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Oscar Countdown: Day 3
Geoffrey Rush (nominated this year for Best Supporting Actor for The King's Speech) is one of 8 actors to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance. Name the other 7.
Posted by Jacqueline Lipton at 09:32 AM in Arts and Culture, Current Affairs, Film, Food, Arts & Culture | Permalink | Comments (15) | TrackBack (0)
From Colin Miller:
The Academy Awards should be this Sunday, and if Oscar history is any indication, they actually will be held on Sunday. There have, however, been three times that the Academy Awards were postponed. Name the three times that the Academy Awards were postponed and the reasons why.
Posted by Tim Zinnecker at 10:30 AM in Film | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
Comedians may do a stand-up job in making us laugh, but they tend to remain seated when winners are called to accept Oscars for acting. Throughout the history of the Academy Awards, comics have topped the list as hosts. This gregarious group includes Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres, Bob Hope, Steve Martin, Jon Stewart, and Chris Rock (pictured). However, only six have won acting awards – one for "Best," and five for "Best Supporting." Can you name these funny few?
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Name the two Best Picture winners that were adapted for the big screen from plays that captured the Pulitzer Prize.
Pictured: Rabbit Hole, the 2010 film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play. It has been nominated for one Academy Award (Nicole Kidman -- Best Actress).
From Lance McMillian:
Javier Bardem is nominated for Best Actor for his performance in Biutiful, and Geoffrey Rush is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his work in The King's Speech. Wins by Bardem and/or Rush would put the winning individual(s) into an exclusive club: actors and actresses who have won Oscars in both the lead and supporting acting categories. There are eleven such individuals. Name them.
Pictured: Shakespeare in Love (1998), a Best Picture winner that brought Geoffrey Rush his first (and only other) nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He lost to James Coburn (Affliction).
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From Garrett Levin:
A total of 8 people have directed themselves to a Best Actor nomination (all of them are men) in a film for which they have also been nominated for Best Director. Two of them did it twice. None of them won both awards, but among those 20 nominations are 5 Best Director winners and 2 Best Actor winners. Name these 8 people.
In terms of the Ocscars, one of this year's Best Picture nominees shares something in common with The Queen, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Fantastic Mr Fox. Name the film and the connection with the earlier films.
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Oscar Countdown: Day 10
Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather, Part II" is the only second film in a trilogy to win Best Picture. What is the only second film in a trilogy to win Best Foreign Language Film?
In celebration of Black History Month and the recent Grammy Awards, this question concerns popular music. In 1971, Isaac Hayes was as much of a "bad mother" as Shaft protagonist, John Shaft. The late Hayes' now iconic "Theme from Shaft" garnered him the first "Best Original Song" Oscar given to an African-American composer. The song also hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November of that year. Yeah, we can dig it. But this ditty is not alone. Since 1969, there have been 15 additional tunes that have won both honors. Can you name them?
Eleven actors / actresses have won an Oscar for playing a real person who was still alive when the statue was awarded. How many can you name?
True Grit breakout star Hailee Steinfeld is nominated this year for Best Supporting Actress. In reality, Steinfeld almost certainly belongs in the Best Actress category, but the studio obviously believed her chances at winning would be greater in the Supporting Actress category.
Today's question focuses on truly supporting roles that garnered Oscar wins and asks: What actor and actress won Oscars in the supporting actor and actress categories with the least amount of screen time?
Pictured: The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Anthony Hopkins took home the Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the film. Hopkins had less than 16 minutes of screen time, the shortest of any Best Actor winner ever.
This year, the following films are all nominated for four or more Oscars: Black Swan (5); The Fighter (7); Inception (8); The Kids Are All Right (4); The King's Speech (12); 127 Hours (6); The Social Network (8); Toy Story 3 (5); True Grit (10); and Winter's Bone (4). If any of those films happens to win every Oscar for which it has been nominated, it will join a very exclusive club. Name the five films that have won every single Oscar for which they were nominated (minimum of four nominations). And which is the only one of the five to not win Best Picture?
Pictured: Ben-Hur (1959), which earned twelve nominations. It came close to running the table, taking home eleven statues (losing in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay to Room At The Top).
So here's today's Oscar trivia question...
Which of this year's nominated documentaries features a person who recently settled litigation loosely connected with a presidential election?
What individual was nominated a total of two times in a category and won two Oscars in that category but did not win an Oscar each time that she or he was nominated?
Many films with names of cities or countries in their titles have been nominated for the "Best Picture" award, including Fargo (1996), Munich (2005), Nashville (1975), and The Philadelphia Story (1940, pictured). Name the five that actually won.
Most film buffs know that Midnight Cowboy (1969) is the only X-rated Best Picture winner.
Name the first Best Picture winners to be rated G, PG, PG-13, and R.
Pictured: A Clockwork Orange (1971), the last X-rated film to be a Best Picture nominee. Like Midnight Cowboy, A Clockwork Orange saw its MPAA rating revised to "R" in later years.
Natalie Portman, nominated in the Best Actress category for her performance in Black Swan, stands poised to be the first actor in a Star Wars film to win an acting Oscar after appearing in a Star Wars film. By my count, there have been 11 other acting nominations for eight actors who have appeared in Star Wars films. Name each of these nominations, including the only Star Wars actor to win an Oscar (pre-Star Wars appearance).
With their nominations for True Grit, the Coen Brothers have now been nominated on two separate occasions for Best Picture, Best Directing, and Best (Adapted) Screenplay for a single film (the other was No Country for Old Men in 2007). Three other people have accomplished that feat twice, and one person has done it three times. Who are they?
Pictured: Sense and Sensibility (1995), which brought Emma Thompson the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, making her the only person to win in that category and an acting category (Best Actress in Howards End (1992)).
Oscar Countdown: Day 21 (and a birth announcement!)
Today's question comes from Jacqui. She and her family welcomed a baby girl into their lives yesterday. I'm told pix will be forthcoming. Congrats, Jacqui!
Jacqui's question:
Three actors who appeared in films nominated in major categories at the 2011 Oscars have also individually won prestigious Logie Awards. Two of them are themselves nominated in acting categories at this year's Oscars. Name the three Logie Award winners.
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Today's question comes from Colin Miller:
What 5 individuals have been nominated for Academy Awards in the most different categories over their careers?
Two notes:
Note 1: The screenwriting categories have had various names over the years (e.g., Best Original Screenplay used to be Best Original Story). For purposes of this question, an individual can have a maximum of two nominations in these categories, one each for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay or their earlier counterparts.
Note 2: The Best Live Action Short used to have various names and used to be split between Best Comedy and Best Novelty, and later, Best One-Reel and Best Two-Reel. An individual can have a maximum of one nomination in these categories.
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After the Great Recession, the fraction of U.S. workers whose wages were frozen reached a record high. Many employers would have preferred to cut wages, but couldn't do so because of the reluctance of workers to accept reduced compensation. These pent-up wage cuts initially propped up wage growth, reduced hiring, and pushed up unemployment. But, over the past 2½ years, inflation has eroded the real value of frozen wages, slowing wage growth and reducing the unemployment rate. This is similar to, but more pronounced than, the pattern observed in past recessions.
During the most recent recession the unemployment rate jumped 5.6 percentage points, but wage growth slowed only modestly. The economy has been recovering for four years and unemployment has declined considerably, but wage growth has continued to slow. These patterns contradict standard economic models that hold that unemployment and wage growth normally are tightly related and move in opposite directions.
This Economic Letter argues that these patterns are consistent with the reluctance of employers to adjust wages immediately in reaction to changing economic conditions. In particular, employers hesitate to reduce wages and workers are reluctant to accept wage cuts, even during recessions. This behavior, known as downward nominal wage rigidity, played a role in past recessions, but was especially apparent during the Great Recession. Wage rigidity kept nominal wage growth positive throughout the recession. This led to a significant buildup of pent-up wage cuts, that is, wage cuts that employers wanted, but were unable to make. As the economy recovers, pent-up wage cuts will probably continue to slow wage growth long after the unemployment rate has returned to more normal levels.
Source: Current Population Survey and authors' calculations.
Note: Wage changes are measured as approximate percentage changes.
Figure 1 clearly shows downward nominal wage rigidity in the distribution of wage changes among U.S. workers in 2006 and 2011. The data cover all workers and measure how their wages compared with their previous year's wages, if they were employed. We use 2006 as an example of a typical wage change distribution and compare those numbers with the post-recession wage changes for 2011.
The distribution of wage changes in 2006 and 2011 both spike at zero, suggesting that the wages of many workers did not change from year to year. In both years, the distribution is larger to the right of zero, that is, for wage increases, than to the left of zero, for wage cuts. Consistent with downward nominal rigidity, this suggests that a large fraction of wage cuts employers wanted to carry out were not actually made. Instead, those workers were swept into the zero-change group.
What is more interesting in this figure is how 2006 and 2011 data differ. First, the fraction of workers whose wages were frozen jumped from 12% of the workforce in 2006 to 16% in 2011. Second, despite the severity of the Great Recession, very few workers experienced wage cuts. These numbers edged up only slightly from 2006 to 2011. Finally, and perhaps most interestingly, the percentage of workers who received wage increases dropped notably in 2011 compared with 2006. This compression of wage increases resulted in a larger spike at zero.
The larger distribution of workers whose wages did not change is not unique to the 2007 recession. Figure 2 plots the share of workers with no wage change year-over-year from 1986 through 2012. The percentage of workers whose wages are fixed over a year always increases during labor market downturns. The figure depicts notable increases in workers with frozen wages in the wake of the 1990 and 2001 recessions, which are shown by the gray bars. Yet the size of the spike following the 2007 recession sets it apart from the other recessions (see Daly, Hobijn, and Lucking 2012).
The downward nominal rigidity shown in Figures 1 and 2 may explain some of the unusual dynamics of wage growth and unemployment during the most recent recession and recovery. To examine this, we turn to a relationship documented by William Phillips in 1958, known as the wage Phillips curve. The wage Phillips curve captures the relationship between wage growth and changes in unemployment relative to its natural rate, which is the lowest unemployment rate an economy can sustain over the long run without igniting inflation. We examine how the wage Phillips curve has behaved from 1986 to 2012, highlighting how it deviates during recessions from the normal close inverse relationship between wage growth and the unemployment gap.
To plot a U.S. wage Phillips curve, we need two inputs: wage growth and the unemployment gap. For aggregate wages, we combine four popular surveys compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics: compensation per hour, the employment cost index, average hourly earnings, and median usual weekly earnings. These are slightly different measures of compensation covering slightly different groups of workers. We use a statistical method called principal components to extract a single measure that captures the common signal from each of these series. The resulting combined wage growth measure is highly correlated with each of the four individual measures, but is considerably less volatile.
To measure the unemployment gap, we compute the difference between the unemployment rate and its natural rate as estimated by the Congressional Budget Office (2012). The unemployment gap is considered a good measure of labor market strength. When the unemployment gap is high, unemployment is far above its natural rate, and the labor market is weak and has a lot of slack. When the unemployment gap is low, the labor market is strong and slack is low.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics and authors' calculations.
The wage Phillips curve is based on the idea that, as labor market slack rises, wage growth will fall, and vice versa. Figure 3 plots the relationship between our measures of the unemployment gap and wage growth from 1986 to 2012. In particular, three sequences connected by arrows in the figure show the path of this relationship during and after the past three recessions. The gray points not connected by arrows show the relationship during the other quarters in our 27-year sample.
Overall, the wage Phillips curve displays the expected relationship between wage growth and labor market slack (see Phillips 1958, Samuelson and Solow 1960, and Galí, 2011). Higher slack measured by the unemployment gap is correlated with slower wage growth, and lower slack is correlated with faster wage growth. The gray dots in Figure 3 reflect this normal relationship. However, the basic relationship between wage growth and labor market slack breaks down during and after recessions. In each of the three recession series in Figure 3, wage growth slows much less than expected as the unemployment gap increases. Wage growth then continues to slow long after the unemployment gap has begun to normalize.
To see this more clearly it is useful to break the pattern traced by the arrows into two phases. The first is the recessionary period, when the unemployment rate runs up, pushing up the unemployment gap. During this phase, wage growth declines less than its usual relationship with the unemployment gap would indicate. The second phase is the recovery. As the unemployment rate starts to decline during the labor market recovery, wage growth continues to decline. Consequently, during the early part of recoveries, labor market slack and wage growth move down together in a positive relationship, rather than the negative relationship that characterizes the average wage Phillips curve. The result is that recessions generate clockwise loops in the wage Phillips curve. These loops coincide with periods when the fraction of workers with no wage changes rises sharply, shown by the spikes in Figure 2.
Combining the evidence from the figures suggests that pent-up wage cuts due to downward nominal wage rigidity (Figure 2) could be the source of the clockwise loops in the wage Phillips curve (Figure 3). In Daly and Hobijn (2013), we pursue this idea, showing that clockwise loops in the wage curve occur naturally in a simple model of monetary policy with downward nominal wage rigidity. This pattern may reflect that, as the economy falls into a recession, businesses would like to reduce wages, but cannot do so because of downward wage rigidity. With wages fixed above their optimal value, employers lay off more workers and hire fewer workers than they normally would. The unemployment rate increases more than it would if wages were flexible and could adjust downward. This disproportionate adjustment is reflected in the first phase of the wage Phillips curve loops.
As the recovery takes hold, businesses gradually reduce wage growth. At the same time, inflation typically erodes the real wages of workers, relieving some of the pent-up demand of employers for wage cuts. This gradual process can continue long after the unemployment gap begins to narrow. At the same time, slower wage growth also means businesses are able to hire more workers, which stimulates the demand for labor and pushes the unemployment rate down further. This is what drives the second phase of the clockwise loops.
In both phases, downward nominal wage rigidity causes the unemployment gap and wage growth to diverge from their normal relationship. As the economy gradually recovers, this divergence is corrected and the wage Phillips curve returns to normal.
Evidence shows that pent-up wage cuts reflecting downward nominal wage rigidity have been an important force during the most recent recession and recovery. This has shaped the dynamics of unemployment, wage growth, and inflation from 2006 to 2012. The Great Recession was not special, however. We find that pent-up wage cuts have slowed wage growth in the aftermath of all three recessions since 1986. The main difference is that the depth of the most recent recession has intensified the impact of downward nominal wage rigidity. The spike in workers who are experiencing no wage changes has reached record levels. Once it begins to decline, we expect wage growth to accelerate.
Timothy Ni is a research associate in the Economic Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Congressional Budget Office. 2012. The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022. Washington, DC: Congressional Budget Office.
Daly, Mary C., and Bart Hobijn. 2013. "Downward Nominal Wage Rigidities Bend the Phillips Curve." FRB San Francisco Working Paper 2013-08.
Daly, Mary C., Bart Hobijn, and Brian Lucking. 2012. "Why Has Wage Growth Stayed Strong?" FRBSF Economic Letter 2012-10 (April 2).
Galí, Jordi. 2011. "The Return of the Wage Phillips Curve." Journal of the European Economic Association 9(3), pp. 436–461.
Phillips, A. William. 1958. "The Relationship between Unemployment and the Rate of Change of Money Wage Rates in the United Kingdom 1861–1957." Economica 25(100), pp. 283–299.
Samuelson, Paul A., and Robert M. Solow. 1960. "Analytical Aspects of Anti-Inflation Policy." American Economic Review 50, pp. 177–194.


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Stories on the street is a resource to help churches in the UK to engage with and work alongside their communities to bring transformation. It is written in 6 modules on the themes of vision, celebrating what we have, a heart of compassion, building relationships, understanding our community and stepping out in faith. Each module contains in depth creative Bible studies and practical participatory tools that can be used with church and community members to make life better for all, particularly the vulnerable and marginalised.


Where: On any road before you reach the place where two roads meet.
Purpose: To warn that you are approaching an intersection where you have to turn sharp to the right or left.
Action: Look out for cross-traffic. Slow down and be prepared to stop and go round the corner at a safe speed.
Be on the lookout for Stop, Yield Sign or Robots.


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Matthew Thomas Konan (born September 3, 1991) is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played most recently for the Tulsa Oilers of the ECHL. He previously played 2 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers during the 2012–13 season.

Playing career
As a youth, Konan played in the 2004 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Los Angeles.

Prior to turning professional, Konan played junior hockey from 2007 to 2012 with the Medicine Hat Tigers of the WHL where, over five seasons, he played 301 games and scored 107 points.

On April 2, 2012, Konan signed a three-year entry level contract with Philadelphia Flyers. He played most of the 2012–13 season in the AHL where he played 45 games with the Adirondack Phantoms. Konan was recalled by the Flyers after the Phantoms season ended and he made his NHL debut on April 25, 2013 against the New York Islanders.

During a December 20, 2013 game, Konan was elbowed by the Norfolk Admirals' Dave Steckel and left the game with a concussion. He missed the next 15 months and returned at the end of the 2014–15 season, appearing in 3 games with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. Konan's entry-level contract expired after the season and the Flyers did not issue him a qualifying offer in order to retain his NHL rights, which made him an unrestricted free agent.

On October 5, 2015, Konan signed a contract with the Tulsa Oilers of the ECHL.

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1991 births
Living people
Adirondack Phantoms players
American men's ice hockey defensemen
Ice hockey players from California
Lehigh Valley Phantoms players
Medicine Hat Tigers players
Philadelphia Flyers players
Sportspeople from Orange, California
Trenton Titans players
Tulsa Oilers (1992–present) players
Undrafted National Hockey League players

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Cambridge University, Ph.D.
Francois Fiessinger Scholar 2001
Environmental Aspects of Heterogeneous Photocatalysis: Studies with Practical Catalysts and Model Systems
Where Are They Now? Dr. Alexander Orlov is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA. He is also a faculty member of the Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research and an affiliate faculty at Chemistry Department at the same university.
Project Description (while EREF Scholar):
EREF funded research project was focused on development of novel catalysts, which can decompose various pollutants in gas and liquid phases. The materials produced in this work have exhibited unprecedented increase in activity for degradation of both MTBE and 4-chlorophenol. One of the most interesting aspects of this project was in developing useful environmental applications of nanoparticles, which can have a profound effect on environmental quality. Several studies, including my recent work, have demonstrated that metal nanoparticles have properties that are size dependent. In extreme cases they can behave very differently from the corresponding "ordinary" material. Thus nanoparticles may be used to achieve chemical effects that are otherwise unattainable. These concepts form a basis of emerging field of environmental nanotechnology. The practical outcome of this project was developed through the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, where a scaled up version of the reactor was used in field trials in Canada.
Dr. Alexander Orlov is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA. He is also a faculty member of the Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research and an affiliate faculty at Chemistry Department at the same university. Previously he was a Research Fellow in Science and Engineering at the University of Cambridge/King's College, UK. Alexander has 5 degrees from various European and the US institutions, including: Doctoral and Master's degrees in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge (UK) and Master's degree in Engineering from the University of Michigan (USA). He also holds Diploma in Economics from London School of Economics. His major research and teaching activities are in development of novel materials for environmental protection, environmental chemistry and engineering, materials science, sustainable development, environmental aspects of energy production and environmental nanotechnology areas.
Dr. Orlov is appointed by the UK Secretary of State to advise the current Labour Government on such environmental issues as hazardous substances and environmental impact of nanotechnology. Previously, he was a member of the UK Conservative Party Task Force charged with a development of the Science Policy for the next Conservative Government. Dr. Orlov's research experience also served him in his position as consultant to several USA congressmen, the EU Commission and the Ukrainian Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources. Alexander's opinions, interviews and comments appeared in Nature, BBC, Daily Telegraph and Cambridge Evening News. Dr. Orlov is a recipient of National Endowment for Science Technology and Arts CRUCIBLE award (UK) focused on developing skills in communicating science to general public and policy makers.
Research Publications:
Colmenares-Angulo, J., Zhao, S., Young, C., Orlov, A. "The effects of thermal spray technique and post-deposition treatment on the photocatalytic activity of TiO2 coatings",Surf. Coat. Tech., 204(4), 423-427, 2009.
In, S., Kean, A.H., Orlov, A., Tikhov, M. S., Lambert, R. M. "Versatile new method for synthesis and deposition of doped, visible light-activated TiO2 thin films on any kind of solid surface", Energy and Environment, 2, 1277-1279, 2009.
Orlov, A., Klinowski, J.K. "Oxidation of VOCs by SBA-15 mesoporous molecular sieves modified with manganese", Chemosphere, 74, 344-348, 2009.
In, S., Orlov, A., Berg, R., Garcia, F., Pedrosa, S.J., Tikhov, M., Wright, D.S. , Lambert, R. M. "Effective visible light-active B-doped and B,N-codoped TiO2 photocatalysts ", Journal of American Chemical Society, 129, 13790-13791, 2007.
Orlov, A., Watson, D., Williams, F., Tihov, M., Lambert, R. M. "Interactions of 4-chlorophenol with TiO2 polycrystalline surfaces: study of environmental interfaces by NEXAFS, XPS and UPS", Langmuir, 23, 9551-9554, 2007.
Orlov, A., Jefferson, D., Tikhov, M., Lambert, R. M. "Enhancement of MTBE photocatalytic degradation by modification of TiO2 with gold nanoparticles", Catalysis Communications, 8, 821-824, 2007.
Gustafsson, R. J., Orlov, A., Griffiths, P. T., Cox, R.A., Lambert, R. M. "Reduction of NO2 to nitrous acid on illuminated titanium dioxide aerosol surfaces: implications for photocatalysis and atmospheric chemistry", Chemical Communications, 37, 3936-3938, 2006.
In, S., Orlov, A., Garcia, F., Tikhov, M., Wright, D., Lambert, RM. "Efficient visible light-active N-doped TiO2 photocatalysts by a reproducible and controllable synthetic route", Chemical Communications, 40, 4236-4238, 2006.
Orlov, A., Zhai, Q.Z., Klinowski, J. "Photocatalytic properties of the SBA-15 mesoporous silica molecular sieve modified with titanium", Journal of Material Science, 41, 2187-2193, 2006.
Orlov, A., Tikhov, M., Lambert, R " Application of surface science techniques in the study of environmental photocatalysis: nitrogen doped TiO2", Comptes Rendus Chimie, 9 (5-6), 2794-2799, 2006.
Orlov, A., Chan, M., Jefferson, D.A., Zhou, D., Lynch, R.J., Lambert, R.M. "Photocatalytic degradation of water-soluble organic pollutants on TiO2 modified with gold nanoparticles", Environmental Technology, 27(7), 747-752, 2006.
Gustafsson, R. J., Orlov, A., Griffiths, P. T., Cox, R.A., Lambert, R. M. "A comprehensive evaluation of water uptake on atmospherically relevant mineral surfaces: a DRIFTS, thermogravimetric analysis and DMA study", Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 5, 3415-3421, 2005.
Lin, Z. S., Orlov, A., Lambert, R.M., Payne M. C. "New insights into the origin of visible light photocatalytic activity of nitrogen doped and oxygen deficient anatase TiO2", Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 109 (44), 2005.
Orlov, A., Jefferson, D., Lambert, R. "Effect of noble metal nanoparticles on photocatalytic activity of TiO2", Transactions of the Material Research Society of Japan, 29, 2004.
Orlov, A., Jefferson, D., Macleod, N., Lambert, R. " Enhancement of photocatalytic degradation of 4-chlorophenol on titania modified with gold nanoparticles", Catalysis Letters, 92(1-2), 2004.

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Central Mental Hospital Portrane
by Duncan Smith | Sep 8, 2016 | News | 0 comments
Question: Councillor D. Smith: "To ask the Chief Executive for an update on the works for the new Central Mental Hospital in Portrane and how long these works are expected to take?"
Reply: Permission was granted by ABP for the Proposed 170 Bed NFMHS Hospital on lands at St. Ita's Hospital, Portrane [Order No.06F.PA0037] in May 2015. This permission was subject to 14 conditions. A total of 9 no. conditions of the permission [conditions 3,4,5,6,7,8,10, 12 and 13] required the HSE to formally lodge compliance submissions to be agreed in writing with FCC prior to the commencement of development.
The compliance submissions in respect of these conditions were submitted to and agreed with FCC prior to the commencement of development. Construction work in respect of site clearance and provision of a Haul Road to the south of the Portrane Waste Water Treatment Plant was undertaken following formal acceptance by FCC of the above compliance submissions, however, no construction work has commenced in respect of the main hospital contract due to reasons relating to changes proposed by the HSE to alter elements of the parent permission as outlined hereunder. • Under Section Section 146B of the P.&D. Acts 2000-2015 (ABP Reference Number 06F.PM0006) ABP decided on 9 November 2015 Agenda Item 12 Page 37 NOT FOR PUBLICATION to alter the decision to the terms of the permitted development to include a new condition in respect of construction hours on site. • Under Section146B (ABP Reference Number 06F .PM0009, the HSE has made a further request dated 10th June 2016 to ABP to alter the terms of the development of the proposed NFMHSH on lands at St. Ita's Hospital Portrane.
ABP has determined that that the proposed alteration would constitute a material alteration to the terms of the development. This most recent alteration sought is described as follows: 1. Reduce the depth of excavation across the main campus area west of the Reception Building by one metre, with a consequent upward adjustment by the same amount of the finished floor and roof levels of (a) the Village Centre, (b) the Medium Secure Unit, (c) the High Secure Unit, (d) the MHID Unit, (e) the Female Unit and (f) the Pre-discharge Unit and the associated ground levels; 2. Undertake re-contouring and infilling with soil of the permitted horticultural area, south of the previously permitted berm, to a maximum level as shown on the drawings with this application, to marry in with the revised levels of the campus; 3. Utilise soil on Compartment 20 East, by spreading to a depth not exceeding 300mm settled depth, in order to improve its suitability for development of a natural grassland habitat on previously intensively farmed arable lands. A response in respect of this most recent Section146 B alteration request was made by Fingal County Council to ABP on 24 august 2016. A final determination by ABP on this alteration has yet to be made.


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Tuvalu es una isla situada en el océano Pacífico, ubicada  entre Hawái y Australia. Los países más próximos a Tuvalu son Kiribati, Samoa y Fiyi. Consta con 4 arrecifes de coral y 4 atolones (islas coralinas oceánicas que pueden tener forma de anillo). Es la nación independiente con menor número de habitantes.

Etimología: la palabra Tuvalu significa 8 Islas y proviene del idioma indígena local, y hasta el año 1949 en el que los indígenas poblaron la isla de Niulakita eran las islas que disponían de población permanente y estable. Se conoce que antiguamente su nombre era Islas Ellice.

La nación de Tuvalu se encuentra en el Pacífico oriental, antiguamente conocida como islas Ellice y está situada 4000 kilómetros al nordeste de Australia. Se encuentra a mitad de camino entre Hawái y Australia. Tuvalu está formado por cuatro islas de referencia y cinco atolones. El pequeño y disperso grupo de islas que forman este país tiene muy poca tierra, tan solo alrededor de 26 km².

En Tuvalu se dan vientos procedentes del oeste y abundantes lluvias desde noviembre hasta marzo. Las temperaturas son tropicales moderadas y vientos del este predominan de marzo a noviembre. La tierra es muy baja y tiene grandes atolones coralinos. La mayor elevación es 5 m por encima del nivel del mar.

Localización: Oceanía, grupo de islas constituido por nueve atolones coralinos en el océano Pacífico sur, a mitad de camino entre Hawái y Australia.

Continente: Oceanía.

Superficie:Total: 26 km² Tierra: 26 km² Agua: 0 km².

Fronteras: 0km

Costa: 24 km.

Clima: Tropical moderado con vientos del este (marzo - noviembre).Vientos del oeste y abundantes lluvias (noviembre - marzo).

Terreno: Muy poca altitud y atolones coralinos.

Puntos extremos de elevación: punto más bajo: océano Pacífico, 0 m
punto más alto: Sin nombre, 5 m.

Peligros naturales: las severas tormentas tropicales son raras, pero en 1997 hubo tres ciclones; la poca elevación de las islas las hace muy sensibles al aumento del nivel del mar.

Ambiente - tratados internacionales: relativos a: Cambio climático, Protocolo de Kioto, Desertificación, Especies en peligro de extinción, Nivel del mar, Descargas marinas, Protección de la capa de Ozono y polución
firmado pero no ratificado: Biodiversidad.

Áreas protegidas de Tuvalu

Según la IUCN, en Tuvalu hay 9 zonas protegidas que cubren 6 km² de los 42 km² de superficie terrestre, 214 km² de superficie marina de los 731.900 km² que corresponden al país. Ocho son áreas marinas y una terrestre.

 Área marina protegida de Funafuti, 40 km²
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Q: Calculate $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \arctan\bigl(\frac{2\sqrt2}{n^2+1}\bigr) $ $$ \lim_{n \to\infty} \sum_{k=1}^{n} \arctan\frac{2\sqrt2}{k^2+1}= \lim_{n \to\infty} \sum_{k=1}^{n} \arctan\frac{(\sqrt{k^2+2}+\sqrt2)-\sqrt{k^2+2}-\sqrt2)}{(\sqrt{k^2+2}+\sqrt2)(\sqrt{k^2+2}-\sqrt2)+1}= $$
$$\lim_{n \to\infty} \sum_{k=1}^{n} \arctan(\sqrt{k^2+2}+\sqrt2)-\arctan(\sqrt{k^2+2}-\sqrt2)  $$
But the elements do not reduce :(

A: Note that
$$\arctan\left(\frac{2\sqrt{2}}{k^2+1}\right)=\arctan\left(\frac{\left(\frac{k+1}{\sqrt{2}}\right)-\left(\frac{k-1}{\sqrt{2}}\right)}{\left(\frac{k+1}{\sqrt{2}}\right)\left(\frac{k-1}{\sqrt{2}}\right)+1}\right)=\arctan\left(\frac{k+1}{\sqrt{2}}\right)-\arctan\left(\frac{k-1}{\sqrt{2}}\right)\,.$$
Therefore,
$$\sum_{k=1}^n\,\arctan\left(\frac{2\sqrt{2}}{k^2+1}\right)=\arctan\left(\frac{n+1}{\sqrt{2}}\right)+\arctan\left(\frac{n}{\sqrt{2}}\right)-\arctan\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\right)-\arctan\left(\frac{0}{\sqrt{2}}\right)\,.$$
Ergo,
$$\sum_{k=1}^\infty\,\arctan\left(\frac{2\sqrt{2}}{k^2+1}\right)=\pi-\arctan\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\right)\approx 2.52611\,.$$

A: If $S_n = \sum_{k=1}^n \arctan(2 \sqrt{2}/(k^2+1))$, it appears that
$$ \tan(S_n) = - \frac{n(n+5)}{\sqrt{2}(n^2-n-1)}$$
You can prove this by induction.  The rest is just a matter of estimating the sum of the series to
check which interval $[(k-1/2)\pi, (k+1/2)\pi]$ it falls in.

A: Result
$$\pi -\frac{1}{2} \arctan \left(2 \sqrt{2}\right)\simeq 2.52611... $$
Derivation
More complicated than the elegant telescoping approach, but that was the way I found the result.
Observing that
$$\text{arctan}(t) = t \int_{0}^1 \frac{1}{1+t^2 x^2}\,dx$$
and interchanging sum and integral the sum can be written as
$$s =2 \sqrt{2} \int_{0}^1 \sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{ \left(n^2+1\right)}{\left(n^2+1\right)^2+8 x^2}\,dx$$
The sum can be done:
$$\sum _{n=1}^{\infty } \frac{n^2+1}{\left(n^2+1\right)^2+8 x^2}=\frac{1}{2 \left(x^2+1\right)}\text{Re}\left(\pi  \sqrt{-1+i x} (1+i x) \cot \left(\pi  \sqrt{-1+i x}\right)-2\right)$$
and, suprisingly, also the final $x$-integral can be done with the result provided.
Corollary 1
With the same method we can easily find
$$s_{c}=\sum _{n=1}^{\infty } \arctan\left(\frac{1}{n^2+1}\right)\simeq 1.03729...\\= \frac{1}{8} \left(3 \pi -4 i \log \left(\sin \left(\sqrt{-1-i} \pi \right)\right)+4 i \log \left(\sin \left(\sqrt{-1+i} \pi \right)\right)\right)\\=\frac{3 \pi }{8}-\arg \left(\sin\pi \left(\sqrt{-1+i} \right)\right)\tag{c1}$$
This can be simplified to the real expression
$$s_{c}=\frac{3 \pi }{8}-\arctan \left(\frac{\cos \left(\sqrt[4]{2} \pi  \sin \left(\frac{\pi }{8}\right)\right) \sinh \left(\sqrt[4]{2} \pi  \cos \left(\frac{\pi }{8}\right)\right)}{\sin \left(\sqrt[4]{2} \pi  \sin \left(\frac{\pi }{8}\right)\right) \cosh \left(\sqrt[4]{2} \pi  \cos \left(\frac{\pi }{8}\right)\right)}\right)\tag{c2}$$
or
$$s_{c}=\frac{3 \pi }{8}-\arctan\left(\frac{\tanh \left(\pi  \sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{2}+1\right)}\right)}{\tan \left(\pi  \sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{2}-1\right)}\right)}\right)\tag{c3}$$
This is a rather trig-loaded expression.
I could not find a telescoping sum in this case. The factor $2^{\frac{3}{2}}$ in the OP was accurately tuned.
Corollary 2
Also
$$s_{c2} = \sum _{n=1}^{\infty } \arctan \left(\frac{1}{n^2}\right)\\=
\arctan \left(\frac{1-\cot \left(\frac{\pi }{\sqrt{2}}\right) \tanh \left(\frac{\pi }{\sqrt{2}}\right)}{1+\cot \left(\frac{\pi }{\sqrt{2}}\right) \tanh \left(\frac{\pi }{\sqrt{2}}\right)}\right)\\\simeq 1.42474...$$

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The Queen of the Fairies (Columbia). "What angel wakes me from my flowery bed? .... Thou art as wise, as thou art beautiful."
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Q: React How to handle checked and unchecked events for checkbox using typescript Hi I am new to React and typescript. I am working on adding checked attribute for a checkbox but find it tricky. I searched across SO but still couldn't get it closer to working.
Here is what I am trying to do:
I am creating three checkbox components using a single child component[shown here]. They all have their own values that I need to pass dynamically.
interface ItemProps {
  readonly className?: string;
  readonly checked: boolean | undefined;
  readonly accentedUnchecked?: boolean;
  readonly imageUrl: string;
  readonly errorMessage?: string;
  readonly statusChecked?: boolean | undefined;
  readonly onChange: (event: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => void;
  readonly handleClick: (event: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => void;
  };

  readonly hasError?: boolean;
  readonly title?: string;
  readonly value?: number;
  readonly description?: React.ComponentType;
}
export class Item extends React.Component<
  ItemProps,
  {
    readonly isExpanded: boolean;
    readonly checkboxStatus: boolean;
    readonly temp: boolean;
    readonly checked: boolean;
  }
> {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      isExpanded: false,
      checkboxStatus: false,
      temp: false,
      checked: this.state.temp
    };
    this.handleClick = this.handleClick.bind(this);
    this.onChange = this.onChange.bind(this);
  }`

  private onChange(e: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) {
    this.setState({ temp: e.currentTarget.checked });
  }

  private readonly handleClick = e =>
    this.props.onChange({
      currentTarget: { checked: e.currentTarget.checked }
    } as any);

  render() {

    const unchecked = this.props.accentedUnchecked && this.props.checked === false;

    return (

          <input
            type="checkbox"
            checked={this.onChange} //Not working
            onChange={this.props.onChange}
            onClick={this.handleClick}

            id={"test"}
            data-id="0"
          />
);

The problem is I am not sure how to set the checked attribute, based onClick. when I use
checked={this.props.checked}

I am getting all checkboxes checked. Or if I use
checked={this.handleClick}

I get error saying

cannot assign void to a boolean" in typescript.

Any suggestion on how this can be resolved will be very helpful
Thanks in advance

A: If you want to be quick, online demo has been added at the bottom. I rewrite almost all those stuff.

Some notice points:

*

*Since you want to reuse the child checkbox, you shouldn't write the handler functions inside the child, expose then to parents instead.

*Both onClick - MouseEvent and onChange - ChangeEvent would be fine since it's fully controlled, the only thing we need to pass is its id. The checked status is held by the parents.

*You can write nested checked logic inside the child, based on the props passed from parents.

import * as React from "react";
import "./styles.css";

const data = [
  { id: 1, checked: 1 },
  { id: 2, checked: 0 },
  { id: 3, checked: 1 }
];

export default function App() {
  const [checkedList, setCheckedList] = React.useState(
    data.map(x => !!x.checked)
  );
  const onChangeHandler = (
    e: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>,
    id: number
  ) => {
    const list = [...checkedList];
    list.splice(id - 1, 1, !list[id - 1]);
    setCheckedList(list);
  };
  return (

Checkboxes

      {data.map((item, idx) => (
        <InsuranceItem
          id={item.id}
          key={item.id}
          checked={checkedList[idx]}
          onChange={onChangeHandler}
        />
      ))}

  );
}

interface InsuranceItemProps {
  readonly id?: number;
  readonly className?: string;
  readonly checked: boolean | undefined;
  readonly accentedUnchecked?: boolean;
  readonly imageUrl?: string;
  readonly errorMessage?: string;
  readonly statusChecked?: boolean | undefined;
  readonly onChange: (
    event: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>,
    id: number
  ) => void;
  // readonly handleClick: (event: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => void;
  readonly hasError?: boolean;
  readonly title?: string;
  readonly value?: number;
  readonly description?: React.ComponentType;
}
class InsuranceItem extends React.Component<
  InsuranceItemProps,
  {
    // readonly isExpanded: boolean;
    // readonly checkboxStatus: boolean;
    // readonly temp: boolean;
    // readonly checked: boolean;
  }
> {
  constructor(props: InsuranceItemProps) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      // isExpanded: false,
      // checkboxStatus: false,
      // checked: false
    };
  }

  render() {
    const { id = 0, accentedUnchecked, checked, onChange } = this.props;
    // const unchecked = accentedUnchecked && checked === false;

    return (

        <input
          type="checkbox"
          checked={checked}
          onChange={e => onChange(e, id)}
          id={id.toString()}
          data-id="0"
        />

    );
  }
}

A: Actually you will not needed onClick prop here, and checked prop is only expect boolean value
As per react docs, this should be the right way if you have multiple check boxes
 handleInputChange(event) {
        const target = event.target;
        const value = target.name === 'isGoing' ? target.checked : target.value;
        const name = target.name;

        this.setState({
          [name]: value
        });
      }

    <input
       name="isGoing"
       type="checkbox"
       checked={this.state.isGoing}
       onChange={this.handleInputChange} />

A: Mistake 1
You're setting function instead of boolean for checked. Which is wrong. I don't know how TypeScript is allowing you to do that
Mistake 2
Using onClick() and onChange() together. Don't do that. Use only one. Prefer onChange() to onClick() here.
Corrected code
// Parent Component
handleClick = (checked: boolean, id: string) => {
  this.setState(prevState => ({
    checked: { ...prevState.checked, [id]: checked }
  })) // or however you structured this state
}

// Child component
// Creating ID as variable
const id = 'test';

handleClick = ev => {
  // Avoid passing `ev` directly
  this.props.handleClick(ev.currentTarget.value, id)
}

return (
          <input
            type="checkbox"
            checked={this.props.checked}
            onChange={this.handleClick}
            id={id}
            data-id="0"
          />
)

A: you can use MCheckbox
import :
import { MCheckbox } from '../@material-extend';

function :
    function handleLike(e) {

    if (e.target.checked) {
    // your code here when it checked
    } else {
     //your code here when it is not checked
    }
  }

jsx :
          <MCheckbox
            onChange={(e) => handleLike(e)}
            defaultChecked={false}
            size="small"
            color="error"
            icon={<Icon icon={heartFill} />}
            checkedIcon={<Icon icon={heartFill} />}
          />


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Mark eye holes on the rubbish bin. Mark a hole 10 cm (4 inches) from the top of the can (as it sits upside down) and 4 cm (1.5 inches) to the right of the centre of the can. Mark another hole 10 cm (4 inches) from the top and 4 cm (1.5 inches) to the left of the centre.
Put on the protective gloves.
Hold the nail by the head with the pointed end facing away from your body. Heat the end of the nail with the lighter.
Heat the nail in the flame for 45 seconds. Place the lighter on the work surface.
Press the nail to one of the eye hole marks. Firmly push the hot end of the nail into the plastic rubbish bin. The plastic should slightly melt, allowing the nail to pierce through. You may have to do this multiple times to go all of the way through the plastic.
Repeat the process to create the other eyehole. Remove gloves.
Cut a piece of black electrical tape. Place the tape about 5 cm (2 inches) from the top of the can. The tape should run from the middle of the left side, across the front, and to the middle of the right side.
Cut a boomerang-shaped piece of black paper that is about half the width of the can. Place it under the eyes and adhere it to the can with double-sided tape.
Cut two eye shapes out of black paper. Tape them onto the helmet. Use the cooled nail to punch a hole through the paper to line up with the eye holes.
Cut a circle 5 cm (2 inches) in diameter circle and two circles 13 mm (1/2 inch) in diameter from the black paper. Stick the 5-cm (2-inch) circle at the bottom centre of the can with tape. Tape the 13-mm (1/2-inch) circles on either side of the larger circle.
Use the black permanent marker to create shading and vents on the side of the bin.
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End of line for Amtrak?
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration's message to Amtrak is simple: Change or die.
If Amtrak isn't dramatically overhauled, the Bush administration is prepared to essentially junk it and save only the commuter-rail segments, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said Wednesday. That's preferable, he said, to spending about $1 billion a year in subsidies to keep the cross-country passenger-rail system alive.
In its 2006 budget, the Bush administration proposes eliminating Amtrak's annual subsidy, which is $1.2 billion this year. The idea is to force Congress and Amtrak to institute sweeping change. Bush would limit Amtrak to owning and operating trains. Others - including state or local governments - would own the rails, stations and physical property, much as private businesses run airlines but the government maintains airports.
Every other mode of transportation has changed dramatically since the 1970s, when trucking and aviation were deregulated, but not Amtrak, Mineta said.
Amtrak, which was created in 1971 when the government took over bankrupt private railroads, carries about 24 million passengers a year. In addition to cross-country and inter-city rail lines, it operates commuter services for several regions. It operates rails over 22,000 miles of routes and owns 730 miles of rails, mostly between Boston and Washington. The company has more than 500 stations in 46 states, all but Alaska, Hawaii, South Dakota and Wyoming.
Under the Bush plan, states along a given line would pay for rail upkeep. If a state wouldn't pay, stations along the line in that state would be closed and trains wouldn't stop in them, Mineta said.
The Department of Transportation is discussing the sale of Amtrak infrastructure, said Jeffrey Rosen, the agency's general counsel.
If Congress continues to balk at Bush's vision for Amtrak, the Bush administration would push to spend only $360 million to keep commuter-rail systems alive, mostly in the Northeast, Mineta said at a briefing.
But if Congress and Amtrak adopt the Bush plan, the administration is willing to spend about $1 billion a year in grants to state and local governments to help run the former parts of Amtrak, Mineta said. That money isn't in the president's budget, but would be part of a supplemental spending request. The grants would have to be matched 50-50 by state and local funds.
Amtrak officials and supporters called the administration's plan irresponsible.
In a message to employees last week, Amtrak President David Gunn said Bush officials "have no plan for Amtrak other than bankruptcy."
Amtrak supporters voiced confidence that Congress will keep providing the money the system needs even if Bush won't, as has been true in the past. Federal subsidies have increased from $520 million in 2001 to $1.2 billion in each of the last two years.
"Amtrak will be back and it will get barely enough to survive," said Michael Dukakis, former vice chairman of the Amtrak Reform Board and former governor of Massachusetts. "The states have no interest in this."
"The federal government has never adequately invested in passenger rail; it's always been on a starvation diet," said former Amtrak Board of Directors Chairman John Robert Smith, the Republican mayor of Meridian, Miss. "It's had a lot of near-death experiences. ... To push the company to bankruptcy ... is a dangerous game to play."


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O Ranking Académico das Universidades Mundiais, conhecido informalmente por Ranking de Xangai, é um ranking de instituições de ensino superior feito até 2008 pela Universidade Jiao Tong de Xangai e desde então pela Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.

O ranking compara mais de  instituições de ensino superior, utilizando uma fórmula que toma em consideração:
 o número de ex-alunos vencedores do Prêmio Nobel e Medalha Fields (10%);
 os membros do corpo docente que obtiveram tais prêmios (20%);
 os pesquisadores altamente citados em 21 categorias gerais (20%);
 os artigos produzidos nas revistas científicas Nature e Science (20%);
 o Science Citation Index e o Social Sciences Citation Index (20%);
 e a performance acadêmica per capita nos indicadores anteriormente citados (10%).

Esta metodologia foi criada em um artigo acadêmico pelos seus proponentes. Liu explica que o objetivo original do ranking era "medir a distância entre as universidades chinesas e de classe mundial, particularmente em termos de performance acadêmica ou de pesquisa.". Os rankings têm sido conduzidos desde 2003 anualmente.

É uma das três classificações internacionais de universidades mais influentes e amplamente observadas, juntamente com o QS World University Rankings e a Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

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1) The final gambit
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Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire...
3) The Hawthorne Legacy
Intrigue, riches, and romance abound in this thrilling sequel to the beloved bestselling The Inheritance Games
The Inheritance Games ended with a bombshell, and now heiress Avery Grambs has to pick up the pieces and find the man who might hold the answers to all of her questions—including why Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a
4) The Naturals: The Naturals Series, Book 1
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Cold cases are about to get hot. Don't miss this exhilarating crime thriller—perfect for fans of Criminal Minds and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder—from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games.
Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can...
5) Little White Lies
2018 Dreamscape Media
Scandal, scheming, and secrets abound in #1 bestselling author Jennifer Lynn Barnes's Little White Lies, packed with "page-turning tension, witty humor" (Jennifer L. Armentrout), and "characters as devious as they are southern-belle glamorous (E. Lockhart).
"I'm not saying this is Sawyer's fault," the prim and proper one said delicately. "But."
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6) Nobody
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There are people in this world who are Nobody. No one sees them. No one notices them. They live their lives under the radar, forgotten as soon as you turn away.
That's why they make the perfect assassins.
The Institute finds these people when they're young and takes them away for training. But an untrained Nobody is a threat to their organization. And threats must be eliminated.
Claire has been invisible her
7) Deadly Little Scandals
No one is quite who they seem to be in the twisty, soapy, gasp-inducing world of the Debutantes by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #1 bestselling author of The Inheritance Games. Think of the White Gloves like the Junior League — by way of Skull and Bones. Reluctant debutante Sawyer Taft joined Southern high society for one reason and one reason alone: to identify and locate her biological father. But the...
8) Bad Blood: The Naturals Series, Book 4
When Cassie Hobbes joined the FBI's Naturals program, she had one goal: uncover the truth about her mother's murder. But now, everything Cassie thought she knew about what happened that night has been called into question. Her mother is alive, and the people holding her captive are more powerful — and dangerous — than anything the Naturals have faced so far. As Cassie and the team work to uncover the secrets of a group that has been killing in...
9) Killer Instinct: The Naturals Series, Book 2
A chilling copycat killer has the Naturals in his crosshairs in this exhilarating crime thriller from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games.
Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot in an elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situations. After barely...
10) Taken by Storm: Raised by Wolves Series, Book 3
The third and final fast-paced installment in the popular Raised by Wolves series, called "the most compelling YA werewolf series out there" by New York Times best-selling author Melissa Marr.
A rogue Were is killing humans, and Cedar Ridge is the center of the crisis. Bryn, human alpha of the Cedar Ridge pack, must meet with the Senate to deal with the problem. Though the subject is the rogue wolf, Bryn knows the
11) All In: The Naturals Series, Book 3
Three casinos. Three bodies. Three days. Crack the case with the Naturals series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games.
After a string of brutal murders in Las Vegas, Cassie Hobbes and the Naturals are called in to investigate. But even with the team's unique profiling talents, these murders seem baffling: unlike many serial killers, this one uses...
12) The Fixer
2015 Bloomsbury Publishing
From the bestselling author of The Inheritance Games comes a pulse-pounding YA thriller that's Scandal meets Veronica Mars.
When sixteen-year-old Tess Kendrick, teen fixer extraordinaire, is sent to stay with her older sister, she has no idea that the famed Ivy Kendrick is the capital's number one "fixer." For powerful people looking to make a scandal disappear, Tess's sister is there to help . . . for a...
13) The Long Game: A Fixer Novel
The Kendricks help make the problems of the Washington elite disappear. . . . but some secrets won't stay buried.
For Tess Kendrick, a junior at the elite Hardwicke School in Washington D.C., fixing runs in the family. But Tess has another legacy, too, one that involves power and the making...
14) Trial by Fire: Raised by Wolves Series, Book 2
There can only be one alpha.
Bryn is finally settling into her position as alpha of the Cedar Ridge Pack—or at least, her own version of what it means to be alpha when you're a human leading a band of werewolves. Then she finds a teenage boy bleeding on her front porch. Before collapsing, he tells her his name is Lucas, he's a Were, and Bryn's protection is his only hope. But Lucas isn't part of Bryn's pack, and she has no right
15) Every Other Day
Every other day, Kali D'Angelo is a normal sixteen-year-old girl. She goes to public high school. She attends pep rallies (reluctantly). She's human. And every other day in between . . . she's not.
Though she's not quite sure what she is on those days, Kali knows what she does . . . she hunts, traps, and kills demons, hellhounds, and other supernatural creatures that threaten her world. On those days, she is practically indestructible.
16) The Lovely and the Lost
Blackstone Publishing
Kira Bennett's earliest memories are of living alone and wild in the woods. She has no idea how long she was on her own or what she had to do to survive, but she remembers the moment that Cady Bennett and one of her search-and-rescue dogs found her. Adopted into the Bennett family, Kira still struggles with human interaction years later, but she excels at the family business: search-and-rescue. Along with Cady's son, Jude, and their neighbor, Free,
17) Fate: Bailey Morgan Series, Book 2
Bailey Morgan
For the past two years, Bailey Morgan has lived a double life: high school student by day, ancient mystical being by night. As the third Fate, Bailey literally controls the fate of the world, but as Plain Old Bailey, her life is falling apart. She's got a tattoo that was supposed to be temporary (but isn't), friendships that were supposed to last forever (but might not), and no idea what her future holds after high school graduation.
Then...
18) Raised by Wolves: Raised by Wolves Series, Book 1
Adopted by the alpha of a werewolf pack after a rogue wolf brutally killed her parents right before her eyes, fifteen-year-old Bryn knows only pack life, and the rigid social hierarchy that controls it. That doesn't mean that she's averse to breaking a rule or two. But when her curiosity gets the better of her and she discovers Chase, a new teen locked in a cage in her guardian's basement, and witnesses him turn into a wolf before her eyes, the
19) Tattoo: Bailey Morgan Series, Book 1
Bailey Morgan isn't the type of girl who shows a lot of skin, but somehow, she ends up in a dressing room at the mall with her friend Delia applying a temporary tattoo to her lower back. Never one to suffer fashion doubt, trendsetter Delia knows exactly where she wants her own tattoo: on her stomach, right where her shirt ends—can you say "midriff"? Annabelle, the quiet one, chooses the back of her neck, and tomboy Zo plasters hers...
20) Twelve: The Naturals Series, Book 4.5
Dive back into the world of The Naturals in this e-novella from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games.
Cassie Hobbes has been working with the FBI since she was a teenager. Now twenty-three years old, she and her fellow Naturals have taken over running the program that taught them everything they know. As a unit, they're responsible for identifying new...
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Home / Press Releases / Release Abdallah Abu Rahmah and other leaders and members of the Bil'in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements
Release Abdallah Abu Rahmah and other leaders and members of the Bil'in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements
in Press Releases December 31, 2009
Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Abdallah with FFIPP students at the site of the Apartheid Wall in Bil'in
Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a leader of the Bil'in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, was arrested at his home during a military operation in Ramallah by the Israeli Army on December 10.
FFIPP interns and members of faculty delegations know Abdallah Abu Rahmah well. For the past two years, he has received our students and faculty at his home in Bil'in and has taken them to see the Separation Wall on the village's land.
Abdallah is currently in military prison and is being charged with illegal weapons possession, in response to his creative exhibition of discharged tear gas canisters, bullets and sound grenades used by the Israeli military in Bil'in against non-violenet protestors. As many of our students and faculty have witnessed, the exhibition was created for educational purposes and does not have live ammunitions but only the remains of weapon used by the Israeli Army.
In th e last 20 years Israel confiscated more than 50% of Bil'in land for Israeli settlements and the construction of the separation wall. Supported by Israeli and international activists, Bil'in residents have peacefully demonstrated every Friday in front of the Separation Wall on their land for the past five years.
Under international law the confiscation of land in Bilin for the construction of the settlements on the village's land is illegal. The ongoing construction of the Wall is also condemned by the UN and the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In 2007 the Israeli High Court of Justice ordered the government to reroute a section of its separation barrier that is on the village's land.
Abdallah's arrest appears to be part of an ongoing campaign conducted by the Israeli military to undermine the efforts of residents of Bil'in and leaders of the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, in an attempt to discourage them from continuing their non-violent struggle and spreading their non-violent, creative and inclusive struggle to other villages. Since June 2009, 31 residents of Bil'in have been detained by the Israeli military. Recently, other leaders of the grassroots and non-violent Palestinian movement for the removal of the Wall and for freedom have been arrested, such as Jamal Juma' and Mohammad Othman.
By imprisoning leaders of the non-violent struggle against the confiscation of Palestinian land, what is the message that the Israeli military intends to convey? If the leaders of this struggle, who work openly and jointly with Israeli and international peace activists, are taken away by the Israeli military, what options are left open to a new generation of Palestinians who desire to fight for their freedom and their dignity?
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who met with Abdallah Abu Rahma last summer during a visit to Israel, under the auspices of The Elders, a group of global leaders formed by former South African president Nelson Mandela, condemned Abu Rahma's arrest and indictment.
Archbishop Tutu said that he and his fellow delegation members – who included former American president Jimmy Carter, former Irish president Mary Robinson and former Norwegian prime minister Gro Brundtland – were "impressed by [Abdallah Abu Rahma] commitment to peaceful political action, and their success in challenging the wall that unjustly separates the people of Bil'in from their land and their olive trees." He called Abu Rahma's arrest and indictment "part of an escalation by the Israeli military to try to break the spirit of the people of Bil'in."
All of us who met with Abdallah Abu Rahmah in Bilin share Desmond Tutu's evaluation and condemnation.
We urge students and faculty to
1) Send a message of support and solidarity to the Bilin Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements,
2) Contact Israeli embassies to request the release of Palestinian popular leaders from Israeli prisons,
3) Ask President Obama to put pressure on Israel to release the leaders of the non-vilolent struggle against the Wall and settlements
Abdallah Abu Rahmah Apartheid Wall Bil'in High Court of Justice International law Jamal Juma'	2009-12-31
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Seismic retrofitting 'protects my kids, home'
by: Elise Haas
Posted: Apr 18, 2019 / 11:51 AM PDT / Updated: Apr 18, 2019 / 01:23 PM PDT
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Abby Hall and her family of 5 just moved into their new home in Portland's Irvington neighborhood. Like many homes here, this craftsman house was built in 1914 and wasn't built with earthquakes in mind.
Before moving in, Abby and her husband made sure to retrofit their century-old home to withstand a big quake.
"My husband grew up in Los Angeles, and his childhood home actually moved off the foundation in the 1989 earthquake in California," she told KOIN 6 News.
Abby works as a disaster planner, so she knows the data and probability of Cascadia hitting the Pacific Northwest.
"I have my 3 kids living in this house. I have my 99-year old grandmother over here. We want to make sure the house doesn't fall down on them in the event of an earthquake."
Abby Hall and her husband seismically retrofitted their home in Portland's Irvington neighborhood, April 18, 2019 (KOIN)
The real estate market in Portland is not built around telling buyers about earthquake safety, she said. That's why she believes it's important to talk to engineers and experts like Taylor Pease with Earthquake Tech.
"We're installing hardware that essentially is never going to fail," Pease said. "We're creating the strongest link in the chain."
Pease said they install 2 separate sets of reinforcement connecting the house to the foundation. Without this, the only thing keeping the house in place is gravity.
In the event of an earthquake, this will prevent Abby Hall's house from sliding off the foundation and falling into the basement.
Abby says this kind of insurance and reassurance is priceless.
"For me," she said, "it was about protecting the lives of my kids, but also protecting my asset, my investment in this home."
Earthquake Tech is sponsoring an earthquake preparedness presentation called "Tipping Point Resilience: The Subduction Zone and You" at McMenamins Mission Theater. It begins at 7 p.m. Thursday and has a $5 suggested donation.
Vatican denies interference in debate over Franco exhumation
ROME (AP) — The Vatican has responded to a formal protest by the Spanish government over a controversy regarding the remains of Gen. Francisco Franco, saying it never intended to meddle with Spain's domestic affairs.
In early July, Spain sent a formal protest to the Vatican after the papal nuncio in Madrid rebuked the Socialist government for "resuscitating" Franco through its efforts to move the former dictator's remains. The deputy head of the Socialist caretaker government noted that the diplomat's comments amounted to "interference" in Spanish affairs.
Manchester Arena bombing suspect denies 22 counts of murder
LONDON (AP) — The brother of the suicide bomber who killed almost two dozen people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester appeared in court Thursday to face 22 charges of murder.
Hashem Abedi's lawyer, Zafar Ali, said his client denied the charges.
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The Willys Americar was a line of automobiles produced by Willys-Overland Motors from 1937 to 1942, either as a sedan, coupe, station wagon or pick-up truck. The coupe version is a very popular hot rod choice, either as a donor car or as a fiberglass model.
The car started production in 1937 with somewhat traditional styling, product of the internal reorganization that turned to Willys-Overland Motor Company into Willys Overland Motors. It was itself an evolution of the aging Willys 77. When Joseph W. Frazer joined the company in 1938 he decided that a modern looking and cheap compact car was the answer for the struggling Willys. Models 37, 38 and 39 gradually evolved into a more "Ford" like appearance, culminating in the very much DeLuxe like '40 model.
As a matter of fact, only the 1941-1942 models were called "Americar" (441 and 442 models respectively), following the patriotic trend of the time. It sold 22,000 units in 1941 and 7,000 more in 1942. Its price was about US$ 630. As war broke out, civilian production was abandoned by all US motor companies, in order to assist the military, and the Americar was no exception. Howewer Willys was one of the companies awarded a contract to produce the highly successful Jeep. After the end of the war they managed to secure the trademark on the "Jeep" name, and the much higher sales of its civilian "CJ" version keep the Toledo firm from resurrecting the pre-war models - sealing the fate of the Americar. Despite failed attempts in 1940 and 1945 (both times with Frazer's 6/66 prototype), the 1942 Americar would be Willys-Overland final "civilian" passenger car model until the Willys Aero, ten years later.
There were three variations -- Speedway, DeLuxe and Plainsman -- offered, each with a coupe and sedan, plus a DeLuxe four-door woody wagon.
Critical engine failures, lack of reposition parts and the sheer lack of assitance from Willys turned many Americars in perfect targets for the nascent hot rod community - the "Go Devil" engine was replaced with many other alternatives, some weaker, some much stronger than the original specification. It became such a favorite that today a 100% stock Americar is a very rare find.