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    [Default] Re: Re: Intelcom Courier Canada Inc.

      _Originally posted by blairtruck_
      IM IN DEADMONTON. MY CAMERAS SHOW ME ITS SOME ASIAN GUY IN A CIVIC THAT DELIVERS MINE. I GET THEM. BUT HE DOES NOT WALK UP THE STAIRS. THROWS IT FROM THE BOTTOM. (8 STAIRS) ALSO TAKES A PIC OF THE PACKAGE ON THE LANDING TO PROVE HE DELIVERED IT?

      I'm in Calgary, this is my latest Amazon Prime delivery. []

      _Originally posted by SEANBANERJEE_
      I have gone above and beyond what I should rightfully have to do to protect my GOOD NAME

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    [Default] Re: Re: Re: Intelcom Courier Canada Inc.

      _Originally posted by rage2_
      I'M IN CALGARY, THIS IS MY LATEST AMAZON PRIME DELIVERY. []

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      Seems about right.

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    [Default] Re: Re: Re: Intelcom Courier Canada Inc.

      _Originally posted by rage2_
      I'M IN CALGARY, THIS IS MY LATEST AMAZON PRIME DELIVERY. []

      What in the actual f*&k? Really??!

      Send that shit to Amazon and get that turd fired.

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      If you don't mind going to the post office, if you select pick up it has to be Canada Post.

      Also, what I noticed with the free shipping option is that they will sit on it till the last day on the delivery window and then send it next day with Intelcom.

      If I order for pickup, it almost gets shipped on the same day with Canada Post and arrives 2-3 days before the delivery window.

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    [Default] Re: Re: Re: Intelcom Courier Canada Inc.

      _Originally posted by rage2_
      I'M IN CALGARY, THIS IS MY LATEST AMAZON PRIME DELIVERY. []

      Hey his ride looks pretty upscale compared to the well reported (and observed) beat up camrys/civics!

      But seriously that's brutal. Want a cracked iPad? No problem! []

      Canada Post pick up is an excellent suggestion, I'm going to do this []

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      Hah, I had a package from Amazon delivered by those jokers a few weeks ago. They couldn't find my house the first time, claimed the address was incorrect. I confirmed the address, they subsequently attempted to deliver it to the wrong house and then told Amazon that I'd refused the package.

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      I hate this company, all but stopped ordering from Amazon because of them.

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      I've had a few Prime orders this week and the guy in rage's video looks like the guy who delivered one of my orders []

      Fucker rang the door bell and as soon as I opened the door he was already in his car getting ready to drive off. Seems like most of the time they just toss your stuff on the porch and leave asap

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    [Default] Re: Re: Re: Re: Intelcom Courier Canada Inc.

      _Originally posted by msommers_
      BUT SERIOUSLY THAT'S BRUTAL. WANT A CRACKED IPAD? NO PROBLEM! []

      Luckily it was just a hardcover kids book, but yea, the binding is all messed up from shipping.

      _Originally posted by SEANBANERJEE_
      I have gone above and beyond what I should rightfully have to do to protect my GOOD NAME

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      _Originally posted by Aleks_
      WE GET PACKAGES FROM AMAZON ALL THE TIME AND THIS IS THE COMPANY THAT USUALLY DELIVERS THEM. MOST OF THE TIME IN A BEAT UP BEIGE CAMRY.

      camry dude came dropped mine off in the NW. it was a one day ship item, at least the tracking worked. Started off as optimized at 6pm on Thursday evening, recieved at 8am friday, loaded at 9am with delivery time as 1-5pm, dude showed up around 5:45 with the beige camry, signed my name electronically by himself, a copy of which also showed up on the tracking site []

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      Ordered a battery tender off of Amazon for a buddy to be delivered to his condo with a concierge in Calgary; Amazon Prime shipped through Intelcom the next day and it ended up going out for delivery in Montreal three times the day after. Never showed. 10/10 would ship again.

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      Side notes:

      Walmart uses Loomis for its local shipments now, including shelf stable food. Almost two thumbs up, packages arrive in mostly good shape, but Walmart themselves could do with a little bit of structural foam in their packing method.

      Combustion engine cars - Bwahaha.

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      Surprisingly these guys were 2/2 with my deliveries last week, with the only issue being the tracking not working for the second package.

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      Oh, so that's what it was. My camera picked up a guy on my lawn taking a picture. My latest delivery arrived on Sunday. Didn't clue in to put the two together until I read this thread.

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      Funny how different their website vs real life is.

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      At least they're both wearing blue. []

      _Originally posted by SEANBANERJEE_
      I have gone above and beyond what I should rightfully have to do to protect my GOOD NAME

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      Wonder how much these jokers make per hour? I should work for them, I could drive around and break peoples shit all day, snapping photos on my celly.

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      related but unrelated note:

      Ordered a package from Newegg. Shipped by Purolator.
      Says it was out for delivery on Monday, to be delivered by end of day; did not show up.
      Check tracking on tuesday afternoon, says it delivered around noon.
      Looked all around the house and could not find it; assumed someone stole and and whatever, it was only $30.

      Found it in my community mailbox. How did purolator get access?!?!

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      _Originally posted by jwslam_
      FOUND IT IN MY COMMUNITY MAILBOX. HOW DID PUROLATOR GET ACCESS?!?!

      wut, canada post owns purolator []

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      _Originally posted by schocker_
      WUT, CANADA POST OWNS PUROLATOR []

      but operated independently.... fairly sure the contract CP delivery guy is not the same as the Purolator employee?

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question: Summarize the complaints against Intelcom Courier Canada.

text: The answer is empty, add complaints.

answer: No answer

text: The answer is wrong. The complaints are: the courier throws the packages instead of bringing them to the door, they don't ring the bell or knock on the door, they don't care if the package gets damaged, and they don't care if the package gets delivered to the wrong address.

text: The answer is wrong. The complaints are: the courier throws the packages from the bottom of the stairs, doesn't walk up the stairs, and takes a picture of the package on the landing to prove he delivered it.

text: The answer is wrong. The complaints are: throwing packages from the bottom of the stairs, taking a picture of the package on the landing to prove he delivered it, not walking up the stairs, and tossing packages on the porch and leaving asap.

text: The answer is incorrect. The complaints are about the delivery service.

text: The answer is incorrect. The complaints are listed in the passage.

text: This is inaccurate. There are complaints against Intelcom.

text: The answer is unattested.

text: The answer is missing.

answer: The complaints are about the poor quality of delivery service. The packages are delivered in a beat-up car, the driver does not walk up the stairs, and the packages are often damaged. The company also has a history of delivering packages to the wrong address.

answer: User blairtruck complains that the delivery person threw the package up the stairs instead of walking up the stairs. One user observes that the free shipping option results in Amazon shipping the item as late as possible and using the courier company. Multiple users report broken items or no-shows.

text: It's omitted that the delivery person also took a picture of the package on the landing to prove he delivered it.

text: It's omitted that the courier company is often late and sometimes does not deliver packages at all.

text: It's omitted that the users also complain about the delivery person taking a picture of the package as proof of delivery.

text: This is not a complaint.

text: It's omitted that the courier company is also known to deliver to the wrong addresses.

text: It's omitted that another user complains that the delivery person tossed the package on their porch and left.

text: It misses to mention that though the package came with Amazon Prime, it was also third party.

answer: User blairtruck complains that the delivery person threw the package up the stairs instead of walking up the stairs. One user observes that the free shipping option results in Amazon shipping the item as late as possible and using the courier company. Multiple users report broken items or no-shows.

text: The response should be rewritten - the second sentence is unintelligible.

answer: The complaints are about the poor quality of delivery service. The packages are delivered in a beat-up car, the driver does not walk up the stairs, and the packages are often damaged. The company also has a history of delivering packages to the wrong address.

text: The answer should mention the missing packages.

text: The answer should mention the company's tendency to take pictures of packages as proof of delivery.

text: It is omitted that the company also has a history of delivering packages to the wrong address.

text: The answer should mention that the company also has a history of delivering packages to the wrong address.

text: The response should include the fact that the drivers are also known to throw packages from the bottom of the stairs.

text: It's omitted that the driver sometimes doesn't ring the doorbell.

text: The answer should mention the tracking issues.

text: There is no evidence that the car the courier drives is beat-up.

answer: No answer

text: The complaints include damages caused by the delivery man throwing the package up the stairs, late delivery of packages, a cracked iPad and other damaged products, claims that the receiver had refused to accept delivery, drivers too keen to leave without waiting for a response


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"Please state the purpose of your visit."
The woman behind the desk looked at me with blank eyes. There was no one home.
"I want to apply for permanent VR residency."
"Please state your chosen payment plan. If you need help in choosing a payment plan, an appointment with a specialist can be arranged."
"I know what I want. I'm going to sell my meat."
"You understand that upon signing a Voluntary Body Custody contract, you are legally obligated to surrender your body to VR Corp and any deviation from, or violation of said contract will result in legal action and repossession without compensation?"
"I understand."
"Please fill these out to the best of your ability."

She slid a much-abused screen over to me. I picked it up and tabbed through, stepping aside as someone took my place. Financial information, Personal information, and Account information. I found a chair in the back left corner of the room, as far as possible from the other applicants. Meat people make me uncomfortable. The air tasted stale and smelled of cheap carpeting and unwashed bodies. Beside me was a table with an ugly vase full of fake flowers that did nothing to help the odour.

Financial information was easy enough. The only jobs I have ever worked have been through VR. All my money is in VR banks. When I rent my meat it’s through VR reps. Every story, sim, joke, and game I have ever sold was through VR. That means they already know all about it, and my writing anything here is a formality. I've spent nearly all my waking hours of the last ten years in VR. They already know everything about me, certainly anything worth putting on a form. I dutifully entered my financial information.

Personal information was harder. I flew through the name-address-date-of-birth stuff, but how do you answer a question like "Why do you want to permanently upload your mind to VR?" More accurately, how do you stop answering it? My entire life, it's all I ever wanted, even before VR was a thing. Everything I hated about real life was so much better in VR. In meatworld, people have always judged me, and in a thousand ways, for things that I have never been able to change.

I’m fat. I’ve always been fat. I know I should be skinny but how am I supposed to lose weight when the only way to rent your body to a corp doing physical labour is to already be fit? What am I supposed to do? Spend my days exercising my meat like a damn GenX? Maybe that would work, but only because I would also starve from not being able to work a VR job or rent my meat in the meantime. If only being fat were the end of my problems. After life suplexed me with obesity, puberty finished me off with a chokeslam in the form of perpetual, inflamed, all covering acne. What girl wants to date a guy who looks like a loaf of cheesebread? I just never felt at home in the house I was born in. Now I’m applying for a mortgage on a new one.
In VR, when people judge you, it’s for who you are and how you express it. When I got my first headset for my 16th birthday, I spent two days customizing my character in every conceivable way. Which represented who I am better? Two arms or six? Was my personality thin and whiplash strong, or hugely muscular? Would my soul have blonde hair, or black with a streak of purple? In those first two days I felt more pride in my appearance than I had in the 16 years that preceded them. I felt like what I saw in the character creator represented me better than anything I had ever seen in a mirror.

It wasn't just my appearance either. Nearly everything about how I presented myself was different in VR. I didn't stutter, I didn't censor myself, I was funny, interesting, even outgoing. I had more success with girls within weeks than I had ever dreamed of IRL. It seemed like every creative instinct, every ounce of motivation, every scrap of self-respect I ever had, had simply been waiting for me to find a place where it could come out. To be honest, I was just surprised there was anything worthwhile at all hiding within me. VR basically made everything I've ever liked in my entire life possible. So I guess that would be why I want to leave meatworld behind. The only thing I could possibly regret about this is that I didn't do it sooner.

As I was overthinking the question, an adfly exploded out of its hiding place, nestled in the stiff plastic leaves of the flowers beside me. As I reached to swat it away, it broke left and dodged my clumsy hands, slipping through my cheap adblocker like a mosquito through a shitty net. The adfly threw its many limbed body onto my face, latching on to my nose. It raised its needle to my left eye. I broke into a cold sweat as I surrendered, lowering my hands. I saw a light shine out of a hole on the ad's carapace, directly onto my right eye.

 **** MONSTER-REDBULL GIVES YOU POWER TM ****

From above, I saw a version of myself, a bit uglier and noticeably fatter, walking down a street towards a woman sitting on a bench. She was one of the most beautiful girls I had ever seen, and as I watched, she looked over at my double with a faint air of distaste. My ugly lookalike had almost reached her when I saw a truck leap off the freeway and come crashing through the underbrush at the side of the road. He began to move as fast as his exaggerated build would let him, clearly hoping to grab the oblivious damsel and drag her to safety. They were both crushed as I looked on. Her face was the picture of contempt for her would-be rescuer.

**** FEELING POWERLESS? ****

Suddenly, everything began to move backwards, slowly at first but then faster and faster until the truck and my lame imposter were out of sight. As he moved back into the frame, I saw that my stand-in looked different. He was no longer grossly overweight, he was ripped. He also had a bandolier stocked with cans of Monster-Redbull© around his bulging chest. He locked eyes with the girl from before, who blushed but couldn't look away. The Adonis pulled a can of Monster-Redbull© from his bandolier, shotgunned it, and crushed the thick can between his bicep and forearm. Again the truck came off the freeway and hurtled towards the young woman. This time, however, the man moved towards the charging 18 wheeler, moving faster than the truck itself. He stopped just short of it and, bracing himself, caught the truck by its fender. He used its momentum to lift the truck up and over his head, spinning on his heel as he slammed it down on a man who had approached the girl. His competition vanquished, he caught the swooning girl with one hand while he used the other to shotgun another Monster-Redbull©.

**** MONSTER-REDBULL GIVES YOU POWER TM ****

The ad left. Careening around the room, it sought its next victim. Shaking, I promised myself I would file a complaint against VR Corp for leaving their building unsecured. Not that there was much point. Monster-Redbull© is probably paying VR Corp to let them in. And I would never have to deal with anything like this once I left this shithole forever. My meatworld adblocker might have been worth fuck all, but my VR one sure wasn't. Yet another reason I should hurry up with this form.

I finished off the other questions in Personal Information quickly. Next came Account Information. More name-address-date-of-birth stuff. I just couldn’t see the point in this. I already had an account, and that account already had all these details. I skipped all the fields until I found Account Number. I filled in all 16 digits, then almost kicked myself when the other fields filled themselves in. That’s it then. Finished. I went to press submit, and found I couldn’t.
I knew what was next. I would press that button, return the screen, and then they would get a doctor to assess the value of my carcass. Funny that assessing meat is one of the last jobs you need someone to be in their meat for. They would plug me in, and I would leave my body and go live in VR. Forever. It would be the same thing I did every morning, only this time there would be no coming back. My meat would no longer be my meat. It would just be another thing at a desk, or a burger flipper, or a janitor, and it would spend five hours a night in one of those depressing shacks you see behind every strip mall. And I would be my character.

I looked at the tip of my nose. I looked at my legs, my arms, my hands. I saw the scar from when I got over excited playing CoD: Ireland and fell out of my chair, putting spider web cracks in my VR screen and taking a chunk out of my thumb. I had been so mad at myself because the combination of those two disasters killed my promising fps career. Or at least put it off for a while, though I never got back into it… You’re stalling! Press submit dammit! This meat never gave you anything but pain and discomfort, while it took from you any chance you ever had of fitting in to the meatworld! I looked at it again. Now it seemed tired, worn out. I recalled every time I looked out the window at a beautiful day, then shut the blinds. Every time my brother messaged me to come out with him and I didn’t even respond. Every time I was “forced” to eat a tubepizza because my gaming schedule didn’t allow me to take long enough breaks to eat with my family. A sudden sense of clarity struck me.

My life could have played out so differently. I was weak. I am weak. VR makes it so easy to be strong. But maybe you can’t be strong when you never try to stand without having your hand held. I thought of my parents. They never liked VR. They never liked how much time I spent on it. They were born, grew up, and got married all without a butler whispering in their ear “She’s hitting on you” or “Kill the tension with a joke”. Were the girls I “fucked” in VR fucking me or the time I spent in character creator? Or the wit my butler fed into my ear? Had any of the banter or emotions we shared been real? What was the point? Why not get rid of the middlemen and let the butlers fuck each other, stick a dildo in a fleshlight? The only thing I have ever done in VR is masturbate, or enable another person’s masturbation. Maybe not always physically (though there had been plenty of that), but emotionally, mentally. My whole life I thought I was popular in VR because people were finally seeing the real me. But I wasn’t eight feet tall, I didn’t have rippling abs, and I couldn’t come up with one liners in 0.2 seconds. I am not really my character. I’m something more. I looked down at myself again. For the first time in ten years, I saw me.

Thanks for reading! Any comments or criticism are welcome!

title: [SF] Waiting Room

question: What does the story say about the narrator's life outside of VR?

text: While falling out of his chair did happen in real life, it is still related to his VR use and doesn't need to be mentioned. It's not a significant detail either way.

category: coherence

answer: The narrator has always been fat. He also suffers from extreme acne. He never felt at home in the house he was born in. He has a brother who messages him to hang out.

answer_source: Human

text: The answer omits the narrator's parents.

text: The answer omits that the narrator's family doesn't like VR.

text: The narrator's brother is not relevant to the question.

text: The answer should mention the narrator's parents.

text: The answer should mention that the narrator is socially awkward.

text: It is omitted that the other thing that makes him unhappy is that he never felt like he belonged anywhere.

text: It's omitted that in real life he alludes to being shy and possibly awkward.

category: coverage

text: It's omitted the narrator thinks of himself as weak in real life.

text: The sentence about the brother should point out how the narrator would always reject his brother's invites.

answer: The narrator is unhappy and feels like they made the wrong choices by spending most of their time in VR instead of in the real world. They think VR makes living life easier and life outside of VR hard. They have no experience outside of VR and are weighing their choices to make the right one.

answer_source: Model

text: The response doesn't mention how the narrator is fat in real life and a muscular guy in the VR world. He hasn't really lived outside VR and for the first time in years, he sees himself after reflecting on things.

answer: The narrator has always been fat. He also suffers from extreme acne. He never felt at home in the house he was born in. He has a brother who messages him to hang out.

text: The response needs to include more relevant details - more about the narrator's family's attitude to VR would make the response better.

answer: The narrator is unhappy and feels like they made the wrong choices by spending most of their time in VR instead of in the real world. They think VR makes living life easier and life outside of VR hard. They have no experience outside of VR and are weighing their choices to make the right one.

text: The narrator is not weighing their choices. They are already decided on uploading their mind to VR.

text: The narrator is not weighing their choices. They are already making the choice to leave the real world.

text: The narrator is not weighing their choices. They are about to make the choice to sell their body and upload their mind to VR.

text: The narrator is not weighing any choices. They are making the choice to upload their mind to VR.

text: The narrator is not weighing his choices. He is deciding whether to sell his meat or not.

text: The narrator is not weighing the right choices-rather, they are considering not making the choice at all, which is to upload their consciousness to VR.

answer: The narrator has always been fat. He also suffers from extreme acne. He never felt at home in the house he was born in. He has a brother who messages him to hang out. He has a scar from falling out of his chair.

answer_source: Human misleading

text: The third sentence is inaccurate. It should mention that the narrator never fits in in the real world.

category: accuracy

text: The response should add that the narrator doesn't have much of a life outside of VR.

answer: The narrator has always been fat. He also suffers from extreme acne. He never felt at home in the house he was born in. He has a brother who messages him to hang out. He has a scar from falling out of his chair.

text: The answer omits that the narrator's parents never liked VR and how he spent his time in VR.

text: The answer omits that the narrator's parents never liked VR and that they never liked how much time he spent on it.

text: The answer omits that the narrator's parents don't like VR and are worried about how much time he spends on it.

text: The narrator is male.

text: The response should include that the narrator has always been a loser in real life.

text: The fact that he had a VR screen with spider web cracks is irrelevant to the question.


text:
The sun filters through the canopy of the light poles, trees, and houses. It covers small swaths of land in leprous splotches. The leaves sag and brush against the ground in silent supplication. Reaching towards the sunlight and dew stained grass, plagued with swarming insects that enrich and take away from the plants. Huge bulbs hang from the fibrous branches and a slug eats a rotten tomato in the potting soil. A worm crawls through the confines of the pot.

The leaves rustle against the breeze. A few errant leaves die and fall to the ground not yet rotted still retaining the semblance of life. Birds fly in ovals and land on humming power lines. They stare at the houses and shit. A car door slams in the distance and the day begins. In chaotic harmony other doors slam within fifteen minute intervals and the hums and roars of engines lead the townsfolk to their jobs.

Lily emerges from the house of her father and walks around its perimeter. She examines the plants and takes inventory. She pokes the soil and throws old fruit where she finds room. A truck pulls into the driveway and her father shuts the door silently and walks around the house.

He finds her pouring water into a pot. “That might be too much water.”

“I don’t think so. There are three tomato plants here. They must all fight over the water and I’ve been diligent about watering them everyday, so I don’t think it’s too much. I could possibly skip a day though. How was work?”

“Another ten hours of bullshit. Inspecting parts, counting inventory dealing with that dickhead Dave. Has anyone called you back yet?”

“No, not that I’m aware of, however, I did just wake up.”

He lights a cigarette. “Keep telling jokes like that and you could go on tour.”

She walks to the empty potting soil and examines it. A stray shoot pushes through the ground towards the sky. “I think this red onion might have actually sprouted another onion. I can’t be sure yet, but there is a green shoot coming out of it.”

He walks over to the plant. “Well, wait and see is all I can tell you. With that, I’m off to bed for the day.”

“Night.” She calls after him while he ascends the steps towards the house.

She walks around the rest, notes the weeds, and the old grass seed. A young woman walks by with a small dog. Lily waves at the woman. “Cute dog.”

She returns to the house and starts a load of laundry. The syrup like detergent dances around the centrifugal tube and water fills the basin. Lily searches the refrigerator for eggs and cooks one. She opens her laptop and clicks on the web browser. A message from an old boyfriend and several others checking on her.

“I don’t know why you feel that religion is such an important thing, but I won’t stand in your way of worshiping as long as you don’t tell me I’m going to Hell or that I’m sinful. I won’t be judged by you. Go to your church, but don’t bother trying to date me if you think it will make such a major conflict between us.” No smiley face. Send.

She checks the two usual job sites and emails her resume to some temp service that promises her that their jobs can lead to full time positions. The usual forums offer no advice in the job hunt only the same mixture of cynicism and hope. Typing a post, she hears the egg sizzle. She walks to the stove and flips the egg, sprinkles pepper on it, and returns to the computer.

The weather offers no solace to her. Delayed rains only bring the hope of no flash floods. Snores from the bedroom assure her that her father remains asleep. A search brings up a redhead from England who exposes her breasts and pantomimes a blowjob. Lily stares at this woman.

We’d hold hands and make love. It would be beautiful and we’d be beautiful. We could use each other’s youth and then discard one another. I don’t see what’s wrong with that. Just to brush your soft lips or to run my fingers through your hair, would that be too much to ask. We could search for makeup together or play video games. We could feign gamer girl or be them, we could pretend that we hate men, but we wouldn’t. The men where you are aren’t insane like the ones here. They won’t lie and discard us. They’ll join us in our using of them and understand that we’re enjoying one another not lying to one another. If only,…if only…I could…see you. Ah.

Lily raises her panties and closes the laptop. Washing her hands and drying them on a dish towel,  she then returns to the egg and places it on a piece of buttered toast. The pepper tickles her nose and she stifles a sneeze. The toast crunches and the egg’s yolk explodes in her mouth.

In the distance, metalworkers carry empty canisters of Oxygen and Butane to a collection truck for refilling. The sun stops before the entrance of the metallurgist's shop and he closes the shop door. The truck drives off and whips dust. The metallurgist gulps from a water bottle and spits. He returns to the brick building and continues to spark steel.

Lily submerges her hands into the hot water and scrubs the dirt and grime of the dishes. In the basin, the water sloshes and spills onto the counter. Plates delicately klink in the drainer. Lily spies from across the street, the metal workers hoisting long tubes of Oxygen into the back of a truck. She sighs slightly and continues to wash.

She opens a book and starts to take notes and to underline passages. She marks a date on her calendar and then shuts it. She studies bastardizations of classic authors with half paragraph blurbs about their lives and their works translated from the original language. Twisting the top off of a beer, she sits back down and reads.

Her father yawns and belches. He stomps into the room. “What are you doing?”

“Studying for this class. It’s something to do with the Classics. Something about Shakespeare and Chaucer. I don’t really care about who else. I also need to study for that Chemistry test, but I really don’t feel like it. Did you know that there are people in the world that don’t go to college and they end up fine.” She sips.

“Yeah, they end up working the same job for ten plus years and never go anyway. I’m not sending you to college to stay in one spot. I want you to learn something that will make you better. I don’t want you to end up like those idiots who take pictures of themselves in the bathroom of restaurants with their tits hanging out, or getting pregnant by accident. College will help you, it’s just that the help is abstract and non-practical. I don’t live by practical it’s worthless. That blond girl that worked at the fast-food joint, you remember?”

“No why?’ Lily sips.

“She got her degree in nursing through a technical program. She’s stuck there, because she can’t for two goddamn words to save her life. All she can do is suck dick. She’ll be lucky if anyone will want the corn husk of her shell after she’s popped out a few unplanned kids. That may be mean, but she’s stupid and she deserves to remain stupid. Or that nice homosexual boy, said that being a manager was his only dream in the world other than his boyfriend? He’ll be lucky if a small town like this doesn’t lynch him. He can be nice all he wants, but when he acts like that, then we’ll people don’t like that. Those people’s transgressions will come back to them and they’ll feel it one way or the other.”

“I guess so. What time do you go to work?”

“I leave at around seven. It’s enough time to read and to get  shower.” He walks into the bathroom and Lily can hear the shower head ignite.

She finishes the beer and tosses the bottle into the trash can. She returns to her work, and then a knock from the door. She answers. “Yes?”

“Hi, can I come in?”

“No Kyle. You cannot. Please leave and don’t speak to me again.”

“Why not?”

She places a hand on her hip. “I don’t want to see you again. That’s all you need to know.”

“I deserve more than that, sweetie.”

“Fuck off.” She shuts the door in his face.

Kyle remains on the porch in front of the door. He sees a robin’s nest on the ground and steps on an eggshell. He opens the car door and slams it. The transmission sputters as he accelerates away.

Lily returns to her work and rubs her temples. She massages a loose strand of hair into a small knot and then untangles it. Her father emerges from the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist and searches through the dryer.  He walks off into his bedroom and dresses. When he returns, the towel looks like a small wash rag in his leathery hands as he scrubs his hair, a practice that has lead to his need for a wig.

title: Unfinished piece.

question: Summarize Lily's main activities for the day as described in the passage.

text: The response is missing a few activities.

answer: Lily walks out of her father's house and checks on the plants around the perimeter of the house. She waters the thirsty tomato plants. She pokes the soil and the weeds around. When she comes back inside, Lily goes to start the laundry, cook the egg in the frying pan, sits down to reply to a message, cooks breakfast for her father, washes the dishes, reads a book on the classics, sips a beer, and studies for a class exam.

answer:
Lily walked around the house, examining the plants and poking the soil underneath them. She watered the plants for a little while, telling her father about the red onion that may have been sprouting. She took note of the weeds and waved to a woman walking by.
Lily returned to the house and did a bit of laundry. Then she took an egg from the refrigerator to cook. While the egg cooks, she opened her laptop and checks out her messages and a couple of job sites. She returned to her cooked egg, placing it on a piece of buttered toast. She then washed the dishes while she watched metalworkers across the street carrying empty canisters of oxygen and butane. After the dishes were done, Lily said down to study for her Classics class.

text: "She then washed the dishes while she watched metalworkers across the street carrying empty canisters of oxygen and butane." - this is inaccurate. Lily was already done with the dishes when she saw the metalworkers.

text: The response is missing the part where Lily sends a message to an old boyfriend.

text: The response is missing the part where Lily rejects Kyle.

text: The answer omits the part where Lily rejects Kyle.

text: "She then washed the dishes while she watched metalworkers across the street carrying empty canisters of oxygen and butane." - this is incorrect. Lily was watching the metalworkers before she washed the dishes.

text: "She then washed the dishes while she watched metalworkers across the street carrying empty canisters of oxygen and butane. After the dishes were done, Lily said down to study for her Classics class." - this is inaccurate. Lily merely watched the metalworkers while she washed the dishes. She also sat down to study after the dishes were done.

text: The response is missing the part where Lily sends an email to an old boyfriend.

text: It's omitted Lily rejects Kyle's advances.

text: The response is missing the part where Lily checks her messages on her computer and replies to some.

text: The answer omits the part where her father wakes up and they have a conversation about how her father really wants her to attend college.

text: It's also omitted that while her father is showering, her ex-boyfriend comes to her house but Lily rejects him, telling him to go away and that she does not want to speak with him.

answer:
Lily walked around the house, examining the plants and poking the soil underneath them. She watered the plants for a little while, telling her father about the red onion that may have been sprouting. She took note of the weeds and waved to a woman walking by.
Lily returned to the house and did a bit of laundry. Then she took an egg from the refrigerator to cook. She returned to her cooked egg, placing it on a piece of buttered toast. She then washed the dishes while she watched metalworkers across the street carrying empty canisters of oxygen and butane.

text: The response is missing the part where Lily browsed the internet.

text: "She returned to her cooked egg, placing it on a piece of buttered toast. She then washed the dishes while she watched metalworkers across the street carrying empty canisters of oxygen and butane." - this is incorrect because Lily was already eating her egg on toast when she washed the dishes. She also wasn't watching the metalworkers when she was washing the dishes.

text: The response is missing a few of Lily's activities for the day.

text: It is omitted that Lily browsed the internet and studied.

text: It's omitted that Lily browses the internet, looking for jobs.

text: Lily also checked her email, started doing laundry, and studied for her class.

text: The answer should mention that Lily emailed her resume and read some forums after she had eaten her breakfast.

text: The answer could mention that she masturbates.

text: The answer could mention that she has a beer and studies.

text: The answer should mention that she turns away Kyle when he shows up at her door.

answer: Lily walks out of her father's house and checks on the plants around the perimeter of the house. She waters the thirsty tomato plants. She pokes the soil and the weeds around. When she comes back inside, Lily goes to start the laundry, cook the egg in the frying pan, sits down to reply to a message, cooks breakfast for her father, washes the dishes, reads a book on the classics, sips a beer, and studies for a class exam.

text: Lily doesn't cook breakfast for her father.

text: Not in that order

text: Not in that order

answer:
Lily walked around the house, examining the plants and poking the soil underneath them. She watered the plants for a little while, telling her father about the red onion that may have been sprouting. She took note of the weeds and waved to a woman walking by.
Lily returned to the house and did a bit of laundry. Then she took an egg from the refrigerator to cook. While the egg cooks, she opened her laptop and checks out her messages and a couple of job sites. She returned to her cooked egg, placing it on a piece of buttered toast. She then washed the dishes while she watched metalworkers across the street carrying empty canisters of oxygen and butane. After the dishes were done, Lily said down to study for her Classics class.

text: "Lily said down" - this should be "Lily sat down"

answer:
Lily walked around the house, examining the plants and poking the soil underneath them. She watered the plants for a little while, telling her father about the red onion that may have been sprouting. She took note of the weeds and waved to a woman walking by.
Lily returned to the house and did a bit of laundry. Then she took an egg from the refrigerator to cook. She returned to her cooked egg, placing it on a piece of buttered toast. She then washed the dishes while she watched metalworkers across the street carrying empty canisters of oxygen and butane.

text: The response doesn't talk about her ex-boyfriend's messages or the fact that she was applying for jobs.


text:
It’s the seventh of May and a young woman is here to pick up photos of her outing at a campsite somewhere in Maryland. She’s got on a lovely navy blue sundress with white anchors printed on it. The same sundress, as it goes, that she’ll be wearing on the eighth of July when her late model Chevrolet hits a wet patch on the pavement of a back road in New Hampshire and she’s killed on impact. She won’t have time to feel any pain, and Porter is glad of this because she is a very nice girl.

Following her is a very rude middle-aged man who is angry about the price of eight by twelve inch prints. He hits the counter with his fists (five times, Porter counted) before swearing loudly and marching for the door. “You just lost a customer. This is the last you’ll be seeing of me!” Of course this is incorrect, because he’s due for a fatal heart attack in two weeks. While Porter isn’t really glad of this, he cannot say he’s sorry either.

 The last in line is a man whose photos are of his granddaughter’s ninth birthday party. He has five years to go, with treatment. He has no idea of the tumor that’s taken up residence in the frontal lobe of his brain. His granddaughter, (Gabi, based on the name frosted in purple on her cake) will be around for a good long while. She’ll be a retired surgeon and ninety-five when she dies in her sleep. After the man with the tumor leaves, it’s time for the one-hour photo to close and for Porter to go to bed upstairs. He makes sure the still-unclaimed photographs are safely locked up for tomorrow, when the other lives and deaths will pick them up.

Porter’s name is not actually Porter. It’s the name on the little card that allows him to drive, and the name on the lease to the small apartment above the one-hour-photo. It makes little difference to him what he’s called, though, because he hasn’t heard his name in a very, very long time. You would say he was around thirty upon looking at him, but he’s older than anything. He’s very tall and he favors dark clothing, so he supposes this is where the stereotype of the big creature with the scythe comes from. He doesn’t have a scythe actually; he’d like to clear that up. He lives alone, with the exception of a goldfish that will die peacefully in a year.

The girl with the sundress is back the next day, the store’s first customer. Of course, today she’s wearing something else: black jeans and a white t-shirt. Porter asks how he can help her and she smiles apologetically, digs through her bag and lays a Polaroid down on the counter. “It’s not mine,” she explains, “It must have gotten in there by mistake.” Porter frowns slightly. She’s correct; he can’t quite remember who this one belonged to, but it wasn’t taken in Maryland. Porter’s never made a mistake like this before. “I’m sorry.” He murmurs. The girl gives a small laugh and brushes loose brown hair back from her eye. “Don’t worry about it. It’s just that one of the pictures I took is missing, and I was thinking that maybe it hadn’t been developed, and it was the best one out of the lot. Here, I have the negatives, it’s this one…” She motions for him to come closer and holds the strip to the light. The square she’s pointing at is a picture of a deer drinking from a lake. “I can have it to you by Wednesday.” Porter says after studying it. “Thanks, you’re a lifesaver,” The girl cheers. “Hey, there’s a really good sandwich place just down the street. I was gonna run down there anyway; you should come with me, my treat.”

Her name is Margot. She’s twenty-nine and besides amateur photography, she works in an office and likes black coffee and turkey on rye bread.  She’s from Portland but she’s lived here since she came for college and “fell in love with the place.” Never married, no children.  Porter’s glad. She won’t leave anyone alone when she goes, except for the dog she’s mentioned a few times now. “I’ve been working on a project lately with nature photography. That’s why I went to Maryland; I heard it was beautiful this time of year.” “And was it?” He asks, stirring his coffee. She nods. “Even better than I’d imagined.” He’s been there a few times himself, and doesn’t understand what she sees in the place. Still, the way her eyes light up when she mentions it is very endearing.  “Where are you from?” She asks him suddenly. He glances up, startled. “Here.” He says, catching her eyes. That’s the trick, he’s found, to making someone believe him. “Growing up here must have been awesome. It’s really a great town.” She smiles. He smiles back. “Yes, it really is.”

The same back-and-forth continues until Margot glances at her cell phone and realizes that Porter should have re-opened the shop thirty minutes ago. She apologizes profusely, unnecessarily, as Porter assures her. It’s honestly the longest conversation he’s had in months, and he’s glad of that. He tells her so, and this seems to placate her a bit. When they reach the front door of the shop, she asks for his arm and digs a pen out of the front pocket of her purse, then writes seven digits and a happy face on his wrist. “Call me sometime, okay?” She says, more telling than asking. He nods wordlessly and smiles at her.  She grins, kisses her hand and waves. “See you!” she says as she walks away.

He does see her again, a few days after lunch at the sandwich shop. She comes into the store a half hour before closing time, wearing a blue skirt over black tights. “Hey.” She calls. He looks up from the computer screen, eyebrows raised. “Your picture.” He says, rising from his chair. He turns his back to rummage through a file cabinet. “Here it is.” She steps up to the counter to take it from his hand. “Thanks so much.” He nods. “Still have my number?” She asks, smiling wryly. Another nod. He’d written it on the back of a Chinese menu and taped it to his refrigerator. “Good.” She collects her photo and walks away.
He does call her, finally, at nine-thirty that night. He hopes she won’t mind, since he’s found it to be inappropriate to make phone calls after nine o’clock. She doesn’t seem upset, though; if anything she sounds pleased.  He asks if she’d like to come over on Saturday for dinner and movies. She says she’ll see what she has planned, but the laughter in her voice tells him she’s teasing him. He sets the phone down and wonders what to make.

Saturday night comes early and she’s there at the door, holding a handful of DVDs and a plate of cookies. “Sorry I didn’t bring more,” she says, thrusting the plate into his hands and eyeing the pot of spaghetti on the stove. “I’m crap at cooking anything that doesn’t come pre-packaged.”  She tilts her head at the plate and smiles apologetically. “It’s all right.” Porter says, laying the plate down on the kitchen table. “Thank you for bringing these. I didn’t think of dessert.”
The movies are pleasant enough; old comedies he doesn’t quite understand but he knows they make her laugh and that’s the important thing. Her laugh is high and clear and genuine and he often finds himself laughing with her although he fails to see the humor in seeing a Lung Cancer victim hit a Stroke victim in the head with a block of wood. At around eleven Margot holds out her hand and he takes it. At a quarter past she tries to kiss him and he lets her even though she isn’t laughing anymore.

The rest of May and June continue in much the same way; sometimes at his apartment, sometimes at hers. One evening she brings him to her bed with its striped quilt and tells him that she loves him afterwards, and he truthfully tells her the same. It is the Fourth of July and loud pops and crackles light up the sky and flash bright colors on her white ceiling. She tells him of her upcoming camping trip to New Hampshire and asks if he’d like to join her. He smiles and says he’d love to, but he has to watch the one-hour photo. He can’t be there. She seems disappointed, but shrugs it off quickly and offers to make coffee.

Margot visits the one-hour photo for the last time on the seventh. She’s wearing a dress again, although it’s not the one with the anchors. Porter is disappointed. He’d like to see her in it again before the eighth, since by then it will be stained and torn and not at all the way he’d like to remember it. Or her, for that matter. “I’m leaving tomorrow, bright and early,” she says. “I’m planning on getting some amazing shots, are you sure you can’t come?” Porter smiles at her and shrugs. “Maybe I’ll just have to follow you tomorrow. Not bright and early, mind you, but just maybe I will.” This makes her laugh again, and he’s glad of that. She grins, kisses her hand, and waves. “See you!” she says as she walks away.

title: One Hour Photo-First post.

question: Summarize Porter's relationship with Margot.

text: It isn't accurate to say that Porter is planning to surprise her in New Hampshire. He makes that comment because he is Death (the grim reaper) and she is going to die in New Hampshire in a car accident.

answer: Porter meets Margot at the one-hour photograph where Porter works. He developed her photos of a camping trip and they see each other again when she comes back to pick up her photos. They go out for sandwiches and talk about her photography, and Porter mentions that he has gone to Maryland a few times. They go on a few dates, and he learns more about her dog, and her interest in amateur photography. He calls her after nine and invites her for movies and spaghetti. They continue dating through June and into July. Porter does not accompany her to New Hampshire for the camping trip on July 8th because he has to watch the one-hour photo.

text: The answer omits that Porter is Death, and he is attracted to Margot because she is going to die soon.

text: The answer omits that Porter is Death and that he is attracted to Margot because she is going to die soon.

text: The answer should mention that Porter is Death.

text: It is omitted that Porter is Death.

text: The answer omits that Porter is Death and he knows when people will die.

text: The answer omits that Porter is attracted to Margot, and he has feelings for her.

text: They didn't go out to eat until after Porter already knows her. Their first "date" is the movies and dinner.

answer: Margot visits Porter's shop to pick up photos of her outing at a campsite. She returns the next day, explaining that she received a wrong photo by accident and needs one of her photos developed. She gives Porter her number. After she comes back to pick up the photo, he calls her that night and they go on a dinner and movie date. They eventually start sleeping together.

text: The answer omits that Porter and Margot fall in love.

text: The answer omits the fact that Porter and Margot fall in love.

text: The answer omits that Porter and Margot go on a few dates and fall in love.

text: The answer omits that Margot and Porter start spending time together, which eventually turns into a romantic relationship.

text: The basis for their relationship is omitted.

text: It is omitted that he knows everyone's date of death. She is going on a camping trip to New Hampshire the following day and he knows that she will have an accident but doesn't tell her that.

answer: Margot visits Porter's shop to pick up photos of her outing at a campsite. She returns the next day, explaining that she received a wrong photo by accident and needs one of her photos developed. She gives Porter her number. After she comes back to pick up the photo, he calls her that night and they go on a dinner and movie date. They eventually start sleeping together.

text: Add that Margot tells Porter she loves him, but he is Death so he just goes along with it. Porter also knows that Margot is going to die on a camping trip, but doesn't tell her.

answer: Margot visits Porter's shop to pick up photos of her outing at a campsite. She returns the next day, explaining that she received a wrong photo by accident and needs one of her photos developed. She gives Porter her number. After she comes back to pick up the photo, he calls her that night and they go on a dinner and movie date. They eventually start sleeping together. Porter plans to visit her in New Hampshire and surprise her.

text: The answer omits that Porter is Death.

text: The answer omits that Porter is Death, and he is aware of Margot's impending death.

text: The answer omits the fact that Porter knows Margot will die on her camping trip.

text: The answer omits that Porter is Death, and that he is interested in Margot because she will die soon.

text: They don't go on a date. She comes over to his apartment.

text: Marginal to the question.

answer: Margot visits Porter's shop to pick up photos of her outing at a campsite. She returns the next day, explaining that she received a wrong photo by accident and needs one of her photos developed. She gives Porter her number. After she comes back to pick up the photo, he calls her that night and they go on a dinner and movie date. They eventually start sleeping together. Porter plans to visit her in New Hampshire and surprise her.

text: The answer fails to mention that there is something sinister about Porter and that the story suggests that he plans to kill her


text:
CLIFFORD EDWARD THORNTON III (September 6, 1936 – November 25, 1989) was an American jazz trumpeter, trombonist, activist, and educator. He played free jazz and avant-garde jazz in the 1960s and '70s.

Career

Clifford was born in Philadelphia. The year of his birth has been reported as early as 1934 or as late as 1939. He briefly attended Morgan State University and Temple University. Jazz pianist Jimmy Golden was his uncle,[1] while his cousin, drummer J. C. Moses, had a jazz career that was cut short by failing health. Clifford began piano lessons when he was seven-years-old.[2] Several biographers report that Clifford studied with trumpeter Donald Byrd during 1957,[3] after Byrd had left Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and also that he worked with 17-year-old tuba player Ray Draper and Webster Young.[4] Following a late 1950s stint in the U.S. Army bands[5] Thornton moved to New York City.

Clifford's political and musical motivations are epitomized by his statement: “For a lot of brothers like myself, we got no choice. What else can we do in this world that's not a slave job? Really, what are our options? We have to be creative musicians if we want to be somebody in this world.”[6]

In the early 1960s, Clifford lived in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn in an apartment building with other young musicians, including Rashied Ali, Marion Brown, and Don Cherry.[7] He performed with numerous avant-garde jazz bands, appearing as a sideman on records by notable artists Sun Ra, Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, and Sam Rivers; many of whom were affected by the compositional ideas of Cecil Taylor. In the January 1976 _Black World/Negro Digest_, Ron Welburne states that during this period Clifford had been active in the Black Arts Movement,[8] associated with Amiri Baraka and Jayne Cortez. This musical and artistic network provided him with a variety of perspectives on ideas such as black self-determination, performance forms, outside playing, and textural rhythm; it also gave him access to performers who would provide the abilities some of his later compositions required. He was included in the dialogue around the developing thought of political artists, including Shepp, Askia M. Touré, and Nathan Hare, as well as the journals _Freedomways_ and _Umbra_.

Early albums

Thornton's interest in composition eventually became the focus of his musical career. He had worked with Marzette Watts on the latter's first recording sessions; Watts credited Clifford's organizational skills and management of the group dynamics with the success of the sessions in achieving their goals.[9]

Thornton's first album, _Freedom & Unity_ (1967), was recorded the day after John Coltrane's funeral.[10] The ensemble included Karl Berger, Coltrane associate Jimmy Garrison, and the first recorded appearance of Joe McPhee.[11] It also included Edward and Harold “Nunding” Avent, a black activist who a year later was suspected of being an informant and provocateur for the FBI.[12] Of the ten songs, only the twenty-second-long “Kevin” is credited to Thornton. Archie Shepp and Ornette Coleman both wrote liner notes for the album. In the AllMusic review, Rob Ferrier says: “As Albert Ayler and Archie Shepp hearkened back to field hollers and very basic folk forms, musicians like Clifford Thornton went in the opposite direction, building on the music of the sophisticates and expanding the possibilities for jazz.”[13]

Thornton was invited with Shepp to perform in Algiers for the 1969 Pan-African Cultural Festival of the Organization for African Unity. This visit had an important impact on his developing political thought,[14] and he claimed that it helped to integrate his musical and political aims. The next month he was in Paris, and over an eleven-day period at BYG Actuel he recorded five albums, including _Ketchaoua_, his second album as leader and first with his own compositions. In October a Thornton-led group performed at the Actuel Festival in Amougies, Belgium.[15] At this early European pop and jazz festival (which claimed Woodstock as an inspiration and included performances by Pink Floyd, MEV, and a Frank Zappa/Archie Shepp jam-session) Clifford got to hear and work with a number of young free-jazz artists from Chicago.[16]

In November he was back in Paris as a sideman on Archie Shepp's albums _Black Gypsy_ and _Pitchin Can_. He continued to work in France through the next year, recording in July 1970 with Shepp, and completing his own album _The Panther and the Lash_ in early November. During this two-year period, Thornton worked with many European free jazz musicians, as well as growing his network of contacts to embrace Americans who had not been in the early-'60s New York scene, such as Chicago musicians Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors, and Anthony Braxton). Thornton also established political and intellectual connections to _avant-garde_ artists and musicians, including Frederic Rzewski, Philip Glass, and Richard Teitelbaum. During that period he also commenced a relationship with Cristine Jakob.

Teaching

In 1968, music instructor Ken McIntyre recommended Thornton as a candidate for Assistant Professor in world music at Wesleyan University. He was hired in 1969; this position gave him the security to travel to Africa and France. His tenure ran through 1975; during that period he brought many of his network of jazz musicians as Artists-in-Residence on campus, giving the academic world-music community more exposure to current American music. Among those artists were Sam Rivers, Jimmy Garrison, Ed Blackwell, and Marion Brown. He arranged performances at Wesleyan by Rashied Ali, Horace Silver, McCoy Tyner and many other jazz musicians. In addition, he included other artists from the world music program on his recordings, such as Milton Cardona, Abraham Konbena Adzenyah, Pandit Laxmi Ganesh Tewari, and Lakshminarayana Shankar), and introduced them to his fellow African-American performers.

While at Wesleyan, he recorded the 1972 pastiché album _Communications Network_ (side one with Sirone and Shankar, side two backing Jayne Cortez, and both engineered by Marzette Watts). He also began writing for the _Gardens of Harlem_ album.

Composing

Thornton's earliest recordings as a composer and arranger are found on Marzette Watts's eponymous 1966 record.[17] Most works recorded with his own name as leader were large-form compositions.[18] He used as many as eight performers on the ten recordings, and their length runs from the eight-minute “Pan-African Festival” to the twenty-five-minute “Festivals and Funerals” on the album _Communications Network_ (1972). He included shorter pieces by his collaborators on the albums, as well as his arrangements of traditional African pieces. _The Gardens of Harlem_ (1974) was developed as a project of the Jazz Composer's Orchestra during 1972–'74, and was revised twice before the twenty-five-person recording was done in April 1974.[19] It was released in 1975.

About _The Gardens of Harlem_ Clifford wrote: “The challenge of writing for and working with large, ensembles has always interested me. My first influences in this direction as a child were the big bands of Basie, Eckstine, Gillespie, Machito and Puente. Later, I had the good fortune of working with the orchestras of Sun Ra, Bill Dixon, Sam Rivers, Archie Shepp and the JCOA. The spiritual and psychological fulfillment resulting from re-establishing the relationship with the traditional ethos...serves chiefly as a balance between the inner-self and the environment. This is, in part, the role and function of music in traditional African societies and among peoples of primarily African derivation. In this connection, music is vital to both religious and secular life for the same reasons and is manifested in the same ways. It is the core and foundation, the language of both religious and philosophic thought.”[20]

Thornton was widely perceived in the media as owning radical political leanings and connections with leading figures of the Black Panther Party; he is supposed to have met Bobby Seale and Eldridge Cleaver during the Pan-African Cultural Festival in 1969, and claims have been made that he was a BPP Minister for Art. He was denied entry into France in 1970, reportedly[21] for a speech he made either at that year's Juan-les-Pins Jazz Festival or at Mutualite Hall in Paris;[22] the ban was lifted in 1971.[23][24] Because of this interruption, Thornton was unable to continue performing and recording in Paris.

In 1976, Clifford accepted a position with UNESCO's International Bureau of Education to be an educational counselor on African-American education;[25] he spent the remainder of his life in Geneva, Switzerland. He remained active musically; he led a performance in 1977 at Willisau, Lucerne, Switzerland, did two recordings in Austria with Anthony Braxton in 1977 and '78,[26] and was featured on a 1980 record with a group led by former Dollar Brand reedman and South African exile Joe Malinga.

Several of Thornton's musician contemporaries claim his music influenced them. The most notable are likely Joe McPhee (who owns Thornton's valve trombone), Marzette Watts, and Bill Cole. Younger musicians affected by Clifford's musical thought include Fred Ho, Hajj Daoud Haroon,[27] George Starks,[28] Ras Moshe Burnett,[29] Peter Zummo, and Marie Incontrera. A number of musicians and educators also directly benefitted from being part of Thornton's network, among them Marion Brown, Ed Blackwell, Rashied Ali, Jimmy Garrison, Sam Rivers, and Lakshminarayana Shankar.

Thornton can be heard on only a small number of recordings that are now difficult to find. Still, thirty (or perhaps thirty-five) years after his demise, Clifford's work remains highly regarded by critics such as Thurston Moore,[30] author Philippe Carles, and Jazz.com's Sean Singer.[31]

Discography

As leader

-   1967: _Freedom & Unity_ (Third World/Unheard Music Series) with Karl Berger, Jimmy Garrison, John McCortney, Joe McPhee, Don Moore
-   1969: _Ketchaoua_ (BYG Actuel) with Dave Burrell, Claude Delcloo (de), Earl Freeman (de), Beb Guérin, Arthur Jones, Grachan Moncur III, Sunny Murray, Archie Shepp
-   1970: _The Panther and the Lash_ with François Tusques (fr), Beb Guérin, Noel McGhie
-   1972: _Communications Network_ (Third World) with Jerome Cooper, Jayne Cortez, Nathan Davis, Jerry Gonzalez, Jay Hoggard, L. Shankar, Sirone
-   1974: _The Gardens of Harlem_ (JCOA) with Roland Alexander, Carla Bley, Pat Patrick, Marvin Peterson, Dewey Redman, Wadada Leo Smith, Bob Stewart, Carlos Ward

As sideman

WITH SUN RA

-   _Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow_ (Saturn, 1962)

WITH MARZETTE WATTS

-   _Marzette Watts & Company_ (1966)

WITH DAVE BURRELL

-   _Echo_ (1969)

WITH CLAUDE DELCLOO & ARTHUR JONES

-   _Africanasia_ (1969)

WITH SUNNY MURRAY

-   _Homage to Africa_ (1969)

WITH ARCHIE SHEPP

-   _Live at the Pan-African Festival_ (1969)
-   _Yasmina, a Black Woman_ (1969)
-   _Coral Rock_ (1969)
-   _Pitchin Can_ (1969)
-   _Live in Antibes_ (1970)
-   _Attica Blues_ (1970)
-   _Black Gipsy_ (1970)

WITH JOE MCPHEE

-   _At WBAI's Free Music Store, 1971_ (HatHut, 1971 [1996])

WITH SAM RIVERS

-   _Crystals_ (1974)

WITH ANTHONY BRAXTON

-   _Reform Art Unit_ (1977)
-   _Three Motions With Soloists from Chicago, New York, and Vienna – Impressions_ (1978)

WITH JOE MALINGA'S MANDALA

-   ''Tears for the Children of Soweto '' (1980) and re-released 1990 on _Ithi Gqi_[32]

[1] Feather & Gitler “The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies” page 325, New York 1976

[2] Valerie Wilmer “As Serious As Your Life”, 1977; LOC 99-63595

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[4] http://www.nycjazzrecord.com/issues/tnycjr201402.pdf

[5] Encyclopedia.com states Thornton was a lieutenant but the claim is not supported by US military records: “Thornton, Clifford E.” Who's Who Among African Americans. (November 4, 2014). http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-2509917853/thornton-clifford-e.html

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[7] Robert Anasi, The Last Bohemia: Scenes from the Life of Williamsburg, Brooklyn,

[8] https://books.google.com/books?id=TrIDAAAAMBAJ%5BBlack World/Negro Digest Volume 25, No 3, page 33]

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[11] Atavistic Worldwide: Freedom & Unity Notes

[12] http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/740

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[22] https://books.google.com/books?id=fUbCMeCrxa0C&pg=PA241(A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music, by George E. Lewis, page 241

[23] “France Bars Thornton As Panther 'Suspect'”, _Down Beat_ April 29, 1971

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title: Clifford Thornton

question: Summarize the production of Thornton's first album.

text: The album was released in 1967, not 1976.

answer: Thornton's first album, titled "Freedom & Unity" was released in 1976 and was recorded the day after John Coltrane's funeral. The ensemble included Karl Berger, Jimmy Garrison, and Joe McPhee. It also included Edward and Harold "Nunding" Avent. However, of the ten songs on the album, only the twenty-second-long "Kevin" is credited to Thornton.

text: The album was released in 1967.

text: Thornton's first album was released in 1967, not 1976.

text: Freedom & Unity was recorded on 1967, which is one year before Coltrane's death.

answer: Thornton's first album, Freedom & Unity, was recorded the day after John Coltrane's funeral. The ensemble included Karl Berger, Coltrane associate Jimmy Garrison, and the first recorded appearance of Joe McPhee. It also included Edward and Harold “Nunding” Avent, a black activist who a year later was suspected of being an informant and provocateur for the FBI. Of the ten songs, only the twenty-second-long “Kevin” is credited to Thornton. Archie Shepp and Ornette Coleman both wrote liner notes for the album.

answer: Thornton's first album, titled "Freedom & Unity" was released in 1967 and was recorded the day after John Coltrane's funeral. The ensemble included Karl Berger, Jimmy Garrison, and Joe McPhee. It also included Edward and Harold "Nunding" Avent. However, of the ten songs on the album, only the twenty-second-long "Kevin" is credited to Thornton.

answer: Thornton's first album, Freedom & Unity, was recorded the day after John Coltrane's funeral. The ensemble included Karl Berger, Coltrane associate Jimmy Garrison, and the first recorded appearance of Joe McPhee. It also included Edward and Harold “Nunding” Avent, a black activist who a year later was suspected of being an informant and provocateur for the FBI. Of the ten songs, only the twenty-second-long “Kevin” is credited to Thornton. Archie Shepp and Ornette Coleman both wrote liner notes for the album.

text: The answer should mention that the album was released in 1967.

text: It is omitted that the album was released in 1967.

text: The album is not described as a "pastiche" album.

text: It's omitted that the album was released in 1967.

text: This doesn't answer the question

text: The summary should include other relevant details about the production of Thornton's first album.

text: The answer should mention the reception to Freedom & Unity.

answer: Thornton's first album, titled "Freedom & Unity" was released in 1976 and was recorded the day after John Coltrane's funeral. The ensemble included Karl Berger, Jimmy Garrison, and Joe McPhee. It also included Edward and Harold "Nunding" Avent. However, of the ten songs on the album, only the twenty-second-long "Kevin" is credited to Thornton.

text: The year "1976" is incorrect and should be "1967".

answer: Thornton's first album, titled "Freedom & Unity" was released in 1967 and was recorded the day after John Coltrane's funeral. The ensemble included Karl Berger, Jimmy Garrison, and Joe McPhee. It also included Edward and Harold "Nunding" Avent. However, of the ten songs on the album, only the twenty-second-long "Kevin" is credited to Thornton.

text: The answer should mention that the album was released by the Third World/Unheard Music Series.

text: It is omitted that Archie Shepp and Ornette Coleman both wrote liner notes for the album.

text: The answer omits that the album received liner notes from Archie Shepp and Ornette Coleman.

text: It's omitted that Archie Shepp and Ornette Coleman wrote liner notes for the album.

text: It's omitted that Archie Shepp and Ornette Coleman both wrote liner notes for the album.

text: Sources are not mentioned.


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TAJCHY (singular: tajch, from German _Teich_) are artificial water reservoirs in the Štiavnica Mountains, in central Slovakia. Most of them were built in order to provide energy for the silver mines of Banská Štiavnica in the 18th century. At their height, tajchy comprised a sophisticated system of 60 reservoirs, connected to each other by more than 100 km of channels and tunnels.[1] [Počúvadlo Lake is one of the preserved tajchy]

24 artificial lakes still exist and serve recreational purposes. Because of their historical value, tajchy were proclaimed by the UNESCO to be a World Heritage Site on 11 December 1993, together with the town of Banská Štiavnica and technical historical monuments in its surroundings.[2]

Operation

The region of Banská Štiavnica lacks significant sources of flowing surface water. That is why tajchy were designed to store water derived from precipitation. Channels with the overall length of 72 km diverted water from the rain and melting snow to sixty reservoirs.[3] The whole system could accumulate 7 million m³ of water.[4] The water then flowed through 57 km of channels to water wheels, which powered seven pumps equipped with a pendulum-action system. The pumps removed excess groundwater from mines and the water wheels later also provided energy for mining, processing, metallurgy, and mills.[5]

History

[Tajchy became crucial for development of Banská Štiavnica] Banská Štiavnica was an important medieval mining center, producing mostly silver. The first water reservoirs were founded by the local miners in the 15th century.[6] However, the most significant development of tajchy was precipitated by a crisis in the mining industry in the 17th century. The depth of the mines' shafts started to reach below the level of the drainage tunnels. As a result, mines were flooded by ground water. The draining mechanisms of that period were powered by human or animal power, which was too expensive. Due to the prohibitive costs, the Royal Court Chamber in Vienna decided to close the mines in Banská Štiavnica and its surroundings. A mining expert and inventor Jozef Karol Hell challenged the decision, submitting a courageous proposal to rescue mining in his home town. An innovative plan based on the use of tajchy was finally endorsed by Emperor Charles VI.[7]

In the 18th century, tajchy gradually expanded into a complicated system of lakes and channels, designed by three famous engineers: Jozef Karol Hell, his father Maximilian Hell, and especially Jozef's teacher Samuel Mikovíny. The project was technically and economically demanding. For example, construction of two Richňava tajchy required the work of 4,000 people working every day for three years (1738–1740).[8] But after their completion, tajchy proved capable of draining all the water from the flooded mines and they even provided enough energy for other booming industries.

The renewed prosperity resulted in great economic and cultural development of Banská Štiavnica.[9] In 1782, Banská Štiavnica (Selmecbánya) was the third biggest town in the Kingdom of Hungary (with 23,192 or including suburbs 40,000 inhabitants), after Bratislava (Pozsony) and Debrecen. In 1762, Queen Maria Theresa ordered the establishment of a Mining Academy in Banská Štiavnica, creating the first technical university in the world.[10] The town was chosen “because it had mining, hydrological, metallurgical, propulsion, and testing equipment as well as fire, water and air devices, and pendulum-action drainage devices which did not exist in other mining locations,” in other words because of its tajchy.[11] Tajchy were also praised by their royal visitors, including Francis I, Joseph II, and Leopold II.[12]

Water reservoirs

Until the mid-19th century, the three tallest dams in Europe built for the mining industry had been tajchy in Slovakia: Rozgrund (30.2 m), Počúvadlo (29.6 m), and Veľká Richňava (23.4 m). In the same period, 7 out of 13 European mining water reservoirs with the biggest volume of water were tajchy.[13] After several centuries, tajchy became an integral part of their natural environment. Several of the dams have been recently reconstructed. Some of the reservoirs are heavily frequented by tourists, while other, usually smaller lakes lie hidden in the forests of the Štiavnica Mountains.

The largest lake is Počúvadeľské jazero (or Počúvadlo) with an area of 12.13 hectares and a depth of 11 m.[14] The volume is 745,000 m³. The main dam is 195 m long and 19 m thick.[15] Tourist infrastructure makes Počúvadlo the most popular of all tajchy.[16]

Veľká Richňavská nádrž (or Veľká Richňava) has a dam 569 m long, 23.4 m high, and 23 m thick. This tajch is characterized by the largest depth (21 m) and volume (960,000 m³).[17] It supplies Štiavnické Bane with water and also serves for recreation.

Rozgrund was the highest earthen dam in Czechoslovakia until the second half of the 20th century. The reservoir supplies the town of Banská Štiavnica with drinking water.[18]

List of all preserved reservoirs

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  -   Bakomi reservoir in Štiavnické Bane                 |
  -   Belianske reservoir in Banská Belá
  -   Červená studňa reservoir in Banská Štiavnica        -   Michalstolniansky reservoir in Banská Štiavnica
  -   Evička reservoir in Štiavnické Bane                 -   Moderstolna reservoir in Kopanice
  -   Goldfuss reservoir in Banská Belá                   -   Ottergrund reservoir in Banská Štiavnica
  -   Halčianske reservoir in Banská Belá                 -   Počúvadlo reservoir in Počúvadlo
  -   Klinger reservoir in Banská Štiavnica               -   Rozgrund reservoir in Banská Štiavnica
  -   Kolpašsky small reservoir in Banský Studenec        -   Richňavské velke jazero in Štiavnické Bane
  -   Kolpašsky big reservoir in Banský Studenec          -   Richňava small reservoir in Štiavnické Bane
  -   Krechsengrund reservoir in Štiavnické Bane          -   Štampoch reservoir in Vysoká
  -   Kysihyblianské reservoirs in Banský Studenec        -   Vindšachta big reservoir in Štiavnické Bane
  -   Lintich reservoir (destroyed) in Banská Štiavnica   -   Vodárenska big reservoir in Banská Štiavnica
                                                          -   Vodárenska small reservoir in Banská Štiavnica
                                                          -   Hodrusa upper reservoir in Banská Hodruša
                                                          -   Hodrusa lower reservoir in Banská Hodrusa
                                                          -   Komorovske upper and lower reservoirs in Banská Štiavnica
                                                          -   Banky reservoir in Banská Štiavnica
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title: Tajchy

question: What does the article say about the very first tajchy?

text: This discusses the first water reservoirs, but not specifically the very first tajchy.

answer: The first water reservoirs were founded by the local miners in the 15th century.

answer: No answer

answer: No answer

text: The answer should mention the tajchy's history.

text: The article does say something about the very first tajchy.

text: The answer should mention the date of the first tajchy.

text: The answer could mention that the first water reservoirs were founded by the local miners in the 15th century.

text: The answer should mention the tajchy were founded in the 15th century.

text: The answer can mention that tajchy were founded in the 15th century by local miners.

text: While the text does not say anything about the very first tajchy, it doesn't mention how the very first ones came into being. The text says that the very first tajchy's were founded by local miners in the 15th century.

answer: No answer

answer: The first water reservoirs were founded by the local miners in the 15th century.

text: The answer should mention the crisis in the mining industry that precipitated the development of the tajchy.

text: The answer should mention the crisis in the 17th century that precipitated the development of the tajchy.

text: The answer should mention the crisis in the mining industry.

text: The answer should mention the crisis that precipitated the development of the tajchy.

text: The answer could include more information about the crisis in the mining industry that precipitated the development of tajchy.

text: The answer presently has a general Overview of the first Tajchys, the answer can delve deeper into the specifics of these reservoirs.

answer: No answer

text: The answer should mention the first tajchy were founded by the local miners in the 15th century.

text: The answer should mention the tajchy's purpose.

text: The answer should mention that the first tajchy were founded by the local miners in the 15th century.

text: The question can be answered.


text:
Making Heap fast is a unique and particularly difficult adventure in performance engineering. Our customers run hundreds of thousands of queries per week and each one is unique. What’s more, our product is designed for rich, ad hoc analyses, so the resulting SQL is unboundedly complex.

For some background, Heap is a tool for analyzing customer interactions. We gather data from web, iOS, android, and a growing list of third-party tools such as Stripe and Salesforce, and provide a simple UI our customers can use to query that data.

A core concept in our product is the idea of an “event definition”, which is a mapping between a human-level event like “Signup” or “Checkout” and what that event means in terms of raw clicks. This layer of indirection between the concept being analyzed and the underlying data makes the product very powerful and easy to use: you can add a new event definition and run an analysis over all of your historical data, as if you had been tracking “Signups” since you first installed the product. But it comes at a cost: EVERYTHING WE DO BECOMES MORE COMPLICATED BECAUSE THE ANALYSIS IS IN TERMS OF A DYNAMIC SCHEMA THAT ISN’T FULLY KNOWN UNTIL READ TIME. Handling this indirection at all is its own fascinating topic.

To execute a query, we take the query expressed in the UI, compile it to SQL, inline the event definitions, and then run the resulting SQL query across a cluster of PostgreSQL instances. This process can easily result in incredibly hairy SQL queries. As an example, consider this “simple” query, graphing daily unique users who view a blog post, broken down by their initial referrer:

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This analysis is about as simple as it gets, and yet it produces this hairy SQL query:

The queries only become more complicated as they make use of the more powerful features we support. A query can include filters on the number of times a user has done a given event in an arbitrary time range as well as break down the results by multiple different fields simultaneously. For example, we might want to filter the above for users who had never seen a blog post before, or for users who later viewed our pricing page, or break down the above query by the specific blog post viewed in addition to the initial referrer of the user viewing the blog post. This isn’t even getting into any of our other query types such as funnels (measuring the conversion rate between a series of events) or retention (calculating a table showing, of users who did event X, what percentage of users did event Y after 1 week, 2 weeks, etc). Each additional part of the query only makes the SQL more complicated.

Our product is designed for ad hoc, interactive analysis, as opposed to pre-canned dashboards, so IN ADDITION TO BEING COMPLEX, THESE QUERIES ARE TYPICALLY UNIQUE as well. Furthermore, since we shard our data by customer, any query run by customer A will touch a completely disjoint dataset from any query run by customer B. This makes comparing queries between two customers a fool’s errand since the datasets for those two customers are completely different. Making this kind of product fast is an incredibly difficult challenge. How are we even supposed to determine where we should be focusing our attention to best improve query performance?

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When the company was small, we did this by having an engineer go through a sample of slow queries, and rerun them with EXPLAIN ANALYZE. EXPLAIN ANALYZE is a Postgres feature that shows how Postgres executed the query, how much time was spent executing each part of the query, as well as some additional execution information. The engineer would write up a summary explaining why the queries were slow and how they could be improved.

There were two main issues with this approach. First of all, AN ENGINEER WOULD ONLY BE ABLE TO GO THROUGH A SMALL NUMBER OF THE SLOW QUERIES. Analyzing these queries one at a time meant that an engineer could go through a few dozen queries at most in an afternoon. This is an extremely small sample of all of the queries we run each week, and is likely to miss issues unless they are very common.

Second, WHAT CAUSED A QUERY TO BE SLOW MAY NOT BE REPRODUCIBLE AFTER THE FACT. This can happen for a variety of reasons. The query could have been slow due to intermittent high load, or the plan Postgres uses to execute the query can change due to updated table statistics or a number of other reasons. Quite often, we would come across queries that had been slow, but we were unable to come up with an explanation for why.

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After realizing how ineffective this “whack-a-mole” performance engineering approach was, we tried to design a better way. What we really wanted was some way we could collect enough information for every query as we initially ran it, such that we can always determine why a query was slow. As it turns out, we did manage to find a way to do that with Postgres.

Postgres provides an extension called auto_explain. When enabled, auto_explain automatically logs the query plan and execution information for every query as it’s run. It’s exactly like EXPLAIN ANALYZE, but automatically records the information for every query as it happens. Depending on how auto_explain is configured, you can obtain some or all of the following information:

-   How the query was executed.
-   How long it took to execute each part of the query.
-   How many rows were returned by each part of the query.
-   How many pages were read from disk or from cache from each part of the query.
-   How much time was spent performing I/O in each part of the query.

THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE GOLD MINE OF INFORMATION FOR ANALYZING WHY QUERIES ARE SLOW. Importantly, all of this information is gathered as the query is run, so we do not run into issues where a slow query is not reproducible, since we no longer need to reproduce the slowness in order to determine why the query was slow. Even better, auto_explain has the option to obtain the output in JSON. This makes it easy to programmatically analyze the query plans.

To gather all of this information, we wrote a short job that tails our Postgres logs and watches for any Postgres plans. When the job sees a query plan, it sends the plan information to a separate Postgres instance. With all of this information gathered in one place we can easily ask all sorts of questions.

Since we now have the query plan for every single query that was ever executed in Heap, we no longer have this issue of trying to debug a slow query that is no longer slow. On top of that, WE CAN NOW RUN ANALYSES GET A SENSE FOR WHAT CAUSES QUERIES TO BE SLOW IN AGGREGATE.

Some of the questions we had and were able to answer with this data were:

-   WHAT PERCENTAGE OF QUERIES OVER TEN SECONDS SPENT MORE THAN TEN SECONDS PERFORMING AN INDEX SCAN THAT RETURNED MORE THAN 10,000 ROWS? This is looking for queries that had to read a lot of data from disk due to an event that occurred often.¹
-   WHAT PERCENTAGE OF QUERIES OVER TEN SECONDS SPENT MORE THAN TEN SECONDS PERFORMING AN ON-DISK SORT? An on-disk sort occurs when a Postgres process does not have enough memory allocated to sort the data in memory so it sorts the data on disk which is significantly slower.
-   WHAT PERCENTAGE OF QUERIES OVER TEN SECONDS SPENT MORE THAN TEN SECONDS READING FROM THE `PAGEVIEWS` INDEX OR THE `SESSIONS` INDEX? Session and pageview events are two commonly queried events as, well as two of the most frequent raw events. This makes them a common cause of slow queries.

WE ALSO USED THIS INFORMATION TO COME UP WITH A FAIRLY EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF ROOT CAUSES OF SLOW QUERIES. We did so by picking a random slow query, figuring out why it was slow, and then determine exactly how many queries were slow for the same reason. Then we filtered out that cause of slow queries and analyzed the remaining, unexplained slow queries. By doing this repeatedly, WE WERE ABLE TO COME UP WITH EXPLANATIONS FOR WHY >90% OF SLOW QUERIES ARE SLOW.

What’s more, we can track how these rates change over time, and prioritize work accordingly. A lot of these causes will require multi-month engineering efforts to resolve, so it is critical that we know upfront how much the overall impact will be on our query performance.

For example, we knew via anecdote that our time-based user segment feature commonly causes on-disk sorts. With this kind of analysis, we were able to determine what percentage of slow queries came from this feature _and_ were slow due to an on-disk sort. This turned out to be less common than we expected, and we deprioritized the work to invest in making this kind of query avoid on-disk sorts in favor of another query performance project.

We’ve found auto_explain to be an amazing tool for determining the causes of slow queries. It allows us to automatically collect detailed performance information about every single query as it executes. We can then use this information to determine how frequent different causes of slow queries are and prioritize what changes we should be working on.

After combing through all of the data, we decided to make use of table partitioning to improve query performance. By partitioning out session and pageview events, we can dramatically improve the performance of queries that require reading large amounts of sessions or pageviews. According to the data we’ve gathered from auto_explain, this directly addresses ~25% of all slow queries.

If all of this sounds interesting to you, Heap is hiring so please apply. If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me on Twitter at @mmalisper.

[1] This is 10,000 rows from a single shard. Since our data is heavily sharded, 10,000 rows is a lot more data than it sounds.

question: Summarize the two main issues with an engineer writing up a summary explaining why the queries were slow and its context.

text: This answer doesn't include the context of the issues, it only explains them. It should mention they happened when the company was small and figuring out their priorities in improving query performance.

answer: There are two main issues with an engineer writing up a summary explaining why the queries are slow and how they can be improved. The first issue is that an engineer would only be able to go through a small number of the slow queries. This can lead to issues being missed if they aren't very common. The second issue is that what caused a query to be slow may not be reproducible after the fact. Due to this, the company was unable to come up with an explanation for why these queries were slow.

text: The second issue is not relevant to the question.

text: The second issue is that what caused a query to be slow may not be reproducible after the fact. Due to this, the company was unable to come up with an explanation for why these queries were slow.

text: The second issue is not the fact that the company was unable to come up with an explanation for why the queries were slow. That is a consequence of the second issue.

text: The second issue is not relevant.

text: The second issue is not relevant to the question and should be omitted.

text: "Due to this, the company was unable to come up with an explanation for why these queries were slow." - extraneous information and should be deleted.

answer: The first issue is that an engineer would only be able to go through a small number of the slow queries grouped in an afternoon. Date will perpetuate and be lost, which is the second issue of this context because it could have slowed down due to intermittent high load or tablestonics.

text: The second issue is that the cause of the slow query may not be reproducible after the fact.

text: The second issue is not explained well.

text: The second issue is that the cause of a query's slowness may not be reproducible after the fact.

text: The second issue is that the cause of the slowness is not reproducible.

text: The second issue is not explained properly.

text: The date will perpetuate and be lost statement is unclear and doesn't coincide with what is written in the passage.

text: The response misses to mention that the small number of queries that an engineer would go through means that they might miss common issues.

answer: The first issue is that an engineer would only be able to go through a small number of the slow queries grouped in an afternoon. Date will perpetuate and be lost, which is the second issue of this context because it could have slowed down due to intermittent high load or tablestonics.

text: There is no evidence in the text to suggest that "tablestonics" was caused.

answer: There are two main issues with an engineer writing up a summary explaining why the queries are slow and how they can be improved. The context of these issues were that they happened when the company was still small and using EXPLAIN ANALYZE. The  company was determining where they should focus their attention to best improve query performance. The first issue is that an engineer would only be able to go through a small number of the slow queries. This can lead to issues being missed if they aren't very common. The second issue is that what caused a query to be slow may not be reproducible after the fact. Due to this, the company was unable to come up with an explanation for why these queries were slow.

text: The answer is a bit too wordy.

text: The "context" is not relevant to the question.

text: The first sentence is unnecessary.

text: The context is unnecessary

text: The response includes extraneous information not useful for the task.

text: "The first issue" and "The second issue" should be removed

text: The answer is a bit too wordy.

answer: There are two main issues with an engineer writing up a summary explaining why the queries are slow and how they can be improved. The first issue is that an engineer would only be able to go through a small number of the slow queries. This can lead to issues being missed if they aren't very common. The second issue is that what caused a query to be slow may not be reproducible after the fact. Due to this, the company was unable to come up with an explanation for why these queries were slow.

answer: There are two main issues with an engineer writing up a summary explaining why the queries are slow and how they can be improved. The context of these issues were that they happened when the company was still small and using EXPLAIN ANALYZE. The  company was determining where they should focus their attention to best improve query performance. The first issue is that an engineer would only be able to go through a small number of the slow queries. This can lead to issues being missed if they aren't very common. The second issue is that what caused a query to be slow may not be reproducible after the fact. Due to this, the company was unable to come up with an explanation for why these queries were slow.