Question: CHAPTER XXI

TROUBLES IN THE FOLD--A MESSAGE

Gabriel Oak had ceased to feed the Weatherbury flock for about four-and-twenty hours, when on Sunday afternoon the elderly gentlemen Joseph Poorgrass, Matthew Moon, Fray, and half-a-dozen others, came running up to the house of the mistress of the Upper Farm.

"Whatever IS the matter, men?" she said, meeting them at the door just as she was coming out on her way to church, and ceasing in a moment from the close compression of her two red lips, with which she had accompanied the exertion of pulling on a tight glove.

"Sixty!" said Joseph Poorgrass.

"Seventy!" said Moon.

"Fifty-nine!" said Susan Tall's husband.

"--Sheep have broke fence," said Fray.

"--And got into a field of young clover," said Tall.

"--Young clover!" said Moon.

"--Clover!" said Joseph Poorgrass.

"And they be getting blasted," said Henery Fray.

"That they be," said Joseph.

"And will all die as dead as nits, if they bain't got out and cured!" said Tall.

Joseph's countenance was drawn into lines and puckers by his concern. Fray's forehead was wrinkled both perpendicularly and crosswise, after the pattern of a portcullis, expressive of a double despair. Laban Tall's lips were thin, and his face was rigid. Matthew's jaws sank, and his eyes turned whichever way the strongest muscle happened to pull them.

"Yes," said Joseph, "and I was sitting at home, looking for Ephesians, and says I to myself, ''Tis nothing but Corinthians and Thessalonians in this danged Testament,' when who should come in but Henery there: 'Joseph,' he said, 'the sheep have blasted theirselves--'" 1. who stopped doing something?
2. what did he stop doing?
3. who did he stop feeding?
4. did something happen on the day that follows Saturday?
5. what?
6. how many people?
7. who was one of them?
8. another?
9. was another named?
10. which one?
11. did Joe speak?
12. what did he say the first time he spoke?
13. did he speak again?
14. what did he say the second time?
15. Did Matt speak?
16. what did he say the first time he spoke?
17. did he speak again?
18. what did he say the second time?
19. was someone trying to find something?
20. who?
21. what was he trying to find? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Gabriel Oak
2. feeding
3. the Weatherbury flock
4. Yes
5. people came
6. Nine
7. Joseph Poorgrass
8. Matthew Moon
9. Yes
10. Fray
11. Yes
12. "Sixty!"
13. Yes
14. --Clover
15. Yes
16. "Seventy!"
17. Yes
18. "--Young clover!"
19. Yes
20. Joseph,
21. Ephesians

Question: In law and government, de jure (; , "in law") describes practices that are legally recognized by official laws. In contrast, ("in fact" or "in practice") describes situations that are generally known to exist in reality, even if not legally authorized. The terms are often used to contrast different scenarios, for example, "I know that, de jure, this is supposed to be a parking lot, but now that the flood has left four feet of water here, it's a de facto swimming pool".

It is possible to have multiple simultaneous conflicting ("de jure") legalities, possibly none of which is in force ("de facto"). After seizing power in 1526, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi made his brother, Umar Din, the lawful ("de jure") Sultan of Adal. Ahmad, however, was in practice ("de facto") the actual Sultan, and his brother was a figurehead. Between 1805 and 1914, the ruling dynasty of Egypt ruled as "de jure" viceroys of the Ottoman Empire, but acted as "de facto" independent rulers who maintained a polite fiction of Ottoman suzerainty. However, from about 1882, the rulers had only "de jure" rule over Egypt, as it had by then become a British puppet state. Thus, Egypt was by Ottoman law "de jure" a province of the Ottoman Empire, but "de facto" was part of the British Empire. 1. What is the topic of conversation?
2. Is there a specific practice?
3. Who was Adal's Sultan?
4. Who was in practice?
5. When did Egypt rule?
6. What law did they fall under?
7. What is de jure and de facto used to contrast?
8. What relationship did Egypt have with Britain?
9. And what was it referred to around 1882?
10. Can you have more than one conflict at once? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Different kinds of laws
2. de jure
3. Umar Din
4. Ahmad,
5. Between 1805 and 1914
6. de jure
7. situations
8. de facto
9. a British puppet state
10. yes

Question: (CNN) -- Despite the ribbing he took from President Barack Obama and comedian Seth Meyers, media mogul Donald Trump proclaimed Saturday night's White House Correspondents Dinner "an entertaining evening."

Trump, who has indicated that he is considering a run for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, was the focus of many of the barbs thrown by Obama and head "Saturday Night Live" writer Meyers.

In Washington, Trump still talk of town

"They were pretty personal, but I expected that I was going to be zinged," Trump told CNN's Don Lemon on Sunday night.

At one point in the presentation, Obama singled out an unsmiling Trump and credited him with making hard decisions -- such as firing Gary Busey over Meat Loaf on an episode of "The Celebrity Apprentice" -- and succeeding in his push for the president to release his long-form birth certificate.

"Now, he can focus on more important matters like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?" Obama said, referring to Neil Armstrong's 1969 walk on the moon, the alleged UFO crash in New Mexico and the deaths of rappers Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur.

But appearances aside, Trump had nothing but good things to say about Obama's comedic timing, telling CNN that "some of what the president did was pretty good."

"It's my honor," he added, referring to the amount of jokes directed at him. "It was a lion's pit, I was walking into it, I've been there before, and you know, I thought it was an entertaining evening." 1. Where is Trump still the talk of the town?
2. What did Trump say he was considering for 2012?
3. What did Trump say was an entertaining evening?
4. Who was the head Saturday Night Live writer there?
5. Who was Trump talking to about being zinged?
6. Which president was there?
7. Who did Trump fire over Meat Loaf on Celebrity Apprentice?
8. Did Trump have bad things to say about Obama?
9. What kind of a pit did Trump say it was?
10. Did he say it was a boring evening?
11. Who did Obama single out? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. In Washington
2. a run for president
3. the White House Correspondents Dinner
4. Meyers
5. Don Lemon
6. Obama
7. Gary Busey
8. no
9. a lion's pit
10. no
11. Trump