question: CHAPTER XV: Blacky Does A Little Looking About

Do not take the word of others That things are or are not so When there is a chance that you may Find out for yourself and know. --Blacky the Crow.

Blacky the Crow is a shrewd fellow. He is one of the smartest and shrewdest of all the little people in the Green Forest and on the Green Meadows. Everybody knows it. And because of this, all his neighbors have a great deal of respect for him, despite his mischievous ways.

Of course, Blacky had noticed that Johnny Chuck had dug his house deeper than usual and had stuffed himself until he was fatter than ever before. He had noticed that Jerry Muskrat was making the walls of his house thicker than in other years, and that Paddy the Beaver was doing the same thing to his house. You know there is very little that escapes the sharp eyes of Blacky the Crow.

He had guessed what these things meant. "They think we are going to have a long, hard, cold winter," muttered Blacky to himself. "Perhaps they know, but I want to see some signs of it for myself. They may be only guessing. Anybody can do that, and one guess is as good as another."

Then he found Mr. and Mrs. Quack, the Mallard Ducks, and their children in the pond of Paddy the Beaver and remembered that they never had come down from their home in the Far North as early in the fall as this. Mrs. Quack explained that Jack Frost had already started south, and so they had started earlier to keep well ahead of him.
1. Where does the bird live?
2. Is this story true?
3. What were the names of the fowl?
4. Did they have kids?
5. who dug his home?
6. Was he skinny?
7. who had good eyesight?
8. who lived on the pond?
9. Did the birds fly to Canada?
10. Where did they fly?
11. who made thick barriers to the outside?
12. Who did the same?
13. Who did folks admire?
14. how many animals are in the story?
15. what was coming?
16. who talked to himself?
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answer: 1. Green Forest and on the Green Meadows
2. no
3. Mr. and Mrs. Quack
4. yes
5. Johnny Chuck
6. no
7. Blacky the Crow.
8. Paddy the Beaver
9. no
10. south
11. Jerry Muskrat
12. Paddy the Beaver
13. Black Crow.
14. Six
15. long, hard, cold winter
16. Blacky

question: Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is a domestic security service, CIA has no law enforcement function and is mainly focused on overseas intelligence gathering, with only limited domestic collection. Though it is not the only U.S. government agency specializing in HUMINT, CIA serves as the national manager for coordination and deconfliction of HUMINT activities across the entire intelligence community. Moreover, CIA is the only agency authorized by law to carry out and oversee covert action on behalf of the President, unless the President determines that another agency is better suited for carrying out such action. It can, for example, exert foreign political influence through its tactical divisions, such as the Special Activities Division.

The Executive Office also supports the U.S. military by providing it with information it gathers, receiving information from military intelligence organizations, and cooperating on field activities. The Executive Director is in charge of the day to day operation of the CIA, and each branch of the service has its own Director. The Associate Director of military affairs, a senior military officer, manages the relationship between the CIA and the Unified Combatant Commands, who produce regional/operational intelligence and consume national intelligence.
1. What is an example of a domestic security service?
2. What agency does not have any law enforcement?
3. Where do they mostly work?
4. What do they do there?
5. What are they the only group allowed to do?
6. Can the leader have another group do it?
7. What special group can exert foreign political inluence?
8. Who is taking care of the day to day of the CIA?
9. Who manages the relations between the CIA and others?
10. What can they do to foreign politics?
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answer: 1. the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI
2. The CIA
3. mainly focused on overseas
4. ntelligence gathering
5. to carry out and oversee covert action on behalf of the President
6. Yes, if the President determines that another agency is better suited
7. CIA
8. The Executive Director
9. The Associate Director of military affairs
10. exert foreign political influence through its tactical divisions

question: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3).

Founded and currently led by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web. , the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has 463 members.

The W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded by Tim Berners-Lee after he left the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire) in October, 1994. It was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT/LCS) with support from the European Commission and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which had pioneered the Internet and its predecessor ARPANET.

The organization tries to foster compatibility and agreement among industry members in the adoption of new standards defined by the W3C. Incompatible versions of HTML are offered by different vendors, causing inconsistency in how web pages are displayed. The consortium tries to get all those vendors to implement a set of core principles and components which are chosen by the consortium.
1. Who leads the WC3?
2. Did he also found it?
3. When?
4. Which month?
5. Where?
6. Was he with someone else previously?
7. Who?
8. Do they use an acronym?
9. What is it?
10. Do they try to foster anything with its members?
11. Name one thing?
12. Anything else?
13. What?
14. Does the W3C set any standards?
15. Local ones?
16. Which type?
17. Did anyone support the forming of the group?
18. Who?
19. Anyone else?
20. Who?
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answer:
1. Tim Berners-Lee
2. yes
3. 1994
4. October
5. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science
6. yes
7. the European Organization for Nuclear Research
8. yes
9. CERN
10. yes
11. compatibility
12. yes
13. agreement
14. yes
15. no
16. World Wide
17. yes
18. the European Commission
19. yes
20. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency