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President Donald Trump responded to several news outlets calling the 2020 election for President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday with an inaccurate and desperate-seeming statement, claiming that his campaign will start “prosecuting our case” in court come Monday — in what would effectively be an attempt to overrule the will of the American people.

“We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner, and why his media allies are trying so hard to help him: they don’t want the truth to be exposed,” the president said in his statement. “Joe Biden has not been certified as the winner in any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts.”

All states will certify their results in the weeks to come; and the projections made by Decision Desk and others who call elections were made based on current counts, which are not expected to significantly change between now and when that certification occurs later in November.

The statement also falsely claimed that election observers were not allowed to observe the vote count in several states. Not only were they, but in some cases these observers disturbed the count; others can be seen watching counters on livestreams.

The president’s words aren’t surprising, as he’d suggested ahead of the election that he would not accept its results. And, true to form, he has not.

In many ways, the official statement is a more formal version of the baseless allegations of voter fraud the president made in a series of tweets Saturday morning, in which he appeared to desperately grasp at any whimsical conspiracy theory necessary to keep power.

In those tweets, Trump lied about votes being “illegally received” in Pennsylvania “and certain other states.” Despite the fact, of course, that all states have counted only ballots submitted according to their guidelines. Some states, like Pennsylvania, allowed mail-in ballots received after Election Day — but with a postmark from Election Day, or earlier — to be counted. There’s nothing illegal about this, however; in fact, states are legally obligated to count ballots that are submitted in accordance with election law.

Trump also lied on Twitter about election observers not being allowed in counting rooms in “numerous states.” As noted above, this is false.

The tweets were flagged by Twitter as “disputed” and potentially “misleading.”

  ....This would ALSO change the Election result in numerous States, including Pennsylvania, which everyone thought was easily won on Election Night, only to see a massive lead disappear, without anyone being allowed to OBSERVE, for long intervals of time, what the happened...

  — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2020

  ....Bad things took place during those hours where LEGAL TRANSPARENCY was viciously & crudely not allowed. Tractors blocked doors & windows were covered with thick cardboard so that observers could not see into the count rooms. BAD THINGS HAPPENED INSIDE. BIG CHANGES TOOK PLACE!

  — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2020

Overall, there is no evidence of voter fraud or tampering with vote counting. As Vox’s Aaron Rupar explained, the Trump campaign is making wild allegations of impropriety now and hoping to find evidence for them later:

  Their strategy is to make allegations first and HOPEFULLY FIND EVIDENCE FOR THEM LATER. This state of affairs was thrown into stark relief late Friday morning during a Fox News interview with RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel. During it, Fox News hosts appeared to be out of patience with her evidence-free insinuations that the election was somehow stolen from Trump.

  “We just haven’t seen it. It hasn’t been presented. There’s all kinds of stuff flying on the internet, but when we look into it, it doesn’t pan out,” anchor Bret Baier told McDaniel, as she failed to explain how her technical gripes about election observers in Michigan could possibly affect the result in a state Biden appears poised to win by well over 100,000 votes.

Trump took these falsehoods to a new level Saturday, concluding his morning tweets with a incorrect statement that he actually won the election, writing “I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!”

  I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!

  — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2020

It’s concerning that the president of the United States is just outright lying about an election he lost, and that he has refused to concede now that it is clear he has lost. Perhaps even worse is that several high level Republican lawmakers have joined in on spreading doubt about the accuracy of the election results. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), along with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, all appeared on Fox News to repeat the false assertion that Trump won the election.

What lawsuits come Monday remain to be seen. But it is clear that Trump expects the courts to save him. However, as Vox’s Ian Millhiser has explained, that’s not a strategy that is likely to bear fruit. And whether he concedes or not, Biden will be sworn in as the next president of the United States in January.

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question: What does the text say about Donald Trump's response to the election?

answer: In an act to overrule the will of the American people, Donald Trump tweeted that the 2020 election had begun "prosecuting the case", which, in effect, means not to accept election results. Trump believes, inaccurately, that Biden has not been certified a winner and that the media is trying to help Biden by falsely posing as the election winner.

critique: A small clarification is needed on when the election happened.

critique: The answer should mention that Trump believes the election was stolen from him.

critique: The answer should mention that Trump is claiming voter fraud.

critique: The answer should mention that Trump is making baseless allegations of voter fraud.

critique: The answer should mention Trump's tweets about voter fraud.

critique: The response does not mention that the president is also accusing Biden of voter fraud.

critique: The answer should mention Trump's claims of voter fraud.


split: test

text:
“Where were you last night?” Max peered over my Economics textbook. He had a look of anticipation, as if he was waiting for some pain relieving gossip.

“I was home,” I responded innocently before he rolled his eyes at me. “Now, don’t bother me, I’m trying to focus.” Although normally I would use anything to distract me from school, I wasn’t about to involve Max in last night’s mess.

“Are you expecting me to believe you weren’t at Nina’s party?” He raised his eyebrows at me. I didn’t know what I was expecting. Frankly, no expectation in the world would have prepared me well enough. But I wanted to be there for Nina like she had for me. Perhaps I couldn’t fix her parent’s divorce, but I could at least attend her house party. Especially after her break up with Todd, the leather jacket douche that called her “babe” so much I would wonder if he knew her real name.

“I promise you’ll have a great time,” Nina had told me. And at first, I really did. There is something comforting about the stagnant smell of beer penetrating every fiber of clothing and hair follicle. Something nostalgic about repetitive rap songs preaching about the wonders of big asses.

Everything seemed normal at first. The music was pounding loudly and the dim lights carried shadows across the cramped living room. I could feel the air thickening.

Minutes before terror, I was standing unnoticed next to a group of girls I recognized.

“Someone told me her dad was abusive,” I heard one say with wide eyes.

“Yeah, apparently the neighbors called the cops on them,” another responded.

“Well, I wouldn’t point fingers just yet. Nina’s mom’s a bitch. Maybe she deserved it,” a brunette shrugged and took a sip of her drink right before our eyes met. Her face flared red as she realized her words had been overhead. I clenched my fists in rage.

“How about you all mind your own–”. My response was cut short by a piercing scream. I quickly stood up in alert. The room became still. The music stopped and those still standing looked at one another with puzzled looks. The source was nowhere to be seen. It came again, this time along with a cry. I recognized Nina immediately. I pushed my way across the living room and ran up the stairs before barging into Nina’s bedroom.

I noticed him first. His leather jacket shimmered in the moonlight as he stood tall and angry. A millisecond later, I spotted Nina on the floor. Hands covering her face in defense. The lack of light in the room didn’t stop the fierceness of her blood as it dripped down her temple and into her hair.

I stood still. My brain called in fear but my body made no response. Not even when Todd walked passed me, into the hallway and shut the door behind him.

Nina remained on the floor. She held herself and rocked back and forth, letting silent cries out into the thick air.

“Don’t tell anyone.” She whispered.

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“Hello?” Max snapped at me. “Are you going to tell me or not?” I stared at him blankly as the vivid flashbacks flew through my head. My heart stung in bitterness as I recognized that all I wanted to do was say it. To write it out in sharpie on all student lockers.

Nina’s bloody face burned in my head. “There’s nothing to tell.”

title: [RF] Last Night Leftovers

question: What does the passage say about Todd?

answer: Todd is Nina's ex-boyfriend. After months of immersing himself in his relationship with Nina, he left her the day before he landed her a nice, solid punch to the face.

critique: The response is inaccurate. Todd did not punch Nina.

critique: Todd is not Nina's ex-boyfriend. He is her ex-boyfriend.

critique: Heroine Nina's full name, Todd's punching reflex, or the fact that he left Nina prior to the ex would be better mentions.

question: What does the passage say about Nina's parents?

answer: Nina was having a party after her parents' divorce. Nina's father is abusive and he got in a fight with the police once.

critique: Nina's father is never mentioned as abusive.

critique: The response inaccurately mentions that Nina's father got in a fight with the police.

critique: This is not likely and should be omitted.

critique: The response contains inaccurate information.

question: What does the passage say about domestic abuse?

answer: No answer

critique: The answer should mention the gossip about Nina's family.

critique: The response misses to mention that the story mentions domestic abuse.

question: What does the passage say about prom?

answer: No answer

critique: There is no mention of prom in the text.


text:
Washington D.C. — In November 2015, the Free Thought Project reported that Mikhail Lesin, the former head of media affairs for the Russian government, and the founder of Russia Today (RT), was found dead in the hotel room that he was staying at in Washington DC.

Originally, authorities announced that Lesin died from a heart attack. However, the results of his autopsy released months later indicated a far more sinister cause of death and the heavily redacted FBI documents that were just released add to that story.

The documents, detailing the FBI investigation into Lesin’s death were just released Saturday morning in spite of the investigation ending in October of 2016.

In spite of the original cause of death noted as a heart attack, a few months later, the District of Colombia’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) and Metropolitan Police Department said that “blunt force injuries of the neck, torso, upper extremities and lower extremities” contributed to Lesin’s death. “The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) has released the cause and manner of death for Mikhail Lesin… Cause of Death: blunt force injuries of the head,” the statement said.

Now, FBI investigators have released the results of their investigation claiming that the blunt force trauma all over his body was self-inflicted.

“Mr. Lesin died as a result of blunt for injuries to his head, with contributing causes being blunt force injuries of the neck, torso, upper extremities, and lower extremities, which were induced by falls, with acute ethanol intoxication,” the report states.

In other words, the FBI is claiming that Lesin got so drunk that he repeatedly and violently fell on things until he killed himself.

To show just how much information the FBI is willing to release on these findings, here is the version of the amended autopsy report they released in the report.

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Essentially, all other information in regards to the findings of Lesin’s death has been scrubbed from the documents as the remaining pages are almost entirely redacted.

Not only did the US remain tight-lipped on the investigation but they also refused to allow Russian authorities to cooperate.

As RT reports, back in 2016, months before the closing of the case, Moscow said it was expecting Washington to explain why Russia had not received any details from the probe into Lesin’s death, despite repeated requests.

_“We are awaiting the related clarifications from Washington and the official data on the progress of the investigation,”_ Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote in a Facebook post at that time. She added that if the media reports citing the forensic statement are confirmed, Russia will send an official request to the US_ “for international legal assistance.”_

In October 2016, the US authorities announced that Lesin died of natural causes and closed the case. _“Based on the evidence, including video footage and witness interviews, Mr. Lesin entered his hotel room on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015, after days of excessive consumption of alcohol and sustained the injuries that resulted in his death while alone in his hotel room,”_ the US attorney for the District of Columbia said in a statement.

Lesin’s death came at a time where he was surrounded by controversy, especially in the US. RT, the Russian-based news source that Lesin founded has become very controversial in the US—ostensibly for the fake Russiagate scandal—but in reality, for challenging the western narrative of foreign policy and privacy issues. Some US politicians have suggested that RT be banned in the US for “spreading propaganda,” while others have been blatant enough to attack Lesin personally.

According to the NY Times, until late 2014 Lesin ran the media wing of the state’s energy giant, Gazprom, before stepping down or, more likely, being forced out. He ended up in the United States, where he and his family owned properties in Los Angeles said to be worth far more than the salary of the former government minister.

Some US Senators, including Roger Wicker of Mississippi, had called for the Department of Justice to open an investigation into Lesin’s finances prior to his death.

Wicker was concerned that Lesin made too much money, something that was really none of his business.

“That a Russian public servant could have amassed the considerable funds required to acquire and maintain these assets in Europe and the United States raises serious questions,” Wicker said.

The original announcement of the heart attack back in November 2015 makes this case all the more ominous considering the fact that the medical examiner’s office also said Lesin’s body had blunt force trauma to the neck, torso, arms and legs too. How did authorities overlook his wounds?

As RT reports, Lesin was considered one of the most influential figures in the Russian media landscape. A graduate of Moscow State University with a degree in Civil Engineering, he served as Minister of Press and Mass Media from 1999 to 2004. He was also a presidential media adviser from 2004 to 2009. Lesin became chief executive officer at Garprom-Media in 2013 and remained in the position until early 2015.

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question: Why is it hard for critics to accept that Mikhail Lesin killed himself?

answer: It was not obvious at first that his injuries were self-inflicted.

critique: The passage does not say why critics find it hard to accept that Lesin killed himself.

critique: "It was not obvious at first that his injuries were self-inflicted." is a synopsis of what happened happened after Lesin's death, not why it took critics to accept the official verdict. Change this last sentence to reflect the question of the prompt.

critique: It's omitted that the investigation wasn't finished.

critique: The next sentences comment on the redacted FBI documents that may clarify the situation.

critique: It's omitted that his injuries were all over his body and that he was drunk.

critique: It was obvious that his injuries were self-inflicted

critique: The answer is not relevant to the question.

critique: The investigation into Lesin's death is not the basis for why critics find it hard to accept that he killed himself.

critique: The beginning of the answer is a restatement of what the question is asking.

critique: The statement is false because the injuries were self-inflicted

critique: There is no evidence that critics are having a hard time accepting that he committed suicide.

critique: The article does not suggest the possibility that Lesin's injuries were not self-inflicted.

critique: It is omitted that the injuries were not consistent with a fall.

critique: The answer is not related to the question.

text: It's omitted that the official cause of death changed months later and the subsequent investigation was heavily redacted.

category: coverage

refinement: It was not obvious at first that his injuries were self-inflicted.


text:
For school we have to write a short story. I started writing but now I don't know what direction to take it in! Any ideas would be great!

The men gathered around the table were yelling at each other. They all dressed in the finest suits and each had an air of self-entitlement. The room was barren except for a large oak wood table the stood elegantly in the center. Chairs circled the table and a few had been knocked over when the men had stood up to yell. The room was well lit with a large window that nearly took up an entire wall. The large window provided the room with natural light so there were no lights in the room. There were three doors in the room, two of them led to a different tower of the hotel. The third was a large decorative door with intricate gold plated designs carved in the door. This conference room was on the last floor of the hotel before the hotel split into two different towers. The hotel itself was a large hotel in Chicago, one of the best. Known for its extreme luxury and quality service, many major corporations and business meetings of the extremely wealthy were held here because of its top-notch service. The room was painted a light yellow with a mirror that hung over a fireplace. There were old paintings from the 1600’s that covered the walls and gave the room an elegant museum-like feel.
	The men were in the middle of yelling when the large door swung open and the room went quite. The men who weren’t already standing quickly stood up a man walked slowly towards the head of the table. The man stood at the head of the table, looking around the room at who was presented before him.
“Take a seat.” The man said and the men in front of him quickly sat down again. “I would like to introduce myself. My name is Anthony Kane.”
	The alarm went off on the clock and the rooms lights dimmed on. Stephen sat up and turned off his alarm clock. He sat upright on his bed for a minute with his hair disheveled before he swung his legs out from under the comforters and put his feet in his slippers. His apartment was in downtown Chicago on the top floor penthouse. His blinds opened automatically every morning to wake him up. His room was very spacious and modernly designed with grey walls and white carpet. On the wall opposite his bed there was a walk in closet that he used to keep his expensive suits. As he stood up and walked out of the room, he picked up the robe that was lying on the armchair by the door. He walked down the corridor into the kitchen. He cooked and left food for his wife and kids to have when they woke up.
Stephen’s phone rang as he took the elevator down. He didn’t recognize the number and when he picked up, he didn’t recognize the voice. The caller told him to go to a very important meeting that was taking place at one of the nicest hotels in the area. The caller assured him that it was just a regular business meeting. The caller then told Stephen a serious of numbers that he scribbled on a post it. He was confused on what the meeting was about and when he asked any of his coworkers at the firm he worked at what the meeting was, none of them knew.
	Stephen showed at the hotel at exactly 2 pm just like that caller had said. He went to the front desk and told the receptionist the series of numbers.
“Follow me,” the receptionist walked around the counter and went to the elevator. They took the elevator up to the 5th floor. “This is as far as I can go. Go down the hall, take a right and go into the room at the end.” The receptionist closed the elevator door and left him alone in the corridor.
	In the room, people were already seated around the large table and were quiet. As he picked the only empty seat in the room, he realized he didn’t recognize a single person in the room. The people in the room were all men with really expensive, luxurious suits. Everyone in the room looked extremely wealthy. They sat quietly and after a few minutes of silence people started to talk and soon people were arguing about baseball. They argued and stood up and yelled at each other. The yelling ceased when the large doors swung open. A man walked in slowly and stood at the head of the table. He looked around the room at all the faces and people. The man wore a black suit with a gold tie. He had numerous large, extravagant rings on his fingers.
“I would like to introduce myself. My name is Anthony Kane.” He spoke softly yet powerfully.

title: Help me with this short story!

question: Who is the figure who silences the meeting?

answer: Anthony Kane.

critique: The answer could be phrased as a complete sentence.

question: What are the people arguing about before Anthony Kane enters?

answer: Baseball

critique: The answer is incorrect. The people were arguing about baseball before Anthony Kane enters the room.

critique: They aren't indicated as specifically arguing about baseball. They were arguing before he entered.

critique: The answer could be phrased as a complete sentence.

question: Who is the protagonist of this story?

answer: That information cannot be found

critique: The answer is incorrect. The protagonist is Stephen.

critique: It is incorrectly stated that the information cannot be found.


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KATIE EMILY BRAY (born 23 January 1987) is an English mezzo-soprano and is best known as the winner of the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World in 2019. She is particularly noted for her baroque repertoire.[1]

Early life and education

[St Margaret's School, Exeter] Bray was born on 23 January 1987 in Exeter, Devon, England. She was educated at St Margaret's School in Exeter until 2005 and went on to study at the University of Manchester, graduating in 2008. She then went onto study opera as a post-graduate at the Royal Academy of Music, where she was taught by Elizabeth Ritchie and Iain Ledingham,[2][3] and finished her studies at the academy in 2012 having won an Alfred Alexander Scholarship and been recipient of The Karaviotis Scholarship.[4]

Professional career

In 2013, Bray made her debuts with Glyndebourne Festival Opera and English Touring Opera.[5] Bray has also performed with Opera North, English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Garsington Opera, Opera Holland Park, English Touring Opera and Irish National Opera.[6][7] Bray has also performed in concert halls and festivals around the United Kingdom, such as Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, the Holywell Music Room and St George's, Hanover Square. She has also performed recitals in many song festivals that include the City of London Festival, the London English Song Festival and the Oxford Lieder Festival.[8]

Repertoire

-   Hansel - _Hansel and Gretel_
-   Rosina - _The Barber of Seville_
-   Varvara - _Káťa Kabanová_
-   Louis XV Chair/Female Cat/Owl - _L'enfant et les sortilèges_
-   Lola - _Cavalleria rusticana_
-   Nancy - _Albert Herring_
-   Daughter - _Akhnaten_
-   Lucilla - _La scala di seta_
-   Zerlina - _Don Giovanni_
-   Zulma - _L'italiana in Algeri_
-   Zaida - _Il turco in Italia_
-   Mallika - _Lakmé_
-   Zenobia - _Radamisto_
-   Minerva - _Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria_
-   Satirino - _La Calisto_
-   Charlotte - _Werther_ [9]

Competitions and awards

Bray has won many singing competitions and awards, including:

-   Alfred Alexander Scholarship and recipient of The Karaviotis Scholarship[10]
-   Major van Someren-Godfrey Prize for English Song (2009)[11]
-   Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize (2010)[12]
-   Audience Prize in the Handel Singing Competition (2010)[13]
-   Third prize in the Jackdaws Vocal Award (2010)[14]
-   Sir Thomas Armstrong Prize[15]
-   Opera Prize in the Mozart International Singing Competition (2011)[16]
-   Third prize overall in Mozart International Singing Competition (2011)[17]
-   At the Royal Academy of Music she received the Principal's Prize and first prize in the Richard Lewis Singing Competition (2011)[18]
-   Represented England in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, where she won the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize (2019)[19]

Discography

Bray appears on

-   _David Matthews: Symphony No. 7 & Vespers_ (2014)[20]
-   _Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr. Schoenberg)_ (2015)[21]
-   _Rückert Lieder: Robert & Clara Schumann_ (2016)[22]

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title: Katie Bray

question: Summarize what happened before 2011.

answer: Bray studied opera as a post-graduate at the Royal Academy of Music. She won an Alfred Alexander Scholarship and was recipient of The Karaviotis Scholarship. She also won many singing competitions and awards, including the Sir Thomas Armstrong Prize and the Opera Prize in the Mozart International Singing Competition.

critique: The answer omits the many performances Bray has given.

critique: The response should include the year 2011.

critique: The response could use clearer language.

critique: The answer should mention that Bray made her debut in 2013.

critique: The answer should mention her education.

text: The answer should mention Bray's time at St. Margaret's School and her time at University of Manchester.

question: What does the text say about the training of an opera singer in Britain?

answer: No answer

critique: The answer should be "The text doesn't directly say how the opera singer education system works in Britain, but it has been implied that they undergo theoretical, practical and academic studies to put them on par with their European counterparts"

critique: The answer should mention Bray's education.

question: What does the text say about composers of opera music?

answer: No answer

critique: There are no references to composers of opera music in the text.

critique: The question is a bit unclear (it faults the answer to a question that asks what the text doesn't say), but could reflect on operatic works composed by the likes of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Handel etc.

question: Summarize Katie Bray's most recent accomplishments.

answer: She won the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World in 2019. She is best known for her baroque repertoire.

critique: The answer should mention that she won the prize for her performance of Hansel and Gretel.

critique: The answer should mention that she won the prize for her mezzo-soprano voice.

critique: "and is best known as" and "and is" are phrasing that's redundant and unnecessary.

critique: "She is best known for her baroque repertoire." - this is already mentioned in the first sentence and should be deleted.

critique: The answer should mention that Bray won the prize for her performance of Hansel and Gretel.

critique: The answer should include the name of the prize Bray won.

critique: The answer should include the year of the award.

critique: Katie Bray is the one who won the award.

text: The second sentence is irrelevant and should be omitted.

category: coherence


title: [RF] Last Night Leftovers

question: What does the passage say about Todd?

answer: Todd is Nina's ex-boyfriend. After months of immersing himself in his relationship with Nina, he left her the day before he landed her a nice, solid punch to the face.

critique: The response is inaccurate. Todd did not punch Nina.

critique: Todd is not Nina's ex-boyfriend. He is her ex-boyfriend.

critique: Heroine Nina's full name, Todd's punching reflex, or the fact that he left Nina prior to the ex would be better mentions.

text: 'After months of immersing himself in his relationship with Nina, he left her the day before he landed her a nice, solid punch to the face.' The model made this up. It should consider rewriting this.

category: accuracy

question: What does the passage say about Nina's parents?

answer: Nina was having a party after her parents' divorce. Nina's father is abusive and he got in a fight with the police once.

critique: Nina's father is never mentioned as abusive.

critique: The response inaccurately mentions that Nina's father got in a fight with the police.

critique: This is not likely and should be omitted.

critique: The response contains inaccurate information.

text: The answer should state that neighbors had called the police on Nina's parents before.

question: What does the passage say about domestic abuse?

answer: No answer

critique: The answer should mention the gossip about Nina's family.

critique: The response misses to mention that the story mentions domestic abuse.

text: The answer should mention that the story also shows that Nina's ex-boyfriend todd was abusive to her.

question: What does the passage say about prom?

answer: No answer

critique: There is no mention of prom in the text.


text:
I think that people are inherently good. I strongly believe in the Golden Rule. I treat others as I would like to be treated: Holding doors open for those that I sense would have trouble. Giving up my seat to those that look as though they might need it: men, women, and the elderly. Being considerate! Saying thank you, and you're welcome! Thinking of others before myself. Writing "thank you" letters when appropriate. Not being mean to animals (perhaps excluding snakes and spiders unless they keep to themselves). I had always helped, and it felt good. But slowly, I began to notice things were changing. I still wanted to help others, but it was getting more difficult as I was passing the 3/4 of a century mark. I would tell my friends (just kidding) that I couldn't associate with people that old. When did I get this old? I have children over 50 and grandchildren over 20. Has society changed? Are its members less caring? I have heard this.

I went to a take-out pizza establishment last week. Going in, I held open the door for a young lady who said "thank you", and when I entered, she insisted that I order before she did. The place was busy with little space to stand. When I picked up my order, I had to squeeze my way to the door as there was not much room, and I was having some trouble walking. As I got to the door, it opened. Automatic I thought. I looked down to find a boy of about ten holding it for me and smiling. "Did I look that feeble?" I thought. I said thank you, and he was smiling as he said "your welcome." No one had told him to do it. He was on his own. I think it made him feel good! Someone had taught him manners. It feels good to help others.

Another pizza place I go to has a flight of stairs to overcome. Going up is not a problem, but going down with a pizza in hand is. One of the young employees asked if she could help. I said "sure". I went ahead, got in the car, and she handed it through the car window to me, all-the-while sporting a wide grin. Thanks, I said. You are welcome, she replied. Every time I get pizza and she is working, she immediately says "I'll give it to you through the window." I think it makes her feel as good as it does me!

When I go to the grocery store, I buy 2-3 weeks of food because I don't know when I will have the energy again(pain when walking, but getting better). The box boys or girls will always ask if they can empty the shopping cart for me. Then they bag the groceries and ask if they can help me load them into the car. I always ask them if they can go home with me and unload them and put them away too. They smile, we joke. I ask them if they are still in school and where they are attending. They are always friendly. I say thank you and they say "you're welcome".

When did I get old? I stopped playing competitive softball at 70 due to some injuries, but I received a call from one of my softball friends saying that he is forming an 80-year old competitive team and would like me to play on the team. It was nice of him to ask, and I do think he meant it. As soon as I get rid of my pain, I will start slowly working out again. My mind says yes, but my body isn't so sure. I am "bird-walking"----getting off the subject now, so must get back on point.

I had an appointment with a pain clinic. I knew the area well but had never seen the medical office. I had the address, but could not find any numbers on the buildings. My car does not have GPS(2002 model), and I was ten minutes late for the meeting. I had to park across the street in a dirt parking lot. The street had moderate traffic, but I managed to get across. The curb must have been at least 18-24 inches high. It seemed like an insurmountable wall, but by holding on to the front of a parked car, I managed to get up. Now there were four steps to climb and a heavy door to open. At the top of the stairs was a man of about 35 years old. He had tattoos on his arms and neck, and smiled at me and politely opened the door. I said thanks. I was told that other patients would have to be seen before me, and the wait might be an hour or more. I decided not to wait. I would go to the car, call my private doctor, tell him my pain situation and see if he would give me a shot for the it.

As I left the pain center, the tattooed man stood at the base of the steps. He smiled again and asked me if I needed any help. Was he waiting for me to leave so he might mug me? I wobbled down the 4 steps and said no thank you, my car is just across the street. He said, "You don't look as though you can go that far". "If you give me your keys, I will go over and get it for you." I thought, "Sure, then you will drive the car away." My car was a 15-year old Hyundai SUV. I didn't trust him even though he had opened a door for me and smiled at the same time. Surely, he had devious intentions. "This doesn't look good," I thought. So, I said, "I can make it." He backed off but watched as I tried to negotiate the 18 in curb. There was no car for me to grab for balance. He began to approach me again, and I began to sweat. There was no one else nearby. He put one arm around my waist and proceeded to lift me off the ground. Then, oh so gently, moved me off the curb and onto the street 18 inches below. "I hope this helps," he said with a smile. "I'll watch as you cross the street", he said still smiling. I felt bad that I had jumped to conclusions and again said "thanks".

I called my doctor whose office was 10 minutes away. His nurse told me that the doctor said to come in, and he wanted to know if she could give me the shot. I said that would be fine, but I will have a lot of trouble getting out of the car much less getting around to the office as the parking was in the back. He worked from the house that he had turned into his office. He was the only doctor that worked there. I had known him and his nurse for 25 years. She was cute and always in a good mood. She came to the back, needle in hand, had me open the driver's side door, had me pull one side of my pants down an inch exposing my left hip, and with great joy jammed the needle in it.

"This doesn't look good!," I said smiling. "People might get the wrong idea!" She laughed, I smiled. This didn't look good, but neither did the fellow with the tattoo. This was all about people that I had met recently and the good that they had done, and how it feels to help others.

title: [MF] THIS DOESN'T LOOK GOOD...

question: What does the article say about strangers?

answer: The narrator is a kind person who helps others. He is always polite and says thank you. He is also always willing to help others. He helps a young lady at a pizza place by holding the door for her. He helps a young boy at another pizza place by holding the door for him. He also helps a young man at a pain clinic. He helps a young man at the pain clinic by lifting him off the ground.

critique: The answer does not mention the narrator's negative feelings about strangers.

question: What does the article say about "kids these days?"

answer: No answer

critique: The answer should mention that the narrator is concerned about the lack of manners and consideration in society.

critique: The answer should mention that the narrator is concerned about the lack of manners and kindness in society.


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"Down in the well, the water dwelled."

-Nope.

"Down in the well, the water sat."

-No, that's not right either. Water is inanimate. It can neither dwell nor sit. What does water do? Rest? Lie?

Perch?

-'Perch'? Are we out of our linguistic mind? Water is not a cat! All those earlier description failures are attempts at personifying a thing. I suppose water CAN course (but only when there is an active current and gravity to push the molecules). In most ordinary instances that we can think of, it appears that water can only 'be' (as far as within the flat, level environment of a deep, lonely well.)

Ok then. let's try again. "Down in the well, the water just was."

-Humm. We can't think of a good rhyme for 'was'. We were going to try 'cause' in the next line but that's a real stretch to rhyme 'was' and 'cause'. Maybe we should actually try to personify the water. That might be interesting.

"Down in the well the water lurked. It was such a ridiculous construct it made us smirk."

-Yeah, 'lurked' and 'smirk' are too silly to use in serious writing and we're still uncomfortable with the idea of personifying a thing.

'Bubbled'? 'Gurgled'? 'Rested'? 'Was corralled'? 'Contained within'? That last one is technically accurate but it's too awkward to 'flow' smoothly into a verse.

-Hummm, flow? Nah. 'Flow' also implies gravitational action that wouldn't be at work inside a well.

'Floated'?

-Well, that's somewhat accurate but really other things float IN water. They work against the collection of hydrogen and oxygen molecules to be buoyant.

Can't something float within itself?

-Nah, too metaphysical. We must keep the poem easy to comprehend.

Poem? Who says this is a POEM? Does it have to be? Dude! Maybe it's a gruesome horror story and there's a dead body floating IN the tepid water!

   "Down in the well, the water contained the bloated body of Randolph Ringhoffer."

Does the name 'Ringhoffer' or having double 'R' initials distract from the story idea? Should we have used a more common name like 'Jones'?

-What does it matter at this point, 'dude'? How can anything distract a reader if we only have one sentence so far? It's silly to worry about such things this early.

   That's not true at all. I happen to already know that Mr. Ringhoffer was intentionally pushed into the well by an angry malcontent. He drowned. He's been floating there five weeks in the stagnant, festering pool. His restless spirit has been getting angrier by the minute until someone extracts revenge on... Butch Cas... er... Carson. The local outlaw, Butch Carson.

-'Outlaw'? Open well? 'Malcontent'? 'Butch'? Is this a 'Wild West' roundup tale or something? Those aren't common terms and situations for modern times.

   As a matter of fact it is, Mr. Negative. It takes place in 1887, in frontier Wyoming. That's where Mr. Ringhoffer's cattle ranch is. What's with all the single quotes, anyway? Is that a manifestation of your contempt for my writing choices?

-Take it easy, 'hoss'. I'm just echoing the subconscious thoughts of your potential readers. That's the sort of thing that would occur to them. You know I'm your inner monologue. It's my job to critique and challenge you creatively. Otherwise you do not grow as a writer and storyteller.

If you are just a part of my creativity, how do you know what others will think about my details? What innate insight do you have? You're just an annoying voice in my head.

 -As a matter of fact, myself and the inner monologues of everyone else in the world gets together for big discussions and conferences. We evaluate things. We discuss YOU and your penchant to over-analyze small details. It's sad really. We feel you could achieve some great things if you'd just let the writing occur naturally. Stop agonizing over minute details.

Ok. Fair enough. I understand 'you' are just trying to help. Could we have a little more 'constructive' and a little less outright 'criticism'?

-Yes. Sure. I don't want you to feel discouraged either. It's a balancing act. I'm digging the story idea so far. I'm anxious to see where you go with it. Just please, for all that is holy, do NOT weave a well-worn cliché about rival wealthy landowners who dam up the river to extract gold from the stream. That would just be 'Unforgiven'.

title: [MF] 'At war with his internal-monologue'

question: What does the story say about why the narrator was at war with their inner thoughts?

answer: According to the narrator, different narrative voices are competing for what the story is about and those voices run for several eras, causing the narrator to be at war with their internal thoughts. The narrator first thinks that the story is about a body floating in a well, so they build from their new 'setting' backstories for the dead body. They almost get into the style, place, and science fiction of the story, but they are taken aback with an interruption of their internal monologue. The narrator, who doesn't know what they are writing, is seemingly trying to encourage their inner monologue to be more 'constructive and a little less outright 'criticism.'

critique: The term eras is never used in this context and the origin of the story's setting needs to be properly stated.

critique: The narrator is not at war with their inner thoughts. The narrator is the inner thoughts.

critique: The narrator is not at war with their inner thoughts.

critique: The narrator is not at war with their inner thoughts. The narrator and their inner thoughts are at war.

critique: The story doesn't say anything about the narrator's inner thoughts being at war with each other.

critique: The first sentence is unnecessary and irrelevant.


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Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney admitted on Thursday that President Donald Trump withheld foreign aid in order to get Ukraine’s help in the U.S. election.

“We do that all the time with foreign policy,” Mulvaney responded when ABC News reporter Jon Karl pointed out that withholding funding from Ukraine “unless the investigation into the Democrats’ server happens” is a “quid pro quo.”

“Get over it,” Mulvaney added later. “There’s going to be political influence in foreign policy. ... That is going to happen. Elections have consequences.”

  "To be clear, what you described is a quid pro quo" -- Here's Mick Mulvaney casually admitting that Trump held up aid to Ukraine as leverage to get the Ukrainian government to investigate the 2016 election pic.twitter.com/ylz7BKEmKd

  — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 17, 2019

Foreign policy negotiations often demand trading a move by one country with a policy change by the other. President John F. Kennedy resolved the Cuban Missile Crisis with the Soviet Union by agreeing to remove U.S. nuclear missiles from Turkey in exchange for the USSR pulling its nuclear missiles from Cuba.

What makes Trump’s exchange different is that the “favor” he asked of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was a personal, political benefit. The insertion of personal gain is what makes it corrupt.

Mulvaney claimed that the Trump administration was withholding aid from Ukraine to coerce the country into investigating a supposed Democratic National Committee email server and alleged “corruption” in the 2016 election ― not former Vice President Joe Biden, one of Trump’s top political rivals heading into 2020. (Mulvaney’s claim is incomplete and misleading: Trump brought up both the DNC server and Biden in his call with Ukraine’s president.)

When Karl asked why the U.S. stopped the aid, Mulvaney said that Trump thought it was unfair that the European Union wasn’t doing more to help Ukraine.

Then Mulvaney referenced a debunked conspiracy theory that claims the DNC’s physical “server” is missing in a cover-up and that Crowdstrike, a private cybersecurity company hired to investigate Russia’s hack of the DNC’s servers, is framing Russia for election interference.

“Did [Trump] also mention to me in the past the corruption that related to the DNC server? Absolutely. No question about that,” Mulvaney told the reporter. “But that’s it, and that’s why we hung up the money.”

As The Daily Beast reported last year, the DNC’s so-called “server” is actually a system of 140 servers and none of the DNC’s machines are missing.

Speaking to reporters, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska denounced efforts to “hold up” foreign aid for political reasons.

“You don’t hold up foreign aid that we had previously appropriated for a political initiative,” Murkowski said in response to questions about Mulvaney’s press conference.

  “You don’t hold up foreign aid that we had previously appropriated for a political initiative,” Murkowski says when asked about Mulvaney comments today

  She also says it’s not appropriate to hold G7 at Trump Doral

  — Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) October 17, 2019

Hours after the news conference, Mulvaney walked back his admission that the U.S. withheld Ukranian aid for political gain.

In a lengthy statement, he said the opposite of his earlier remarks: “There was absolutely no quid pro quo between Ukranian military aid and any investigation into the 2016 election.”

Mulvaney also wrongly blamed the media for “misconstruing” and putting a spin on the comments he made during the news conference, which was televised and streamed live to the public.

_Paul Blumenthal contributed reporting._

_This article has been updated with Mulvaney’s later comments denying he had said there was a quid pro quo over political help._

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question: What does the article say about Mulvaney's statements regarding the foreign aid to Ukraine?

answer: Mulvaney admitted that Trump withheld foreign aid in order to get Ukraine's help in the U.S. election. He claimed that Trump thought it was unfair that the European Union wasn't doing more to help Ukraine. He also referenced a debunked conspiracy theory that claims the DNC's physical "server" is missing in a cover-up and that Crowdstrike, a private cybersecurity company hired to investigate Russia's hack of the DNC's servers, is framing Russia for election interference. Hours after the news conference, Mulvaney walked back his admission that the U.S. withheld Ukranian aid for political gain.

critique: The answer should mention that Mulvaney's admission was a walk back.

critique: The answer should mention that Mulvaney denied that there was a quid pro quo.

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

critique: The article doesn't say that Trump thought it was unfair that the European Union wasn't doing more to help Ukraine. This is incorrect.

critique: The answer should mention that Mulvaney's admission was made during a press conference.

question: What does the article say about the outcome of the Ukrainian investigation?

answer: No answer

critique: The answer should mention that the article does not mention the outcome of the investigation.

critique: The article does not mention the outcome of the investigation.

critique: It would be more accurate to say that the investigation's outcome was not mentioned by the article.


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BEVERLY DUAN (born December 19, 1999[1]) is an American actress. Her first appearance on television was as a little girl in commercials on the Los Angeles television station KSCI Channel 18. After appearing in commercials and doing voiceovers for radio stations in Southern California, she received wider recognition for her portrayal of Lulu on the Nickelodeon television series _Ni Hao, Kai-Lan_, which aired from 2007 until 2011.

Early life

Duan was born in Los Angeles, California.[2] Duan began receiving classical piano training by age four, performing at music festivals and competing at conventions.[3] She studied under the statewide Music Teachers' Association of California music program and passed music examinations in piano for the California Certificate of Merit Level 10.[4] She attended Fairmont Private School and graduated from Troy High School in Orange County.[5][6] She attended Jin's Dance Studio, where she was part of the Lyrical Youth Ensemble program, competing all over the United States and internationally.[7][8]

Career

Duan was cast in a series of commercials for KSCI LA Channel 18 in 2002 as a little girl in “Live Long, Be Healthy”.[9][10] She later auditioned for a role in the Nickelodeon series _Ni Hao, Kai-Lan_, ultimately winning the role of Lulu.[11] _Ni Hao, Kai-Lan_ saw Duan portraying a bilingual role, requiring her to speak in her native English and learn Mandarin-Chinese.[12] The series became a hit for the network, propelling Duan to more mainstream success.[13] The series received numerous awards nominations, including one for the Daytime Emmy Awards.[14] Duan recorded part of the opening theme song for the series.[15] Duan later recorded the holiday song in the episode “Happy Chinese New Year”.[16]

In 2020, Duan released a cover of “Hero”.[17]

Philanthropy

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Duan donated to a number of organizations and charities in America and China. Duan has performed at charity relief events including California's _Stand Together_ benefit concert. In February 2020, she participated in California's _Stand Together_ benefit to raise funds for hospitals to purchase respirator masks and medical supplies.[18] In March 2020, Duan made a personal donation of N95 masks to California's police department.[19][20] In 2020, she launched a campaign to protect frontline workers from COVID-19 and encouraged her fans to donate masks in their communities.[21] Duan explained that she believes people “can change the world when we work united[...]Even in darkness there is hope.”[22]

In 2015, Duan filmed a Teen Talk public service announcement (PSA) to make listeners aware of the importance of working “together” to stop bullying.[23] In 2014, she curated a holiday event at a California senior center.[24] Duan said, of her role as the event organizer, that “I believe we can all find ways to give back to our community and make the world a better place.”[25]

Personal life

Duan was born and raised in California.[26]

Filmography

Television and film roles

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  2007-2011   _Ni Hao, Kai-Lan_   Lulu   Main voice role

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  2009   _Ni Hao, Kai-Lan: New Year's Celebration_   Lulu   Voice role; Nintendo DS[27]
  2009   _Ni Hao, Kai-Lan: Super Game Day_           Lulu   Voice role; Wii[28]
  2009   _Ni Hao, Kai-Lan: Super Game Day_           Lulu   Voice role; PlayStation 2[29]

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question: Why did Beverly Duan donate to charity in China during the COVID-19 pandemic?

answer: She believes people can change the world when they work united.

critique: She believes people "can" change the world.

critique: The answer could be more specific about why she donated.

critique: The answer should mention that Duan was born in China.

critique: The answer does not explain why Duan donated to charity in China.

critique: The answer is not related to the question.


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MOHAMMAD ASADDOR ALI (), was a Bangladeshi writer, researcher and historian. His research primarily focused on the history of Sylhet. Due to his achievements, he was awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2004.[1] His research discovered unknown information about folk literature, and he wrote 19 books relating to it.[2]

Early life

Ali was born into a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Ludorpur in Jagannathpur, Sunamganj Subdivision in 1929. He was the third child of a family of five sons and one daughter. His mother, Mastura Khatun, was a teacher at the Ludorpur Ayaan Munshi Primary School. His father's name was Moulvi Muhammad Uthman Ullah.[3][4]

He studied in a _pathshala_ in the nearby village of Syedpur where he passed second place in the primary exam. He then studied in Government Jubilee High School where he completed his matriculation exams, before completing his I.A. and I.B. in Murari Chand College. Following this, he went to Dhaka University where he did a Master of Arts in Bengali language and Bengali literature. In the Govt. Teachers' Training College, he completed a Bachelor of Education degree from a talent scholarship.[5] He was the first person in his village to graduate from a university.[6]

Career

After graduating, Ali became a teacher at the Madan Mohan College. He left teaching later on to dedicate his life towards research. He started travelling, in search of old manuscripts and books and conversed with thousands of people. He was the founding chairman of the Oitijjo Srishtikari Shahitya Shongothon Shonglap Shahitya Shanskriti Front, and held this role for a number of years. He was a member of the Bangla Academy. He was also vice-chairman and patron for the Kendriya Muslim Sahitya Sangsad for quite a long time. Studying the Mymensingh Gitika, he was able to find evidence that nine of them were actually of Sylheti origin.[7] Ali corrected Ahmed Sharif, who wrote in his PhD thesis that medieval writer Shaykh Chand was from Chittagong, that the latter was actually from the Sylhet region. Ali was also of the opinion that Syed Sultan was a Sylheti.[8] He established a large personal library, which has benefited many future researchers. Ali was the president of the Jalalabad Lekhok Sahitya Sangsad as well as the founding chairman of the Sunamganj Samiti Sylhet.[9] In addition to these, he was a founding member of the Muinuddin Model Woman's College and Sylhet College. He was awarded the Ragib-Rabeya Literary Award in 2001. On 20 December 2004, he was awarded the KEMUSAS Literary Award.

Research and publications

He wrote a total of 19 books. Some of these include:

-   _Mymensingh Gitika Bonam Sylhet Gitika_ (Mymensingh Gitika vs. Sylhet Gitika)
-   _Mohakobi Syed Sultan_ (The great poet Syed Sultan)
-   _Charyapade Sylheti Bhasha_ (The Sylheti language in the Charyapada)
-   _Lokshahitye Jalalabad_ (Jalalabad in folk literature)
-   _Sylhet Bibhager Musolmander Shahitya Shongskriti Chorcha_ [written in Sylhet Nagri]
-   _Sylheter Mohakobi Shaykh Chand_ (Sylhet's great poet Shaykh Chand)
-   _Sylhet Bibhag Shomporke Kichhu Kotha_ (Some words relating to the Sylhet Division)
-   _Sylheti Bhasha_ (Sylheti language)
-   _Sylheti Probad Probochon_ (Sylheti proverbs and adages)

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question: What does the article say about Asaddor Ali's accomplishments?

answer: He was awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2004. He researched the history of Sylhet and wrote 19 books relating to it. He was the first person in his village to graduate from a university.

critique: The answer should mention that Ali was the founding chairman of the Oitijjo Srishtikari Shahitya Shongothon Shonglap Shahitya Shanskriti Front.

critique: The answer should mention his research on the Mymensingh Gitika.

text: It is omitted that he was a founding member of the Muinuddin Model Woman's College and Sylhet College and that he was awarded the Ragib-Rabeya Literary Award in 2001 and the KEMUSAS Literary Award in 2004.

question: What does the article say about Indian cuisine?

answer: No answer

critique: The answer should mention that the article does not mention anything about Indian cuisine.

critique: The text does not mention Indian cuisine.

critique: The response misses to provide an answer to the instruction in the task.

critique: The answer is false. The article does not mention anything about Indian cuisine.

critique: The answer should mention that the article does not mention Indian cuisine.

critique: The article does not say anything about Indian cuisine. The answer should reflect that.


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HEAR WORD! or HEAR WORD! NAIJA WOMAN TALK TRUE is a play by Ifeoma Fafunwa. It tells stories about Nigerian women and their struggles.

The play premiered in Lagos, Nigeria in 2014[1] at the Musical Society of Nigeria (MUSON) Centre[2] and had its international debut at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[3] It was produced by iOpeneye Limited.

The playwright was inspired by_Vagina Monologues"_ and _"For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide._[4] The play combines song and dance and is performed agitprop on stage or in open air spaces,.[5]

_Hear Word!_ is the first Nigerian stage play to appear at the American Repertory Theatre.[6]

Description

_Hear Word!_ runs for 90 minutes and is delivered by a cast of 10 female performers, 3 male percussionists and 1 female director.[7] It is agitprop theater and can be performed without a set or in a site-specific location, combining song, dance, sketches and soliloquies.[8] The cast will sometimes do street storms, performing the show unannounced in markets, bus stops and university campuses.[9]

_Hear Word!_ is a piece of Nigerian performance art that combines artistry, social commentary and true-life stories of gender inequality and transformation. The show targets real issues affecting the lives of women and which limit their potential for independence, leadership and meaningful contribution to society.

Plot

The play starts off with lighthearted and somewhat humorous monologues depicting everyday situations where women navigate a patriarchal world in which they are marginalized. Groping, harassment, exclusion etc. including scenes which boldly highlight ways in which women themselves contribute to their own marginalization.

This lightheartedness soon gives way to a section of vivid monologues portraying harmful ways in which women are victimized and oppressed, including molestation, child brides and gender based violence and abuse. This painful section is punctuated by a shrill call to action chant in Yoruba which ushers in an exhilarating and refreshing second half of the play with powerful portraits of resistance, triumph and celebration. The final piece re-captures the different themes in the play with a direct appeal to audiences to get engaged in becoming part of the solution.

Background and meaning

_Hear Word!_ is derived from a Nigerian Pidgin-English phrase, which means to _“Listen and Comply”_.[10] The play was created and co-written by Ifeoma Fafunwa, a Nigerian playwright and director. Fafunwa started her career as an Architect in the United States, where she worked for at least 20 years. She returned to Nigeria and in 2009, began curating real-life stories, from women across Nigeria, as well as her own personal stories to produce the play, _Hear Word!_.[11]

The play presents an intimate view into the obstacles that Nigerian women face, including stories of domestic violence, absence of women from positions of power, resilience and resistance, shattering the culture of silence, overturning the status quo, abuse, disrespect, bravery, sisterhood and joy.[12]

Reception

In 2018, _Hear Word!_ sold out to a diverse audience at American Repertory Theater.[13] The production was featured as the event opener for the United Nations 2018 Commission for the Status of Women in March 2018.[14]

In January 2019 the play debuted at New York’s premiere off-Broadway - the Public Theater, and was described by _Theater Mania_ as a _“jubilant act of artistic exorcism”_.[15] A review in the _New York Times_ stated _"By the end of “Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True,” from the Nigerian company iOpenEye Ltd., the brightness radiating from its all-female cast has the glare and heat of a raging bonfire."_[16]

_Hear Word!_ has also premiered at the Segerstrom Center in Costa Mesa, California the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Germany[17] and the Royal Lyceum Theater at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland in August, 2019.[18]

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question: What does the text say about the play's reception?

answer: The play was a huge success and sold out in 2018 at American Repertory Theater. Fafunwa started her career as an architect in the United States, where she worked for 20 years. She returned to Nigeria and curated real-life stories from women across the country to create Hear Word! The play presents an intimate view into the obstacles that Nigerian women face.

critique: The last two sentences are not relevant to the question.

critique: The answer doesn't mention the play's debut.

text: The last three sentences are irrelevant.

question: What does the text say about Ifeoma Fafunwa?

answer: Ifeoma Fafunwa is a Nigerian playwright and director. She started her career as an architect in the United States, where she worked for at least 20 years. She returned to Nigeria and in 2009, began curating real-life stories, from women across Nigeria, as well as her own personal stories to produce the play, Hear Word! The play presents an intimate view into the obstacles that Nigerian women face, including stories of domestic violence, absence of women from positions of power, resilience and resistance, shattering the culture of silence, overturning the status quo, abuse, disrespect, bravery, sisterhood, and joy.

critique: Be more precise about the inspiration for Hear Word.

critique: The last sentence is irrelevant to the question.

question: What does the text say about how the play is "agitprop?"

answer: The play combines song and dance and is performed agitprop on stage or in open air spaces. It is a piece of Nigerian performance art that combines artistry, social commentary, and true-life stories of gender inequality and transformation. The show targets real issues affecting the lives of women and which limit their potential for independence, leadership, and meaningful contribution to society. The play is derived from a Nigerian Pidgin-English phrase, which means "Listen and Comply."

critique: The play is not agitprop, but it can be performed agitprop.

critique: It is irrelevant that the play is agitprop and derived with a phrase that means "Listen and Comply."

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


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President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday morning, in which Trump provided cover for Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, elicited some heated criticism from leading Republicans in Congress. This prompted an obvious question: Would Republicans put their money where their mouth is and actually use their power to punish Trump?

Well, House Speaker Paul Ryan was asked that question at Tuesday presser — and he made it clear the answer was no, at least as far as the GOP leadership was concerned.

Here’s the key exchange between Ryan and a reporter:

  RYAN: I understand the desire and the need to have good relations. That’s perfectly reasonable. But Russia is a menacing government that does not share our interests and does not share our values. And I think that should be made very, very clear.

  REPORTER: What could you do? You guys are a co-equal branch of government. What could you do to make sure he [Trump] doesn’t do something ...

  RYAN: Here’s what we can do, and here’s what we have already done — which is to put sanctions on Russia. ... We’d already put in place sanctions. If the [House] Foreign Affairs Committee or the Financial Service Committee — or the Senate Banking Committee — think that there are other sanctions that we have not yet put in place on Russia, I’m more than happy to consider those.

Note how weaselly Ryan’s answer is. The question wasn’t, “What are you doing to punish Russia?” It was, “How can you constrain Trump from cozying up even more to Putin?” That isn’t a problem that can be solved by new sanctions. It would require passing legislation that puts limits on the president’s power to change US policy on a whole host of foreign policy issues (like Ukraine or Syria), or block Trump from firing special counsel Robert Mueller and ending the Russia collusion probe.

But doing something like that would, of course, provoke a major fight with Trump. Ryan is so unwilling to do that he won’t even think about proposing such measures. Instead, he moves to the safer ground of hypothetical new Russia sanctions that may never actually emerge and that wouldn’t really constrain Trump from changing US policy on Russia.

This speaks to a vital point about the GOP’s “backlash” against the Putin meeting. Ultimately, congressional Republicans mostly care more about staying in Trump’s good graces — and avoiding a fight that could jeopardize their legislative agenda and anger the pro-Trump base before the upcoming midterm elections — than about the ways that Trump is taking a hammer to decades of US foreign policy on Russia and other issues.

Republicans in Congress simply place a higher value on party unity than on the foreign policy principles they claim to stand for. If they didn’t, Ryan would actually be talking about new laws to constrain Trump.

That isn’t a value judgment, or even necessarily a criticism. There’s a case, from the Republican point of view, for refusing to cross Trump even when he tramples on years of conservative orthodoxy.

But Ryan isn’t making that case. He, and the rest of the mainstream GOP, is trying desperately to pretend that you can be anti-Putin and pro-Trump. But Monday’s presser made it clear that’s impossible.

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question: Why was Paul Ryan unwilling to partake in any measure to constrain Donald Trump?

answer: Because he was more concerned about the consequences of a fight with Trump.

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“I don’t play with female gamers,” says Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, Twitch’s biggest streamer and one of the faces of the _Fortnite_ fandom. This edict may be surprising to hear, especially as emphatically as Blevins said it when we spoke at a recent Samsung event.

Though Blevins isn’t shy about being married, and his more than 10 million subscribers include people of every gender identity, the internet’s love of gossip has convinced the Twitch star not to invite women to participate in his __ _Fortnite Battle Royale_ livestreams. With fame comes scrutiny of every thing you say or do, he suggested, and that can sometimes lead to questions about who you’re sleeping or flirting with on the sly.

“If I have one conversation with one female streamer where we’re playing with one another, and even if there’s a hint of flirting, that is going to be taken and going to be put on every single video and be clickbait forever,” Blevins told Polygon.

There’s some truth to the idea that flirting can lead to YouTube clickbait and invasive questions — Blevins has asked some himself when playing with other well-known (male) streamers. Take the clip below, from a Twitch stream with _Fortnite_ star Ali “Myth” Kabbani.

Imane “Pokimane” Anys is another big name on Twitch whose popularity grew rapidly over the last year, and when she started playing _Fortnite_ on streams with Kabbani, viewers began to ask: Are they dating? Fans assume Twitch streamers are in a relationship just as often as they speculate on their marital status. And that apparently includes Blevins, who used his mega-platform to further perpetuate that rumor.

Whether or not it’s true that Anys and Kabbani are together is, obviously, their business. But when it comes to his relationship with streamer Jessica “Jghosty” Blevins, who often appears on her husband’s channel, Blevins is happy to open up about his devotion.

“[Not being connected to other women online,] that was something I made 100-percent sure,” he said. It was his decision alone to keep his streaming partners men-only. “That was not even her. She had nothing to do with it. That was me being, ‘I love our relationship,’ and, ‘No — I’m not even gonna put you through that.’”

A growing Twitch means a diminishing sense of privacy, especially for women on the platform. Female streamers have opened up before about the difficulty in maintaining a separation between their Twitch personas and who they are offline — often at the behest of viewers who demand answers, lest they assume what’s going on for themselves.

Respect is a major part of playing _Fortnite_ and other games. Yet women often are the receiving end of anything but: “Twitch thots,” harassment, warding off obsessive or judgmental viewers are all serious concerns for well-known female streamers. In contrast to the reality of being a woman on Twitch, Blevins’ choice to draw a line feels like a conservative gesture — even a familiar, divisive one.

“There hasn’t been a single female gamer or streamer on Twitch or anything like that who’s been upset about that,” he said of possible pushback. “I honestly think that [...] it’s just kinda like a respect thing.”

Ninja may not hear criticism of his decision, but similar gender-based views have received pushback in the political sphere — think of the outcry surrounding Vice President Mike Pence’s supposed marital boundaries. Still, the Twitch streamer is sticking to his absolute, which he believes is the only choice.

“The only way to avoid that [gossip] is to not play with them at all.”

UPDATE: Ninja has since responded to — and stood by — his comments to us on Twitter. Read more in our follow-up story.

question: Summarize the mentality of livestream viewers that Blevins is trying to deal with.

answer: Blevins says that viewers tend to gossip and ask invasive questions when they see a streamer interacting with a female. Some viewers are interested in a streamer's relationship status and speculate that the streamer is in a relationship with another streamer. Some of the gossip can get invasive, and the streamer sometimes has to answer these questions or else the viewers will make assumptions.

critique: "when they see a streamer interacting with a female" - this is inaccurate. Blevins says that viewers tend to gossip and ask invasive questions when they see a streamer interacting with a female gamer.

critique: The answer should mention the harassment.

critique: I'd add that some streamers are also condescending towards female gamers

critique: The answer should mention that Blevins is trying to avoid this gossip.

critique: Blevins believes that the only way to avoid this gossip is to not play with women at all.

critique: The answer should mention that the speculation is often wrong.

critique: The answer should mention that the gossip is often about the streamer's relationship with a woman.


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ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH TROFIMOV, (; 11 February 1927, Moscow – 10 April 2000), was a Soviet and Russian painter, art critic, and art historian. Professor at Surikov institute and Russian Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture academy. A member of the Moscow Artists Union.

Biography

Aleksandr Trofimov was born in 1927 in Moscow. He attended the Moscow secondary school of Arts; in 1946–1952, studied in Surikov institute. After graduating from the institute, he worked as an artist at VDNKh for two years. Later Trofimov was hired by the State Historical Museum and stayed there about a year. Between 1955 and 1958 he worked as an artist at the Museum of Moscow.

Career in arts education

About 7,5 years he worked as a teacher at the People Correspondence university of Arts in Moscow, later – as an assistant professor and docent at the Moscow State Textile University. From 1978 to 1994 Trofimov held the positions of docent (since 1986, of professor[1]) at Surikov institute, department of painting and composition, and of prorector on research work. In 1994, he became prorector on research and educational work at the Russian Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture academy.

Works

Selected exhibitions

-   1943: _The Young Artists exhibition, dedicated to the 25th Anniversary of Komsomol_ (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)[2]
-   1955: _The First exhibition of Studies by the Young Artists from Moscow_ (CDRI, Moscow)[3]
-   1958: _The Fourth exhibition of works by the Young Artists from Moscow_.[4]

Albums, selected works (painting)

The painter created a series of landscapes based on twelve pieces by Tchaikovsky, _The Seasons_. Some works of the series were published as a set of cards by the publishing house _Izobrazitelnoe Iskusstvo_. The same publisher issued a set of cards depicting some of his works dedicated to Leo Tolstoy.

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Trofimov's paintings, articles on his works were published by such prominent publishers as _Sovietski khudozhnik_, _Pravda_, _Izvestia_.

Publications by Trofimov

Books

Aleksandr Trofimov wrote the book about the Russian painter Semyon Grigorievich Mukhin (1891-1972):

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Articles

A number of articles by A. Trofimov, dedicated to Russian artists, to historical monuments and landmarks of Russia, appeared in such magazines as _Khudozhnik_ (1991, 1995, 1996), _Iuny Khudozhnik_ (1999), _Slovo_ (1997), _Moskva_ (1998, 1999).

Public life

A. Trofimov was an active member of VOOPIiK, Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments, and became the Chairman of the Presidium of its Moscow branch in 1987.[5] He successfully withstood some plans about the demolition of historical buildings in the centre of Moscow.[6] Yuri Bychkov mentions him as a long-time collaborator and associate of Pyotr Baranovsky.[7]

Trofimov participated in preparations for reconstruction of Kazan Cathedral in Moscow.[8][9]

He was elected deputy to the Mossovet of the 20th convocation.[10]

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answer: He was an active member of VOOPIiK, Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments. He was chairman of the presidium of the Moscow branch from 1987-1988. He was also a deputy to the Mossovet of the 20th convocation.

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critique: Yuri Bychkov is associated with Trofimov, but it's unclear whether the relationship was personal or professional. His detail should be omitted.

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Built up by Theo and his older brother Karl from their mother’s corner shop in the bombed-out rubble of postwar Essen in Germany, the privately controlled Aldi empire now extends to more than 8,000 stores around the world, including 300 in Britain — where its no-frills low-price format rapidly gained popularity during the recession. Though challenged in recent times by rival “discounters” such as Lidl (also German-owned), Aldi achieved sales in 2009 of more than 50 billion euros worldwide.

Little is known of the private lives of the Albrecht family, but Theo’s wealth was estimated by Forbes last year at $16.7 billion, making him the 31st richest person in the world and Germany’s second richest behind Karl at $23.5 billion; the brothers fortunes combined were exceed only by those of Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and the Mexican Carlos Slim.

The Albrechts’ obsession with privacy — living behind fortress-like security on estates overlooking the Ruhr valley, rarely snapped by paparazzi, never making public statements — derived in part from Theo’s experience in December 1971, when he was kidnapped at gunpoint by Heinz-Joachim Ollenburg, a lawyer with gambling debts, and his accomplice Paul Kron. Theo was held for 17 days in Ollenburg’s Düsseldorf office, but so nondescript was his appearance — he favoured cheap, ill-fitting suits — that the kidnappers demanded to see his ID to make sure they had snatched the right man. He responded by haggling over the ransom sum, which was eventually fixed at seven million Deutschmarks, and was delivered to a highway rendezvous by the Bishop of Essen. Ollenburg and Kron were caught and jailed, but only half of the money was recovered. Albrecht went to court to claim it as a tax-deductible business expense.

Theodor Paul Albrecht was born in the Schonnebeck suburb of Essen, in the industrial Ruhr region, on March 28 1922, two years after his brother Karl. Their father was a miner until emphysema rendered him an invalid; their frugal, hard-working mother ran a small food shop and, in the 1930s, the two youths sold buns around the district from a wooden cart. Both served in the German army during the war: Theo with Rommel’s Afrika Corps until he was eventually captured by US troops in Italy in 1945.

When the brothers were released from prisoner of war camps to return to Essen they found most of the city (a major railway centre which had also been the site of Krupps munitions factories) reduced to ruins, But their mother’s house and shop was intact. They began to expand the business with other grocery outlets, experimenting with a no-frills self-service format and a limited range of merchandise. Within a decade, as Germany’s economic recovery gathered pace, they owned more than 100 stores.

In 1961 they adopted the name Aldi (a contraction of Albrecht Discount) and divided the map of Germany in half — along the so-called Aldi Equator — reportedly after disagreeing over whether or not to sell cigarettes. Theo took control of Aldi Nord, still based in Essen, while Karl, reputedly the more dynamic of the duo in their younger days, ran Aldi Sud from Essen’s sister city of Mulheim.

They later divided the rest of the world, if not quite in such a logical way: Theo’s empire expanded into France, Spain, Portugal and Poland, while Karl’s eventually reached Britain and Australia. And both brothers built operations in the United States, Karl under the Aldi banner and Theo as owner of the Trader Joe’s chain of 340 “gourmet” grocery stores that he acquired in 1979.

At home in Germany the group expanded to 4,000 stores, owned via a number of legally separate operating units which allowed the brothers to co-operate when it suited them but to circumvent laws on accounting disclosure for large businesses and to avoid having to deal with a nationwide workers’ council. They ran their operations with military discipline and attention to detail, and in such secrecy that Aldi managers were forbidden not only to talk to the press but even to talk to their own colleagues in other districts.

Growth was funded out of retained profits rather than public capital-raising, and success was achieved by offering no more than a few hundred well-chosen product lines (rather than the tens of thousands found in other supermarkets) at low prices made possible by massive purchasing. This was combined with a high ratio of sales per square metre of floor space, and ferocious cost control — the latter being Theo’s special skill.

Little money was wasted on marketing, and none at all on making Aldi stores look elegant: goods were simply piled up along the aisles in packing cases. Theo himself made a point of using pencil stubs rather than expensive pens. Asked to approve the plans for a new outlet in Holland, he replied that the design was good but the paper it was drawn on was too thick: “If you use thinner paper we will save money.”

A devout Roman Catholic, Theo Albrecht retired from the day-to-day running of the business in 1993, but remained active as chairman of the foundation that is Aldi Nord’s principal shareholder. He is survived by his wife Cilli, their sons Theo Jr and Berthold, who hold management positions in Aldi, and his brother Karl, now 90.

question: What does the text say about privacy?

answer: The Albrecht family is obsessed with privacy. They live behind fortress-like security on estates overlooking the Ruhr valley, rarely snapped by paparazzi, and never make public statements. This obsession with privacy is derived in part from Theo's experience in December 1971 when he was kidnapped at gunpoint by Heinz-Joachim Ollenburg, a lawyer with gambling debts, and his accomplice Paul Kron. Theo was held for 17 days in Ollenburg's Dusseldorf office, but so nondescript was his appearance that the kidnappers demanded to see his ID to make sure they had snatched the right man. He responded by haggling over the ransom sum, which was eventually fixed at seven million Deutschmarks, and was delivered to a highway rendezvous by the Bishop of Essen. Ollenburg and Kron were caught and jailed, but only half of the money was recovered. Albrecht went to court to claim it as a tax-deductible business expense.

critique: This section could better focus on how the Albrecht's kept a low profile to proper convey their quiet personalities.

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critique: It is irrelevant that the kidnappers demanded to see his ID to make sure they had snatched the right man. He responded by haggling over the ransom sum, which was eventually fixed at seven million Deutschmarks, and was delivered to a highway rendezvous by the Bishop of Essen. Ollenburg and Kron were caught and jailed, but only half of the money was recovered. Albrecht went to court to claim it as a tax-deductible business expense.

text: The answer could be significantly simplified by simply noting that the Albrecht's privacy is partyl derived from Theo Albrecht's kidnapping in 1971.

question: What does the text say about Aldi's divisions?

answer: The Albrecht brothers divided the map of Germany in half with the so-called Aldi Equator. Theo took control of Aldi Nord, still based in Essen, while Karl ran Aldi Sud from the sister city of Mulheim. Later, they divided the rest of the world, if not quite in such a logical way. Theo's empire expanded into France, Spain, Portugal and Poland, while Karl's reached Britain and Australia. Both had operations in the United States, Karl under the Aldi banner and Theo as owner of Trader Joe's chain of 340 "gourmet" grocery stores.

critique: The answer should mention the 4,000 stores in Germany.

critique: It's omitted that they own 4,000 stores in Germany, each legally separate and allowed to co-operate when convenient.

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critique: The answer should mention the Aldi Equator.

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critique: The answer should mention that the brothers also had separate operations in Germany.

critique: The answer could mention their 4,000 stores in Germany.

question: Summarize Theo's traits.

answer: Theo was a devout Roman Catholic. He was a frugal man with a hard-working mother. He was also a hard-working man, who was dedicated to his business. He was also a man of military discipline and attention to detail. He was also a man of secrecy.

critique: The answer should mention his obsession with privacy.

critique: The answer omits that Theo was also a man of low-cost.

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critique: The answer omits that Theo was a man of low cost.

critique: He is a rich man, indicating this is an assumption about him.

critique: It's omitted that he was frugal with his appearance, wearing cheap and ill-fitting suits.

question: What does the text say about the cost effectiveness of Aldi?

answer: Aldi's cost effectiveness is due to its limited range of products, low prices, and high sales per square meter of floor space. The company also has a high ratio of sales per square meter of floor space. Aldi's success is also due to Theo's special skill of ferocious cost control.

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SVEN ERIC GAMSKY, also known under the stage name STILL WOOZY, is an American singer/songwriter from Oakland, California.[1][2] His music is released through the record label Still Woozy Productions Inc., under exclusive license to Interscope Records.[3] Gamsky grew up in Moraga, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He began recording his own music at the age of 13.[4]

NME has described his style as “psychedelic bedroom-pop”,[5] while _IQ_ sees it as “genre-bending”.[6]

Early life

Sven Gamsky was born on June 23, 1992, in Oakland, California, and grew up in Moraga, California. He is the youngest of three sons born to Dr. Tom and Berit (Fuglsang) Gamsky, and has two older brothers, Nate and Sam.[7] Sven started playing the guitar when he was in middle school.

All three of the Gamsky brothers became Eagle Scouts. Sven was a part of Moraga Boy Scout Troop 212, in which his service project toward becoming an Eagle Scout involved remodeling a garden area at Donald L. Rheem Elementary School in Moraga. The East Bay Times reported in 2010 upon his achievement of Eagle Scout that “Sven plans to travel and volunteer after high school, and eventually study psychology in college.”[8]

Sven Gamsky attended Campolindo High School in Moraga, graduating in 2010. While in high school, he played guitar and bass in the band “Shoot for Roots”, a band he created with fellow bandmates and classmates Cole Leksan and Jack Morris. At the beginning of their senior year, “Shoot for Roots” won a Battle of the Bands competition hosted by the Lamorinda Teen Center. They had initially come to a tie with a band called IceBox Business from rival high school, Miramonte High School, but fans from Campolindo High broke the tie by cheering louder for Gamsky's band with a recording of 116 decibels.[9]

Career

After high school, Gamsky earned money by teaching guitar in the Oakland area and playing with the band Feed Me Jack at jazz clubs, festivals, and orchestra halls. He graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz in 2015, majoring in music with a classical guitar emphasis, and minoring in electronic music.[10]

From 2011 to 2016, Gamsky was in the alternative rock/math rock band Feed Me Jack, [11][12] which released four albums before disbanding, on good terms, in 2016 for members to individually pursue their careers in music. [13][14] The following year Gamsky released a single, “Cooks”, under the stage name Still Woozy,[15][16] stating that he chose the name because of his spaced-out nature.[17] As Still Woozy, Gamsky has released an EP and several singles,[18] for which Ami Cooks created the album covers, and four music videos, the first of which was released in 2017.[19][20] Gamsky prefers to release music as soon as possible and will sometimes release a song on the same day he has finished making it.[21]

A 2020 tour, which would have had 31 performances starting in May and ending in September, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[22]

Discography

With Feed Me Jack

-   _Chumpfrey_ (2012)
-   _Anatolia_ (2013)
-   _Covers_ (2015)
-   _Ultra Ego_ (2016)

As Still Woozy

-   _Lately_ EP (2019)

Singles

-   “Vacation” (2017)
-   “Cooks” (2017)
-   “Wolfcat” (2017)
-   “Goodie Bag” (2017)
-   “Lucy” (2018)
-   “Habit” (2019)[23]
-   “Window” (2020)[24][25]
-   “BS” (2020)[26]

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