question: (CNN) -- Somalia's capital Mogadishu now has its first-ever ATM bank machine -- and it dispenses U.S. dollars.

The machine was installed in late September in the upscale Jazeera Palace Hotel, which is located 300 meters from Aden Adde International Airport in the south-west of the city

Justus Mulinge Kisaulu, the hotel's general manager, said that he had seen people using the new machine but it had not been widely adopted. "Most of the customers were not aware there is an ATM in Somalia," Kisaulu explained. "Local residents, most of them don't have a debit credit or a credit card to use the ATM."

The U.S. dollar is "widely accepted" in Mogadishu and is used in local trading, according to the African Development Bank. The country's official currency, the Somali shilling, has seen a sustained decline in value following decades of conflict in the war-torn nation.

Said Moallim Abukar, marketing manager of Salaam Somali Bank, which operates the ATM, said that other currencies would be available from the machine "in the near future."

But Michael Walls, senior lecturer at the Development Planning Unit at University College London, says that it's unlikely the bank is aiming for local Somali people at this stage. "Diaspora Somalis will use it for sure," he explains, referring to people of Somali origin who will probably have a bank account overseas. "It is likely to be a bit longer before locally based Somalis start using it."

This is the first ATM in Somalia proper, but cash withdrawal machines already exist in the city of Hargeisa in the breakaway state of Somaliland, according to Salaam Somali Bank's Abukar. Somaliland remains internationally unrecognized despite unilaterally declaring independence in 1991. According to local media outlet Somalilandsun, ATM facilities were available in the city from March.
1. What is the capital of Somalia?
2. Who is the manager of the hotel discussed?
3. Does he consider the ATM to be popular and well-known?
4. Why don't most people use the ATM?
5. Which financial institution operates the ATM?
6. Are they planning to make the machine dispense other types of money?
7. When?
8. What state is not officially recognized as independent?
9. True or False: Hargeisa is in Somaliland.
10. When did Somaliland announce its autonomy?
11. Did Somalia have any ATMs before the one discussed in the article?
12. Where?
13. For how long?
14. According to Walls, who is likely to use the ATM?
15. What does he say these Somalis are likely to posess?
16. What is Somalia's official coinage?
17. True or False: The Somali shilling is gaining value.
18. Why is it losing value?
19. How much is a Somali shilling worth in U.S. dollars?
20. Where does Michael Wells work?
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answer: 1. Mogadishu
2. Justus Mulinge Kisaulu
3. No
4. Most of the customers were not aware there is an ATM in Somalia
5. Salaam Somali Bank
6. Yes
7. In the near future
8. Somaliland
9. True
10. 1991
11. Yes
12. Hargeisa
13. from March
14. Diaspora Somalis
15. a bank account overseas
16. the Somali shilling
17. False
18. decades of conflict in the war-torn nation
19. unknown
20. University College London

question: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-CLIO. Established in 1967 as Greenwood Press, Inc. and based in Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Publishing Group publishes reference works under its Greenwood Press imprint, and scholarly, professional, and general interest books under its related imprint, Praeger Publishers. Also part of GPG is Libraries Unlimited, which publishes professional works for librarians and teachers.

The company was founded as Greenwood Press, Inc. in 1967 by Harold Mason, a librarian and antiquarian bookseller, and Harold Schwartz who had a background in trade publishing. The company initially focused on reprinting out-of-print works, particularly titles listed in the American Library Association's first edition of "Books for College Libraries" (1967), under the Greenwood Press imprint, and out-of-print periodicals published as "American Radical Periodicals" under the Greenwood Reprint imprint. In 1969 the company was sold to Williamhouse-Regency, a company then on the American Stock Exchange, which led to further expanding its reprint activities as well as starting a microform publishing imprint, Greenwood Microforms.

By 1970 a small scholarly monograph program was established and Robert Hagelstein, formerly with the Johnson Reprint Corporation, a division of Academic Press, was hired as Vice President. In 1973, Mason and Schwartz left the company, and Hagelstein was named President, a position he would hold until his retirement at the end of 1999. During those twenty-seven years, the press wound down its reprint activities diverting its focus to new scholarly, reference, and professional books. This large-scale redirection of the company resulted in the publication of more than 10,000 titles during those years.
1. Who is the founder of Greenwood Press?
2. What was he?
3. Did he have help?
4. From who
5. What did he have experience in?
6. What did they originally do?
7. When did the company begin?
8. When did they sell it?
9. To who?
10. Was that a private company?
11. How much did they pay?
12. What part of the company was started then?
13. What did they name it?
14. What part of the company publishes professional works?
15. What else is Praeger responsible for?
16. Who does Libraries Unlimited cater to?
17. When was Robert Hagelstein hired?
18. As what?
19. Was he promoted?
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answer: 1. Harold Mason
2. a librarian and antiquarian bookseller
3. yes
4. Harold Schwartz
5. trade publishing
6. reprint out-of-print works
7. 1967
8. In 1969
9. Williamhouse-Regency,
10. unknown
11. unknown
12. a microform publishing imprint
13. Greenwood Microforms.
14. Praeger Publishers.
15. scholarly and general interest books
16. librarians and teachers.
17. In 1973,
18. as Vice President.
19. yes

question: Today was an important day for Sam: he was going to go to the pet store and pick out a pet to take home and live with him! Sam was worried that he would not find a pet that would like him better than the other pets, but he knew he would find the pet for him. The pet store had a big, white door and Sam opened it up and heard lots of barking! He saw a nice man standing next to the dogs who said that his name was Chris. Sam said hello and petted the dogs. He really liked one of the dogs named Rocky, but Rocky did not like him. Chris said that Rocky was mean and did not like some people even when the people were very nice. Sam was a little sad, but he saw the next cage! There was a small, yellow dog in the cage named Button. Sam put his finger through the bars in Button's cage and Button licked his fingers. Sam laughed, and asked Chris to let him play with Buttons. Sam and Buttons played together in the grass outside of the store, and Sam was so happy. Buttons loved Sam, and Sam loved Buttons! Sam had some papers that he had to sign, and he showed Chris all of the toys and items he had bought to bring home with his new pet: Chris was so happy, too! Sam put his new friend on a leash and took Buttons home with him, and they loved each other very much.
1. Why was today important for Sam?
2. And what worried him?
3. And what did he know?
4. What color was the store's door?
5. And what did he hear?
6. Who was standing next to the dogs?
7. Which dog did Sam like?
8. And did he like him back?
9. Who was the next dog that Sam saw?
10. And what color was he?
11. Did they get along?
12. And did he get him?
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answer:
1. Yes
2. he would not find a pet that would like him better than the other pets
3. he would find the pet for him
4. white
5. lots of barking
6. Chris
7. Rocky
8. no
9. Button
10. yellow
11. Yes
12. Yes