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UTS is an Indian Railways official iOS mobile ticketing application which allows the daily train travellers to book unreserved tickets of Indian Railways using their Smartphone. The application is designed in such a way that it is easy to use and has user friendly interface with features like book ticket, cancel ticket, maintain their profile, manage frequent travel routes , etc.The passenger will use Railway wallet to book the ticket.
There are two modes for booking Tickets : (i) Paper (ii) Paperless. In case of paper ticket user has to take a printout from kiosk/counter at concerned station. Whereas in case of Paperless ticket user's Location will be captured to determine he/she is present in valid ticketing area. In this mode no printout is required and the user can directly show his ticket from his smartphone to the TTE. Moreover an alternative to location check has also been introduced in limited stations where a user can scan a unique barcode present at station premises to book his paperless ticket.

What’s New

* Newly designed user interface.
* Easy navigation for all types of bookings.
* Bug fixes

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5

72.8K Ratings

Most awaited app

  The developer should understand the urgency of the user and the impact on the current on going situation, here are few bugs I would like to list

  1) if the selected stations shows some error or ticket can’t be booked message, user can restart ans does the same and bang!! It works so the parameters aren’t right? Or its just a bug

  2) update would be needed that if the user wants to travel form multiple station to particular station , fastest route and the amount should be shown in order to give them convince and this would help the newbie in the city

Horrible App

  This app is nightmare to use. I want to know who developed this app. After entering all the details it will ask to login and register. After registration again you need to start from the beginning. After booking, if you select show ticket it will say no active ticket found. If you click on booking history it will ask to login. Login and try again it will display partial ticket, click on it for more details instead it will ask you whether you want to rebook the ticket. What the hell and top of that beside my ticket it will show next trains. What the hell I am supposed to with next train and why it’s getting displayed in booking history. Ticket id in Booking history and Cancel ticket are different. I can’t logout and login from different mobile it says my imei verification under progress. One more thing, how the common man should know whether the train is slow, express of super fast especially express and super fast in India train does not make any difference instead could have provided Option to select train which is much easier. Did the people get paid to rate so much for this under developed app? School kids will do a better job.

Very bad performance in location option and login

  What the hell developer doing, in my i phone i set my location, even your app shows you have to be far 25km or 5km away from station and rail track res. Another interesting thing i found in app when i tried to book my actual journey ticket which is of 80/- it shows message like you have to be far from station 25km ( even i am far as 15km from station) then forcefully i booked ticket which is before station from where actually my journey start. And you know what it booked successfully. For that i have to pay 100. No matter 20/- is not big amount but if we calculate #ghotala like this 20 or 10 *10,000=1,00,000. Omg 1 lack. And this is just my prediction amount might be you are doing ghotala with lots of people. So please government is already rich dont do this else we will become poor. Mehanat ka kamate hai bhai kursi par ya sarkari logo ki trah baithkar sirf pise nahi aate. 10-11 hrs kaam karte hai sharir tutane tak tab jakar kuch pise aate hai hath me. Aur tum baith jaate hume lootane ke liye

Information

Provider
    Centre for Railway Information Systems

Size
    75.7 MB

Category
    Travel

Compatibility

    Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Age Rating
    4+

Copyright
    © 2018 Centre for Railway Information Systems

Price
    Free

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    Family Sharing

    Up to six family members will be able to use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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The Wizard

	Michael shared a low bed in his attic room with his black acoustic guitar. His friends sat in bean-bag chairs around a coffee table in front of him. They passed a smoking bowl among themselves. Light from the sun outside came through the closed window, hitting the smoke which lingered in the air. The entire room was covered in a light haze. An air conditioner at the other end of the room rattled, keeping the room from substantially over heating. A television set on mute sat in the room, but no one was focusing on it. He wore a dull red plaid shirt, cargo shorts, and plain brown sneakers. On his bed next to him lay the acoustic guitar, which he now only played when he was high. On the wall was an orange Chudley Cannons poster.]

	He held his own packed glass bowl in his left hand, and a yellow Bic lighter in his right. The inside of the bowl was covered in a thin amber layer of cooked residue; he needed to get around to cleaning it. He lit the lighter, staring at the yellow flame. He wasn’t in a rush to start smoking.

He absentmindedly moved the Bic, no longer lit, through the fingers on his right hand. He listened intently to the music playing, paying no attention to the others in the room. He lied back against the bed, staring straight up. Focusing intently on the pale glow-in-the-dark stars barely visible against the white-wash ceiling, he realised that he had yet to eat breakfast.

	He remembered waking up. He looked outside, and saw the sun, well past noon, linger in the sky. He estimated about 3:00, maybe 3:30. It was the first day of summer.

	Thinking about the final he took yesterday, he frowned. It wasn’t that he had bombed it, but rather that he had passed it without any deal of effort. He hadn’t even reviewed his notes. Hell, he hadn’t studied for that class all year. It wasn’t that he was a bad student, or even that he relished doing poorly in school, as he noted some kids his age did. He was simply not challenged.

	Certainly he wasn’t the most organized kid. He decided that this was the root of his problems. His disorganized mannerisms must have been perceived by his teachers as a lack of substantial intelligence. He had missed the cutoff for honors tracking, and even if he desired now to move up, he would be at a hopeless disadvantage, being far behind in the curriculum by the honors standard.

	He wished someone had pushed him. His parents must have bought into the teachers conclusions of mediocrity. They had accepted him as mediocre, and maybe were a little disappointed, but not surprised. They hadn’t been special either.

	He turned to look at his friends. The bowl lay on its side on the coffee table. A thin stream of smoke rose from it. His friends were discussing the latest Jersey Shore. He hated that show. He looked back up at the ceiling.

	Perhaps he really was mediocre, and this self-denial was just his coping mechanism with not being special, his only defense against his belief in not being worth anything. But this was a lie. He knew, deep down that he, at least at some point, had not been average, was not as worthless as he came across. He thought about his long lost love for reading. He had read and reread every Harry Potter book, had finished each of them for the first time within a week of their release. He turned to the bookshelf next to the TV. He could make out most of the series on the shelf, but it was hard to read the lettering through the smoke. That wasn’t savant level, but at least that was something. More important to him, however, was the emotion connected with his hours spent face down in a hard-cover. They represented his childhood, a reckless one inspired by Calvin and Hobbes comics and the Dangerous Book for Boys which had taught him almost everything he knew about anything important.

	But this childhood seemed long gone. In some ways, it had been pushed aside against his will, through homework and social obligations. But in other ways, his present reality was the result of his own decisions. He sustained to his friends that he didn’t cry at the end of the last Harry Potter movie.
His hand rested on the guitar which lay at his side. He plucked at the strings with no particular song in mind. He used to practice everyday. He would ride his bike to his lessons, and then come home and teach himself even more from the internet. He still played it every now and then, but only absentmindedly, not with the vigor of before. His teacher had told him that he was a talented musician. Now he was only average.

He told himself to relax, to pass these thoughts out of his mind. But he was always relaxed he thought to himself, high or not. This annoyed him. It wasn’t that he felt guilty about relaxing, but he felt bad that he had nothing to relax from.

	He picked up the bowl again, held it in his left hand, and sparked the lighter. But he didn’t bring the flame down to the bowl. He lifted his thumb and let the flame die.
	The word “average” interested him. He thought it odd that a word which by definition described the majority of people could have such a negative connotation.

	“We should do something today,” he suggested to his friends. His words were met with giggling.
	“I don’t think my brain has control over my toes, so I don’t think I’m walking anywhere.”

	“I was thinking about doing something today,” he said sincerely. “You know, like REALLY doing something.”

	“What, like driving to Taco Bell?” The speaker nudged the other friend, who was zoned out eyes glued to the TV. It was tuned to the cooking channel were Rachael Ray was preparing a cake.

	Michael rolled his eyes at his friends. “Nah man.  Something exciting, something you don’t get to do everyday.”

	“Like watching a movie!” His friend reached for the remote, turning the television off of mute. He flipped through the channels, stopping at ABC Family. The fourth Harry Potter movie was on. Michael watched as Harry dove around the quidditch pitch on his broomstick.

	Michael picked up the bowl again. He lit the lighter, held it to the bowl, and inhaled.

title: The Wizard

question: What does the story say about Michael's character and habits?

answer: Michael is a student who is not challenged by school. He is not the most organized kid and his disorganized mannerisms are perceived by his teachers as a lack of substantial intelligence. He is not a bad student, but he is not special either. He is a mediocre student who is not motivated to do well in school. He is a mediocre musician who used to practice every day, but now only plays occasionally. He is a heavy smoker who is high on weed. He is also a heavy drinker.

critique: The answer should mention that Michael is a heavy smoker who is high on weed.

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question: What does the story say about if Michael is mediocre?

answer: After Michael's failed final exam, he started wondering if he's really mediocre and discusses it with his friends. It's implied in the story that people think he's just mediocre and not talented or smart. He, however, does not believe he is mediocre and that's the reason why he always feels bad about his low achievement.

critique: The answer should mention his disorganization.

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text: He doesn't discuss feeling mediocre with his friends

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question: What does the story say about what kind of drugs Michael is taking?

answer: No answer

critique: No answer as to what Michael is taken, but we can state what kind of drug is involved.

question: What does the story say about how successful Michael is?

answer: Michael is not successful. He is not a bad student, but he is not a good one either. He is not challenged. He is not very organized. He is not special. He is mediocre. He is not a good musician. He is not very successful.

critique: The response contains a lot of repetition.

critique: It is omitted that Michael is not motivated to do well in school.

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20th July 2019

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I’d be lying if I said I didn’t immediately start thinking about planning our wedding from the day we got engaged. Nothing _too_ intensive but naturally, I couldn’t help but picture what our special day might look like. We’re now over six months on (!) and it’s safe to say I’ve already learnt quite a lot from planning…

A long engagement is the way forward

I genuinely don’t know how people handle planning weddings in a short amount of time. We were in no particular rush to get married ASAP so have booked our wedding for Spring 2021. I really want us to be able to enjoy the process from start to finish and I have friends who have found the whole thing incredibly stressful and while I’m aware stress comes with the territory, I want to reduce it as much as possible. Being able to spread out the cost was also a bonus for us as I hate the thought of us being totally consumed by the cost of the wedding, especially if you’re doing everything in such a short amount of time. It’s always going to be pricey but it feels a lot more manageable now. When we paid our deposit it felt like the date was ages away and now it’s already less that two years away. Time is going _very_ quickly.

Your Day, Your Way

I think we are all perfectly capable of having different opinions but knowing not to publicly share this opinion, especially when it’s on a topic that someone is currently in the thick of and more importantly, isn’t particularly helpful in the slightest. Since being engaged, I’ve found myself around people who like to scoff about weddings being a waste of money and it only being ‘one day’ in front of me. Perhaps they are trying to be reassuring but I find this pretty frustrating when you’re planning a wedding and feel like your experience is being diminished in some way. Nobody should have to feel rubbish because god forbid, they want to spend their hard-earned cash on some giant light up letters, however silly it may seem to _you_. For me personally, I am aware that the costs of a wedding can quickly get out of control and I’m determined to keep a rein on things, refusing to allow this one event to financially take the rest of our lives hostage for two years. But at the same time, I also know how short life is. How money is there for spending, not taking to the grave. And if I want to throw one hell of a party for our family and friends, I’m sure as hell going to do it. I’m just not going to let it financially screw us other. Ultimately, a wedding is about celebrating two people who love each other but all the other bits? They’re pretty nice too. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with wanting them either.

Visit multiple venues

While I had a fairly good idea of the venue I thought we’d like the most, we took the time to book in and visit a few different options so we could be completely certain. We tried to see a few different _types_ of venues to cover all bases and it really helped us to work out exactly what we wanted. And actually, for me, visiting venues is a really lovely way to spend a day! Once we were fairly set on a venue, we then took our family to an open day of the potential choice. Not only were we able to see the venue dressed up as it would be for a wedding (and get lots of ideas in the process) but it was a lovely way to involve our parents and get their opinions and suggestions. I’d thoroughly recommend seeing your desired venue a couple of times too so you can be completely certain.

Compromise is key

Bridal magazines and Pinterest are a dream when you’re planning a wedding but I also think they can be slightly dangerous too. I’ve found that while great for inspiration and getting you excited for the big day, they can make you want the most ridiculous things that you don’t need or actually _really_ want but magically become convinced you do, thanks to a few alluring photos. Unless you’ve got buckets of money, it’s not realistic to be able to have everything and compromising is gonna have to happen. Luckily, I think when push has come to shove and we’ve had to make decisions based on our budget, what we really want and what really matters to us always come through. And unfortunately, it’s not a flower wall. _Sigh._

To pay deposits ASAP

Having never planned a big event before, the money side of things felt really daunting. Even though (as above) we’ve deliberately given ourselves a long engagement, I’m well aware that time soon slips away and before you know it, there’s only a matter of weeks to go. Something I’ve found really helpful is to secure as many suppliers by paying as many deposits as possible. Venue and catering aside, other supplier deposits feel a bit more doable compared to when you look at the total cost of everything and you want to have a little cry. Sure, you’re still going to have to pay that total amount eventually but it buys you a bit of breathing space in knowing your desired vendor is booked and also helping you work out a saving/payment schedule to work towards.

Wedding fayres aren’t for me

Now I’m not sure if it’s because we went to our first wedding fayre fairly soon after we got engaged (what can I say, I was excited!), but rather than feeling excited about the prospect of getting married while there, I felt incredibly overwhelmed. Now don’t get me wrong, everyone seemed nice enough but the set up was simply not something that sat well with me. I didn’t enjoy wandering around the stalls, vendors trying to catch your eye. I wanted to look and get ideas, sure, but I didn’t (and this makes me sound awful) actually want to talk to people. Maybe this says more about me and how _I_ prefer to do things but I definitely enjoy being hunched over my laptop for hours, visiting websites and Instagram, pouring over reviews and other peoples weddings, losing myself in an endless hole of wedding research. While I understand fayres are a great place to find local suppliers, I still can’t help but feel this is easily done online and is even easier when you find a venue who often have a list of recommended suppliers local to your venue.

Have you planned a wedding or are you in the midst of doing so? I’d love to know what you’ve learnt in the process as well as your biggest tips. Let me know in the comments!

Emily>

question: What does the excerpt say about planning a wedding?

answer: Before starting to plan a wedding, it is important to determine the date of the wedding at least a year in advance. The date of the wedding should be determined while planning the wedding properly with an in-person visit. You should be visiting venues and get to know what the wedding will be like to spread out the costs and buy better souvenirs. Bridal magazines and Pinterest can be useful because of the ideas, but shouldn't depict what the wedding should actually be, because that can cost a lot of money. It is more important to get started as early as possible if you want things to be perfect for your wedding.

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555 17TH STREET, formerly known as the ANACONDA TOWER and the QWEST TOWER, is a skyscraper in Denver, Colorado. The building was completed in 1978, and rises 40 floors and in height.[1] The building stands as the seventh-tallest building in Denver and Colorado. It also stood as the tallest building in the city at the time of its 1978 completion, and held that distinction for three years until it was surpassed by the 707 17th Street in 1981.[2]

555 17th Street was originally known as the Anaconda Tower, after the Anaconda Company who relocated their headquarters from New York City to Denver in 1978. The building became the world headquarters of Qwest in 1997, at which point it was adorned with two large Qwest signs.[3] The building served as Qwest's headquarters until 2000, when the corporation moved to 1801 California Street, the second-tallest building in Denver situated two blocks away.[4] Although Qwest moved its headquarters in 2000, the two brightly lit blue signs on 555 17th Street remained in place for four more years.[5] Qwest finally removed the logos in 2004, but prior to that the signs were left dark for several months.[6]

555 17th Street is composed entirely of Class A office space, containing features such as a tenants' restaurant, private club, and conference center.[7] The building is home to the offices of accounting firms Deloitte & Touche and McGladrey, LLP.[8] Holland & Hart, a major law firm, has its headquarters in 555 17th Street.[9]

555 17th Street has been installed with several environmentally “green” features, including a 600-ton flat plate heat exchanger and electronic ballast lighting technology.[10] The building's management company, Mile High Properties, estimates that the upgraded features have generated savings of US$$1,835,000 in five years.[11] Due to its green features, 555 17th Street has been designated a “Labeled Building” by Energy Star and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.[12]

Cushman And Wakefield is the current property manager. 555 17th Street has the same owners as the Grand Hyatt.

Tenants

Ogilvy PR Worldwide - Third floor[13]

Huron Consulting Group - 16th Floor

JWT - Third floor

Clarity Media Group - Seventh floor

Examiner.com - Fourth floor

Parsons Brinckerhoff - Fourth, Fifth and Sixth floors[14]

Grand Hyatt Denver - 2nd and 38th Floor

Long View Systems - 16th Floor[15]

McGladrey, LLP - Tenth floor[16]

CDM Smith, Inc. - Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth floors[17]

Planisware - 17th floor

Crescent Point Energy Corp. - 18th and 19th floors

Willis Towers Watson - 20th and 21st floors

Anschutz Corporation - Twenty-fourth 23, and 22nd floor[18]

Monticello Associates - Twenty-sixth floor[19]

Holland & Hart LLP - Law Firm - 32nd-25th floor[20]

Deloitte & Touche LLP - thirty-third, thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth floors

Gordon and Rees - 34th floor

Cushman & Wakefield - 7th floor

Starbucks - In lobby

FedEx- In Lobby

Snarf's Sandwiches - In Lobby

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title: 555 17th Street

question: Summarize the first decade of the building's history.

answer: The building was completed in 1978 and was the seventh-tallest building in Denver and Colorado at the time. The Anaconda Company relocated their headquarters to Denver in 1978, and the building was renamed the Anaconda Tower. The building was the world headquarters of Qwest in 1997, and in 2000 the corporation moved to a taller building and had their logos removed in 2004.

critique: The answer could be clearer about when the building was renamed.

critique: The building was not renamed the Anaconda Tower.

critique: The building was not renamed the Anaconda Tower. It was originally known as the Anaconda Tower.

critique: Remove the final sentence, which is confusing.

critique: The answer omits that the building was the tallest building in Denver for three years.

critique: The building was originally known as the Anaconda Tower, not 555 17th Street.

question: Summarize the different identities the building has had over the years.

answer: When it was completed in 1978, the building was known as the Anaconda Tower. It was the tallest building in Denver and Colorado for three years until it was surpassed by the 707 17th Street in 1981. It was then known as the Qwest Tower when the Qwest Corporation moved their headquarters there in 1997.

critique: The building's name changed again to 555 17th Street after Qwest moved out.

critique: The building was renamed the Qwest Tower when it was the world headquarters of Qwest.

critique: The building was not known as the Qwest Tower when the Qwest Corporation moved their headquarters there in 1997. It was known as the Qwest Tower when the Qwest Corporation moved their headquarters there in 2000.

critique: "when the Qwest Corporation" - remove the comma

critique: Qwest Corporation were not the only ones to change the name of the building - take out the last two sentences.

critique: The building was known as the Anaconda Tower until 1997, when it became the Qwest Tower.

critique: The building was known as the Anaconda Tower after the Anaconda Company, not after the completion of the building.

critique: The building was originally known as the Anaconda Tower, not the Qwest Tower.

question: What does the article say about the people who built 555 17th Street?

answer: No answer

critique: The article does mention the people who built 555 17th Street.


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Beaten and broken, the man walked through the desert, without meaning, without purpose. He seemed, lost, confused, demented beyond repair. Surrounded by a shroud of emptiness, his whole world had been shattered, everything he knew consumed by the vile darkness that had somehow found its way to his planet.

He didn't know how long ago it had happened, the destruction of his world. It felt like mere moments ago in his mind, but the few pieces of sanity remaining within him reminded him that it could have been years for all he knew. With his sense of purpose gone, so was his sense of time.

The images were fresh in his mind, reliving the devastation time and time again. The thick darkness that over shadowed the world, a darkness so deep that even the 2 suns revolving around the planet could pierce. And from the darkness, the creatures that had descended upon them....fierce, mindless, fearless, countless hordes of vile abominations destroying anything in sight.

One such creature happened upon the mans family. The man, while powerful, was no match for the dark. The last image that his sanity allows him is fending off the creature....then a darkness, the taste of blood in his mouth....the cries of panic and dismembering of his family from the fiendish monster.

And the blood...everywhere blood....the screams....and then nothing.....

He then awoke in the strange place on his world that he wanders to this day and has wandered ever since that day. Where everything that he held dear....his meaning, his purpose was decimated by the nothingness.

Everyday was the same to him. He had not felt the mortal desires in the years or days or minutes it had been since that first day. He had not felt hunger, nor thirst or anything else resembling humanity. Nothing allowed him the peace of death, although something inside him seemed to tell him that on his world, there would be no peace in death.

Nor, oddly enough, he had not felt the pangs of loss that most people would have associated with losing absolutely everything. The man, wandering hopelessly, had no where to go, and had no idea why he was going there. Everyday was the same to him.

Everyday was the same, he felt nothing...everyday...save for today.

This day, unknown minutes, seconds, moments later, pain beset the man. Today, he felt as if he had not eaten in years, his stomach ached for nourishment, his throat felt dry and gasped for relief. His legs, after regaining feeling, could not carry the man through his wanderings any longer, gave way, causing the man to fall to the earth. Worst yet, as if to ail him further, his soul began to weigh him down, and he felt the cries and pain of an entire world besiege his being, as if the pain of the world cried from within him. His body filled with remorse for the untold millions of deaths that he felt, as non existent tears filled his eyes. His body could not produce any. His heart mourned for the souls lost within the dark purgatory that destroyed his home.

"I can make all your pain go away, mortal. Wash your desires and pain away, with but a nod of your head and your request, the anguish will be purged from your body...."

Startled by the forbodeing* voice, the mand tried to life his grief stricken head to confirm its source, but could not. Instead, he tried to ask with a dry mouth " Who...who is....this? What is....happening?" But nothing came to from his efforts.

"Think of me as your savior, the only one that can save you from the endless years of torment, knowing no peace without me, and knowing no light with me...."

The man barely understood what the voice was saying, other than that he wanted, no, needed, the pain to subside, and it seemed this was his only way out. To stop the pain, stop the greiving, stop feeling again....

And so, our champion tiredly lifted his head, looked dejectedly into the darkness surronding him, not at all realizing he no longer seemed to be on his own broken world, but instead what seemed to be nothingness. The man quietly whispered with heavy heart, his body beaten and broken " Take...the pain...away... I beg of y-you...."

He could feel the darkness pulse with a sense of satisfaction at his response while he waited for what would happen next. The man felt a dark hand reach deep within himself that started to pick away at his soul..... stripping away his memories, feeling them being plucked from his mind one at a time. His friends...his family...his children....everything, being purged from his mind, quite painfuly. He felt his very being being taken from his body, making him less and less human every second that went by since his response.

At the same time, during this painful transition, he felt a sense of reliefe, serinity of you will, of the greif being lifted up and out of his body, the cries of the millions being deafend just an iota at a time...his desire for food, sleep, water also being removed from his body. After who knows how long, the man allowed a brief smile to spread across his face....

...only for that smile to curl into a scowl of disatisfaction at the burning sensation began filling his body. His veins seemed to fill with knives flowing through his blood stream, cuting everything vein and nerve along the way. What felt like liquid fire filled his mind as it purged the final pieces of his memories from his being. He felt as if he could rip is own flesh off from his body just to relieve the pressure.

But no such relief came to the man. His mouth felt a thirst ten times than that felt mere seconds ago, his hunger grew in such a manner that he felt as if his stomach would eat its way out of him just to fill itself.

And even if that wasn't enough for the pain stricken man. He felt and grief and sorrow of the millions of deaths of his home decend upon him, as if all the creatures of this world were somehow bound to him and were slowly, just as his memory was, being ripped from his body one by one, each one more painful than the last.

As the pain worsened, silent screams of anguish began to escape his lips, the dark essence coursing throughout him, rapeing him from within of his humanity. A grim realization came over the man as he had realized what he had done.

The tranistion, or, mutation rather, reached a painful climax, tearing into the man like a tempest of a thousand hells, ripping his soul asunder, pulling his flesh from his bones. As the final portion of the transformation began, the man was allowed to see who he had aggreed to save save him, and upon gazing into the darkness at the face of the purgatory he was in, the man was filled with utter horror.

"There is no turning back now my child....you are now apart of my darkness. My. Nothing."

And with that, a final surge of dark essence filled the man with a burning, emptyness greater than all the rest. With his final ounce of humanity, the man bellowed forth a blood letting scream, to the fill the ears of no one....and as the scream echoed through the darkness and faded away, the broken and beaten world was left in silence, devoid of all life, with no one left to wander its wastelands any longer......

title: End of a Life

question: What does the story say about the narrator?

answer: The man appears to be a warrior and a father. He wanders the desert for what feels like years. He walks through the desert as his world has been seemingly destroyed. He ends up agreeing to take the pain away and join the dark to do so. However, the dark gives him pain instead. He doesn’t realize he’s joining the dark until it’s too late.

critique: The man is not a warrior, he's just a man.

critique: It's less clear that he is a warrior than that he was devastated by the attack on his home world.

critique: The story doesn't say anything about a warrior.

critique: The response contains inaccurate information.

critique: The world has clearly been destroyed. Actually, that's the first sentence of the passage and a needed part of the answer

critique: Be more specific about the pain the narrator undergoes, and mention what happened to him in the end.

critique: The answer should mention that the man is killed.

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

critique: It is inaccurate to say that the man "ends up agreeing to take the pain away and join the dark to do so." He agrees to take away the pain, but it's the dark that joins him.

critique: It's not specifically mentioned that the man is a warrior.

critique: He doesn't take the pain away, he asks the dark to take it away

text: It would be better to omit that the man is a warrior, as it's not stated explicitly in the text.

category: accuracy

refinement: The man appears to be a warrior and a father. He wanders the desert for what feels like years. He walks through the desert as his world has been seemingly destroyed. He ends up agreeing to take the pain away and join the dark to do so. However, the dark gives him pain instead. He doesn’t realize he’s joining the dark until it’s too late.

question: What commentary does the story offer about Faustian bargains?

answer: This story isn't about that.

critique: This response is incorrect and needs to be rewritten.

critique: The story is a commentary on Faustian bargains

critique: The story is about a Faustian bargain, that's why the question is asked.

critique: It's a response to a question asking a commentary.

critique: This response is inaccurate, as the story does offer commentary on Faustian bargains.

critique: This response is not related to the question.

critique: This answer is incorrect. The story is about that.

critique: It is not accurate that the story is not about Faustian bargains.

critique: This is not a valid answer. The story is about a Faustian bargain.

critique: It is not stated in the story that it is not about Faustian bargains.

critique: It is not stated that the story is not about Faustian bargains.

critique: Though the title says otherwise, the story actually is about a Faustian bargain.


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Denver (CNN)An army of Denver teachers braved freezing temperatures Monday, sacrificing pay to strike for a better future.

But even though this strike focuses on teachers' salaries, students joined them on the picket lines, saying their teachers deserve better.

"It's like they make school fun. They make you want to be there," 16-year-old Xavion Davison said.

He and friends Allen Koncsik and Bryce Alexander carried a large sign proclaiming, "They deserve more than just praise. Give them a raise."

Denver teachers say they want higher, stable salaries, since their school district uses unpredictable bonuses to compensate for low base pay.

["My pay has been too variable over the last several years," teacher Nick Childers said. ]

"Unfortunately bonuses are really variable, and we can't depend on them from year to year," social studies teacher Nick Childers said.

Ninth-year teacher Kelsey Brown said the bonuses are so erratic, she made more money two years ago than she does now.

[Denver is so expensive, teachers get creative to make ends meet]

The Spanish teacher made $56,000 last year, but the rising cost of living in Denver means she has to work extra jobs -- as a lacrosse coach, exchange program coordinator and summer camp employee.

Now, after 15 months of failed negotiations between the school district and teachers' union, educators are ditching classrooms to march up and down snow-lined sidewalks.

The strike is the latest in a long line of teachers' protests that spread across the country last year and keeps gaining momentum this year.

The Denver Classroom Teachers Association, which represents most of Denver's 5,000-plus teachers, said it doesn't want to strike -- but said the school district hasn't met their demands.

"We're hoping for a quick solution to this whole thing," DCTA lead negotiator Rob Gould said Monday. "We're hoping (school district officials) come to the table tomorrow ready to listen so we can get back to work. Because our teachers want to be in the classrooms with their kids."

[Across the US, teachers protested and won. Now some say lawmakers are retaliating]

Denver Public Schools said it's listened to teachers' concerns and made a series of offers to the union -- all of which have been rejected.

"I am extremely disappointed that the DCTA walked away from the table," Superintendent Susana Cordova said after talks broke down Saturday night. "We presented an updated proposal that responds to what we heard from our teachers ... and significantly increases the base pay for all of our educators."

She said both sides will be back at the negotiating table Tuesday.

"It's a problem for our kids not to have their teachers in class," she said. "So I want to get this done now."

What both sides have put up

Denver Public Schools says it's offered:

-- $23 million in new funds next year for teachers' base salaries. (That would increase the average teacher's salary from about $55,000 to $61,000 next year.)

[A new wave of teachers' protests are brewing coast to coast]

-- A total investment of $55 million over the next three years.

-- An increased starting salary of $45,800 for new teachers.

-- Another $2 million investment in base pay for teachers and specialized staff members that would "come from additional, painful cuts to our central departments, which we estimate to be an elimination of about 150 positions in the central office."

-- The elimination of performance bonuses for central office senior staff. "We would invest those funds directly in our highest-needs schools, with a proposed increase in incentive pay for teaching in our schools with the highest poverty rates," the school district said. "Our offer increases that incentive from $2,500 to $3,000."

DPS illustrated how its concessions to the union -- more than $20 million since last June -- is significantly more than the union's decrease in demands.

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But the union said it's still waiting for "a fair, competitive and transparent salary schedule that prioritizes base salary over complicated, unreliable bonuses."

"We are incredibly disappointed that on the last day of bargaining and less than two days before a strike, they doubled down on one-time incentives teachers do not want, and the data shows do not work to keep teachers in their schools," DCTA President and teacher Henry Roman said.

What students will do without their teachers

Despite the strike, DPS encouraged students to go to school this week. All schools except preschools are still running on normal schedules.

But 2,631 teachers did not go to school Monday, DPS spokeswoman Anna Alejo said. That's about 56% of teachers from district-run schools.

[What we learned from the LA strike, and why it cost $125 million]

In other words, about half of DPS' 92,000 students have no idea when they'll see their teachers back in class again.

To make up for those 2,631 missing teachers, about 1,400 central office staffers and 400 substitute teachers covered teacher absences Monday, Alejo said.

But Xavion said substitutes can't teach like his normal teachers.

"I don't feel like I'm learning anything. It's not the same," the teen said. "With our teachers, I feel like we're in a better learning environment. Not with any sub."

Some teachers are too broke to strike

Since teachers aren't getting paid while on strike, not every teacher who wants to strike can do so.

"I really, really want to because I do support the mission ... but I literally financially cannot afford to," said math teacher Sophia Leung. "For me to lose out on $200 of pay a day, it does impact my bills for the month."

[What teachers won and lost in the 2018 strikes]

And as a first-year teacher, Leung said she can't even afford the $70 monthly dues to join the local teachers' union.

But this renewed wave of teachers' strikes shows the sacrifices teachers are willing to make, said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.

"A strike is not a first resort for anyone. It's a last resort -- especially for teachers who are asked to do more with less every day," she said. "And enough is enough."

CNN's Scott McLean, Christina Zdanowicz and Amanda Watts contributed to this report.

question: What does the article say about how teachers are paid?

answer: Denver teachers are paid low base salaries and receive bonuses that are unpredictable. The bonuses are so erratic that some teachers made more money two years ago than they do now. The school district uses unpredictable bonuses to compensate for low base pay.

critique: The answer should mention that the bonuses are unpredictable from year to year.

text: "The school district uses unpredictable bonuses to compensate for low base pay." - this is redundant and should be removed.

question: What does the article say about what makes a good teacher?

answer: No answer

critique: The information is available in the article.

question: Summarize both sides of the argument.

answer: Denver Public Schools officials believe that teachers deserve better pay and that they have made several offers to the union. The union believes that the offer does not prioritize base salary over bonuses.

critique: The union's response to the offers is omitted.

critique: It is omitted that the union wants a fair, competitive, and transparent salary schedule that prioritizes base salary over complicated and unreliable bonuses.

critique: The answer does not mention their most recent offer made after the article.

critique: The answer should mention that the union wants a fair, competitive and transparent salary schedule.

critique: The answer should mention the teachers' demands.

critique: The answer should mention that the union wants a fair, competitive, and transparent salary schedule.

critique: It's omitted that the union believes that the bonuses are too variable, and the school district uses them to compensate for low base pay.


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JOHN GREENWOOD SR. (1727–1792) was an early American portrait painter, engraver and auctioneer.

Life

[Portrait of John Greenwood by Lemuel Francis Abbott circa 1785] Greenwood was born on 7 December 1727 in Boston, Massachusetts, and baptized on 10 December in the Old North Church, Boston.

His father died insolvent in 1742 and at about this time Greenwood apprenticed to Thomas Johnston, a Boston line engraver, sign painter, and japanner. According to his son's later account, Greenwood soon left Johnston's studio in order to pursue portraiture.[1] He left Boston in 1752 and traveled to the Dutch colony of Surinam in northeast South America. He stayed there for over five years, during which time he executed 115 portraits, before traveling again, this time to Europe, arriving in Amsterdam in May 1758. He settled there for a time to learn the art of making mezzotints, and was documented as a member of the Amsterdam Drawing Academy in 1758 by Jacob Otten Husly.[2] After leaving Amsterdam, Greenwood stayed in Paris, then London, where he eventually settled in 1764.

At the request of the Earl of Bute Greenwood made a journey, in July 1771, into Holland and France purchasing paintings; he afterwards visited the continent, buying up the collections of Count van Schulembourg and the Baron Steinberg. In 1776 he was occupying Ford's Rooms in the Haymarket as an art auctioneer.

One of Greenwood's best known works is _Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam_ (1755), a drunken scene featuring various prominent Rhode Island merchants, including Declaration of Independence signatory Stephen Hopkins, Governor Joseph Wanton, Admiral Esek Hopkins, and Governor Nicholas Cooke.

Greenwood died while on a visit to Margate, Kent on 16 September 1792, and is buried there. His wife, who survived him a few years, was buried at Chiswick, close to the tomb of Hogarth.

Family

Greenwood was the son of Samuel Greenwood (1690–1742), a Harvard graduate (1709) and merchant, and his second wife, Mary Charnock Devereux (c. 1709-1794).[3] In 1770, Greenwood wrote to his childhood friend, the painter John Singleton Copley, to commission a portrait of his mother Mary Charnock Devereux: ‘_I am very desirous of seeing the good lady’s face as she now appears, with old age creeping upon her._’ this portrait is now part of the international painting collection at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.[4] His eldest son, Charnock-Gladwin, died an officer in the army at Grenada, West Indies; the second, John, succeeded him in business; James returned to Boston; and the youngest, Captain Samuel Adam Greenwood, senior-assistant at the residency of Baroda, died at Cambray in 1810. His son John Greenwood, Jr. (1772–1815) is the subject of a portrait by William Beechey.[5]

A small half-length portrait of Greenwood in mezzotint, by William Pether, bearing an artist's pallet and brushes and an auctioneer's mallet, was afterwards published. A three-quarter length, by Lemuel Francis Abbott, and a miniature by Henry Edridge, which were in possession of his grandson, John Danforth Greenwood, ex-principal of Nelson College, New Zealand.

File:John Singleton Copley - Mrs Humphrey Devereux - Google Art Project.jpg|Mrs Devereux was the second wife of Samuel Greenwood and mother of John Greenwood; John S Copley 1770 File:Portrait of John Greenwood junior.jpg|Portrait of Greenwoods son John Greenwood, Jr. by William Beechey circa 1795 The Greenwood-Lee Family.jpg|The Greenwood-Lee Family including a self-portrait of the artist circa 1747

Greenwood's great great granddaughter is the New Zealand photographer Elizabeth Greenwood (1873–1961).

Selected works

File:John Greenwood - Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam.jpg|_Sea Captains Carousing in Surina_ (1755) File:RichardWaldron.jpg|_Portrait of Richard Waldron_ (1751) File:John Greenwood - Portrait of Mrs. Richard Waldron.png|_Portrait of Mrs. Richard Waldron_ (1751) File:Portret van een officier ter zee met een kustkaart en een verrekijker in de hand Rijksmuseum SK-A-4905.jpeg|_Portret van een officier ter zee met een kustkaart en een verrekijker in de hand_ (1760) File:John Greenwood - Portrait of Thomas Westbrook Waldron.png|_Portrait of Thomas Westbrook Waldron_ (1750) File:John Greenwood - Portrait of Mary Fitch Cabot.png|_Portrait of Mrs. Mary Fitch Cabot_ (circa 1745-1752) File:John Greenwood - John Richard Comyns of Hylands, Essex, with His Daughters - Google Art Project.jpg|_John Richard Comyns of Hylands, Essex, with His Daughters_ (1775) File:The seven sisters of Tottenham.jpg|_The seven sisters of Tottenham_ (1790) File:John Greenwood - Mrs. Henry Bromfield (Margaret Fayerweather) - 62.173 - Museum of Fine Arts.jpg|''Mrs. Henry Bromfield (Margaret Fayerweather) '' (1749) File:Elizabeth Fulford Welshman E-001034-20120309.jpg|_Portrait of Mrs. John Greenleaf_ (1749) File:Henry Flynt.jpg|_Portrait of Henry Flynt_ (between circa 1749 and circa 1750)

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[2] Biography of John Greenwood in Roeland van Eynden and Adriaan van der Willigen's _Geschiedenis der Vaderlandsche Schilderkunst_, 1840, Vol. II, p. 202 (reprint 1979)

[3]

[4] https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/41241

[5] https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/37017

title: John Greenwood (artist)

question: Summarize the theme of John Greenwood's works.

answer: JJ Greenwood only has a few paintings but they were all portraits.

critique: The response is incorrect. Greenwood's works are not all portraits.

critique: It is not stated that his works were all portraits.

critique: The response is incorrect. Greenwood's works were not all portraits.

critique: The response is inaccurate. Greenwood's works are not all portraits.

critique: Greenwood painted portraits and was commissioned to get portraits done. He even commissioned the portrait of his own mother much later in life. Greenwood's works should be portrayed slightly more in-depth than a simple copy/paste from the article.

question: Summarize the main events in Greenwood's career.

answer: He executed 115 portraits in Surinam and 125 in Europe. He was an art auctioneer in 1776. In 1771, Greenwood bought paintings while in Holland and France. In 2017, he went on to buy the collections of Count van Schulembourg and the Baron Steinberg. He made a career in portraiture.

critique: The answer should mention that he was an artist.

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

critique: The last sentence is not relevant to his career.

critique: "In 2017, he went on to buy the collections of Count van Schulembourg and the Baron Steinberg. He made a career in portraiture." - this is incorrect. It should be "In 1776, he was occupying Ford's Rooms in the Haymarket as an art auctioneer."


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She opened her eyes, and all she saw was a searing white light. She felt a biting cold metallic surface beneath her. She was laying down, in a metal room with only one door; a heavy, solid metal door. The florescent lights: the searing light, buzzing incessantly above her. They were driving her mad. She suddenly felt a pool of warmth beneath her head; blood. It was bleeding. To her relief it was only a slight trickle. To her horror there was a large dried pool of blood below her. A few drops trailed off to the opposite end of the room. And she saw him.

Lying there on the floor, opposite to her was a man. She saw no blood around him, but saw blood on his hands. Lying between them were a syringe and a keycard. The syringe was empty; what was in it? She wondered. Did he attack me? What is this place? Why am I here? Why can't I remember? She couldn't remember. She couldn't remember anything at all; who she was, where she was, and why she was here. She couldn't remember; and she was afraid. Did he lock me in this room for something I did? Was this man a guard at this facility? Or were this man's intentions more...malignant? She didn't want to know. She wanted to get out; she had to get out. She had to find some answers.

She stood up and made her way towards the door, still slightly ajar. As she approached the threshold, she noticed a camera. What is this place she thought and what is it for? She left into the hallway, and stared down its sterile walls, glistening in the white light. There were more cells, but there was silence. She was unsure of whether that was a good sign or not. She made for the door at the end of the hallway; it looked different from the rest, perhaps it wasn't a cell, perhaps it was a way out. She hoped it was. When she reached the door, her heart sank; it was locked.

The key card in the room! It was the only thing she had to go on, the only ray of light in her frightening nightmare. Feeling hopeful, she raced to the end of the hall for the key card. When she reached the cell she had awoken in, she entered and made her way for the card, not noticing that the man had woken up, and was watching her. As she goes to leave the room, she hears an unsettling, animalistic growl. She turns back to see the man, crouching, staring at her with a predator's gaze. Looking closer at his eyes, she notices that his eyes are a yellowish color; like a cat's eyes. His nails had sharpened, and were more like claws. What was in that syringe? Was he planning on doing that to me?

Suddenly, the feral beast leaped. Thinking quickly, she pulled the door closed just in time. She started to run down the hall and then she heard that noise. The feral creature let out a sickening roar. The nightmarish noise paralyzed her with fear. For an eternity, she could not move, could not think, could not breath. What made her move wasn't fear of the beast behind her. It was the new sounds she heard. The other cells were alive with movement; something was lurking behind their walls. With an ever deepening sense of terror, she ran towards the door, inserted the key card, and turned the handle; the door opened. The minuscule amount of relief she felt was extinguished when she heard the footfalls of the beast. Without even looking, she went through the door and into the new room. She turned and closed the door, seeing the beast lunge forward, more feral in appearance than before, just in time for it to crash into the closed door. She was safe, for now.

Turning to examine the room, she saw monitors. Monitors that showed the horrors in the other cells. Creatures that lurked and prowled with vicious intent. Creatures that writhed and squirmed in agonizing pain. This facility...was for experimentation on human beings. Just who the hell are these people? What are they doing? What are these vile bastards doing to these poor people? Sitting down, she started to go through some notes lying on the table. They were of someone named Dr. Moreau. This despicable person wrote about these people, his "patients" with no empathy, no remorse. He was now one of his own experiments.

"Doctor, are you there? The Colonel is waiting for the latest results of your testing." It was a man's voice on the other side of the door opposite from the one with the cells. She sat frozen with fear. What would happen to her when he found out what happened to the doctor, that he had become one of his pets? "Doctor? I'm coming in..." The door slowly opened, and a man wearing heavily padded, black colored clothing came in. He was holding a gun. When he stepped into the room, he raised it and fired. At that moment, a life was silenced.
But it was not hers...

Lowering his weapon, he turned to her and said, "Your bleeding, come with me to the infirmary." When she didn't respond, didn't even breath, he said it. Those words which shattered her utterly and will haunt her for the rest of her days. It was just a simple question, yet it implied so much.

"Doctor Moreau, are you alright?"

title: This was a short story I wrote for a high school English class. I was told by my teacher that it was well written, but I would like some criticism from you guys and gals. (This story is about 5-6 years old) [Battle Not With Monsters]

question: Summarize the twist of the story.

answer: The doctor is the one in the cell, and the woman is the doctor. The doctor has been turned into an animal-like creature. The doctor is experimenting on humans, and the woman is the next subject.

critique: The answer is incorrect. The twist is that the doctor is the one in the cell, and the woman is the doctor. The doctor has been turned into an animal-like creature. The doctor is experimenting on humans, and the woman is the next subject.

question: What does the text say about the monitor room?

answer: The monitor room is where the narrator sees the horrors in the other cells. The monitor room shows the creatures that lurk and prowl with vicious intent. The creatures writhe and squirm in agonizing pain. The monitor room shows the horrors in the other cells.

critique: The response contains repeating information.

critique: It's omitted that the monitor room is where the narrator saw the doctor.

critique: The second line is unnecessary and repetitive.

question: Summarize how the narrator lost her memory.

answer: No answer

critique: The response misses to identify the context of the question and hence provide an appropriate answer.

critique: The answer should mention that the narrator is in a facility for experimentation on humans.


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Phys Ed

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Credit...Kirsten Luce for The New York Times

-   May 3, 2017

If all of the children who currently are sedentary started exercising every day, societies could save enormous amounts of money in the coming decades and have healthier citizens as a whole, according to a remarkable new study. In the United States alone, we could expect to save more than $120 billion every year in health care and associated expenses.

The study is the first to use sophisticated computer simulations to arrive at a literal and sobering societal price tag for allowing our children to be sedentary.

Inactivity is, of course, widespread among young people today. Recent research shows that in the United States and Europe, physical activity tends to peak at about age 7 for both boys and girls and tail off continually throughout adolescence. More than two-thirds of children in the United States rarely exercise at all.

The immediate health consequences for inactive children and their families are worrisome. Childhood obesity, which is linked to lack of exercise, is common, as is the incidence of Type 2 diabetes and other health problems related to being overweight among children as young as 6.

But the long-term financial costs of inactivity in the young, both for them and society as a whole, have never been quantified.

So for the new study, which was published this week in Health Affairs, researchers with the Global Obesity Prevention Center at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and other institutions decided to create a bogglingly complex computer model of what the future could look like if we do or do not get more of our children moving.

The researchers began by gathering as much public data as is currently available about the health, weight and physical activity patterns of all 31.7 million American children now aged 8 to 11, using large-scale databases from the Census Bureau, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other groups.

The researchers fed this information into a computerized modeling program that created an electronic avatar for every American child today. In line with reality, two-thirds of these children were programmed to rarely exercise and many were overweight or obese.

The scientists then had the simulated children grow up. Using estimations about how calorie intake and activity patterns affect body weight, the program changed each virtual child’s body day-by-day and year-by-year into adulthood. Most became increasingly overweight.

As the simulated children became adults, the scientists then modeled each one’s health, based on obesity-associated risks for heart disease, diabetes, stroke and cancer, and also the probable financial price of dealing with those diseases (adjusted for future inflation), both in terms of direct expenses for hospitalizations, drugs and so on, and lost productivity because of someone’s being ill.

The results were staggering. According to the computer model, the costs of today’s 8- to 11-year-olds being inactive and consequently overweight would be almost $3 trillion in medical expenses and lost productivity every year once the children reached adulthood and for decades until their deaths.

But when the researchers tweaked children’s activity levels within their model, the numbers began to look quite different. If they presumed that, in an imaginary America, half of all children exercised vigorously for about 25 minutes three times a week, such as during active recess or sports or, more ambitiously, ran around and moved for at least an hour every day, which is the amount of youth exercise recommended by the C.D.C., their virtual lives were transformed.

Most obviously, the incidence of childhood obesity fell by more than 4 percent, a change that resonated throughout the simulated children’s lives and society. There were about half a million fewer cases of adult-onset heart disease, diabetes, cancer and strokes in this simulation, and the society-wide costs associated with these illnesses dropped by about $32 billion every year if the children romped about for 25 minutes three times per week and by almost $37 billion if they moved for an hour every day.

The impacts were even more substantial when the researchers assumed that 100 percent of the children who are now sedentary got regular exercise.

In this scenario, the annual total costs during adulthood from obesity-associated medical expenses and lost productivity plummeted by about $62 billion when children were active three times a week and by more than $120 billion every year when all of the virtual children played and moved for at least an hour each day.

The implication of these numbers is that all of us, including people who are not parents, have selfish reasons to be concerned about childhood inactivity, says Bruce Lee, the director of the Global Obesity Prevention Program at Johns Hopkins and lead author of the study.

“We all will share the costs” of future medical treatments and lost work time among children who move too little now, he says.

Of course, this was a computer model and not a time machine, he says. It can provide predictions but not certainties. The simulations also relied on broad generalizations about how physical activity affects body weight and health, with the presumption being that more movement leads to less weight, which might not be true for all young people.

Still, this peek into our possible future strongly suggests that we should find ways now to encourage more children to move, Dr. Lee says. Show this study to school administrators who are mulling curtailing recess and physical education classes, he suggests. Talk to local planning authorities about more playing fields and parks. And if you are a parent, take your child for a bike ride, swim or jog.

question: Describe the selfish reasons why American adults should find ways to encourage activity in children.

answer: The article states that all of us, including people who are not parents, have selfish reasons to be concerned about childhood inactivity. The costs of future medical treatments and lost work time among children who move too little now will be shared by all of us.

critique: The answer should mention the cost savings.

question: Can the research be relied upon as absolutely accurate?

answer: No, it is a computer model and not a time machine.

critique: The answer should mention that the model relies on generalizations.

question: Why should parents encourage their children to take a regular bike ride?

answer: Babies 8-11 receive a lot of physical and mental health and social benefits when they are encouraged by their parents to participate in activities such as bike riding and jogging.

critique: The article does not say that children receive a lot of physical and mental health and social benefits when they are encouraged by their parents to participate in activities such as bike riding and jogging.

critique: Does not mention the savings expected by the increase in the number of physically active children we could expect to happen through their lives.

critique: The answer is not related to the question.

question: Why have children become sedentary?

answer: This information is not answered in the article. The article does state that inactivity is on the rise and that children are not moving enough.

critique: The article does state that inactivity is on the rise and that children are not moving enough.

critique: The article does state that children are not moving enough.

critique: This response is irrelevant as it does not answer the question.

critique: The variability in physical activity between 8- year-olds and 11-year-olds is underdeveloped.

critique: The article does not say why children have become sedentary.


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[Liam Ashley] LIAM ASHLEY was a 17-year-old boy from North Shore City, Auckland[1][2] who was murdered on 24 August 2006, by GEORGE CHARLIE BAKER, a prisoner from North Shore, Auckland.[3] The crime occurred[4] in a New Zealand prison van and led to criticism of the methods of transporting prisoners in New Zealand.

Background

Ian and Lorraine Ashley, Liam's parents, pressed criminal charges against their son after he used his mother's car without permission. The Ashleys denied bail so that their son would be sent to prison. They wished to correct the boy's behaviour, and prevent additional “minor misdemeanours.”[5] Liam had previously experienced “minor trouble” with New Zealand law, and his parents believed that the prison system would be the safest place for him.[6]

Murder

The prison authorities placed Ashley in one of four compartments of a prison van operated by Chubb Security, a company operating under contract with New Zealand officials.[7] The van was scheduled to transport the prisoners from North Shore District Court to Auckland Central Remand Prison at Mt Eden. Ashley shared the compartment with two other men, one of whom, George Baker, was classified as a dangerous criminal.[8] Baker attacked Ashley, strangling and stomping on the boy. The victim sustained severe brain injuries. The following day, August 25, at 10:30, his family chose to remove Ashley from life support; Liam Ashley died at 10:45.[9][10]

Aftermath

Baker said that he attacked Ashley because he believed the boy was a “nark .”[11] He freely admitted to killing Ashley and received a minimum 18 year life sentence.[12] Damien O'Connor, the Minister of Corrections, described the fatal injury as “senseless” and “preventable.”[13]

Chubb, the security company that operated the van, faced criticism in the aftermath of the attack.[14] In June 2007 the company announced that it no longer wished to transport prisoners as contracted with New Zealand authorities.[15]

In 2007, John Belgrave, New Zealand Chief Ombudsman, and Mel Smith, the ombudsman of the Corrections Department, conducted an inquiry into the department's policy for transporting prisoners.[16] Belgrave described Corrections' prisoner transport policies as “inhumane”, and ordered a review of the system.[17] After publication of the report, Simon Power, an Opposition Justice & Corrections spokesman, asked O'Connor to resign due to the shortcomings in his department, though he stopped short of saying that O'Connor was directly responsible for Ashley's death. Power criticized the system for failing to keep Ashley, a first time offender, and Baker, a high-risk prisoner, separated.[18]

In response to Ashley's death, New Zealand authorities began testing waist restraints for prisoners.[19]

Following his conviction, Baker remained in the public spotlight after several further violent incidents inside Auckland Prison. In July 2008, while being returned to Auckland Prison from Auckland City Hospital after treatment for self-inflicted injuries, Baker pulled a concealed shiv on a prison officer in an attempt to escape. The prison officer received minor injuries and Baker was returned to Auckland Prison.[20] On 27 August 2009, Baker took hostage a fellow inmate in Auckland Prison using a makeshift knife and two razor blades. Police managed to defuse the situation and nobody was harmed in the incident.[21] In 2010, Baker was found guilty on charges that resulted from these two incidents and was subsequently sentenced to preventive detention with no possibility of parole for at least 16 years.[22]

[1] Wall, Tony. “'It's my fault - I should have shut my mouth' THE LIAM ASHLEY MURDER.” _The Sunday Star-Times_. 3 September 2006. Retrieved on 21 June 2009.

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[3] “Liam Ashley parents praised.” _NZCity_. 28 August 2006. Retrieved on 21 June 2009.

[4] “Liam Ashley Report: Findings And PDF.” _Scoop_. Monday 11 December 2006. Retrieved on 21 June 2009.

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[6] “Dead teen “gentle and kind”.” _NewstalkZB_. 28 August 2006. Retrieved on 21 June 2009.

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[13] “Liam Ashley's Death Preventable - O'Connor.” _Scoop_. Tuesday 12 December 2006. Retrieved on 21 June 2009.

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[16] “Report into Liam Ashley's murder to be released today.” _TV3_.

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[18] “Report strengthens call for Minister to resign.” _Scoop_. Monday 11 December 2006. Retrieved on 21 June 2009.

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title: Murder of Liam Ashley

question: What does the article say about George Charlie Baker?

answer: George Charlie Baker was a prisoner from North Shore, Auckland. He was classified as a dangerous criminal. Baker attacked Ashley, strangling and stomping on the boy. The victim sustained severe brain injuries. Baker received a minimum 18 year life sentence. In 2008, he pulled a concealed shiv on a prison officer in an attempt to escape. In 2009, he took a fellow inmate hostage using a makeshift knife and two razor blades. He was sentenced to preventive detention with no possibility of parole for at least 16 years.

critique: Remove the following two sentences about Baker's sentence and sentence for his crimes, since those sentences provide no context (what he did, when, why).

critique: He was sentenced to preventive detention for the shiv incident, not the hostage incident.

critique: The answer omits that Baker said he attacked Ashley because he believed the boy was a "nark".

critique: The last sentence is irrelevant to the question.

critique: The answer should mention that Baker was a first-time offender.

question: What does the article say about the security company Chubb?

answer: Chubb Security was the company operating under contract with New Zealand officials that operated the prison van in which Ashley was placed. The company came under fire for placing Ashley in the same compartment as a dangerous criminal like George Charlie Baker, who strangled and stomped on Ashley, killing him. Chubb Security came under fire, and they decided to no longer transport prisoners. John Belgrave, New Zealand Chief Ombudsman, and Mel Smith, the ombudsman of the Corrections Department conducted an inquiry into the department's policy for transporting prisoners. Belgrave described the Corrections prisoner transport policy as "inhumane", and ordered a review of the system.

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

critique: "John Belgrave, New Zealand Chief Ombudsman, and Mel Smith, the ombudsman of the Corrections Department conducted an inquiry into the department's policy for transporting prisoners. Belgrave described the Corrections prisoner transport policy as "inhumane", and ordered a review of the system." - this is irrelevant and should be deleted.

critique: Chubb Security did not transport prisoners after the incident.

critique: It is omitted that Chubb Security faced criticism in the aftermath of the attack.

critique: The opening line of the answer should read 'Chubb Security' instead of 'The company Chubb Security' to sync with the other mentions of the company name in the article.

question: What does the article say about teenage criminality in New Zealand?

answer: No answer

critique: The article does mention that Liam Ashley was a teenager who had previous "minor trouble" with the law.

critique: This is related to the murder of Liam Ashley, but there is not sufficient information to answer the question.

critique: It is omitted that Liam Ashley's parents pressed criminal charges against their son after he used his mother's car without permission.

critique: The answer should mention the Ashleys and their reasons for wanting to see their son in prison.


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The BATTLE OF DJAHY was a major land battle between the forces of pharaoh Ramesses III and the Sea Peoples who intended to invade and conquer Egypt. The conflict occurred somewhere on the Egyptian Empire's easternmost frontier in Djahy or modern-day southern Lebanon, in the eighth year of pharaoh Ramesses III or about c. 1178 BC.

In this battle the Egyptians, led personally by Ramesses III, defeated the Sea Peoples, who were attempting to invade Egypt by land and sea. Almost all that we know about the battle comes from the mortuary temple of Ramesses III in Medinet Habu. The description of the battle and prisoners is well documented on temple walls where we also find the longest hieroglyphic inscription known to us. Temple reliefs feature many bound prisoners defeated in battle.

Historical background

In Egypt, Ramesses III was fighting to save his country and Empire in the midst of the Bronze Age collapse, a prolonged period of region-wide droughts, crop failures, depopulation, invasions, and collapse of urban centers. It is likely that the Nile-irrigated lands remained fruitful and would have been highly desirable to Egypt's neighbors. During this chaotic time, a new warlike group of people from the north, the Sea People, repeatedly attacked and plundered various Near Eastern powers.

Ramesses III had previously defeated an attack by the Libyans on the Egyptian Empire's western frontier, in his fifth year. A greater threat was posed by a group of migrating peoples called the Sea Peoples. These were times of crisis in the Mediterranean, as many 12th century BC civilizations were destroyed by the Sea Peoples and other migrating nations. The great Hittite Empire fell, as did the Mycenaean civilization, the kingdom of Alashiya (which consisted of part or all of Cyprus) and Ugarit, and other great cultures.

Whatever their origins, the Sea Peoples moved around the eastern Mediterranean, attacking the coasts of Anatolia, Cyprus, Syria and Canaan, before attempting an invasion of Egypt in the 1180s. We know that the Sea Peoples were great warriors, and some evidence suggests they had a high level of organization and military strategy. Egypt was in particular danger because the invaders did not merely want the spoils and goods of the land, but the land itself; and there was no country with better soils and access to gold than Egypt. The Egyptians say that no other country had withstood their attacks, as these inscriptions from the mortuary temple of Ramesses III in Medinet Habu attest:

  The foreign countries (i.e. Sea Peoples) made a conspiracy in their islands. All at once the lands were removed and scattered in the fray. No land could stand before their arms: from Hatti, Qode, Carchemish, Arzawa and Alashiya on, being cut off (i.e. destroyed) at one time. A camp was set up in Amurru. They desolated its people, and its land was like that which has never come into being. They were coming forward toward Egypt, while the flame was prepared before them. Their confederation was the Peleset, Tjeker, Shekelesh, Denyen and Weshesh, lands united. They laid their hands upon the land as far as the circuit of the earth, their hearts confident and trusting: 'Our plans will succeed![1]

Battle

Prior to the battle, the Sea Peoples had sacked the Hittite vassal state of Amurru which was located close to the border of the Egyptian Empire. This gave the pharaoh time to make preparations for the expected onslaught by the invaders. As Ramesses III notes in an inscription from his mortuary temple at Medinet Habu: “I equipped my frontier in Zahi (Djahy) prepared before them.”[2] The Sea Peoples' “land forces were moving south along the Levantine coast and through Palestine when they were confronted and stopped by Ramesses' forces at the Egyptian frontier in Djahi in the region of later Phoenicia” writes the Hittitologist Trevor Bryce.[3]

Ramesses III refers to his battle with the Sea Peoples in stark, uncompromising terms:

  The [Egyptian] charioteers were warriors [...], and all good officers, ready of hand. Their horses were quivering in their every limb, ready to crush the [foreign] countries under their feet...Those who reached my boundary, their seed is not; their heart and soul are finished forever and ever.[4]

Aftermath

While the battle ended with a great Egyptian victory, Egypt's war with the Sea Peoples was not yet over. The Sea Peoples would attack Egypt proper with their naval fleet, around the mouth of the Nile river. These invaders were defeated in a great sea battle during which many were either killed by hails of Egyptian arrows, or dragged from their boats and killed on the banks of the Nile river by Ramesses III's well-prepared forces.

Although the pharaoh defeated them, Egypt could not ultimately prevent them from settling in the eastern parts of their empire decades later. With this conflict, and a subsequent second battle with invading Libyan tribes in Year 11 of Ramesses III, Egypt's treasury became so depleted that it would never fully recover its imperial power. The Egyptian Empire over Asia and Nubia would be permanently lost less than 80 years after Ramesses III's reign under Ramesses XI, the last king of Egypt's New Kingdom.

Reliefs depicting the battle

Egyptian reliefs depicting the battle in the mortuary temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu provide much of the information regarding the battle. Featured are Egyptian troops, chariots and auxiliaries fighting an enemy that also employed chariots, very similar in design to Egyptian ones.

[1] Medinet Habu inscription of Ramesses III's 8th year, lines 16-17, trans. by John A. Wilson in Pritchard, J.B. (ed.) Ancient Near Eastern Texts relating to the Old Testament, 3rd edition, Princeton 1969., p.262

[2] Extracts from Medinet Habu inscription, trans. James H. Breasted 1906, iv.§§ 65-66

[3] Trevor R. Bryce, The Kingdom of the Hittites, sub-chapter 'The Fall of the Kingdom and its Aftermath', Oxford University Press, 1998. p.371

[4] Breasted, op. cit., pp.65-66

title: Battle of Djahy

question: Summarize the factors that helped Egypt win.

answer: The pharaoh's preparations were well executed in the lead-up to the battle. His forces were well organized and his riding force and auxiliary personnel were more than capable. The Sea People were unable to ground their vessels, which were equipped with towers and could only fight at sea.

critique: The response is missing the part about the Sea People's attack on Amurru.

text: "which were equipped with towers" - there is no evidence in the text that the Sea Peoples had vessels equipped with towers.

question: What does the article say about Ramesses III?

answer: Ramesses III was the pharaoh of Egypt during the Bronze Age collapse. He was fighting to save his country and Empire in the midst of the droughts, crop failures, invasions, and collapse of urban centers. He defeated an attack by the Libyans on the Egyptian Empire's western frontier in his fifth year. He was also fighting the Sea People, who were attempting to invade Egypt by land and sea. He defeated them in a great battle.

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

critique: "He defeated them in a great battle." - the battle is not mentioned to be the one with the Sea People. Rewrite this section.

question: What does the text say about the pyramids?

answer: No answer

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

critique: The question only asks about the pyramids and has no answer so that answer must be 'no answer' and there is no information provided in the text about pharaoh Rameses III's pyramids.

critique: The answer should mention that the text does not mention the pyramids.

critique: The article does not mention the pyramids.


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The former district manager at Insys Therapeutics was irate. Several doctors were not prescribing enough of the company’s Subsys painkiller, which contains fentanyl, a powerful and addictive opioid.

So the manager, Jonathan Roper, wrote his sales team a pointed email, saying that “we invest a lot of time, money, blood, sweat, and tears on ‘our guys,’ ” — a reference to doctors who were paid to speak to other physicians about the medicine. “We hire only the best of the best to be a part of our speaker bureau and dropping script counts is what we get in return? This is a slap in the face to all of you and is a good indication as to why NONE of you are climbing in the rankings this quarter.”

Last Thursday, Roper and a former Insys sales rep named Fernando Serrano were arrested and charged with violating federal kickback laws. They allegedly ran a scheme between October 2013 and June 2015 in which doctors were paid thousands of dollars to participate in “sham educational programs” designed to boost Subsys prescriptions, according to Preet Bharara, the federal attorney for New York. The email from Roper two years ago was part of the indictment.

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The arrests come amid intensifying controversy over the abuse and misuse of prescription painkillers and the extent to which these are appropriately prescribed. Federal health officials recently released new guidelinesurging doctors to restrict their prescribing and some lawmakers want to pressure the Chinese government to toughen its laws to stop the illicit export to the United States.

The problem gained additional notoriety recently when Prince, the celebrated musician, died of an overdose of fentanyl, although it was not clear which form of the drug he was taking.

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“Fentanyl is an incredibly dangerous and highly addictive drug that is finding its way into, and destroying, too many lives in our communities,” Bharara said in a statement announcing the arrests. Roper and Serrano, he said, “helped feed this devastating surge of opioid addictions by tapping into another age-old addiction, greed.”

An attorney for Serrano did not immediately return a request for comment. Neither did Insys. Roper could not be reached for comment.

This is not the first time that Insys has been named in connection with illegal activities designed to boost prescriptions for Subsys, which was approved in 2012 to treat cancer pain and generated nearly $330 million in sales last year.

Last February, a former Insys Therapeutics sales rep pleaded guilty to violating federal kickback laws in connection with an alleged scheme to boost sales of the opioid painkiller. And the drug maker is being probed by various federal and state agencies that are examining whether doctors were encouraged to prescribe the drug for unapproved uses.

The indictment, which was filed in federal court in New York, revealed details of how the former employees hoped to boost Subsys prescriptions.

For instance, the company arranged “social gatherings at high-end restaurants in Manhattan” that were supposed to involve teaching doctors about Subsys but did not really involve any education. Doctors were enlisted to speak at these events, but often “lacked an appropriate audience of health care professionals,” according to the indictment. To make them appear legitimate, sign-in sheets were sometimes forged by adding names of doctors who did not attend.

Some docs were later treated to sojourns at strip clubs.

Doctors who wrote numerous prescriptions were rewarded with lucrative speaking fees. In 2014 alone, Insys paid one physician $147,000 and another, $112,000. These were also two of the largest Subsys prescribers in the US that year, writing prescriptions worth more than $3 million and $2 million, respectively. The prescriptions were paid for by both private insurers and Medicare, which spent more than $1 million on them.

Also worth noting: One doctor wrote 300 to 500 prescriptions for the painkiller, but was not an oncologist, according to the indictment.

Insys sales reps, meanwhile, benefited from their relationships with high-prescribing doctors.

Serrano and other reps received bonuses based, in large part, on the volume of Subsys prescriptions written by the doctors they were assigned to work with, according to the indictment. Serrano received a $70,000 bonus in the first quarter of 2014, which was the eighth-largest bonus among Insys reps at the time.  In the fourth quarter of 2013, his bonus was about $100,000, the fifth-largest among Insys reps.

question: What does the text say about the amount of fentanyl found in the Subsys painkiller?

answer: No answer

critique: The answer can't be found in the text, but it is implied that fentanyl is a very potent painkiller.

critique: The answer should mention the amount of fentanyl found in the Subsys painkiller.

question: What does the text say about Jonathan Roper?

answer: Jonathan Roper was the district manager at Insys Therapeutics. He was irate because several doctors were not prescribing enough of the company's Subsys painkiller. In January 2016, Roper and a former Insys sales rep named Fernando Serrano were arrested and charged with violating federal kickback laws. Roper and Serrano allegedly ran a scheme between October 2013 and June 2015 in which doctors were paid thousands of dollars to participate in "sham educational programs" designed to boost Subsys prescriptions.

critique: The answer should mention that Roper was charged with violating federal kickback laws.

critique: The answer should mention Roper's email.

critique: The sentence about Roper and Serrano should be in past tense.

critique: The answer should mention that Roper wrote an email to his sales team.

question: Summarize the details of Roper and Serrano's scheme?

answer: Roper and Serrano were arrested for violating federal kickback laws. They allegedly ran a scheme between October 2013 and June 2015 in which doctors were paid thousands of dollars to participate in "sham educational programs" designed to boost Subsys prescriptions. The email from Roper two years ago was part of the indictment.

critique: The details of the scheme aren't relevant to the question.

critique: The answer should mention more details about the scheme.

critique: The answer should mention the restaurants and strip clubs.

critique: The part where the doctors were charged money should probably see a name change instead of 'paid'.

critique: The answer could include more details about the scheme.

critique: The answer should mention the details of the scheme.

question: What does the text say about Insys Therapeutics track record?

answer: According to the excerpt, Insys has been named in connection with illegal activities designed to boost prescriptions for Subsys. This is not their first run-in with the law. Last February, a former Insys Therapeutics sales rep pleaded guilty to violating federal kickback laws in connection with an alleged scheme to boost sales of the opioid painkiller. Federal and state agencies are also looking into whether doctors were encouraged to prescribe they drug.

critique: It is omitted that the company was also fined $1.1 million for bribing doctors to prescribe their painkillers.

critique: The answer should mention the most recent arrest.

critique: The answer should mention the charges against Roper and Serrano.

critique: The answer does mention the legality of Insys but fails to mention that Insys allegedly bribed doctors for "dropping script counts". Morover, it omits the company's prior charges. FAILING TO INCLUDE ACCURATE AND RELEVANT INFORMATION WHEN QUESTIONS OPPOSE ANY SPECIFIC INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE QUESTION

critique: The response misses to mention that the company was also charged with violating federal kickback laws.

critique: The answer omits the company's former district manager, Jonathan Roper, who was arrested and charged with violating federal kickback laws.


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The CIARÁN TOBIN EXTRADITION CASE concerns requests for the extradition of Irish businessman Francis Ciarán Tobin from Ireland to Hungary. Tobin is the subject of a European Arrest Warrant issued by the Hungarian authorities after he was found guilty of causing serious bodily harm by negligent driving when his car went out of control killing two Hungarian children in the village of Leányfalu near Budapest in April 2000. He was tried in his absence after he failed to return from Ireland for his trial.

After joining the European Union in 2004, Hungary issued a European Arrest Warrant for Tobin's forcible surrender to Hungary to serve his prison sentence. The Irish Supreme Court has refused to extradite Tobin on two separate occasions.

Twelve years after the case, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny expressed regret but confirmed that the case is officially closed.[1]

In January 2014 Tobin started to serve his time in prison.

Facts

Ciarán Tobin is an Irish citizen. In 2000 he was working as a senior manager of Irish Life and Permanent Hungary, having been seconded there. On 9 April 2000, he was driving towards Budapest through the village of Leányfalu. His speed was established as at least in a zone. According to Tobin, he was in the process of changing lanes when his car became unresponsive, failed to straighten out into the rightmost lane and mounted the pavement.[2] On mounting the pavement the car caused the immediate deaths of two children, 2-year-old Petra Zoltai who was sitting in a pram, and her brother 5-year-old Márton Zoltai.[3][4]

Trial and departure from Hungary

In the immediate aftermath of the accident, Mr. Tobin was placed under formal investigation by the Hungarian police and was taken to a police station to be interviewed. Mr. Tobin was not acquainted with any Hungarian lawyers but knew a young Hungarian woman Káta Soós whose father Tibor Soós was a lawyer. In the interviews which followed Ms. Soós was asked by the police to act as an interpreter in the absence of anyone else present who could speak both English and Hungarian.

Mr. Tobin was subsequently charged with negligent driving causing serious bodily harm and in accordance with Hungarian law chose not to attend court but was represented throughout the criminal proceedings by his lawyers. When Tobin was first interviewed by the police they had asked him to present his passport which they retained. In the autumn of 2000 he requested the return of his passport so that he could visit Ireland for a wedding and to see his family. This request was granted but he was not asked to return his passport on his return on 9 October 2000. On 30 October 2000 Tobin returned to Ireland permanently, his period of secondment to Irish Life Hungary having come to an end.

Tobin's trial took place in Hungary on 7 May 2002 in Mr. Tobin's absence albeit in the presence of lawyers acting on Tobin's behalf. Statements made by Tobin after his arrest were ruled to be inadmissible on the basis that they had been translated by his lawyer's daughter. His trial took place under section 187 of the Hungarian criminal code which provides that:

He was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison. On appeal his sentence was amended to allow for the possibility of parole after 18 months.

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Meanwhile, Hungary joined the European Union on 1 May 2004, and transposed the European Arrest Warrant framework decision into their national law. Hungary requested the surrender of Mr. Tobin by issuing a European Arrest Warrant. However, a judge of the Irish High Court, Mr. Justice Peart, refused the surrender on the basis that Tobin had not “fled” Hungary as required by the Irish legislation which implemented the framework decision, since he left Hungary with the consent of the Hungarian authorities.[5][6] This decision was later upheld by the Irish Supreme Court.[7] The Irish authorities also refused the Hungarian request to make Mr. Tobin serve his time in an Irish prison, an option within the EAW framework decision but never implemented in Ireland

Hungary, on the other hand, strongly disagreed with this interpretation of the EAW law and the word “flee”.[8] Hungary argued that anyone not returning to serve his or her sentence is fleeing from justice. Hungary kept the warrant in effect as the Irish decision has no bearing for other EU members. Hungary also explored other legal options, including turning to various EU fora, to enforce its court's decision.

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In 2009, Ireland amended its domestic EAW legislation to bring it into line with the EAW framework decision by removing the requirement that, in conviction cases, a person the subject of an EAW had “fled” the issuing country.[9] An amendment which came into force on 29 August 2009. On 17 September 2010, Hungary issued a new European Arrest Warrant seeking Tobin's arrest and surrender. Tobin was arrested on 10 November 2009 and his surrender was ordered on 11 February 2011 by Mr. Justice Peart, the same High Court judge who had previously refused the surrender.

However, Mr. Tobin was again successful in gaining the leave of the High Court to appeal its decision. Notwithstanding this Ciaran Tobin voluntarily entered custody in Ireland on 9 November 2011 on the basis that any time spent in prison in Ireland will be deducted from any time in prison that he might ultimately spend in Hungary.[10]

Mr. Tobin won the appeal against surrender on 19 June 2012 when the Supreme Court over-ruled the High Court on a three to two majority.[11]

In prison

On 14 January 2014 Mr. Tobin voluntarily returned to Hungary to begin his prison sentence in a Hungarian jail. As a part of an agreement with the Hungarian Minister of Justice, Mr. Tibor Navracsics,[12][13] on 17 January Mr. Tobin flew back to Ireland to serve the remainder of his time there.[14] On 5 February 2014 Mr Tobin sent a letter to the family of the deceased children in which he expressed his regret and apologized. According to the lawyer of the family, the father sees it as a kind of closing of the case.[15]

[1] Index.hu

[2] _Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform v Tobin_ [2012] IESC 37, Judgement of Hardiman J., unnumbered paragraph beginning, “The circumstances of the accident giving rise to these proceedings, ...”.

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[5] Ireland's EAW Act 2003

[6] [http://www.courts.ie/80256F2B00356A6B/0/A51EA174E57B4194802573560039323C?Open&Highlight=0,Tobin,~language_en~ High Court Judgement]

[7] [http://www.courts.ie/80256F2B00356A6B/0/A8355D8C734A781C802573FC00527B22?Open&Highlight=0,Tobin,~language_en~ Supreme Court Judgement]

[8] Hungarian Minister of Justice Tibor Draskovics letter to the European Commission

[9] by section 6 of the _Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009_

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[14] http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ciaran-tobin-begins-hungarian-prison-sentence-after-killing-two-children-in-crash-29915243.html

[15] http://hetivalasz.hu/vilag/az-apa-ezzel-lezartnak-tekinti-az-ugyet-72916

title: Ciarán Tobin extradition case

question: What was Mr. Tobin charged with?

answer: He was charged with negligent driving causing serious bodily harm.

critique: The answer should mention that he was also charged with causing the death of two children.

critique: The answer should mention that he was also charged with causing the deaths of two children.

critique: He was found guilty of negligence causing grievous bodily harm, not simple cause, by a court in Hungary

critique: The answer should include the fact that Tobin was also charged with causing the deaths of two children.

critique: The answer fails to mention that Tobin was also tried in his absence.

critique: "causing" - change the tense to "causing"

question: How did Mr. Tobin pay for his crimes?

answer: He served his time in prison in Hungary.

critique: Tobin also served time in an Irish prison.

critique: The answer is too vague. It should mention that he served his time in prison in Hungary after he voluntarily returned.

critique: Doesn't mention that he also served time in Ireland.

critique: Doesn't mention that he was extradited to Hungary.

critique: It's omitted that Mr. Tobin was in prison in Ireland before being transferred to Hungary.

critique: The answer does not mention how he served his time.

critique: It's omitted that he also served time in Ireland.

critique: The answer should mention that he was extradited to Ireland to serve the remainder of his sentence there.

question: How would Mr. Tobin's children learn from their father's mistakes?

answer: No answer

critique: The question is asking for an opinion, which is not possible to answer.

critique: There's no evidence to suggest that Tobin has children.