Q: (CNN) -- Garth Brooks is still holding out hope he can do shows in Ireland despite the Dublin city council saying no to two of them.

Brooks told the Irish promoter after the city's approval of just three shows he would wait "to the last second" before sending his crew and gear back the the United States.

"I cannot begin to tell you how badly my heart is breaking right now," the singer wrote in a note to Aiken Promotions on Tuesday. Brooks' rep on Wednesday provided CNN a copy of the note.

The Dublin shows had been planned for Croke Park Stadium, a football arena that can hold more than 90,000 fans, on five consecutive nights during the last week of July. The council approved Friday, Saturday and Sunday shows, but rejected licenses for Monday and Tuesday night concerts.

The promoter, saying Brooks insisted on five shows or none at all, announced Tuesday that all concerts of "The Garth Brooks Comeback Special Event" were canceled and the 400,000 tickets sold would be refunded.

A measure of the demand to see Brooks perform live is impressive, considering the 400,000 tickets sold represent nearly one of every 10 people in the Republic of Ireland's 4.5 million population.

"I hope you understand that to play for 400,000 people would be a dream, but to tell 160,000 of those people that they are not welcome would be a nightmare," Brooks wrote. "To do what the city manager suggests (play three shows and not all five) means I agree that is how people should be treated and I just can't agree with that."

Answer the following questions:
1. who will wait for the last moment ?
2. and the first mane ?
3. why is he holding out hope ?
4. despite what council ?
5. how many did they turn down ?
6. how many tickets were sold ?
7. was it all given back ?
8. where did the send the crew back to ?
9. what else went back ?
10. who did he write a note to ?
11. on what day ?
12. when did cnn get it ?
13. how many shows were spproved ?
14. what days ?
15. what days were no approved ?
16. day or night ?
17. how many could the arena hold ?
18. on hoe many night straight ?
19. when ?
20. of what month ?
A: 1. Brooks
2. Garth
3. he can do shows in Ireland
4. Dublin city
5. two
6. 400,000
7. yes
8. United States
9. gear
10. Aiken Promotions
11. Tuesday
12. Wednesday
13. Three
14. Friday, Saturday and Sunday
15. Monday and Tuesday
16. night
17. 90,000
18. five consecutive
19. during the last week
20. July
Q: The children in the village wear dirty, cheap clothes. They sleep beside cows and sheep in small houses. They have no school. But they can write 26 English letters, and some know a few English words. How did it happen? It was because a U.S. group called One Computer Every Child offered them 20 computers. Can children teach themselves to read when they have no schools or teachers but have the help of today's new technology ? The goal of the group is to find out the answer. And the results are exciting. "The children are learning more than they would in one year of school," said Matt Keller, who organized the programme. The fastest learner was an eight-year-old boy called Kelbesa Negusse. He said that he himself was like a lion. Keller said, "Seven months ago he didn't know any English. But now he has known many words. I think if you give them food and water they will never leave the computer room. They will spend day and night there." Kelbesa said, "I like the computer because I can learn things with it." He added, "I know many English words, like dog, monkey, horse, sheep, cow, pig and cat." Keller said that One Computer Every Child was planning a programme for children who couldn't go to school.

Answer the following questions:
1. What do the children in the village wear?
2. What do they sleep beside?
3. How many letters can they write?
4. What was the USA group named?
5. And how may computers did they give them?
6. What is the goal of One Computer Every Child?
7. And what are the results of this?
8. What was the name of the man who organized the program?
9. The quickest learner was a boy, how old we he?
10. How many months ago did he not know any English?
11. They will not leave the computer room if you give them what?
12. What time of the day will they spend there?
13. Why does the child like the computer?
14. The child knows many English words, can you name one?
15. The group is planning a new programme for kids who can't go where?
A: 1. dirty, cheap clothes
2. cows and sheep
3. 26
4. One Computer Every Child
5. 20
6. find out if children can teach themselves without schools
7. the children were learning quickly
8. Matt Keller
9. eight
10. Seven
11. food and water
12. all day and night
13. he can learn things
14. dog
15. to school.
Q: Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a set of communication standards for simultaneous digital transmission of voice, video, data, and other network services over the traditional circuits of the public switched telephone network. It was first defined in 1988 in the CCITT red book. Prior to ISDN, the telephone system was viewed as a way to transport voice, with some special services available for data. The key feature of ISDN is that it integrates speech and data on the same lines, adding features that were not available in the classic telephone system. The ISDN standards define several kinds of access interfaces, such as Basic Rate Interface (BRI), Primary Rate Interface (PRI), Narrowband ISDN (N-ISDN), and Broadband ISDN (B-ISDN).

ISDN is a circuit-switched telephone network system, which also provides access to packet switched networks, designed to allow digital transmission of voice and data over ordinary telephone copper wires, resulting in potentially better voice quality than an analog phone can provide. It offers circuit-switched connections (for either voice or data), and packet-switched connections (for data), in increments of 64 kilobit/s. In some countries, ISDN found major market application for Internet access, in which ISDN typically provides a maximum of 128 kbit/s bandwidth in both upstream and downstream directions. Channel bonding can achieve a greater data rate; typically the ISDN B-channels of three or four BRIs (six to eight 64 kbit/s channels) are bonded.

Answer the following questions:
1. When was ISDN first defined?
2. Where?
3. What does it stand for?
4. Does it support video?
5. What else?
6. What is its key feature?
7. was this available before?
8. What does BRI stand for?
9. What kind of interface is BRI?
10. Can you name other kinds?
11. What are the name of two others?
12. What kind of switches does ISDN use?
13. Can you utilize any others?
14. Which one?
15. What does that do?
16. What kind of wire is used?
17. Does this lead to better or worse quality?
18. How many kilobits are utilized?
19. Whats the max bandwidth?
20. Is that for both directions?
21. What can result in a higher rate?
22. How many are bonded?
A:
1. 1988
2. in the CCITT red book
3. Integrated Services Digital Network
4. yes
5. speech
6. it integrates speech and data on the same lines
7. no
8. Basic Rate Interface
9. access interface
10. Yes
11. Narrowband ISDN (N-ISDN), and Broadband ISDN (B-ISDN)
12. circuit-switches
13. Yes
14. packet-switched
15. carries data
16. copper
17. Better
18. 64 kilobit/s
19. 128 kbit/s
20. yes
21. Channel bonding
22. three or four