Problem: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that issues patents to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property identification.

The USPTO is "unique among federal agencies because it operates solely on fees collected by its users, and not on taxpayer dollars". Its "operating structure is like a business in that it receives requests for servicesapplications for patents and trademark registrationsand charges fees projected to cover the cost of performing the services [it] provide[s]".

The USPTO is based in Alexandria, Virginia, after a 2005 move from the Crystal City area of neighboring Arlington, Virginia. The offices under Patents and the Chief Information Officer that remained just outside the southern end of Crystal City completed moving to Randolph Square, a brand-new building in Shirlington Village, on April 27, 2009.

The last head of the USPTO was Michelle K. Lee. She took up her new role on January 13, 2014, initially in a temporary Deputy role. On March 13, she formally took office as Director after being nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. She formerly served as the Director of the USPTO's Silicon Valley satellite office. She resigned effective June 6, 2017.
1. Does the USPTO use tax money?
2. What income does it run on?
3. Any other sources?
4. Who is the most recent leader of the USPTO?
5. What position did she start in?
6. True or False: That was a permanent position.
7. What position did she work in later?
8. What position does she work in currently?
9. When did she stop working for the USPTO?
10. Which president had nominated her?
11. What does USPTO stand for?
12. What larger government division are they a part of?
13. Who do they provide patents for?
14. Do they provide anything else?
15. What?
16. For what purpose?
17. Where is the USPTO located now?
18. Was it always there?
19. When did it move?
20. Why did it move?
Answer: 1. no
2. user fees
3. no
4. Michelle K. Lee
5. Deputy
6. false
7. Director of the USPTO's Silicon Valley satellite office
8. unknown
9. June 6, 2017
10. Obama
11. United States Patent and Trademark Office
12. Department of Commerce
13. inventors and businesses
14. yes
15. trademark registration
16. for product and intellectual property identification
17. Alexandria, Virginia
18. no
19. 2005
20. unknown

Q: A database management system (DBMS) is a computer software application that interacts with the user, other applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze data. A general-purpose DBMS is designed to allow the definition, creation, querying, update, and administration of databases. Well-known DBMSs include MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, SAP HANA, and IBM DB2. A database is not generally portable across different DBMSs, but different DBMS can interoperate by using standards such as SQL and ODBC or JDBC to allow a single application to work with more than one DBMS. Database management systems are often classified according to the database model that they support; the most popular database systems since the 1980s have all supported the relational model as represented by the SQL language.[disputed discuss] Sometimes a DBMS is loosely referred to as a 'database'.

Formally, a "database" refers to a set of related data and the way it is organized. Access to these data is usually provided by a "database management system" (DBMS) consisting of an integrated set of computer software that allows users to interact with one or more databases and provides access to all of the data contained in the database (although restrictions may exist that limit access to particular data). The DBMS provides various functions that allow entry, storage and retrieval of large quantities of information and provides ways to manage how that information is organized.

Answer the following questions:
1. What's a DBMS?
2. And what does it stand for?
3. What did "database" use to mean?
4. What is one well-known DBMS?
5. What is another?
6. How many are in total?
7. Name one of the standards used to interoperate DBMSs?
8. Name another?
9. Can you remember another popular DBMS?
10. One more maybe?
11. How are Database management systems generally classified?
12. What is the point of interoperating standards?
13. Name one thing provided by DBMS functions?
14. Can you name another?
15. Is this for small bits of info?
A: 1. a computer software application that interacts with the user
2. database management system
3. a set of related data and the way it is organized
4. MySQL
5. PostgreSQL
6. Seven
7. SQL
8. JDBC
9. Microsoft SQL Server
10. Oracle
11. according to the database model
12. to allow a single application to work with more than one DBMS
13. allow entry
14. to manage how that information is organized
15. no

Problem: Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.

The report, to be released Friday, analyzed data and existing studies of health, disaster, population and economic trends. It found that human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition and heat-related health problems.

But even before its release, the report drew criticism from some experts on climate and risk, who questioned its methods and conclusions.

Along with the deaths, the report said that the lives of 325 million people, primarily in poor countries, were being seriously affected by climate change. It projected that the number would double by 2030.

Roger Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the Forum's report was "a methodological embarrassment" because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable regions. Dr. Pielke said that "climate change is an important problem requiring our utmost attention." But the report, he said, "will harm the cause for action on both climate change and disasters because it is so deeply flawed ."

However, Soren Andreasen, a social scientist at Dalberg Global Development Partners who supervised the writing of the report, defended it, saying that it was clear that the numbers were rough estimates. He said the report was aimed at world leaders, who will meet in Copenhagen in December to negotiate a new international climate treaty.

In a press release describing the report, Mr. Annan stressed the need for the negotiations to focus on increasing the flow of money from rich to poor regions to help reduce their vulnerability to climate hazards while still curbing the emissions of the heat-trapping gases. More than 90% of the human and economic losses from climate change are occurring in poor countries, according to the report.
1. What is causing a lot of death?
2. How much is lost in money?
3. What group tracks this?
4. Is this human influenced?
5. How many other people does it affect?
6. When will this number go up?
7. Is there agreement on the research?
8. Who think's the research is bogus?
9. Who stood up for it?
10. Where are most of the losses happening?
Answer:
1. Global warming
2. $125 billion
3. Global Humanitarian Forum
4. human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates
5. 325 million
6. 2030
7. no
8. Roger Pielke Jr.
9. Soren Andreasen
10. poor countries