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Wall St banks’ trading risk surges to highest since 2011

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Billy Vunipola: 'It wouldn't be right for me to play for Tonga'

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Britain's richest men worth £22BILLION use taxpayers' cash to furlough staff at their bus firm

The transport company Optare is using the Government scheme despite owners - the Hinduja family - building a huge fortune. Pictured are the brothers Srichand and Gopi Hinduja.




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Bank holiday road trippers caught and fined

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Martin McDonagh's busy careers 'have put a strain on their romance'

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Keira Knightley and husband James Righton ring in the 75th anniversary of VE Day 

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How small luxury retail businesses throughout the world are handling the pandemic — and their hopes for what comes next




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Covid-19: Assam tightens screening protocol; to take swab from all returnees

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Rupee Opens Higher At 75.51 Per US Dollar

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RIL Stock 2% Away From 52-Week High Price; Net Debt To Fall 75% Post Vista Equity Deal

Reliance Industries shares in trade on May 8, 2020 jumped 4.5% to an intra-day high of Rs. 1579.7 per share. But the coronavirus-led stock market crash in March, triggered high-order losses in the stock of RIL which recorded its 52-week low




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Sensex Ends 200 Points Higher, Reliance Rallies

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Should You Invest In Reliance Industries Rights Issue?

The oil to telecom conglomerate while announcing its quarterly results ending March Fy20 approved a rights issue which is the first in 29 years to mop up Rs. 53,125 crore. So, here is a low down on whether or not




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Govt Prepared To Restart Passenger Airlines; Domestic Flights May Resume By 15 May

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RIL Sets May 14 As Record Date For Rights Issue

Reliance Industries in a filing to the BSE on Saturday said the Rights Issue Committee comprising of the company's board of Directors has fixed May 14, 2020 (Thursday) as the record date for the company's rights issue. Record date is the




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Should You Invest In Reliance Industries Rights Issue?

The oil to telecom conglomerate while announcing its quarterly results ending March Fy20 approved a rights issue which is the first in 29 years to mop up Rs. 53,125 crore. So, here is a low down on whether or not




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Govt Prepared To Restart Passenger Airlines; Domestic Flights May Resume By 15 May

Union Minister of Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri was interviewed by some media channels this week wherein he spoke of the preparedness from the ministry's side on restarting operations for passengers, however, there will be changes to the way people travel




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RIL Sets May 14 As Record Date For Rights Issue

Reliance Industries in a filing to the BSE on Saturday said the Rights Issue Committee comprising of the company's board of Directors has fixed May 14, 2020 (Thursday) as the record date for the company's rights issue. Record date is the




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Can HIV Transmit Through Oral Sex?

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Mother’s Day 2020: Soni Razdan And Alia Bhatt, And Other Stylish Mother-Daughter Duos From Bollywood

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Coronavirus wrap May 9 | First repatriation flight from London takes off for Mumbai with 326 Indians

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Rakul Preet Singh Is Holding THIS In The Viral Video And It’s Not A Wine Bottle

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Ex-PM Manmohan Singh admitted to AIIMS after complaining of chest pain

Singh was taken to the hospital at around 8:45 PM




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Saint-Saëns and the stage: operas, plays, pageants, a ballet and a film / Hugh Macdonald

Lewis Library - ML410.S15 M3 2019




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Musical and socio-cultural anecdotes from Kitāb al-aghānī al-kabīr: annotated translations and commentaries / by George Dimitri Sawa

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Data-based methods for materials design and discovery: basic ideas and general methods / Ghanshyam Pilania, Prasanna V. Balachandran, James E. Gubernatis, Turab Lookman

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Controllable structure reconstruction of nickel–iron compounds toward highly efficient oxygen evolution

Nanoscale, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR02254C, Paper
Azhar Mahmood, Qiangmin Yu, Yuting Luo, Zhiyuan Zhang, Chi Zhang, Ling Qiu, Bilu Liu
Structure optimized Ni0.8Fe0.2-LDH catalyst and corresponding OER performance.
To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.
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Encapsulation of Cu nanoparticles in nanovoids of plate-like silica sodalite through interlayer condensation of Cu2+ ion-exchanged layered silicate RUB-15

Dalton Trans., 2020, Advance Article
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Cu nanoparticles were encapsulated in the nanovoids of plate-like silica sodalite through the interlayer condensation of Cu2+ ion-exchanged layered silicate RUB-15.
To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.
The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry




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A competitive self-powered sensing platform based on a visible light assisted zinc–air battery system

Chem. Commun., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01163K, Communication
Junlun Zhu, Wei Nie, Qin Wang, Wei Wen, Xiuhua Zhang, Fujun Li, Shengfu Wang
We developed a competitive and oxygen concentration sensitive self-powered sensing platform based on the discharge process of a visible light assisted zinc–air battery system for the detection of targets.
To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.
The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry




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Lockdown: Air India flight brings home 239 Indians from UK

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RIL fixes May 14 as record date for rights issue

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Michael Douglas teases Ant-Man 3 update, asks fans to "hang tight"

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TN: Private bus carrying stranded citizens of Kerala collides with water tanker on Karur-Salem highway, 25 injured

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Afghanistan Cricket Board bans wicketkeeper-batsman Shafiqullah Shafaq for 6 years from all forms of cricket

The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) on Sunday banned wicketkeeper-batsman Shafiqullah Shafaq from all forms of cricket for a period of six years after he accepted four charges related to the breaching of the ACB Anti-Corruption Code.




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Hockey legend Balbir Singh Sr hospitalised in critical condition





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WA coronavirus restriction easing not enough for pubs, beauticians, tourism industry - ABC News

  1. WA coronavirus restriction easing not enough for pubs, beauticians, tourism industry  ABC News
  2. Coronavirus crisis: Weekends in Esperance back on the cards  The West Australian
  3. WA's decision to keep its mines open amid coronavirus may have saved Australia's economy | ABC News  ABC News (Australia)
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The Annual Book Fair for Ballou Sr High School Is On!

It's Time to Send More Books to Washington D.C.

Welcome to the annual Book Fair for Ballou Sr High School!

For the 8th year, Guys Lit Wire is delighted to invite readers to help this school fill its library shelves by shopping their Amazon wish list. There are hundreds of books to choose from covering every topic you can think of and we hope you will buy a book or two for this worthy school and help its students and wonderful librarian, Melissa Jackson, gain greater access to more titles. The school depends on this annual book fair and we are happy to host it. This is our chance to help the students obtain books they want to read and we can't do it without your help!

Ballou Sr High School's students face many obstacles; all of the students qualify for free or reduced price lunch and last year its graduation rate was 57%. But in 2017 every member of the senior class applied to college — a first for the school — and we certainly believe that the library was a huge support to them in their efforts.


Our Goal

We hope to send at least 150 books to Ballou this year and there are plenty of titles at a wide variety of prices to choose from. It's important to stress that this is a list that is reviewed and approved by Ballou students and includes many many books that they have requested. There are poetry and novels, biographies and cookbooks, graphic novels, science, travel and more. There is literally something for everyone on this list and we are sure that you will find a book (or more!) that you want to gift to these worthy students. 

We know 2017 has given us all so many things to worry about and, sadly, so many people who are in need of assistance. With Ballou the need is ever present however and, we believe, critically important. Libraries are the heart of every school and every community; they are part of the long game that can positively transform a community and are especially critical to the hearts of young people. Books can be game changers in the life of a teenager — heck, books ARE game changers and we want to get as many as we can into the hands of Ballou's students. 


The Details

The Amazon wish list can be found here. It is also easily searchable at Amazon under "Ballou High School". If you would like to embed a link in a post or tweet (and PLEASE DO!!), use this one: http://tinyurl.com/BookFairBallouHS

And here is the url in case the links are not working for you:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/2CU17Q38C3P68/ref=cm_wl_sortbar_o_page_1?ie=UTF8&sort=universal-title 

The mailing address is already set-up for checkout and there are nearly 500 books to choose from with a wide price range. We do hope you will find a book that you want to send to Ballou and help us make life a little better for a great bunch of a kids.

The Book Fair for Ballou High School Library will stay open for 2 weeks and we will keep you posted here on how things go. Be sure to follow @chasingray (GLW moderator Colleen Mondor's twitter feed) and watch the Ballou Library feed for shoutouts from Melissa (@BallouLibrary) as books show up.


Just one book will make a huge difference.



  • Book Fair for Boys

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Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

 When her big chance comes, however, she throws it all away to rescue a teenager drowning off the coast of her island home.
Interacting with a human is strictly forbidden in Diana's culture, let alone saving one and hiding them in a cave.

This, however is no ordinary human. Her name is Alia and unbeknownst to her she is a Warbringer, someone who may be responsible for the greatest war ever to befall the human race.

Using a controversial myth as a guide, Alia and Diana set off to end the curse that Alia has become convinced she carries.

she does her best to stand out.
Full of action, sarcastic wit and strong female characters, Wonder Woman: Warbringer is a great teen read for anyone who loves superhero backstories. Bardugo has created a character with real depth that flies off the page, highly recommend this!
Diana is desperate to prove herself. Surrounded by warriors who make every feat of strength and agility look like a cake walk,




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The first books have arrived at Ballou High School in DC!


The first books from the wish list have arrived at Ballou High School in Washington DC and are front and center for students to check out! 

We are very excited by how the Annual Book Fair for Ballou Library is going — over 80 books have already been purchased. Our hope is to send 150 books to Ballou from their amazon list this month and we would be delighted to surpass that goal. There are still over 200 books on the list, covering many topics and genres. (Especially 2 MCAT study guides for one student who hopes to be a neurosurgeon & wants to get a head start on what she will need to know for medical school.) 

We hope you will take a look at the list (http://tinyurl.com/BookFairBallouHS) and help spread the word. Be sure to follow @BallouLibrary & my twitter feed, @chasingray, for updates as the books arrive and, if you have any questions, check out the original post on book fair or email me at colleenATchasingrayDOTcom.

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE ANNUAL BOOK FAIR FOR BALLOU!!!!!



  • Book Fair for Boys

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Black Light Express by Phillip Reeve


From my recent review of Black Light Express for Locus:


Philip Reeve’s absolutely incredible world building again takes center stage in Black Light Express, the sequel to Railhead. The second book picks up soon after the events that brought Railhead to a stunning close, with former thief and unwitting catalyst Zen Starling having fled the Network Empire along with Nova, his android girlfriend. Meanwhile, completely against her will, Threnrody Noon, the Paris Hilton of the empire-controlling Noon family, has assumed the position of Empress. She is only a pawn of more powerful interests however and virtually trapped in the palace attending a haze of pointless engagements while her former fiance, Kobi, is on the other side of the galaxy about to be forced into a corporate approved marriage with someone he has never met. Basically, the fallout from Railhead is reverberating across all the lives of the major characters while, unknown to them, it’s about to get a lot lot worse. 

What Black Light Express (and the first book, Railhead), offers readers is sentient trains, a vapid rich girl who decides she doesn't want to be a pawn anymore, political machinations, alien technology, aliens, dinosaur-descended aliens, human-android romance, the fact that the human-android romance is the best kind of romance, more stupid rich people, the satisfaction of rich people losing because they are stupid, a protagonist who is smart and scrappy and more than willing to walk on the wrong side of the law because playing by the rules gets you only so far (and those rich jerks are the ones who wrote the rules in the first place).

Oh - and a train is killed and that is far more upsetting than you would think. 

As I wrote in my review, I'm really surprised that these books are not more well known. They  are excellent SF (which is not too common in the YA literary world) as well as being excellent political mirrors for much of modern society. Check them out!




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Third Brighton player tests positive for coronavirus

A third Brighton player tests positive for coronavirus.




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Stars CLASSICS Highlights | 1999 Stanley Cup Final Games 2 and 3 vs. Sabres

Stars CLASSICS Highlights | 1999 Stanley Cup Final Games 2 and 3 vs. Sabres




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