input: CHAPTER XXVIII

A PAINFUL DUTY

Three months had slipped away since the evening on which Wheeler had discussed the subject of shingle-splitting with his companions. Nasmyth stood outside the shanty in the drenching rain. He was very wet and miry, and his face was lined and worn, for the three months of unremitting effort had left their mark on him. Wheeler had secured the timber rights in question, and that was one difficulty overcome, but Nasmyth had excellent reasons for believing that the men who had cast covetous eyes upon the valley had by no means abandoned the attempt to get possession of at least part of it.

He had had flood and frost against him, and his money was rapidly running out. A wild flood swept through the canon. The heading was filled up, so that no one could even see the mouth of it, and half the rock he had piled upon the shingle had been swept into the rapid, where it had formed a dam among the boulders that could be removed only at a heavy expenditure of time and powder when the water fell. He was worn out in body, and savage from being foiled by the swollen river at each attempt he made, but while the odds against him were rapidly growing heavier he meant to fight.

A Siwash Indian whom he had hired as messenger between the canon and the settlement had just arrived, and Gordon, who stood in the doorway of the shanty, took a newspaper out of the wet packet he had brought. Gordon turned to Nasmyth when he opened it. 1. what was running out quickly for him?
2. what else had gone badly?
3. what had happened to the stone he'd put on shingle?
4. what was it doing now?
5. was it easy to remove?
6. what type of chemical was going to be needed?
7. could it be done during the high water?
8. not until?
9. was he energized?
10. in good mood?
11. why not?
12. was he ready to give in?
13. how long since the discussion about shingles?
14. who was outdoors?
15. was he looking youthful
16. who got tree rights?
17. was that helpful?
18. what tribe was his messenger from?
19. who came with him?
20. where did he stand? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. money
2. He had had flood and frost against him
3. it had been swept into the rapid,
4. it had formed a dam
5. No
6. powder
7. No
8. the water fell.
9. No
10. No
11. from being foiled by the swollen river
12. No
13. Three months
14. Nasmyth
15. No
16. Wheeler
17. No
18. Siwash Indian
19. Gordon
20. in the doorway of the shanty,

question: Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Four Italian journalists kidnapped by unknown assailants in Libya have been freed, Italy's Foreign Ministry spokesman Maurizio Massari told CNN on Thursday.

They were "saved by two Libyans, two boys to whom we owe everything," one of the journalists said Thursday.

"I'm alive, well and free. Until an hour ago, I thought I was dead," the reporter, Sono Domenico Quirico, said, according to his newspaper La Stampa.

Another of the journalists, Elisabetta Rosaspina, told CNN they were kidnapped in Tripoli between Martyrs Square and Moammar Gadhafi's compound. Earlier reports said they had been abducted 80 kilometers (about 50 miles) from Tripoli.

Claudio Monici, a correspondent for the newspaper Avvenire, said they were seized by the Libyan army and "other people with guns."

"We understood that they were very angry. Their eyes had blood," he said, saying some of their captors said: "You are Italian. You are from NATO. You are bombing us."

Monici saw their captors kill their Libyan driver, he said.

"He understood that it was his last moment. We saw them kick him and kill him... When they shot at him I saw that he was praying... I saw that his lips were moving," he told Sky News.

Massari said while it was unclear who captured the journalists, the ministry assumed it was pro-Gadhafi forces.

All of the journalists, from prominent Italian daily newspapers, were well, Massari said Wednesday. He did not elaborate.

Paolo Alfieri, foreign editor of the newspaper Avvenire, identified the four as Rosaspina and Giuseppe Sarcina from the newspaper Corriere della Sera, Quirico from La Stampa, and Monici from Avvenire.
1. who was kidnapped ?
2. how many ?
3. by who ?
4. where ?
5. how many people saved them ?
6. grils ?
7. who is alive and well ?
8. what does he do ?
9. from what paper ?
10. who told CNN they were kidnapped ?
11. where wes she ?
12. how many miles from tripoli ?
13. who is a a correspondent for the newspaper Avvenire ?
14. were they seised ny isis ?
15. who seized them ?
16. and who else ?
17. who saw their captors kill their Libyan driver ?
18. what did the the ministry assumed ?
19. who is the foreign editor ?
20. who did not elaborate ?
****
answer: 1. Italian journalists
2. Four
3. unknown assailants
4. Libya
5. two
6. boys
7. Sono Domenico Quirico
8. reporter
9. La Stampa
10. Elisabetta Rosaspina
11. Tripoli
12. about 50 miles
13. Claudio Monici
14. no
15. Libyan army
16. other people with guns
17. Monici
18. it was pro-Gadhafi forces
19. Paolo Alfieri
20. Massari

Question: There are three major types of rock: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. The rock cycle is an important concept in geology which illustrates the relationships between these three types of rock, and magma. When a rock crystallizes from melt (magma and/or lava), it is an igneous rock. This rock can be weathered and eroded, and then redeposited and lithified into a sedimentary rock, or be turned into a metamorphic rock due to heat and pressure that change the mineral content of the rock which gives it a characteristic fabric. The sedimentary rock can then be subsequently turned into a metamorphic rock due to heat and pressure and is then weathered, eroded, deposited, and lithified, ultimately becoming a sedimentary rock. Sedimentary rock may also be re-eroded and redeposited, and metamorphic rock may also undergo additional metamorphism. All three types of rocks may be re-melted; when this happens, a new magma is formed, from which an igneous rock may once again crystallize. 1. What geology cycle is important?
2. What does it demonstrate?
3. Can rocks melt?
4. What type of rock is formed?
5. How many types of rock are there?
6. What type if affected by weather?
7. Can rocks transform?
8. How?
9. When pressure is applied what is created?
10. When is magma formed? Provide a numbered list of answers.
****
A numbered of answers:
1. rock cycle
2. relationships between three types of rocks
3. yes
4. igneous
5. three
6. igneous
7. yes
8. heat and pressure
9. unknown
10. unknown