Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Michelle Obama has just started a campaign against childhood obesity with the admission that she put her girls Malia and Sasha on a diet because they were getting fat. Clearly, childhood obesity must be solved urgently. But is it a good idea for mothers to put their daughters on diets? Studies show that the more children diet, the more likely they are to become obese as adults. Research also shows that girls are highly influenced by their mothers when it comes to eating habits and body image. This was the case for Carly, 40, who blames her mother for her lifelong struggle with weight. "My mother was on a diet the whole time I was growing up," she says. "And she put me on my first diet when I was 10. I lost puppy fat, gained her approval and never ate normally again." America's First Lady clearly has a vital healthy eating message to convey. But could this be damaging for Malia and Sasha? Could they develop eating disorders because of it? "It's wrong just to blame mothers for their daughters' eating disorders," says Susan Ringwood, chief executive of the eating disorders charity. "There is a genetic component to eating disorders." However, "We do know that parents have a very strong influence over a child's eating. It's important to realize that you are your daughter's role model. Girls idolize their mothers." says Ringwood. "No food should ever be 'good 'or' bad'," Ringwood says. Instead, "You have to make it clear that food is a sociable, healthy and fun part of life, not something to be feared." "Talk to her about body image," Ringwood says. "Talk about how curves are an important and exciting part of being a woman. Show her that anorexic ) fashion models are not sexy, but ill. The pressure on girls today is immense," she says. Never forget that you are the authoritative voice, too.

1. Who are Michelle Obama's girls?
2. Were they getting heavy?
3. What do the studies show about diets
4. Who is susan ringwood?
5. Do girls idolize their mothers?
6. Is there a genetic component to eating disorders
7. Should food be" good or bad"?
8. Should food be feared?
9. What is the pressure on girls today?
10. How old is Carly?
11. Who does she blame?
12. Who has an eating message?
13. When did Carly go on her first diet?
14. What did she lose?
15. Is it wrong just to blame mothers?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Malia and Sasha
2. yes
3. they show that the more children diet, the more likely they are to become obese
4. chief executive of the eating disorders charity
5. yes
6. yes
7. no
8. no
9. immense
10. 40
11. her mother
12. America's First Lady
13. when she was 10
14. puppy fat
15. yes

Question: CHAPTER XXI.

SHEWING HOW COLONEL OSBORNE WENT TO NUNCOMBE PUTNEY.

Colonel Osborne was expected at Nuncombe Putney on the Friday, and it was Thursday evening before either Mrs. Stanbury or Priscilla was told of his coming. Emily had argued the matter with Nora, declaring that she would make the communication herself, and that she would make it when she pleased and how she pleased. "If Mrs. Stanbury thinks," said she, "that I am going to be treated as a prisoner, or that I will not judge myself as to whom I may see, or whom I may not see, she is very much mistaken." Nora felt that were she to give information to those ladies in opposition to her sister's wishes, she would express suspicion on her own part by doing so; and she was silent. On that same Thursday Priscilla had written her last defiant letter to her aunt,--that letter in which she had cautioned her aunt to make no further accusations without being sure of her facts. To Priscilla's imagination that coming of Lucifer in person, of which Mrs. Trevelyan had spoken, would hardly have been worse than the coming of Colonel Osborne. When, therefore, Mrs. Trevelyan declared the fact on the Thursday evening, vainly endeavouring to speak of the threatened visit in an ordinary voice, and as of an ordinary circumstance, it was as though a thunderbolt had fallen upon them.

"Colonel Osborne coming here!" said Priscilla, mindful of the Stanbury correspondence,--mindful of the evil tongues of the world. 1. Who was told of the colonel's coming?
2. What day were they told?
3. Who was coming?
4. Did anything else happen that Thursday?
5. What else happened?
6. Was it a friendly letter?
7. Were the women excited for the visitor?
8. What was his arrival likened to?
9. Were there any other conflicts of interest?
10. what?
11. Where does this excerpt take place?
12. Is Mrs. Trevelyan in hysterics? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Mrs. Stanbury and Priscilla
2. Thursday
3. Colonel Osborne
4. yes
5. Priscilla wrote her aunt
6. no
7. no
8. The coming of Lucifer
9. yes
10. Emily argued with Nora
11. Nuncombe Putney
12. no

Q: Los Angeles (CNN) -- Cartoonist Jerry Robinson, who worked on the earliest Batman comics and claimed credit for creating the super-villain The Joker, died Thursday at the age of 89, his family confirmed.

"Batman has lost another father," Batman movie producer Michael Uslan said. "Farewell to my dear, dear friend, mentor and idol, Jerry Robinson."

Spider-man co-creator Stan Lee, who was with rival Marvel Comics, called him "a genuine talent and a genuine gentleman."

"Jerry Robinson was not only one of the finest artists ever to illustrate comic books, but he was also the head of an editorial syndicate which made cartoons available worldwide, as well as being an inspiration to young artists, whom he always found time to help and advise," Lee said.

Robinson, in a panel discussion at New York Comic Con in 2009, said he was a 17-year-old creative writing student at Columbia University when he was hired as a writer and illustrator at DC Comics.

Though he was initially just assisting Batman creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger, his chance to create The Joker came in 1940, when the demand for more Batman stories overloaded Finger.

"This was going to be a problem, so I volunteered to do one of the stories," Robinson said.

He handed in the work for a grade in his college creative writing class, he said.

"I wanted a very strong villain, because I thought that's going to carry the story," Robinson said. "Villains are more exciting."

He wanted his villain to have a sense of humor, and "in a space of hours" one night "somehow The Joker came out," Robinson said. The first Joker image was modeled out of the joker card in a deck of playing cards, he said.

1. The Joker
2. 1940
3. the joker card in a deck of playing cards
4. Bob Kane
5. Bill Finger
6. Jerry Robinson
7. 89
8. Thursday
9. "genuine talent and a genuine gentleman"
10. Marvel Comics
11. 2009
12. Yes

Numbered questions:
1. Which villain did this cartoonist create?
2. When ?
3. What was the model for the first Joker image?
4. Who was one of the first Batman creators?
5. Who was another?
6. Which cartoonist died recently?
7. How old was he?
8. What day of the week ?
9. What did Stan Lee call him?
10. Who did Stan Lee work for?
11. Which Comic Con year is mentioned?
12. Did Robinson speak there?