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Pedicab driving is a job for shisters. That much became clear to Rocks Off after just a 10-minute conversation with a driver. And during our two-hour ride along with Houston bike cabs working the Taylor Swift concert and downtown's hotspots, a certain phrase kept playing in our head: Rick Ross' "Every Day I'm Hustlin'". The story idea came to us last week at the Jimmy Buffett concert when we ran into two separate pedicab companies taking drunken Parrotheads back to their cars after the show. One driver, David, told us he often works the Gay Pride Parade in the Montrose. Another driver, David, said he rents his cab for $90 and can take home all the tips he makes. He expected to make about $250 on the night of the Buffett show. We thought it might be fun to look at a night in the life of a pedicab driver in such a pedestrian-averse, bike-unfriendly, car-loving city like the Petro Metro. Little did we know what we were getting into. David, the driver at the Buffett show, made such a good impression on us with his politeness that we decided to call the company he works for, Space City Bike Cab. Within moments of explaining to company owner Travis Stowers our idea for the story, we were assailed with complaints about the bike-cab business in Houston. "I own 44 pedicabs," he said. "We _invented_ pedicabs in Houston." Indeed, Space City Bike Cab's Web site says they own the largest fleet of state-of-the-art 21-speed bike cabs in Houston. But Stowers didn't want to talk for long. Instead, he directed me to Nate Lubke, his business partner, who continued the complaints about other bike cab businesses operating downtown. Among Lubke's chief complaints: Drivers who operate unsafe vehicles, drivers who are thugs, those who take advantage of intoxicated passengers to increase their nightly wages, and unsafe drivers, including one dropped and dragged a lady by her face and still had the nerve to charge her fare. Lubke's complaints are scary, but they aren't as bad as other pedicab horror stories from across the country. Last summer in Brooklyn, four people were hurt in a bike cab crash, and in Seattle in 2008 a 60-year-old pedicab passenger died when the bike collided with a van. In 2007, a pedicab driver in California was charged with felony drunken driving after an accident that injured another pedicab driver and four passengers. Nothing that dramatic has happened in Houston. Not yet, Lubke says, but it will. SEXUAL GODS ON WHEELS Rocks Off was to meet with Lubke and some other drivers outside House of Blues Tuesday night at 6 p.m. When we arrived, we flagged down a driver on a bike cab with House of Blues ads on the back -- Space City Bike Cab has an exclusive advertising contract with the restaurant and music venue. We asked for Nate, and the driver, who had a tattoo sleeve down his right arm, offered to give Rocks Off a ride to find him. Only after we were in the cab did we realize the cyclist was an amputee. His left leg, working as deftly on the pedals as the right, was a steel prosthesis, the top half of which was covered in designs not unlike his arm tattoos. As we rounded the corner we met up with Lubke, and Rocks Off switched cabs. Lubke is 40 years old and cocky, with buzzed, greying hair, a football player's build and a mouth that never stops. He offered to give us a sunset tour of downtown while explaining the history of pedicabs in Houston. "We started the business here in Houston, my roommate and I," he said. Lubke moved to Texas in 2003 from San Diego, where he had worked as a bike cab driver for six years. "I was a waiter," he said, "and I took a pedicab, and the driver had a flip-flop tan. I said 'You must be doing pretty good if you've got a flip-flop tan.'" The driver told Lubke he made more than enough money in tips to live on, and after that Lubke was sold. "In San Diego, we were like gods. You had all these mid- to late-20s guys running around town on bikes, picking up chicks from bars. My first night, I took home two chicks." His boss in California landed an advertisement deal with Bud Light for the 2004 Super Bowl, and sent a delegation of pedicab drivers to Houston to serve Reliant Stadium. But the glory of the job didn't carry over into Texas. "We called it Survivor Houston. We had nine guys that came here from San Diego. Every week one guy would say 'Fuck this, I'm going home.' It was just a whole different animal." I FOUGHT THE LAW"I'm just real soured right now," Lubke told Rocks Off. "I've been fighting with the fucking city because it was the city who invited us out for the Super Bowl." The majority of Lubke's criticisms have to do with his competition and the fact that the pedicab industry, if one can call it that, is completely unregulated by the City of Houston. Pedicabs skirt the city's taxi ordinance because the drivers don't charge a fare and they bikes don't have motors. "The city won't regulate anything because they don't want to be liable." Owner Travis Stowers echoes that sentiment. "Most companies don't even have insurance," Stowers said. "I keep a $20,000 insurance policy." Lubke said some of the other companies' practices make all bike cabbers look bad. Stowers said that if the city doesn't make gains to officiate the business, he'll likely be leaving Houston for a city that does. Space City Bike Cab has a sister operation in Arlington called Lone Star Bike Cab. After the new Cowboys Stadium was opened about a year ago, bike cabs descended on the arena to help stadium-goers avoid the outrageous parking fees, some as high as $75. Within a few months, the city had moved to create regulations for the pedicabs. Those regulations require all pedicabs to have lights, proof of insurance, helmets and seat belts, inspection certifications and slow moving vehicle signs on the back of the bench. They also regulate the types of pedicabs allowed. Trailers that attached to regular bikes are prohibited. Space City Bike Cab and Lone Star Bike Cab's bikes are all one extended frame, sort of like an Xtracycle. Arlington also put a limit on how many bike cabs can service the stadium. They made available 40 total permits to operate bike cabs. Lone Star has 10 of them. EVERY DAY I'M HUSTLIN' On the phone, Rocks Off asked Lubke how an average passenger could tell that his company was more legit than any other group riding bike cabs in Houston. In person, the answer seems clear. All of Space City's bike cabs look the same -- blue with a blue House of Blues ad on the back. The drivers all wear the same navy T-shirt with Lone Star's logo on the back. The cabs also all have the same sign explaining that fares are free -- the driver work for tips and tips only, an important detail. "If you look nicer you'll make more money," Lubke says. Then he points to a cyclist for another company. "These guys in the yellow bikes and yellow shirts, they're trying to look more cohesive." Those identical bike cabs and matching t-shirts had to be funded somehow, and one thing Rocks Off notices as we pass other bike cabbers is that almost no one but Lubke's people have advertisements on their bikes. The House of Blues deal is sweet, but not the sweetest one they've ever scored. When the Super Bowl came to San Diego in 2003, Coca-Cola paid the pedicab company Lubke worked for $40,000 to put ads on four bikes, he said. The Bud Light deal that helped bring the company to Houston was pretty good too. And Lubke likes to talk about all the famous people who've ridden in his cabs: Doug Flutie and Snoop Dogg, who Lubke says didn't tip at all. "I drove Brett Favre's parents around during the Super Bowl," he said. Suddenly Lubke interrupts himself to point to a pedicab in front of us carrying some young girls to the Toyota Center, where Taylor Swift is about to perform. The bike is pulling a trailer-style cab with a bench made out of exposed plywood. There are no reflectors, no lights, no horn -- no safety features at all. "Look at this -- you think you can see that trailer at night? If your daughter falls out of that trailer and gets hit by a car, you think that guy's gonna stick around while you call the cops?" Many drivers build trailer-style cabs in their garages, using who knows what kind of safety standards. Lubke said the less ethical owners don't even keep the bikes maintained, and require the drivers to bring their own lights and other equipment. He poses the question -- if you're renting a pedicab to drive, what is the rent going towards? Pedicab rental works on a confusing scale. At Space City, Lubke charges his drivers a percentage based on the average tips collected that night. This method requires his drivers to report their tips to him, which means, of course, they're going to lowball the number to keep the rent low and the take-home higher. If a nightly average is $200 in tips, then Lubke would charge $60 for the rental, giving the driver $140 in his pocket. Several times throughout the night, employees of Lubke would pull up to him to complain about how slow it had been. Outside the House of Blues, two drivers -- one who was working his very first shift -- were talking about the lack of tips. Within a few minutes, they both got riders. "What are the odds of that," he asks sarcastically. It seems to be a hobby of Lubke's to bitch about his employees. He alternates between calling them thugs and slackers. "Don't tell me it's slow out here," he tells us. "You're in a fuckin' rickshaw. You know what little girls like more than anything? Getting pedaled to a concert. Maybe the only thing they like more is getting their nails done." He doesn't like for his drivers to smoke while their on the bikes, and he wants them to look clean-cut, approachable. He tries to make sure they follow all the traffic rules too, though some guys will shortcut by riding on the sidewalk or going half a block the wrong way down a one-way street. "I give a lot of people chances," he said. During the summer, a lot of foreign students staying in Houston come to work for him. And he hears, through his employees, about the exploits of other drivers. One, he tells me, is a registered sex offender. Another packs heat while he's working. "You're pedaling a rickshaw in an entertainment district. Why do you need a gun?" Lubke thinks he has an answer. He tells me about an employee he fired because the man kept showing up without his uniform. "They say 'fuck you, I don't wanna work for you anymore.' So he goes and buys a trailer for $200 bucks and now he has no rules." We pull into a pay parking lot where a quartet of bike cabs are waiting to offer rides to the Toyota Center. Sure enough, Lubke is right about the drivers' looks. We watch as five girls all cram themselves into a Space City cab that normally seats three, instead of splitting up and riding in one of the rickety-looking trailer-cabs. Lubke believes that a low overhead leads other drivers to resort to shady business deals in order to supplement their tips. If a driver looks like a thug and their bike looks unsafe, they're obviously not going to get very many passengers. Lubke says some drivers threaten passengers for higher tips, take advantage of drunk passengers by charging a fare in addition to a tip, and sell drugs on the side. One business manager for another company tries to sabotage every ad deal Space City gets by sending anonymous letters to the advertisers. One of Lubke's drivers used to work for a rival company. Last week, he was riding his own bike home to the Third Ward, and he was attacked by a man carrying a cane, who broke his jaw. The driver told Rocks Off the attacker was another pedicab company's driver. Lubke rattles off a list of names of drivers who've been arrested for various offenses, some of them happened while the guys were on the job. Lubke says he's friends with the cops and that is how he knows. ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL? Lubke and Stowers are worried about The Woodlands. The Jimmy Buffett concert was their third event there, and the competition has gotten wind of it. The Woodlands Board asked Space City Bike Cabs to work events in the Town Center so people wouldn't park at the mall. And Space City has other service deals that are exclusive - the Nutcracker Market, Texans games and a few he asked us not to mention in print. "We make so much money that during the week we give the bikes out for free so the guys can supplement their income." The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is a different story. "One-third of all of Houston goes to the Rodeo," Lubke said, "So I figured if people have a good experience with us there, they'll ride with us again. Losing the Rodeo, for my company, is huge." A few years after Space City started working the Rodeo, their competitors started moving in on the event too. When the shifty characters and derelict bikes appeared, the Rodeo lumped the whole flock, including Space City, together. "The Rodeo wanted no bikes. They said, "Fuck it." I can't afford for people not to have a positive experience, or the business will fail." Lubke says the NFL doesn't even want pedicabs at the Super Bowl anymore. Which is why he's gone to the Houston City Council to try to get some regulations, like those in Arlington, in place to protect what he sees as legitimate pedicab businesses. His two main requests are that the City put an insurance policy in place and put a vehicle type in place, effectively banning those home-built trailers. And Lubke is also trying to appeal to the other bike cab companies. He says it's the only way pedicabs will survive in the town that loves to drive. It's worked in other cities. Austin, for example, has a pedicab alliance, and like Arlington, there is a city code regulating their practices. "If these guys just cleaned up their image and we all worked as a group, this thing would all work out," he said.

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question: What are Lubke's problems with operating a pedicab company?

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answer: Lubke's concerns fall into three categories: lack of regulations, rival companies, and his employees. The regulations result in a lot of unscrupulous drivers, unsafe pedicabs tarnishing the reputation of the industry, and large venues forbidding pedicabs altogether. These problems overlap with pedicab companies other than Lubke's operating in unsavory ways. There is a company that tries to sabotage the advertising deals Lubke makes. Finally, Lubke's own drivers often under-report the tips they receive so that they pay less to Lubke and keep more to themselves since he charges a percentage of the tips the drivers earn. Sometimes, the drivers refuse to wear uniforms, and some of them are ex-criminals.

answer: Lubke's concerns fall into three categories: lack of regulations, rival companies, and his employees. The regulations result in a lot of unscrupulous drivers, unsafe pedicabs tarnishing the reputation of the industry, and large venues forbidding pedicabs altogether. These problems overlap with pedicab companies other than Lubke's operating in unsavory ways. There is a company that tries to sabotage the advertising deals Lubke makes. Finally, Lubke's own drivers often under-report the tips they receive so that they pay less to Lubke and keep more to themselves since he charges a percentage of the tips the drivers earn. Sometimes, the drivers refuse to wear uniforms, and some of them are ex-criminals.

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text: The answer should mention that the lack of regulations is one of the reasons why the other pedicab companies are able to operate in unsavory ways.

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text: "The regulations result in a lot of unscrupulous drivers, unsafe pedicabs tarnishing the reputation of the industry, and large venues forbidding pedicabs altogether. These problems overlap with pedicab companies other than Lubke's operating in unsavory ways. There is a company that tries to sabotage the advertising deals Lubke makes. Finally, Lubke's own drivers often under-report the tips they receive so that they pay less to Lubke and keep more to themselves since he charges a percentage of the tips the drivers earn. Sometimes, the drivers refuse to wear uniforms, and some of them are ex-criminals." - this is redundant and can be removed.

text: The answer should also mention that the lack of regulations also leads toTHESE PARKERS NOT PAYING PARKING FEES because the pedicab drivers help people park for free.

text: The text doesn't mention large venues banning pedicabs, but only allowing a certain amount to operate.

answer: Lubke's concerns fall into three categories: lack of regulations, rival companies, and his employees. The lack of regulations results in a lot of unscrupulous drivers, unsafe pedicabs tarnishing the reputation of the industry, and large venues forbidding pedicabs altogether. These problems overlap with pedicab companies other than Lubke's operating in unsavory ways. There is a company that tries to sabotage the advertising deals Lubke makes. Finally, Lubke's own drivers often under-report the tips they receive so that they pay less to Lubke and keep more to themselves since he charges a percentage of the tips the drivers earn. Sometimes, the drivers refuse to wear uniforms, and some of them are ex-criminals.

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answer: He says that the city of Houston doesn't regulate the business, and that the other companies operating downtown are unsafe.

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_'_ Alice's Restaurant _'_ is a 1969 American comedy film directed by Arthur Penn. It is an adaptation of the 1967 folk song “Alice's Restaurant Massacree”, originally written and sung by Arlo Guthrie. The film stars Guthrie as himself, with Pat Quinn as Alice Brock and James Broderick as Ray Brock. Penn, who resided in the story's setting of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, co-wrote the screenplay in 1967 with Venable Herndon after hearing the song, shortly after directing _Bonnie & Clyde_.[1]

_Alice's Restaurant_ was released on August 19, 1969, a few days after Guthrie appeared at the Woodstock Festival. A soundtrack album for the film was also released by United Artists Records. The soundtrack includes a studio version of the title song, which was originally divided into two parts (one for each album side); a 1998 CD reissue on the Rykodisc label presents this version of the song in full, and adds several bonus tracks to the original LP.

Plot

In 1965, Arlo Guthrie (as himself) has attempted to avoid the draft by attending college in Montana. His long hair and unorthodox approach to study gets him in trouble with local police as well as residents. He quits school, and subsequently hitchhikes back East. He first visits his father Woody Guthrie (Joseph Boley) in the hospital.

Arlo ultimately returns to his friends Ray (James Broderick) and Alice Brock (Pat Quinn) at their home, a deconsecrated church in Great Barrington, Massachusetts where they welcome friends and like-minded bohemian types to “crash”. Among these are Arlo's school friend Roger (Geoff Outlaw) and artist Shelley (Michael McClanathan), an ex-heroin addict who is in a motorcycle racing club. Alice is starting up a restaurant in nearby Stockbridge. Frustrated with Ray's lackadaisical attitude, she has an affair with Shelley, and ultimately leaves for New York to visit Arlo and Roger. Ray comes to take her home, saying he has invited a “few” friends for Thanksgiving.

The central point of the film is the story told in the song: After Thanksgiving dinner, Arlo and his friends decide to do Alice and Ray a favor by taking several months worth of garbage from their house to the town dump. After loading up a red VW microbus with the garbage, and “shovels, and rakes and other implements of destruction”, they head for the dump. Finding the dump closed for the holiday, they drive around and discover a pile of garbage that someone else had placed at the bottom of a short cliff. At that point, as mentioned in the song, “...we decided that one big pile is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we decided to throw ours down.”

The next morning they receive a phone call from “Officer Obie” (Police Chief William Obanhein as himself), who asks them about the garbage. After admitting to littering, they agree to pick up the garbage and to meet him at the police officers' station. Loading up the red VW microbus, they head to the police station where they are immediately arrested.

As the song puts it, they are then driven to the quote scene of the crime unquote where the police are engaged in a hugely elaborate investigation. At the trial, Officer Obie is anxiously awaiting the chance to show the judge the 27 8x10 color glossy photos of the crime but the judge (James Hannon as himself) happens to be blind, using a seeing eye dog, and simply levies a $25 fine, orders them to pick up the garbage and then sets them free. The garbage is eventually taken to New York and placed on a barge. Meanwhile, Arlo has fallen in love with a beautiful Asian girl, Mari-chan (Tina Chen).

Later in the movie, Arlo is called up for the draft, in a surreal depiction of the bureaucracy at the New York City military induction center on Whitehall Street. He attempts twice to make himself unfit for induction, first by getting drunk the night before and performing the physical exams while hung over, then by acting like a homicidal maniac in front of the psychiatrist, but fails both times (the latter incident actually gets him praise). Because of Guthrie's criminal record for littering, he is first sent to the Group W bench (where convicts wait), then outright rejected as unfit for military service, not because of the littering incident, but because he makes a remark about the dubiousness of considering littering to be a problem when selecting candidates for armed conflict, making the officials suspicious of “his kind” and them to send his personal records to Washington, DC.

Upon returning to the church, Arlo finds Ray and members of the motorcycle club showing home movies of a recent race. Shelley enters, obviously high, and Ray beats him until he reveals his stash of heroin, concealed in some art he has been working on. Shelley roars off into the night on his motorcycle to his death; the next day, Woody dies. Ray and Alice have a hippie-style wedding in the church, and a drunken Ray proposes to sell the church and start a country commune instead, revealing that he blames himself for Shelley's death. The film ends with Alice standing alone in her bedraggled wedding gown on the church steps.

Cast

-   Arlo Guthrie as himself
-   Pat Quinn as Alice Brock
-   James Broderick as Ray Brock
-   Pete Seeger as himself
-   Lee Hays as himself – reverend at evangelical meeting
-   Michael McClanathan as Shelly
-   Geoff Outlaw as Roger Crowther
-   Tina Chen as Mari-chan
-   Kathleen Dabney as Karin
-   William Obanhein as himself – Officer Obie
-   James Hannon as himself – the blind judge
-   Seth Allen as Evangelist
-   Monroe Arnold as Bluegrass
-   Joseph Boley as Woody Guthrie
-   Vinnette Carroll as Draft Clerk
-   Sylvia Davis as Marjorie Guthrie
-   Simm Landres as Private Jacob / Jake
-   Eulalie Noble as Ruth
-   Louis Beachner as Dean
-   MacIntyre Dixon as First Deconsecration Minister
-   Arthur Pierce Middleton as Second Deconsecration Minister
-   Donald Marye as Funeral Director
-   Shelley Plimpton as Reenie
-   M. Emmet Walsh as Group W Sergeant

Cameos and special appearances

The real Alice Brock makes a number of cameo appearances in the film. In the scene where Ray and friends are installing insulation, she is wearing a brown turtleneck top and has her hair pulled into a ponytail. In the Thanksgiving dinner scene, she is wearing a bright pink blouse. In the wedding scene, she is wearing a Western-style dress.

Stockbridge police chief William Obanhein (“Officer Obie”) plays himself in the film, explaining to _Newsweek_ magazine that making himself look like a fool was preferable to having somebody else make him look like a fool.[2] Judge James E. Hannon, who presided over the littering trial, also appears as himself in the film.[3] Many of Guthrie's real-life associates in Stockbridge made appearances as extras, and Penn, who himself had a home in Stockbridge,[4] spent time living among them in an effort to grasp their lifestyle.[5] Guthrie and all of the extras were housed at the same hotel during filming of scenes outside Stockbridge, but Guthrie received star treatment; a limousine was provided for Guthrie each morning while the others had to find their own transportation for filming. This strained the relations between Guthrie and his friends for many years.[6] Much of the film was recorded in Stockbridge.[7]

The film also features the first credited film appearance of character actor M. Emmet Walsh, playing the Group W sergeant. (Walsh had previously appeared as an uncredited extra in _Midnight Cowboy_, released three months prior.) The film also features cameo appearances by American folksingers/songwriters Lee Hays (playing a reverend at an evangelical meeting) and Pete Seeger (playing himself).

Differences from real life

The original song “Alice's Restaurant Massacree” that formed the basis for the film's central plotline was, for the most part, a true story. However, other than this and the hippie wedding at the end of the film, most of the other events and characters in the film were fictional creations of the screenplay's writers. According to Guthrie on the DVD's audio commentary, the film used the names of real people but took numerous liberties with actual events. Richard Robbins, Guthrie's co-defendant in real-life, was replaced by the fictional Roger Crowther for the film (in the song, he remained anonymous); he later described almost all the additions to the story as “all fiction” and “complete bull.”[8] The subplots involving the Shelly character were completely fictional and not based on any real people or incidents in Guthrie's life;[9] his character's motorcycle club was loosely based on the Trinity Motorcycle Club (or, by a conflicting account, the Triangle Motorcycle Club), a real-life group of motorcyclists that associated with the Brocks and were alluded to in another Guthrie song, the “Motorcycle Song”.[10] The film also has Guthrie being forced to leave a Montana town after “creating a disturbance” – i.e., several town residents object to Guthrie's long hair and gang up to throw him through a plate glass window. This never happened, and Guthrie expresses regret that Montana got a “bad rap” in the film. In reality, during the time of the littering incident and trial, Guthrie was still enrolled in a Montana college, and was only in Stockbridge for the long Thanksgiving weekend (he would drop out of college at the end of the semester).[11]

Alice Brock has spoken very negatively of the film's portrayal of her.[12] She stated in a 2014 interview “That wasn't me. That was someone else's idea of me.”[13] Brock took particular offense at the film implying that she had slept with Guthrie (among others) and noted that she had never associated with heroin users.[14] She also noted that the song and film brought a large amount of unwanted publicity: “It just really impinged on your privacy. It's just amazing how brazen people can be when you're a supposed public figure (...) We sold the church at that point.”[15]

Reception

The film has a 63% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 19 reviews, with a weighted average of 6.19/10.[16] In 2009, _Politics Daily_ wrote that, “calling the 1969 film a comedy misses its _noir_ backbeat of betrayed romanticism, and thinking of it as a madcap autobiography misses its politics. This is a movie driven by the military draft and the Vietnam War”.[17]

Upon its initial release, _Newsweek_ called the film “the best of a number of remarkable new films which seem to question many of the traditional assumptions of establishment America.”[18]

When interviewed in 1971, the film's director, Arthur Penn, said of the film: “What I tried to deal with is the US's silence and how we can best respond to that silence. ... I wanted to show that the US is a country paralyzed by fear, that people were afraid of losing all they hold dear to them. It's the new generation that's trying to save everything”.[19]

In being offered the opinion that violence is not so important in the film, Penn replied: “_Alice's Restaurant_ is a film of potential transition because the characters know, in some way, what they are looking for. ... It's important to remember that the characters in _Alice's Restaurant_ are middle-class whites. They aren't poor or hungry or working class. They are not in the same boat as African Americans. But they're not militants either. In this respect the church dwellers are not particularly threatening. They find it easy to live there, even if most people can't afford such a luxury. From this point of view, this film depicts a very specific social class. It's a bourgeois film”.[20]

The final scene is not of a loving couple seeing off their guests, but of Alice standing alone looking into the distance, watching the guests leave, as if knowing that her future is in fact bleak with Ray.[21] Coincidentally, the real Alice and Ray finalized their divorce on the same day the wedding scene was filmed.[22] Arthur Penn has said that the final scene was intended as comment on the inevitable passing of the counterculture dream: “In fact, that last image of Alice on the church steps is intended to freeze time, to say that this paradise doesn’t exist any more, it can only endure in memory”.[23] Gene Siskel of the _Chicago Tribune_ listed _Alice's Restaurant_ as third best film of 1969.[24]

The film grossed $6,300,000[25] in the United States, making it the 23rd highest-grossing film of 1969.

Awards

-   Nominated for Academy Award for Best Director (1969) – Arthur Penn[26]
-   Nominated for Writers Guild of America Award for Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen (1970) – Venable Herndon, Arthur Penn
-   Third Place – Laurel Awards – Golden Laurel for Comedy (1970)
-   Nominated for British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards – Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music (1971) – Arlo Guthrie

[1] Cummings, Paula (November 21, 2017). Interview: Arlo Guthrie Carries On Thanksgiving Traditions And Fulfills Family Legacy. _NYS Music_. Retrieved October 25, 2018.

[2] Zimmerman, Paul D. (September 29, 1969). “Alice's Restaurant's Children.” _Newsweek_, page 103.

[3] Doyle, Patrick (November 26, 2014). Arlo Guthrie looks back on 50 years of Alice's Restaurant . _Rolling Stone_. Retrieved November 29, 2014.

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[5] Arlo Guthrie's Alice is alive, glad to be here. _The Wall Street Journal_ via the _Pittsburgh Post-Gazette_ (November 22, 2006). Retrieved September 8, 2017.

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[9] Brown, Jane Roy (February 24, 2008). After Alice's restaurants. _The Boston Globe_. Retrieved October 24, 2015.

[10] Giuliano, Charles (March 27, 2014). Alice’s Restaurant Returns to the Berkshires. _Berkshire Fine Arts_. Retrieved October 24, 2015.

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[16] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alices_restaurant

[17] James Grady, “Thanksgiving at Alice's Restaurant: The Guthries' American Dream Lives On”, Politics Daily, 25.11.2009.

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[20] M. Chaiken and P. Cronin (eds), _Arthur Penn Interviews_. University Press of Mississippi, 1998, p. 65.

[21] M. Chaiken and P. Cronin (eds), _Arthur Penn Interviews_. University Press of Mississippi, 1998.

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[26] Awards Information for _Alice's Restaurant_. IMDb. Retrieved April 22, 2014.

title: Alice's Restaurant (film)

question: Summarize the details about the restaurant.

text: The passage mentions the restaurant Alice is starting.

category: coverage

answer: No answer

answer_source: Human misleading

answer: No answer

answer_source: Model

text: The answer should mention that Alice is starting up a restaurant in nearby Stockbridge.

answer: The restaurant, alluded to by the title Alice's Restaurant, is a restaurant that the character Alice is starting up in nearby Stockbridge. However, no further details about the establishment is given, so it is possible that Alice abandons her plan in the course of the film.

answer_source: Human

answer: No answer

text: The answer should mention the restaurant in the film.

text: The answer should state that the restaurant is Alice's Restaurant, and it is located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

text: The answer is inaccurate. There are details about the restaurant in the passage.

text: The answer is wrong. Alice is starting a restaurant in nearby Stockbridge.

category: accuracy

answer: No answer

text: The answer should mention the restaurant's location and the fact that it is run by Alice.

text: The answer should mention the restaurant's location and its owner.

text: The answer should mention the restaurant.

text: The answer should mention that Alice is opening a restaurant in nearby Stockbridge.

text: The answer should mention the restaurant in the title.

text: The answer is available in the text and should be included.

text: Alice was opening a restaurant, but it isn't really clear exactly what that means.

answer: The restaurant, alluded to by the title Alice's Restaurant, is a restaurant that the character Alice is starting up in nearby Stockbridge. However, no further details about the establishment is given, so it is possible that Alice abandons her plan in the course of the film.

text: The answer should mention the plot point about the garbage.

text: The answer should mention the film's plot point about the garbage.

text: The answer should mention the garbage.

text: There is no evidence that Alice abandons her restaurant.

text: The answer should mention the other plot point about the restaurant.

text: The last line is unnecessary.

text: The answer should mention the film's plot that is centered around the restaurant.

text: The grammar of "However, no further details about the establishment is given" is wrong; it should be "aren't". Also, the response omits that the film implies the restaurant is set up in a church.


text:
Dave was too drunk have driven himself home. Not black out drunk, but drunk enough that he shouldn’t have driven. But he made it home all in one piece. Mostly due to luck.

It was a dark night, lit only by the streetlamp that was too far away to really do much help. The local kids (or whoever) had busted most of them. The local DOT had long since stopped caring. The only reason the one remained was that they needed some light to conduct business at night. Dave didn’t care, not really, this house was the best that he could afford. Of course, the other benefit was that none of the neighbors complained when Dave didn’t trim the bushes. Wasn’t quite like a trek into the rain forest walking up his front step, but it was getting there.

It wasn’t very alarming that the front door wasn’t locked. The decrepit piece of shit probably wouldn’t have kept anyone out if they really wanted in. Luckily, Dave didn’t have much. In fact, other than Natty Ice in the fridge, he had almost nothing. Plus, he had already been six or so beers in before he drove to Three Blind Mice. Despite it’s fruity name, it was only a place real drinkers went. The rest couldn’t hang. At least that’s what they told each other.

What was silently more alarming was when his only lamp turned on, mostly because Dave was still clear across the room from it. The light from the lamp revealed a well-dressed man in what appeared to be Dave’s recliner, drug over next the lamp for effect. He was about medium build, glasses, bearded, looking clam and serene.

“Hello Dave, nice of you to join me,” the visitor said, as if this was his house and he had been expecting Dave for some time.

“Who the fuck…” Dave’s voice trailed off as his eyes finally focused on the gun in the stranger’s hand. “Look man, I don’t got anything, besides some cheap beer and that chair you’re sitting in. But man, I found that outside the house where that old lady died, I’m pretty sure that she died in…” Dave stopped talking as the well-dressed man put the index finger of his non-gun hand to his lips. Would have been pretty funny sight, except for the gun. That made if funny in a morbid sort of way.

“Dave, Dave, Dave,” he said once Dave had quieted down, “I didn’t come here to hear what you had to say, I’m going to talk a bit, you’re going to die, and the world will be a better place.”

It wasn’t exactly what he said that was so terrifying, though it was, it was how he said it. The man had stated the whole chain of events almost like he was reading it from a history book, that’s how certain he was of the chain of events.

“Listen man, whatever I did to you, I’m really sorry, can, I, uh, do anything for you?” Dave had no idea what he had done but he had pissed off a lot of people, this was hardly a surprising turn of events.

“There is simply nothing you can say to make up to me what you took from me,” the man started, the calm veneer slipping a bit, some anger poking through. He then composed himself, “But, I’m getting ahead of myself. If you wouldn’t be a dear and sit in the folding chair I’ve put over there.” As he said the last part, he motioned with a gun to a folding chair that had “Property of Jack’s Party World” printed on it. Dave had stolen that a long time ago. Dave went along because that seemed the thing to do.

“You see Dave,” he continued, “Five years from now you’re going to get blindly drunk one night, so drunk that you don’t realize that your liquor refill run isn’t taking place in the middle of the night, but at 6 in the morning. Honest mistake, it being the middle of winter and all. You’re so drunk that you claim that you never saw the red light. And you certainly didn’t see Jenny, that was my wife’s name, crossing the intersection. Maybe you saw her car as you flew out your windshield, past her car, and only the nearby embankment, suffering only a cut above your eye. A cut that witnesses at the scene filmed you screaming about as if it was life threatening while my wife was pinned in her car, bleeding to death.”

“Man, I ain’t never been in an accident before…” Dave started to complain before the loud bang and the searing pain in his foot.

“Couple of things,” the man said, oddly calm for just having shot a man in the foot, “I hate being interrupted, first, and second, you’re not listening. The collision, not accident, will not happen for another five years and change. But you’re jumping ahead and unless you’d like a shot in the other foot, I suggest you quiet down.”

There was a pause before the well-dressed man took Dave’s silence for agreement.

“In court you were so fucking contrite. You had dressed up nice and told the judge about your mom’s drinking, how your wife had left you, how you had no support system and that’s how you ended up the asshole driving drunk at 6 in the morning. Of course, the judge felt for you, sent you to rehab and time served. Time served. For murdering my wife. Do you know what Jenny did in her free time? The free time she had leftover from her job helping children find parents to adopt them? She used to read to the elderly at a local nursing home. She was too good for me and she was worth way more than time served and rehab for some asshole.
“I’m a very clever man, you can ask almost anyone. When Jenny was alive, I used that to work for the government, designing weapon systems. After you murdered her, I realized how fucking pointless all that was. All I wanted was my Jenny back. So, after crying for a while, I set to work on my greatest invention. It took decades but eventually I did it. I created the machine that took me from my basement to your backyard. I would offer to show you but, well, I don’t give a fuck about you.”

Dave was way too drunk for this. His foot was starting to throb and this guy was seeming crazier and crazier with every minute, even if his delivery was calm, cool, and collected.

“You see, Dave, it was at that moment that I had a realization, the only memories I would ever have of Jenny would be from the moment I jumping back in time forward. Some version of me would live the other part of that life. I thought I had fixed my problem but I hadn’t, I would never remember any of it. All the birthdays, any children, none of it would actually be my memories. My work had been worth it because Jenny would get to live, but me, I still lost. That’s when I decided that instead of going back to that day and giving Jenny a flat or something simple, I would come back in time and kill you.”

Dave’s mouth got instantly dry at the way that the man had said “kill you” without any emotion at all.

“Of course, it wouldn’t do to have the me who was living now arrested for your murder, that would make things even worse, especially since I would have no idea what had happened. I wouldn’t have really been innocent, but close enough. And then it occurred to me, right now, the me of your time is 12 hours away from her on a bachelor party for my brother in law. He is a cop. All his friends are cops. I was the only ‘civilian’ invited. Sure, they might question me, but I was right now sitting in a bar a time zone away, drinking with 6 cops in a bar full of witnesses. I almost feel bad for the detective who has to solve this case.” The man was smiling a bit as he said that last part.

“Listen man,” Dave started, waiting for the next bullet to come, when it didn’t, he plowed on, “please don’t kill me, you’ve made your point, seriously, please, I promise, give me the day and I won’t even leave my house that day, I’ll go to a different state, please man.”

“I always wondered what the begging would be, I have to be honest. Well, in most of my fantasies you’d already done it when I killed you. Before I had the chance, you drank yourself to death. I was the only one to come to your funeral. Even your own mother didn’t bother to show. No flowers, no mourners, just a man the funeral home let piss on your corpse once they knew who you were. But that wasn’t enough.

“I do like that you never promised to stop drinking, and why would you? I have no proof with me that you did anything. Even when you did, you drank more, not less. I’m sorry, but that won’t do at all.”

“Come on man,” Dave was getting desperate, “I haven’t even done anything to you yet.”

“From your point of view, I can see how you might think that. But look at it from my perspective, you’ve taken my wife from me once and even breaking the laws of physics can’t bring her back to me, really. So you’ve fucked me twice. I’m not saying what I’m going to do to you is moral, I’m saying it’s going to happen.”

“They won’t find me for days, not in this neighborhood,” Dave was now crying as he spoke, “Your alibi won’t hold up.”

“I appreciate your concern Dave,” the man said, dripping with sarcasm, “but I already have that figured out. Your neighbor’s phone is close enough to the window that I can use it without going in, just breaking a window, reaching in and calling the police. Now, saying there was a shooting won’t do much. But, saying that there is a bomb in your house, that’ll get the whole station out here, even in this neighborhood. They’ll find you, still bleeding on the floor and I will be far, far away. Both of me will.”
Dave thought about charging him, trying for the gun, but before he could formulate a plan, the gun went off in rapid succession and the man calmly strolled out the door as everything faded to black.

title: [SF] Dave's Problem

question: Summarize the primary source of tension in the story.

text: "drug addiction" - this is incorrect. There was never anything mentioned about Dave being a drug addict.

text: "Dave is unscathed" - this is incorrect. He suffered a minor cut above his eye.

text: The response should add how the man went back in time to kill Dave.

answer: The primary source of tension in the story is Dave's alcoholism and drug addiction. His lifestyle choice of getting wasted all the time will end up killing an innocent woman five years in the future. Dave is unscathed and gets off easy, with the court ordering him into rehab and time served for murdering someone while intoxicated. In grief, the woman's husband goes back in time to another timeline, so he can kill Dave to prevent the tragedy from happening to another version of himself and Jenny (his wife). The man has planned the execution meticulously and there wasn't anything Dave could have said or done to stop it.

text: All of the details are correct, but the answer should make it clear that the primary source of tension is the man who has traveled back in time to kill Dave in order to prevent the accident that took his wife's life.

category: coherence

answer: The primary source of tension in the story is Dave's alcoholism. His lifestyle choice of getting wasted all the time will end up killing an innocent woman five years in the future. Dave only suffers a minor cut above his eye and gets off easy, with the court ordering him into rehab and time served for murdering someone while intoxicated. In grief, the woman's husband, a clever man who works for the government designing weapons systems, creates a time machine because he can't accept that his wife died and Dave only went to rehab. Since the man can't bring his wife back from the dead, he goes back in time to another timeline, so he can kill Dave to prevent the tragedy from happening to another version of himself and Jenny (his wife). The man has planned the execution meticulously and there wasn't anything Dave could have said or done to stop it.

text: The man is not going to kill Dave to prevent the tragedy from happening to another version of himself and Jenny.

text: The answer should mention that the man is going to kill Dave in the present.

text: The answer should mention that the man is also angry at Dave for killing his wife.

text: The answer should mention that the man is also going to kill Dave because he is angry at him for killing his wife.

text: The answer should mention that the man is going to kill Dave to prevent his wife's death.

text: The answer should mention that the man is going to shoot Dave.

text: The man doesn't kill Dave in another timeline

text: Grammatical error: "He created the machine... so he can kill Dave to prevent the tragedy from happening to another version of himself and Jenny (his wife)."

answer: The primary source of tension in the story is Dave's alcoholism and drug addiction. His lifestyle choice of getting wasted all the time will end up killing an innocent woman five years in the future. Dave is unscathed and gets off easy, with the court ordering him into rehab and time served for murdering someone while intoxicated. In grief, the woman's husband goes back in time to another timeline, so he can kill Dave to prevent the tragedy from happening to another version of himself and Jenny (his wife). The man has planned the execution meticulously and there wasn't anything Dave could have said or done to stop it.

text: The response contains inaccurate information.

text: The response inaccurately mentions that Dave is addicted to drugs.

text: Dave is not addicted to drugs.

text: There is no evidence to suggest that Dave is addicted to drugs.

text: The man is planning to travel back in time and kill Dave, not just appear in front of him

answer: Dave is drunk, and he gets home and finds a well-dressed man in his house with a gun. The man is ready to kill him because in five years, Dave will drive drunk, fail to see a red light, and crash into the car of the man's wife, killing her.

answer: Dave is drunk, and he gets home and finds a well-dressed man in his house with a gun. The man is ready to kill him because in five years, Dave will drive drunk, fail to see a red light, and crash into the car of the man's wife, killing her.

text: The answer should mention that the man is from the future.

text: The answer should mention the twist at the end.

text: It is omitted that the man is ready to kill Dave because he is angry about his wife's death.

text: Rather than all the information about what happens when Dave arrives home, mention something about the stakes. E.g. Dave's reflexes aren't especially good, he's drunk - will he feign compliance or would the man shoot him?

answer: The primary source of tension in the story is Dave's alcoholism. His lifestyle choice of getting wasted all the time will end up killing an innocent woman five years in the future. Dave only suffers a minor cut above his eye and gets off easy, with the court ordering him into rehab and time served for murdering someone while intoxicated. In grief, the woman's husband, a clever man who works for the government designing weapons systems, creates a time machine because he can't accept that his wife died and Dave only went to rehab. Since the man can't bring his wife back from the dead, he goes back in time to another timeline, so he can kill Dave to prevent the tragedy from happening to another version of himself and Jenny (his wife). The man has planned the execution meticulously and there wasn't anything Dave could have said or done to stop it.

text: The response doesn't mention that the man sits across Dave and explains why he's going to kill Dave and this keeps the entire situation tensed.


text:
MELBOURNE, Florida -- Former U.S. Senator for Florida George LeMieux is now running in the U.S. Senate Republican primary to challenge Senator Bill Nelson's seat.  LeMieux is making the campaign rounds in Brevard County today, and took the time out of his busy schedule for an over-the-phone interview to answer a few questions for Brevard Times.

QUESTION #1:

There is a large contingent of Brevard County Republicans who supported Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum.  These first three segments of Brevard County Republicans represent the more conservative contingent, while moderate Brevard County Republicans supported Mitt Romney.

None of these factions represent more than 50% of the Republican party on Florida's Space Coast. How can you bring social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, constitutional conservatives, interventionists, non-interventionists, and moderates together to get behind your candidacy when their policies often conflict with one another?  What kind of a Republican are you?

ANSWER:

I am a Reagan Republican.  I hope that what I stood for while in the U.S. Senate, and what I stand for now, would appeal to supporters of limited government.

QUESTION #2:

Troops in the Middle East - In or Out?

ANSWER:
Iraq: We have withdrawn our troops from Iraq due to the noncooperation of the Iraqi government.  I would not support the return of troops into Iraq.

Afghanistan: We are drawing down our troops in 2014.  We face challenges transferring security for the Afghan people to Afghan forces.  The withdrawal from Afghanistan should not be on a political time line after spending 10 years of U.S. blood and treasure.  I would listen to commanders in the field as to the timeline of troop withdrawal.  President Obama is trying to tie the withdrawal around an election clock.

QUESTION #3:

TARP, HAMP, GM, Citigroup, and other economic government bailouts - For or against?

ANSWER:

Government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers.  In the case of  GM, the unions got a bailout while the bondholders took a bath.  Other car makers remained in business but did not get the benefit of government help.  The role of government should be much more limited then it is today.

I would not have voted for TARP - it was not successful.  After the banks received money from the U.S. they did not in turn loan those funds back out to businesses.  This recovery is dismal and the worst recovery after an economic shock.  The sharper the drop in the economy, the stronger the comeback.  President Obama's stimulus package and TARP made the road back to normal difficult.  European banks are facing a financial crisis now.  We should not use U.S. dollars to bail out European banks via the IMF or by any other means.

As for HAMP, the purpose of government in helping homeowners should be in a targeted and temporary way - a short term helping hand.  I support those temporary programs.  But the market needs to work itself out.  There are many Floridians out of work because they can't move to another job because the are locked in their underwater house.  We need a much more expeditious process than HAMP for helping homeowners.

It's always great to say that we want to make home ownership affordable for everyone. But federal government intervention does not work in the real world.  Whether well intentioned or not, we should let market forces work.

We should not create new GSE's like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to support the housing.  We have to wind down the ones we have, but can't stop them tomorrow because of the impact to the market place.

QUESTION #4:

What do you think of the Federal Reserve's role in intervening in the economy?

ANSWER:

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke did a good job of stabilizing the market when we were in the thick of it.  But the Federal Reserve should have read the signs along the way to the financial crisis.

The Federal Reseve is printing so much money and lending it out to banks at such a low interest rate, it is bailing out the banks on the backs of Florida's seniors who cannot get a good interest rate on their savings to keep up with inflation.  My folks, who live in Florida, are in the same situation as most seniors.

I do not support the Fed's policy of creating a negative real rate of return. I voted to audit the Federal Reserve.  Congress has essentially created a fourth branch of government.

QUESTION #5:

Are you pro-life or pro-choice? Is it a federal issue or should it be left to states?

ANSWER:

I am pro-life and believe that it is a federal issue as well as a state issue.

QUESTION #6:

Are you for or against off-shore drilling? What is your energy policy?

ANSWER:

I am in favor of off-shore drilling if it is done 100 miles off the coast of Florida.  The leasing of federal waters to oil companies for off-shore drilling should be market-based to get the best price for the U.S. Treasury.

We need to build more nuclear power plants and take advantage of the energy resources found domestically in the United States.  For example, we are recently finding a tremendous amount of natural gas in the U.S. from North Dakota to Texas which has caused natural gas to drop 50% in price.

If we were to produce more energy resources that are found in the U.S., it would put the U.S. back into the manufacturing sector because energy would be so cheap in certain parts of the U.S.   Also, we wouldn't be dependent on mid-east oil and oil from Venezuela, just what is produced domestically and from our friends like Canada and Mexico.

I do support continued sanctions against Iran to halt their development of a nuclear weapon even if it means higher gasoline prices.  The safety and security of the U.S., Europe, and Israel is more important than higher gas prices.

I believe in an all-of-the-above energy strategy.  But unlike President Obama, I really mean it.  I supported the Keystone XL pipeline.  Senator Bill Nelson voted against it.  Again and again, Senator Nelson proves he's a real liberal in Washington, D.C.

QUESTION #7:

PIPA and SOPA - for or against?

ANSWER:
I would have voted against them due to the language drafted in those particular bills.  However, we do need to protect intellectual property rights just like any other property right under the U.S. Constitutions.  We also need to encourage innovation and the power of peoples ideas on the internet.

QUESTION #8:

NDAA - for or against?

ANSWER:

I am for most of the bill.  However, when it comes to the detention of folks, in no way should any American be detained without the right to a lawyer and a right to go before a judge even if they are accused of terrorism.

I will make the distinction though, that if an American travels outside of the U.S. to aid our enemies and fight our troops in a theater of war, those rights should not apply to him.

QUESTION #9:

Deficit and Debt. How do you propose we tackle this problem?

ANSWER:

This is the number one issue facing America.  We will not be able to make our interest payment at the current rate of spending in the next ten years.  Our kids and grand-kids will not grow up in the same America if this financial meltdown is allowed to happen.  I support the "2007 Solution" which says lets go back to what we spent at that level in 2007.  This will cut 4 trillion from national debt and not increase our deficit by the end of the decade.

QUESTION #10:

What committee memberships would you seek if elected?

ANSWER:
The Armed Services Committee and Budget Committe.  No Florida senator is sitting on the Armed Services Committee.  As for other committees, it depends on Marco Rubio because two Republicans are not allowed to sit in the same committee.
QUESTION #11:

U.S. Missile shield systems in Eastern Europe: For or against?

ANSWER:

I support it.  What President Obama did was wrong when he ended President Bush's plan to deploy a U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe.  Iran is a perfect reason why that shield is needed.  We took some of the components of that shield to Turkey, but we need a land-base and a sea-base missile defense shield to defend Europe and Israel.

QUESTION #12:

The U.S. tax code is a Byzantine labyrinth of political carve outs, credits, and deductions.  Today is tax day.  What is your position on how the U.S. tax code could be improved?

Everyone should pay taxes - every person, and every corporation.  We can lower everyone's tax rate if we were to eliminate the tax loopholes which give away 1 trillion dollars to special interests.  30 of the Fortune 500 companies pay little or no tax.  The top tax rate for people and corporations could be reduced to 25% if those loopholes were eliminated.  Not to mention, there are billions of dollars spent every year by taxpayers for lawyers and accountants to prepare taxes due to a complicated tax code.

QUESTION #13:

Making the U.S. competitive on a global scale. The U.S. seems to take it on the chin with each trade agreement we enter. What is your position on free trade agreements. Should free trade exist for say produce, where in Brazil they use fungicides not allowed in the U.S. (which has just recently made national headlines) that gives their growers a production price advantage over Space Coast citrus growers along our Indian River lagoon?

ANSWER:

I am for free trade and fair trade.  As for health and safety, we should impose requirements on other countries in our trade agreements to guarantee safe food.

When it comes to manufacturing, what countries do in their own countries is their business if there is a lack of environmental protection.  Manufactured products are going to be made and paid for on a world market place.  In the U.S., we need proper regulation, not over-regulation of our companies.

QUESTION #14:

The Space Shuttle Discovery left this morning for its final piggy back over Florida's Space Coast. What is your vision for the future of the U.S. Space Program?

ANSWER:

Senator Bill Nelson and President Obama have killed the U.S. space program.  American exceptionalism is going to the museum right along with the space shuttle.  Today our space program is in shambles, we lost over seven thousand jobs on the Space Coast with no plans for the future of the U.S. space program.

We need to have a real solution for the space program before the China and India get ahead of us.  I don't want to live in America where the Chinese have planted a flag on the moon.

As for Newt Gingrich's call for a moon colony - that is a little far fetched.  We don't even have a space program right now.  We rely commercial companies for low earth orbit launches, which is great.  But let's have a real definitive plan.

The Constellation program Congress passed was a quarter measure, not even a half measure, for the future of a real U.S. space program.

QUESTION #15:

Any thing else you would like to add?

ANSWER:

I hope that your readers know that I want to balance the budget, safeguard our freedoms.  If elected, I will limit myself to two terms in office.

question: What does the article say about the global presence of the United States?

text: It's misleading to say the US lacks competitiveness in global trade since the situation is a lot more nuanced than that.

answer: No answer

text: The answer should mention the space program.

text: The response misses to mention that the U.S. is losing its global competitiveness in the trade agreements it enters.

text: There is an answer.

text: This is true, but it is omitted that the interviewee thinks the U.S. is losing their place on a global scale.

text: Add a statement that the candidate advocates for limiting government intervention in the lives of Americans and being more hands-off on an international level.

text: There is an answer to the question. The response misses to mention that the U.S. is losing its global competitiveness in the trade agreements it enters, and that the US's space program is in shambles compared to other countries .

answer: The US is pulling its troops out of Iraq, and it is in the process of doing the same in Afghanistan. There's some dependence of the US energy sector on oil from Venezuela and the Middle East in addition to neighboring Mexico and Canada. The US also has sanctions against Iran to halt their nuclear development. The US has missile defense systems in Turkey, and LeMieux thinks canceling the plans for a missile defense system in Eastern Europe was a mistake as it would've offered protection against Iran for Europe and Israel. Finally, the prominence of the US in space is in decline against the nations like India and China.

answer: No answer

answer: The US is pulling its troops out of Iraq, and it is in the process of doing the same in Afghanistan. There's some dependence of the US energy sector on oil from Venezuela and the Middle East in addition to neighboring Mexico and Canada. The US also has sanctions against Iran to halt their nuclear development. The US has missile defense systems in Turkey, and LeMieux thinks canceling the plans for a missile defense system in Eastern Europe was a mistake as it would've offered protection against Iran for Europe and Israel. The US also lacks competitiveness in global trade. Finally, the prominence of the US in space is in decline against the nations like India and China.

text: Iran sanctions, the dependencies on oil, and the space program are irrelevant.

answer: The US is pulling its troops out of Iraq, and it is in the process of doing the same in Afghanistan. There's some dependence of the US energy sector on oil from Venezuela and the Middle East in addition to neighboring Mexico and Canada. The US also has sanctions against Iran to halt their nuclear development. The US has missile defense systems in Turkey, and LeMieux thinks canceling the plans for a missile defense system in Eastern Europe was a mistake as it would've offered protection against Iran for Europe and Israel. Finally, the prominence of the US in space is in decline against the nations like India and China.

text: The response should include the fact that LeMieux supports free trade and that he wants to make the US competitive on a global scale.

text: The answer should mention that the interviewee is George LeMieux, who is running for the Republican primary to challenge Senator Bill Nelson's seat.

text: The answer includes extraneous information that does not make it clear what the article says about the US global presence. The answer seems to pick out random locations but fails to actually answer the question about the global presence of the US


text:
No More Than Four

Charlie Sacks was as sick as they come. He had taken to bed nearly three days ago and didn't say a word about it. The housemaid Martha waited on him hour to hour, pleasing him with an assortment of soups and teas. He took it presently and surprisingly enough, never did he miss a meal. While his stomach may have been in good order, the ailment seemed to lie in his nasal cavity. The man suffered from a clogged nasal chimney, due to a snot and spit build up, resulting in a whooping fever! Charlie, as a sturdy grown man, knew the only true remedy was a pampering spa and a warm bed. Martha had prepared a bath and Mr. Sacks found comfort in its bubbly waters. From the womb to the sack he did leap. Leaving the bath only to flounder back into bed. The fluffed feathers of his nest proved the greatest comforter, for it was in it's billows he could delve into the latest issue of StarExplorer in peace.

Alas, here is where I found him. A boy in his castle. With three loud knocks on their oakwood door, I made my presence known. Martha greeted me as I leaned against my wooden cane.

"Evening sir, mighty dark and rainy out there, what can I do for you?"

"I be but a humble traveller mum, on the eternal road, I come to beg you for bread."

"From where do you come, Traveller?"

"From the land beyond our own! Past the light and through the stone! In the forest, birds have flown, into the greatest deep unknown!"

"Where is that exactly?"

"Delaware, ma'am"

"Please step into the light, so I may gaze your face."

Indeed I followed her request and exposed myself to her. Every griping part of me. She no doubt reacted to my lame eye. The haggard mess of scarred skin will cause a double glance from anyone. I stood there, with the porch light bouncing off my darkened cloak, giving the softest exposure to my grey locks and twisted jaw. I knew I was something she had never seen before.

"Well, no sense having you out there, I invite you in for warmth and bread. Shall we?"

"Thank you, Ma'am"

"Dearie, call me Martha"

"Certainly"

At once, she invited me into the library, where I sat by the fire and indulged a few lines from a StarExplorer magazine. She was off into the kitchen to prepare me some bread and a bowl of something or other. The library was dark and civil. I admired the eclectic collection of novels and memoirs, as well as the embroidered chair in which I was placed. The leather had taken the shape of my body and I felt for a moment a grace of rest.

"You're meal, sir"

"Remarkable, Martha, you were able to put all that together in the short time I was here?"

"No sir, I happen to be mending another weary soul."

"There is another in this house?"

"Yes, the owner of the estate, Master Charlie Sacks."

"Whatever is wrong with the poor devil?"

"Doctor says it's a nasal buildup, sounds awful, like a dying rodent at times"

"Martha, would I be able to speak with Master Sacks? I feel I have a remedy in my possession that he would find most intriguing."

Three flights of stairs we took, all winding and weaving through the museum of his halls. From floor to floor, the walls displayed paintings from eras I had yet to see. I felt compelled to ask what Martha made of it.

"Paintings", I remarked.

"Oh yes, the Master collects. He has gone all over the world to find these paintings. Some he had to risk life and limb for. The floor below us holds the ones with pretty ships in them. Ships at port saying goodbye to the folk waving on the dock. Ships battling the raging squalls of the open sea. Ships a plenty. The floor we're on now will have your bones shivering."

"Ma,am?"

"This is his gothic collection. Everyone from Dorian Grey to The Oval Portrait hangs here. Let's just say we scurry past this part. Shall we?"

I could see her distress. For most of the men and women that hung here were depicted in death. My good eye gazed on scenes of immurement, bloodied ruins of genocide and twisted feasts of cannibalism. I shuddered as I glimpsed a familiar face burning in the fires of a witch hunt.

The last floor presented a welcomed change in the form of landscapes. As we crossed the hall to Sacks bedroom, I was treated to views of mountain ranges and auburn fields of apples.

Martha gently opened the door and announced us to the figure laying in bed.

"Master Sacks, we have Mr…"

"Crypt, Ernie Crypt. Master Sacks, I've come seeking shelter from the storm. As it turns out I found a little bit more. I heard of your ailment and I have a remedy that can promise you better. A rare chance for me to pay back such a hospitable welcome."

The silence made me wonder if he was resting eternally. At last he spoke, "Bring it to me and leave it on my nightstand."

With a nod to Martha I lurched over to his bedside and from my cloak retrieved a sack of cherry tomatoes.

"These are picked from a place I doubt even you've been, Mister Sacks. Please I will leave the bag here, but I warn you, only four tomatoes shall you eat before sunrise. Any more, will have you. Indeed, save them for tomorrows light."

"Tomatoes? Is this a folly?"

"None, sir, trust me. You will be surprised by natures touch."

"Very well then, be gone with you."

As I exited to the hallway, I left him with four words of remembrance.

"No more than four".

Martha allowed me to finish my meal and then filled my canteen with water, gave me a dry towel and then saw me on my way. I was eager to go, not because I held distaste for Martha's company, but because I knew sunrise would be here in a matter of hours and I wanted a good distance behind me when it came.

Within an hour, Master Sacks gave in to my gesture. Two tomatoes he took at first reach. He was surprised to find that he was soon sitting up and stretching his arms to and fro. He thought better then to over do it, so he settled back in with his magazine. A few more hours past and still the nagging taste of a tomato sat on his tongue. He had never tasted one so rich and rationed that he would still be under his four tomato limit. He settled that he deserved one more at least. The third one was in his mouth in a flash and the result was so tremendous that he threw the covers onto the floor and wreathed around his bedsheets stretching and yawning. The slumber was fading behind him and he soon felt fit to stand up. Yet something stayed him. He was thinking of his knowledge of medicine.

"My doctor always said, finish the bottle or it won't work." He reasoned quietly.

By the time he was chewing his fourth tomato, Sacks was walking down the hall to fetch a cup of milk.

"Heavens, sir, a change of winds?" Martha gasped as Sacks entered the kitchen.

"Martha it seems our weary traveller spoke truth. Those tomatoes did a wonder on my senses. I feel fit enough to read in the dignity of my own library. First, I shall like a glass of milk."

"Certainly, sir, I'll bring it right in."

Master Sack's toes wiggled around the fire heat as he sunk into his chair. A few adjustments were made until he felt the familiar shape again. Martha came in and left a tall glass of milk on the table beside him. She left him to read StarExplorer. A wonderful serial involving flying machines in space and men with laser guns finding lost princesses. The adventure had pulled him in for nearly an hour when he was distracted to see, inside the pocket of his house coat, the sack of tomatoes.

"A wonder." he thought.

As he continued to read, he thumbed the ripe, round tomatoes almost unaware of his habit. It took only a few minutes before another tomato was out of the sack and into his mouth. Half expecting to feel superhuman, Sacks was distraught to find that a cold chill instantly cascaded through his bones. The impact caused him to drop his magazine onto the floor. As he reached down to pick it up, a searing pain shot through his lower back. He tried to scream, but only gasped, for his breath was failing him. Sweat was accumulating and as he wiped his brow he felt only wrinkles of elderly skin. He willed himself a sip of milk. When he lay the glass back on the table he saw a line of red smearing down the side of the glass. Could his mouth be bleeding? He flustered over to the mirror to inspect. Yet the startling sight of his ghost and the ripe taste of tomato stopped him. A vision of auburn apple fields and infinite galaxies filled his eyes. Master Sacks fell to the floor. The old boy was dead.

No doubt Martha discovered him within the hour. Her shriek would be heard by no one. For the estate stands miles from anyone wishing to hear. No doubt she would take to the door to look for the strange traveller who had seemingly betrayed them. Yet she would not find him, only a discarded cane. For a cane is used by lame eyed old gypsies, not those who ride with fresh eyes into the eternal sunrise.

end.

title: No More Than More

question: Summarize how Master Charlie Sacks died.

text: The name of the magazine is called StarExplorer.

answer: Charlie Sacks was ill and confined to bed. He had nasal congestion so the housemaid (Martha) confined him to bed. While in bed, he read the latest issue of StarExplorer. Meanwhile, a stranger (Ernie Crypt)knocked at Charlie Sacks' door begging for shelter. Martha let him in and gave him some bread and something else to eat it with. Ernie Crypt marveled at the speed at which she prepared his meal. Martha confessed that she is nursing the master of the house. Ernie asked about the nature of the illness and when Martha told him, was happy to provide a remedy. Ernie gave Martha a bag of tomatoes and told her to administer four tomatoes to Sacks before sunrise. Sacks ate two of the tomatoes and began to feel well. However, he continued to eat the tomatoes, going beyond the four that were prescribed. This error would lead to his discomfort and subsequently his death.

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text: The answer omits that after Sacks ate the four tomatoes, he felt better and decided to take a walk. However, he soon felt a chill, and he fell to the floor dead.

text: It is incorrect that Martha confined him to bed. Ernie Crypt first introduced the remedy. The names of Sacks and Crypt are repeated too often.

text: The stranger tells Charlie not to eat more than four tomatoes before sunrise. He doesn't instruct the maid about the tomatoes, only the master.

text: It is incorrect that Martha confined Charlie Sacks to bed. He did it himself due to being sick.

answer: Ernie Crypt, a traveler, came to Master Sacks' house and offered him a bag of cherry tomatoes. Crypt said that Sacks would only feel better if he ate four tomatoes before sunrise. Sacks ate four tomatoes and felt better. He went to the kitchen to get a glass of milk, but he felt a chill, his back was in pain, and he was bleeding from his mouth. Sacks fell to the floor and died.

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text: The traveler's name is Ernie Crypt, not Ernie Sack.

answer: Ernie Crypt, a traveler, came to Master Sacks' house and offered him a bag of cherry tomatoes. Crypt said that Sacks would only feel better if he ate four tomatoes before sunrise. Sacks ate four tomatoes and felt better. He went to the kitchen to get a glass of milk, but he felt a chill, his back was in pain, and he was bleeding from his mouth. Sacks fell to the floor and died.

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answer: Charlie Sacks was ill and confined to bed. He had nasal congestion so the housemaid (Martha) confined him to bed. While in bed, he read the latest issue of StarExplorer. Meanwhile, a stranger (Ernie Crypt)knocked at Charlie Sacks' door begging for shelter. Martha let him in and gave him some bread and something else to eat it with. Ernie Crypt marveled at the speed at which she prepared his meal. Martha confessed that she is nursing the master of the house. Ernie asked about the nature of the illness and when Martha told him, was happy to provide a remedy. Ernie gave Martha a bag of tomatoes and told her to administer four tomatoes to Sacks before sunrise. Sacks ate two of the tomatoes and began to feel well. However, he continued to eat the tomatoes, going beyond the four that were prescribed. This error would lead to his discomfort and subsequently his death.

answer: Charlie Sacks was ill and confined to bed. He had nasal congestion so the housemaid (Martha) confined him to bed. While in bed, he read the latest issue of StarExplor. Meanwhile, a stranger knocked at Charlie Sacks' door begging for shelter. Martha let him in and gave him some bread and something else to eat it with. The stranger marveled at the speed at which she prepared his meal. Martha confessed that she is nursing the master of the house. The stranger asked about the nature of the illness and when Martha told him, was happy to provide a remedy. The strangers gave Martha a bag of tomatoes and told her to administer four tomatoes to Sacks before sunrise. Sacks ate one of the tomatoes and began to feel well. However, he continued to eat the tomatoes, going beyond the four that were prescribed. This error would lead to his discomfort and subsequently his death.

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answer: Charlie Sacks was ill and confined to bed. He had nasal congestion so the housemaid (Martha) confined him to bed. While in bed, he read the latest issue of StarExplor. Meanwhile, a stranger knocked at Charlie Sacks' door begging for shelter. Martha let him in and gave him some bread and something else to eat it with. The stranger marveled at the speed at which she prepared his meal. Martha confessed that she is nursing the master of the house. The stranger asked about the nature of the illness and when Martha told him, was happy to provide a remedy. The strangers gave Martha a bag of tomatoes and told her to administer four tomatoes to Sacks before sunrise. Sacks ate one of the tomatoes and began to feel well. However, he continued to eat the tomatoes, going beyond the four that were prescribed. This error would lead to his discomfort and subsequently his death.

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[Jay Bruce had a bad August and an improved September after being traded to the Mets last year. He turned to data analysis to learn why the one month was so bad.]

Credit...John Bazemore/Associated Press

-   March 21, 2017
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Even though he is moving toward the start of the 2017 season, Mets outfielder Jay Bruce wanted a concrete answer as to why he struggled last August. At the time, he was having what he thought was the most consistent season of his career and he had just been acquired by the Mets, who hoped he could help their injured and struggling lineup.

And yet he hit just .183 that month and was even given time off to clear his head.

Bruce bounced back in September, smashing key hits over the final two weeks that helped the Mets reach the National League wild-card game. In a sense, one good month had canceled out the one bad one and put Bruce in position to start fresh this season.

In spring training, however, Bruce found he couldn’t get last August out of his head. So last week he asked T. J. Barra, the Mets’ director of baseball research and development, to examine the advanced metrics behind his feeble showing that month.

“I wanted to say, ‘What was the biggest difference?’ because I didn’t feel that much different from the other months,” Bruce, 29, said. “But it was 180 degrees different.”

Barra emailed Bruce with his findings. The data showed that Bruce, in fact, was hitting out of character last August. He was chasing pitches on the edge of the strike zone more than before. He was hitting fewer fly balls and sending the ball more often to the opposite field.

That was not the style of hitting that made Bruce a three-time All-Star, including in 2016, and a player who now has 241 career home runs. But it was the kind of analytical input that he welcomes.

A data revolution has come to baseball. Just about everything on the field can be measured and dissected. For some players, that information can be overwhelming, but not for Bruce. Over the past three seasons, he has tried to incorporate more data into the way he plays, and especially the way he hits.

“I don’t live and die by it, but there are definitely numbers out there that tell a story,” he said. “I take those and say: ‘This is what I do. So what do I do physically to make these numbers come to life?’”

Despite his inconsistent two months in New York last season, the Mets brought Bruce back for 2017 by picking up his $13 million option. He was originally considered insurance if the star outfielder Yoenis Cespedes was not re-signed. But Cespedes returned, the Mets did not receive trade offers they liked for Bruce, and then they decided to live with a larger payroll and keep him as their right fielder.

In turn, Bruce is keeping a close eye on any analytics that might give him insight into making sure this year in New York is an improvement on last year.

“I’m a game changer offensively and I want to do that as much as I can,” said Bruce, who dealt with minor hip discomfort this past week, which he attributed to practicing at first base, where he might play should Lucas Duda suffer an injury.

Advanced metrics were not as readily available to players when Bruce, a Texas native, debuted in the major leagues in 2008 with the Cincinnati Reds, who had drafted him in the first round in 2005. The first metrics he was exposed to were line-drive rate, home run-to-fly ball ratio, and pull rate, the percentage of balls hit to the side of the field from which someone bats.

As Bruce gained an interest in these kinds of numbers, he started asking Reds officials for information beyond what they were routinely providing players. And when he was traded to the Mets, a team that uses analytics extensively, Bruce found a friendly environment for still more statistical exploration.

“We have a lot of numbers here,” he said.

While Bruce can peruse statistics himself on the many popular baseball websites that have emerged in recent years, such as Baseball-Reference.com and FanGraphs.com, the Mets have a proprietary database of more advanced research and a staff of people responsible for applying it. The team’s two hitting coaches, Kevin Long and his assistant, Pat Roessler, eagerly rely on such information to better focus their instruction.

“It’s great,” Roessler said. “It gives you the trends, and points you in the right direction about where a guy is heading. Is he trending up or down? Is he getting away from what was making him click a week or two before?”

Bruce is one of the Mets’ most willing recipients of this data, along with Cespedes, Long said. So that Long can spend his time focusing on hitting mechanics, he leans on Roessler to examine hitting data with players.

When they spot something in the numbers, they decide whether to approach a player with it because, as Long put it, some are not ready to digest that much information.

“We’ve pointed out just a few things to Jay, and he’s said he wants it all,” Long said.

“I appreciate information,” Bruce said. “I may not agree with it, but I at least want to know.”

All this data has helped Bruce get a more vivid sense of what type of hitter he is and how best to maximize his skills. Bruce, who is left-handed, knows he is a power hitter — he has averaged 27 home runs a year over nine seasons — and the data overwhelmingly shows that balls in the air to the pull side are the best option for him.

“And that’s what I do the most,” Bruce said. “So why wouldn’t I work on pulling the ball in the air with efficiency?”

And consider this: Since Bruce’s debut season in 2008, only David Ortiz (41.1 percent) turned more fly balls hit to the pull side into home runs than did Bruce (40.4 percent), according to FanGraphs.com. Those results happen to run counter to the hitting instruction Bruce said he received when he was younger.

He said coaches told him to hit the ball to left field, which would perhaps lead to a higher average. But advanced metrics helped Bruce understand that was not his strength.

“You have to recognize what your strong swing is,” Bruce said. “Listen, I’m not going up there trying to yank the ball into the seats. I’m trying to stay in the big part of the field. But my best swing is to right-center. So what balls can I hit to right-center?”

To do that, Bruce looks at heat maps that show how hard he hits the ball, a statistic known as exit velocity, based on the area of the strike zone the pitch is in. He studies what pitches he has most often chased out of the strike zone. He also evaluates the path of his bat, known as launch angle, to see if he is producing the right amount of lift.

“There’s absolutely nothing for you on the ground to the pull side,” he said. “That’s just death to the baseball. So what balls am I hitting there?”

The proof: Bruce, who regularly faces infield defenses shifted to the right side, has hit .168 on ground balls hit to the pull side throughout his career, according to FanGraphs.com. In contrast, he has a .512 average with 156 career home runs on fly balls hit in that direction.

So as he has begun setting goals for this season, Bruce has pondered his production. In 2016, he hit .250 with 33 home runs, 99 runs batted in and a .815 on-base-plus-slugging percentage. One of the areas highlighted for improvement: “If I didn’t hit a ground ball all year, I’d be in good shape,” he said.

While Bruce knows that will be impossible, he is setting his sights high and shooting for a 50 percent fly ball rate. His career number is about 42 percent, close to his 2016 mark. His highest was 48.5 percent in 2009. An improved launch angle may help.

As Bruce explained this goal, he cited advice he received from a former Cincinnati teammate, Joey Votto, who was the 2010 National League most valuable player and who remains one of baseball’s best and most cerebral hitters.

“He told me: ‘Everyone goes into the season and they want to make all these crazy changes and they want to improve so drastically. But to get 2 or 3 percent better at something is really, really great,’” Bruce said. “So just keep chipping away.”

Bruce’s quest for self-understanding has even led him to ask Barra, the team’s baseball research director, for defensive analytics. With the advent of innovative tools to measure players’ movements on the field, like Major League Baseball’s Statcast, Bruce said he was intrigued how an improvement in defensive analytics would change the sport.

But for now, Bruce has focused more on the clear-cut statistics behind his hitting. Long said that Bruce’s swing had become more compact and that he had been using his legs more.

“That will help with all the analytical parts that he is trying to get better at,” Long said.

And now comes the season, with, no doubt, more data for Bruce to ponder.

question: According to the article, summarize the advantages of data analytics to baseball.

text: Contrary to Bruce's feelings, he was doing things differently in August as opposed to September 2016.

answer: Baseball players can use data analytics to become better players and to understand what they need to improve on. It helps players like Jay Bruce to figure out their strengths and weaknesses.

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text: The answer should mention the areas where the data is applied.

text: The answer should mention that the data analytics can help players understand what kind of hitter they are.

text: The answer omits that the data analytics can help players understand where they are trending.

text: It is omitted that the data can be overwhelming for some players.

text: The answer could mention that the analytic tools are more advanced.

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The kind of data analytics used in baseball can help a player figure out when he is doing something out of character. For example, Jay Bruce's statistics in August 2016 show he was struggling though the player himself felt he was doing nothing different from September 2016 when he posted good numbers.
The data can also show what a player needs to do physically to improve. Data analytics give a scout an overall picture of a trajectory a player is heading towards as well as point out the inefficiencies in their game.

text: The article does not mention anything about scouts.

text: The article does not mention that the data analytics can give a scout an overall picture of a trajectory a player is heading towards.

text: The article does not mention that data analytics can give a scout an overall picture of a trajectory a player is heading towards as well as point out the inefficiencies in their game.

text: The answer omits the advantages of data analytics to baseball.

text: The second sentence needs to add "what" for clarity.

text: It's omitted that the data shows specifically what a player may be struggling with, like hitting fewer fly balls.

text: Replace the word "scout" with "player".

answer:
The kind of data analytics used in baseball can help a player figure out when he is doing something out of character. For example, Jay Bruce's statistics in August 2016 show he was struggling though the player himself felt he was doing nothing different from September 2016 when he posted good numbers.
The data can also show what a player needs to do physically to improve. Data analytics give a scout an overall picture of a trajectory a player is heading towards as well as point out the inefficiencies in their game.

answer:
The kind of data analytics used in baseball can help a player figure out when he is doing something out of character. For example, Jay Bruce's statistics in August 2016 show he was struggling though he was doing nothing different from September 2016 when he posted good numbers.
The data can also show what a player needs to do physically to improve. Data analytics give a scout an overall picture of a trajectory a player is heading towards as well as point out the inefficiencies in their game.

text: The year "2016" is incorrect. It should be "2017".