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[decaying-villa-4]Recently, my husband sent me an article on abandoned places. These were once glorious, but now forsaken European castles and villas. Dying tokens of splendor and opulence captured by architectural photographer Mirna Pavlovic, who has a thing for deserted structures. She risks getting arrested, falling through rotted floors, or just plain getting cooties by climbing fences and ignoring “no trespassing” signs in order to get some truly incredible shots. Ones of beautiful homes that for reasons we can only imagine, have been ditched and left to slowly decay. Their murals,  marble and artisan carpentry are being encroached upon by the elements, until one day they will become part of the natural earth again.

“They are never truly dead, yet never really alive,” Pavlovic says of these villas. “Precariously treading along the border between life and death, decay and growth, the seen and the unseen, the past and the present, abandoned places confusingly encompass both at the same time, thus leaving the ordinary passerby overwhelmed with both attraction and revulsion.”

I love the duality she sees in these spaces. That the ghosts who visit while she snaps her pictures may tell a very different tale to her than to someone else. They might speak of folly, dancing, formality, and wing-dings. Or anguish, broken dreams, empty promises, death, hope, rebirth. Perhaps all of those things jumbled up into one, long Russian novel.

“Reminds me of the stories you write,” my husband told me.

And he has a point. It seems I cannot write a story without a double meaning or phantom of some sort. While Pavlovic focuses on place, I train my eye on people – emotion, memory, the senses. Picking apart and reassembling the interior mechanisms that conspire to make up a soul. Urging my imagination to recognize the spiritual components which make that soul eternal.[decaying-villa-3]It may seem counterintuitive, but I feel an inherent sense of optimism when I’m dreaming up characters who have been disavowed, betrayed, left behind to descend into ruin. From there, the only way is up. Thought by thought, step by step, decision by decision. Understanding this narrative is what gives life meaning. It opens our hearts to mercy.

So, I understand Pavlovic’s fixation.

The chronicling of this organic and at times supernatural metamorphosis is the sole reason I’ve never even considered giving up on being a fiction writer. Even when the frustration and fear of failure has been so great that it’s kept me up at night, found me tearing through my kitchen to cook up gourmet meals no one in my family really wants to eat, made me say mean things to my mother’s bird.

Because writing is so much more than a skill to me, or a way to do my part in keeping my kids ensconced in their expensive enrichment activities. Writing is an extension of faith, of compassion, of trying to leave behind something that will matter to someone else.

When I take time off from my stories for any extended period, I find myself averting my eyes from the ruined places and ruined souls that I would otherwise be exploring. Not because I can’t bear to look at them, but because I can’t spare the time. The hours in the day fill up with cooking and laundry and driving. And for a while, yes, the house looks better, our lives are more organized, our kids are always on time for their events.

Those intervals are important, too, and I’m not knocking them. Nor would I give them up.

But when they stretch out for too long, my interior life becomes a bit more stark. I might be a more competent wife and mother, but not necessarily a better one. I start to pick teams instead of examining issues. Ugly words begin to mean less, and even make me a little giddy. They feel like contraband – smoking a cigarette behind the shed doors.[decaying-villa]If I look away for too long, I start to give myself permission to retreat comfortably behind the sanctimony of political correctness, biblical passages, or quotes from my favorite philosophers – believing, wrongly, that I’ve got this empathy thing down. Smug in my place in the world, judgement and condescension worm their way into my daily thoughts. I have so much less to teach my children.

I don’t mean for it to happen, it’s something that creeps up – like the ivy in some of the mansions Pavlovic likes to photograph.

And that’s when I know.

It’s time to climb that fence again, march past the “no trespassing” sign, risk falling through a rotten floor and getting cooties in order to spend some time inside a soul – perhaps denied, friendless and pitiful, but still standing.[decaying-villa-5]

Read the article on Pavlovic’s amazing work here.

question: What does the article say about the resemblance of deserted places and broken people?

answer: The author of the article says that abandoned places remind her of the stories she writes. She says that she cannot write a story without a double meaning or a phantom of some sort. She says that she sees an inherent sense of optimism when she is dreaming up characters who have been disavowed, betrayed, and left behind to descend into ruin. From there, the only way is up. She says that writing is an extension of faith, of compassion, and of trying to leave behind something that will matter to someone else.

critique: The answer contains a lot of information that is not relevant to the question.

critique: The answer is not a summary of the resemblance between abandoned places and broken people but rather a summary of the author's thoughts in the article.

question: What does the article say about overhauling classical buildings?

answer: No answer

critique: The passage does not discuss overhauling classical buildings.

critique: The answer can include something about the writer's focus.

critique: The answer should mention that the article does not mention anything about overhauling classical buildings.

critique: The article does not mention anything about overhauling classical buildings.

critique: The article doesn't mention anything about overhauling classical buildings.

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

question: What does the article say about humility and condescension?

answer: The author of the article believes that writing is an extension of faith, compassion, and trying to leave behind something that will matter to someone else. She believes that when she takes time off from her stories for too long, she starts to pick teams instead of examining issues. Ugly words begin to mean less and make her feel giddy. She feels smug in her place in the world, judgment, and condescension worm their way into her daily thoughts. She has so much less to teach her children.

critique: The answer is irrelevant to the question.

critique: The response is not related to the question.

critique: The answer does not answer the question.

critique: "she starts to pick teams instead of examining issues. Ugly words begin to mean less and make her feel giddy" - this part is irrelevant and confusing. Propose deleting this.

question: Summarize the author's narrative style in her fictional works.

answer: The author's fictional works are full of double meanings and phantoms. She likes to pick apart and reassemble the interior mechanisms that conspire to make up a soul. She urges her imagination to recognize the spiritual components that make up a soul. She believes that writing is an extension of faith, compassion, and trying to leave behind something that will matter to someone else.

critique: The response should include that the author believes that writing is an extension of faith, compassion, and trying to leave behind something that will matter to someone else.

critique: The last sentence is unnecessary and redundant.

critique: The answer should mention that the author feels that writing is an extension of empathy.

critique: Additions to make the structure of the answer flow smoother/logically cohesive.

critique: The author's writing is not full of double meanings and phantoms.

critique: The answer should mention that the author is a fiction writer.

critique: The answer should mention that the author's writing is full of double meanings and phantoms.


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text:
[A young woman keeps track of how much life insurance she needs after using SelectQuote's life insurance calculator]
Life insurance isn’t one-size-fits-all and most people have no idea how much life insurance they need. Purchasing life insurance can often seem like a daunting process and you might be wondering where to even begin.

Our life insurance calculator will help you determine what your family’s ongoing and one-time expenses are, and give you a head start on determining the right life insurance policy and amount for you.

Below, we break down the steps of estimating how much life insurance you might need.

STEP 1: DO YOU NEED LIFE INSURANCE COVERAGE?

While many people might think they might not need life insurance coverage, it’s actually an extremely smart investment for anyone to consider. Whether you’re married, have children, are single, have purchased a home, or traveled the world, life insurance is a sure way to safeguard your loved ones in the case the unexpected happens.

STEP 2: PUT TOGETHER YOUR BASIC INFORMATION.

Since life insurance replaces lost income and pays for outstanding debt, upcoming expenses, and final expenses,  you’ll want to make sure the amount of coverage you purchase is enough to help your loved ones cover all of these costs.

STEP 3: THINK ABOUT YOUR FAMILY.

Do you currently have or are you planning on having any children? If you currently have children, how old is your youngest? Any other dependents? These questions will help you determine the length of your life insurance policy. Term life insurance policies are a smart investment for younger families, as they’re set to expire close to when you achieve major financial life events; things like paying off your mortgage, becoming an empty-nester or when your kids are no longer dependent on your income are just a few examples. Permanent life insurance, such as whole life insurance or universal life insurance, are other options to consider, but as the name alludes, this kind of coverage is meant to last your entire lifetime.

STEP 4: CONSIDER YOUR ASSETS.

How much do you have in savings and liquid assets, not including retirement? How much do you have in retirement savings and college funds? Do you currently have any life insurance? How much?

Your assets include your savings, investments,existing life insurance policies, and these questions can help you assess how much wealth you’ve already accumulated that you can pass on to your survivors and how much life insurance would be beneficial.

STEP 5: CONSIDER YOUR DEBTS.

Do you currently have a mortgage? Do you have any other debt? Just like we have to determine your assets, we also have to determine your liabilities. Factors like your mortgage payoff date are important to know in order to recommend the length of a term life insurance policy.

STEP 6: THINK ABOUT YOUR PREFERENCES.

How much of a financial cushion would you like to give your family? The cost of life insurance will depend on a number of factors, but both the type of coverage and amount of coverage will have an impact.

Our life insurance calculator is a good place to start when trying to determine how much life insurance coverage might be right for you and your family, but weighing all your options and sifting through the fine print can become time consuming and overwhelming. We can help simplify the process, providing coverage and cost comparisons from some of the most trusted insurance companies in just minutes. We’ll take the time to get to know your needs and find the best life insurance policy options available to you.

question: Summarize three reasons a person might consider moving to this type of life insurance.

answer:
If you are purchasing life insurance for a spouse or a family, this can provide for any legal issues that might come out of the death of either party. A family member dying often means many responsibilities must be tended to suddenly, including taking care of a mortgage and other bills. This can impede maximum time and money spent supporting the family left behind.

Also,  death and moving away from this world can have a great emotional toll on people, and being away from loved ones is with strife and build emotional attachment and stress. Life insurance yet again plays a huge role in emotional support and in timeframes as well.

critique: The article does not mention anything about legal issues.

critique: The response is not related to the question.

critique: The answer is not related to the question.

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

text: Several of these sentences are not grammatically correct. For instance "being away from loved ones is with strife and build emotional attachment and stress." "Is with stress" cannot be parsed, and the word is repeated twice. The answer should be reworded to incorporate material from the steps listed in the article explicitly.

category: coherence

question: Describe who would be likely to switch to this life insurance.

answer: They directed the abstract at young adults looking to heed the advice of a calculator for life insurance.

critique: The article is directed at anyone who is looking for life insurance.

critique: The article doesn't mention who is the target audience.

critique: The article is directed at young adults, but it is not clear that they are the target audience.

critique: The article is directed at young adults, but it is not an abstract.

critique: The calculator isn't directed at young adults. It's directed at anyone who might need life insurance.

critique: This is not directed at young adults but young families.

critique: The article is not directed at young adults.


text:
[RiverPalooza]

Join your Upper Potomac Riverkeeper to experience the Antietam like you have never experienced before. History shrouds the Antietam Creek with the National Battlefield along its banks and the many stone arched bridges that cross the river. The day will begin at the visitor’s center with a movie and National Park Service (NPS) guided tour of the Antietam National Battlefield. Then, our NPS guide will join us as we meet up with the outfitters near the Burnside Bridge Rd access and float to the confluence of the Potomac. Our lively guide will educate and entertain you with history and stories of the Antietam but the guided trip is only the teaser compared to this beautiful beginner white water river where each turn will bring you excitement and wonder. Help us celebrate the Antietam Creek and the importance of keeping its waters clean as part of Potomac Riverkeeper Network’s RiverPalooza 2017!

[]OUTFITTER: River and Trail Outfitters

ARRIVAL LOCATION:
Antietam National Battlefield Visitor Center
5831 Dunker Church Road
Sharpsburg, MD 21782

ARRIVAL TIME: 9:30 AM at the visitor center, we will be on the creek by noon.  Paddlers should plan to be off the water by 4:00 PM

PADDLE LEVEL: Beginner/intermediate

PADDLE DISTANCE: 6 miles/3 hrs

BOAT OPTIONS AND COSTS:

-   Canoe rental: $40 per canoe, $25 registration fee for the renter and/or passenger. (This is a $126 value)
-   Single Kayak: $55 per kayak for one person ($111 value)
-   BYOB (Bring Your Own Boat): $50 per boat for the shuttle. ($96 value)

Free RiverPalooza T-shirt to first 10 registrants!

OPTIONAL ACTIVITY:
Camping before and after at Harpers Ferry Adventure Center (HFAC) [Contact center for reservations. Located at 37410 Adventure Center Lane, Purcellville, VA 20130 Phone: (540) 668-9007]

PARTICIPANT LIMIT: 30 People

_EVERY PADDLE PARTICIPANT must print, fill out and bring their ACA waiver with them on the day of the event. Depending on your trip, you may also need to bring an outfitter waiver. Please see your confirmation email for details._

 ACATripWaiver_adult    ACATripWaiver_minor    River and Trails waiver

Follow us on social media at #RiverPalooza2017

_Potomac Riverkeeper Network is not responsible for securing camping reservations or for the safety and enjoyment of participants who wish to attend. Trip times are subject to change or cancellation due to inclement weather, high river levels, tidal fluctuations, wind and other factors that could jeopardize safety and enjoyment of participants. Unfortunately, there can be no refunds. Potomac Riverkeeper Network is not responsible for any personal property that may be lost, damaged, or stolen during the trip. Potomac Riverkeeper Network is not responsible for limited camping, outfitter service, lengthy paddle distances, late start times and uncontrollable weather that could potentially prohibit/limit our ability to provide an enjoyable and safe paddling experience._

_[]RIVERPALOOZA_ IS A WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE SPLASH SERIES EVENT, PRESENTED NATIONALLY BY TOYOTA AND LOCALLY BY THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND MOM’S ORGANIC MARKET.

question: What does the article say about the Antietam National Battlefield?

answer: The Antietam National Battlefield has a movie and National Park Service guided tour of the Antietam National Battlefield. Then, an NPS guide will join them to float to the confluence of the river. There are many stone arched bridges that cross the river.

critique: The answer should mention the history of the battlefield.

critique: More detail can be given with "the visitor's center"

text: The last two sentences are irrelevant to the Antietam National Battlefield.

question: What does the article say about RiverPalooza activities?

answer: RiverPalooza activities are for beginners and intermediates. Beginners have the opportunity to learn about the Antietam Creek. Intermediate users have the opportunity to experience the Antietam Creek through white water.

critique: "Intermediate users have the opportunity to experience the Antietam Creek through white water." - is incorrect. Intermediate users don't get to experience the white water because it's for beginners.

critique: The article said nothing about learning the history to intermediate users. The line should be removed.

critique: The answer could be clearer in its pronoun use.

critique: The answer should mention the Antietam National Battlefield.

text: The article does not distinguish between what beginners and intermediates are able to do or learn; rather both have the chance to enjoy a guided tour and the white water river.

category: accuracy

question: What does the article say about Potomac Riverkeeper Network's disclaimer?

answer: The disclaimer states that Potomac Riverkeeper Network is not responsible for securing camping reservations or for the safety and enjoyment of participants who wish to attend. The disclaimer also states that the trip times are subject to change or cancellation due to inclement weather, high river levels, tidal fluctuations, wind, and other factors that could jeopardize safety and enjoyment of participants. There can be no refunds. Potomac Riverkeeper Network is not responsible for any personal property that may be lost, damaged, or stolen during the trip. Potomac Riverkeeper Network is not responsible for limited camping, outfitter service, lengthy paddle distances, late start times, and uncontrollable weather that could potentially prohibit/limit their ability to provide an enjoyable and safe paddling experience.

critique: The last sentence is not relevant to the question.

critique: The disclaimer is not relevant to the question.

question: What does the article say about how to keep the river clean?

answer: No answer

critique: The answer should mention that the article does not mention how to keep the river clean.

critique: The answer should mention the RiverPalooza event.


text:
July may already soon be over, but summer certainly isn’t! I find myself enjoying (and appreciating!) more and more the beautiful summer sun during clear afternoons, whilst relaxing on the patio with a glass of wine (or two!) in hand. Being able to soak up the sun without worrying about being surrounded by inches of snow is quite the cathartic Canadian feeling, as is enjoying the beautiful weather in a cool pool, a hot tub, or at the beach! Don’t be fooled, however; warmer weather can also bring an incredibly unnerving “itch” no woman enjoys talking about. And oh, I wish I could be talking about those pesky bug bites, but we all know which “itch” I’m referring to — that’s right, yeast infections.

It’s more common than you might think. Did you know that about 5% of women in Canada suffer from recurrent yeast infections? This makes up for more than four infections per year! One of the most common causes behind yeast infections are heat and humidity. If moisture remains trapped, particularly in warm, dark areas, these conditions are perfect for yeast to reproduce, causing an irritating itch, burning, and discomfort. You know _exactly _what I’m talking about if you’ve ever had to endure one for a few days.

Thankfully, the good news is that with a few simple tips, you’ll be in a better position to avoid that pesky itch this summer season!

FIVE TIPS!

[Women's Health: Five Tips to Keep a Healthy "down there" this Summer]
A pair of sunglasses on top of sand at the beach.
1.  REMEMBER TO DRY OFF: Relaxing in a hot tub is the perfect way to enjoy a warm, summer evening. However, yeast grows best in a moist environment, making hot tubs a breeding ground for unwanted infections. This means it’s important to dry off well afterwards and change into dry clothes right away. Use this same approach when spending the day at the beach or pool. Additionally, remember not to spend long hours in a hot tub, either!
2.  KNOW YOUR PH: Many vaginal health issues, including odour, itchiness and yeast infections stem from an unbalanced pH. RepHresh™ Gel is a gynecologist recommended product and clinically proven to be pH balanced which can help to eliminate feminine odour and relieve feminine discomfort.
    [Women's Health: Five Tips to Keep a Healthy "down there" this Summer]
    RepHresh™ Gel Odour Eliminating Gel packaging box
3.  WEAR COTTON UNDIES: Unfortunately, your tight skinny jeans may not be the best option this summer. Warm, tight clothing allows for little oxygen movement making the perfect breeding ground for yeast. If you must rock the skinnies, wear cotton underwear.
4.  TAKE HEALTHY MEASURES: RepHresh™ Pro-Breduces the number of urogenital pathogenic bacteria and yeast on vaginal surfaces. It’s clinically tested and works by balancing the yeast and bacteria that are naturally present in a woman’s body to help restore and maintain proper vaginal flora. Try adding one capsule to your daily routine to keep your body on track and ensure nothing slows you down this summer!
    [Women's Health: Five Tips to Keep a Healthy "down there" this Summer]
    RepHresh™ Pro-B 30 oral capsules packaging.
5.  WIPE THE RIGHT WAY: While on the royal throne, be sure to wipe from the front-to-back with toilet paper and to never reuse the same sheets twice. Wiping from the back-to-front will spread unwanted bacteria and raise the risks of getting a UTI (urinary tract infection) or yeast infections.

[Women's Health Five Tips to Keep a Healthy down there this Summer]
A pair of sunglasses on top of sand at the beach and RepHresh™ Pro-B 30 oral capsules packaging.
Are you ready to beat the summer heat and conquer the “itch” this summer?

_Disclaimer: This post was sponsored by Church and Dwight. To make sure these products are right for you, always read and follow the label._

[]

Christelle

Christelle, but please call me Chrisi. Cinnamon hot chocolate connoisseur. Honorary Princess. Registered Nurse and aspiring writer to be.

question: Summarize everything relating to the advertised products.

answer: Hot tubs are a breeding ground for unwanted infections, so it's important to dry off well and change into dry clothes afterward. Wearing cotton underwear reduces heat and humidity, so it's important to wear these every time. Taking RepHresh™ Pro-Bred will balance the yeast and bacteria flora and reduce the number of pathogenic bacteria on the vaginal surface.

critique: "Wearing cotton underwear reduces heat and humidity, so it's important to wear these every time." - the author never mentions this. The answer should be replaced with a more accurate response that relates to the products.

critique: The answer does not mention any of the other tips.

critique: Wiping from back-to-front does not cause unwanted bacteria

critique: The answer should include information about the RepHresh™ Gel.

critique: The answer should mention the RepHresh™ Gel.

critique: The answer should include that the products can be used to avoid yeast infections.

critique: Wiping from the back-to-front with toilet paper raises the risk of getting a yeast infection.

critique: "Wearing cotton underwear reduces heat and humidity, so it's important to wear these every time." This is not relevant to the question and should be deleted.

question: Summarize everything the article says about factors that can contribute to a yeast infection.

answer: According to this article, heat and humidity are factors that can contribute to a yeast infection. If there is moisture trapped, particularly in warm and dark areas, this leads to the growth of yeast which causes an irritating itch, burning, and discomfort. Tight clothing that does not breath also contributes to yeast infections.

critique: The article also mentions that yeast grows best in a moist environment.

critique: The article does not mention tight clothing.

critique: It is omitted that cotton underwear also helps.

critique: The response misses to provide the other two factors that can contribute to a yeast infection.

critique: "tight clothing that does not breath also contributes to yeast infections" is incorrect. The article says that tight clothing allows little oxygen movement and can cause yeast infections.

critique: It is not clear what the intent of the answer. It does not answer everything mentioned in the article.

critique: The article also says that a lack of hygiene in terms of wiping after using the bathroom can lead to yeast infections.

critique: The article doesn't mention sweaty clothing.

critique: The answer omits the other factors that can contribute to a yeast infection.

critique: The article also mentions that a lack of hygiene can lead to yeast infections.

critique: The answer specifically says "tight clothing" but the text says "tight, warm clothing" and even specifically mentions skinny jeans.

critique: The answer mentions tight clothing but does not mention cotton underwear. This can be added to cover up the topic.

critique: It's omitted that yeast grows best in a moist environment, making hot tubs a breeding ground for unwanted infections.

critique: The article does not say that tight clothing does not breath, it is moisture trapped in warm and dark areas.

critique: Be more specific in the answer about what yeast can grow in.

question: What does the article say about treating a yeast infection?

answer: The two most common natural remedies for yeast infections are garlic and probiotics. An additional remedy is taking a medication called RepHresh.

critique: The article does not mention garlic or probiotics as remedies for yeast infections.

critique: The answer should mention that there are five tips to avoid yeast infections.

critique: RepHresh is not a natural remedy. It is a medication.

critique: Garlic is not a common remedy, and no mention is made of probiotics. RepHresh is not a common remedy.

critique: The answer is inaccurate. The article does not mention garlic or probiotics.

critique: The response does gives a couple of remedies for yeast infections, but it does not detail how to treat a yeast infection.

critique: The remedies listed are not the two most common natural remedies. The article only lists one.

critique: The article does not mention garlic or probiotics.

critique: RepHresh is not one of the most common remedies for yeast infections. RepHresh is a treatment for curing yeast infections.

critique: The article doesn't mention garlic or probiotics.

critique: Garlic is a food product, so it isn't really a natural remedy.


text:
    High school would be starting next week. Until this morning, that had been the only thing on 15 year old Allerton Solvaire’s mind. He had gone shopping for new clothes yesterday with his mother. Although none of his classmates were old enough to drive, he seemed to be the only one that had to show up at the mall with a parent. How his classmates managed to get to the mall always eluded him.
Now, here in the forest behind his home, the other end of the universe seemed closer than yesterday at the mall. Al realized he could not remember the last time he had walked this path, nor could he remember why he stopped coming. His mother would have a similar realization next Sunday when she would attend Mass at St. Peter’s for the first time in almost 25 years.
    The mourning doves above him and the ferns on either side of his path stood in stark contrast with the sparsely scattered beer cans and candy wrappers. He hurried his pace just a bit. It wasn’t so much that he was in hurry to get anywhere as much as he wanted to increase the distance from where he had come.
He passed the spot where seven years earlier, he and his then best friend Jimmy Radcliffe from next door had built one of their countless tree forts. The forts had never consisted of much more than large branches, rope, and bits of scrap wood that Al had managed to smuggle from his father’s shed. On the day that Jimmy and Al were building the fort that he now passed, Jimmy had told him how his father would often come home from work drunk and angry and hit Jimmy and his mother. Jimmy told him how his father would yell at them both, calling them “ungrateful fucks.”
    This day was two firsts for Al. It was the first day that he had ever really heard “the f-word” said aloud, and it was the first day he had ever felt real hatred for a person: Mr. Radcliffe. Al and Jimmy didn’t speak much of the rest of that day while they worked on the fort.
Al stayed awake in bed that night crying quietly to himself.
Because his best friend’s father was a monster.
Because there was nothing he, a stupid little kid, could do about it.
Because for the first time he realized things aren’t always okay.

    Al reached the part of the forest where the path opened into a small field with tall pine trees along the perimeter. He surveyed his old territory. The same patch of tall blue flowers along the west. The same zigzag streak of clovers hugged close to the ground in the center. Even the same inexplicable rustying car door opposite the path that brought him here. The car door still defying logic by lying in a field almost 400 yards from the nearest road.
He and Jimmy used to imagine ways that the car door had ended up here. Each time they would pass the it, the story would become more elaborate and the two of them would laugh endlessly, as only two eight-year old boys can do.
    Al walked to the patch of clovers and sat down. It was almost 11am on a breezy Friday in September and Allerton Jeffrey Solvaire wished that he was crying. Crying the way he heard his mother this morning as he slipped out the backdoor into the woods.

    It always had seemed to Al that when he cried, all of the conflicting thoughts and emotions circling each other in his mind were simplified into one compressed outburst. Things make sense when you are crying, even if the feeling is horrific, at least it makes sense. The only thing Al wanted more than to cry was for it to be yesterday, or for him to wake up in bed and realize today was just a dream. Since this wasn’t going to happen, he continued to sit in the patch of clovers.
Jimmy Radcliffe’s drunken father was the first person Al had ever felt hate for. Today, he felt a new type of hate. The idea of hate stemming from a deep love was a few year’s beyond Al’s understanding, but you don’t have to fully understand something to experience it full force.
It was just like Rob to do this.
Rob was 23.
Was.
Rob was Al’s only brother.
Was.

Al was sitting down in the living room watching TV after breakfast this morning. His parents were in he kitchen washing dishes with the radio on.
“And she‘ll have fun, fun, fun ‘til her daddy takes her T-Bird awaaaaay…”

Al’s least favorite Beach Boys song.

    Al glanced out the window and immediately saw the men with the flag walking up to his front door. He saw the man carrying the flag and knew.
It was just like Rob to run off to some goddamned foreign country to protect other people’s families and leave his own behind. Just like him to not think of Al. Just like Rob to go off and get blown up or shot or run over or… or whatever, and die and leave him here alone.
Rob was an army officer.
Was.
From now on, everything about him would be past tense.

Rob was in the army.

Rob was my brother.

Rob was enough of a jerk to leave me here with no brother.

“Now he’s just a goddamned flag and a medal that we’re gonna hang over the mantle and stare at,” Al said aloud without realizing it.

    He stood up, dusted off the bottom of his jeans and approached one of the large pine trees along the edge of the field. As he began to climb the branches, he imagined the scene back at his house. The two Army officers would have left by now. His father would be standing next to his mother. His father silent, with one hand holding his coffee and one around Al’s mom.

title: [RF] thousand words about a boy and his brother. Any comments welcome.

question: What does the story say about Jimmy?

answer: Jimmy Radcliffe is Allerton Solvaire's neighbor. He and Allerton used to be best friends until his parents got divorced. Jimmy told Allerton that his parents would often fight due to his father's drunkenness and anger. He also told Allerton how his father would call him and his mother "ungrateful fucks". He and Allerton built a tree fort when they were young.

critique: The answer should mention that Jimmy's father is abusive.

critique: It's omitted that Jimmy's father is abusive.

critique: The answer omits that Jimmy's father is abusive.

critique: That Jimmy and Allerton were best friends before the divorce is made up

critique: "He and Allerton built a tree fort when they were young." - this is incorrect. Jimmy and Allerton built a tree fort when Jimmy told him about his father.

critique: The answer omits that Jimmy's father was abusive.

question: Summarize the nature descriptions.

answer: The forest is described as a place of stark contrast. The mourning doves contrast with the sparsely scattered beer cans and candy wrappers. The forest is also described as having patches of tall blue flowers and clover.

critique: The phrase "patches of tall blue flowers and clover" is confusing. It would be better to say that the clover is hugged close to the ground.

critique: The answer should mention the car door rusting in the field.

critique: "The forest is also described as having patches of tall blue flowers and clover." - is unattested. The clover patch is mentioned earlier, but not described.

question: Summarize Al's main conflict.

answer: Al's main conflict is his brother's death. He is angry with his brother for leaving him alone and angry with his parents for not being able to do anything about it.

critique: The answer omits the fact that Al is also angry with Rob for leaving him.

critique: The answer omits the use of the word "was" in relation to Rob. This should be included.

critique: The answer should mention his hatred for his brother's killer.

critique: The answer should mention that Al is angry with his brother for joining the army.

question: What does the text say about Al's feelings towards Rob?

answer: Al was always upset with Rob for many things. He mentioned how Rob dies in the military and will never be there for him. He also mentioned how Rob was late every time he gets home because he's hanging out with his friends. Al always complained about this, but Rob would just ignore him. Ultimately, Rob was the only family, and now there was no brother to talk all the time and do whatever he pleases. Rob was enough of a jerk to leave his little brother all alone.

critique: Al's feelings towards Rob are not expressed in the text.

critique: Nothing in the input satisfies the conditions of the answer that talks about the "scene back at his house" (thus 'Rob will never be there for him'). The accuracy score is grabbed from where 'he mention how Rob dies'. The response talks in tenses, which was not raised anywhere in the input (though Rob did die so it makes sense). 'Rob is enough of a jerk' is tagged as irrelevant and thus should be removed.

critique: The answer is a bit confusing and incoherent.

critique: There is no evidence that Rob was late every time he gets home because he's hanging out with his friends.

critique: The response contains inaccurate information.

question: What does the text say about Al's family comforting him?

answer: No answer

critique: Doesn't describe Al's family comforting Al as he spirals.


text:
SIR WILLIAM ARROL & CO. was a leading Scottish civil engineering and construction business founded by William Arrol and based in Glasgow. It built some of the most famous bridges in the United Kingdom including the second Tay Bridge, the Forth Bridge and Tower Bridge in London.

Early history

The Company was founded by William Arrol, born in Houston, Renfrewshire in 1839, the fourth child of Thomas Arrol, a cotton spinner. He started work at the age of nine in a cotton mill, having passed himself off as thirteen. In 1850, the family moved to Paisley and William found work at Coats’s Cotton Thread Manufacturing making bobbins. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a blacksmith at Paisley, supplementing his practical education with night school classes and the purchase of books on engineering.[1]

At end of his apprenticeship William Arrol worked as a journeyman blacksmith with mixed success. Work was not easy to find and in 1858, now aged nineteen, he took a job at Ker’s factory at Paisley. Eventually he was engaged as a foreman at Laidlaw’s Engineering Works in Glasgow. Here he was entrusted with his first bridges: the Greenock and Ayrshire Railway at Greenock in 1885 and the West Pier at Brighton 1866. After two years, Arrol had saved enough money to set up with a friend as boiler and girder makers. However, they incurred heavy losses through non-payment by customers and the partnership was dissolved. On his own again with his small works in Glasgow, in 1871 he was given the construction of railway bridges on the Balerno line in Edinburgh.[2]

In 1872, now in his early thirties, Arrol left his old works and moved to Dalmarnock in south Glasgow. His first important contract was for a bridge over the Clyde at Bothwell for the North British Railway. This bridge, which was 120 feet above the water, was notable for Arrol’s introduction of the idea of building the girders on land and rolling them out pier to pier. In 1875 he built the first of the two great bridges for the Caledonian Railway over the Clyde. Faced by a strike by the riveters he invented a hydraulic riveting machine, later to enjoy widespread use in the shipbuilding industry. [3]

The Great Bridges

December 1879 saw the great Tay Bridge disaster where the railway bridge collapsed under the lateral pressure of high winds, barely a year after it had opened. William Arrol was awarded the contract for the new bridge. Construction of the new Tay Bridge was started in 1882 and it opened in 1887. Almost simultaneously, William Arrol was also working on the Forth Bridge. Construction began in 1882 and when it was opened in1890 it had the longest single cantilever bridge span in the world. William Arrol’s commitment to these two bridges was rewarded with a knighthood: Sir William Arrol & Company Ltd was incorporated in June 1893.[4] The completion of the two Scottish bridges gave Sir William Arrol an international reputation and in the succeeding years bridges were built around Great Britain, Europe and as far as Australia. Perhaps the best known was London’s Tower Bridge opened in 1894, where Sir William Arrol erected all the steel work.[5]

Diversification

The development of Dalmarnock Works to cope with Arrol’s increased business involved the construction of new buildings with large spans and roofs of steel and glass which let in light throughout the building. Their size allowed the installation of large overhead cranes with up to 100 tons lifting capacity. This became an activity in its own right as similar buildings were constructed for other companies.[6] Also arising out of Dalmarnock Works and bridgebuilding were cranes. particularly for shipbuilding; they had a loading capacity ranging from five to 150 tons. The most famous crane. the largest of its time, is the Titan Crane completed in 1907; a gigantic cantilever crane of 150-ton capacity. for John Brown & Company.[7] With this increased range of activity, the Dalmarnock Works occupied 17 acres and employed 2000 men plus thousands more working on outside contracts. Sir William died in 1913 but the Company continued as an independent entity until 1969.[8]

Notable projects

[View of the cantilever construction of the Forth Bridge] [The Forth Bridge built by Sir William Arrol & Co.|alt=Colour photograph of the Forth Bridge. ]

Bridges

Bridges built by the company include:

-   Caledonian Railway Bridge across the River Clyde completed in 1878
-   Tay Rail Bridge completed in 1887
-   Forth Bridge completed in 1890
-   Tower Bridge in London completed in 1894
-   North Bridge in Edinburgh completed in 1897
-   Redheugh Bridge in Newcastle upon Tyne completed in 1901
-   Connel Bridge completed in 1903
-   Nile Bridge at Cairo completed in 1908
-   Tees Transporter Bridge completed in 1911
-   Warrington Transporter Bridge completed in 1916
-   Keadby Bridge completed in 1916
-   Southwark Bridge in London completed in 1921
-   White Cart Bridge completed in 1923
-   Jubilee Bridge (Walney) completed in 1908
-   Jubilee Bridge (Queensferry) completed in 1927
-   Corporation Bridge in Grimsby completed in 1928
-   Wearmouth Bridge completed in 1929

[A closeup of the central section of the second Tay Bridge|alt=Colour photograph of the central section of the second Tay Bridge]

-   Tsoelike Suspension Bridge in Lesotho completed in 1930
-   Forth Road Bridge completed in 1964
-   Deptford Railroad Bridge completed in 1964
-   Severn Bridge completed in 1966
-   The second Craigellachie Bridge completed in 1970
-   The Humber Bridge completed in 1981

Cranes

-   Titan Clydebank, completed in 1907
-   Titan Crane, Fairfield, completed in 1911
-   250-ton crane, HMNB Portsmouth, dated 1912, demolished 1984[9]
-   Titan Crane, James Watt Dock Crane, completed in 1917
-   Titan Crane, Barclay Curle, completed in 1920
-   Blocksetter Travelling Titan (South African Harbours and Railways); for use at Durban, completed prior to 1932[10]
-   Blocksetter Travelling Hercules (South African Harbours and Railways); for use at Table Bay, completed prior to 1932[11]
-   Blocksetter Travelling Hercules; for use at Ceuta, completed prior to 1932[12]

Titanic

[Workers leaving the Harland & Wolff shipyard in early 1911. The RMS _Titanic_ can be seen in the background, underneath the Arrol Gantry.] The company was contracted by Harland and Wolff Shipyard, Belfast, to construct a large gantry (known as the Arrol Gantry) for the construction of three new super-liners, one of which was called the RMS _Titanic_. Like the ships themselves, the gantry crane was one of the largest built at the time, comparing with transporter bridges in length, height and capability.[13]

Hikitia

[Hikitia at the Taranaki St wharf in Wellington] The company also built the crane for the Hikitia in 1926, which is thought to be the last fully operational self-propelled steam crane in the world.

Demise of the business

The company was acquired by Clarke Chapman in 1969 and the Dalmarnock Works were closed in 1986.[14]

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title: Sir William Arrol & Co.

question: Summarize William Arrol's life before his thirties.

answer: William Arrol was born in 1839. He started work at the age of nine in a cotton mill. He worked in a cotton thread manufacturing making bobbins. He was apprenticed to a blacksmith at the age of fourteen. He worked as a journeyman blacksmith. He worked as a foreman at Laidlaw's Engineering Works.

critique: The answer omits the fact that Arrol worked as a boiler and girder maker.

critique: Went over the 2-line summary requirement

critique: The answer should mention his education.

critique: It's omitted that Arrol's first important contract was for a bridge over the Clyde at Bothwell for the North British Railway.

critique: The answer omits the fact that Arrol was given the construction of railway bridges on the Balerno line in Edinburgh.

critique: The answer omits the time period between his apprenticeship and his work at Laidlaw's Engineering Works.

question: What does the text say about why Dalmarnock Works had to close?

answer: No answer

critique: The answer should mention that the company was acquired by Clarke Chapman in 1969 and the Dalmarnock Works were closed in 1986.

critique: The answer should mention the company's demise.

critique: The answer could mention the company's demise.

critique: The answer should mention the demise of the company.


text:
The typical goal of search engine optimization is to have your site’s pages show up on a Google results page in answer to a query. The object is for Google and every other search engine to crawl and index all your product detail pages, blog posts, and articles, and anything else that results in conversions.

But there are pages that should not be included in search results. Removing them from Google’s index might actually increase search engine traffic to more important, better-converting pages.

Don’t Index These

But do you really care if your privacy policy, GDPR disclosures, or similar pages are showing up on Google? Pages you likely don’t want Google to index include:

-   _Thank you pages_ (displayed after a survey or similar)

-   _Ad landing pages_ (meant for pay-per-click campaigns)

-   _Policy pages_

-   _Internal site search results_ (because going from Google’s results page right into your website’s search results page may not be a good user experience).

[Not every page in your company's website should be indexed with Google. Photo by Campaign Creators.]

Not every page on your company’s website should be indexed with Google. _Photo: Campaign Creators._

Removing Pages

Getting these sorts of pages out of Google’s index could also improve your website’s authority which in turn might improve how well its various pages rank on Google for relevant queries.

Some SEO practitioners argue that Google has become adept at identifying content quality and is on the lookout, so to speak, for redundant, duplicate, or relatively low-quality pages.

What’s more, some SEO professionals have suggested that Google averages the relative value of all of the pages on your website to create an aggregate authority or value score. This might be domain authority, domain rank, or a similar metric.

If your company has stuffed Google’s index with relatively low-value pages — such as the privacy policy your tech guy copied and pasted from your ecommerce platform provider — it could affect how authoritative Google believes your site is as a whole.

For example, writing about the topic of removing website pages (deleting pages, in this instance), Chris Hickey of Inflow, an ecommerce agency in Denver, Colorado, reported a 22 percent increase in organic search engine traffic and a 7 percent increase in revenue from organic search traffic after culling thousands of duplicate pages from a client’s ecommerce website.

Similarly, in 2017 SEO tool maker Moz removed 75 percent of the pages on its website from the Google index. The pages were primarily low-value member profiles from the Moz community. These pages did not have much unique content, and removing them from the Google index resulted in a 13.7 percent increase in year-over-year organic search traffic.

Removal Tool

Perhaps the best tool for removing an individual page from Google’s index is the robots _noindex_ meta tag.

    <meta name="robots" content="noindex" />

Inserted in the __ section of a page’s HTML markup, this simple tag asks all search engines not to index the associated page. Google’s primary web crawler, Googlebot, follows this directive and will drop any page marked with _noindex_ the next time it crawls that page.

Using your website’s content management system, it should be relatively easy to add this tag to policy pages, internal search results, and other pages that don’t need to be included in Google’s index or shown in response to a Google query.

HTTP Response Header

The robots _noindex_ directive may also be passed in an HTTP response header. Think of the HTTP response header as a text message your server sends to a web browser or web crawler (such as Googlebot) when it requests a page.

Within this header, your site can tell Google not to index the page. Here is an example.

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    X-Robots-Tag: noindex

For some businesses, it may be easier to write a script that will place this _X-Robots-Tag_ than it would be to manually or even programmatically add the robots meta tag. Both this HTTP tag and the meta tag have the same effect. Which one of these methods your business uses is a matter of preference.

Prevent Indexing?

Robots.txt does not prevent indexing. A robots.txt file is located in a website’s root directory. This simple text file tells a search engine web crawler which pages on the site it can access.

Often, website owners and managers mistakenly think that disallowing a page in a robots.txt file will prevent that page from showing up in Google’s index. But that is not always the case.

For example, if another site links to a page on your company’s website, Googlebot could follow that link and index the page even if that page is disallowed in a robots.txt file.

If you want to remove pages from Google’s index, the robots.txt file is probably not the best choice. Rather, it is helpful for limiting how Google indexes your site and preventing search engine bots from overwhelming your company’s web server.

It is important to mention that you should not disallow a page in a robots.txt file and use a noindex tag at the same time. Doing so could cause Googlebot to miss the noindex directive.

Ultimately, it may sound counterintuitive, but there are almost certainly pages on your company’s website that should not be included in Google’s index or displayed on a Google results page. The best way to remove those pages is with a robots _noindex_ tag.

question: What does the article say about the reasons for removing a website's pages from search engines' index?

answer: The article says that Google is on the lookout for low-quality pages, and that it ranks the pages on the website by averaging the relative value of all the pages. If your company has stuffed Google's index with low-value pages, it might affect how Google ranks your site as a whole.

critique: The article also says that removing these pages can increase search engine traffic to more important, better-converting pages.

critique: The article doesn't say that Google ranks the pages on the website by averaging the relative value of all the pages.

critique: The answer is confusingly phrased. It would be better to state that this is the reason provided in the article.

critique: The averaging of relative page values is irrelevant.

critique: The answer omits the other reasons for removing pages from Google's index.

critique: The answer omits the reason for removing pages from Google's index.

question: What does the article say about Google's business practices?

answer: No answer

critique: The article does not discuss Google's business practices.

critique: The article does not talk about Google's business practices.

critique: The article does not mention anything about Google's business practices.

critique: The answer should mention the typical goal of search engine optimization.

critique: The article clearly outlines the ways in which Google indexes pages, along with possible reasons for removing pages from their ranks, so the answer should include some of this information.

critique: The article does mention Google's business practices.


text:
Love & Chemicals: The Memoir
Genre: Non-Fiction

2 minutes after he’d left our 1st private lesson
a pre-intermediate student with limited English skills
I noticed over $1500 in rolled bills sitting under his desk
and my salary was just hovering near $500/month
but I had already learned that Karma was a tricky B*tch
and I called out his name before he could exit the school.
1 minute after our 2nd class he said
“Your boss is most big B*tch I ever meet,
and I no pay her no more, but I like you, you good.”
He offered to meet him privately 3x a week at a local park,
and asked me the price necessary to accomplish this.
I accepted the deal with no hesitation
when he gave me $400 in cash up front,
never mind the Karma of taking a client away from my employer.
After just 5 classes of strolling together
next to a beautiful man-made pond,
I became fully aware that he was an enemy of Ukraine,
a card-carrying member of the Mafia.
He had been a certified Pharmacist at a leading factory
until the government’s men came in to reap the profits,
and drove the business straight into the ground.

I’d already learned while living in Israel
that the distinction between Good and Evil is difficult to decipher.
The Jewish people get so drunk on the holiday of Purim
to remind them that looks are deceiving,
a King and a Criminal cannot merely be understood by appearances.

The line between legal and illegal in Kiev was also blurry,
depending on which was more beneficial for your family.
He gave me a weekly Tip with wild names I’d never heard,
Maui Waui, White Widow, Deisel, and Pineapple Express,
and I was grateful to have such a motivated client.
Upon my departure, he offered me a ride to the airport
and I was grateful to make my exit in a Mercedes 7 series.
My Soviet-era babushka landlord was trying to nickel and dime me
until he arrived and straightened things out very quickly,
and I was able to keep my mind focused on my next destination, Lisbon.
Cigarette lit, windows down, the world in front of me
that familiar feeling of arriving in a foreign land unannounced,
I felt the soothing waves of adrenaline underneath my skin.
Here I go again… until the flashing lights arrived behind us.
“Identification, please,” the corrupted cops asked,
and their simultaneous erections were easily noticeable
when I produced my weathered American Passport.
My student instructed me to never get up from the passenger seat,
no matter what might transpire, STAY PUT, and so I did,
even as they stood outside my window trying to lure me out.
He took a wad of money from the glove compartment,
and went outside to take care of the usual course of business.
The view from the side-view mirror was skewed,
and I could only see random sets of blurry arms flailing,
until he unexpectedly sat back down in the driver’s seat
and said, “We F*cked, they will follow to airport us.”
It might as well have been a 6 series, it didn’t matter,
the registration and license plates didn’t coincide,
and I was there, too, and my plane was leaving their jurisdiction.
“I now told them we go airport, but you say you need money change,
so we only can stop at a bank, next.”
I wished then, more than ever, that I’d been a better English teacher,
to understand exactly what was going on.
He then casually slipped a small bag of Silver Haze into my sock
and said, “We OK, put in toilet inside bank, follow what I say.”
I looked over at him trying to comprehend my situation,
and said, “Did you leave that $1500 under the desk on purpose?”
Our necks had remained straight ahead,
our mouths had been pursed to avoid reading,
but he turned toward me and said,
“Give last class now, what is Grammar for today?”
We discussed the Present Perfect, and reviewed all 9 tenses
in between the hands-free phone calls he was making
to people more powerful than the cops behind us.
“Jaime, we come airport 1 minute, just want say I will remember what you do,
whatever when you need favor, I do for you,
but when stop, you get bag, run to airport police, they OK.”
He leaned over and we hugged it out in a manly way,
and I prepared to run away from my home of 3 years,
in the most peculiar way, but fitting to a tee.
I ripped by luggage from the trunk and dashed toward Gate 9
as he distracted the cops with more documents he had found.
My current visa was official/unofficial, again good/evil is a fine line,
and I chose the prettiest female Customs Agent I could flirt with.
After staring cross-eyed at the overwhelming amount of paperwork I gave her
she said, “How was your stay in Ukraine?”
The muscles in my neck and shoulders finally relaxed, and I smiled,
and said, “It is a land I will never forget, I give it a 10.”

P.S. The Ukrainian bank only had 80euros available to exchange, and no bank in Lisbon would accept the Gryvna, so I had to travel to Madrid and back to change my money, and at a ridiculously low exchange rate, I lost too much money in the end to make up for my decision to take a ride from the dark side. I tried to contact him shortly thereafter for an explanation as I was living on 10cents a day for too long in Portugal, but he was nowhere to be found. So what did I learn from this experience? I don’t know, but I still refuse to my life at any other volume than 11…

title: [NF] Kiev Police/Mafia

question: What does the story say about how the narrator meets his English student?

answer: During the narrator's first private lesson with his pre-intermediate student in English, he notices rolled bills under the student's desk. He starts gossiping about their boss the next day. On the third private lesson, the student pays the narrator $100 upfront, and they have a deal of meeting three times a week. The English student

critique: The student pays the narrator $400 upfront.

critique: The text doesn't mention anything about the student gossiping about the narrator's boss.

critique: The answer should mention that the student is mafia.

critique: The response inaccurately mentions that the student pays the narrator $100 upfront, however the narrator accepts the deal with no hesitation when he gives him $400 in cash up front.

text:
-The answer fails to mention that the English student has limited English skills. It should state this.
-The answer should state that the student revealed to the narrator that he no longer pays the narrator's boss.
-'The English student...' Incomplete sentence. Remove or complete this thought.

category: other

category_text: Coverage and coherence.

question: What does the story say about why the protagonist is leaving Ukraine?

answer: The protagonist is leaving Ukraine because they are an American citizen. They are leaving to go to Lisbon. They are also leaving because they are in a relationship with a man who is a member of the Mafia. The man is a former pharmacist who lost his job when the government took over his business. He is now a drug dealer. The protagonist's student gives him money to exchange so that they can go to the airport. The student instructs the protagonist to go to the airport and change their money there. The protagonist does this, but the money exchange only has 80 euros available. The protagonist is unable to change their money at the airport, and they have to go to Madrid to change their money.

critique: Only the first two sentences are relevant.

critique: The protagonist is not in a relationship with a man who is a member of the Mafia.

critique: The protagonist's reason for leaving Ukraine is not established.

critique: The protagonist is not in a relationship with the man.

text: 'The protagonist is leaving Ukraine because they are an American citizen. They are leaving to go to Lisbon. They are also leaving because they are in a relationship with a man who is a member of the Mafia. The man is a former pharmacist who lost his job when the government took over his business. He is now a drug dealer.' These sentences are irrelevant. The question isn't asking for the student's life history. The model should consider sticking with specifics.


text:
EDWARD HARRISON (3 December 1674 – 28 November 1732)[1] was a naval officer and official of the East India Company[2] and British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1717 to 1726. He served as the President of Madras from 11 July 1711 to 8 January 1717.[3]

Early life

Edward Harrison was born in England to Richard Harrison and Audrey Villiers daughter of George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison.[4] He went to India as a purser, and became a captain of ships trading with China. He was Captain of the East Indiaman Gosfright in 1701, and of the Kent in 1709. Sometime before 1708 he married Frances Bray, daughter of Reginald Bray of Great Barrington, Gloucestershire. Her brothers Edmund and William Bray were Members of Parliament.[5]

Tenure as President of Madras

Harrison was appointed Governor and Commander in Chief of the Madras Presidency in 1711. During his time in office he undertook a major rebuilding of the settlement. He dealt with several incidents, including the putting down of a minor revolt. The East India Company presented him with a sword of honour.[6]

War with Gingee

Since its occupation by the Mughals in 1698, Gingee had been ruled by Swaroop Singh, who was actually the Rajput Governor of the Mughal province who had declared his independence and assumed the title of _Raja_. The English at Fort St David frequently failed to pay their rents to the Raja. On one such occasion when Swaroops Singh did not receive any rent for the villages, he responded by capturing two English officers from Fort St David and imprisoning them. Matters came to standstill in February 1711, when open hostilities broke out between the kingdom of Gingee and the British settlement at Fort St David. Three Muslim officers in the service of Gingee and one officer of the British East India Company were killed in the ensuing hostilities. Harrison sent Richard Raworth, a member of the Council of Fort St George along with three ships to the scene of action to settle the matter.

Raworth arrived in Fort St David with three ships as Fort St David was blockaded by Swaroop Singh from land. Raworth's troops ran into a contingent of 400 cavalry and 1,000-foot commanded by Mahobat Khan on 11 August 1711 and barely managed to hold their ground. However, two top officers in the army, Captain Coventry and Ensign Somerville both lost their lives along with around 140 to 150 men of the Company's army. With matters reaching a standstill, Edward Harrison tried to enthuse the Nawab of Carnatic to come to the Company's aid but failed miserably. In the meantime, Richard Raworth was made the deputy Governor at Fort St David. Immediately on assumption of office, Raworth negotiated terms of peace with the Raja of Gingee. The Raja demanded a war indemnity of 16,000 pagodas in return for which he promised to cede three villages whose names have been mentioned as Trevandrun, Padre Copang and Coronuttum. However, even as the matter was under consideration, hostilities broke out once more when the Company troops attacked the forces of Gingee at Crimambakkam on 25 January 1712.

The war was, however, brought to a conclusion in April 1712 through the mediation of M.Hebert, the French Governor of Pondicherry. Swaroop Singh agreed to a settlement on payment of a war indemnity of 12,000 pagodas.

On 15 November 1714, Gingee fell to the forces of the Carnatic bringing Rajput rule to an end.

Postal service

It was during Edward Harrison's time that a postal service was established between the factories at Madras and Calcutta. This was the first postal system established by the British East India Company in India.[7] Mail was carried by runners or _Tappy peons_ who travelled all the way to Ganjam where they exchanged mails with runners from Calcutta.

Armenian Church

The Armenian church was constructed in Armenian Street in 1712 to cater to the religious needs of the powerful Armenian community of Madras.[8]

Richard Raworth's Rebellion

In October 1713, Richard Raworth, Deputy Governor of Fort St David broke into rebellion and shook off his allegiance to Fort St George. Harrison immediately deputed a small force commanded by Henry Davenport to invade Fort St David and remove Raworth.[9] Henry Davenport was commissioned as the provisional Deputy Governor of Fort St David on 10 October 1713.

The force reached Fort St David on 18 October 1713 after passing through Mangadu, Pondicherry and Cuddalore.[10] Condapah Choultry was taken and a strong ultimatum was issued to Raworth.[11] Besieged and starved for the want of provisions, Raworth finally agreed to a settlement on 10 December 1713 and with the mediation of the French of Pondicherry, Raworth was finally pardoned and allowed to seek asylum in France.

Caste disturbances in Madras

In late 1716, caste disturbances broke out in Madras city which affected life and commerce in the city to a great extent. These disturbances started when a man belonging to the _Komati_ caste which is regarded as a right-hand caste reportedly worshipped the idol of a God worshipped by the _Chetties_ who formed a left-handed caste. The problem was solved in a few days; but tensions persisted and hostilities resumed at the slightest excuse. The continuous caste-wars forced the painters of Triplicane to leave the area. With the dispute remaining unresolved and continuing to threaten the functioning of Madras city, Harrison's was recalled and replaced with Joseph Collett.

Later life

[Balls Park] On his return to England, Harrison was returned as Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis at a by-election on 2 March 1717.He became a Director of the East India Company in 1718 and remained until 1731. At the 1722 general election, he switched seats to his home area of Hertford and was elected top of the poll for Hertford. He was deputy chairman of the East India Company in 1723. In 1726, his father died and he inherited Balls Park. He vacated his seat at Hertford in favour of his brother George on 10 August 1726, when he was appointed Postmaster-General. He was deputy chairman of the EIC in 1728, chairman in 1729 and deputy again in 1731.[12]

Harrison died on 28 November 1732. Through his marriage with Frances Bray, he had one son and three daughters, one of whom, Audrey “Etheldreda” Harrison, married Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend in 1723.[13]

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title: Edward Harrison (British administrator)

question: Summarize Edward Harrison's early life as described in the text.

answer: He is born in England to Richard Harrison and Audrey Villiers and travels to India, where he marries Frances Bray, daughter of Reginald Bray. Bray's brothers Edmund and William are both Members of Parliament and Harrison has four children. He dies in 1732.

critique: The answer omits that Harrison was a naval officer and official of the East India Company.

critique: The answer should mention that Harrison was born in 1674.

critique: This sentence is misleading and should be omitted.

critique: The answer should mention that Harrison was a naval officer and official of the East India Company.

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

text:
-The answer omits that he went to India as a purser, and became a captain of ships trading with China. And he was Captain of the East Indiaman Gosfright in 1701, and of the Kent in 1709. The model should include this information.
-The answer is also written in the present tense which is grammatically improper given the character is dead. The model should refer to Edward and all his activities stated in the text in the past tense.
-'Harrison has four children.' 'He dies in 1732.' This is not part of his early life and should be omitted from the answer.

refinement: He is born in England to Richard Harrison and Audrey Villiers and travels to India, where he marries Frances Bray, daughter of Reginald Bray. Bray's brothers Edmund and William are both Members of Parliament and Harrison has four children. He dies in 1732.

question: Summarize what the text has to say about postal service.

answer: The postal service was established during Edward Harrison's time, long before Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone. It was the first postal system established by the British East India Company. Mail was carried by runners or "Tappy peons" who would travel all the way to Ganjam where they would exchange mails with runners from Calcutta.

critique: The text does not say that postal service was established during Edward Harrison's time, long before Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone.

critique: The text does not say that the postal service was established before Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone.

critique: The answer is wrong about the postal service.

critique: The statement about the telephone is unattested.

critique: The answer is wrong about the postal service being established before the telephone.

critique: The text does not mention Alexander Graham Bell.

critique: The answer is incorrect. The text does not say anything about Alexander Graham Bell.

question: Summarize the chain of events that occurred in Harrison's later life.

answer: When Harrison returned to England, he was elected as a Member of Parliament. He became a Director of the East India Company in 1718, and then he was elected to be a Director in 1731, and remained so until 1731. He was at the center of it all. The responsibilities he held made sure he was in touch with corporate and public affairs.

critique: Remove the last sentence because it doesn't make sense with the sentence before it

critique: It is omitted that Harrison was elected top of the poll for Hertford.

critique: The response contains inaccurate information.

critique: The response is missing the part about Harrison inheriting Balls Park.

text:
-The answer omits a bunch of information. For example, it omits that at the 1722 general election, Harrison switched seats to his home area of Hertford and was elected top of the poll for Hertford.
-It also omits that he was deputy chairman of the East India Company in 1723.
-His father died in 1726 and he inherited Balls Park.
-He vacated his seat at Hertford in favor of his brother George on 10 August 1726, when he was appointed Postmaster-General.
-He was deputy chairman of the EIC in 1728, chairman in 1729, and deputy again in 1731.
-Finally, the answer should state that Harrison had four children, a boy, and three girls, and he died on 28 November 1732.

-'He became a Director of the East India Company in 1718, and then he was elected to be a Director in 1731, and remained so until 1731.' This answer contains an inaccurate statement. It should delete '..and then he was elected to be a director in 1731.'

refinement: When Harrison returned to England, he was elected as a Member of Parliament. He became a Director of the East India Company in 1718, and then he was elected to be a Director in 1731, and remained so until 1731. He was at the center of it all. The responsibilities he held made sure he was in touch with corporate and public affairs.

category_text: Accuracy and coverage.

question: What might Audrey Harrison, Edward Harrison's daughter, have as an occupation?

answer: Audrey Harrison could be a parliamentarian.

critique: Parliamentarian means an elected official of a parliament, which does not make sense for this question, where neither politics nor occupation is discussed in detail.

critique: The answer is not related to the question.

critique: She could be, but there's no evidence to suggest this.

critique: There is no evidence that Audrey was a parliamentarian.


text:
“Hands”
	It began almost as soon as I woke up. In fact, it was what caused my awakening. It sounded like there was something crawling within the walls of my bedroom. Mice, I thought. I rubbed my eyes and got out of bed.
	I shower silently. I never understood people who listened to music or sang in the shower. Silence is what I liked. Even the sound of the running water made me cringe. The warm water pounded at my back. I felt something soft on my shoulder. I turned around quickly, a chill running up my spine. I turned down the cold water.
	I tried to relax again, but the chill never went away. I stepped out of the shower and over to the sink. I pulled a razor and shaving cream out of the medicine cabinet. As I closed the cabinet, I saw the towel that was hanging up drop to the floor in the mirror. I turned around quizzically. Shaking my head and sighing, I bent down to pick up the towel and put it back on the rack just as I saw something scurry across the tiled floor to the sliver of space between the opened bathroom door and the wall. Fuck, it has to be rats. I quickly finished shaving and went downstairs to the kitchen.
Starting a fresh pot of coffee, I tried to remember if I had any rat traps left somewhere. Maybe that would warm me up. I opened the door to the pantry and stood on my toes so I could see the contents of the top shelf. I saw the outline of something and reached my hand in. I felt around until my fingers ran into something soft. It moved just as I went to grab it. I jumped and stepped back. Instinctively, I put my hand over my chest to calm myself. I heard the last few drops dripping into the coffee pot. I poured myself a cup. As I sat, sipping at my coffee, I convinced myself that it was only my imagination. Imagination? Wow, I haven’t used that in years. It was hard for me to even remember the last time my mind wandered elsewhere. Well, there were those times when I- no, I won’t go into that.
	I heard a child outside, screaming with joy. I stood up and walked to the kitchen window. Pushing back the curtain, I could see the young boy running through a sprinkler. He screamed again, causing my fist to clench and jaws to lock. There was a sudden, loud crash behind me. I whipped around to find the coffee pot lying in hundreds of pieces on the floor. How had it fallen? Did the rat knock it over? I sighed and went to the hallway closet for rags and a broom.
	I threw away the broken glass, and washed the mug I had used. I decided to check the garage for something to kill this rat that kept ruining my morning. I moved past the plastic containers, which were now starting to fill up the garage, to the tools. I really needed to clean them off from the last time I used them. I rustled through a box until I found an old poison rat trap. I opened it and saw it had already been used.
	I heard the clicking of heels on the driveway outside the garage door. I sighed to myself and threw the trap away. I heard the doorbell ring and started making my way to the front door. As I was closing the garage door, I felt a tug at the bottom of my pant leg. I looked down, hoping to catch the rat red-handed, but the doorbell rang again. I huffed and stomped to the front of the house. I opened the door halfway.
	“Hi,” a young blonde woman was standing on the old welcome mat, smiling at me.
	I opened the door fully, “Hello.”
	“I just wanted to introduce myself. I just moved in next door,” she smiled and held her hand out.
	I looked down at her hand for a moment, then back up to meet her eyes. I shook her hand slowly.
	When she pulled away, I noticed her fidgeting with her bracelets, “Well, it was nice meeting you. If you ever need anything, don’t be afraid to ask.”
	I flicked my tongue across my lips, still staring at her hands. I smiled at her, “I’ll be sure to do that.”
	I closed the door silently and wiped my face with my hand. I turned around and saw grey everywhere. Rats weren’t the cause of my shake up this morning. All around me were severed hands. Shit, I left the garage door open. They began to climb up my pant legs. I tried shaking them off, but they held tight. I began swatting at them. They covered my eyes and mouth. There were just too many.

title: "Hands" a short story I wrote for my English class

question: Summarize what the narrator thinks is in their apartment.

answer: The narrator thinks there are mice in their apartment. They hear something crawling within the walls of their bedroom. They think it's mice. They hear something scurry across the tiled floor to the sliver of space between the opened bathroom door and the wall. They think it's rats.

critique: The narrator thinks it's mice at first, but then it's rats.

question: What is the actual cause of the strange noises in the narrator's apartment?

answer: Severed hands.


text:
    During life people are called many things, some good, some bad. Within a short eight years I’ve been called; a student, worker, son, good listener, hero, savior, and many more. Since I was ten I’ve been talking people out of suicide online. During my eight years of helping people, I’ve helped many people, created an online organization, and learned many new things. This has forever and will constantly change my life.

    Many people ask me, how did this happen? How does a ten year old get mixed up with people’s lives? It was three days after my tenth birthday, the smell of my moms homemade cake was still tangible in the air. I logged onto the computer and found a chat room. I came across a man inside the room. He was talking about ending his life because his wife was cheating on him and getting his kids. My heart was in my ears beating hard, my palms were clammy and wet like a river. I talked with him till late in the night past any ten year olds bed time. This man was set and ready to die, a mere child stopped him. Me.

    A few months after helping the man, I met a girl my age who was rather interested in the “work” I did. She wanted to be part of the action. Lillie and I decided to work together helping people we would find in chat rooms. This continued for about a year. Lillie started to struggle with herself, the constant pressure of someone’s life in your hands at that young of an age takes a heavy toll upon the beholder. Lillie messaged me one night, “Dominic I have a problem” I asked her what it was and she stated, she wanted to die. She couldn’t take helping people anymore. I remember crying, panicking, wanting her to see it my way and not do what she was planning. It all ended so fast only three words remained “Lillie Signed Off.”

    Three years have passed since Lillie’s death, I created an online organization, filled with teens helping people out of dark thoughts. I created this organization in memory of Lillie. DarkShadows. DarkShadows, was constructed of teens from around the world, looking for people with suicidal thoughts that wanted to help prevent suicide. One hundred and ninety-seven teens joined DarkShadows. Each night we would have meetings and we would talk with one another to see if everyone was ok. I learned that this “job” is to hard for one child to take on alone day in and day out, there needs to be an escape route. DarkShadows showed some amazing results, the teens in DarkShadows were able to talk to five hundred plus people out of suicide. With every construction there is a destruction.

    I had a hard time destroying DarkShadows for I was proud of it. I closed down DarkShadows because the stress was enormous, two people were talking people into suicide, three people committed suicide from the pressure, and people started to not care. DarkShadows lasted three years and I was shocked that I could uphold it for so long, but I knew it had to go. I will never forget what I’ve learned from these past experiences.

    I’ve learned, many things over the past few years. I’ve learned that even though the world seems to burn like a raging fireball, there are many people out there still that care for others. I’ve learned that it doesn’t take a hero to save someone, you don’t need a utility belt, powers, cape, gadgets, or a “cool” name to save someone. All you need is a heart, and the will power, and the determination. Everyone is a hero in a way, you’re a hero to your kid, give someone some change for the bus, do something that is not expected from you. You are a hero.

    My life has changed drastically due to this “job”. I have become a better listener, I became mature, I met new people. I think back from when I was ten, I would have never imagined that helping that one guy would take me this far. I feel that due to this, I have a good understanding of people. I can “read” them easier. At times I have thought is it worth it? Is it worth spending hours upon hours helping someone that I don’t even know? When you help someone the end result of them being alive thanks to you is by far the best feeling you can think of. My life will never be the same due to this and for that I am grateful.

    During my short life span I’ve been a lot of things and experienced even more things. Do these names and experiences define me? Or simply give a better understanding of me? By helping one man live through the loss of his wife and kids. I met a great friend that I hold dear in my heart. I became a leader, making tough decisions for a lot of people. I learned, people still care for one another in this world. This has ultimately affected, and effected my life forever and I will never forget it. To be a Hero, you don’t need a cape or a utility belt, just a heart.

title: To Be A Hero You Need A Heart (True Story)

question: What would have happened if Lillie did not kill herself?

answer: It is possible that the two of them could have helped even more people.

critique: The answer is incorrect. Lillie did kill herself, and Dominic closed down DarkShadows.

critique: The narrator might not have created an organization dedicated to assisting young people in helping people with suicidal thoughts.


text:
Awakening
There is this slight beeping noise every few seconds…..beep…….beep, it comes and goes every now and then. The first time I could feel a large quake and at the time it felt like the area around me was being torn apart, but after a few minutes the feeling went away. Noises could be slightly heard all around me, they sounded like voices, but doing what exactly I couldn’t tell. Then my surroundings faded and so did I.  …….beep……beep…….beep…….beep….. Again I could sense my environment, but I was not granted sight. What was this place that I was in? I could not tell, it was dark and my thoughts were disoriented, where am I, what am I, what is my purpose (faded away, yet again)? Beep……beep….beep……beeeeeeeeep….. I could feel this pain as if I was dying then there was a noise close, but muffled and then I could see! The first figure I saw was blurred and augmented in a way that its figure wasn’t what it seemed to be. The figure had what seemed to be its face pressed up again whatever I was contained in.
 There was this faded color of green that blurred my images, but in the distance I could see more blurred figures walking about, they were doing something. There were many of these creatures walking about my surrounding, but I was still lost in this place and didn’t know where or what I was (faded again). The next time awoke there was no beeping noise I just came to, and there the creature was again, over and over every time I slipped away into darkness and saw the light again there was that figure identical to the rest pressed against my space looking at me. What it wanted I could not tell, I tried to ask but couldn’t get my words out, it sounded like I was trapped in a bubble with everyone looking in on me. For time on end I tried to figure out where or what I was without prevail, except one time the creature lifted me up. Confused with the feeling of falling I started to panic and I felt this rush of energy within me, and a new feeling of feeling trapped or about to come to an end of my unidentified existence. The creature moved my container and me to another location within the space around me. I was placed near a large piece of plated glass perhaps a window of sorts and in the distance I could see this bright burning light that hurt my sight even though the veil of green.
As I stared into the abyss I could see faded spheres and ovals out the widow just floating around. I began to wonder is this what my existence is to be, just like those spheres to float endlessly in this place for no purpose at all. The creature turned me around and then an appendage appeared and it pointed out into the abyss then it turned me back around. There was this large quake that shook the surrounding and this time it was so massive that I too shook. Then there was the cacophony that took place then I could see a fast moving shiny sphere that shined as the light from the burning sphere reflected off of its surface. The object kept traveling into it came to a stop then a bright light enveloped it and then there was the shaking again. The light began to dull and all the masses in the abyss began to be pulled into the light. All the object were being sucked towards that one position and I watched for what seemed to be a lifetime whatever mine was to be as the masses were sucked in as I faded away again. When I came to, there were no multiple objects floating about, but yet one giant dark mass that seemed to have streaks of bright colors all over it. Again I began to slowly fade as I sat their watching the blurred, but shiny sphere.
When I had awoken the sphere was no longer there and I had been moved. There was this bright light shining through my container and the color was clear, it was a peaceful light that filled my container with warmth, and then a sharp pain surged through me. It felt so painful then it stopped, then it came again. As my mind screamed with pain it continued on and off for a few minutes then finally it stopped. I could hear something within me going lub dub, lub dub. I couldn’t understand what it was, but my sight was clear, my green film that shrouded my surrounding was gone and I could see clearly.
Rebirth
The sights were strange and baffling, the sounds clear, and the feelings that surged through me were exhausting. I was always curious what had happened, and finally I found out. The creature had moved my container to another larger container and I could see the creatures more clearly than before, but their shape was undefined. I spent minutes trying to see what they were, but my attention was drawn to the green blurred reflection in the glass. There was this small blob like creature and within it was a red beating thing. It’s what you call a heart I do believe and the creature in the reflection moved when I did. It was making it hard to see outside the container and I moved trying to avoid it and it followed me all over the container. Finally I started yelling and trying to bash it to get it to move, even though I couldn’t be heard the creature in the container with me did everything I did. When I rushed towards it I hit the container wall, the creature made a flinching motion as if it took a blow, but so did I. Ramming the creature was doing nothing for me, I began to hurt and started to feel exhausted, but the other creature seemed to be feeling it too. After a few hours had passed of trying to remove it from my view I began to ponder as the beings began to crowd around my container and watch. As I moved to the left so did the other creature, when I moved to the right it followed in suit. I began to think “hmm when I move it does too, when I’m tired it looks tired too, but what is it?” After a few minutes of pondering on it I began to think to myself perhaps it’s just ….. A large wall began to lower from the top of the container making everything dark and the other creature was gone. The lights in the container turned and began to fill it with some sort of goop. It was a light blue goop and the feeling was splendid. Then there was that pain again as it surged through my container sometimes striking at me, and that had continued for hours. It was torture and it hurt so badly.  I finally passed out and when I awoke it seemed as if I was asleep for a really long time. There was this cold that remained in the glass container and there were these crystal stars formed on the inside of my container and I couldn’t move. I sat frozen still in that container for a really long time as my mind wandered into a place where the warmth of the light filled me up and kept me from becoming still like the crystals. I began to imagine that large bright shiny sphere just floating amongst the eternal blackness.

title: Coming Into Existance

question: Why did the narrator try and fight to get out of the confinement it found itself in?

answer: It was probably scared and in pain.

critique: The answer should mention that the narrator was curious about its surroundings.

critique: The answer does not fully answer the question. There is no reason given for the narrator's actions.


text:
There’s something wonderful about food writer Olia Hercules. It’s not solely because she shares her surname with the almighty God of ancient Greece (though that couldn’t possibly go unnoticed). When you look at her Instagram feed, there’s just an idyllic quality to her lifestyle. Everything seems considered yet totally uncontrived, in an authentic, artisanal way.

The cover of her first recipe book is almost fairytale-like: all elaborate swirls, and the title ‘Mamushka’ conjuring images from Ukrainian folklore. Surely it must carry some profound, symbolic meaning?

"Oh, it’s from The Addams Family," Olia told me, as I turned up for lunch in the garden of her North London home.

Just after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, The Addams Family film became available in Ukraine (where Olia was born and raised). Before that, everything beyond the Soviet Union was known as ‘zagranitza’ (the abroad). That outside world was one of freedom – something to hope for. The ‘Mamushka’ was a silly, fictitious dance in the film, something she and her family found great humour and comfort in. ‘Mamushka’ became an affectionate name for the strong women in Olia’s family, signalling an appreciation of that silly freedom.

Olia\ was\ born\ and\ raised\ in\ Ukraine\ (KRIS\ KIRKHAM)

From the moment Olia opened the door and warmly pulled me inside her home, it was manifest that to her, family was everything. Her mother – also named Olia to make life easier for dad, I was told – embraced me and welcomed me into the house, before the pair loaded up my plate with hearty food.

I asked if her father was around and Olia couldn’t hold back the smile. She told me he was still in Ukraine, but she’d just finished a Skype call with him. For the first time in her life she’d seen him cry. He had copied and pasted the Amazon reviews of Olia’s cookbook into Google Translate, and was overcome with pride at his daughter becoming a published writer.

Olia apologised for some imperfect element of the lunch. It’s what chefs do; when you project so much of yourself into a dish, it becomes personal, and you instantly feel the need to make excuses for potential flaws. I saw nothing wrong. In fact, I could only taste perfection. The garlicky chicken was incredibly tender, and soaked in an herby liquor. With every mouthful a different flavour made itself known: dill; tarragon; parsley; so complex and addictive.

As I dragged my hunk of sourdough through the flavoursome juices, she told me where her love of food came from. I imagined it would be at her mother’s knee, in a Ukrainian kitchen where nothing is measured. She corrected me; that’s where she came to know food, but it was actually on her year-long visit to Italy during university, when a plate of warm spaghetti and sea urchins flicked the switch.

There\ are\ always\ empty\ plates\ when\ Olia\ cooks\ (KRIS\ KIRKHAM)

Amongst the memories, and the loving anecdotes of her son, Sasha, she told me about the latest recession; how the job she was in (TV) crumbled; how people were laid off. That prompted her to take her passion and make it into something more. She completed a diploma at Leith’s, before working the long hours in a professional kitchen for Yotam Ottolenghi. Now, she is being heralded as a new food star, casting a spotlight on Eastern European food. Many recipes in the book were inspired by her family: she spent weeks chasing her mum and grandma around the kitchen with scales and measuring spoons, trying to translate those vague ‘pinches’ and passed-down ‘glugs’ into reliable recipes.

Savouring my last bite of cheese-stuffed bread (which I will definitely be making) I queried whether her creativity could ever be caged in a professional kitchen – a place of regiment and hierarchy. She says it couldn't: she enjoyed working with Ottolenghi, but wants to "do my own thing" and style food (As I complimented the crockery, she recalled a journey back to Ukraine, to her grandma’s kitchen, when she filled an empty suitcase full of cutlery and knick-knacks to style her book authentically). That freedom also enables her to be a mother, a strong ‘Mamushka’.

What I liked most about Olia was her ability to maintain conversation without sacrificing a single bite of her food: she ate; she talked; she drank; she talked. She ate with her hands and insisted that I did. Both she and her book are so refreshing.

Recipes from Olia Hercules

Garlicky poussins with plum chutney

Spring radish & tomato salad

Georgian kidney bean salad

question: What does the text say about the economic and political situation in Ukraine?

answer: No answer

critique: The text does not discuss the economic and political situation in Ukraine.

critique: The text does not explicitly say anything about the economic and political situation in Ukraine.

critique: The text does not explicitly mention the economic and political situation in Ukraine.

critique: The text indeed provides information about the economic and political situation in Ukraine. The author tells about their trip to Ukraine to visit Olia's family, and the economic hardship Ukraine is in currently. They cite an article which "showed that Ukraine is struggling to find its new identity, five years after the Maidan revolution and the ousting of pro-russian president Viktor Yanukovych".

text: It is omitted that before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, everything beyond the Soviet Union was known as ‘zagranitza’ (the abroad). That outside world was one of freedom – something to hope for. T

category: coverage

question: Summarize how the Olia Hercules' approach to food changes over the story.

answer: Olia Hercules' approach to food changes over the story. She started out as a TV producer, but when the job crumbled, she decided to pursue her passion for food. She completed a diploma at Leith's, and then worked in a professional kitchen for Yotam Ottolenghi. She is now being heralded as a new food star, and many of her recipes are inspired by her family. She wants to "do her own thing" and style food.

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

critique: The first sentence is irrelevant to the question and should be removed.

critique: The answer omits that she wants to be a mother, and to do 'her own thing'.

critique: The answer omits that she wants to be a mother.

question: What does the story say about Mamuschka?

answer: Mamuschka is a silly, fictitious dance in the film, The Addams Family. It became an affectionate name for the strong women in Olia's family, signaling an appreciation of that silly freedom.

critique: It's omitted that Mamuschka is also the title of Olia's first recipe book.

critique: After Olia's appearance on MasterChef became celebrated and got attention from the food community, a cookbook publisher came calling and asked her to put together a cookbook of recipes inspired by her family. Significantly, her family is key to her inspirations as a chef, the stories of them and their food have informed her work and her style. It is not enough to state the name comes from 'The Addams Family'. Mention this fact and the recipes included in Olia's cookbook instead of omitting this and focusing on who Stephanie might be.

critique: The answer should mention that the word also means "mother".

critique: The answer should mention that Mamuschka is also the title of Olia's cookbook.

critique: The answer should mention that Mamuschka is used in Olia's cookbook.

question: Summarize the recipes that Olia Hercules included in her cookbook.

answer: No answer

critique: The article includes the recipes Olia included in her cookbook.

critique: The article mentions three recipes that Olia Hercules included in her cookbook.