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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.

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.

question: Why did Cindy Crawford (model) study chemical engineering at Northwestern University for only one quarter?


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A full moon layed in the distance as james walked through the wild tundra. Everything illumantaed off the snow   and a nearby lake for miles . The randomness of how james got to this place was very much random. Lets call it as it was james was some how teleported here through some back channel through the stratosphere. James looked up to the sky and saw beeming kem trails, neons in every colour imaganable. What were these strange lights doing their. WAs their an airfield near by?

James lisended while walking around the lake for any sounds that would point him to the possible airfield. All of a sudden a loud booming sound was herd in the distance. It sounded like a jet plane which would explain the kem trails in the air. James kept walking towards the noise but it all of sudden became dead queit. What were these sounds and how did i get here james said to himself.

After walking for a mile down a river james looked up and saw what apered to be a plane or helicopter but their was no noise. What in the fuck was going on. The object got closer and closer to  james and landed a few feet away.  He walked up to the strange lets call it a UFO and shouted can someone help me get back to where ever i was. No reply, so james walked around the UFO trying to make sense of what he was seeing. Nothing made sense this veichle was no plane or helicopter. But what was it. He would never find out.

James pleaded with the object to let him in. no awnser. than as soon as he started to walk back to the lake. the UFo lifted into the sky and let out a supersonic boom and a purple and gold beam downdward knocking james on the snow. He layed their unconcious trying to get back to his feet. But James wasnt going anywhere the blurred vision and dead legs left him lying in the freezing snow. Fuzzy and unaware of what happened all James could do think to do was pray.

 All of a sudden along came a grizzly bear snarling and screaming a horrible sound. The Grizzly picked up james with his paws and threw him into the purple and gold beam,  which he stuck to like fly paper fly. James yelled out loud as he regained consciousness. He looked up at the UFo and down to the Grizzly than poof. James was courtsdie at a Lakers Grizzlies game in Los Memphis.

The End

My first short story. Sorry if the spelling is bad I did this on a memo in android and dont currently own Microsoft office.

title: (FN) The Basketball Game

question: Who are the main characters of the story?

answer: James, the UFO, the Grizzly bear

question: Where does the story take place?

answer: In the wild tundra.

question: What is happening?

answer: James somehow gets teleported to the wild tundra by a UFO, but in reality, he was only dreaming.

question: What did James find in the woods?

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: James walks through the wild tundra under a full moon after a UFO teleports him there. He walks around for miles looking for an airfield and possible help. James sees what appears to be a plane or helicopter, but it doesn't make any sounds and it's obvious that he's looking at a UFO. James pleads with the UFO to let him in, but it flies away, leaving a sonic boom that knocks James unconscious. A grizzly bear comes along and throws James into the purple and gold beam where James gets stuck. He wakes up courtside at a Lakers VS Grizzlies NBA game in Memphis.


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[Mark Szulyovszky]

It was interesting to see the negative sentiment that the Airbnb article has created around Facebook’s mobile framework — it hit me completely unexpected.

I started questioning how we ended up having a completely different experience than them…

To give a bit of background, we’ve spent the last 12 months building probably the most polished React-native app, and it WAS PAINFUL. We’ve been sweating on performance issues, writing our own libraries, patching others’, dealing with edge cases only reproducible on a specific device, wasting time on upgrading, etc…

  But… was it less painful than writing native code?

We’re a small, senior development team of 4— Anton, Daniel, Lucas and me. We work at Drops, and serving more than 800,000 monthly active users, on iOS & Android. If you fancy learning (human, haha) language, check it out!

The most important factor for us is that we need to work at the right abstraction level. But hey, let’s not jump ahead. I want to share the struggles first, because they were _not_ the ones we were expecting.

(Actual) problem #1: Navigation

Navigation is an essential part of all mobile apps. It was exciting to try out all the different libraries, but we haven’t found anything that would satisfy our main criteria: _only_ render the currently active screen. Having multiple, heavy screens rendered on top of each other made performance an issue, especially on lower end Android devices — so we’ve written our simple, 30 line routing mechanic, that renders only one screen (that the user can see right now) & has special handling for modals. This resolved our major headache, and also made routing entirely declarative (but that’s a story for another post).

The funny thing is that we had an unconventional navigation setup in our native iOS app as well, because of — guess what — performance reasons. We ended up with something really similar with react-native...

(Actual) problem #2: The lack of performant, JS only listviews.

There was a time when we felt like we would never be able to provide a pleasant user experience, and we’d have to fall back to native code. Our iOS listviews are littered with hacks that optimise for cell re-usage.

Flipkart’s react-native-recyclerview helped us out in the end. It resolves the same issue we had with navigation: it only renders what it needs to.

The other tool that came in really handy is animation. Adding good looking appearance animation helped us greatly — not with actual speed, but with the perceived experience.

Our problem with the built-in components (ListView, FlatList, etc.) was that they pre-render too many items. This makes it hard / impossible to create appearance animation, and without animation, rendering these views _feels_ too slow with react-native.

In the near future, we may see an official component that wraps UICollectionView & RecyclerView — fabric (coming this year?) brings synchronous JS<>native communication to react-native, that’ll could enable this easily.

(Actual) problem #3: Poor low-end Android performance

Yes, it’s not great. It may never be great! But, we’re fine with that.

I personally appreciate that you can do whatever you want with your Android phone (unlike on iOS, where you’re pretty much boxed in) — but as a business with a really small team, we have to have our priorities straight. Based on our stats, almost exclusively only high-end Android device owners spend money on the Play Store. We can serve them well with react-native. Our low-end device users are experiencing the slowness they’re used to if they’re opening up Google Map, etc. — we may have never had an opportunity to have a 1-to-1 Android version without the current setup. We’re serving them the best way we can, and even if Drops was built on native code, it’d take a lot of time to make it run fast on these devices. And we’ll struggle to prioritise over other features we have in the pipeline.

(Not really a) problem #4: Being boxed in

The existence of react-native-web demonstrates how universal the API is — and even if react-native will be replaced with “preact-native”, or when it’ll be easier to write code in ReasonML or Dart (with Flutter), our future codebase structurally will look very familiar to today’s.

If Facebook ever abandons the project, I’m confident that open source community can take good (or even better?) care of the react-native repo — this is already happening within the react-native-community Github organisation that offers some important, widely used components.

(Not really a) problem #5: React-native is immature

We struggled a lot in 2017 with react-native & react upgrades and the breaking changes they brought, but being completely honest, it has been pretty stable for the last 8 months. Yes, there were smaller regressions creeping into the monthly releases, but in general, it’s not missing major features (at least not that we’d have used).

When it comes to upgrading, we mostly follow what the guys at Expo are doing — they have to deal with a large number of libraries that they integrate into their SDK. When they’re upgrading the base react-native version, we do the same.

I was surprised to listen to the podcast with Airbnb — I think most of the mentioned technical issues have been resolved some time ago, or are ones that you’ll never face if you have a fully react-native app. We have only faced one known bug in production that’s coming from the framework itself, but they fixed it in the latest release.

(Not really a) problem #5: Platform differences

There are very few instances where we need to write different code for iOS and Android. Most of the react-native libraries that are wrapping native APIs are doing a great job building a universal interface — if you’re a mobile developer, you’ll be in for a nice surprise.

For us, the exceptions are in-app purchases. This may be resolved by using react-native-iap (which we haven’t switched to yet).

AND WHAT WE THOUGHT WE’D STRUGGLE WITH WAS RELATIVELY STRAIGHTFORWARD…

1.

    We thought 60fps animations would be impossible, but at the very beginning, we realised that the Animated.Values that have a native driver are not affected by react re-renders. Try to drop some frames by blocking the JS thread, while a native animation is running — you’ll have a hard time. The Animated API is also really nice in general — much better than anything I’ve seen in the past as a native mobile developer.
2.

    We have a physics engine (Matter.js) powering some of our screens. It runs 60 fps on iOS & on high-end Android devices.
3.

    JS performance — iterating on 1000s of items is not an issue, mainly because of the async nature of react-native, where you can never really block the UI thread. Simple memoization (with reselect) on your Redux store will get you quite far — we never really had to do any other optimisation than that.

  …so why chose react-native then?

Advantage #1: For us, React made mobile UI development fast and maintainable.

I personally never came across a better framework to think about developing UI and state than what react + Redux forces on us.

  According to my experience, on mobile, every developer has their own casual, non-consistent implementation of MVC, MVVM, VIPER or sometimes a mix of these. This includes me of course.

This makes code hard to read, and to be honest, usually pretty horrific. It’s _a lot harder_ to write non-idiomatic React + Redux code (that a linter would pass).

Opening Xcode or Android Studio feels super slow and painful when you’re forced to do it, once a month or so. As an ex-iOS developer, it’s surprising to me how bad Apple developer tools have become compared to what the JS community can offer. Re-compiling our old native Swift codebase takes more than a few minutes — this in itself has proven that our complete re-write was worthwhile.

Sometimes we’re bumping into issues where we can’t refresh the app instantly on Android, and it’s infuriating. Going back to recompiling the Swift/Java code is basically not an option after you’ve experienced how fast you can iterate with hot reload, even with a complex app.

We’re lucky with our UI design direction — we’ve been trying to create our own visual language, that’s platform independent, and this helped us greatly in moving fast. Even going full material design could make the react-native codebase effectively uniform across platforms (there are some great libraries for this).

Advantage #2: We can use a single language across mobile, web & backend.

We use Typescript, a superset of Javascript, that adds (and enforces) a typed layer on top of JS. Types are either implicit or explicit — we prefer the invisible hand helping us.

As a small, bootstrapped company, the last thing we want to build is silos. Typescript helps any of us touch both the backend and the front end easily — which we do regularly.

There are currently two libraries that’ll let you compile your react-native app to target the browser: react-native-web & react-native-dom. We’re using the former, and so far it has been working surprisingly well.

Of course, no two type systems are the same. Java is not Haskell. Typescript is not Haskell either, but it provides a good compromise — it was very rare that I wanted to use a concept that wasn’t at my disposal with Typescript. And did I mention compiling TS is at least 10x faster than Java / Swift?

Advantage #3: We share the vast majority of the code.

We have less than 2% of our code that’s different between iOS and Android. The jury is still out as to what kind of overlap can we achieve between react-native and web, but it looks very promising.

Advantage #4: We only need to optimize once.

You have to factor in a lot of quirks when you develop with the native iOS / Android SDKs. Our original Swift codebase is full of hacks that UIKit forces upon us. React-native almost completely abstracts this away. And 99% of the time, you only need to optimise your (JS) code once — because it’ll have the same effect on both platforms.

Optimization usually mean you’re transforming code that was previously readable to something that’s mostly incomprehensible for a human, so it runs faster on the machine. The good part of optimising a React + Redux codebase is that most of time you’ll be adding simply memoization, which does not fundamentally makes your code harder to read, and it automatically deals with the infamous “cache validation” issue 😱.

Advantage #5: You can always use native code if you want to.

What happens when you hit the limits of react-native? You write a native component. Having this ultimate backup plan is very comforting. Yes, we have one native component. (That’s not a lot!)

Verdict

React-native provides us a more appropriate abstraction level for developing mobile UI. This is what matters the most — we’re optimising for a small, super-capable team, and not writing and architecting the same code twice makes a huge difference. On top of that, the widespread support, rich JS ecosystem and the speed we can iterate with almost immediate compile times and hot reload makes this framework a clear winner over the current alternatives.

Yes, you’ll face issues with a react-native app. Like navigation, slowly loading listviews, etc — EXACTLY THE SAME THINGS WE HAD ISSUES WITH WHEN WRITING NATIVE CODE.

If you have mobile devs, who don’t like change, they’ll be resistant to it. If you have a large native development team, and a million LOC, integrating react-native MAY FAIL and may not have much advantage.

But if you start on a greenfield project, THERE IS VERY LITTLE DOWNSIDE OF STARTING USING REACT-NATIVE NOW. And you hear this from a technical co-founder, who has a a company on the line here.

After you figure out how to overcome the initial hurdles, you’ll enjoy developer productivity that’s unprecedented in the mobile world. If you like that sort of thing!

Would I have thought 3 years ago that we end up building a mobile tech stack on Microsoft’s & Facebook’s open source code, wishing that Google’s and Apple’s clunky and slow middle layer would disappear? No way.

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question: What are the problems with the app?

answer: Navigation, the lack of JS-only listviews, poor low-end Android performance, being boxed in, React-native being immature, and platform differences

question: What is the name of app being discussed in the article?

answer: React-native

question: What is the purpose of the app being discussed in the article?

answer: Developing mobile UI.

question: List the memebers of the app's development team.

answer: Anton, Daniel, Lucas, and the author of the article

question: Where is the app available?

answer: iOS and Android

question: What are the advantages of the app?

answer: React makes mobile development fast and maintainable. A single language can be used across mobile, web, and backend. The vast majority of the code is shared between iOS and Android. Optomization only needs to occur once. Native code can be used.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: This article, written by one of the developers of React-native, describes some of the challenges in developing the app. It lists a number of problems with the app and then a number of advantages the app provides.


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                                **Antone Daffer**
	"Craig! Hurry up little bro I'm Going into work early today, I'm going to need you to be ready to leave with in the next 10 minutes."
	"Damnit Tone, I've told you, I've told you,and I've told you again, I'll just take the bus!"
	"No such luck little man I want to get breakfast with you, I got Waffle fever."
	"I know how that goes... OK Just Give me a second alright, and I'll be down."
	An indistinct clamber of voices ricochet's of the narrow walls, comprising the shanty house that Antone, Craig, and their father Nezzy, call home.
	"Your other sons getting ready Ol' Nez. If you Cared. You know, we're getting breakfast too you can come with us; that is, if you ever muster up the courage to get off your ass and venture outside... You know, trees sky sun the whole bit...  Don't know why hell I even bother to ask? I know You're just going to watch those damn westerns all day."
	Looking at his father, Glimmering blue and rushing whites and blacks rush across the glare of his thick glasses. Antone suddenly felt nausea enveloping his stomach. He removed himself from the room. Briskly walking into the bathroom hunched over the sink and looked deeply into his eyes through the mirror. Starring stern into those wells of glacial blue depression. He struggled to stop the still frames of loving moments shared with his mother from whizzing by.  (knock, knock, knock!)
	"I see how it is. Telling me to hurry up, mean while you're in bathroom taking your pretty sweet time. You're Such a control freak. Well Sire when ever you're ready I'll be out by the car."
	Antone heard the sound of his brothers feet in the final stages of Doppler. Front Door opened then shut. He gave the mirror one more pity glance, splashed water on his face and walked out of the bathroom into the hall, and made his way for the front door. Twisting the old rusted handle, he opened the door. Almost covered up by the sound of the hinges squeaking, and floor boards scraping against the door's wood, came a meek voice as if carried by a mouse on a zip tie.
	"Love you Tone." said his father peering around the T.V.
Antone vigorously slammed the door.  Outside he saw his brother waiting by the car.
	"Hop in little bro car door's unlocked. I wanna see that seat belt on before I even get in."
(Slam, Slam.)
	The ignition kicks over. Few Hank William songs later and they're in the diners parking-lot. They Park. Antone began to thumb a silver Cross that for some years had been living  around his neck. There was intention in his eyes a plan and careful preparation.
	"Craig, Mom loved you, you know that right?" Staring at the dash concernedly then turning towards his brother.
	"Oh man, really? I don't want to do this?" Craig sounding frightened.
	"I know I know, but I promised mom I'd look after you. You're already in High school now, and becoming exponentially more independent. You know?"
	"Stop Tone I don't want to do this right now!"
	"Listen to me Craig!" Antone's river's levee of anguish cracked. Cracked as though the foundation's were rotting for thousands of years. An ancient sorrow. Something that seemed to echo through the annals of human history, having no beginning and no perceivable end. Only carrying on for a promise. A promise that seemed above all priority, because the price paid for it, was immense. "I'm not always going to be around, and since mom's death, I've tried to teach you and involve you as well I could... but I was young you know, really young... Any... Anyway you turned out to be a great young man. Far better then I was at your age I'll tell you that much. Craig, she gave me this Cross right before she died.  She told me it would protect me, and also that she would always watch over you and Me. I'm not always going to be around Craig. That's just the way it is Bro, but as long as you wear this you'll be protected."
	they get out of the car, door shuts and they eat for an half hour. Antone then drops Craig off at his school. leaves. And then he begins to feel nausea ensue once again, an overwhelming amount. pulls over, then opens the door, now A massive puddle of partially digested waffles and eggs liter the ground. He realizes his only thought is on his 'warm cocoon' (his bed.) He hooks his car back home.
	"Nezzy you old ass! I'm calling it an early day. Work's tantamount to Cocytus." Shutting the door behind him, he mentally maps his flight path to his room. When an old familiar mouse on a zip line reels past him once again.
	"Tone are you OK?" His dad shifting his weight to see his son. Glasses still gleaming from the T.V..
	Antone feeling disgusted by his dads random concern Brashly replies. "I'm your son aren't I? A staple of health for the world. Just go back to watching Wayne save the day."
	 A deep rooted contention pirouetting around Antone slip's from his sentences. Briskly Antone makes for his room and shuts the door. With privacy encasing him, Antone's mind scrolled through the old familiar still frames of his mom. Though this time his brother was a cameo in the production. He fell to his knees and began to wail.  The ancient sorrow kept at bay by the strength he needed to console his brother was now torn. Tensile strength exceeded. The ghost's from the abysmal ocean of life proceeded to thunder over his spiritual village. His village was washed away. Antone's objective reclaim it!
	Antone's will was steadfast. He was going to salvage his village! Never stopping the search even if it took him through eternity. He tied the mast's off to his door. Making sure the ropes were secure with a stern tug. Sure enough they were Fastened true. In his cabin he wrote his last sentiment to the whole of existence. Titled Antone's Death:

	"They're closing in. My chance for life is now melted into the eternal paradox that shroud's all my existence. I must make the voyage on my own. Nezzy... Dad... I've tip-toed in Satan's dance, hoping to avoid his stampeding hooves. I've failed. My body left shattered. There is a doctor across the sea, that has agreed to inoculate me. One final rhyme to soothe  life's Maelstrom. I'll Tell Mom and... and... CRAIG that you love them. We remember too well what was washed up with the wreckage last time this captain had a crew... That's why the choice of going it alone gives me comfort. A comfort I'll not squander. A utilization of strength used for the harnessing of my soul, once again."

							with love,
							Antone.

	Slipping the suicide note into a bottle and placing it on his dresser, Antone paced his room readying himself for castoff.  He placed his hand on his neck caressing and tracing his jaw line. Now he knew what the ropes destiny was tethered to. He inhaled and plunged, drifting further and further into the darkening depths.

					Part 2
	"It's a formality that we take your statement Sir." The officer looking at Nezzy.
         Breathing thinking, thinking, and feeling, feeling... A realization occurred for Nezzy at that moment. An endless pilgrimage lay before Nezzy. A Path with endless endurance. No one ever will fully understand my immense sorrow. The immense sorrow, that remains the constant of my life. I know now that I'm completely alone. My only company? A crucifix I grabbed from my beloved son Tone's Neck. An Heirloom his mother was given as a child. A testament to My mortal enemy's sacrifice. A companion if you could call it that, in misery.  A one-sided friend battling me in an endless tug of war in pain, a war I'll always be victorious in. A Companion whose unrequited misery especially intangible, leaves me to roam deep in his jest; roaming deep in my own torment. Nezzy withdrew From his thought's, and answered.
	"My son left last morning. Got breakfast, and came back about an hour later. I asked him If he was Okay and he continued into his room."
	"Sir I couldn't help but notice that there wasn't a suicide note, which is highly unorthodox."
	 Neezy Immediately imagined the place where he hid the suicide note.  In his heart he knew it wasn't for any other, only him. His son's final sentiment forged from the last fiber of his existence. "Sir, are you suggesting I staged his suicide? Something that unorthodox?" An inquisitive reply slipping from Nezzy's lips
	"Sir we're merely trying to ascertain and gauge the situation." The officer looking at Nezzy's face knew he'd never get a response from Antone's father in the state he was in. At once he changed his line of questioning. "Sir what really trying to say is, are you going to be Alright?" Nezzy's life expelled from him in the form of one last sentence.
	"Unless you have enough suspicion and evidence to arrest me right now, get out of here. I need Privacy damnit!" The officer heeded.  Gathering himself he Replied.
	"Sir I'm leaving now, and once again, I'm deeply sorry for your loss." he walked out and quietly inched the door shut behind him. Nezzy was frozen on the couch for several minutes. Then slowly he began to stand.  languidly he made his way to the T.V. and turned it on. The sound of a fire fight reverberating off the walls of the house yielded no mild comfort this time. From the T.V. he went straight for fire place.
	There mismatched from the other bricks comprising the hearth was a deeper outlined brick.  He Tugged on it, revealing it to be hollow underneath.  He cautiously injected his hand all they way to the elbow, and then retracted. Slowly coming to light from the cusp of the hollow's shadow was a plastic Freezer bag with paper contents inside. With the bag in hand he went back to the couch. Sitting down slow and calculating, he removed the bag's contents, and laid the zip-lock off to the side. Remaining in his left hand were two pieces of paper. With his right he thumbed the back of his neck to unclasp the silver crucifix he was wearing. After placing the Crucifix in the zip-lock, he opened up the pieces of paper.  One read 'Antone's death.' The other, a news paper article depicting a picture of a mangled car and contents reading:

Tragedy on the P.C.H.
by Percivle Telleth.

	Saturday January, 19th marked a tragedy on the Pacific Coast Highway. A young Family  on their way back to Pasadena from visiting the Redwood forest got into an accident. The eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Daffer, Antone was driving. Practicing for what he said was his "drivers license test." Leaving Mother Isabell Daffer sitting in the passenger seat, and youngest son Craig Daffer sitting in the back passenger-side seat. When passing through Andrew Molera State park an elk bolted out in front of their car. Trying to avoid the elk their car lost control and wrapped around a tree. Instantly killing Isabell and Craig. Antone Luckily only suffering minor damage, ran out of the car and flagged down help.  Story continued on E5...

title: *Antone Daffer* wrote this a while ago, I'll just leave it here.

question: What does the story say about why Antone committed suicide?

answer: Because he is devastated and feels guilty about the death of Isabel and his brother Craig. He was driving when suddenly an elk bolted out in front of their car. Trying to avoid the elk, their car lost control and wrapped around a tree instantly killing Isabell and Craig.

question: What does the story say about child-rearing?


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CHILD BITE is an American rock/punk/metal band formed in 2005 in Detroit, Michigan. The band's core members are founding vocalist Shawn Knight[1] and long-time bassist Sean Clancy.[2]

Child Bite's sound consists of atonal guitar melodies, distorted bass and organ, frequent rhythmic shifts, and frenzied, howling vocals. Earlier recorded material often included additional instruments such as saxophone and violin. Their lyrical content is abstract and metaphorical, often dealing with topics such as fear, paranoia, and despair. Their sound has been described as “enormous and predatory, from the baleful rhythm section to Shawn Knight's [frightening vocals].”[3] They are self-described and acknowledged by authorities in the genre as having a “horrorshow/slasher-flick” flair, which descriptions apply to their records, their album art and their music videos.[4] Their visual aesthetic is directed by their vocalist, Shawn Knight, who works professionally as a graphic artist.[5]

In the spring of 2013, Child Bite released a split 7" with David Yow of Jesus Lizard and Scratch Acid.[6]

“Morbid Hits,” a collection of Anal Cunt cover songs, was released exclusively as a 5" vinyl record in early 2014 (via Housecore Records). This release featured the band being fronted by Pantera/Down frontman Phil Anselmo.[7][8]

As of 2018, Child Bite has toured the U.S. with such acts as Down,[9] Voivod,[10] Negative Approach,[11] Superjoint,[12] Poison Idea,[13] Unsane[14] and more.

Members

Current

-   Shawn Knight – Vocals
-   Sean Clancy - Bass
-   Jeremy Waun - Guitar

Past

-   Brandon Sczomak - Guitar
-   Jeff Kraus - Drums
-   Ben Moore - Drums
-   Zach Norton – Guitar, Bass
-   Danny Sperry - Drums
-   Christian Doble - Saxophone, Backing Vocals

Timeline

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Discography

Albums

-   _Blow Off the Omens_ (2019)
-   _Negative Noise_ (2016)
-   _The Living Breathing Organ Summer LP_ (2010)
-   _Fantastic Gusts of Blood LP_ (2008)
-   _Wild Feast LP_ (2006)

Anthologies

-   _Burnt Offerings_ (2018, Housecore Records/Forge Again Records)

EPs

-   _Split 12" w/ STNNNG_ (2017, Forge Again Records)
-   _Strange Waste EP_ (2014, Housecore Records)
-   _Morbid Hits EP w/ Phil Anselmo_ (2014, Housecore Records)
-   _Split 12" w/ We Are Hex_ (2013, Forge Again Records)
-   ''Vision Crimes EP (2013, Joyful Noise Recordings)
-   _Monomania EP_ (2012, Joyful Noise Recordings)
-   _Split 12" w/ Dope Body_ (2011, FAR)
-   _Exquisite Luxury EP_ (2008, SSM)
-   _Gold Thriller_ (2007, JNR/SSM)
-   _Physical Education Split EP w/ Stationary Odyssey_ (2007, JNR)

Singles

-   _Jerk Off Your Life 1" Button w/ download_ (2016, Housecore Records)
-   _Flexed Heads 7" w/ Hellmouth, Old Gods & Golden Torso_ (2014, Corpse Flower)
-   _Gods of Love 7" w/ Hellmouth, Old Gods & Golden Torso_ (2014, Corpse Flower)
-   _Demonomaniacs 7" w/ Hellmouth, Old Gods & Golden Torso_ (2012, Dyspepsidisc)
-   _Chickenshit Conformists 7" w/ Hellmouth, Old Gods & Golden Torso_ (2012, Dyspepsidisc)
-   _Family Men 7" w/ Hellmouth, Old Gods & Golden Torso_ (2012, Bellyache)
-   _Split 7" w/ DD/MM/YYYY_ (2009, Wham City/Dyspepsidisc)
-   _Split 7" w/ Big Bear_ (2009, JNR)
-   _Split 7" w/ This Moment In Black History_ (2009, FAR)

[1] http://www.metalinsider.net/interviews/interview-child-bites-shawn-knight-on-voivod-tour-housecore-deal-melvins-video-cameo

[2] https://www.discogs.com/artist/594950-Sean-Clancy

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[9] http://www.metalnerd.net/mountain-of-wizard-to-support-down-and-child-bite-on-u-s-trek/

[10] http://loudwire.com/voivod-2016-north-american-tour-king-parrot-child-bite/

[11] https://www.scenepointblank.com/news/tours/2015/11/06/negative-approach-and-child-bite-tour-us/

[12] http://loudwire.com/superjoint-spring-2017-tour-battlecross-child-bite/

[13] http://lambgoat.com/news/comments.aspx?id=25788

[14] http://www.earsplitcompound.com/site/2017/09/05/unsane-announces-new-north-american-and-european-fall-tour-in-support-of-southern-lord-bound-sterilize-lp/

title: Child Bite

question: What does the article say about the music of Child Bite?

answer: They use atonal guitars, distorted bass, and organ, frequent shifts in rhythm with howling vocals in frenzy. They are a punk/rock/metal band. They used to incorporate more instruments like saxophone and violin. Their lyrics are metaphysical and abstract, dealing with fear, paranoia, despair, and the like.

question: What does the article say about how Child Bite records their albums?


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HENRY WARD “HEINIE” BECKENDORF (June 15, 1884[1] – September 15, 1949) was a professional baseball catcher from 1903 to 1912. He played Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers in 1909 and 1910 and for the Washington Senators in 1910.

Playing career

Early years

Beckendorf was born in 1884 in New York, New York.[2][3][4] He played semi-professional baseball with the Williams Athletic Association in New York City and also played intercollegiate baseball for Everett College.[5]

Minor leagues

Beckendorf began his professional baseball career in 1903 with the Kingston Colonials of the Hudson River League. He played for Kingston from 1903 through the early part of the 1906 season.[6][7] In 1905, he helped Kingston win the Hudson River League pennant.[8]

In early 1906, Beckendorf filed a claim with the National Board asking to be released from Kingston's reserve list. Beckendorf sought the release on the grounds that Kingston had failed to pay him all that was due and on the further ground that there was a non-reserve clause in his contract with the team. In April 1906, the Board sustained Beckendorf's claim on both bases and struck his name from Kington's reserve list.[9]

In May 1906, after gaining his release from Kingston, Beckendorf signed with the Providence Grays of the Eastern League.[10] He split the remainder of the 1906 season with the Grays and the Newark Sailors of the Eastern League.[11] During the 1907 and 1908 seasons, Beckendorf played for the Scranton Miners in the New York State League.[12][13] He helped Scranton win the New York State League pennant and was presented with a silver shaving set by his Scranton admirers.[14]

Major League Baseball

Detroit Tigers

At the end of July 1908, Beckendorf was purchased from Scranton by the Detroit Tigers with the condition that he would report to Detroit in the spring.[15] In November 1908, _Sporting Life_ reported on Connie Mack's offer to purchase Beckendorf from Detroit: “Beckendorf, the other new catcher, so strongly impressed Connie Mack that he offered the Tigers $2,500 in cash and might have gone higher had there been any use. Mr. Mack told a local man that never in his experience had he seen a catcher get more out of his pitchers than this man Beckendorf did in a long examination he underwent, with the eye of that master looking on.”[16]

Beckendorf signed a contract with the Tigers in January 1909. At the time, _Detroit Free Press_ writer Joe S. Jackson wrote: “The dope on Beckendorf for last year's work would indicate that he is something of a horse. He looks like a man who would thrive on hard labor.”[17] The _Sporting Life_ called Beckendorf one of “the highest-touted backstops who have broken into fast company in recent years.”[18] In March 1909, the same publication reported on Beckendorf's prospects as follows:

  “Beckendorf in particular seems to have the making of a sure big leaguer. While his batting does not promise much, he has learned considerable from Hughey Jennings in this respect. His throwing is sensational, his demeanor behind the bat inspiring and his fleetness of foot considerable in a chap so stockily built. In general appearance he reminds one very much of Spencer, of Boston, as he looked when he first entered the league. At that time, it will be recalled, he had the build of a strong, sturdy youngster, the rolls of adipose tissue for which he has been of late noted having been added as the accompaniment of play in the big league.”[19]

Beckendorf made his major league debut with the Tigers on April 16, 1909. He appeared in 15 games for the 1909 Tigers, compiling a .259 batting average in 27 at bats.[20] Although the Tigers won the American League pennant in 1909, there is no record of Beckendorf having appeared in the 1909 World Series.[21]

[1908 Cabanas Cuban baseball card for Beckendorf]

In November 1909, Beckendorf was among a group of players from the 1909 Tigers that toured Cuba and played 12 exhibition games against two integrated Cuban teams, Habana and Almendares. He alternated as a catcher and right fielder during the Cuban tour.[22] The Cabañas Company printed a series of baseball cards showing the members of the Almendares, Habana and Detroit baseball teams. Beckendorf's Cabañas card is displayed to the right.

Beckendorf began the 1910 season with the Tigers. In March 1919, Beckendorf's photograph was featured on the front page of _Sporting Life_.[23] He appeared in only three games for the 1910 Tigers, compiling a .429 batting average in seven at bats.[24]

Washington Senators

In June 1910, Beckendorf was purchased for the balance of the 1910 season by the Washington Senators from the Tigers.[25][26] He appeared in 37 games for the 1910 Senators and compiled a .146 batting average in 103 at bats. Beckendorf reportedly caught three of the eight shutouts thrown by Walter Johnson in 1910. In August 1910, Beckendorf's “right thumb was badly damaged by one of Dolly Gray's fast ones.”[27] Beckendorf tried to come back, but re-injured his thumb in the first inning of a game pitched by Walter Johnson. _Sporting Life_ noted that “Henry's hands were hardly equal to the punishment inflicted by Johnson's speed.”[28] Beckendorf appeared in his final major league game at age 26 on September 10, 1910 for the Senators.[29] Shortly thereafter, he was furloughed by Washington manager Jimmy McAleer for the remainder of the season.[30]

Major league totals

In 55 major league games (53 as a catcher), Beckendorf compiled a .182 batting average with no home runs and 13 RBIs. His talent as a catcher brought him to the major leagues. His 1910 fielding percentage of .988 was 20 points above league average, and his range factor of 6.39 was 25 points higher than league average. However, he was not a strong batter; his 1910 batting average of .146 was 81 points below league average, and his .173 slugging percentage was 143 points lower than league average.

Minor leagues

Beckendorf reverted to the Detroit Tigers after the 1910 season.[31] He attended spring training with the Tigers in 1911. He reported overweight but lost 16 pounds during the spring. E. A. Batchelor of the _Detroit Free Press_ wrote at the time that Beckendorf led everyone “in ginger,” was a mimic of manager Hughie Jennings' voice, entertained all with his diving stunts in the pool, and was “the personification of pepper and hard work.”[32] Batchelor added: “Everybody likes Beck and Beck likes everybody, so he was much sought as a companion by those who wished to enjoy life to the fullest. He always was ready for a lark and never lost any legitimate fun, even at the cost of keeping in condition.”[33]

Nevertheless, Beckendorf did not make the Tigers roster and was sent to the Buffalo Bisons of the Eastern League for the 1911 season. In 1912, he played for the Providence Grays in the International League.[34][35]

Family and death

On January 6, 1910, Beckendorf was married to Rose Mallon of Columbus Avenue, New York City. The two were childhood friends in New York. At the time, the _Detroit Free Press_ reported that news of the wedding cast a “pall of gloom ... [f]or be it known that Mr. Beckendorf is there strong with the fair sex, and was much admired of many of Detroit's fairest daughters.”[36] At the time of the 1920 U.S. Census, the couple was living on 96th Street in Manhattan; Beckendorf listed his profession at the time as “none.”[37]

Beckendorf died in 1949 at age 65 in Jackson Heights, New York.[38] He was buried at Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale, New York.

[1] Baseball-reference.com lists Beckendorf's date of birth as June 15, 1884. A Draft Registration Card completed by “Henry Beckendorf” in September 1918 listed his date of birth as June 15, 1881. A 1900 U.S. Census entry also indicates a June 1881 date of birth for Henry Bekindorf, born in New York of German parents. A 1920 U.S. Census entry for Henry Beckendorf shows an age of 38 and a wife Rose Beckendorf, both living in the New York Borough of Manhattan.

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title: Heinie Beckendorf

question: What does the article say about the teams Beckendorf played for?

answer: Beckendorf played semi-professional baseball with the Williams Athletic Association in New York City and also played intercollegiate baseball for Everett College. In the minor leagues, he played with the Kingston Colonials, the Providence Grays, the Newark Sailors, and the Scranton Miners. In major league baseball, he played for the Detroit Tigers and the Washington Senators. Afterwards, he played with the Buffalo Bisons and the Providence Grays.

question: What does the article say about the origin of Beckendorf's nickname "Heinie"?

question: What does the article say about setbacks in Beckendorf's career?

answer: In 1910, his right thumb was badly damaged. When Beckendorf tried to play again, he re-injured his thumb. In late 1910, he was furloughed for the remainder of the season. He didn't manage to make the Tigers roster in 2011.


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_DEAD: THE ALBUM_ (stylized as _DEADTHEALBUM_) is the fifth studio album by American electronic music group Breathe Carolina. Released on November 15, 2019, on Spinnin' Records and Big Beat, it serves as a follow-up to the group's fourth studio album, _Savages_ (2014). It is their first studio album released as a duo and since their departure from Fearless Records. The album has been described as EDM,[1] including elements of pop and R&B.[2]

Background

Inspiration behind Breathe Carolina releasing a full-length studio album came about from the completion of the album’s first single, “Too Good”.[3][4] “It ignited a spark in us,” producer and member Tom Cooperman says, “the energy we both felt with this record was undeniable and there was this palpable enthusiasm in the studio. We very quickly came to the decision that we needed to make an entire album that had the feeling and mood of this first song.” Singer and producer David Schmitt said it “felt like a breath of fresh air and a vibe we haven’t heard come from anyone”.

Promotion

Singles

On September 13, 2019, Breathe Carolina released the album's lead single, “Too Good”.[5] The second single “Like This” was released on September 20.[6] “Drive” followed on November 8 as the third single.[7] One day before the album came out, on November 14, the track “July” was released as a single along its music video.[8]

Track listing

Personnel

Breathe Carolina

-   Tom “Tommy” Cooperman – programming, producer, composer, vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, percussion
-   David Schmitt – lead vocals, programming, producer, composer, keyboards, synthesizers, percussion

Production

-   Producers – Alberto Gelati, Andrea Bussoletti, David Schmitt, Jack Brady, Jordan Roman, Luigi Bordi, Tom Cooperman, Andrew Goldstein

Charts

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| Chart (2019)                      | Peak                              |
|                                   | position                          |
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| US Dance/Electronic Album Sales   | 6                                 |
| (_Billboard_)[9]                  |                                   |
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title: Dead: The Album

question: Who made Dead: The Album?

answer: Electronic music group Breathe Carolina.

question: When was Dead: The Album released?

answer: November 15 2019.

question: What album does it serve as a follow-up to?

answer: Savages (2014).

question: What nationality is Breathe Carolina?

answer: American.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: This article is about Dead: The Album, an album by the American electronic music group Breathe Carolina.


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The GRUBORI MASSACRE was the mass murder of six Serb civilians from the village of Grubori, near Knin, on 25 August 1995 by members of the Croatian Army (HV) in the aftermath of Operation Storm. The massacre was listed in the ICTY's indictment of Croatian wartime generals Ante Gotovina, Ivan Čermak and Mladen Markač.

At the completion of the trial in 2011, Čermak was acquitted while Gotovina and Markač were both convicted of various crimes. They were acquitted on appeal in 2012. In 2010, three members of the Lučko Anti-Terrorist Unit, Franjo Drlje, Božo Krajina and Igor Beneta, were indicted and put on trial at the Zagreb Country Court for the crime. Beneta committed suicide, while Drljo and Krajina were acquitted. The verdict was quashed by the Supreme Court and a re-trial in 2016 ended with the same outcome.

Background

By March 1991, tensions between Croats and Serbs escalated into the Croatian War of Independence.[1] Following a referendum on independence that was largely boycotted by Croatian Serbs,[2] the Croatian parliament officially adopted independence on 25 June.[3] The Republic of Serb Krajina (RSK) declared its intention to secede from Croatia and join the Republic of Serbia while the Government of the Republic of Croatia declared it a rebellion.[4] Between August 1991 and February 1992, the RSK initiated an ethnic cleansing campaign to drive out the Croat and non-Serb population from RSK-held territory,[5] eventually expelling as many as 250,000 people according to Human Rights Watch.[6] Croatian forces also engaged in ethnic cleansing against Serbs in Eastern and Western Slavonia and parts of the Krajina on a more limited scale.[7] On 4 August 1995, the Croatian Army (HV) launched Operation Storm to retake the Krajina region which was completed successfully by 7 August.[8] The Operation resulted in the exodus of approximately 200,000 Serbs from Krajina while those Serbs who were unable or unwilling to leave their homes, primarily the elderly, were subjected to various crimes.[9] The ICTY puts the number of Serb civilians killed at 324.[10]

Killings

The killings in Grubori happened amid an operation in the area involving 560 special policemen, just after the Croatian military’s Operation Storm which seized back parts of the country that had been under Serb control.[11] The operation was meant to secure the passage of a train from Zagreb to Split via Knin, which carried President Franjo Tudjman, who was giving speeches at various stops to praise the Croatian Army for “liberating” the area.[12]

Of the 13 people living in Grubori on Aug. 25, seven survived: six women and a man, all elderly.[13] They happened to be in another village, attempting to get official documents enabling them to leave Croatia, when the killings occurred.[14] As they were returning to the village on foot, they saw smoke rising from the hills.[15] U.N. officials arrived at Grubori within hours of the massacre and were able to file a detailed report of what they saw.[16] The victims were 80-year old Miloš Grubor, who was shot behind his ear and in his back as he lay in bed in his pajamas, 65-year old Jovo Grubor, who was found in a field with his throat either slashed or destroyed by an exploding bullet, 41-year old Đuro Karanović and Mika Grubor, 51, who were found shot through the head in another field, 90-year old Marija Grubor, who was found in her torched house and 73-year old Jovan-Damjan Grubor.[17]

Trials

Gotovina et al

The massacre was included in the ICTY's indictment against former Croatian generals Ante Gotovina, Ivan Čermak and Mladen Markač.[18] The Trial of Gotovina et al brought the convictions of Gotovina and Markač and acquittal of Čermak in April 2011.[19] Gotovina and Markač were subsequently acquitted on appeal in November 2012, with the Appeals Chamber of the ICTY reversing the earlier judgement, ruling that there was insufficient evidence to prove the existence of a joint criminal enterprise to remove Serb civilians by force.[20] The Appeals Chamber further stated that the Croatian Army and Special Police committed crimes after the artillery assault, but the state and military leadership had no role in their planning and creation.[21]

Lučko unit

In 2010, the Zagreb County State Court indicted three members of the Lučko Anti-Terrorist Unit for the massacre: Franjo Drljo, Božo Krajina and Igor Beneta. In 2011, Beneta committed suicide.[22] Drljo and Krajina were tried and subsequently acquitted of the charges.[23] In December 2015, their acquittals were quashed by the Supreme Court and a re-trial was ordered.[24] In February 2016, Zagreb County Court acquitted Drljo and Krajina again but the State Attorney’s Office launched another appeal, which was dismissed by the Supreme Court on 19 September 2019.[25] The two men were reportedly acquitted due to lack of evidence, though the trial established that Drljo’s and Krajina’s superiors from the Lučko unit had tried to cover up the killings.[26] Court documents from the ICTY reveal that after the killings, a story was conceived that the unit had clashed with Serb soldiers.[27]

Commemoration

On 25 August 2020, Croatian President Zoran Milanović and War Veterans Minister Tomo Medved, along with Croatian Serb politicians, MP Milorad Pupovac and Deputy Prime Minister Boris Milošević attended a commemoration in the village of Grubori where a cross had been recently erected for the victims of the massacre. Earlier in the month, Milošević attended Operation Storm celebrations in Knin.[28]

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title: Grubori massacre

question: Summarise the background to the Grubori Massacre

answer: The GRUBORI MASSACRE was the mass murder of six Serb civilians from the village of Grubori, near Knin, on 25 August 1995 by members of the Croatian Army (HV) in the aftermath of Operation Storm. By March 1991, tensions between Croats and Serbs escalated into the Croatian War of Independence. Both sides took part in ethnic cleansing of people from the opposing side.


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With the Vegas Golden Knights' expansion draft – their debutante ball, if you will – fast approaching, _The Elbow_ is taking an in-depth look at who will be lining up this fall for the NHL's 31st team, and why.

You've probably read hundreds of well thought-out think pieces and essays about the machinations of this draft, but look no further. Put your house on these picks. We present to you, the results of the 2017 Vegas Golden Knights expansion draft.

GOALTENDERS

After Marc-Andre Fleury is dragged kicking and screaming from the Penguins in a pre-draft trade, the Golden Knights will be looking for a few backups to help support the Flower, both on the ice, and emotionally off it.

PHILIPP GRUBAUER – WASHINGTON CAPITALS
According to reports, 'Gruby' is a kindhearted and tender soul who will be perfect for helping Fleury adjust to life outside of Pittsburgh. He's been known as the mommy of the Capitals for the past few seasons, and has taken an active role in lining up fun activities to help cheer up the boys after getting bounced in the second round of the playoffs. Rumours are that he also makes a killer lasagne. A perfect backup to Fleury.

ANTTI NIEMI – DALLAS STARS
The Vegas management group wants its fans to be able to appreciate what having a competent goaltender is like. That relief will be felt the first time anyone else takes the cage after a few games with Niemi.

ANTTI RAANTA – NEW YORK RANGERS
After a brilliant season backing up Henrik Lundqvist, Raanta finally gets his chance to be a number one goaltender. He will be a fantastic addition to the Chicago Wolves roster.

DEFENCEMEN

The 2000 NHL expansion draft saw big-name blue liners such as Bert Robertsson, Tommi Rajamaki, and Ladislav Benysek selected. It's hard to believe, but the defencemen chose this time around might be even better.

OLIVER EKMAN-LARSSON – ARIZONA COYOTES
Being the numbers guy that he is, Coyotes GM John Chayka assigns a random number generator to do the job of making his protected players list. Truth be told, that "random number generator" was just a bunch of Bingo balls he found in his mom's basement.

MARC METHOT – OTTAWA SENATORS
After suffering an horrific finger injury at the end of the regular season, the big blue liner will be tasked with showing it off to as many young Golden Knights players as possible. Sources from within the organization indicate that Methot – a perfect embodiment of playing hockey the way it should be played™ – will be required to dress up the stump and entertain the players' children with finger puppet shows each week.

JUSTIN FALK – BUFFALO SABRES
Confusing him for the 25-year-old who had 20 powerplay points a couple of seasons ago, the Golden Knights will be over the moon with this pick. That is, until he hits the ice for the first time.

MICHAL ROZSIVAL – CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS
As it turns out, Vegas GM George McPhee was a closeted fan of the Penguins' _X Generation_ over a decade ago. While Rozsival left the team just before that era officially kicked off, McPhee loves the hype and excitement that he brings to the teams he plays on. Rumours are, the team is also pursuing free agents Konstantin Koltsov and Rico Fata.

JORDIE BENN – MONTREAL CANADIENS
According to sources within the Canadiens organization, Jordie boasted to his teammates about being the brother of Jamie "thousands" of times in the three months since his arrival from Dallas. Several Habs players have been threatened by the d-man, who said he would get his brother to beat them up, resulting in GM Marc Bergevin leaving him unprotected.

JONAS BRODIN – MINNESOTA WILD
After learning that everyone in the hockey media (even including the last remaining hockey analyst left at ESPN) predicts that Brodin will be the perfect fit to his team, McPhee and his staff have no option but to select the defenceman.

LUCA SBISA – VANCOUVER CANUCKS
Every team needs its fair share of first-round busts. With Jake Virtanen more than ready to take over that lead role in Vancouver next season, Sbisa becomes movable, and would be a huge asset to the Golden Knights who are looking for the franchise's first bust.

JOE MORROW – BOSTON BRUINS
Boston's lucky number 7th defenceman had a rough season, but gets the chance to redefine what sort of player he is, with most pundits believing he's well on his way to redefining himself from blue chip prospect to career minor leaguer in record time.

TYLER WOTHERSPOON – CALGARY FLAMES
A big fan of his sister Reese, GM George McPhee hopes this gets him a legitimate shot at an autograph for his basement wall.

FORWARDS

Reid Duke has been waiting patiently for some offensively-minded friends to join him for a couple of months. Here is the list of rag-tag merry men that will be ensuring he doesn't play a single NHL game in 2017-18.

JOHN TAVARES – NEW YORK ISLANDERS
After failing to re-sign his captain to the patented DiPietro contract he tries out on all of his star free agents, GM Garth Snow gets fed up with the 26-year-old's negotiating tactics and forces him to waive his no-movement clause. Snow's frustration with Tavares reaches a boiling point after the centreman tells him he was a better goaltender than he is a general manager.

DUSTIN BROWN – LOS ANGELES KINGS
Since being replaced by Anze Kopitar as captain last year, Brown has spent the past 12 months trying to sabotage the Slovenian at every opportunity. Some of his subversive tactics include constantly referring to Kopitar's home country as Slovakia, as well as inviting all of his teammates except for the captain to his birthday at Chuck E. Cheese in November.

NIKITA KUCHEROV – TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING
After finally employing a Russian translator to follow the forward around, management was actually able to figure out what he was saying all along. None of it can be published in this family-friendly publication.

THE GOAL CANNON – COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS
In need desperate need to find an identity, the Golden Knights opt to select the only thing that gives the Blue Jackets theirs.

LEE STEMPNIAK – CAROLINA HURRICANES
The addition of the league's 31st team gives Stempniak the chance to do the unthinkable for a player with his skill set: break a record. Vegas would be his 11th team, putting him just one behind journeyman Mike Sillinger. Expect him to break that record by November 2017.

RILEY SHEAHAN – DETROIT RED WINGS
Every team needs a whipping boy, and Vegas has been given a gift in Sheahan. The 25-year-old managed to go 79 games without scoring a single goal last season, only to pot two in the final game. Get your bronx cheers ready, Vegas!

JAKOB SILFVERBERG – ANAHEIM DUCKS
After failing to trade one of his defencemen away, Ducks GM Bob Murray gets flustered and picks the guy whose name he still can't pronounce.

BERNIE THE ST. BERNARD – COLORADO AVALANCHE
Although St. Bernard comes with his well-documented baggage, the canine has plenty to offer his new teammates. With a compete level not seen in Denver since the Sakic days, he'll keep fans on the edge of their seats all game long.

TYLER PITLICK – EDMONTON OILERS
Vegas is one big circus, and every circus needs its freaks. Pitlick will be charged with entertaining the fans from the penalty box with his signature _Pitlick_, the trick his family was named after.

MARTIN ERAT – NASHVILLE PREDATORS
After successfully robbing Washington with the trade for Filip Forsberg four years ago, the Preds ask for another favour out of forward Martin Erat. Seeing this as a golden opportunity, George McPhee scoops up the 35-year-old in the hopes that he'll provide his team with a boost in the playoffs.

DAVID PERRON – ST. LOUIS BLUES
After a strict team rule of No Douchey Visors was put into place last month, GM Doug Armstrong has no choice but to leave Perron unprotected.

DUSTIN BYFUGLIEN – WINNIPEG JETS
After being repeatedly told that he's never allowed to take faceoffs, Big Buff waives his NMC in the hopes of playing for someone that will let him improve the craft.

DEREK MACKENZIE – FLORIDA PANTHERS
As is tradition, every expansion team needs a captain whose name will be forgotten in a few years, and MacKenzie gifts the franchise that chance. At the same time, the Panthers are able to let him go in a dignified manner, just like the girl whose ugly first boyfriend moved out of state because of his dad's work.

DEVANTE SMITH-PELLEY – NEW JERSEY DEVILS
Every GM loves to trot out the mantra "You can't teach size" when speaking to the media. Smith-Pelley will give George McPhee plenty of opportunities to use the line when he fails to crack 20 points each of the next few years.

JOE THORNTON & BRENT BURNS' BEARDS – SAN JOSE SHARKS
The beards of Thornton and Burns bring with them years of playoff experience including a long run to the cup finals last year. Once surgically removed from their faces, the beards can be used interchangeably on various players in the lineup.

PIERRE-EDOUARD BELLEMARE – PHILADELPHIA FLYERS
Looking to increase their reach in uptapped European markets, the Golden Knights select one of the three French players in the NHL. It will act as a signal to all cheese makers that "The official Brie of the Vegas Golden Knights" is still open to the best offer.

COLBY ARMSTRONG – PITTSBURGH PENGUINS
After signing a month-long contract with his old team, Colby is picked by Vegas and entrusted with being Marc-Andre Fleury's father away from home. In a transitioning role with foster mom Phillipp Grubauer, Armstrong will teach the netminder how Fleury likes his grilled cheese sandwiches on game day, and the best way to tuck him in at night.

ERIC FEHR – TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS
The Leafs become the luckiest team in the league, by not losing a single player to the expansion draft.

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question: What does the article say about Canadian teams?

answer: Marc Methot is the draft pick for the Ottowa Senators. Jordie Benn is the pick for the Montreal Canadians. Luca Sbisa is the pick for the Vancouver Canucks. Tyler Wotherspoon is the pick for the Calgary Flames. Tyle Pitlick is the pick for the Edmonton Oilers. And Eric Fehr is the pick for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

question: What does the article say about NBA draft picks?


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Somewhere between the ages of 8-12 girls mysteriously lose their cooties.

Sometime in middle school, you get a glimpse of cleavage and you go borderline insane. In swiftness, you feel some type of foreign energy manifesting below the belt. You understand the correlation and pray to god that the teacher doesn’t call you up to the board. You spend the next five minutes uncomfortably fidgeting in your seat, drawing up absurd schematics in your head as to how you can shimmy out of class unnoticed if this thing doesn’t power down soon enough.

A rush of emotions and feelings all come crashing through at once and it’s almost impossible to make sense of them all. A switch in your brain flips and all of a sudden you aren’t the same innocent boy you once were. You learn some anatomical facts that both fascinate and disturb you. But you come to understand that you’re either gonna need a girlfriend or a computer with some killer virus protection software. If you can’t find some type of solution to the monster looming in your briefs, it’ll soon morph into a second, much less intelligent brain.

The next few years were spent trying to figure out how and when you were going to “become and man” and lose the infamous V-Card.

I guess I that kinda thought that once you had sex for the first time, everything would just magically become ok. Grades would figure themselves out, your parents would stop nagging you for sleeping in until 11:30, unlimited daps would come by way of every dude in the school, all of life’s answers would become evident and uhh well you’d get to touch boobs… like on demand. I also think I probably watched too much TV.

She was one of those girls that loved writing notes to each other, as if the $400 computer in my pocket couldn’t do the same. I remember reading it on a white, college-ruled, piece of notebook paper. Among other things it said, “I’m ready to go all the way and experience this with you. And yes I mean everything”. My palms and armpits began to saturate. That mix of emotions from earlier years of awkwardness found its way back, but this time into my stomach. I think I was more anxious than anything.

My second, much less developed brain started to grow mischievous with this newly acquired information. Every time that we hung out that sentence was all that I could think about. So I’d ask. “When do you wanna have sex babe”. I actually am laughing at myself just imaging the dumbass look on my face as I asked. Disgusted, she’d ask if that’s all I ever thought about. She was on to me.

But I would solemnly shake my head, knowing that I loved her, knowing that I had to experience this with her and only her for the time being.

Then on the first day of Thanksgiving break; at 17 years young, I got the text. “If you still have the house to yourself today, I’m ready”. This is just an estimate, but I’m pretty sure that I replied within 12 seconds. I think that the text she received was one of those texts that you get before the lock screen fades out to a blank screen and you think to yourself, how the hell did they respond so fucking quick?

After 10 minutes or so of waiting and running around frantically to make sure everything was just right (i.e. throwing all of the dirty clothes on my room floor into the hamper) the doorbell rang.

I will always remember opening the front door to see her standing there, with the familiar slight smile, which I had fallen head over Nikes for. It was a grey afternoon, but somehow she was glowing. All the nerves went away and we ran up the steps. If it weren’t for the hinge on the door, it would have been left open for the entire neighborhood to listen in. That’s how little I cared about anything else at the time.

After a few minutes of casually conversing about our morning (I lied about working out to seem cooler and more attractive. I also hoped that I remembered to turn off my Xbox that I had been playing all morning, knowing it was the loophole in my fib.)

This progressed to cuddling. Which brought upon making out with awkward passion. We took turns undressing each other from the top down. I felt like my brain was turning off all of the lights except the one focusing on her. As it should be I guess, I don’t know.

After only a few minutes (I’ve since improved… ladies) it was time for years of pent up sexual frustration to finally authentically be released.

Boom. Done. Like clockwork the Lonely Island and Akon song started in my head. I thought that my jaw was going to be permanently stuck holding up that foolish grin on my face. I began to pull the car out of the garage and noticed a slightly different feeling.

I looked down to horrifically see a tear towards the base end of the condom. Thanks Obama. My heart began to beat irregularly as she asked in a panicked tone, “Babe what’s wrong? Why do you look like you just saw a ghost”.

Simply put, I did. The ghost of future Me was chasing a little kid around a one bedroom apartment wondering when his parents would ever talk to him again and living off of some sort of welfare.

After a solid 20 minutes of laying on my bed in shock, rapidly googling everything to do in this situation we decided to go out to lunch and talk this through. We needed a plan. Plan B that is.

I remember driving down the road trying to figure out which restaurant complimented this shitty situation the best. We decided on Olive Garden. Since I couldn’t drown my sorrows in endless round of alcoholic beverages, I figured breadsticks of the same quantity would do.

After the scariest lunch of both of our lives, we walked out of the restaurant only to find my automatic locks to not be working. I thought it was bizarre and manually keyed into the car. I put the key in the ignition and turned it expecting to hear the roar of the engine and be on my way to get this girl some fucked up pills to eliminate the potential spawn that we had created. Instead we heard the sound of a laboring engine lacking a battery.

Luckily I was able to get ahold of a buddy with his own set of jumper cables and he wasn’t all that far away. While she sat on the curb in silence with a petrified look on her face us “men” proceeded to connect the cables to the car.

With my friend being utterly oblivious to the situation, started cracking jokes about the car exploding. I remember for a few seconds contemplating if that would even be a bad thing as long as I perished along with it. I shook it off and thanked my friend, promising a reward by way of a tightly packed bowl and buffalo chicken pizza next time we hung out.

After a silent ride to the nearest supermarket with a pharmacy, we each chipped in 20 bucks and I walked in. Of course there had to be a kid from my high school working the register at the pharmacy counter. After asking how I’d been and engaging the most worthless small talk of my life (sorry bro) he asked what I was there to pick up. I told him that I was having a pretty shitty day and was going to need some Plan B. He cackled and walked to the back and brought up a white box. “$46.95” he exclaimed, adding, “will that be cash or credit? I’d choose cash unless you want your parents knowing you’ve been sticking it to your girl raw dog”. I was pissed at not only that but that I was also 7 dollars short. “Be right back” I said. Ashamed, I walked back to the car praying the battery didn’t die on me again.

Confused as to why I returned empty handed I faced 20 questions before I could even get a word out of my mouth. In a more pissed off manner than I needed to display, I grabbed my wallet, slammed the door, “Be right back”.

I handed him the cash, acquired the box, and marched back to the car. Reaching into the bag I found the receipt, crinkled it up, and threw it into some neighboring brush. I couldn’t even imagine the consequences had my parents found that.

Inside the box was a thin white, envelope looking container with a little white tablet. The envelope was reinforced with so much plastic; you’d have thought it was being shipped to another galaxy. It took a good 10 minutes of wrestling with it, poking at it with pens and a random screwdriver, and arguing for both of us to finally manage to make an opening in the damn thing.

Once we managed to create a tear in the packaging, I began to vigorously claw at it. Suddenly, we heard a pop and the white pill flung about 6 inches into the air, and promptly plummeted into the depths between the front seat and center console. I myself had lost countless amounts of change down there, so I knew the severity of the situation.

This excursion took about 5 minutes until we found it. I watched carefully as she swallowed the pill and reclined in her seat, closing her eyes and letting out a massive sigh of relief. I couldn’t imagine the levels of stress that she had gone through that day. I couldn’t imagine how stressed and scared she would be until her next period. I couldn’t imagine having to raise a kid when we were both ones ourselves.

Thankfully, the period came and we were both able to relax, knowing that we hadn’t yet ruined our lives. Over the next few years, we stayed together and kept having sex. Much more carefully, I’d like to add, until eventually college split us up. You know how it goes.

In living so close to her, we occasionally cross paths. Things are different. I wouldn’t call us friends, or say that there are any left over feelings, but we have a mutual care and respect for each other. That’s really as good as it can get for exes in my view. We’ve both matured tremendously and moved along to other people. Our awkwardness has since faded as well. I think we could both admit to today’s sex being far better than that gray day back in November a few years back. We haven’t brought the incident up to each other since our break up, but every time we see each other I can’t help but think back and laugh at the situation, understanding that this absurd secret is only known in full by the two of us.

title: [NF] My First Time Having Sex

question: Summarize the varieties of emotions the narrator goes through as revealed in the passage.

answer:
The narrator feels a foreign energy going through him whenever he sees a bit of breast cleavage. However, it was not always this way. To him, it seems girls mysteriously lost their cooties once they are between the age of 8 to 12. Whenever the narrator sees a bit of girl's cleavage, he feels a rush of emotions almost at once and he does not understand it. He believes he lost all innocence once he learned what was going with himself, at least anatomically.

The narrator finally gets a girlfriend and planned on having sex with her. On the day, the narrator feels awkward as he makes out with the girl and they finally have sex. The narrator's delight soon turns to horror as he realizes the used condom is torn at the base. The narrator and the girlfriend both go to a pharmacy to buy contraceptives. Nervous, the narrator opens the box containing the contraceptive. The girl takes it and after a few weeks confirmed she has seen her period, to the relief of the narrator.


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[Arnold Pham]

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Welcome to the latest Lunyr development update! In this update we will be discussing our plans for NEBULA, the next milestone in the Lunyr project. Nebula (Q2, 2018), will introduce changes in the peer review and reward systems that will ultimately result in higher quality content and greater user retention.

The core of Lunyr has always been the peer review and reward system. However, in order to understand these systems, we have to recognize several important hypotheses that were validated during the Private Alpha and Open Beta :

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    Not all writers and peer reviewers are equally competent
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    Content quality increases with greater writing and peer reviewing competency
3.

    Users contribution increases with greater rewards

Understanding Writing Competency (WC) or Peer Review Competency (PRC) is critical to building a high quality knowledge base. Average Writing Competency and Average Peer Review Competency are closely correlated with content quality.

If five peer reviewers with low competency are matched together, then the resulting content will be low quality.

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However, when 5 peer reviewers with high competency are matched together, then the resulting content will be high quality.

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However, there is a sweet spot occurs when the average peer review competency is greater than a minimum threshold. The minimum threshold should be enough to enable a wider range of competencies while still ensuring a minimum standard of quality.

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In the Nebula Release, we will aim to raise the PRC through system upgrades

EDUCATION AND EXAM REQUIREMENTS

We’ll create best practices, guidelines, and competency tests to ensure that writers and peer reviewers have the knowledge required to perform at the highest competency level.

SMART PEER REVIEW MATCHMAKING SYSTEM

The future Peer Review System will more intelligently match peer reviewers together to exceed a minimum threshold of the Average Peer Review Competency.

RELEVANT CONTENT RANDOMIZATION

The random peer review selection will consider a peer reviewer’s interests and competence in a certain topic.

ASSISTED WRITING AND PEER REVIEW EXPERIENCE

The writing and peer review experience will be guided with interactive human-computer interaction. All the interactions where a Chief Editor would normally interact with a writer and/or peer reviewer to ensure that expectations are being met during the creative process are being replaced with our Assisted Technology. In the future, Machine Learning may be used to better fine-tune the experience to the individual needs of the writer or peer reviewer. This Assisted Writing and Peer Review Experience will occur in what we’re calling our Intelligent Editor 1.0 and Peer Review Guidance 1.0.

CONTENT VALIDATION

The Editor is getting an upgrade which will check to ensure that the writing requirements are being met. In the future, we will add pre-processing and post-processing steps to ensure that the content is processed to a higher quality along the content production process.

DEVELOPMENT RELEASES

SEARCH UPGRADE

We have upgraded the search on Lunyr. It is now 100x faster than before and predicts relevant search results.

UPCOMING MOBILE RELEASE

The dedicated mobile version of Lunyr will finally be released. We’re proud to showcase our progress so far!

Writers will be able to write in the mobile version. Previously, writing was only available on desktop.

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The Article Viewer features a minimalistic view that is easy to read.

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There will be a feed that allows writers and peer reviewers to stay updated with all the recent Lunyr events.

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The Mobile User profile allows writers to show off their work in a beautiful view.

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Users can more easily check and transfer their Ethereum, LUN, and Points.

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Advertisers can stay updated with the progress of their campaigns.

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That’s all for today’s update! We look forward to building the future of knowledge sharing with the community.

Click here to get paid for writing and peer reviewing articles!

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question: What does the text say about the difference in the competence of peer reviewers?

answer: The competence of the peer reviewers greatly affects the quality of the content. Lunyr aims to have high-quality content, which can be achieved by having peer reviewers with high competency. Since levels of competence differ among peer reviewers, Lunyr plans to group together peer reviewers in a way that a minimum standard of quality is still achieved.

question: What does the text say about the editor?

answer: In the new update, the job of the human Chief Editor, the one who interacts with writers and peer reviewers to ensure that the content is of high quality, will be replaced by an AI. The Assisted Technology consists of the Intelligent Editor 1.0 and Peer Review Guidance 1.0. The AI checks the output of the writers or peer reviewers to make sure that all requirements are met.

question: What does the text say about the development releases?

answer: Searching content on Lunyr is way faster now, and it gives more relevant search results. Lunyr's mobile app will also be available soon so that users can switch from PC to mobile.

question: What does the text say about Lunyr users' feedback?


text:
_THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE_ is a 1994 bronze sculpture by Nancy Schön, installed in Boston's Copley Square, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The work references one of Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare, and commemorates Boston Marathon participants.[1]

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title: The Tortoise and the Hare (sculpture)

question: Where is Copley Square?

answer: Boston.

question: When was the sculpture "The Tortoise and the Hare" made?

answer: 1994.

question: Who is the artist?

answer: Nancy Schon.

question: What does the work reference?

answer: One of Aesop's Fables.

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: "The Tortoise and the Hare" is a 1994 bronze sculpture by Nancy Schon located in Boston's Copley Square.


text:
	I was a close friend of Ben Harper's for about 10 years, from playing legos, to shooting tin cans, to racing cars. I was there for him after his parents died, about to take him in until his aunt decided to stop being a bitch and let him live with her. Ben was never right after his parents died, but I could never put a finger on what exactly happened. It was like his mind was wrapped in a foggy black abyss, wrestling with itself, closing out everything he ever had. He went from constant chatter, to silent reluctance, and  from soccer practices to therapy sessions. But one thing was for certain, Ben Harper was always my good friend.
	As kids, we were always playing cops and robbers. I was always a cop, alongside our good friend Dennis, and Peter was always the first to volunteer himself to be the robber, most likely because he was  always so damn good at it. He'd sneak by with a certain level of stealth that made you think his feet weren't even on the ground. Even thinking  about it now...I'd say Peter's exceptional skills in cops and robbers is what has turned me and Dennis into such great cops. Always taking in the smallest details, always analyzing multiple times. Peter was a great catalyst to our career success.
	But one day in our sophomore year of highschool, Peter came to my house, unannounced. He asked if he could come in, his head tilted to the ground, hands shaking. He didn't walk in right away, but stood like a statue in an exhibit.
	“Can I come in...?”  Slightly monotone.
	Something was wrong.
	“Yeah dude, you alright?”
	He walked right passed me, sat on the couch his head in between his legs, cradled by his trembling hands.
	“My fucking aunt dude...”
	Peter's aunt was a bitch, everyone knew that. She treated Peter like a 6 year old, making him come home for dinner, making sure he was inside at night. I think she's part of the reason why he's fucked up, in fact, I'm almost sure of it. When I bring it up all he says is, “Dude, you have no idea...”
	I ask Peter what happened. He gets up, pacing, running a hand through his wild hair.
	“I get home, and there are boxes in my room. She gives me this smartass smirk that she's done my whole fucking life and just says, 'Be packed by next week. We're moving.'”
	He's reliving the moment as he explains it. I've never seen him this mad. I don't know what to say.
	“Fuck, dude.”
	“I'm losing it Tony, I'm really. Fucking. losing it.” He slams his hands on the wooden table as he says it.
	I keep trying to calm him down, but the brewing rage inside of him just keeps a continuous boil. I tell him maybe he could live with me for a while, to which his face turns blank. His rage turns to fear.
	“Do you know what she would do to me?”
	You're right, I don't...What the fuck happens at Peter's when no one is around?
	 I tell him to get in the car, and I drive off. I pick up Dennis, and we head to the shooting range.  Peter shot consistent bulls-eyes that night. That was one of the last memories I have of him, until he was gone.
	Dennis and I stayed close throughout our college years. We went to NYU together, were in the same frat, and lived together the whole four years. We tried to keep in touch with Peter as much as possible, but it was rough. He moved from New Jersey to Minnesota, and was going to college, but I don't think he ever told me what he was going for. Apparently his aunt restricted how much he could talk to people, so he could never talk for long. We eventually fell out of contact, but I hope he was at least living at college and moved out. That fucking bitch.

title: Blood Red Part I (feedback appreciated)

question: Why is Ben Harper upset?

answer: After Ben's parents die, his aunt mistreats him. She treats him like a six year old child, and does not let him go out. She also is incredibly controlling and demands that he move with her to a new city.