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It is not easy to be a vet .You never know when you will be called upon to take care of a sick animal. You also do not always know that kind of animal you will be asked to take care of or what you must do to help the sick animal. Once, when some children were playing with a dog, they threw a ball into its mouth. The ball got stuck in the dog's throat and the dog could not breathe. The dog would die if they did not remove the ball quickly. The dog's owner took the dog to a vet called Robert Smith. Mr. Smith put his hands on the dog's neck. He could feel the ball. He was not sure what to do. He pressed a little harder. The dog opened its mouth and the ball came flying out! No one was more surprised than Mr. Smith. Another vet, peter Brown. Worked with sea animals. One day, he was called upon to take care of a dolphin. The dolphin had something in its mouth that had to be taken out, but it did not want to open its mouth. Nineteen men had to hold the strong and slippery dolphin so that the vet could open its mouth.

1. Is it easy to be a vet?
2. Do you always know what kind of animal you will be asked to take care of?
3. What animal did Peter Brown take care of?
4. Which vet attended to a canine?
5. What object did kids toss with a canine?
6. What happened to the ball?
7. What did it cause to happen to the dog?
8. Was it in danger?
9. Did it get brought to the vet?
10. Where did he place his hands?
11. Was he able to dislodge the ball?
12. Who was most surprised?
13. How many men held the dolphin?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. no
2. no
3. a dolphin
4. Robert Smith
5. a ball
6. It got stuck.
7. It couldn't breathe.
8. yes
9. yes
10. on the dog's neck
11. yes
12. Robert Smith
13. Nineteen men.

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A teenage boy wielding two kitchen knives went on a stabbing rampage at his high school in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, early Wednesday, before being tackled by an assistant principal, authorities said. 

Twenty students and a security officer at Franklin Regional Senior High School were either stabbed or slashed in the attack, Westmoreland County District Attorney John Peck told reporters. 

The accused attacker was been identified as 16-year-old Alex Hribal, according to a criminal complaint made public. Hribal, who was arraigned as an adult, faces four counts of attempted homicide, 21 counts of aggravated assault and one count of possession of a weapon on school grounds, the documents show. 

"I'm not sure he knows what he did, quite frankly," Hribal's attorney, Patrick Thomassey, said, adding he would file a motion to move the case to juvenile court. 

"...We have to make sure that he understands the nature of the charges and what's going on here. It's important that he be examined by a psychiatrist and determined where he is mentally." 

A doctor who treated six of the victims, primarily teens, said at first they did not know they had been stabbed. 

"They just felt pain and noticed they were bleeding," Dr. Timothy VanFleet, chief of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, told CNN. 

"Almost all of them said they didn't see anyone coming at them. It apparently was a crowded hallway and they were going about their business, and then just felt pain and started bleeding." 

Arguing against bail for Hribal, the district attorney told the court that four of the victims were in critical condition, including one who was "eviscerated." There's a question whether the victim will survive, Peck said. 

1. What happened at Franklin Regional Senior High School?
2. Who gave the reporters that information?
3. Who attacked them?
4. How old is he?
5. Will he be tried as a minor or an adult?
6. What charges is he facing?
7. Were there any other charges?
8. What were they?
9. Anything else?
10. Was he examined by a Psychiatrist?
11. What else did his lawyer have to say?
12. What is his attorneys name?
13. Did he think it was fair to try him as an adult?
14. Was he going to try and change that?
15. By doing what?
16. What happened when the victims were stabbed?
17. Who is the Dr. that treated them?
18. Where were they treated at?
19. What kind of Dr. treated them?
20. Who did the Dr. report the victims information to?
21. What is the victims condition?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Twenty students and a security officer were either stabbed or slashed
2. Westmoreland County District Attorney John Peck
3. Alex Hribal
4. 16 years old
5. an adult
6. four counts of attempted homicide
7. Yes
8. 21 counts of aggravated assault
9. Yes, one count of possession of a weapon on school grounds,
10. Not sure but his lawyer thinks he should be.
11. "I'm not sure he knows what he did, quite frankly,"
12. Patrick Thomassey
13. No
14. Yes
15. filing a motion to move the case to juvenile court
16. Most said they did not know they had been stabbed
17. Dr. Timothy VanFleet
18. the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
19. chief of emergency medicine
20. CNN
21. four were in critical condition, one eviserated and may not survive

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Telecommuncations in the United Kingdom have evolved from the early days of the telegraph to modern broadband and mobile phone networks with Internet services. 

National Telephone Company (NTC) was a British telephone company from 1881 until 1911 which brought together smaller local companies in the early years of the telephone. Under the Telephone Transfer Act 1911 it was taken over by the General Post Office (GPO) in 1912. 

Until 1982, the main civil telecommunications system in the UK was a state monopoly known (since reorganisation in 1969) as Post Office Telecommunications. Broadcasting of radio and television was a duopoly of the BBC and Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA): these two organisations controlled all broadcast services, and directly owned and operated the broadcast transmitter sites. Mobile phone and Internet services did not then exist. The civil telecoms monopoly ended when Mercury Communications arrived in 1983. The Post Office system evolved into British Telecom and was privatised in 1984. Broadcast transmitters, which belonged to the BBC and IBA, were privatised during the 1990s and now belong to Babcock International and Arqiva. 

British Rail Telecommunications was created in 1992 by British Rail (BR). It was the largest private telecoms network in Britain, consisting of 17,000 route kilometres of fibre optic and copper cable which connected every major city and town in the country and provided links to continental Europe through the Channel Tunnel. BR also operated its own national trunked radio network providing dedicated train-to-shore mobile communications, and in the early 1980s BR helped establish Mercury Communications’, now C&WC, core infrastructure by laying a resilient ‘figure-of-eight’ fibre optic network alongside Britain’s railway lines, spanning London, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester.

1. What was made in 1992?
2. By who?
3. When that happened, how many private telecoms networks in the UK were larger?
4. Did it have over 10,000 kilometers of cables?
5. What types of cable were used?
6. Did it connect all the big cities?
7. Was it connected to the Channel Tunnel?
8. What kind of network did it lay along the railroad tracks in the early '80s?
9. What company did that help to establish?
10. Did it go all the way to Manchester?
11. What communications system was in Britain prior to 1982?
12. Did they have any competition?
13. How many organizations controlled radio and TV?
14. What was one?
15. And the other?
16. What broke up the monopoly?
17. What year did that occur?
18. Who owns the transmitters now?
19. When was NTC around?
20. Who took over then?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. British Rail Telecommunications
2. British Rail
3. None
4. Yes
5. fibre optic and copper
6. Yes
7. Yes
8. a resilient ‘figure-of-eight’ fibre optic network
9. Mercury Communications
10. Yes
11. Post Office Telecommunications
12. No
13. Two
14. the BBC
15. Independent Broadcasting Authority
16. Mercury Communications
17. 1983.
18. Babcock International and Arqiva
19. 1881 until 1911
20. the General Post Office