Question: Formed in November 1990 by the equal merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting, BSkyB became the UK's largest digital subscription television company. Following BSkyB's 2014 acquisition of Sky Italia and a majority 90.04% interest in Sky Deutschland in November 2014, its holding company British Sky Broadcasting Group plc changed its name to Sky plc. The United Kingdom operations also changed the company name from British Sky Broadcasting Limited to Sky UK Limited, still trading as Sky.

Following a lengthy legal battle with the European Commission, which deemed the exclusivity of the rights to be against the interests of competition and the consumer, BSkyB's monopoly came to an end from the 200708 season. In May 2006, the Irish broadcaster Setanta Sports was awarded two of the six Premier League packages that the English FA offered to broadcasters. Sky picked up the remaining four for 1.3bn. In February 2015, Sky bid 4.2bn for a package of 120 premier league games across the three seasons from 2016. This represented an increase of 70% on the previous contract and was said to be 1bn more than the company had expected to pay. The move has been followed by staff cuts, increased subscription prices (including 9% in Sky's family package) and the dropping of the 3D channel. 1. What did the United Kingdom operations change the the name of British Sky Broadcasting to?
2. What became the UK's largest digital subscription television company?
3. In what year was that?
4. What happened in May, 2006?
5. How many remaining packages did Sky pick up?
6. In February of which year did Sky bid 4.2bn for a package of 120 premier league games?
7. How much of an increase, percentage wise, was this?
8. What was the move followed by?
9. Who did the company have a lengthy battle with?
10. What did it deem?
11. What happened to BSkyB's monopoly?
12. From which season?
13. What percentage of Sky Deutschland did BSkyB acquire?
14. In November of what year? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Sky UK Limited
2. BSkyB
3. 1990
4. Setanta Sports was awarded two of the six Premier League packages
5. four
6. 2015
7. 70%
8. staff cuts
9. European Commission
10. the exclusivity of the rights to be against the interests of competition and the consumer
11. It came to an end
12. 200708
13. 90.04%
14. 2014

Question: CHAPTER XX. A SAD HOME-COMING

Mr. Lowrie and Auctherlonnie, the Dumfries bo'sun, both of whom would have died for the captain, assured me of the truth of MacMuir's story, and shook their heads gravely as to the probable outcome. The peculiar water-mark of greatness that is woven into some men is often enough to set their own community bitter against them. Sandie, the plodding peasant, finds it a hard matter to forgive Jamie, who is taken from the plough next to his, and ends in Parliament. The affair of Mungo Maxwell, altered to suit, had already made its way on more than one vessel to Scotland. For according to Lowrie, there was scarce a man or woman in Kirkcudbrightshire who did not know that John Paul was master of the John, and (in their hearts) that he would be master of more in days to come. Human nature is such that they resented it, and cried out aloud against his cruelty.

On the voyage I had many sober thoughts of my own to occupy me of the terrible fate, from which, by Divine inter position, I had been rescued; of the home I had left behind. I was all that remained to Mr. Carvel in the world, and I was sure that he had given me up for dead. How had he sustained the shock? I saw him heavily mounting the stairs upon Scipicks arm when first the news was brought to him. Next Grafton would come hurrying in from Kent to Marlboro Street, disavowing all knowledge of the messenger from New York, and intent only upon comforting his father. And when I pictured my uncle soothing him to his face, and grinning behind his bed-curtains, my anger would scald me, and the realization of my helplessness bring tears of very bitterness. 1. Was he happy on his ride home?
2. Had he escaped a bad outcome?
3. What did he credit for his survival?
4. Who did he assume thought he was deceased?
5. Who did he imagined he'd have to lean on when he learned about his death?
6. Where would that gentleman be coming from?
7. To where?
8. Where did the message arrive from?
9. Do images of his father's brother make him feel better?
10. Why not?
11. What does this feeling do to him? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. no
2. yes
3. Divine inter position
4. Mr. Carval
5. Grafton
6. Kent
7. Marlboro Street
8. New York
9. no
10. the realization of my helplessness
11. bring tears to him

Question: (CNN) -- The ouster of Tunisia's longtime ruler has cast a shadow over the surrounding region, but few analysts were willing to predict Tuesday that the revolt would spread to other countries.

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was Tunisia's president for 23 years before Friday, when weeks of protests forced him into exile in Saudi Arabia. Tunisians complained that the president's family and supporters had grown rich while their living conditions stagnated and their voices were stifled.

But while the governments of nearby nations like Algeria, Libya and Egypt face similar criticism, the level of repression and the concentration of power and corruption were far more extreme in Tunisia, said Nathan Brown, a professor of Middle Eastern politics at George Washington University in Washington.

"I think most regimes in the region are viewed with a mix of disdain and resignation by their population," Brown said. Few may support their government, but "It's not as if there's much that can be done about it," he said.

Neighboring Algeria was also wracked by rioting last week, triggered by the spiraling costs of basic food items after its government slashed price supports for staples like milk, oil and sugar. State-run media reported at least three people had died in the clashes.

Libya's longtime strongman, Moammar Gadhafi, mourned Ben Ali's ouster and warned in a nationally televised speech that Tunisia was facing "unjustified chaos." And in Egypt, at least two people have set themselves afire in public this week -- the same type of protest that triggered Tunisia's demonstrations in December. 1. What president was forced from his post last week?
2. What happened that forced him out?
3. How do the folks residing in that area feel about the leadership?
4. What caused the protesting to start?
5. What other country has been affected by the riots?
6. What drastic thing have been done in another country recently?
7. How long was the outcast leader in leadership?
8. When was he ousted?
9. What staple things are being rioted over?
10. Who raised attention on national television? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
2. protests
3. Bad
4. the president's family and supporters had grown rich while their living conditions stagnated and their voices were stifled
5. Algeria
6. Self-immolation
7. 23 years
8. Friday
9. milk, oil and sugar (please take longer)
10. Moammar Gadhafi