input: Guardian Centers may be a place to practice how to respond to a disaster, but that doesn't mean real danger is nonexistent.

When we headed over to see its mock subway station, complete with eight cars donated from Washington's Metro system, we were told we had a limited window to view it. The reason -- they were going to be pumping actual toxic gas into the building to simulate a chemical attack.

As smoke rose from chunks of concrete representing an obliterated building, Chris Schaff put it this way: "As soon as you come in here, the pretend goes away."

He's a fire and rescue battalion chief with Fairfax County, Virginia, and his words carry a lot of weight. His elite team of urban search and rescue operatives has been deployed to numerous disasters, including Hurricane Sandy, the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, and the 2010 Haiti quake.

Luis Fernandez, a two-decades-plus veteran of disaster response, agreed the Perry, Georgia, facility passes muster.

"The temperature extremes, the building extremes, the noises, the environment, are incredibly lifelike," said Fernandez, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue chief of staff and.a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The brotherhood of Disaster City

From the aforementioned subway station, to a mock bridge with crushed cars, to a devastated structure made to look like the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, Guardian Centers' 830-acre site is designed to allow a variety of responders to do a variety of drills in one location.

This kind of "doomsday Disneyland" owes its vision to Geoff Burkart, a telecommunications executive who was in Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. During Katrina, he saw "what was being done there, and what was not being done." 1. Who is a 20 year veteran?
2. veteran of what?
3. where is the center?
4. wher edoes he normally work?
5. what is fernandez spokesman for?
6. is real danger a possibility ?
7. Where did the subway cars come from?
8. how many are there?
9. what sort of gas will be pumped?
10. simulating what?
11. what did the concrete chuncks represent?
12. what's cominhg off them?
13. what goes away as soon as you enter? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. Luis Fernandez
2. disaster response
3. Perry, Georgia
4. Geoff Burkart
5. Federal Emergency Management Agency
6. Yes.
7. Washington's Metro system
8. eight
9. toxic gas
10. a chemical attack
11. an obliterated building
12. smoke
13. pretending

question: ISIS, as the Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria are known, has become the new face of international terrorism in the eyes of the United States and its Western allies.

Now the focus in America and abroad has become what will President Barack Obama and other leaders do about it?

Here are key questions on the matter:

1) Who killed James Foley?

Britain's ambassador to the United States, Peter Westmacott, told CNN on Sunday that British officials were close to identifying the ISIS militant who beheaded Foley, an American journalist captured in Syria in 2012.

He couldn't elaborate on the identity of the killer, who is seen decapitating Foley in a video posted last week on YouTube.

"We're putting a great deal into the search," he said, referring to the use of sophisticated technology to analyze the man's voice.

In the video, Foley, 40, is seen kneeling next to a man dressed in black, who speaks with what experts say is a distinctly English accent.

Linguists said that based on his voice, the man sounds to be younger than 30. He also appears to have been educated in England from a young age and to be from southern England or London.

Britain close to identifying James Foley's killer, ambassador says

2) Will the United States expand air strikes to ISIS targets in Syria?

Pressure is increasing on Obama to go after ISIS in both Iraq and Syria, ignoring an essentially non-existent border between them.

Last week, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said that taking on ISIS in Syria was the only way to defeat the Sunni jihadists.
1. Who is the new face of terrorism?
2. Who alleges this?
3. Anyone else?
4. Under whose administration is this a priority?
5. Who is the firs key point on the matter about?
6. What was his fate?
7. How was he murdered?
8. How old was he?
9. How old do they think the person who ended his life was?
10. What did Foley do for a living?
11. In what year did this happen?
12. Where?
13. Who told CNN the authorities were close to solving the case?
14. And what's his job?
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answer: 1. ISIS,
2. United States
3. Western allies
4. President Barack Obama
5. James Foley
6. Death
7. decapitating
8. 40
9. 30
10. He was a journalist
11. 2012
12. Syria
13. Peter Westmacott
14. Britain's ambassador to the United States

Question: I had to knock on the taxi to get his attention.Finally,the driver,a man about 60,looked up from behind the wheel and apologized,"I'm sorry,but I was reading a letter." He sounded as if he had a cold or a cough.

Since I was in no hurry,I told him to finish his letter.He shook his head,explaining that he had already read it several times and almost knew it by heart.Curious,I asked whether it was from a child or maybe a grandchild."This isn't family,"he replied."though he might just as well have been a regular member of the family.Old Ed and I grew up together."

They were always friends.But since he moved away from the neighborhood 30 years ago,it'd generally just been postcards at Christmas time between them.A couple of weeks ago,Ed died."I should have kept in touch." He repeated this,more to himself than to me.To comfort him,I said sometimes we just didn't seem to find the time."But we used to find the time," he said."Take a look." He handed the letter over to me.

The first sentence "I've been meaning to write for some time,but I've always delayed it." reminded me of myself.It went on to say that he often thought about the good times they had had together.When I read the part where it said "Your friendship really means a lot to me,more than I can say because I'm not good at saying things like that",I found myself nodding in agreement.

We had gone several kilometers and were almost at my hotel, so I read the last paragraph: "So I thought you'd like to know that I was thinking of you." And it was ended with "Your Old Friend, Tom."

"I thought your friend's name was Ed," I said.

"I'm Tom," he explained. "It's a letter I wrote to Ed before I knew he'd died. I never put it in the mailbox. I guess I should have written it sooner." His face was pale as he wiped his eyes with a handkerchief.

When I got to my hotel room I didn't unpack right away.I had to write a letter and post it. 1. What was the man riding in?
2. How old was the man driving?
3. What was he doing?
4. How did he sound?
5. How long ago did he move?
6. What holiday did they have contact on every year?
7. What did he say his friends name was at first?
8. What did he claim his friends name was later?
9. What is the drivers name?
10. Who wrote the letter? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. a taxi
2. about 60
3. reading a letter
4. as if he had a cold
5. 30 years ago
6. Christmas
7. Ed
8. Tom
9. Tom
10. the driver