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_This is an original MLBTR article produced by contributor Dan Lumpkin and the MLBTR staff. To read more recent MLBTR originals, click here._

ENDER INCIARTE and ODUBEL HERRERA will long be linked due to their status as division-rival center fielders who inked extremely similar five-year extensions within two weeks of one another. They’re also linked, however, by the Rule 5 Draft altering their career trajectories.

Oddly enough, it was the Phillies who selected Inciarte out of the Diamondbacks organization back in 2012. Although he didn’t stick with the team all season and was eventually shipped back to the D-backs, Inciarte tells MLBTR he’s not sure he’d be playing in the Majors today were it not for the Phillies’ show of faith.

_“You know, I could say I was very under-the-radar in Arizona,”_ the 2016 Gold Glove winner said. _“Not underrated but very under-the radar.”_

Inciarte was not seen as a prospect for his organization initially but was invited to play in Winter Ball during the 2012 offseason, and that’s where Phillies scouts got a good look at him and determined that Inciarte might be able to cut it in the big leagues.

_“As soon as [the Phillies] picked me it took me by surprise, to be honest,”_ Inciarte said. _“Then I realized what [the Rule 5 Draft] was and what it meant. It really worked great for me. It doesn’t work the same for everybody because some people don’t get to play and others get to play a lot.”_

Inciarte played with the Phillies in his first big league Spring Training and did well despite the Phillies’ manager mistaking him for a clubhouse employee on his first day with the team.

_“When I got there on the first day, I got there at like 5:00am, and Charlie Manuel didn’t even know who I was,”_ Inciarte recalled. _“He asked me to go get something like his shoes or his hat and I told him, ‘I’m not a clubbie, I’m the Rule 5 kid.”_

Inciarte found his way with the big league club, and many of the Phillies veterans saw his ability and encouraged him throughout Spring Training. This, Inciarte said, is what made him play with confidence.

_“When I was there, I was playing with CHASE UTLEY, RYAN HOWARD, JIMMY ROLLINS, COLE HAMELS, CLIFF LEE, and ROY HALLADAY,”_ Inciarte said. _“I could see all those guys up close. I felt like I was living a dream, right there. All those guys got to talk to me and said, ‘Hey man, you are part of this team. Don’t think because you are a Rule 5 it isn’t going to happen.’ It gave me a lot of confidence. I had a great time there.’”_

Inciarte had a good Spring Training and actually made the Opening Day roster for the Phillies as a bench player. Unsurprisingly, he wasn’t in the Opening Day lineup, which would prove to be his only chance to suit up for the Phillies that year. Following the first game of the season, the Phillies signed EZEQUIEL CARRERA, and it was Inciarte who lost his roster spot in a corresponding move. Inciarte was returned to the Diamondbacks.

Though some players might consider it a demotion and a disappointment to just barely sniff the Major Leagues in that manner, Inciarte views his brief stay in the Phillies organization as a turning point.

_“For me, it was great because a lot of teams got to see me play and when I got back to Arizona they sent me to Double-A when I was supposed to go to Single-A,” _he explained. _“Everyone started paying more attention to me. I got more chances to play and prove myself. It was for the best but I know it’s not the same for everybody. When I got back Kevin Towers went to go see me play in Mobile, Alabama. He didn’t know who I was (before the draft). After the Rule 5 is when they started paying more attention to me. If it weren’t for the Phillies, I probably would not even have a chance to play in the big leagues so I’m very grateful for what happened to me.”_

Inciarte’s experience with the Rule 5 process is typical — especially for position players. While it’s not uncommon to see a relief pitcher survive a season as the seventh man in a big league bullpen, there are fewer spots to stash position players on a Major League roster. That reality makes Odubel Herrera’s accomplishment of not only sticking on the Phillies’ roster all season but thriving and becoming a key long-term cog all the more impressive.

Herrera split the 2014 season between the Rangers’ Class-A Advanced and Double-A affiliates and put together a strong season. In 545 plate appearances as a 22-year-old, he batted a combined .315/.383/.388 with two home runs and 21 stolen bases. But it wasn’t enough to land him on the Rangers’ 40-man roster, and the Phillies reaped the benefits. Though Herrera had spent nearly his entire career playing second base, the Phils plucked him in the Rule 5 and shifted him to center field.

_“I feel very blessed that the Rangers didn’t protect me because I am now in the big leagues and I have a long-term deal with the Phillies,” _said Herrera through an interpreter. _“Once I found out that the Rangers didn’t protect me, I knew in my heart that another team would pick me up through the Rule 5. … I went to Spring Training feeling a little strange but as soon as I arrived in Clearwater, the manager gave me a lot of cheers and confidence from day one.”_

While Herrera’s five-year deal with the Phillies may closely mirror Inciarte’s deal with the Braves, Herrera’s Rule 5 experience in many ways is more closely aligned with that of former Marlins/Braves slugger DAN UGGLA. Like Herrera, Uggla was the rare position player to be selected in the Rule 5 and plugged immediately into his new team’s Opening Day lineup despite the fact that he (like Herrera) had never played a game above the Double-A level in his career.

_“I was thinking about [the Rule 5 Draft] a lot, yeah,” _said Uggla when asked about being left off the Diamondbacks’ roster back in 2005. _“I had a good fall league and they left me off the 40 man, so that’s obviously what I was hoping for. I found out in the morning that I had been drafted by the Marlins and it was one of the coolest moments of my career. The coolest moment up to that point.”_

That moment, of course, would soon be joined by a great many more exciting moments, as Uggla went on to appear in three All-Star Games and hit 235 home runs in parts of 10 big league seasons from 2006-15. But the rarity of the chance he was given by the Marlins is not lost on him to this day.

_“They gave me the everyday starting second base job in the big leagues,” _Uggla said. _“For a guy in my position, that was unheard of. It involves an extreme amount of luck and timing. I could have gotten called up with any team and there’s a good chance I wouldn’t have got to play. Maybe a couple pinch hits or a spot-start against a really tough pitcher, maybe I would have gotten sent back down. But to be in that situation and to make the team and they just let you play everyday, that was pretty amazing.”_

Uggla also credited timing as a significant factor in his opportunity to start playing in the Majors. During the offseason he was picked up, the Marlins were in the midst of a fire sale in which they traded several starting players to build up their farm system. This flurry of trades opened up the Marlins’ depth chart and created an opportunity for Uggla to prove himself against big league pitchers.

_“They had just made a bunch of trades and started from scratch with a bunch of younger guys and rookies,”_ Uggla said. _“It was cool. I got to walk in and be at the team meeting and I found my place on the team.”_

Rebuilding clubs indeed have an easier time carrying a Rule 5 pick over a marathon regular season, and that was a large factor in JOAKIM SORIA’s emergence in the Majors, as his agent, Oscar Suarez points out.

_“As a pitcher, you go in with a second-tier team, like Joakim did with Kansas City at the time — they are no longer a second-tier team by any stretch of the imagination — but going in, they had no closer,” _Suarez recalled. _“Joakim was a starter, but they had no closer so they put him in the pen, and he beat everyone else out and before you know it, he was their closer. As an agent, yeah, you want any of your players to be Rule Fived, but you need to be realistic. What team are they going to go to? Like, if you are an infielder and you get Rule Fived by the Seattle Mariners, you say, ‘thank you for bringing me to your big league camp,’ but you know they aren’t going to keep you.”_

That’s the reality that faces a handful of players each year following their selection in the Rule 5, but the opportunity with which they’re presented is one that is the envy of other players and agents throughout the game. This year, there were 18 players selected in the Rule 5 Draft, and if history is any indication, the vast majority of them will be returned to their original organization. A few may be picked up by other clubs along the way before being offered back, but it’s rare for a player to survive the season and even more rare for them to then emerge as regulars. For the select few who do, however, the Rule 5 Draft will always be looked at as a watershed moment in their career.

_“It is a good thing for players like me that don’t get protected and because of that rule now, I’m a big leaguer,” _said Herrera. _“…I feel very grateful and very humble for the Rule 5 draft.”_

_Special thanks to Leo Nunez and Estefany Palacio for translation assistance._

question: Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of the Major League Baseball's Rule 5 Draft as explained in the passage.

text: The exposure and platform given to players in Rule 5 Draft are mainly through game experience, not just training.

answer: The Rule 5 Draft is a process that allows teams to select unprotected players from other teams' minor league systems. The advantage of this is that it gives players who are not seen as prospects in their original teams a chance to play in the big leagues. The disadvantage is that it is rare for players selected in the Rule 5 Draft to survive the season and even more rare for them to emerge as regulars.

text: The answer should mention that the advantage is that it gives players a chance to play in the big leagues, which can lead to a career in the big leagues.

text: The answer should mention that the advantage is that it gives players a chance to prove themselves.

text: The answer should mention that the advantage of the Rule 5 Draft is that it gives players a chance to play in the big leagues and prove themselves.

text: The answer should mention that the advantage of the Rule 5 Draft is that it gives players who are not seen as prospects in their original teams a chance to play in the big leagues. It also gives a rare opportunity to players who otherwise wouldn't have a chance to play in the big leagues.

text: It is omitted that the advantage is that it gives players an opportunity to prove themselves against big league pitchers.

text: Doesn't mention the advantage for the teams.

text: Doesn't include much about Advantage #2.

answer: The Rule 5 Draft is a process that allows teams to select unprotected players from other teams' minor league systems. The advantage of this is that it gives players who are not seen as prospects in their original teams a chance to play in the big leagues. The disadvantage is that it is rare for players selected in the Rule 5 Draft to survive the season and even more rare for them to emerge as regulars.

answer: The MLB's Rule 5 Draft is a scheme many baseball clubs use to plug any inefficiencies or shortfalls in their roster. Players not drafted by clubs in the big league do have a chance to feature for a big club via this rule. Phillies got Odubel Herrera through Rule 5 Draft and though it did not retain Inciarte's services at the end of the season, it gave the player a platform (through enough training) to build his profile and excel at another club. This does not work out for every player, though. Some clubs do take on Rule 5 players but never use them in any way, causing their careers to stagnate due to lack of games and exposure.

text: The answer should mention that the Rule 5 Draft gives players a chance to play in the Majors.

text: The answer should mention that the Rule 5 Draft is a way for teams to select players from other teams' minor league affiliates.

text: It is not stated that the Phillies got Odubel Herrera through Rule 5 Draft and though it did not retain Inciarte's services at the end of the season, it gave the player a platform (through enough training) to build his profile and excel at another club. This does not work out for every player, though. Some clubs do take on Rule 5 players but never use them in any way, causing their careers to stagnate due to lack of games and exposure.

text: The answer should mention that the Rule 5 Draft gives players a chance to play in the big league even if they are not ready yet.

text: The passage does not mention that the Rule 5 Draft is a scheme many baseball clubs use to plug any inefficiencies or shortfalls in their roster.

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

text: It is not stated that it did not retain Inciarte's services at the end of the season.

text: Some points in the answer cannot be corroborated by the text. The story about Herrera tells how his team took him to the big league without letting him play first. There is no evidence of how non-regular players are used during their first year in the big league if draft rules permit it.

answer: The MLB's Rule 5 Draft is a scheme many baseball clubs use to plug any inefficiencies or shortfalls in their roster. Players not drafted by clubs in the big league do have a chance to feature for a big club via this rule. Phillies got Ender Inciarte through Rule 5 Draft and though it did not retain Inciarte's services at the end of the season, it gave the player a platform (through enough games) to build his profile and excel at another club. This does not work out for every player, though. Some clubs do take on Rule 5 players but never use them in any way, causing their careers to stagnate due to lack of games and exposure.

text: The answer should mention that the Rule 5 Draft gives players a chance to play in the big leagues.

text: The answer should mention that the Rule 5 Draft is a way for teams to select players from other teams' minor league systems.

text: It is not stated that the Phillies got Ender Inciarte through Rule 5 Draft.

text: The answer should mention that the Rule 5 draft gives players a chance to play in the Majors.

text: The answer should mention the fact that the players selected by the Rule 5 Draft are required to stay with the new club for at least a year.

text: The answer omits that players who are not drafted by clubs in the big league do have a chance to feature for big clubs via this rule.

text: The advantages and disadvantages of the Rule 5 draft are not adequately discussed - a full rewrite is needed.

text: The first sentence could be omitted as it's not really said in the text.

text: The text doesn't mention careers going stagnate. This should be omitted.

text: It's omitted that a negative is that many Rule Fivers get sent back down to their initial team.

answer: The MLB's Rule 5 Draft is a scheme many baseball clubs use to plug any inefficiencies or shortfalls in their roster. Players not drafted by clubs in the big league do have a chance to feature for a big club via this rule. Phillies got Odubel Herrera through Rule 5 Draft and though it did not retain Inciarte's services at the end of the season, it gave the player a platform (through enough training) to build his profile and excel at another club. This does not work out for every player, though. Some clubs do take on Rule 5 players but never use them in any way, causing their careers to stagnate due to lack of games and exposure.


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#1 2014-03-07 18:45:08

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TZM anyone?

Not sure if this goes here, but I figured that since the goals of The Zeitgeist Movement somehow parallel those of GNU software and Linux generally (collaborative effort, making of open-source 3D printers, creating crowd-contributed open-source items, etc.), I might as well ask you if any of you know about TZM, and what are your opinions about it [smile]

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#2 2014-03-08 02:32:23

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Re: TZM anyone?

I'd never heard of it but after looking it up I'd say good luck with that.

#3 2014-03-08 02:49:45

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Re: TZM anyone?

I'm not sure what you mean... but just in case you misunderstood, I'm not the founder of the movement, nor is it my project  [smile]

#4 2014-03-08 03:28:19

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Re: TZM anyone?

I meant it more like best of luck to the TZM movement not that you were personally in charge of it. The idea is just ridiculous.

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Re: TZM anyone?

Don't know where you documented yourself, but it doesn't surprise me you hold that view =/
Eh, whatever.

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Re: TZM anyone?

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#7 2014-03-08 11:00:37

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Re: TZM anyone?

It seems to be advocating world socialism. (I think. I'm not entirely sure that that's precisely what they're advocating replacing capitalism with; they don't make it clear...) I am dubious about that ever getting off the ground...

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Re: TZM anyone?

Maybe TZM stands for Total Zany Madness  [lol]
The reason Capitalism sort of works most of the time is because it's not a system, nobody invented it.
Then you look at what happens when a group of people try to invent a better system = communism, collective farming etc. I prefer sticking with Capitalism.

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#10 2014-03-08 15:07:24

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Re: TZM anyone?

This isn't a new idea and anybody that has studied history and sociology can tell you why it won't work you don't even have to get into the economics side of it. Small tribal economies based on resource sharing work because of the human relationships between the members of the tribe it is easy to share something with somebody when you see them every day and have family ties to them. Most people would gladly loan their car to their brother for a weekend but if somebody just knocked on your door and asked for your keys I'd bet the answer would be different. History is full of these well meaning movements the moment a caveman traded a shiny rock for a mammoth steak there were other cavemen wanting to know why they didn't have any shiny rocks and why they all couldn't just each have a bite of mammoth steak. It's a nice dream but like all dreams like it the problem is that you are dealing with people and that is where it will fail like all the movements that came before it.

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Re: TZM anyone?

Yes I do prefer Capitalism over communism or socialism.  Of course the form it takes varies from country to country but I don't tend to think of it as a system that was invented just a set of relationships that have evolved.
If I think of capitalism economically, that is when applied in the sphere of production then I think of the free-market. Therefore to me that means not very regulated or managed which can be a weakness and a strength.
some people think of capitalism as a kind of  economic freedom inseparable from democracy.
If it is a "system" it wasn't designed by anyone.
I am a bit scared by the idea of "experts" desinging a system for the rest of us to live under.

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#14 2014-03-08 22:22:25

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Re: TZM anyone?

The big conundrum is objective vs subjective "value" - what a 30k/yr salaried person spends $100 on one day can be the same thing that the billionaire spends $100 on, but the subjective value of what the $100 paid for means much more to the less wealthy person. The problem (as I see it) with a purely resources-based system is that there's no significant motivating factor to create, innovate, or otherwise make significant strides toward making things better.

My personal philosophies would take many paragraphs that I neither feel like writing nor would anyone read. Suffice it to say it makes sense to socialize some things: military, police, government, emergency services, health care, things like that. I also don't feel like true laissez faire capitalism can flourish without exploiting people and/or resources, so I'm a fan of limited government regulation. I just don't think in the past several thousands of years of recorded history, we've come up with much else that is both effective and palatable to a society.

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Re: TZM anyone?

As a moderator, I've been trying to stay out of this discussion.

*Moderator removes cadre hat*
My main problem with capitalism is that wealth has become the primary reinforcement for any behavior - not survival, not reproduction, not self-fulfillment, but wealth itself.  In a world where personal worth is literally measured by someone's economic value, what is the worth of literature, art, or music created for its own sake?  Rebecca Black's infamous song is almost universally despised, but that doesn't matter because every non-adblocked view of it on Youtube still generates advertising revenue, so from a capitalist perspective she's a success.

EDIT:  That's pretty much all I want to say on this matter, so I'll get off the soapbox and let the rest of you have some fun here, as long as you're respectful of each others' dignity.

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Re: TZM anyone?

This sounds far too political for the #! forums -- I call on the moderators to close this topic...

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Be excellent to each other!

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question: What does the text say about the requirements of The Zeitgeist Movement?

text: No doctrine or subscription is mentioned or alluded to.

category: accuracy

answer: No answer

answer_source: Model

text: The answer should mention that the text doesn't say anything about the requirements of the movement.

text: The answer should state that the text does not say anything about the requirements of the movement.

text: It is omitted that the requirements are not mentioned in the text.

text: The response misses to mention that the text doesn't say anything about the requirements of the Zeitgeist Movement.

text: The response misses to mention that the Zeitgeist Movement is a collaborative effort aiming to make open-source 3D printers, create crowd-contributed open-source items, and more.

text: The passage doesn't discuss the requirements of The Zeitgeist Movement, but it can be gleaned that it at least calls for the abolition of capitalism.

answer: Participants must subscribe to a limiting doctrine.

answer_source: Human misleading

text: The passage doesn't mention anything about the Movement's requirements.

answer: No answer

answer_source: Human

text: The answer should mention that the movement is based on collaborative effort, making of open-source 3D printers, and creating crowd-contributed open-source items.

text: The answer should mention that the movement's requirements are not mentioned in the text.

text: It is omitted that the movement is based on collaborative effort, making of open-source 3D printers, creating crowd-contributed open-source items, etc.

text: The response misses to mention that the goals of the movement are collaborative effort, making of open-source 3D printers, creating crowd-contributed open-source items.

text: This isn't a response.

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This response is not true because there are some requirements of TZM that were listed in the text,such as:-
'Eh, whatever.'
'Trol = not a fanatic'
'I prefer sticking with Capitalism.'
'Best of luck to the TZM movement not that you were personally in charge of it.'

answer: Participants must subscribe to a limiting doctrine.

text: This is not stated.

text: The answer is made up.

text: This response is not related.

text: The text does not say anything about the requirements of The Zeitgeist Movement.

text: This is inaccurate. The text says nothing about the requirements of the movement.

text: The article does not provide a specific definition for the requirements of The Zeitgeist Movement

text: This is not stated.

answer: No answer

answer: No answer

text: The response is incorrect. The text does suggest that The Zeitgeist Movement is a sort of socialism movement.


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Trevor Siemian will be the starting quarterback for the defending Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos, which is weird. He’ll be the first-ever QB to start Week 1 for a defending Super Bowl champ with zero regular season NFL passes thrown. Siemian has taken one NFL snap — a QB kneel -- and wasn’t a highly touted draft prospect. It was a surprise he was picked in the seventh round, so you probably don’t know much about him.

Luckily, for you, I know a lot about him. I’ve been following Siemian for, oh, seven years now. He was two years behind me at Northwestern, where I covered the football team for my (now-defunct) blog. Normally, Northwestern fans don’t get the opportunity to discuss our former players at length to a herd of intrigued NFL fans, so I’m very, very, very excited about this sudden, unusual development. (I'd also love to talk to you about Browns starting SS Ibraheim Campbell, if you'll let me -- maybe some other time.)

I’ll be honest: At no point in the four years I watched Trevor Siemian play quarterback for Northwestern did I think he was an NFL quarterback. Siemian had a strong arm, a quarterback’s body, and threw genuine gems every once in a while. But those gems were rare, sprinkled amidst general inaccuracy on deep passes and poor decision-making. He became famous for ignoring open receivers downfield to opt for more conservative routes with no hope of succeeding —the team’s defense nicknamed him "Checkdown Trevor" and chanted it at him during intrasquad scrimmages.

Siemian was serviceable early in his career as the "throwing quarterback," playing passing downs in a platoon with speedy option-style quarterbacks who ran the majority of plays. But when his faster teammates graduated and the entire offense belonged to Siemian, Northwestern’s offense turned into an atrocious slog. In his only year as the team’s full-time starting QB, the Wildcats finished 12th of 14 in the Big Ten in passing efficiency. (That’s bad.)

The game I remember most was a 10-9 loss to Michigan. Siemian threw for 273 yards and a touchdown, which isn’t bad when you completely remove all context. The context is that he had 49 passing attempts, was sacked five times, and threw two picks. He threw short of the sticks on a critical late third down, and given the opportunity to win the game with a decisive two-point conversion after Northwestern’s only touchdown, Siemian slipped and fell to seal the loss.

Siemian was probably the fourth-best quarterback to play for Northwestern in the five years I blogged about the team. The other three are not in the NFL. I was surprised when Siemian was drafted, I was surprised when Siemian wasn’t cut by the Broncos after his rookie training camp, I was surprised when Siemian stayed on their roster for an entire season, I was surprised when the Broncos opted to keep Siemian for a second offseason, and I am currently very surprised that Siemian is the team’s starting quarterback.

I have not been alone in my lack of belief in Siemian. Even Siemian described himself as a "fringe" project. Multiple NFL scouts admitted they didn’t even analyze Siemian coming out of college, with one saying that he "didn’t have high enough grades" to justify breaking down his film. Even on Monday morning, Ian Rapoport said on the NFL Network that in the run-up to the 2015 NFL Draft, he felt the Broncos’ passion for Siemian as a late-round prospect seemed "irrational." It’s not often you hear a seventh-round pick described as "irrational" — they’re essentially throwaway picks, you can waste them and seem pretty rational — but the Broncos’ overwhelming fervor for a self-described fringe prospect far surpassed how excited teams normally get for players so lowly touted.

Simply put, there was nothing about Siemian’s college career that would give most viewers belief that he would be an NFL starting quarterback someday. But knowing what I know about Siemian — and the Broncos — I think starting Siemian might be the right call. (*Might* be.)

The Broncos knew what they wanted in Siemian

Enough talking about Siemian in the past — let’s get down to analyzing Trevor Siemian in 2016. You can watch every throw he made in his last start here, and you can watch a little preseason highlight reel here.

He’s 27-of-43 passing with 290 yards, a touchdown, and two picks. He’s only thrown two interceptions, but he’s thrown several other passes that really should’ve been picked off. One of the passes that was intercepted was a double-covered short route returned for a touchdown. The only touchdown he’s thrown to his own team wasn’t an impressive throw, hitting a wide-open receiver on a(well-executed) goal line play action. His deep balls are still iffy on accuracy. His best throw by far, a 43-yard completion to Demaryius Thomas, was thanks to an absolutely brilliant one-handed catch by Thomas.

From the numbers and tape, Siemian looks like he’s a subpar NFL quarterback, perhaps approaching mediocrity. And you know what? That’s _so much better_ than I ever expected from him. There aren’t that many people on Earth capable of being mediocre NFL quarterbacks. Considering just two years ago Siemian didn’t look capable of being a mediocre Big Ten quarterback, it’s an incredible leap. And with just one pro season under his belt, there’s room for Siemian to turn into an average NFL quarterback, perhaps even better.

Now let’s zoom back a year and a half, and see what the Broncos said about Siemian when they surprised everybody still awake on Day 3 of the NFL Draft:

  "There was just something about the way he played, his footwork, his release, I liked the way he went about things," Broncos coach Gary Kubiak said.

  ...

  "We looked at him on tape and as far as the quarterback position, he plays well, his feet, his technique and everything that he can do is pretty darn good," Broncos executive vice president of football operations/general manager John Elway said.

Out of college, I saw nothing about Siemian that made him look like a pro quarterback. But Kubiak and Elway both identified pure mechanical elements about Siemian: his footwork, release and technique.

Now let’s zoom ahead to the present and see what scouts and teammates are saying about Siemian:

  Looking at Siemian's play throughout the preseason, I must admit that I've been impressed with his accuracy, ball placement and decisiveness. He gets the ball out of his hands quickly and allows his playmakers to do the work on the perimeter... Speaking to a few Broncos players and coaches during the offseason, I frequently heard them rave about Siemian's command of the offense and how quickly he got the ball out.

There’s an emphasis there on "getting the ball out," and quickly.

It seems the Broncos have eliminated a lot of the hesitation from Siemian’s game. Considering one of his greatest flaws was his steadfast dedication to bad choices, it’s not surprising that the key to making him a passable pro was eliminating overthinking from his repertoire. He no longer has time to ignore good options, he’s too busy getting the ball to them.

Kubiak and Elway saw the basic building blocks of an NFL QB in Siemian and saw that his talents could be adapted to what they were trying to do. He was stripped down to the mechanics that made him useful, and trained to be eliminate the worst aspects of his game.

Is it possible that Kubiak and Elway — both former NFL quarterbacks -- are skilled at assessing the technical merits of what could potentially make a future NFL quarterback? Is it possible they’re more skilled at that than I am?

Let’s just say it’s possible.

A lot of things factor into a college quarterback’s success. Siemian looked really bad as a senior, but the team around him lacked offensive firepower and the play calling seemed to rarely put him in a position to succeed. That might have caused the rest of us to ignore him while Kubiak and Elway honed in on the things they needed to see in a potential draftee. And they might have found a diamond in the rough, or at least a cubic zirconia that can get the job done.

The Broncos QB situation is so weird, Siemian might be their best option

The Broncos of last year were very, very strange. In a pass-heavy league, they were Super Bowl champions with a glaring weakness at quarterback. It was even stranger, since they willingly opted to play their second-best quarterback, soon-to-be-Hall of Famer Peyton Manning, over an option who clearly outperformed him on the field: backup Brock Osweiler.

All things told, the Broncos had some of the worst quarterback play in the league in 2015 ... and then they lost their best two quarterbacks.

They were left with Siemian, Mark Sanchez, and Paxton Lynch. Sanchez looked like the obvious starter — for all the Buttfumble jokes, he was roughly acceptable the last two years in Philadelphia, and he’s gone on deep playoff runs with run-first, pass-second defense-focused squads in his career.

But Sanchez looked borderline unplayable in his brief preseason appearances, tossing a bad pick, looking completely befuddled by pressure (a theme that would be constant with a line as makeshift as the Broncos’) and losing two fumbles. The Broncos merely need a quarterback who will not self-destruct. Sanchez looked like he might. He also has a $4.5 million salary, which has probably played a factor in his quick drop from the presumptive starter’s role to the trade block. And $4.5 million for a decent quarterback is worth it ... $4.5 million for a backup, who looks more troublesome than a seventh-rounder, is not.

So, that left Siemian and first-round draft pick Paxton Lynch. The consensus was that this year’s draft featured two obvious top quarterbacks in Jared Goff and Carson Wentz, and then there was a bit of a chasm, and then there was Lynch. Neither Goff nor Wentz has been deemed ready to start Week 1, and Goff and Wentz are on teams with a lot less to lose than a Broncos squad hoping to contend for another Super Bowl.

It is eminently weird that the Broncos will start Trevor Siemian. But the Broncos are eminently weird. Last year, their best QB options were a guy itching to begin life as a full-time pizza salesman and his career backup, and both left. They turned to an imminent catastrophe in Sanchez and an un-house-trained puppy in Lynch. Sanchez will burn the Broncos’ house down and Lynch will poop all over it. Trevor Siemian might really be the best call.

The Broncos might still be fine

Let’s remember something about last year’s Broncos: Peyton Manning was a very, very bad quarterback in 2015. He was 29th in yards per attempt and nearly led the NFL in interceptions despite missing six games. QB rating is a bad stat, but he finished 34th out of 35 quarterbacks who qualified for the league lead in QB rating. (One more time: That’s very bad.)

The second is that THE BRONCOS STILL WON THE FREAKIN’ SUPER BOWL. They had such an outrageously good defense that Manning could play like farts and they’d still win. In the Super Bowl, Manning went 13 of 23 with 141 yards and an interception while getting sacked five times, which is a pretty bad line. But Von Miller battered Cam Newton until the Broncos had won.

Can Trevor Siemian be the NFL’s best quarterback? My goodness, no. No no no no no.

Can Trevor Siemian be merely bad and not horrific? Possibly. And in a run-heavy offense coupled with a world-beating defense, that might be enough for the Broncos to stay in serious contention.

It is weird.

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Fantasy QB preview and sleepers for your draft

question: What does the text say about Siemian's personal relationship with the author?

text: The text never says they were friends, nor that they "know" each other but only that they were both at Northwestern for a period of time.

answer: No answer

answer: No answer

text: The answer should mention that the author went to Northwestern with Siemian.

text: The answer should mention that the author went to the same college as Siemian.

text: The answer should mention that the author and Siemian went to the same college.

text: The answer should mention that the author went to Northwestern and followed Siemian's career there.

text: The author and Siemian went to the same school.

text: The author and Siemian attended Northwestern together.

text: The author and Siemian went to the same college. They have a relationship of familiarity.

text: No relationship is explicitly mentioned, but it could beAA

category: coverage

answer: They were friends while they both studied at Northwestern. The author has known Siemian for 7 years. During their time at school together, the author followed Siemian's football career closely. Siemian's football statistics made it onto the author's blog on more than one occasion.

text: The author did not blog about Siemian's football career while they were both at Northwestern.

text: The author was not friends with Siemian.

text: The author did not blog about Siemian's football career while he was still in college.

text: The answer should mention that the author is a former Northwestern student who followed the football team.

text: The author covers the Northwestern football team, but is not a player.

text: The author covers sports and is not a sportsman himself.

text: The last point is made up. Siemian is described as famous. "He’s only thrown two interceptions, but he’s thrown several other passes that really should’ve been picked off."

text: The last sentence is not explicitly stated but it is implied as the author used to cover the Northwestern football team

category: coherence

answer: No answer

text: The answer should be more specific.

text: The answer should be more specific about what the text says about Siemian and the author.

text: This response is incorrect because the author used to follow Siemian when they were in college.

answer: They were friends while they both studied at Northwestern. The author has known Siemian for 7 years. During their time at school together, the author followed Siemian's football career closely. Siemian's football statistics made it onto the author's blog on more than one occasion.

text: The response is inaccurate. Siemian was two years behind the narrator at Northwestern, but they were never friends. The author has been following Siemian's career for seven years - they haven't known each other for that span of time. The author just covered the football team a lot when he was writing in his old blog.


text:
  Against  the  blood  red  sky, a lone helicopter
  hovers around the city looking for any trace of   survivors that might  be below. Down on what used   to be the peaceful city, (now referred to as ground   zero) the horrific cries of death and fear bellow   throughout the city. Never stopping.. Like a record     stuck in a loop. The dead have poured out from the   deepest depths of hell and returned to the living.     Devouring every living soul that they come across.     The city is in ruins. Overturned and abandoned cars     littler the street, buildings turned to ash from the     riots and looting, death and gore fill the streets   turning the once pure black asphalt now to a deep   murky red. Over the pain filled screams of the living   and the mindless groans of the undead, Kenton and   Elizabeth hear a desperate shriek
 from the   helicopter, “Any survivors that can hear me, get to  the roof tops NOW!!” Elizabeth’s
eyes and face light up with a hopeful glee. “We can   get out!” she exclaimed. “They’re here to save us.”
 Kenton’s face however, had that horrified look that   had been there since the infection ravished the city.   “Yeah, if we can even make it that far” he silently said to himself.

Kenton gazed around the corner of the hunting
supplies shop they had been trying to gain access
to. “There is an old grocery store about a block from
here that they should be able to see us from.”
Kenton said. “I don’t care what it is, as long as we
get the hell out of here.” Elizabeth murmured. “We’re
going to need guns if we are even going to stand a
chance at getting over there.” Kenton exclaimed. So,
Kenton pulled the last bobby pin out of his pocket
and slowly slipped it into the lock on the door that
opened the gun store they’d been hiding behind
silently. Saying a prayer under his breath he ever so
carefully and slowly maneuvered it until he heard
the slight clicking sound. “Thank you” he whispered.
He placed his sweaty palm around the knob and
slowly turned it being careful not to make a sound.
With it opened, he and Elizabeth let out a sigh of
relief as there was no one in the store. Luckily this
one hadn’t been looted in the chaos in the
beginning.

They slowly moved in, Elizabeth so close behind
Kenton, he could feel the warmth of her moist
breath. They found where the weapons had been
displayed. Kenton picked off a twelve gauge from the wall along with four boxes of shells, from the
display case he picked a .454 magnum up surprised
by the weight and the how the cool steel and
plywood felt in his grip than walked behind the
counter, and picked up three boxes of ammunition.
When he noticed the M-16 automatic rifle propped
up against the back of the counter. The owner of the
store was obviously planning to use but never got
the opportunity to. “Good, better for us.” He thought.
When he did he hated himself a little for being so
heartless. But quickly dismissed the feeling and
found where the ammunition had been stored and
picked it up along with the sling that had been
placed next to it and attached the sling and placed it
around his back. After loading the weapons and
putting the rest in a place where he could easily
access, he put the .454 in the gun holster he had
looted off a corpse that had been thoroughly
executed with a bullet to the back of the head.
Kenton could still vividly see the pool of blood and
skull fragments that had quietly settled around the
poor man in the back of his subconscious. He
snapped out of the gruesome thought and placed
the excess ammunition in his bag and decided there
wasn’t anywhere else to hold another gun and
began to gather up his newly stocked bag.

As he and Elizabeth were exiting the shop, he
noticed a door that he somehow missed upon first
arrival. On the other side of the door, he heard a wet
slurping noise that almost sounded like a dehydrated dog attempting to drink from its bowl. He didn’t know why, but he had to know what was on the other side of that door… He felt the cool metal against his sweaty anxious palm. He slowly turned the knob and the door opened. He immediately regretted the decision. What he seen would forever burned into his memory. In the dark crowded room, a man with a noose around his thick neck hung a foot off the ground. And around the poor souls feet was a thick pool of blood with bits and pieces of torn flesh and a… a half-eaten hand with three missing fingers… It was then that Kenton noticed one of the undead on the man. Its hands digging into the stomach of the man ripping it open with ease. Kenton stared in shock as the man’s small intestine slowly slip out and dangled inches off the ground slowly swaying back and forth and the undead man took giant bites into the poor man’s flesh. And in a hypnotic gaze Kenton watched as the blood poured out of the man like a waterfall hitting the ground making the pool bigger. He had failed to notice Elizabeth screaming at him and the undead man now absent from the scene and who was now shambling towards him. And when he did, it was too late. The undead man fell onto Kenton with his full weight, taking all the breath out of him. In a panicked set of motions he desperately reached for the .454 that was in its holster. But as he did, time seemed to freeze. He stared into its lifeless eyes that were now pure glossy white, no pupil or lens left, which terrified Kenton. But when he looked upon the mouth of the creature he felt a fear that he had never experienced before, a mind numbing fear that sent a cold shiver to his very core. The undead man was grinning at him. An evil, soulless, demonic grin that took the color out of his face… He then seemed to float out of his body and watch the events unfold. Like a dream. He watched as he pulled out the .454, centered the gun against its temple, cocked the hammer back, and pulled the trigger spraying the opposing wall with thick murky blood, brain matter, and bits of skull fragment.

He snapped back into reality. He quickly jumped to his feet knowing the gunshot that still buzzed in his almost deafened ears would certainly alert more to their presence. He quickly grabbed Elizabeth and turned to run out the door. It was then he noticed the man who hung himself had reanimated, and was desperately trying to break free of the noose but to no success. He felt pity on the man. He pointed his magnum at his head and shot. There was now a gaping hole where the man’s left eyes once was. With that, they quickly evacuated the shop and made a desperate run towards the old grocery store. By the time Kenton and Elizabeth got halfway to the store dozens of the undead were running after them. “FASTER!” Kenton shouted as he was firing rounds off into the crowd. They reached the store, and put a little distance between themselves and the horde.

 But once they stepped inside they looked upon the store with horror. The undead were here. Hordes of them. They looked up from the piles of dead they were feasting on eyes fixed upon Kenton and Elizabeth. “Run!” screamed Kenton. They broke into a sprint with the undead not far behind running after them. Kenton managed to blow the heads off a couple with the .454 while firing into the horde behind them. They had finally reached the stairs and only one appeared on them. Kenton ran up next to it, took the 12 gauge that Elizabeth had been holding and shoved the barrel into its mouth as it let out a high pitched moan and fired. Completely blowing of the lower portion of the undead’s head sending it spiraling over the railing doing acrobatics as it flew down. They ran up the emergency stair well all the way to the roof and quickly slammed the door shut. Kenton took the opportunity to reload his various weapons. The nearby hovering chopper saw them and quickly flew over to the roof the couple was on. It flew close enough for the couple to get on board. Kenton picked up Elizabeth’s small figure with ease and quickly handed her to the soldier who was completely decked out in full protective body gear and a gas mask making him appear bulky and overweight. As she safely got aboard, Kenton slowly stepped back and gazed at her. She looked at him with confused gaze. “Kenton what in the hell are you doing?! Get up here NOW!!” She screamed almost crying now. He didn’t say anything. He just stood and looked at her perfect features. Her soft red hair flowing in the wind, her flawless complexion, her gorgeous face… Everything about her perfection he took in one last time. “I’m sorry my love I can’t go…” He said with tears rolling down his cheeks. Elizabeth only than noticed the deep bite mark that protruded his neck already making the skin around the wound decay. “NO!!!!” She screamed at the top of her lungs she was now bawling. She attempted to jump out to hug him but was stopped by the solider. “Please don’t cry my love. You are safe, that’s all that matters… I promised I’d keep you safe and I did. Be happy my love. I love you so much and I always will Elizabeth.” He took the wedding ring off his finger, and placed it in the palm of her hands and kissed her goodbye.

 That’s when the door broke down and dozens of the undead poured out. “I love you” he cried as the helicopter lifted into the air and took off. He then turned and faced the now approaching undead horde. The 12 gauge in his hands and the M-16 dangling carelessly around his back. He opened fire into the horde blowing off limbs and sending groups of them spiraling backwards. Through the thick red mist created by their blood, he could see that demonic grin they all seemed to have. “Damn out of ammo he said.” He then dropped the weapon to his feet and pulled the M-16 from around his back and opened fire into the oncoming horde. He was unsure of how many he had actually killed. The blood spurting out of the undead bodies like water erupting from a geyser.  Spraying bullet after bullet into the undead mass that was now sprinting towards him, Kenton heard the distinct ping sound indicating that the gun was now out of ammo. Not wasting any time Kenton dropped the M-16 and pulled his .454 magnum out. Glancing down upon it the looking at the undead horde sprinting at him, he slowly lifted the gun to his temple, cocked the hammer back, whispered the words “I love you Elizabeth” one last time and gently pulled the trigger. The last thing that Elizabeth saw as the helicopter escaped the building that’s rooftop was now painted red was the faint red mist coming from Kenton’s skull and his body slowly falling into oblivion, than hitting the ground with a horrid thumping noise that would haunt her forever

title: Against the Blood Red Sky

question: How did Elizabeth escape from the zombie-infested city?

text: Kenton's fight with the zombies isn't relevant to the question.

answer: She and Kenton hear a helicopter, someone screaming that survivors should go to the rooftops. They loot a hunting shop and proceed toward a roof when Kenton sees a hanged man being eaten by a zombie. He gets transfixed by the sight, and the zombie catches him. They barely manage to run away, but Kenton is bitten. When they reach the rooftop, Kenton ensures Elizabeth boards the helicopter.

text: The answer is irrelevant.

text: The answer is wrong. Elizabeth is saved by the helicopter. Kenton is the one who dies.

text: The answer is a summary of the story, not an answer to the question.

text: The answer is not specific about the escape. It should be stated that Kenton sacrifices himself to allow Elizabeth to escape.

text: The answer is mostly irrelevant, and the question is answered at the end.

text: Information about Kenton is irrelevant.

text: The answer should mention that they run to a grocery store and fight their way up the stairs to the roof.

text: The answer includes irrelevant details.

answer: She and Kenton hear a helicopter, someone screaming that survivors should go to the rooftops. They loot a hunting shop and proceed toward a roof when Kenton sees a hanged man being eaten by a zombie. He gets transfixed by the sight, and the zombie catches him. They barely manage to run away, but Kenton is bitten. When they reach the rooftop, Kenton ensures Elizabeth boards the helicopter. Then, he turns to shoot the oncoming zombie horde until they are too close. As the helicopter flies away, the last thing Elizabeth sees is Kenton shooting himself in the head.

text: The answer is a summary of the story, not just the answer to the question.

text: The answer is irrelevant.

text: The answer is a summary of the story and not the answer to the question.

text: The answer is a summary of the story. It is not what Elizabeth did to escape.

text: This is not an answer to the question.

text: The answer is a summary of the story, and it should be re-written to be relevant to the question.

text: Went overboard with the story

text: Kenton doesn't see the man when they proceed towards the roof but when they're looting the hunting shop.

answer: Kenton and Elizabeth were trying to get to the roof of the grocery store so that they could be rescued by the helicopter. Kenton was bitten by a zombie and Elizabeth was rescued by the helicopter.

text: The answer should mention that Kenton sacrifices himself to allow Elizabeth to escape.

text: The answer is a bit confusing. It should be rewritten.

text: The answer is only partly correct.

text: The answer is a bit confusing. It should be clear that Kenton sacrifices himself to save Elizabeth.

text: "Kenton and Elizabeth were trying to get to the roof of the grocery store so that they could be rescued by the helicopter. Kenton was bitten by a zombie and Elizabeth was rescued by the helicopter." - Kenton and Elizabeth both got to the roof. Kenton was also bitten, but he didn't go with Elizabeth. He stayed behind to buy time for her escape.

text: The second sentence is irrelevant to the question.

answer: She and Kenton hear a helicopter, someone screaming that survivors should go to the rooftops. They loot a hunting shop and proceed toward a roof when Kenton sees a hanged man being eaten by a zombie. He gets transfixed by the sight, and the zombie catches him. They barely manage to run away, but Kenton is bitten. When they reach the rooftop, Kenton ensures Elizabeth boards the helicopter.

answer: She and Kenton hear a helicopter, someone screaming that survivors should go to the rooftops. They loot a hunting shop and proceed toward a roof when Kenton sees a hanged man being eaten by a zombie. He gets transfixed by the sight, and the zombie catches him. They barely manage to run away, but Kenton is bitten. When they reach the rooftop, Kenton ensures Elizabeth boards the helicopter. Then, he turns to shoot the oncoming zombie horde until they are too close. As the helicopter flies away, the last thing Elizabeth sees is Kenton shooting himself in the head.

answer: Kenton and Elizabeth were trying to get to the roof of the grocery store so that they could be rescued by the helicopter. Kenton was bitten by a zombie and Elizabeth was rescued by the helicopter.


text:
	I didn’t snap. It was much more gradual than that. It was like slipping off the edge of a cliff, fingers scraping the top, until in one moment that seemed like an echo of something that never existed I was falling. When I went to bed last night, I was still hanging on; when I woke up, I was crashing. I don’t know what came undone while I slept. It had been three weeks, two days, and thirteen hours, I’d guess, since I went over the edge—nothing special.  But that was the day I knew I’d never see the top of the cliff again.

	That morning I didn’t know it had happened. I felt the same, that sort of feeling that I was a rusty machine and when I walked I could feel every screw and bolt and joint twisting slowly, grating in place because the whole thing was wound up too tight. I was so used to it by then. I wasn’t even surprised when I could walk through the ghost.

	Her name was Dr. Aimee Joyce, and I have seen her every day for three months.

	Three weeks and two days ago, my alarm clock went off at 5:30 a.m. and I woke up to a glimmer of light slowly burning along the edges of the room like a fuse. I blinked, trying to bring it into focus, and I felt the bed shift.

	“Good morning.” A hand rolled me onto my back, and Aimee kissed me on the cheek.

 	I moaned something unintelligible. She chuckled, patted my shoulder and stood up, the springs squeaking. I heard the patter of her footsteps and squeezed my eyes shut, but the burning yellow light still seeped in.

	“Is there any chance we could come up with a gentler wakeup call?” I rolled out of bed, rubbing my eyes.

	“The alarm clock and a kiss have yet to be effective, so this is the only option left.”

	Lights turned on in the bathroom, and I fumbled through my drawers, squinting. A whisper of water signaled the shower starting.

	“And you’d be late if I didn’t get you up.”

	“That’s true.” I buttoned my shirt. “But it’s kinda . . . disorienting.”

	“That’s alright,” she called. “You’re sort of cute when you’re blinking and confused.”

	I rolled my eyes. Pulling my pants on, I shuffled into the kitchen, started the coffee, and opened the fridge. While I waited for the coffee, I took out some yogurt and poured a little granola in it and grabbed a plastic spoon to mix it up. Then I looked at my reflection in the fridge and fixed my hair a bit—close enough.

I’ve never been much for putting an effort into anything I don’t care about, like neat hair. Aimee tells me I’m a bit of a cowboy: I only follow my own rules. Aimee, on the other hand, sticks to the rules. Everything is as orderly at home as it is at the hospital. She has the light touch of a surgeon and a voice full of light to match. She makes mornings bearable.

I heard the whoosh of the blow-dryer. When the coffee was ready, I poured it into two to-go cups with two creams in hers and one sugar in mine. Just as I finished, Aimee walked out with her strawberry blonde hair twisted into a damp bun. I handed her the coffee and the parfait.

	“Thanks,” she murmured, taking a swig. “What are you going to eat?”

	I shrugged. “I’ll get a breakfast burrito on the way into work.”

	“You know that, as a doctor, I’m obliged to tell you that isn’t healthy, right?”

	I grinned, taking a sip. “I know.”

	She shook her head, a small smile creeping across her face. “I can’t always take care of you. You need to learn to live on your own.”

	While she was eating, I brushed my teeth and took my gun from the lockbox and holstered it.

	“You ready to go?” I walked in and grabbed the keys off the counter. She nodded and took her own. I was turning the front door knob when she her fingers curled over my shoulder.

	“Be careful, Dave.”

	“I will.”

	“I love you.”

	“Love you too.” And I kissed her, and we went out the door. That was the last time we spoke.

	Every morning after I saw her the way I used to: smiling and talking and kissing me good morning and goodbye, and when I walked out the door I realized I saw her in the dark because there was no one to open the blinds and I realized there was nothing except cold and hollow space. I was alone.

	I never hear her because the last time I saw her—really saw her, not just something my mind conjured up—there was a glass wall between us, and I guess my mind has always kept that there.

	Three weeks and two days ago, my partner, Ramsey, and I were filling out paperwork for a case we’d just wrapped up with the news running in the background when something caught my ear: Crown Hill Hospital, where Aimee worked. I dropped my pen.

	“Ramsey, turn up the volume.”

	He raised an eyebrow and obliged.

	“…on the fourth floor. Police estimate there are almost sixty hostages.”

	Aimee’s floor. I jumped up, and Ramsey jumped after me.

	“Dave, wait.” He grabbed my arm. I wrenched away. My vision tunneled as I stormed across the room. “We have to let local LEOs handle this.” I pounded down the stairs. “You know they get pissed when feds—.”

	“I DON’T GIVE A SHIT.” I whipped around, vision blurry, knuckles white, air buzzing.

	Ramsey looked at me calmly and held out his hand. “Give me your keys.”

	It took ten minutes. The whole ride, it felt like my bones were slowly turning to lead. We stopped in a parking lot full of cop cars and sirens. Red and blue lights flashed on dull concrete and a dripping gray sky. The glass walls of the hospital rose tall and turquoise from the ground. When I looked at the building, every room behind the glass was empty except one on the fourth floor packed with cowering people and three masked men with automatic weapons.

	“We should—,” Ramsey began. I turned my head sharply and turned off his voice.

	I ran toward the chief of police. He turned around as I came sprinting up, bushy eyebrows furrowed.

	“Is there a Dr. Aimee Joyce in there?” I panted.

	“Who are you?” His voice was rough like sandpaper.

	“FBI Agent David Bretton. Is there a Dr. Aimee Joyce in there?”

	Ramsey came up and put his hand on my shoulder.

	“And who are you?”

	“His partner. Can you tell us anything about the people up there?”

	“This isn’t your case.” The chief began to turn back around.

	I lunged. Ramsey caught me. “Tell me if she’s there!”

	He looked at me, scrutinized, narrowed eyes. Ramsey loosened his grip when I stopped struggling. He sighed. “She’s there.”

	Static. There was that weird buzzing all over like we were on TV and the satellite signal had been lost. I looked up at the glass and tried to make words but they wouldn’t come.

	“Dave?” Ramsey said. The corners of my eyes pixelated into black and white: static.

	I looked back at the chief. “Are you getting them out?” sounded like muffled thunder.

	“We’re trying to negotiate.”

	“Chief, they’re saying they’re going to prove they’re serious.” A person appeared next to us. “We need you over here now.”

	He walked away. I looked up. People were crouched down, barely distinguishable as they melded into a mass of fear and flesh. The men, all in black, stalked through them. I couldn’t find her.

	“Dave, can you hear me?”

	I couldn’t find her. I had to find her. Everyone had their faces buried behind their knees. I couldn’t find her.
Where was she? The green-blue tinted glass distorted everything. I couldn’t

	“We need to go.”

	find her. I just had to

	“You shouldn’t be”

	find her and

	“here. You can’t help. We need”

	get her out. If I could see her maybe I could help her, tell her

	“to go. Let’s get in the car. Come on, let’s”

	how to escape. She wasn’t there, she wasn’t there, I couldn’t

	“get in the car. Dave, can you”

	find her, I needed to find her, I needed her

	“hear me? are you listening? Dave, look”

	with me. I needed to hold her

	“at me. Look away from”

	hand and tell her everything was going to be okay because

	“the building. Look at me. You’ve got to look away.”

	right now it was going to hell and I just needed to find her. But I couldn’t.

	One of the men bent over, and every sound died. He slung the automatic behind him, grabbed someone and yanked them up by the hair: strawberry blonde. Aimee. Her hands were clawing at his on her neck as he pushed her toward the glass. She was fighting, but he was winning. Slowly, steadily, he pushed her closer to the glass walls that twisted the light around them. She kicked at the ground, scratched at his arms, but he never flinched. He threw her at the glass, and she bounced into it, elbows smashing against it, where I could see her face.

	She was crying. Her face was distorted, and the fight was shaking through her body. She turned and ran and he pulled a handgun and shot her straight through the head. Scarlet slung across the glass shattered like a spider web and I saw her body slam into the ground between the cracks.

	I don’t remember anything after that.

	Later, they told me there was nothing I could have done or could do. That it was random. That the men wanted to prove they would kill. That Aimee was the only one they killed. That I couldn’t have her body because it was part of an ongoing investigation. That they couldn’t tell me what the men wanted because it was part of an ongoing investigation. Because after they killed Aimee they got away.

	I didn’t snap. I walked through the ghost and realized that I would never be able to find her behind that glass, that it was always going to be cold and hollow. So I grabbed my bag, grabbed my gun, grabbed my keys, and I got on the highway, driving west until the dawn seemed to retreat before lost nights rumbling toward me. I drove to find the men who killed Aimee.

title: Extraordinary Measures

question: What does the story say about the ghost that haunts the narrator?

text: The answer should mention that Aimee was the narrator's wife.

answer: The narrator is haunted by the ghost of his girlfriend, Dr. Aimee Joyce. She was killed by a hostage taker in the hospital where she worked. The narrator is haunted by her ghost every morning. He sees her smiling and talking and kissing him good morning and goodbye. He sees her in the dark because there was no one to open the blinds and he realizes there was nothing except cold and hollow space. He is alone. He never hears her because the last time he saw her, there was a glass wall between them.

answer: She's a doctor with strawberry blonde hair, Aimee. The narrator loses her the day when three people get into the hospital she works in, taking hostage about sixty people. The criminals want to prove they are serious and to do that they decide to kill someone visibly. They happen to pick out Aimee. The narrator is on the ground floor, having heard about the situation while at work. He ends up seeing Aimee shot in the head with her face pressed to a window glass on the fourth floor of the hospital.

text: It would be better to say "named Aimee" in the first sentence.

text: The second sentence is unnecessary and could be omitted.

text: This should mention how he's seen her just as she was on the last day they talked every day for three months after her murder.

answer: She's a doctor with strawberry blonde hair, Aimee. The narrator loses her the day when three people get into the hospital she works in, taking hostage about sixty people. The criminals want to prove they are serious and to do that they decide to kill someone visibly. They happen to pick out Aimee. The narrator is on the ground floor, having heard about the situation while at work. He ends up seeing Aimee shot in the head with her face pressed to a window glass on the fourth floor of the hospital.

text: The narrator is a man, not a woman.

text: The narrator is Dave, the protagonist.

text: The narrator is Dave, not the narrator.

text: The narrator is Dave, and he's an FBI agent.

text: It misses to mention that the narrator is haunted by the ghost of his dead girlfriend, Aimee, and is not able to accept that she is gone.

text: The narrator can see the ghost of Aimee every day, he had been doing so for three months. Any time after she passed, he still sees her every day, but just like before, she's not really there.

answer: The "ghost" is the memory of the narrator's dead wife, Aimee. She's a doctor with strawberry blonde hair. The narrator loses her the day when three people get into the hospital she works in, taking hostage about sixty people. The criminals want to prove they are serious and to do that they decide to kill someone visibly. They happen to pick out Aimee. The narrator is on the ground floor, having heard about the situation while at work. He ends up seeing Aimee shot in the head with her face pressed to a window glass on the fourth floor of the hospital.

text: The narrator is Dave, not the narrator.

text: The narrator is not haunted by a ghost. He hallucinates his dead wife.

text: The narrator is Dave, not the unnamed narrator.

text: The answer is mostly irrelevant.

text: The answer should mention that the narrator is haunted by her ghost because he can't get over her death.

text: The answer could mention that the narrator is grief-stricken by her death.

text: While this is a physically accurate interpretation of the hallucinations the protagonist has, it is not as accurate of a summary of the text as it could be.

text: The answer should mention that the narrator hallucinates as he sees his wife's ghost because he can't get over her death.

answer: The "ghost" is the memory of the narrator's dead wife, Aimee. She's a doctor with strawberry blonde hair. The narrator loses her the day when three people get into the hospital she works in, taking hostage about sixty people. The criminals want to prove they are serious and to do that they decide to kill someone visibly. They happen to pick out Aimee. The narrator is on the ground floor, having heard about the situation while at work. He ends up seeing Aimee shot in the head with her face pressed to a window glass on the fourth floor of the hospital.

answer: The narrator is haunted by the ghost of his girlfriend, Dr. Aimee Joyce. She was killed by a hostage taker in the hospital where she worked. The narrator is haunted by her ghost every morning. He sees her smiling and talking and kissing him good morning and goodbye. He sees her in the dark because there was no one to open the blinds and he realizes there was nothing except cold and hollow space. He is alone. He never hears her because the last time he saw her, there was a glass wall between them.

text: The narrator is not haunted by the ghost of his girlfriend. He is haunted by the ghost of his girlfriend's memory.

text: The narrator is not haunted by the ghost of his girlfriend. He is haunted by the ghost of his girlfriend, Dr. Aimee Joyce.

text: The narrator sees the ghost of his girlfriend, Dr. Aimee Joyce, every morning. He sees her smiling and talking and kissing him good morning and goodbye. He sees her in the dark because there was no one to open the blinds and he realizes there was nothing except cold and hollow space. He is alone. He never hears her because the last time he saw her, there was a glass wall between them.

text: The narrator's name is Dave, not the narrator.

text: It's omitted that the narrator is the only one who can see the ghost.

text: The answer omits that every morning after he sees her the way he used to. He realizes he saw her in the dark because there was no one to open the blinds and there is nothing except cold and hollow space.


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Chemistry is not just for chemists! An education in a scientific discipline teaches you critical thinking, problem analysis, and how to iterate towards solutions, all of which are valuable in a wide variety of career paths. Here's list of people who majored in chemistry, then went on to make significant contributions to the world in different fields. I'm willing to bet some of the names will surprise you!

Arts

Science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov, B.S. (1939), M.A. (1941), Ph.D. (May 1948) all in chemistry and from Columbia University.

Catherine Asaro, American science fiction and fantasy author, earned a B.S. with highest honors in chemistry from UCLA, and a PhD in chemical physics from Harvard University. She is best known for the Saga of the Skolian Empire series.

Singer for the hardcore/punk band The Descendents, Milo Aukerman, Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Harmonica player, Robert Bonfiglio, Bachelor's degree in chemistry, University of Arizona. See also http://www.robertbonfiglio.com/

Composer, Alexandr Borodin --  doctorate in medicine at the Medico–Surgical Academy, earned his living as a synthetic organic chemist, and was a "Sunday composer". See also http://www.geocities.com/cahmn/Essays/Borodin.htm

Film Director, Frank Capra, studied chemistry at the Throop College of Technology, part of the California Institute of Technology (graduated 1918)

Model, Cindy Crawford, studied chemical engineering at Northwestern University for one quarter.

Author and playwright, Carl Djerassi, Kenyon College (A.B. summa cum laude, 1942) and the University of Wisconsin (Ph.D., 1945). First synthesis of a steroid contraceptive.

Writer Barbara Ehrenreich, "started out majoring in chemistry but after a couple of years decided I would only get to the bottom of things with physics", bachelor's in physics from Reed College (1963). In 1968, Ph.D in cell biology from Rockefeller University (1968).

American actor Gilbert C. "Gil" Gerard, most famous for his role as Captain William "Buck" Rogers in the 1979-1981 television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. After dropping out of college, Gerard landed a job as an industrial chemist, and within a few years he became regional manager of a large chemical company headed by governor Winthrop Rockefeller.

Artist, San Francisco artist known as Jess, BS in Chemistry from Caltech (1948) under his given name Burgess Collins

Opera and lied soprano, Barbara Hendricks, BS in chemistry and mathematics from the University of Nebraska.

Composer, Morris Kates, PhD in biochemistry. See alsohttp://www.lib.umd.edu/CHEM/mkates.pdf and http://www.lib.umd.edu/CHEM/interviews.html

Author E.L. Konigsburg, who wrote "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler", majored in chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, studied chemistry at the graduate school of the University of Pittsburgh, then became a teacher of chemistry at Bartram, a private all-girls school in Jacksonville, Florida.

Actor Ashton Kutcher, Biochemical Engineering Student at the University of Iowa (1997, did not graduate)

Author, Primo Levi, graduated from the University of Turin in 1941, with full marks and merit, having submitted additional theses on X Rays and Electrostatic Energy.

Actor, Dolph Lundgren, (A View to a Kill, Rocky IV, etc.) has a degree in chemistry from Washington State University, and a M. Sc. in chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stokholm (KTH) in 1983 . He studied chemical engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia (1982) .  He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, but quit after two weeks to pursue acting.

Kára Deidra McCullough is Miss USA 2018 and a physical scientist at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Author, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., majored in chemistry at Cornell University, NY

Business

President and Chief Operating Officer Eli Lilly, John C. Lechleiter, BS (summa cum laude) in chemistry from Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio) in 1975. Harvard University, master's and doctorate degrees in organic chemistry 1980.

Chairman, chief executive, PepsiCo (2001 - present), Indra Nooyi, Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Madras Christian College (1974).

Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation, Gordon Earle Moore, author of Moore's Law (published in 1965 April 19 in Electronics Magazine). Bachelor's in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley (1950), and a Ph.D. in chemistry and physics from the California Institute of Technology (1954).

Chairman and CEO of General Electric (1981 - 2001), John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr., Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst (1957). M.S. and Ph.D in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois (1960).

Politics

Mayor of Washington DC (1979-1991, 1995-1999), Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr., Masters of organic chemistry, Fisk University (1960).

Vice Prime Minister of Romania and wife of Romania's Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu, Elena Ceausescu, her education ended at 4th grade but she was given many honorary awards for scientific achievement in the field of polymer chemistry during the period when her husband ruled Romania.

Member of Parliment (until 2005), John Anderson "Jack" Cunningham, BSc in Chemistry (1962), and PhD (1967) from Bede College of the University of Durham.

State Senator, Douglas La Follette, (1972-1974), PhD in organic chemistry from Columbia University, then became an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Parkside and took leave of absense to serve in his state senate.

Governor, State of North Carolina (1985 to 1993), James Martin, PhD in chemistry from Princeton University in 1960.

Chancellor of Germany, Angela Dorothea Merkel, Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) for thesis on quantum chemistry.  The Secret to Germany’s COVID-19 Success: Angela Merkel Is a Scientist

Congressman, John Olver,  (United States House of Representatives since 1991, MA-1st). B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, M.A. from Tufts University, and Ph.D. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Attorney General of the United States (1993–2001), Janet Reno, majored in chemistry at Cornell University in New York.

Prime Minister of United Kingdom (1979-1990), Margaret Thatcher, graduated from Somerville College, Oxford in 1947 studying Chemistry, specifically crystallography. She worked as a research chemist for British Xylonite and then J. Lyons and Co., where she helped developed the first soft frozen ice cream. Some of her chemistry notebooks are archived online.

Princess of Thailand, Chulabhorn Walailak, graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Faculty of Science at Kasetsart University (1979), First Class Honours. She continued to study Science at Mahidol University, where she received her Doctorate in 1985.

President, State of Israel (1949-1952), Chaim Weizmann, studied chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute of Darmstaat, Germany, received PhD with honors, University of Freiburg, Switzerland, (1899).

Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2013-2017, James Brien Comey Jr.  graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1982, majoring in chemistry and religion

Religion

Pope Francis, formerly Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina, attended Escuela Técnica Industrial N° 27 Hipólito Yrigoyen and earned a chemical technician's diploma (equivalent to AA degree in US). He also spent some time as a high school chemistry teacher.

Sports

L A Lakers owner,Gerald Hatten “Jerry” Buss, owner of the L.A. Lakers,... Ph.D. in physical chemistry at USC in Los Angeles.

Marathon world record holder, Ron Hill, B.Sc. (Tech) (1960) and his Ph.D (1964) in Textile Chemistry, at Manchester University. Also holds a record for running at least one mile a day every day since 1964 December 20th.

John Kuhn, NFL football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers, chemistry major at Shippensburg college who also did a couple of internships.

Sciences

Astronaut, Catherine Coleman (Colonel, USAF), Bachelor of science in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in (1983), PhD in polymer science and engineering from the University of Massachusetts (1991).

Astronaut, Anna Lee Fisher, BS in Chemistry in 1971 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA, 1961). She started graduate school in chemistry in the field of x-ray crystallographic studies of metallocarbonanes, but after one year moved to the UCLA medical school and received an MD (1976).

Founder of Science Citation Index, Dr. Eugene Garfield, BSc in chemistry, MS in Library Science, PhD in structural linguistics.

Computer Scientist (outstanding mathematicians, member of the Manhattan Project and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and a key figure in the development of game theory, cellular automata and the universal constructor), John von Neumann got a Diplom (Master) in chemical engineering at ETH Zuerich simultaneously with a Ph.D. in mathematics (with minors in experimental physics and chemistry) from the University of Budapest.

Irene Pepperberg, parrot trainer and researcher who studies Grey parrots. The main focus of her work is to determine the cognitive and communicative abilities of these birds, and compare their abilities with those of great apes, marine mammals, and young children. She is studying the mechanisms of their learning as well as the outcomes, and is the founder of the Alex Foundation.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Cornell University in 1919

Astronaut (first Briton in space), Helen Patricia Sharman, B.Sc. in chemistry at the University of Sheffield (1984) and a Ph.D. from Birkbeck, University of London.

Technology:

Web Analytics Guru Brian Clifton, BSc in chemistry from the University of Bristol in 1991 and a PhD in physical and theoretical chemistry (1996). He specialises in performance optimisation using Google Analytics.

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Paul James, who has a gardening show on HGTV-Gardening By the Yard was a chem major.

Alton Brown, of Good Eats was a Chem E major.

Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) might have been a chemistry major. (http://bipac.net/incumbent_detail.asp?g=ACC&leg_id_num=7748).

See also: "Chemists Who Fulfilled Themselves in Other Fields", Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Volume 56, Number 5 / May, 2001 and http://www.nt.ntnu.no/users/ystenes/vitenskap/kjemi/chemists.html

question: List the names of prominent people who majored in chemistry while in the university.

text: David Comey Jr is not the Director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017.

answer: Isaac Asimov, Catherine Asaro, Milo Aukerman, Robert Bonfiglio, Alexandr Borodin, Frank Capra, Cindy Crawford, Carl Djerassi, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gil Gerard, Jess, Barbara Hendricks, Morris Kates, E.L. Konigsburg, Ashton Kutcher, Primo Levi, Dolph Lundgren, Kára Deidra McCullough, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., John C. Lechleiter, Indra Nooyi, Gordon Earle Moore, John Francis "Jack" Welch Jr., Marion Shepilov Barry Jr., Elena Ceausescu, John Anderson "Jack" Cunningham, Douglas La Follette, James Martin, Angela Dorothea Merkel, John Olver, Janet Reno, Margaret Thatcher, Chulabhorn Walailak, Chaim Weizmann, James Brien Comey Jr., Catherine Coleman, Anna Lee Fisher, Dr. Eugene Garfield, John von Neumann, Irene Pepperberg, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Helen Patricia Sharman, Brian Clifton, Paul James, Alton Brown, and Jim McDermott.

text: The answer is a copy of the list in the article. It should be rewritten to only include the names of people who majored in chemistry.

text: The answer is a copy of the list in the article. The question asks for the names of prominent people who majored in chemistry while in the university. The list in the article is not a list of prominent people.

text: The list is too long. It should be reduced to the most prominent names.

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text: There are a lot of names. It would be better to say "too many to list".

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"Paul James, who has a gardening show on HGTV-Gardening By the Yard was a chem major.
Alton Brown, of Good Eats was a Chem E major.
Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) might have been a chemistry major. (http://bipac.net/incumbent_detail.asp?g=ACC&leg_id_num=7748)." is evidence that the information on Paul James, Alton Brown, and Jim McDermott is unverified. They should be omitted from the list.

text: The list includes people who only studied chemistry in the university not just majored in chemistry. The question is asking for the latter.

text: They studied chemistry, not majored in chemistry.

answer: Isaac Asimov, Catherine Asaro, Milo Aukerman, Robert Bonfiglio, Alexandr Borodin, Frank Capra, Cindy Crawford, Carl Djerassi, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gil Gerard, Jess, Barbara Hendricks, Morris Kates, E.L. Konigsburg, Ashton Kutcher, Primo Levi, Dolph Lundgren, Kára Deidra McCullough, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., John C. Lechleiter, Indra Nooyi, Gordon Earle Moore, John Francis "Jack" Welch Jr., Marion Shepilov Barry Jr., Elena Ceausescu, John Anderson "Jack" Cunningham, Douglas La Follette, James Martin, Angela Dorothea Merkel, John Olver, Janet Reno, Margaret Thatcher, Chulabhorn Walailak, Chaim Weizmann, James Brien Comey Jr., Catherine Coleman, Anna Lee Fisher, Dr. Eugene Garfield, John von Neumann, Irene Pepperberg, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Helen Patricia Sharman, Brian Clifton, Paul James, Alton Brown, and Jim McDermott.

answer: Isaac Asimov, who was one of the greatest science fiction writers; Gilbert C. Gerard (an actor), known for his role as Captian Rogers in the 1979-1981 TV series Buck Rogers. Dolph Lundgren (actor) who was in Rocky IV has a degree in chemistry as well as an MSc in chemical engineering from the Unversity of Sydney, Australia. Kurt Vonnegut (author) majored in chemistry at Cornell University in New York. Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany wrote her doctorate thesis on quantum chemistry. Pope Francis earned a chemical technician's diploma and taught the subject as a high school chemistry teacher.

text: The answer omits the names of many of the people named in the article as having majored in cheistry

answer: Isaac Asimov, who was one of the greatest science fiction writers; Gilbert C. Gerard (an actor), known for his role as Captian Rogers in the 1979-1981 TV series Buck Rogers. Dolph Lundgren (actor) who was in Rocky IV has a degree in chemistry as well as an MSc in chemical engineering from the Unversity of Sydney, Australia. Kurt Vonnegut (author) majored in chemistry at Cornell University in New York. Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany wrote her doctorate thesis on quantum chemistry. Pope Francis earned a chemical technician's diploma and taught the subject as a high school chemistry teacher.

text: The answer omits many names.

text: The answer omits many other names.

text: The answer omits a lot of people on the list.

text: "Dolph Lundgren (actor) who was in Rocky IV has a degree in chemistry as well as an MSc in chemical engineering from the Unversity of Sydney, Australia." - the actor was in "A View to a Kill" and "Rocky IV" and he got his M.Sc. in chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

text: The answer mentions a lot of names of individuals who majored in chemistry. However, it does not state that the people are famous for their work even that they majored in chemistry.

answer: Nobel-winning scientist, Isidor Isaac, has a degree in chemistry from Cornell University in 1919. The Director of the FBI from 2013-2017, David Comey Jr, majored in chemistry and religion. Princess of Thailand, Chulabhorn Walailak, graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1979 with First Class Honours. Vice Prime Minister of Roania, E%lena Ceausescu, was awarded for scientific achievements in the field of polymer chemistry.

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text: "Roania" - correct the spelling to "Romania"

text: The names of the people listed are inaccurate.

text: It is incorrectly stated that James Comey Jr. is the director of the FBI.

text: It is omitted that a former Pope, "Pope Francis" majored in chemistry at the "Escuela Tecnica Industrial N° 27 Hipolito Yrigoyen" and earned "a chemical technician's diploma."

text: The answer fails to menton people, such as Isaac Asimov, Catherine Asaro, and Robert Bonfiglio.

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answer: Nobel-winning scientist, Isidor Isaac, has a degree in chemistry from Cornell University in 1919. The Director of the FBI from 2013-2017, David Comey Jr, majored in chemistry and religion. Princess of Thailand, Chulabhorn Walailak, graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1979 with First Class Honours. Vice Prime Minister of Roania, E%lena Ceausescu, was awarded for scientific achievements in the field of polymer chemistry.

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