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These Kenyan Women Are Making Waves in Tech's Emerging Markets
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Juliana Rotich-Ushahidi, Linda Kamau-AkiraChix, Jamila Abass -M-Farm and Juliete Wanyiri-Ihub Netwotk
A recent Startup Village event in Moscow organized by the Skolkovo Foundation celebrated and showcased Russian innovation, positioning Moscow as an emerging tech hub.
The event rolled into Moscow after visiting 16 cities across Russia, clocking more than 13,000 miles in the process. While that was unusual, even more striking at the show was the sheer number of smart and entrepreneurial women involved.
The dearth of women in Silicon Valley is one of the fails hidden behind the success story of the world's greatest tech hub. It's great that Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer and other high-profile women are pushing through the glass ceiling, but on the shop floor, things are rather different.
But do emerging tech hubs offer opportunities for women that Silicon Valley failed to deliver in recent decades? Can hubs such as Moscow, London, New York and even Nairobi offer women a level playing field of opportunities?
A report released in June from Dell, The Gender Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI), would suggest that the West still leads the way. Out of 17 countries, monitored, it showed that the U.S. was the best place for female entrepreneurs, followed by Australia, France, Germany and Mexico. But that's not to say women aren't making an impression.
Helen Keegan (@technokitten on Twitter) has 25 years of experience of working in and around London, and she's the founder of Heroes of Mobile. She sees things changing slowly, but believes there is still work to be done.
"The good news is there are lots of women working in London's tech industry. The bad news is there aren't enough of us. We're almost invisible at board level, and the new girls on the block coming up from school aren't interested in having a career in tech, yet will quite happily use it, day in and day out."
What has changed, she says, is that now we're talking about it. "Women in Wireless in London and Women in Telecoms and Technology both have a mentoring scheme. Women 2.0 mentors female tech founders and has regular Founder Friday meetups across the globe." Keegan says that 50 years ago, there weren't any female toilets at the University of London for students. "We have come a long way, but we still have a little further to go," she says.
Keegan's view is backed up by Kathryn Parsons, founder of Decoded, a company with offices in London and New York that practices "digital enlightenment" through an understanding of code. Parsons is passionate about women learning about technology and is confident that those who do will prosper.
"There is an appetite for women to opt-in to tech, learn to code and become digitally literate," say Parsons, adding that Decoded has a nearly 50:50 male-to-female ratio.
"And I know about a swathe of exciting networking events in New York and London about to launch that are set up by female founders and CEOs. The kind of events that are not subsidiary to the main event; they are going to be center stage and the place where lots of fun and business will happen," says Parsons.
But perhaps we should look away from Europe and North America to Africa, perhaps the last frontier making huge strides in the tech space — but one where women are represented at the highest level.
"Women in tech hubs like iHub Nairobi are not only part and parcel of its history, but have led with outstanding ideas," says Parsons. She cites two women in particular, whom she's seen grow in the tech space — Linda Kamau, co-founder of Akirachix and Jamilla Abbas, co-founder of M-Farm. "They are excelling and paving the way for technologists of the future here in Kenya," says Parsons.
Perhaps the next frontier in tech is the Maker space, which blurs the line between software and hardware. "Juliette Wanyiri, who is part of the iHub Network, is an amazing inspiration with engineering cred who is not just a participant, but an active leader" in the field, says Juliana Rotich, executive director of Ushahidi, the Kenyan company behind the innovative BRCK product.
Over in India where 'new' cities such as Pune are building from the example of Bangalore and emerging as hubs in their own right, women are also making their mark.
"With emerging hubs such as Pune or other Indian metro cities, there has been a massive growth in technology and a lot of women are taking big jobs," says Aakriti Kaushik, Indian tech specialist and founder at PR Buddy. "However, a lot more needs to be done in training and development with technology — education is especially needed."
Kaushik says that though women are leading the IT departments of major corporations, "their level of education in tech would not be as deep as it would in cities such as London and New York."
It may be some time, as the women in this article have pointed out, before the gender equality in technology is reached, but the women in London, New York, Nairobi and Pune are watching … as is the whole world.
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Three coins: a story about the heart of negotiation
When you negotiate an agreement with someone with whom you've been in conflict, it may feel like the finish point. Settled, resolved, end of story.
Actually, it's the start of a new story, as author and creative-thinking expert Michael Michalko beautifully points out in the following story. Michael's the mind behind Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (affiliate link) and this story originally appeared on his Amazon blog. He's graciously given me permission to reprint it here.
A Franciscan monk who was a speaker at an international seminar about world peace, was asked if successful negotiations between Israel and Palestine were possible. He called two young people up to the microphone: a Palestinian young man and a Jewish Israeli young man. "Imagine you are brothers," he told them. "Your father has passed away, and he has left you an inheritance with three assets," represented symbolically by three coins, which he placed on the podium.
"Your instructions are that you must share the inheritance fairly but you cannot split any of the assets," the boys were told. "Now you must try to find a creative solution that will get you the maximum possible benefit." When the Palestinian said he would take two coins and give the Israeli one, everyone laughed again and the monk said, "Well, okay, you have the power to do that, but you are sowing the seeds of conflict." The Israeli said he was actually thinking of taking one coin and giving the Palestinian two. "Evidently," the monk guessed, "you feel it's worth the risk of investing in your adversary in this way, and hope to somehow benefit in the future from this." The boys sat down.
Next, the monk asked two young women (again one was Israeli, the other Palestinian) to repeat the exercise. It was fairly clear where the monk was going with this, but would the girls get it? "I would keep one coin and give her two," said the Israeli young woman, "on condition that she donate her second one to a charity, maybe a children's hospital." "Good," said the monk and asked the Palestinian woman if she agreed. She said "I would keep one for myself, and give one to her, and say that we should invest the third one together." The entire audience stood and applauded for the final solution.
Negotiating is not a game, and it's not a war, it's what civilized people do to iron out their differences. There is no point, the monk said, in figuring out how to get the other side to sign something they cannot live with. A negotiated settlement today is not the end of the story, because "there is always the day after," and a good negotiator should be thinking about the day after, and the day after that.
And since some of you who read Conflict Zen® are fellow mediators and conflict coaches, I'd add that good mediators should be thinking about the day after, too. I tell my mediation students this: The point is not to "get them to settlement." The point is to help them find agreements they want to honor for the long run. That's the real artistry of good mediation.
Hat tip to Phil Gerbyshak for the story. I'll return to my short series, 3 eye-opening questions for conflict clarity, next.

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This Just in: London is the Most Tweeted City in the World
New research shows that 81 million tweeted about the British hub last year.
By Jordi Lippe and Jordi Lippe-McGraw
It's official: London is the world's most talked-about destination—in the social media sphere, at least. According to new research from London & Partners compiled by Spredfast, the city ranks number one as the most tweeted. The study shows that the words "London" and "travel" were tweeted together more than 630,000 times in 2015, which is 200,000 more than the next most popular cities: Paris, New York, Rome, and Tokyo.
Paris came in second with 431,662, while New York landed in third with 291,894, and Rome came in fourth with 175,514. The research also revealed there were 81 million tweets about London overall, which is more than Sydney, Tokyo, and Rome combined. The five most-tweeted London attractions, based on visitor figures provided by ALVA and Merlin, are the Coca-Cola London Eye, British Museum, National History Museum, Tower of London, and Tate Modern.
"With our unbeatable cultural attractions, outstanding dining and top notch shopping, it's no wonder that London is the most talked about travel destination on social media," the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said. "Even better, this online chatter is translating into record breaking visitor numbers and our museums, galleries, and other attractions continue to top the charts. With another fantastic year of world-class events in store, we look forward to welcoming even more fans of London throughout the coming months and the years ahead."
The data has even inspired the travel bureau's "Fans of London" campaign, which launches next week and celebrates the city's super-fans with a video series and spring lineup of epic events, including the world celebration of HRH Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday.
By Jordi Lippe


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Voodoo Economics, Part 1 – Move Left!
The term Voodoo Economics weas originally coined by George H.W. Bush during the Reagan administration to deride the theory of "tricke-down economics", meaning: as investors use their liquid assets to invest (build factories, fund startup companies etc), more people get employed, net income increases and overall wealth improves. As the Reagan administration has shown with courageous tax cuts, wealth does trickle down from investors to company leaders to employees all the way down to the poorest individuals, and everybody benefits. Seeing Reaganomics work, George H.W. Bush withdrew the term Voodoo Economics.
In this new age of socialism, we hear of a new wondrous phenomenon that may again deserve the term Voodoo Economics. It is called the Keynesian Multiplier and stipulates that for each dollar spent by the government, GDP increases by more than one dollar. One famous proponent, Paul Krugman, maintains that government spending must increase even further to bootstrap the economy. True enough, if government spending of an amount of G increases the GDP by m × G where m > 1, then we should tax all we can (ideally 100 percent), spend everything through the government, and enjoy an exponentially increasing GDP with a year-to-year increase of mk where k is the number of years after the introduction of Krugmanomics. Too good to be true? If it sounds so, it probably is. Let us analyze why.
where ∑ Input is the aggregate value of spending and ∑ Output is the value of products on which money was spent — this is the GDP. The sum of all inputs includes consumer and government spending, investments, and the difference between exports and imports. In recession periods, the input side of the equation decreases predominantly because consumer spending and investment are cut back. Consequently, the output side, the GDP, decreases as well (less products are bought and therefore less is produced). With it, GNP (Gross National Product) per capita — this is the net income of the citizens — decreases as well. Two familiar side effects of a recession include rising unemployment rate and decreasing consumption spending in a self-sustaining spiral.
where G is government spending, C is consumer spending, I is investment spending, and ΔE is the difference between exports and imports.
On what evidence is this claim based? The idea of the spending multiplier was initially introduced by Keynes and further quantitatively developed by John R. Hicks in his work on the IS/LM model (Investment Saving / Liquidity Preference Money Supply model). For a simple explanation of the spending multiplier, let us look at a government spending chain in the following figure. The assumption is that the government buys goods (in this example for $1.00), and those $1.00 are now in the hands of private entities. With those $1.00 they can now buy something – this is called the marginal propensity to consume or MPC. As the first recipients of the government funds spend their money, the second round of recipients also start spending.
We can see from Equations 5 and 6 that the Keynesian multiplier m is a number of unity or larger value. Under this theory, m=1 when MPC=0, in other words, government spending does not hurt in the worst case. As MPC increases, m grows rapidly, reaching infinity for MPC=1. A few examples demonstrate the significance of the multiplier. If the government spends 50 cents on every dollar made by private entities, the government spending multiplier is m=2 according to Equation 4. If the government spends 75 cents on every dollar, we get m=4. If the government spends 90 cents on every dollar, we get m=10. To stay with the last example, if the government spends 90 percent of the GNP, the nation's GDP would increase ten-fold as a consequence of government spending, according to this theory. These examples show that the theory must be flawed.
We will now have to take a close look at the fallacies of this theory. Superficially, Keynesian spending sounds good: the goverment injects money into the economy, private entities have more money to spend and demand increases. As a consequence, production increases, in turn increasing demand – particularly of investment goods.
The problem with this theory lies in the failure to take into account both the source and the processing of the government's largesse.
In a recession, injection of government money in fact temporarily increases demand. However, much of this demand is related to basic goods. This demand can easily be covered by imports from other countries (China, India) which provide low-cost goods. This money is consequently lost for the chain in Equation 4, and the Keynesian multiplier does not take into account low-cost imports. With rising imports ΔE decreases in Equation 3 and offsets government spending S. An indirect consequence of this type of low-cost spending is the increase in trade balance deficit which weakens the national currency. A weakening of the national currency (the dollar) makes commodity imports, such as oil or metals, more expensive and leads to a backlash in prices.
The government injection of money into the economy leads to a spontaneous increase of demand. Supply follows with a lag, and in the meantime, prices increase. This price increase – inflation – is not considered in Keynesian theory as it necessarily decreases MPC: Equation 5 does not consider inflationary price increases which make negative values of MPC possible, with the consequence of a government mutiplier m dropping below unity.
Unfortunately, a government that causes a large deficit is interested in stoking an inflation. Let's take a debt of one trillion as an example, just for the math. With a 2% inflation, its value in ten years is 820 billion – still a sizable chunk. With a 12% inflation (we have had almost 15% in the Seventies), the 10-year devaluation gets the value of the debt down to 320 billion. Down by two thirds! This is a good solution for the government. Clearly, inflation means that you can buy less with your money and your MPC is reduced (see previous bullet).
In a recession, the government typically borrows money at an interest. Primary and interest need to be serviced – the borrowed money has to be repaid at a later point in time. The money to service primary and interest has to come from somewhere – usually increased taxes.
To borrow money, the U.S. government sells treasury bonds, and private investors are eager to buy them because of the stability of U.S. government which has never defaulted on them. When private investors invest money in treasury bonds that means the same amount of money isn't going to be invested into private enterprise, thereby depriving industry of resources to expand their operations and hire more people (and therefore lower unemployment).
Since government spending is directed spending, it is very likely to be spent on inefficient, unsustainable or temporary projects ("pork barrel projects"), thus rendering its usefulness to be short lived.
Government spending is also controlled by the influence of the constituents and lobbying groups. This effect is called "The Capture". The concept of the Capture was first espoused by George Stigler in Economic Theory of Regulation, where various interest groups use regulation and the power of government to benefit their own interest. Examples of those interest groups are government sponsored enterprises to promote housing ownership, senior citizen groups' lobbies against reform of entitlement programs, unions, and subsidized alternative energy firms.
The analogy to government spending is clear. What is really happening, though? The baker, who is now forced to spend $250 to repair his window, has to scratch his plan to buy a new kneading machine. With this kneading machine, he was planning to make his production more efficient and lower the price of his bread. Not only will the baker now be unable to realize his plans, but the manufacturer of the kneading machine will not get those $250 that are now in the hands of the glazier. While one stream of spending (via the glazier) has been established, another stream (via the kneading machine manufacturer) failed to get established. In other words, The glazier's gain of business is merely the manufacturer's loss of business. It is obvious that nothing has been gained.
The situation is even worse, though. The baker had already paid for the glass pane when the shop was built. Now he will have to pay again because circumstances force him to change his priorities. In the end, the baker has gained nothing, but he is now lacking $250 that would have been used for an investment to make bread cheaper – the obvious benefit for his customers now fails to materialize.
We can further illustrate the point by exaggerating: if the hoodlum who smashed the window and forced the baker to pay the glazier (in our analogy, the government that takes away money and decides where it will be spent) causes the generation of money and employment in ever-widening circles, why don't we torch our houses and have them rebuilt? It would create employment for builders, lumber manufacturers, drywall manufacturers and so on. Right? Of course not. By torching our houses, we destroy economic goods. Labor and materials to replace the houses are now missing elsewhere. Lumber and other building materials become more expensive. Scarcities ensue. The unfortunate but intuitive fact is that the destruction of goods does not make a people wealthier but poorer.
What about the government, then? The government spends money following political expediency. Political pet projects are seldom aimed at creating sustainable jobs. Yes, the government creates jobs. However, those jobs are normally not productive in terms of the GDP. You cannot eat government forms, not can you build a house or a car with government forms. It is important to consider a job's contribution to the gross domestic product or, in other words, to the people's wealth. A private company is forced to keep their administrative overhead low to remain competitive (few paper-pushers). Conversely, the government is under no compulsion to reduce its administrative costs (many paper-pushers). A good example for a political pet project is the San Francisco salt marsh harvest mouse (see this document, page 3, a public spending program that was appropriately ridiculed). While proponents of the salt marsh project claim job creation, the jobs are temporary and cease to exist when the pork money runs out. Moreover, the jobs do not create tangible economic output as opposed to, say, jobs in companies tha produce bread, steel, drywalls, or computers. Paper pushers or pet projects – none of them contribute to the GDP. However, to pay for them, money needs to be taken away elsewhere – higher taxation. This is money taken away from productive branches of the industry. In our baker example, the baker, forced to pay higher taxes, is now missing the money for a crucial investment to make bread cheaper. In the economy, employers are missing the money for investment or new employment. And the spending multiplier – irrespective of how fancy the equation is – does not take the transfer of funds from productive parts of the economy to unproductive parts into account.
To conclude: the main fallacy of the spending multiplier lies in the assessment of MPC. The multitude of factors that influences the propensity to consume is not taken into account. While government spending may have a small and transient positive effect on consumer spending (thus increasing MPC), there are numerous factors that reduce MPC. Among those factors are taxation and inflation (less money available for consumption), unemployment, and insecurity over the economic development. All these factors have the power to cause negative marginal propensity to consume and therefore a multiplier that is less than unity.
It is illogical that money taken away from the economy and then given back to the economy by the government should have any positive effect (m>1) on GDP. Rather, history proves that m<1 and government spending hurts the economy.
Hicks John R. Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1937 Mr. Keynes and the "Classics"; A Suggested Interpretation.


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Фор-де-Франс () (ранее с 1672 по 1793 Форт-Рояль) — административный центр Мартиники, заморской территории Франции, охватывающей территорию одноимённого острова в Карибском море. Является самым крупным французским городом в Вест-Индии. Население на 2014 год составляет 125 036 человек. Население включая пригороды: около 140 000 человек (по переписи 2014, в 1974—100 тыс.). Экспорт сахара, рома, консервированных фруктов, какао.

География

Фор-де-Франс лежит на западном побережье острова у северного входа в большую бухту Фор-де-Франса, в устье реки Мадам. Город занимает узкую часть между холмами и морем, но соединён дорогами со всеми частями острова.

Климат
Климат города характеризуется как тропический влажный, с незначительными изменениями температуры в течение года. Среднегодовая температура составляет 26,5 °С, среднегодовой уровень осадков — 1 950 мм. Наиболее высокие температуры наблюдаются с августа по октябрь (31 °С — дневной максимум и 24-25 °С — ночной минимум), а наиболее низкие с января по февраль (29 °С — дневной максимум и 22 °С — ночной минимум).

Транспорт
Фор-де-Франс обслуживается международным аэропортом им. Эме Сезера (фр. Aéroport International Martinique Aimé Césaire), который расположен в 12 км к югу от города, в городке Ламентин. Выполняются рейсы в Париж (Орли), Гавану, Сан-Хуан, Пуант-а-Питр, Кайенну, Барбадос, Каракас и некоторые другие города.

Население

В кино
 В Фор-де-Франс происходит действие классического голливудского фильма «Иметь и не иметь» (США, 1944) с Хамфри Богартом в главной роли.

В литературе
Упоминается в романе Бориса Акунина «Сокол и Ласточка».

Города-побратимы

Примечания

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт Фор-де-Франс

Города Франции
Коммуны заморского департамента Мартиника

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Rita Jane Beach, 67, of Ft. Madison passed away on Sunday, April 14, 2019 at 6:30 PM at her home.
She was born on October 29, 1951 in Ft. Madison to Carl and Lucille Kenne Denning. On September 1, 1984 she married Kenneth Beach in Houghton, IA. In her early years she worked at Lampe Drug and then helped her husband on their farm. Rita was of the Catholic faith. She enjoyed quilting, going to Kalona and baking. She loved her crime TV shows and watching the Hallmark station. She enjoyed spending time with her granddaughter and helping her husband on the farm.
Survivors include her husband, Ken Beach of Ft. Madison; two sons, Lucas Beach of Quincy, IL and Michael (Rachel) Beach of Ft. Madison; one granddaughter, Mae Beach; four sisters, Pat Richenberger of Mt. Pleasant, Kathy (Don) Petersen of Chicago, IL, Joan (Joe) Kiefer of Keswick, IA and Diane (Alan) Ralston of Moville, IA; one sister in law, Sarah Denning of Rock Falls, IL; several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Tom.
Friends may call after 2 PM on Thursday, April 18, 2019 at King-Lynk Funeral Home & Crematory where the family will meet with friends from 4:30-6:30 PM. The funeral service will be held on Friday, April 19, 2019 at 10:30 AM at King-Lynk Funeral Home & Crematory. Burial will follow in Fairview Cemetery.


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DrupalCampCT is a full-day, no-cost event, structured around the open-source content management system Drupal. The annual Connecticut DrupalCamp includes knowledgeable speakers, informative workshops, impromptu birds-of-a-feather sessions and invaluable opportunities to network with other Drupalists in and around the Nutmeg State!
We expect attendees to be a good mix of experienced Drupalists and newcomers to Drupal; developers, themers, content managers and project leaders; and consultants, corporate professionals, academics and passionate hobbyists.
This year, our fifth year, DrupalCampCT returns to Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT at Yale University on Saturday, August 23, 2014 for a full day of events starting at 8:00am.
DrupalCampCT is a community-driven event. We welcome you to suggest a topic for presentation or discussion that would serve as a beneficial and interesting focus for you in a session led by some attendee knowledgeable in that topic. As well, we invite you to lead or present a session that would be educational and of interest to other DrupalCampCT attendees--- perhaps focusing on a suggestion offered by another attendee or instead focusing on an idea you have formulated yourself.
We are presently looking for organizations and individuals interested in sponsoring this year's camp. DrupalCampCT could not happen if not for our generous sponsors. We appreciate that your support of DrupalCamps contributes to creating the tremendous Drupal community from which we all benefit and the exceptional Drupal product which that community is able to produce.
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RaISe has developed a new Blog - Research Matters. This blog provides short, topical articles primarily for MLAs and their support staff, but also for a wider audience.
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JeM terrorist in Delhi Police net
After chasing for five months, the Special Cell of Delhi Police has arrested Abdul Majeed, a member of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror outfit, from Srinagar.
Arvind Ojha
Abdul Majeed with the Delhi Police Special Cell team in New Delhi on Tuesday (Photo: Qamar Sibtain)
After chasing for five months, the Special Cell of Delhi Police has arrested Abdul Majeed, a member of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror outfit, from Srinagar. Sources said that Majeed used to regularly receive tip-offs about police raids which helped him to flee from his hideouts and evade arrest.
Police said they received a tip-off on Saturday that Majeed would visit Shere-e-Kashmir Institute Medical Sciences Hospital in Shoura area of Srinagar. Accordingly, the team of Special Cell, already stationed at Srinagar, rushed there and laid down a trap near SKIMS Hospital and arrested the accused.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Sanjeev Kumar Yadav said during 2007, Majeed got involved in terrorist activities along with Yusuf, his close neighbour. He, along with associates Fayyaz and Bashir, came to Delhi to deliver a consignment of arms, ammunition and explosives to Pakistani terrorist Gafoor, and all of them were arrested during an encounter. However, a lower court had acquitted Majeed.
"For the last two months, the Special Cell team had conducted several raids on the accused's hideouts with the help of local police and Army, but each time he managed to escape the police dragnet. It was learnt that he was planning to escape to Pak-Occupied-Kashmir," said DCP Special Cell.
Sources in the Special Cell said that it is being suspected that Majeed's relatives (one driver and another sub-inspector) are with local police who informed him about the raids. "We have credible information. When police and Army cordoned him, Majeed fled the spot," sources said.
Posted byShreya Sinha


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I was excited to read Catch and Kill after reading Biohack. I'm a gun guy so I liked the attention to detail. It's not only a near future cyberpunk novel but it's solid adventure novel as well. While it does peer into the future through a futuristic crystal ball, it's a fun time even if you just want a romp. I was addicted. It takes me forever to read through a full novel so I read this s quickly as is possible for me. If you like a little bit of pulp fiction, you'll love it. It's a fun read and also a good portal into both the tech and the threats of the world in under a decade. Exciting. Thrilling! Fun read. Dying from global warming is a best-case scenario if you consider all the techno-plagues being hatched in labs right now as we speak. JD Lasica explores the hell out of this near future. Buy it on Amazon.
Overnight, hundreds of teenage girls disappear from the streets of America. Off the coast of Florida, an augmented reality fantasy theme park opens for the super-rich. Are the two connected? When two assailants accost 23-year-old Kaden Baker at an awards gala, she enters a maelstrom of high-tech international intrigue that pits her against a mysterious foe. It will take all her covert ops and hacking skills as she allies with a group of family members to battle an enemy out to unleash a mass attack on the West by stealth. Can they bring the girls home and thwart the unthinkable?
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namespace ash {

// A metrics recorder that records user activity in login screen.
// This is tied to UserMetricsRecorder lifetime.
// Authentication related metrics are captured in LoginAuthRecorder in chrome
// side.
class ASH_EXPORT LoginMetricsRecorder {
 public:
  // User clicks target on the lock screen. This enum is used to back an UMA
  // histogram and new values should be inserted immediately above kTargetCount.
  enum class LockScreenUserClickTarget {
    kShutDownButton = 0,
    kRestartButton,
    kSignOutButton,
    kCloseNoteButton,
    kSystemTray,
    kVirtualKeyboardTray,
    kImeTray,
    kNotificationTray,
    kTrayActionNoteButton,
    kParentAccessButton,
    kTargetCount,
  };

  // User clicks target on the login screen. This enum is used to back an UMA
  // histogram and new values should be inserted immediately above kTargetCount.
  enum class LoginScreenUserClickTarget {
    kShutDownButton = 0,
    kRestartButton,
    kBrowseAsGuestButton,
    kAddUserButton,
    kSystemTray,
    kVirtualKeyboardTray,
    kImeTray,
    kOsInstallButton,
    kTargetCount,
  };

  // User clicks target in OOBE. This enum is used to back an UMA
  // histogram and new values should be inserted immediately above kTargetCount.
  enum class OobeUserClickTarget {
    kShutDownButton = 0,
    kBrowseAsGuestButton,
    kSystemTray,
    kVirtualKeyboardTray,
    kImeTray,
    kEnterpriseEnrollmentButton,
    kSignIn,
    kOsInstallButton,
    kTargetCount,
  };

  // Helper enumeration for tray related user click targets on login and lock
  // screens. Values are translated to UMA histogram enums.
  enum class TrayClickTarget {
    kSystemTray,
    kVirtualKeyboardTray,
    kImeTray,
    kNotificationTray,
    kTrayActionNoteButton,
    kTargetCount,
  };

  // Helper enumeration for shelf buttons user click targets on login and lock
  // screens. Values are translated to UMA histogram enums.
  enum class ShelfButtonClickTarget {
    kShutDownButton,
    kRestartButton,
    kSignOutButton,
    kBrowseAsGuestButton,
    kAddUserButton,
    kCloseNoteButton,
    kCancelButton,
    kParentAccessButton,
    kEnterpriseEnrollmentButton,
    kOsInstallButton,
    kSignIn,
    kTargetCount,
  };

  LoginMetricsRecorder();

  LoginMetricsRecorder(const LoginMetricsRecorder&) = delete;
  LoginMetricsRecorder& operator=(const LoginMetricsRecorder&) = delete;

  ~LoginMetricsRecorder();

  // Methods used to record UMA stats.
  // |num_attempt| is an output arg as the function reset its value to 0.
  void RecordNumLoginAttempts(bool success, int* num_attempt);
  void RecordUserTrayClick(TrayClickTarget target);
  void RecordUserShelfButtonClick(ShelfButtonClickTarget target);
};

}  // namespace ash

#endif  // ASH_METRICS_LOGIN_METRICS_RECORDER_H_

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Denby Parish Council is undergoing a programme of replacing notice boards throughout the parish.
Normally there are 7 Notice Boards around the parish which are solely for Parish Council business and community events. Parish Council Agendas and Minutes are displayed accordingly.
Notice Boards can be found at: the bottom of Pippin Hill, outside the Denby Lodge public house on Church Street, entrance to the allotments on Danesby Rise, opposite the Bull's Head public house at Denby Common, at The Old Post Office at Smithy Houses, Derby Road, the bus shelter near One Stop shop on Derby Road and Ireton Close at Openwoodgate.


Grey talks about how he brought his decadent 'Cabaret' character to life on both the stage and screen, and reflects on coming out as gay after years of being closeted. His memoir is 'Master Of Ceremonies.' [Originally broadcast Feb. 2016] Ken Tucker reviews Kacey Musgraves' Christmas album.


Users with the ExtCreationsPlus2 feature can now place beacons.
PS: Keep in mind beacon effects are disabled on EcoCityCraft.
Dear VMR players. Your nagging and yelling at poor ol' andrewkm has succeeded.
The VMR booklet has been re worked and re coded pretty much completely by our Developer.
It is now coded in a much cleaner and proper way, and all bugs should be fixed. Further more the item detection is now far better than before, as such updating to future MC versions should be a zero hassle ordeal.
PS: I am almost 95% certain the booklet will have something to do with an upcoming prestige goal Get started early if you're interested in prestiging further on EcoCityCraft.
Been planning these changes for quite a while and finally got around to them.
As I am looking for new ways to let people earn prestige, I'm also going to need to add prestige levels.
We are always going to be capped at a max 1.5x /sell price, as 2x /sell hand wouldn't be manageable economy wise. As such the following changes have to be made to make way for new achievements on ECC.
@TITLE-03 Wiki Team Leader & @TITLE-02 Wiki Team please make changes as needed.
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Decorative Heads on EcoCityCraft! Over 21,000 of them!
Decorative heads are now available on EcoCityCraft!
Use the /hdb command to view them and purchase them!
The price to purchase heads is 5 netherstars.
All users have access to this feature and get two available categories! (Animals & Monsters). These two categories include over 2,000 decorative heads right off the bat!
The reasoning behind the high price (just above investigator) is due to the fact this brings heavy business opportunities for people that acquire it. You get access to a total 21,000 and counting heads, as well as totally bypass the 5 netherstar cost! Meaning, yes, all heads are free for HeadMasters. And yes, this means HeadMasters can sell them and offer them for a price of their choice, and in fact, we do encourage this.
The HeadMaster feature increases your available heads from 2,000 to over 21,000! With this feature you will unlocked 8 more categories past the free animals & monsters category.
Furthermore, with this purchase you will bypass our 5 NetherStar head purchase cost. Yes, this means ALL heads are now absolutely free for you! And yes, as a HeadMaster, this means you are absolutely welcome and even encouraged to use this as a new business opportunity on EcoCityCraft! Sell rare unobtainable heads, provide placement services, and more!
We have added star tools to SkyBlock.
The reason we approved the suggestion made for them is simply because SkyBlock resets every 4 months, and this has no effect on the Main server at all. It will simply make prestiging slightly easier for those who are lucky enough to dodge the star armour and other unwanted star items in the SkyBlock crate.
- Winning them at the /warp starcasino via SkyBlock.
- Being a SkyGod and using your 1 free key a month.
- Purchasing Star Keys / Star Key Monthly Upgrades from our Shop.
Stay tuned for slight point requirement changes starting in Season 4.
Tombstone Fixed. TombstonePlus2 & SkyGod addition added!
We have fixed our Tombstone feature and immensely simplified it.
Instead of jumping through hoops, finding your chest, and hoping it was placed properly, you now simply keep your inventory after death.
As well, all SkyGods now have the perk of keeping their inventory on death.
PS: Before you yell at us that TombstonePlus2 will lower the amount of people PvP'ing in the end, let's be real, PvP is quite dead on ECC. I have already begun planning my next project for ECC, and that is reviving Survival Games and making it a separate game mode. I've determined that SG will be far more popular than the previously planned KitPvP and Creative, thus that's the route I've decided to take. Oh, and this old "AEM Zombies gamemode" won't happen because it's dead and impossible to revive/update due to the terrible state it was left in.
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Paragon Mortgages' Financial Adviser Confidence Tracker (FACT) Index, a panel-based survey of mortgage brokers, found that 39% of landlords obtained a buy-to-let mortgage via a financial adviser for remortgage purposes in the third quarter of 2009, the lowest level recorded since the first quarter of 2007.
In contrast, the proportion of landlords obtaining buy-to-let mortgages for portfolio expansion purposes has hit its highest level since the question was introduced to the FACT survey in 2001. It found that 48% of landlords obtained a mortgage to extend their portfolio in the third quarter of 2009. This represents a rapid recovery from the final quarter of 2008, when just 31% of landlords were taking out a buy-to-let mortgage for portfolio expansion purposes.
Only 10% of business via financial advisers surveyed was conducted by first-time landlords, the joint lowest level on record. The proportion of buy-to-let mortgages taken out by first-time landlords has decreased steadily over the decade, falling from 42% in the fourth quarter of 2001 to its current level.
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Moffatt Ready For New Journey With Wolverines
When the Waywayseecappo Wolverines pulled the trigger and acquired former Winkler Flyers Captain, Brody Moffatt on Monday, it was unchartered territory for the 99-Born Forward from Portage la Prarie.
After being traded for the first time in his four year MJHL career, Moffatt arrived in Waywayseecappo ready to turn the page on a new chapter in his hockey career.
"I'm really excited to be here, Moffatt said before taking to the ice in his first practice with the Wolverines. "I've never been through something like this so its new for me but everyone has been very welcoming. I'm just excited to get things going."
It always helps to know a familiar face when stepping into a new situation and for Moffatt, he comes in knowing another four-year MJHL veteran in Wolverines Captain, Nick Doyle.
"I know Doyle quite well, we got to hang out this past summer and all the other guys have been really friendly so it's been a nice transition."
As for what Wolverines fans can expect out of Moffatt on a nightly basis, the veteran of 138 MJHL regular-season games shares that his two-way game is his main focus.
"I'd say that I'm a tough guy to play against, I take pride in taking care of the defensive zone and the offense usually takes care of itself. I'm just excited to get into the lineup on Thursday against Virden.
He won't have to wait long to go head-to-head with his former club, as the Wolverines are set to host the Flyers on Saturday which is something Moffatt says will be strange but is also looking forward to getting on the ice and picking up two points for his new club.
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Peter Schnaubelt (Pseudonym Peter Horn, * 22. Juni 1964 in Krems an der Donau, Niederösterreich) ist ein österreichischer Lehrer und Autor von Büchern für Kinder, Jugendliche und Erwachsene.

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Peter Schnaubelt wuchs in Krems an der Donau auf, einer Stadt, die gleichermaßen als Tor zur Wachau als auch zum Waldviertel gilt. Das typische Kleinstadtleben seiner Kindheit und Jugend, als er in Krems die Schule besuchte, spiegelt sich in vielen seiner Texte. 1982 legte er die Reifeprüfung ab, bis 1987 studierte er an der Universität Wien Anglistik und Geschichte. Seit 1987 ist er als Lehrer für Englisch und Geschichte tätig, zuerst an der Handelsakademie Horn (bis Juni 2003), seit 2002 am Gymnasium Horn. Er lebt mit seiner Frau, ebenfalls Lehrerin, und seinen beiden Söhnen in Horn (woraus auch sein Künstlername resultiert).

Neben seiner Lehrtätigkeit hat Peter Horn eine Reihe von Büchern für Kinder, Jugendliche und Erwachsene verfasst. Seine Arbeiten richten sich in der Form von Bilderbüchern an Kinder ab etwa drei Jahren und in jener von Vorlesegeschichten an Kindergartenkinder, er hat Erstlesebücher und lustige Bücher für Grundschulkinder und spannende Romane für Mädchen und Jungen ab etwa zehn Jahren geschrieben, weiters Jugendliteratur (ab 12 Jahren) und zwei Sammlungen von Erzählungen für Erwachsene. Er erhielt 1992 den Anerkennungspreis für Literatur des Landes Niederösterreich und den Walther-von-der-Vogelweide-Preis von Weiten/Bezirk Melk sowie 1993 ein Nachwuchsstipendium für Literatur und ein Nachwuchsstipendium für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur des Bundesministeriums für Unterricht und Kunst.

Seine Erfahrungen als Lehrer und die Tätigkeit als Schriftsteller verbindet Peter Horn im Rahmen von Lesungen und Schreibwerkstätten, unter anderem in Schulen und Bibliotheken, in denen er seine Zuhörer zum Lesen motivieren möchte.

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 1985 Griechische Skizzen, Danach und Im Korridor (als Peter Schnaubelt), in Krems - zeitgenössisch - literarisch, Anthologie (Verein zur Förderung von Kultur und Fremdenverkehr in Krems)
 1991 Southernmost (als Peter Schnaubelt), in Keine Aussicht auf Landschaft, Anthologie (Literaturedition NÖ)
 1992 Licht zwischen Schatten (als Peter Schnaubelt), Reiseerzählungen (Literaturedition NÖ)
 1995–1998 Florian und die Geisterwelt, 12-bändige Gruselreihe ab 10 Jahren (Bastei Verlag)
 1999 Weißt du, was ich werden will? Bilderbuch (Nord Süd Verlag)
 2002 Wozu ist ein Papa da? Bilderbuch (Nord Süd Verlag)
 2002 Die Geschichte vom Schmetterlingsjungen, in Welten voller Hoffnung, Anthologie (BeJot SF)
 2004 Das Mädchen, das die Träume schenkte, in Die Hexe im Spiegel, Anthologie (efm)
 2006 Feuernebel, Jugendroman (Fischer generation)
 2007 Die zweite Welt, Fantasyroman
 2009 Auf dem Weg, suchend, Jugendroman
 2009 Das Alien unter der Kappe, Kinderbuch

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Daily Briefing in Relation to the Military Coup
Posted on April 7, 2021 • Posted in Daily Briefing since Coup, Slide show
As of 7 April, (598) people are now confirmed killed by this junta coup. The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) compiled and documented (17) fallen heroes today. (12) died on 7 April. (5) were killed on previous days and documented today. This is the number verified by AAPP, the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher. We will continue adding as and when.
As of April 7, a total of (2847) people are currently under detention; of them (38) are sentenced. 481 have been issued arrest warrants. We are verifying the recently released detainees and continuing to document.
Peaceful protests continued across Burma today, some witnessed crackdowns, the illegitimate military is focusing its terror on rural areas. In the early morning, the junta forces excessively used live rounds, grenades, and machine guns trying to create a conflict zone in Tahan Ward, Kalay Township, Sagaing Region. At least 8 civilians were killed and 20 others injured, including one civilian who lost his hand. Over 10 civilians were violently arrested. During the crackdown, junta forces opened fire into houses and searched and raided community clinics. Moreover, in Taze Township, Sagaing Region, a civilian was killed and more than 20 people injured, three of them are in critical condition. A villager from Paline village was reportedly dead this evening in Ngar Hsuu Kone village strike in ShweBo Township, Sagaing Region. In Kyaukyisu Ward, Bago City, 2 men were killed and at least 3 civilians injured in an unprovoked shooting by junta troops.
Some people were also killed and others injured when the military and so-called police opened fire last night. In the Nyaung Shwe Township, Shan State, one youth was shot dead in the head. In Myingyan Township, Mandalay Region, it is reported that some civilians were injured in unprovoked shootings by the junta.
During detention, torture to death continuely occurs, on the night of April 4 in Taunggyi Township, Shan State, whilst the Nyaung Phyu Ward Administration Office was on fire a youth who came out to stop the fire was arrested by the military and so-called police. Two days later, his dead body was returned to his family with many wounds including skull fracture, one ear nearly amputated, genitalia mutilated, stab wounds in the back. The young man died from severe torture, but the junta claims he died when hit by a fire truck. On April 5, the junta informed a family to take the dead body of a young man arrested in Kawthaung Township, Tanintharyi Region.
The terrorist junta not only vandalizes and destroys property in towns, villages and streets but also on houses and restaurants. There were raids in Khin Oo township, Sagaing Region, and junta forces stormed a house and searched the cupboards and boxes of a fallen hero in Kan Thit village yesterday. Moreover, they raided a restaurant at Inn Pat greengrocery and stole over 11 hundred thousands kyats in cash and arrested a chef, and an orphan.
Conflict perpetrated by the terrorist junta continued against the ethnic areas. This morning, junta Infantry Battalion No.299 opened fire from the edge of the stream in Mhan Aung village in Win Ray township, Duu Palayar District, Karen State with heavy artillery. A villager was killed, and another villager wounded with local residents displaced in the clashes between the military and Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) near Mhan Aung village last night. As known reportedly, the junta forces opened fire onto villagers and made the villagers be protection shields during their military operations .
Burma has fallen into chronic instability, there is no peace. The livelihoods of anyone and everyone are under threat. Left alone, the junta's terrorism will escalate and threaten peace in the whole region. The ASEAN Charter pledges to a "shared commitment and collective responsibility in enhancing regional peace, security and prosperity". The effects of airstrikes and military offensives against civilians in Karen State have already gone into other ASEAN states. A lack of coherent action challenges the relevance of its Charter. Current non-interference will directly challenge the peace, sovereignty and security of ASEAN members. The most severe violence today was in Kalay, Sagaing, a nearby town to another neighbor, India. This junta terrorism cannot be seen as a domestic issue, it poses a risk to the peace and security of of all ASEAN's people, and to the stability of the entire region.
AAPP will continue to keep you informed of verified daily arrests, charges, sentences and fatalities in relation to the attempted coup, and update our lists to the details of these alleged offences. If you receive any information about detentions of, or charges against CSO leaders, activists, journalists, CDM workers, other civilians and fallen heros in relation to the military and police crackdown on dissent. Please submit to the following addresses:
If you need legal assistance, contact Aung Gyi on 09 451 529 000 from the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) and lawyer Khin Thida Lai Lai Htun on 09 774 081 585.
"Our uprising must succeed"
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Selena Quintanilla's Husband, Chris Perez Shared His Thoughts on 'Selena: The Series'
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Selena Quintanilla was a successful Tejano music artist. Her fans adored her powerful voice, stylish outfits, and kind personality. In 1995, Selena died at 23-years-old after suffering several gunshot wounds. The singer left behind her family and her husband of three years, Chris Perez. Selena's life is documented on-screen in Netflix's new show, Selena: The Series, which premiered in December 2020.
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Selena Quintanilla and Chris Perez got married against her father's wishes
Selena's love story with Chris started when she was around 18-years-old. During this time, Chris joined Selena's family band, Selena Y Los Dinos. In his 2012 memoir, To Selena, With Love, Chris said he and Selena had different personalities. Chris described Selena as "lively and outgoing" and said she "loved being in the center of attention," while he "quietly observed whatever was going on in the fringes."
Although they had their differences, Chris said he fell for Selena during a trip to Acapulco, Mexico. He said in his book that their relationship grew closer after they connected on the trip. However, Selena's family, especially her father, Abraham, disapproved of the romance. Eventually, Abraham fired Chris from the band to keep him and Selena apart.
After sneaking around in between Selena's gigs, Chris wrote that Selena suggested they elope. At first, Chris refused to elope, as he knew Selena wanted a big wedding where her family surrounded her. Once he realized Selena was right, Chris agreed to elope. The couple got married in a Texas courthouse several hours later.
"I felt with great certainty that remembering those marriage vows would always be a sort of glue holding us. We had every intention of living happily ever after. Nobody could stop us from doing that now," Chris told Texas Monthly.
Chris Perez didn't watch Selena Quintanilla's biopic until 20 years after it premiered
Once they decided to elope, Selena's father chose to keep Chris in the band. The couple eventually moved into their own house next door to Selena's parents. Additionally, they adopted several animals and discussed having children. Sadly, Selena and Chris's time together ended in March 1995. After Selena fired her former friend and fan club president, Yolanda Saldivar, over missed finances, Saldivar shot Selena at a Texas motel. Selena went to the hospital where she died.
As fans continued to mourn Selena, her family worked with Warner Bros. to produce a biopic about her life in1997. The movie starred Jennifer Lopez as Selena, which earned Lopez a Golden Globe nomination. Also, Jon Seda played Chris in the film.
In February 2017, Chris shared on Facebook that he hadn't watched Selena in its entirety. He told his followers he would watch the film because it appeared on Lifetime. Chris then decided to live blog the film via Facebook. During the movie, Chris posted several thoughts about the accuracy of Selena. Toward the end of the film, Chris informed his fans that he couldn't watch the scenes that lead to Selena's death. However, he praised Lopez for her performance as his wife.
"I'll tell you what. Jen did a great [email protected]#king job. Super proud. Will not watch the ending of the movie. G'night everyone….one last time, LOL!" Chris wrote.
How Chris Perez feels about 'Selena: The Series'
In December 2020, Netflix released Selena: The Series. The two-part series follows Selena's meteoric rise to fame. Additionally, the show shares the sacrifices Selena's family made for her dreams to come true. The adaptation also covers Selena's relationship with Chris.
Opening scene and I'm already crying.
Selena: The Series is now on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/eyv50w0F8L
— Netflix (@netflix) December 4, 2020
'Selena: The Series': Netflix Unveils First Look At Christian Serratos ― Here's What We Know
On Friday, December 4, 2020, Chris posted a photo from Selena: The Series with Serratos as Selena on Instagram. Chris didn't share how he felt about the series covering his marriage to Selena for his caption. Instead, Chris praised Selena's band and Abraham for contributing to her famous musical sound.
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Are these Britain's best 20 novelists under 40?
When the New Yorker magazine published its list of 20 American fiction writers under the age of 40 last week, there was a predictably anguished response. "So tedious, so predictable. When will the New Yorker realise that its moment of cultural authority has passed?" fumed one commentator.
And this was not untypical. "So what are people over 40? Chopped liver?" "Any new writers on this list?" asked another, responding to the selection of established writers such as Gary Shteyngart, Jonathan Safran Foer and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – who are familiar, though less so, over here.
Given the fact that it has been nearly a decade since Granta's last "Best of Young British Novelists" list, we set ourselves the challenge of coming up with a selection of novelists to rival the New Yorker's. In compiling our list we have taken suggestions from a range of contributors and staff – and we offer it up to you in turn as a challenge. If the exercise gives us a snapshot of what our most exciting young novelists are doing right now, it also raises questions about what any list might say about a country's writing, and about the differences in fiction on each side of the Atlantic.
In its "20 under 40" list, the New Yorker has been careful not to present its selection of writers as the "best", as Granta does. Yet the implication is that they are the defining voices – the writers who stand out from their generation, and who will be read in 20 or even 50 years' time. There is clearly a lot at stake, as the New Yorker list is big business, with millions of dollars riding on future book sales of the authors who have made it. This might explain why critics have been quick to question the New Yorker's decision to champion "representative" fiction, or to stick doggedly to a cut-off point of 39 (thus disqualifying a writer such as Dave Eggers, who has just turned 40) or to limit the writers who might be included by requiring that they have a piece ready for immediate publication in the magazine.
But he raises an important point about the ability of any list to characterise what is happening in a country at any given moment. He argues that the idea that a group of 20 writers could hold the key to their generation is a bit of a stretch. These lists, especially of younger writers, mean less and less, as they either celebrate writers who are already familiar or else set out to discover new ones who have been overlooked by the reading public.
The underlying assumption of any list highlighting a younger generation is that writers produce their best work in their mid-thirties, once their writing has matured. But for every novelist such as Martin Amis or Graham Swift, who featured on the 1983 Granta list, and produced their breakthrough and arguably their best books around this time (Money and Waterland respectively), there is a Hilary Mantel, whose Wolf Hall, the novel that crystallised her reputation and which she said she had been waiting all her life to write, was published only last year, when she was in her late fifites.
It is historically true that women have tended to come to novel-writing later in life, often after having children – take Jane Gardam, for example, or Penelope Lively. Deborah Treisman, the fiction editor of the New Yorker has argued that this no longer holds for American novelists – but the trend has not entirely gone away in Britain. Francesca Kay's An Equal Stillness, perhaps the most exciting first novel of the last couple of years, was published when the author was 51.
Looking back over the Granta lists, what is striking is how well they have tended to wear. With few exceptions, all of the novelists on the 2003 list have gone on to produce accomplished work – David Mitchell, for example, whose Cloud Atlas was a critical and commercial success, Andrew O'Hagan, Nicola Barker, Sarah Waters. This is true also of the 1993 selection, which championed writers such as AL Kennedy, Helen Simpson and Nicholas Shakespeare – though admittedly some of the others have faded into obscurity or gone off the boil.
The lists generated by the New Yorker and Granta are interesting as much for what they reveal about a country's fiction as about the concerns of a writing generation. Though creative writing courses such as the pioneering one at the University of East Anglia have taken off in Britain, their presence is nothing like as pervasive as that of institutions such as the Iowa Writers' Workshop in the States. "Writing is more developed as a craft in America," says John Freeman, "and American writers are constantly engaged with the question of being American. There is no similarly defining issue over here." It is notable that most of the writers on the New Yorker list came though a creative writing programme – and many now teach on one.
Lorin Stein agrees with this view of American fiction as driven by the individual voice – "not as a marker of class or race, not as dialect, but as an expression of some shared, as yet unacknowledged, common tongue". This is apparent in writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth – right up to contemporaries such as Jonathan Franzen or the late David Foster Wallace.
It is certainly true that the process of selecting writers for lists rarely produces entirely harmonious results. Alex Clark, one of the judges of the 2003 Granta list, has described that year's selection as a mixture of established and unproven talent. The judges were criticised at the time for including writers who hadn't yet been published – they read first novels by Monica Ali and Adam Thirlwell in manuscript form.
So with these potential problems in mind and in the hope of unleashing a debate similar in ferocity to the one triggered by the New Yorker, we are pleased to unveil our list of writers. We have used the same selection criteria as the New Yorker – all these writers are under 40 and all, with two exceptions, live in Britain – at least most of the time. But we haven't controlled the types of writing, or worried about whether writers stand in some way for different experiences of Britishness. And we have frankly failed, if it matters, to achieve a gender balance – 13 out of the 20 are men – and most of these writers are white. But in other ways we have striven to be diverse, refusing to overlook excellent science fiction and genuinely good thrillers.
Our list is based unapologetically on talent and, to a lesser extent, potential – one of our selected writers, Anjali Joseph, will publish her first novel next month. Implicit in our selection is the expectation that these writers have their best work ahead of them. If some people complain that they haven't heard of most of them, we will regard that criticism as a badge of honour.
Like the New Yorker, we have had, with sadness, to cast out some remarkable writers who are just on the wrong side of 39: David Mitchell, Tom McCarthy, whose novel C, the follow-up to his brilliant first novel, Remainder, comes out later this year, and Catherine O'Flynn, whose sharp comedy, The News Where You Are, is published next month. And we haven't found places for some writers we really love, but who haven't had anything published for a few years – Rachel Seiffert among them.
We hope you will find our suggestions intriguing, and that you will investigate the novelists on our list and let us know what you think of their work. We have selected, in no particular order, Chris Cleave and Mohsin Hamid for their superior thrillers; the Irish comic novelist Paul Murray; Zadie Smith, long a favourite of these lists, for her fearlessly inventive novels, Benjamin Markovits and Adam Foulds, for their ambitious lives of 19th-century poets; David Szalay, for his inventive take on Soviet history; the incomparably talented science-fiction writer China Miéville; Adam Thirlwell, for his brainy Jewish fictions, Rana Dasgupta, for his idiosyncratic fictional history of Bulgaria; Scarlett Thomas's zany novels of ideas, Joanna Kavenna, for her nuanced treatment of childbirth, Dan Rhodes and Patrick Neate's comedies, Kamila Shamsie, for her multi-generational Asian sagas, Sarah Hall's assured meditations on love – and Evie Wyld, Steven Hall, Ross Raisin and Anjali Joseph, for their captivating first novels.
Now, may the debate begin.


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