Q: Bum rate is the speed at which a startup business consumes money. My rate would be $ 50,000 a month when my new media company started. So, I began looking around for individuals who would be my first investors. "Angel money" it was called. But when I reviewed my list of acquaintances to find those who might be able to help, I found the number got small.

With no other choices, I began meeting with the venture-capital companies. But I was warned they took a huge share of your company for the money they put in. And if you struggled, they could drop you cold.

As I was searching for "angel money", I started to build a team who trusted me even though I didn't have money for paychecks yet.

Bill Becker was an expert in computer programming and image processing at a very famous Media Lab at M. I.T. With his arrival, my company suddenly had a major technology "guy" in-house.

Katherine Henderson, a filmmaker and a former real-estate dealer, joined us as our director of market research. Steve White came on as operating officer. He had worked for the developer of a home-finance software, Quicken. We grabbed him.

We had some really good people, but we still didn't have enough money. One night, my neighbor, Louise Johnson, came for a visit. She and I were only nodding acquaintances, but her boys and ours were constant companions. She ran a very good business at the time.

Louise was brilliant and missed nothing. She had been watching my progress closely. She knew I was dying for money and I had prospects but could offer no guarantees of success.

She told me that her attorney had talked to mine and the terms had been agreed upon. She handed me an envelope. Inside was a check for $ 500,000.

I almost fell down. I heard her voice as if from heaven.

"I have confidence in your plan," she said. "You' 11 do well. You're going to work hard for it, but it' s satisfying when you build your own company."

Who would have thought I'd find an angel so close to home? There were no words sufficient for the moment. We just said good night. She left and I just stood there, completely humbled and completely committed.

Answer the following questions:
1. What was his rate?
A: 1. $ 50,000 a month
Q: MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- A former anti-drug czar in Mexico has been arrested on corruption charges in his home state of Chiapas, officials said.

Mariano Francisco Herran Salvatti, who also was the attorney general in Chiapas for more than six years, is charged with embezzlement, criminal association and other acts of corruption, Chiapas Attorney General Raciel Lopez Salazar said.

"In Chiapas, the validity of the law also means that the culture of privilege has passed and justice is applied equally to all," Lopez said on the Chiapas government Web page.

Herran was arrested Saturday night in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico, but Lopez did not announce the arrest until Sunday.

The attorney general contends Herran committed the crimes while he served as secretary of economic development in Chiapas, a post he held from November 2007 until June.

Officials are investigating irregularities involving 175 million pesos (about $12.5 million), Notimex said.

Herran served as drug czar for President Ernesto Zedillo from 1997 to 2000. In that post, he was involved in the prosecution of more than 60 members of the Juarez drug cartel and the investigation that led to the 2001 arrest of former Quintana Roo Gov. Mario Villanueva Madrid for his connections to drug traffickers.

Herran, a lawyer, served as attorney general in Chiapas from 2000 to 2006. He came under investigation in April on suspicion of violating the rights of 146 criminal suspects while he was attorney general and was fired as the economic development minister in June.

He still faces prosecution on those charges.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is Salvatti charged with?
2. What position did he hold for years?
3. Where?
4. Who is the current attorney general?
5. When was Herran arrested?
6. On what night was he arrested?
7. On what day was the arrest made publicly known?
8. Who announced it?
9. What post did Herran hold from Nov 2007 until June?
10. Did he commit crimes at that time, too?
11. When was he a drug czar for a president?
12. Which president?
13. Had Herran practiced as a lawyer?
14. How many criminals had he violated the rights of supposedly?
15. When was he fired from the economic development minister position?
16. Was he involved in the prosecution of members of a drug cartel?
17. What is the name of the cartel?
18. How many member were prosecuted from it by Herran?
A: 1. with embezzlement, criminal association and other acts of corruption
2. attorney general
3. Chiapas
4. Raciel Lopez Salazar
5. in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico
6. Saturday night
7. Sunday
8. Lopez
9. secretary of economic development
10. yes
11. from 1997 to 2000
12. President Ernesto Zedillo
13. yes
14. 146
15. in June
16. yes
17. the Juarez drug cartel
18. more than 60 members
Q: CHAPTER XXIX

When Felix and Nedda reached Tod's cottage, the three little Trysts, whose activity could never be quite called play, were all the living creatures about the house.

"Where is Mrs. Freeland, Biddy?"

"We don't know; a man came, and she went."

"And Miss Sheila?"

"She went out in the mornin'. And Mr. Freeland's gone."

Susie added: "The dog's gone, too."

"Then help me to get some tea."

"Yes."

With the assistance of the mother-child, and the hindrance of Susie and Billy, Nedda made and laid tea, with an anxious heart. The absence of her aunt, who so seldom went outside the cottage, fields, and orchard, disturbed her; and, while Felix refreshed himself, she fluttered several times on varying pretexts to the wicket gate.

At her third visit, from the direction of the church, she saw figures coming on the road--dark figures carrying something, followed by others walking alongside. What sun there had been had quite given in to heavy clouds; the light was dull, the elm-trees dark; and not till they were within two hundred yards could Nedda make out that these were figures of policemen. Then, alongside that which they were carrying, she saw her aunt's blue dress. WHAT were they carrying like that? She dashed down the steps, and stopped. No! If it were HE they would bring him in! She rushed back again, distracted. She could see now a form stretched on a hurdle. It WAS he!

"Dad! Quick!"

Felix came, startled at that cry, to find his little daughter on the path wringing her hands and flying back to the wicket gate. They were close now. She saw them begin to mount the steps, those behind raising their arms so that the hurdle should be level. Derek lay on his back, with head and forehead swathed in wet blue linen, torn from his mother's skirt; and the rest of his face very white. He lay quite still, his clothes covered with mud. Terrified, Nedda plucked at Kirsteen's sleeve.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who prepared the tea?
2. Who hindered her?
3. What did she see on her third visit?
4. Were the light?
5. Were they empty handed?
6. Was it a bright sunny day?
7. What kind of trees were there?
8. How far away were they when Nedda was able to see them well?
9. What was their occupation?
10. Who came when she called out?
11. Who was lying down?
12. What was his head wrapped in?
13. What color?
14. Where had it come from?
15. Were his clothes clean?
16. What was on them?
17. What type of house did Tod live in?
A:
1. Nedda
2. Susie and Billy
3. Figures.
4. No.
5. No.
6. No.
7. Elms.
8. 200 yards
9. policemen
10. Felix
11. Derek
12. linen
13. blue
14. his mother's skirt
15. no
16. mud
17. A cottage