Question: What is Danny Sullivan's job?

Some observers agree. “The analogy I like to use is, complaining that Google is lifting its own vertical search engine over other vertical search engines would be like complaining that The New York Times is not carrying The Los Angeles Times’s sports section,” said Danny Sullivan, founder of Search Engine Land, an online publication that tracks the search industry. “You don’t expect The New York Times to carry a rival sports section. But you do expect it to have a sports section. When people go to a search engine, they’re looking to search across everything.” As Google pointed out in its response to the European filing, linking to its own services has not destroyed its rivals. Google Travel, for instance, is still far less popular than competitors.

Answer: founder of Search Engine Land

Some observers agree. <hl> “The analogy I like to use is, complaining that Google is lifting its own vertical search engine over other vertical search engines would be like complaining that The New York Times is not carrying The Los Angeles Times’s sports section,” said Danny Sullivan, founder of Search Engine Land , an online publication that tracks the search industry. <hl> “You don’t expect The New York Times to carry a rival sports section. But you do expect it to have a sports section. When people go to a search engine, they’re looking to search across everything.” As Google pointed out in its response to the European filing, linking to its own services has not destroyed its rivals. Google Travel, for instance, is still far less popular than competitors.

Some observers agree. “The analogy I like to use is, complaining that Google is lifting its own vertical search engine over other vertical search engines would be like complaining that The New York Times is not carrying The Los Angeles Times’s sports section,” said Danny Sullivan, <hl> founder of Search Engine Land <hl>, an online publication that tracks the search industry. “You don’t expect The New York Times to carry a rival sports section. But you do expect it to have a sports section. When people go to a search engine, they’re looking to search across everything.” As Google pointed out in its response to the European filing, linking to its own services has not destroyed its rivals. Google Travel, for instance, is still far less popular than competitors.

“The analogy I like to use is, complaining that Google is lifting its own vertical search engine over other vertical search engines would be like complaining that The New York Times is not carrying The Los Angeles Times’s sports section,” said Danny Sullivan, <hl> founder of Search Engine Land <hl> , an online publication that tracks the search industry.


Question: Who is wearing a curly wig?

BUDAPEST —  Melissa McCarthy was standing in an ersatz C.I.A. office here, on a soundstage a few miles outside the city. With a curly wig and a fake case of pink eye, she was shooting a scene opposite Jude Law for their new movie, “Spy,” as the director and screenwriter, Paul Feig, looked on. Mr. Feig, lanky and preternaturally dapper in his customary bespoke three-piece suit, pocket square and flower lapel pin, traversed the set with an ornate walking stick. Mr. Law, playing a James Bond-esque agent, was similarly kitted out in sleek designer garb. The costume for Ms. McCarthy, as an analyst in the field for her first undercover operation, included a lot of beige; a brown crocheted vest, a ruffled denim skirt, athletic sandals. The wig, she said, is “not human hair,” maybe “recycled water bottles.” As a few producers watched and Mr. Feig adjusted the blocking, the actors filmed a scene in which Mr. Law’s character jokes about running away together and Ms. McCarthy, as his besotted colleague, takes him seriously.

Answer: Melissa McCarthy

<hl> BUDAPEST — Melissa McCarthy was standing in an ersatz C.I.A. office here, on a soundstage a few miles outside the city. <hl> With a curly wig and a fake case of pink eye, she was shooting a scene opposite Jude Law for their new movie, “Spy,” as the director and screenwriter, Paul Feig, looked on. Mr. Feig, lanky and preternaturally dapper in his customary bespoke three-piece suit, pocket square and flower lapel pin, traversed the set with an ornate walking stick. Mr. Law, playing a James Bond-esque agent, was similarly kitted out in sleek designer garb. The costume for Ms. McCarthy, as an analyst in the field for her first undercover operation, included a lot of beige; a brown crocheted vest, a ruffled denim skirt, athletic sandals. The wig, she said, is “not human hair,” maybe “recycled water bottles.” As a few producers watched and Mr. Feig adjusted the blocking, the actors filmed a scene in which Mr. Law’s character jokes about running away together and Ms. McCarthy, as his besotted colleague, takes him seriously.

BUDAPEST — <hl> Melissa McCarthy <hl> was standing in an ersatz C.I.A. office here, on a soundstage a few miles outside the city. With a curly wig and a fake case of pink eye, she was shooting a scene opposite Jude Law for their new movie, “Spy,” as the director and screenwriter, Paul Feig, looked on. Mr. Feig, lanky and preternaturally dapper in his customary bespoke three-piece suit, pocket square and flower lapel pin, traversed the set with an ornate walking stick. Mr. Law, playing a James Bond-esque agent, was similarly kitted out in sleek designer garb. The costume for Ms. McCarthy, as an analyst in the field for her first undercover operation, included a lot of beige; a brown crocheted vest, a ruffled denim skirt, athletic sandals. The wig, she said, is “not human hair,” maybe “recycled water bottles.” As a few producers watched and Mr. Feig adjusted the blocking, the actors filmed a scene in which Mr. Law’s character jokes about running away together and Ms. McCarthy, as his besotted colleague, takes him seriously.


Question: How were the squid rings cooked?

We had fun sharing the appetizers, like the tamarind eggplant, thin half-dollar-size rounds of the night shade vegetable tossed with onions, chickpeas and yogurt, and topped with tamarind chutney. It was tangy and cooling. Bagari shrimp, four jumbo shrimp in a thick yogurt and tomato sauce, came with puri, puffy fried bread, to scoop every last bit of curry. It was soul food. And the calamari Cochin, flash-fried squid rings with a coarse black pepper and corn flour coating, was as addictive as good onion rings.

Answer: flash-fried

We had fun sharing the appetizers, like the tamarind eggplant, thin half-dollar-size rounds of the night shade vegetable tossed with onions, chickpeas and yogurt, and topped with tamarind chutney. It was tangy and cooling. Bagari shrimp, four jumbo shrimp in a thick yogurt and tomato sauce, came with puri, puffy fried bread, to scoop every last bit of curry. It was soul food. <hl> And the calamari Cochin, flash-fried squid rings with a coarse black pepper and corn flour coating, was as addictive as good onion rings. <hl>

We had fun sharing the appetizers, like the tamarind eggplant, thin half-dollar-size rounds of the night shade vegetable tossed with onions, chickpeas and yogurt, and topped with tamarind chutney. It was tangy and cooling. Bagari shrimp, four jumbo shrimp in a thick yogurt and tomato sauce, came with puri, puffy fried bread, to scoop every last bit of curry. It was soul food. And the calamari Cochin, <hl> flash-fried <hl> squid rings with a coarse black pepper and corn flour coating, was as addictive as good onion rings.


Question: What type of government is Greece likely to usher in?

The euro on Friday reached its lowest level against the dollar since June 7, 2010, when it hit $1.1923. The currency of the 19-nation eurozone has fallen nearly 14 percent since it climbed to $1.3910 on May 7. The last time the euro was so low, Greece’s debt problems were causing havoc in the eurozone and there was fear the common currency would not survive. Greece is again in turmoil, with coming elections likely to usher in a left-wing government, but is no longer the main cause of the euro’s decline. The concern now is that the eurozone is already stuck in the same kind of stagnation that has afflicted Japan for two decades. “History shows that falling prices can be as damaging to the prosperity and stability of our countries as high inflation,” Mr. Draghi told Handelsblatt.

Answer: left-wing

The euro on Friday reached its lowest level against the dollar since June 7, 2010, when it hit $1.1923. The currency of the 19-nation eurozone has fallen nearly 14 percent since it climbed to $1.3910 on May 7. The last time the euro was so low, Greece’s debt problems were causing havoc in the eurozone and there was fear the common currency would not survive. <hl> Greece is again in turmoil, with coming elections likely to usher in a left-wing government, but is no longer the main cause of the euro’s decline. <hl> The concern now is that the eurozone is already stuck in the same kind of stagnation that has afflicted Japan for two decades. “History shows that falling prices can be as damaging to the prosperity and stability of our countries as high inflation,” Mr. Draghi told Handelsblatt.

The euro on Friday reached its lowest level against the dollar since June 7, 2010, when it hit $1.1923. The currency of the 19-nation eurozone has fallen nearly 14 percent since it climbed to $1.3910 on May 7. The last time the euro was so low, Greece’s debt problems were causing havoc in the eurozone and there was fear the common currency would not survive. Greece is again in turmoil, with coming elections likely to usher in a <hl> left-wing <hl> government, but is no longer the main cause of the euro’s decline. The concern now is that the eurozone is already stuck in the same kind of stagnation that has afflicted Japan for two decades. “History shows that falling prices can be as damaging to the prosperity and stability of our countries as high inflation,” Mr. Draghi told Handelsblatt.


Question: What did the South and the United States need?

After reading Michiko Kakutani’s review of Harper Lee’s novel “Go Set a Watchman,” I couldn’t help but feel a sense of worry and sadness about the Atticus Finch the book holds in its pages. As a native of Alabama, I had held up Atticus in my own mind as a redemptive figure, a symbol of hope, a hero who was brave enough to fight for what is right despite the poisonous and dangerous pools of racism long associated with whites in the Deep South. He was a symbol of the good that I desperately wanted to believe was around me as a child growing up in the late 1960s and ’70s near Birmingham. But the reality was often more complicated. When “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published in 1960, the South, and the United States, needed the heroic story of Atticus Finch. But over the past 50 years, we’ve witnessed struggle, strife and, most of all, unprecedented triumph.

Answer: the heroic story of Atticus Finch

After reading Michiko Kakutani’s review of Harper Lee’s novel “Go Set a Watchman,” I couldn’t help but feel a sense of worry and sadness about the Atticus Finch the book holds in its pages. As a native of Alabama, I had held up Atticus in my own mind as a redemptive figure, a symbol of hope, a hero who was brave enough to fight for what is right despite the poisonous and dangerous pools of racism long associated with whites in the Deep South. He was a symbol of the good that I desperately wanted to believe was around me as a child growing up in the late 1960s and ’70s near Birmingham. But the reality was often more complicated. <hl> When “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published in 1960, the South, and the United States, needed the heroic story of Atticus Finch . <hl> But over the past 50 years, we’ve witnessed struggle, strife and, most of all, unprecedented triumph.

After reading Michiko Kakutani’s review of Harper Lee’s novel “Go Set a Watchman,” I couldn’t help but feel a sense of worry and sadness about the Atticus Finch the book holds in its pages. As a native of Alabama, I had held up Atticus in my own mind as a redemptive figure, a symbol of hope, a hero who was brave enough to fight for what is right despite the poisonous and dangerous pools of racism long associated with whites in the Deep South. He was a symbol of the good that I desperately wanted to believe was around me as a child growing up in the late 1960s and ’70s near Birmingham. But the reality was often more complicated. When “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published in 1960, the South, and the United States, needed <hl> the heroic story of Atticus Finch <hl>. But over the past 50 years, we’ve witnessed struggle, strife and, most of all, unprecedented triumph.

When “To Kill a Mockingbird” was published in 1960, the South, and the United States, needed <hl> the heroic story of Atticus Finch <hl> .


Question: How long is the 5K?

A separate event, the Girls Prep Ultimate Pi Day 5K, a 3.14-mile run to raise funds for Girls Prep Schools, charter institutions in New York, is at 9:26:53 a.m. on Roosevelt Island, with a race for runners 9 and under at 10:30. (Registration is at publicprep.org/ultimatepiday.) And at 8:30 p.m., the museum will repeat the morning’s free demonstration of pi (location to be announced), with visitors standing in huge circles and holding glow sticks as measuring tools. After a countdown to 9:26:53, the event will conclude with hot chocolate and something even the math-averse can usually digest: pie.

Answer: 3.14-mile

<hl> A separate event, the Girls Prep Ultimate Pi Day 5K, a 3.14-mile run to raise funds for Girls Prep Schools, charter institutions in New York, is at 9:26:53 a.m. on Roosevelt Island, with a race for runners 9 and under at 10:30. <hl> (Registration is at publicprep.org/ultimatepiday.) And at 8:30 p.m., the museum will repeat the morning’s free demonstration of pi (location to be announced), with visitors standing in huge circles and holding glow sticks as measuring tools. After a countdown to 9:26:53, the event will conclude with hot chocolate and something even the math-averse can usually digest: pie.

A separate event, the Girls Prep Ultimate Pi Day 5K, a <hl> 3.14-mile <hl> run to raise funds for Girls Prep Schools, charter institutions in New York, is at 9:26:53 a.m. on Roosevelt Island, with a race for runners 9 and under at 10:30. (Registration is at publicprep.org/ultimatepiday.) And at 8:30 p.m., the museum will repeat the morning’s free demonstration of pi (location to be announced), with visitors standing in huge circles and holding glow sticks as measuring tools. After a countdown to 9:26:53, the event will conclude with hot chocolate and something even the math-averse can usually digest: pie.


Question: What was the chance of Rocky Fire igniting?

On Monday, the fire leapt across Highway 20, embers blowing from treetop to treetop, dismaying the firefighters, who had hoped to contain the blaze to one side of the road. The ability of a fire to keep catching — called its probability of ignition — is assessed by fire experts. The Rocky Fire has a probability of ignition of 100 percent, almost unheard-of when the tinder is forest and scrub, as it is here. “That’s something I’ve never seen,” Captain Oatman said. In the gymnasium of nearby Middletown High School, a few evacuees were sleeping on green cots in an impromptu Red Cross shelter, one of two in the area. In the school’s theater, about a dozen people ate a meal of chicken and linguine, occasionally rising to scan a large printout of the day’s fire map on the wall, anxiously checking how close the angry red blotch was to their homes.

Answer: 100 percent

On Monday, the fire leapt across Highway 20, embers blowing from treetop to treetop, dismaying the firefighters, who had hoped to contain the blaze to one side of the road. The ability of a fire to keep catching — called its probability of ignition — is assessed by fire experts. <hl> The Rocky Fire has a probability of ignition of 100 percent , almost unheard-of when the tinder is forest and scrub, as it is here. <hl> “That’s something I’ve never seen,” Captain Oatman said. In the gymnasium of nearby Middletown High School, a few evacuees were sleeping on green cots in an impromptu Red Cross shelter, one of two in the area. In the school’s theater, about a dozen people ate a meal of chicken and linguine, occasionally rising to scan a large printout of the day’s fire map on the wall, anxiously checking how close the angry red blotch was to their homes.

On Monday, the fire leapt across Highway 20, embers blowing from treetop to treetop, dismaying the firefighters, who had hoped to contain the blaze to one side of the road. The ability of a fire to keep catching — called its probability of ignition — is assessed by fire experts. The Rocky Fire has a probability of ignition of <hl> 100 percent <hl>, almost unheard-of when the tinder is forest and scrub, as it is here. “That’s something I’ve never seen,” Captain Oatman said. In the gymnasium of nearby Middletown High School, a few evacuees were sleeping on green cots in an impromptu Red Cross shelter, one of two in the area. In the school’s theater, about a dozen people ate a meal of chicken and linguine, occasionally rising to scan a large printout of the day’s fire map on the wall, anxiously checking how close the angry red blotch was to their homes.

The Rocky Fire has a probability of ignition of <hl> 100 percent <hl> , almost unheard-of when the tinder is forest and scrub, as it is here.


Question: What fundamental pillar of democracy is at stack ??

SAN FRANCISCO — TODAY, we’re filing a lawsuit against the National Security Agency to protect the rights of the 500 million people who use Wikipedia every month. We’re doing so because a fundamental pillar of democracy is at stake: the free exchange of knowledge and ideas. Our lawsuit says that the N.S.A.’s mass surveillance of Internet traffic on American soil — often called “upstream” surveillance — violates the Fourth Amendment, which protects the right to privacy, as well as the First Amendment, which protects the freedoms of expression and association. We also argue that this agency activity exceeds the authority granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that Congress amended in 2008.

Answer: the free exchange of knowledge and ideas

SAN FRANCISCO — TODAY, we’re filing a lawsuit against the National Security Agency to protect the rights of the 500 million people who use Wikipedia every month. <hl> We’re doing so because a fundamental pillar of democracy is at stake: the free exchange of knowledge and ideas . <hl> Our lawsuit says that the N.S.A.’s mass surveillance of Internet traffic on American soil — often called “upstream” surveillance — violates the Fourth Amendment, which protects the right to privacy, as well as the First Amendment, which protects the freedoms of expression and association. We also argue that this agency activity exceeds the authority granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that Congress amended in 2008.

SAN FRANCISCO — TODAY, we’re filing a lawsuit against the National Security Agency to protect the rights of the 500 million people who use Wikipedia every month. We’re doing so because a fundamental pillar of democracy is at stake: <hl> the free exchange of knowledge and ideas <hl>. Our lawsuit says that the N.S.A.’s mass surveillance of Internet traffic on American soil — often called “upstream” surveillance — violates the Fourth Amendment, which protects the right to privacy, as well as the First Amendment, which protects the freedoms of expression and association. We also argue that this agency activity exceeds the authority granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that Congress amended in 2008.

We’re doing so because a fundamental pillar of democracy is at stake: <hl> the free exchange of knowledge and ideas <hl> .


Question: On which date did the shooting happen?

As each name of the 12 people killed and 70 wounded was read, and read again — prosecutors filed two charges per victim — the families looked to the corner of the public gallery and gave one another a quiet nod or an arm squeeze. After an emotional 10-week trial, one of the longest and most complex in this state’s history, it took a jury of nine women and three men about 12 hours of deliberation over two days to convict Mr. Holmes on all counts. He now faces a lengthy sentencing process in which prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. The jury’s verdict roundly rejected arguments from his defense lawyers that he had had a psychotic break and was legally insane when he carried out the massacre inside the Century 16 theater in suburban Aurora, Colo., on July 20, 2012. His lawyers argued he was not in control of his thoughts or actions, but prosecutors said Mr. Holmes, despite being mentally ill, had plotted the shootings with calculation and knew what he wanted to accomplish when he started firing into the crowd.

Answer: July 20, 2012

As each name of the 12 people killed and 70 wounded was read, and read again — prosecutors filed two charges per victim — the families looked to the corner of the public gallery and gave one another a quiet nod or an arm squeeze. After an emotional 10-week trial, one of the longest and most complex in this state’s history, it took a jury of nine women and three men about 12 hours of deliberation over two days to convict Mr. Holmes on all counts. He now faces a lengthy sentencing process in which prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. <hl> The jury’s verdict roundly rejected arguments from his defense lawyers that he had had a psychotic break and was legally insane when he carried out the massacre inside the Century 16 theater in suburban Aurora, Colo., on July 20, 2012 . <hl> His lawyers argued he was not in control of his thoughts or actions, but prosecutors said Mr. Holmes, despite being mentally ill, had plotted the shootings with calculation and knew what he wanted to accomplish when he started firing into the crowd.

As each name of the 12 people killed and 70 wounded was read, and read again — prosecutors filed two charges per victim — the families looked to the corner of the public gallery and gave one another a quiet nod or an arm squeeze. After an emotional 10-week trial, one of the longest and most complex in this state’s history, it took a jury of nine women and three men about 12 hours of deliberation over two days to convict Mr. Holmes on all counts. He now faces a lengthy sentencing process in which prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. The jury’s verdict roundly rejected arguments from his defense lawyers that he had had a psychotic break and was legally insane when he carried out the massacre inside the Century 16 theater in suburban Aurora, Colo., on <hl> July 20, 2012 <hl>. His lawyers argued he was not in control of his thoughts or actions, but prosecutors said Mr. Holmes, despite being mentally ill, had plotted the shootings with calculation and knew what he wanted to accomplish when he started firing into the crowd.

The jury’s verdict roundly rejected arguments from his defense lawyers that he had had a psychotic break and was legally insane when he carried out the massacre inside the Century 16 theater in suburban Aurora, Colo., on <hl> July 20, 2012 <hl> .


Question: was netanyhu a politician?

The film, A.F.P. said, “relied on documents, photos and videos, particularly from the months before Rabin’s assassination, including those showing speeches from politicians such as Netanyahu at rallies against the Oslo accords, where Rabin was depicted in a Nazi uniform.” I hope a lot of Americans see this film — for the warning it offers to those who ignore or rationalize the divisive, bigoted campaigns of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and how they’re dragging their whole party across civic redlines, with candidates saying, rationalizing or ignoring more and more crazy, ill-informed stuff each week.

Answer: politicians such as Netanyahu

<hl> The film, A.F.P. said, “relied on documents, photos and videos, particularly from the months before Rabin’s assassination, including those showing speeches from politicians such as Netanyahu at rallies against the Oslo accords, where Rabin was depicted in a Nazi uniform.” <hl> I hope a lot of Americans see this film — for the warning it offers to those who ignore or rationalize the divisive, bigoted campaigns of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and how they’re dragging their whole party across civic redlines, with candidates saying, rationalizing or ignoring more and more crazy, ill-informed stuff each week.

The film, A.F.P. said, “relied on documents, photos and videos, particularly from the months before Rabin’s assassination, including those showing speeches from <hl> politicians such as Netanyahu <hl> at rallies against the Oslo accords, where Rabin was depicted in a Nazi uniform.” I hope a lot of Americans see this film — for the warning it offers to those who ignore or rationalize the divisive, bigoted campaigns of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and how they’re dragging their whole party across civic redlines, with candidates saying, rationalizing or ignoring more and more crazy, ill-informed stuff each week.


Question: Who ranked third in the draft?

Yet the basic purpose of the combine did not change. It was an opportunity for teams to better predict the professional potential of a group, made up mostly of 18-year-olds, based on their body types, quickness, agility, stamina and attitude. “No player has to prove anything, because this is not a competition,” said Dan Marr, the N.H.L.’s director for central scouting, while describing the three components of the combine — medical screening, personal interviews and physical testing. Yet the environment and the personalities of the participants invite comparison, from the news media, the fans and the scouts. “They try to tell us it’s not a competition, but we’re all naturally pretty competitive, so we want to do our best,” said Noah Hanifin, a defenseman for Boston College and the player ranked third in the draft class by N.H.L. Central Scouting. “They will push us to our limits, and whatever happens, happens.”

Answer: Noah Hanifin

Yet the basic purpose of the combine did not change. It was an opportunity for teams to better predict the professional potential of a group, made up mostly of 18-year-olds, based on their body types, quickness, agility, stamina and attitude. “No player has to prove anything, because this is not a competition,” said Dan Marr, the N.H.L.’s director for central scouting, while describing the three components of the combine — medical screening, personal interviews and physical testing. Yet the environment and the personalities of the participants invite comparison, from the news media, the fans and the scouts. <hl> “They try to tell us it’s not a competition, but we’re all naturally pretty competitive, so we want to do our best,” said Noah Hanifin , a defenseman for Boston College and the player ranked third in the draft class by N.H.L. Central Scouting. <hl> “They will push us to our limits, and whatever happens, happens.”

Yet the basic purpose of the combine did not change. It was an opportunity for teams to better predict the professional potential of a group, made up mostly of 18-year-olds, based on their body types, quickness, agility, stamina and attitude. “No player has to prove anything, because this is not a competition,” said Dan Marr, the N.H.L.’s director for central scouting, while describing the three components of the combine — medical screening, personal interviews and physical testing. Yet the environment and the personalities of the participants invite comparison, from the news media, the fans and the scouts. “They try to tell us it’s not a competition, but we’re all naturally pretty competitive, so we want to do our best,” said <hl> Noah Hanifin <hl>, a defenseman for Boston College and the player ranked third in the draft class by N.H.L. Central Scouting. “They will push us to our limits, and whatever happens, happens.”

“They try to tell us it’s not a competition, but we’re all naturally pretty competitive, so we want to do our best,” said <hl> Noah Hanifin <hl> , a defenseman for Boston College and the player ranked third in the draft class by N.H.L. Central Scouting.


Question: Which completion date was Kaplan hoping for?

“I think we become a strong candidate now for all of these leagues,” Engles said. “We can attract some conferences now with a new facility.” Kaplan said the institute was hoping for a September 2017 completion date. Commissioners for the Northeast Conference, the America East Conference and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference each congratulated N.J.I.T. on the announcement of the new arena. But beyond that, they deferred comment. One hope for N.J.I.T. could come from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, a league of historically black colleges and universities.

Answer: September 2017

“I think we become a strong candidate now for all of these leagues,” Engles said. “We can attract some conferences now with a new facility.” <hl> Kaplan said the institute was hoping for a September 2017 completion date. <hl> Commissioners for the Northeast Conference, the America East Conference and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference each congratulated N.J.I.T. on the announcement of the new arena. But beyond that, they deferred comment. One hope for N.J.I.T. could come from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, a league of historically black colleges and universities.

“I think we become a strong candidate now for all of these leagues,” Engles said. “We can attract some conferences now with a new facility.” Kaplan said the institute was hoping for a <hl> September 2017 <hl> completion date. Commissioners for the Northeast Conference, the America East Conference and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference each congratulated N.J.I.T. on the announcement of the new arena. But beyond that, they deferred comment. One hope for N.J.I.T. could come from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, a league of historically black colleges and universities.


Question: At what village did the rides end at?

In my line of work, grimness of the mouth sets in after I’ve eaten too many things that are trying so hard to impress that they lose touch with anything that comes close to pleasure. And each time I see a roomful of people handing hundreds or thousands of dollars over to a chef who stopped caring a long time ago, my mood turns distinctly Novemberish. Whaling jobs being harder to come by than in Melville’s day, my sea voyages usually take the form of a short ride to a cheap restaurant where warm flavors from another part of the world will burn off my interior drizzle. Recently, these rides have ended at Chomp Chomp in Greenwich Village for radish cakes, noodle soups with transporting powers, coconut rice, triangles of golden beef-filled roti wet with curry sauce, and other treats from the food courts of Singapore.

Answer: Greenwich Village

In my line of work, grimness of the mouth sets in after I’ve eaten too many things that are trying so hard to impress that they lose touch with anything that comes close to pleasure. And each time I see a roomful of people handing hundreds or thousands of dollars over to a chef who stopped caring a long time ago, my mood turns distinctly Novemberish. Whaling jobs being harder to come by than in Melville’s day, my sea voyages usually take the form of a short ride to a cheap restaurant where warm flavors from another part of the world will burn off my interior drizzle. <hl> Recently, these rides have ended at Chomp Chomp in Greenwich Village for radish cakes, noodle soups with transporting powers, coconut rice, triangles of golden beef-filled roti wet with curry sauce, and other treats from the food courts of Singapore. <hl>

In my line of work, grimness of the mouth sets in after I’ve eaten too many things that are trying so hard to impress that they lose touch with anything that comes close to pleasure. And each time I see a roomful of people handing hundreds or thousands of dollars over to a chef who stopped caring a long time ago, my mood turns distinctly Novemberish. Whaling jobs being harder to come by than in Melville’s day, my sea voyages usually take the form of a short ride to a cheap restaurant where warm flavors from another part of the world will burn off my interior drizzle. Recently, these rides have ended at Chomp Chomp in <hl> Greenwich Village <hl> for radish cakes, noodle soups with transporting powers, coconut rice, triangles of golden beef-filled roti wet with curry sauce, and other treats from the food courts of Singapore.


Question: What's the other one?

One is the “familiar and experimental” outline of the scope and requirements of the project, Dr. Lam said. The other is a bit more unusual: “A parallel green paper that guides the study and helps explore the application guidelines.” In short: How can the study be done ethically, and how can the finding be used ethically? Dr. Lam and Dr. Ohayon have begun to travel around the country, speaking about the moral quandary they believe faces neuroscientists. They start by reviewing dystopian futures as described in science fiction. “You know all of that stuff?” they ask. “It’s much worse.”

Answer: The other is a bit more unusual: “A parallel green paper that guides the study and helps explore the application guidelines.”

One is the “familiar and experimental” outline of the scope and requirements of the project, Dr. Lam said. <hl> The other is a bit more unusual: “A parallel green paper that guides the study and helps explore the application guidelines.” In short: How can the study be done ethically, and how can the finding be used ethically? <hl> Dr. Lam and Dr. Ohayon have begun to travel around the country, speaking about the moral quandary they believe faces neuroscientists. They start by reviewing dystopian futures as described in science fiction. “You know all of that stuff?” they ask. “It’s much worse.”

One is the “familiar and experimental” outline of the scope and requirements of the project, Dr. Lam said. <hl> The other is a bit more unusual: “A parallel green paper that guides the study and helps explore the application guidelines.” <hl> In short: How can the study be done ethically, and how can the finding be used ethically? Dr. Lam and Dr. Ohayon have begun to travel around the country, speaking about the moral quandary they believe faces neuroscientists. They start by reviewing dystopian futures as described in science fiction. “You know all of that stuff?” they ask. “It’s much worse.”


Question: Huang feels that all Taiwanese and Chinese people are of what roots?

Mr. Huang was inspired to build the museum after seeing the impressive Kuomintang history museum in Santikhiri, in Chiang Rai Province, the country’s most prominent Kuomintang village. “We can’t forget the history,” he said. “We can’t throw our forebears away. Regardless of what happens with China and Taiwan in the future, we are all Chinese people. We can’t forget our Chinese roots.” It is a sentiment shared by much of the older generation in Ban Rak Thai, who still speak of the past in terms of the traditional minguo calendar, which takes 1912 — the year the Republic of China was founded — as year one.

Answer: Chinese

Mr. Huang was inspired to build the museum after seeing the impressive Kuomintang history museum in Santikhiri, in Chiang Rai Province, the country’s most prominent Kuomintang village. “We can’t forget the history,” he said. “We can’t throw our forebears away. <hl> Regardless of what happens with China and Taiwan in the future, we are all Chinese people. <hl> We can’t forget our Chinese roots.” It is a sentiment shared by much of the older generation in Ban Rak Thai, who still speak of the past in terms of the traditional minguo calendar, which takes 1912 — the year the Republic of China was founded — as year one.

Mr. Huang was inspired to build the museum after seeing the impressive Kuomintang history museum in Santikhiri, in Chiang Rai Province, the country’s most prominent Kuomintang village. “We can’t forget the history,” he said. “We can’t throw our forebears away. Regardless of what happens with China and Taiwan in the future, we are all <hl> Chinese <hl> people. We can’t forget our Chinese roots.” It is a sentiment shared by much of the older generation in Ban Rak Thai, who still speak of the past in terms of the traditional minguo calendar, which takes 1912 — the year the Republic of China was founded — as year one.


Question: How much is Puerto Rico's debt?

Q. How did Puerto Rico get here? A. For years, the commonwealth borrowed too much money, trying to paper over declining government revenue and prevent deep cuts in services and layoffs of public workers. Puerto Rico easily found lenders willing to extend the government more debt. The bonds made for hot investments across the mainland United States because the interest is often “triple tax exempt,” meaning the holder does not pay state, federal or city income taxes. But all that debt, now totaling $72 billion, couldn’t solve the structural problems in Puerto Rico’s economy: high labor costs and shipping costs, an exodus of educated people to the mainland United States and the expiration of a special federal tax credit meant to attract big corporations to the island and keep them there.

Answer: $72 billion

Q. How did Puerto Rico get here? A. For years, the commonwealth borrowed too much money, trying to paper over declining government revenue and prevent deep cuts in services and layoffs of public workers. Puerto Rico easily found lenders willing to extend the government more debt. The bonds made for hot investments across the mainland United States because the interest is often “triple tax exempt,” meaning the holder does not pay state, federal or city income taxes. <hl> But all that debt, now totaling $72 billion , couldn’t solve the structural problems in Puerto Rico’s economy: high labor costs and shipping costs, an exodus of educated people to the mainland United States and the expiration of a special federal tax credit meant to attract big corporations to the island and keep them there. <hl>

Q. How did Puerto Rico get here? A. For years, the commonwealth borrowed too much money, trying to paper over declining government revenue and prevent deep cuts in services and layoffs of public workers. Puerto Rico easily found lenders willing to extend the government more debt. The bonds made for hot investments across the mainland United States because the interest is often “triple tax exempt,” meaning the holder does not pay state, federal or city income taxes. But all that debt, now totaling <hl> $72 billion <hl>, couldn’t solve the structural problems in Puerto Rico’s economy: high labor costs and shipping costs, an exodus of educated people to the mainland United States and the expiration of a special federal tax credit meant to attract big corporations to the island and keep them there.

But all that debt, now totaling <hl> $72 billion <hl> , couldn’t solve the structural problems in Puerto Rico’s economy: high labor costs and shipping costs, an exodus of educated people to the mainland United States and the expiration of a special federal tax credit meant to attract big corporations to the island and keep them there.


Question: When willthe department make a public comment?

Some details still need to be worked out. In the coming months, the Labor Department will solicit public comment on how to adjust the new salary threshold so it does not erode all over again. The best option is to raise it in line with wages or prices, whichever is greater in a given year. There will also be inevitable blowback from business interests, but their Republican allies in Congress should think twice about backing them up: No party and no politician that opposes the new overtime rules can credibly claim to care about the middle class.

Answer: In the coming months, the Labor Department will solicit public comment

Some details still need to be worked out. <hl> In the coming months, the Labor Department will solicit public comment on how to adjust the new salary threshold so it does not erode all over again. <hl> The best option is to raise it in line with wages or prices, whichever is greater in a given year. There will also be inevitable blowback from business interests, but their Republican allies in Congress should think twice about backing them up: No party and no politician that opposes the new overtime rules can credibly claim to care about the middle class.

Some details still need to be worked out. <hl> In the coming months, the Labor Department will solicit public comment <hl> on how to adjust the new salary threshold so it does not erode all over again. The best option is to raise it in line with wages or prices, whichever is greater in a given year. There will also be inevitable blowback from business interests, but their Republican allies in Congress should think twice about backing them up: No party and no politician that opposes the new overtime rules can credibly claim to care about the middle class.


Question: What did Ms. Susel decide to take instead?

Nearly 1,000 Long Island Rail Road trains have been held up this year because of problems or congestion in the short section of track they share with Amtrak at Penn Station. That is partly because Amtrak trains, which generally have priority, have been later arriving at their destinations in recent years, according to Amtrak’s own statistics. From October 2014 to May 2015, the most recent data available, Amtrak trains along the Northeast Corridor reported a 76 percent on-time rate, down from 89 percent in the comparable period three years ago. In Baltimore, Monica Harris Susel, 48, had planned to take an Amtrak train to her job in Washington on Friday morning only to learn of a 25-minute delay at Baltimore’s Penn Station. She decided to take a 7:40 a.m. commuter train instead.

Answer: commuter train

commuter train instead.

Nearly 1,000 Long Island Rail Road trains have been held up this year because of problems or congestion in the short section of track they share with Amtrak at Penn Station. That is partly because Amtrak trains, which generally have priority, have been later arriving at their destinations in recent years, according to Amtrak’s own statistics. From October 2014 to May 2015, the most recent data available, Amtrak trains along the Northeast Corridor reported a 76 percent on-time rate, down from 89 percent in the comparable period three years ago. In Baltimore, Monica Harris Susel, 48, had planned to take an Amtrak train to her job in Washington on Friday morning only to learn of a 25-minute delay at Baltimore’s Penn Station. She decided to take a 7:40 a.m. <hl> commuter train instead. <hl>

Nearly 1,000 Long Island Rail Road trains have been held up this year because of problems or congestion in the short section of track they share with Amtrak at Penn Station. That is partly because Amtrak trains, which generally have priority, have been later arriving at their destinations in recent years, according to Amtrak’s own statistics. From October 2014 to May 2015, the most recent data available, Amtrak trains along the Northeast Corridor reported a 76 percent on-time rate, down from 89 percent in the comparable period three years ago. In Baltimore, Monica Harris Susel, 48, had planned to take an Amtrak train to her job in Washington on Friday morning only to learn of a 25-minute delay at Baltimore’s Penn Station. She decided to take a 7:40 a.m. <hl> commuter train <hl> instead.


Question: What large market has slowed in diamond sales recently?

The Basel Committee, a panel of central bankers and regulators from around the world that meets in the Swiss city of Basel, probably did not give much thought to the diamond industry when it was formulating new guidelines. But some diamond wholesalers may have been engaging in the kind of practices that the committee is trying to prevent, including excessive dependence on borrowed money. (Lending to the diamond industry is inherently risky in any case. There are thousands of gradations of diamonds, and it is extremely difficult to value the gems used as collateral.) Meanwhile, the diamond industry faces many other challenges. Sales in China, a large market, have slowed, in part because an anticorruption campaign has made government officials and their families wary of displays of wealth.

Answer: China

The Basel Committee, a panel of central bankers and regulators from around the world that meets in the Swiss city of Basel, probably did not give much thought to the diamond industry when it was formulating new guidelines. But some diamond wholesalers may have been engaging in the kind of practices that the committee is trying to prevent, including excessive dependence on borrowed money. (Lending to the diamond industry is inherently risky in any case. There are thousands of gradations of diamonds, and it is extremely difficult to value the gems used as collateral.) Meanwhile, the diamond industry faces many other challenges. <hl> Sales in China , a large market, have slowed, in part because an anticorruption campaign has made government officials and their families wary of displays of wealth. <hl>

The Basel Committee, a panel of central bankers and regulators from around the world that meets in the Swiss city of Basel, probably did not give much thought to the diamond industry when it was formulating new guidelines. But some diamond wholesalers may have been engaging in the kind of practices that the committee is trying to prevent, including excessive dependence on borrowed money. (Lending to the diamond industry is inherently risky in any case. There are thousands of gradations of diamonds, and it is extremely difficult to value the gems used as collateral.) Meanwhile, the diamond industry faces many other challenges. Sales in <hl> China <hl>, a large market, have slowed, in part because an anticorruption campaign has made government officials and their families wary of displays of wealth.

Sales in <hl> China <hl> , a large market, have slowed, in part because an anticorruption campaign has made government officials and their families wary of displays of wealth.


Question: How many US military trained the Ukrainian in remedial military instructions?

For a moment, he twirled the rope in his hands like a lasso, then threw the hook over the wire, and tugged hard, testing for explosives. When nothing happened he signaled two comrades, who ran up and started snipping the wire with cutters. Although this was a typical training exercise for raw recruits in an elemental soldierly skill, there was nothing typical about the scene. Far from enlistees, these soldiers were regulars in the Ukrainian National Guard, presumably battle-hardened after months on the front lines in eastern Ukraine. And the trainer was an American military instructor, drilling troops for battle with the United States’ former Cold War foe, Russia, and Russian-backed separatists. “It’s been a long time since I heard a target called an Ivan,” First Sgt. David Dzwik, one of the trainers, said in an interview out in the sunny forest, while observing the Ukrainians run through drills. “Now, I’m hearing it again.” The course on cutting wire is one of 63 classes of remedial military instruction being provided by 300 United States Army trainers in three consecutive two-month courses. Here in western Ukraine, they are far from the fighting, and their job is to instill some basic military know-how in Ukrainian soldiers, who the trainers have discovered are woefully unprepared. The largely unschooled troops are learning such basic skills as how to use an encrypted walkie-talkie; how to break open a door with a sledgehammer and a crowbar; and how to drag a wounded colleague across a field while holding a rifle at the ready. When the war began a year ago, the Ukrainian Army was all but worthless — rife with corruption and Russian spies, and made up largely of “skeleton” battalions of officers with just a few men. About 1 percent of the equipment was manufactured in the past decade.

Answer: 300

For a moment, he twirled the rope in his hands like a lasso, then threw the hook over the wire, and tugged hard, testing for explosives. When nothing happened he signaled two comrades, who ran up and started snipping the wire with cutters. Although this was a typical training exercise for raw recruits in an elemental soldierly skill, there was nothing typical about the scene. Far from enlistees, these soldiers were regulars in the Ukrainian National Guard, presumably battle-hardened after months on the front lines in eastern Ukraine. And the trainer was an American military instructor, drilling troops for battle with the United States’ former Cold War foe, Russia, and Russian-backed separatists. “It’s been a long time since I heard a target called an Ivan,” First Sgt. David Dzwik, one of the trainers, said in an interview out in the sunny forest, while observing the Ukrainians run through drills. “Now, I’m hearing it again.” <hl> The course on cutting wire is one of 63 classes of remedial military instruction being provided by 300 United States Army trainers in three consecutive two-month courses. <hl> Here in western Ukraine, they are far from the fighting, and their job is to instill some basic military know-how in Ukrainian soldiers, who the trainers have discovered are woefully unprepared. The largely unschooled troops are learning such basic skills as how to use an encrypted walkie-talkie; how to break open a door with a sledgehammer and a crowbar; and how to drag a wounded colleague across a field while holding a rifle at the ready. When the war began a year ago, the Ukrainian Army was all but worthless — rife with corruption and Russian spies, and made up largely of “skeleton” battalions of officers with just a few men. About 1 percent of the equipment was manufactured in the past decade.

For a moment, he twirled the rope in his hands like a lasso, then threw the hook over the wire, and tugged hard, testing for explosives. When nothing happened he signaled two comrades, who ran up and started snipping the wire with cutters. Although this was a typical training exercise for raw recruits in an elemental soldierly skill, there was nothing typical about the scene. Far from enlistees, these soldiers were regulars in the Ukrainian National Guard, presumably battle-hardened after months on the front lines in eastern Ukraine. And the trainer was an American military instructor, drilling troops for battle with the United States’ former Cold War foe, Russia, and Russian-backed separatists. “It’s been a long time since I heard a target called an Ivan,” First Sgt. David Dzwik, one of the trainers, said in an interview out in the sunny forest, while observing the Ukrainians run through drills. “Now, I’m hearing it again.” The course on cutting wire is one of 63 classes of remedial military instruction being provided by <hl> 300 <hl> United States Army trainers in three consecutive two-month courses. Here in western Ukraine, they are far from the fighting, and their job is to instill some basic military know-how in Ukrainian soldiers, who the trainers have discovered are woefully unprepared. The largely unschooled troops are learning such basic skills as how to use an encrypted walkie-talkie; how to break open a door with a sledgehammer and a crowbar; and how to drag a wounded colleague across a field while holding a rifle at the ready. When the war began a year ago, the Ukrainian Army was all but worthless — rife with corruption and Russian spies, and made up largely of “skeleton” battalions of officers with just a few men. About 1 percent of the equipment was manufactured in the past decade.


Question: What phone number should you call to get tickets to Dead On Live?

PIERMONT  The Turning Point Doc Richmond’s Jazz Jam. April 6 at 8 p.m. $5. Scott Sharrard and the Brick Yard Band, rock. April 10 at 9 p.m. $20. Catie Curtis, folk and rock. April 11 at 5 p.m. $20. Professor Louie and the Crowmatix, blues. April 11 at 8:30 p.m. $20. The Turning Point, 468 Piermont Avenue. 845-359-1089; turningpointcafe.com. PORT CHESTER The Capitol Theater Jeff Beck, rock. April 13 at 8 p.m. $65 to $250. The Capitol Theater, 149 Westchester Avenue. 914-937-4126; thecapitoltheatre.com. POUGHKEEPSIE Bardavon Opera House Dave Brubeck’s “America,” Hudson Valley Philharmonic. April 11 at 8 p.m. $20 to $54. Bardavon Opera House, 35 Market Street. 845-473-2072; bardavon.org. PURCHASE The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College Jack Quartet, classical. April 12 at 3 p.m. $42.50. The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road. 914-251-6200; artscenter.org. TARRYTOWN Tarrytown Music Hall The Midtown Men, Broadway and pop. April 9 at 7:30 p.m. $50 to $150. Dead On Live, Grateful Dead tribute band. April 11 at 8 p.m. $30 and $35. Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street. 877-840-0457; tarrytownmusichall.org. TUCKAHOE Westchester Italian Cultural Center The Five O’ Clock Piano Duo, contemporary Italian. April 11 at 5 p.m. $35 and $45. Westchester Italian Cultural Center, 1 Generoso Pope Place. 914-771-8700; wiccny.org.

Answer: 877-840-0457

877-840-0457 ; tarrytownmusichall.org.

PIERMONT The Turning Point Doc Richmond’s Jazz Jam. April 6 at 8 p.m. $5. Scott Sharrard and the Brick Yard Band, rock. April 10 at 9 p.m. $20. Catie Curtis, folk and rock. April 11 at 5 p.m. $20. Professor Louie and the Crowmatix, blues. April 11 at 8:30 p.m. $20. The Turning Point, 468 Piermont Avenue. 845-359-1089; turningpointcafe.com. PORT CHESTER The Capitol Theater Jeff Beck, rock. April 13 at 8 p.m. $65 to $250. The Capitol Theater, 149 Westchester Avenue. 914-937-4126; thecapitoltheatre.com. POUGHKEEPSIE Bardavon Opera House Dave Brubeck’s “America,” Hudson Valley Philharmonic. April 11 at 8 p.m. $20 to $54. Bardavon Opera House, 35 Market Street. 845-473-2072; bardavon.org. PURCHASE The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College Jack Quartet, classical. April 12 at 3 p.m. $42.50. The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road. 914-251-6200; artscenter.org. TARRYTOWN Tarrytown Music Hall The Midtown Men, Broadway and pop. April 9 at 7:30 p.m. $50 to $150. Dead On Live, Grateful Dead tribute band. April 11 at 8 p.m. $30 and $35. Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street. <hl> 877-840-0457 ; tarrytownmusichall.org. <hl> TUCKAHOE Westchester Italian Cultural Center The Five O’ Clock Piano Duo, contemporary Italian. April 11 at 5 p.m. $35 and $45. Westchester Italian Cultural Center, 1 Generoso Pope Place. 914-771-8700; wiccny.org.

PIERMONT The Turning Point Doc Richmond’s Jazz Jam. April 6 at 8 p.m. $5. Scott Sharrard and the Brick Yard Band, rock. April 10 at 9 p.m. $20. Catie Curtis, folk and rock. April 11 at 5 p.m. $20. Professor Louie and the Crowmatix, blues. April 11 at 8:30 p.m. $20. The Turning Point, 468 Piermont Avenue. 845-359-1089; turningpointcafe.com. PORT CHESTER The Capitol Theater Jeff Beck, rock. April 13 at 8 p.m. $65 to $250. The Capitol Theater, 149 Westchester Avenue. 914-937-4126; thecapitoltheatre.com. POUGHKEEPSIE Bardavon Opera House Dave Brubeck’s “America,” Hudson Valley Philharmonic. April 11 at 8 p.m. $20 to $54. Bardavon Opera House, 35 Market Street. 845-473-2072; bardavon.org. PURCHASE The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College Jack Quartet, classical. April 12 at 3 p.m. $42.50. The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road. 914-251-6200; artscenter.org. TARRYTOWN Tarrytown Music Hall The Midtown Men, Broadway and pop. April 9 at 7:30 p.m. $50 to $150. Dead On Live, Grateful Dead tribute band. April 11 at 8 p.m. $30 and $35. Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street. <hl> 877-840-0457 <hl>; tarrytownmusichall.org. TUCKAHOE Westchester Italian Cultural Center The Five O’ Clock Piano Duo, contemporary Italian. April 11 at 5 p.m. $35 and $45. Westchester Italian Cultural Center, 1 Generoso Pope Place. 914-771-8700; wiccny.org.

<hl> 877-840-0457 <hl> ; tarrytownmusichall.org.


Question: How many people were hired last month?

In addition to announcing 211,000 new hires last month — a bit more than Wall Street had expected — the Labor Department also revised upward its earlier estimate of job creation in September and October by a total of 26,000 jobs. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 5 percent. The labor market strength evident in the November data removes the last major uncertainty before the Fed decision. “This is a green light from our perspective,” said Phil Orlando, chief equity strategist at Federated Investors. Wall Street, which in the past has sold off after strong jobs data and the prospect of higher interest rates, greeted the report with enthusiasm, perhaps because it removes any remaining uncertainty about the Fed’s plans. Stocks reversed Thursday’s losses and rose more than 2 percent; bond yields fell slightly.  The report on Friday echoes other recent positive data on job openings, new weekly claims for unemployment benefits and private payroll surveys, Mr. Orlando added. “This is a good number for liftoff,” he said, referring to the expected move by the central bank, which has held rates near zero since December 2008. Over all, the Labor Department data painted a picture of an economy that is growing steadily and creating jobs at a healthy pace, even as wage gains remain subdued and many Americans are still stuck on the sidelines of the recovery. If hiring continues at a healthy pace next year, as most economists now predict, it could also blunt Republican criticism in the presidential campaign of Democratic economic policies, which have been a prominent target for the current crop of G.O.P. candidates. With an average monthly payroll increase of 210,000 so far this year, the 211,000 gain in November — though still subject to revision — has a metronome-like element of consistency. It is also near the average monthly increase of 199,000 in 2013 and 260,000 in 2014. “For a long time, I’ve thought the labor market was in pretty good shape, and this just confirms that,” said Scott Clemons, chief investment strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman in New York. After the release of the jobs report, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Patrick T. Harker, added his voice to the chorus of Fed officials who said it was time for the central bank to raise interest rates.

Answer: 211,000

<hl> In addition to announcing 211,000 new hires last month — a bit more than Wall Street had expected — the Labor Department also revised upward its earlier estimate of job creation in September and October by a total of 26,000 jobs. <hl> The unemployment rate was unchanged at 5 percent. The labor market strength evident in the November data removes the last major uncertainty before the Fed decision. “This is a green light from our perspective,” said Phil Orlando, chief equity strategist at Federated Investors. Wall Street, which in the past has sold off after strong jobs data and the prospect of higher interest rates, greeted the report with enthusiasm, perhaps because it removes any remaining uncertainty about the Fed’s plans. Stocks reversed Thursday’s losses and rose more than 2 percent; bond yields fell slightly. The report on Friday echoes other recent positive data on job openings, new weekly claims for unemployment benefits and private payroll surveys, Mr. Orlando added. “This is a good number for liftoff,” he said, referring to the expected move by the central bank, which has held rates near zero since December 2008. Over all, the Labor Department data painted a picture of an economy that is growing steadily and creating jobs at a healthy pace, even as wage gains remain subdued and many Americans are still stuck on the sidelines of the recovery. If hiring continues at a healthy pace next year, as most economists now predict, it could also blunt Republican criticism in the presidential campaign of Democratic economic policies, which have been a prominent target for the current crop of G.O.P. candidates. With an average monthly payroll increase of 210,000 so far this year, the 211,000 gain in November — though still subject to revision — has a metronome-like element of consistency. It is also near the average monthly increase of 199,000 in 2013 and 260,000 in 2014. “For a long time, I’ve thought the labor market was in pretty good shape, and this just confirms that,” said Scott Clemons, chief investment strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman in New York. After the release of the jobs report, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Patrick T. Harker, added his voice to the chorus of Fed officials who said it was time for the central bank to raise interest rates.

In addition to announcing <hl> 211,000 <hl> new hires last month — a bit more than Wall Street had expected — the Labor Department also revised upward its earlier estimate of job creation in September and October by a total of 26,000 jobs. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 5 percent. The labor market strength evident in the November data removes the last major uncertainty before the Fed decision. “This is a green light from our perspective,” said Phil Orlando, chief equity strategist at Federated Investors. Wall Street, which in the past has sold off after strong jobs data and the prospect of higher interest rates, greeted the report with enthusiasm, perhaps because it removes any remaining uncertainty about the Fed’s plans. Stocks reversed Thursday’s losses and rose more than 2 percent; bond yields fell slightly. The report on Friday echoes other recent positive data on job openings, new weekly claims for unemployment benefits and private payroll surveys, Mr. Orlando added. “This is a good number for liftoff,” he said, referring to the expected move by the central bank, which has held rates near zero since December 2008. Over all, the Labor Department data painted a picture of an economy that is growing steadily and creating jobs at a healthy pace, even as wage gains remain subdued and many Americans are still stuck on the sidelines of the recovery. If hiring continues at a healthy pace next year, as most economists now predict, it could also blunt Republican criticism in the presidential campaign of Democratic economic policies, which have been a prominent target for the current crop of G.O.P. candidates. With an average monthly payroll increase of 210,000 so far this year, the 211,000 gain in November — though still subject to revision — has a metronome-like element of consistency. It is also near the average monthly increase of 199,000 in 2013 and 260,000 in 2014. “For a long time, I’ve thought the labor market was in pretty good shape, and this just confirms that,” said Scott Clemons, chief investment strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman in New York. After the release of the jobs report, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Patrick T. Harker, added his voice to the chorus of Fed officials who said it was time for the central bank to raise interest rates.


Question: What can the iPad replace?

Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, called the new iPad Pro “the most capable” tablet the company has ever created. With a larger screen and optional keyboard, it becomes a device that is meant to be useful for both the creation and consumption of content. “It makes sense for Apple to reveal a new keyboard along with new, larger-screen iPads with faster processors,” said Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein. “The message being that Apple is trying to push the iPad to be more of a PC replacement, a converged device of a tablet notebook that has broader computing powers.” But starting at $800 (not including the optional $170 keyboard and the $100 stylus), it is much more expensive than earlier iPads.

Answer: PC

Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, called the new iPad Pro “the most capable” tablet the company has ever created. With a larger screen and optional keyboard, it becomes a device that is meant to be useful for both the creation and consumption of content. “It makes sense for Apple to reveal a new keyboard along with new, larger-screen iPads with faster processors,” said Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein. <hl> “The message being that Apple is trying to push the iPad to be more of a PC replacement, a converged device of a tablet notebook that has broader computing powers.” <hl> But starting at $800 (not including the optional $170 keyboard and the $100 stylus), it is much more expensive than earlier iPads.

Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, called the new iPad Pro “the most capable” tablet the company has ever created. With a larger screen and optional keyboard, it becomes a device that is meant to be useful for both the creation and consumption of content. “It makes sense for Apple to reveal a new keyboard along with new, larger-screen iPads with faster processors,” said Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein. “The message being that Apple is trying to push the iPad to be more of a <hl> PC <hl> replacement, a converged device of a tablet notebook that has broader computing powers.” But starting at $800 (not including the optional $170 keyboard and the $100 stylus), it is much more expensive than earlier iPads.


Question: how well did Flanagan do in the event in the prior year?

BOSTON —  The American men ended their slump in the Boston Marathon when Meb Keflezighi won in 2014, a cathartic victory that enabled “The Star-Spangled Banner” to play over Boylston Street one year after bombs had exploded there. This year, the United States women are hoping to end a drought that has lasted 30 years. “The marathon gods blessed Meb with that run; it was electric,” said Shalane Flanagan, a native of Marblehead, Mass., who grew up following the race as the daughter of two marathoners. Flanagan finished fourth in 2013 and seventh last year in 2 hours 22 minutes 2 seconds — the career best for an American woman on the Boston course. “Last year was extremely special, just being an American,” she said. “It’s a run I’ll never, ever forget.” The 119th edition of the Boston Marathon is scheduled to leave Hopkinton, Mass., on Monday morning, and this year’s field gives the United States two chances for its first women’s victory since Lisa Weidenbach won in 1985. Joining Flanagan is Desiree Linden, who finished second in Boston in 2011.

Answer: Flanagan finished fourth

BOSTON — The American men ended their slump in the Boston Marathon when Meb Keflezighi won in 2014, a cathartic victory that enabled “The Star-Spangled Banner” to play over Boylston Street one year after bombs had exploded there. This year, the United States women are hoping to end a drought that has lasted 30 years. “The marathon gods blessed Meb with that run; it was electric,” said Shalane Flanagan, a native of Marblehead, Mass., who grew up following the race as the daughter of two marathoners. <hl> Flanagan finished fourth in 2013 and seventh last year in 2 hours 22 minutes 2 seconds — the career best for an American woman on the Boston course. <hl> “Last year was extremely special, just being an American,” she said. “It’s a run I’ll never, ever forget.” The 119th edition of the Boston Marathon is scheduled to leave Hopkinton, Mass., on Monday morning, and this year’s field gives the United States two chances for its first women’s victory since Lisa Weidenbach won in 1985. Joining Flanagan is Desiree Linden, who finished second in Boston in 2011.

BOSTON — The American men ended their slump in the Boston Marathon when Meb Keflezighi won in 2014, a cathartic victory that enabled “The Star-Spangled Banner” to play over Boylston Street one year after bombs had exploded there. This year, the United States women are hoping to end a drought that has lasted 30 years. “The marathon gods blessed Meb with that run; it was electric,” said Shalane Flanagan, a native of Marblehead, Mass., who grew up following the race as the daughter of two marathoners. <hl> Flanagan finished fourth <hl> in 2013 and seventh last year in 2 hours 22 minutes 2 seconds — the career best for an American woman on the Boston course. “Last year was extremely special, just being an American,” she said. “It’s a run I’ll never, ever forget.” The 119th edition of the Boston Marathon is scheduled to leave Hopkinton, Mass., on Monday morning, and this year’s field gives the United States two chances for its first women’s victory since Lisa Weidenbach won in 1985. Joining Flanagan is Desiree Linden, who finished second in Boston in 2011.


Question: What is the previous investment that Enterprises are looking at new solutions for?

”Enterprises are facing a mobile-first world and are looking for solutions that help them transition legacy investments to the new style of I.T.,” Meg Whitman, HP’s chairman and chief executive, said in a statement. “By combining Aruba’s world-class wireless mobility solutions with HP’s leading switching portfolio, HP will offer the simplest, most secure networking solutions to help enterprises easily deploy next-generation mobile networks.” HP expects the deal to add to its earnings in the first full year after closing. Aruba will continue to do business under its own brand and will be led by its chief executive, Dominic Orr. Mr. Orr will report to the head of HP’s enterprise group, Antonio Neri. The deal is expected to close by Oct. 31, pending approval by regulators and Aruba’s shareholders.

Answer: legacy investments

<hl> ”Enterprises are facing a mobile-first world and are looking for solutions that help them transition legacy investments to the new style of I.T.,” Meg Whitman, HP’s chairman and chief executive, said in a statement. <hl> “By combining Aruba’s world-class wireless mobility solutions with HP’s leading switching portfolio, HP will offer the simplest, most secure networking solutions to help enterprises easily deploy next-generation mobile networks.” HP expects the deal to add to its earnings in the first full year after closing. Aruba will continue to do business under its own brand and will be led by its chief executive, Dominic Orr. Mr. Orr will report to the head of HP’s enterprise group, Antonio Neri. The deal is expected to close by Oct. 31, pending approval by regulators and Aruba’s shareholders.

”Enterprises are facing a mobile-first world and are looking for solutions that help them transition <hl> legacy investments <hl> to the new style of I.T.,” Meg Whitman, HP’s chairman and chief executive, said in a statement. “By combining Aruba’s world-class wireless mobility solutions with HP’s leading switching portfolio, HP will offer the simplest, most secure networking solutions to help enterprises easily deploy next-generation mobile networks.” HP expects the deal to add to its earnings in the first full year after closing. Aruba will continue to do business under its own brand and will be led by its chief executive, Dominic Orr. Mr. Orr will report to the head of HP’s enterprise group, Antonio Neri. The deal is expected to close by Oct. 31, pending approval by regulators and Aruba’s shareholders.


Question: How old is Huckabee?

The biggest question in voters’ minds about Mr. Huckabee, 59, who seemed to add a final punctuation mark to his political career by skipping the 2012 presidential race, may be why he has returned to the fray. Although American politics is full of stories of the ultimate triumph of also-rans, from Richard M. Nixon to Ronald Reagan, Mr. Huckabee would seem to face greater obstacles than during his first presidential campaign, when he battled only a couple of rivals for the party’s conservative base. Now half a dozen or more declared and likely candidates appeal to social conservatives, and Mr. Huckabee’s party has moved further rightward. He is vulnerable to criticism for positions he once held in favor of the Common Core education standards and a cap-and-trade program to fight global warming.

Answer: 59

<hl> The biggest question in voters’ minds about Mr. Huckabee, 59 , who seemed to add a final punctuation mark to his political career by skipping the 2012 presidential race, may be why he has returned to the fray. <hl> Although American politics is full of stories of the ultimate triumph of also-rans, from Richard M. Nixon to Ronald Reagan, Mr. Huckabee would seem to face greater obstacles than during his first presidential campaign, when he battled only a couple of rivals for the party’s conservative base. Now half a dozen or more declared and likely candidates appeal to social conservatives, and Mr. Huckabee’s party has moved further rightward. He is vulnerable to criticism for positions he once held in favor of the Common Core education standards and a cap-and-trade program to fight global warming.

The biggest question in voters’ minds about Mr. Huckabee, <hl> 59 <hl>, who seemed to add a final punctuation mark to his political career by skipping the 2012 presidential race, may be why he has returned to the fray. Although American politics is full of stories of the ultimate triumph of also-rans, from Richard M. Nixon to Ronald Reagan, Mr. Huckabee would seem to face greater obstacles than during his first presidential campaign, when he battled only a couple of rivals for the party’s conservative base. Now half a dozen or more declared and likely candidates appeal to social conservatives, and Mr. Huckabee’s party has moved further rightward. He is vulnerable to criticism for positions he once held in favor of the Common Core education standards and a cap-and-trade program to fight global warming.

The biggest question in voters’ minds about Mr. Huckabee, <hl> 59 <hl> , who seemed to add a final punctuation mark to his political career by skipping the 2012 presidential race, may be why he has returned to the fray.


Question: For what crime does Mr. Pearson was incarcerated?

“I saw the officers kicking him, jumping on his head multiple times and screaming, ‘Stop resisting,’ even though I didn’t see him moving,” wrote Mr. Pearson, who has since been released after serving two years on a weapons charge. None of the affidavits or letters mentioned Mr. Harrell’s fighting back or speaking during the encounter. Several said that once he was on the floor, handcuffed, he stopped moving, and a few of the inmates speculated he may have already been dead by then. Indeed, Mr. Camara said inmates were surprised that Mr. Harrell, who was over six feet tall and weighed 235 pounds, did not try to defend himself. “People was even mad, I was mad,” he said. “You’re a big guy and you let these people literally kill you.” The inmates said that during the encounter, an officer they identified as Robert Michels appeared to have a medical emergency. Mr. Pearson, who later identified Officer Michels through a Facebook photo, said he saw the officer “rip open his shirt and he was gasping for air and grabbing his chest.” Officers went to attend to Officer Michels, who was soon carried out on a stretcher, inmates said. Identifying the Guards While Mr. Harrell lay still on the floor, officers periodically walked by, kicking him and hitting him, Mr. Camara said.

Answer: weapons charge

<hl> “I saw the officers kicking him, jumping on his head multiple times and screaming, ‘Stop resisting,’ even though I didn’t see him moving,” wrote Mr. Pearson, who has since been released after serving two years on a weapons charge . <hl> None of the affidavits or letters mentioned Mr. Harrell’s fighting back or speaking during the encounter. Several said that once he was on the floor, handcuffed, he stopped moving, and a few of the inmates speculated he may have already been dead by then. Indeed, Mr. Camara said inmates were surprised that Mr. Harrell, who was over six feet tall and weighed 235 pounds, did not try to defend himself. “People was even mad, I was mad,” he said. “You’re a big guy and you let these people literally kill you.” The inmates said that during the encounter, an officer they identified as Robert Michels appeared to have a medical emergency. Mr. Pearson, who later identified Officer Michels through a Facebook photo, said he saw the officer “rip open his shirt and he was gasping for air and grabbing his chest.” Officers went to attend to Officer Michels, who was soon carried out on a stretcher, inmates said. Identifying the Guards While Mr. Harrell lay still on the floor, officers periodically walked by, kicking him and hitting him, Mr. Camara said.

“I saw the officers kicking him, jumping on his head multiple times and screaming, ‘Stop resisting,’ even though I didn’t see him moving,” wrote Mr. Pearson, who has since been released after serving two years on a <hl> weapons charge <hl>. None of the affidavits or letters mentioned Mr. Harrell’s fighting back or speaking during the encounter. Several said that once he was on the floor, handcuffed, he stopped moving, and a few of the inmates speculated he may have already been dead by then. Indeed, Mr. Camara said inmates were surprised that Mr. Harrell, who was over six feet tall and weighed 235 pounds, did not try to defend himself. “People was even mad, I was mad,” he said. “You’re a big guy and you let these people literally kill you.” The inmates said that during the encounter, an officer they identified as Robert Michels appeared to have a medical emergency. Mr. Pearson, who later identified Officer Michels through a Facebook photo, said he saw the officer “rip open his shirt and he was gasping for air and grabbing his chest.” Officers went to attend to Officer Michels, who was soon carried out on a stretcher, inmates said. Identifying the Guards While Mr. Harrell lay still on the floor, officers periodically walked by, kicking him and hitting him, Mr. Camara said.

“I saw the officers kicking him, jumping on his head multiple times and screaming, ‘Stop resisting,’ even though I didn’t see him moving,” wrote Mr. Pearson, who has since been released after serving two years on a <hl> weapons charge <hl> .


Question: the equilar study found that percentage was?

Pay is also on the rise as courts crack down on compensation plans for non-executive directors. A Delaware court ruled this year that plans should be evaluated under stricter standards, particularly where directors were deciding on equity compensation. The Equilar study found that 97.8 percent of S.&P. 500 company directors had some of their pay in cash, 36 percent had some stock and 59.4 percent had restricted stock units. In health care, 70 percent of the companies offered stock units as part of director pay. In financial services, only 48 percent offered units. Director roles matter, too. Non-executive board chairmen had a median retainer of $387,500, up 12.7 percent from 2010.

Answer: 97.8 percent

Pay is also on the rise as courts crack down on compensation plans for non-executive directors. A Delaware court ruled this year that plans should be evaluated under stricter standards, particularly where directors were deciding on equity compensation. <hl> The Equilar study found that 97.8 percent of S.&P. 500 company directors had some of their pay in cash, 36 percent had some stock and 59.4 percent had restricted stock units. <hl> In health care, 70 percent of the companies offered stock units as part of director pay. In financial services, only 48 percent offered units. Director roles matter, too. Non-executive board chairmen had a median retainer of $387,500, up 12.7 percent from 2010.

Pay is also on the rise as courts crack down on compensation plans for non-executive directors. A Delaware court ruled this year that plans should be evaluated under stricter standards, particularly where directors were deciding on equity compensation. The Equilar study found that <hl> 97.8 percent <hl> of S.&P. 500 company directors had some of their pay in cash, 36 percent had some stock and 59.4 percent had restricted stock units. In health care, 70 percent of the companies offered stock units as part of director pay. In financial services, only 48 percent offered units. Director roles matter, too. Non-executive board chairmen had a median retainer of $387,500, up 12.7 percent from 2010.


Question: What did the people of Bosso do when they heard gunfire?

“We are in control of the situation,” said the army officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. “Anybody who entered the town, nobody came out alive,” the officer said. He would not say whether any troops or any civilians in Bosso had been killed. “People heard gunfire and went home.” Niger’s army has troops based in Bosso, at the edge of the area of recent fighting with Boko Haram. An army detachment is always posted at the river’s shallowest point, which can be easily crossed. Last week, officials in Bosso said they could hear Chadian planes bomb Boko Haram positions across the frontier. Niger’s Parliament is scheduled to vote Monday on whether the country’s troops will join those of Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad to take on the insurgents. Chad’s troops have had notable successes over the past week in confronting Boko Haram along the Cameroon border, retaking at least one Nigerian town. But the extension of the fighting to Niger is a new phase in the war on Boko Haram. Wary of being drawn into the fight, Niger’s government has been careful so far not to provoke the Islamists. Some analysts believe that the Islamists have heavily infiltrated Diffa, a regional capital in the country’s far east.

Answer: went home.

“We are in control of the situation,” said the army officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. “Anybody who entered the town, nobody came out alive,” the officer said. He would not say whether any troops or any civilians in Bosso had been killed. <hl> “People heard gunfire and went home. ” Niger’s army has troops based in Bosso, at the edge of the area of recent fighting with Boko Haram. <hl> An army detachment is always posted at the river’s shallowest point, which can be easily crossed. Last week, officials in Bosso said they could hear Chadian planes bomb Boko Haram positions across the frontier. Niger’s Parliament is scheduled to vote Monday on whether the country’s troops will join those of Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad to take on the insurgents. Chad’s troops have had notable successes over the past week in confronting Boko Haram along the Cameroon border, retaking at least one Nigerian town. But the extension of the fighting to Niger is a new phase in the war on Boko Haram. Wary of being drawn into the fight, Niger’s government has been careful so far not to provoke the Islamists. Some analysts believe that the Islamists have heavily infiltrated Diffa, a regional capital in the country’s far east.

“We are in control of the situation,” said the army officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. “Anybody who entered the town, nobody came out alive,” the officer said. He would not say whether any troops or any civilians in Bosso had been killed. “People heard gunfire and <hl> went home. <hl>” Niger’s army has troops based in Bosso, at the edge of the area of recent fighting with Boko Haram. An army detachment is always posted at the river’s shallowest point, which can be easily crossed. Last week, officials in Bosso said they could hear Chadian planes bomb Boko Haram positions across the frontier. Niger’s Parliament is scheduled to vote Monday on whether the country’s troops will join those of Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad to take on the insurgents. Chad’s troops have had notable successes over the past week in confronting Boko Haram along the Cameroon border, retaking at least one Nigerian town. But the extension of the fighting to Niger is a new phase in the war on Boko Haram. Wary of being drawn into the fight, Niger’s government has been careful so far not to provoke the Islamists. Some analysts believe that the Islamists have heavily infiltrated Diffa, a regional capital in the country’s far east.

“People heard gunfire and <hl> went home. <hl> ” Niger’s army has troops based in Bosso, at the edge of the area of recent fighting with Boko Haram.


Question: What did Barnum call the Davis display?

Barnum called his Davis display “The Belle of Richmond.” A wax figure of a man wearing a dress similar to those seen in the sketches that had already made the story notorious, it might have enjoyed an epic run. But the fervor that made it a hit also doomed it from the start. The fire that broke out at the American Museum on July 13, 1865, was a destructive marvel. Thirty thousand people turned out to watch the conflagration, while Barnum’s menagerie spilled onto Broadway. When firemen smashed the whale tank to help extinguish the flames, Barnum’s belugas burned alive. In the midst of this mayhem, the Davis statue came tumbling down. While the crowd jeered, a bearded mannequin dressed in women’s attire was hurled into the street, its skirt acting briefly as a parachute. “As Jeff made his perilous descent,” The New York Times reported, “his petticoats again played him false, and as the wind blew them about, the imposture of the figure was exposed.” Landing to “cheers and uncontrollable laughter,” the statue was then promptly hanged, just as the song suggested. The cause of the fire remained a mystery, but many assumed arson. “It is suspected,” The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported, “the guilty parties were rebel sympathizers offended by the prominence Barnum has given to the manner of Jeff Davis’ capture.” A Confederate partisan who witnessed the blaze wrote that the banners painted with Davis’s image “gave the flames such an impetus, that they could not be controlled.” This was only the beginning of Davis’s fraught place in the American imagination. Among Southerners, the abuse he endured — at the hands of both wags like Barnum and his jailers at Virginia’s Fort Monroe — took on a life of its own. His suffering became a passion play of the Lost Cause, the nearly religious cult of grievance that convinced subsequent generations of the Union’s intent not only to defeat the Confederacy but to emasculate it. “The North’s treatment of Jefferson Davis,” the historian Andrew F. Rolle wrote in 1965, “symbolized the humiliation being inflicted upon the South.”

Answer: The Belle of Richmond

<hl> Barnum called his Davis display “ The Belle of Richmond .” <hl> A wax figure of a man wearing a dress similar to those seen in the sketches that had already made the story notorious, it might have enjoyed an epic run. But the fervor that made it a hit also doomed it from the start. The fire that broke out at the American Museum on July 13, 1865, was a destructive marvel. Thirty thousand people turned out to watch the conflagration, while Barnum’s menagerie spilled onto Broadway. When firemen smashed the whale tank to help extinguish the flames, Barnum’s belugas burned alive. In the midst of this mayhem, the Davis statue came tumbling down. While the crowd jeered, a bearded mannequin dressed in women’s attire was hurled into the street, its skirt acting briefly as a parachute. “As Jeff made his perilous descent,” The New York Times reported, “his petticoats again played him false, and as the wind blew them about, the imposture of the figure was exposed.” Landing to “cheers and uncontrollable laughter,” the statue was then promptly hanged, just as the song suggested. The cause of the fire remained a mystery, but many assumed arson. “It is suspected,” The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported, “the guilty parties were rebel sympathizers offended by the prominence Barnum has given to the manner of Jeff Davis’ capture.” A Confederate partisan who witnessed the blaze wrote that the banners painted with Davis’s image “gave the flames such an impetus, that they could not be controlled.” This was only the beginning of Davis’s fraught place in the American imagination. Among Southerners, the abuse he endured — at the hands of both wags like Barnum and his jailers at Virginia’s Fort Monroe — took on a life of its own. His suffering became a passion play of the Lost Cause, the nearly religious cult of grievance that convinced subsequent generations of the Union’s intent not only to defeat the Confederacy but to emasculate it. “The North’s treatment of Jefferson Davis,” the historian Andrew F. Rolle wrote in 1965, “symbolized the humiliation being inflicted upon the South.”

Barnum called his Davis display “<hl> The Belle of Richmond <hl>.” A wax figure of a man wearing a dress similar to those seen in the sketches that had already made the story notorious, it might have enjoyed an epic run. But the fervor that made it a hit also doomed it from the start. The fire that broke out at the American Museum on July 13, 1865, was a destructive marvel. Thirty thousand people turned out to watch the conflagration, while Barnum’s menagerie spilled onto Broadway. When firemen smashed the whale tank to help extinguish the flames, Barnum’s belugas burned alive. In the midst of this mayhem, the Davis statue came tumbling down. While the crowd jeered, a bearded mannequin dressed in women’s attire was hurled into the street, its skirt acting briefly as a parachute. “As Jeff made his perilous descent,” The New York Times reported, “his petticoats again played him false, and as the wind blew them about, the imposture of the figure was exposed.” Landing to “cheers and uncontrollable laughter,” the statue was then promptly hanged, just as the song suggested. The cause of the fire remained a mystery, but many assumed arson. “It is suspected,” The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported, “the guilty parties were rebel sympathizers offended by the prominence Barnum has given to the manner of Jeff Davis’ capture.” A Confederate partisan who witnessed the blaze wrote that the banners painted with Davis’s image “gave the flames such an impetus, that they could not be controlled.” This was only the beginning of Davis’s fraught place in the American imagination. Among Southerners, the abuse he endured — at the hands of both wags like Barnum and his jailers at Virginia’s Fort Monroe — took on a life of its own. His suffering became a passion play of the Lost Cause, the nearly religious cult of grievance that convinced subsequent generations of the Union’s intent not only to defeat the Confederacy but to emasculate it. “The North’s treatment of Jefferson Davis,” the historian Andrew F. Rolle wrote in 1965, “symbolized the humiliation being inflicted upon the South.”

Barnum called his Davis display “ <hl> The Belle of Richmond <hl> .”


Question: The Hurricades beat which team?

LUKE FALK The Washington State sophomore threw for 497 yards and five touchdowns as the host Cougars topped Arizona State, 38-24, to become eligible for a bowl game for the second time in Coach Mike Leach’s four years with the program. Falk completed 36 of 55 passes, with one interception. KYLE BOLIN A third-string quarterback at Louisville, Bolin threw for a season-high 362 yards and three touchdowns as the host Cardinals routed Syracuse, 41-17, for their third straight victory. STACY COLEY The Miami junior wide receiver finished with 132 yards, including a 67-yard score, as the host Hurricanes became bowl-eligible by topping Virginia, 27-21. News and Notes

Answer: Virginia

LUKE FALK The Washington State sophomore threw for 497 yards and five touchdowns as the host Cougars topped Arizona State, 38-24, to become eligible for a bowl game for the second time in Coach Mike Leach’s four years with the program. Falk completed 36 of 55 passes, with one interception. KYLE BOLIN A third-string quarterback at Louisville, Bolin threw for a season-high 362 yards and three touchdowns as the host Cardinals routed Syracuse, 41-17, for their third straight victory. <hl> STACY COLEY The Miami junior wide receiver finished with 132 yards, including a 67-yard score, as the host Hurricanes became bowl-eligible by topping Virginia , 27-21. <hl> News and Notes

LUKE FALK The Washington State sophomore threw for 497 yards and five touchdowns as the host Cougars topped Arizona State, 38-24, to become eligible for a bowl game for the second time in Coach Mike Leach’s four years with the program. Falk completed 36 of 55 passes, with one interception. KYLE BOLIN A third-string quarterback at Louisville, Bolin threw for a season-high 362 yards and three touchdowns as the host Cardinals routed Syracuse, 41-17, for their third straight victory. STACY COLEY The Miami junior wide receiver finished with 132 yards, including a 67-yard score, as the host Hurricanes became bowl-eligible by topping <hl> Virginia <hl>, 27-21. News and Notes

STACY COLEY The Miami junior wide receiver finished with 132 yards, including a 67-yard score, as the host Hurricanes became bowl-eligible by topping <hl> Virginia <hl> , 27-21.


Question: Gottfried Ludewig is apart of which parliment?

The Flussbad speaks to a tradition here; there are other urban Flussbads in this part of the world, so the idea has local resonance. Gottfried Ludewig is a young member of the Berlin City Parliament from the center-right Christian Democratic Union, Angela Merkel’s party. He has become one of the project’s most vocal champions, enlisting political allies across the aisle, corralling money for a feasibility study and promoting a grass-roots, community-based campaign. Neither he nor Tim Edler would divulge the project’s projected cost, which must be many, many millions of dollars. But both said the major hurdle would not be money. The real struggle is over civic identity.

Answer: Berlin City

The Flussbad speaks to a tradition here; there are other urban Flussbads in this part of the world, so the idea has local resonance. <hl> Gottfried Ludewig is a young member of the Berlin City Parliament from the center-right Christian Democratic Union, Angela Merkel’s party. <hl> He has become one of the project’s most vocal champions, enlisting political allies across the aisle, corralling money for a feasibility study and promoting a grass-roots, community-based campaign. Neither he nor Tim Edler would divulge the project’s projected cost, which must be many, many millions of dollars. But both said the major hurdle would not be money. The real struggle is over civic identity.

The Flussbad speaks to a tradition here; there are other urban Flussbads in this part of the world, so the idea has local resonance. Gottfried Ludewig is a young member of the <hl> Berlin City <hl> Parliament from the center-right Christian Democratic Union, Angela Merkel’s party. He has become one of the project’s most vocal champions, enlisting political allies across the aisle, corralling money for a feasibility study and promoting a grass-roots, community-based campaign. Neither he nor Tim Edler would divulge the project’s projected cost, which must be many, many millions of dollars. But both said the major hurdle would not be money. The real struggle is over civic identity.


Question: What is a central promise of the internet that is being broken by users disconnecting themselves from others with different views?

With the presidential race heating up, a torrent of politically charged commentary has flooded Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, with some users deploying their “unfollow” buttons like a television remote to silence distasteful political views. Coupled with the algorithm now powering Facebook’s news feed, the unfollowing is creating a more homogenized political experience of like-minded users, resulting in the kind of polarization more often associated with MSNBC or Fox News. And it may ultimately deflate a central promise of the Internet: Instead of offering people a diverse marketplace of challenging ideas, the web is becoming just another self-perpetuating echo chamber.

Answer: offering people a diverse marketplace of challenging ideas

With the presidential race heating up, a torrent of politically charged commentary has flooded Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, with some users deploying their “unfollow” buttons like a television remote to silence distasteful political views. Coupled with the algorithm now powering Facebook’s news feed, the unfollowing is creating a more homogenized political experience of like-minded users, resulting in the kind of polarization more often associated with MSNBC or Fox News. <hl> And it may ultimately deflate a central promise of the Internet: Instead of offering people a diverse marketplace of challenging ideas , the web is becoming just another self-perpetuating echo chamber. <hl>

With the presidential race heating up, a torrent of politically charged commentary has flooded Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, with some users deploying their “unfollow” buttons like a television remote to silence distasteful political views. Coupled with the algorithm now powering Facebook’s news feed, the unfollowing is creating a more homogenized political experience of like-minded users, resulting in the kind of polarization more often associated with MSNBC or Fox News. And it may ultimately deflate a central promise of the Internet: Instead of <hl> offering people a diverse marketplace of challenging ideas <hl>, the web is becoming just another self-perpetuating echo chamber.

And it may ultimately deflate a central promise of the Internet: Instead of <hl> offering people a diverse marketplace of challenging ideas <hl> , the web is becoming just another self-perpetuating echo chamber.


Question: What year did the outbreak at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital occur?

Duodenoscopes have been implicated in similar outbreaks at other hospitals. In 2013, 39 patients at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Ill., were infected with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), also the cause of the infections in Los Angeles. In January, officials at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle acknowledged that 32 patients had been infected with CRE by duodenoscopes from November 2012 to early 2014. Eleven patients died, but it is not clear that the infections were the cause, as they had other serious medical problems.

Answer: Virginia Mason Hospital

Duodenoscopes have been implicated in similar outbreaks at other hospitals. In 2013, 39 patients at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Ill., were infected with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), also the cause of the infections in Los Angeles. <hl> In January, officials at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle acknowledged that 32 patients had been infected with CRE by duodenoscopes from November 2012 to early 2014. <hl> Eleven patients died, but it is not clear that the infections were the cause, as they had other serious medical problems.

Duodenoscopes have been implicated in similar outbreaks at other hospitals. In 2013, 39 patients at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Ill., were infected with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), also the cause of the infections in Los Angeles. In January, officials at <hl> Virginia Mason Hospital <hl> in Seattle acknowledged that 32 patients had been infected with CRE by duodenoscopes from November 2012 to early 2014. Eleven patients died, but it is not clear that the infections were the cause, as they had other serious medical problems.