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Nebula Award for Best Novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Philip K. Dick Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb
  • G. C. Edmondson Ship That Sailed the Time Stream !The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream
  • Philip K. Dick Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch !The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
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  • Flowers for Algernon
  • Daniel Keyes
  • Robert A. Heinlein Moon Is a Harsh Mistress !The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  • Robert Silverberg Tower of Glass
  • Robert Silverberg Masks of Time !The Masks of Time
  • Ursula K. Le Guin* Left Hand of Darkness !The Left Hand of Darkness
  • Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Larry Niven* Ringworld
  • Philip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • Robert Silverberg* Time of Changes !A Time of Changes
  • Ursula K. Le Guin Lathe of Heaven !The Lathe of Heaven
  • Isaac Asimov* Gods Themselves !The Gods Themselves
  • Arthur C. Clarke* Rendezvous with Rama
  • Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
  • Ursula K. Le Guin* Dispossessed !The Dispossessed
  • Philip K. Dick Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
  • Joe Haldeman* Forever War !The Forever War
  • The Mote in God's Eye
  • Frederik Pohl* Man Plus
  • Frederik Pohl* Gateway
  • Arthur C. Clarke* Fountains of Paradise !The Fountains of Paradise
  • Frederik Pohl Jem
  • Gregory Benford* Timescape
  • Frederik Pohl Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
  • Isaac Asimov Foundation's Edge
  • Robert A. Heinlein Friday
  • David Brin* Startide Rising
  • Robert A. Heinlein Job: A Comedy of Justice
  • Orson Scott Card* Ender's Game
  • Orson Scott Card* Speaker for the Dead
  • Margaret Atwood Handmaid's Tale !The Handmaid's Tale
  • Ursula K. Le Guin* Last Book of Earthsea !Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
  • George R. R. Martin Game of Thrones !A Game of Thrones
  • Jack McDevitt Ancient Shores
  • Joe Haldeman* Forever Peace
  • Connie Willis To Say Nothing of the Dog
  • Neil Gaiman* American Gods
  • Ursula K. Le Guin Other Wind !The Other Wind
  • China Miéville Perdido Street Station
  • Elizabeth Moon* Speed of Dark !The Speed of Dark
  • Cory Doctorow Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
  • Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
  • Jack McDevitt Polaris
  • Terry Pratchett Going Postal
  • Jack McDevitt* Seeker
  • Joe Haldeman Accidental Time Machine !The Accidental Time Machine
  • Cory Doctorow Little Brother
  • Jack McDevitt Cauldron
  • Paolo Bacigalupi* Windup Girl !The Windup Girl
  • Connie Willis* Blackout/All Clear
Sunny Jackson

Spanish/Verbs List - Wikibooks, open books for an open world - 0 views

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  • Abrir (to open)
  • Acordar (to agree upon)
  • Alquilar (to rent)
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  • Amar (to love)
  • Aprender (to learn)
  • Ayudar (to help)
  • Bailar (to dance)
  • Beber (to drink)
  • Besar (to kiss)
  • Buscar (to look for)
  • Caminar (to walk)
  • Cantar (to sing)
  • Casarse (to marry)
  • Celebrar (to celebrate)
  • Cerrar (to close)
  • Comer (to eat
  • Comprar (to purchase, to buy)
  • Comprender (to comprehend, to understand)
  • Conducir (to drive)
  • Contestar (to answer, to reply)
  • Correr (to run)
  • Cortar (to cut)
  • Costar (to cost)
  • Crear (to create)
  • Creer (to believe)
  • Cubrir (to cover)
  • Deber (to owe, should)
  • Decidir (to decide)
  • Desear (to desire, to wish)
  • Detener (to stop)
  • Discutir (to argue)
  • Distinguir (to distinguish)
  • Divertirse (to have fun)
  • Doler (to hurt)
  • Dormir (to sleep, go to sleep)
  • Enamorarse (to fall in love)
  • Encantar (to be delighted about) - gustar-type verb
  • Entender (to understand)
  • Entrar (to enter)
  • Escuchar (to listen)
  • Escribir (to write)
  • Esperar (to wait, to hope)
  • Esquiar (to ski)
  • Estar (to be)
  • Estudiar (to study)
  • Felicitar (to congratulate)
  • Ganar (to win, to earn)
  • Gustar (to like)
  • Hablar (to talk)
  • Hacer (to make, to do)
  • Hallar (to find)
  • Ir (to go)
  • Invitar (to invite)
  • Jugar (to play)
  • Lavar (to wash)
  • Leer (to read)
  • Llegar a ser (to become)
  • Levantar (to raise)
  • Llegar (to arrive)
  • Llevar (to bring, to carry)
  • Lograr (to accomplish)
  • Mirar (to look)
  • Morir (to die)
  • Nacer (to be born)
  • Nadar (to swim)
  • Necesitar (to need)
  • Obtener (to get, to obtain)
  • Recibir (to receive)
  • Saber (to know)
  • Sacar (to take out)
  • Salir (to leave, to go out)
  • Saludar (to greet)
  • Seguir (to follow)
  • Sentir (to feel)
  • Ser (to be)
  • Significar (to mean, to signify)
  • Soñar (to dream)
  • Tener (to have, to own)
  • Terminar (to finish, to end)
  • Tocar (to touch, to play an instrument)
  • Tomar (to take, to drink)
  • Trabajar (to work)
  • Traducir (to translate)
  • Traer (to bring)
  • Usar (to use)
  • Vender (to sell)
  • Venir (to come)
  • Ver (to see)
  • Viajar (to travel)
  • Visitar (to visit)
  • Vivir (to live)
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Mythopoeic Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • outstanding works in the fields of myth, fantasy, and the scholarly study of these areas
  • Unfinished Tales by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
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  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  • Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
  • The Crown of Dalemark by Diana Wynne Jones
  • Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
  • A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
  • The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
  • Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
  • The Road to Middle-earth by T. A. Shippey
  • Reason and Imagination in C. S. Lewis by Peter J. Schakel
  • The Return of the Shadow by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien
  • The Annotated Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Douglas A. Anderson
  • Word and Story in C. S. Lewis, edited by Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar
  • A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie by Verlyn Flieger
  • Roverandom by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond
  • J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey
  • Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth, edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter
  • Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth
  • War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Janet Brennan Croft
  • The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
  • The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community by Diana Glyer; appendix by David Bratman
  • The History of the Hobbit by John D. Rateliff, Part One: Mr. Baggins; Part Two: Return to Bag-end
  • Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits by Dimitra Fimi
  • Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery
  • Twentieth-Century Fantasists, edited by Kath Filmer
  • The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, edited by John Clute and John Grant
  • The Myth of the American Superhero by John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett
  • Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper by Charles Butler
  • One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L’Engle and Orson Scott Card by Marek Oziewicz
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Hugo Award for Best Novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Double Star
  • Robert A. Heinlein Have Space Suit — Will Travel
  • Starship Troopers
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Sirens of Titan !The Sirens of Titan
  • Stranger in a Strange Land
  • Children of Dune
  • A Fall of Moondust
  • Little Fuzzy
  • Here Gather the Stars (also known as Way Station)
  • Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle
  • The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
  • Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon
  • The Left Hand of Darkness
  • Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Ringworld
  • To Your Scattered Bodies Go
  • The Lathe of Heaven
  • The Gods Themselves
  • Rendezvous with Rama
  • Time Enough for Love
  • The Dispossessed
  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
  • The Mote in God's Eye
  • The Forever War
  • Mindbridge
  • The Man in the High Castle
  • Man Plus
  • Gateway
  • The Fountains of Paradise
  • Frederik Pohl Jem
  • Frederik Pohl Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
  • Downbelow Station
  • Foundation's Edge
  • 2010: Odyssey Two
  • Startide Rising
  • Isaac Asimov Robots of Dawn !The Robots of Dawn
  • Job: A Comedy of Justice
  • Ender's Game
  • Speaker for the Dead
  • Cyteen
  • Hyperion
  • Robert J. Sawyer Terminal Experiment !The Terminal Experiment (also known as Hobson's Choice)
  • Forever Peace
  • The Rise of Endymion
  • To Say Nothing of the Dog
  • J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Dan Simmons Ilium
  • American Gods
  • China Miéville Perdido Street Station
  • Paladin of Souls
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
  • Old Man's War
  • Accelerando
  • Rainbows End
  • The Graveyard Book
  • Cory Doctorow Little Brother
  • Neal Stephenson Anathem
  • The Windup Girl
  • Blackout/All Clear
  • The Mule
  • C. S. Lewis That Hideous Strength (also known as The Tortured Planet)
  • Farmer in the Sky
  • Isaac Asimov Pebble in the Sky
  • C. S. Lewis Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe !The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Arthur C. Clarke Childhood's End
  • Isaac Asimov Caves of Steel !The Caves of Steel
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Hoisin sauce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Hoisin sauce, or haixian sauce, is a Chinese dipping sauce. The word hoisin is a romanization of the Chinese word for seafood
  • Mandarin-style hoisin sauce ingredients include starches such as sweet potato, wheat or rice, and water, sugar, soybeans, white distilled vinegar, salt, garlic, red chili peppers, and sometimes preservatives or coloring agents. Traditionally, hoisin sauce is made using sweet potato. Despite the literal meaning of "seafood", hoisin sauce does not contain fish.
  • A number of Chinese cuisine dishes such as spring rolls, mu shu pork, popiah, peking duck and barbecued pork use the sauce. It is especially common for Cantonese cuisine flavoring.
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  • The sauce is also used for glazing broiled chicken
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Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • created the architecture for the Open Library
  • Swartz was a member of the RSS-DEV Working Group that co-authored the "RSS 1.0" specification of RSS
  • founded the online group Demand Progress
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  • In the early days of Reddit, Swartz's Infogami and Reddit merged; the merger agreement made Swartz an equal partner in the merged company.
  • JSTOR's fees limited access to academic work produced at American colleges and universities.
  • Swartz also focused on sociology, civic awareness and activism.
  • against the Stop Online Piracy Act
  • On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by federal authorities in connection with systematic downloading of academic journal articles from JSTOR.[7][8] Swartz opposed JSTOR's practice of compensating publishers, rather than authors, out of the fees it charges for access to articles.
  • In 2010 he joined the Harvard University Center for Ethics.
  • At age 13, he won the ArsDigita Prize, a competition for young people who create "useful, educational, and collaborative" non-commercial websites.
  • By age 14, Swartz was a member of the working group that authored the RSS 1.0 web syndication specification
  • he agitated without cease—or compensation—for the free-culture movement.
  • Around 2006, Swartz acquired the Library of Congress's complete bibliographic dataset: the library charged fees to access this, but as a government document, it was not copyright-protected within the USA. By posting the data in the Open Library, Swartz made it freely available.
  • government-produced documents are not covered by copyright
  • public.resource.org
  • A respected Harvard researcher who also is an Internet folk hero has been arrested in Boston on charges related to computer hacking, which are based on allegations that he downloaded articles that he was entitled to get free.
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Young Reader's Choice Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • The Mouse and the Motorcycle
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  • The Indian in the Cupboard
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  • The Giver
  • Christopher Paul Curtis Bud, Not Buddy
  • Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl
  • Cornelia Funke The Thief Lord
  • Kate DiCamillo The Tale of Despereaux
  • Cornelia Funke Dragon Rider
  • Terry Pratchett A Hat Full of Sky
  • Rick Riordan The Lightning Thief
  • Kate DiCamillo The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
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  • policies, language, and other social institutions should avoid distinguishing roles according to people's sex or gender, in order to avoid discrimination arising from the impression that there are social roles for which one gender is more suited than the other
  • eliminate gender distinctions
  • gender neutrality in the law has changed the nature of custody disputes
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  • public restrooms being available without distinguishing the gender of the person using them
  • Someone who identifies as gender blind takes the perspective of gender neutrality in every day life.
  • s/he, or they
  • in gender neutralism the emphasis is on transcending the perspective of gender altogether rather than focusing on the rights of specific genders
  • Gender neutrality emphasises the equal treatment of men and women legally with no discrimination whatsoever.
  • Gender neutrality or "gender transcendence" is part of the transhumanist concept of postgenderism
  • Advocates of postgenderism argue that the presence of gender roles, social stratification, and cogno-physical disparities and differences are generally to the detriment of individuals and society.
  • promoting gender neutrality within the classroom
  • not having gender-specific sports
  • gender-neutral bathrooms and on-campus housing
  • gender-inclusive dorm room and bathroom options
  • damage caused by gender stereotyping of children
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Kale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Kale or borecole is a form of cabbage (Brassica oleracea Acephala Group), green or purple, in which the central leaves do not form a head. It is considered to be closer to wild cabbage than most domesticated forms.
  • Kale is considered to be a highly nutritious vegetable with powerful antioxidant properties; kale is considered to be anti-inflammatory.
  • Kale is very high in beta carotene, vitamin K, vitamin C, lutein, zeaxanthin, and reasonably rich in calcium.
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  • Boiling decreases the level of the anti-cancer compounds; however, steaming, microwaving, or stir frying do not result in significant loss.
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Couscous - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • It has a superior vitamin profile to pasta, containing twice as much riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, and folate, and containing four times as much thiamine and pantothenic acid.
  • It has a glycemic load per gram 25% below that of pasta
  • Couscous is among the healthiest grain-based products
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  • In terms of protein, couscous has 3.6 g for every 100 calories, equivalent to pasta, and well above the 2.6 g for every 100 calories of white rice.
  • Furthermore, couscous contains a 1% fat-to-calorie ratio, compared to 3% for white rice, 5% for pasta, and 11.3% for rice pilaf.
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Mortgage Credit Certificate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • a Mortgage Credit Certificate (more commonly referred to as MCC) is a certificate issued by certain state or local governments that allows a taxpayer to claim a tax credit for some portion of the mortgage interest paid during a given tax year
  • Because it is a tax credit and not a tax deduction, mortgage lenders will often use the estimated amount of the credit on a monthly basis as additional income to help the potential borrower qualify for the loan
  • Buyers must not have owned a home in the previous three years
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  • income
  • purchase price
  • Buyers must intend to use the new home as a primary residence
  • capped at a maximum of $2000 per year by the IRS
  • The buyer may continue to receive a tax credit for as long as they live in the home and retain the mortgage
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Lucene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • information retrieval software library
  • suitable for any application which requires full text indexing and searching capability
  • utility in the implementation of Internet search engines and local, single-site searching
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  • At the core of Lucene's logical architecture is the idea of a document containing fields of text
  • Text from PDFs, HTML, Microsoft Word, and OpenDocument documents, as well as many others (except images), can all be indexed as long as their textual information can be extracted
  • independent of the file format
  • indexing and search library
  • web crawling and HTML parsing
  • search server
  • Java Search Engine Framework
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Semolina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Semolina is the coarse, purified wheat middlings of durum wheat used in making pasta, and also used for breakfast cereals and puddings
  • Semolina made from durum wheat is yellow in color. It is usually the basis for dried products such as couscous, which is made by mixing roughly 2 parts semolina with 1 part durum flour.
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  • A system virtual machine provides a complete system platform which supports the execution of a complete operating system (OS).
  • Dalvik virtual machine, part of Android operating systems
  • DOSBox
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  • Windows Virtual PC (formerly Microsoft Virtual PC) and Microsoft Virtual Server
  • Macromedia Flash Player, SWF
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Euphrosyne (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • daughter of Zeus and Eurynome
  • Goddess of Joy
  • incarnation of grace and beauty
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  • Also known as the goddess of Mirth
  • created to fill the world with pleasant moments and good will
  • attended the goddess of beauty Aphrodite and her companion Eros
  • loved dancing around in a circle to Apollo's divine music, together with the Nymphs and the Muses
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  • In computer science, control flow (or alternatively, flow of control) refers to the order in which the individual statements, instructions or function calls of an imperative or a declarative program are executed or evaluated.
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C++ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • regarded as a "middle-level" language
  • developed by Bjarne Stroustrup
  • began as enhancements to C, first adding classes, then virtual functions, operator overloading, multiple inheritance, templates, and exception handling among other features.
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  • The syntax of Go is broadly similar to that of C
  • common control flow structures include for, switch, and if
  • blocks of code are surrounded with curly braces
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  • Unlike C, line-ending semicolons are optional
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  • {{Citation needed}}
  • Exercise caution
  • If you can provide a reliable source for the claim, please be bold and replace the "Citation needed" template with enough information to locate the source.
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  • You may leave the copyediting to someone else
  • If someone tagged your contributions with "Citation needed" and you disagree, discuss the matter on the article's discussion page.
  • Controversial, poorly-sourced claims in biographies of living people should be deleted immediately.
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