question: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs (medications), vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation emitting devices (ERED), cosmetics, animal foods & feed and veterinary products. As of 2017, 3/4th of the FDA budget (approximately $700 million) is funded by the pharmaceutical companies due to the Prescription Drug User Fee Act.

The FDA was empowered by the United States Congress to enforce the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which serves as the primary focus for the Agency; the FDA also enforces other laws, notably Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act and associated regulations, many of which are not directly related to food or drugs. These include regulating lasers, cellular phones, condoms and control of disease on products ranging from certain household pets to sperm donation for assisted reproduction.

The FDA is led by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Commissioner reports to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Scott Gottlieb, M.D. is the current commissioner, taking over in May 2017.
1. What does FDA stand for?
2. What is another acronym for the organization?
3. What federal organization is it part of?
4. Is it a legislative department?
5. What is one of its responsiblities?
6. How?
7. What is its budget for 2017?
8. Who funds most of that?
9. Under what government action?
10. What is the title of the FDA's leader?
11. Who appoints the position?
12. Who advises about the appointment?
13. Who does the leader report to?
14. Who is the current head?
15. When did he assume office?
16. What act is the organization given power to enforce?
17. Who grants them this power?
18. Is enforcement of this the organization's main role?
19. What is another noteworthy law they enforce?
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answer: 1. Food and Drug Administration
2. USFDA
3. the United States Department of Health and Human Services
4. no
5. protecting and promoting public health
6. through the control and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs (medications), vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation emitting devices (ERED), cosmetics, animal foods & feed and veterinary products
7. approximately $700 million
8. pharmaceutical companies
9. the Prescription Drug User Fee Act.
10. Commissioner of Food and Drugs
11. the President
12. the Senate.
13. the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
14. Scott Gottlieb, M.D.
15. May 2017.
16. the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
17. the United States Congress
18. yes
19. Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act

question: The Age is a daily newspaper that has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, "The Age" primarily serves Victoria but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered in both hardcopy and online formats. The newspaper shares many articles with other Fairfax Media metropolitan daily newspapers, such as "The Sydney Morning Herald".

As at February 2017, "The Age" had an average weekday circulation of 88,000, increasing to 152,000 on Saturdays (in a city of 4.2million). "The Sunday Age" had a circulation of 123,000. These represented year-on-year declines of 8% to 9%. "The Age"s website, according to third-party web analytics providers Alexa and SimilarWeb, is the 44th and 58th most visited website in Australia respectively, as of July 2015. SimilarWeb rates the site as the seventh most visited news website in Australia, attracting more than 7 million visitors per month.

The management board announced on 18 June 2012, that during the following three years, 1,900 positions were expected to be terminated from Fairfax Media, including many from "The Age", that the broadsheet format would be changed to a compact format and that the online version would no longer have free access after the introduction of a paywall to protect content with an expectation of increased revenue. The newspaper went compact in March 2013, with the Saturday and Sunday editions retaining the broadsheet format. On 22/23 February 2014, the final weekend edition were produced in broadsheet format with these too converted to compact format on 1/2 March 2014. The Age's parent company Chief executive officer, Greg Hywood, has foreshadowed the end of the print edition of the newspaper, with some analysts saying this will occur during 2017.
1. What is The Age?
2. When did it begin?
3. Where?
4. What is it's primary service area?
5. Can you buy it elsewhere?
6. Who owns it?
7. Who publishes it?
8. How many jobs were being eliminated starting in 2012?
9. Who announced it?
10. When?
11. How long would it take to complete the cuts?
12. What was the broadsheet format being converted to?
13. When did that happen?
14. What month?
15. How much longer was the weekend paper offered in broadsheet?
16. In 2017 what was the circulation during the week?
17. What about Sunday?
18. And Saturday?
19. How many people view the website every month?
20. How does that rank among the websites in Australia?
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answer: 1. a daily newspaper
2. 1854
3. Melbourne
4. Victoria
5. Yes
6. Fairfax Media
7. Fairfax Media
8. 1,900
9. management board
10. 18 June 2012
11. three years
12. compact format
13. 2013
14. March
15. 1 year
16. 88,000
17. 123,000
18. 152,000
19. more than 7 million
20. seventh

question: Chapter VI

THE WARDEN'S TEA PARTY

After much painful doubting, on one thing only could Mr Harding resolve. He determined that at any rate he would take no offence, and that he would make this question no cause of quarrel either with Bold or with the bedesmen. In furtherance of this resolution, he himself wrote a note to Mr Bold, the same afternoon, inviting him to meet a few friends and hear some music on an evening named in the next week. Had not this little party been promised to Eleanor, in his present state of mind he would probably have avoided such gaiety; but the promise had been given, the invitations were to be written, and when Eleanor consulted her father on the subject, she was not ill pleased to hear him say, "Oh, I was thinking of Bold, so I took it into my head to write to him myself, but you must write to his sister."

Mary Bold was older than her brother, and, at the time of our story, was just over thirty. She was not an unattractive young woman, though by no means beautiful. Her great merit was the kindliness of her disposition. She was not very clever, nor very animated, nor had she apparently the energy of her brother; but she was guided by a high principle of right and wrong; her temper was sweet, and her faults were fewer in number than her virtues. Those who casually met Mary Bold thought little of her; but those who knew her well loved her well, and the longer they knew her the more they loved her. Among those who were fondest of her was Eleanor Harding; and though Eleanor had never openly talked to her of her brother, each understood the other's feelings about him. The brother and sister were sitting together when the two notes were brought in.
1. Which chapter is this>
2. What is it called?
3. Who is first mentioned?
4. What did he decide?
5. Anything else?
6. When?
7. To do what?
8. When?
9. Who was the event for?
10. Did he write to his brother?
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answer:
1. VI
2. THE WARDEN'S TEA PARTY
3. Mr Harding
4. he would take no offence
5. wrote a note to Mr Bold
6. the same afternoon
7. invite him to meet friends and hear music
8. an evening next week
9. Eleanor
10. his sister