Question: Eco City Farms are becoming more popular in cities and towns around the United States.

Eco City Farms in Edmonston,Maryland, is located near shopping centers, car repair shops and homes. The neighborhood is a workingclass community. People do not have very much money, and they have limited access to fresh food in markets.

Over the past two years, the farm has attracted volunteers from the community like Marcy Clark. She schools her four children at home. On a recent day she brought them to Eco City Farms for a lesson. Her son Alston Clark thinks his experience is very valuable. "I like coming out here," he says, "You know, you connect with the earth, where your food comes from. You appreciate the food a little bit more."

Margaret Morgan started Eco City Farms. She thinks of it as a place where people can learn to live healthier lives. "Growing food in a community brings people together," she continues, "Every piece of what we do here is a demonstration to show people everything about how to have an ecofriendly community." she says. From the Eco City Farms people come to know that they are not only growing food and raising chickens and bees, but improving the soil with compost made from food waste.

Eco City Farms is an experimental operation. The farm gets its power not from the local electricity networks, but from the sun with solar panels. In winter, the green houses use a geothermal system.

Vegetables can be grown all year. So once a week, all winter long, neighbors like Chris Moss and her three children bike to the farm to pick up a share of the harvest.

"I like eating the vegetables," says fiveyearold Owen Moss. 1. Who started Eco City Farms?
2. Does she think people can learn to live better there?
3. Where does the farm get it's electricity?
4. How long is the growing season at the farm?
5. Which neighbor's go weekly in winter?
6. How do they get there?
7. Does Owen like veggies?
8. What city is the farm in?
9. Is that in Vermont?
10. Where?
11. What's it near?
12. What kind of place is it?
13. Do people have much money in the community?
14. Do they attract volunteers?
15. Like who?
16. Does she have kids?
17. How many?
18. Do they attend public school?
19. Where do they get their education?
20. What's Marcy's son's name? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Margaret Morgan
2. yes
3. from the sun
4. all year
5. Chris Moss and her three children
6. bicycling
7. Yres
8. Edmonston
9. No
10. Maryland
11. shopping centers, car repair shops and homes.
12. a place where people can learn to live healthier lives
13. no
14. yes
15. Marcy Clark
16. yes
17. four
18. no
19. at home
20. Alston Clark

Question: CHAPTER XXIV

JESSIE STRIKES.

It was the afternoon before Vane's departure for the north, and Evelyn, sitting alone for the time being in Mrs. Nairn's drawing-room, felt disturbed by the thought of it. She sympathised with his object, but she supposed there was a certain risk attached to the journey, and that troubled her. In addition to this there was another point on which she was not altogether pleased. She had twice seen Vane acknowledge a bow from a very pretty girl whose general appearance suggested that she did not belong to Evelyn's own walk of life, and that very morning she had noticed him crossing a street in the young woman's company. Vane, as it happened, had met Kitty Blake by accident and had asked her to accompany him on a visit to Celia.

Evelyn did not think she was of a jealous disposition, and jealousy appeared irrational in the case of a man whom she had dismissed as a suitor; but the thing rankled in her mind. While she considered it, Jessie Horsfield entered the room.

"I'm here by invitation, to join Vane's other old friends in giving him a good send-off," she explained.

Evelyn noticed that Jessie laid some stress upon her acquaintance with Vane, and wondered if she had any motive for doing so.

"I suppose you have known him for some time," she said.

"Oh, yes," was the careless answer. "My brother was one of the first to take him up when he came to Vancouver." 1. Where Vane is going?
2. Where is Evelyn?
3. Whose?
4. Was she by herself?
5. Was she in good mood?
6. Did she think the journey would be risky?
7. Did it bother her?
8. Does she have another reason for not to be happy?
9. Who did she see greeted Vane?
10. How many times she saw that?
11. Was the girl good looking?
12. Was she of the same social class as hers?
13. When she saw him with her?
14. Where?
15. Where they were going?
16. Did Evelyn ever reject him?
17. Who appeared while she was thinking these?
18. Why he came?
19. Did she think he knew him?
20. Where his brother saw him? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. The north
2. In a drawing-room.
3. Mrs. Nairn's
4. Yes
5. Not really.
6. Yes
7. Yes
8. Yes
9. Kitty Blake
10. She saw him twice acknowledge a bow
11. Yes
12. No
13. That morning
14. On the street
15. to visit Celia
16. Yes
17. Jessie Horsfield
18. To give him a send off
19. Yes
20. Vancouver

Question: (CNN) -- Jurors did not reach a verdict in their first day of deliberations Monday in the trial of Steven Hayes, the man accused of killing three members of a Connecticut family in a 2007 home invasion.

They are expected to resume their work Tuesday morning.

Hayes, 47, who has pleaded not guilty, is on trial in New Haven, Connecticut, for the murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters.

The killings took place in the New Haven suburb of Cheshire early July 23, 2007. The home of William Petit, his wife, Hawke-Petit, and two daughters was invaded in the middle of the night by Hayes and co-defendant Joshua Komisarjevsky, prosecutors say.

Komisarjevsky will be tried separately.

Judge Jon Blue gave instructions Monday morning and told the jury: "You are the sole judges of the facts."

"We're in the home stretch," the judge said after going over all 17 counts with the jury. "No one will hurry you to produce a verdict."

Their first duty will be to pick a foreman, and their verdict must be unanimous, the judge reminded the jurors.

Soon after starting their deliberations, the jurors asked for a transcript of an interview by a state police detective, who spoke to Hayes soon after his arrest. The judge offered to have the testimony read back -- which the jurors declined.

Later in the day, they sent a note to the judge asking for a definition of what constitutes starting a fire.Their deliberations Monday ran just over 2 hours. 1. Who is on trial?
2. How many is he accused of killing?
3. On what date?
4. What month of that year?
5. How old is he?
6. Did he have an accomplice?
7. Who?
8. Is he also facing trial?
9. Together with Hayes, or seperately?
10. Where did the killings take place?
11. What city is it a suburb of?
12. At whose home?
13. How many counts is Hayes facing?
14. Did he plead guilty?
15. What day of deliberations just finished?
16. On what day of the week?
17. Was a decision made?
18. How long was their deliberation?
19. What information did they request?
20. What does the jury need to decide on, first? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Hayes
2. three
3. 2007
4. July
5. 47
6. yes
7. Joshua Komisarjevsky
8. yes
9. separately
10. Cheshire
11. New Haven
12. William Petit
13. 17
14. no
15. their first
16. Monday
17. no
18. just over 2 hours
19. what constitutes starting a fire
20. a foreman