question: Five Al-Shabaab militants are dead after they attacked an African Union military base in Somalia on Thursday, AU officials said. 

The militants attacked the Halane military base in Mogadishu, Somalia's largest base for African Union troops, according to the African Union Mission in Somalia. 

Two militants detonated themselves inside the Halane base and three were shot dead by AU troops during the raid, AMISOM spokesman Ali Aden Houmed said. 

Three AU soldiers and a civilian died in the attack, AMISOM said on its website. 

The AMISOM statement said other personnel at Halane are "safe and secure." Some of the attackers wore Somali military uniforms during the lunchtime raid on the facility located close to Mogadishu International Airport, the AU said. 

A spokesman for the al Qaeda-linked terror group described the attack on the heavily fortified base -- which also houses several U.N. and international agencies -- on Radio Andalus, a pro-Al-Shabaab broadcaster. 

"Our Mujahedeen forces detonated a car bomb at the entrance of the Halane compound ... then managed to enter the facility," Sheikh Abdiaziz Abu Musab said. A firefight then broke out with troops, he said. 

Maman S. Sidikou, special representative of the AU Commission chairperson (SRCC) for Somalia and head of AMISOM, offered his condolences to the families of the victims and "applauded the quick response and bravery of the ... troops in quelling this reprehensible attack," according to AMISOM. 

Al-Shabaab has been waging war in Somalia in an effort to implement a stricter form of Islamic law, or sharia. 
1. Who died?
2. Anyone else?
3. Where?
4. How?
5. What did they wear?
6. What about the other people?
7. Did a fight breakout?
8. Who is starting the fight?
9. Why?
10. At what place?
11. Where there?
12. What is there?
13. Is it the biggest?
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answer: 1. Five Al-Shabaab militants
2. Three AU soldiers and a civilian
3. Somalia
4. detonated a car bomb at the entrance
5. Somali military uniforms
6. unknown
7. yes
8. Al-Shabaab militants
9. to implement a stricter form of Islamic law
10. Somalia
11. Mogadishu
12. the Halane military base
13. yes


question: 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.
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?
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answer: 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


question: CHAPTER XXX 

FINAL SCENES OF THE GREAT FIGHT 

"Si has fallen overboard!" 

The cry came from half a dozen throats at once, and Walter's heart almost stopped beating, so attached had he become to the Yankee lad. 

"If he's overboard, he'll be sucked under and drowned," he groaned. "I wonder if I can see anything of him." 

Without a second thought he leaped on the gun and began to crawl out, on hands and knees, as perilous a thing to do, with the vessel going at full speed, as one would care to undertake. 

"Come back!" roared Caleb, trying to detain him. "You'll go overboard, too." 

At that moment came a cry from below, and looking down the steel side of the _Brooklyn_, Walter beheld Si clinging to a rope ladder, one of several flung over, to be used in case of emergency. "Si, are you all right?" he called loudly. 

"I--reckon--I--I am," came with a pant. 

"But I had an awful tumble and the wind is about knocked out o' me." And then Si began to climb up to the deck. 

"He's on the ladder and he's all right," shouted Walter, to those still behind the gun. Then a sudden idea struck him. "Hand me another rammer, Stuben." 

"Mine cracious! don't you try dot," cried the hose-man. "You vos fall ofer chust like Si." 

"Yes, come in here," put in Caleb, and Paul also called upon him to return. 

"I'm all right," was the boy's reply. "Give it to me, Stuben." And catching the rammer from the hose-man, Steve Colton passed it forward. "In war we have got to take some risks," he reasoned, as Caleb gave him a severe look. 
1. What chapter is this?
2. Who fell overboard?
3. What was he?
4. Who went looking for him?
5. Who tired to stop him?
6. How did Si get back on the ship
7. Was he okay?
8. What was Walter calling for when struck with inspiration?
9. Did the other men think it was a good idea?
10. What did steve colton say as he passed the rammer?
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answer:
1. Chapter 30
2. Si
3. A Yankee lad.
4. Walter
5. Caleb
6. a rope ladder
7. Yes
8. another rammer
9. No
10. "In war we have got to take some risks,"