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Q: Benjamin McDowell   30  pleaded guilty Monday to being a felon in possession of a weapon  according to reports by multiple news outlets.  He  also could be fined $250 000 when  he âs sentenced at a later date.
Authorities first began investigating  McDowell  in December 2016 when  he  threatened a Myrtle Beach synagogue on Facebook. Local officials were already keeping tabs on  him  because  he  made friends with white supremacists groups and got tattoos associated with racist groups while in prison on a felony burglary charge  according to the FBI.
 McDowell  then said  he  wanted a gun and told an undercover FBI agent who offered to get  him  one that  he  planned to attack somewhere in the name of white power and write on the building âin the spirit of Dylann Roof â according to court records. Roof was sentenced to death last year for a racist shooting that killed nine black worshippers at a Charleston  South Carolina  church.
âI seen what Dylann Roof did and in my heart I reckon I got a little bit of hatred â the undercover agent recalled  McDowell  saying.
 McDowell   who couldnât legally own a gun because of the burglary conviction  was arrested after the purchase. Agents said  McDowell  bought the gun â which had the firing pin shaved down so that it would not work â and ammunition for $109  which  he  had borrowed from  his  grandfather.

A: Benjamin McDowell
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Q: Ever since early 2016 , when the Republican Party began to fussily resettle itself behind Donald Trump , Mitt Romney has been an intermittent oppositional figure , distinct from his party in both point of view and style . 
The conservative movement has grown smirking , clannish , quarrelsome ; Romney has been formal , chiding , and pained . 
After Trump won the election , that November , Romney met with Trump in the hope of securing for himself the position of Secretary of State . 
Yet this summer , after a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville turned deadly , Romney professed deeper anxieties . 
For half a century , Romney and his family have existed close to the center of the Republican Party . 
Now -- just six years removed from being his party 's Presidential nominee , but with no distinct Romneyist camp in Washington and no obvious constituency to summon -- it is n't obvious that Romney fits in at all . 
Last week , the Utah senator Orrin Hatch announced that he would be retiring at the end of his term this year , and immediately Romney 's allies suggested that he would run for the seat ; the common wisdom was that his election would be all but assured . 
-LRB- Romney , a man of many residences , built his political career in Massachusetts , but he went to college in Utah , and helped to save the Salt Lake City Olympics from ruin in 2002 ; he is the most recognizable Mormon in the world , and he would be running in a state whose Republican Party is defined by its relationship to the L.D.S. Church . -RRB- 
Romney 's candidacy is still unannounced , and its most important position -- what line the candidate takes on the President -- is not yet obvious . 
"This thing is still developing ," one of Romney 's longtime advisers told me last week . 
But already the most romantic vision of Romney -- that he might arrive in Washington as the de-facto leader of an anti-Trump faction -- seems unlikely . 
"I 've heard some relatively simplistic assessments that he is going to be the voice of the Never Trump movement ," a senior adviser to Romney 's Presidential campaign said last week . 
Romney is a very pragmatic politician , too . 
Romney himself has made no sign of wanting to be part of such a faction , even if it existed . 
One of his advisers reminded me last week that Romney took the idea of being Trump 's Secretary of State seriously , and believed that Trump 's interest in him was entirely sincere . 
And , a month after his appalled reaction to Charlottesville , Romney tweeted praise for Trump 's speech before the U.N. General Assembly . 
Romney 's potential for tragedy and heroism both spring from the same source : the depth of his feeling for a version of America that may exist only in his mind , a place where the trees in Michigan are exactly the right height . 
Romney 's return to Utah has some elements of a homecoming ; it is also , more simply , a move to accommodating political terrain . 
Utah is a conservative state whose politics are moving toward Romney , rather than away . 
Modern Utah , the place of the salvaged Salt Lake Olympics , exists in the Romney image .

A: Mitt Romney
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Q: Tesla Motors developed a giant backup power system in South Australia to combat the region's energy crisis  and switched on  the battery  on Dec. 1. (Jay Weatherill via Storyful)
Less than a month after  Tesla  unveiled a new backup power system in South Australia  the world's largest lithium-ion battery is already being put to the test. And it appears to be far exceeding expectations: In the past three weeks alone  the Hornsdale Power Reserve has smoothed out at least two major energy outages  responding even more quickly than the coal-fired backups that were supposed to provide emergency power.
 Tesla 's battery last week kicked in just 0.14 seconds after one of Australia's biggest plants  the Loy Yang facility in the neighboring state of Victoria  suffered a sudden  unexplained drop in output  according to the International Business Times. And the week before that  another failure at Loy Yang prompted  the Hornsdale battery  to respond in as little as four seconds â or less  according to some estimates â beating other plants to the punch. State officials have called the response time âa record â according to local media.
The effectiveness of  Tesla 's battery is being closely watched in a region that is in the grips of an energy crisis. The price of electricity is soaring in Australia  particularly in the state of South Australia  where a 2016 outage led 1.7 million residents to lose power in a blackout. Storms and heat waves have caused additional outages  and many Australians are bracing for more with the onset of summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Hornsdale battery system  which uses the same energy-storage tech found in  Tesla 's electric cars  is one of chief executive Elon Musk's newest projects. In March  Musk  who is known for setting high goals and only sometimes meeting them  vowed on Twitter to deliver a battery system for South Australia's struggling grid within 100 days or it would be free. By early July  the state had signed a deal with  Tesla  and the French-based energy company Neoen to produce the battery. And by Dec. 1  South Australia announced that it had switched on the Hornsdale battery.
A spokesman for  Tesla  didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Nonetheless  the Hornsdale reserve has already shown that it can provide what's known as âcontingencyâ service â keeping the grid stable in a crisis and easing what would otherwise be a significant power failure. And  more important  the project is the biggest proof-of-concept yet that batteries such as  Tesla 's can help mitigate one of renewable energy's most persistent problems: how to use it when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing.
Where it can take as much as 10 minutes to spin up a traditional turbine in a pinch  added Coughlin  it's not uncommon to see systems such as  Tesla 's intervene in fractions of a second.
This isn't Musk's only experiment with large-scale batteries. Last year   Tesla  said  it  had equipped a small island in American Samoa with thousands of solar panels and batteries that could serve the area's 600 inhabitants  shifting them almost entirely off fossil fuels. In October  Musk responded to the hurricane crisis in Puerto Rico by offering to discuss building a solar grid for the island. Parts of Puerto Rico are still without power  months after Hurricane Maria ripped down power lines and other energy infrastructure.

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Tesla
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