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This is a strange land. The days that are not scorched under the burning sun are usually sultry under the oppressive humidity of rain bearing clouds. When it rains, it does not rain in drops – like it should, but in sheets of impenetrable water. In the creeks and waterways lurk predators unchanged for eons. The dry land holds no reprieve as it is replete with venomous critters, unseen and unheard harbingers of death. It’s not surprising then, that it is but a wasteland for the peoples populating the more hospitable lands to the south. Neither is it surprising that this land is devoid of humanity.  It’s not that this land is without a strange, almost ancient, kind of beauty. However, it’s not, obviously, something that beckoned visitors or would-be residents with open arms.

This is why it was so weird that they had left their cozy homes and comfortable jobs in the anonymous suburbia to move here. Mat & Sid’s parents had always romanticized this land. Their youth and naivety had misled them into a notion of freedom in the life off the land under this harsh sun. It would have been ironic, had it not been such a tragedy, that they had far too soon lost their lives to this unforgiving land. The twins were at the tender age of five or thereabouts.

It was a matter of tremendous luck then, that in such a tenuously populated area the twins had found a caretaker. Bigg was a recluse, probably a felon and most definitely a maniac with delusions of grandeur. In his mind, he was the king of this realm. No animal could harm him. The shining bright sun that made tinder out of living trees was powerless to make him sweat and the venomous critters were but vermin to be squashed underneath his bare feet. But that is what made him special and especially suitable to live off this land. He was fearless in the face of danger which lurked paralyzingly close. This, in turn, made him able to fetch food, water and shelter at will.

It didn’t come as surprise to Mat that they had a very unusual childhood. They didn’t learn about the world or math or culture, no, they learnt about the greatness of Bigg. They learnt how he could bend the land to his will. When not learning how else to exalt Bigg, they learnt to kill animals that could kill them and eat the rest. They also learnt to stalk and hunt, to grovel and beg before Bigg for more ideas and when all else failed, to steal – from each other, from other, more formidable, critters. Mat never liked this life and yearned to escape. It’s not that he was ever prevented from escaping, it’s just that he knew, even as a child, separation from Bigg meant death in this unyielding landscape and that tormented him. Sid, on the other hand, while never deriving sadistic pleasure out of any of this, was, for the lack of a better word, content. This annoyed Mat, it did as child and it did now.

Despite all his vagaries, Bigg was a father figure for the twins. He valued the stories of their exploits in the land more than the spoils. He had, for instance, no interest in the meat that took a great deal of effort on the part of twins to hunt, but he had great interest in their story of the hunt, and the fact that they did it. While he enjoyed some of the fruits of his own toils, he never grew attached to them, neither did he place a great deal of value in things the twins had obtained at great effort. He was too attached to himself, perhaps. This was another thing that Mat never understood; to him, something that took effort to procure was valuable, it’d even more valuable if others valued it too, of course, but they didn’t. Mat would often remind himself that Bigg was a maniac, that would explain everything. But what annoyed Mat was the fact that Sid would nonchalantly let their spoils go to waste were Mat not to take notice.

When the twins were not much more than fifteen, they were “discovered” by some hardy travelers passing through. Child protection services had put them up in a care center and eventually a foster home. The date they were brought to the foster home was celebrated as their birthday ever since. Mat loved his brother, and he was sure Sid loved him back, in as much as  he could be said to love anything. But they had increasingly grown distant despite their physical proximity. Mat remembered their first “birthday” in the foster home vividly. They had a hastily baked strawberry shortcake presented to them by their foster family. Sid’s advice was “Mat, enjoy the cake, really taste every bit of it and enjoy it when it’s available. But don’t get addicted to it, don’t remember it and yearn for it. Expectation only brings misery.” This and other such strange things is what made Mat grow tired of his brother.

Initially, they were ill adjusted to the life in the City. They were, after all, feral children – they didn’t belong in civilization. Their history notwithstanding, Mat did remarkably well at school. Sid seem disinterested in what civilization had to teach them. Mat even went to a prestigious college. In college fell in love with a girl and they got married by the time he was in his early twenties. Post education, he took up a job, not much different, perhaps, from his parents’ anonymous vocation. Mat and his wife lived in a suburb, had a pet dog for company and generally led a life that society had taught them would bring happiness, or at least this is how they were to pursue that elusive emotion. In all the years since Mat went off to college, however, he had hardly met Sid. Sid had come to Mat’s wedding, but that was about all they had seen of each other during all these years. Their foster family was not much close to them, for they were rebellious, not to mention feral, teenagers when they were brought there and by the time they could appreciate what that family had done for them it had grown dysfunctional.

Last year, however, Sid had called on Mat to meet him. It startled Mat, for, in all these years he couldn’t remember a single instance where Sid had asked him for anything, not even to meet him! The conversation they had then was exceedingly strange to Mat, even by the standards of his conversations with Sid. Mat recalled the conversation in his mind.

“How have you been, my brother?”
“I’m alright Sid. In fact I don’t think I’ve ever been happier. What are you doing these days?”
“Oh, it’s not much, I just bring people to our land and show them its beauty. Can you believe they pay me to do that? They pay me good money – just to show them something that could harm them!”
“I’m glad to hear that, are you happy?”
“I’m content, brother. I heard you bought a house?”
“Yes, Bigg would’ve been proud!”
“Indeed, say, do you ever wonder… never mind…”
“What is it?”
“It’s just that, do you ever wonder… you were so distraught at our parents’ sudden demise and so suddenly we find Bigg… or that he never provided us with anything, nothing physical, just… comfort… or that the social services never found anyone else where we lived…?”
“Well, it was providential that we found him. I don’t find it hard to believe that no one found him, remember he was a master of disguise and he’d lived off the land for god knows how long.”
“Yes, never mind. The reason I called, my… err… business is doing rather well… too well in fact. But I don’t want it. I want you to have it”
“What? I have my job here, my life here, I don’t want to go back to the land”
“You don’t have to, if you don’t want to. You can sell it. I have other people who guide people in the land as well, you could just manage it”
“Are you serious?!”
“Yes. Here are the papers.”
“And… what.. what will you do?”
“Oh, I’m off to explore places, experiences and the world…”
“You know you are giving up lots of things. You can have a good life here, a family perhaps… You can be happy!”
“Ah, but that’s not what I’m after!”
“What ARE you after?”
“Well… nothing”
“You are crazy”
“So are you, my brother”

It turned out that Sid’s business was worth millions. Mat would’ve been a fool to not keep it. It annoyed him that Sid didn’t want to be happy, it annoyed him that he had to be back in the land he detested. But it meant money. So he was back, he was guiding a few folks in the area, showing them the ropes of surviving the land. He thought to himself “this is a strange land”…

title: The generic dream

question: What is the name of the land being discussed here?

answer: This information can't be found.

question: What was the reason behind calling Mat?

answer: The reason Sid called Mat was to hand over his business to him.

question: What could Mat and Sid's life have been like had their parents been alive?

answer: It may be implied that they would have been one big happy family and perhaps Mat and Sid would have remained more in contact.


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Chapter 1 (should I continue this story?)

At the age of five, I already knew I was different. Sometimes I imagine that I was from an alien planet. Wouldn’t that explain why I could do strange things?

Everything around me felt unreal. I was living in a dream world waiting to wake up. But don’t get me wrong, I still love the same things any eighteen-year old girl loved. Movies, clothes, boys, all of the above. I might think that I was an alien but I could love like a human.

I discovered my power when I turned eight in a not so pleasant circumstance. In fact, it was a nightmare. I never knew his name. To me he was always The Scary Man with Weird Eyes. He was always around our school staring at us girls, and licking his lips when we stared at him back. We all felt like we were meat on a buffet table and he was taking his pick on who to eat first. He looked greasy with long stringy flat hair, black piercing eyes and a skulking build.

A few parents had complained about him and soon he stopped coming around but it was not the last time I would ever see him. The next time I saw him was a week later when I woke in a dingy, dark and musty basement. There were no windows, no sunlight so it must have been a basement. I did not remember how I got there. I was walking home and then something grabbed me. It got dark and here I was.

I was awake for a few hours in this smelly room, in the dark. I was alone, hungry and scared as any little girl would be. I had no idea he was the one who had taken me. If I could see better, I thought maybe I could figure things out. I was free to move around but when I kept bumping on sharp things, I stayed at my corner hugging my knees. I cried myself to sleep wishing my mom was here to tell me that everything would be alright.

Sometime later, a sliver of light entered the room as a door creaked open. Someone was coming. It was him wearing the same crazy smile as he stared at me and licked his thin lips.

He came close and knelt before me. I didn’t move. I was so afraid. He touched my face and I peed in my pants. His fingers travelled to my throat and he squeezed my throat gently. I gasped and tried to pry his hands away. He was hurting me. His smile never left his face as he kissed my head.

My precious little girl, he whispered as he tightened his grip. You are all mine to play with. We will have a wonderful time. His voice was like nails scratching on a floorboard.

My fear exploded right there and then as I looked into his eyes and caught a glimpse of what he wanted to do to me. That’s when it happened. That moment our eyes met, my fear turned into something else. I was curious. Who is this man? Then I no longer see him. I was looking at myself.

I was holding my own neck and I was breathing my scent. What just happened? My own eyes were looking back at me in confusion and fear. I let go of my neck and stumbled back. My body felt heavy and huge. I looked down at myself and saw big dirty hands. I touched my face and touched a man’s face. Then I realized that I was him. I was in him and he was in me. The little blond girl in front of me scowled and lunged towards me.

Easily I deflected her and she fell back against the wall. I struck her face and she fell unconscious on the floor. I hope that will not leave a bruise.

For a while, I stood there and stared at my body. My head was swirling with his memories. Images of little bodies naked and cut up into pieces flashed in my mind. There were no bodies buried, all had been dissolved in acid. Over thirty girls before me. I gagged. This man was a demon. A hungry, disgusting demon who preyed on little girls like me. And was I stuck in him forever to live in his sins?

No, I would not accept this fate. If I could get in him, I could get out. Somehow, I knew this. First, I must save myself. I could not let him back in without making sure that my body was in a safe place. Swiftly I carried my body out of the basement and out of the house. My little self was still unconscious.

Once out of the house, I recognized the street. It was not far from the school. I ran towards the school. I knew the house of one of the teachers as once she had taken care of me there when my mother was late. I ran all the way as fast as I could. Once I reached her house, I gently laid me down on her porch. She was home, her lights were on and I could not risk her opening the door and seeing me with myself. The last thing I wanted was to end up stuck in jail and not be able to get back to my body.

The next thing was the crucial part. How do I get back? When we changed places we were looking at each others’ eyes and we made a connection. Do we have to stare at each others’ eyes again? Noises were coming from inside the house. I feared I was running out of time. I held up my little body and shook it. Come on, wake up and look at me but I was out cold. Laughter from inside the house grew louder. Someone was coming. I had no more time. I dropped my body on the floor and ran. I ran and hid behind the trees as Mrs Hurley came out with the garbage. Her eyes widened when she saw me on her porch.

She screamed for her family to come and immediately carried me inside. I slumped against the tree sobbing. I could not possibly be stuck in this killer’s body. And he was in my body. What mischief could he conjure up in that innocent façade? I hurried away before the cops arrived.

A few blocks away, I felt dizzy and had to sit down. My mind was swirling and everything was changing shape. The world spun uncontrollably and I fell on the ground. Then the world changed for me. When I opened my eyes, I was looking at my mother’s face and she brought me close to her as she cried and kissed my cheeks. I smiled as I held on to my mother tightly.

So that was how I discovered how I could push myself into another and control them. I did not have to look into their eyes again to return, it just wore off after a certain time. I would experiment more as I grew up mostly with animals and I found that after I left them, a little piece of them stayed in my soul. It was nothing physical but at times a small ability. For example after exchanging souls with a cat, I had suddenly developed a keen sense of smell and an extreme dislike for dogs.

As for the Scary Man with Weird Eyes, I never saw him again and I hope that I never will. However, sometimes I would look over my shoulders feeling his eyes on me once more. Nevertheless, there was no one there. It was all just my imagination.

Then the day came when I turned eighteen. That’s when the real nightmares begin.

title: Spirit Child - Chapter 1

question: Who was The Scary Man with Weird Eyes?

answer: A demon who preys on little girls.

question: What is the narrator's power?

answer: She can switch bodies with people.

question: What does she do with her body?

answer: She places it on the neighbor's porch.

question: How did she return to her own body?

answer: Maybe she wanted it so badly that it just happened.

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator has powers that were realized when she was a young girl. She was kidnapped by a man who preyed on young girls, and she switched bodies with him after he snatched her. She managed to subdue him-inside of her child body-and place her body on a neighbor's porch. She woke up inside her own body. Since then, she's practiced her ability on animals. Sometimes she takes things with her, like she still has keen sense of smell from a cat with whom she once swapped souls.


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Blackwater founder Erik Prince helped fund former Trump adviser Michael Flynn’s effort to find Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails and lied to congressional investigators about his meeting with a Russian oligarch in the Seychelles, according to special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report.

According to the partially redacted report, Flynn enlisted Republican activist Peter Smith and Barbara Ledeen, a longtime aide to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, to track down the deleted emails. The move came after Trump said in July 2016 that he hopes Russia would “find the 30,000 emails that are missing” and repeatedly asked campaign associates to help track them down.

"Ledeen claimed to have obtained a trove of emails (from what she described as the 'dark web') that purported to be the deleted Clinton emails. Ledeen wanted to authenticate the emails and solicited contributions to fund that effort. Erik Prince provided funding to hire a tech advisor to ascertain the authenticity of the emails," the report said, adding that the emails ultimately proved to be “not authentic.”

Prince, the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, was an unofficial adviser to the Trump campaign throughout 2016. After Trump’s election, he traveled to the Seychelles in January 2017 to meet with Kirill Dmitriev, who ran one of Russia’s sovereign wealth funds.

Prince claimed in November 2017 to the House Intelligence Committee that he coincidentally happened to meet Dmitriev while on a business trip and was not acting as a conduit for the Trump campaign.

“I didn’t fly there to meet any Russian guy,” Prince told the committee.

But the Mueller report shows that Prince lied to Congress.

Dmitriev enlisted the help of George Nader, an adviser to the United Arab Emirates crown prince, to introduce him to Trump transition team officials and Nader then arranged the meeting in the Seychelles, the report says.

Nader met with Prince in New York ahead of the meeting to discuss Dmitriev, according to Mueller. Nader told Prince that the Russians were “looking to build a link with the incoming Trump administration” and showed him Dmitriev’s Wikipedia entry. Nader later forwarded documents from Dmitriev to Prince ahead of the meeting.

“Dmitriev was not enthusiastic about the idea of meeting with Prince, and Nader assured him that Prince wielded influence with the incoming administration,” the report said.

Prince, Nader wrote to Dmitriev, “is designated by Steve [Bannon] to meet you! I know him and he is very, very well connected and trusted by the New Team. His sister is now a Minister of Education.”

“According to Nader, Prince had led him to believe that Bannon was aware of Prince's upcoming meeting with Dmitriev, and Prince acknowledged that it was fair for Nader to think that Prince would pass information on to the Transition Team,” the report said.

During the meeting, Prince and Dmitriev discussed U.S.-Russia relations, according to Mueller, and Prince promised to bring up the issues with Bannon.

Prince told Mueller’s team that he briefed Bannon on the meeting but Bannon told Mueller’s investigators that “he never discussed with Prince anything regarding Dmitriev.”

“Bannon also stated that had Prince mentioned such a meeting, Bannon would have remembered it, and Bannon would have objected to such a meeting having taken place,” the report said. “The conflicting accounts provided by Bannon and Prince could not be independently clarified by reviewing their communications, because neither one was able to produce any of the messages they exchanged in the time period surrounding the Seychelles meeting.”

In what a reasonable observer might conclude was not a coincidence, both Bannon and Prince's personal phones appeared to have had numerous relevant messages expunged. “Prince's phone contained no text messages prior to March 2017, though provider records indicate that he and Bannon exchanged dozens of messages," Mueller reports. "Prince denied deleting any messages but claimed he did not know why there were no messages on his device before March 2017. Bannon's devices similarly contained no messages in the relevant time period, and Bannon also stated he did not know why messages did not appear on his device.”

question: What does the text say about Vladimir Putin?

question: Summarize the main news article.

answer: According to the final report of special counsel Robert Mueller, Blackwater founder and unofficial adviser to the Trump campaign (2016), Erik Prince helped fund former Trump adviser Michael Flynn's effort to find Hillary Clinton's deleted emails. He also lied to congressional investigators about his meeting with Russian oligarch  Kirill Dmitriev in Seychelles. The partially redacted report shows that Flynn enlisted Republican activist Peter Smith and Barbara Ledeen (aide to Sen. Chuck Grassley, to track down the deleted emails. The move came after Trump said in July 2016 that he hopes Russia would find the 30,000 emails that are missing. Prince adds that he briefed Steve Bannon about the meeting, but Bannon denies having discussed anything. However, both Bannon and Prince's personal phones appeared to have had numerous relevant messages expunged.

question: What does the text say about George Nader and his role in all this?

answer: George Nader is an adviser to the United Arab Emirates crown prince. Dmitriev enlisted his help to introduce him to Trump transition team officials. Nader was also the one who arranged the meeting in Seychelles. Nader met with Prince in New York ahead of the meeting to discuss Dmitriev, according to Mueller. Nader told Prince that the Russians were looking to build a link with the incoming Trump administration. He sent documents from Dmitriev to Prince before the meeting. When Dmitriev wasn't enthusiastic about meeting Prince, Nader assured him that Prince wielded influence with the incoming administration. Nader wrote to Dmitriev saying Prince was designated by Steve (Bannon) to meet with him, and even mention that Prince's sister is Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.


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THE EVERLASTING COVENANT

CHAPTER 98 [A BED DEVOID OF WARMTH]

――Whenever she closed her eyes, the memories would come back vivid, even now.

White. A world of white.
Waking, exhaling puffs of white, young Emilia found herself within a snowscape.
_“Why”_, asked her heart. But no answer came.
There was no memory before this, and her consciousness was hazy.

Getting out of bed, she ran to see the scene outside the window. Her familiar village amid the lush green forests was now completely covered in the freezing, world-ending white.

Since it was the first time Emilia had ever seen snow, she didn’t even recognize that this was the phenomenon called _“Snow”_. But the vivid instincts of cold and fear nevertheless seared the image into her young memory.

Still without knowing what was happening, Emilia tensed her cheeks and tightened her throat as she broke into a run.
The moment she dashed out of the old house built within the great, hollow tree―― her body was cut through by the frigid wind as piercing cold stabbed her soles like knives in her baptism by ice.

The snow immediately grabbed her foot as she tumbled face-first into the ground.
A freezing embrace of white, powdery, crystallized snow. The very first contact with those icy flakes instilled horror into the young Emilia. They were so astoundingly beautiful, yet so horrifyingly cold.

Her simple garments were no better than a thin cloth around her body against the frigid chill and her body began trembling to the core from both cold and terror.
The snow pillaged her body of heat as the white crystals tore away at her heart. But Emilia, groaning as she swiped away the snow, began running once more.

Falling snowflakes danced endlessly from the sky. Looking up as she panted, flakes of snow stuck to the back of her throat. She coughed it away as she ran, tears trailing down the sides of her cheeks.

She didn’t know why she was crying.
She was scared. She was afraid. Why was she here alone? Where did everyone else go? Everyone who was kind to her, who smiled at her, and who would offer her their hand, where did they all go?

She tried to remember their faces, but something clogged up her thoughts.
The faces of everyone in her mind―― their faces, their smiles, were painted over by black shadows as if depriving them of their very existence in her brain.

[Emilia: ――――_hk_]

Shaking her head frantically, tears poured down her face as she ran.
She mustn’t think. If she thinks about them, the black shadow will consume them. Everyone precious to her will disappear from her mind.
But if she doesn’t think about them, she will be all alone. In a cold, impenetrable world of white, alone―― was a terror the young Emilia could not bear.

Powerless and ignorant, all young Emilia could do in the world-ending white was struggle.
But as if mocking her futile struggles, the falling snow wrapped around her until her tiny body sank into its inevitable, pure-white abyss.

――There’s no one here. There’s no one in sight. Now, she couldn’t even [――――] everyone anymore.

[Emilia: ――_No_―_!!_]

Trapped in this white world, her limbs growing numb and unmoving, Emilia fell to the ground crying like a newborn.
Her knees sank into the tender snow, and though it should have been cold, she couldn’t feel the cold at all. Her skin, so often called _“white as snow”_, now burned pure-red in the cold of true _“Snow”_.

Just like that, running from everything, Emilia hugged her head as she sank into the snow.
Falling snow mercilessly piled upon the little girl as Emilia’s small body disappeared into the white――

[???: ――Emilia!!]

As she closed her eyes, falling into wakeless sleep, a scream tearing through the silence woke her.
Forcing open her long-lashed eyelids, Emilia sprang up. And instantly, her lightweight body was pulled out of the snow and into an embrace.

[Emilia: ――――a]

[???: You’re okay, Emilia. It’s okay, everything’s okay. Thank goodness…… I’ve found you……]

She wanted to speak, but her throat, frozen by the absolute cold, only managed a groan. However, understanding Emilia’s condition, the person only held the young Emilia in their embrace, their voice trembling with joy at her safety.
Emilia, her nose red and sniffling, rubbed her face against the person’s short silver hair, trying to communicate her emotion through her entire body. Conveying through action that, just like the boundless love directed towards her, she felt exactly the same in return.

It was the happiness of being held in their arms, speaking with them again.
In the white, despairing snow that made little Emilia wonder if everything was over, there existed that definite warmth here and now.

Still hugging Emilia, shivering from both joy and cold, the woman with short silver hair looked around her as her relieved expression tensed and she started to run.
She drew her lips next to Emilia’s ear in her arms, exhaling breaths of white,

[???: Emilia, you hear me? I know you’re worried, and I know you don’t understand, but…… everything is alright. One way or another, I’ll make it alright. Even if we get separated here, I will never leave you alone……]

Emilia couldn’t understand those determined words, but just the thought of being separated from the person before her eyes filled her with dread. Her numb fingers grasped the woman’s collar, her eyes teared as she frantically shook her head.
For the young, ignorant Emilia, appealing to the other’s emotion was all she could think to do.
For as long as she did this, Emilia had been loved and adored by all those around her. It had always been this way. So whether it was here, or here on out――

[Emilia: ――――!]

[???: No, that won’t do, Emilia. Even if it was fine up to now, you mustn’t do this anymore. You must become a strong, smart, and brave girl. Unless you do, you won’t be able to accept yourself, and you’ll inevitably meet a tragic end. And that will make me…… my brother, and everyone, very, very sad]

[Emilia: ――――_gh_]

She desperately shook her head.
Nevertheless, the woman heartlessly disregarded her appeals. Telling her she mustn’t do this, she rebuked Emilia’s reliance on others.

Emilia couldn’t believe it. Of course it was painful.
Even when she was told she couldn’t, one way or another, she would always have gotten her way in the end. But why wasn’t it working this time?
Why must it start failing now, when she was facing the most painful, difficult, and frightening moment of her life? If there was a more correct way of doing this, how come no one ever told her about it? ――She was starting to resent everyone.

[Emilia: ――――!]

[???: I’m sorry, Emilia. I’m so sorry. For never teaching you even a single important thing, for hiding everything from you…… for letting you remain an adorable little princess, please forgive me…… forgive us……]

――_I don’t want to forgive. Don’t want to forgive. Don’t want to forgive. Don’t want to forgive. Don’t want to forgive. Don’t want to forgive. Don’t want to forgive._

[???: Everyone around you who cherished your smile, and the gentle lies they told… please don’t hate them……]

――_Hate them. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them._

[Emilia: ――――]

She hated lies. She detested lies. Lies only lead to sadness. Lies were the reason everything turned upside down. Lies were what left Emilia alone. And so, she detested lies.
Because she hated lies. Because she hated liars. Everyone should just [――――].

[???: Our beloved Emilia…… someday, you’ll……]

[Emilia: ――――!]

Emilia let out a wordless scream. She didn’t want to hear any more. No matter what she hears, it wouldn’t change a thing.
The howling gale and Emilia’s shriek drowned out the woman’s final words from this world.

The silver-haired woman looked sadly at Emilia’s rejection and her violent struggle in her arms, but, casting all emotions aside, she faced forward once more――

[???: ――Ah]

――And there, the true end came.

The woman running with Emilia in her arms caught sight of the presence before her and stopped.
Prompted by the faint jolt, Emilia looked up, and at the top of her vision―― she saw the face of the woman holding her, looking more tense than Emilia had ever seen.
In her expression was surprise and sorrow, rage and grief, disgust and awe―― and even a tinge of relief.

Battering at Emilia’s cheeks, the cold, white gale intensified.
In a blizzard so strong that even opening her eyes was difficult, overwhelmed by terror, Emilia held her near-frozen ears and screamed.
And――

_And_――
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question: What does the text say about how to cook chicken?

question: Summarize the primary source of tension in the story.

answer: The primary source of tension in the story is the fact that Emilia was babied and lied to by the people who cherished her. She grew to be reliant on others. Emilia became a spoiled and ignorant child who always got what she wanted because they treated her like an adorable little princess and hid everything from her. They didn't teach her a single important thing, Emilia didn't even know what snow was and the dangers of going out in it without proper clothing. She started resenting and hating everyone who lied to her and treated her like a princess.


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I had never seen such beautiful eyes.

My friends say I'm a cynic. I blame life for that. Years of feeling like an outsider looking in at other people's happiness will do that to you.  I believed love at first sight was nothing but an advertising gimmick, used to draw in the unsuspecting idealists of our generation. I even made it a point to brutally tear down some of my more starry-eyed friends. Yet, there I was, gaping at what seemed to me, the most perfect human being I'd ever laid my eyes on. Alright, perhaps not the most. I’ve been told I’m prone to exaggeration.

But the irony of it wasn't lost on me. My scarily determined mother had pulled all sorts of strings to get this family to agree to a meeting. I, of course, wasn't allowed an opinion. After all, what unmarried girl of twenty eight wouldn't be delighted at this wonderful opportunity? She was still at it, extolling my non-existent virtues to the parents. Parents, who were eyeballing me, probably ticking off points in the mental checklist they prepared when they went shopping for brides.

"..And, there's no question about my daughter's reputation, of course... "
Ah, mother. If only you knew. The memory of my last entanglement still incited a bitter tug in my weary heart. Bed sheets twisted with embarrassment, drunken words that held no meaning.

I turned my attention back to those soulful eyes, now looking intently at me too.

I know most wouldn't understand. The eyes were too close set, the lips were slightly crooked. Unruly, dark hair refusing to be tamed. But how I wanted press my chapped lips against that smooth forehead, and run my hands over every inch of that body. And it wasn't just lust, I wanted to hear every word those crooked lips had to say, I wanted to run along a beach holding those lean hands, I wanted to wake up every morning, next to that face. I wanted a home with hardwood floors and noisy children. The bruised romantic in me painted colourful dreams of us.

I felt laughter bubble up my throat. Fate is the biggest joke of life. What were the chances that I, a lonely girl who'd given up on the idea of a happy life with the one I loved, should find my soul mate because of this horrible charade every girl my age has to go through?

 Yet I felt no gratitude towards my mother, who had just turned towards me and said:
"Well, why don't you take him out to the balcony- you'll be able to have a nice conversation, just the two of you.” I almost choked, trying to gulp down the dry, hysterical cackle that had risen earlier.

As I said, life has turned me into a cynic and fate is a nothing but a joke. I felt my heart break, as I dragged myself away from those beautiful eyes and led her brother to the balcony.

title: [UR] Arranged

question: Whose eyes is the narrator talking about?

answer: The narrator is talking about her supposed groom's sister's eyes.

question: Who is the narrator?

answer: The narrator is an unmarried twenty-eight-year-old girl.

question: Is she falling in love with somebody?

answer: Yes, the narrator is falling in love with her supposed groom's sister.

question: Was the narrator's mother forcing her to meet the boy?

answer: Yes, her mother had forced her to meet the boy while she was sitting there falling in love with the boy's sister.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer:
As a twenty-eight-year-old girl being forced to meet a prospective groom, the narrator could do nothing but give in to her parent's wish. As she sat across the boy's family her eyes meet the groom's sister's. Soulful and dreamy, everything around her went blank.

As her mother instructs her to take the boy to the balcony, the narrator's heart breaks knowing where her fate would take her.


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FRONTIER COUNTY is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 2,756.[1] Its county seat is Stockville.[2]

In the Nebraska license plate system, Frontier County is represented by the prefix 60 (it had the sixtieth-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).

History

Frontier County was formed in 1872.[3] It was named for its location along the frontier border in the late 19th century.[4]

The courthouse was completed in 1889.[5]

Geography

According to the US Census Bureau, the county has an area of , of which is land and (0.6%) is water.[6]

Major highways

-   [] U.S. Highway 83
-   [] Nebraska Highway 18
-   [] Nebraska Highway 21
-   [] Nebraska Highway 23

Adjacent counties

-   Gosper County – east
-   Furnas County –southeast
-   Red Willow County – south
-   Hitchcock County – southwest
-   Hayes County – west
-   Lincoln County – north
-   Dawson County – northeast

Protected areas

-   Hugh Butler Lake / Red Willow Reservoir State Wildlife Management Area (part)[7]
-   Medicine Creek Reservoir State Recreation Area[8]

Demographics

As of the 2000 United States Census,[9] there were 3,099 people, 1,192 households, and 828 families in the county. The population density was 3 people per square mile (1/km²). There were 1,543 housing units at an average density of 2 per square mile (1/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 98.29% White, 0.10% Black or African American, 0.26% Native American, 0.26% Asian, 0.39% from other races, and 0.71% from two or more races. 0.97% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 45.8% were of German, 12.8% English, 6.3% American and 6.1% Irish ancestry.

There were 1,192 households, out of which 31.40% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.50% were married couples living together, 4.80% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.50% were non-families. 26.30% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.30% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.48 and the average family size was 3.02.

The county population contained 26.00% under the age of 18, 11.30% from 18 to 24, 22.80% from 25 to 44, 23.00% from 45 to 64, and 16.90% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 100.50 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.50 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $33,038, and the median income for a family was $38,664. Males had a median income of $25,792 versus $16,941 for females. The per capita income for the county was $16,648. About 9.30% of families and 12.20% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.90% of those under age 18 and 8.30% of those age 65 or over.

Communities

-   Curtis
-   Eustis
-   Freedom
-   Maywood
-   Moorefield
-   Orafino
-   Stockville (county seat)

Politics

Frontier County voters are strongly Republican. In no national election since 1936 has the county selected the Democratic Party candidate (as of 2016).

  Year                               Republican                                  Democratic                                  Third Parties
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  style=“text-align:center;” |2016   style=“text-align:center;” |83.6% _1,110_   style=“text-align:center;” |12.1% _161_     4.3% _57_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2012   style=“text-align:center;” |77.2% _1,007_   style=“text-align:center;” |20.8% _271_     2.1% _27_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2008   style=“text-align:center;” |73.7% _1,034_   style=“text-align:center;” |24.9% _349_     1.5% _21_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2004   style=“text-align:center;” |79.1% _1,160_   style=“text-align:center;” |18.8% _275_     2.2% _32_
  style=“text-align:center;” |2000   style=“text-align:center;” |79.1% _1,102_   style=“text-align:center;” |17.5% _244_     3.4% _47_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1996   style=“text-align:center;” |65.0% _901_     style=“text-align:center;” |22.4% _310_     12.7% _176_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1992   style=“text-align:center;” |50.0% _785_     style=“text-align:center;” |19.2% _302_     30.8% _484_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1988   style=“text-align:center;” |72.5% _1,057_   style=“text-align:center;” |26.3% _384_     1.2% _18_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1984   style=“text-align:center;” |83.6% _1,351_   style=“text-align:center;” |16.0% _258_     0.5% _8_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1980   style=“text-align:center;” |79.3% _1,346_   style=“text-align:center;” |15.3% _259_     5.5% _93_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1976   style=“text-align:center;” |60.8% _994_     style=“text-align:center;” |36.0% _588_     3.2% _53_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1972   style=“text-align:center;” |80.2% _1,315_   style=“text-align:center;” |19.8% _324_     style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1968   style=“text-align:center;” |70.2% _1,183_   style=“text-align:center;” |20.5% _345_     9.3% _157_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1964   style=“text-align:center;” |56.5% _1,090_   style=“text-align:center;” |43.6% _841_     style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1960   style=“text-align:center;” |73.5% _1,615_   style=“text-align:center;” |26.5% _582_     style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1956   style=“text-align:center;” |71.7% _1,602_   style=“text-align:center;” |28.4% _634_     style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1952   style=“text-align:center;” |77.1% _1,980_   style=“text-align:center;” |22.9% _589_     style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1948   style=“text-align:center;” |60.7% _1,307_   style=“text-align:center;” |39.3% _846_     style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1944   style=“text-align:center;” |71.0% _1,855_   style=“text-align:center;” |29.0% _758_     style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1940   style=“text-align:center;” |66.1% _2,069_   style=“text-align:center;” |33.9% _1,062_   style="text-align:center;|
  style=“text-align:center;” |1936   style=“text-align:center;” |44.9% _1,576_   style=“text-align:center;” |53.7% _1,883_   1.4% _50_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1932   style=“text-align:center;” |37.6% _1,353_   style=“text-align:center;” |60.9% _2,188_   1.5% _54_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1928   style=“text-align:center;” |71.8% _2,335_   style=“text-align:center;” |27.0% _879_     1.2% _40_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1924   style=“text-align:center;” |52.3% _1,497_   style=“text-align:center;” |20.9% _599_     26.8% _768_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1920   style=“text-align:center;” |68.1% _1,750_   style=“text-align:center;” |26.2% _673_     5.7% _147_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1916   style=“text-align:center;” |37.3% _736_     style=“text-align:center;” |57.7% _1,138_   5.1% _100_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1912   style=“text-align:center;” |17.4% _293_     style=“text-align:center;” |39.0% _657_     43.7% _736_[11]
  style=“text-align:center;” |1908   style=“text-align:center;” |53.5% _1,098_   style=“text-align:center;” |41.2% _847_     5.3% _109_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1904   style=“text-align:center;” |61.6% _993_     style=“text-align:center;” |11.8% _190_     26.6% _428_
  style=“text-align:center;” |1900   style=“text-align:center;” |52.0% _930_     style=“text-align:center;” |45.3% _810_     2.8% _50_

  : PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS[10]

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[7] [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Red+Willow+Reservoir+State+Wildlife+Management+Area,+McCook,+NE+69001/@40.3875463,-100.7365954,12.5z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x879e15feb036b75d:0xee773c205316d8b6!2sFrontier+County,+NE!3b1!8m2!3d40.5744778!4d-100.3497895!3m4!1s0x877588ff5c612335:0x9b9b535726192171!8m2!3d40.338563!4d-100.6703854 '' Red Willow Reservoir State Wildlife Management Area, McCook NE'' Google Maps (accessed 21 January 2019)]

[8] [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Medicine+Creek+Reservoir+State+Recreation+Area/@40.4578687,-100.4383691,12z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x879e15feb036b75d:0xee773c205316d8b6!2sFrontier+County,+NE!3b1!8m2!3d40.5744778!4d-100.3497895!3m4!1s0x879e47428966ddab:0x5e5a19439c2db868!8m2!3d40.4036274!4d-100.2474117 _Medicine Creek Reservoir State Recreation Area_ Google Maps (accessed 21 January 2019)]

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[10] Election Results

[11] The leading “other” candidate, Progressive Theodore Roosevelt, received 579 votes, while Socialist candidate Eugene Debs received 120 votes and Prohibition Eugene Chafin received 37 votes.

title: Frontier County, Nebraska

question: What does the article say about the person the county is named after?

question: Summarize the events of the 1800s.

answer: Frontier County was formed in 1872. The courthouse was completed in 1889.


text:
WAPPING () is a district in East London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and uniquely has it own postcode area E1W, which covers the entire area.

It is situated between the north bank of the River Thames and the ancient thoroughfare simply called The Highway. Wapping's proximity to the river has given it a strong maritime character, which it retains through its riverside public houses and steps, such as the Prospect of Whitby and Wapping Stairs. It also has a Royal Navy shore establishment base on the riverfront called HMS President and home to Tobacco Dock and King Edward Memorial Park.

Many of the original buildings were demolished during the construction of the London Docks and Wapping was further seriously damaged during the Blitz. As the London Docklands declined after the Second World War, the area became run down, with the great warehouses left empty. The area's fortunes were transformed during the 1980s by the London Docklands Development Corporation when the warehouses started to be converted into luxury flats.

Rupert Murdoch moved his News International printing and publishing works into Wapping in 1986, resulting in a trade union dispute that became known as the “Battle of Wapping”.

History

Origins

[A map showing the civil parish boundaries in 1870.]

Formerly it was believed that the name Wapping recorded an Anglo-Saxon settlement linked to a personal name _Waeppa_ (as if to say “the settlement of Waeppa's people”.[1]) More recent scholarship discounts that theory: the area was marshland, where early settlement was unlikely, and no such personal name has ever been found. It is now thought that the name may derive from _wapol_, a marsh.[2]

The settlement developed later, along the Thames' embankment, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping Marsh to the north This gave it a peculiarly narrow and constricted shape, consisting of little more than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. John Stow, the 16th-century historian, described it as a “continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors' victuallers”.[3] A chapel to St. John the Baptist was built in 1617, and it was here that Thomas Rainsborough was buried. Wapping was constituted as a parish in 1694[4] [_Wapping_ by James McNeill Whistler ]

Wapping's proximity to the river gave it a strong maritime character for centuries, well into the 20th century. It was inhabited by sailors, mastmakers, boat-builders, blockmakers, instrument-makers, victuallers and representatives of all the other trades that supported the seafarer. Wapping was also the site of 'Execution Dock', where pirates and other water-borne criminals faced execution by hanging from a gibbet constructed close to the low water mark. Their bodies would be left dangling until they had been submerged three times by the tide.[5]

The Bell Inn, by the execution dock, was run by Samuel Batts, whose daughter, Elizabeth, married James Cook at St Margaret's Church, Barking, Essex on 21 December 1762, after the Royal Navy captain had stayed at the Inn.[6] The couple initially settled in Shadwell, attending St Paul's church, but later moved to Mile End. Although they had six children together, much of their married life was spent apart, with Cook absent on his voyages and, after his murder in 1779 at Kealakekua Bay, she survived until 1835.

Dockland area

[Part of Charles Booth's poverty map showing Wapping in 1889, published in _Life and Labour of the People in London_. The red areas are “well-to-do”; the blue areas are “Intermittent or casual earnings”, and black areas are the “lowest class...occasional labourers, street sellers, loafers, criminals and semi-criminals”.] Said to be England's first, the Marine Police Force was formed in 1798 by magistrate Patrick Colquhoun and a Master Mariner, John Harriott, to tackle theft and looting from ships anchored in the Pool of London and the lower reaches of the river. Its base was (and remains) in Wapping High Street and it is now known as the Marine Support Unit.[7] The Thames Police Museum, dedicated to the history of the Marine Police Force, is currently housed within the headquarters of the Marine Support Unit, and is open to the public by appointment.[8]

In 1811, the Ratcliff Highway murders took place nearby at the Highway and Wapping Lane.[9]

The area's strong maritime associations changed radically in the 19th century when the London Docks were built to the north and west of the High Street. Wapping's population plummeted by nearly 60% during that century, with many houses destroyed by the construction of the docks and giant warehouses along the riverfront. Squeezed between the high walls of the docks and warehouses, the district became isolated from the rest of London, although some relief was provided by Brunel's Thames Tunnel to Rotherhithe. The opening of Wapping tube station on the East London Line in 1869 provided a direct rail link to the rest of London.[10][11]

Modern times

[Gun Wharves, Wapping. Now home to luxury flats.]

Wapping was devastated by German bombing in the Second World War[12] and by the post-war closure of the docks. It remained a run-down and derelict area into the 1980s, when the area was transferred to the management of the London Docklands Development Corporation, a government quango with the task of redeveloping the Docklands. The London Docks were largely filled in and redeveloped with a variety of commercial, light industrial and residential properties.

St John's Church (1756) was located on what is now Scandrett Street. Only the tower and shell survived wartime bombing, and have now been converted to housing.[13]

In 1986, Rupert Murdoch's News International built a new £80m printing and publishing works in the north of Wapping. This became the scene of violent protests after News International's UK operation moved from Fleet Street to Wapping, with over 5,000 print workers being sacked when new technology was introduced.

Wapping dispute

The “Wapping dispute” or “Battle of Wapping” was, along with the miners' strike of 1984-85, a significant turning point in the history of the trade union movement and of UK industrial relations. It started on 24 January 1986 when some 6,000 newspaper workers went on strike after protracted negotiation with their employer, News International (parent of Times Newspapers and News Group Newspapers, and chaired by Rupert Murdoch). News International had built and clandestinely equipped a new printing plant for all its titles in Wapping, and when the print unions announced a strike it activated this new plant with the assistance of the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union (EETPU).

The plant was nicknamed “Fortress Wapping” when the sacked print workers effectively besieged it, mounting round-the-clock pickets and blockades in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to thwart the move. In 2005, News International announced the intention to move the print works to regional presses based in Broxbourne (the world's largest printing plant, opened March 2008),[14] Liverpool and Glasgow. The editorial staff were to remain, however, and there was talk of redeveloping the sizeable plot that makes up the printing works.[15]

Society

Landmarks

[Wapping Old Stairs] Perhaps Wapping's greatest attraction is the Thames foreshore itself, and the venerable public houses that face onto it. A number of the 'watermen's stairs', such as Wapping Old Stairs and Pelican Stairs (by the Prospect of Whitby) give public access to a littoral zone (for the Thames is tidal at this point) littered with flotsam, jetsam and fragments of old dock installations. The area is popular with amateur archaeologists and treasure hunters. This activity is known as mudlarking; the term for a shore scavenger in the 18th and 19th centuries was a mudlark.

St George in the East on Cannon Street Road is one of six Hawksmoor churches in London, built from 1714 to 1729, with funding from the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches. The church was hit by a bomb during the Blitz the original interior was destroyed by the fire, but the walls and distinctive “pepper-pot” towers remained intact. In 1964 a modern church interior was constructed inside the existing walls for the active congregation, and a new flat built under each corner tower. Behind the church lies St George's Gardens, the original cemetery, which was passed to Stepney Council to maintain as a public park in mid-Victorian times. At the outbreak of the Second World War the crypt of the church was used as a public air raid shelter and was fully occupied when the aforementioned bomb struck. There were no casualties and everyone was evacuated safely (thanks to the air raid wardens and fire brigade).

[Wax figure of a pirate hanged at Execution Dock. Madame Tussauds, London] [Heinkel He 111 bomber over the Surrey docks and Wapping in the East End of London on 7 September 1940]

The “Execution Dock” was located on the Thames. It was used by the Admiralty for over 400 years (as late as 1830) to hang pirates that had been convicted and sentenced to death by the Admiralty court. The Admiralty only had jurisdiction over crimes on the sea, so the dock was located within their jurisdiction by being located far enough offshore as to be beyond the low-tide mark. It was used to kill the notorious Captain Kidd.[16] Many prisoners would be executed together as a public event in front of a crowd of onlookers after being paraded from the Marshalsea Prison across London Bridge and past the Tower of London to the dock.

Tobacco Dock is a Grade I listed warehouse, adjacent to The Highway. It was constructed in approximately 1811 and served primarily as a store for imported tobacco. In 1990 it was converted into a shopping centre at a development cost of £47 million with the intention to create the “Covent Garden of the East End”; the scheme was unsuccessful, though, and went into administration. Since the mid-1990s the building has been almost entirely unoccupied. It is now occasionally used for filming, and for large corporate and commercial events.

[Though Execution Dock is long gone, this gibbet is still maintained on the Thames foreshore by the Prospect of Whitby public house] Three venerable public houses are located near the Stairs. By Pelican Stairs is the _Prospect of Whitby_, which has a much-disputed claim to be the oldest Thames-side public house still in existence.[17] Be that as it may, there has been an inn on the site since the reign of Henry VIII, and it is certainly one of the most famous public houses in London. It is named after a then-famous collier that used to dock regularly at Wapping. A replica of the old Execution Dock gibbet is maintained on the adjacent foreshore, although the actual site of Execution Dock was nearer to the _Town of Ramsgate_. This also is on the site of a 16th-century inn and is located next to Wapping Old Stairs to the west of the _Prospect_; by Wapping Pier Head — the former local headquarters of the Customs and Excise.

Situated halfway between the two is the _Captain Kidd_, named after the Scottish privateer William Kidd. He was hanged on the Wapping foreshore in 1701 after being found guilty of murder and piracy.[18] Although the pub occupies a 17th-century building, it was established only in the 1980s.

Literary and cultural references

Wapping has been used as the setting for a number of works of fiction, including _The Long Good Friday_; the _Doctor Who_ episode “The Talons of Weng-Chiang”;[19] the _Ruby In The Smoke_ novel in the Sally Lockhart series by Phillip Pullman;[20] the BBC sitcom _Till Death Us Do Part_, in which the central character, Alf Garnett, shares his name with Garnet Street in Wapping;[21] and the brothel in _The Threepenny Opera_, in which Mack the Knife is betrayed by Jenny Diver. _The Darlings of Wapping Wharf Launderette_ is a compilation album by East End group the Small Faces.[22] The plot of Alfred Hitchcock's 1934 film _The Man Who Knew Too Much_ included the gangsters' hideout which was set in Wapping.[23] A house left standing after the London Blitz, the nearby River Thames and a notional priory house, being used as a temporary prison, feature prominently in Jack Higgins sequel to The Eagle Has Landed titled The Eagle Has Flown, in which a captured German officer is freed after a failed commando raid.

Notable people

Among the people born in Wapping are W.W. Jacobs, author of _The Monkey's Paw_. The American painter James McNeill Whistler, well known for his Thames views, painted _Wapping_ (1860-1864) after returning to London from Paris in May, 1859. Whistler took lodgings in Wapping where he explored the Thames to the east of the City of London.[24] The painting is permanently displayed at the National Gallery of Art Washington

John Newton, Anglican clergyman and author of many hymns including _Amazing Grace_ was born here.[25]

Arthur Orton, the Tichborne Claimant, was born in Wapping.

During the 1990s, Wapping was home to American singer and actress Cher.[26]

TV presenter Graham Norton lived in Wapping in 2012.[27]

Education

Transport

[The Thames Tunnel, the world's first underwater tunnel.]

Rail

The local station is Wapping on the London Overground East London line. The narrowness of the platforms was also a concern during the East London line extension, and today the station does not fully meet the safety standards for an underground station but is permitted to operate under a derogation from Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate.[28] It is in Travelcard Zone 2.[29]

Formerly on the London Underground, the Metropolitan and the District Railways were the first served the station on 1 October 1884,[30] but the station was last served by District trains on 31 July 1905.[31][32] The East London line closed on 22 December 2007, and was rebranded and reopened on 27 April 2010 when it became part of the Overground system.

Buses

100, D3, both operate within the area.

Roads

Wapping is connected to the National Road Network by The Highway A1203 east–west to the north of the area.

Cycling, walking, waterways

The Thames Path passes west–east through Wapping for cyclists and walkers. The Ornamental Canal runs through the area mostly in the centre to Shadwell Basin.

[1] Waeppa's People - a History of Wapping by Madge Darby -

[2] “Stepney: Settlement and Building to c.1700.” in _A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11, Stepney, Bethnal Green_, ed. T F T Baker (London: Victoria County History, 1998), 13-19. _British History Online_, accessed May 1, 2017, .

[3] 'The Thames Tunnel, Ratcliff Highway and Wapping', Old and New London: Volume 2 (1878), pp. 128-37 accessed: 29 March 2007

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[6] _Famous 18th century people of Barking and Dagenham_ Info Sheet #22, LB Barking & Dagenham

[7] History of the Marine Support Unit (Met) accessed 24 January 2007

[8] Thames Police Museum Retrieved 1 June 2010

[9] Stepney Murders: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders accessed 21 January 2007

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[12] My Mum's War: Life in the East End - BBC WW2 People's War accessed 1 April 2007

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[22] Darlings of Wapping Wharf Launderette Retrieved 16 September 2008

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[24] Fitzwilliam Museum Retrieved 16 June 2015

[25] John Newton Retrieved 7 February 2012

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[27] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/graham-norton-i-had-ambition-at-40-that-seems-to-have-gone-8215540.html

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title: Wapping

question: What does the article say about criminals?

answer: Wapping was the site of "Execution Dock", where pirates and other water-borne criminals were executed by hanging. The article features a color-coded map in which the black areas contain criminals and semi-criminals. The Execution Dock was used to kill the notorious Captain Kidd. Kidd was found guilty of murder and piracy. Prisoners would usually be executed together as a public event.

question: What does the article say about literature?

answer: Wapping was used as the setting for a number of literary works including The Ruby In the Smoke, a novel by Phillip Pullman. W.W. Jacobs, author of the Monkey's Paw, was born in Wapping.

question: What does the article say about the founder of Wapping?


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FERHAT ENCÜ (*5 August 1985, Roboski) is a former Kurdish member of the Turkish Parliament in the Sirnak Province of Turkey. Encü is well known for a speech that he gave on the floor of the Parliament in Ankara. In his speech, Encü criticized the Turkish Government for their violence and mistreatment of the Kurdish people. After delivering the speech, Encü was arrested and stripped of his parliamentary immunity.[1]

Early life

Encü was born on August 5, 1985 in the Roboski district of the Sirnak Province of Turkey. He attended and graduated from high school in Turkey and speaks Kurdish at a very high level.[2] In 2009, Encü began to study at the Çukurova University in Adana, Turkey, but took a break from education in order to focus on speaking for the victims of the Roboski airstrike after 2011.[3] During the Roboski massacre, he lost 11 relatives.[4] After, Encü began pursuing a political career in Turkey and on 7 June 2015, he was elected MP for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).[5] He was re-elected in the snap elections of 1 November 2015.[6]

Political career and prosecution

In the years following the Roboski Airstrike, Ferhat Encü has been actively fighting for justice for the village of Roboski.[7] Initially, Encü served as the official spokesperson for Roboski with the assistance of his younger brother Veli Encü, but Ferhat eventually pursued a career in Turkish government as a lawmaker so that he would be able to launch a legitimate official inquiry into the Roboski Massacre.[8] Encü's membership in Turkish Parliament however was cut short in late 2016 when he was arrested and convicted of “making propaganda for a terrorist organisation.”[9]

Encü's Speech in Ankara

In early February, 2016, Ferhat Encü delivered a speech on the floor of the parliament in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. In his speech, Encü delivered very critical remarks about the Turkish Government and their mistreatment of Kurdish people, specifically referencing the Roboski Massacre and the Turkish government's ongoing conflict with the PKK.[10][11] Encü's six minute long speech was constantly interrupted by members of Turkish Parliament yelled at Encü, accusing him of terrorist affiliation, treason and even threatening his life for his remarks against the Turkish government.[12] Eventually, a brawl broke out on the floor of parliament as members of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) were reported to have been shoving Encü and accusing him of supporting a terrorist organization.[13] Another report stated that punching and slapping was occurring as deputies reacted to the words of Encü.[14] Prior to the speech, Encü had been known for his opposition to the Turkish government for their violence against the Kurds.[15]

Arrest

In the years leading up to the speech that Encü delivered on the floor of Ankara, Encü had struggled with political and legal issues quite frequently. During the inquest against Encü following the Roboski massacre, he was accused of assault against the Uludere district's governor and was arrested and detained as a result.[16] After his speech in Ankara, Encü was arrested and held in a pre-trial detention center until November, when Encü was officially convicted of alienating the public from military service, terrorist propaganda, incitement to animosity, entering military prohibited zones, attempted murder of a public official for their duty.[17] Following the conviction, Encü was stripped of his parliamentary immunity and imprisoned in the Kandira F-type prison. According to Turkey's constitution, any conviction involving terrorism charges precludes parliamentary dictatorship. Encü was one of nine Kurdish HDP MPs who were arrested in the wake of legislation proposal about lifting the parliamentary immunities of HDP MPs who summary of proceedings were issued for. As of November 13, 2017 all nine HDP MPs remained behind bars.[18][19]

Release

In a separate trial that concluded in 2018, Encü was sentenced to 10 months in prison for insulting the government. He was released in June, 2019, after completing his sentence.[20]

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title: Ferhat Encü

question: Who is Ferhat Encü?

answer: A former Kurdish member of the Turkish Parliament in the Sirnak Province.

question: Summarize Ferhat Encü's early life.

answer: He was born in the Roboski district of the Sirnak Province of Turkey. He graduated from high school in Turkey and then began to study at the Çukurova University before taking a break to focus on speaking for the victims of the Roboski airstrike. 11 of his relatives were killed in the Roboski massacre.

question: What was the subject of Ferhat Encü speech in Ankara?

answer: In his speech, he criticized the Turkish Government for their violence and mistreatment of the Kurdish people.

question: Why was Ferhat Encü arrested?

answer: He was arrested and detained after being accused of assault against the Uludere district's governor.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Ferhat Encü is a former Kurdish member of the Turkish Parliament in the Sirnak Province. He is best known for delivering a speech in Ankara criticizing the Turkish Government and their mistreatment of Kurdish people. He was arrested following the speech and released in 2019.


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The Denver Broncos are free to prowl for a quarterback named Kirk Cousins.

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KUSA — Out of the way, Arizona and your new offensive coordinator Mike McCoy.

Don’t even think about it, Buffalo and Cleveland. Jets, Schmets. The Denver Broncos are free to prowl for a quarterback named Kirk Cousins.

Washington let the NFL know the talented Cousins will be let go to free agency after the NFC East team acquired quarterback Alex Smith from the Kansas City Chiefs on Tuesday. The story was first reported by the Kansas City Star and then confirmed by multiple reports.

The move means the Chiefs will go forward with Patrick Mahomes II, the team’s first-round draft pick in 2017 who played well in beating the Broncos in a meaningless season finale on December 31.

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Smith had one year and $17 million left on his current deal with the Chiefs. Multiple reports say he got a four-year extension from Washington. His revised five-year contract will be worth about $110 million.

The Chiefs reportedly received a third-round draft pick and cornerback Kendall Fuller from Washington. Fuller, who turns 23 the same day Aqib Talib turns 32, was rated as the NFL’s No. 1 slot corner this season by Bleacher Report.

The trade won’t become official until the 2018 league season opens on March 14, but apparently, some tampering rules are looser than others.

The Broncos did have interest in Smith, although the team also realized there was virtually no chance the Chiefs would trade the NFL’s No. 1-rated quarterback this year to a division rival.

With Mr. Smith gone to Washington and Drew Brees letting everyone know he is a Saint and nothing but, the Broncos top two quarterback targets this offseason figure to be Cousins and Minnesota’s Case Keenum, who is also in line to become a free agent.

If the Vikings place the franchise tag on Keenum, the Broncos would be left to go all in on Cousins. They won’t be the only team. Arizona, Buffalo, the New York Jets and possibly Cleveland and Jacksonville may also be in the market for Cousins.

If the Broncos don’t wind up with Cousins, who played on the franchise tag of $23.94 million this season and figures to command a multiyear deal between $25 million and $30 million in free agency, the Broncos would then seek a “stopgap” quarterback in free agency.

Those candidates figure to include the likes of Teddy Bridgewater, Sam Bradford, Jay Cutler, Josh McCown and possibly Tyrod Taylor if Buffalo releases him from the final one year and $16 million left on his contract.

If the Broncos wind up with one of these second-tier free-agent quarterbacks, they would then be expected to select a quarterback with their No. 5 overall draft pick. Sam Darnold, Josh Rosen, Josh Allen and Baker Mayfield are widely considered the top four quarterbacks in the draft who could be deemed worthy of the No. 5 pick.

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question: Who is Kirk Cousins?

answer: Kirk Cousins is Denver Broncos' quarterback.

question: Which club does Kirk play for?

answer: The Denver Broncos.

question: Who did Washinton acquire instead of Cousins?

answer: Alex Smith.

question: Who did the Chiefs receive from Washington?

answer: Kendall Fuller.

question: Write a ~4 sentence summary.

answer: The Denver Broncos acquire Washington's, Kirk Cousins. The NFC East team acquired Alex Smith from the Kansas City Chiefs instead. The Broncos did not have any interest in Smith. The trade won't be official until the 2018 league season opens on March 14.


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[Events Team 16 April 2017]

Event information

-   FRIENDS CHAT – Gaz Lloyd
-   LOCATION – Void Knights' Outpost, World 39
-   DATE AND TIME

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  UTC           Pacific       Mountain      Central       Eastern          UK         Europe        East Aus
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  8:00 pm       12:00 pm      1:00 pm       2:00 pm       3:00 pm       8:00 pm       9:00 pm       7:00 am
  Sun, 16 Apr   Sun, 16 Apr   Sun, 16 Apr   Sun, 16 Apr   Sun, 16 Apr   Sun, 16 Apr   Sun, 16 Apr   Mon, 17 Apr
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THE EVENT IS OVER.
-   REQUIREMENTS: Combat level 100 for the Veteran lander, 70 for the Intermediate lander, and 35 for the Novice lander. The vast majority of people will be in the Veteran lander, so it is highly recommended to have 100+ combat for the event to ensure consistent games.

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| [Bandages (Fist of Guthix)]       | THIS IS A SAFE ACTIVITY.          |
|                                   | If you die, you WILL NOT lose any |
|                                   | of your items.                    |
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[Pest Control icon]

Pest Control is a minigame accessible from the Void Knights' Outpost, with its main objectives to destroy four monster-spawning portals while protecting the Void Knight from those monsters. It is still consistently popular for Void Knight equipment and raw experience. Completing one game is also a requirement to finish the quest Quiet Before The Swarm. After completing a game with enough participation, players receive 2-4 Void Knight commendation points depending on the difficulty level of the game.

Getting there

[Void Knight banner]

From the Port Sarim lodestone, run east to the docks and click "Travel" on the Squire to get to the Outpost. From there, run south to the docks leading to the three landers, requiring different combat levels to enter. The landers from west to east are Veteran (100+), Intermediate (70+), and Novice (35+).

Gameplay

Upon entering a lander, a game will start in a few minutes if there are fewer than 25 players present. If there are greater than 25 players in the lander, 25 of them will be teleported to another island where the game takes place.

On the Pest Control island, players arrive in the lander on the north side of the island. The Void Knight is in the center on a raised platform and does not move. Surrounding the Void Knight to the east, south, and west is a wooden wall with 3 gates on each side. Beyond the gates are four portals. Monsters spawn from the portals and ultimately aim to kill the Void Knight. The objective of each game is to destroy each of the portals and to keep the Void Knight alive. Player deaths are safe, and upon dying they will respawn in the lander.

[Pest Control Island]
The Pest Control island

The Void Knight

The Void Knight stands in the middle of the island on a raised platform and does not move. He has 20,000 lifepoints and is mainly targeted by Shifters, Torchers, and Defilers. Only a few players need to stay near him to kill the Shifters and keep the gates closed to protect him from the Torchers and Defilers from a distance. Monsters will damage the Knight, and the only way for him to heal is for portals to be destroyed.

Portals

There are four portals outside the walls - to the west, south-west, south-east, and east. When the game begins, all four portals will be shielded and not attackable, though they will actively spawn monsters. Shortly later, the Void Knight will announce that one of the portals' shield has dropped and can be attacked. Players should distribute themselves somewhat evenly among the portals initially because the first vulnerable portal is determined randomly. Once a portal is vulnerable, nearby players should attack it, destroy it, and move on to the other portals once the shields drop.

Each portal has a combat weakness; though, post-EoC it doesn't really matter what style a player uses.

  Icon                   Location     Weakness
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  [Purple portal icon]   West         [Fire weakness icon] Fire spells
  [Blue portal icon]     East         [Bolt weakness icon] Bolts
  [Yellow portal icon]   South-East   [Crush weakness icon] Crush
  [Red portal icon]      South-West   [Arrow weakness icon] Arrows

Monsters

Monsters, or pests, are spawned by the portals even when they are invulnerable. Kill the Shifters, Torchers, and Defilers that are posing a threat to the Void Knight first. Otherwise, it's easy to just kill any monster for participation points in the game.

  Name       Weakness                             Attack style   Notes
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  Brawler    [Fire weakness icon] Fire spells     Melee          Acts as a barrier. Cannot walk through them, nor use magic or ranged attacks through them.
  Defiler    [Stab weakness icon] Stab            Ranged         Can use ranged attacks over the walls. Usually target the Void Knight, so keep the gates repaired and closed.
  Ravager    [Water weakness icon] Water spells   Melee          Destroys gates and barricades, non-aggressive.
  Shifter    [Fire weakness icon] Fire spells     Melee          Can teleport (also through the walls). Usually targets the Void Knight, so a few players should stand by and kill them.
  Spinner    [Air weakness icon] Air spells       Melee          Can heal the portals. Will not retaliate when attacked, but can sometimes explode for a little damage.
  Splatter   [Earth weakness icon] Earth spells   Melee          Explodes when killed, damaging nearby players and pests. Will explode instantly upon moving adjacent to gates and barricades.
  Torcher    [Thrown weakness icon] Thrown        Magic          Can cast spells over the walls.

Participation

[Pest Control readouts]

Players will only receive commendation points if they participated in either dealing enough total damage to monsters or by repairing damaged barricades and gates. The minigame interface features the Void Knight's health, the player's participation points, and the time remaining as shown on the right. Attacking monsters is simple; just deal damage, and you don't have to get the kill.

Keeping the gates repaired is more important than the barricades. Both are usually destroyed by Splatters and Ravagers. To repair them, pick up logs between the Void Knight's platform and the lander and use them to repair the gates and keep them closed to protect the Knight. Gates will not open or close if they are badly damaged.

[Pest Control lander]
The starting point in each game

Equipment

Rewards

Players will receive 2, 3, or 4 Void Knight commendation points for completing a Novice, Intermediate, or Veteran game respectively. If Pest Control is the Spotlight minigame, players can also receive a decent number of Thaler as well. Additionally, at the end of every game there is a chance to receive a choice of Minigame armour boots - Trickster boots, Vanguard boots, or Battle-mage boots.

The main and generally most useful reward from Pest Control is the hybrid Void Knight equipment, with a set bonus offering increased accuracy. Players may also spend their points on experience, weapons, and resource packs. For full reward information, see the main article for Void Knight commendation points.

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question: Summarize everything to do with participation points in the Pest Control minigame.

answer: Players can earn participation points by killing or damaging monsters during the game. Players can also repair damaged barricades or gates, with gates being more important. If the players have earned enough participation points, and complete the Pest Control minigame, then they receive 2-4 Void Knight commendation points depending on the difficulty setting.

question: Summarize the rewards for completing a game of Pest Control.

answer: Players receive multiple rewards for completing a game of Pest Control. If there is enough participation, players receive 2-4 Void Knight commendation points, Void Knight equipment, special boots, and experience. Completing a game of Pest Control is also a requirement for completing a quest. If Pest Control is the Spotlight minigame, the player also receives some Thaler.

question: Summarize the gameplay of the Pest Control minigame.

answer: Pest Control starts with players arriving in a lander. Their goal is to defend the stationary Void Knight against waves of monsters. There are four portals spawning more monsters that players must destroy while defending the Void Knight. If a player dies they respawn in the lander. The portals start shielded, but lose their invulnerable shields over time. More monsters keep spawning until the portals are destroyed.


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DOGPATCH LABS is a startup hub located in the CHQ building, in the heart of the Silicon Docks, supporting the startup ecosystem through incubation and acceleration programmes, educational events and a tech community of over 500 members from 100+ startups.[1][2][3] In 2019 it was listed as Crunchbase’s “top 10 incubators around the world you need to know”.[4]

It is a member of a global network of 50 startup hubs supported by Google For Startups[5] and winner of its Global Citizenship Award in 2017[6] and its Global Diversity & Inclusion Award in 2018.[7] Visitors have included The Duke & Duchess of Sussex[8] and also The King & Queen of the Netherlands in recognition of Dogpatch's mission to accelerate the development of Ireland's entrepreneurial ecosystem.[9]

Partners include Unilever, Google For Startups, Alltech, ESB, Ulster Bank, Pivotal, CHQ, and Hannover Re.[10]

Alumni include Irish tech unicorn Intercom[11] and provides the global headquarters for CoderDojo,[12] the volunteer-led movement of free computer programming clubs. Dogpatch actively supports other social technology initiatives such as ChangeX, HackAccess, PyLadies, Social Innovation Fund and others.[13][14]

History

Dogpatch Labs launched in the CHQ Building in early 2015 with an initial 13,500 sq feet, through a partnership with Neville Isdell & Mervyn Greene.[15] Their contribution has enabled the mission-driven entrepreneurial hub's rapid evolution since 2015.[16]

In mid 2015, the space had 25 companies with 150 desks, with a 60/40 Irish/International split, with tenants including Udemy, Twilio, ChangeX and others.[17]

In November 2015, the space expanded by 8,000 sq ft with an event space and meeting rooms in the 200 year old vaults below the CHQ Building.[18] Three months after launching, Dogpatch Labs had hosted 80 events in The Vaults, consisting mostly grassroots meetups (hosted free of charge) and had welcomed over 4,000 people.[19]

In November 2016, Dogpatch Labs expanded for the third time, reaching a total of 40,000 sq ft of space, by adding an “Urban Garden” and private office space on its mezzanine floor. Dogpatch Labs was then home to 40+ companies, and hosting 200 tech events and 5,000 attendees per year.[20]

In December 2018, structural works would allow for an additional 100 people to hot-desk from the space. The community was now a residence to more than 80 companies and 400 members on its three levels.[21]

Awards & Recognitions

Dogpatch Labs is a member of a global network of 50+ startup hubs supported by Google For Startups and winner of its Global Citizenship Award in 2017[22] and its Global Diversity & Inclusion Award in 2018.[23][24]

Visitors have included The Duke & Duchess of Sussex and also The King & Queen of the Netherlands in recognition of Dogpatch's mission to accelerate the development of Ireland's entrepreneurial ecosystem.[25][26]

In 2019 it was listed by Crunchbase as one of the ‘top 10 incubators around the world you need to know’.[27] Other notable speakers include Vint Cerf, one of the “Fathers of the Internet”[28] and Sridhar Ramaswamy.[29]

The Managing Director of Dogpatch Labs, Patrick Walsh, was awarded the Guaranteed Irish Tech Hero title in 2017 for his “significant contribution to the tech industry in Ireland” and for having “contributed greatly to establishing Ireland as leading startup hub”.[30]

In 2015 it welcomed former Taoiseach Enda Kenny to launch Ireland's “Enterprise 2025” strategy[31] & in 2019 the then Taoiseach Leo Varadkar launched the ‘Future Jobs Ireland’ initiative, recognizing that Dogpatch Labs is “Ireland’s largest start-up hub and is a keystone in our technology ecosystem”.[32]

First Fridays for Startups

Dogpatch Labs hosts on a monthly basis an ecosystem event called First Fridays for Startups, a “platform where members of the Irish startup ecosystem come together on a regular basis, enabling them to learn, connect and grow”. Powered by Google For Startups, the programme is designed, executed and hosted by Dogpatch Labs, and includes: 1-to-1 curated mentoring, networking, lightning talks and a keynote, as well as free hotdesking for the day.[33][34]

In its first year, 170 startups received over 160 hours of mentoring in 400 sessions, and the event was attended by 500+ attendees and 100+ mentors and speakers.[35]

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-   Nora Khaldi, co-founder of Nuritas[37]
-   David Hunt, co-founder of Cainthus[38]

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question: Where is Dogpatch Labs located?

answer: Dogpatch Labs is based in the CHQ building in the Silicon Docks, Ireland.

question: What companies have been a part of Dogpatch Labs?

answer: Notable alumni include Irish tech unicorn Intercom.

question: When was Dogpatch Labs launched?

answer: Dogpatch Labs launched in early 2015.

question: What is "First Fridays for Startups"?

answer: "First Fridays for Startups" is a monthly event where members of the Irish startup ecosystem come together to learn, connect, and grow.

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: Dogpatch Labs is a startup hub and incubator located in the CHQ building in the hear of the Silicon Docks, Ireland. They host over 100+ startups and is a member of a global networks of 50 startup hubs supported by Google For Startups.


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It’s included in that giant bucket of information dumped on you in briefing after briefing right before deployment:

Exactly what will happen if your service member or another member of his unit is killed? What should you expect? What happens if they are injured?

We get a lot of questions about this. Readers want to know what to expect from the notification process, can't remember what was said in those briefings or maybe never made it to one. They want to know who will show up at their door, what they will say and when they will arrive. They want to be empowered with information.

We understand the predeployment mental block on this stuff. While it may be the most important part of any pre-deployment briefing, it’s probably the part you most want to forget. Who wants to dwell on the possibility that their service member may not come home before he even walks out the door?

But it is so important. And whether this is your first or fifteenth deployment, a refresher from the casualty affairs folks is probably a good idea.

But we're not PowerPoint people here. So instead of making you sit through an acronym riddled briefing the next time we see you, we’ve gone straight to the source at the Pentagon to get you as cut and dry a run down here as we can.

Look at this as a point of reference. Forward it to other members of your unit or include it in your FRG newsletter. And if you have any questions, leave them in the comments and we’ll do our best to get you the official answer and get back to you.

But first, a caveat: The policies and information we’ll talk about below are the Pentagon's  military-wide standard, straight from Deborah Skillman, the program director for casualty, mortuary and military funeral honors at the Defense Department. However, like almost everything else in the military, each service has the ability to change things at their discretion. We’ll note where that is most likely to happen. In a perfect world, though, the below is how things are supposed to be done.

What to expect if your service member is killed:

TWO UNIFORMED SERVICE MEMBERS WILL COME TO YOUR DOOR TO TELL YOU OR, IN MILITARY SPEAK, “NOTIFY YOU.” One of them will actually give you the news, the other one will be a chaplain. Sometimes a chaplain may not be available and so, instead, the second person will be another “mature” service member, Skillman said. If you live far away from a military base there is a chance the chaplain may be a local emergency force chaplain and not a member of the military, she said.

THESE PEOPLE WILL COME TO YOUR DOOR SOMETIME BETWEEN 5 A.M. AND MIDNIGHT. This is one of those instances where the different services may change the rule in limited instances. Showing up outside this window is a decision made by some very high ranking people. If it happens it's because it's absolutely necessary.

YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO LEARN ABOUT YOUR SPOUSE’S DEATH BEFORE ANYONE ELSE. A different team of notification folks will deliver the news to your in-laws – but only after you’ve been told. Same thing goes for any children your spouse has living elsewhere or anyone else they've asked be told if something happens.

THE NEWS IS SUPPOSED TO REACH YOU WITHIN 12 HOURS OF THEIR DEATH. The services use that time to get their notification team together, find your address and send someone to your home. If you live near the base and have all your contact information up to date with your unit, they’ll arrive at your home very quickly. If you’ve moved and live far away from any base, it may take the full 12 hours. If you live in a very remote location (for example our past unit had to send a team to notify in the Philippines) it could take more than 12 hours.

YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO HEAR THE NEWS FIRST FROM THE NOTIFICATION TEAM. There’s a reason for that, and it’s not just because it’s solemn and respectful. Telling you in person makes sure you are in a safe place to hear such life-changing news. And it makes sure that the information they are giving you is accurate, not just a rumor. After they notify you, the team will stay with you until you can call a friend or family member to be with you or until the next official person – the casualty assistance officer – can arrive.

IF YOU HEAR THE NEWS FIRST FROM SOMEONE ELSE, THE NOTIFICATION TEAM WILL STILL COME. In that case instead of delivering notification they will deliver their condolences, Skillman said. Even though the unit goes into a communications blackout after someone dies or gets seriously injured, sometimes word sneaks out anyway through a well-meaning soldier or spouse who doesn’t know the rules. The team, however, will still come and do their duty.

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER NOTIFICATION? You will be assigned a casualty assistance officer who will walk you through all the next steps, including the benefits you receive as a widow. You can read all about those here.That service member has been specially trained for this duty. His or her job is to make sure you get everything you need from the military.

What if your service member is wounded?

The notification process for a injured service member is different but the result is still the same – you are supposed to learn the news before anyone else (other than the unit) stateside. Here’s how it works:

YOU’LL RECEIVE A PHONE CALL. If at all possible, Skillman said, the phone call will be from your service member themself. If that’s not possible a military official will call you with as many details as they have and then give you regular updates by phone until they are no longer necessary. If they cannot reach you (let's say you dropped your iPhone in the toilet again) they will contact your unit to try to reach you through whatever means necessary.

IF YOUR SERVICE MEMBER IS SEVERELY WOUNDED AND WILL NOT BE TRANSFERRED STATESIDE QUICKLY, you may be able to join them wherever they are being treated outside the combat zone, often Germany. The official will let you know whether or not this is an option.

YOU’LL BE REGULARLY UPDATED WITH HOW AND WHEN YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE YOUR SERVICE MEMBER. If they are transferred to a treatment facility stateside far away from you, the military will help you arrange travel to wherever that is.

What if someone else in your unit is injured or killed?

Some of the hardest moments you’ll have as a military spouse will be spent wondering if your service member is the one who has been injured or killed. Because the unit downrange goes on blackout until all the notifications stateside are made, you may be able to pretty well guess when something has happened based on a sudden lack of communication. Will it be you? Will the knock be on your door this time?

That can be very a scary time. In my experience, the best thing to do is to choose to not live in fear. When our unit lost 20 soldiers in four months, it became very easy to predict when something had happened and sit in dread in our homes alone -- just waiting, watching and praying. However we knew that wasn’t healthy. So instead, a small group of us purposefully spent time together instead.

Specifically what happens in the unit when a service member is injured or killed probably differs from unit to unit and base to base. But most of the processes look something like this:

THE UNIT GOES ON BLACKOUT. That means that all communication from downrange to families is supposed to abruptly and without warning stop. That blackout will likely last until notification to the families has been made.

YOU WILL RECEIVE A PHONE CALL OR AN EMAIL FROM YOUR UNIT THAT SOMEONE HAS BEEN KILLED OR INJURED. After all the family has been notified, the unit will let you know who has been killed or injured by either email or phone. If it has been less than 24 hours since the last family member was notified, the message will only tell you that someone was killed or injured – not who. If you are told about it via a phone call, the person making the call - possibly a point of contact from your family group - will likely read you a preset script. An email could look like the below, one of the many our unit received during our 2009-2010 deployment:

_Families and Friends of 1-17 IN,_

_On 26 September 2009, 1-17 IN was involved in an incident that resulted in 1 Soldier who was Killed in Action. The soldier’s primary and secondary next of kin have already been notified._

_On behalf of the Soldiers of 1-17 IN, I send my condolences to the Soldier’s Family. We will hold a Memorial Ceremony for this Soldier at a time and place to be determined._

_Please remember to keep the soldiers of 1-17 IN and all other deployed soldiers in your thoughts and prayers. Thank you for your continuous support._

The Defense Department will release the name of the person killed no less than 24 hours after the family has been notified. That buffer gives the family some private time. However, you may learn who it was before that. The family may choose to tell people. If blackout is lifted downrange, you service member might tell you. The most important thing during this time is to respect the family’s privacy. If you do happen to know who was killed before the family or the DoD has released the name, for the love of Pete don’t go blasting it all over town.

You will receive details from your family readiness group on how you can help support the family and when the military memorial will be. Above all else, respect the family’s privacy and needs. Attending the military memorial can be a great way to show that you care without being intrusive.

Please let us know if you have any other questions about this process in the comments. We pray that you will never have to experience any of the above. But if you do you will be armed with what to expect.

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question: What does the text say about why a chaplain accompanies service members to notify people about the death of their service member?

question: Explain why service members sometimes show up at doors as early as 5am and late as midnight?

question: What does the text say about receiving the news of a service member's death from the notification team?

answer: Ordinary, the news is meant to reach individuals within twelve hours of their member's death. This is because the services use that time to gather their notification team together, find the individual's address, and send someone to their home to deliver the news. If they live near the base and have all their contact details updated with their unit, the notification team will immediately arrive at their home. Contrastingly, where they have been moved to a distant location from any base may take the full twelve hours. Also, if they live within a remote area, it might take longer than twelve hours.

question: What does the text say about the notification protocol for injured service members?

answer: Every individual with a service member in the military must receive the news of their injured one before anyone else stateside. Firstly, they will receive a phone call, if possible, from the service member themselves. However, where that's not possible, a military official will call to inform them with as many details as they have and then keep giving updates by phone on their progress until no longer necessary. In cases where they cannot reach the person, they'd reach out to their unit to contact them. Secondly, in cases where the service member is severely wounded and won't be immediately transferred stateside, they may join them wherever they are being treated outside the combat zone, usually Germany. Finally, they will be frequently updated on how and when they can see their service member. If they are taken far away, the military will help them travel to wherever it is.

question: How does the military handle the news of an injured or killed unit member?

answer: The process differs from unit to unit. However, it typically involves a unit going on blackout, meaning that every communication from downrange to families will cease abruptly without warning, at least until the families have been notified. Following that, all family members will receive a phone call or email from their unit notifying them that someone has been injured or killed. Then afterward, the unit will inform these families who have been killed or injured by mail or phone. If the notification reached the last family member in less than 24 hours, the message would only tell them someone was injured or killed without mentioning who. But, if they receive a phone call, the caller will likely read a preset script. The Defense Department will release the name of the person killed not less than 24 hours after the family has been notified, which gives the family some private time.