Q: What is Bay? The simple answer is that it is a global trading platform where nearly anyone can trade practically anything. People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods. Including cars, movies and DVDs, sporting goods, travel tickets, musical instruments, clothes and shoes- the list goes on and on

The idea came from Peter Omidyar, who was born in Paris and moved to Washington when he was still a child, At high school, be became very interested in computer programming and after graduating from Tuft University in 1988, He worked for the next few years as a computer engineer. In his free time he started Bay as a kind of hobby, at first offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade and he began charging a fee to members. Joined by a friend, Peter Skill. and in 1998 by his capable CEO, Meg Whitman, he has never looked back. . Even in the great. com crashes of the late 1990s,abay has gone from strength to strength ,. It is now one of the ten most visited online shopping websites on the Internet

eBay sells connections, not goods, putting buyer and seller into contact with each other. All you have to do is lake an e-photo, write a description, fill out a sales form and you are in business: the world is your market place. Of course for each item sold eBay gets a percentage and that is great deal of money. Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay and eighty percent of the items are sold.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who came up with the idea for bay?
2. What it a hobby for him?
3. Where was Peter born?
4. Where did he move?
5. What did he become interested in in high school?
6. What university did peter graduate from?
7. Did Meg Whitman work for Ebay?
8. What was her job title?
9. What can people buy and sell on Ebay?
10. When did the .com crash happen?
11. Did Ebay make it through that time?
12. At what number is Ebay in the most visited list?
13. Does ebay get a percentage of sells?
14. How many items are listed on ebay daily?
15. what year did Peter graduated from College?
A: 1. Peter Omidyar
2. Yes
3. Paris
4. Washington
5. computer programming
6. Tuft University
7. Yes
8. CEO
9. connections
10. In the late 1990s
11. Yes
12. One of the ten
13. Yes
14. sixteen million
15. 1988
Q: (CNN) -- In most of the country, employers can force pregnant workers out of the workplace when their pregnancy interferes with their normal job duties.

Heather Wiseman, a retail sales associate, lost her job because consuming water while working, an activity necessary to maintain a healthy pregnancy, violated store policy.

Victoria Serednyj, a nursing home activity director, lost her job because her pregnancy interfered with her ability to lift heavy tables. Her employer terminated her employment even though lifting tables "took up a small part, roughly five to 10 minutes" of her day and her co-workers volunteered to perform this task.

Workers covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, by contrast, can continue working despite their physical limitations.

The Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008 broadened the ADA to include many short-term and relatively minor physical conditions. Pregnant women who experience comparable physical limitations should also have the opportunity to receive accommodations that will enable them to continue working.

According to EEOC regulations issued in 2011, the amended ADA requires employers to accommodate persons who experience "shortness of breath and fatigue when walking distances that most people could walk without experiencing such effects."

It also requires employers to accommodate persons with back injuries resulting in a "20-pound lifting restriction that lasts or is expected to last for several months." In some circumstances, even a far more common 50-pound lifting restriction may qualify an individual for ADA coverage.

To date, courts have balked at including pregnancy within the Americans with Disabilities Act. They've reasoned the physical limitations accompanying pregnancy are too short-term and minor to qualify as disabilities.

Answer the following questions:
1. What are employers able to do to pregnant workers?
2. Who is Heather Wiseman?
3. Why was she fired?
4. What was the name of the nursing home director who was fired?
5. Why was she fired?
6. How many minutes of her day was spent doing this?
7. Did coworkers offer to help her?
8. What act allows workers with limitations protections in the workforce?
9. What was it broadened to include?
10. In what year?
11. What year were accommodations for shortness of breath added?
12. What other accommodation is included?
13. How many pounds restriction was mentioned?
14. lasting for how long?
15. Is pregnancy covered by ADA?
16. What is one reason why not?
17. and another?
18. What news station reported this?
19. What group issued the 2011 regulations?
20. What does EEOC stand for?
A: 1. fired them
2. a retail sales associate
3. for consuming water
4. Victoria Serednyj
5. she couldn't lift tables.
6. five to ten minutes
7. yes
8. Americans with Disabilities Act
9. short-term and minor conditions
10. 2008
11. 2011
12. back injuries
13. a 20 and 50
14. several months
15. no
16. physical limitations too short-term
17. too minor
18. CNN
19. EEOC
20. unknown
Q: When I was 11, I threw a glance into Dad's lunch box and made the unexpected discovery that my mother still showed her love towards my father. The evidence, a napkin resting on top of the sandwiches packed in wax paper, was certain "Love you!" she had written on the napkin. " Meat loaf for supper!"

Mom penned all kinds of messages to Dad on those paper napkins, and he saved a whole pile of them. What embarrassed me as a kid has become a precious memory of my parents.

It also started my own brand of lunch box notes. When my kids were young, I'd glue little drawings on their lunches. Lots of sketches of our dog, Max, along with smiling flowers. When they were teenagers, I'd copy words of wisdom from great people, Einstein, for example, or Bruce Springsteen. Then, my kids grew up making their own handwritten notes. And my husband writes me love notes on recycled paper, because he's all about being green.

Friends who know about my lunch box notes eagerly share stories of their own family traditions. So many focus on food. Maura's mom always drew hearts on the shells of hard-boiled eggs. Melinda wrote messages on her kids' bananas.

We're into the third generation of lunch box notes in our home. Whenever my 3-year-old grandson, Clayton, spends the night, he knows his lunch is going to have a napkin note from Grandma in the morning. Last week, I drew a picture of me, waving widely and shouting his name. He took one look at it and screamed, " Where's Grandpa?" I added a man in a clean shirt. " You forgot his tie," he said. I quickly drew a line of stripes down the front of the shirt. Clayton smiled. "Grandpa," he whispered, running his fingers across the napkin. "It's you!"

Answer the following questions:
1. At what age did the author make an unexpected descovery?
2. What did his mom write notes to his dad on?
3. Did the author ever start writing notes on lunches?
4. What would I draw?
5. What is the name if his grandson?
6. How old his he?
7. Who for example would he copy words of great wisdom from on his notes?
8. What are notes written on to be considered green?
9. What did the author forget to draw on the picture of himself that made his grandson think it wasn't him?
10. What did his mom wright to his dad that was for supper?
A:
1. 11
2. napkin.
3. Yes
4. sketches of our dog
5. Clayton
6. Three
7. Einstein
8. recycled paper
9. Grandpa
10. Meat loaf