Q: (CNN) -- A key United Nations committee on Thursday condemned Myanmar's human rights record while the secretary-general of the world body stressed the need for democratic reform.

In a call to freed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon emphasized the importance of a peaceful democratic transition and reconciliation process in Myanmar.

Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 1991, has spent 15 of the past 21 years under house arrest for her opposition to authoritarian rule in the nation formerly known as Burma. She was released last week.

"The secretary-general told Aung San Suu Kyi that he was encouraged by the spirit of reconciliation emanating from her statements and appeals for dialogue and compromise following her release," the U.N. said in a statement.

A U.N. General Assembly subset committee approved a draft resolution denouncing "the ongoing systematic violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of the people of Myanmar."

The resolution also slammed the nation's recent elections and said they were not fair and inclusive.

Susan Rice, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., welcomed the resolution and said it honored the commitment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

"The government of Burma continues to commit serious human rights violations, including arbitrary and prolonged detentions of its citizens, rape and sexual violence, discrimination and violence against ethnic minorities, and impose serious restrictions on freedom of speech, press association and assembly," Rice said in a statement.

Suu Kyi and Ban vowed to pressure the nation's military junta to release more than 2,100 political prisoners.

1. a draft resolution
2. the ongoing systematic violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of the people of Myanmar."
3. A United Nations committee
4. a Nobel Peace Prize recipient
5. being on house arrest
6. yes
7. for her opposition to authoritarian rule
8. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N
9. she welcomed it
10. committing human rights violations
11. arbitrary and prolonged detentions of its citizens
12. unknown

Numbered questions:
1. what did the subset committee approve?
2. what did it denounce?
3. who condemned Myanmar's record?
4. who is Suu Kyi?
5. what has she been doing the last 21 years?
6. has she been released?
7. why was she under house arrest?
8. Who is Susan Rice?
9. how does she feel about the resolution?
10. what are some things Burma has been doing?
11. including?
12. why was Kyi released?

Q: In computing, cross-platform software (also multi-platform software or platform-independent software) is computer software that is implemented on multiple computing platforms. Cross-platform software may be divided into two types; one requires individual building or compilation for each platform that it supports, and the other one can be directly run on any platform without special preparation, e.g., software written in an interpreted language or pre-compiled portable bytecode for which the interpreters or run-time packages are common or standard components of all platforms.

For example, a cross-platform application may run on Microsoft Windows on the x86 architecture, Linux on the x86 architecture and macOS on either the PowerPC or x86-based Apple Macintosh systems. Cross-platform programs may run on as many as all existing platforms, or on as few as two platforms. Cross-platform frameworks (such as Qt, Xamarin, Phonegap, or Ionic) exist to aid cross-platform development.

"Platform" can refer to the type of processor (CPU) or other hardware on which a given operating system or application runs, the type of operating system on a computer or the combination of the type of hardware and the type of operating system running on it. An example of a common platform is Microsoft Windows running on the x86 architecture. Other well-known desktop computer platforms include Linux/Unix and macOS - both of which are themselves cross-platform. There are, however, many devices such as smartphones that are also effectively computer platforms but less commonly thought about in that way. Application software can be written to depend on the features of a particular platformeither the hardware, operating system, or virtual machine it runs on. The Java platform is a virtual machine platform which runs on many operating systems and hardware types, and is a common platform for software to be written for.

1. unknown
2. CPU
3. No?
4. Linux/Unix
5. Yes
6. Microsoft Windows
7. Yes
8. Application software
9. The Java platform
10. No
11. cross-platform software
12. multi-platform software
13. platform-independent software
14. No
15. Two
16. requires individual building
17. can be directly run on any platform without special preparation
18. as few as 2

Numbered questions:
1. Is processor type related to the term platform?
2. What acronym is widely used for processor type?
3. Would two different operating systems be said to have different platforms?
4. What is an example of a desktop platform?
5. What about macOS?
6. Name one more.
7. Could smartphones be described as having platforms?
8. What type of software is dependent on the smartphone platform?
9. What platform can work on multiple operating systems?
10. Is it rarely used?
11. What is software called that works on more than one platform?
12. What else is it called?
13. And another?
14. Are there three different types of cross platform software?
15. How many?
16. What is one of those?
17. And the other?
18. How many platforms must something run on to be called cross platform?

Q: CHAPTER V

CLOVELLY COURT IN THE OLDEN TIME

"It was among the ways of good Queen Bess, Who ruled as well as ever mortal can, sir, When she was stogg'd, and the country in a mess, She was wont to send for a Devon man, sir."

West Country Song.

The next morning Amyas Leigh was not to be found. Not that he had gone out to drown himself in despair, or even to bemoan himself "down by the Torridge side." He had simply ridden off, Frank found, to Sir Richard Grenville at Stow: his mother at once divined the truth, that he was gone to try for a post in the Irish army, and sent off Frank after him to bring him home again, and make him at least reconsider himself.

So Frank took horse and rode thereon ten miles or more: and then, as there were no inns on the road in those days, or indeed in these, and he had some ten miles more of hilly road before him, he turned down the hill towards Clovelly Court, to obtain, after the hospitable humane fashion of those days, good entertainment for man and horse from Mr. Cary the squire.

And when he walked self-invited, like the loud-shouting Menelaus, into the long dark wainscoted hall of the court, the first object he beheld was the mighty form of Amyas, who, seated at the long table, was alternately burying his face in a pasty, and the pasty in his face, his sorrows having, as it seemed, only sharpened his appetite, while young Will Cary, kneeling on the opposite bench, with his elbows on the table, was in that graceful attitude laying down the law fiercely to him in a low voice.

1. CLOVELLY COURT IN THE OLDEN TIME
2. Amyas Leigh
3. horse
4. no
5. ten miles
6. Mr. Cary
7. Frank
8. wainscoting
9. Amyas
10. no
11. yes
12. Will Cary,
13. the Irish army
14. unknown
15. in a pasty
16. unknown
17. probably not
18. Mr. Cary
19. Bess
20. eys

Numbered questions:
1. What is the name of this chapter?
2. Who joined the army?
3. How did he travel?
4. Were there places to stay during the journey?
5. How far did he have travel?
6. What was the squires name?
7. Who went after the young man?
8. What was on the walls of the building?
9. Who was seated at the table?
10. Was he happy?
11. Was he hungry?
12. Who occupied the chair next to him?
13. What military was he joining?
14. What color was his face?
15. Where did he bury his head?
16. what is a pasty?
17. Did the young man join the military?
18. Who cared for the animal?
19. What was the queens name?
20. Was she a good ruler?