question: A mum saved her daughter's life with her newly learned first aid skills. Sonya Hall, 33, of Denny Avenue, Lancaster, had only just attended one first aid class the day before when she found herself needing to use the skills on her three years old daughter Tilly.

Sonya, who also has son Emmen, six, attended the first aid course at Lune Park Children's Centre in Lancaster. Then she was faced with every parent's worst nightmare when Tilly went blue in the face and stopped breathing. But thanks to her newly acquired skills, Sonya saved Tilly's life.

Sonya said: "Tilly was playing with her brother and they were fighting over a toy. Emmen won the fight. Tilly fell backwards and her head was hit. She was face down and shaking and at first I thought she was upset. But then I saw she was blue in the face and had stopped breathing. I reacted without thinking and immediately started using the first aid skills I had learned the day before which were so fresh in my mind. I began doing mouth-to-mouth and chest compressions . It probably took about a minute before Tilly started breathing again, but to me it felt like a lifetime."

After getting Tilly breathing again, Sonya called an ambulance and the doctors came. Since then, Tilly has been diagnosed with Reflex Anoxic Seizure . Sonya said: "The seizure can happen when there's any unexpected pain, fear or fright. It is just so lucky that the day before it happened, I had been practising first aid."

The Empowering Parents First Aid course is run by Lancashire Adult Learning. Sonya said: "I am just so glad I did the course and learnt the first aid skills. I always feared I would not know what to do in a crisis situation, but luckily I had the knowledge and skills to deal with it."
1. What is the class at Lancashire Adult Learning called?
2. Does it have an official title?
3. Was Sonya Hall happy that she took the course?
4. What was she scared of before taking it?
5. Does she have any children?
6. How old is Sonya?
7. Did she ever have to use the skills she attained in the class?
8. What did she do?
9. Did she save anyone's life?
10. Who?
11. Is she related to Sonya?
12. Does Tilly have any siblings?
13. Is Tilly the oldest?
14. Who is older?
15. What were she and her brother doing when the incident in question occurred?
16. What were they fighting about?
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answer: 1. first aid
2. first aid course
3. yes
4. not know what to do in a crisis
5. yes
6. 33
7. yes"
8. reacted without thinking
9. yes
10. Tilly.
11. her kid
12. yes
13. no
14. Emmen
15. fighting
16. a toy.

question: Pascal is an imperative and procedural programming language, which Niklaus Wirth designed in 196869 and published in 1970, as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.

A derivative known as Object Pascal designed for object-oriented programming was developed in 1985, later developed into Delphi.

Pascal, named in honor of the French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal, was developed by Niklaus Wirth.

Before his work on Pascal, Wirth had developed Euler and ALGOL W and later went on to develop the Pascal-like languages Modula-2 and Oberon.

Initially, Pascal was largely, but not exclusively, intended to teach students structured programming. A generation of students used Pascal as an introductory language in undergraduate courses. Variants of Pascal have also frequently been used for everything from research projects to PC games and embedded systems. Newer Pascal compilers exist which are widely used.

Pascal was the primary high-level language used for development in the Apple Lisa, and in the early years of the Macintosh. Parts of the original Macintosh operating system were hand-translated into Motorola 68000 assembly language from the Pascal sources. The typesetting system TeX by Donald E. Knuth was written in WEB, the original literate programming system, based on DEC PDP-10 Pascal, while applications like Total Commander, Skype and Macromedia Captivate were written in Delphi (Object Pascal). Apollo Computer used Pascal as the systems programming language for its operating systems beginning in 1980.
1. What was Pascal named in honor of?
2. Who was he?
3. What else?
4. Who developed it?
5. What did he do before this work?
6. What else?
7. What is Pascal?
8. What year was it designed?
9. When was it published?
10. What is it used for?
11. Using what/
12. What was it initially designed for?
13. Has it ever been used for games?
14. What was it used to develop?
15. What was translated from the Pascal sources?
16. What did Donald Knuth create?
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answer: 1. Blaise Pascal
2. mathematician
3. philosopher
4. Niklaus Wirth
5. had developed Euler
6. ALGOL W
7. programming language
8. 196869
9. 1970
10. good programming practices
11. structured programming and data structuring
12. teach structured programming
13. Yes
14. Apple Lisa
15. Parts of the original Macintosh operating system
16. TeX

question: My Left Foot (1989) Imagine being a prisoner of your own body, unable to make any movements except to move your left foot. The main character in My Left Foot, based on the real story of cerebral palsy sufferer Christy Brown, can barely move his mouth to speak, but by controlling his left foot, he's able to express himself as an artist and poet. For his moving performance of Brown, Daniel Lewis won his first Academy Award for best actor. Shine (1996) Do you have a talent you're afraid to share with the world? David Helfgott seemed meant from childhood to be "one of the truly great pianists," but the pressures of performing (and pleasing his father) resulted in a complete breakdown. Ten years in a mental institution didn't weaken Helfgott's musical gift: When he was rediscovered, he was playing concertos in a bar. Shine received s even Oscar nominations , and Geoffrey Rush won best actor for his performance of Helfgott. Life Is Beautiful (1997) Nothing's more powerful than the love between a parent and a child. In this heartbreaking Italian film, a father (Roberto Benigni) makes an unbelievable sacrifice for his 4-year-old son: trapped in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, the Jewish man convinces his boy that they are playing a complicated game. He manages to spare him the horror of the terrible war, and even in his final moments of life, keeps his son smiling and hopeful. Benigni won the best actor Oscar. Stand and Deliver (1988) Few people can inspire us more than a good teacher. Jaime Escalante (Edward James Olmos got Oscar nomination for best actor) is a great one. Employed at a high school where kids are expected to fail, Escalante challenges his math students to struggle for better things, like getting good grades in the AP exam. Despite the obstacles in their lives, the classmates accomplish their goals, thanks to Mr. Escalante's support. The real Jaime Escalante, the Best Teacher in America, says that Stand and Deliver is " 90% truth, 10% drama."
1. Who inspires us the most?
2. Was there an example?
3. Was there a movie made of it?
4. What was the name?
5. Who was the protagonist?
6. Who received a nomination for it?
7. Who did he play?
8. Was "My Left Foot" based on a real story?
9. Who was it about?
10. And his name?
11. Who played him?
12. Did he win anything?
13. What?
14. What happened to David Helfgott?
15. What happened next?
16. For how long?
17. And then what happened?
18. Where at?
19. Was there a movie made?
20. What was the name?
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answer:
1. a good teacher.
2. yes
3. yes
4. Stand and Deliver
5. math students
6. Edward James Olmos
7. Jaime Escalante
8. yes
9. a cerebral palsy sufferer
10. Christy Brown
11. Daniel Lewis
12. yes
13. Academy Award
14. a complete breakdown
15. he was in a mental institution
16. Ten years
17. he was playing concertos
18. in a bar.
19. yes
20. Shine