question: Steve had a very long finger. It was the longest finger anyone in his town had. One day Steve shut the toilet seat, and his finger got caught in it. He couldn't get it out. It was very cold in the bathroom. This is why his sister brought him a coat. He was in the bathroom a long time. So, Steve started pasting a stone on the wall with glue on the end of his brush. Then he wrote the truth on this stone. He used a black pencil to write the truth on this stone, but the writing turned out blue. He did not know that his sister was watching him write the truth from the ceiling. He was upset because he always had a fear that he would have to share his secret power with his sister. It was too late, she saw that he wrote the truth on the stone. So he let her see his power. With a twirl of his long finger he magically made the toilet seat lift up. He could make things move with his mind.
1. what did steve have that was unusual?
2. Did anyone else have one too?
3. how did he trap it?
4. was it warm there?
5. what did steve stick tot he wall?
6. with what?
7. what did he do next?
8. What did it say?
9. did he write with a red pencil?
10. was the text pink?
11. what color was it?
12. did anyone see him?
13. did he know that?
14. was he happy?
15. how did he feel?
16. why?
17. what was his power
18. what gesture did he use?
19. what did he move?
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answer: 1. a long finger
2. no
3. caught it in the toilet seat
4. no
5. Steve started pasting a stone on the wal
6. glue
7. wrote on the stone
8. the truth
9. no
10. no
11. blue
12. his sister was watching him write the truth
13. no
14. no
15. upset
16. he didn't want his sister to know his secret power
17. he moved things with his mind
18. a twirl of his finger
19. the toilet seat

Newark ( or also locally ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County. As one of the nation's major air, shipping, and rail hubs, the city had a population of 277,140 in 2010, making it the nation's 67th most-populous municipality, after being ranked 63rd in the nation in 2000. For 2015, the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated a population of 281,944, an increase of 1.7% from the 2010 enumeration, ranking the city the 70th largest in the nation. Newark is the second largest city in the New York metropolitan area, located approximately west of lower Manhattan.

Settled in 1666 by Puritans from New Haven Colony, Newark is one of the oldest European cities in the United States. Its location at the mouth of the Passaic River (where it flows into Newark Bay), has made the city's waterfront an integral part of the Port of New York and New Jersey. Today, Port Newark-Elizabeth is the primary container shipping terminal of the busiest seaport on the American East Coast. In addition, Newark Liberty International Airport was the first municipal commercial airport in the United States, and today is one of its busiest. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is the most populated city in NJ?
2. What county is that located in?
3. How many people are located in the city (in 2010)?
4. Are they one of the smallest in terms of airtraffic?
5. When was that space colonized?
6. By who?
7. Is it one of the newest cities in the US?
8. Is it near a body of water?
9. Which one?
10. Is LIA considered busy?
11. What is the rank for population in 2010?
12. And in 2015?
13. What rank?
14. What percentage of an increase?
Answer: 1. Newark
2. Essex
3. 277,140
4. no
5. 1666
6. the Puritans
7. no
8. yes
9. the Passaic River
10. yes
11. 67
12. a population of 281,944
13. 70th largest in the nation
14. 1.7%

Problem: (CNN) -- The Atlanta Hawks organization's issues with race go beyond one inflammatory email or offensive comments on one conference call, the team's CEO said, before promising fans that those systemic problems will be corrected.

"As an organization, we must own these shortcomings and failures," Steve Koonin wrote in an open letter Saturday to his team, fans and the city of Atlanta. "... We should build bridges through basketball, not divide our community or serve as a source of pain."

Koonin's comments come a day after general manager Danny Ferry began an indefinite leave of absence tied to controversial comments he made in June about Luol Deng, then a prospective free agent player. And they occurred six days after the franchise's owner, Bruce Levenson, announced he would sell his controlling interest team in light of a 2012 email that many derided as racist.

In the same announcement last Sunday setting the stage for Levenson's exit, the NBA said that Koonin will oversee team operations during the ownership transition.

The Hawks CEO did not mention Levenson or Ferry specifically in his letter Saturday, nor did he delve into detail into their or possible other cases. But he did say that "we enough today, based on investigations conducted by the league, by external legal counsel on behalf of the team and information that has appeared in the media, that our shortcomings are beyond a single email, a single person or a single event.

"To the contrary, over a period of years, we have found that there have been inflammatory words, phrases, inferences and innuendos about race," Koonin said.
1. Who is the CEO?
2. And the GM?
3. Who is the owner?
4. Of what team?
5. Who was the inappropriate comments about?
6. What kind of team is it?
7. Who is selling out?
8. What media was used to experss the comments?
9. When?
10. Who took a furlough?
Answer: 1. Steve Koonin
2. Danny Ferry
3. Bruce Levenson
4. Atlanta Hawks
5. Luol Deng
6. Basketball
7. Bruce Levenson
8. Emails
9. In 2012
10. Levenson

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Soon after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, London merchants presented a petition to Queen Elizabeth I for permission to sail to the Indian Ocean. The permission was granted, and despite the defeat of the English Armada in 1589, on 10 April 1591 three ships sailed from Torbay around the Cape of Good Hope to the Arabian Sea on one of the earliest English overseas Indian expeditions. One of them, Edward Bonventure, then sailed around Cape Comorin and on to the Malay Peninsula and subsequently returned to England in 1594.

This time they succeeded, and on 31 December 1600, the Queen granted a Royal Charter to "George, Earl of Cumberland, and 215 Knights, Aldermen, and Burgesses" under the name, Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading with the East Indies. For a period of fifteen years the charter awarded the newly formed company a monopoly on trade with all countries east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of the Straits of Magellan. Sir James Lancaster commanded the first East India Company voyage in 1601 and returned in 1603. and in March 1604 Sir Henry Middleton commanded the second voyage. General William Keeling, a captain during the second voyage, led the third voyage from 1607 to 1610. 1. Who did business people in London bring a petition to?
2. Did the petition involve an ocean?
3. Which one?
4. Did the petition involved sailing?
5. Was the petition approved?
6. How many ships set sail from Torbay?
7. In what year?
8. In what month?
9. On what day of the month?
10. When was the English Armada defeated?
11. Did the ships from Torbay travel around something?
12. What?
13. To where?
14. Who took a trip around Cape Comorin?
15. And what was his next stop?
16. Did he then go back to England?
17. In what year?
18. What year was a Royal Charter given?
19. Who granted it?
20. Who was in charge of the first trip of East India Company?
numbered_answers:
1. Queen Elizabeth I
2. yes
3. the Indian Ocean
4. yes
5. yes
6. three
7. 1591
8. April
9. the tenth
10. 1589
11. yes
12. the Cape of Good Hope
13. the Arabian Sea
14. Edward Bonventure
15. the Malay Peninsula
16. yes
17. 1594
18. 1600
19. the Queen
20. Sir James Lancaster