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Therefore I Am: Digital Science Fiction Releases Second Anthology
admin August 14, 2011 August 14, 2011 Blog
LASALLE, Ontario, Aug. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — One might not anticipate gaining greater insight into the concept of humanity from a science fiction anthology, but that's exactly what readers of Therefore I Am – Digital Science Fiction Anthology 2 (ASIN B005BSYWVO, Digital Science Fiction, http://digitalsciencefiction.com) can expect from the new collection of ten original science fiction short stories.
With new works by Tomas L. Martin, Shawn Howard, Bruce Golden, James C. Bassett, Tab Earley, Dustin Monk, Martin L. Shoemaker, David Steffen, Tom Barlow, and Annie Bellet, Therefore I Am – Digital Science Fiction Anthology 2 explores what it means to be human, to live a fully human life, though stories aren't always written from a human point of view. It's a theme, said Digital Science Fiction President Michael Wills, that developed organically from the authors' submissions.
"Therefore I Am features excellent character studies of uniquely human emotions and traits as well as stories that give us an outsider's view of human consciousness and behavior," Wills explained. "Through the authors' rich tales and complex characters, this edition chronicles the concept of humanity as it evolves into the future."
Therefore I Am, edited by Christine Clukey, is the follow-up to the company's debut anthology, First Contact – Digital Science Fiction Anthology 1, published in June 2011. Digital Science Fiction publishes a quarterly anthology of ten new science fiction short stories from established authors. Available in Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader and other popular e-book formats as well as in print, the anthologies appeal to sophisticated readers with a taste for original science fiction.
At just over 56,000 words, or about 190 6×9 perfect-bound pages, Therefore I Am – Digital Science Fiction Anthology 2 is available for $3.99 in e-book format at Digital Science Fiction, Amazon, or Smashwords™. The print version is available for $11.99 or less at Amazon. Learn more at http://digitalsciencefiction.com.
Michael Wills
Digital Science Fiction
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Flaxwood is een Finse producent van elektrische gitaren en onderdelen voor muziekinstrumenten gevestigd in Heinävaara in de regio Noord-Karelië. Het bedrijf werd opgericht in 2005 na een wetenschappelijk onderzoek, geleid door Heikki Koivurova, naar de toepassing van vezelversterkte kunststoffen in de gitaarbouw. Flaxwood ontwikkelde een eerste prototype in 2003 met medewerking van de Finse gitaarbouwer Veijo Rautia. Twee jaar later introduceerde het bedrijf de gitaarmodellen op de markt en bracht in 2011 een reeks van hybride gitaren uit. De kunststofinstrumenten en -onderdelen worden geproduceerd volgens een gepatenteerde werkwijze van spuitgieten.

Beschrijving

Materiaal
De body, hals en achterplaat van de gitaren zijn gemaakt van een vezelversterkte thermoplast genoemd flax of Kareline FLX. Het composiet materiaal werd ontwikkeld door een samenwerkingsverband tussen Heikki Koivurova, een industrieel ingenieur uit Joensuu, Kareline, een Fins bedrijf gespecialiseerd in composietmaterialen, en de Universiteit van Joensuu. Het is samengesteld uit enerzijds gerecycleerde sparrenvezels en, anderzijds, een thermoplast die beschreven wordt als biologisch afbreekbaar en recycleerbaar. Tijdens de injectiefase, worden de vezels aangebracht in een vooraf bepaalde richting. In de vaste toestand heeft het materiaal een dichtheid van 1,2 kg/cm³ en is bovendien homogeen en ongevoelig voor vochtigheid en temperatuur.

Productie
Flaxwood produceert de instrumenten en onderdelen in Heinävaara. Het basisproduct wordt bevoorraad door Kareline en het spuitgietproces wordt uitgevoerd in de fabriek van het bedrijf All-Plast. De onderdelen komen uit de mal met bijna alle openingen, gaten en voegen en worden vervolgens met handgereedschappen geassembleerd en afgewerkt.

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Gitaren
Flaxwood produceert momenteel twee soorten gitaren; een basismodel en een hybride model.

Basismodellen
Deze modellen hebben ongeveer dezelfde eigenschappen en verscheidene elementenconfiguraties. De bodies zijn semiakoestisch en voorzien van ofwel een vaste brug (Gotoh 510UB of GE-103B) of een Schaller LP tremolobrug. De gelijmd halzen hebben een mensuur van 25,5" en beschikken over 22 medium jumbo frets en een Tune-X Tuning Systemtopkam van 1-11/16". Bijna elke Flaxwood gitaar draagt een Finse naam die overeenkomt met de kenmerken ervan.

Hybride modellen
Deze modellen hebben een geschroefde Flaxwoodhals met en een elzenbody. De gitaren zijn beschikbaar in twee configuraties: drie Seymour Duncan SSL-2 enkelspoelelementen of twee humbuckers, namelijk een Seymour Duncan SH-14N en een SH-2N.

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Sinds 2011, heeft Flaxwood een reeks onderdelen voor muziekinstrumenten gelanceerd zoals halzen, monteerkits en toetsenborden voor snaarinstrumenten. Sommige bedrijven gebruiken deze onderdelen als de Duitse vioolmaker Mezzo Forte.

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Мая Кисьова е българска актриса, режисьор и драматург.

Образование
Мая Кисьова е родена в Разград. Завършва ПМГ "Акад. Н. Обрешков" (1982) в родния си град със златен медал, а след това българска филология във ВТУ "Св. св. Кирил и Методий" (1988) с теза "Конфликти и герои в комедиите на Станислав Стратиев".

През 1997 г. завършва актьорско майсторство за драматичен театър в НАТФИЗ "Кръстю Сарафов" в класа на професор Богдан Сърчаджиев и професор Пламен Марков, при когото специализира режисура за драматичен театър (1999). Магистър е по театрознание с теза "Драматургията на Боян Папазов" (НАТФИЗ, 2006) и доктор по филология с дисертационен труд "Сценични реализации на българската поезия 1990 – 2010", защитен през 2017 г. в Нов български университет .

Актьорска кариера
Работила е в ДТ "Антон Страшимиров" (1989 – 1999) като щатен драматург и актриса, където е поставила и камерните спектакли "По-силната" по Стриндберг (1998) и "100 йени за услугата" от Бецуяку Минору (2002).

Поставила е авторските моноспектакли "Театър от пясък" (2021)  и "Мигове и Маски"(2022), реализирани по Програма "Творчески инициативи" на НФК.

Поставя и играе на 3 езика (български, руски и английски) мултимедийния спектакъл "Безопасни игли" от 105 хайку на Петър Чухов под патронажа на посолството на Япония в България (2011 – 2015).

Спектакъла си "Шекспирови сонети в сезони" представя с различни музиканти: с диригента Красен Иванов  (2009); с КА "Софийски солисти" (2014); с пианиста Георги Пармаков  (2016).

Участвала е в късометражни и документални филми, в сериала на bTV "Столичани в повече" (сезон 8), в рекламни клипове и др.

Кариера на автор
 Мая Кисьова е автор на книги за театралното изкуство , пиеси и хайку: "Театър от пясък" – театрален дизайн в хайбун (2020); "Виж какво" – роман (2017); "Две пиеси" – със Светлана Дичева (2016); "Майска утрин / May Morning" – хайку / haiku  (2014); "еМОрфей. Пет пиеси и един актьорски дневник" (2013); "Исторически аспекти на реалацията "актьор – драматург" (2009) – монография ; "Словесни репетиции" (2008) – театрално-критически и художествени текстове; "Три луни" (2008) – лирика; "39 спирки по пътя" (2003) – лирика.
 Пиесата и́ "Моят театър. Един урок на Сара Бернар" (2020) е номинирана в Конкурс за нова пиеса на НБУ (2021).
 Пиесата и́ "Между ударите" (2004) е номинирана в конкурс "Нова българска драма" (2004) и реализирана на сцената на Чешки културен център .

Със свои доклади е участвала в национални и международни научни конференции. Публикувала е в специализирани издания за театър, литература и наука, сред които сп. АРТизанин, сп. "Театър", Литературен вестник, сп. "Море" и др.

Кариера на озвучаваща актриса
От 1999 г. се занимава с озвучаване на филми и сериали. Тя озвучава Брук Дейвис в "Самотно дърво на хълма", Марта Кент и Клои Съливан в "Смолвил" и Кейт Остин в пети и шести сезон на "Изгубени" в дублажа на Александра Аудио. Други сериали с нейно участие са "Страсти под слънцето" и "Инспектори".

Други дейности
От февруари 2020 г. е редактор в Андарта Студио.

През лятото на 2019 г. работи в Зала "История на книгата" в Националната библиотека "Св. св. Кирил и Методий". Била е режисьор и е записала аудиокниги в Storytel Bulgaria  (2017 – 2019).

Създава стандарт и води курс "Писателят като Актьор" по творческо писане и актьорско майсторство в МОНТФИЗ(2011 – 2015). Преподавала е актьорско майсторство и в Училище за таланти (2016 – 2020)

Била е експерт "Връзки с обществеността" в Сатиричен театър "Алеко Константинов" (2015 – 2016).

Член е на САБ и Театераутор.

Награди и отличия
 I награда в раздел хайку от XX Международен фестивал "Мелнишки вечери на поезията" (2019)
 Плакет за драматургия от Националния литературен конкурс "Димитър Димов" (2016)
 II и III награди от XIX Международен конкурс за хайку "Кусамакура", Япония, (2014)
 Номинация "Константин Кисимов" за млада актриса (1995)
 Почетна значка "Отличник" на Министество на културата (1989)

Личен живот
Мая Кисьова има син, Рафаил Георгиев, скулптор.

Източници

Външни препратки
 Мая Кисьова в Литературен клуб
 Мая Кисьова в E-lit.info

Български актьори и актриси
Български озвучаващи актриси
Български режисьори
Български драматурзи
Български писателки
Български поетеси
Възпитаници на Великотърновския университет
Възпитаници на НАТФИЗ
Възпитаници на Нов български университет
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Liberal Bloggers Demonstrate Their Political Immaturity, Democrat Says
By DAN GERSTEIN
If the liberal blogs want to understand why so few people outside their narrow echo chamber take them seriously, and what it will take to gain the broader credibility they crave, they should look no further than their handling of the recent flap over John Edwards' foul-mouthed blogger hires.
This ugly morality tale - which mercifully concluded Tuesday with the second of the two offending online staffers resigning from the Edwards campaign - revealed the Kossacks in all their angry adolescent glory: impudent, impotent, unreflective and unaccountable.
Throughout the course of the controversy, the left's bigger digital diatribers never stopped to address the substance of what the Edwards bloggers actually wrote before joining the campaign. Had the bloggers done so, they might have found the postings were widely deemed by Democrats and Republicans alike as bigoted and patently offensive to many Christians, not just devout Catholics or evangelicals.
Nor did they ever stop to think how hollow and hypocritical it sounded for the same people who ravaged George Allen, for his "macaca" moment in last year's Virginia Senate campaign to cry "free speech" when confronted with a far more nasty, vulgar, and hurtful display of prejudice from two of their own.
Instead, right until the bitter end, most liberal bloggers responded in their familiar mode – by lashing out at their critics and trying to marginalize them. This was, in their eyes, purely a manufactured controversy by the "right-wing smear machine" and a cynical attempt to silence and marginalize the Netroots.
Indeed, even after the two Edwards staffers essentially surrendered, the few bloggers who wrote postscripts kept up the front of the petulant, blame-deflecting 15-year-old who got caught spreading rumors about the homecoming queen.
Consider a posting on MyDD Tuesday by Scott Shields. Not satisfied with attacking conservative critics of the two Edwards bloggers, Shields felt obliged to discredit religious progressives like Brian O'Dwyer, who condemned the bigotry behind the Edwards bloggers' writings, and thus put the lie to the blogosphere's mythology of the matter.
O'Dwyer apparently hails from a distinguished Democratic family, and chairs the National Democratic Ethnic Leadership Council. In a Politico article, he joined with several other leaders of the liberal faith community in openly expressing unease with the way the blogosphere was treating this controversy.
Rather than engage O'Dwyer on the merits and rebut his arguments, Shields opted to attack his motives:
Could it be that O'Dwyer's anger is less about the words of one blogger and more about his own personal political loyalties? After all, O'Dwyer has given $12,100 to Edwards's opponent Hillary Clinton since 2000 – more than he's given to any other single candidate. And according to his official bio, he was the National Co-Chair of Irish-Americans for Clinton-Gore in 1992 and 1996.
I'm not accusing the Clinton camp of orchestrating this campaign against Edwards. After all, O'Dwyer was relatively late to the game. But it's simply impossible to believe that it was anything but his loyalty to Clinton that led O'Dwyer to join in the right-wing pile-on.
Now, if this were an isolated incident, one could argue that the left-wing bloggers were just following one of the cardinal rules of modern hardball politics – when you can't defend your position, go on offense and attack your critics.
But the reality is, as I experienced over and over again in the Lamont-Lieberman race, this is the liberal blogosphere's standard-less operating procedure. They have decided that the best way to fight the "right-wing smear machine" that they so despise is to create an even more venomous, boundary-less, and destructive counterpart and fight ire with more ire.
It also goes to show just how deeply most liberal bloggers believe that Republicans and conservative are morally illegitimate, and as such, any criticism or argument made by the other side is on its face corrupt and dismissible. If it is said by Catholic League President Bill Donohue, who has a history of controversial statements himself, it automatically becomes invalid, no matter the inherent integrity of the underlying proposition.
What these liberal bloggers fail to appreciate is that this petty, polarizing approach is not how you ultimately win in politics – especially in an era when most average voters outside the ideological extremes are fed up with the shrill, reflexive partisanship that dominates Washington, and when the fastest growing party in America is no party.
The blogger bomb-throwing may be good for inflaming the activist base, and, as they demonstrated in the 2006 Lieberman-Lamont Senate primary race in Connecticut, for occasionally blowing up the opposition. It's not bad for bullying your friends, either, as the liberal blogosphere did last week in pressuring Edwards to not fire the two bloggers who penned the offensive anti-religious posts.
But the typical blog mix of insults and incitements is just not an effective strategy for persuading people outside of your circle of belief – be they moderate Democrats, moderate Republicans, or the swelling number of independents – to join your cause. In fact, it's far more likely to alienate than propagate them.
Something else most liberal bloggers fail to appreciate – we as Democrats can't afford to repel those middle of the road, largely non-partisan voters.
The Iraq war notwithstanding, which has temporarily tilted the political landscape in our favor, the long-term electoral math is stacked against us – surveys show conservatives currently outnumber liberals three-to-two. Thus, if we want to win the White House and become a majority party again, it's not enough to excite our base. We must also expand it.
One sure way to do the opposite, and consign our party to minority status, is to broadly tar Christians in general and Catholics in particular as "Christo-fascists" and misogynists, as the Edwards bloggers did.
Catholics are one of the biggest and most important swing-voting blocs in this country. They often tend to decide elections. So it's probably not the smartest idea for a leading Democratic presidential candidate to hire people who openly defame Catholicism's sacred figures by talking about the Lord filling the Virgin Mary with "his hot, white, sticky spirit."
That so many leading bloggers could not see or acknowledge that point suggests at a minimum a giant blind spot on their part – after all, these guys are the first to protest the notion that Democrats are in any way hostile to religion and denounce it as a conservative canard.
But more than likely it just indicates that these bloggers didn't see anything wrong with the bigoted rants of their peers – and that the far left's disdain for people of faith is not only alive and well, but has gone digital.
Howard Dean, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the party leadership recognize this religion problem is real, and much to their credit, they have made it a priority to reach out to faith-based voters over the last few years and show them that they are welcome in the Democratic fold.
One has to wonder what they thought as they watched their blogger wards, whom they have lately been favoring with public praise and special access, trample the godly garden they have been trying to re-seed.
In the long run, the only way to prevent embarrassments like this from escalating and causing greater damage – and more importantly, to fulfill the rich potential of the blogosphere as a persuasion and organizing tool – is for the voices of reason within the Netroots to stand up to the smack down artists and prod their peers to trade their juvenile accusations for mature arguments.
This is not to say that liberal bloggers or Democrats in general don't have good reason to be angry about the war or the Bush Administration, or that we should drain our politics of passion. We can and should be aggressive in our convictions and tough in our defenses. It's just that all available evidence indicates that labeling people who don't agree with us "liars" and "morons" and "fascists" is not the best way to get them to vote for us.
In the meantime, it wouldn't hurt if the party's top leaders step in and provide some adult supervision. If the bloggers are going to behave like spoiled children, then maybe it's time to punish them accordingly.
Shut the line-crossers out of press briefings. Deny them jobs that confer party approval. And for god's sake, please quit kissing Kos's ring at his convention until he and his acolytes grow out of their high-tech tantrum tactics.
Dan Gerstein , who served as communications director for Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman's successful general election campaign in 2006, is a political consultant based in New York City and the author of the blog Dangerous Thoughts .

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Ten Most Common Breed Winners for Westminster Kennel Club's Best in Show
A Paw Above the Rest
The Westminster Kennel Club (WKC) held their first dog show competition in 1877, and the rest is history. Every February, aficionados wait to see which breed will earn the prize of "Best in Show, " or BIS. In this competition, four groups stand out: Non-Sporting, Working, Sporting and Terrier groups. Which one has garnered the most wins? Read on to find out …
#10 Sealyham Terrier
Short, stocky, and usually white-coated, the Sealyham Terrier charmed judges with its agility, determination, and surprising grace. Known to be equal parts stubborn and intelligent, this canine from the Terrier group won the BIS prize four times – 1924, 1927, 1936 and 1977.
#9 Poodle (Standard)
This curly-coated retriever breed was originally used to hunt and retrieve ducks. Intelligent, patient, and affectionate, it is no surprise that the Standard Poodle from the Non-Sporting group snagged Westminster's BIS prize four times as well – in 1935, 1958, 1973 and 1989.
#8 Doberman Pinscher
Handsome in carriage, and regal (if a little imposing), the Doberman Pinscher originated in Germany as a guard dog. Athletic and energetic, this breed from the Working group wowed the crowd and brought home the BIS prize four times – in 1939, 1952, 1953 and 1989.
#7 Boxer
The Boxer is known for its athleticism, bearing, and muscular frame. The Westminster Kennel Club certainly liked the cut of this member of the Working group's high-spirited and responsive nature, enough for this breed to walk away with four wins – in 1947, 1949, 1951 and 1970.
#6 American Cocker Spaniel
The Westminster Kennel Club sorts the American Cocker Spaniel by three separate categories – Black, Parti-colored, and Any Solid Color Other than Black, or ASCOB. Despite its small stature, this canine belongs to the Sporting group, and has won the BIS prize four times – Parti-colored in 1921, Black in 1940 and 1941, and ASCOB in 1954.
#5 Airedale Terrier
Noted as a favorite among U. S. presidents, this powerful and agile canine is also appreciated for its lively and versatile nature. Being the largest of the Terrier group, the Airedale Terrier won the coveted prize four times – in 1912, 1919, 1922 and 1933.
#4 Smooth Fox Terrier
The Smooth Fox Terrier's quick and responsive reflexes make it a good hunting companion. This adventurous breed is categorized in with the Terrier group and claimed the BIS prize four times in a row – in 1907, 1908, 1909, and 1910.
#3 English Springer Spaniel
Eager to please, and possessing seemingly boundless energy, the English Springer Spaniel is an especially popular companion to children. Its cheerful temperament also put the Westminster Kennel Club judges in a good enough mood to award this breed from the Sporting group the BIS prize six times – in 1963, 1971, 1972, 1993, 2000, and 2007.
#2 Scottish Terrier
Under the moniker "little diehard" the Scottish Terrier stands out from the crowd with its distinctive beard and bushy eyebrows. This short-legged breed from the Terrier group most often sports a dark top coat (but the colors can vary to brindle of any color), this fearless pooch pulls into second place as a WKC BIS favorite, boasting eight wins – in 1911, 1945, 1950, 1965, 1967, 1985, 1995, and 2010.
#1 Wire Fox Terrier
Having saved the best, or top dog, for last, this spry canine powerhouse has a winning combination of charisma, agility, speed, and a cheerful disposition. The clear winner of winners in Westminster's Best in Show category, the Wire Fox Terrier has swept the award thirteen times – in 1915, 1916, 1917, 1920, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1937, 1946, 1966, and 1992.
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ArtsBeat | Turner Classic Movies Host to Take a Break
Turner Classic Movies Host to Take a Break
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Robert Osborne, the longtime host of the Turner Classic Movies channel, plans to take a three-month leave of absence, the channel said in a statement Monday. Mr. Osborne, 79, will be undergoing minor surgery, the channel said, without specifying for what, as well as taking a vacation.
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VAR Overanalyzes The Beautiful Game
Creativity and mistakes are part of The Beautiful Game, so let it be.
A centimeter here, a centimeter there. A goal disallowed here, a goal disallowed there.
What's it all, really? It's overanalysis. And it takes away from what matters—The Beautiful Game, the play, the goal.
I'm all for technology. I'm writing this article on my MacBook Air, 13-inch, 2020, 1.1 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5. I'm using Microsoft Word, and I have Grammarly and other spell checks automatically checking what I write. Later, I will email this to my editor, and then I'll review the article before publishing it on our website. There's a lot of technology in that process. But none of that process takes away from the creative. The technology enhances the creative.
It's like the technology attached to each field player during a soccer game, tracking steps and endurance and who knows what else. All of the tracking is to enhance performance, to allow for the best to come out in each player and each team.
VAR, which stands for Video Assistance Referee, brings in technology with good intention. There's no way three refs on a pitch can see it all. And even if they could, they will make mistakes. That's what we humans do. So, let's get technology in the game to minimize mistakes. I'm all for that—except when we use that technology to split hairs about whether a player is offsides or not.
Overanalysis creates two problems.
Number one, there's a stop in the game. This is good for no one. It ruins the flow. You don't stop writing when you are in the flow, so why are we stopping a soccer game while it is still going if we don't have to? When there's been no injury and it's not halftime?
Number two, it removes the beauty of the game and removes the human element. The play was created by humans, it was watched over by humans (refs), but now we need some machine to tell us if Harry Kane was offsides by a centimeter? Does it really matter? If he is off by a meter, well then, different story. But that's not what we're talking about. We are losing sight of the beauty of the game of soccer when we start focusing in on microscopic lines.
Make the decision and go. The midfielder made a decision to make a play, the striker made his move, the defender did his thing, the goalie his, the ref his. Let the players decide what happens. Let the beauty of the game take over. If a mistake is made, it won't be the first nor last.
It's like this article or that thing you are working on right now. There may be some misstakes. Whatever. I'm sending this to my editor and it will publish soon. On to the next play….
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What are some great Catholic sites to visit on summer vacation?
This summer, we were lucky enough to spend a week in El Paso. Apart from the obvious great things that come with being in El Paso — La Lupe, La Lupe's food, La Lupe's hospitality, the descendants of La Lupe — one of the things I look forward to the most is going to Mass.
Whenever we are in El Paso we attend Our Lady of Guadalupe parish. When we lived in El Paso we were so loyal to this church that I actually thought it was the only church in all of El Paso until I was about 9.


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A 2013-as GP2-szezon volt a sorozat történetének kilencedik évada. A címvédő a pilóták között az olasz Davide Valsecchi, a csapatok között a francia DAMS.

Az idényt a pilóták közül a svájci Fabio Leimer nyerte meg, aki hazája első bajnoka lett a sorozatban, míg Svájc a hatodik olyan állam, mely bajnokot adott a sorozatnak. Csapata, a Racing Engineering utoljára 2008-ban adott bajnokot a sorozat számára, mégpedig az olasz Giorgio Pantano nyert a színeiket képviselve.

A második helyezett brit Bird Lewis Hamilton 2006-os bajnoki címe óta a legjobb eredményt érte el hazája számára.

A tervek szerint ebben az évben használták volna utoljára a harmadik generációs GP2 autókat, a Dallara GP2/11-et, melyet 2011-es szezonban vezettek be. Azonban a sorozat szervezői úgy döntöttek, hogy a költségek alacsonyan tartása miatt 2014-re sem változtatnak az autókon.

A csapatok versenyében az orosz újonc istalló, a Russian Time a brit Carlinnel egyenlő pontszámmal végzett, de több győzelmének köszönhetően megnyerte a konstruktőri kupát.

A Pirelli Trophy nyertese az újságírók nemzetközi szavazása által Sam Bird lett. A díj annak jár, aki a szavazók szerint egész évben a legjobban kezelte a Pirelli abroncsait.

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Csapatok és versenyzők
A tervek szerint 13 csapat 26 pilótája vesz részt a bajnokságban. A bajnokság első helyezettje a Pirelli felajánlásából egy napig Formula–1-es autót tesztelhet, valamint jogosult lesz a FIA szuper licencre.

Versenynaptár
A 2013-as versenynaptárat 2012. december 19-én véglegesítették.

Eredmények

1: A leggyorsabb időt a kvalifikáción Ericsson futotta, de rajtbüntetést kapott, a tizenkettedik helyről indulhatott csak.

Érdekességek, statisztikák

 A sorozat történetében első alkalommal indul német (Hilmer Motorsport) és orosz csapat (Russian Time). Holland istállóként korábban az Arden vett részt 2007 és 2010 között.
 Stefano Coletti (Rapax) lett az első pole-pozíciós az idényben, s egyben az első monacói, aki pole-pozíciót szerzett a sorozat történetében.
 A szezonnyitó versenyhétvégén hat újonc állt rajthoz: a GP3 2012-es bajnoka, az új-zélandi Mitch Evans (Arden International), a mögötte második helyen záró német Daniel Abt (ART Grand Prix), a kínai Ma Csing-hua (Caterham Racing), az amerikai Conor Daly (Hilmer Motorsport), az olasz Kevin Giovesi (Lazarus) és a brit Adrian Quaife-Hobbs (MP Motorsport). A második hétvégén is újoncavatás történt: a holland Robin Frijns és az amerikai Alexander Rossi debütált. A hungaroringi versenyhétvégén az olasz Vittorio Ghirelli vett részt élete első GP2-es futamain.
 Mitch Evans lett az első új-zélandi versenyző, aki dobogós helyezést tudott elérni.
 Sam Bird Bahreinben aratott győzelmével a Russian Time lett az első orosz futamgyőztes csapat.
 Conor Daly malajziai sprintversenyen szerzett pontjaival a 2005-ös bahreini verseny sprintverseny óta először szerzett pontot az Egyesült Államokból érkező pilóta. Scott Speed akkor a 19. lett, de ő futotta meg a leggyorsabb kört. A bahreini viadalon debütáló Alexander Rossi a főversenyen szerzett harmadik helyével a 2005-ös német verseny óta első alkalommal szerzett dobogós pozíciót az Egyesült Államoknak, akkor Speed végzett ugyanezen a helyen.
 Marcus Ericsson a spanyol GP-n megszerezte élete első pole-pozícióját. Ezzel ő lett a sorozat történetének 41. pilótája, aki első helyről rajtolhatott főversenyen.
 Robin Frijns a spanyol nagydíj főversenyén szerezte meg maga és csapata (Hilmer Motorsport) első futamgyőzelmét. A holland versenyző lett a sorozat történetének 54. futamgyőztese, s Giedo van der Garde után a második hollandiai futamgyőztes. Frijns győzelmével a Hilmer Motorsport lett az első német futamgyőztes csapat a szériában.
 Kevin Cennon a spanyol nagydíj főversenyén szerezte meg első pontjait, míg a monacói főversenyen elért második helyével első dobogóját a szériában. A pontszerzéssel a tizenkettedik, míg a dobogóval a hetedik olasz lett, aki ilyen eredményt el tudott érni.
 Adrian Quaife-Hobbs lett az Egyesült Királyság tizedik GP2-es dobogósa, s ő szerezte az MP Motorsport első pódiumát.
 Jon Lancaster a GP2 történetének 55. futamgyőztese.
 A GP2 történetének 44. olyan pilótája a monacói Richelmi, aki pole-pozíciót tudott szerezni.
 A francia Dillmann élete első pole-pozícióját szerezte meg a Hungaroringen. Ő lett a GP2 hatodik francia rajt elsője (csak az időmérős eredményeket figyelembe véve) Grosjean, Bianchi, Pic, Lapierre és Prémat után.
 Nathanaël Berthon a magyarországi sprintfutamon aratott győzelmével lett a nyolcadik francia autóversenyző, aki a szériában futamgyőzelmet szerzett. A sorozat történetének 56. nagydíj nyertese.

A bajnokság végeredménye
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It may be on the National Register of Historic Places, but the Natchez neighborhood has no historic protective overlay in Franklin.
FRANKLIN — Alderman Pearl Bransford walked down Natchez Street, quiet except for the loud chirping of the cicadas, on Saturday morning.
Bright green paper and pen in hand, she went door to door asking a simple question for her petition: Do residents want to protect the Natchez neighborhood from gentrification? A neighborhood on the National Register of Historic Places, the Natchez area is not one of the seven inside Franklin that has a protective historic overlay requiring new construction to go through a design review before it's built.
Behind her, a newly constructed house stood with a for sale sign in the yard. The price tag read $625,000. "Which is exactly what I am trying to fix," Bransford said, standing on the corner of Natchez and Park Street.
"There's many of the property owners in this historic district in agreement that when something is infilled, it should not be more than triple the selling price of what the neighbors have. It creates a gentrification."
In Bransford's vision, the historic overlay would run the entire length of Natchez Street, and parts of 11th Avenue South and Strahl Street.
Walking up to Calvin Malone's barbershop attached to his 11th Avenue house, Bransford interrupted a haircut for his signature on her petition. Across the street, two new houses towered over the older 1940s-style homes.
"I am for the overlay in this area," Malone said, a pair of clippers in hand. "If a house gets knocked down, it needs to be built back the way it was, and it needs to go back to the floor plan of the original house. You cannot come to Natchez and bring a Grassland neighborhood. And I can't go and bring a Natchez neighborhood into Westhaven. You cannot do it like this. People come to historic Franklin for the historic views of Franklin, and this neighborhood needs to be left just like it is."
The Natchez neighborhood rose after Reconstruction and the Battle of Franklin ravaged inside the city limits.
During its formation, the 25 acres of land that made up the Natchez area extended from Ninth Avenue to Fowlkes Street. While it went through a handful or property owners in the early 1800s, slaves started purchasing the land after the Civil War. Before the war's beginning, around 12,000 slaves lived in the county.
"Being that this is historic African American neighborhood, this is a crown in our community," Bransford said. "We need to value in our city and this historic district. People come here to see the communities that have put emphasis and value on their historic neighborhoods, and that could erode with inappropriate infill."
During the Battle of Franklin, both the 23rd Michigan and the 183rd Ohio divisions had troops on the land during five hours of bloodshed on Nov. 30, 1864.
The Natchez neighborhood was one of the places African Americans could live during Reconstruction.
According to Franklin Planning director Emily Hunter, securing a historic protection for a neighborhood is up to the property owners.
Individual property owners or group of property owners may request a rezoning. This includes the addition of an Overlay Zoning District, such as the Historic Preservation Overlay District.
"To do so, a property owner contacts the Franklin Planning Department to set up an initial meeting to discuss the application and then submits an official application, per our meeting and deadline schedule," Hunter said. There's no specified requirement for a number of signatures.
Any request for an addition to HPO will first go to the Historic Zoning Commission for a recommendation, then on to the Franklin Municipal Planning Commission.
After it has been before those two bodies, the rezoning request moves on to a Board of Mayor and Aldermen work session and to BOMA for three readings, with one being a public hearing.


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Greenberg tells refs to find right balance after penalty crackdown
Tue 12 Jun 2018, 11:35 AM
NRL chief executive Todd Greenberg has conceded referees have tended to nitpick this season and wants them to find the right balance in the flow of the game.
Greenberg backed the referees for their tougher interpretations of the rules this year but said tweaks were needed to ensure fans were not turned off by too many penalties.
"I wouldn't say we're going to soften, we're absolutely on the right path," he said.
"There has been a tendency for referees to continue to nitpick so we have to find the balance. I am desperately keen to make sure we find that balance.
"I don't want referees looking for penalties, I want them to continue to police those areas... I would like to see referees find the balance more often, not look for penalties and adjudicate accordingly.
"When you make change it takes time, the greater resistance you feel the greater change you're making.
The play-the-ball and lack of ability for players to make a genuine attempt to play the ball was something that was not good last year.
"Yes there's some difficult games, at times I've seen some over-officiating, that doesn't please me but we have to find the balance."
Greenberg calls on refs to find balance
The ARL Commission has endorsed a recommendation from the NRL's Competition Committee to sin bin players for serious instances of foul play – even if the victim is able to continue playing.
"Until now, the rules did not allow referees to use the sin bin for foul play unless the victim of foul play was forced to leave the field and was unlikely to take any further part of the game," ARL chairman Peter Beattie said.
"So we have seen players commit acts of foul play, put on report but miss no game time.
"We don't think that is an adequate deterrent so, from Round 15 onwards, referees will be able to use the sin bin for foul play whether the victim has to leave the field or not."
Greenberg also said he would remain in the job for the long haul in light of links to him potentially replacing James Sutherland as the boss of Cricket Australia.
"I've made some commitments to the commission and I'll be here," he said.
"I haven't put a time frame on it, there's a lot of work to do. I'm fully committed to my role here, I've made commitments to Peter and the commission which I will see through."
Greenberg and ARL Commission chairman Peter Beattie held a media conference on Tuesday morning to announce NRL clubs will get salary cap relief if a star player suffers a long-term injury in a Test or State of Origin.
As revealed by NRL.com last month, the plan, which received final approval at the ARLC meeting last week, will enable clubs to spend up to $350,000 to replace a player ruled out for a minimum of 12 matches because of an injury suffered in a representative fixture.


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If you expect to get your online resume seen and considered, you need to know what's up; you need to know the rules because before a resume gets in front of an actual person it often has to get past the "Gatekeeper".
I'm not talking about the small companies in a community where the owner runs the business or has a hand in the hiring, I'm talking about those companies that are getting hundreds of applicants for a single position. In fact 50% of mid-sized companies, and nearly ALL large companies, use a Gatekeeper to scan resumes before any decision maker ever gets their eyes on it.
So who's the Gatekeeper for these employers? Actually it's not a who, it's a what.
An Applicant Tracking System (ATS). Yup, computer software that efficiently and ruthlessly scans resumes that come in and then send along the ones that make the cut to the powers that be; a decision maker who decides whether or not an applicant gets in for an interview.
Which means that even if an applicant is ridiculously qualified and has amazing skills, achievements and experience… even they might not make it past the Gatekeeper. People need to present their information and qualifications in a way that the Gatekeeper understands otherwise their resume is going to get ditched and no one (aka human being) is going to see it.
For real. Studies have shown that 75% of applicants are getting rejected because the software that's reading their resume can't read it. The ATS is confused and doesn't know what the resume's talking about, which means that if an applicant wants their resume read, rated highly and passed along to a real person with an opinion and influence (which they obviously do), then they have to know the rules.
Resumes that are submitted online have specific formatting requirements to make it easier for the ATS to read it, which means these resumes have to be simple with no fluff or fancification (which is surprisingly a real word).
"First contact" with a company or recruiter isn't the time to be sending a creative and comprehensive resume that will catch an actual person's eye. The ATS doesn't have that kind of eye; it could care less. Save those resumes and online portfolios for when you get a chance to talk to a real person during an interview, at a career fair, or through a networking opportunity. They'll be impressed so save it for them.
Follow the Rules. Stay in the Game.
DON'T send your resume as a .pdf (unless you're specifically asked to).
The ATS sees a pdf as an image so doesn't read what's on it; which means it gets rejected ASAP.
Fonts: Use simple, basic fonts.
Arial, Times New Roman, Courier, Helvetica or Georgia are good bets.
Color, graphics, images, or tables.
Online resume templates. Don't use them here. Why?
They often have hidden formatting going on in the back end that we can't see but the ATS can. Not good so don't do it.
List the name of the employer or school first THEN the dates you worked or attended there.
Upload your resume as an attachment and include your name in the filename.
Keywords, keywords and more keywords.
Scan the job posting and pull out the unique and specific words and phrases in the listing.
Include each of those words or phrases 2 or 3 time throughout your resume where they best fit in.
Don't just stuff your resume with keywords though since your resume has to make sense for the person who reads it after it get the OK from the ATS.
Acronyms: Write out all acronyms and include the acronym as well.
Spelling and grammar. Check them, then check them again.
If something's not spelled correctly it's gibberish to the ATS.
Left alignment for resume text. Right alignment can end up making the formatting look wonky.
Ditch "Objective" & "References Available" (it's assumed you have them). Both sections are old school and a waste of space.
Don't include a list of "soft skills" like "positive attitude" or "team player".
They're not proven and are subjective so no one knows if you're being entirely honest; especially the ATS.
Instead include your soft skills within the content of your resume's work experiences and achievements.
The importance of optimizing 1st contact resumes to be read and understood by computer software so they're passed along to humans rather than ditched in the trash.
Applicants should consider creating a second resume and/or online portfolio presence to showcase their creativity and share all of the awesomeness that the ATS can't appreciate.
This will be the resume that's given to people in person during an interview, at a career fair, or through a networking opportunity. They'll be impressed so do this for those situations because it's easy to read and looks great (more to come on that some other time).
So, go ahead and create that standard no frills resume because it's important! But also make sure that you follow the rules so you'll beat out most of the applicants. You'll end up making it past the robots and in front of the interviewers!


Inula racemosa, Pushkarmoola, antiasthmatic herbs, used in anti-spasmodic, hyposensitive, beta-blocking, cough, chest pain.
Pushkarmoola is one of the medicines used widely used in ayurveda.
Pushkarmoola is one of the medicines used widely used in ayurveda. This herb is proven herb used to treat various ailments.
This plant has gained prominence as an ayurvedic plant which is aromatic and now widely found in northwestern Himalayas.
Inula racemosa grows in temperate and western Himalayas at an altitude of 1300 to 4500 meters.
The plant is small hardy shrub that grows on an average height of 0.33 to 2 meters.
The leaves of Inula are 3-6 cm long and 2-3 cm broad and elliptical with long petioles.
The plant stem is rough and slight hairy. The fruit is slender, 0.4 cm long and bearing small hairs.
The fresh roots are aromatic and brown in colour but become grayish when dry.
Inula racemosa is generally cultivated in temperate zones of Himalayas and Kashmir on elevated areas.
The chief constituents of inula racemosa are Sesquiterpene lactones, alantolactone, isoalantolactone, inunal, isoalloalantolactone and essential oil.
Pushkarmoola is widely known for its medicinal properties such as anti-spasmodic, hyposensitive, beta-blocking and anti-anginal.
Pushkarmoola is also useful in treating cardiovascular disorders such as heart diseases, lowering down blood pressure and angina pectoris.
It also helps in alleviating cholesterol level from body.
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On October 27, Keith Gessen and Marco Roth spoke in the Paley Lecture Hall about starting n+1 in the midst of the online transformation of the early 2000s. n+1 is a print literary journal which released its first issue in 2004. Before the lecture, we had a long discussion about their journal, the literary and competitive pressures of publishing, the death and life of the author, the life of print after the Internet, and just how n+1 got its name.
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Imagine an island chain in the heart of the Caribbean Sea, uncluttered by tourist exploitation, with white-sand beaches on deserted islands, sky-blue water gently lapping the shore and barely a soul around.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a nation in the Lesser Antilles chain, which lies at the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where it meets the Atlantic Ocean. Its 389 square kilometers territory consists of the main island of Saint Vincent and the northern two-thirds of the Grenadines, which are a chain of smaller islands stretching south from Saint Vincent to Grenada.
The name Saint Vincent and the Grenadines evokes visions of exotic, idyllic island life. Although Saint Vincent as the largest island of Grenadines is considered as the hub that travelers will pass through ,it's allure attracts visitors instantly. The beaches are on the average side and the frenetic pace of Kingstown and its unpolished edges inspires many to head out to the calm of the Grenadines. But the island is fascinating for exploring. The verdant rain forested interior has good hiking options, and vast banana plantations provide a timeless spectacle.
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Kirsten Dalrymple, Alan Kingstone, Todd Handy; Event-related potential evidence for a dual-locus model of global/local processing. Journal of Vision 2010;10(7):91. doi: 10.1167/10.7.91.
We investigated the perceptual time-course of global/local processing using event-related potentials (ERPs). Subjects discriminated the global or local level of hierarchical letters of different sizes and densities. Subjects were faster to discriminate the local level of large/sparse letters, and the global level of small/dense letters. This was mirrored in early ERP components: the N1/N2 had smaller peak amplitudes when subjects made discriminations at the level that took precedence. Only global discriminations for large/sparse letters led to amplitude enhancement of the later P3 component, suggesting that additional attention-demanding processes are involved in discriminating the global level of these stimuli. Our findings suggest a dual-locus time course for global/local processing: 1) level precedence occurs early in visual processing; 2) extra processing is required at a later stage, but only for global discriminations of large, sparse, stimuli, which may require additional attentional resources for active grouping.


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The Gemmell Awards 2012
By Gollancz
Related Categories: Andrzej Sapkowski, Author Post, Brandon Sanderson, Events, Fantasy, Guest Post, James Barclay, Joe Abercrombie, Pierre Pevel, Prize Winners, Stan Nicholls
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Today we're thrilled to have another guest blogger on the blog. Following the delightful Pornokitsch joining us to talk about the ethos behind their award, today we have Stan Nicholls, Chairman of the David Gemmell Legend Awards, with a little bit about how the award came about, and what it's designed to do. And watch this space! The David Gemmell Legend Award Shortlists are announced on Sunday!
When David Gemmell died on 28th July 2006, aged 57, his friends and colleagues sought a way to honour his life and work. The consensus was to create an award in Gemmell's name; an idea first floated publicly by author David Lee Stone.
Why an award? Well, apart from commemorating a widely admired author, we felt there was a real need for a proper award for fantasy. By which I mean what you might call 'pure' fantasy – the kind Gemmell wrote – that, at least here in the UK, seemed unregarded. Science fiction, horror and other popular genres have their prizes, we reasoned, so why not fantasy?
We had a false start. Our initial efforts amounted to lobbying/haranguing other people and organisations in the hope that the idea would catch fire. I won't weary you with the ins and outs of how that came to grief. Not that anyone was to blame. We were too many cooks, maybe, with too many diverse views about what we wanted to do, and how to do it. So the whole thing went into abeyance for a while.
Michael Moorcock once told me that in order for a group to achieve anything it needs what he called a 'loony dictator'. He reckoned taking on that role was what made his 60's reboot of New Worlds happen. It was another of Dave Gemmell's friends, the writer Deborah Miller, who emerged as our loony dictator. (Not that I'm implying anything derogatory; in many ways Deborah's one of the sanest people I know.) What she did was step up and say it was time to dump our somebody-ought-to-do-something-about-this stance and get on with it ourselves. More than anything else, her drive and determination was what got us on the road.
A core committee was formed, with Deborah as Award Administrator. Gareth Wilson, who has a good claim to be David Gemmell's Number One Fan, came aboard as our Website Manager. Mike 'Sparks' Rennie, who's provided the Tech/Logistics for numerous conventions, agreed to do the same for us; and Christine Harrison brought her fiscal expertise to the role of Treasurer. My wife, Anne, took on editorship of the award ceremony programme book, among other things; and I had the honour of being offered the position of Chair which, after a brief period of trepidation and false modesty, I accepted.
Our initial decision was easy. We wanted to create an award recognising the best fantasy novel of any given year. What else could we call it but the Legend Award, after Gemmell's first and most celebrated novel?
After that, things got a bit complicated.
Exactly how would we go about arriving at a winner? There were three options:
1) have a jury decide;
2) have the public determine a shortlist and a jury settle the final outcome;
3) have a completely open vote with no jury.
Every juried award, particularly in a specialist area like fantasy, has a perennial problem: finding suitable judges. In considering the juried option we felt it wouldn't be appropriate to include anyone connected with publishers or literary agents. Not that we thought they'd be biased but because of an unfounded perception that they might be. How would it look if an editor or agent sat in judgement on a shortlist that included a writer they published or represented? What if said shortlisted author won? It's a bit of a stretch, but the same could be said about using authors as judges when the shortlist could well include an entry with whom they shared a publisher. Critics? How many are there who are sufficiently knowledgeable about the field and available to us, given that the requisite number of judges is usually considered to be five and should be refreshed every year? Damn few. We mulled over the possibility of having a judging panel consisting solely of readers. But the massive amount of reading involved – our first longlist ran to over ninety titles – and the fact that we couldn't reimburse people for their time and effort, made that a big ask.
Adopting the second option – part public vote, part jury – would boil the longlist down to a manageable number, but doesn't solve the practical difficulty of finding suitable judges.
In arriving at the decision to adopt a totally open vote we weren't in any way being critical of awards that choose the juried route. We've no doubt that their verdicts are reached honourably. But apart from the practicable considerations involved in mustering juries we have what might be called a philosophical objection to that way of doing things. Frankly, the idea of a small group handing down pronouncements about what deserves an award and what doesn't strikes us as a little elitist, and against the spirit of our times. In an age when masses of ordinary people are using technology to topple despotic regimes and change government policies, surely they can be trusted to vote for a book award.
When our committee has to confront difficult decisions we have a rule of thumb that amounts to 'What would Dave have wanted?'. Knowing the importance he placed on readers – the people who put their hands in their pockets and make authors' lives possible – we're sure Gemmell would have favoured as democratic a system as possible when it came to an award bearing his name. So we put our faith in the wisdom of crowds
We've caught some criticism for crowd-sourcing the award. In the same way that we would have been disparaged if we'd gone with a jury. One objection was that readers would band together to vote for their favourite author. Our response is: so what? Unless people are being strong-armed into voting in some unimaginable way, then presumably they really do favour the writer they're voting for, whether in unison with others or not. To suggest that people are so weak-willed that they could be influenced to vote for someone they wouldn't normally vote for is plain insulting. And if some kind of partiality should creep in – though it's difficult to think how it might – our contention is that a sufficiently large pool of voters dilutes it to the point of insignificance. We also felt that that having the voting restricted solely to the internet wasn't a disadvantage as just about everybody has access to it these days.
So this is how it works. A longlist is compiled from titles submitted by the publishers (the public are welcome to suggest additional titles they think worthy and eligible). The longlist is voted on and the five titles with the most votes forms the shortlist. A second round of votes determines the winner (we have robust systems in place to prevent multiple voting).
In our first year the Legend Award garnered almost 11,000 votes from 75 countries.
Simultaneous with working out how, we were looking for where. After investigating numerous venues, we settled on the theatre at The Magic Circle headquarters in London's Euston. To say the place has character would be an understatement, and we loved its eccentricity and intimacy from the minute we stepped over the threshold. Securing The Magic Circle as the annual location for our ceremony is entirely thanks to our sponsor Bragelonne, France's leading publisher of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror. Bragelonne's Alain Névant and Stéphane Marsan were also Gemmell's friend, and his French publishers, but as our award is for English language books there's no conflict of interest.
With the how and where sorted, we turned our minds to what. We wanted something special as a trophy. Simon Fearnhamm of the Raven Armoury volunteered to supply the perfect solution – a half-sized replica of Snaga, the awesome axe wielded by Gemmell's illustrious hero Druss. Simon's Snaga is a truly beautiful hand-crafted artefact. With a price tag of more than £2000 when made to commission, we believe it to be the most valuable trophy on offer in the Science Fiction and Fantasy fields.
With the permission and support of Dave's widow Stella and the Gemmell family, and the backing of the publishing and speculative fiction communities, our first presentation took place at The Magic Circle on 19 June 2009. We were particularly pleased that Dave's daughter Kate and son Luke were able to join us for the ceremony. It began with a spirited reading from Legend by author James Barclay, yet another of Dave's friends. James' opening recitations from Gemmell's works, and his conduct of an auction of fantasy memorabilia that precedes the presentation, have became invaluable staples of our ceremonies.
Other 'Friends of the Awards' as we like to think of them – people not actually on the committee but who have proved unstinting in helping the process run smoothly – include, among others, Mark Yon, Nick Summit, Tiffany Lau, Elaine Clarke, Anna Kennedy, Marianne Fifer and Rachel Oakes.
The first winner of the Legend Award defied expectations. It turned out to be Andrzej Sapkowski for Blood of Elves, a novel translated from Polish. The four runners-up each received a 'mini Snaga' by way of congratulations, a practice we've continued.
Buoyed by the success of our initial ceremony we decided to add two new categories in 2010. The Morningstar Award honours the best debut novel, something we thought especially important as Dave Gemmell was noted for the help and encouragement he gave to many aspiring writers. The Ravenheart Award was designed to recognise the best fantasy cover art, an aspect of the genre we felt deserved acknowledgement. We were now officially The David Gemmell Awards For Fantasy.
That year the Morningstar went to Pierre Pevel for The Cardinal's Blades and the Ravenheart to Didier Graffet for the cover of Joe Abercrombie's Best Served Cold. The Legend was a surprise choice again but richly deserved. It went to Graham McNeill for Empire. 15,500 votes were cast overall.
2010 was also notable in that we welcomed SFX, the UK's number one sf and fantasy magazine, as our media partner.
2011 saw the Morningstar awarded to Darius Hinks for Warrior Priest, the Ravenheart to Olof Erla Einarsdottir for the cover of Power and Majesty by Tansy Rayner Roberts, and the Legend to Brandon Sanderson for The Way of Kings.
One of the things that's delighted us about the awards so far is their international flavour, with prizes going to authors and artists from France, Iceland, Poland and the US as well as the UK. Proof, if it was needed, that the literary expression of the fantastic knows no borders.
The 2012 shortlists, now released, offer some intriguing possibilities for our fourth year. As to the future, we hope to add further categories in due course that embrace other strands of the fantasy fiction sphere. A lesson we have learned is that nothing is so constant as change, and that in order to remain relevant we need to view what we do as organic.
In 2013, for instance, we're planning something surprising. But it can't be revealed just yet. Watch out for an announcement at this year's ceremony in June.
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Thinking about identity is one thing, but experiencing it is another. In our global, mobile world, more and more people have intertwined identities. How can they sort out their hybridity in a meaningful way in social contexts?
Andy is struggling with his multiple cultural identities. Part of this stems from his birth parents' backgrounds, part from his experiences of growing up in different locations abroad, and even more comes from confusion on how he sees himself, or what he thinks he should try to be in various social contexts.
Andy Halt is a Thai-American who grew up as an expatriate child. Andy's white US American father (the son of German immigrants) grew up in Illinois. His dad majored in business at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (the U of I), and then got his MBA at the famous Kellogg School at Northwestern University near Chicago. Andy's mother came from a well-established Thai diplomatic family, grew up with near-native English, got her Bachelor's degree at the prestigious Chulalongkorn University (founded in 1917 by King Rama IV who modernized Thailand) in Medicine, then got into Med-School at the U of I, where his parents met. They married while his father was working on his MBA, lived for a few years in Chicago where his mom worked as a doctor in a local hospital and passed the Illinois Medical Board exams. His dad then started his career with 3M (the makers of Scotch Tape) and Andy and his sister Annie were born during that time in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Real Midwesterners!
His dad then took executive jobs (and his mom worked part-time with international medical clinics) in Tokyo, then Singapore, where Andy and Annie went to primary school, and they moved and stayed many years in Beijing, where they went to middle and high school at the highly-ranked International School of Beijing (ISB). Andy loved his years in Beijing, developed good soccer skills, had classmates from all over the world, learned good Mandarin (which he had started in Singapore), made some good Chinese friends on the soccer pitch, and felt quite at home! Andy's grades and SAT test scores allowed him to get a scholarship in the Brain Lamb School of Communications at Purdue University in West-Lafayette, Indiana, only two hours away from Grandpa and Grandma Halt's home in eastern Illinois.
Among the challenges that Andy now faces as he adjusts to university life in the US is that he looks more Thai than "American," whatever that is supposed to mean (in any case, not "white enough" for some people in the Midwest, it seems). Some of his classmates keep kidding him about being the "model minority" they have to work hard beat out on exams (a few call him "Asian-Andy"). Others see him spending time and using Mandarin with Chinese students on campus and assume he came from there, either making comments about the "the new China threat" or, assuming he's in engineering, complaining about the "horde" of "techy, nerdy" Chinese students on the Purdue campus (there are over 4,000!). A few know that his mother is Thai, and they make jokes based on what they've heard about the Thai bar or massage parlor scene — all very uncomfortable for him as a Bible-believing Christian. Some joke about his name (Hey Halt! You're supposed to stop, kid!). Others laugh at him about being a "typically Asian-American banana" or make him feel self-conscious or excluded in other ways.
Even at church he feels occasionally misunderstood by the mostly white congregation. But he's thankful for the students in his "College Bible Study Group" who have taken the time to get to know him better. But he senses his own identities are often in conflict, and feels displaced and alone most of the time. One of his mom's friends suggested he read a book about "Third Culture Kids" (TCKs), so he's wondering if exploring that might help. But right now the course load is heavy, mid-terms are coming, and his sense of not fitting in anywhere is mounting!
What Andy is dealing with is quite complex. His "cultural story" is an increasingly "typical" profile of a TCK, global nomad, or world citizen. Multiple identities can bring benefits, but also raise challenges.
Perhaps you have some feelings, thoughts, or reactions to his situation. Does this case seem to bring to light any biases, comfort-based demarcations, or potential out-group boundaries that you may have previously overlooked in the way you normally think or act?
Though uncomfortable to face, reflecting on how we make assumptions or attributions about others can help us grow in tolerance and respect in intercultural interaction.


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Q: Are the Poulet-numbers of the form $k^2+1$ all squarefree? A Poulet-number $n$ is a weak Fermat-pseudoprime to base $2$ , in other words a composite number $n$ with the property $$2^{n-1}\equiv 1\mod n$$
The first $34$ poulet-numbers of the form $k^2+1$ (positive integer $k$) are , according to my calculations :
$$[46657, 898705, 2433601, 23736385, 67371265, 96589585, 331240001, 878529601, 1370776577, 4294967297, 8019202501, 80542440001, 287210246401, 351596817937, 422240040001, 682160364901, 1086430982401, 1911029760001, 2359971888401, 13603040532901, 17767236614401, 18677955240001, 26042752304101, 364005569944901, 458631349862401, 598865079758401, 45824890274900101, 189623338816064401, 286245437364810001, 1148717191415062501, 2333246290710627601, 6017402415698251777, 18446744073709551617, 52807456278501210001]$$
They are all squarefree.
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*Is my list of the first $34$ poulet-numbers of the form $k^2+1$ correct ?

*Is every poulet-number of the form $k^2+1$ squarefree ?

*Are there infinite many Poulet-numbers of the form $k^2+1$ ?

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Assume $p$ is a prime with $p^2\mid k^2+1$ and $2^{k^2}\equiv 1\mod (k^2+1)$. Then , we have $$2^{k^2}\equiv 1\mod p^2$$ The order $u$ of $2$ modulo $p^2$ is therefore a divisor of $k^2$ , but because of $p\nmid k^2$ we have $p\nmid u$. Therefore we have $u\mid p-1$ , hence $p$ is a Wieferich prime. Can we finish the proof ? If yes, how ?

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Q: Insertion SQL and NOT NULL values I've created a table schema and specified that for some attributes, values cannot be null. For one column of this table, values are to be imported from a column of some another table but the problem i am facing is that when i use insert statement to copy values from that column  of another table to the column of this newly created table, the attributes of this new column start screaming because they kind of have a constraint on them that while insertion their values cannot be NULL!
How do i cope with this?
One solution is that for other attributes, just for time being, i can state that null values can be accommodated so that i can successfully import values from column of other table and then later on put condition on the remaining attributes that values are not be NULL. But how do i do do this?

A: You need to convert NULL to some DEFAULT values while importing.
I am not sure which DB engine you are using, in mysql:
Use something like IFNULL(column_name, "").
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A: You may simply be looking for the default clause.  When you define a column, you can specify;
intcol int not null default 0

If the column is not specified for an insert, then it will default to 0.  In some databases, if a NULL value is supplied, it will also get the default value.


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Random House Book of Fairy Tales
by Amy Ehrlich (Editor), Diane Goode (Illustrator), 6 othersBruno Bettelheim (Introduction), Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Charles Perrault, Jean-Marie LePrince De Beaumont, Hans Christian Andersen
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Adecco is currently assisting a client in their search to fill a Retail Sales Associate role located in Arlington, TX! If you would like to pursue a great opportunity, then Apply Now if you meet the qualifications listed below.
The role will be responsible for managing the sales of watches and other accessories within a local department store.
You will be expected to exceed sales goals through in-depth product knowledge and exceptional customer service, selling watches and accessories (80%), and maintain visual brand standards, restocking, etc... (20%).
IMPORTANT: This position is being recruited for by Adecco's National Recruitment Center, not your local Adecco Branch Office. To be considered for this position, you must use the "apply now" button to submit your resume for review. For other opportunities available at Adecco go to www.adeccousa.com.