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Los Angeles (CNN) -- You wouldn't have expected Charlie Sheen to go quietly after his increasingly bizarre behavior prompted his TV bosses to fire him from "Two and a Half Men," and Sheen would not want to disappoint you.

He spewed an eight-and-a-half-minute, grandiloquent, profanity-laced tirade online late Tuesday, a day after he was sacked.

At first Sheen comes across like a college student who's read too much of the Beat writers Jack Kerouac or Allen Ginsberg, referring to himself as the "raven-wise, Gibson-shredding napalm poet before you, alone and unshackled.

"Oh how they once begged to attend my perfect banquet in the nude," Sheen intones. "Now they just beg for the keys to my gold."

He calls himself the "Malibu Messiah" and repeatedly refers to himself as a warlock.

But, clearly reading a prepared speech in video recorded live on Ustream.com, Sheen goes on long enough to make it hard for viewers to laugh off his rant.

Chuck Lorre, the creator of the program that starred Sheen for eight years, comes in for the greatest abuse.

"I see you, you little worm, I see you behind your plastic smile, your bitchy pout, and your desperate need to be liked," Sheen says, calling the TV executive "Chuck E. Cheese Ball," not using Lorre's full name.

He accuses Lorre of "narcissism, greed (and) hatred of yourself -- or women," one of several moments in the video that should give armchair psychiatrists plenty of material to mine.

He says of CBS chief executive Les Moonves: "You gave me your word so you gave me nothing. It must really suck being your missus," again mangling the name.
1. Who made a rant on Tuesday?
2. What happened a day before this?
3. What prompted his firing?
4. What poets does the writer compare him to?
5. Any others?
6. What instrument does Sheen claim to "shred?"
7. In what condition does he assert guests wanted to go to his banquet?
8. What does he think they grovel for?
9. What nickname has he given himself?
10. What mystic vocation does he claim to belong to?
11. On what platform did he issue this rant?
12. Did it seem impromptu?
13. Was it easy for viewers to laugh off?
14. Who was the creator of the show he got fired from?
15. Who was the primary target of his ravings?
16. What animal did Sheen compare him to?
17. And what nickname did Sheen grant him?
18. How did he characterize Lorre's smile?
19. And what character flaws did he accuse Lorre of possessing?
20. Does he feel the CBS chief's wife is happy being married to him?

Numbered answers:
1. Charlie Sheen
2. he was fired
3. his increasingly bizarre behavior
4. Jack Kerouac
5. Allen Ginsberg
6. Gibson
7. nude
8. keys to my gold."
9. Malibu Messiah
10. a warlock
11. Ustream.com
12. no
13. no
14. Chuck Lorre
15. Chuck Lorre
16. a worm
17. Chuck E. Cheese Ball
18. as plastic
19. narcissism and greed
20. no

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Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group on the periodic table and is a highly reactive nonmetal and oxidizing agent that readily forms compounds (notably oxides) with most elements. By mass, oxygen is the third-most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium. At standard temperature and pressure, two atoms of the element bind to form dioxygen, a colorless and odorless diatomic gas with the formula O 2. Diatomic oxygen gas constitutes 20.8% of the Earth's atmosphere. However, monitoring of atmospheric oxygen levels show a global downward trend, because of fossil-fuel burning. Oxygen is the most abundant element by mass in the Earth's crust as part of oxide compounds such as silicon dioxide, making up almost half of the crust's mass.

Many major classes of organic molecules in living organisms, such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and fats, contain oxygen, as do the major inorganic compounds that are constituents of animal shells, teeth, and bone. Most of the mass of living organisms is oxygen as it is a part of water, the major constituent of lifeforms. Oxygen is used in cellular respiration and released by photosynthesis, which uses the energy of sunlight to produce oxygen from water. It is too chemically reactive to remain a free element in air without being continuously replenished by the photosynthetic action of living organisms. Another form (allotrope) of oxygen, ozone (O 3), strongly absorbs UVB radiation and consequently the high-altitude ozone layer helps protect the biosphere from ultraviolet radiation, but is a pollutant near the surface where it is a by-product of smog. At even higher low earth orbit altitudes, sufficient atomic oxygen is present to cause erosion for spacecraft.
1. What is the article about?
2. What is its symbol?
3. it's numeral?
4. is it abundant?
5. how does it rank?
6. What is more abundant?
7. What makes up O2?
8. What seems to be lowering earths levels of O2?
9. Does O2 exist inside our planet?
10. How is O2 released by plants? What process?
11. What is O3?
12. Where is this found?
13. Is it found near the face of the planet?
14. What is this called?
15. Does smog cause this?
16. What can erode space vehicles?
17. At what level?

Numbered answers:
1. Oxygen
2. O
3. Eight
4. Yes
5. third
6. hydrogen and helium
7. two atoms of oxygen
8. fossil-fuel burning
9. Yes
10. photosynthesis
11. ozone
12. high-altitude
13. Yes
14. a pollutant
15. Yes
16. atomic oxygen
17. higher low earth orbit altitudes

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CHAPTER VI.

THE LIME-KILN.

MR. MEADOWCROFT was the first to speak. "Somebody must find John," he said.

"Without losing a moment," added his daughter.

Ambrose suddenly stepped out of the dark corner of the room.

"_I_ will inquire," he said.

Silas followed him.

"I will go with you," he added.

Mr. Meadowcroft interposed his authority.

"One of you will be enough; for the present, at least. Go you, Ambrose. Your brother may be wanted later. If any accident has happened (which God forbid!) we may have to inquire in more than one direction. Silas, you will stay at the farm."

The brothers withdrew together; Ambrose to prepare for his journey, Silas to saddle one of the horses for him. Naomi slipped out after them. Left in company with Mr. Meadowcroft and his daughter (both devoured by anxiety about the missing man, and both trying to conceal it under an assumption of devout resignation to circumstances), I need hardly add that I, too, retired, as soon as it was politely possible for me to leave the room. Ascending the stairs on my way to my own quarters, I discovered Naomi half hidden by the recess formed by an old-fashioned window-seat on the first landing. My bright little friend was in sore trouble. Her apron was over her face, and she was crying bitterly. Ambrose had not taken his leave as tenderly as usual. She was more firmly persuaded than ever that "Ambrose was hiding something from her." We all waited anxiously for the next day. The next day made the mystery deeper than ever.
1. Who was trailed?
2. Was someone in charge?
3. Whom?
4. How many did he send?
5. Was someone hiddn in the shadows?
6. Whom?
7. Who is she related to?
8. Was someone keeping something from her?
9. Who is missing?
10. Does Silas look for him?
11. What does he do?
12. Who does go looking?
13. Does anyone go with him?
14. Who was upset?
15. How do we know?
Numbered answers:
1. John
2. yes
3. Mr. Meadowcroft
4. One
5. yes
6. Naomi
7. Mr. Meadowcroft
8. yes
9. John
10. No
11. stay at the farm
12. Ambrose
13. No
14. Naomi
15. she was crying bitterly