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Canada is famous for its winter lifestyle, for the season lasts half the year there. A great example of this is the Quebec Winter Carnival . Quebec is an old city with beautiful historic building, and many agree that winter is the best time to visit. The city comes alive in the snow, especially during the winter festival. People who visit the cold city can find tons of things to do that will make winter seem perfect. The Carnival has a magical ice palace made with 9,000 tons of snow, a boat race on the St. Lawrence River, and two night parades with funny people and colorful cars. Other interesting things include a 122-meter ice slide, and a large football game. There is also an exciting dogsled race that runs through six kilometers of the city's streets. With more than 20 teams in the game, the dogsled race is noisy, fun and full of great cheer. Even better, artists from around the world come to enter the snow sculpture competition. It is amazing how these artists can bring snow to life. The Quebec Winter Carnival has everything for the whole family and more. It is surely a great way to experience winter at its fullest. Another famous winter festival is on the other side of the world in China. Known as the City of Ice, Harbin is the capital city of Heilongjiang Province, which is next to Siberia. In the winter, it is very cold, and temperatures there can drop to 30degC below zero. Even so, the cold weather makes the city the right place for the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival. The festival is held every year.
Answer the following questions:
1: Is Quebec a newer city?
2: Is summer the best time to visit?
3: How long is the dog run?
4: Is there another famous gathering that's similar?
5: Where is it?
6: What is it called?
7: How long does the cold last in the Canadian town?
8: How heavy does the snowfall get there?
9: How cold does it get?
10: What is the name of the gathering there?
11: Is the Canadian gathering run along the St. Peter?
12: Where is it?
13: What do artisans choose to compete in?
14: What region is the Chinese gathering near?
15: Is it put on every two years?
16: How often, then?
17: How many groups choose to compete in the dog run?
18: Is baseball played?
19: What sport is?
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An artist in Oakland, California is using his skills to help the homeless. Greg Kloehn builds very small shelters that make life on the streets more comfortable. The structures offer the homeless some safety and protection from bad weather. Each little house also has wheels on the bottom so it can go wherever its owner goes.
Greg Kloehn has given away at least 20 tiny houses to the homeless on the street. On a recent day, Mr. Kloehn stops to visit his homeless friends. One of them is Oscar Young. The two men hug when they see each other. Inside his little shelter Mr. Young gets relief from cold nights on the streets. Mr. Kloehn also visits Sweet-Pea, another friend who also lives in one of the little homes the artist built. She says it keeps her safe and protects her belongings.
In the mornings, Mr. Kloehn searches the streets for building materials. He gathers what he can and takes it to his studio. There, he puts the houses together. Empty coffee bags become roof material. A washing machine door and refrigerator part become windows. Nails, screws and the sticky glue hold all the pieces together. The artist also attaches a small electrical device to the house. The device is powered by the sun.
Some of the people living on the streets once had normal houses of their own. But some of the people say they have learned to live with less and they are thankful to that man.
Mr. Kloehn says his work is not a social project. He says he is just someone using his skills to help his homeless neighbors.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is Greg Kloehn doing?
2: how?
3: what do they offer?
4: Does he know any of the homeless?
5: Can you name one?
6: Does he have one of these houses?
7: How many has he given away?
8: Where does he get his materials?
9: Is there any electricity?
10: What are they powered by?
11: Are these people born on the streets?
12: What have they learned to live with?
13: Can the houses be moved?
14: how?
15: What material can be used as a roof?
16: And what holds it together?
17: What is his occupation?
18: where does he live?
19: Does he built for people in other neighborhoods?
20: where do the people live?
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(CNN) -- A close aide to Pakistan's Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud said he is breaking ties with him and confirmed reports that Mehsud was behind the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in December 2007 at a campaign rally.
Qari Turkestan Bhitaini, a self-proclaimed right-hand man of Mehsud, said Mehsud was behind the December 27, 2007, assassination of Bhutto, Pakistan's Express TV reported.
Bhitaini said he is breaking ties with Mehsud because he blames the Taliban chief for killing scores of innocent Muslims in recent attacks in Lahore.
The Pakistani government and CIA officials have said in the past that Mehsud was responsible for Bhutto's death.
Bhutto, 54, was heading the opposition to then-President Pervez Musharraf when she was assassinated during a campaign rally in Rawalpindi ahead of parliamentary elections.
The Pakistani government, who has struggled to control terrorism, is waging a military offensive against the Taliban in the country's North West Frontier Province.
Answer the following questions:
1: who is a close aide to Pakistan's Taliban chief
2: who is Pakistan's Taliban chief
3: Baitullah Mehsud said he is breaking ties with who?
4: why is he breaking ties?
5: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in
6: where was he killed
7: Qari Turkestan Bhitaini, a self-proclaimed right-hand man of who?
8: who was behind the December 27, 2007, assassination of Bhutto
9: who reported Mehsud was behind the December 27, 2007, assassination of Bhutto
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By the time Rihanna was seventeen ,she had released her first album and had an international hit with her first single Pon de Replay. Rihanna was born in Saint Michael , Barbados in 1988 . She grew up there with her two younger brothers . As a child , she loved singing . She formed her first group with friends from secondary school when she was just fifteen . In 2004 friends introduced the group to American record producer Evan Rogers ,who was on holiday in Barbados . Rogers thought Rihanna could be a star in America,so she moved there aged sixteen to take up music after she finished school. Rihhanna lived with Rogers and his wife . Then she worked for Def Jam Recordings and started working on her first album , Music of the Sun .It came out at in 2005 and got into the top ten . Over 69,000 copies of the album were sold in the first week alone . It went on to sell over two million copies worldwide and Rihanna quickly became a big star . Her second album , A Girl Like Me ,came out a year later and included the song SOS , which was her first number one hit in America. In 2007 Rihanna brought out her third album , Good Girl Gone Bad ,which had more dance music than the first two albums. Rihanna sold more than fifteen million album and forty - five million singles worldwide between 2005 and 2010 ,the most of any artist at the same time . However ,she manages to find time for her charity work ,too . She has performed in several concerts to raise money for charity and in 2006 she created her Believe Foundation to help sick children . She also took part in Gucci's activities to raise money for children in Africa.
Answer the following questions:
1: what was the name of Rihanna's first album?
2: when did Music of the Sun come out?
3: what record studio put it out?
4: when was she born?
5: in what city?
6: where is that?
7: how old was she when she released her first album?
8: true or false: music of the sun hit the top 10
9: how many copies of it sold the first week?
10: how many did it sell worldwide?
11: who did she live with when she first arrived in the US?
12: how long after her first album did it take for her second album to come out?
13: did she find love in a hopeless place?
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West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England. It is an inland and in relative terms upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in moors of the Pennines and has a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972.
West Yorkshire consists of five metropolitan boroughs (City of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, City of Leeds and City of Wakefield) and shares borders with the counties of Derbyshire (briefly to the south), Greater Manchester (to the south-west), Lancashire (to the north-west), North Yorkshire (to the north and east) and South Yorkshire (to the south and south-east).
Leeds, informally, is the capital of West Yorkshire, Leeds (city) has developed into the third biggest in the UK by population after London and Birmingham, York is the Capital of Yorkshire, the Leeds-Bradford Metropolitan County has grown to become the 4th largest in the UK after Greater London, West Midlands (Birmingham) and Greater Manchester with a population over 2.2 million.
Remnants of a strong industrialisation in coal, wool and iron ore industries remain in the county having attracted people over the centuries, and this can be seen the buildings and architecture. The greatest hub Leeds may become a terminus for a north-east limb of High Speed 2. Major railways and three major motorways traverse the county. In the heart of the county is Leeds Bradford International Airport.
Answer the following questions:
1: Is West Yorkshire an inland or upland county?
2: Where is it located?
3: Do the valleys drain to the west?
4: How many boroughs?
5: Are there more than a million people there?
6: How many?
7: When was it created?
8: After what happened?
9: How large is the capital?
10: What resources have drawn people there?
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Autumn means different things to different people. "It all depends on your personality," said British naturalist Richard Mabey. "Personality shapes your view of the season," he said. "You may see it as a fading-away,a packing-up ,or as a time of packing in another sense--the exciting gathering of resources before a long journey."
If this is true,perhaps it tells us a little about,for instance,Thomas Hood,the 19th Century English poet. About November,he wrote:
No warmth,no cheerfulness,no healthful ease
No shade,no shine,no butterflies,no bees
November!
On the other hand,another English poet John Keats,already sensing he was seriously ill,was inspired by a late September day to pen one of the most famous poems in the English language,To Autumn. He wrote to a friend afterwards that there was something comforting and healing about it.
According to Richard Mabey,Keats has the biological evidence on his side. Autumn is not a time of slowing down,but a time of new beginnings and great movements of creatures. For example,just at the moment that Keats's "gathering swallows" ( in To Autumn)are departing for Africa,millions of creatures are fleeing from the frozen north like Iceland,Greenland and Russia to winter along the east and south coasts of Britain. According to scientists,before falling,the leaves transfer their chlorophyll and carbohydrates into the woody parts of the tree for safe keeping over winter. What remains is the natural antioxidants in the leaves: the yellow and orange carotenoids ,and another protective chemical specially produced for autumn,the bright-red anthocyanin .High colour is not a signal of deterioration and decline,but of detox ability and good health.
A century after Keats,the American poet Loren Eiseley wrote in his journal:
"Suppose we saw ourselves burning-like maples in a golden autumn. And that we could break up like autumn leaves...dropping their substance like chlorophyll. Wouldn't our attitude towards death be different?"
Answer the following questions:
1: What season is being talked about?
2: What does Richard Mabey do?
3: What is his nationality?
4: Who wrote about November?
5: What was his occupation?
6: What was his nationality?
7: What time period did he live?
8: Who is the next poet mentioned?
9: What was his nationality?
10: Was his writing well known?
11: What was the name of his famous poem?
12: What inspired the poem?
13: Was he in good health when it was written?
14: Do things slow down in Autumn?
15: What happens to leaves before they fall?
16: What is left behind?
17: Is high color a bad thing?
18: What is it a sign of?
19: When did Loren Eiseley live?
20: What is his nationality?
21: What kind of evidence does Keats have on his side?
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(CNN) -- It's hard to believe it's been five years since Mumbai was rocked by terror attacks. Life goes on, the city continues its chaotic beat. The next news story replaces the last one, the cycle of life goes on.
The date 26/11 is now a somber anniversary the city marks. But for many, it's something much more personal. The newspapers here today are full of pictures of smiling couples and entire families who lost their lives during the attacks. They accompany messages of remembrance in ads placed their by surviving family members who miss them and grieve for them.
Ten Pakistani men associated with the terror group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba stormed buildings and killed 164 people. Nine of the gunmen were killed during the attacks, one survived. Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman, was executed in India last year
One of the pictures I saw in a newspaper today that froze me was of a broken blue wall inside Chabad House, the building where Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka were killed. Their baby son, Moshe survived.
My colleague, Sanjiv Talreja and I were the first journalists allowed inside Chabad House a few weeks after the carnage. It was the hardest assignment I have ever had. The place hadn't been cleaned. Walls and windows were blown out, only half of the floors and ceilings remained. Blood stains splashed across the wall, grenade shells and bullets littered the crumbling floor.
One thing that stopped me in my tracks though was a broken blue wall. It was in the room that baby Moshe occupied. His mother Rivka had marked his height on the wall, with the enthusiasm of any young mother watching her baby grow. Several little pencil lines marked every inch or two this young boy grew.
Answer the following questions:
1: What location is the article talking about?
2: In which country is that located?
3: What is it they're remembering?
4: How long ago did they happen?
5: How many were murdered?
6: How many were behind that attack?
7: Did any of them survive
8: Who?
9: What organization was he with?
10: After the attack, who was permitted inside on of the sites?
11: How long after the attack was it?
12: Was it considered an easy assignment?
13: What was the one item that stuck out to the journalist?
14: Where was it located?
15: What was the name of the structure?
16: Was anyone murdered there?
17: Who?
18: Did they leave anyone behind?
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Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.
The report, to be released Friday, analyzed data and existing studies of health, disaster, population and economic trends. It found that human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition and heat-related health problems.
But even before its release, the report drew criticism from some experts on climate and risk, who questioned its methods and conclusions.
Along with the deaths, the report said that the lives of 325 million people, primarily in poor countries, were being seriously affected by climate change. It projected that the number would double by 2030.
Roger Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the Forum's report was "a methodological embarrassment" because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable regions. Dr. Pielke said that "climate change is an important problem requiring our utmost attention." But the report, he said, "will harm the cause for action on both climate change and disasters because it is so deeply flawed ."
However, Soren Andreasen, a social scientist at Dalberg Global Development Partners who supervised the writing of the report, defended it, saying that it was clear that the numbers were rough estimates. He said the report was aimed at world leaders, who will meet in Copenhagen in December to negotiate a new international climate treaty.
In a press release describing the report, Mr. Annan stressed the need for the negotiations to focus on increasing the flow of money from rich to poor regions to help reduce their vulnerability to climate hazards while still curbing the emissions of the heat-trapping gases. More than 90% of the human and economic losses from climate change are occurring in poor countries, according to the report.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is causing a lot of death?
2: How much is lost in money?
3: What group tracks this?
4: Is this human influenced?
5: How many other people does it affect?
6: When will this number go up?
7: Is there agreement on the research?
8: Who think's the research is bogus?
9: Who stood up for it?
10: Where are most of the losses happening?
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CHAPTER XIX
For the Princess it was a day full of excitements. The Count had only just reluctantly withdrawn, and Jeanne had gone to her room under the plea of fatigue, when Forrest was shown in. She started at the look in his drawn face.
"Nigel," she exclaimed hastily, "is everything all right?"
He threw himself into a chair.
"Everything," he answered, "is all wrong. Everything is over."
The Princess saw then that he had aged during the last few days, that this man whose care of himself had kept him comparatively youthful looking, notwithstanding the daily routine of an unwholesome life, was showing signs at last of breaking down. There were lines about his eyes, little baggy places underneath. He dragged his feet across the carpet as though he were tired. The Princess pushed up an easy-chair and went herself to the sideboard.
"Give me a little brandy," he said, "or rather a good deal of brandy. I need it."
The Princess felt her own hand shake. She brought him a tumbler and sat down by his side.
"You had to kill him?" she asked, in a whisper. "Is it that?"
Forrest set down his glass--empty.
"No!" he answered. "We were going to, when a mad woman who lives there got into the place and found us out. We had them safe, the two of them, when the worst thing happened which could have befallen us. Andrew de la Borne broke in upon us."
The Princess listened with set face.
Answer the following questions:
1: What did the Princess' hand do?
2: What did she bring the man?
3: Did she take a seat by him?
4: Who had reluctantly withdrawn?
5: What had Jeanne done?
6: For what reason?
7: Who was then let in?
8: Did the princess look at his arm?
9: What did she look at?
10: Who asked if everything was okay?
11: What did Nigel then do?
12: Did he look older than before?
13: What kind of liquor did he ask for?
14: Did Forrest empty his glass?
15: Who did Forrest say found them out?
16: Who else broke in on them?
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(CNN) -- A Canadian hang-gliding instructor who police say swallowed a memory card possibly containing video of a fatal accident was granted bail Friday, a court spokesman said.
William Jonathan Orders, 50, who was arrested and charged with obstructing justice, appeared in provincial court in Chilliwack, British Columbia. His bail was set at $5,750 (Canadian), said Neil MacKenzie, communications counsel with the province's criminal justice branch.
Orders was instructed to turn over his passport and to not operate a hang glider or paraglider, he said.
Lenami Godinez-Avila had just started a tandem hang-gliding flight with the instructor, when she fell from the glider, plunging hundreds of feet to her death Saturday in a heavily wooded part of western Canada, authorities say.
Investigators say the instructor tried to hide what might be a key piece of evidence about what went wrong -- a possible onboard video recording of the flight -- in his digestive tract.
The recording has since passed and is now in police custody, MacKenzie said. He declined comment on whether anything retrievable could be taken from the card.
Calls on Thursday and Friday seeking comment from Orders' attorney, Laird Cruickshank, were not immediately returned.
The fall happened near Mount Woodside, from which Orders and the 27-year-old Godinez-Avila took off, more than 50 miles east of Vancouver.
A witness, Nicole McLearn, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. that when the glider was in the air, Godinez-Avila appeared to be wearing her harness, but it wasn't attached to the glider. The passenger clung to Orders before she fell, McLearn said.
Answer the following questions:
1: What did the man swallow?
2: His name?
3: Was he arrested?
4: What was the charge?
5: Was someone killed?
6: Name?
7: How did she die?
8: doing what?
9: Where did it happen?
10: How old was the person arrested?
11: What was his occupation?
12: What do investigators say about him?
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Long ago, there was a rich man who had two sons. The older brother, who was called Nolbu, was greedy and lazy. However, his younger brother Hungbu was hard-working and kind-hearted. When their father died, Nolbu inherited his house and land, but Hungbu received nothing. One day when Hungbu was working in the fields, he found a bird which had broken its leg. He took the bird home and looked after it carefully. The bird gradually became stronger, and when summer came, it flew away to a warm place. A year later the bird flew back and gave Hungbu a seed . Hungbu sowed the seed and it soon grew into a plant which produced many gourds . When Hungbu opened one of the gourds, he was amazed to see that it was full of treasure. He wanted to use the treasure to do something useful. The next day he bought a big house and moved there with his family. When Nolbu heard about his brother's good luck, he was very jealous and decided to do the same as his brother. He also found a bird, but he broke its leg and looked after it until it became strong. The bird also gave him a seed, which produced several gourds. However, when Nolbu opened one of the gourds, goblins ( ) quickly came out of it and stole all his money. After that Nolbu went to his brother to ask for help. Hungbu was sorry for him and so he invited him to share his house. Both brothers and their families lived happily ever after.
Answer the following questions:
1: How many sons are in the story?
2: Was their father poor?
3: What was the name of the son with positive character traits?
4: What were those traits?
5: Was he the older or younger brother?
6: What was the other brother's name?
7: How is he described?
8: What did Hungbu come across while working?
9: Was the bird healthy?
10: Did it ever get better?
11: Where did it go in the summer?
12: Did Hungbu see the bird again?
13: When?
14: What did the bird give him?
15: What did he do with it?
16: What grew from it?
17: Did he eat it?
18: What did he do instead?
19: Did he brother also buy a house?
20: Why not?
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Once upon a time there a little girl named Ana. Ana was a smart girl. Everyone in Ana's school knew and liked her very much. She had a big dream of becoming spelling bee winner. Ana studied very hard to be the best she could be at spelling. Ana's best friend would help her study every day after school. By the time the spelling bee arrived Ana and her best friend were sure she would win. There were ten students in the spelling bee. This made Ana very nervous, but when she looked out and saw her dad cheering her on she knew she could do it. The spelling bee had five rounds and Ana made it through them all. She was now in the finals. During the final round James, the boy she was in the finals with, was given a really hard word and he spelled it wrong. All Ana had to do was spell this last word and she would be the winner. Ana stepped to the microphone, thought really hard and spelled the word. She waited and finally her teacher said "That is correct". Ana had won the spelling bee. Ana was so happy. She won a trophy. Ana also won a big yellow ribbon. The whole school was also happy, and everyone clapped for her. The whole school went outside. They had a picnic to celebrate Ana winning.
Answer the following questions:
1: What did Ana want to win?
2: Did she study?
3: With who?
4: Was Ana smart?
5: Did she think she would win?
6: Was her dad there?
7: How did she feel at the start?
8: Why?
9: Who was she in the finals with?
10: Did he win?
11: Did she?
12: What color was the ribbon she won?
13: What else did she win?
14: How did she feel?
15: What did everyone do?
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Semiotics (also called semiotic studies); is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign process (semiosis) and meaningful communication. It is not to be confused with the Saussurean tradition called semiology which is a subset of semiotics This includes the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, allegory, metonymy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication.
The semiotic tradition explores the study of signs and symbols as a significant part of communications. As different from linguistics, however, semiotics also studies non-linguistic sign systems.
Semiotics is frequently seen as having important anthropological dimensions; for example, the Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco proposed that every cultural phenomenon may be studied as communication. Some semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science, however. They examine areas belonging also to the life sciences—such as how organisms make predictions about, and adapt to, their semiotic niche in the world (see semiosis). In general, semiotic theories take "signs" or sign systems as their object of study: the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics (including zoosemiotics).
The term derives from the Greek σημειωτικός "sēmeiōtikos", "observant of signs", (from σημεῖον "sēmeion", "a sign, a mark",) and it was first used in English prior to 1676 by Henry Stubbes (spelt "semeiotics") in a very precise sense to denote the branch of medical science relating to the interpretation of signs. John Locke used the term "sem(e)iotike" in book four, chapter 21 of "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" (1690). Here he explains how science may be divided into three parts:
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the other name of Semiotics?
2: What does it study?
3: Does it get mixed up with a tradition?
4: With what?
5: What tradition it belongs to?
6: Does it fall under some other category?
7: of what?
8: What does it explore?
9: Is it same as linguistics?
10: Do they have anything in common?
11: What?
12: How the term came about?
13: What does it mean?
14: In what language?
15: What is the root word?
16: What does it mean?
17: Who first used it in English?
18: How did he spell it?
19: Which year?
20: Who else used it around that time?
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One South African artist is using the street as his canvas and changing lives in the process.
Ricky-Lee Gordon, who goes by his artist name Freddy Sam, describes himself as a creative activist who hopes to bring about social change through his projects.
His latest ambition is to transform the Cape Town suburb, Woodstock, with murals full of color and positive messages.
He says that business owners are happy for murals to be painted on their buildings because the color is rejuvenating the area.
"The area, the landscape and the architecture is really rundown and neglected so a mural can do a lot for an environment," Gordon said.
"Woodstock is I guess the up and coming art precinct. It was a thriving textile and clothing industry and community. A lot of families would move here to get work in these factories, but these factories unfortunately are closing down," he continued.
Gordon explains that the cheap rent in Woodstock is now attracting artists and galleries to re-locate to the area but it's not the only draw.
"Artists like to be surrounded by real culture, and there's a real culture here. There's a mix of people and it makes for an interesting life on the street," he added.
'Traffic light' artists paint a brighter future
Gordon is also getting the community involved. One of the organizations he works with is the Percy Bartley orphanage, a home to boys aged eight to 18 years.
"When I found out about this home, I proposed to the sponsor to give us funding to rejuvenate the home with colors and murals," Gordon said.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is Gordon's artist name?
2: What city does he live in?
3: What is the name of the orphanage?
4: Who is housed there?
5: What age?
6: What does Freddy Sam paint?
7: What is on them?
8: Do business owners like them?
9: What industry is big in Woodstock?
10: Is rent expensive there?
11: Who does it attract?
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An inventor seeks to create a new product that serves a specific need and fulfills a role that other products do not. Sometimes an inventor comes up with a wholly new idea, but more often inventions are simply improvements on an older design. With a little imagination and creativity , an old idea can suddenly become something new.
However, creating a new invention means much more than having a brilliant idea. A good designer follows the design process: identifying the challenge, researching and brainstorming ideas , designing a solution, testing and evaluating the ideas, and finally building the product. Designers also use science, math, technology, and engineering to design a tool that satisfies the need they identified.
Anyone can be an inventor --even kids! For example, Chester Greenwood was just fifteen years old when he invented a product that changed his life. In fact, his idea was so good that his invention supported him for the rest of his life. You may not know his name, but you probably know his invention --earmuffs !
The inspiration for his earmuff design came to Chester when he was ice-skating. His ears were cold, and he decided to find a way to keep them warm. With the help of his grandmother, he made a new product to protect his ears and at the age of eighteen, Chester patented his earmuff design.
Many other famous inventors started young as well. Margaret Knight --the inventor of the flat-bottomed brown paper bag --is said to have created a safety device for textile looms when she was just twelve years old. Another example is Thomas Edison, one of the greatest inventors in history, who applied for his first patent when he was just twenty-one years old. Over the course of his life, Thomas Edison patented a total of 1,093 inventions!
Answer the following questions:
1: The main topic of the subject?
2: Can non adults become inventors?
3: Is there an example given?
4: How old where they?
5: who was it?
6: What was his brain child?
7: Where did he get that notion?
8: Is ti common for brand new ideas over improvements?
9: Who had over 1,000 patents?
10: Was he considered one of the worst of all time?
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CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT.
A PECULIAR CONFIDANT--MORE DIFFICULTIES, AND VARIOUS PLANS TO OVERCOME THEM.
When Alice Mason was a little child, there was a certain tree near her father's house to which, in her hours of sorrow, she was wont to run and tell it all the grief of her overflowing heart. She firmly believed that this tree heard and understood and sympathised with all that she said. There was a hole in the stem into which she was wont to pour her complaints, and when she had thus unburthened her heart to her silent confidant she felt comforted, as one feels when a human friend has shared one's sorrows.
When the child became older, and her sorrows were heavier and, perhaps, more real, her well-nurtured mind began to rise to a higher source for comfort. Habit and inclination led her indeed to the same tree, but when she kneeled upon its roots and leaned against its stem, she poured out her heart into the bosom of Him who is ever present, and who can be touched with a feeling of our infirmities.
Almost immediately after landing on the island Alice sought the umbrageous shelter of her old friend and favourite, and on her knees thanked God for restoring her to her father and her home.
To the same place the missionary directed his steps, for he knew it well, and doubtless expected to find his daughter there.
"Alice, dear, I have good news to tell you," said the missionary, sitting down beside her.
Answer the following questions:
1: Did Alice have a human friend to tell about her worries?
2: When she was little, what did she tell instead?
3: What part would she speak into?
4: True or False: Later she would go to the same tree but tell her problems to God instead.
5: Is the tree on an island?
6: What is her father's job?
7: What did he have to tell her?
8: What is the girl's name?
9: What is the father's name?
10: What did the tree grow near?
11: Did she believe the tree could hear her?
12: What else did she believe it did?
13: What made her pick the same tree when she was older?
14: What did she kneel on?
15: What did she do at its stem?
16: True or False: The narrator says that God can sympathize with our weaknesses.
17: Did the father know about the tree?
18: Where did he sit?
19: Was he surprised to see her there?
20: What had she thanked God for?
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CHAPTER XIII.
ALBUERA.
Very heavily did five months in the lines of Torres Vedras pass to the Norfolk Rangers. When, in the beginning of November, Massena fell back to Sautarem, the greater portion of the army followed him in readiness for attack should any openings be found. Massena, however, entrenched himself in a very strong position, and Wellington could no more attack him than he could attack the lines of Torres Vedras; so that both armies faced each other in inactivity until the beginning of March, when Massena broke up his camp and began to retreat.
The Norfolk Rangers had been one of the regiments which had remained in their quarters on Torres Vedras throughout the winter, and great was the joy with which they received orders to strike their tents and push on in pursuit. The retreat of Massena was masterly. Ney's division covered the rear, and several sharp fights took place which are known in history as the combats of Pombal, Redinha, Cazal Nova, Foz d'Aronce, and Sabugal.
In most of these the enemy were driven from their position by the British outflanking them and threatening their line of retreat; but in the last, by a mistake of General Erskine, a portion of his division attacked the enemy in rear, and, although vastly outnumbered, drove him off from the crest he held with desperate valor. Wellington himself said, "This was one of the most glorious actions British troops were ever engaged in."
The next day the French crossed the Coa and Turones, and took up their position under the guns of Ciudad Rodrigo, which they had left six months before with the full assurance that they were going to conquer Portugal, and drive the British into the sea. The invasion cost Massena thirty thousand men, killed in battle, taken prisoners, or dead from hardships, fatigues and fevers.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who remained in their quaters throughout the winter?
2: Where was it?
3: Were they happy to receive orders?
4: What were the orders?
5: Who covered the back?
6: What happened there?
7: Are these documented?
8: What are they known as?
9: How long were they at Torres?
10: Did the time pass quickly?
11: What happened in March?
12: To do what?
13: What was the driving force of the enemies?
14: Were they threatened?
15: Who made a mistake?
16: What was the result?
17: Who did?
18: Who declared it to be glorious?
19: How many men were killed in the battle?
20: How many men were somehow affected?
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CHAPTER XII
TOM SPEAKS HIS MIND
"Tom, Miss Harrow would like to see you."
It was an hour later, and the Rovers and the Laning girls had spent the time in watching the efforts of the others to put out the last of the fire. In the meanwhile, some of those present had gone through the addition to the main building and opened the various windows and doors, thus letting out the smoke. An examination proved that the damage done there was very slight, for which the seminary authorities were thankful.
"Wants to see me, eh?" returned Tom, musingly. "Well, I don't know whether I want to see her or not."
"You might as well go, Tom, and have it over with," suggested Sam.
"If I go, I want Nellie to go along," returned the brother. "I want her to know how I stand on this missing-ring question. By the way, how is she, all right?" continued the youth, addressing Stanley, who had brought the news that he was wanted.
"She seems to he all right, although she is very nervous. She says the reason she didn't hear the alarm and get out of the building in time, was because she had had a toothache and had taken a strong dose of medicine to quiet her nerves. Evidently the medicine put her into a sound sleep."
"How about the toothache?" asked Sam, slyly.
"Oh, that's gone now; the fire scared it away."
"Where is she?" questioned Tom.
"She is in the office with some of the other teachers."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who wanted to see Tom?
2: Who did Tom want with him?
3: How was the smoke getting out?
4: Was Miss Harrow ok?
5: who reported that
6: which girls watched what was happening?
7: Why did Miss Harrow not hear?
8: what from?
9: Did she just fall asleep with no help?
10: What type of building was it?
11: Did the fire wreck everything?
12: where was Miss Harrow now?
13: what did happen to her toothache?
14: was she alone in the office?
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"What is success"? Mr. Black asked his 6th grade business class. It was his opening conversation for the first class of the term. "Success is riding in a sweet car, watching an 80-inch( TV, and living in a place with at least twelve rooms." One student answered, earning laughs from all the students. Mr. Black smiled, but shook his head. "Tom, that is excess . That is not success." "How about being able to provide for your family?" A blonde girl named Sandy in the front suggested as an answer. "Now we're getting closer," Mr. Black smiled, "but try thinking about what you need and what you want." "Getting everything you want." Tom shouted out an answer again, trying for more laughs. Mr. Black sighed ." I believe we've already talked about excess versus(...) success." "Getting everything you need, but some of what you want?" James, sitting in the back wondered aloud. "Quite right!" Mr. Black clapped. "Success is getting everything you need and some of what you want. The more you get that you want, the more successful you are. You do reach a point where you are living in excess, though." "What does this have to do with business?" Tom asked. It seemed if it wasn't funny, he wasn't happy. "Well, Tom, think of it this way: the point of business is to make a living to support your family. Once you have properly seen to their needs, you can then seen to getting the extras that you want." "What if I don't have a family?" he continued to be difficult. "Then you have to provide for yourself, a family of one." "He has goldfish to think about!" Peter, Tom's friend, shouted out. "Then he needs to provide for a family of one with a fishbowl." Mr. Black corrected himself. Tom nodded, satisfied with that answer. "So in the next nine weeks, we're going to study basic business situations, like having a checking account and understanding credit cards ." Tom rubbed his hands together excitedly. "When do we get to start spending?" "You already are, Tom. You're spending time with us!" Mr. Black laughed. "Now, let's see what you guys know about credit cards..."
Answer the following questions:
1: who made his class mates laugh?
2: what was the instructor called?
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Paws the cat lives with the Jones family. Before Paws lived with the Jones family he lived with the Smith family and before he lived with the Smith family he lived with the Peters family. The Jones family used to live in a cabin in the woods. Then they moved to an apartment in the city. Now they live in a house outside of the city. Paws liked all of the families that he had lived with but likes the Jones family the best. Paws likes living with the Jones family so much because they are nice to him and always play with him but also because they have lived in such great places. Paws liked living in the cabin in the woods and in the apartment in the city but neither of these were his were his favorite place to live. Paws favorite place to live is in the new house the Jones family bought outside of the city. The home is very large and Paws has a lot of room to run and play.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who lives with the Jones family?
2: What did they live in?
3: Where is it located?
4: How many different places have Paws lived?
5: What was Paws?
6: Before they lived in the house, where did they live?
7: And where before that?
8: How did Paws feel about moving around so much?
9: Why did he like the house?
10: Did he like the cabin?
11: What was one of the families he lived with?
12: Who else?
13: Did the Jones family treat him well?
14: How?
15: Where was the apartment located where they lived?
16: Was it an old house where they live now?
17: What did he like to do at the house?
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CHAPTER 10.
THE OTHER PROFESSOR.
"We were looking for you!" cried Sylvie, in a tone of great relief. "We do want you so much, you ca'n't think!"
"What is it, dear children?" the Professor asked, beaming on them with a very different look from what Uggug ever got from him.
"We want you to speak to the Gardener for us," Sylvie said, as she and Bruno took the old man's hands and led him into the hall.
"He's ever so unkind!" Bruno mournfully added. "They's all unkind to us, now that Father's gone. The Lion were much nicer!"
"But you must explain to me, please," the Professor said with an anxious look, "which is the Lion, and which is the Gardener. It's most important not to get two such animals confused together. And one's very liable to do it in their case--both having mouths, you know--"
"Doos oo always confuses two animals together?" Bruno asked.
"Pretty often, I'm afraid," the Professor candidly confessed. "Now, for instance, there's the rabbit-hutch and the hall-clock." The Professor pointed them out. "One gets a little confused with them--both having doors, you know. Now, only yesterday--would you believe it?--I put some lettuces into the clock, and tried to wind up the rabbit!"
"Did the rabbit go, after oo wounded it up?" said Bruno.
The Professor clasped his hands on the top of his head, and groaned. "Go? I should think it did go! Why, it's gone? And where ever it's gone to--that's what I ca'n't find out! I've done my best--I've read all the article 'Rabbit' in the great dictionary--Come in!"
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was much nicer?
2: Who do Sylvie and Bruno want to talk to the gardener?
3: Who were Sylvie and Bruno looking for?
4: Who does Bruno say is unkind?
5: And who is gone now, according to Bruno?
6: What did the Professor say he gets confused about?
7: What did he say he put into the clock yesterday?
8: And what did he try to do with the rabbit?
9: Was the professor young?
10: Where did Sylvie and Bruno lead him?
11: What did he say is important not to do?
12: How often did he say he does that?
13: What did he mistake the rabbit-hutch for?
14: Why?
15: What did he say he can't figure out?
16: What did he say he read in the dictionary?
17: How old was Bruno?
18: What day did the professor say he put lettuces in the clock?
19: And why was one liable to mistake a Gardener for a Lion?
20: Where did he put his hands after Bruno asked him about the rabbit?
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New York (CNN) -- Rapper Lil Wayne will go directly to jail after he is sentenced by a Manhattan judge Tuesday afternoon for a gun conviction, according to a person familiar with the case.
Dwayne Carter, as he is known legally, pleaded guilty to felony gun charges in a deal with prosecutors October 2009. He is expected to get a one-year prison sentence.
His sentencing was delayed three weeks so he could get some dental work done, including removal of his diamond-studded braces.
The person familiar with the case would not confirm where Wayne would serve his sentence.
The plea agreement was a result of the rapper's 2007 arrest outside New York's Beacon Theater.
According to police, Wayne had a .40-caliber pistol on his tour bus.
"It's not his gun, they know whose gun it is," Wayne's attorney, Stacey Richman, said after a hearing last month.
In an unrelated case, Wayne also faces felony drug possession and weapons charges in the state of Arizona.
Lil Wayne is a multiplatinum-selling and Grammy-winning rap artist. His hits include "The Block is Hot" and "Lollipop," and his album "Tha Carter III" was the top-selling disc of 2008. His latest album, "Rebirth," was released last month.
CNN's Jennifer Rizzo contributed to this report.
Answer the following questions:
1: WHO WILL GO TO JAIL?
2: WHAT IS HIS REAL NAME?
3: WHAT IS HE BEING ACCUSED OF?
4: WHAT JUDGE IS SENTENCING HIM?
5: ON WHAT DATE DID HE PLEAD GUILTY?
6: WHAT YEAR?
7: WHERE WAS HE ARRESTED IN 2007?
8: WHERE IS THAT LOCATED?
9: WHAT DID HE HAVE?
10: WHAT KIND?
11: WHO'S HIS ATTORNEY?
12: HOW LONG ARE THEY EXPECTING HIS SENTENCE TO BE?
13: WHY WAS HIS SENTENCING DELAYED?
14: HOW LONG DID THAT TAKE>
15: WHERE WAS THE PISTOL FOUND?
16: HAS HE BEEN CHARGED FOR OTHER CRIMES?
17: WHAT KIND?
18: IS THAT IT?
19: WHAT ELSE HAS HE DONE?
20: WHAT DOES LIL WAYNE DO FOR A LIVING?
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In a generous display of maturity and sympathy, one Jewish boy made his first deed as a man in his faith a great act of charity. Joshua Neidorf, a 13-year-old boy from Los Angeles, donated most of his birthday money to Operation Mend, a program that reconstructs the faces of severely burned U. S. veterans . The young man decided to donate his money after getting to know Army Sgt. Louis Dahlman, who was undergoing a series of reconstruction surgeries at UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles) thanks to Operation Mend. The Neidorfs had signed up to be Dahlman's "buddy family", spending time with him whenever he visited Los Angeles for a surgery. "I just love knowing that it's going somewhere...to help the people who save our lives and keep us safe every day," said Neidorf. His mother added, "It makes me feel like our world is going in a good direction with this next generation." In all, Neidorf gave $13,000 to Operation Mend. He also encouraged his friends to donate to the cause. He is the organization's youngest donor so far. Operation Mend is a privately funded program that works in partnership with the UCLA Medical Center. Ron Katz, a board member at the hospital, started the program in 2006 after seeing a TV programme about Aaron Mankin, a veteran who had gone through dozens of surgeries after a fight in Iraq which completely burned off his face. Mankin ended up being Operation Mend's first patient, starting the first of 20 reconstructive facial surgeries at UCLA in Sept. 2007. In a 2011 interview, Katz shared how his experience of helping Mankin made him realize the need to establish a more permanent program. "My wife and I soon realized that there were dozens of Aarons out there," Katz said. "They deserve the best that we offer them."
Answer the following questions:
1: What charity did Joshue Neidorf donate to?
2: What's it for?
3: How much did he give?
4: What made him donate?
5: What were the Neidorfs to Dahlman?
6: Neidorf gave thirteen thousand to who?
7: Is it publicly funded?
8: Who started the program?
9: When?
10: Who was the first patient?
11: How many surgiest happened in Sept 2007?
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CHAPTER VII.
A FIRE
The last of February drew nigh, which was the time fixed upon for Josey to go home. He had remained with his uncle much longer than his father had at first intended; but now they wanted him to return, before the roads broke up in the spring.
The evening before Josey was to go, the farmer was sitting by the fire, when Jonas came in from the barn.
"Jonas," said the farmer, "I have got to write a letter to my brother, to send by Josey to-morrow; why won't you take a sheet of paper and write for me, and I'll tell you what to say. You are rather handier with the pen than I am."
Jonas accordingly brought a sheet of paper and a pen and ink, and took his place at a table at the back side of the room, and the farmer dictated to him as follows:
"Dear Brother,
"I take this opportunity to inform you that we are all alive and well, and I hope that you may be the same. This will be handed to you by Josey, who leaves us to-morrow, according to your orders. We have been very glad to have him with us, though he hasn't had opportunity to learn much. However, I suppose he'll fetch up again in his learning, when he gets home. He has behaved pretty fair on the whole, as boys go. He will make a smart man, I've no doubt, though he don't seem to take much to farming.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where was Jonas coming from?
2: In what month did this story take place?
3: In the beginning or the end of the month?
4: Who had Josey been staying with?
5: Who was there when Josie came inside?
6: What did the farmer want him to do?
7: Why did the farmer need Josey's help with the letter?
8: Who ordered Josey to leave?
9: Did Josey learn a lot from his uncle?
10: What instrument did Jonas use to write with?
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Do you have imagination? Do you like to solve problems? Can you? If so, you could be the next great inventor. "But I'm just a kid",you might be! Don't worry about a little thing like age. For example, one famous inventor-- Benjamin Franklin--got his start when he was only 12. At that young age, he created paddles for his hands to help him swim faster. Finally his creation led to what we know is called flippers!
So you don't have to be adult to be an inventor. One thing you do need, though, is something that kids have plenty of: curiosity and imagination. Kids are known for looking at things in new and unique ways.
So what should you do if you have what is a great idea for an invention? Talk to a friend or family member about it. Get input from others about your idea. Then ask them to help you create a working model--called a prototype of your idea.
Once you have a prototype, you can test it. Sometimes your idea turns out to be not as great as you thought. At other times, though, you realize it is a good idea and your prototype can help you figure out how to make it even better.
If your idea is really a good one, an adult can help you contact companies that might be interested in it. You will also want an adult's help to get a patent for your idea, so that it is protected and can't be stolen by someone else. If you need some inspiration, consider these kids and their inventions:
Jeanie Low invented the Kiddie Stool when she was just 11. It's a folding stool that fits under the kitchen sink. Kids can unfold it and use it to reach the sink all by themselves.
At the age of 15, Louis Braille invented the system named after him that allows the blind to read.
Chelsea Lanmon received a patent when she was just 8 for the "pocket diaper ",a new type of diaper that includes a pocket for holding baby wipes and powder.
Answer the following questions:
1: What inventor became famous a long time ago?
2: How old was he when he started inventing?
3: What did he make?
4: Does this mean kids can invent things too?
5: What should you do once you have a prototype?
6: What will testing it prove?
7: Should you contact someone if it's a good idea?
8: Who should you get in touch with?
9: Can someone steal your idea?
10: What can you do about that?
11: Can a kid get one?
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CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
IN WHICH MISS PECKSNIFF MAKES LOVE, MR JONAS MAKES WRATH, MRS GAMP MAKES TEA, AND MR CHUFFEY MAKES BUSINESS
On the next day's official duties coming to a close, Tom hurried home without losing any time by the way; and after dinner and a short rest sallied out again, accompanied by Ruth, to pay his projected visit to Todgers's. Tom took Ruth with him, not only because it was a great pleasure to him to have her for his companion whenever he could, but because he wished her to cherish and comfort poor Merry; which she, for her own part (having heard the wretched history of that young wife from Tom), was all eagerness to do.
'She was so glad to see me,' said Tom, 'that I am sure she will be glad to see you. Your sympathy is certain to be much more delicate and acceptable than mine.'
'I am very far from being certain of that, Tom,' she replied; 'and indeed you do yourself an injustice. Indeed you do. But I hope she may like me, Tom.'
'Oh, she is sure to do that!' cried Tom, confidently.
'What a number of friends I should have, if everybody was of your way of thinking. Shouldn't I, Tom, dear?' said his little sister pinching him upon the cheek.
Tom laughed, and said that with reference to this particular case he had no doubt at all of finding a disciple in Merry. 'For you women,' said Tom, 'you women, my dear, are so kind, and in your kindness have such nice perception; you know so well how to be affectionate and full of solicitude without appearing to be; your gentleness of feeling is like your touch so light and easy, that the one enables you to deal with wounds of the mind as tenderly as the other enables you to deal with wounds of the body. You are such--'
Answer the following questions:
1: Who returned to his house in a hurry?
2: did he remain there all evening?
3: what did he do before he set out again?
4: did he go back out by himself?
5: who went along with him?
6: who were they going to visit?
7: what is Tom and Ruth's relationship?
8: are they visiting a particular person at their destination?
9: and who is that?
10: Is Ruth sure Merry will like her?
11: what does her brother believe?
12: Why does he believe Merry will be happy to see Ruth?
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CHAPTER XVI
ON A BUSINESS BASIS
Captain Horn found Edna at the entrance to the caves, busily employed in filling one of the Rackbirds' boxes with ship-biscuit.
"Miss Markham," said he, "I wish to have a little business talk with you before I leave. Where is Ralph?"
"He is down at the boat," she answered.
"Very good," said he. "Will you step this way?"
When they were seated together in the shade of some rocks, he stated to Edna what he had planned in case he should lose his life in his intended expedition, and showed her the will he had made, and also the directions for herself and Mrs. Cliff. Edna listened very attentively, occasionally asking for an explanation, but offering no opinion. When he had finished, she was about to say something, but he interrupted her.
"Of course, I want to know your opinion about all this," he said, "but not yet. I have more to say. There has been a business plan proposed by two members of our party which concerns me, and when anything is told concerning me, I want to know how it is told, or, if possible, tell it myself."
And then, as concisely as possible, he related to her Maka's anxiety in regard to the boss question, and his method of disposing of the difficulty, and afterwards Mrs. Cliff's anxiety about the property, in case of accident to himself, and her method of meeting the contingency.
During this recital Edna Markham said not one word. To portions of the narrative she listened with an eager interest; then her expression became hard, almost stern; and finally her cheeks grew red, but whether with anger or some other emotion the captain did not know. When he had finished, she looked steadily at him for a few moments, and then she said:
Answer the following questions:
1: Where was Edna?
2: What's her last name?
3: Who found her?
4: Why did he want to talk to her?
5: Where did they sit down?
6: What created the shade?
7: What did he show her?
8: Who are the directions for?
9: And who else?
10: Did Edna have any questions?
11: Did she say what she thought about the plan?
12: How many people made a business plan?
13: How does Horn feel about the plan?
14: Who was feeling anxious?
15: What is she anxious about
16: What color were Edna's cheeks?
17: Why did that happen?
18: What was she doing when he found her?
19: Where is Ralph?
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Mesoamerica was a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending from approximately central Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, and within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries. It is one of six areas in the world where ancient civilization arose independently, and the second in the Americas along with Norte Chico (Caral-Supe) in present-day northern coastal Peru.
As a cultural area, Mesoamerica is defined by a mosaic of cultural traits developed and shared by its indigenous cultures. Beginning as early as 7000 BC, the domestication of cacao, maize, beans, tomato, squash and chili, as well as the turkey and dog, caused a transition from paleo-Indian hunter-gatherer tribal grouping to the organization of sedentary agricultural villages. In the subsequent Formative period, agriculture and cultural traits such as a complex mythological and religious tradition, a vigesimal numeric system, and a complex calendric system, a tradition of ball playing, and a distinct architectural style, were diffused through the area. Also in this period, villages began to become socially stratified and develop into chiefdoms with the development of large ceremonial centers, interconnected by a network of trade routes for the exchange of luxury goods, such as obsidian, jade, cacao, cinnabar, "Spondylus" shells, hematite, and ceramics. While Mesoamerican civilization did know of the wheel and basic metallurgy, neither of these technologies became culturally important.
Answer the following questions:
1: What civilization was aware of the wheel?
2: Were they familiar with metallurgy?
3: Did either of those make much impact on Mesoamerica?
4: Is it diverse in culture?
5: When did they start growing cacao?
6: Was that the same time as maize?
7: What animals were being domesticated around that time?
8: That helped transform them from a hunter-gatherer tribe to what?
9: What period came after that?
10: Besides a vigesimal numeric system, what's another thing that came to be?
11: Did they create a calendar?
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CHAPTER XXII.
CAUGHT.
"We're early," said Beth, as they came to the edge of the woods and sighted the farm house; "but that is better than being late."
Then she stopped suddenly with a low cry and pointed to the right wing, which directly faced them. Bob West turned the corner of the house, tried the door of Uncle John's room, and then walked to one of the French windows. The sash was not fastened, so he deliberately opened it and stepped inside.
"What shall we do?" gasped Patsy, clasping her hands excitedly.
Beth was always cool in an emergency.
"You creep up to the window, dear, and wait till you hear me open the inside door," said she. "I'll run through the house and enter from the living-room. The key is under the mat, you know."
"But what can we do? Oughtn't we to wait until Uncle John and father come?" Patsy asked, in a trembling voice.
"Of course not. West might rob the cupboard and be gone by that time. We've got to act promptly, Patsy; so don't be afraid."
Without further words Beth ran around the back of the house and disappeared, while Patsy, trying to control the beating of her heart, stole softly over the lawn to the open window of Uncle John's room.
She could not help looking in, at the risk of discovery. Bob West--tall, lean and composed as ever--was standing beside the cupboard, the doors of which were wide open. The outer doors were of wood, panelled and carved; the inner ones were plates of heavy steel, and in the lock that secured these latter doors were the keys that had so long been missing. Both were attached to a slender silver chain.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who made a low cry?
2: Who rubbed their hands together?
3: Who was walking through the house?
4: What was his objective?
5: What did Beth tell Patsy to do?
6: Was Beth brave?
7: Where was the thing Patsy need to get inside?
8: What was it?
9: What would they do once they got in there?
10: How did Bob get into John's room?
11: Where did the two girls come from?
12: What had been lost?
13: To what?
14: What was Bob's appearance?
15: What held the keys together?
16: Where was this house located?
17: When was Patsy to go inside?
18: Were Patsy and Beth related?
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Red is the color at the end of the spectrum of visible light next to orange and opposite violet. Red color has a predominant light wavelength of roughly 620–740 nanometres. Red is one of the additive primary colors of visible light, along with green and blue, which in Red Green Blue (RGB) color systems are combined to create all the colors on a computer monitor or television screen. Red is also one of the subtractive primary colors, along with yellow and blue, of the RYB color space and traditional color wheel used by painters and artists.
In nature, the red color of blood comes from hemoglobin, the iron-containing protein found in the red blood cells of all vertebrates. The red color of the Grand Canyon and other geological features is caused by hematite or red ochre, both forms of iron oxide. It also causes the red color of the planet Mars. The red sky at sunset and sunrise is caused by an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering, which, when the sun is low or below the horizon, increases the red-wavelength light that reaches the eye. The color of autumn leaves is caused by pigments called anthocyanins, which are produced towards the end of summer, when the green chlorophyll is no longer produced. One to two percent of the human population has red hair; the color is produced by high levels of the reddish pigment pheomelanin (which also accounts for the red color of the lips) and relatively low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where does red come from?
2: What caused sunset?
3: How many percent human has red hair?
4: Is red a primary color?
5: Along with what color?
6: Who need the color chart?
7: Is sunset happened above the horizon?
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CHAPTER XXVIII
FIRE AND HAIL
On the morning after her return from Winnipeg, Beatrice sat in her father's study, with Mowbray facing her across the table. He looked thoughtful, but not so shocked and indignant as she had expected.
"So you are determined to throw Harding over!"
"Yes," Beatrice said in a strained voice. "It seems impossible to do anything else."
"A broken engagement's a serious matter; we Mowbrays keep our word. I hope you're quite sure of your ground."
"What I heard left no room for doubt."
"Did you hear the man's defense?"
"I refused to listen," said Beatrice coldly. "That he should try to excuse himself only made it worse."
"I'm not sure that's very logical. I'll confess that Harding and I seldom agree, but one must be fair."
"Does that mean that one ought to be lenient?" Beatrice asked with an angry sparkle in her eyes.
Mowbray was conscious of some embarrassment. His ideas upon the subject were not sharply defined, but if it had not been his daughter who questioned him he could have expressed them better. Beatrice ought to have left her parents to deal with a delicate matter like this, but instead she had boldly taken it into her own hands. He had tried to bring up his children well, but the becoming modesty which characterized young women in his youth had gone.
"No," he answered; "not exactly lenient. But the thing may not be so bad as you think--and one must make allowances. Then, a broken engagement reflects upon both parties. Even if one of them has an unquestionable grievance, it proves that that person acted very rashly in making a promise in the first instance."
Answer the following questions:
1: What had Beatrice broken?
2: with woh?
3: did her father and harding often agree?
4: Does he think she should have kept the engagement?
5: does he think she is being fair?
6: would she listen to her fiancee's excuses?
7: did she believe what she had heard about him?
8: Did her father think it made sense notto hear Harding's side of the story?
9: did he think she should have made the decision on her own?
10: who should have been involved?
11: did he think his daughter immodest?
12: did he see it as a parenting failure?
13: who does he feel looks bad in a broken engagement
14: what might it show>?
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Yemen, officially known as the Republic of Yemen, is an Arab country in Western Asia at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. Yemen is the second-largest country in the peninsula, occupying 527,970 km (203,850 sq mi). The coastline stretches for about 2,000 km (1,200 mi). It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, the Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea to the south, and Oman to the east-northeast. Although Yemen's constitutionally stated capital is the city of Sana'a, the city has been under rebel control since February 2015. Because of this, Yemen's capital has been temporarily relocated to the port city of Aden, on the southern coast. Yemen's territory includes more than 200 islands; the largest of these is Socotra.
Yemen was the home of the Sabaeans (biblical Sheba), a trading state that flourished for over a thousand years and also included parts of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea. In 275 AD, the region came under the rule of the later Jewish-influenced Himyarite Kingdom. Christianity arrived in the fourth century, whereas Judaism and local paganism were already established. Islam spread quickly in the seventh century and Yemenite troops were crucial in the expansion of the early Islamic conquests. Administration of Yemen has long been notoriously difficult. Several dynasties emerged from the ninth to 16th centuries, the Rasulid dynasty being the strongest and most prosperous. The country was divided between the Ottoman and British empires in the early twentieth century. The Zaydi Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen was established after World War I in North Yemen before the creation of the Yemen Arab Republic in 1962. South Yemen remained a British protectorate known as the Aden Protectorate until 1967 when it became an independent state and later, a Marxist state. The two Yemeni states united to form the modern republic of Yemen in 1990.
Answer the following questions:
1: Is Yemen the full name of the country?
2: What is the proper name?
3: Which two countries united to form Yemen as it is today?
4: How long is Yemen's coastline?
5: How many countries does Yemen border?
6: How many bodies of water does Yemen border?
7: Does its territory include any islands?
8: What is the largest island?
9: When was the region now known as Yemen first under Jewish control?
10: What was the kingdom called?
11: When did Christianity come into the region?
12: What about Islam?
13: Were any dynasties ever in control of Yemen?
14: Which was the strongest?
15: Which kingdom was established after World War I?
16: How long was it in power?
17: When did the Zaydi Mutawakkilite Kingdom change in power?
18: What was established then?
19: When was the modern republic of Yemen formed?
20: Was South Yemen previously under British control?
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The sister of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect was arrested in New York City on Wednesday for allegedly making a bomb threat, police said.
Ailina Tsarnaev, 24, sister of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was charged with aggravated harassment after a bomb threat was made by phone to another woman Monday.
The recipient, whose name was not released, notified police of the threat, according to New York Police Department Lt. John Grimpel.
Ailina Tsarnaev, a resident of North Bergen, New Jersey, turned herself in to authorities Wednesday.
Her boyfriend shares a child with the woman who was threatened, Grimpel said.
Alina Tsarnaev is no longer in custody and is expected to report to Manhattan criminal court on September 30, according to Grimpel.
Calls to her attorney were not immediately returned to CNN.
Her brothers were accused of planting pressure-cooker bombs at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured more than 260. They also were accused of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer.
Older brother Tamerlan was killed in a police shootout, and Dzhokhar was captured in the days after the bombing. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is awaiting trial in November on terrorism charges.
Friend of Boston bombing suspect pleads guilty to obstructing justice
What did suspected bomber's widow know?
Answer the following questions:
1: Whose brothers were accused of planting bombs a the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon?
2: How old is she?
3: Where was she arrested?
4: On what day?
5: Why?
6: How is her boyfriend connected to the woman she threatened?
7: Is Alina Tsarnaev still being held?
8: Where is she supposed to report to?
9: When?
10: Who is John Grimpel?
11: Where does Ailina Tsarnaev live?
12: How many people did her brothers kill?
13: How many did they injure?
14: What were her brothers named?
15: What exactly was Ailina Tsarnaev charged with?
16: Is Dzhokhar the older brother?
17: Which brother is still alive?
18: When will his trial be?
19: How was Tamerlan killed?
20: Do we know the name of the woman threatened by Ailina Tsarnaev?
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Young women are more adventurous than young men when traveling abroad in gap years. One in three female backpackers visits more than three countries during a year out and travels alone, according to new research.
By contrast, the majority of their male counterparts visit only one country and tend to travel in groups, says a survey by the Gap Year company, which provides information and services for students considering taking a year out.
More women than men say that their prime reason for taking time off is to see the world and experience different cultures. Men were more likely to rank "having fun" higher on their list of priorities. Women were more likely to value the challenge of a foreign trip, and many cited reasons such as learning a language and meeting new people.
The more adventurous gap years taken by women seem to work to their benefit: more than three quarters of those surveyed reported increased confidence, self-reliance and independence, whereas only half of the men had that experience.
The research also showed that women were more likely to do voluntary work while traveling, with more than one in ten helping with teaching or development projects. One of the reasons given for this is a wish to see the country in an authentic light.
A greater proportion of women than men faced objections or criticism from their families over their gap-year plans. Among the men surveyed, lack of money was the main barrier to travel.
Carolyn Martin, a doctor from London, was a typically confident female traveler.
Starting in Cape Town, she traveled around southern Africa and Australia with a string of unusual and sometimes dangerous jobs.
"I had one job chasing elephants off the runway in Africa by banging a stick against a pan," she recalled. "It was OK but one day I did get chased by one."
She said that she had traveled alone because "you meet more people".
Answer the following questions:
1: WHO DOES MORE THAN THE OTHER?
2: DOING WHAT?
3: IN WHAT AMOUNT OF TIME?
4: WHAT ARE THE LADIES CALLED?
5: FIRST PARAGRAPH "B"
6: THE LADY TRAVELERS ARE KNOWN AS BACK...
7: WHO DO THEY USUALLY GO WITH?
8: HOW MANY PLACES?
9: MEN GO TO HOW MANY
10: DO THEY GO SOLO
11: ACCORDING TO WHO
12: WHAT DO THEY GIVE
13: TO WHO
14: DECIDING TO DO WHAT
15: WHY DO LADIES TAKE TIME OFF
16: MORE LADIES OR GENTS
17: WHY DO THE GENTS
18: DO LADIES LIKE THE DIFFICULTY
19: WHAT IS LIKED ABOUT IT
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Oslo, Norway (CNN) -- At a prize ceremony honoring peace, Adán Cortés says violence and injustice sent him rushing toward the stage.
In a matter of seconds, the 21-year-old Mexican student's face was seen around the world last week as he stood in front of Malala Yousafzai at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
"Please Malala, Mexico," he repeated as he unfurled a Mexican flag on the stage at Oslo's City Hall, where the 17-year-old laureate was about to become the youngest person ever to receive the prestigious award.
Oslo police have come under fire over the incident, with critics asking how someone who wasn't on the ceremony's guest list managed to slip through security checkpoints and make it to the front of the room, standing just steps away from Yousafzai and other dignitaries before security hauled him out of the auditorium.
Speaking to CNN at an Oslo detention center on Sunday, Cortés said he knows it was a drastic move. But he felt like he had no choice and wanted only a few seconds to speak about Mexico's problems on a global stage.
"My motivation was to show solidarity with all the things that have happened in my country, ultimately, well, the 43 missing students, who are suspected to be dead and burned, that was my main motivation," he said. "I am tired of so many injustices that we have lived in Mexico, for decades."
The students' case has sparked national outrage in Mexico and drawn global attention to the country's continued struggles to deal with police corruption and drug-related violence.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was receiving the Nobel Peace prize?
2: how old was he?
3: who slipped through security?
4: why was he there?
5: what country?
6: how old was he?
7: his occupation?
8: where did this happen?
9: Where is he now?
10: What was his main motivation?
11: Who in particular is he talking about?
12: Were they thought to be alive?
13: How long were these injustices thought to be going on?
14: What kind of corruption does the country struggle with?
15: Do they deal with violence also?
16: what kind?
17: Where in Oslo was the cermony?
18: WHy were the police under fire?
19: What does the ceremony honor?
20: Who spoke with Cortes in detention?
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Chad walked to the pet store. He saw puppies. There was a black and white puppy. Chad liked the puppy. Chad walked the puppy home on a leash. He took the puppy in the yard to play. He found a ball to play fetch with the puppy. Chad threw the ball and the puppy chased it across the yard. After they were done playing, Chad fed and watered the puppy. He found two bowls in the kitchen. He filled one with water. He filled the other bowl with dog food. The puppy ran to the bowls to eat and drink. When the puppy was finished eating it became tired. Chad made the puppy a bed out of an old pillow. The puppy curled up on the pillow and went to sleep.
Answer the following questions:
1: What animal did Chad see in a store?
2: How did Chad feel about those?
3: What did the animal look like?
4: Did he decide to keep it?
5: What did he do with it after he left the store?
6: What else did they do?
7: How?
8: What did he eat?
9: Was the dog thirsty as well?
10: That's a lot of activity for one afternoon, what happened next?
11: Did it go to sleep then?
12: Where did it do that?
13: Where did that come from?
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Hydrogen is a chemical element with chemical symbol H and atomic number 1. With an atomic weight of 7000100794000000000♠1.00794 u, hydrogen is the lightest element on the periodic table. Its monatomic form (H) is the most abundant chemical substance in the Universe, constituting roughly 75% of all baryonic mass.[note 1] Non-remnant stars are mainly composed of hydrogen in its plasma state. The most common isotope of hydrogen, termed protium (name rarely used, symbol 1H), has one proton and no neutrons.
The universal emergence of atomic hydrogen first occurred during the recombination epoch. At standard temperature and pressure, hydrogen is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, nonmetallic, highly combustible diatomic gas with the molecular formula H2. Since hydrogen readily forms covalent compounds with most non-metallic elements, most of the hydrogen on Earth exists in molecular forms such as in the form of water or organic compounds. Hydrogen plays a particularly important role in acid–base reactions as many acid-base reactions involve the exchange of protons between soluble molecules. In ionic compounds, hydrogen can take the form of a negative charge (i.e., anion) when it is known as a hydride, or as a positively charged (i.e., cation) species denoted by the symbol H+. The hydrogen cation is written as though composed of a bare proton, but in reality, hydrogen cations in ionic compounds are always more complex species than that would suggest. As the only neutral atom for which the Schrödinger equation can be solved analytically, study of the energetics and bonding of the hydrogen atom has played a key role in the development of quantum mechanics.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is Hydrogen?
2: What is its weight?
3: How much is in the air?
4: is it toxic?
5: When did it first occur?
6: Does it have a taste?
7: Can it be found in liqud?
8: Is it in space?
9: Who founded it?
10: When did he find it?
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Superman, Spider-Man, Batman and Iron Man ... .There is no shortage of superheroes. You find them in comic books, on the TV and the big screen.
In a survey of fans by the sci-fi and fantasy website, SFX.co.uk, Batman, 70 years old this year, was voted Britain's favorite superhero.
Unlike many crime-fighting superheroes Batman has no special powers. He can't fly like Superman or shoot a sticky web like Spider-Man.
Bruce Wayne is born to a wealthy Gotham City business family. However, when his parents are murdered his life changes completely.
Wayne feels anger at their deaths and guilty that he did not prevent them. He travels around the world learning how to fight. Upon returning to Gotham, he creates a disguise to enable him to fight crime without being recognized.
A childhood fear of bats leads him to choose to dress as one. His idea is that through the bat person he can prove to himself that he has overcome his childhood fears.
Wayne is the CEO of the company he inherits from his father. He seems to live the lifestyle of a millionaire playboy. But this is a ruse . He works hard at the image to allow himself the freedom he needs to do his work as a crime fighter. "Bruce Wayne, playboy" is the disguise Batman is the real person.
"Wayne is not a born superhero. Instead, he is a real, complex person," said Dace Golder, editor of the website. "He is the most realistic of all the superheroes. I am particularly interested in the emotional process by which a boy becomes a hero. His superhero qualities come from within."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is Britain's most popular superhero?
2: According to what site?
3: What kind of site is this?
4: What does Batman feel upset about?
5: What is his superpower?
6: What does Dace Golder say Batman is not?
7: What is Golder especially intrigued by?
8: Does he consider Batman to be believable as a person?
9: Where does Batman travel?
10: Where did he travel before that?
11: What was he doing around the world?
12: Does Batman have a disguise?
13: What is his disguise name?
14: What kind of life does he live?
15: Does this image come easily to him?
16: How does Batman dress?
17: Why did he pick a bat?
18: Name another superhero mentioned in the article.
19: How long has the Batman character been around?
20: ICan you find superheroes in film?
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Alexandria, Virginia (CNN) -- A former Marine Corps reservist pleaded guilty Thursday to shooting at the Pentagon and other military-related buildings and to trying to desecrate graves at Arlington National Cemetery containing the remains of veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yonathan Melaku entered a guilty plea to three counts: damaging U.S. property with a firearm, using a firearm in a crime of violence and attempting injury to veterans' memorials on U.S. property.
Melaku, a 23-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Ethiopia, was arrested June 17 at the cemetery. He had a backpack with four plastic bags each containing 5 pounds of ammonium nitrate, material commonly used in homemade explosives. He also had numerous 9 mm spent shell casings; black paint and a notebook with Arabic statements mentioning al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and the "Path to Jihad."
In the statement of facts document signed by Melaku, he admitted he "intended to desecrate and injure grave markers by spray-painting the markers with Arabic statements and by leaving the ammonium nitrate he was carrying at the sites of these grave markers."
Melaku did not have all the components needed to make a bomb. In a search of his home, investigators found a typed list that included various components including batteries, wire and a "digital kitchen countdown timer." But he had not obtained all of those items.
Melaku admitted to five shootings with a legally owned handgun at military buildings in Northern Virginia between October 17 and November 2 of 2010. He said he attacked the Pentagon, Marine and Coast Guard recruiting offices and he twice fired at the National Museum of the Marine Corps.
Answer the following questions:
1: Did Melaku have all the things he needed to make an explosive device?
2: What was found in his home during a search?
3: What was on the list?
4: Did he enter a plea in court?
5: Was it guilty or not guilty?
6: To how many counts?
7: What did he damage with a gun?
8: Was he formerly a part of the U.S. Military?
9: Which branch?
10: Which cemetery were the graves located in?
11: How old is Melaku?
12: Where was he born?
13: How many plastic bags were in his backpack?
14: What was in them?
15: What was in his notebook?
16: How did he plan on desecrating the graves?
17: How many shootings did he admit to?
18: Was the gun he used obtained legally?
19: The cemetery contained the graves of veterans who fought in which wars?
20: What date was Melaku arrested?
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Below are Top 10 Scholarly Stars in America in 2011. It's not always about fame and fortune for these celebs - education is a priority in their lives. Find out what scholarly stars have earned degrees and diplomas or are returning to the classroom as you head back to school. No. 10: James Franco James has attended FOUR prestigious universities in his life: UCLA, New York University, Columbia University and Yale University. We hear he's is so serious about school, he missed the Oscar nominations to attend class! No. 9: Natalie Portman Natalie Portman is so Ivy League: she graduated from Harvard University in 2003, thanks to her parents, who she says always made sure she put her studies before her acting. No. 8: Haley Joel Osment When students at NYU heard Haley Joel would be joining them as a freshman in 2006, they chalked the campus' sidewalks with his famous Sixth Sense movie line: "I see dead people." No. 7: Emma Watson Although Emma Watson put her education on hold to wrap up the Harry Potter film series, in July 2011 she announced that she was going back to school at Brown University to complete her degree. No. 6: Dakota and Elle Fanning Celeb sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning are stars on screen and in class. Dakota was her high school's homecoming queen two years in a row while Elle, who still attends middle school, somehow manages to balance her acting career with math tests and gym class. No. 5: Mara Wilson Mara Wilson graduated from NYU in 2009. Mara, who played the adorable Nattie in Mrs. Doubtfire, eventually grew up and headed to New York to attend NYU's Tisch School of the Arts; she graduated in 2009. No. 4: Tyra Banks Tyra Banks is known for being a savvy businesswoman, but even the best could use some formal training. She enrolled in Harvard Business School in 2011 and even went so far as to live in a dorm with her fellow classmates! "We live in dorms," confirmed the TV star. "I have my own room but we share a kitchen, living room and study area. It's mandatory dorms. I freaked out. In the beginning I was like, 'Oh yes, I'm going to Harvard and I'll be at the Four Seasons down the street.' And they were like, 'Girl, you're living in dorms!'" No. 3: Shakira Singer Shakira is resting her hips and giving her brain a workout at UCLA, attending classes on the history of western civilization so she could "learn from the best". No. 2: Steven Spielberg Director Steven skipped getting a formal education to be an unpaid intern at Universal Studios, where he learned his tricks of the _ . But eventually he did go back and earned his film degree in 2002. No. 1: Danica McKellar Danica McKellar is a math whiz. She used to be known for starring as Winnie Cooper in the Wonder Years, but Danica is also a UCLA graduate, math whiz and education advocate who's written three best-selling books encouraging middle-school girls to have confidence and succeed in mathematics.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the topic?
2: Who is the tenth artist?
3: How many colleges did he go to?
4: Who's the ninth person?
5: What type of university did she attend?
6: In what year did she graduate?
7: Who's next?
8: In what year did she start at NYU?
9: What movie was the person famous for?
10: Which actress is next?
11: What school did she return to after Harry Potter?
12: Who's number 6 on the list?
13: What "accomplishment" did Dakota have twice?
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Johannesburg (CNN) -- A plane carrying Madagascar's ousted leader Marc Ravalomanana was turned away from Madagascan airspace Saturday as he tried to return from exile, his spokesman and the airline said.
Ravalomanana, who had been in South Africa in exile, took off from Johannesburg Saturday morning in what was his second bid to return to his home country.
But Ravalomanana's spokesman Patrick Gearing, in South Africa, told CNN that the civil aviation authorities on the Indian Ocean island had closed the airspace, refusing the plane permission to land.
By Saturday afternoon the plane -- and Ravalomanana -- were back in South Africa, said Gearing.
Ravalomanana was ousted in March 2009 through a coup backed by the military, which handed power to current President Andry Rajoelina, the youthful former mayor of Antananarivo.
Shortly before boarding his flight to the capital, Antananarivo, Ravalomanana said that he had just spoken with the Madagascan Prime Minister Omer Beriziky, who told him "everything was OK."
Speaking before the flight took off, Gearing said: "He has no control over what will happen to him when he arrives but he is prepared to face whatever comes his way."
Ravalomanana's previous unsuccessful effort to return last year came to an end in Johannesburg, when the airline he was using was told it wouldn't be allowed to land if he was on board.
Madagascar is in the process of implementing a peace agreement facilitated by a regional body, the South African Development Community.
Gearing says Ravalomanana met with South Africa's President Jacob Zuma Friday to thank him for letting him stay following his ouster.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was formerly the leader of Madagascar?
2: What was he trying to do?
3: Who was his spokesman?
4: What did he say?
5: Who did he tell that?
6: Did they let him land?
7: Where did they go after that?
8: When was he removed from office?
9: How?
10: Who became President?
11: Who was the Prime Minister?
12: What did he say?
13: What is Madagascar doing?
14: Who is facilitating it?
15: What's their name?
16: Who did he meet with?
17: Why?
18: For what?
19: When did he stay?
20: Who was the South African President?
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(CNN) -- An extensive internal review of the debacle at Penn State that left a child sex abuser in place on campus for years forever casts a shadow over a heroic figure at the school: Joe Paterno.
The report, the result of months of investigation, finds Paterno and a few other top officials not only showed a "callous and shocking disregard for child victims," but also helped "empower" assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky to attract victims, according to former FBI Director Louis Freeh, who spearheaded the review.
Review at Penn State: 'Total disgard' for the victims
Allegations have swirled around Paterno, the legendary head football coach who led Penn State to national prominence, since the scandal broke last year. Still, the official independent review deals a heavy blow to those who love college football and idolize Paterno.
Penn State trustee Kenneth Frazier, head of the committee addressing the Sandusky scandal, said it was clear that Paterno and other key university leaders exhibited "inexcusable failures" when it came to protecting children.
But, Frazier said, figuring the coach's legacy will be a bit more complicated.
Paterno defended Penn State in letter before his death
"There is a lot about his life that's worth emulating," he said. "You have to measure every human by the good they've done, the bad they've done. I don't think any of us wants to be measured by the worst things we've ever been done in our life."
Following the report's release Thursday, many people took to social media to condemn the aura of support that has long surrounded Paterno -- and the students who rioted in November after he was fired.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was Paterno?
2: Where?
3: Was he good at it?
4: Does he now have allegations against him?
5: of what?
6: What kind of abuse did he inflict?
7: Who was Jerry Sandusky?
8: Did he have victims?
9: Who are they saying helped him?
10: Where did all this happen?
11: Is Paterno alive?
12: What did he write before he passed?
13: What did he do in the letter?
14: What does he say people should be measured by?
15: The good and the bad?
16: How does he think no one wants to be measured?
17: When was a report put out?
18: When was there a riot?
19: Why?
20: Who rioted?
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United Nations (CNN) -- The U.N. Security Council met Monday to consider the Palestinians' bid for full membership in the world body and decided to meet again Wednesday morning, when they will send the matter to the admissions committee, said Security Council President Nawaf Salam of Lebanon.
Salam said the decision was made to take the matter to the committee as required by Article 59 of the United Nations' rules of procedure. "So, we have to wait until Wednesday morning," he said outside the Security Council.
Though the debate is expected to be largely symbolic in the face of a promised American veto, the permanent observer of the Palestinian Authority to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, held out hope prior to Monday's Security Council meeting that the bid would be accepted.
"We hope that the Security Council will shoulder its responsibility and address this application with a positive attitude, especially since we have 139 countries that have recognized the state of Palestine so far, meaning more than two-thirds majority," he said. "We are ready to govern ourselves."
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas made the bid for the United Nations to recognize an independent state of Palestine on Friday, a move Israel says is premature without direct talks that address its longstanding security concerns.
Abbas drew applause when the Palestinian leader raised the document at the podium during his speech at the 66th annual session of the General Assembly.
The time has come for a "Palestinian Spring" to join the Arab Spring in reshaping the Middle East, he said. "My people desire to exercise their right to enjoy a normal life like the rest of humanity."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is president of the UN security council?
2: what were they talking about Monday?
3: Who is Palestinian Authority President?
4: when did me make the bid?
5: what was Israel's response?
6: where did the security council refer the bid
7: which rule (article) were they following?
8: what has the US said it would do?
9: who is optimistic?
10: who is the Palestinian permanent observer?
11: what does he wantt he council to do?
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François Hollande, the newly-inaugurated President of France, may be as notable for what he has not done as for what he has.
He has never held national elective office despite being at the center of French politics for more than a decade, and he has never been married despite a three-decade relationship and four children with Ségolène Royale, another of the country's top Socialist politicians.
Hollande led the Socialist Party for 11 years and was leader when Royale ran unsuccessfully for president against Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007.
Hollande and Royale split up a month before that election, and he is now seeing journalist Valérie Trierweiler, who appeared, smiling with him, as he celebrated his victory Sunday.
He immediately spooked markets, and Germany, France's key ally in the European Union, with his victory speech.
"Austerity can no longer be something that is inevitable," he said, apparently undercutting the belt-tightening that his predecessor and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have urged on European countries beset by debt.
Hollande emerged as his party's candidate for president after the downfall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was once considered the Socialist favorite to defeat Sarkozy.
But Strauss-Kahn was arrested in May 2011 after a New York hotel maid alleged that he tried to rape her. Charges against the former IMF chief were later dropped in the United States, but he has been warned he could be investigated in France over accusations he participated in a prostitution ring.
But Hollande was not an accidental candidate despite the way he has come to power, one commentator said.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is the Newly inaugurated President of France?
2: What is he notable for not doing?
3: how long has he lead the Socialist party?
4: What did he do the the Markets in Germany?
5: What did he say that undercut what his predicessor and the German Chancellor whated the EU countries to do?
6: Who's downfall lead to him emerging as his party's canidate?
7: Who unsuccessfully ran for president against Nicolas Sarkozy?
8: How long has Hollande been the center of French Politics?
9: Would he be considered an Accidental Canidate?
10: Who appeared with him celebrating his victor?
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Singing competition shows like "American Idol" and "The Voice" don't only make stars, they rehabilitate them.
Just ask Jennifer Lopez, whose seat at the "American Idol" judges' table paved the way for the success of her 2011 album and her recently announced summer tour. Or Maroon 5, who benefited greatly from frontman Adam Levine's spot on "The Voice." Even his fellow "Voice" judge, Christina Aguilera, cashed in on the group's best-selling single "Moves Like Jagger."
But for a megawatt star like Britney Spears, who already experienced a comeback of sorts in 2008 with the release of "Circus" not long after her fall from grace, a judging and mentoring gig on "The X Factor" isn't needed to sell albums.
Unlike her aforementioned reality show judge counterparts, Spears joins the Fox singing competition still riding the success of her seventh studio album, and her worldwide "Femme Fatale Tour." Even the star's personal life appears to be more in order these days.
But the pop princess hasn't exactly been accessible to her fans since she was placed in a conservatorship in 2008. And as stars like Lady Gaga and Beyonce have figured out, there's more to being a singing sensation in 2012 than meets the ear.
Fans want to relate to their favorite artists on a personal level, said Andy Greene, an associate editor at Rolling Stone. Becoming a mainstay on a show like "The X Factor," and showing off her personality each week, could reignite the level of fame Spears experienced in the early 2000s, Greene added.
Answer the following questions:
1: What show did Jennifer Lopez judge?
2: And Adam Levine?
3: What about Christina Aguilera?
4: And Britney Spears?
5: Does Adam Levine play drums?
6: What song did Levine and Aguilera collaborate on?
7: How many albums has Spears had?
8: Is she touring?
9: What's the tour name?
10: What is Andy Greene's job?
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CHAPTER 22.
"Young blighted Albert," said Keggs the butler, shifting his weight so that it distributed itself more comfortably over the creaking chair in which he reclined, "let this be a lesson to you, young feller me lad."
The day was a week after Lord Marshmoreton's visit to London, the hour six o'clock. The housekeeper's room, in which the upper servants took their meals, had emptied. Of the gay company which had just finished dinner only Keggs remained, placidly digesting. Albert, whose duty it was to wait on the upper servants, was moving to and fro, morosely collecting the plates and glasses. The boy was in no happy frame of mind. Throughout dinner the conversation at table had dealt almost exclusively with the now celebrated elopement of Reggie Byng and his bride, and few subjects could have made more painful listening to Albert.
"What's been the result and what I might call the upshot," said Keggs, continuing his homily, "of all your making yourself so busy and thrusting of yourself forward and meddling in the affairs of your elders and betters? The upshot and issue of it 'as been that you are out five shillings and nothing to show for it. Five shillings what you might have spent on some good book and improved your mind! And goodness knows it wants all the improving it can get, for of all the worthless, idle little messers it's ever been my misfortune to have dealings with, you are the champion. Be careful of them plates, young man, and don't breathe so hard. You 'aven't got hasthma or something, 'ave you?"
Answer the following questions:
1: What kind of job does Keggs do?
2: Who is he talking to?
3: Is he lecturing him?
4: Who is older?
5: Where are they?
6: What kind of job does Albert have?
7: Is Keggs one of them?
8: Who eats here?
9: What meal had just ended?
10: Did Albert like the topic everyone was talking about?
11: Who had gotten married?
12: To who?
13: How did they marry?
14: Are most people happy about it?
15: Is Albert?
16: Who had gone to London?
17: How long after that was this conversation?
18: How much money did Keggs feel Albert wasted?
19: What should he have done with it?
20: What for?
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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A Pakistani court Monday gave police two weeks to prepare their case for charging five Americans whom police suspect of planning terrorist attacks.
Authorities have said they plan to prosecute the five men -- who are being held in jail -- under the country's anti-terrorism act.
A court hearing was set for January 18.
Police have said they are confident that the Americans were planning terrorist acts, according to Tahir Gujjrar, deputy superintendent of police in Sargodha, where the men were arrested December 9.
Gujjrar told CNN a preliminary investigation suggests that the men came to Pakistan to wage jihad and had sought to link up with Jaish-e-Mohammed and Jamaat-ud-Dawa militant organizations, neither of which showed interest, he said. The men wanted to martyr themselves, he said.
Jaish-e-Mohammed is the group believed to be responsible for the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl.
But Mohammed Ameer Khan Rokhri, an attorney representing the men, said they testified on the Quran, the Muslim holy book, "that they have no connection with any banned organization," including Jaish-e-Mohammed or al Qaeda.
They told the court, "We are going to Afghanistan to help the Muslims who have been injured by the NATO forces and other Afghan forces," the attorney said. And they said the didn't intend to commit any crime in Pakistan, he said.
The five young men are identified as Ahmed Abdullah Minni, Umar Farooq, Aman Hassan Yemer, Waqar Hussain Khan and Ramy Zamzam. All are in their early 20s except Yemer, who, according to the interrogation report from Pakistani police, is 18 years old. Two of the suspects are Pakistani-American, two are Yemeni-American, and one is Egyptian-American.
Answer the following questions:
1: How many Americans were charged?
2: What was the name of the journalist murdered?
3: What group is responsible?
4: Who is his attorney?
5: What did he testify on?
6: Were all the victims in their 20's?
7: How long was the court given to prepare their case?
8: When was the hearing set for?
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Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group on the periodic table and is a highly reactive nonmetal and oxidizing agent that readily forms compounds (notably oxides) with most elements. By mass, oxygen is the third-most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium. At standard temperature and pressure, two atoms of the element bind to form dioxygen, a colorless and odorless diatomic gas with the formula O 2. Diatomic oxygen gas constitutes 20.8% of the Earth's atmosphere. However, monitoring of atmospheric oxygen levels show a global downward trend, because of fossil-fuel burning. Oxygen is the most abundant element by mass in the Earth's crust as part of oxide compounds such as silicon dioxide, making up almost half of the crust's mass.
Many major classes of organic molecules in living organisms, such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and fats, contain oxygen, as do the major inorganic compounds that are constituents of animal shells, teeth, and bone. Most of the mass of living organisms is oxygen as it is a part of water, the major constituent of lifeforms. Oxygen is used in cellular respiration and released by photosynthesis, which uses the energy of sunlight to produce oxygen from water. It is too chemically reactive to remain a free element in air without being continuously replenished by the photosynthetic action of living organisms. Another form (allotrope) of oxygen, ozone (O 3), strongly absorbs UVB radiation and consequently the high-altitude ozone layer helps protect the biosphere from ultraviolet radiation, but is a pollutant near the surface where it is a by-product of smog. At even higher low earth orbit altitudes, sufficient atomic oxygen is present to cause erosion for spacecraft.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the article about?
2: What is its symbol?
3: it's numeral?
4: is it abundant?
5: how does it rank?
6: What is more abundant?
7: What makes up O2?
8: What seems to be lowering earths levels of O2?
9: Does O2 exist inside our planet?
10: How is O2 released by plants? What process?
11: What is O3?
12: Where is this found?
13: Is it found near the face of the planet?
14: What is this called?
15: Does smog cause this?
16: What can erode space vehicles?
17: At what level?
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CHAPTER FOUR.
A DISCOVERY--THE CHASE CONTINUED ON FOOT.
To bound from the depths of despair to the pinnacles of hope is by no means an uncommon experience to vigorous youth. When Victor Ravenshaw awoke next morning after a profound and refreshing sleep, and looked up through the branches at the bright sky, despondency fled, and he felt ready for anything. He was early awake, but Peegwish had evidently been up long before him, for that wrinkled old savage had kindled the fire, and was seated on the other side of it wrapped in his blanket, smoking, and watching the preparation of breakfast. When Victor contemplated his solemn eyes glaring at a roasting duck, which suggested the idea that he had been sitting there and glaring all night, he burst into an uncontrollable fit of laughter.
"Come, I say, Vic," said Ian, roused by this from a comfortable nap, "if you were a hyena there might be some excuse for you, but being only a man--forgive me, a boy--you ought to have more sense than to disturb your friends so."
"Oui, yes; dat is troo. Vraiment, it is too bad," growled Rollin, sitting up and stretching himself. "Howsomewhatever, it is time to rise. Oui!"
"I should think it was," retorted Victor; "the sun is already up, and you may be sure that Petawanaquat has tramped some miles this morning. Come, Peegwish, close your eyes a bit for fear they jump out. What have you got to give us, eh? Robbiboo, ducks, and--no, is it tea? Well, we _are_ in luck to have fallen in with you."
Answer the following questions:
1: what is a common experience for youth?
2: Who awoke?
3: when?
4: Did he sleep well?
5: how did he feel?
6: did he wake up late?
7: who was awake earlier than him?
8: how much earlier?
9: what had he done?
10: where was he sitting?
11: doing what?
12: wrapped in what?
13: what was being made for breakfast?
14: who saw him watching?
15: how did he react?
16: what was so funny?
17: who was compared to an animal?
18: what animal?
19: why is Peegwish told to close his eyes?
20: was the sun up yet?
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Augustine of Hippo ( or ; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was an early North African Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. He was the bishop of Hippo Regius in north Africa and is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers in Western Christianity for his writings in the Patristic Era. Among his most important works are "The City of God" and "Confessions."
According to his contemporary, Jerome, Augustine "established anew the ancient Faith." In his early years, he was influenced by Manichaeism and afterward by the neo-Platonism of Plotinus. After his baptism and conversion to Christianity in 386, Augustine developed his own approach to philosophy and theology, accommodating a variety of methods and perspectives. Believing that the grace of Christ was indispensable to human freedom, he helped formulate the doctrine of original sin and made seminal contributions to the development of just war theory. When the Western Roman Empire began to disintegrate, Augustine developed the concept of the Church as a spiritual City of God, distinct from the material Earthly City. His thoughts profoundly influenced the medieval worldview. The segment of the Church that adhered to the concept of the Trinity as defined by the Council of Nicaea and the Council of Constantinople closely identified with Augustine's "On the Trinity".
Answer the following questions:
1: Who wrote "Confessions?"
2: Did he write anything else around that time?
3: What?
4: What time period was it written in?
5: Who influenced him first?
6: And after?
7: Was he a Christian?
8: Since when?
9: What did he do at that time?
10: Hold old was in 386?
11: Where did he live?
12: Where was he bishop of?
13: What did he think you needed as part of human freedom?
14: What doctrine did he help create?
15: And what theory did he contribute to?
16: When did he formulate the church as a sacred city?
17: When the Roman Empire ended, did he separate church cities from material cities?
18: What was the concept called?
19: Did his ideas carry much weight back then in the world?
20: When did he die?
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CHAPTER XXXVII
MIKE FINDS OCCUPATION
There was more than one moment during the first fortnight of term when Mike found himself regretting the attitude he had imposed upon himself with regard to Sedleighan cricket. He began to realise the eternal truth of the proverb about half a loaf and no bread. In the first flush of his resentment against his new surroundings he had refused to play cricket. And now he positively ached for a game. Any sort of a game. An innings for a Kindergarten _v._ the Second Eleven of a Home of Rest for Centenarians would have soothed him. There were times, when the sun shone, and he caught sight of white flannels on a green ground, and heard the "plonk" of bat striking ball, when he felt like rushing to Adair and shouting, "I _will_ be good. I was in the Wrykyn team three years, and had an average of over fifty the last two seasons. Lead me to the nearest net, and let me feel a bat in my hands again."
But every time he shrank from such a climb down. It couldn't be done.
What made it worse was that he saw, after watching behind the nets once or twice, that Sedleigh cricket was not the childish burlesque of the game which he had been rash enough to assume that it must be. Numbers do not make good cricket. They only make the presence of good cricketers more likely, by the law of averages.
Mike soon saw that cricket was by no means an unknown art at Sedleigh. Adair, to begin with, was a very good bowler indeed. He was not a Burgess, but Burgess was the only Wrykyn bowler whom, in his three years' experience of the school, Mike would have placed above him. He was a long way better than Neville-Smith, and Wyatt, and Milton, and the others who had taken wickets for Wrykyn.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is the main character?
2: What sport didn't he want to play at first?
3: Did he initially like the place he was at?
4: But did he later want to play?
5: Did he ever go play?
6: Was the game what he expected?
7: Who played the bowler position?
8: Where?
9: Who played that position at Sedleigh?
10: How many people was he better than?
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Jim suffered heart problems. In conversation he expressed little joy and it seemed that his life was drawing to a close. When his heart problems led to operation, Jim went through it successfully, and a full recovery was expected. Within days, however, his heart was not beating properly. Jim was rushed back to operation, but nothing was found to explain the cause of his illness. He died on the operating table on the day before his 48th birthday. Dr. Bruce Smoller, a psychologist , had had many conversations with him, and the more he learned, the stranger he realized Jim's case was. When Jim was a child, his father, a teacher, suffered a heart attack and stayed home to recover. One morning Jim asked his father to look over his homework, promising to come home from school at noon to pick it up. His father agreed, but when Jim returned his father had died. Jim's father was 48. "I think all his life Jim believed he killed his father," Dr. Smoller says. "He felt that if he had not asked him to look at his homework, his father would have lived. Jim had been troubled by the idea. The operation was the trial he had expected for forty years. " Smoller believes that Jim willed himself not to live to the age of 48. Jim's case shows the powerful role that attitude plays in physical health, and that childhood experiences produce far-reaching effect on the health of grown-ups. Although most cases are less direct than Jim's, studies show that childhood events, besides genes, may well cause such midlife diseases as cancer, heart disease and mental illness.
Answer the following questions:
1: What are midlife diseases?
2: How old was Jim when his father died?
3: What did he his dad do for a living?
4: What did the son need help with?
5: Did he believe that it killed his dad?
6: What happened when he was 47?
7: Was he expected to survive the surgery?
8: Who analyzed Jim?
9: What does he do?
10: Did Jim & Smoller talk much?
11: What effects the health of adults?
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Is there intelligent life on other planets? For years, scientists said "no." or "we don't know." But today this is changing. Seth Shostak and Alexandra Barnett are astronomers . They believe intelligent life exists somewhere in the universe. They also think we sill soon contact these beings(;). Why do Shostak and Barnett think intelligent life exists on other planets? The first reason is time. Scientists believe the universe is about 12 billion years old. "This is long enough for other planets to have intelligent life," say Shostak and Barnett. The second reason is size--the universe is huge. "Tools like the Hubble Telescope have shown that there are at least 100 billion galaxies," says Shostak. "And our galaxy, the Milky Way, has at least 100 billion stars. Some planets going around these stars might be similar to Earth." In the past, it was hard to look for signs of intelligent life in the universe. But now, powerful telescopes allow scientists to discover smaller planets--the size of Mars or Earth--in other solar systems. These planets might have intelligent life. Have beings from space already visited Earth? "Probably not," says Shostak. "It's a long way away. However, intelligent beings may contact us in other way, such as radio signals . In fact, they may be trying to communicate with us now, but we don't have the right tools to receive their messages. However, this is changing. By 2025, we could make contact with other life forms in our universe and we might help each other."
Answer the following questions:
1: Are we able to communicate with other planets?
2: Why not?
3: Will we ever?
4: When?
5: Who thinks that?
6: Who is he?
7: Does he believe in alien intelligent life?
8: Do others believe that?
9: Who else?
10: Who is that?
11: What do they think?
12: What makes them so sure?
13: What about time?
14: Why does that matter?
15: What's another reason?
16: How big?
17: Why does that matter?
18: Why is that important?
19: How would we know if there was life?
20: Has earth already been visited by aliens?
21: Why not?
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Seedy the watermelon was a very special type of watermelon. He didn't have any seeds. He was green and he had stripes. All of his cousins had seeds, but he didn't have any. He felt very left out. He couldn't thing of why he was different. His mom told him it was because he was a very special watermelon. She also tells him she loves him the way he is. But Seedy didn't think it was a good thing. He wished he could be like everyone else and have seeds. One day, he rolled out to the lawn and looked at all of his new cousins growing in the garden. He rolled around until he found a little baby watermelon that didn't have any seeds either. He sat next to him and talked to him. He told him that he was very special, and was excited for him to be picked off the vine and be his special best friend. He would name him Seedy, Jr.
Answer the following questions:
1: How was Seedy different?
2: What color was he?
3: What did his parent believe?
4: Did he believe that?
5: What did he think about another melon not having seeds?
6: What did he call this one?
7: Did they become friends then?
8: Were they family members?
9: Did Seedy accept himself?
10: What was his mother's name?
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How do you feel when you stay in hospital alone? Jenny, 13, a US student, feels bored. She knows the feeling because she has been in hospital many times herself. One day, she thought of an idea--if patients could get some books to read, they would feel better. So, from May, she and many of her friends began to collect books for hospital patients. In six months the students collected 1,250 books at school. They decided to donate the books to the North Shore Medical Centre, a children's hospital next door to their school. "There are books for kids of all ages, from babies up to high school level." said Jenny. The students put the books into "early readers", "middle readers" and "advanced readers". Then they wrote their best wishes to patients on bookmarks and letters, put the books in big boxes and donated them to the hospital. "We wrote things like, "Keep on reading!' and 'Hope you feel better!," said John, 14, Jenny's brother. "And we also wrote some funny things to make them laugh." Frank, 12, and Steven, 14, helped carry 16 large boxes of books into a car. "I think these books will make me a lot of patients feel happy." said Frank. Steven shared his opinion. "It is really the most meaningful thing that I have ever done in my life."
Answer the following questions:
1: who feels bored ?
2: how old is she ?
3: what did the the students collect ?
4: how long did it take ?
5: how many books ?
6: who were they for ?
7: who is jennys brother ?
8: how old is frank ?
9: who did they wrote their best wishes too ?
10: how many large boxes was it ?
11: who carried them ?
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CHAPTER XIX
SAMMY JAY IS MODEST
As soon as the angry hunter with the terrible gun had disappeared among the trees of the Green Forest, and Lightfoot was sure that he had gone for good, Lightfoot came out from his hiding-place on top of the ridge and walked down to the pond of Paddy the Beaver for a drink. He knew that it was quite safe to do so, for Sammy Jay had followed the hunter, all the time screaming, "Thief! thief! thief!" Every one within hearing could tell just where that hunter was by Sammy's voice. It kept growing fainter and fainter, and by that Lightfoot knew that the hunter was getting farther and farther away.
Paddy the Beaver swam out from his hiding-place and climbed out on the bank near Lightfoot. There was a twinkle in his eyes. "That blue-coated mischief-maker isn't such a bad fellow at heart, after all, is he?" said he.
Lightfoot lifted his beautiful head and set his ears forward to catch the sound of Sammy's voice in the distance.
"Sammy Jay may be a mischief-maker, as some people say," said he, "but you can always count on him to prove a true friend in time of danger. He brought me warning of the coming of the hunter the other morning. You saw him save Mr. and Mrs. Quack a little while ago, and then he actually drove that hunter away. I suppose Sammy Jay has saved more lives than any one I know of. I wish he would come back here and let me thank him."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was warned about the hunter?
2: Who else did the helper save?
3: How were they helped?
4: Who was in a mad mood?
5: Did he have a weapon?
6: Where was he when they spotted him?
7: Was anyone trying not to be seen by the hunter?
8: Who was it?
9: Who was making lots of noise?
10: What noise was he making?
11: What was he saying while doing so?
12: Who was he calling that?
13: Who complimented Sammy?
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Chapter 14: The End Of The Persecutor.
Signor Polani was so well known, that upon his arrival at the governor's house the domestics, upon being aroused, did not hesitate to awaken the governor at once. The latter, as soon as he heard that the pirates had landed and were devastating the other side of the island, and that their ship was lying close in to the coast under the charge of a few sailors only, at once despatched a messenger to the commander of the galleys; ordering them to arouse the crews and make ready to put out to sea instantly. He added that he, himself, should follow his messenger on board in a few minutes, and should accompany them. He then issued orders that the bell should toll to summon the inhabitants to arms; and directed an officer to take the command, and to start with them at once across the island, and to fall upon the pirates while engaged in their work of pillage. They were to take a party with them with litters to carry Polani's daughters to the town, and an apartment was to be assigned to them in his palace, until his return.
While he was issuing this order, refreshments had been placed upon the table, and he pressed Polani and his companions to partake of these before starting.
Francis needed no second invitation. He had been too excited, at the news he had heard on board the ship, to think of eating; and he now remembered that it was a good many hours since he had taken his last meal. He was but a few minutes, however, in satisfying his hunger. By the time he had finished, the governor had seen that his orders had been carried out.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who had a daughter?
2: Did he have more than one
3: What is his full name
4: Was he well known
5: Where did he arrive
6: Was the governor asleep
7: Were there pirates?
8: Did they land?
9: Where?
10: On which side of the island?
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Steve the penguin lived at the zoo. Steve loved to lie on his towel outside during the summer. In the winter Steve would get too cold and would stay in his house. Steve loved the zookeeper's helper Bob. The zookeeper's name was Joe, but he never came in to see Steve. Bob would feed Steve treats all summer long when he was working. In the spring, Tim was the zookeeper's helper and would never feed Steve treats, so Steve didn't like him. Steve loved that Bob would give him was fish more than anything. Steve also liked bananas, oranges and apples, but fish was his favorite. Steve would stick his tongue out at the visitors to the zoo, other times he turn around and show them his back because they were always looking at Steve and he didn't like that. Sometimes he would wave his arm to some visitors if they seemed to be nice. Steve loved the summer; it was his favorite time of the year. He got treats and his favorite helper Bob worked during the summer.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who's favorite food was fish?
2: what kind of animal was he?
3: where did he live?
4: what did he enjoy doing?
5: where?
6: during what season?
7: what did he do in the winter?
8: why?
9: How did the animal love?
10: what was his job?
11: who was the in charge of the zoo?
12: Did he ever visit?
13: When was Bob around?
14: was there someone else before then?
15: In what season?
16: what was his name?
17: Did Steve like him?
18: why not?
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Here's a movie-a sharp, sugar-rush of fun that's guaranteed to entertain the entire family.
With some terrific computer-generated effects, a great cast and a fun-packed storyline, Robots is the best animated film since The Incredibles. Yep, it really is that good.
Set in a world populated by robots, Ewan McGregor plays Rodney Copperbottom, a young robot who leaves his small-town home to pursue his dream of becoming an inventor.
But after arriving in Robot City, his hopes of getting a job at Bigweld Industries are destroyed when he learns the firm has been taken over by the evil Ratchet (Greg Kinnear).
Egged on by his controlling mum, Madame Gasket (Jim Broadbent), Ratchet plans to reduce half on Robot City's citizens to scrap metal by refusing to sell the spare Pans they need to survive.
Instead, he wants to make a fortune selling expensive upgrades that few can afford. As he says, "Why be you when you can be new?"
Aided by a few misfit robots known as the Rustles-including Robin Williams as the cowardly Fender ("I'm made of a metal called Afraidium")-Rodney must track down the firm's founder, Bigweld (Mel Brooks), and convince him to save the city from Ratchet's plans.
The first thing that'll strike you about the movie is the thought that's gone into creating Robot City. It's a wondrous world full of mechanical marvels including wind-up cars and walking streetlamps.
Also terrific are the special effects. This might be animated movie but at times you'll catch yourself thinking it's really a live-action film.
Of course, there have been plenty of animated movies that looked the part but were let down by a weak storyline(see Shark Tale, for example).
But Robots grips right from the start thanks to a heart-warming and thoroughly engaging plot that never bores.
My only complaints are with Williams who, as usual, has a one-in-10 success rate with his jokes. Also a letdown is a romantic subplot between Rodney and a shapely robot called Cappy (Halle Berry) that doesn't go anywhere.
Complains aside, this is a mechanical marvel that'll have you bolted firmly to your seat.
BEST QUOTE :Fender:"Even though you had a discouraging day, just remember there's another one coming tomorrow.
BEST BIT:Check out those amazing images.
WORST BIT:Robin Williams' character does an unfunny Britney Spears dance routine.
IF YOU LIKED...Ice Age, The Incredibles, Toy Story...YOU'LL LIKE THIS.
Answer the following questions:
1: What movie is this article about?
2: Who plays Rodney?
3: Is Rodney a human?
4: Is Rodney from the big city?
5: Where is he from?
6: Where does Rodney go?
7: Where was he hoping to get a job?
8: Who has taken over bigweld Industries?
9: Is ratchet a good person?
10: What actor plays Ratchet?
11: What is the name of ratchets mom?
12: What is the name of the actor who plays Madame gasket?
13: What are ratchets minions known as?
14: Who can save the city?
15: Does this movie have good special effects?
16: What actor plays cappy?
17: Is this an animated movie?
18: How does ratchet plan to make his fortune?
19: Does the movie ever get boring?
20: Who performs a Britney Spears dance?
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The first known European explorer to reach Bermuda was Spanish sea captain Juan de Bermúdez in 1503, after whom the islands are named. He claimed the apparently uninhabited islands for the Spanish Empire. Paying two visits to the archipelago, Bermúdez never landed on the islands, but did create a recognisable map of the archipelago. Shipwrecked Portuguese mariners are now thought to have been responsible for the 1543 inscription in Portuguese Rock (previously called Spanish Rock). Subsequent Spanish or other European parties are believed to have released pigs there, which had become feral and abundant on the island by the time European settlement began. In 1609, the English Virginia Company, which had established Jamestown in Virginia (a term originally applied to all of the North American continent) two years earlier, permanently settled Bermuda in the aftermath of a hurricane, when the crew and passengers of the Sea Venture steered the ship onto the surrounding reef to prevent its sinking, then landed ashore.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who got to Bermuda first?
2: Where was he from?
3: Was he a farmer?
4: What was he?
5: What year did he get there?
6: How many times did he land there?
7: How many trips there did he take?
8: Did he make a map?
9: Are there any animals on the island?
10: Are there a lot of them?
11: Are they domesticated?
12: How did they get there?
13: Who?
14: What rock did someone write on?
15: What do we call it now?
16: What year did this happen?
17: Who probably did it?
18: Who is Bermuda named for?
19: Who did he claim the island for?
20: Were people living there at the time?
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One day, Jane and Mike went to the zoo with their mother. As soon as they arrived, Jane said she wanted to go see the bears and the lions. Mike didn't want to see them at all, he wanted to see the monkeys. Their mother told them that they can see all of the animals, but they have to start with the sneaky snakes. After going around to some of the animals, Mike was happy to finally see the monkeys. As soon as they started to watch the monkeys, they started dancing by the window in front of Mike, Jane, and their mother. "Look! Mike," their mother said, "those monkeys are dancing for you!" and Mike watched them happily dance and dance! When they stopped dancing, their mother told Jane it was time to see some scary lions and bears. Jane wasn't scared at all, she knew they weren't going to get her. Jane bravely went to the section with the lions and watched them roaring at her and Mike. Mike got scared and hid behind his mom. Jane was happy watching the lions. Next was the bears, but they were all asleep by the time they got to see them. At the end of the day, Mike said he loved the monkeys the best, Jane said she loved the lions. Both, Jane and Mike, said they loved the zoo.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who went to the zoo?
2: Who did Jane want to see?
3: Did Mike want to see them?
4: Who did he want to see?
5: Where did their mom say they had to start?
6: What did the monkey's do when they saw them?
7: Did the mom say something?
8: Who did she say they danced for?
9: Where did they go after the monkeys?
10: And what else?
11: Who was not scared?
12: Who got scared?
13: Where did he hide?
14: Was Jane happy watching the lions?
15: Who was asleep?
16: What did Mike love?
17: What did Jane love?
18: What did they both love?
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CHAPTER XXXV. THE ITALIAN PEDLAR
This caitiff monk for gold did swear, That by his drugs my rival fair A saint in heaven should be.--SCOTT
A grand cavalcade bore the house of Quinet from Montauban--coaches, wagons, outriders, gendarmes--it was a perfect court progress, and so low and cumbrous that it was a whole week in reaching a grand old castle standing on a hill-side among chestnut woods, with an avenue a mile long leading up to it; and battlemented towers fit to stand a siege.
Eustacie was ranked among the Duchess's gentlewomen. She was so far acknowledged as a lady of birth, that she was usually called Madame Esperance; and though no one was supposed to doubt her being Theodore Gardon's widow, she was regarded as being a person of rank who had made a misalliance by marrying him. This Madame de Quinet had allowed the household to infer, thinking that the whole bearing of her guest was too unlike that of a Paris _bourgeoise_ not to excite suspicion, but she deemed it wiser to refrain from treating her with either intimacy or distinction that might excite jealousy or suspicion. Even as it was, the consciousness of a secret, or the remnants of Montauban gossip, prevented any familiarity between Eustacie and the good ladies who surrounded her; they were very civil to each other, but their only connecting link was the delight that every one took in petting pretty little Rayonette, and the wonder that was made of her signs of intelligence and attempts at talking. Even when she toddled fearlessly up to the stately Duchess on her canopied throne, and held out her entreating hands, and lisped the word '_nontre_,' Madame would pause in her avocations, take her on her knee, and display that wonderful gold and enamel creature which cried tic-tic, and still remained an unapproachable mystery to M. le Marquis and M. le Vicomte, her grandsons.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is quoted?
2: Was something lisped?
3: What?
4: What came to the house?
5: Where were they going?
6: Where was they from?
7: How long was the journey?
8: Was it an easy journey?
9: Who's husband died?
10: Who died?
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CHAPTER XIII. ST. VALENTINE'S DAY
Miss Mohun came back in the dark after a long day, for once in her life quite jaded, and explaining that the health-officer and the landlord had been by no means agreed, and that nothing could be done till Sir Jasper came home and decided whether to retain the house or not.
All that she was clear about, and which she had telegraphed to Aden, was, that there must be no going back to Silverfold for the present, and she was prepared to begin lodging-hunting as soon as she received an answer.
'And how have you got on?' she asked, thinking all looked rather blank.
'We haven't been to see Fly,' broke out Valetta, 'though she went out on the beach, and Mysie must not stay out after dark, for fear she should cough.'
'Mysie says they are afraid of excitement,' said Gillian gloomily.
'Then you have seen nothing of the others?'
'Yes, I have seen Victoria, said Aunt Adeline, with a meaning smile.
Miss Mohun went up to take off her things, and Gillian followed her, shutting the door with ominous carefulness, and colouring all over.
'Aunt Jane, I ought to tell you. A dreadful thing has happened!'
'Indeed, my dear! What?'
'I have had a valentine.'
'Oh!' repressing a certain inclination to laugh at the bathos from the look of horror and shame in the girl's eyes.
'It is from that miserable Alexis! Oh, I know I brought it on myself, and I have been so wretched and so ashamed all day.'
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was a telegram sent to?
2: Did it instruct him not to return to a certain place?
3: Where?
4: Who must return home before anything could be done?
5: What was he to make a decision about?
6: Did someone need to refrain from being in darkness?
7: Who?
8: Who related this information?
9: Who made a trip to the beach?
10: Who trailed Miss Mohan?
11: Did she leave the door ajar?
12: Was Gillian described as cheery?
13: How was she described?
14: Who did the Aunt claim to have seen?
15: What is the Aunt's first name?
16: What expression did she have on her face?
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CHAPTER XXIV.
PEGGY HAS REVENGE.
Joe Wegg made a rapid recovery, his strength returning under the influence of pleasant surroundings and frequent visits from Ethel and Uncle John's three nieces. Not a word was hinted to either the invalid or the school teacher regarding the inquiries Mr. Merrick was making about the deed to the Bogue timber lands, which, if found, would make the young couple independent. Joe was planning to exploit a new patent as soon as he could earn enough to get it introduced, and Ethel exhibited a sublime confidence in the boy's ability that rendered all question of money insignificant.
Joe's sudden appearance in the land of his birth and his generally smashed up condition were a nine days' wonder in Millville. The gossips wanted to know all the whys and wherefores, but the boy kept his room in the hotel, or only walked out when accompanied by Ethel or one of the three nieces. Sometimes they took him to ride, as he grew better, and the fact that Joe "were hand an' glove wi' the nabobs" lent him a distinction he had never before possessed.
McNutt, always busy over somebody else's affairs, was very curious to know what had caused the accident Joe had suffered. Notwithstanding the little affair of the letter, in which he had not appeared with especial credit, Peggy made an effort to interview the young man that resulted in his complete discomfiture. But that did not deter him from indulging in various vivid speculations about Joe Wegg, which the simple villagers listened to with attention. For one thing, he confided to "the boys" at the store that, in his opinion, the man who had murdered Cap'n Wegg had tried to murder his son also, and it wasn't likely Joe could manage to escape him a second time. Another tale evolved from Peggy's fertile imagination was that Joe, being about to starve to death in the city, had turned burglar and been shot in the arm in an attempt at housebreaking.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who felt better quickly?
2: What helped?
3: What did he want to do?
4: Why?
5: Who thought he could do it?
6: Where did he go?
7: What did he do?
8: What else?
9: What did he do when he was stronger?
10: What did that give him?
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CHAPTER XXXVI.
TOM TRINGLE GETS AN ANSWER.
Faddle as he went down into the country made up his mind that the law which required such letters to be delivered by hand was an absurd law. The post would have done just as well, and would have saved a great deal of trouble. These gloomy thoughts were occasioned by a conviction that he could not carry himself easily or make himself happy among such "howling swells" as these Alburys. If they should invite him to the house the matter would be worse that way than the other. He had no confidence in his dress coat, which he was aware had been damaged by nocturnal orgies. It is all very well to tell a fellow to be as "big a swell" as anybody else, as Tom had told him. But Faddle acknowledged to himself the difficulty of acting up to such advice. Even the eyes of Colonel Stubbs turned upon him after receipt of the letter would oppress him.
Nevertheless he must do his best, and he took a gig at the station nearest to Albury. He was careful to carry his bag with him, but still he lived in hope that he would be able to return to London the same day. When he found himself within the lodges of Stalham Park he could hardly keep himself from shivering, and, when he asked the footman at the door whether Colonel Stubbs were there, he longed to be told that Colonel Stubbs had gone away on the previous day to some--he did not care what--distant part of the globe. But Colonel Stubbs had not gone away. Colonel Stubbs was in the house.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is this chapter called?
2: Who took a job at a station by Albury?
3: Did he hope to stay there?
4: What did he hope?
5: What did he take along?
6: Who did he ask about?
7: What was his question?
8: Who did he ask?
9: What was the answer?
10: What was he hoping?
11: What did Faddle think was absurd?
12: Did he think the mail would be just as good?
13: What would be a worse matter?
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David comes from the train station and he doesn't know where to go. This is the first time he comes to this town. He comes to see his good friend, Peter. Peter is a doctor. He works in a hospital. But David doesn't know where the hospital is. He walks in the street. He passes a bank, a post office, a hotel and at last he goes to a school. Some students are coming out, so he asks one of the students, "Excuse me. Which is the way to People's Hospital?" "Well, I know, you can go along this street, take the second turning on the right, and then take the third turning on your left. It's next to a museum." "I'm sorry I can't follow you." "Well, I just live near there, and my mother works in that hospital, too. I'm going home now. Will you go with me? I'll take you there." "That's great! Thank you very much!" "Then, let's go to the bus stop. And we'll take the No.12 bus there."
Answer the following questions:
1: What is David's friend called?
2: What is Peter's profession?
3: Is he employed by a hospital?
4: What form of transportation did David take at the beginning of the story?
5: After getting off the train, did he get lost?
6: Is he a frequent visitor to this city?
7: What is the name of the hospital he is searching for?
8: To whom does he ask for information about the hospital?
9: What does the student tell him the hospital is near?
10: What bus do they take at the conclusion of the story?
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In mathematics and mathematical logic, Boolean algebra is the branch of algebra in which the values of the variables are the truth values "true" and "false", usually denoted 1 and 0 respectively. Instead of elementary algebra where the values of the variables are numbers, and the prime operations are addition and multiplication, the main operations of Boolean algebra are the conjunction "and" denoted as ∧, the disjunction "or" denoted as ∨, and the negation "not" denoted as ¬. It is thus a formalism for describing logical relations in the same way that ordinary algebra describes numeric relations.
Boolean algebra was introduced by George Boole in his first book "The Mathematical Analysis of Logic" (1847), and set forth more fully in his "An Investigation of the Laws of Thought" (1854). According to Huntington, the term "Boolean algebra" was first suggested by Sheffer in 1913.
Boolean algebra has been fundamental in the development of digital electronics, and is provided for in all modern programming languages. It is also used in set theory and statistics.
Boole's algebra predated the modern developments in abstract algebra and mathematical logic; it is however seen as connected to the origins of both fields. In an abstract setting, Boolean algebra was perfected in the late 19th century by Jevons, Schröder, Huntington, and others until it reached the modern conception of an (abstract) mathematical structure. For example, the empirical observation that one can manipulate expressions in the algebra of sets by translating them into expressions in Boole's algebra is explained in modern terms by saying that the algebra of sets is "a" Boolean algebra (note the indefinite article). In fact, M. H. Stone proved in 1936 that every Boolean algebra is isomorphic to a field of sets.
Answer the following questions:
1: what did George Boole Introduce?
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A man who allegedly was with Aaron Hernandez the night Odin Lloyd was killed pleaded not guilty Friday to a single count of being an accessory to murder after the fact.
As members of his and Lloyd's family looked on, Carlos Ortiz uttered only those two words -- "not guilty" -- during his brief arraignment in Bristol County Superior Court in the southeastern Massachusetts city of Fall River. His next court date is set for November 20.
Ortiz is one of several people who have been charged in connection with Lloyd's death, though only one person -- Hernandez, who was a standout tight end for the New England Patriots before being released by the team the day of his arrest -- faces a murder count.
Like Hernandez, Ortiz hails from Bristol, Connecticut.
During Friday's court hearing, Ortiz's lawyer John Connors did not contest the $500,000 cash bail set for his client, though he could do so later.
"We don't have the grand jury minutes, we don't have a lot of the discovery statements, etc. So I think it's prudent to wait for the next date until we argue (bail)," Connors said.
Authorities have said that Hernandez, Ernest Wallace and Ortiz picked Lloyd up from his Boston apartment in a rental car shortly before he was found shot to death June 17 in a North Attleborough, Massachusetts, industrial park.
Surveillance cameras then captured the rental car leaving the crime scene and Hernandez carrying a gun as he returned to his home minutes later. He was with two other people. Lloyd -- a 27-year-old semi-pro football player himself -- was not among them.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was with Aaron Hernandez when a man was killed?
2: Who was killed?
3: Who is getting in trouble for the actual death?
4: What is Carlos' role?
5: Where is he from?
6: In what state?
7: What is his bail amount?
8: Will they contest that?
9: Will they argue that in the future?
10: Where did the group pick up the victim?
11: In what town?
12: How did they pick him up?
13: When?
14: Do you know what year this happened?
15: Was he killed IN Boston?
16: Where then?
17: Is there a more specific location?
18: How did the police know about Hernandez, Wallace, and Ortiz?
19: Who was holding a weapon?
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CHAPTER III
PETERS' OFFER
Wyndham and Flora were married at a small country church. The morning was bright and the sun touched the east window with vivid color and pierced the narrow lancets on the south. Red and green reflections stained the mosaics inside the chancel rails, but shadows lurked behind the arches and pillars, for the old building had no clerestory.
Mabel was bridesmaid, Marston was groomsman, and as he waited for a few moments by the rails he looked about. Commodore Chisholm had numerous friends, and for the most part Marston knew the faces turned towards the chancel. He had sailed hard races against some of the men and danced with their wives and daughters. They were sober English folk, and he was glad they had come to stamp with their approval his partner's wedding. Some, however, he could not see, because they sat back in the gloom.
Then he glanced at his companions. He was nervous, but Mabel was marked by her serene calm. Flora's look was rather fixed, and although she had not much color, her pose was resolute and proud. Marston wondered whether she felt she was making something of a plunge; but if she did so, he knew she would not hesitate. Chisholm's face was quiet and perhaps a trifle stern; he looked rather old, and Marston imagined him resigned. The Commodore was frank; one generally knew what he felt. All three looked typically English, but Wyndham did not. Although his eyes were very blue and his hair was touched by red, he was different from the others. His face, as Marston saw it in profile, was thin and in a way ascetic, but it wore a stamp of recklessness. His pose was strangely alert and highly strung. There was something exotic about him.
Answer the following questions:
1: Was Mabel nervous?
2: What about Marston?
3: Who was the groom?
4: Who was the bride?
5: Were they married at night?
6: Where was the wedding?
7: Who else was there?
8: Did he have a lot of friends?
9: Did he wear his heart on his sleeve?
10: What color eyes did Wyndham have?
11: Who was the groomsman?
12: Who was the bridesmaid?
13: What did Marston wonder?
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China Merchants Bank Co Ltd has teamed up with ride-hailing major Didi Kuaidi to provide automobile financing and expand its reach in China's booming mobile payment industry.
The two have inked a comprehensive partnership, which includes a strategic investment by the former in the latter. Under the partnership, CMB will become the first bricks-and-mortar bank that can offer in-app credit card payments to Didi users. At present, users of Didi can only choose third-party payment solutions like WeChat Payment and Alipay to pay cab fares.
Zhao Ju, vice-president of CMB, said the cooperation with Didi was an important step in its mobile Internet finance strategy. "CMB's mobile payment is going to enter a new chapter by leveraging Didi Kuaidi's vast user base," he said.
According to a report by China Internet Network Information Center earlier this month, Didi holds 87.2 percent of China's private car hailing market. The company said it has received 1.43 billion car-hailing requests on its platforms in 2015, which means 1.43 billion payments were made via smartphones.
CMB is expected to use Didi to reach the core users of China's mobile payment market. Jean Liu, president of Didi, said many of the expats prefer payment by credit card rather than Alipay or WeChat. "The new partnership will help improve service quality and customer loyalty," she said. The investment makes CMB part of Didi's existing investors, including Tencent Holdings Ltd, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and China Investment Corporation. Both of the companies declined to reveal the actual amount of the investment.
Liu, who showed up on Tuesday for the first time in public after her treatment for breast cancer, said the cooperation with CMB is for the long run and "the capital investment is only part of it".
Under the partnership, CMB and Didi will cooperate on a wide range of initiatives on financial services and online-to-offline cooperation. Apart from the in-app credit card payments, the two companies are going to launch joint credit cards in late February and automobile financing services for Didi's car owners. CMB's branches across China are expected to help Didi recruit more drivers.
"There is a lot of room for imagination in our partnership," Li said, adding in future people may use their CMB credit card reward points to pay for the ride on Didi.
Li Chao, an analyst with iResearch Consulting Group, said the partnership may not significantly boost CMB's mobile payment business. "Didi has educated the market for three years and its customers have formed the habit of paying by WeChat or Alipay. So I think CMB can only turn a very smart proportion of Didi users into its payment customer," he said. "But the move shows that China's traditional banking industry is finally thinking out of the box and looking for outside partners in Internet finance competition," he said.
Statistics from Big-Data Research showed that more than 90 percent of China's 9.3 trillion yuan ($1.41 trillion) worth of third party mobile payment market is donated by Alibaba and Tencent.
Answer the following questions:
1: who show up for the 1st time to the public ?
2: on what day ?
3: who teamed up with Didi Kuaid ?
4: give me one reason why ?
5: and another reason why ?
6: who will opffer special credit cards ?
7: are they a credit card bussiness ?
8: what are they ?
9: what percent of china car hailing do they have ?
10: how many request ?
11: what kind of request ?
12: were payments via computers ?
13: what were they made via ?
14: what does cmb stand for ?
15: what does Li do ?
16: with who ?
17: who provides the stats ?
18: who donated payment markets ?
19: Jean Liu is what ?
20: of what company ?
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Catalan (/ˈkætəlæn/; autonym: català [kətəˈla] or [kataˈla]) is a Romance language named for its origins in Catalonia, in what is northeastern Spain and adjoining parts of France. It is the national and only official language of Andorra, and a co-official language of the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and Valencia (where the language is known as Valencian, and there exist regional standards). It also has semi-official status in the city of Alghero on the Italian island of Sardinia. It is also spoken with no official recognition in parts of the Spanish autonomous communities of Aragon (La Franja) and Murcia (Carche), and in the historic French region of Roussillon/Northern Catalonia, roughly equivalent to the department of Pyrénées-Orientales.
According to the Statistical Institute of Catalonia in 2008 the Catalan language is the second most commonly used in Catalonia, after Spanish, as a native or self-defining language. The Generalitat of Catalunya spends part of its annual budget on the promotion of the use of Catalan in Catalonia and in other territories.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is Catalan?
2: Where is Catalonia?
3: It is tough to learn?
4: Is it common?
5: Where did it start?
6: Is it similar to other languages?
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(CNN) -- Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel has made an emotional appeal after his father was abducted in his native Nigeria.
"Please just let him go," he told Sky Sports News.
"He's just an old man, he hasn't done any harm to anyone as far as I know and I don't know why he has been taken."
Michael Obi, who runs a transport company in Jos, the main city in Plateau State in central Nigeria, has not been seen or heard of since he failed to return home from work last Friday.
Obi Mikel was told of the problem just before the start of Chelsea's Premier League match at Stoke Sunday which finished goalless and said his father was at the forefront of his thoughts throughout the match.
"Nigeria is the country I am from, I've always tried to help my country in any way I can, playing for my country or anything," he said.
"This is a time where I need the country to help me. Whoever has got my dad, whoever knows where my dad is, please contact me and hopefully he can be released."
Chelsea have given Mikel their support in a statement on their official website.
"Everyone at Chelsea Football Club was very concerned to hear that John Mikel Obi's father has been reported as missing and possibly abducted.
"We will give Mikel and his family our full support at this most difficult time."
Mikel confirmed they had not heard from his father's abductors and no ransom had yet been demanded.
Answer the following questions:
1: who play for Chelsea?
2: did something happen to one of his family members?
3: which one?
4: what is his name?
5: what happened to him?
6: in what country?
7: what position does the son play?
8: when did he learn about the incident?
9: for what league?
10: on what day?
11: where?
12: is his team supportive?
13: how do you know?
14: where is the son from?
15: do they know what the kidnappers want?
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Cairo (CNN) -- Civil rights lawyers demanded the death penalty for former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Monday, joining prosecutor's calls for him to be executed.
"We merged our voice with the prosecutor's closing arguments from last week's hearing and demanded the death sentence to Mubarak, his former interior minister Habib El Adly, and four of his aides for killing hundreds of protesters and injuring thousands more," attorney Khalid Abu Bakr told CNN. "We have proof Mubarak is directly responsible for the killings along with El Adly and his aides."
Abu Bakr said Mubarak deserved to die for violating Egypt's criminal law 77.
"His negligence and actions led to endangering the national security of the country," he said.
The attorney also provided the court with a list of alleged suspects he wants indicted, including police officers he said where caught on camera firing their weapons on protesters.
Another lawyer, Sameh Ashour, said he provided evidence to the court "of communication between security forces that prove the presence of snipers on rooftop buildings during the revolution."
The judge, Ahmed Refaat, has set aside Monday and Tuesday to hear from at least 10 civil rights lawyers. The defense is expected to make its closing arguments later in the week.
"The judge will then decide on a day to announce the final verdict," said Adel Saeed, the official spokesman of the General Prosecutor's office. "If he is fast, we may see a verdict before January 25th" -- the day the Egyptian uprising began last year.
Answer the following questions:
1: What were civil workers demanding?
2: For who?
3: What did prosecutors want?
4: What law did he violate?
5: What specific law was it?
6: What were the police officers doing on video?
7: What evidence did Ashour have?
8: and what else?
9: What was the judges name?
10: When did they expect to hear a verdict?
11: How many civil rights lawyers were there?
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CHAPTER XXX
A WAY TO FORGET
The faces of the group, as Uncle John finished reading, were worth studying. Arthur Weldon was white with anger, and his eyes blazed. Silas Watson stared blankly at his old friend, wondering if it was because he was growing old that he had been so easily hoodwinked by this saucy child. Beth was biting her lip to keep back the tears of humiliation that longed to trickle down her cheeks. Louise frowned because she remembered the hard things Tato had said of her. Patsy was softly crying at the loss of her friend.
Then Kenneth laughed, and the sound sent a nervous shiver through the group.
"Tato's a brick!" announced the boy, audaciously. "Can't you see, you stupids, that the thing is a good joke on us all? Or are you too thin skinned to laugh at your own expense?"
"Oh, we can laugh," responded Uncle John, gravely. "But if Tato's a brick it's because she is hard and insensible. The loss of the money doesn't hurt me, but to think the wicked little lass made me love her when she didn't deserve it is the hardest blow I have ever received."
That made Patsy sob outright, while Louise ejaculated, with scorn: "The little wretch!"
"It serves us right for having confidence in a child reared to crime and murder from the cradle," said Arthur, rather savagely. "I don't know how much money I am worth, but I'd gladly spend another thirty thousand to bring this wretched creature to justice."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who had just completed reading?
2: Who was mad?
3: How was his anger evident?
4: Who was trying not to cry?
5: What was she doing to prevent it?
6: Who was actually crying?
7: Did anyone laugh?
8: Who?
9: What did Patsy call her?
10: How much was Arthur willing to spend?
11: for what?
12: What did Kenneth call Tato?
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Attention to detail is something everyone can and should do -- especially in tight job market. Bob Crossley, a human-resources expert notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day. "It's amazing how many candidates _ themselves," he says.
"Resumes arrive with faults. Some candidates don't bother to spell the company's name correctly. Once I see a mistake, I cross out the candidates," Crossley concludes. "If they cannot take care of these details, why should we trust them with a job?"
Can we pay too much attention to details? Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward. "To keep from losing the forest for the trees," says Charles Garfield, the professor at the University of California, San Francisco, "We must constantly ask ourselves how the details we're working on fit into the larger picture. If they don't, we should drop them and move to something else."
Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA. "The Apollo II moon launch was slightly off course 90 percent of the time," says Garfield. "But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact position of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary." Knowing where to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake.
Too often we believe what accounts for others' success is some special secret or a lucky break. But rarely is success so mysterious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is Bob Crosskey?
2: what does he sazy?
3: What do most not bother to do?
4: Do resumnes have faults?
5: What does Garfield say?
6: what does he compare?
7: what do perfectionists struggle with?
8: What must we constantly do?
9: what?
10: who is garfield?
11: what is his last name?
12: Where is the college?
13: what do we do too often?
14: What happens rarely?
15: What happens with little things?
16: what\ type?
17: what should everyone do?
18: especially when?
19: what goes across his desk?
20: how often?
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(CNN) -- On Monday, as he remained hospitalized for injuries incurred during a massive manhunt and a pair of shootouts last week, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev heard from his hospital bed his Miranda rights being read, and then he heard read the federal charges now filed against him in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings.
The 19-year-old faces charges of using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death, and of malicious destruction of property by means of an explosive device resulting in death.
What follows is a chronology produced by FBI special agent Daniel Genck, who is part of a Boston counterterrorism squad and who based his re-telling of events on crime scene photographs and video, as well information he gleaned from other officers as well as from his own involvement in the case.
Read the complaint
Genck said he is not divulging all of the details he has, just what is necessary to establish the following. As told via the criminal complaint:
At 2:38 p.m. on Monday, April 15, roughly 11 minutes prior to the first blast, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are caught on camera turning onto Boylston Street, the thoroughfare where the finish line is located.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev is wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses, a white shirt, dark coat and tan pants. His little brother is wearing a gray hoodie, a black jacket and dark pants. He also has a white baseball cap, turned backward on his head.
The pair walks east, toward the Boston Marathon finish line, Tamerlan Tsarnaev in front of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, wearing a knapsack on his back.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was in a hospital bed?
2: What did he hear in his bed?
3: What crime were charges being filed for?
4: How old is he?
5: What is one thing he is being charged with?
6: What else?
7: Who created the chronology for the investigation?
8: What agency does he work for?
9: What day did the bombing happen on?
10: What month and day?
11: What time?
12: Who was he with that day?
13: Where are they first seen on camera?
14: What is Tamerlan seen wearing?
15: And the other brother?
16: Where are they seen heading next?
17: What do they have on their back?
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(CNN)John Isner could not keep the United States in the Davis Cup on Sunday, so it was likely small consolation that his incredible tennis milestone remained unbeaten.
While the American lost to Andy Murray in Scotland, putting Great Britain into the quarterfinals of the prestigious teams event, halfway across the world an absorbing battle was playing out between two of South America's most bitter rivals.
In the end it didn't come close to matching Isner's 11-hour marathon against Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon in 2010, but the fourth rubber in the clash between Argentina and Brazil made its own piece of history.
For six hour and 43 minutes, Leonardo Mayer and Joao Souza contested the second-longest singles match in tennis history -- and third longest of any format after a seven-hour doubles clash between Switzerland and the Czech Republic in 2013.
Mayer eventually triumphed, after his 11th match point, winning 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-5) 5-7 5-7 15-13 in front of a delirious home crowd in Buenos Aires to send the tie to a deciding rubber.
It set the scene for Federico Delbonis to take on Brazil's Thomaz Bellucci in the decider -- with the winner to earn a clash with Novak Djokovic's Serbia, a 5-0 victor over Balkan rival Croatia.
Delbonis had won the first set 6-3 when play was halted for the day due to bad light. The match will resume on Monday.
Meanwhile, back in Glasgow, the British team celebrated after earning a home quarterfinal clash with France on July 17-19, the weekend after the completion of Wimbledon.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who didn't keep the Davis cup on the Sunday of the report?
2: Who did he lose to?
3: Whee was the match?
4: And what country does Andy Murry represent?
5: Who played in the second-longest singles match in history?
6: How long was the match?
7: What coutries did those competitors represent?
8: Who had an 11 hour match at Wiblteton in 2010?
9: What did the British team celebrate in Glasgow?
10: Who won their first set 6-3 which match will resume as of this report?
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Imagine what you could do with a machine that could make things disappear.
For inspiration, you could read some books. In the books of J.R.R. Tolkein, Bilbo Baggins finds a ring that can make him disappear. Of course, there's also poor Harry Potter, who used his invisibility cloak to hide from danger.
Now that you've got some ideas, it's time for the hard part: building the cloak. To do that, you have to give up science fiction and turn to real science. An invisibility cloak has to cheat anything or anyone who might be watching. In order to understand how something can be seen, it's important to understand how we see.
Human beings can only see objects that reflect light waves. These waves enter the eye and are then processed by the brain. However, if an object doesn't reflect light, then the waves don't enter the eye, and the brain doesn't process. So building an invisibility cloak is building something that doesn't reflect light.
Cummer was part of a team of scientists from Duke University, including David Smith and David Schurig, who built the world's first version of an invisibility cloak. They had been inspired by the work of a British physicist, John Pendry. He in May said that an invisibility cloak was possible and Pendry was not the only one thinking about a disappearing act. At the same time, a Scottish physicist, UIf Leonhardt published a paper on building invisibility equipment.
"It wasn't easy," says Cummer. "As often happens in science and research, it didn't work very well the first time. That first cloak didn't work like Harry Potter's --- the scientists didn't actually see anything disappear. So the research is still under way. "
Answer the following questions:
1: what are people trying to build?
2: who tried to build the first one?
3: how many in the group?
4: were they named in the story?
5: what are the names of two of them?
6: who's work served as the inspiration for their project?
7: what novelist is mentioned?
8: what is the name of one of his characters?
9: what did he find?
10: did it do anything?
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Charlie was always happy. He liked helping others and people asked him for help when they were in trouble. He even got the name"Happy Charlie". One day, a boy called Waterworks came to the town on holiday. No matter what Charlie said to him, Waterworks would always find some reason to be sad-- My parents didn't buy me that toy; I can't watch TV; I don't like to go to school...... Everything seemed so sad to Waterworks. He was always sad. But Charlie didn't care and kept spending more time with Waterworks , trying to make him happy. Then, one day, they went out together. When Charlie was saying something, someone dropped a pie from a window and it leaned right on his head. He got such a sudden fear that couldn't say a word. The two boys were speechless. During those moments of silence, Waterworks missed Charlie's happy words so much that he finally said:"Wow,Charlie. That's a nice disguise." And, after saying those words, Waterworks felt so good and he realized that he was used to his friend's enthusiasm. And came to the town.
Answer the following questions:
1: What did Charlie like to do when people were in trouble?
2: Who would always find a reason to be sad?
3: Who did a pie fall on?
4: Did Charlie care that Waterworks was sad all the time?
5: What did waterworks say because he missed Charlies happy words?
6: Did Waterworks get use to his friends enthusiasm?
7: Did waterworks live in the town normaly?
8: What were some of the reasons Waterworks would find to be sad?
9: Any other reasons?
10: Where did the pie drop from?
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Washington (CNN) -- The Pentagon general counsel threatened legal action Thursday against a former Navy SEAL who wrote a revealing book about last year's Osama bin Laden raid, warning him he has violated secrecy agreements and broken federal law.
In a letter addressed to "Mark Owen," the pen name of book author Matt Bissonnette, General Counsel Jeh Charles Johnson wrote the Pentagon is considering pursuing "all remedies legally available" against the former SEAL and his publisher, Penguin Putnam.
"In the judgment of the Department of Defense, you are in material breach and violation of the nondisclosure agreements you signed. Further public dissemination of your book will aggravate your breach and violation of your agreements," Johnson wrote.
The book is called "No Easy Day" and is a gripping account of the Navy SEAL raid on bin Laden's compound in Pakistan last year that ended in the death of the world's most notorious terrorist leader.
The story sheds more light on the now famous skill and daring of the SEALs. But the book's very existence stoked controversy because members of the elite unit don't usually divulge details of their operations.
The book is one of several accounts about the operation to have surfaced after last year's raid.
Buzz ramps up over SEAL's bin Laden book
Government officials only recently became aware the former SEAL was writing a book, but they were told it encompassed more than just the raid and included vignettes from training and other missions.
They wanted to see a copy, a Defense Department official said, to make sure no classified information would be released and to see if the book contained any information that might identify other team members.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the name of the book in this article?
2: Who published it?
3: Who authored it?
4: Does he have an alternate name?
5: What is it?
6: Did someone write a letter?
7: Who?
8: What did he allege?
9: Who was?
10: What specifically did they violate?
11: What was the book about?
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CHAPTER II
AT THE CAFÉ MONTMARTRE
Exactly a week later, at five minutes after midnight, Guy Poynton, in evening dress, entered the Café Montmartre, in Paris. He made his way through the heterogeneous little crowd of men and women who were drinking at the bar, past the scarlet-coated orchestra, into the inner room, where the tables were laid for supper. Monsieur Albert, satisfied with the appearance of his new client, led him at once to a small table, submitted the wine card, and summoned a waiter. With some difficulty, as his French was very little better than his German, he ordered supper, and then lighting a cigarette, leaned back against the wall and looked around to see if he could discover any English or Americans.
The room was only moderately full, for the hour was a little early for this quarter of Paris. Nevertheless, he was quick to appreciate a certain spirit of Bohemianism which pleased him. Every one talked to his neighbor. An American from the further end of the room raised his glass and drank his health. A pretty fair-haired girl leaned over from her table and smiled at him.
"Monsieur like talk with me, eh?"
"English?" he asked.
"No. De Wien!"
He shook his head smilingly.
"We shouldn't get on," he declared. "Can't speak the language."
She raised her eyebrows with a protesting gesture, but he looked away and opened an illustrated paper by his side. He turned over the pages idly enough at first, but suddenly paused. He whistled softly to himself and stared at the two photographs which filled the sheet.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where did Guy Poynton enter into?
2: Who did he make his way past?
3: How full was the room?
4: What kind of spirit did the setting have that he enjoyed?
5: Where was the Cafe located?
6: Who was it that smiled at him?
7: Was he profiecient in speaking french?
8: What was it that he had trouble doing becuase this?
9: Who was in the crowd he passed when he first entered the cafe?
10: Why did he think he shouldn't k carry on speaking with the fair haired girl?
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Jack woke up on a Saturday morning. He got out of bed and went to the bathroom, and brushed his teeth. He put on his clothes and walked to the kitchen. Jack had a few choices to pick for breakfast. He could choose between an apple, pear, cereal or eggs. He picked an apple to eat for breakfast. After his breakfast, he turned on the TV to find something to watch. He could watch sports, the news, the weather or a cooking show. He chose to watch the weather. The reporter said fall was coming but that the weather was getting warmer instead of cooler. He turned off the TV and went outside to the backyard. Jack wanted to make some hot dogs for lunch the next day. He went to the store to get hot dogs, mustard, and ketchup. After coming back home from the store, Jack made lunch. After lunch, he found that he needed to do some cleaning. He started cleaning the kitchen and moved on to the living room.
Answer the following questions:
1: When did Jack wake up?
2: On what day?
3: WHat did he do after he got out of bed?
4: Why?
5: Did he go back to his bedroom?
6: How do you know?
7: How many things did he have to pick from for breakfast?
8: What did he choose?
9: What season was it?
10: Was the temperature outside getting hotter or colder?
11: Where did he get that information from?
12: DId he stay inside after that?
13: Where did he go?
14: Did he stay there?
15: What did he get from the store?
16: What did he do after the store?
17: Did he take a nap after his meal?
18: Why?
19: What did he clean?
20: Is that it?
21: What else?
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CHAPTER XXXVIII.
THE SCARBOROUGH CORRESPONDENCE.
It was as Mountjoy had said. The squire had written to him a letter inviting him to Tretton, and telling him that it would be the best home for him till death should have put Tretton into other hands. Mountjoy had thought the matter over, sitting in the easy-chair in his brother's room, and had at last declined the invitation. As his letter was emblematic of the man, it may be as well to give it to the reader:
"My dear father,--I don't think it will suit me to go down to Tretton at present. I don't mind the cards, and I don't doubt that you would make it better than this place. But, to tell the truth, I don't believe a word of what you have told to the world about my mother, and some of these days I mean to have it out with Augustus. I shall not sit quietly by and see Tretton taken out of my mouth. Therefore I think I had better not go to Tretton.
"Yours truly,
"MOUNTJOY SCARBOROUGH."
This had not at all surprised the father, and had not in the least angered him. He rather liked his son for standing up for his mother, and was by no means offended at the expression of his son's incredulity. But what was there in the prospect of a future lawsuit to prevent his son coming to Tretton? There need be no word spoken as to the property. Tretton would be infinitely more comfortable than those rooms in Victoria Street, and he was aware that the hospitality of Victoria Street would not be given in an ungrudging spirit. "I shouldn't like it," said the old squire to himself as he lay quiet on his sofa. "I shouldn't like at all to be the humble guest of Augustus. Augustus would certainly say a nasty word or two."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who wrote a letter?
2: What is his name?
3: Who was the note written to?
4: Their relationship?
5: Did the dad get a response back?
6: Was it an unexpected reply?
7: Did the dad lose his temper after reading it?
8: Why not?
9: Where did he want his son to go?
10: What accusation was made in the response?
11: About what?
12: Who was likely to say something mean?
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Mark and his brother Jason both were looking at the shining new computer enviously. Jason was determined not to go against their father's wishes but Mark was more adventurous than his brother. He loved experimenting and his aim was to become a scientist like his father.
"Dad will be really mad if he finds out you've been playing with his new computer." Jason said, "He told us not to touch it."
"He won't find out." Mark said, "I'll just have a quick look and shut it down."
Mark had been scolded before for touching his father's equipment. But his curiosity was difficult to control and this new computer really puzzled him.
It was a strange-looking machine -one his dad had brought home from the laboratory where he worked. "It's an experimental model," his father had explained, "so don't touch it under any circumstances." But his warning only served to make Mark more curious. Without any further thought, Mark turned on the power switch. The computer burst into life and seconds later, the screen turned into color1s, shifting and changing and then two big white words appeared in the center of the screen: "SPACE TRANSPORTER."
"Yes!" Mark cried excitedly, "It's a computer game. I knew it! Dad's only been pretending to work. He's really been playing games instead." A new message appeared on the screen:
ENTER NAMES
VOYAGER 1: ... VOYAGER 2: ...
Mark's fingers flew across the keyboard as he typed in both of their names.
INPUT ACCEPTED. START TRANSPORT PROGRAM. AUTO-RETRIEVE INITIATED
The screen turned even brighter and a noise suddenly rose in volume.
"I think we'd better shut it off, Mark," Jason yelled, reaching for the power switch. He was really frightened.
But his hand never reached the switch. A single beam of dazzling white light burst out of the computer screen, wrapping the boys in its glow , until they themselves seemed to be glowing. Then it died down just as suddenly as it had burst into life. And the boys were no longer there. On the screen, the letters changed.
TRANSPORT SUCCESSFUL. DESTINATION: MARS. RETRIEVE DATE: 2025.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was going to be upset about something?
2: About what?
3: Did Jason encourage Mark to play with it?
4: What did he tell his brother?
5: Had Mark ever disobeyed before?
6: So why was he doing so again?
7: Did Dad buy the Computer at Best Buy?
8: Where did he get it?
9: What was on the screen when he turned it on?
10: Did the computer ask for any information?
11: What did it request?
12: Did Jason think it was a game?
13: Who did?
14: Did anything happen when the names were entered?
15: Did the room grow dark and quiet?
16: Was it loud?
17: Did this scare anyone?
18: Who?
19: What did he want to do?
20: WAs he able to do that?
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CHAPTER IX.
HAROLD SITS IN A GAME.
When Elizabeth Compton broached to her father the subject of a much-needed rest and a trip to the Orient, he laughed at her. "Why, girl," he cried, "I was never better in my life! Where in the world did you get this silly idea?"
"Harold noticed it first," she replied, "and called my attention to it; and now I can see that you really have been failing."
"Failing!" ejaculated Compton, with a scoff. "Failing nothing! You're a pair of young idiots. I'm good for twenty years more of hard work, but, as I told Harold, I would like to quit and travel, and I shall do so just as soon as I am convinced that he can take my place."
"Couldn't he do it now?" asked the girl.
"No, I am afraid not," replied Compton. "It is too much to expect of him, but I believe that in another year he will be able to."
And so Compton put an end to the suggestion that he travel for his health, and that night when Bince called she told him that she had been unable to persuade her father that he needed a rest.
"I am afraid," he said, "that you don't take it seriously enough yourself, and that you failed to impress upon him the real gravity of his condition. It is really necessary that he go--he must go."
The girl looked up quickly at the speaker, whose tones seemed unnecessarily vehement.
"I don't quite understand," she said, "why you should take the matter so to heart. Father is the best judge of his own condition, and, while he may need a rest, I cannot see that he is in any immediate danger."
Answer the following questions:
1: Where did Elizabeth want to go?
2: Who did she ask?
3: What was his response?
4: What did he say about his health?
5: Did she agree?
6: Who was on her side?
7: Was Bince understanding?
8: How did he sound?
9: Who was to replace Mr. Compton?
10: When would he be able to?
11: When would he replace him?
12: Why not now?
13: Did Elizabeth think her dad was in danger?
14: What did she think he needed?
15: What did her father call the two of them?
16: How long did he say he could work?
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Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world, the second oldest in the United States, and the sole member of the "Big Six" film studios still located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and honored each with a star on the logo. These fortunate few would become the first "movie stars." In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only.
Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
The company's headquarters and studios are located in 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California, United States.
Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company (1895) and Pathé (1896), followed by the Nordisk Film company (1906), and Universal Studios (1912). It is the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles.
Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company. Hungarian-born founder, Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the middle class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time (leading to the slogan "Famous Players in Famous Plays"). By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success. Its first film was "Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth", which starred Sarah Bernhardt.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is a subsiiary of Viacom?
2: Is there a shoter name?
3: what is it?
4: What is Paramount?
5: where is it?
6: and they are a member of what?
7: any other memberships mentioned?
8: what?
9: Who was an investor in nickelodeons?
10: where was he from?
11: What significance does 1912 have?
12: How many actors and actresses were contracted in 1916?
13: who did this?
14: what was his occupation at the time?
15: What do the stars on the logo represent?
16: these would become the first what?
17: What did Paramount do in 2014?
18: Are many major film studios in Los Angeles?
19: how many?
20: which one?
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(CNN)Now comes the hard part for Maria Sharapova. Having reached the Australian Open final, she'll have to overcome longtime nemesis Serena Williams.
To utter that Sharapova is the underdog Saturday is like saying Roger Federer is a decent player. World No. 1 Williams leads the second-ranked Sharapova 16-2 in their rivalry -- but has won 15 matches in a row.
During that streak, she has conceded three sets to the Russian.
If that's not enough, Williams has never lost a semifinal or final in Melbourne, her record improving to 11-0 after topping fellow American Madison Keys 7-6 (5) 6-2 Thursday in the semifinals.
Sharapova, meanwhile, has failed to win a major outside Roland Garros in seven years.
But all the imposing statistics don't appear to be fazing the ever steely Sharapova, who last downed Williams at the year-end championships in 2004.
"I think my confidence should be pretty high going into a final of a grand slam no matter who I'm facing, and whether I've had a terrible record against someone, it doesn't matter," Sharapova, a 6-3 6-2 winner over compatriot Ekaterina Makarova Thursday, told reporters.
"I got there for a reason. I belong in that spot. I will do everything I can to get the title."
Some would say, too, that Sharapova has fate on her side.
She was almost knocked out in the second round, needing to save a pair of match points against qualifier Alexandra Panova. And only last year Li Na took advantage of her second chance in Melbourne, fending off a match point in the third round before going on to capture a second grand slam title a week later.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who has reached the Australian Open Final?
2: Who will she have to overcome?
3: Have they been rivals for a long time?
4: Who is number 1 in the world?
5: Who is ranked second?
6: How many matches has Williams won against Sharapova?
7: How many in a row?
8: How many has she lost against Sharapova?
9: How many sets has she conceded?
10: What nationality is Sharapova?
11: Where has Williams never lost a final?
12: Who did she beat to make her record 11-0?
13: What has Sharapova failed to do?
14: What would some say she has on her side?
15: Who did Sharapova beat on Thursday?
16: What will she do to get the title?
17: What year did she last beat Williams?
18: What round was she nearly knocked out?
19: Against who?
20: What happened only last year?
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WASHINGTON, March 14 (Xinhua) --U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed on Saturday at the White House that China can have confidence in the American economy.
"Not just the Chinese government, but every investor can have absolute confidence in the _ of investments in the United States," Obama said.
"There is a reason why even in the midst of this economic downfall you have seen actual increases in investment flows here in the U. S.,"he said.
Obama also noted the U. S. will push for stricter regulation of the financial industry "front and center" at the upcoming Group of 20Summit in London ,ending an argument between the Europe and the United States over whether more focus should be placed on financial regulatory reform.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said earlier Friady he is "a little bit worried "about the safety of Chineseassets in the United States ,urging the U. S. government to ensure the security of those assets.
China has invested its hugeforeign exchangereserves in low-risk but low-yield assets ,such as U. S.government bonds ,to play it safe . According to the U.S. Treasury, China held 681.9 billion U.S. dollars worth of U.S. government bonds as of November.
"China is indeed the largest creditor of the United States, which is the world' s biggest economy .We are extremely interested in developments in the U. S. economy."said Wen, adding that he is expecting the effect of the measures taken by the U.S.government to counter the global financial crisis.
Asked to react to Wen' s concern, Lawrence Summers, director of the U.S. National Economic Council, noted on Friday that the U.S. will be soundsteward of the money it invests.
"This is a commitment that the president has made very clear--we need to be sound stewards of the money we invest."said Summers in a speech at the Brookings Institution, a leading think tank in the united states.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who is the biggest creditor of the U.S.?
2: Is the U.S. the second largest economy in the world?
3: Which is it?
4: Who is the Premier of China?
5: Is he comfortable with the Chinese investments in the U.S.?
6: What does China have most of its money in?
7: What is an example of that?
8: How much does it currently have in that particular investment?
9: Does the U.S. agree that China should be worried about its money?
10: Who has a contrary opinion?
11: Who is that?
12: Does anyone else share Lawrence's views?
13: Who else?
14: Is he Speaker of the House?
15: What's his official title then?
16: Does Obama believe the U.S. should loosen financial regulations?
17: Who has the U.S. recently been in disagreement with?
18: What about?
19: Where are they going to discuss this issue?
20: Will that be in London?
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CHAPTER V.
A NIGHT IN NEW YORK.
"The description certainly does fit these two men," said Earl, with some hesitation. "And it is queer that Roland should be down here, when only a few days ago he was in Basco. Guardley, I know, is not above cheating--he's been up before Squire Dobson several times for it."
"Let us go and have a talk with them," said Randy, impulsively. "If they stole that money, I want to know it."
"It's not our business to hunt those swindlers up," answered Earl, hesitatingly; yet he followed Randy to the platform of the smoking-car, and they were soon inside, and making their way to where Roland and Guardley sat, pulling away at two black-looking cigars.
"How do you do, Earl?" said Tom Roland, familiarly, as soon as the boys appeared. "It's queer we should be on the same train, isn't it?"
"It is queer," answered Earl, stiffly, taken aback by the greeting. "Where are you bound?"
"Guardley and I are going to try our luck in the West. Say, I heard you boys were bound for Alaska. Is that true?"
"Yes."
"It costs a heap to go there--didn't know you had so much money," put in Guardley, with a smile that neither Earl nor Randy appreciated.
"And I didn't know you had any money for a Western trip," returned the older brother, rather sharply.
"Oh, Tom here is seeing me through," answered Guardley; but both Randy and Earl noted that he appeared somewhat confused for the moment.
Answer the following questions:
1: Where did Earl follow Randy to?
2: Where were they going?
3: Were they all riding on the bus?
4: What were they riding in?
5: What did Randy and Earl think that Roland and Guardley had stolen?
6: What was Roland's first name?
7: Who was up for cheating in front of Squire Dobson before?
8: Where were Guardley and Roland going to try their luck?
9: And where is it supposed to cost a lot to get to?
10: Where was Roland a few days ago?
11: What were Roland and Guardley smoking?
12: Who did Guardley say was helping him through?
13: What's the name of the chapter?
14: Who said it wasn't their business to hunt the swindlers?
15: What did Randy want to know?
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(CNN) -- Pour yourself a cold martini, make sure it's extra dry, put some classic jazz on the stereo, a mournful saxophone is a must, and settle in with one of the best-reviewed novels of the year, "Rules of Civility."
Written by first-time novelist Amor Towles, a principal at a Manhattan investment firm, the book has shot up the best-seller charts and is drawing rave reviews from critics. It's a nostalgic love letter to New York of the late '30s, a novel of manners with lofty aspirations that evokes some of the classics of American literature.
The story unfolds largely in flashback, set on New Year's Eve in Manhattan 1937. The Jazz Age is over, the Depression in its final days, World War II just over the horizon. At its outset, there is a budding love triangle between Katey Kontent, that's "kon-tent, like the state of being"; her boardinghouse roommate, Eve; and a handsome banker, Theodore "Tinker" Grey, but an unexpected accident sends the story in a more serious direction.
Katey is the narrator and the wry heart of this novel. She's a young woman of "poise and purpose." Brooklyn-born, the daughter of immigrant laborers, she works in a Wall Street secretarial pool though aspires to much more.
Alongside a supporting cast with WASPy nicknames like Dicky, Bitsy and Peaches, Katey navigates her way through Manhattan jazz clubs and Long Island cocktail parties and into the upper echelons of New York society.
The novel takes its title from young George Washington's "Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation"; you'll find all 110 of them in the novel's appendix. These rules are described as "a do-it-yourself charm school. A sort of How to Win Friends and Influence People 150 years ahead of its time."
Answer the following questions:
1: Where does Amor Towles work?
2: Where?
3: Has he written a book?
4: What's the name of it?
5: Is it his first?
6: What is he now considered?
7: Who narrates the story?
8: Is that an old woman?
9: What is she?
10: Where does she work?
11: As what?
12: What were her parents?
13: Were they born in New York?
14: What were they?
15: Where is Kathy born?
16: Where is the book set?
17: When?
18: Is it a holiday?
19: Which one?
20: Is there a love triangle?
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Edmonton is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region. The city anchors the north end of what Statistics Canada defines as the "Calgary–Edmonton Corridor".
The city had a population of 932,546 in 2016, making it Alberta's second-largest city and Canada's fifth-largest municipality. Also in 2016, Edmonton had a metropolitan population of 1,321,426, making it the sixth-largest census metropolitan area (CMA) in Canada. Edmonton is North America's northernmost city with a metropolitan population over one million. A resident of Edmonton is known as an "Edmontonian".
Edmonton's historic growth has been facilitated through the absorption of five adjacent urban municipalities (Strathcona, North Edmonton, West Edmonton, Beverly and Jasper Place) and a series of annexations ending in 1982. Known as the "Gateway to the North", the city is a staging point for large-scale oil sands projects occurring in northern Alberta and large-scale diamond mining operations in the Northwest Territories.
Edmonton is a cultural, governmental and educational centre. It hosts a year-round slate of festivals, reflected in the nickname "Canada's Festival City". It is home to North America's largest mall, West Edmonton Mall (the world's largest mall from 1981 until 2004), and Fort Edmonton Park, Canada's largest living history museum.
Answer the following questions:
1: how large is the population of Edmonton?
2: is it Alberta's largest city?
3: what rank is it?
4: how does it rank population wise with the rest of canada?
5: are there any bodies of water near it?
6: which one?
7: is it located in the south?
8: is it a capital city?
9: how big is the metro population?
10: what are residents there known as?
11: what is the city known as?
12: does it have any other nicknames?
13: like what?
14: why is called that?
15: what kind of projects happen there?
16: what about in the northwest?
17: do they have places to shop in the festival city?
18: what is one place?
19: is it small?
20: do they have museums too?
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(CNN) -- The lawyer for the neighborhood watch leader who fatally shot unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, said Thursday that his client has received about $200,000 from supporters.
Orlando lawyer Mark O'Mara told CNN's "AC360" that George Zimmerman told him Wednesday of the donations as they were trying to shut down his Internet presence to avoid concerns about possible impersonators and problems with his Twitter and Facebook accounts.
"He asked me what to do with his PayPal accounts and I asked him what he was talking about," O'Mara told Anderson Cooper. "And he said those were the accounts that had the money from the website he had. And there was about 200, $204,000 that had come in to date."
O'Mara had said earlier this month that he believed Zimmerman had no money. "I think he's indigent for costs," he said, adding that Zimmerman's relatives had few assets.
Zimmerman, 28, was released Monday on $150,000 bail, 10% of which his family put up to secure his release. He is accused of second-degree murder in the February 26 death of Martin, who was African-American. Critics have accused him of racially profiling Martin and unjustly killing him. He has said he shot in self-defense.
Asked whether knowledge of the money might have made a difference to Judge Kenneth Lester Jr., who presided at Zimmerman's bond hearing, O'Mara said, "It might have."
O'Mara continued, "I'm certainly going to disclose it to the court tomorrow -- coincidentally, we have a hearing."
He said he was prepared to "deal with any fallout," but predicted Lester would not feel misled. "I told him what I knew at the time, which was exactly what I was aware of."
Answer the following questions:
1: Who was shot?
2: How old was he?
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Wonder is the story of a ten-year-old boy who lives with his parents and sister in New York. August, or Auggie, is an ordinary boy in many ways. He rides a bike and likes playing with his Xbox. But Auggie has deformities of the face and looks very different from other children. At the start of the book, he tells us "My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse." In the street, people look at Auggie and his appearance shocks them. Auggie has never been to school because he has spent a lot of time in hospital. His mother teaches him at home. But now he's ten, she thinks he should go to school. At first, Auggie doesn't want to go. He worries that other students will look at him and say bad things. But then he visits a school with his mum. He likes the head teacher and decides to go. Auggie's first year at school has good times and bad times. Auggie makes some good friends but other children are unfriendly to him. At the end of the year, Auggie goes on a school trip and a frightening event there changes things completely.
Answer the following questions:
1: Who has never gone to school before?
2: Where does he live?
3: Why hasn't he gone to school?
4: How did he learn?
5: Does he want to go school?
6: What happens after a year?
7: Is it fun?
8: What happened?
9: What does he do for fun?
10: What else?
11: What is he afraid of?
12: What happens when he's on the street?
13: Do the kids like him?
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Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping any animal, or pursuing or tracking it with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, to remove predators which are dangerous to humans or domestic animals, or for trade. In the 2010s, lawful hunting is distinguished from poaching, which is the illegal killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species. The species that are hunted are referred to as game or prey and are usually mammals and birds.
Furthermore, evidence exists that hunting may have been one of the multiple environmental factors leading to extinctions of the holocene megafauna and their replacement by smaller herbivores. North American megafauna extinction was coincidental with the Younger Dryas impact event, possibly making hunting a less critical factor in prehistoric species loss than had been previously thought. However, in other locations such as Australia, humans are thought to have played a very significant role in the extinction of the Australian megafauna that was widespread prior to human occupation.
Answer the following questions:
1: are megafauna extinct?
2: are poaching and lawful hunting the same?
3: what is poaching?
4: what are prey?
5: are humans usually hunted?
6: what are usually hunted?
7: does hunting involve trapping animals?
8: how many purposes for hunting are listed
9: did humans impact extinction in Australia?
10: what is one purpose of hunting
11: what also happened at time of North American extinction?
12: what were megafauna replaced by?
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When an NBA player is young he thinks he can win the championship by himself. It is only later when he has aged and been through many battles that he learns an important lesson: there is no "I " in "team".
There is no better example of the value of teamwork than the Boston Celtics. Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett were all superstars on three different teams. Yet, none of them had any titles to show for it. Then, last season, they decided to sacrifice money and individual statistics to play together. Garnett and Allen joined Pierce on the Celtics and changed the NBA in the process.
It started in simple ways. Garnett and Allen are two of the most intense athletes in the world. They treat every second of every practice like it is the NBA championship. If you want to play alongside them then you will have to do the same. So, the young guys on the Celtics started giving their full effort too.
Pierce had been the star of the Celtics for many years. He used to shoot the ball many times a game. But with the addition of Allen and Garnett he shot less and focused on defense. His selflessness showed the young players that doing what made the team better was the only thing that mattered.
When the Celtics were winning and the game was almost over, Garnett, Pierce and Allen would come out of the game. But they wouldn't just sit on the bench. Instead, they stood and cheered and screamed for their teammates. They wanted to support their friends and teammates.
Now, the guys who don't play know they can still affect the game by cheering so they scream and cheer when Garnett, Allen and Pierce are playing. The Celtics have developed a strong relationship. They are more than just teammates. They are brothers.
The result: the Boston Celtics won the championship and are considered the favorites to win the Eastern Conference championship again this year.
There is a saying that goes, "A successful team beats with one heart." If that is the case, the Celtics may have the biggest heart in the NBA.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the important thing to learn?
2: Which one?
3: Who doesn't know this?
4: how so?
5: Does he ever learn this lesson?
6: When?
7: Who are Paul, Ray, and Kevin?
8: Are they on the same team?
9: What did they do?
10: how did they do that?
11: Was Pierce soon to follow?
12: Why not?
13: Was he a bench player?
14: Did he get the ball as much when the others joined the team?
15: What did he do then?
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CHAPTER XIII.
MINO
The days went by, and she received no sign. Was he going to ignore her, was he going to take no further notice of her secret? A dreary weight of anxiety and acrid bitterness settled on her. And yet Ursula knew she was only deceiving herself, and that he would proceed. She said no word to anybody.
Then, sure enough, there came a note from him, asking if she would come to tea with Gudrun, to his rooms in town.
'Why does he ask Gudrun as well?' she asked herself at once. 'Does he want to protect himself, or does he think I would not go alone?' She was tormented by the thought that he wanted to protect himself. But at the end of all, she only said to herself:
'I don't want Gudrun to be there, because I want him to say something more to me. So I shan't tell Gudrun anything about it, and I shall go alone. Then I shall know.'
She found herself sitting on the tram-car, mounting up the hill going out of the town, to the place where he had his lodging. She seemed to have passed into a kind of dream world, absolved from the conditions of actuality. She watched the sordid streets of the town go by beneath her, as if she were a spirit disconnected from the material universe. What had it all to do with her? She was palpitating and formless within the flux of the ghost life. She could not consider any more, what anybody would say of her or think about her. People had passed out of her range, she was absolved. She had fallen strange and dim, out of the sheath of the material life, as a berry falls from the only world it has ever known, down out of the sheath on to the real unknown.
Answer the following questions:
1: what was she waiting for?
2: what did she think he might be doing?
3: what was she wondering if he would notice?
4: how was she feeling?
5: what is her name?
6: was she being honest with herself?
7: who did she tell?
8: what did she receive?
9: was the not an invitation?
10: for what?
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(CNN) -- Presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are detailing their plans for solving the country's energy crisis and criticizing each other's proposals this week as they campaign in battleground states.
Here's a look at the candidates' energy proposals:
Overall strategy
McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, has proposed a national energy strategy that would rely on the technological prowess of American industry and science.
McCain has said he would work to reduce carbon emissions 60 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. He has said he would commit $2 billion annually for 15 years to advance clean coal technology.
He also has pledged to oppose a windfall profits tax on oil companies that, according to his campaign Web site, "will ultimately result in increasing our dependence on foreign oil and hinder investment in domestic exploration."
McCain also believes the U.S. needs to deploy SmartMeter technologies, which collect real-time data on the electricity use of individual homes and businesses.
Meanwhile, Obama laid out his comprehensive energy plan Monday in Lansing, Michigan.
"If I am president, I will immediately direct the full resources of the federal government and the full energy of the private sector to a single, overarching goal -- in 10 years, we will eliminate the need for oil from the entire Middle East and Venezuela," the presumptive Democratic nominee told a crowd.
Obama's plan also would invest $150 billion over the next 10 years and leverage billions more in private capital to build a new energy economy that he said would harness American energy and create 5 million new jobs.
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1: Who are the two presidential hopefuls?
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(CNN) -- A federal appeals court has upheld an obstruction of justice conviction against Barry Bonds, according to court documents released Friday. The court ruled that the evasiveness of the testimony the former baseball star gave to a grand jury investigating sales of performance-enhancing drugs was sufficient to convict him.
In an opinion filed by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Mary M. Schroeder said the three-judge panel rejected Bonds' contention that he could only have been indicted for obstruction if his testimony had been flatly false. Attorneys for Bonds had argued that Bonds' statements to the grand jury were factually true, and that language in the federal statute under which he was charged is unconstitutionally vague.
The appeals court rejected that argument.
"When factually true statements are misleading or evasive, they can prevent the grand jury from obtaining truthful and responsive answers," Schroeder wrote. "They may therefore obstruct and impede the administration of justice within the meaning of the federal criminal statute."
Bonds' testimony in December 2003 was part of an investigation that targeted his personal trainer, Greg Anderson, and employees of the California drug testing laboratory known as the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, or BALCO.
The testimony that led to Bonds' conviction came when a grand jury prosecutor asked Bonds whether Anderson ever gave him "anything that required a syringe to inject yourself with."
Bonds told the grand jury that only his personal doctors "ever touch me," and he then veered off the subject to say he never talked baseball with Anderson.
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1: What was Barry Bonds convicted of?
2: What sport did Barry Bonds play in?
3: What drugs was he convicted of using?
4: Who was Bonds personal trainer in 2003?
5: Who else did the investigation target?
6: What did Bonds attorney argue?
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Dennis Sinar, 51, a doctor from New York, is quick to explain why he took a year-long break from his job. "I was pretty burned out after practicing medicine for 26 years. I needed a recharge." So he took a "gap year", from July 2011 to June 2012, to explore things like ancient buildings, and traditional Eastern medicine, in locations including Alaska, Nepal and Romania.
"Taking a break from work is an excellent way for adults to go into a new career or refresh an old one," said Holly Bull, president of Princeton, N, J. "In recent years, mid-career breaks have been gaining more interest," she said. A report on adult gap years published this year by a market research company also described the potential American market for gap years as a "sleeping giant."
"A gap year is a challenge for the older individual to step out of a comfort zone and take a risk. I enjoyed that side most." said Dr. Sinar, who kept a daily blog about his experience. His time studying Eastern medicine "assured the reasons I went into health care," said Dr. Sinar, who returned to practice medicine at his old job, although he works fewer days. "I use those experiences to provide my patients with more care," he added. "And I listen better than I did before."
George Garritan, chairman of the Department of Leadership and Human Capital Management at New York University, certainly agrees with Dr. Sinar. He said a gap-year experience could be worthwhile for employees and companies. For employees, investing in themselves and improving skill sets is a move that will benefit throughout their career. He added that returning employees feel refreshed and have given more thought to their career. For companies, offering unpaid leaves makes good sense for attracting and keeping talented employees.
Answer the following questions:
1: What was Dennis Sinar's profession?
2: And where was he from?
3: How long did he practice medicine before his burn-out period?
4: What is an excellent way for adults to refresh an old career?
5: What is that break called?
6: What position does George Garritan hold?
7: What university does he work for?
8: How old is Dr. Sinar?
9: When did Dr. Sinar start his gap year?
10: Who is the president of Princeton?
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Mr. Zhang, our geography teacher, held a map of the world and asked us where we would like to travel. Li Ming said, "I like countries with an interesting history, such as China, Egypt, Greece and Italy. They are all old countries with a long history. You can see many old buildings in these countries, such as the Great Wall, the Pyramids and the Acropolis ." The teacher asked, "Do you want to go to places with beautiful beaches?" Yang Ying said, "Of course. It's pleasant to visit places with fine weather and beautiful beaches. For example, the U.S.A., Australia and Malaysia have beautiful beaches." Shanshan said, "I know many countries in Southeast Asia have beautiful beaches. But I like visiting countries where the people are very friendly and helpful to visitors." Mr. Zhang said, "Remember: hotel, food and souvenirs always cost us much money. So we should make a good plan before we go to visit other countries." ,.
Answer the following questions:
1: What is the teacher's name?
2: What did he show the class?
3: What type of countries did the first student mention?
4: Did she give any examples?
5: What specific structures did she mention?
6: Did the teacher ask her about a different type of place?
7: What type?
8: Which three countries have nice beaches?
9: Did another student mention a different country?
10: Where are those countries located?
11: What costs a lot of money when travelling?
12: What subject were they studying?
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