question: Abidjan, Ivory Coast (CNN) -- The European Union announced a recovery package of 180 million euros for the Ivory Coast on Tuesday as residents of the African nation attempted to adjust to life with a clear leader and relative stability after months of bloodshed.

Forces arrested former President Laurent Gbagbo after storming his residence on Monday. Gbagbo defied calls to step down after an electoral commission declared he lost a presidential election in November to Alassane Ouattara. Ouattara has been recognized internationally as the legitimate winner.

A violent power struggle followed the standoff, with supporters loyal to both sides taking to the streets in protests since December. Hundreds have been killed, according to the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Andris Piebalgs, EU commissioner for development, announced the recovery package on Tuesday.

"We will stand by Ivory Coast and its people by immediately starting to work with the government of President Ouattara to support him in getting the country on the right track towards reconciliation, democracy, economic recovery and sustainable development," he said.

The funding will provide support to ensure basic needs for citizens such as health, water, sanitation and to support the agricultural sector, Piebalgs said in a statement. It also will clear the Ivory Coast's debt accumulated through the European Investment Bank.

Top military brass pledged their support to Ouattara in a ceremony Tuesday at a hotel in Abdijan. Gen. Phillipe Mangou, Gbagbo's former army chief of staff, said on state television that the generals were received by Ouattara and given orders to take measures to restore order in the country.
1. Which country will get the package?
2. Who was arrested?
3. What was his name?
4. Is the situation okay now?
5. Who actually won the election?
6. Did he former president step down after election loss?
7. What ensued that?
8. What the supporters did?
9. How much was the package in value?
10. What support this funding would provide?
11. For example?
12. Who said that?
13. Who is he?
14. How many people died in the conflict?
15. Who estimated that?
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answer: 1. the Ivory Coast
2. former President
3. Laurent Gbagbo
4. yes
5. Alassane Ouattara
6. no
7. They stormed his residence
8. They took to the street
9. 180 million euros
10. to ensure basic needs
11. health, water, sanitation
12. Piebalgs
13. EU commissioner for development
14. Hundreds
15. the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross

question: International Futures (IFs) is a global integrated assessment model designed to help in thinking strategically and systematically about key global systems (economic, demographic, education, health, environment, technology, domestic governance, infrastructure, agriculture, energy and environment) housed at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures. Initially created by Barry B. Hughes of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver in Colorado, the model is free for public use in both its online and downloadable forms.

The Pardee Center for International Futures has partnered with many organizations to produce forecasts and data analysis. IFs has been utilized in the National Intelligence Council's "Global Trends 2020", "Global Trends 2025", and "Global Trends 2030" report. The International Futures model has also contributed to the United Nations "Human Development Report" and the "Global Environmental Outlook".

IFs is hosted free for public use by Google Public Data Explorer, the Atlantic Council, and the Institute for Security Studies.

The model incorporates dynamically linked sub-models. They include: population, economic, agricultural, educational, energy, socio-political, international political, environmental, health, infrastructure and technology. IFs is a unique modeling tool because it endogenizes the impact of such a wide range of global systems for 183 countries.

The help system that accompanies the software provides an extensive overview of the model structure and computer code used to write the model. IFs has three main functions, all connected to its conceptual treatment of integrated assessment forecasts: data analysis, scenario analysis, and display.
1. What does IFs stand for?
2. Who was it created by?
3. Where is it located?
4. Where did the creator study at?
5. What state is that in?
6. What does it do?
7. What has this research helped with?
8. What else?
9. What companies host for free?
10. Who else?
11. And?
12. What are some sub sections of the models?
13. And?
14. What is a main function of the IFs?
15. Second one?
16. And the last one?
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answer: 1. International Futures
2. Barry B. Hughes
3. Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures
4. Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver
5. Colorado
6. produce forecasts and data analysis
7. United Nations "Human Development Report"
8. "Global Environmental Outlook".
9. Google
10. the Atlantic Council
11. Institute for Security Studies.
12. population, economic, agricultural
13. educational, energy, socio-political, international political, environmental, health, infrastructure and technology.
14. data analysis
15. scenario analysis
16. display

question: CHAPTER XVII

Julian, on, the morning following his visit to the Prime Minister, was afflicted with a curious and persistent unrest. He travelled down to the Temple land found Miles Furley in a room hung with tobacco smoke and redolent of a late night.

"Miles," Julian declared, as the two men shook hands, "I can't rest."

"I am in the same fix," Furley admitted. "I sat here till four o'clock. Phineas Cross came around, and half-a-dozen of the others. I felt I must talk to them, I must keep on hammering it out. We're right, Julian. We must be right!"

"It's a ghastly responsibility. I wonder what history will have to say."

"That's the worst of it," Furley groaned. "They'll have a bird's-eye view of the whole affair, those people who write our requiem or our eulogy. You noticed the Press this morning? They're all hinting at some great move in the West. It's about in the clubs. Why, I even heard last night that we were in Ostend. It's all a rig, of course. Stenson wants to gain time."

"Who opened these negotiations with Freistner?" Julian asked.

"Fenn. He met him at the Geneva Conference, the year before the war. I met him, too, but I didn't see so much of him. He's a fine fellow, Julian--as unlike the typical German as any man you ever met."

"He's honest, I suppose?"

"As the day itself," was the confident reply. "He has been in prison twice, you know, for plain speaking. He is the one man in Germany who has fought the war, tooth and nail, from the start."
1. Did Furley relate to Julian?
2. What did he admit to him?
3. Why?
4. Since when?
5. to who?
6. How long has Miles been sitting there?
7. Who came by?
8. anyone else?
9. Did he think it was wrong?
10. What was he curious about?
11. Who did he see that morning
12. what kind of writing was he curious about
13. Where are moves being made?
14. When were they in Ostend?
15. What did he hope Fenn was?
16. Did they think he was?
17. was he a felon?
18. for what?
19. What has he fought?
20. from when?
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answer:
1. Yes
2. he can't rest
3. he was afflicted with a curious and persistent unrest
4. the morning following his visit
5. the Prime Minister
6. till four o'clock
7. Phineas Cross
8. half-a-dozen of the others
9. No
10. what history will say
11. the Press
12. requiem or eulogy
13. the West
14. last night
15. honest
16. Yes
17. Yes
18. for plain speaking
19. the war
20. from the start