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Njideka Akunyili started college planning to be a doctor, but left as an artist and is now billed as one of New York's most promising new talents.

The 29-year-old Nigerian-born artist has just completed a year-long residence with the prestigious Studio Harlem in New York.

All five of her works sold in the first half hour of this year's Art Basel, the world's top fair for modern and contemporary art and African style magazine Arise described her as "fast becoming the art world's newest star."

Akunyili was born and brought up in the small town of New Haven in Enugu, Nigeria, and moved to the United States for college at the age of 16.

Her work, a combination of drawing, painting, printmaking and collage, combines Nigerian and American culture.

"Nigeria is almost a third character in my work," she said. "A lot of my work is about investigating my love for Nigeria and my life in America.

"I met my husband at college and there was some anxiety that if I married outside my culture I would lose my identity, but there is a space in my work where these things come together."

Akunyili is hoping to help change attitudes to art in Nigeria, where she said appreciation is growing slowly.

"If I hadn't left Nigeria, I wouldn't be an artist, I would be a doctor," she said. "When I told my parents I wanted to be an artist, they couldn't get their heads around why an educated person who went to college in America would want to be an artist.
1. Does Akunyili love Nigeria?
2. What character is it in her work?
3. How old was she when she moved to the United States?
4. What prompted her to come to the States?
5. Was she born and brought up in a huge city?
6. What was the name of the small town she grew up in?
7. What province is that in?
8. What country?
9. Does her work combine Japanese and South American culture?
10. What about painting?
11. What did she plan on becoming when she went to college?

Numbered answers:
1. Yes
2. Almost a third character
3. 16
4. For college
5. No
6. New Haven
7. Enugu
8. Nigeria
9. No
10. It combines Nigerian and American culture
11. An artist

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(CNN)The United States is now working on the assumption that Charlie Hebdo attacker Said Kouachi met American terrorist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki at some point in Yemen and received orders from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to carry out an attack, a U.S. official tells CNN.

The official said Kouachi's motivation for waiting so long -- possibly since 2011 -- to launch an attack was not clear.

U.S. officials Sunday said American authorities don't have evidence yet directly linking AQAP to specifically ordering the Paris attack last week at the offices of the satirical magaine. "We don't have credible information, at least as yet, to indicate who was responsible, who sponsored this act. That is clearly one of the things that we have to make a determination of," Attorney General Eric Holder told CNN's Gloria Borger on "State of the Union."

French security agencies had been monitoring Said Kouachi and his brother, Cherif, but stopped months before the two carried out the attack that left 12 people dead. The French monitoring faded despite a previous tip-off from American intelligence agencies that one of them had likely trained with al Qaeda in Yemen, a French news magazine reported Saturday.

Said Kouachi is suspected of slipping off for terror training in Yemen during a trip he made with another French national to Oman between July 25 and August 15 in 2011, according to multiple French officials who spoke to L'Express national security reporter Eric Pelletier. Pelletier shared the details of his reporting with CNN.
1. Who is AQAP?
2. Do American authorities have evidence linking them to the Paris attack?
3. Who is suspected of doing it?
4. Where did he train?
5. When was he in Yemen?
6. Did he go with anyone else?
7. What was his name?
8. Did he meet with anyone there?
9. Who?
10. Do authorities think he ordered the attack?
11. Who was attacked?
12. why did he wait so long to attack?
13. Was Said being monitored when the attack was carried out?
14. How about before that?

Numbered answers:
1. al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
2. no
3. Said Kouachi
4. in Yemen
5. between July 25 and August 15 in 2011
6. with another French national
7. unknown
8. yes
9. American terrorist cleric Anwar al-Awlak
10. no
11. Paris
12. unclear
13. no
14. yes

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The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second. It is named for Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the first person to provide conclusive proof of the existence of electromagnetic waves. Hertz are commonly expressed in multiples: kilohertz (10 Hz, kHz), megahertz (10 Hz, MHz), gigahertz (10 Hz, GHz), and terahertz (10 Hz, THz).

Some of the unit's most common uses are in the description of sine waves and musical tones, particularly those used in radio- and audio-related applications. It is also used to describe the speeds at which computers and other electronics are driven.

The hertz is equivalent to cycles per second, i.e., "1/second" or formula_1. The International Committee for Weights and Measures defined the second as "the duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom" and then adds the obvious conclusion: "It follows that the hyperfine splitting in the ground state of the caesium 133 atom is exactly 9192631770 hertz, (hfs Cs) = 9192631770 Hz."

In English, "hertz" is also used as the plural form. As an SI unit, Hz can be prefixed; commonly used multiples are kHz (kilohertz, 10Hz), MHz (megahertz, 10Hz), GHz (gigahertz, 10Hz) and THz (terahertz, 10Hz). One hertz simply means "one cycle per second" (typically that which is being counted is a complete cycle); 100Hz means "one hundred cycles per second", and so on. The unit may be applied to any periodic eventfor example, a clock might be said to tick at 1Hz, or a human heart might be said to beat at 1.2Hz. The occurrence rate of aperiodic or stochastic events is expressed in reciprocal second or inverse second (1/s or s) in general or, in the specific case of radioactive decay, in becquerels. Whereas 1Hz is 1 cycle per second, 1 Bq is 1 aperiodic radionuclide event per second.
1. What is a hertz?
2. What does it measure?
3. Anything else?
4. Like what?
5. How did it get its name?
6. Who is he?
7. Is it used only in English-speaking countries?
8. How do you know that?
9. What time span is used in defining the measurement?
10. How long is a second?
11. Who decided that?
Numbered answers:
1. the derived unit of frequency
2. sine waves
3. yes
4. also the speeds at which computers are driven.
5. It is named for Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
6. the first person to provide conclusive proof of the existence of electromagnetic waves
7. no
8. it is in the International System of Units (SI)
9. a second
10. "the duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom"
11. The International Committee for Weights and Measures