's technocrat prime minister has been ousted in a no-confidence vote in parliament just five months after taking office." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Triple: Alimentum eatType restaurant; Alimentum food Indian; Alimentum priceRange moderate; Alimentum area riverside; Alimentum familyFriendly no\n\nWhat is a sentence that describes this triple?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Alimentum is an Indian restaurant located the the riverside area. It is moderately priced, but not kid friendly." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "For both of these reasons, victory over Jones, regarded as such, would actually be a defeat for Clinton.\n\nDoes it follow that \"A win for Clinton would signal a staggering defeat for Jones.\"?\nOptions are: [+] yes. [+] it is not possible to tell. [+] no.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "no" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Other programs that you frequently use such Microsoft Office, Firefox, Chrome, Live Messenger, and hundreds of other programs are not cleaned up with Disk Cleanup (including some Fore Systems, Inc. programs).\n\nPlease remove spaces between words.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "OtherprogramsthatyoufrequentlyusesuchMicrosoftOffice,Firefox,Chrome,LiveMessenger,andhundredsofotherprogramsarenotcleanedupwithDiskCleanup(includingsomeForeSystems,Inc.programs)." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "search engines continue to be the `` go-to '' destination on the web , with new features and services being added on a regular basis , internet audience measurement service nielsen\\/netratings reported thursday , revealing the top ones in february .\n\nWhat is a very short summary of the above text?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "internet audience measurement service names top search engines" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Write a 1). yelp review (OPT:\n1). negative;\n2). positive;).\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Went in not expecting too much, and if you do that, it's not bad, although still pricey. We stopped in because we were late to watch one of the world cup games and needed to grab a quick breakfast. I got the two eggs breakfast and my wife got just two eggs. The food was decent: eggs were done ok, sausage was fine, toast was good. The hash browns, however, arrived in a sort of \"brick\" and were greasy and rather tasteless. I presume they came frozen in that shape and had just been tossed in the deep fryer. Coffee was ok and they left the carafe. The one major negative I must mention is that I didn't realize how expensive the coffee was until we got the bill. $3.95 per cup for coffee! If I'm paying four dollars a cup for coffee, there had better be liquor in there. I realized the rest of the meal was going to be pricey, but this was a bit much." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Context: In the winter of 1240/1241, the Novgorodians took Pereyaslavl-Zalessky. After, the Teutonic knights constructed the fortress of Koporie, where they kept all their supplies, and took the Novgorod city of Tesov, pillaging its merchants and ravaging the surrounding area. The Novgorodians, fearing a fate similar to that of Pskov, sent envoys to Prince Yaroslav. Yaroslav liked Alexander's younger brother Andrew as a leader, but Novgorod insisted on Alexander. Alexander returned to Novgorod and commanded its army to Koporye in 1241. In the Spring of 1242, he recaptured Pskov. After this victory, Alexander decided to continue his campaign.. On April 5, 1242, one of Russia's most famous battles, the Battle of the Ice, took place on the ice of Lake Peipsi. The battle was a significant defeat sustained by the crusaders during the Northern Crusades. The crusaders' defeat in the battle marked the end of their campaigns against the Orthodox Novgorod Republic and other Russian territories for the next century.\n\nQuestion: What season was Pskov captured?\n\nAnswer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Spring" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Solve this math problem\n\nSolve 0 = -172*k - 329557 + 319581 for k.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "-58" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Premise:\n\"In the palace wall beyond the Hanuman statue and protected by a wooden fence is a poem etched in stone in 15 languages dated 14 January 1664.\" Based on this premise, is the hypothesis \"There is a poem carved in stone in 15 languages in a palace wall, beyond the Hanuman statue and protected by a wooden fence.\" true?\n +yes +it is not possible to tell +no\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "yes" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Article: As noted in the intro, there are hundreds of ways to make a BLT. This variation adds a little west coast flair to the standard BLT by adding some of the key ingredients in a California club sandwich. To start, you'll want to build a BLT as directed above until the point just before you'd normally be finished. In other words, cook some bacon, then spread a little mustard and mayonnaise on your bread, and finally add tomato, lettuce, and your cooked bacon to your sandwich. From here, we'll be adding a few extra touches to make our sandwich unique. For a true west coast classic, you may want to consider using sourdough, San Francisco's signature bread. Peel and cut a ripe Hass avocado into several thick french-fry sized slices. Lay these slices down above your final layer of bacon. The avocado gives the sandwich a creamy, satisfying quality not present in an ordinary BLT. The smooth texture of the avocado contrasts especially well with crunchy toast. Avocados are best when they're ripe. Ripe Hass avocados (the most common variety on the west coast) have dark green-to-black skin and a firm, yet yielding texture. The fruit should feel somewhat weighty and should have no obviously flattened or \"smooshed\" patches. If you're unsure whether an avocado is ripe, check under the brown stem remnant at the bottom of the avocado. If the skin underneath is bright yellow-green, you've picked a ripe avocado. If it's brown, your avocado may be bruised or overripe. After adding your avocado, you may want to squeeze a thin slice of lemon over your sandwich to produce a few drops of lemon juice. If you do so, be conservative — you want just a hint of lemony zest, not a BLT that makes you pucker. If done correctly, the BLT will have a slight tangy flavor which, for some, is absolutely mouthwatering when paired with the meatiness of the bacon and the smoothness of the avocado. Congratulations! Your California BLT is ready to eat. If you desire, you can add another layer of ingredients and an additional piece of bread to create a double-decker. If you're looking for a truly Californian experience, you may want to opt for this — California clubs, the state's signature sandwich, are customarily served as double-deckers.\n\nWhat is a summary?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Assemble a classic BLT, minus the final piece of bread. Add a few avocado slices. Optionally, add a spritz of lemon juice. Add your final piece of bread." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Christianity remains the dominant religion in the Western World, where 70% are Christians. A 2011 Pew Research Center survey found that 76.2% of Europeans, 73.3% in Oceania, and about 86.0% in the Americas (90% in Latin America and 77.4% in North America) described themselves as Christians.\nIf it is possible to answer this question, answer it for me (else, reply \"unanswerable\"): What do 77.4% of people in the Western World describe themselves as?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "unanswerable" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Prin urmare, dorim să solicităm ca acest interval de timp să fie utilizat pentru a discuta cazul dlui Mumia Abu-Jamal, ziarist afro-american care a fost găsit vinovat de uciderea unui poliţist în 1982, în urma unui proces bazat pe dovezi circumstanţiale.\n\nTranslate to English\n\nEnglish:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "We would therefore ask that that time slot be used to discuss the case of Mr Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Afro-American journalist who was found guilty of murdering a policeman in 1982, following a trial based on circumstantial evidence." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "12:25 and barnabas and saul returned from jerusalem, having fulfilled the service [entrusted to them], taking also with them john, surnamed mark.\nRepeat this setence, but with the correct capitalization.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "12:25 And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, having fulfilled the service [entrusted to them], taking also with them John, surnamed Mark." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Write a (A). tweet. Possible tweet types: Options:\n(A). negative.\n(B). positive.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "just got back from brisbane and seeing P!NKs concert monday nite. Awesome! back to work i go now " } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Concepts: motorcycle, park, stall\n\nWrite a sentence that includes all these words.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Two motorcycles are parked in a parking stall." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Translate \"Captured by the Germans, he was then told that the rest of his crew, whom he had ordered to bale out, were dead.15 With this incident as context, the official historian then goes on to reflect on the matter of unit morale in a neighbouring unit.\" to French?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Il a été capturé par les Allemands, qui lui ont appris que son équipage, auquel il avait donné l’ordre de sauter, était mort15. Dans le contexte de cet incident, l’historien officiel parle du moral d’une unité voisine." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the solution?\n\nSolve 0 = 4*d - 13 + 5 for d.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "2" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "What is an example of a tweet?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Glamorgan, Chester or Canterbury(broadstairs) Deadline for universities is tomorrow....where do i go! " } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Write an email with the following subject:\n\nMEETING @ 2:00 MT.HOOD\n\nEmail:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Just a round robin regarding the day ahead transfers to real-time for parking and lending and the fees associated with it. Please let me know if you can't attend. Diana " } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Write a sentence not in English.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Käsiteltävänämme oleva mietintö muistuttaa kuitenkin tilastokeskuksen julkaisemaa asiakirjaa: se on steriili, eikä siitä ilmene lainkaan se taistelu, jota käydään käsiteltyjen aiheiden taustalla olevista periaatteista ja perusteista." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Available options:\n +Craig doesn't have children living at home.;\n +Justin doesn't have children living at home.;\nComplete the following sentence.\n\nCraig is known as an empty nester, although Justin isn't, because \n\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Craig doesn't have children living at home." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "If \"One Asian man in a group of four, drops a drink.\", does this mean that \"A person drops a drink.\"?\n\nSelect from: [-] yes [-] it is not possible to tell [-] no\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "yes" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Briefly summarize this sentence: a u.s. missile strike that killed a top al-qaida commander at a house near a pakistani military base shows how entrenched islamic militants are in the country 's lawless tribal regions , a defense analyst said .\n\nSummary:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "missile strike that killed al-qaida militant was close to pakistan military base" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Chrome is finally set to pull ahead of Firefox in November because they have increased their popularity with internet users.\nWho is \"they\"?\npick from the following. (a). Chrome. (b). Firefox.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "(a)." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Choose the correct sentiment from candidates:\nOPT: -- negative -- positive\n\nTEXT:\"The Secretary\" is one of those cheesy, cliched, \"thrillers\" that one is subjected to watching on a Sunday afternoon, when there is virtually nothing else on. While the plot (a demented woman becomes jealous of all who succeed over her in the office and decides to do whatever she can to stop them) may be one of a kind, I recognized countless plot twists, probably taken from other TV movies that I had been subjected to for the very same reason.\n\nTo make matters worse, I was not wild about the cast. Mel Harris is one of those actresses who appears in so many TV movies as either a \"mom\" or some sort of \"victim\" of foul play or abuse, that one must wonder the kind of life she leads. In this one, she gets the joy of playing a mom AND a victim of psycho secretary Sheila Kelly, who was not a very good choice as the villain. While Sheila Kelly has made some good career moves(Singles, Breaking In, and I guess, Law and Order), she is also beset by a string of pitiful TV movie roles, and this one just adds to it. As for the others, I don't have any clear memories of them, so that must say something.\n\nThis one WILL play on the Lifetime network(I think that's where I saw it), but don't bother watching it, unless you are too bored for words. Not that it will make you any more excitied...\n\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "negative" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Multi-choice problem: Choose from the options at the end, and answer how do you do this: What can I do with my leaves to make them easier to put on the curb?\n\nAvailable options:\n (a). Place the leaves into small garbage or brown bags after raking them..\n (b). Place the leaves into large garbage or brown bags after raking them..\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "(b)." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Write a dialog based on this summary:\nRosa is coming to meet Berta at their shopping mall..\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Berta: Hi, just get here now.\nRosa: Get where?\nBerta: Our shopping mall. Everything's on sale.\nRosa: Cool. Be there at once. " } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Context: Every single day . Living a lie . Misery and oppression . Ordinary and pathetic . I do n't know if you ' ve ever gone through this , but sometimes I find myself with girls I do n't like . I think I ' m with them in the first place because I 'd rather spend a moment with a girls arms around me , hugging me back on purpose , than another night alone in a cold , dark room .\nQuestion What would happen if the person wishes to improve their life ?\nPossible answers:\nChoices:\n[a]. The person would reach out to some friends .;\n[b]. The person would decide to get coy .;\n[c]. None of the above choices .;\n[d]. The person would decide to isolate .;\nThe answer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "[a]." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Premise: The issue did not take for Gore, but the exchange attracted the interest of Jim Pinkerton, the research director for the then flailing Bush campaign.\nHypothesis: The bush campaign was very stable at this point.\nIs the hypothesis entailed by the premise?\nChoices:\n(a). yes;\n(b). it is not possible to tell;\n(c). no; And the answer is:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "(c)." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Jene Subjekte, die der untersuchten sozialen Gemeinschaft oder Wirklichkeit nicht angehören, sollten dabei als dynamisierendes, niemals aber überdeterminierendes Element fungieren.\n\nTranslate to English\n\nEnglish:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Those subjects that are from outside of the community or the social reality under investigation should function as catalyzing elements, but never over determining the situation. This requires an absolute transparency towards all the participants in the research process." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "\"guns , cheatfully filmed martial arts \"\nHow would the sentiment of this sentence be perceived --\n\nSelect from the following.\n[1]. negative\n[2]. positive\nAnswer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "[1]." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Elle a porté de son APD à ces pays de 19 millions de dollars en 2001 à 55 millions de dollars en 2002 et entend l'augmenter plus avant.\n\nWhich language is this?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "French" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Burst water main creates serious road collapse on the Gold Coast Highway. Motorists advised to avoid area with delays expected for at least 48 hours. Crews still waiting for clearance to start repairs on water main and road. One southbound lane remains closed on the Broadbeach road. The ten metre sinkhole has forced road closures since Sunday morning.\n\nWrite an article based on these highlights.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "By. Lucy Thackray. A ten metre sinkhole in the middle of the Gold Coast Highway at Broadbeach is causing extensive delays to traffic and will not be fixed for at least another 48 hours. Motorists have been warned to avoid the area as one southbound lane remains closed on the Gold Coast Highway at Margaret Avenue on the main road which links the holiday strip. There are delays to repairs because emergency crews must first ensure the electricity is isolated before they can repair damage to the water main and resurface the road. Scroll down for video. Traffic chaos continues on the Gold Coast Highway on Monday afternoon, as crews repair damage caused by the sinkhole. The 10 metre sinkhole has forced lane closures on the Gold Coast Highway on Monday morning. Crews are forced to wait until site is deemed safe before repairs can commence at Broadbeach on Monday afternoon. A ten metre sinkhole at Broadbeach, Queensland caused massive delays for commuters on the Gold Coast Highway on Monday morning. A burst water main caused a 'raging torrent' on Sunday morning, creating a ten metre road collapse at the intersection of the Gold Coast Highway and Margaret Avenue. Only one lane remained open on the busy highway on Sunday. The Gold Coast City Council confirm crews and utilities providers are working together on the site, with services in the area including high voltage electricity and gas mains. Crews have been working since Sunday to clear debris from the sinkhole, including road signs and traffic lights. Repairs to the broken water main and the road will commence once the site is declared safe. Crews waiting for electricity to be isolated from the site before they can repair the damage on Monday morning. It's expected work could take another three days. Gold Coast Water Simon Waite said work cannot commence on the main until the electricity has been disconnected from the site, according to ABC news. 'We're currently working with the other services, Energex, the gas company and some of the telcos we have, to isolate the electricity before we can actually get in there and start making the repairs,' Mr Waite said. Motorists are warned to expect big delays as work continues on the site, with one southbound lane closed on the Gold Coast Highway on Monday morning. Gold Coast Water Director, Paul Heaton says that with three thousand kilometres of pressure pipe under the Gold Coast's streets, 'every now and then something goes wrong,' according to mygc.com.au. 'Some of the pipes are older than others and obviously like all of us they get tired and eventually fail.' Gold Coast City council assures residents that the water supply in the region has not been affected." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:\n\nThe FIL World Luge Championships 1957 took place in Davos, Switzerland. It marked the first time the event was held under the auspices of the International Luge Federation (FIL) which was formed earlier that year. Also, it was the first time the championships had been held after being cancelled the previous year.\n\nPick your answer from:\n[i] Yes;\n[ii] It's impossible to say;\n[iii] No;\nHypothesis: The FIL World Luge Championships 1957 took place during the summer.\n\n\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "[ii]" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Complete the passage: pick from possible candidates.\n\nHard questions are being raised about the Taliban in Afghanistan now that the United States will formally meet with the erstwhile al Qaeda ally. Why is the U.S. government engaging the hard-line Islamic fundamentalist group, a regime that once sheltered Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network and was eventually routed out of Afghanistan by a U.S. invasion after the September 11, 2001, attacks? Such tough questions were unleashed shortly after the announcement about upcoming U.S.-Taliban talks during a Tuesday news conference held by State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki. She was asked point-blank: \"In the eyes of the U.S., is Taliban a terrorist group?\"\n\nThe ability to open a formal line of communication with the Taliban is important to reaching an \"end goal\" of disassociating the Taliban from\n\nOPTIONS:\n- Afghanistan and bringing peace to Afghanistan, Psaki said.\n- Jen Psaki and bringing peace to Afghanistan, Psaki said.\n- Osama bin Laden and bringing peace to Afghanistan, Psaki said.\n- State Department and bringing peace to Afghanistan, Psaki said.\n- Taliban and bringing peace to Afghanistan, Psaki said.\n- U.S. and bringing peace to Afghanistan, Psaki said.\n- United States and bringing peace to Afghanistan, Psaki said.\n- al Qaeda and bringing peace to Afghanistan, Psaki said.\n\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "al Qaeda and bringing peace to Afghanistan, Psaki said." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Write a summary based on this article:\n\nMr. Trump’s initial executive order shutting the door to citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries included Iraq. That order has been stayed by the courts and is expected to be replaced soon. \n \n Mr. Mattis said on Sunday that he had not seen the new executive order. “But right now,” he said, “I’m assured that we will take steps to allow those who have fought alongside us to be allowed into the United States.” \n \n His remarks came as Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, the commander of the United States’ war effort in Iraq, said that American trainers and advisers had moved closer to the front lines of Mosul, where the fight to retake the western half of the city from the Islamic State started over the weekend. \n \n “It is true that we’re operating closer and deeper into Iraqi formations,” General Townsend said at a news conference with Mr. Mattis in Baghdad, acknowledging a shift approved in the Obama administration’s final weeks. \n \n While Mr. Trump’s policy pronouncements have unsettled allies around the world, they have landed especially hard in Iraq, where about 5,000 American troops are assisting Iraqi forces in the fight against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. \n \n A former Iraqi ambassador to Washington, Lukman Faily, said last month that Iraqis were unsettled by Mr. Trump’s moves, including the travel ban, and wondered whether the United States even wanted a long-term relationship with Iraq. \n \n On Monday, American and Iraqi officials did their best to put forward a united front at a time when a critical battle against the Islamic State is intensifying. \n \n Advertisement Continue reading the main story \n \n Mr. Mattis, after meeting with his Iraqi counterpart and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, said the militant Sunni group’s days were numbered. “They are going to be shown to be who they are, which is a bunch of murderous relics,” he said. \n \n Sabeh Al Noman, a spokesman for Iraq’s counterterrorism services, suggested that Mr. Trump’s remarks on oil, at least, had caused no lasting damage. Asked in a news conference in Baghdad whether Iraq was worried that the Trump administration would try to steal its oil, he said, “We will trust your government, so we won’t worry about that.” \n \n Apache helicopter gunships as well as American and other allied artillery are set to strike Islamic State targets in and around western Mosul, as they have for weeks in the fight to reclaim what was once Iraq’s second-largest city, officials said. \n \n American commanders estimate that 2,000 to 3,000 Islamic State fighters remain hunkered down in western Mosul. \n \n Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address. Please re-enter. You must select a newsletter to subscribe to. Sign Up You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. Thank you for subscribing. An error has occurred. Please try again later. View all New York Times newsletters. \n \n “Some are hard-core and will stand and fight and die in place, some will want to escape, some will attempt to quietly quit the fight, and some will sympathize with the enemy but are not now participating,” Col. John Dorrian, a military spokesman in Baghdad, said in an email. “And then, unfortunately, some will be pressed into the fight under threat of death and other harsh retribution.” \n \n Mr. Trump has asked the Pentagon to present a plan for accelerating the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. \n \n While defense officials have yet to present him with new options, many Pentagon officials have been operating under the assumption that Mr. Trump will be more willing than President Barack Obama to sign off on having American troops closer to the battlefield. \n \n Yet it was in the final weeks of Mr. Obama’s presidency that the move closer to the front lines was put in place, as Iraqi security forces began their push to retake eastern Mosul from the Islamic State. \n \n When Mr. Obama authorized sending the first group of American trainers and advisers back to Iraq in 2014, he said he did not want them getting close to the fight, insisting that it be an Iraqi-led effort. With the exception of raids by Special Forces, American troops had largely stayed off the battlefield, embedded with Iraqi officers at the brigade level. \n \n Advertisement Continue reading the main story \n \n That changed in November, United States military officials said Monday, when the administration allowed American trainers and advisers to move closer to the battlefield for the Mosul operation. \n \n The change, military officials said, will allow for quicker response times, particularly when it comes to calling in airstrikes. \n \n Ever since the start of United States-led airstrikes against the Islamic State, in August 2014, American pilots have complained that depending on Iraqi troops to call in airstrikes makes for slow response times. \n \n Now, two years into the war against the Islamic State and in the middle of the fight to retake Mosul, American commanders said on Monday that operations were speeding up. For one thing, they said, the Iraqi ground troops are now much sharper. \n \n Recently, “one American commander said, ‘I’m watching an army that I know is Iraqi, but if I step back, I wouldn’t know they were not American,’ ” said Brig. Gen. Matthew C. Isler, the deputy commander in charge of coordinating air support for the Iraqi ground forces. \n \n But the fight for western Mosul is expected to be intense. Since capturing the city, Islamic State fighters “have had two years to prepare” for the coming assault, said Brig. Gen. Hugh McAslan of New Zealand, one of the commanders of the American-led coalition in Iraq. “There are some very elaborate defenses in West Mosul.” \n \n Over the weekend, airplanes dropped leaflets in West Mosul appealing to Islamic State fighters to surrender. \n \n While in Baghdad, Mr. Mattis plans to talk with Iraqi officials as well as American military commanders. “I need to get current on the situation” in Iraq, he said. “And the only way you can do this is talking to the people on the ground.” \n \n He said that although power had been transferred in Washington, the rules of engagement in Iraq had not changed, and American Special Forces would not get closer to the fighting in western Mosul than they had in eastern Mosul, which had largely been cleared of militant control. \n \n Advertisement Continue reading the main story \n \n “The U.S. forces continue in the same role as they did in East Mosul,” Mr. Mattis said, adding that coalition forces fighting the Islamic State would “continue with the accelerated effort” to destroy the group. ||||| Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis visited Baghdad on Feb. 20. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post) \n \n BAGHDAD — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis made his first trip to Iraq as Pentagon chief on Monday to determine what is needed to accelerate the campaign against the Islamic State, hours after rejecting a suggestion by President Trump that the United States might take Iraq’s oil. \n \n “I think all of us here in this room — all of us in America — have generally paid for our gas and oil all along, and I am sure we will continue to do so in the future,” Mattis said during a meeting with reporters Sunday night. “We’re not in Iraq to seize anybody’s oil.” \n \n Mattis’s rejection of the idea came after repeated claims by Trump that the United States should have taken Iraq’s oil during the Iraq War. Trump suggested last month that “maybe we’ll get another chance” to do so during a visit to the Central Intelligence Agency, generating new concerns about his position. \n \n The defense secretary’s comments are one of several ways in which he has tried to sound a reassuring tone for allies since leaving Washington last week. In both Brussels and Munich, he promised audiences that the Trump administration will maintain its obligation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which calls for all members to help if one is attacked, but warned that America might “moderate” its support in other ways to nations who do not meet defense spending guidelines set by NATO. \n \n [Defense Secretary Mattis disagrees with Trump, says he does not see media as the enemy] \n \n In Iraq, Mattis anticipates getting a better sense for the political situation, the enemy and the coalition’s Iraqi partners, he said. This visit comes with less than two weeks before Mattis, a retired Marine general and Iraq War veteran, is expected to deliver to the White House a set of recommendations that could include ordering more troops into Iraq or Syria or delegating more powers to battlefield commanders to streamline decision-making. \n \n “We’re going to make sure we’re certain we’ve got good, shared situation awareness of what we face as we work together and fight alongside each other to destroy ISIS,” Mattis said. \n \n One day before Mattis’s trip to Iraq, local forces there launched an offensive to take back the western side of Mosul, the country’s second-largest city. Militants seized it in June 2014 as they swept across the western and northern parts of the country and the Iraqi military crumbled. The government has since taken back several key cities, including Fallujah and Ramadi, and last month liberated the eastern half of Mosul. \n \n Mattis said U.S. military advisers will have “the same role” that they did during the liberation of eastern Mosul on the western half of the city, an indication they will be near the front lines when Iraqi troops attack, but not directly involved in fighting unless something unexpected happens. Combat is expected to be fierce, with block-by-block engagements against fighters in thickly settled neighborhoods. \n \n “The coalition forces are in support of this operation, and we will continue … with the accelerated effort to destroy ISIS,” Mattis said. \n \n Mattis may also be asked by senior Iraqi officials to address the Trump administration’s plan to issue a new executive order that could restrict travel from some Middle Eastern and African countries. The first one, issued Jan. 27, caused a backlash as scores of people were detained at U.S. airports. It was suspended earlier this month in federal court, and a new “streamlined” version could be introduced within a week. \n \n Mattis, who was surprised to find that the original version did not include any special considerations for Iraqi interpreters who served the U.S. military in combat, said Sunday that he has not seen a draft of Trump’s forthcoming executive order, but was given assurances that “we will take steps to allow those who have fought alongside us, for example,” to enter the country. \n \n “They will have been vetted, obviously, by their performance on the battlefield as well as by the normal procedures, and I’m sure we’ll work through this quickly,” Mattis said. \n \n The countries affected by the original ban were Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. \n \n Related stories: \n \n Mattis attempts to reassure NATO allies as the Trump administration deals with fallout from Flynn’s ouster \n \n Placing Russia first among threats, Mattis warns of Kremlin attempts to ‘break’ NATO \n \n Mattis makes first trip to Europe as Pentagon chief while mulling changes in Afghanistan and anti-ISIS fight \n \n Iraq resumes offensive to retake Mosul from Islamic State, prime minister says ||||| Defense Secretary Jim Mattis distanced himself from President Trump's assessment of the media, stating in a Feb. 19 interview that he had no problems with the press. (Reuters) \n \n ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Sunday that he does not see the media as the enemy of the American people, disagreeing with a claim made Friday by President Trump about numerous outlets. \n \n Mattis, asked directly about Trump’s criticism of the media, said he has had “some rather contentious times with the press” but considers the institution “a constituency that we deal with.” The defense secretary added: “I don’t have any issues with the press myself.” \n \n The comments came during a trip to Europe and the Middle East intended to reassure allies and gather information about ongoing operations. Mattis, a retired Marine general, also acknowledged concerns about the administration raised by Army Gen. Raymond “Tony” Thomas, the chief of U.S. Special Operations Command. Thomas said at a conference Tuesday that “our government continues to be in unbelievable turmoil” and that he hopes “they sort it out soon because we’re a nation at war.” \n \n [Defense Secretary Mattis issues new ultimatum to NATO allies on defense spending] \n \n Mattis said Sunday that he has been talking with a “fair number of military commanders around the world” and believes Thomas was “probably taken a bit out of context because we all want to see everything moving smoothly.” But Mattis also acknowledged the chaotic nature of Trump’s administration so far. \n \n “Welcome to democracy,” Mattis said. “It’s at times wildly contentious. It’s at times quite sporting. But the bottom line is this is the best form of government that we can come up with. So, the military’s job is to hold the line, and to hold the line, and to hold the line while our government sorts out the way ahead and our people speak. We don’t have any disarray inside the military, and that’s where my responsibility resides.” \n \n [Pence and Merkel embrace NATO but differ on transatlantic partnership] \n \n The comments came after a week in which retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn resigned as White House national security adviser over revelations that he spoke about sanctions imposed on Moscow by the Obama administration with Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak before Trump took office. Flynn resigned under pressure just 24 days into the new administration after it became clear that he had not disclosed all details about his conversation to Vice President Pence. \n \n On Friday, Trump tweeted that “FAKE NEWS media” is not his enemy, it is the “enemy of the American People!” He specifically cited the “failing” New York Times, NBC News, ABC News, CBS News and CNN, though he has at other times accused other news outlets of also reporting “fake” stories. \n \n Trump attacked the media again Saturday at an unusual campaign-style rally, saying the media is dishonest and “has published one false story after another, with no sources, even though they pretend they have them.” \n \n “They make them up in many cases,” he added. “They just don’t want to report the truth. And they’ve been calling us wrong now for two years. They don’t get it. But they’re starting to get it. I can tell you that. They’ve become a big part of the problem. They are part of a corrupt system.” \n \n [‘That’s how dictators get started’: McCain criticizes Trump for calling media ‘the enemy] \n \n White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and lawmakers of both political parties weigh in on President Trump's Feb. 17 tweet calling several news outlets \"the enemy of the American People.\" (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post) \n \n Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, said in an interview recorded for broadcast on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday that the American people should take Trump’s allegations against the media “seriously.” In particular, he questioned the use of anonymous sources, as the White House continues to deal with leaks. \n \n “If the theory is that the press is supposed to be a free forum of information to speak to the American people, I think it ought to be accurate,” Priebus said. “And I think we’ve gotten to a place … where the media is willing to run with unnamed sources, apparently false leaked documents, to create stories.” \n \n 1 of 83 Full Screen Autoplay Close Skip Ad × A look at President Trump’s first 100 days View Photos The beginning of the president’s term has featured controversial executive orders and frequent conflicts with the media. Caption The beginning of the president’s term has featured controversial executive orders and frequent conflicts with the media. March 17, 2017 President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and their son, Barron, walk to Marine One at the White House en route to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post Buy Photo Wait 1 second to continue. \n \n Related stories: \n \n Mattis attempts to reassure NATO allies as the Trump administration deals with fallout from Flynn’s ouster \n \n Placing Russia first among threats, Mattis warns of Kremlin attempts to ‘break’ NATO \n \n Mattis makes first trip to Europe as Pentagon chief while mulling changes in Afghanistan and anti-ISIS fight ||||| In this Jan. 21, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va. No one knows how seriously to take Trump’s threat to seize Iraq’s oil. Doing so would involve... (Associated Press) \n \n In this Jan. 21, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va. No one knows how seriously to take Trump’s threat to seize Iraq’s oil. Doing so would involve extraordinary costs and risk confrontation with America’s best ground partner against the Islamic... (Associated Press) \n \n In this Jan. 21, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va. No one knows how seriously to take Trump’s threat to seize Iraq’s oil. Doing so would involve extraordinary costs and risk confrontation with America’s best ground partner against the Islamic... (Associated Press) In this Jan. 21, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va. No one knows how seriously to take Trump’s threat to seize Iraq’s oil. Doing so would involve... (Associated Press) \n \n WASHINGTON (AP) — No one knows how seriously to take President Donald Trump's threat to seize Iraq's oil. \n \n Doing so would involve extraordinary costs and risk confrontation with America's best ground partner against the Islamic State group, but the president told the CIA this weekend, \"Maybe you'll have another chance.\" \n \n The recycled campaign comment is raising concerns about Trump's understanding of the delicate Middle East politics involved in the U.S.-led effort against extremist groups. Trump has said he was opposed to the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. But on the campaign trail and again on Saturday, the day after his inauguration, he suggested the costly and deadly occupation of the country might have been offset somewhat if the United States had taken the country's rich petroleum reserves. \n \n \"To the victor belong the spoils,\" Trump told members of the intelligence community, saying he first argued this case for \"economic reasons.\" He said it made sense as a counterterrorism approach to defeating the IS group \"because that's where they made their money in the first place.\" \n \n \"So we should have kept the oil,\" he said. \"But, OK, maybe you'll have another chance.\" \n \n The statement ignores the precedent of hundreds of years of American history and presidents who have tended to pour money and aid back into countries the United States has fought in major wars. The U.S. still has troops in Germany and Japan, with the permission of those nations, but did not take possession of their natural resources. And taking Iraq's reserves, the world's fifth largest, would require an immense investment of resources and manpower in a country that the United States couldn't quell after spending more than $2 trillion and deploying at one point more than 170,000 troops. \n \n U.S. enemies and friends would oppose the move. While Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has accepted U.S. help to retake IS-held territory in his country, he has repeatedly asserted Iraqi sovereignty. He said of Trump's oil vow in November, \"I am going to judge him by what he does later.\" \n \n Asked about the matter Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer stressed Trump's economic argument. \n \n \"We want to be sure our interests are protected,\" he told reporters. \"We're going into a country for a cause. He wants to be sure America is getting something out of it for the commitment and sacrifice it is making.\" \n \n There is uncertainty as to where Trump's idea derives from, though the president has noted that taking the oil is something \"I have long said.\" Hints of this notion existed in some of the pre-2003 rhetoric from the Bush administration about the Iraq war \"paying for itself.\" But top advisers to President George W. Bush have stressed how the future of Iraq's resources were pointedly left out of decision-making related to the invasion so as not to fuel a perception that the war was driven by oil concerns. \n \n Bush \"almost bent over backwards not to make a special effort to gain access for us to the oil resources,\" John Negroponte, who was Bush's director of national intelligence, told CNN. \n \n Regarding Trump, former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Robert Gates told NBC, \"I have no clue what he's talking about.\" \n \n Taking the oil would require a permanent U.S. occupation, or at least until Iraq's 140 billion barrels of crude run out, and a large presence of American soldiers to guard sometimes isolated oil fields and infrastructure. Such a mission would be highly unpopular with Iraqis, whose hearts and minds the U.S. is still try to win to defeat groups such as IS and al-Qaida. \n \n \"This is totally wrong,\" said Zaher Aziz, a 42-year-old owner of a market stand in Irbil. \"They came here by themselves and occupied Iraq. And now they want the Iraqis to pay for that?\" \n \n However unrealistic Trump's suggestion, intelligence officials believe more has to be done to cut off Islamic State oil revenues. The group seized significant oil when it stormed across Syria's border in 2014 and seized the city of Mosul and large swaths of Iraqi territory. The Treasury Department estimated that IS raked in $500 million from oil and gas sales in 2015. That figure is likely lower now as a result of U.S.-led operations, but officials say oil continues to fund the group's recruitment and far-flung terrorist activities. \n \n \"In terms of oil helping establish ISIS, of course that's oversimplification,\" said Hassan Hassan, co-author of the book \"ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror,\" using an alternate acronym from the militants. He said oil was a small part of the group's \"origins and early years,\" when it morphed from an al-Qaida branch to an organization claiming a worldwide caliphate. \n \n ___ \n \n AP videojournalist Balint Szlanko in Irbil, Iraq, contributed to this report. |||||\n\nSummary:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "– President Trump has noted more than once he thinks we should've taken Iraq's oil when we had the chance (and suggests that option may still be on the table), but his secretary of defense is pushing a different message—what the New York Times characterizes as comments that would previously have been deemed \"unthinkable\" under other administrations—on the eve of his first visit to the Middle East country as head of the Pentagon. \"We're not in Iraq to seize anybody's oil,\" James Mattis told reporters Sunday night, per the Washington Post. Mattis added that US citizens have \"generally paid for our gas and oil all along,\" and he doesn't see why that wouldn't continue. Mattis was traveling to Iraq Monday to gather intel and scope out the best ways to fight ISIS, a topic for which he's scheduled to lay out a game plan in a couple of weeks. The AP reported last month that Trump has noted that his enthusiasm for taking Iraq's oil is something \"I have long said.\" The Post and CNN, meanwhile, report that Trump more recently brought up the subject the day after his inauguration—when he said during a CIA visit, \"We should have kept the oil. Maybe we'll have another chance\"—and also during an ABC News interview a few days later, in which he added, \"You wouldn't have ISIS if we took the oil.\" Last week, the defense secretary smoothed over things with NATO members by telling them the US still values the group, despite Trump's past comments, while on Sunday Mattis said he doesn't think the media is an enemy of the American people like his boss does. (What may be more worrisome for Iraq than ISIS: Mosul's dam.)" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Select from options: Continue writing the next sentence.\n\nHow to change the registered name on a windows pc \nReview your system protocol. \nRegistry editor allows you to make changes to system software and hidden files, which is what you'll need to do to edit the default username. To open the registry editor, go to run, type in \" regedit \", and click \" ok \".\n\nOptions:\n 1). To enter the registry editor directory (i.e. open \" registry editor c:/tcpconfig \"), select \" registry editor \", and type in \" esc: \"..\n 2). This should bring up the registry editor, in which several folders should be viewable in the left-hand corner of the window. You may encounter a pop-up window asking you if you're sure you want to open registry editor..\n 3). Log in again if the editor doesn't work. Your registry editor will work for at least a few days..\n 4). You can also select \" registry method \". Regedit can be accessed in windows xp, windows 7, and later..\nAnswer:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "2)." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "This question has options. Answer the question about text:\n\nHad kinda fun anyways . Saturday : BIRTHDAY MASSACRE and msi . :-D With Sandy 's uber - ninja I - know - everyone - in - the - metro - detroit - area skillz , we got backstage just in time to see birthday massacre gettin ready to go onstage .\n\nWhat did Sandy and I attend ?\nPick your answer from:\n* Sandy and I attended a football game.\n* Sandy and I attended an opera.\n* None of the above choices ..\n* Sandy and I attended a music concert.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Sandy and I attended a music concert" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "With the line E of the U-Bahn , PreMetro E2 was the second phase of the project , with the construction of PreMetro E1 being the first phase .\nWith Line E of the Underground , PreMetro E2 was the second phase of the project with the construction of PreMetro E1 being the first phase .\n\nSelect your answer from the options. Do these sentences mean the same thing?\nOptions:\n 1). no.\n 2). yes.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "2)." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Based on the premise \"i think it would too\", can we conclude the hypothesis \"I also think it would. \" is true (see options)?\n\nPick from:\n(i) yes;\n(ii) it is not possible to tell;\n(iii) no;\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "(i)" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Два удобных конференц-зала вмещают от 100 до 300 человек.\n\nTranslate to English\n\nEnglish:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Two comfortable conference halls includes from one to three hundred persons." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Generate a context and a hypothesis.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Context: Svensk Hyllningsfest (] , \"Swedish Honoring Festival\") is a biennial celebration held in Lindsborg, Kansas, in October of odd-numbered years since 1941 to celebrate the town's Swedish heritage. The festival includes Swedish dancing, foods including \"lutfisk\", cooking demonstrations, arts and crafts, entertainment by local artists and musicians, a parade, and a smörgåsbord.\n\nHypothesis: It is not popular at all" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Answer the questions at the end based on the text.\n\nYao Ming was born in China in 1980. Now the big name from China is playing for the Houston Rockets in the NBA. He is the son of two basketball players and he learned how to play basketball when he was young. Now, as one of the stars in the NBA, he is working hard to show the world that Chinese basketball players can do well in this game, too! Pele was a famous football player. He was born in Brazil in 1940. He started playing for Santos when he was only 16 and he didn't retire until 1977. He played for Brazil 111 times and he scored 97 international goals. Pele came from a poor family. He started playing football in the streets. He played for Santos and quickly became an international star. Steffi Graf was born in Germany in 1969. She won the tennis semi-final at Wimbledon in 1985 when she was only 16, but she lost the final to another great tennis player, Martina Navratilova. People were 'surprised at the strength and power of her game. She soon became a famous tennis player and won most of the main matches.\n\n1. Who is playing for the Houston Rockets?\n2. What year was he born?\n3. What did his parents do?\n4. Who was born in Brazil?\n5. What was he famous for?\n6. Was he rich?\n7. Who lost in Wimbledon to Martina Navratilova?\n8. Where was she born?\n9. When age did she win semi-final at Wimbledon?\n10. How many times did Pele play for Brazil?\n\nNumbered answers:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "1. Yao Ming\n2. 1980\n3. basketball players\n4. Pele\n5. Being a famous football player\n6. No.\n7. Steffi Graf\n8. Germany\n9. 16\n10. 111" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Here is a dialogue:\nSteven: Could you check the mail box when leaving for work?\nFay: Are we waiting for anything?\nSteven: I ordered something on Amazon.\nFay: Ok, I'll do it!\n\nWrite a short summary!\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Fay will check the mailbox when leaving for work to check if Steven's Amazon order has arrived." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Auburn, Washington, country, United States; United States, ethnicGroup, African Americans\n\nWhat is sentence that verbalizes this data?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Auburn, Washington is located in the United States, where African Americans are an ethnic group." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Write an article based on this summary:\n\n– All 17 miners trapped overnight in an elevator more than 70 stories below ground have been rescued in upstate New York. Miners at the Cargill salt mine in Lansing were starting their shift around 10pm Wednesday when an elevator became jammed 775 feet down an access shaft, officials say. Cargill rep Mark Klein says no one was injured in the incident and rescue workers were in \"constant contact\" with the miners, per NBC News and the AP. Emergency crews, including the Ithaca Fire Department, worked through the night to deliver radios, heat packs, blankets, and water to the miners, per PIX11. A crane arrived from Auburn, NY, early Thursday and helped lift miners out of the shaft, reports the Ithaca Journal. The first four miners were lifted to the surface around 7am ET, according to a post on Ithaca Fire's Facebook page. Officials say they're investigating what caused the elevator to jam.\n\nArticle:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "\nBuy Photo The Cargill salt mine sits on the east shore of Cayuga Lake in Lansing. Seventeen salt mine workers were trapped after an elevator malfunctioned a few minutes before 10 p.m. Wednesday. By 8:30 a.m., all workers had been rescued. (Photo: KELLY GAMPEL / Staff Photo)Buy Photo \n \n They huddled together to keep warm. They chatted with each other to keep their spirits up. And after being stranded overnight some 900 feet down a mine shaft, 17 Cargill mine workers were pulled to safety Thursday morning in Lansing. \n \n Addressing reporters during a news conference following the rescue, Cargill Mine Manager Shawn Wilczynski spoke with relief: \"Everybody's out.\" \n \n \"This is really a proud day for a lot of us,\" he said. \"We came to the rescue of ourselves.\" \n \n Cargill salt mine workers, some of whom who spent up to 10 hours stuck in a elevator 900 feet below the surface, are rescued using a basket and crane Thursday morning in Lansing New York. Pool Video \n \n The 17 miners, all men ranging in age from their 20s to 60, were just descending down the shaft to a salt mine below Cayuga Lake at the start of a 10 p.m. shift Wednesday. The men were working as part of a third-shift underground production crew. \n \n WHAT HAPPENED? What caused the Cargill elevator to stop? \n \n HELP: Families waited for Cargill miners' safe return \n \n NY RESPONSE: Gov. Cuomo issues statement on Cargill mine rescue \n \n e-NEWSPAPER: See coverage in The Ithaca Journal \n \n Cargill spokesman Mark Klein said Thursday afternoon that a steel guide beam that keeps the elevator centered is the most likely cause of the mechanical failure. The beam might have come out of line, he said, and that could have caused the elevator to stop in the shaft. \n \n An outgoing shift had used the same two-level elevator about five minutes before the 17 men descended down the shaft, Wilczynski said, and there had been no indications of a possible problem. \n \n Cargill Mine Manager Shawn Wilczynski talks at an early morning press conference at the Lansing Fire Department after 17 mine staff were stuck in an elevator at 900 feet below the ground. SIMON WHEELER / Staff Video \n \n Cargill intends to perform a full safety check of the elevator once it can be removed from the shaft, according to Wilczynski, who described that process as a \"slow and purposeful approach,\" without a timetable as of Thursday. \n \n He said Cargill will work with the federal Mine Health and Safety Administration, or MSHA, regarding safety plans in light of the accident, in addition to performing an inspection of the malfunctioned elevator. If necessary, he said, the elevator could be replaced. \n \n “We will not go back to work until all our infrastructure is back in 100 percent safe operating conditions. We will take whatever time is necessary.” Shawn Wilczynski, Cargill Mine Manager \n \n \"We will not go back to work until all our infrastructure is back in 100 percent safe operating conditions,\" Wilczynski said. \"We will take whatever time is necessary.\" \n \n Cargill also has a stockpile of salt in its inventory, he added, so there is no concern about the company's inability to serve customers with work temporarily suspended. \n \n The rescue \n \n The crane rescue effort at Cargill Salt Mine in Lansing recovered the first group of workers at about 7 a.m. The last workers were pulled up at about 8:10 a.m. \n \n A crane from Auburn Crane & Rigging was used to lower a rescue basket and bring the men up four at a time. \n \n Throughout the endeavor, company officials and emergency responders kept in radio contact with the miners, said Joe Mareane, Tompkins County administrator. \n \n Buy Photo The fourth group of workers emerge from an elevator Thursday after they were stuck overnight in a shaft at Cargill salt mine in Lansing. (Photo: Simon Wheeler / Staff photo) \n \n Emergency management officials said the miners did whatever they could to keep in good spirits during the rescue efforts. Wilczynski said officials got them blankets, heat packs and other supplies, but the miners managed to keep themselves in fair condition while waiting for their rescue. \n \n \"All 17 miners carry with them at all times their personal equipment, and that includes their own cap-lamp for illumination,\" Wilczynski said. \"They also had their full complement of food they'd bring down for their dinners; there's one individual ... he brings a lunch bucket full of food every time.\" \n \n Apart from being cold due to their prolonged exposure to low temperatures, the miners were all in good physical health at the time of their rescue, officials said. \n \n The mine shaft descends 2,300 feet to the deepest salt mine in North America. \n \n The mine produces road de-icing salt from deposits deep beneath Cayuga Lake. According to the company's website, it has been in operation since 1921 as the Rock Salt Corp. Cargill has operated it since 1970. \n \n 911 call \n \n An emergency call was placed to the Tompkins County 911 Center at 11:40 p.m. Wednesday, according to a Tompkins County news release. Firefighters from Lansing, Ithaca, Cayuga Heights, along with Tompkins County Sheriff's deputies and the Tompkins County Department of Emergency Management answered the call. \n \n \"Our first job was to make sure the elevator was secure and the miners were safe,\" said Assistant Lansing Fire Chief Dennis Griffin. \"We might've changed our game plans five or six times.\" \n \n Firefighters were prepared to rappel down the shaft and pull out the stranded miners one at at time, he said, but the crane rescue became the best available option. \n \n The elevator has two levels for passengers and, according to Wilczynski, there were passengers on both levels of the device. \n \n Safety issues \n \n Cargill has reported 21 problems with hoists at the Cayuga Lake salt mine since the start of 2013, according to data compiled and made available online by the MSHA. Most of them involved electrical problems that interrupted power to the hoist. \n \n “Hoist” is the term used for elevators and other vertical conveyances at mines. Any time a hoist is out of service for 30 minutes or more, it must be reported as an accident, according to Ellen Smith, owner and managing editor of Mine Safety and Health News, an independent news publication based in Pittsford, Monroe County. \n \n Buy Photo Miners from the second-last group to be removed from a stuck elevator at the Cargill salt mine in Lansing are given blankets after spending the night trapped in an elevator 900 feet below the surface. (Photo: SIMON WHEELER / Staff Photo) \n \n The other active salt mine in New York, American Rock Salt’s facility in Livingston County, has reported only four hoist-related accidents in that time period, the MSHA data show. \n \n The most recent incident at Cargill occurred just five days ago, when a hoist known as No. 3 lost power when an electrical breaker tripped and would not reset. It took 45 minutes to repair. No one was working underground in the mine at the time. \n \n Elevators have failed numerous times while miners were at work, however. Workers were forced to evacuate the mine five times in 2014 and five times in 2013 after one of the elevators failed. \n \n By law, underground miners must have two separate means of egress, Smith said. If one is out of service, the mine must be evacuated. \n \n Cargill officials confirmed Thursday afternoon that hoist No. 3 was involved in the incident. \n \n The MSHA data noted past problems with hoists 1, 2 and 3, although No. 3 had by far the most reported problems. \n \n No injuries have been associated with the incidents, according to accident summaries on the MSHA data website. There is no mention of workers being stranded on a stalled elevator in the past three years. \n \n In March 2010, a contract truck driver was killed at the Lansing mine when a 150-ton salt bin collapsed. \n \n According to the MSHA, the piece of a 150-ton salt bin that corroded and caused the collapse that killed contract truck driver Rolland F. Clark on March 24 was not visible from the ground, and MSHA inspectors are not \"trained or expected\" to carefully examine such structures. \n \n New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a statement Thursday praising the rescue and calling for an investigation into the incident. \n \n Steve Orr, of the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, contributed to this story. \n \n Read or Share this story: http://ithacajr.nl/1RbFI2X ||||| LANSING, N.Y. (AP) — Seventeen miners are stuck in an elevator 900 feet underground at a central New York salt mine and emergency crews are working on a rescue. \n \n This photo provided by the Ithaca Fire Department shows a crane that will assist the rescue of seventeen miners stuck in an elevator underground at the Cargill Salt Mine in Lansing, N.Y., on Thursday,... (Associated Press) \n \n Cargill Inc. spokesman Mark Klein says the miners got stuck around 10 p.m. Wednesday while descending to the floor of the company's 2,300-foot-deep mine in Lansing, about 40 miles outside Syracuse. \n \n Klein says emergency rescue crews and equipment are on the scene and the miners aren't in danger. He says emergency officials are able to communicate with the miners via radio. \n \n A crane has been brought to the scene and will be used to hoist the miners to the surface in a basket. Klein says he doesn't know how long the rescue operation will take. \n \n The mine operated by Minneapolis-based Cargill produces road salt that's shipped throughout the northeast. ||||| Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. \n \n Emergency crews raced Thursday morning to free the remaining miners trapped in an elevator more than 70 stories below ground in upstate New York, officials said. \n \n By 8:40 a.m. ET, the 17 men were hoisted to safety following the \"major rescue\" over nearly 11 hours at the Cargill Salt Mines in Lansing. \n \n The workers had been trapped in an elevator about 800 to 900 feet down an access shaft, the company said. Ultimately, the mine shaft itself plunges about 2,300 feet — the deepest salt mine in North America. \n \n Shawn Wilczynski, Cargill's mine manager, said at a news conference that the miners had just started their shift late Wednesday when a steel beam linked to the two-level elevator appeared to break, halting operations. \n \n A crane was brought in to assist with extricating the workers, according to the Tompkins County Department of Emergency Response. It said the trapped workers were given radios and supplies. \n \n Wilczynski said the men, ranging in ages from their 20s to their 60s, stayed positive. \"As is typical with them, (they were) joking, sharing stories, having a good time with each other,\" he added. \n \n Mark Klein, a spokesman forCargill, said earlier that no one was injured when the incident occurred around 10 p.m. ET. ||||| Please enable Javascript to watch this video \n \n LANSING, N.Y. — All 17 miners who were stuck hundreds of feet below the surface in an elevator at the deepest salt mine in the Western Hemisphere have been rescued. \n \n Cargill Inc. spokesman Mark Klein says the last two miners were raised to the surface by a crane around 8:30 a.m. Thursday at the mine in the central New York town of Lansing. \n \n Their rescue ended an ordeal that lasted about 10 hours. Klein says the miners were never in danger. \n \n Klein says the miners got stuck 900 feet underground around 10 p.m. Wednesday while descending to the floor of the 2,300-foot-deep mine to start their shift. \n \n Tompkins County Emergency Management officials said the miners have been trapped since Wednesday night. \n \n Authorities told local media they're able to communicate with the miners and have delivered them blankets, heat packs, and other supplies. \n \n According to Cargill's website, the mine just north of Ithaca has been in operation since 1922 and annually processes about 2 million tons of road salt that is shipped throughout the northeast United States. \n \n Messages left at Cargill's corporate headquarters were not immediately returned early Thursday. \n \n Lansing is more than 200 miles away from New York City. |||||" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Choose your answer from options. Premise: \"um hello um what is your favorite um food for a dinner party\" If this premise is true, what does that tell us about whether it entails the hypothesis \"If you were having a dinner party, what would you want to eat?\"?\n\nOptions are: a. yes; b. it is not possible to tell; c. no;\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "a." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Generate a context and a hypothesis.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Context: Marvin Ivan \"Buck\" Barrow (March 14, 1903 – July 29, 1933) was a member of the Barrow Gang. He was the older brother of the gang's leader, Clyde Barrow. He and his wife Blanche were wounded in a gun battle with police four months after they joined up with Bonnie and Clyde. Marvin died of his wounds.\n\nHypothesis: Blanche died of her wounds in a gun battle with police 4 months after joining Bonnie and Clyde." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Question 1: How much should an average partner at a medium size venture capital firm expect to make in a given year?\nQuestion 2: When a venture capital firm fails/closes, what do the partners normally go on to do?\nOPTIONS: [+] no. [+] yes.\nWould the answer to these two questions be the same?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "no" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Here is some data: Akita Museum of Art, location, Akita, Akita; Akita Museum of Art, location, Akita Prefecture; Akita Prefecture, country, Japan.\n\nWrite a sentence that describes this data.\nSentence:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The Akita Museum of Art is an art museum in the city of Akita, Akita Prefecture, Japan." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "...In Black and White is the 12th studio album by American country artist Barbara Mandrell. The album was released in April 1982 on MCA Records and was produced by Tom Collins. It was Barbara Mandrell's first studio album in two years since the release of \"Love Is Fair\".\nCan we infer the following?\nBarbara Mandrell produced a lot of albums\n\nChoose your answer from: I. Yes. II. It's impossible to say. III. No.\nThe answer is:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "II." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Available choices:\n 1). negative.\n 2). positive. What would be an example of an 1). review?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Everything is spicy in this place, they should said that in the Menu, very large portion but nothing awesome at all, Shrimp Ceviche was not fresh as the menu said, the carne asada didn't like it and not many option for kids not even crayons or lids for the cups" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Translate to French:\n\nThe vast majority of these are government publications, i.e., 72% are federal government publications and 5% are provincial.\n\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "La grande majorité d'entre elles sont des publications gouvernementales qui proviennent à 72 % du gouvernement fédéral et à 5 % du gouvernement provincial." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Note the options at the end. Select the topic that this about:\n\nThe country dining chain is weathering cost increases better than its rivals.\n\nOptions are:\na). World.\nb). Sports.\nc). Business.\nd). Science/Tech.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "c)." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Single/multi-choice problem: Which of the following solutions is better for the following goal:\nWhat should you do before you begin filling a sinkhole?\n\nAvailable options:\n (A). Remove any loose debris that may be in the sinkhole: tree branches, pine cones, etc..\n (B). Add debris to help fill the sinkhole up: tree branches, pine cones, etc..\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "(A)." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Bengals finish strong\n\nBALTIMORE -- First, Carson Palmer tossed the ball all over the field during his finest day in the NFL.\n\nMulti-choice problem: What is this text about?\nOPT:\ni. World\nii. Sports\niii. Business\niv. Science/Tech\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "ii." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "MIRAMAR, Fla. - Florida Highway Patrol troopers are investigating a fatal crash on Thursday night in Miramar. A driver struck a pedestrian on the southbound exit ramp of Interstate 75 to Miramar Parkway. The ramp remains closed. According to FHP Lt. Alvaro A. Feola, paramedics pronounced the pedestrian dead at the scene of the crash. Traffic homicide investigators were collecting evidence about 8:40 p.m. Copyright 2018 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.\n\nBased on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?\nFlorida Highway Patrol troopers are investigating a fatal crash on Interstate 10 in Miramar.\n\nSelect from: * Yes * It's impossible to say * No\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "No" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Choose your answer: Is \"Hurling has a strong identity with city and county – with Cork winning 30 All-Ireland Championships.\" a good answer to the question \"How many All-Ireland Senior Football Championship titles have been won by Cork?\"\n I. yes. II. no.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "II." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Background: King's X is an American rock band that combines progressive metal, funk and soul with vocal arrangements influenced by gospel, blues, and British Invasion rock groups. The band's lyrics are largely based on the members' struggles with religion and self-acceptance. King's X was ranked No. 83 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.\nContext: The band was moved up to Megaforce's parent label Atlantic Records for the release of their fourth album, King's X, in early 1992. However, rising tensions with Taylor led the band to eschew the upbeat approach of previous albums and turn out a darker, more introspective effort. Unfortunately, despite critical praise, their new style did not translate well among the record-buying public, thus garnering fewer sales than Faith, Hope, Love. \"Black Flag\", the album's lone single, received only moderate airplay on MTV and radio. Not long after the release of King's X, the band parted ways with Taylor. The details of the split were not made public, but it was believed to be rather bitter. Taylor would admit in 1996 that his company Wilde Silas MusicWorks was growing and, as a result, he was no longer giving King's X, whom he considered \"the top dogs,\" the attention they deserved. In the aftermath, King's X took over a year off to consider their collective future together. The band members followed other, non-musical pursuits; most notably, guitarist Ty Tabor took up semi-professional motocross motorcycle racing. With grunge at the peak of its popularity, and Pearl Jam's bassist Jeff Ament declaring that \"King's X invented grunge\" (despite the group's trademark sound being very different from that of the commercially successful grunge acts), the band went looking for a new sound upon their return. They enlisted veteran producer Brendan O'Brien, who had recently produced albums for Stone Temple Pilots and Pearl Jam. The resulting album, 1994's Dogman, showcased a much more muscular and heavy sound from the group, along with less abstract and spiritual lyrics. The record received a heavier promotional push from Atlantic including a compilation promotional CD entitled: Building Blox, as King's X enjoyed a successful tour, capped by an appearance at the Woodstock '94 festival in August. They also toured in support of such bands as the Scorpions, Pearl Jam, Motley Crue and Type O Negative, but despite a return to the Top 100 for the group, the album failed to sell as well as Atlantic had hoped, and the label's support for the group quickly faded. The band's third release under Atlantic, 1996's Ear Candy, would also be their last for the label (not including a subsequent Best of King's X compilation). Although it sold to the band's sizeable core following, it lacked the relative mainstream success of previous efforts. The record was soon out of print, and it seemed that the group's chance for commercial success had come and gone.\nQuestion: Was this release successful?. Whats the answer?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "). Although it sold to the band's sizeable core following, it lacked the relative mainstream success of previous efforts." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Au Sri Lanka, la presse est muselée, des journalistes sont victimes d'intimidations et de détentions arbitraires.\n\nTranslate this to English?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "In Sri Lanka, the press is muzzled, and journalists are subject to intimidation and arbitrary detention." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Are these paraphrases?\nJoe was born on 27 March 1929 in Somerville , Massachusetts and grew up in Quincy , Massachusetts .\nJoe was born in Quincy , Massachusetts on March 27 , 1929 and grew up in Somerville , Massachusetts .\n\npick from the following. [I] no; [II] yes;\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "[I]" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Math problem: Solve 0 = -17*o + 311 - 30 - 60 for o.\nWhat is the solution?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "13" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Although Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM initially contemplated using established al Qaeda members to execute the planes operation, the late 1999 arrival in Kandahar of four aspiring jihadists from Germany suddenly presented a more attractive alternative. The Hamburg group shared the anti-U.S. fervor of the other candidates for the operation, but added the enormous advantages of fluency in English and familiarity with life in the West, based on years that each member of the group had spent living in Germany. Not surprisingly, Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah would all become key players in the 9/11 conspiracy. Mohamed Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt, to a middle-class family headed by his father, an attorney. After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple of years. In the fall of 1991, he asked a German family he had met in Cairo to help him continue his education in Germany. They suggested he come to Hamburg and invited him to live with them there, at least initially. After completing a course in German, Atta traveled to Germany for the first time in July 1992. He resided briefly in Stuttgart and then, in the fall of 1992, moved to Hamburg to live with his host family. After enrolling at the University of Hamburg, he promptly transferred into the city engineering and planning course at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where he would remain registered as a student until the fall of 1999. He appears to have applied himself fairly seriously to his studies (at least in comparison to his jihadist friends) and actually received his degree shortly before traveling to Afghanistan. In school, Atta came across as very intelligent and reasonably pleasant, with an excellent command of the German language. When Atta arrived in Germany, he appeared religious, but not fanatically so. This would change, especially as his tendency to assert leadership became increasingly pronounced. According to Binalshibh, as early as 1995 Atta sought to organize a Muslim student association in Hamburg. In the fall of 1997, he joined a working group at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians. Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality. But among those who shared his beliefs, Atta stood out as a decisionmaker. \n\nChoose your answer: According to the above paragraph, the correct answer to the question \"What schools did Mohamed Atta attend?\" is \"MIT\"?\n\nPick your answer from: --no. --yes.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "no" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Create a set of triples that describes the content in the following sentence.\n\nThe year Rowan University is was established 1923.0\n\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Rowan University ENROLLMENT 10483\nRowan University NICKNAME Profs\nRowan University LOCATION Glassboro, NJ\nRowan University ESTABLISHED 1923" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": " The little party in the cabin, so disastrously begun, finished, under the mellowing influence of wine and woman, in excellent feeling and with some hilarity. Mamie, in a plush Gainsborough hat and a gown of wine-coloured silk, sat, an apparent queen, among her rude surroundings and companions. The dusky litter of the cabin set off her radiant trimness: tarry Johnson was a foil to her fair beauty; she glowed in that poor place, fair as a star; until even I, who was not usually of her admirers, caught a spark of admiration; and even the captain, who was in no courtly humour, proposed that the scene should be commemorated by my pencil. It was the last act of the evening. Hurriedly as I went about my task, the half-hour had lengthened out to more than three before it was completed: Mamie in full value, the rest of the party figuring in outline only, and the artist himself introduced in a back view, which was pronounced a likeness. But it was to Mamie that I devoted the best of my attention; and it was with her I made my chief success. \n\nChoose your answer: According to the above paragraph, the correct answer to the question \"Did the artist partly draw a character named Johnson in outline?\" is \"No\"?\n\nOPT:\n -no;\n -yes;\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "no" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "This is some data: Alvah Sabin, party, Whig Party (United States); Alvah Sabin, region, Vermont's 3rd congressional district; Vermont, largestCity, Burlington, Vermont; Alvah Sabin, state, Vermont; Whig Party (United States), leader, Henry Clay.\n\nGenerate a detailed description of this data.\nSentence:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Alvah Sabin was from Vermont where the largest city is Burlington. He was a member of the United States Whig Party led by Henry Clay and represented Vermont's 3rd Congressional District." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Here is some data: Adam McQuaid, birthPlace, Prince Edward Island; Adam McQuaid, birthDate, 1986-10-12; Adam McQuaid, birthYear, 1986; Adam McQuaid, height, 1.9558.\n\nWrite a sentence that describes this data.\nSentence:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Adam McQuaid, who was born on Prince Edward Island, on October 12th, 1986, is 1.9558m tall." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Translate to Finnish:\n\nMadam President.\n\nFinnish:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Arvoisa rouva puhemies!" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ferner bieten wir die Möglichkeit Application Management und Services durch Offshore-Mitarbeiter zu erbringen.\n\nTranslate to English\n\nEnglish:" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "In addition we have the ability to provide application management und services with our offshore-employees." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "If The editors seem to know good writing when they see Novelist John Hawkes makes an unexpected appearance with a new introduction to The Passion Artist , and Poppy Z. Brite has a touching fantasy of John Lennon and Paul McCartney holding more than each other's hands., can we conclude that \"Hawkes wrote the five page introduction to The Passion Artist.\"?\nPick your answer from: -yes. -it is not possible to tell. -no.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "it is not possible to tell" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Choose your answer: Is \"Maternal factors also play a role in the body’s immune response.\" a good answer to the question \"The difference in responses in infant immune systems is the cause of what?\"\nChoose from:\n (a). yes\n (b). no\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "(b)." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Find the right ending to this passage.\n\n(CNN) -- I have interviewed Dominique Strauss-Kahn many times over the years, usually after an international summit or IMF meeting. The agenda at those interviews was the normal stuff of such events; debt, deficits and dismal economic performance. The prospect of sitting down with the former IMF chief and asking about personal matters relating to his New York arrest seemed unseemly, and even more odd when it was to be juxtaposed with a discussion on the current economic situation. I worried Strauss-Kahn would be too timid in giving strong views on the eurozone crisis, its leaders and the problems facing the global economy.\n\nThe problem is it's not only the\n\nOPTIONS:\n- CNN incident.\n- Dominique Strauss-Kahn incident.\n- IMF incident.\n- New York incident.\n- Quest incident.\n- Richard Quest incident.\n- Strauss-Kahn incident.\n\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "New York incident." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Choose from: - Joseph remembered to bring his breakfast to school.. - Ryan remembered to bring his breakfast to school..\nComplete the following sentence.\n\nJoseph gave Ryan some of his cereal as \n\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Joseph remembered to bring his breakfast to school." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Produce a sentence which mentions all of these concepts: lake, shine, sunlight\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "sunlight shines down on lily pads growing on a lake" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Write the last sentence in this story.\n\nNearly seven in 10 Americans believe the United States should shut its doors to foreigners traveling from countries that have seen cases of the Ebola virus, and six in 10 say there should be a total ban on incoming travel for everyone – including Americans – who want to enter the U.S. Republicans are overwhelmingly against issuing travel visas to people who have been to the Ebola hot zone, with 90 per cent favoring the no-room-at-the-inn approach. Older Americans also preferred a closed-door policy by large numbers. The GOP also leads the field in asking for travel restrictions on anyone entering the U.S. from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. More than three-fourths of Republicans hold that view, compared with barely half of Democrats.\n\nINSIDE THE NUMBERS: Democrats who approve of sending soldiers into\n\nOPTIONS:\n- Americans's path far outnumber Republicans who back that approach\n- Congress's path far outnumber Republicans who back that approach\n- Democrats's path far outnumber Republicans who back that approach\n- Ebola's path far outnumber Republicans who back that approach\n- GOP's path far outnumber Republicans who back that approach\n- Guinea's path far outnumber Republicans who back that approach\n- Liberia's path far outnumber Republicans who back that approach\n- MailOnline's path far outnumber Republicans who back that approach\n- Obama's path far outnumber Republicans who back that approach\n- Republicans's path far outnumber Republicans who back that approach\n- Ron Klain's path far outnumber Republicans who back that approach\n- Sierra Leone's path far outnumber Republicans who back that approach\n- U.S.'s path far outnumber Republicans who back that approach\n- US's path far outnumber Republicans who back that approach\n- United States's path far outnumber Republicans who back that approach\n- YouGov's path far outnumber Republicans who back that approach\n\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ebola's path far outnumber Republicans who back that approach" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Generate a context and a hypothesis.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Context: The Big Storm<br>Charles moved to the beach recently. There was a storm warning. He had never been in a storm before. Unfortunately he couldn't afford to go anywhere. He decided to ride it out and was scared the whole time.\n\nHypothesis: Charles could afford to leave during the storm." } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Please answer this question: what is the main train station in milan?\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Milan Central" } ]
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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Math Problem\nSolve -267*m - 272 - 509 + 247 = 0 for m.\n" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "-2" } ]
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Dataset Card for Tulu Instruction Mix

For a newer version, see Tulu V2

This version, the human data mixture, dataset consists of a mix of:

These are made by taking either just the training set of the subsets or the entire section if no splits are present. For more information, see the paper How Far Can Camels Go? Exploring the State of Instruction Tuning on Open Resources .

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