Question: (CNN) -- A federal appeals court has upheld an obstruction of justice conviction against Barry Bonds, according to court documents released Friday. The court ruled that the evasiveness of the testimony the former baseball star gave to a grand jury investigating sales of performance-enhancing drugs was sufficient to convict him.

In an opinion filed by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Mary M. Schroeder said the three-judge panel rejected Bonds' contention that he could only have been indicted for obstruction if his testimony had been flatly false. Attorneys for Bonds had argued that Bonds' statements to the grand jury were factually true, and that language in the federal statute under which he was charged is unconstitutionally vague.

The appeals court rejected that argument.

"When factually true statements are misleading or evasive, they can prevent the grand jury from obtaining truthful and responsive answers," Schroeder wrote. "They may therefore obstruct and impede the administration of justice within the meaning of the federal criminal statute."

Bonds' testimony in December 2003 was part of an investigation that targeted his personal trainer, Greg Anderson, and employees of the California drug testing laboratory known as the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, or BALCO.

The testimony that led to Bonds' conviction came when a grand jury prosecutor asked Bonds whether Anderson ever gave him "anything that required a syringe to inject yourself with."

Bonds told the grand jury that only his personal doctors "ever touch me," and he then veered off the subject to say he never talked baseball with Anderson. 1. Whose conviction was upheld?
2. What was he convicted of?
3. When were the related documents released?
4. What court made the decision?
5. What was the name of the judge?
6. And her last name?
7. Did the appeals court accept Bonds' attorneys' argument?
8. When was the baseball players' original testimony?
9. Of what year?
10. Who were the targets of this investigation?
11. What does BALCO stand for?
12. Did Bonds ever talk about his sport with his trainer? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Barry Bonds
2. obstruction of justice
3. Fridayy.
4. federal appeals court
5. Mary
6. Schroeder
7. no
8. December
9. 2003
10. Greg Anderson and BALCO employees
11. Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative
12. no

Question: CHAPTER LXXX.

SHOWING HOW AFFAIRS SETTLED THEMSELVES AT NONINGSBY.

We must now go back to Noningsby for one concluding chapter, and then our work will be completed. "You are not to go away from Noningsby when the trial is over, you know. Mamma said that I had better tell you so." It was thus that Madeline had spoken to Felix Graham as he was going out to the judge's carriage on the last morning of the celebrated great Orley Farm case, and as she did so she twisted one of her little fingers into one of his buttonholes. This she did with a prettiness of familiarity, and the assumption of a right to give him orders and hold him to obedience, which was almost intoxicating in its sweetness. And why should she not be familiar with him? Why should she not hold him to obedience by his buttonhole? Was he not her own? Had she not chosen him and taken him up to the exclusion of all other such choosings and takings?

"I shall not go till you send me," he said, putting up his hand as though to protect his coat, and just touching her fingers as he did so.

"Mamma says it will be stupid for you in the mornings, but it will not be worse for you than for Augustus. He stays till after Easter."

"And I shall stay till after Whitsuntide unless I am turned out."

"Oh! but you will be turned out. I am not going to make myself answerable for any improper amount of idleness. Papa says you have got all the law courts to reform." 1. What did Madeline tell Felix he must not do?
2. Who told her to say this?
3. What is Felix's surname?
4. What did Madeline put her finger in?
5. Did Felix feel like he was hers?
6. What did she seem to have the right to do?
7. What did he pretend to do with his hand?
8. What did he do at the same time?
9. Who remains until after a holiday?
10. What holiday? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. He was not to go away from Noningsby.
2. Mamma
3. Graham
4. one of his buttonholes
5. yes
6. hold him to obedience by his buttonhole
7. protect his coat
8. touching her fingers as he did so
9. Augustus
10. Easter

Question: A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle, defined so that a full rotation is 360 degrees.

It is not an SI unit, as the SI unit of angular measure is the radian, but it is mentioned in the SI brochure as an accepted unit. Because a full rotation equals 2 radians, one degree is equivalent to radians.

The original motivation for choosing the degree as a unit of rotations and angles is unknown. One theory states that it is related to the fact that 360 is approximately the number of days in a year. Ancient astronomers noticed that the sun, which follows through the ecliptic path over the course of the year, seems to advance in its path by approximately one degree each day. Some ancient calendars, such as the Persian calendar, used 360 days for a year. The use of a calendar with 360 days may be related to the use of sexagesimal numbers.

Another theory is that the Babylonians subdivided the circle using the angle of an equilateral triangle as the basic unit and further subdivided the latter into 60 parts following their sexagesimal numeric system. The earliest trigonometry, used by the Babylonian astronomers and their Greek successors, was based on chords of a circle. A chord of length equal to the radius made a natural base quantity. One sixtieth of this, using their standard sexagesimal divisions, was a degree. 1. What is degree short for?
2. What is is used for?
3. What is its maximum value?
4. Are there any other units for measuring angles?
5. WHat?
6. And what unit is defined in that system?
7. Are degrees a recent concept, or older?
8. What was an early civilization that used them?
9. What shapmes were important to their math?
10. What number pops up a lot in their math system? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. unknown
2. measurement of a plane angle
3. 360
4. Yes
5. the SI unit
6. the radian
7. older
8. the Babylonians
9. unknown
10. 60