Question: The scope and legality of the government's warrantless electronic surveillance programs was discussed Tuesday as a federal appeals court reviewed a lower U.S. court's injunction that would block collection of data from two plaintiffs who are suing 

Activist Larry Klayman, an attorney who heads the group "Freedom Watch," filed suit last year based on published reports of wrongdoing from whistleblower Edward Snowden. The former contractor with the National Security Agency accused authorities of misusing some of the capabilities he observed, and acting without a judicial or statutory basis. 

Klayman, using himself as an aggrieved party from the surveillance, used the lawsuit to accuse the government of conducting "a secret and illegal government scheme to intercept and analyze vast quantities of domestic telephonic communications," along with communications "from the internet and electronic service providers." 

Tuesday he said he has the standing to bring the suit as a customer of Verizon, one of the companies known to be cooperating with warrantless surveillance. But when the appeals panel asked him for documented proof he had been targeted, Klayman said only that the broad scope of the surveillance made it likely. 

The other plaintiff is Charles Strange, whose son Michael was an NSA cryptologist and Navy SEAL in Afghanistan in 2011 when he was killed in the downing of his helicopter by insurgents. The father told reporters he has been the target of secret intelligence gathering because he's been asking questions about the circumstances surrounding his son's death. 

Both men late last year won a preliminary injunction that would have barred the government from collecting data on them, and it ordered authorities to destroy any data already gathered.  1. who is the other plaintiff?
2. who's father is he?
3. What did Michael do?
4. where was he working?
5. what happened to him?
6. what year>?
7. why was his father a target of secret intelligence work?
8. what was being discussed on Tuesday
9. where ?
10. what are they reviewing?
11. that did what?
12. who is one of the plaintiffs
13. what does he do?
14. anything else?
15. what group does he head?
16. what is his lawsuit based on? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Charles Strange
2. Michael's
3. he was an NSA cryptologist and Navy SEAL
4. in Afghanistan
5. he was killed in the downing of his helicopter
6. in 2011
7. he's been asking questions about the circumstances surrounding his son's death.
8. The scope and legality of the government's warrantless electronic surveillance programs
9. a federal appeals court
10. a lower U.S. court's injunction
11. would block collection of data from two plaintiffs who are suing
12. Larry Klayman
13. he's an attorney
14. a former contractor with the National Security Agency
15. "Freedom Watch"
16. published reports of wrongdoing from whistleblower Edward Snowden


Question: Public policy and political leadership helps to "level the playing field" and drive the wider acceptance of renewable energy technologies. Countries such as Germany, Denmark, and Spain have led the way in implementing innovative policies which has driven most of the growth over the past decade. As of 2014, Germany has a commitment to the "Energiewende" transition to a sustainable energy economy, and Denmark has a commitment to 100% renewable energy by 2050. There are now 144 countries with renewable energy policy targets. 

Total investment in renewable energy (including small hydro-electric projects) was $244 billion in 2012, down 12% from 2011 mainly due to dramatically lower solar prices and weakened US and EU markets. As a share of total investment in power plants, wind and solar PV grew from 14% in 2000 to over 60% in 2012. The top countries for investment in recent years were China, Germany, Spain, the United States, Italy, and Brazil. Renewable energy companies include BrightSource Energy, First Solar, Gamesa, GE Energy, Goldwind, Sinovel, Trina Solar, Vestas and Yingli. 1. What levels the playing field?
2. What else do they do?
3. Who leads the way in this?
4. What is Germany comitted to?
5. As of when?
6. What about Denmark?
7. of what?
8. by when?
9. How many countries have these policy targets?
10. What was the total investment in renewable energy?
11. in what year?
12. was that up?
13. why?
14. What are the top countries for investment?
15. Is GE Engery one of the companies?
16. what grew in 2000?
17. to what in 2012?
18. what were the policy targets for?
19. Who has driven most of the growth?
20. total investment includes what? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Public policy and political leadership
2. drive the wider acceptance of renewable energy technologies
3. Germany, Denmark, and Spain
4. Energiewende
5. 2014
6. a commitment to 100%
7. renewable energy
8. 2050
9. 144
10. 244 billion
11. 2012
12. no
13. lower solar price
14. China, Germany, Spain, the United States, Italy, and Brazil.
15. yes
16. total investment in power plants, wind and solar PV
17. over 60%
18. renewable energy
19. Germany, Denmark, and Spain
20. small hydro-electric projects


Question: Birds (Aves) are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) bee hummingbird to the 2.75 m (9 ft) ostrich. They rank as the class of tetrapods with the most living species, at approximately ten thousand, with more than half of these being passerines, sometimes known as perching birds or, less accurately, as songbirds. 

The fossil record indicates that birds are the last surviving dinosaurs, having evolved from feathered ancestors within the theropod group of saurischian dinosaurs. True birds first appeared during the Cretaceous period, around 100 million years ago. DNA-based evidence finds that birds diversified dramatically around the time of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event that killed off all other dinosaurs. Birds in South America survived this event and then migrated to other parts of the world via multiple land bridges while diversifying during periods of global cooling. Primitive bird-like dinosaurs that lie outside class Aves proper, in the broader group Avialae, have been found dating back to the mid-Jurassic period. Many of these early "stem-birds", such as Archaeopteryx, were not yet capable of fully powered flight, and many retained primitive characteristics like toothy jaws in place of beaks, and long bony tails. 1. What do fossil records say about birds?
2. What did they evolve from?
3. What group?
4. When did they first appear?
5. How long ago was that?
6. What group are they classified as?
7. What are their characteristics?
8. Anything else?
9. How many chambers does their heart have?
10. Where do they live?
11. How big are they?
12. What is the smallest?
13. How big are they?
14. What is the largest?
15. What is their size?
16. What is their class rank?
17. How many living species are there?
18. What are half known as?
19. What is another name for that?
20. When did they diversify dramatically? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. are the last surviving dinosaurs
2. from feathered ancestors
3. theropod group of saurischian dinosaurs
4. during the Cretaceous period
5. around 100 million years ago
6. endothermic vertebrates
7. feathers, toothless beaked jaws,
8. the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate,
9. Four
10. Birds live worldwide
11. range in size
12. bee hummingbird
13. 5 cm (2 in)
14. ostrich
15. 2.75 m (9 ft)
16. tetrapods
17. approximately ten thousand
18. passerines
19. perching birds
20. Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event