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[The port of Ta-kau, 1893]

The written HISTORY OF KAOHSIUNG can be traced back to the early 17th century, though archeological studies have found signs of human activity in the region from as long as 7000 years ago. Prior to the 17th century, the region was inhabited by the Makatau clan of the Siraya aboriginal tribe, who settled on what they named _Ta-kau Isle_ (translated to 打狗嶼 by Ming Chinese explorers); “Takau” meaning “bamboo forest” in the aboriginal language. Dutch settlers colonizing Taiwan in 1624 referred to the region as _Tankoya_ and named the harbor _Tancoia_. The first Chinese records of the region were written in 1603 by Chen Di, a member of Ming admiral Shen You-rong's expedition to rid the waters around Taiwan and Penghu of pirates. In his report on the “Eastern Barbarian Lands” (Dong Fan Ji), Chen Di referred to a Ta-kau Isle:

Various later historical documents of both the Ming and Qing Dynasties referred to Kaohsiung as either “TA-KAU” (打狗) or “TA-KU” (打鼓). The modern name of 高雄 (pronounced “Takao” in Japanese and “Kaohsiung” in Mandarin) was not adopted until the Japanese colonial period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Early history

[Archeological sites near Kaohsiung.]

The earliest evidence of human activity in the Kaohsiung area dates back to roughly 4700–5200 years ago. Most of the discovered remnants were located in the hills surrounding Kaohsiung Harbor, and include artifacts found at 壽山遺址, Longquan Temple ruins, 桃子園遺址、左營舊城遺址、左營遺址、後勁遺址、覆鼎金遺址、Fengbitou. The prehistoric Dapenkeng, 牛稠子, Dahu, and Niasong civilizations were known to inhabit the region. Studies of the prehistoric ruins at Longquan Temple have shown that that civilization occurred at roughly the same times as the beginnings of the aboriginal Makatau civilization, suggesting a possible origin for the latter. Unlike some other archeological sites in the area, the Longquan Temple ruins are relatively well preserved. Prehistoric artifacts discovered have suggested that the ancient Kaohsiung Harbor was originally a lagoon, with early civilizations functioning primarily as hunter-gatherer societies. Some agricultural tools have also been discovered, suggesting that some agricultural activity was also present.

Signs of more recent Han Chinese settlement have been found near the old city of Tsoying, and is one of the largest finds of recent Han Chinese cultural artifacts to date. Artifacts discovered have included various types of ceramics and pottery believed to be of Chinese origin dating to the early Qing Dynasty, about 400 years ago.

Fengbitou ruins (2000–6000 years ago)

The Fengbitou civilization is representative of Neolithic civilizations found in the Taiwan area and shows significant influences from mainland cultures. The civilization is believed to have persisted for a very long period (2000–6000 years ago), with archeological digs finding artifacts buried in multiple layers. Remains have been found throughout the southern and central portions of Taiwan's western seaboard, with the ruins found at Fengbitou near Linyuan District representative of the civilization in general. Fengbitou was originally submerged, with the modern coastline formed by falling sea levels and the accretion of a river delta. The ruins were discovered during the Japanese colonial period, along with those of other civilizations, and is one of the most important archeological sites in Taiwan.

The site has three major layers:

1.  Dapenkeng culture, marked by the appearance of characteristic pottery containing fine grains of sand, existed from 4700–5200 years ago.
2.  Niuchouzi (牛裯子) culture: 以繩紋紅陶為主，並有部份夾砂紅、灰陶和泥質紅陶，其年代距今約3500年前。由出土文物中可以推測是一個此一文化層為農、漁、獵並重的生活型態。
3.  Fengbitou culture: 以出現貝塚和紅褐素面夾砂陶為主要特色。其年代大致在3500～2000年前。生業型態表現出對農業依賴，聚落型態和前期大致一樣，但從大量增加的陶器，可判定人口密度增加。

Taochiyuan ruins (3000–4500 years ago)

Taochiyuan (桃子園) shell mound is located in the northwestern part of the North Chaishan (北柴山). It is one of the earliest ruins discovered in Kaohsiung. Pottery, stone tools, and evidents of human burials were found in the region. This society belongs to the 牛稠子文化層, and later the 大湖文化層. Its economy was based on agriculture, fishery, and hunting.[1]

Tsoying Old City ruins (400–1300 years ago)

Longquan Temple ruins (400–2000 years ago)

Makatau Clan period (prior to 1624)

Pirate records

Lin Daoqian

One of the most famous folk characters of the pre-Dutch Takau region was the pirate Vintoquián (林道乾, Lin Daoqian) (林道乾), reputed to have been active in robbing ships of their treasure during the reign of the Ming Jiajing Emperor (1522–1566). Folklore holds that while anchored at Takau in 1563, Lin placed his treasure into eighteen and a half bamboo baskets, hiding them in the surrounding hills. During this time, Lin was told by a feng shui master named Wu Ban-hsien (吳半仙) that if he were to bury his deceased father in a “dragon cave” near modern-day Jiali, leave an offering of an arrow upon the altar , and sleep while holding one hundred grains of white rice in his mouth for one hundred days, before firing three arrows towards the imperial capital in the northwest on the dawn of the last day, he would be able to conquer all the lands under heaven. Shortly after hearing this, Lin discovered a “divine rooster” while hunting in the hills, whose call could be heard for over 300 _li_ and would cause all other roosters to call at the same time. Upon capturing the divine rooster, Lin handed it to his sister Jin-lien (金蓮) to care for, while he prepared to fire the arrows towards the imperial capital at the crack of dawn on the one hundredth day.

On the final night, Jin-lien was unable to sleep, sitting awake under a lamp with the divine rooster. At the hour of midnight, Jin-lien touched the rooster to pet it, but inadvertently startled the rooster, causing it to call. Upon hearing the rooster calling, Lin awoke and mistakenly thought that dawn had arrived, immediately firing off three divine arrows with his name towards the imperial capital in the northwest. Thinking he had succeeded, Lin went back to sleep dreaming that he had become emperor. The three arrows flew into the imperial palace, unerringly striking the dragon throne. However, as it was midnight, the throne was empty. The next morning, the emperor found the three arrows with Lin's name on them stuck in his throne. Realizing that Lin had attempted to kill him, the emperor became enraged and ordered his troops to arrest Lin.

With imperial troops closing in, Lin attempted to flee, but was delayed by his sister who refused to leave without their eighteen and a half baskets of treasure. In a fit of panic, Lin killed his own sister before fighting his way out of the sieging forces. In the process, Lin struck the side of the valley between Takou Mountain and Chi-hou Mountain, breaking a hole through which seawater poured in. Lin and his men escaped by sea from this hole, according to legend.

Wokou

During the Ming Dynasty, the seas surrounding Taiwan were lawless waters, infested by pirates. The imperial court launched three separate naval campaigns against Wokou pirates operating in the waters surrounding Taiwan (in 1574, 1603, and 1617). It was during the 1603 campaign that Chen Di penned the first records referring to a Takou Isle in his book “Eastern Barbarian Lands” (東蕃記), which also contained the first descriptions of the early residents of Taiwan.

Recent settlement and development

Dutch colonial period (1624–1661)

Taiwan became a Dutch colony in 1624, after the Dutch East Indies Company was ejected from Penghu by Ming forces. At the time, Takau was already one of the most important fishing ports in southern Taiwan. The Dutch named Takau TANKOYA, and the harbor TANCOIA. In 1726, the Dutch missionary François Valentijn (華倫泰因/潘連單) named Takau Mountain “Apen Berg” (猿山), a name which would find its way onto European navigational charts well into the 18th century.[2] During this time, Taiwan was divided into five administrative districts, with Takau belonging to the southernmost district. In 1630, the first large scale immigration of Han Chinese to Taiwan began due to famine in Fujian, with merchants and traders from China seeking to purchase hunting licenses from the Dutch or hide out in aboriginal villages to escape authorities in China.

Kingdom of Tungning (1661–1683)

Qing Dynasty rule (1683–1895)

Kangxi period

Administrative divisions

Local development

Takau Harbor

Ki-au Region

Ki-au written in Chinese as 旗後 or 旗后 ()

Japanese colonial period (1895–1945)

[Takao Prefecture government office]

Early colonial period (1895–1919)

Takao Prefecture (1920–1945)

In 1920, the eighth Governor-General of Taiwan Den Kenjiro modified the political divisions of Taiwan. He abolished the _chō_ (廳) system and instituted a prefecture system similar to that of mainland Japan. Takao Prefecture consisted of modern-day Kaohsiung City and Pingtung County.

City of Takao (1924)

Takao was upgraded to a city in 1924.

Postwar period (After 1945)

[Kaohsiung City (1945–2010)] After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in October 1945, Kaohsiung City was established as a provincial city consisting of eleven districts. Around the same time, Kaohsiung County was established to be part of Taiwan Province on 6 December 1945. Kaohsiung City was upgraded from provincial city to special municipality on 1 July 1979.

On 25 December 2010, Kaohsiung City was merged with Kaohsiung County to form a larger Kaohsiung special municipality. Prior to the merging, the population of Kaohsiung City was around 1.5 million people.[3]

On 31 July 2014, a series of gas explosions occurred in the Cianjhen and Lingya Districts at midnight after initial gas leaks were reported earlier that day at 8:46 p.m. local time.[4] The explosions left 31 dead and 309 injured.[5][6][7]

Politics

Uprisings during Dutch rule

Uprisings during Qing dynasty rule

Anti-Japanese activity

February 28 incident (1947)

Kaohsiung Incident (1979)

Local factions in Kaohsiung County

Economy

Pottery

Salt

Fisheries

Agriculture

Sugar

Rice

Tobacco

Bananas

Bananas were originally imported from mainland China until the Japanese colonial period. The Japanese government planted bananas mostly in southern Taiwan, the production of the 旗山 area was especially abundant. As a result, it has an honorable name of “Banana Kingdom.”

Commerce

Shinkuchan Business District

Underground Mall

賊仔市

President and New Shinkuchan Business Districts

三鳳中 Street

Industry

Cement

Shipbuilding

Shipbreaking and Steelworks

Petrochemical industry and environmentalism

Export business and foreign laborers

Fertilizer

Cultural and artistic development

In early times, there were few cultural activities in the Kaohsiung region, so residents' opportunities to participate in such activities were likely small as well. As a result, Kaohsiung was called a “cultural desert” in early times. However, the efforts of the Kaohsiung government and artistic organizations turned the region into a center of Chinese culture beginning in the 1980s. An art museum has been established, as well as a science and technology exhibit and other large-scale exhibitions.

Literature

Art

Music

Crafts

Paper umbrellas

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title: History of Kaohsiung

question: Summarize the Dutch colonial period.

text: It should be added that the Dutch Indies Company was thrown out by the Ming forces.

text: It is omitted that they changed the names of places.

text: The answer misses stating why the Chinese were immigrating to Taiwan.

answer: The Dutch East Indies Company was ejected from Penghu by Ming forces in 1624. Taiwan became a Dutch colony. Takau was already one of the most important fishing ports in southern Taiwan. The Dutch named it Tankoya, and the harbor Tancoia. In 1726, the Dutch missionary François Valentijn named Takau Mountain “Apen Berg”. During this time, Taiwan was divided into five administrative districts, with Takau belonging to the southernmost district. In 1630, the first large-scale immigration of Han Chinese to Taiwan began.

text: "In 1630, the first large-scale immigration of Han Chinese to Taiwan began." - this is irrelevant and should be removed.

text: "The Dutch East Indies Company was ejected from Penghu by Ming forces in 1624." - this is irrelevant and should be removed.

text: It's omitted that the Dutch East Indies Company was ejected from Penghu by Ming forces.

text: It is omitted that in 1661, the Dutch were ousted by Chinese forces led by Koxinga.

text: The answer should mention the Dutch colonial period lasted from 1624 to 1661.

text: There is no mention of the kind of relationship the Dutch had with the Chinese who came to settle in Taiwan.

answer: After the Dutch Indies Company was thrown out of Penghu by the Ming forces, Taiwan became a Dutch colony. They changed the name of Takau, the harbor, and the Takau mountain. Takau was one of the southernmost districts of Taiwan. In 1630, Han Chinese started to immigrate to Taiwan after famine and seek hunting licenses from the Dutch or hide in the aboriginal villages to escape the Chinese authorities.

text: "They changed the name of Takau, the harbor, and the Takau mountain." - this is incorrect. The Dutch changed the name of the region to Tankoya and the harbor to Tancoia. They also named the Takau mountain "Apen Berg".

text: "They changed the name of Takau, the harbor, and the Takau mountain." - this is incorrect. They changed the name of Takau to Tankoya and the harbor to Tancoia. They also named the Takau Mountain "Apen Berg".

text: "They changed the name of Takau, the harbor, and the Takau mountain." - this is incorrect. They changed the name of Takau to Tankoya, and the harbor to Tancoia. The name of the mountain was changed by a Dutch missionary.

text: "They changed the name of Takau, the harbor, and the Takau mountain." - this is incorrect. The Dutch changed the name of Takau to Tankoya and the harbor to Tancoia. They also named the Takau mountain "Apen Berg".

text: "the harbor" - add a comma

text: Doesn't mention the Dutch missionaries.

text: "the harbor, and the Takau mountain" - what harbor? Add the name of the harbor.

text: They renamed it Tankoya and Tancoia

text: The response should include the new names that the Dutch gave to the harbor and the mountain.

answer: The Dutch East Indies Company was ejected from Penghu by Ming forces in 1624. Taiwan became a Dutch colony. Takau was already one of the most important fishing ports in southern Taiwan. The Dutch named it Tankoya, and the harbor Tancoia. In 1726, the Dutch missionary François Valentijn named Takau Mountain “Apen Berg”. During this time, Taiwan was divided into five administrative districts, with Takau belonging to the southernmost district. In 1630, the first large-scale immigration of Han Chinese to Taiwan began.

answer: After the Dutch Indies Company was thrown out of Penghu, Taiwan became a Dutch colony. Takau was one of the southernmost districts of Taiwan. In 1630, the Chinese started to immigrate to Taiwan after a famine.

text: "Takau was one of the southernmost districts of Taiwan." - this is incorrect. Takau was already one of the most important fishing ports in southern Taiwan. It was divided into five administrative districts, with Takau belonging to the southernmost district.

text: "Takau was one of the southernmost districts of Taiwan." - this is incorrect. Takau was one of the most important fishing ports in southern Taiwan.

text: "Takau was one of the southernmost districts of Taiwan." - this is incorrect. Takau belonged to the southernmost district.

text: "Takau was one of the southernmost districts of Taiwan." - this is incorrect. Takau was part of the southernmost district of Taiwan.

text: "Takau was one of the southernmost districts of Taiwan." - this is incorrect. It was part of the southernmost district.

text: The response is missing a few details about the Dutch colonial period.

text: 'During the Dutch colonial period, Taiwan was divided into five administrative districts, with Takau belonging to the southernmost district.' is evidence of the district's location. Include this information in the answer.

text: Note that the city was initially an important fishing port

text: "After the Dutch Indies Company was thrown out of Penghu, Taiwan became a Dutch colony." - include the fact that this happened in 1624.

text: It should also be mentioned that the dutch renamed some of the geographical features in Taiwan.

text: "In 1630, the Chinese started to immigrate to Taiwan after a famine. " - This should also include the fact that the Chinese that were immigrating were seeking to purchase hunting licenses from the dutch or hide in aboriginal villages.

answer: After the Dutch Indies Company was thrown out of Penghu by the Ming forces, Taiwan became a Dutch colony. They changed the name of Takau, the harbor, and the Takau mountain. Takau was one of the southernmost districts of Taiwan. In 1630, Han Chinese started to immigrate to Taiwan after famine and seek hunting licenses from the Dutch or hide in the aboriginal villages to escape the Chinese authorities.

text: The response does not include the new name of Takau.

answer: After the Dutch Indies Company was thrown out of Penghu, Taiwan became a Dutch colony. Takau was one of the southernmost districts of Taiwan. In 1630, the Chinese started to immigrate to Taiwan after a famine.

text: The response must mention that Takau was also one of the most important fishing ports in Southern Taiwan.

text: The response failed to mention the five administrative districts and the names the Dutch came up with.


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This story is too long to post in its entirety, I appreciate anybody taking the time to read it. I will post part two if there is enough interest. All feedback is welcome.

*This short story is a dream I had the night of January 1, 2013. In the dream the ending came first, I used my creative imagination to fill gaps in the story. The morning of January 2, I woke with this dream flooding my mind, a powerful urge to turn it into a story came through me and I immediately opened my laptop and began to write. In the dream the protagonist was myself, but for the sake of storytelling I have made some creative changes, mostly to do with names.
The dream was profound, I used my intuition as best I could to convey what the dream was trying to tell me. The logic is sometimes strange and surreal, but that is the nature of dreams. I hope you enjoy my short story.*

**Aisle 13: Crackers and Cookies**

My name is John, I am a Commercial Manager at Superstore. It's not the most stimulating job in the world, but I like it. As a Commercial Manager my responsibility is to visit the various store departments and make sure they are operating at their full potential. The store I manage is filled with girls, almost every one of the 35 Sales Associates are girls. The only other men working are Phil, a Sales Associate and Matt the Security Manager.
The girls in the store actively flirt with me, some people think it's because, of the three men working there I'm the best catch, but it's more than that. People like me; I'm funny, charismatic, good looking and a great boss. Sometimes my father visits me at work, he's proud of what I do. He enjoys offering me advice and sharing stories from his fruitful life.

On a regular day some time ago, I decided to pay a visit to the back of the store. The produce section is located neatly behind aisle 13: crackers and cookies.
Sitting in produce was a pallet full of boxes of crackers waiting to be brought to aisle 13. Nobody felt like moving the boxes, so we left them in the produce section. No big deal, as a manager I was relaxed and open.

While I stood in produce, a customer who I frequently helped, a Tribal African man named Sim asked me to help him select some cheese. Dairy is located next to produce. I helped him find the cheese he was looking for and as I turned to leave he pocketed some cheese products. Sim frequently stole from the store, but I told the employees to turn a blind eye to this. His family was poor, the least I could do was allow him to take some groceries home from time to time.

I went back to produce and looked at the pallet filled with the boxes of crackers. On a box of Westley's Crunchy Crackers was a cartoon cow with a comic bubble above his head, it read, *Excuse me, what's this all about anyway?* This question sank deep into my belly, invading my very soul.

There is a deep silence within that few people ever experience, but that day the silence entered my entire body. There was nothing, nothing but unbearable, tangible, real, satisfying, screaming out loud silence. The question hit me like a ton of bricks, a question so deep and so profound it would take an eternity to answer. A question found right there on a box of crackers in front of me: *Excuse me, what's this all about anyway?*
That fucking cow had shaken the very foundation of my life. What was it all about anyway? What was I doing working at Superstore, what was I doing with my life?

There was a cartoon mouse to the right of the cow, his response was, *It's about the taste kids love and the vitamins they need.* Not the best slogan, I thought and certainly not the answer to this deep and unsettling question. I asked the nearest Sales Associate, Wendy, a girl who'd had a crush on me since I started working at that branch. I offered her my words, "Excuse me, what's this all about anyway?" Perplexed and taking my stunned, exposed and vulnerable disposition as an open letter to flirt with me, she answered with a little grin, a grin I had seen on her face a million times before, "It's about the taste kids love and the vitamins they need." She wasn't the one to ask, a cute face and a tight body isn't a place to find spiritual enlightenment.

All day long I pondered the question. There were hundreds of possible answers, thousands right there in the Superstore. In my weasely job of robbing sales from the weak-minded I had answered the question a million different ways for a million different people. "It's about buying brand-name Jello for your kids at school. It's about great prices on the latest fashions. It's about the newest electronics." All day long I contemplated the question and as I did the question deepened.

It was closing time so I went to the security booth to clock out. I was well acquainted with the Security Manager, he was a good friend of mine. He was 20 years old and good looking, his name was Matt. Matt both hated and loved Superstore. He loved me, and he loved the girls. A few of them would give him their unsolicited attention, but they didn't love him like they loved me. But there was something he hated, something I only began to understand when I read that damn box. It began to itch in the back of my mind like a razor blade. He hated the trap of everyday mundane life. Matt would often share his philosophy with me, "You work so you can buy a house so you can buy more things to put inside your house so you can continue working. If you fall and love and have a couple of kids along the way you're lucky."

I worked my way through the series of regular conversation obstacles: *How's it going? What are you doing tonight? Have you asked Cindy out yet?* He had a crush on Sales Associate named Cindy, the only girl in the store who didn't find me irresistible. I finally popped the question, those seven little words that had haunted me for the past eight hours. I opened my mouth, "Excuse me, what's it all about anyway?" Matt quickly answered, not this. Not this, I thought, but what else? We're doing a public service and in exchange we receive great benefits: a pension, a dental plan, fuck we're even unionized. I had been saving money to buy a house for the past seven years doing this.

I went home and all night long I asked myself the question, "Excuse me, what's this all about anyway?" I fell into a deep sleep full of dreams that spoke to me. The next morning I awoke with a sense of certainty. An idea dove deep inside me and like a bug trying to climb out of the bathroom sink, it had to come out.
I sped through my morning routine, showering, brushing my teeth and only eating a fruit bar I had found on the second shelf in aisle 12 for breakfast.

I walked into Superstore and there he was, the man I was looking for, Matt. I pulled Matt aside.
Matt kept an archive of video footage from the security cameras in the building. He would hold the footage for three months, then delete it to save space on hard drives.
I told him my plan, the idea that had come on the wind last night somehow when I was asleep. I'd made up my mind, Matt and I were going to rob a bank. Matt's eyes lit up like fireworks, he was in. All the planning had come to me in the dream, I knew exactly what to do.

Coming down from the ceiling of Superstore are giant metal beams, some hollowed out. In order for our plan to work I would need to make an opening in one of these beams, but if anybody checked the beam they would see that the screws had been removed. Luckily, the store executives had been discussing renovations. I pushed for the renovations to happen sooner than later. All the metal beams were stripped and polished and the screws were replaced. Matt cut a hole in one of the hollowed out beams, the beam above aisle 13. The hole was invisible to the naked eye, we would be able to open and close it without any evidence that it even existed. Our alibi would be: we were working at Superstore the night of the bank robbery.

The night came and we dressed in black, black pants, black hoodies and black, spray painted masks. Our plan was fool-proof. We decided to walk from downtown so it would be impossible to conclude that we came from the area. It was a long walk. As we trekked through the ghetto I thought Sim, the African I serve at Superstore must live in a neighborhood like this. We took shortcuts through people's yards and eventually arrived at the bank down the street from Superstore. We went in and the rest is a blur, I have no idea how we robbed the bank or what took place inside. All I know is when we left we had a hard drive the size of my thumb that contained what would be, with the help of Matt's computer expertise, a lot of money.

Following our plan Matt and I walked away from the bank, he went right, I went left. I ducked into a nearby alley and stripped off my clothes, I had worn something casual underneath my bank robbing outfit. I buried the black clothes and mask into a nearby garbage bin and climbed over a fence that took me to the Superstore parking lot. A police car came screeching down the street into the parking lot. I opened the door to my car that was parked outside and got in.

The police came to my car window and asked who I was and what I was doing. I told them casually that I was just getting off from my shift at Superstore. They asked me to step inside the building so they could have a word with me. When we got inside Matt was already at the Security booth in his employee uniform. They asked him if he knew who I was and he answered yes. They asked him if I had been working that night, again he answered yes.

Matt had tampered with the security footage from the past few months, he had spliced together footage of me from the security cameras to create a tape making it look like I had worked that night. When Matt showed me the tape the first time, there was footage of Christmas trees in the store. The Christmas trees were no longer there, it would be obvious the tape was fake. Being the manager I knew where every product in the store was so we gathered footage from when everything looked the same as it did the night of the robbery, it was perfect. Footage of Matt wasn't necessary, the security booth wasn't visible on any cameras.

Matt had already placed the thumb drive we stole from the bank in the hole in the hollowed out ceiling beam. The police finished their questioning and let us go home.

They decided that the robbers were two African men because the masks we wore and the description they received from bank employee. Matt and I decided to lie low and not spend the money for a couple of months.

title: Aisle 13

question: What are the various answers to the question "What's this all about anyway?"

text: The last line is not relevant. While it does relate to Matt's philosophy on the meaning of life, it is not provided in response to the specific question the narrator poses.

category: coherence

answer: According to the cartoon mouse, it's about the taste kids love and the vitamins they need. Wendy, attempting to flirt with the narrator, gives the same answer. The narrator comes up with a handful of possible answers: buying brand-name Jello, great prices on the latest fashions, the newest electronics. Matt simply replies "Not this."

answer_source: Human

answer: According to the cartoon mouse, it's about the taste kids love and the vitamins they need. Wendy, attempting to flirt with the narrator, gives the same answer. The narrator comes up with a handful of possible answers: buying brand-name Jello, great prices on the latest fashions, the newest electronics. Matt says the answer is "Not this." He believes you work to buy a house, to buy more things to put in that house, to continue working.

answer_source: Human misleading

text: The answer should mention the narrator's answer.

text: The answer should mention that the question is about the meaning of life.

text: The answer should be clearer about the fact that the narrator's answers are to different questions.

text: The narrator's answers aren't necessarily answers to the question. They are just the things he says to customers.

text: The narrator's answer should be "Matt says the answer is 'not this'."

text: Matt's answer should be more specific.

text: The narrator gives the fictitious answers to customers, not to himself.

category: accuracy

text: This should mention that technically the narrator's answer to the question is to rob a bank.

category: coverage

answer: The narrator answers the question with a variety of answers, including "It's about buying brand-name Jello for your kids at school. It's about great prices on the latest fashions. It's about the newest electronics."

answer_source: Model

text: The narrator doesn't answer the question, he only provides answers he has given to customers.

text: The narrator doesn't answer the question. The question is answered by the Sales Associate, Wendy, and the Security Manager, Matt.

text: The narrator is not the one who answers the question.

text: The narrator does not answer the question himself.

text: It's omitted that the narrator himself is unsure what life is all about.

text: The question is asking for the various answers to the question, not the various times the question is asked.

text: It's repeated from the story that a variety of answers are possible. However, 'the taste kids love and the vitamins they need' is also.

answer: The narrator answers the question with a variety of answers, including "It's about buying brand-name Jello for your kids at school. It's about great prices on the latest fashions. It's about the newest electronics."

text: "What is this all about anyway" can be contextualized as asking for a general overview of the contents. So a summary, providing the premise/setting (a weird heist story), or even providing the intention of writing (a story based on dream), would all suffice as answers. The current response takes the narrative out of context and needs to be completely re-written.

answer: According to the cartoon mouse, it's about the taste kids love and the vitamins they need. Wendy, attempting to flirt with the narrator, gives the same answer. The narrator comes up with a handful of possible answers: buying brand-name Jello, great prices on the latest fashions, the newest electronics. Matt says the answer is "Not this." He believes you work to buy a house, to buy more things to put in that house, to continue working.


text: ______________ Scroll down to view text Archive name: may04.txt (mf, ff, inc, ped, voy) Authors name: Kathleen Story Title : MAY GROWS UP PART 4 of 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------ This work is copyrighted to the author (c) 1997. Please do not remove the author information or make any changes to this story. You may post freely to non-commercial "free" sites, or in the "free" area of commercial sites. Thank you for your consideration. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sarah knew that the conversation she had heard meant that Jack was not fucking his cousin or his sister, but it also meant that the girls were ready and that it would probably happen soon! She suddenly realized that she was desperately needing to piss. She made her way around to the front of the bath house. Suddenly, on an impulse, she went over the the entrance to the men's side. She listened silently. She didn't hear anything. She looked around. There was no one in sight. She looked around the entrance into the inside of the bath house. There was no one inside. She had always wanted to pee in the men's room! She decided to take a chance! As May and Sally made their way through the woods, May suddenly realized that she needed to pee. She told Sally to go on without her and she turned back toward the bath house. Inside the men's room, Sarah was perched on the pot with her shorts and panties down around her ankles. She spread her legs and released her bladder, causing the water in the pot to sing with the stream of piss she cut loose in it. Shen she finished, she wiped her pussy and reached for her clothes bunched at her ankles. Suddenly, she became aware that someone was watching her! Bunny's father was standing just inside the door, looking at her. He didn't say a word, he just walked slowly toward her. Her eyes were drawn to the huge bulge between his legs. She sat still until he stood in front of her. He extended his hand to her and she took it. He pulled her to a standing position and immediately kissed her. There she stood, with her shorts and panties still down around her ankles, being kissed by a man she had never really met before. Sarah could't believe it. This was more like one of her wild fantasies than reality. She felt his hands close on her breasts, cupping them and feeling them through her blouse. She wasn't wearing a bra, and she knew that he could feel her nipples hardening through the material of the blouse. Finally, his lips left hers and he unbuttoned her blouse. He pulled it wide open, exposing her beautiful breasts to his view. She knew that he had seen them before, through the knothole in the wall. She moaned as his hands closed on her boobs, palming and rolling them on her chest. She felt his hand slide down over her belly, straight down between her legs. His finger slipped down into her crack, finding her clit. She moaned as he rubbed her clit, then slid his finger farther down and up into her cunt hole. Her pussy was creaming around the invading finger. May had entered the other side of the bath house. She was about to pull her shorts down to pee when she heard a moan through the wall. Her need was immediately forgotten! She moved quickly to a knothole and looked through. She couldn't believe her eyes. There was her aunt, standing kind of spraddle legged with Bunny's father's finger up her pussy! As May watched, she saw Sarah reach down and unfasten the man's pants, pushing them down. Like father, like daughter, Sarah thought to herself as she found that he didn't have on any underwear. She wrapped her fingers around the huge dick standing straight up in front of his belly. Slowly, she slid her hand up and down along the length of it, naturally timing her strokes with the strokes of his finger in her pussy. He stepped back, reaching down and freeing his feet from his pants. Then he gently turned her around so that she had her back to him. She stepped out of her shorts and panties and leaned over, bracing her hands on the toilet tank. He moved in close behind her, taking hold of her hips. Sarah spread her legs and reached back between them and took hold of the mighty weapon pointing at her. She guided it straight to it's target and gasped in pleasure as he sank the full length up in her pussy with one thrust. May was watching excitedly, as she saw the man starting to screw her aunt. From her position, she could actually see his dick going in and out of her, because the knot hole through which she was looking was low and they were facing directly away from her and really quite close to her. Sarah couldn't believe she was doing this. Here she was, leaning over a commode with a stranger's dick sliding in and out of her pussy! And it felt soooo gooooood! He was really balling her now. His hard thrusts were shaking her all over. From her position, May could see her aunt's tits shaking as the man rammed her. Sarah could feel the climax coming. Then suddenly, she was there! And so was he! She could feel him spurting in her as he grunted in her ear. May watched the man pull out of his aunt then helped her to straighten up. Then he moved up to the toilet and stood right there and started to piss. She heard her aunt giggle and saw her reach down and take hold of his prick and aim it. When he finished peeing, she saw her aunt shake it and then give it a little pat. When the couple in the other room had dressed and left, May quickly relieved her bladder and headed back to camp. When she got there, she found Sarah stretched out on a lounge chair looking like she was totally relaxed. Dan was asleep in the hammock and Jack and Sally were sitting on the couch (folded up durin the daytime) in the vehicle watching tv. When she came in, she found that Sally had told Jack that they had watched him and Bunny. "Say, what took you so long to get back from the bath house?" Sally asked her. May hesitated, then told them about seeing Bunny's dad screw Sarah. Jack and Sally couldn't believe their ears. "Wow, I knew Mom was hot to trot, but I thought it was only for Dad," Jack said. "Well, why shouldn't she want it?" Sally said. "After all, you want to get in every girl's pants that you meet." "Oh, I think it's fantastic," Jack said. "Yeah, so I see," Sally replied, looking at his bulging crotch. "And so soon after Bunny, too." Jack laughed and reached down and rubbed his hardon through his pants. The kids quickly quieted down when they heard someone at the door. Dan came in and flopped down beside them to watch tv so they didn't get to talk about it anymore. A little while later, Sarah came into the vehicle. "Dan, we told that lady on the other side of the park that we would bring Sally down to look at her doll collection this afternoon," she reminded her husband. "Oh, yeah," Dan groaned. Sarah explained to Sally that they had met a lady with some rag dolls for sale. Sally collected them and was eager to go to see them. "Do you want to go, May?" she asked. "Uh, I don't think so, if you don't mind," May replied. "We'll be back in about an hour," Sarah told Jack and May. "When Sally gets to looking at rag dolls, we have a hard time getting her to leave." The three of them left and May was alone in the bus with Jack. They sat there for a few minutes watching TV. Then, suddenly, Jack slid over next to May and put his arm around her shoulder. May looked at him and smiled. Jack leaned over and kissed her right on the lips. May liked the feeling of Jack's lips on hers. They were soft and warm and it did something to her. Jack continued to kiss her, opening his mouth and slipping his tongue between her lips. She extended the tip of her tongue and flicked his tongue with hers. The two kids continued to kiss, openmouthed and hard. As they kissed, both of them began to gasp for breath. Finally, their lips parted and they looked at each other. "Wow," May exclained. "Did you like that?" Jack asked. "Ummmhmmm," May replied, leaning forward for him to kiss her again. Their lips began to work against each other, their tongues twisting and licking at each other. May wrapped both arms around Jack's neck as he kissed her. She felt his hand sliding up her side and then around between them. He had his hand on her tit through her blouse! She purred in his mouth as he began to palm and feel her little tittie. After a few moments of this, May felt his fingers fumbling with the buttons of her blouse. She giggled and brought her hands away from around his neck to help him unbutton her blouse. He pulled it wide open and reached up and pulled both bra straps down! She gasped as his hands closed on both bare tits. He kissed her lips again, then began to kiss his way down her neck and down onto her front. Slowly, he kissed his way down to her budding breasts. When he reached her right breast with his lips, he kissed his way around the small tit and then moved up to the swollen nipple. May gasped loudly when his lips closed on her nipple and he began to suck on it. She cradled his head in her arms as he nursed at her budding breast. Moving back and forth from one breast to the other, Jack was working May up into a real stew. He slid his hand down over her hip to her leg. He slipped his hand between her knees, and began to move his hand back up the inside of her thigh. May felt the warm hand sliding up her leg and she knew he was headed for her pussy. When he reached her crotch, she gasped when he slid his hand over and palmed her pussy through her shorts. He rubbed his hand up and down on her pussy through her shorts for a few moments, then he began to try to get his finger inside the tight leg of her shorts. "Jack, wouldn't it be easier if you just took them off?" she whispered in his ear. Jack didn't waste any time complying with her suggestion. He quickly unzipped them and pulled them down over her legs and off as she raised up to help him. He then slid his hand back up between her legs and felt her pussy through her bikini panties. He could feel the heat through the thin material, and the moisture seeping through them. He hooked a finger under the leg and pulled the crotch to the side. He palmed her bare pussy, then slipped a finger into the top of her crack. She groaned as his finger found her clit. Jack looked down at the beautiful sight. His finger was slowly sliding deeper and deeper into her juicy little slit. The thin blonde curls hid none of her slit from his view. Slowly, he inched his finger deeper into her slit until he was twirling his fingertip in the entrance to her pussy. He was amazed at the juice! Boy was she hot! May suddenly raised up and grasped the top of her panties. Lifting her ass, she quickly peeled them down and off. Jack immediately slid his finger back up into her pussy when she spread her legs for him to get to her. Slowly, he pumped his finger in and out of her. May couldn't believe how good it felt. But she wanted to sample some of the other things she had observed today. "Jack, why don't you kiss my pussy like you kissed Bunny's?" she whispered to him. Jack didn't hesitate. He slid to the floor and knelt in front of her. She pulled her legs up and spread them wide, propping her heels on the edge of the sofa as she leaned back. Jack kissed his way up the inside of her thighs. When he reached her pussy, he flicked his tongue out and licked the end of her hard little clittie. She gasped and jerked every time he licked it. He ran his tongue up and down her slit, tasting her gushing juices. He licked his way down to her brimming hole and thrust his tongue as far up the entrance as he could get it. He opened his mouth wide, covering her whole pussy with his mouth, sucking and licking everything he could get to. He slid his finger up to her hole and slowly pushed it all the way in as he licked her clit. He began to pump his finger in and out of her, licking her little bud of a clit. He fastened his lips around the tiny morsel and began to suck it, licking the end of it as his lips pulled on it. May suddenly grabbed his head in both hands, pulling him hard against her pussy, as she let out a little shreik. She was coming!! Finally, she released his head and he raised up and grinned at her. "Stand up," she told him, raising up to a sitting position. Jack did as he was told, standing up in front of her. Her fingers tugged his zipper down and opened his pants. Quickly she pulled them down below his knees, then she stripped his shorts down. His dick was standing up proud and hard, pointing right up at his belly button. She slid one hand up between his legs, feeling his balls. The other hand clasped his dick and began to slowly slide up and down along the shaft. She pumped it several times, looking at the juice seeping out of the slit in the end. Then she leaned forward and stuck out her tongue. Tentatively, she touched the tip of her tongue to the end of his prick. She liked the taste! It was strong and kind of sour-sweet. She licked the end, swiping her tongue all around the head. Jack groaned with pure pleasure! May pursed her lips and kissed it right on the end. Then, slowly moving forward, she let her lips slowly enclose the end of his dick, sliding down until she had the whole knob in her mouth. She pressed forward, taking some of the shaft in her mouth. Slowly, she took more and more until the end of his prick was against the back of her throat. She could see that she had a little more than half of it in her mouth. That was not quite as much as Bunny had managed to swallow, but it would have to do until she got more used to it. It was about to gag her, as it was. May then slowly let it slide out of her mouth until only the end was in. Then she reversed directions and repeated the movement. She could tell from Jack's groaning that he was really enjoying it. He began to contribute to the movement, sliding his dick in and out of her mouth. She was using her tongue on the underside of it as it slid in and out. She was also exerting as much suction as she could. May was afraid that Jack would lose control and jam it down her throat, so she wrapped her fist around it at just the right place to control the maximum depth that she wanted. Suddenly, Jack groaned and gasped and May felt the dick in her mouth begin to throb. She knew he was about to shoot his load, so she withdrew her mouth until she had only the knob in her mouth and began to suck hard. Bam! Jack cut loose in her mouth. The first wad almost shot down her throat without her swallowing, it spurted out with such power. Swallowing rapidly, May tried to keep up with the gushes of hot juice spurting from the end of his dick. Finally, the spurts slowed to a dribble and then quit. She sucked the last of the juice out of the piss slit and let his dick slide out of her mouth. May looked up at Jack and grinned. He was still gasping for breath, but he smiled at her. "Oh, May, that was wonderful," he told her. She grinned at him, wiping the corner of her mouth with the back of her hand. "It tastes different from anything I've ever tasted before, but I liked it," she told him. Jack sank weakly down on the sofa beside her. He kissed her on the lips, then leaned down and gently kissed each breast. Suddenly, May jumped up. She heard voices coming up the road! "They're coming!" she told Jack. Quickly, they grabbed their clothes and put them on. They were sitting on the sofa watching TV when the door opened and Sally entered, followed by Dan and Sarah.

question: Summarize Sarah's thoughts and feelings as Bunny's father had sex with her.

text: Sarah did not protest Bunny's father's advances.

answer: Sarah was in the toilet peeing when she became aware someone was watching her. She turned and saw Bunny's father who didn't say a word but walked towards Sarah and kissed her. Sarah could feel her nipple hardening. The man fondled her breast with Sarah moaning. Sarah felt she ought to stop him but did not. Bunny's father started to have sex with her while she lay her palms on the toilet wall, enjoying it. After both of them came, she giggled and gave his penis a pat.

answer: Sarah was in the toilet peeing when she became aware someone was watching her. She turned and saw Bunny's father who didn't say a word but walked towards Sarah and kissed her. Sarah could feel her nipple hardening. The man fondled her breast with Sarah moaning. Sarah protested but later gave in as the man tickled her clit. Bunny's father started to have sex with her while she lay her palms on the toilet wall, enjoying it. After both of them came, she giggled and gave his penis a pat.

text: Sarah did not protest. She was excited and enjoying the sex.

text: Sarah did not protest.

text: Sarah did not protest or give in. She was enjoying it.

text: This is not a summary of her thoughts and feelings. It is a summary of the events.

text: The response contains inaccurate information.

text: There is no evidence in the passage to suggest that Sarah protested or that she gave in as the man tickled her clit. This sentence should be omitted.

text: There is no evidence to support that Sarah protested.


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So this is my first story that I have ever written. Its still a work in progress and there's a lot of grammar mistakes because I've been typing it up on my phone. I'm just looking to see what you guys think of the plot line or any other suggestions you guys might have. Thanks and I hope you enjoy.

	Clank ……….. Clank ……………….. Clank. My eyes snapped open at that thunderous sound. It was like a hellish hammer smashing against stone and metal. I couldn’t seen anything but black. Everything was swallowed by the darkness. I reached out as another round of that reached sound began. It was like my head was throbbing with each sound. I tried to cover my ears but there was something covering my face, some kind of mask. I could taste a hint of metal in the air and followed the tube down to a metal cylinder that I had to guess was about the size of my leg. Moving my hands and feet outward I could feel the rough stone that was all around me. I was in a box, a gods damn tiny ass stone box. I have to be in one of the hells, my own personal hell. Trapped in eternal darkness with that damn noise, my whole body cringed as it kept repeating getting faster. I couldn’t take it anymore, covering my ears I yelled with all my might “FUCKING STOP GODS DAMN IT”. It did, it was the most beautiful silence that I’ve ever heard, but just as I felt the slightest bit of relief there was this horrifying scratching. It was like metal being dragged against stone but it was so loud. My head felt like it was going to explode. I covered my ears trying to make it stop but it was still there shacking my stone prison. After what felt like a lifetime the sound stopped. Relief, the sound of nothing was never sweeter, hell I would even take that clanking noise over the scraping. Then the stone above me started moving and a bring light blinded me. I slammed my eyes shut wait for whatever came next. I felt a gentle hand slowly touch mine. Please be an angel her to take me to haven. Then a sweet soft voice, a voice that I knew said “Hey Danny can you hear me?” I opened my eyes just as the light moved away from my face.
“Valerie” I said as I quickly sat up, which was a huge mistaken because my head started spinning. Valerie quickly pulled me into a tight hug, after a few seconds my head righted its self and I hugged her back.
“You two can get a room later if you want but right now we need to get going.” a voice said from above us. Even in the dark I could see her face turn to a dark scarlet color as she pulled away from the hug. Turning to look above me I saw the source of the voice. “How are you feeling buddy?” Nash said. He was wearing his normal smirk but I could tell something was wrong by the look in his eyes. It didn't show his normal cocky attitude, they were cold and suspicious. That and he wasn't wearing his uniform. He had street clothes on with a long black trench coat, no doubt to conceal his sidearm.
“Confused and I have one hell of a headache” I said as he reached down, pulling me out of the pit.
 “Well we have a lot to catch you up on so let’s get out of here.” He said as he started heading towards a parked truck. Valerie grabbed my arm and start pulling me after him as I took the first good look around at my surrounding. Lightning slashed above us lighting up the sea of stones around us.
“Ummm Nash, why was I buried in a grave? Nash?” I shouted.
Thunder crashed over head as Valerie looked up and said with a worried look on her face “Don't worry we will explain everything on the way.”
I followed them to the truck and slid in the back seat with Valerie, Nash walked around to the passenger seat. Even as he sat down he didn’t seem to relax. He kept his hand on his side arm.
“Hey it's good to see you up and around. How are you feeling?” June said from the driver seat.
“Thanks, just a headache. But someone really needs to tell me what's going on. The last thing I remember is heading to to a sparing session and now I'm waking up in a grave. So what the hell is happening? I said, looking at each of then waiting for an answer.
“The palace was attacked and you were knocked unconscious in the first explosion. It injured or killed a lot of our brothers. The royal guard is down to about 100 fight ready soldiers. Most of us are wanted in connection to the attack.  Valerie was able to get you to the medical ward and fake your death to smuggle you out.” Nash said staring out his passenger window towards the once brilliantly lit imperial tower. It had been a beacon of hope for much of the world for the past 500 years. It had always been lit up. But now all you could see is it's silhouette when the lightning flashed.  I could tell that Valerie was crying even though she was facing away from me. She knew most of them just as well as us from being one of our doctors. She lost a lot of friends, we all had.  But we've lost friends before, she hasn't. I wish I was still in that coffin listening to the scraping and hammering. I would trade an eternity in hell to bring back anyone of my dead brothers and sisters. Life doesn't work that way though, not anymore at least.
“I'm so sorry about burying you in a coffin but it was the only way I could think of getting you out of there. I just don't know what else to do and I didn’t think they would bury you that fast.” Valerie barely whispered. I could still see more tear welling up in her brown eyes as she said it.
“It's ok you didn't have any other choice” I said while trying to give her the most sincere smile I could. “You did what you though was best, and thank you for getting me out alive.” It didn't bother me that she did that. I just don't understand how such a thing like this could happen. “Who did this? I asked.  None of them said anything,
Nash was the first to say something. “It's not good.” While never moving his eyes from the window.
“We think it was Sky admiral Havren. His flag ship arrived above the city ten minutes before the attack and he arrive in the tower right as the fighting stopped. We think it's a power play I take over the empire. June said. “He has publicly claimed to have arrived just in time to stop the fighting between loyal royal guardsmen and a group of guardsmen who were attempting to assassinate the emperor and has since assumed power.”
“What about the emperor? Or even Alexandria? She's the heiress shouldn't she take the throne before him? I asked.
June spoke up after Nash didn't respond. “The emperor is currently at our safe house but he was near the explosion and is still in a coma. As far as Alexandria, she's still alive and well. She still has her personal guards with her in the palace, and we believe that try are still loyal to the imperial family but we haven't been able to contact any of them. As of right now we are going on the assumption that she is more or less a hostage with her guard and the admiral has some plan for her.  But we haven't been able to contact them. Havren has declared the rest of us traitors and fugitives. Without her support we have to remain hidden and scattered. It will only be a matter of time before we are all hunted down.”
“So where are we going then?”
“June’s aunt has a old mansion on just a few minutes away and we have set up a base camp in the old cellar and tunnels underneath.” Valerie said.
I could remember a couple of years back when June first applied to join the guard as a marksmen. Everyone just wrote the five foot five rich girl off, but not our captain. He insisted on giving her a fair shot, and  she get one.  I don't know what it was that he saw in her at the time but when she took her first shots on that range she was like an artist; even with a rifle that was almost bigger then her. She has been our squad ever since.
We pulled up the long gravel drive towards the mansion. Ha mansion this place was like a castle.
“We’ll park around back under some trees.” June said. “That will hide the truck and we can use the garden entrance.”
“Hey June why are all the lights off? Doesn’t your aunt live here?
“Nope no one has lived here in about five years so we can use it as long as we need to.” June said.
“Damn your family is that rich and I've still been buying you coffee all this time.” Nash said.
“Well actually my dad cut me off for the most part when I join the guard. He said It wasn't an appropriate career for a noble lady or some bullshit like that.” June said.
“Oh umm sorry I didn’t know.” Nash stammered out. June just kind of shrugged it off while Valerie and shared a glance as we felt the awkwardness descend on us like a heave fog. June seemed to be the only one who didn't feel it.
“Ok well welcome to our summer home” June said as she threw the truck in park and we all climbed out. The rain had stopped and a full moon was shining through a hole in the clouds as thunder rolled in the distance.  I fully expected Nash to make some smart ass remark about the whole summer house thing but he must have still felt bad about bring up Junes past. We walked though the garden full of dead flowers an bushes. Everything around us was just dead. There weren’t even any weeds growing. This place gave me the chills. I've been through firefights, been shot and stabbed, I've stared death in the eyes but I've never felt such an erie feeling before. I felt Valerie's arm brush against mine as she moved a little bit closer and it almost made me jump. We finally walked into a small shed where June pulled up a trap door and we all descended into the darkness.

Sorry for the crappy formatting, this is my first post ever.

title: [SF]My first story

question: What does the text say about Alexandria?

text: The response should mention who Alexandria is and why she is an important character in the story.

answer: Alexandria is the emperor's daughter and the heiress to the throne. She is still alive and well, and her personal guards are still loyal to the imperial family. She is currently a hostage with her guard and the admiral has some plan for her.

text: The answer should mention that they haven't been able to contact her.

text: The answer should mention that the group hasn't been able to contact her.

text: The response should include that they have not been able to contact Alexandria.

text: It's omitted that she's in the palace and the group hasn't been able to contact her.

text: It is not stated that she is the emperor's daughter.

text: The answer should mention that they can't contact Alexandria.

text: It is not confirmed that Alexandria is the emperor's daughter.

answer: Alexandria is the rightful heir to the throne but the admiral took over instead. She is believed to be under the custody of her royal guardsmen. They are unsure of her safety.

text: It's omitted that they need Alexandria's support or else they have to remain hidden and scattered.

text: It's omitted they believe the admiral has some plan for her.

answer: No answer

text: The text mentions that Alexandria is alive and well. She is the possible heiress of the emperor who is in a coma. She has her personal guards with her in the palace, but might be that she is more or less a hostage with her guard. It seems that the admiral has some plan for her.

answer: Alexandria is the rightful heir to the throne but the admiral took over instead. She is believed to be under the custody of her royal guardsmen. They are unsure of her safety.

text: The answer should mention that the group believes she's being held hostage.

text: The answer should mention that the narrator is unsure about the loyalty of the guards.

text: The answer should mention that the group believes that her guards are still loyal to her.

text: The answer omits that the group believes that the guards are still loyal to the imperial family.

text: The answer should mention that the narrator is also unsure about Alexandria's safety.

text: The answer should mention that she's still alive.

text: Alexandria is still alive, according to the passage.

answer: No answer

text: The response is incorrect.

text: The response misses to mention that Alexandria is the emperor's daughter and the rightful heir to the throne. She is still alive and well, and still has her personal guards with her in the palace. She is believed to be a hostage with her guard and the admiral has some plan for her.

text: The response misses to mention that Alexandria is the emperor's daughter and the rightful heir to the throne. She is still alive and well in the palace, but the narrator and his companions believe that she's being held hostage by the admiral. Her personal guards are still loyal to her, but they haven't been able to contact them.

text: This is incorrect. The story should talk about Alexandria.


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    Give us your energy Unah

Special thanks to the big cunt who inspired me to write this. There are things i dont like about this story but this will have to do. Anyone want more? i have more chapters planned.

The Unah’s light shined through the motherships screening panels as dawn began. The pristine, dazzling walls inside the mothership were enflamed in the violet and ultra-violet light of the Unah. Heirarch Athuro-en manifested in the dimensional gateway. With pale pinkish skin and eyes gleaming in excitement he walked towards the panels, absorbing the nutritious rays of electromagnetism. Athuro-en’s skin began to turn black from the absorption of the radiation. Cables flowing from his body, they would be dragging on the floor if they weren’t for them seeping out of existence. He fluffed his royal robes only known to a Heirarch and smiled with glee. How could he miss the climax of his most recent experiment? He and his crew have been documenting the Unah star system for a long time. The Heirarch gazing out across a burning star was soon joined by the rest of his crew. He called the members of the crew the “exemplars.” The Heirarch and the exemplars were the only known survivors of their ancient alien race known as the ARA’ghi. The name stood for Annihilation Resurgent Apparitions, and “ghi” meant “kind” in their language. The ARA’ghi were patiently awaiting the end of their journey which they had set out on 190 Kariox ago, which is approximately 1,866,243 earth years ago.

Pursuit of knowledge was part of the ARA’ghi’s life; it was their creed, their whole persona. <This lifestyle was the reason the ARA’ghi were able to achieve the level of intelligence that they possessed>. It was an exciting time for the Heirarch and the others aboard the mothership, called the Pillar of Exemplars. Their calculations predicted that the Unah would explode today and form a neutron star. This would be not be the first time the ARA’ghi would experience the creation of such an object in the universe. They had experienced something similar during their exile after the Great Ascent. Unah was the name the ARA’ghi gave to this particular star. It was an O spectral type, meaning it was a hypergiant and lived for a very short period of time, a 6,866,243 million years to be exact. It was now the end of a 1,866,243 year old expedition to explore how life evolves on planets revolving these energy intense stars.

To other less advanced species than that of the ARA’ghi dedicating 1.8 million years on the investigation of life around high radiation stars would seem like a waste of time. But not to the ARA’ghi; since the Great Ascent; they developed technology which allowed them to live for billions and under a great Heirarch: possibly trillions of years. A mere 1.8 million years was nothing to them. Their homeworld perished long ago, now the ARA’ghi were a species without a home. They only had their creed which they adopted from necessity and with it develop many new technologies. The documentation of life on the gas giant of the Unah star system was finalized, 1.8 million years of life exploration in the Unah solar system was coming to an end. All that was left is for the asseveration of their calculations. It was determined that the high radiation produced from type O stars was the worst possible place for the creation of the building blocks of life. As radiation above the violet part of the spectrum would ionize the bonds and rip any precursors to life apart. But they discovered it was an amazing place for a civilization of high intelligence and tech.

Technologies like the Dimension Manifestors, DM for short, which allowed the ARA’ghi to create new dimensions with slower time passage than the one in the base universe. They achieved this by the bending of spacetime with immense amounts of energy. In one of these dimensions a species could live its regular time span while outside the dimension a thousand years would pass, it is one of the ways the ARA’ghi live for as long as they do. Technology like the Electromagnetic Absorption Nanobots For Sustenance, or EMANFS also allowed them to reach heights they would otherwise have never been capable of. These nanobots are machines which act as pigments and protectors in each and every cell in the ARA’ghis body. They allow the absorption of UV, X-ray, gamma and Z-rays and convert them into energy, analogous to chloroform, it was the reason for the ARA’ghi skin turning black “Its time!” exclaimed Athuro-en. The exemplars were about to see the end of the Unah’s life and witness the end of their 1.8 million year expedition.

“Do we have all the Stellar Capture Drives ready?” asked Athuro-en. “We only await your command Heirarch.” yelled exemplar Liara. The hydrogen fuel all ran out and now the star imploded into itself! The Unah was now a collection of ions, largely helium and carbon nuclei floating in a vast sea of electrons. The electrons stopped the implosion; the Pauli Exclusion Principle was at work here. The ARA’ghi had a name for Pauli Exclusion Principle, “Frakuri.” The term was used for all fermions, the fractioned particles. The degenerate pressure of the electrons was high and it stopped the implosion but only for a bit, the mass of the star was too much, the gravity broke through the pressure. Now the electrons unable to occupy the same quantum state as per Pauli Exclusion Principle it was more energetically favourable for electrons to combine with the protons and become neutrons! “We’re detecting a high burst of neutrinos released!” yelled exemplar Oaurm. “This means the electron capture has been initiated” yelped Liara. The detectors were flashing with warnings of high energy photons and neutrinos; which the ARA’ghi had the technology to detect. “Double the EMANFS layer on the Pillar! Get ready to absorb the nova!” yelled Athuro-en. The mothership began to turn black, darker than most darks. The EMANFS began absorbing the electromagnetic energy that the star was emitting, generating a shield for all the energy for the imminent explosion. “Engage the Manifestors!” yelled Athuro-en as he stood proud ready for the explosion.

In the deep silence of space the star burst with a light brighter than the entire galaxy pouring out with contents among the stars. It was like an orchestra of God playing the most beautiful music of the stars, and the ARA’ghi front row seats to the astonishing concerto. They were witnessing the power and majesty of a stars death. Bursts of all forms of electromagnetism was being projectilled out into the vast abyss of space. Gamma-rays, X-rays, UV-rays, radio waves gushing out. Streams of Gold, Silver, Palladium Gadolium, Uranium, Einsteinium all flying outwards near the speed of light. A result of the lighter elements combining together to form the elements heavier than Iron. It made the Heirarch happy that all these heavier elements were being flung out into space. It would mean that they would be collected and packed into planets and possibly discovered by sentient beings on these new worlds; and perhaps start them off on the discovery of atomic physics.

The nova explosion was virtually instantaneous, really fast too fast for humans to notice for sure. But not the ARA’ghi. They were able to slow down their time perception by flying in all directions near the speed of light around the exploding Unah. For them the seconds long event was a tremendous and mesmerizing hour long masterpiece of the universe. The star shrunk in size to appear smaller than a white dwarf star, now only neutronium was present with little hints of proton and electron gases. Around them, the interstellar gas and radiation were flying outwards to forge new world.

“Quickly! Seal the star, now!” yelled the Heirarch. The three Core Capture Drives that were deployed before the nova explosion were essentially massive versions of the Dimension Manifestors that the Heirarch awoke from. The CCD’s surrounded the neutron star and began to bend the spacetime around it plunging the neutron star into a universe created to house it. “It’s in!” yelled exemplar Liara.. “Good work my fellow exemplars, you hold true to the title you hold!” exclaimed Athuro-en. “We couldn’t have done it without this powerful vessel my lord!” yelled exemplar Oaurm. “Please, how many times must I ask you. We are all as important to this vessel and our survival. We all stand as one. It is the reason we are here today. We all share a common creed! We just want to know more about the universe, and for all of us to achieve a personal betterment of ourselves. We are the exemplars of discovery, astonishment and self-fulfilment!” With the energies of the of the neutron star now contained in a easily accessible dimension the ARA’ghi were able to move onto their new quest for knowledge. The Heirarch slowly vanishing in his Dimensional Manifestor uttered “Begin protocol 250x77s” before completely evanescing from reality. The exemplars gave one last celebration before descending to their Manifestors. The Pillar engaged Warp Drive and they were off on their next adventure.

Thank you to /u/Mjolnir2000 for editing some of the first drafts

title: [SF] Short story i wrote cuz gf dumped me

question: What does the text say about the ARA'ghi race?

text: The answer incorrectly mentions that the ARA'ghi were able to teleport throughout the universe, however their unique capability was slowing down time.

answer: The ARA'ghi were an ancient alien race where the Heirarch and exemplars were the only known survivors. Their name stood for the Annihilation Resurgent Apparitions kind. The ARA'ghi life revolved around the pursuit of knowledge which allowed them to achieve the level of intelligence they possessed. The ARA'ghi were a species without a home as their homeworld had perished long before. However, they had a unique capability of slowing down time and were able to experience seconds long events in hour-long mesmerizing masterpieces of the universe.

text: "However, they had a unique capability of slowing down time and were able to experience seconds long events in hour-long mesmerizing masterpieces of the universe." - this is irrelevant and should be deleted.

text: The response is missing the part about the ARA'ghi's technology.

text: The answer should mention the ARA'ghi's technology.

text: "However, they had a unique capability of slowing down time and were able to experience seconds long events in hour-long mesmerizing masterpieces of the universe." - this is irrelevant and should be removed.

text: "However, they had a unique capability of slowing down time and were able to experience seconds long events in hour-long mesmerizing masterpieces of the universe." - this is inaccurate. The ARA'ghi were able to slow down their time perception by flying in all directions near the speed of light around the exploding Unah. They were able to see the light of the exploding star for a few seconds.

text: Add that the ARA'ghi were also able to live for billions of years (possibly trillions).

answer: The ARA'ghi were an ancient alien race where the Heirarch and exemplars were the only known survivors. Their name stood for the Annihilation Resurgent Apparitions kind. The ARA'ghi life revolved around the pursuit of knowledge which allowed them to achieve the level of intelligence they possessed. The ARA'ghi were a species without a home as their homeworld had perished long before. However, they had a unique capability of teleporting to different corners of the universe.

answer: The ARA'ghi are an ancient alien race that is the only known survivors of their kind. They are a species without a home, as their homeworld perished long ago. They are a species of high intelligence and technology, and they are dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. The ARA'ghi developed technology that allows them to live for billions of years.

text: The answer omits the ARA'ghi's creed.

text: The answer should mention the Great Ascent.

text: The response should include the name of the ARA'ghi's leader.

text: The ARA'ghi also have a creed.

text: The answer omits the ARA'ghi's involvement with the Unah star.

text: It is omitted that they are led by a Heirarch.

text: Add a comma to "race", and merge "ancient alien" to "an ancient alien race".

text: The answer should mention how their name stood for Annihilation Resurgent Apparitions.

text: The Hierarch and their exemplars are the last of the race, not the race itself.

text: It's omitted that they've been on a journey for nearly 1.8 million years to explore how life evolves on planets revolving on energy intense stars.

answer: The ARA'ghi were an ancient alien race where the Heirarch and exemplars were the only known survivors. Their name stood for the Annihilation Resurgent Apparitions kind. The ARA'ghi life revolved around the pursuit of knowledge which allowed them to achieve the level of intelligence they possessed. The ARA'ghi were a species without a home as their homeworld had perished long before. However, they had a unique capability of teleporting to different corners of the universe.

text: The response contains inaccurate information.

text: The ARA'ghi didn't have the capability of teleporting to different corners of the universe.

text: The ARA'ghi did not have the capability of teleporting to different corners of the universe.

text: The response should mention the ARA'ghi's technology.

text: "However, they had a unique capability of teleporting to different corners of the universe." - this is inaccurate. The ARA'ghi didn't teleport, they were able to create new dimensions with slower time passage than the one in the base universe, which allowed them to live for billions and possibly trillions of years.

text: The ARA'ghi didn't teleport; they traveled through different dimensions.

text: The response fails to mention the ARA'ghi's technologies.

text: The ARA'ghi did not have the ability to teleport to different universes.

answer: The ARA'ghi are an ancient alien race that is the only known survivors of their kind. They are a species without a home, as their homeworld perished long ago. They are a species of high intelligence and technology, and they are dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. The ARA'ghi developed technology that allows them to live for billions of years.


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 [] I ain’t never seen a bush so full that needed trimming like this one. That’s an epic bush. A biblical bush. Like out of the 70’s/early 80’s. Wowser!

How’s this one?

[] This one is sparse but still full. Def in need of some grooming too.

 And then this one:

[] it’s all spiky and weird. Modern, with an amateur feel to it.

Joking aside, today you’ll be seeing three different holly trees, for your amusement and peruse-ment. Let’s begin with the first one, an ilex crenata “soft touch”.

[] The foliage is very much like my favorite holly, the dwarf yaupon (which is tree number two above) but it’s leaf is more of a chromium oxide green than the Hooker’s green of the yaupon. And the leaf has more of that curved quality most most hollies have.

It’s a slow grower too. It took me years to find a trunk like this in a nursery.

[]And I actually found three with decent shohin sized trunks with good taper.

It is considered a Japanese holly but not the usual deciduos one we see all the time with those awesome red berries (which is ilex serrata).

[] This cultivar, “soft touch”, grows like an i. Vomitoria “schillings” though. Look at those branches! Day-um. And this was at a wholesale liner nursery! Hard to believe.

I’m not really sure how well this variety will respond to bonsai techniques but, using reasoning and logic (I know, I know, where has that gotten me in the past? Remember when I said it was foolish to use copper on ficus because you’d be removing it in a month? Yeah, that bit of logic got me in big time trouble…..) it is safe to say that this tree will respond to pruning, else it wouldn’t be sold as a hedge plant. Sooooooo……just a little pruning…..but first, I’m hoping the roots can handle some cutting too. And if I kill it, I have those  two more left .

Let’s see the root ball…

[] Not bad. Lots of good feeder roots. This is a good start.

The “nebari”, such as it is, needs some cleaning up.

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That’s better.  [] Not really but it’s as good as it’s going to get. I’ll pot it up here I think.
[] That should help it.

Turning to the top, I think I’ll reduce it a bit to make it easier to move around.

[] I’m thinking a little off the top.

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Good. Getting there.

[] Now, many people would stop there. Not me. You know me. If you are plant butchery averse, divert your eyes and scroll down quickly.

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And more.

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Uh oh…. []
More?

Indeed.

[] I know it seems brutal but it’s necessary. And I’ve discovered some more trunk it seems.

And it does have to fit in a bonsai pot after all. This is a bonsai blog.

[]  A little wire, some soil and….[] Ready for my close up Mr. DeVille!
I’m hoping this survives the treatment. Really. I’m pretty sure it can handle the top pruning; that whole hedge thing. It’s the root pruning in worried about. I’ve handled several types of hollies but not a crenata yet. We shall see.

To sooth those traumatised by that last tree, let’s work with the ilex cornuta next, a Chinese holly.

[] This is an interesting (to me and a few I’m sure) specimen for this type of tree. It, too, is a very common hedge plant (usually planted where you wish to keep people out of, like under windows and such), so the trunks tend to be, well…trunk like. This looks to me like it could possibly be a root cutting even. Don’t ask about the pot, I was traded this plus a few other trees for some more finished bonsai. I think the pot came from a thrift store. With the right tree it could be a masterpiece work of ceramic.

I do have experience with this variety of ilex. I won’t defoliate fully and I’ll keep green tips. It likes to shed branches and I don’t have many to lose.

[] They call it’s Chinese holly, and the binomial name (ilex cornuta) means horned holly.

[] These leaves above, with their vicious spiky thorns on the margins, are the origin of that name. Merciless. If you compare the last two pics you’ll notice that the tree can display two types of leaves. If you let it grow the less mean-looking leaves will present. If you’re trimming often you get the evil ones. It might be a defensive response, but I’m not sure. They will reduce in size by about a half if you keep up the trimming and increase ramification enough.

This is why I think it’s a root structure in working with.

[] The normal habit is a thick, mostly straight trunk.

[] I like this, it’s very twisty and skeletal.

As much as I like the pot it’s in, I’ll need to change it.

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I don’t have the pot I want so I’ll use a terra cotta pot for training purposes.

[] You’ll notice the extra drain hole on the side, this is called an azalea pot, which need good drainage. The holly will benefit from this as well, they are water-wise plants.

It has good roots, very fibrous, and it’s in good bonsai soil too.

[]It needs an angle change.
[] Oh yeah. Let’s get it moved.

Roots.

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Pot []

Pruning and wire [] Pretty neat.

Next: the big boy. [] This one is full of fire ants. I hate fire ants.  []  All those red/orange specks are ants. [] They had a veritable colony in the roots of this tree. Some liberal spraying of napalm and a lit match later…….actually, just insecticidal soap is all I used to kill them.  They may seem like super-ants, being able to build living bridges and floating ant islands and all, but, individually, they are just as fragile as you and I. If an ant colony goes to war, it’s only strategy is attrition. When they run out of the poor workers, the queen loses. There’s a lesson there. Anyway, die fire ants, die!

This tree looks like it’s been worked on before.  []

As verified by the wire still on it.  []

The base is over eight inches wide.  []

It, too, was part of that trade.  []

I think I might have come out on top. It just needs a little trim….. []

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Some root work.  []

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I’m thinking a deep-ish training pot.  []

Maybe a little more rootwork.  []

And that’s it.  [] Well, fertilizer, water and sun and all that.

So now you are wondering “Uhhhh…..What the hell?” Right?

Well. The second holly will be the quickest to look like a bonsai. It’s easy to see where it’s going.

[] Semi cascade. Crescent pot. Easy to see.

The ilex “soft touch” has a rudimentary structure.  [] Here’s a somewhat accurate idea of what I think it will turn out like-with proper branches and all that.  []

And lastly, but not least-ly, the chunky beast.
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This next virtual future is totally fictional. The extrapolation is really only based on where I left the stubs.
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The pot will be smaller, of course.

[] But it’s a few years from that.
The new branches will explode from many varied places all over this ilex. It’ll look like a bush again in no time.

And just to show that I know what I am talking about with ilex, here’s a pretty one I just cut back for the spring.

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It’s a shohin, only about 7″ tall. The pot is a Taiko Earth by Rob Addonizio.

I’ll provide updates for y’all as the trees grow. Or die. See you later.

question: What does the text say about fire ants?

text: Specify that the author uses insecticidal soap to kill these ants.

answer: The author pulls out a large plant that is full of fire ants, which appear as red/orange specks on the plant. They point out that they hate fire ants. The ants are able to do things like build living bridges and make floating ant islands, but they're still fragile. When soap is used it causes the worker ants to die, the queen loses and the colony is dead.

text: The response is missing the part about the ants' strategy.

text: The response could include more details about the fire ants.

text: The response is missing the part where the author says that the ants' only strategy is attrition.

text: Doesn't mention the lesson about fire ants.

text: The response contains inaccurate information.

text: The last sentence is false. It is not stated that when the worker ants die, the queen loses and the colony is dead.

text: "When soap is used" doesn't make sense

text: "When soap is used" doesn't make sense. It should mention that the soap is insecticidal

answer: The author of the blog post is working on a bonsai tree that is full of fire ants. He hates fire ants and uses insecticidal soap to kill them. He says that fire ants are fragile and their only strategy is attrition.

text: The response should include that the author says that when fire ants go to war, their only strategy is attrition. When they run out of the poor workers, the queen loses.

text: The response could include more information about the ants.

text: The answer should mention that the ants are killed by insecticidal soap.

text: It is omitted that the author says that if an ant colony goes to war, it’s only strategy is attrition. When they run out of the poor workers, the queen loses.

text: The answer should mention the lesson the author learns from the ants.

text: The author is a male.

text: The ants are in the roots on not on the tree.

answer: The author of the blog post is working on a bonsai tree that is full of fire ants. He hates fire ants and uses insecticidal soap to kill them. He says that fire ants are fragile and their only strategy is attrition.

text: It is omitted that the author says that fire ants had a veritable colony in the roots of the tree.

answer: The author pulls out a large plant that is full of fire ants, which appear as red/orange specks on the plant. They point out that they hate fire ants. They use insecticidal soap to kill them. The ants are able to do things like build living bridges and make floating ant islands, but they're still fragile. When the soap causes the worker ants to die, the queen loses and the colony is dead.