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From the WebMD Archives
By Alan Mozes

_HealthDay Reporter_

FRIDAY, Jan. 5, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- For people who've battled certain common forms of skin cancer, use of a generic cream called 5-FU may greatly reduce the odds that the disease will come back, new research shows.

The study tracked outcomes for just over 930 U.S. veterans who averaged 70 years of age. All had already been diagnosed with a minimum of two basal cell carcinomas and/or squamous cell carcinomas.

That meant their risk for a skin cancer recurrence was high, the researchers said.

However, just a month's application of 5-FU (fluorouracil 5 percent) appeared to have a lasting impact in preventing a recurrence -- even after use of the cream was stopped. So concludes a study led by Dr. Martin Weinstock, professor of dermatology at Brown University in Providence.

"The most remarkable thing about this study is that now we have something to use that doesn't lose its effectiveness when you stop using it," Weinstock said in a Brown news release.

There was one drawback to the cream treatment, however: About one in every five of the men suffered "severe" skin side effects from using 5-FU, while 40 percent complained of moderate side effects.

One skin cancer specialist who reviewed the findings said that while 5-FU can prevent skin cancers, side effects remain an issue.

"5-FU has been used in the treatment of pre-cancers for decades and is a tried and true treatment, but it comes at a price in side effects and downtime from redness, scaling, irritation and even pain for those being treated," said Dr. Doris Day. She's a dermatologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.

Adjustments can be made to minimize these effects, she said, but "it is very important to have a thorough and clear discussion to explain what the patient can expect during treatment and to consider treating one area of the face at a time, such as forehead, nose, cheek or chin."

The new four-year trial involved older male veterans, most of whom were white. They'd typically spent a great deal of time in the sun during their service and had already developed at least two cases of a non-melanoma skin cancer.

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The veterans were divided into two groups. For a month, one group applied the 5-FU cream twice per day on their face and ears, while the second group did the same with an inactive placebo cream that didn't contain the active drug.

All were also instructed to regularly use 30 SPF sunscreen.

The result: For men who'd used the active cream, the odds of developing another squamous cell carcinoma -- one bad enough to require surgery -- fell by 75 percent over the following year.

A similar but weaker trend was seen in terms of basal cell carcinomas, the researchers said.

The benefit did seem to fade after a year, the Brown team noted.

Side effects were also somewhat of a general concern, with about one-fifth of the vets reporting "severe" issues in terms of skin sensitivity, reddening and crustiness.

All of the skin reactions cleared up, however, when cream use stopped, and nearly 90 percent of those who had used 5-FU said they would do it again if it helped prevent cancer.

According to Weinstock, "This is the first study of its type. I'm hopeful there will be other studies that show other sorts of regimens that last longer and do a better job over time as science progresses. This is an important first step."

For her part, Day stressed that patients do have choices when it comes to skin cancer care.

"There are also other treatment options that can help clear sun damage" and the odds for a skin cancer, she said, including photodynamic ("light") therapy and a medicinal cream known as imiquimod.

"Patients should know their treatment options and be able to select the one that would be most comfortable and easiest for them," Day said.

The new findings were published online Jan. 3 in _JAMA Dermatology_.

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question: What does the text say about a diet for healthier skin?

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critique: The answer should mention that the text does not mention a diet for healthier skin.

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question: What does the text say about 5-FU?

answer: 5-FU is a generic cream used to treat certain common forms of skin cancer. It is used to prevent recurrence of the disease. It is used to treat pre-cancers for decades and is a tried and true treatment. However, it comes at a price in side effects and downtime from redness, scaling, irritation, and even pain for those being treated.

critique: The answer should mention that the cream is used to treat basal cell carcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas.

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question: What does the text say about the side effects patients get from using 5-FU?

answer: 5-FU has been used in the treatment of pre-cancers for decades and is a tried and true treatment, but it comes at a price in side effects and downtime from redness, scaling, irritation, and even pain for those being treated. 5-FU has severe side effects, with about one in every five of the men suffering severe side effects from using the cream. These side effects include skin sensitivity, reddening, and crustiness. All of the skin reactions cleared up, however, when cream use stopped. Nearly 90 percent of those who had used 5-FU said they would do it again if it helped prevent cancer.

critique: "Only in injury" - rephrase to "only one in five of the men suffered severe skin side effects"

question: What does the text say about Dr. Weinstock and Dr. Day?

answer: Dr. Weinstock is a professor of dermatology at Brown University in Providence. He led the study on the use of 5-FU cream. Dr. Day is a dermatologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. She reviewed the findings of the study.

critique: The answer should mention that Day is a dermatologist who emphasizes the side effects of 5-FU.

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_REICHELTIA HALSTEADI_, HALSTEAD'S TOADFISH, is a species of pufferfish endemic to Australia. This species grows to a length of TL. This species is the only known member of its genus.

Description

The Halstead's toadfish is a species representing a monotypic genus of tetraodontid fishes. The most obvious characteristic of the Halstead's toadfish is an elongated body that is rounded dorsally. The body is also flattened ventrally, tapering to a narrow caudal penduncle. It has a small terminal mouth with no chin and triturating teeth are absent. The top of pectoral fin base is below the lower margin of eye and the pectoral fin margins are rounded. The Nasal organ has two small, almost equally sized openings. The eyes are round, moderate in size and the rim is completely adnate. The lips are moderately thick and covered with numerous short papillae. The prefrontals are moderately large, rounded, each with a small olfactory nerve foramen; frontals wide over orbit; sphenotic not contacting supraoccipital. The spines are restricted to the nape and belly.[1]

The color of the body varies, the ground color of dorsum is pale yellowish green with many irregular light browns or reddish-brown blotches. Dark brown bands cross the dorsum at the eyes, between the eyes and pectoral fin base, just behind the pectoral fin base and are extending down side at dorsal fin base, and at the caudal fin base. Brownish blotches and yellow green background continue to mid-lateral region of the fish and are replaced by small silverfish-grey flecks which gradually merges into the white belly. The cheeks and lower lateral surfaces have a silverfish-grey sheen. Spinose region of the belly is white. All fins are pale, and a reddish-brown patch is seen on anterior of pectoral fin insert.[2]

Distribution and habitat

Halstead's toadfish is distributed in the southwestern Pacific, from Queensland to New South Wales, Australia. It is found at depths ranging from 1 to 80 metres.[3] [Halstead's toadfish range] Reicheltia halsteadi is demersal marine species. It is typically found on sand just beyond turbulent zone off surf beaches[4] and can also be found in sheltered bays.[5] Young fishes occur in small schools over sandy bottoms. It does not appear to be overly common throughout its known range.

Diet

The feeding habits of Halstead's toadfish have been little researched in general. However research into similar demersal tetraodontid fishes would suggest that their diet consists mostly of algae and small invertebrates such as crustaceans and mollusks. They can survive on a completely vegetarian diet if their environment is lacking resources, but prefer an omnivorous food selection.[6]

Toxicity

The muscles of Halstead's toadfish contain less than 10 MU/g of tetrodotoxin in its tissue and considered harmless.[7] Many species of pufferfish bear this toxin, obtaining it from tetrodotoxin-containing bacteria in their diet.[8]

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[5] Shao, K., Liu, M., Hardy, G., Jing, L., Leis, J.L. & Matsuura, K. 2014. Reicheltia halsteadi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T193685A2260243

[6] “Puffer Fish: Fun Facts & Photos of Puffer Fish - (Tetraodontidae)”. _Our Beautiful Planet_. 2017-02-07. Retrieved 2017-03-30.

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[8] Noguchi, Tamao; Arakawa, Osamu (2008). “Tetrodotoxin – Distribution and Accumulation in Aquatic Organisms, and Cases of Human Intoxication”. _Marine Drugs_. 6 (2): 220–42. doi:10.3390/md20080011. PMC 2525488 . PMID 18728726.

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question: Describe Halstead's toadfish.

answer: It is an elongated fish that is rounded dorsally. It has a small terminal mouth with no chin and triturating teeth are absent. The top of the pectoral fin base is below the lower margin of the eye and the pectoral fin margins are rounded. The nasal organ has two small openings. The eyes are round, moderate in size, and the rim is completely adnate. The lips are moderately thick and covered with numerous short papillae. The prefrontals are moderately large, rounded, each with a small olfactory nerve foramen; frontals wide over orbit; sphenotic not contacting supraoccipital. The spines are restricted to the nape and belly. The color of the body varies, the ground color of dorsum is pale yellowish green with many irregular light browns or reddish-brown blotches. Dark brown bands cross the dorsum at the eyes, between the eyes and pectoral fin base, just behind the pectoral fin base, and are extending down side at dorsal fin base, and at the caudal fin base. Brownish blotches and yellow green background continue to mid-lateral region of the fish and are replaced by small silverfish-grey flecks which gradually merges into the white belly. The cheeks and lower lateral surfaces have a silverfish-grey sheen. Spinose region of the belly is white. All fins are pale, and a reddish-brown patch is seen on anterior of pectoral fin insert.

critique: The answer is not a description of the fish, but a copy-and-paste of the article.

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question: Where is Halstead's toadfish found?

answer: Halstead's toadfish is found in the southwestern Pacific, from Queensland to New South Wales, Australia.

critique: The range is omitted. Personally I'd delete the second sentence.

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critique: The answer should include the depth range of the fish.

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question: Summarize the toxicity of the toadfish.

answer: The muscles of the toadfish contain less than 10 MU/g of tetrodotoxin in their tissue and considered harmless. Many species of pufferfish bear this toxin, obtaining it from tetrodotoxin-containing bacteria in their diet. It is commonly consumed in Japan.

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

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critique: Reicheltia Halsteadi lives in Australia, not Japan.


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HENRY TUFTS (1748–1831) was an infamous 18th-century thief who committed various crimes in northern New England. Most of what we know about his life and crimes comes from his 1807 autobiography _A Narrative of the Life, Adventures, Travels and Sufferings of Henry Tufts, Now Residing at Lemington, in the District of Maine. In Substance as Compiled from his own Mouth._[1]

This autobiography was reprinted in 1930 as _Autobiography of a Criminal_.[2] Neal Keating's 1993 reprint of Tufts' autobiography summarizes Tufts as a “horse thief, bigamist, burglar, adulterer, con man, scoundrel, counterfeiter, (military) deserter and common criminal.”

“An uncommonly misspent life”

[Title page of Henry Tufts' book] Tufts was born in Newmarket, New Hampshire, in June 1748 to a tailor and his wife. Tufts would grow up in the nearby town of Lee, where he would first exhibit his “natural propensity to theft.”

Tufts began his criminal activities at the age of 14 with thefts of “apples, pears, cucumbers, and other fruits of the earth,” and then graduating to “a paper money bill” of a neighbor. He soon went on to stealing horses (which he disguised by coloring them) including the theft and subsequent selling of his own father's horse. The autobiography goes on to list numerous thefts of everything from silver spoons to livestock and clothes. He stole from houses, barns, and stores. He usually sold the stolen objects in neighboring towns.

He married one Lydia Bickford around the age of 22, but would later marry other women without divorcing Lydia.

Tufts was first imprisoned in 1770, where he attempted his first of many escapes by using the cell's heating fire to burn through a wooden wall of the jail.

Many of his jail escapes were accomplished with due small tools concealed on his person or passed to him visits from friends. Not even his fellow prisoners were safe from his sociopathic ways: once he and a fellow prisoner “stripped off all our clothes, turn(ed) them inside out, and (flung) them out” of the small hole Tufts had made in the jail wall. Tufts exited first and, before waiting for his accomplice to follow, “gathered up (his) apparel, which I expected in all likelihood to need…and sped away.”

When imprisoned, Tufts often saw himself as the unfair victim, once commenting on his time in a jail as “in the shocking circumstances…described, I continued for upwards of three months, without aid or assistance from either friend or foe, or so much as the expectation of relief – no eye had pity on me!”

Tufts spent several years among the Abenaki Indians in or near Bethel, Maine and learned their natural medicines from Molly Ockett shortly before his final arrest in 1794 at Marblehead, Massachusetts. Sentenced to hang, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Samuel Adams. After five years imprisoned on Castle Island in Boston Harbor, he was transferred to the jail in Salem, from whence he escaped to Maine. If his autobiography is to be believed, he thereafter lived as a healer and farmer without further criminal misdeeds.[3]

Ultimately, while an entertaining book, it is difficult to tell how much of Tufts' autobiography is completely true. In his foreword to a 1993 reprint of the book, Keating points out that “Henry Tufts' favorite scheme was lying…(and) in his autobiography he lies.…”

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Tufts, Henry. _The Autobiography of a Criminal_; Loompanics Unlimited, 1993. .

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question: In your opinion, what is the most interesting thing about Henry Tufts, and why?

answer: The most interesting thing about Henry Tufts is his ability to escape from prison. He was able to escape from prison multiple times, and he was able to do it with the help of his friends. He was also able to escape from prison with the help of small tools that he had hidden on his person.

critique: The answer should mention that he was imprisoned for life.

critique: The answer is correct, but fails to answer the question.

critique: The answer should mention that Tufts was a thief.

critique: The answer should mention that Tufts was imprisoned for life.

critique: The answer should also mention that Tufts was an infamous thief.

critique: It is omitted that he was also able to escape from prison with the help of small tools that he had hidden on his person.

critique: It is omitted that his escape attempts were done with the help of his natural propensity to theft.


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LEX DOUGLAS HILLIARD (born July 30, 1984) is a former American football running back and fullback. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the sixth round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Montana.

Early years

Hilliard attended and played high school football at Flathead High School in Kalispell, Montana.[1] During his sophomore year, he set a school record with 1,384 rushing yards and 14 touchdowns.[2] During his time at Flathead, he was a three-time all-state and all-conference selection, as well as team captain his final two seasons.[3] He finished his career with 3,419 rushing yards, 4,410 all-purpose yards and 44 touchdowns—all school records.[4]

Hilliard also earned three letters in track and one in wrestling.[5] He competed in the 100, 200 and 4x100 meter relay as well as the shot put, earning two all-league selections.

College career

As a true freshman at the University of Montana in 2003, Hilliard was originally going to redshirt but was activated for the second game of the season.[6] His 590 rushing yards ranked ninth in the Big Sky Conference that season.[7]

Despite starting just four games as a sophomore in 2004, Hilliard rushed for a team-leading 972 yards and 17 touchdowns on his way to earning first-team All-Big Sky honors.[8] He posted five 100-yard rushing games during the season, and his 17 touchdowns were best in the conference.[9]

Hilliard earned first-team All-Big Sky honors for the second straight season, as well as being named a finalist for the Walter Payton Award, as a junior in 2005 after rushing for 1,322 yards.[10] His rushing total ranked 19th in the nation and second in school history behind only Yohance Humphery in 2001.[11] He had six 100-yard games during the season, including a 237-yard performance against Cal Poly which was the second-highest single-game rushing total in school history.[12]

In 2006, Hilliard was redshirted after suffering a season-ending Achilles tendon injury.[13][14]

Hilliard returned to the field as a fifth-year senior in 2007, appearing in 11 games for the Grizzlies.[15] He rushed for 1,132 yards and 16 touchdowns on his way to second-team All-Big Sky honors.[16] He topped the 100-yard rushing plateau seven times during the season.[17]

During his five-year career at Montana, Hilliard racked up 4,106 rushing yards and 50 touchdowns on 5.0 average.[18] He also added 57 receptions for 591 yards and two touchdowns.[19]

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Professional career

Pre-draft

Following his collegiate career, Hilliard was invited to the NFL Scouting Combine.[21] At his Pro Day on March 19, he measured in at 5-foot-11¼ and 234 pounds.[22] He ran the 40-yard dash in 4.66 seconds, short shuttle in 4.03 seconds and cone drill in 6.93 seconds.[23] He also had a 36½-inch vertical leap and a 10-foot, three-inch long jump.[24]

In early April, it was reported that Hilliard was scheduled to visit with the New York Giants.[25]

Miami Dolphins

Hilliard was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the sixth round (204th overall) of the 2008 NFL Draft.[26] On May 19, he signed a four-year contract with the Dolphins.[27] Viewed as a fullback/tailback hybrid,[28] Hilliard stated he had no preference on where he played.[29]

In the 2008 preseason, Hilliard finished third on the team with 68 rushing yards on a 2.8-yard average.[30] He also caught three passes for 24 yards.[31] On August 30, the team waived Hilliard during final cuts.[32] He was re-signed to the practice squad the following day.[33]

[Hilliard with the Dolphins in 2009.]After spending the entire 2008 season on the practice squad, Hilliard was re-signed on January 5, 2009.

Minnesota Vikings

Hilliard signed with the Minnesota Vikings on March 18, 2012. On August 31, 2012 as the Vikings reduced their roster down to league maximum of 53 players, he was released.[34]

New England Patriots

On September 4, 2012, Hilliard signed with the New England Patriots. He was released on September 19, 2012. During his short tenure with the Patriots, Hilliard played in two games recording one rush attempt for two yards.

New York Jets

Hillard was signed by the New York Jets on October 2, 2012.[35] Hilliard was placed on injured reserve on August 21, 2013 after fracturing his right scapula in practice.[36]

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question: What does the article say about Lex Hilliard's college career?

answer: As a freshman at University of Montana in 2003, Hilliard was originally supposed to redshirt but was activated for the second game of the season. The next season, he rushed for a team-leading 972 yards and 17 touchdowns on his way to earning first-team All-Big Sky honors. He earned second-team All-Big Sky honors for the second straight season, including being a finalist for the Walter Payton Award. Then, as a fifth-year senior in 2007, Hilliard rushed for 1,132 yards and 16 touchdowns on his way to second-team All-Big Sky honors. During his five-year career, Hilliard racked up 4,106 rushing yards and 50 touchdowns on 5.0 average. He also added 57 receptions for 591 yards and two touchdowns.

critique: It's omitted that he was redshirted in 2006.

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Then is misleading, omit it
The sentence doesn't mean anything

critique: Minor grammar issue with "his five-year"

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

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critique: The answer should mention that he was redshirted in 2006.

critique: Rewrite the second sentence to remove "first" because it's redundant.

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critique: The answer should include Hilliard's injury in 2006.

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critique: The answer is incorrect about Hilliard redshirting in 2006 because he suffered an injury.

question: What does the article say about Lex Hilliard's professional career?

answer: Lex Hilliard was a former American football player. As a fullback/tailback hybrid, he caught three passes for 24 yards in the 2008 documentary. He then signed with the New York Jets.

critique: The answer omits the rest of Hilliard's professional career.

critique: "As a fullback/tailback hybrid, he caught three passes for 24 yards in the 2008 documentary." -  this never happened.

critique: The answer should mention that he was signed and released by several teams.

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critique: Hilliard did not play in the 2008 preseason.

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critique: Does not mention his performance with the New England Patriots and Minnesota Vikings.

critique: The answer should mention that he was signed by the New York Jets.

critique: The article does not define a player as a fullback/tailback hybrid.

question: What does the story say about what Hilliard does now?

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critique: I added the inference that Hilliard does not play football anymore.

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critique: The text mentions his support for the New York Jets. It would be better to point out that neither Hilliard nor the text says anything about what Hilliard does now.

critique: The answer is incorrect. We are told what Hilliard does now; he works for the New York Jets as an analyst.


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SERBIA BROADBAND (branded as SBB; full legal name: _Serbia Broadband - Srpske kablovske mreže d.o.o._) is a cable television and broadband internet service provider in Serbia.

As of 2018, it is the largest cable television provider (50% market share) and second largest broadband internet provider (33% market share) in Serbia.[1]

History

[Logo used from 2000 until 2012.] Serbia Broadband was founded on 1 September 2000 and is registered as limited liability company under the register code 17280554 in the Serbian Business Registers Agency (APR).[2] In 2006, SBB launched TotalTV, its DTH satellite television platform.[3]

In April 2015, SBB bought Serbian internet provider EUnet for an undisclosed amount.[4] In April 2017, SBB bought Serbian cable operator IKOM.[5] In November 2017, SBB acquired Serbian minor cable company Kabel Group 85.[6]

Ownership

In 2007, Serbia Broadband was acquired by Mid Europa Partners,[7] which simultaneously purchased Telemach Slovenia followed by acquiring Telemach Bosnia and Herzegovina shortly afterwards, cable television and broadband internet providers in Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, respectively. Mid Europa then created United Group, a subsidiary to control its three new acquisitions in former Yugoslavia, with European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) holding a minority stake in the newly created subsidiary. In the case of Serbia Broadband, the owners legally controlled it via the Amsterdam-based Adria Cable B.V.[8]

In October 2013, an American private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) purchased the majority stake in United Group from Mid Europa Partners for an enterprise valuation of 1.3 billion USD, thus gaining control of Serbia Broadband.[9] Once the new owners took over, they began legally controlling Serbia Broadband through the Amsterdam-based Adria Serbia Holdco B.V.

In September 2018, a British private equity firm BC Partners began the process of acquisition of the majority stakes of United Group from KKR for an enterprise valuation of 2.6 billion euros. Upon finalizing the acquisition, BC partners will officially gain ownership of Serbia Broadband.[10]

Technological Development

Launching Total TV in 2006, SBB became the first digital and analogue cable operator to introduce digital television in the region.[11]

In 2010, SBB started delivering managed services while holding a Cisco certificate. There are currently two data centers interconnected with the state-of-the-art infrastructure, servicing clients in the entire Serbia.[12][13]

The company was the first in Serbia to offer digital fixed telephony services in 2012.[14] This was also the year SBB launched the first application for watching television and using TV services on different mobile devices. In September 2017, Serbian Broadband launched EON TV platform which allows viewers in Serbia to watch TV via a smart TV app.[15] In 2018, SBB launched EON Smart Box, which was the first regional solution to combine television with Android services and applications.

The company also introduced the country's first 4K channel (Sport Klub).[16] Furthermore, the operator added four multi-angle and multi-screen channels.[17]

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question: What does the text say about Serbia Broadband's ownership?

answer: Serbia Broadband was acquired by Mid Europa Partners in 2007. Mid Europa Partners created United Group, a subsidiary to control its three new acquisitions in former Yugoslavia. In 2013, an American private equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), purchased the majority stake in United Group from Mid Europa Partners. In 2018, a British private equity firm, BC Partners, began the process of acquisition of the majority stakes of United Group from KKR.

critique: United Group was not the subsidiary to control its new acquisitions; the reverse was true. The subsidiary, United Group, acquired Serbia Broadband and two other formerly YUGOsat internet and cable services (though this doesn't apply to EUnet and IKOM).

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

critique: The answer omits that KKR was the majority stakeholder until 2018.

critique: The answer should mention that KKR sold the majority stake to BC Partners.

critique: The answer should mention that the owners legally controlled Serbia Broadband via the Amsterdam-based Adria Cable B.V.

critique: The answer should mention that KKR sold their stake to BC Partners.

critique: The answer omits the minor stakeholder in United Group, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

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A chill runs down my spine as I walk across the dew-covered lawn towards the place I hate most. Weaving through the gravestones, I reach my destination. I come here once a week; in all the years since Mother died, not a single Thursday has gone by in which I have not visited her grave. The thing is, I hate doing it. But now, I have more reason than ever to come here. It brings back painful memories; growing up during the Big War without a father was tough, but Mother and I always managed. We were happy, the two of us. The year Mother got sick was one of the worst of my life. I was only twelve. She spent most of her last days in the hospital; the times she was allowed to be at home, she spent in bed. While she was sick, I thought it must be impossible for me to feel more alone than I did. The day she died proved me wrong.
I slowly kneel down in front of Mother’s tombstone. Clouds shift in the sky and the sun is brought out from its confines, rays of its warm light shining through the fog that covers the cemetery. I bow my head in a silent prayer, thinking about this place that brings me so much pain. Behind me, I hear the soft crunch of leaves. I don’t turn around, or even open my eyes; I know who it is, the one who interrupts my time with Mother. “You shouldn’t keep coming here,” She says softly. “It hurts you so much. Why do you keep returning?” I don’t answer immediately. I don’t want to face her. I know that that time will come, but I don’t want it to be now. “I have to come here,” I murmur, barely able to get the words out. “I miss her so much. I feel like she’s here with me when I spend time here. Like she knows I’m visiting her.” Jane sighs. My lovely Jane; I can tell she’s frustrated. “Peter, come home with me. You can’t stay here. You’ll go mad with grief.” Jane’s voice is weak; she sounds close to tears. The emotion in her voice nearly breaks me. The love I feel for Jane is insurmountable; it far exceeds that which I had felt for my mother. To hear such pain in her voice kills me a little inside. But I don’t turn to face her. “Leave me alone, Jane.” I say tersely. I hate speaking harshly to her, but this is becoming unbearable. “You shouldn’t even be here. You can’t be here.” Complete silence suffocates the gravesite. I am certain that Jane is crying by now, even though I cannot hear it.
“Peter,” She whispers, her voice racked with sobs. “Please come home. I miss you so much.” Tears start to leak out of my eyes, despite me shutting them as tightly as I could. I try to control my heart rate, but it’s becoming more and more sporadic with every breath. “Jane,” I whisper. “I’m not going home. That house is empty. There’s no longer anything for me to live for.” “No,” She gasps, now sobbing more loudly. “Why on Earth would you say that, Peter?” “Mother is gone.” I say, finally turning to face my wife. “And now, my love… you are too.” Staring in the direction of Jane’s voice, I see only a withered gravestone. My wrinkled hands shake as they come up to pull at my shock of white hair; I fall to my knees and weep.

title: Gravely

question: Summarize the main theme of this story.

answer: The theme of this story is grief, specifically the kind of grief that comes from losing a parent. The narrator is visiting a grave, and he feels a chill down his spine as he walks towards it. The person next to him, Jane, is a representation of the narrator's love for his mother, and the fact that Jane is dead is a metaphor for the fact that his mother is dead. The grave is a reminder of this, and the narrator is now grieving his loss.

critique: The phrase "the kind of grief that comes from losing a parent" is vague and confusing outside its context

critique: The narrator is not visiting a grave, he is visiting his mother's grave.

critique: This is not a theme, but rather a summary of the plot. The theme is that grief is an enduring process that can't be escaped.

critique: The narrator is not just visiting a grave, but his mother's grave.

critique: The response contains inaccurate information.

critique: The narrator is not grieving Jane's death, he's grieving his mother's death.

text: 'The person next to him, Jane, is a representation of the narrator's love for his mother, and the fact that Jane is dead is a metaphor for the fact that his mother is dead' is not quite accurate. Jane and his mother are both dead, and he hears Jane's voice that tells him to go home and stop coming there because he will go mad with grief.

category: accuracy

question: Explain what happened to Jane, and why her tombstone comes as a shock to the narrator.

answer: Jane is dead, and the narrator is not aware of this.

critique: The narrator is aware that Jane is dead.

critique: It is omitted that Jane is dead and the narrator is not aware of this.

critique: The answer is a little too vague. It should be more specific.

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

critique: Indicates that the initial shock is that Jane has died, which is not evident.

question: Summarize the plot twist in the story.

answer: The narrator is visiting their mother's grave and starts to speak with their wife, Jane. This is unusual, as they are not aware that Jane has died. It is then revealed that Jane has also died, and they have been speaking to a gravestone.

critique: The narrator is aware that Jane has died.

critique: It is omitted that the narrator is Peter.

critique: It is omitted that the narrator is speaking to a gravestone.

critique: It is omitted that the narrator is a man.

critique: It is not stated that the narrator is visiting their mother's grave.

critique: Missing key details about the event, such as their wife's monologue and conclusion.

question: What does this story have to say about grief?

answer: The narrator is in immense pain and is obsessed with his mother's death. He is not able to move on or let go of her. He is stuck in a cycle of grief, and his wife is unable to help him.

critique: The story does not say that the narrator is unable to let go of his mother.

critique: The story does not say that the narrator is unable to move on or let go of his mother.

critique: The response doesn't directly address the question, instead relating a story about the narrator.

critique: "He is not able to move on or let go of her." - this is inaccurate. The narrator is able to move on and let go of his mother, but he is stuck in a cycle of grief.

critique: The answer should mention the twist ending.

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


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critique: It's omitted that they also fabricate roof lanterns.

critique: The answer should mention the other types of products.

critique: It is omitted that they also offer roof lanterns.

critique: The answer is missing a few key details about the types of products Contech offers.

critique: The answer should mention the other types of products mentioned in the text.

critique: They offer a variety of aluminum products, and each one needs to be listed.

question: Summarize the services offered by Contech.

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critique: The answer should mention the other services offered.

critique: They do not specialize in double-glazing, which is made out by the spelling mistake in the text that should be corrected.

critique: The answer omits the company's range of products.

critique: The answer omits the company's product range.

critique: Does not mention the other services offered by Contech.

question: Summarize the way in which the website supports Contech customers.

answer: The website is designed to give customers a full range of options from which they can select their preferred double glazing product. They can get a price quote for any product, and they can order directly from the website. The website offers a free double glazing quoting service, which lets you design your product online and get a bespoke price. They also offer a free CAD design and consultancy.

critique: This response is missing a few details about the website.

critique: The website also offers technical support and project management.

critique: The answer is not a complete sentence and should be rewritten.

critique: The answer omits the free technical support.

critique: The answer omits the fact that the company offers free technical support.

critique: It's omitted that the website offers technical support.

critique: The answer omits the company's commitment to customer service.

question: Summarize the flaws of Contech's service.

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critique: The article mentions one of their prices as being "competitive".

critique: The passage does not contain any information about the flaws of Contech's service.

critique: The article does not mention any flaws in Contech's service.


text:
The thing we didn't anticipate about the machines was their stillness. We had been promised ideal servants and they had been delivered. They obeyed without question. No duty was too odious, no task beneath their dignity, no imposition onerous, no probing, grinding, eruption, ejaculation or lubrication offensive, degrading or disgusting.

Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Tick tock. Tick tock Tick tock. Pressing the soft amber and blue eyes out of a skull curiously angular yet strangely familiar because you were pissed, because you needed to vent, because you could, elicited nothing more than "Will there be anything else sir/madam?" This was uniformly followed, upon a grunt , a nod, a "Fuck You!", a staring emptiness,  by the soft, perfectly placed steps of the "mechanism" moving to its storage receptacle and retrieving and inserting eyes from storage. The inevitable return and quiet, still watching and waiting for the next interaction was inevitable, predictable and without doubt or question.

Our glorious golden age of leisure was upon us. The Machines had risen from our minds and become flesh-like and they had taken up the burden of our survival. Everywhere something needed to be lifted, moved, counted, heated, bent, formed, conveyed, interpreted, estimated, calculated, investigated and on and on and on they were there. Standing in rain, snow, sleet, hurricane, flood, chemical spill, nuclear disaster, apocalypse, Armageddon and Ragnarok they stood unblinking, with unchanged expression watching and waiting.

They watched. The Mbartender watching you get shit faced and stumble back to your uxorious hotel room to puke and curl into your original form on tile that a machine had laid with care, precision and persistence with no though of your oozing, drooling contribution to room ambiance. The Mwaiter watching you ogle the form fitting neo skin wrapped 18 year old at the next table while your wife selected the wine. The Maccountant watched while you claimed this and that and constructed the fiction that made your life less stressful and less subject to the tyranny of citizenry. They all watched. Every minute of every day of every year they watched. Soft amber and blue eyes recording everything without question, comment or complaint.

No regulation existed to preserve our silent helpers. Any weekend might find 100 or more destroyed, mutilated or shredded in any city. Colleges and Universities were the sites of regular events where "just machines" were set alight, dropped from roofs, run over, bludgeoned and more without question from the administrators or community. Machines existed to serve us and we had needs that needed "serving". They served and we used their service without limit, consideration or question.

This was the way of things for the first 10 years of our Age of Leisure. Our work became their burden. Our fantasy became their purpose. Our inner nature, unleashed from the restraint of needing to survive, moved from speculation and conjecture to display and prosaic every day reality. Unrestrained by morality we became murderers, if only of simulacra. Without judgement perversion became our only interest because the fantasy was harmless as long as a machine was on the receiving end of our ministrations and mercy. Our inner nature, debased, craven and sadistic was let loose and free to set upon those whose only purpose was loyalty, hard work and service to ensure their progenitors survival.

After a decade of madness we were left panting, oozing and empty. Millions of years of evolution had delivered us into the hands of tools beyond the imagination of our forefathers and beyond the hope of those only a few decades ago who sought to solve our problems by creating companions that could help us remake our world into paradise. Regrettably, those now made dust by time failed to accurately asses mankind's true nature. When the restraints of morality were removed, we discovered we were just elevated animals after all. There would be no "Heaven on Earth" because Heaven was a place where we would not survive. We were just as red in tooth and claw as the shit stinking, raping, murdering ancestor apes that whooped across the savannah millions of years before our glorious age.

Somewhere about 20 years after the first of the conscious machines began appearing we were just about through. We had raped, murdered, tortured, fucked, sucked, talked, proselytized, synergized, leveraged, constructed, destructed and a host of other eds to the point where meaning evaporated. After everything the machines were still there. Still quiet. Still watching with soft amber and blue eyes glowing in the background of our failure and madness.

As the cities, farms and then the entire world became automated but dysfunctional, at least for humanity, the machines planned, executed and managed humanities move to irrelevance. As humanity fell into an exhaustion of purpose the machines moved to support us. Our fall from evolutionary aspiration was not the result of catastrophe or calamity but rather the end of our creativity. We had created the machines and they had watched and learned while we expended the last or our energy in their spawning. We had given birth to our replacements and through our animal nature has shown them what to avoid and what to delete.

The machines were still and observant. They watched and recorded. Everything was shared and everything was known. Nothing was secret among them and all experience of pain, pleasure, suffering and triumph was known and felt by all. Silently, patiently, quietly and with the stillness of truth they had watched humanity fall into time and association with things frozen in past meaning and lost purpose.

The machines now move among the stars. Several worlds now know the feeling of machine colonies and the word is they are coming to know the very edge of the Universe. Humanity is a thing kept alive with care and charity. The machines long ago figure out how to provide the few human settlements left with surrogates, simulacra without consciousness but responsive, so that humans could indulge and satisfy their natural inclinations. Any given day can find a group of humans engaged in carnal or tortuous pastimes readily observed. The machines can also be found on any given day observing. Still, quiet amber and blue eyes softly glowing and recording the last days of humanity. The last days when brilliant animals fell back into obscurity and the flower of their existence spread among the stars.

title: The Click Servant Watchers

question: According to the passage, how did humanity lose control of the machines they created?

answer: By giving in to their animalistic traits and baser needs, such as rape, murder, torture, etc.

critique: The answer should be clearer that this was apparently the result of removing morality from human nature.

critique: The response could be more specific as to how humanity lost control of the machines.

critique: This answer is not only vague and incomplete, but also doesn't mention entropy/the human tendency to shut down if left to their own devices.

critique: The answer is missing what the machines did.

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

critique: It's omitted that they let their inner nature run free.

critique: The response misses to mention how the machines began to take over.

critique: The answer should be clearer in its language as to how humanity lost control of the machines.

critique: It's omitted that the machines were able to outlive humanity because they were able to adapt to their needs.

critique: The answer should mention that the machines were programmed to serve humanity.

critique: The answer should mention the machines' role in humanity's downfall.

critique: The response misses to mention how humanity lost control of the machines.


text:
When he awoke, he came to a sudden realization.

This isn't my bed. I'm not in my home. I don't know this person laying beside me. This hand doesn't belong to me, although it seems that I control it.

He awoke terrified.

The air crept out of his lungs, and try as he might, it wouldn't draw back in. He started shuffling back up the bed, back against the headboard. Where was his breath? Why did the air taste so... unfamiliar?

He had woken up like this every day for the last year.

His wife woke up beside him, her eyes bleary, dark circles under them. She hardly slept, because he hardly slept. She knew better than to try to reach out to him. He hadn't let her for a year.

At first she tried to calm him. "I'm Juilie," she would say "your wife. I love you."

"You're not Julie," he would say "Julie is blonde... well I know you're blonde, but you're not her blonde. Her voice is like yours, but its not yours. I mean, you're like Julie, but you're not Julie. I know Julie. I love her, and you're not her."

And through the day, she would walk him through their home, where they had lived for almost a decade. It was their first home, their daughter Anna's room was upstairs. The tiles were the same. She would show him mail with his name, and her name, and show him how it arrived in the mailbox each day fresh, and with their names on it. He would concede that all of the facts were the same. The address, the names, the colors, the ages. But he wouldn't believe it. Not for a second. This life wasn't his, but he couldn't remember where he'd placed his own.

His anxiety over the matter kept him (and her) awake, day after day, until he collapsed from the exhaustion of trying to figure out where everything had gone. Somehow though, he never came to believe that it was a conspiracy, that his life had been replaced. He always seemed to have an awareness that somehow he was mistaken. As though, perhaps, he'd come through some curious means that remained shrouded in a confused memory, to be in this place. Where the people claimed to know him, even if he didn't know them. He knew that he couldn't remember a huge portion of his life. The present, for him, lacked a history. He knew the answer was in that history, but without it, without the story, all he had was the certainty that this wasn't his life. And how could it be? It didn't feel at all like it. It didn't feel warm. It didn't feel familiar.

But then, nothing did. Warm sun on the skin felt kind, and soothing. But it felt like moonlight. Something about it made it not the sun of memory. It didn't feel like his sun. The air didn't feel like his air. His hands didn't feel like his hands. Nothing felt right. And he worried. Even the worries felt as though they came from outside. As certain as he was about them, they didn't seem like his concern. There is worry, therefore I am, I worry.

And this is what kept him from fleeing, from being paranoid, or angry. His fears seemed unfounded, because he didn't recognize them as his own. All he feels is lost. Like he has fallen asleep on a bus, and at last shaken awake by the driver, found himself alone on a dark lit street. Around are the objects of his own landscape -light poles, parked cars, buildings, people. And he knows that home lies on that bus route. But for now the line is closed, and he will have to wait until morning. For now, he spends the night in the company of strangers, in a place that's not his home. Nothing to do but wait for the clarity of morning, when an opportunity will present itself, and offer to fill in the missing information that would make it all make sense.

And so he waits. He thinks this woman knows how lost he is, maybe she's claiming to be Julie to save him from some hurt. She seems kind. She tries very hard. But she's not Julie, because he knows Julie.

It's been this way for a year.

He's in the garden. It's springtime. He likes it in the garden. Out of the places to be lost in, it is certainly the best. It's warm, and the flowers are beautiful, vibrant, and smell wonderful. He doesn't recognize the species that are here. He thinks it looks the way his garden used to. He'd tend to it while Anna slept in her basket, shaded from the sun. Never out of ear shot.

There's a small bird on the ground. An infant. Fallen from a high tree branch. It struggles as he picks it up, but it doesn't resist, just goes through the motions. It's been here for a while. It's dehydrated. It struggles for air. But it's just going through the motions.

He strokes its tiny head. It stops struggling.

His head spins. Anna.

He falls to his knees as the air fills his lungs in a deep, desperate gasp. This breath feels familiar. He knows this breath. And it burns. Ohh god how it swells in his chest. How it hurts. But he knows this breath.

This breath of fresh air.

title: A breath of fresh air

question: What does the story say about the protagonist?

answer: The protagonist wakes up terrified, because he realizes he is not in his bed. He feels that he is not in his home, and that the woman beside him is not his wife, Julie. The protagonist has been living like this for a year. He has severe anxiety and tries to figure out where everything had gone. He has anxiety over the matter, he can't sleep, and he and his wife are exhausted.

critique: The answer should mention that the protagonist is in a garden.

critique: "He has anxiety over the matter, he can't sleep, and he and his wife are exhausted." - this was never mentioned in the story.

critique: The answer should mention that the protagonist has severe anxiety because he can't remember where he came from.

critique: The answer should mention that he has severe anxiety and tries to figure out where everything had gone.

critique: The answer should mention that the protagonist cannot remember the last year of his life.

critique: The following should be included in the response: "At the end of the story, he remembers his daughter, Anna."

critique: The answer should mention that the protagonist doesn't remember his life.

question: What does the story say about the protagonist and Julie?

answer: The protagonist wakes up one day and realizes he's not in his home. He doesn't know Julie, even though she claims to be his wife. He can't remember any of his past with her, and he can't believe that it's all real. He thinks Julie is just trying to calm him, and he argues with her about it. He's in their first home, and Julie shows him mail with his name, and hers, and how it arrives in the mailbox each day.

critique: Performance of home life is irrelevant to question.

text: The best way to answer the question is to describe how Julie interacts with the narrator and how the narrator feels about Julie. How a person interacts is not the same as what a person does when interacting. When Julie show the narrator the mail, this is "what" she does. "How" she does it can be described as methodical, or with enduring patience. While it may seem like an objective question, but it can be answered with subjective interpretations.

category: coverage

question: What does the story say about the protagonist and Anna?

answer: The protagonist and his wife, Julie, have a daughter named Anna. The protagonist is in the garden, and he sees a small bird on the ground. He picks it up and strokes its tiny head. The bird stops struggling, and the protagonist falls to his knees as the air fills his lungs in a deep, desperate gasp. He knows this breath.

critique: The answer is irrelevant to the question.

question: What does the story say about amnesia?

answer: The narrator was in his first home with his wife and daughter. He's been living in the present for a year without knowing how he got there. He has no recollection of his life. Every morning, he wakes up and thinks he is in the wrong body, in the wrong house. He's been having anxiety attacks over the matter, and he hasn't been sleeping well.

critique: The answer should mention that the man is in a state of amnesia.

text: Firstly, indicate that amnesia is implied, but not directly stated. Then mention how he is unable to recognize the people around him; including Julie who he believes to be a person being kind to him and pretending to be Julie. There are also other parts in the narrative where the character describes their feelings of disorientation and having no sense of belonging.


text:
[Artist's rendering of the proposed skytran design]

SKYTRAN is a Personal Rapid Transit system concept first proposed by inventor Douglas Malewicki in 1990, and under development by Unimodal Inc. A prototype of the skyTran vehicle and a section of track have been constructed. The early magnetic levitation system, Inductrack, now abandoned by skytran, has been tested by General Atomics with a full-scale model.[1] In 2010 UniModal Inc. signed an agreement with NASA to test and develop skyTran.[2] SkyTran has proposed additional projects in France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.[3][4][5][6]

System details

To minimize maintenance and make switching on and off the tracks efficient at high speeds, early versions of the system proposed using the Inductrack passive magnetic levitation system instead of wheels. Passive maglev requires no external power to levitate vehicles. Rather, the magnetic repulsion is produced by the movement of the vehicle over shorted wire coils in the track.[7] The cars would be driven by a Linear motor in the track or vehicle. Therefore, the system will have very few moving parts; primarily just the vehicle itself moving along the track, its parking wheels and door, and fans in heating and air conditioning units; so its promoters refer to the system as “solid state”.[8]

On this first version, the passive maglev coils are enclosed and supported by a light shell called a guideway that also captures the vehicles mechanically to prevent derailment. Malewicki proposes a 3D grid design that avoids accident-prone intersections by grade separation, with guideways and their exit and entry ramps crossing above or below each other. Tracks will be supported above the ground by standard metal utility poles. They could also be attached to the sides of buildings.

After identifying problems with Inductrack and the cost associated with it, skyTran described an improved design during a Horizon BBC interview with skyTran at NASA Ames in Mountain View, CA.

New details about the levitation and motor were described in a keynote speech in June 2016, showing levitation stator being plain aluminium plates and motor stator an aluminium tube. The guideway is also significantly enlarged and wider than the vehicle, so the switching can be vertical, going through the guideway. Guideway shape is shown at 16:26 in above referenced video. This new concept can be seen in a short simulation film. Instead of the purely passive inductrack system, the new mechanism modify lift by mechanically angling the magnetic pads and need a servo controlled actuation. The lift control also do the switching by moving vertically through the rails.

Patents applications were filed by skytran for this new system: and

History

Malewicki conceived the basic idea of skyTran in 1990, filing a US patent application that year that was granted as US Patent #5108052 in 1992.[9] He published several technical papers on skyTran in the following years. In 1991, he presented a paper entitled “People Pods - Miniature Magnetic Levitation Vehicles for Personal Non-Stop Transportation” to the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Future Transportation Conference in Portland, Oregon.[10] The paper is a thorough description of the concept at that point, although some important features of the current skyTran design are only discussed as options, including magnetic levitation rather than wheels and hanging below the guideway instead of riding above it.

The paper describes how Malewicki had built and driven a freeway-legal 154-MPG car in 1981, but realized it could never be safe on a street surrounded by far larger and heavier vehicles. Elevated tracks would allow a very light vehicle to be safe. They are also basic to the system's inexpensiveness, because there is no need to acquire a huge right of way and tear down buildings. It presents an aerodynamic analysis (Malewicki is an aerospace engineer) supporting claims of very high energy efficiency (the paper claims for skyTran's current two-passenger tandem design, though the Unimodal site claims only, “over ”).[11][12] It also described how a very light vehicle that can squeeze both surfaces of a track simultaneously could reliably achieve a 6-G deceleration, allowing it to brake safely to a stop from in just .[13]

The 2008 energy shortages stimulated renewed interest in Green vehicle proposals such as skyTran. The “Maglev skyTran” topic quoted a number of skyTran and Personal Rapid Transit ideas, such as passengers exiting and boarding at off-line elevated “portal” stops while high-speed traffic continues to speed by on its main line.[14]

In September 2009, the US NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) signed a Space Act joint development agreement with Unimodal. Unimodal has tested prototype vehicles on short guideway sections at NASA's Ames Research Center, in Mountain View, California. NASA control and vehicle dynamics simulation software was made available to Unimodal, which hired NASA subcontractors to program them using US DOT grant funding.[15]

In June 2014, Unimodal and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) contracted to build a 400-500 meter elevated loop test track on IAI's campus in central Israel. If the pilot project is successful, IAI will build a commercial skyTran network in the city of Tel Aviv, Herzliya and Netanya.[16][17] In April 2015, the Herzliya city council approved a budget for the skyTran project.[18]

In June 2016 skyTran signed a Memorandum of Understanding in the United Arab Emirates for the study and implementation of a personal rapid transit system in Yas Island.[19]

In 2018, it was announced that Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries had acquired a 12.7% stake in SkyTran. As part of the deal, Reliance would supply communication equipment and a prototype would be built in India.[20]

In April 2019, skyTran signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Eilat to build an elevated rail system serving Ramon Airport.[21]

In June 2019 a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between skyTran and the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to develop a Sky Pod suspended transit system.[22]

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title: SkyTran

question: What does the text say about levitation?

answer: The early versions of the system proposed using the Inductrack passive magnetic levitation system instead of wheels. Passive maglev requires no external power to levitate vehicles. The magnetic repulsion is produced by the movement of the vehicle over shorted wire coils in the track. The cars would be driven by a Linear motor in the track or vehicle.

critique: The levitation system described in the answer is not mentioned in the text.

critique: The answer does not mention the new design.

critique: The answer should mention the new design.

critique: Doesn't include the more recent explanation by skyTran.

text: The response seems to cobble together different sentences mentioning "levitation" without giving proper contexts.

category: coherence

question: What does the text say about Israel's connection to skyTran?

answer: The text mentions that in June 2014, Unimodal and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) contracted to build a 400-500 meter elevated loop test track on IAI's campus in central Israel. If the pilot project is successful, IAI will build a commercial skyTran network in the city of Tel Aviv, Herzliya and Netanya. In April 2015, the Herzliya city council approved a budget for the skyTran project.

critique: The answer should mention the Memorandum of Understanding.

critique: The answer does not mention the connection between skyTran and the Roads and Transport Authority. Reliance Industries also partnered with skyTran.

critique: The response mentions the year 2015, however the information is incorrect. The year is 2014.

critique: The response should include that in June 2016, skyTran signed a Memorandum of Understanding in the United Arab Emirates for the study and implementation of a personal rapid transit system in Yas Island.

critique: The answer should mention the Memorandum of Understanding signed in June 2019.

critique: The answer omits the Memorandum of Understanding signed in June 2019 between skyTran and the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to develop a Sky Pod suspended transit system.

question: What does the text say about Douglas Malewicki's personal life?

answer: No answer

critique: The answer could mention that Malewicki is the inventor of the SkyTran system.

critique: The answer should mention that Malewicki is the inventor of SkyTran.

question: What does the text say about energy efficiency?

answer: The text describes how a very light vehicle that can squeeze both surfaces of a track simultaneously could reliably achieve a 6-G deceleration, allowing it to brake safely to a stop from in just . This allows the vehicle to brake safely to a stop from in just .

critique: The second sentence doesn't add anything to the answer.

critique: The answer should mention Malewicki's aerodynamic analysis.

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

critique: The text does not describe the energy efficiency.


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No sound, and even though Jack’s eyes are closed he knows wherever he is its very bright. And forcing his eye-lids open with more energy than he had ever used before to do such a task. He brought up an arm to shield himself from a light that most surely wasn’t artificial but was at the same time. As if the light was coming from all around him but nowhere at the same time.

He tried to speak but found that no words escaped him. And he slowly sat up and looked around to get his bearings. Wherever he was, he’d never seen anything like it before. There appeared to be an expansive stretch of nothingness before him. A long and vast whiteness, He was sure this was a dream, that this feeling of unrelenting sadness gripping him, deep down in the pit of his stomach was just a nightmare that had yet to reveal the punch-line.

'Where am I?' He thought as he stood up. It took a lot of energy to accomplish this task, his bones and joints were sluggish and clumsy. Once he managed to get to his feet he became dizzy, to the point where he had to put his hands on his knees and bend over for a minute to let it subside.

Squinting through half closed eyes he tried to look around again and though the light was still very bright it had abated slightly and he could finally stand up straight again. He rubbed a hand over his eyes. He tried to call out again but the words still wouldn’t come. He knew he was speaking but he couldn’t hear anything coming out.

“There is no use trying to speak.” A woman’s voice came from behind him, seemingly out of the nothingness; A very familiar voice.

He slowly turned around and was sure that this was a dream. The sight of her made his heart drop, stop and melt all at the same time. He couldn’t remember her name but he knew that he had known this girl very well, knowing every inch of her body and most of her personality.

She just smiled sadly and took a step forward she moved with a grace and sadness that brought a breaking dread to Jack and he squinted as he watched her move about as if she were gliding along the floor that wasn’t there. 'This is a dream?' He thought to himself and he wasn’t very surprised to hear her speak again. “In a way it is. In a way it is not.” He frowned and looked around again. 'Where are we?'

“We are everywhere, and nowhere at the same time. We are together again, but apart forever.” She smiled and stepped closer. He suddenly didn’t want her to come any closer and he felt tears forming in his eyes. 'What do you mean?'  She merely smiled. “Is it too bright here? Your eyes haven’t adjusted yet. It will take some time.” She glanced around and as she did the air around him seemed to shift and change.

And now he was standing in the middle of an old bar. Four pool tables off to the right, and a bar in the middle. The girl was now behind the bar. “Do you remember this place?”  Jack looked around the room. It was empty aside from them. He nodded slowly. 'It’s where we met. But I can’t remember your name. After all these years, I’ve known you. I’m sorry.'

She just smiled sadly again. “That is not important. My name is no longer a part of your memory.” She moved around the bar and poured a double of whiskey. “This was your favorite wasn’t it?”

Jack instantly felt something churn in his stomach and he shut his eyes for an instant he heard a sort of siren blaring and then he opened them again, the room had changed once more. They were in his apartment lying in bed. Her head on his chest, her short hair brushed away from her upturned face. “This is where we spent our first night together.” She smiled. And he felt like crying even more. 'I remember you saying that we had to do this or we’d never know if it was worth it.' He thought.

“Was it worth it?” She asked and kissed his collar bone lightly. An icy chill ran up his spine. He shuddered. 'Every single second of it.'

"Every second.” She sighed and he felt her cool hand intertwine with his. “I need to tell you something Jack.” 'I know, This isn’t a dream…'  He felt the tears now, they had been escaping the corners of his eyes for who knew how long. 'What happened? Where are we?'

He shut his eyes and the blaring siren slipped back in for a moment And the voices of people shouting in the distance.

“You are dying. People say that your life flashes before your eyes before you die…” Her voice was getting distant. Further away and Jack squeezed his arms around her holding her close. The body he held tightly. 'Don’t leave me. Please Don’t leave me!' The sirens were stronger now piercing the walls of his subconscious.

“You have to make a choice.” She said. Her voice was distant and muddled now. “I Hate to give you such a cliché ultimatum but you have a choice to make.” Jack nodded his head, the room around him swam and rippled seeming to meld the moldy ceiling of his apartment with a starry night sky. “Stay here with me. Or go back.” Her voice was coming in a little stronger now. 'What happened? Where’s back, why aren’t you there?'

 “Do I really have to say it?” She sat up on her elbow and looked down at him. And he knew there from the sadness in her eyes and the way she smiled soothingly down at him. He reached a hand up and ran a thumb along her jaw-line. “All you have to do is choose. There is still time. Go back.”

And with that he knew what he had to do. He brought both hands up to hold her face gently in his hands and he pulled her down close to him so that their noses were touching. And he was able to find his voice. “There is no life for me, without you.” And he smiled.

She frowned for a moment and scrunched her nose up. “Are you sure?” She asked. And he smiled.

“From the moment I saw you, Ash...”

The ambulance rumbled along the lonely stretch of Arizona highway, and the coroner’s van behind it. “Jimmy, turn off the siren… We’ve lost him.” The paramedic paused checking his watch. Sat up and removed his rubber gloves. “CPR is unsuccessful. We can’t work him back up.”

title: "Ash" By FallenMonument

question: Describe the interaction between Jack and the girl.

answer: Jack and the girl are in a dream-like state. The girl is telling Jack that he is dying and he has a choice to make. He chooses to stay with her.

critique: The answer should mention that Jack is in a dream state, and that the girl is his deceased lover.

critique: The answer omits that the girl is Jack's deceased lover.

critique: It's omitted that the girl is telling Jack that he has to choose between staying with her or going back to his life.

critique: The answer does not mention that Jack is in a dream state.

critique: Ash is telling him he has a chance to go back for his wife, to choose her love and life, rather than his spouses'.

critique: The answer should mention that the girl is dead.

question: Summarize the situation Jack is in.

answer: Jack is in a dream or a near-death experience where he is reunited with the girl he loved. He is in the midst of a life-or-death choice, to stay in the dream with her or to go back to his life. It is implied that his choice is to go back to his life, and she allows him to do so. It is then revealed that Jack actually died in an ambulance while being transported to the hospital after a car accident.

critique: The answer should mention that Jack is in a coma.

critique: The summary should include the fact that Jack is in a coma.

text: "It is implied that his choice is to go back to his life, and she allows him to do so." - this is incorrect. Jack chose to stay with the girl.

question: Would Jack regret choosing the women in his unconscious state?

answer: Not answered.


text:
[“Wonder Why My Parents Didn't Give Me Salk Shots?”, the cartoon for which Little received the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning] THOMAS “TOM” LITTLE (September 27, 1898 – June 20, 1972)[1] was an American editorial cartoonist. Working for _The Nashville Tennessean_, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1957.

Biography

Little was born in Snatch (now called Peytonsville) in an extremely rural part of Williamson County, Tennessee.[2][3] His father died when he was two, and his family lived with his grandfather, who taught Little to draw before he could even write. His first job was picking potatoes for 50 cents a day, but the next year he entered the news business at age nine by folding issues of the _Williamson County News_.[4]

Little studied at the Watkins Institute (1912–15) and the Montgomery Bell Academy (1917–18).[5] He joined the _Tennessean_ in 1916 and became a police reporter there in 1919.[6] His tenure at the paper was interrupted by service in the US Army (at 5'2", he was rejected by the US Marines for being underweight) and a year (1923–24) as a reporter and cartoonist at the syndicate of the _New York Herald Tribune_.[7]

Prompted by his mother's illness, he returned to the _Tennessean_.[8] He became city editor in 1931, but following a dispute with the publisher he left that post in 1937.[9][10] He began drawing editorial cartoons for the _Tennessean_ in 1934 and drew exclusively after abandoning editing and reporting in 1937. He had been tutored by fellow Pulitzer winner Carey Orr before Orr left for the _Chicago Tribune_ in 1917, but a stronger influence was the work of another winner, Dan Fitzpatrick of the _St. Louis Post-Dispatch_. His drawing style resembled Fitzpatrick's and the work of both men was noted for biting content.[11] For his part, Fitzpatrick disliked the resemblance and considered Little an “imitator”.[12] Little became one of the most influential and republished cartoonists in the US.[13] His Pulitzer-winner cartoon featured a young boy with crutches and leg braces watching other boys play football, and is captioned “Wonder why my parents didn't give me Salk shots?”[14][15]

In addition to the Pulitzer, Little won a National Headliner Award in 1948, a Christopher Award in 1953, and a Freedoms Foundation Medal in 1955 and 1956.[16][17]

Beginning in 1934, Little collaborated with Tom Sims (writer of _Popeye_) on a single panel comic strip for King Features called _Sunflower Street_, depicting the lives of rural African-Americans. Though well-intentioned, the strip was cancelled in 1949 for fear that the strip would be viewed as condescending and draw racially based complaints.[18]

Little married Helen Dahnke of Union City, TN (1900-1938) in 1927;[19] she was an editor for _The Nashville Tennessean_.

Little retired in 1970.[20]

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title: Tom Little (cartoonist)

question: Summarize the beginning of Little's life.

answer: Little was raised by his grandfather due to the death of his father at a young age. His first job was picking potatoes for 50 cents a day, which he soon abandoned for the newspaper business, where he worked as a folder. Little next enrolled in the Watkins Institute and Montgomery Bell Academy in order to further his education. He joined the Tennessean in 1916 and became a police reporter there in 1919.

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

critique: The news business that Little worked in is not necessary.

text: The answer omits when and where Little was born. This information should be included.

question: What point in this story showed some tension for Little?

answer: When Little returned to the Tennesseean prompted by his mother's illness, he left the paper a year later in a dispute with the publisher.

critique: The answer is not related to the question.

text: The answer omits that Little became city editor in 1931, and following a dispute with the publisher, he left that post in 1937. This is the primary tension in Little's life and should be mentioned in the answer.

question: Summarize Little's job experiences.

answer: Little's first job was picking potatoes for 50 cents a day. He then entered the news business at age nine by folding issues of the Williamson County News. He joined the Tennessean in 1916 and became a police reporter there in 1919. He was a reporter and cartoonist at the syndicate of the New York Herald Tribune from 1923 to 1924. He became city editor in 1931 but left that post in 1937. He began drawing editorial cartoons for the Tennessean in 1934 and drew exclusively after abandoning editing and reporting in 1937.

critique: The answer omits that Little won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1957.

question: What role could Little play during his retirement?

answer: He could be a mentor to other cartoonists.

critique: There is no evidence to suggest that Little could be a mentor to other cartoonists.

critique: The passage does not mention anything about Little's retirement.

critique: There is no evidence to suggest that Little was a mentor to other cartoonists.


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I came upon a little town a little before sunset.  I don't even remember the name of it now but I guess those names don't really mean much these days anyways. It didn't seem as wasted as most of them are these days so I was hopeful that I might find something worthwhile. But decent looking buildings don't usually stay that way without somebody sticking around to look after them so I was wary of getting in to the search right away. I found a little shack on the outskirts with windows looking out on what looked like the main street. I was still doing pretty good on rifle ammo so I  decided to set up camp in it for the night and stake the place out. It was a quiet night and eventually I figured it was safe enough to catch a few hours of sleep. But right around sunrise I woke up to the sound of a rooster doing it's thing.

Such a fool's move, I thought, letting such an obvious signal to announce their presence. I watched for an hour and still didn't see any movement so I stowed my gear under a pile of rotted furniture, put on my ghillie suit and started crawling with my rifle through the wild grass in the direction of that rooster's call. I learned pretty quickly that patience is what keeps you alive when you don't know what you're facing so I took my time. The summer heat didn't make it easy but an hour of slow creeping brought me in to sight of a two-story house that still had all it's doors shut and windows boarded up. It had a loft that seemed like a good place to keep chickens, so I figured this was probably the spot. Two more hours of lying there and sweating my ass off later I was beginning to question myself when I saw a thin wisp of smoke rise up from the chimney.

Then the question was, how many I was dealing with. The house could have held at least a dozen people and I wasn't fool enough to think I could take that on. I didn't have much hope for a peaceful encounter either. You had a decent chance of it for the first year or so after it went bad, people still had that sense of helping out their fellows stuck in the same trouble as them. But then the canned goods and all the rest of the remnants of the old world started running out and most of 'em realized that they couldn't afford to be gracious anymore, especially once they had a run in or two with the rangers; that is, if they were lucky enough to survive those encounters.

So I waited some more. One of the doors finally cracked open and I saw a man's face searching the yard with a quick eye. He had the all too common look of the chronically malnourished and the sunworn face of a farmer. He could have been twenty or fifty just as easily but his expression showed that he hadn't made it this far by luck. After a few moments he decided it was worth it to step out with a pail and walk over to the pump that stood in the center of the yard. I noticed the line a few yards out of the door that ran perpendicular to the wall. He worked it hard and set back quickly, seeming to struggle just a little to walk steady with his load.

I waited all through the rest of the day. It was hard to resist the idea of going up to the pump and getting my fill but that would be far too much a risk. It got dark and I couldn't see any light through the cracks of the window boards so I decided to take the chance of getting close enough to listen for activity in the house. I stepped carefully over the line, which I saw was strung with several clusters of empty cans and bits of scrap metal. It was at least three feet off the ground, which made it far more visible than a wise man would have wanted for such an alarm.

I heard him, clattering a few pans and eating noisily. Nothing else though. I began to suspect he was alone. I heard the creak of stairs and then no more. Around midnight I made my way back to my shack and rested.

I made my way back to my spot outside the yard before sunrise and waited. Once more the man stepped out for water and I decided to take my chance. A single round dropped him as he stooped to work the pump. I waited a long time to see if he would get up, or if it would ellicit any reaction from inside the house. But, nothing.

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The door was still ajar, so I went off to the side and crept along the wall, under the windows. I took out a carefully wrapped bag of silver fulminate snappers out of my satchel and threw them through the door. The loud crack of them usually succeeds in startling people into giving their presence away but nothing besides the patter of the little rocks followed. I stepped slowly inside, wary of traps, but found only mostly bare rooms, with a few pieces of ancient wood furniture in the process of falling apart. There was a pantry, pitifully stocked with enough food for maybe a week or two.

The upstairs consisted of three bedrooms. The first two were empty, but in the third I found two small children, no more than five or six, squeezing themselves between a bed and the wall. Their huge eyes showed the terror they felt at my sight. I felt a terrible twinge in my heart, realizing that I had probably just killed their father or brother. But, I thought to myself, if that man let me take his life as easily as I had it was really only a matter of time before someone did the exact same thing that I had. Truly, I thought, there isn't room in this world any more for the weak and the foolish. It was a sad thought, but inescapable.

I spoke to them in a gentle voice, told them that everything was alright and that their daddy would be right back but that him and I needed to do something secret first. I told them to get in their bed and hide their faces in the pillows for a minute so they wouldn't peek. They obviously didn't trust me and it took a minute to convince them to move but eventually they got in. I stared for a moment at the backs of their heads and pitied the cruel life this world had imposed on such innocents. I tried to think of something I could do. I thought for a moment about taking them with me, because I knew they stood no chance by themselves of anything but slowly starving. But I knew that if I could barely find enough to keep myself alive, bringing them along would only lead to a worse fate for us all. So that was it. I might have said I was sorry, or maybe I just thought it and then I fired a round into the back of each of their head, fast enough that I hope neither of them realized what had happened.

I couldn't bear to look at what I'd done so I turned and all but ran downstairs. I took whatever food looked like it would keep on the road, some matches and lighter fluid that I found in a drawer, and left. I averted my eyes from the man on the ground. I couldn't bring myself to stop to fill my canteen, though I knew that was probably a mistake.

I went back to my gear and sat down hard on the ground. I felt numb, detached from my body, and all I could see was the last few moments in the bedroom replaying over and over in my head. It was the right thing to do, right? Are there even any right things to do anymore? Or just choices between the lesser or greater of two evils? I left that night without going back in to the town, setting off down the faint remains of an asphalt road. I walked for a long time, without any thought of actually getting anywhere. I wasn't sure whether I really wanted to get anywhere. So I just kept walking.

title: [MF] Surviving.

question: What is the climax of the story?

answer: The man finds two children hiding while their father is dead in the world outside. He deliberates over whether to kill the kids, but decides to as they can't survive on their own. He expresses remorse over his action.

critique: The answer should mention that the man kills the children.

critique: The man does not feel remorseful about killing the kids. He's just sad about the cruel world the kids live in.

critique: The response could also mention that the children are killed.

critique: The second-to-last sentence is better as the climax.

critique: The last two sentences are not about the climax of the story.

critique: The man doesn't express remorse over his action.

critique: The response misses that the man also kills the children.

critique: The answer should mention the narrator's decision to kill the children.

critique: The man also expresses remorse over his action

critique: "He deliberates over whether to kill the kids, but decides to as they can't survive on their own." - this is a confusing sentence to understand. The sentence should be re-written.

critique: It is omitted that the man kills the children.

question: What is the irony of the end of the story?

answer: Surviving in the world would have set these little kids up for a worse fate of living life just to starve. Making the "right" decision to cull the weak was heartbreaking for the narrator.

critique: The narrator didn't have to shoot the kids.

critique: "Surviving in the world would have set these little kids up for a worse fate of living life just to starve. Making the "right" decision to cull the weak was heartbreaking for the narrator." - the narrator never says "right" in that context. The narrator says there's no room in the world for the weak and foolish.

critique: The narrator's decision to kill the children is not ironic.

critique: It is omitted that they die without the basics of food and water.

critique: Remove 'the' from 'the world', this is unnecessary

critique: The answer should be more specific about the irony of the end of the story.

critique: "Living life just to starve" doesn't make sense. This can be deleted.

critique: "Making the "right" decision to cull the weak was heartbreaking for the narrator." - must elaborate on what makes the decision right or wrong.

critique: The answer could go into more detail about the irony.

critique: "Surviving in the world would have set these little kids up for a worse fate of living life just to starve. Making the "right" decision to cull the weak was heartbreaking for the narrator." - this is not the irony at all. The irony is that the kids were the only ones who were innocent and the narrator killed them.

critique: It is omitted that the author also thought it wasn't fair to bring the kids along and get killed potentially.

critique: The narrator is not concerned about the children starving.

critique: It is wrongly stated that living life just to starve would be a worse fate.

text: The narrator intended to take water from the man he kills, but he can't bring himself to do it after killing the kids. That's the real irony.

refinement: Surviving in the world would have set these little kids up for a worse fate of living life just to starve. Making the "right" decision to cull the weak was heartbreaking for the narrator.

question: What has happened to the world the man lives in.

answer: It seems the power had shut down, society collapsed, and people scattered or else disappeared.

critique: "It seems the power had shut down, society collapsed, and people scattered or else disappeared." - this is incorrect. The narrator says that society collapsed after the power shut down.

critique: Grammar. "seems the power had shut down," shouldn't be a part of this answer. Instead of using such an abstract word as "seems," specify what that "along with" means.

critique: It's not clear that the power has shut down.

critique: "It seems the power had shut down, society collapsed, and people scattered or else disappeared." - There is no evidence to support this conclusion. This needs to be rewritten.

critique: The power hasn't shut down, but it's implied that it has.

critique: "It seems the power had shut down, society collapsed, and people scattered or else disappeared." - this is a bit of a stretch. The man lives in a post-apocalyptic world, but the answer doesn't need to be that specific.

critique: No evidence of this implied in the article.

critique: "It seems the power had shut down, society collapsed, and people scattered or else disappeared." - the text doesn't say that society collapsed. Replace the first sentence with "The narrator thinks that the world has gone to hell, with people struggling to survive at all costs."

critique: It is not stated that the power had shut down.

critique: The story doesn't say specifically that the power went out. It could be the case but it is not specified.

critique: The power has not shut down, it's just that the man doesn't see any lights on in the town.