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Poul William Anderson (n. 25 noiembrie 1926 – d. 31 iulie 2001) a fost un scriitor american de science fiction, care și-a început cariera în timpul Epocii de Aur a genului și a continuat să scrie și să rămână popular până în secolul 21. Anderson a scris și romane fantasy, istorice, precum și o serie de povestiri, primind numeroase premii, inclusiv șapte premii Hugo și trei premii Nebula.

Anderson și-a luat doctoratul în fizică la Universitatea din Minnesota în 1948 și s-a căsătorit cu Karen Kruse în 1953, având împreună o fată, Astrid, care este căsătorită cu scriitorul de science fiction Greg Bear. În 1972 a devenit al șaselea președinte al Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. A fost membru al Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America, un grup de autori de heroic fantasy fondat în anii '60 și ale cărui lucrări au fost antologate în seria lui Lin Carter Flashing Swords!. De asemenea, a fost membru fondator al  Society for Creative Anachronism. Robert A. Heinlein a dedicat romanul său din 1985 The Cat Who Walks Through Walls lui Anderson și altor opt membri ai Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.

Poul Anderson a murit de cancer pe 31 iulie 2001, după o lună de spitalizare. Câteva dintre romanele sale au fost publicate postum.

Biografie

Poul Anderson s-a născut pe 25 noiembrie 1926, în Bristol, statul Pennsylvania, din părinți de origine scandinavă. La puțin timp după nașterea sa, tatăl său, inginerul Anton Anderson, s-a mutat împreună cu familia în Texas, unde au trăit cu toții peste zece ani. După moartea lui Anton, văduva sa și-a dus copiii în Danemarca, revenind în Statele Unite după terminarea celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial, stabilindu-se la o fermă din Minnesota.

Anderson și-a luat doctoratul în fizică la Universitatea din Minnesota în 1948, dar nu a fost tentat să lucreze ca fizician. Prima sa povestire a apărut în 1947, iar după absolvire a lucrat ca scriitor liber profesionist.

S-a căsătorit cu Karen Kruse în 1953 și s-au mutat împreună în zona golfului San Francisco. Fiica lor, Astrid, s-a născut în 1954. Apoi și-a stabilit reședința în Orinda, lângă Berkeley, statul California.

Teme politice, morale și literare

Anderson este faimos mai ales pentru cărțile sale de aventuri, în care personajele sale obțin succese răsunătoare sau eșuează într-un mod eroic. Personajele sale sun înțelepte, adeseori introspective și bine realizate. Intrigile sale implică deseori speculații pe baza problemelor sociale și politice, într-un mod potrivit genului science fiction. El a scris și opere mai puțin remarcate, în general mai scurte, mai ales în ultima perioadă a carierei sale.

Mare parte din SF-ul său este bine ancorat în latura științifică (la care se adaugă speculații de genul călătoriei cu viteze superluminice), una dintre specialitățile sale fiind imaginarea unor planete non-terestre, plauzibile din punct de vedere științific. Poate cea mai cunoscută este planeta din The Man Who Counts — Anderson i-a ajustat dimensiunea și compoziția pentru ca oamenii să poată trăi în aer liber, dar și pentru a permite evoluția unor extratereștri zburători inteligenți, explorând apoi consecințele acestor ajustări.

Spațiu și libertate

În multe povestiri Anderson tratează teme sociale și politice. Indiferent prin ce schimbări a trecut, și-a păstrat credința fermă în legătura inextricabilă dintre libertatea umană și expansiunea spațială - motiv pentru care s-a opus mereu ideii că explorarea spațiului ar fi "o risipă de bani" sau "un lux inutil".

Legătura dintre zborul spațial și libertate este exprimată explicit în unele dintre povestiri, ea fiind o extensie a conceptului american despre frontiere din secolul al XIX-lea: nemulțumiții pot merge mai departe, revendicând noi pământuri, iar pionierii pot aduce viața pe asteroizi sterili (ca în Tales of the Flying Mountains) sau se pot stabili pe planete similare Pământului unde întâlnesc forme de viață neinteligente (ca în Star Fox).

Așa cum a susținut în repetate rânduri în eseurile sale de non-ficțiune, Anderson considera expansiunea spațială o nevoie existențială, abandonarea spațiului fiind catalogată ca un blestem pentru omenire, care ar deveni "o societate de briganzi care conduc țărani". Acest lucru este exprimat foarte sugestiv în emoționanta povestire "Welcome". În ea, omenirea a abandonat spațiul și trăiește pe un Pământ suprapopulat pe care o mică elită nu doar că tratează restul oamenilor ca pe niște sclavi, dar se dedă la canibalism.

Invers, în întunecata lume orwellian din "The High Ones" — în care sovieticii au câștigat Al Treilea Război Mondial și controlează întreaga lume — disidenții mai au speranțe tocmai pentru că explorarea spațiului nu a fost abandonată. La sfârșitul povestirii, rebelii se stabilesc în alt sistem stelar în care descendenții lor - li se spune cititorilor - vor construi la un moment dat o flotă de eliberare care va fi trimisă pe Pământ.

Guvernul mondial

Terifiat de perspectiva dominației sovietice asupra Pământului, Anderson nu era foarte entuziasmat nici de ideea ca americanii să ocupe acea poziție. De fapt, câteva dintre povestirile și cărțile sale care descriu urmările unei victorii a americanilor în Al Treilea Război Mondial — cum ar fi, de exemplu, "Sam Hall" și continuarea sa, "Three Worlds to Conquer", precum și "Shield" — sunt doar cu puțin mai dezolante decât cele care descriu o victorie a sovieticilor. La fel ca Heinlein în "Solution Unsatisfactory", Anderson consideră că impunerea conducerii militare americane asupra lumii va duce la distrugerea democrației și la o conducere tiranică asupra propriilor cetățeni.

Atât în descrierea unei lumi conduse de sovietici, cât și în cea a unei lumi conduse de americani, Anderson menționează o rebeliune care pornește în Brazilia începutului de secol XXI, înnăbușită brutal în ambele cazuri de către putere — rebelii brazilieni fiind considerați "contra-revoluționari" într-unul din cazuri și "comuniști" în celălalt.

În primii ani ai Războiului Rece — pe când era, după cum se descria chiar el într-o perioadă ulterioară, mai conservativoare, un "liberal înflăcărat" — Anderson spera că Organizația Națiunilor Unite se va transforma într-un guvern mondial adevărat. Acest lucru apare prezentat în "Un-man", un thriller futuristic în care Băieții Buni sunt agenți ai Secretarului General al ONU care încearcă să creeze un guvern mondial, în timp ce Băieții Răi sunt naționaliști (mai ales americani) care vor să își păstreze suveranitatea cu orice preț.

Mai târziu, Anderson a respins complet această idee (un exemplu destul de amuzant îl constituie începutul cărții Tau Zero — un viitor în care națiunile lumii au împuternicit Suedia să supravegheze dezarmarea, ajungând să fie conduse de Imperiul Suedez). În Star Fox, descrierea defavorabilă făcută unui grup pacifist numit "Militanții Mondiali pentru Pace" indică opinia sa referitoare la Războiul din Vietnam, în plină desfășurare la data publicării cărții. O prezentare și mai explicită a acestei idei apare ulterior în cartea Pavăza timpului, în care o tânără călătoare prin timp americancă din anii '90 face o scurtă vizită într-ub campus universitar din anii '60 și nu este foarte entuziasmată de ceea ce vede acolo.

Libertarianism

În locul unui guvern mondial, romanul Pavăza timpului rezolvă problema unei lumi dominate de dictatura americană într-un mod libertarian: protagonistul, vânat de diferite grupuri ale puterii pentru secretul câmpului de forță personal adus de pe Marte, decide în cele din urmă să dezvăluie pur și simplu secretul întregii lumi.

Anderson a revenit deseori la libertarianism (lucru care i-a adus premiul Prometheus) și a omului de afaceri erou în principal prin intermediul personajului Nicholas van Rijn. Totuși, Van Rijn este departe de omul de afaceri modern, fiind mai curând un neguțător din Epoca de Aur olandeză a secolului al XVII-lea. Cititorul nu știe dacă el petrece timp în sălile de ședință sau pune la cale preluări corporatiste, deoarece toate aparițiile sale sunt în sălbăticia frontierei spațiale.

Începând din anii '70, lucrările lui Anderson care au baze istorice au fost influențate de teoriile istoricului John K. Hord, care considera că toate imperiile urmează același tipar ciclic (în care Imperiul lui Dominic Flandry se potrivește perfect).

Scriitoarea Sandra Miesel a comentat în 1978 că tema general prezentă a lui Anderson o constituie lupta împotriva entropiei și a morții termice a universului, un mediu al uniformității perfecte în care nu se poate întâmpla nimic.

Conflitul israeliano-palestinian

Un este de non-ficțiune cuprins în There Will Be Time și atribuit protagonistului fictiv al cărții critică stânga americană din 1972 (când a fost scrisă cartea) pentru două situații de dublu standard: neglijarea condamnării violării drepturilor omului în Uniunea Sovietică și lipsa reacției la tratamentul aplicat de Israel palestinienilor.

În ficțiunile lui Anderson se fac destul de des referiri la Conflictul israeliano-palestinian prin intermediul analogiilor și a permutărilor trecute, viitoare și paralele ale conflictului. Poziția lui Anderson față de conflictul din Orientul Mijlociu a fost mult mai pacifistă decât cea referitoare la conflictele Statelor Unite (cum ar fi poziția față de Războiul din Vietnam, prezentată anterior), el considerând că atât israelienii, cât și palestinienii au dreptate în felul lor, unele dintre personajele sale israeliene criticând deseori politica țării lor.

Astfel, în povestirea "Fildeș, maimuțe și păuni", agenții patrulei timpului din Tirul regelui Hiram sunt un cuplu israelian din secolul XX, care vor să îl ajute pe vechiul tiran "pentru a compensa într-un fel ceea ce țara noastră va face aici". Povestirea a fost scrisă în timpul Războiului din Liban din 1982, în timpul căruia avioanele israeliene au bombardat Tirul modern, producând multe victime în rândul civililor.

Mutanții agresivi din "Inside Straight", care își sibjugă întreaga planetă și pornesc într-o acțiune de cucerire interstelară, au fost la început o minoritate persecutată. Personajul dromman al povestirii — în mod evident negativ, dar prezentat cu multă empatie — crede că istoria poporului său a fost un "amestec de xenofobie, pogromuri și lagăre de concentrare". El reflectează și la furia alor săi când un filozof de pe altă lume le-a spus: "Tratamentul injust poate duce la paranoia victimei. Rasa voastră a supraviețuit opresorilor, dar nu și reflexelor create de ei în societatea voastră. Sistemul vostru nervos vă direcționează să nu vedeți în ceilalți decât dușmani periculoși."

"Fire Time" prezintă istoria detaliată a escaladării prelungite a unui conflict pe o planetă colonizată simultan de oameni (care o numesc Mundomar) și non-umanii naqsani (care o numesc Tseyakka). Imaginea lui Sigurdsson, conducătorului oamenilor, care declară independența republicii Eleutheria în plin război amintește clar de David Ben Gurion declarând independența Israelului în 1948. Într-un război ulterior, eleutherienii cuceresc continentul G'yaaru al naqsanilor și îl redenumesc Sigurdssonia, stabilindu-și acolo așezări.

În acest context își face o scurtă apariție personajul Gunnar Heim, protagonistul din Star Fox. În cartea anterioară, Heim în persoană a împins ezitantul Pământ într-un război pe care el îl credea necesar, considerând că ideologia dușmanului este dedicată cuceririi tuturor celorlalți. Totuși, când vine vorba despre Mundomar/Tseyakka, același Heim pledează pentru moderație, ridicând problema compromisului și a coexistenței dintre cele două părți aflate în război, condamnând în același timp sprijinul necondiționat acordat de Pământ agresivilor eleutharieni (sprijin similar celui acordat de S.U.A. Israelului).

Într-o povestire cu aceeași temă, un grup izolat de oameni trăiește de generații pe o planetă străină, fiind în relații extrem de bune cu indigenii non-umani. Cu toate acestea, căpitanul unei nave pământene care aterizează pe planetă îi forțează să părăsească planeta, declarând: "Puteți vorbi în numele nepoților voștri și ai nepoților lor, în numele generațiilor care vor deveni tot mai numeroase și cărora le va trebui tot mai mult pământ? Când strămoșii mei au sosit în Palestina, nu doreau să ia locul localnicilor arabi și să îi ducă în lagăre — dar asta au făcut, în cele din urmă." Numele de familie al căpitanului este "Ben Yehuda" — numele ilustrului lingvist sionist, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, care a avut un rol important în transformarea limbii ebraice dintr-o limbă liturghică într-una folosită uzual.

Acesta este un exemplu tipic pentru motivul conflictului tragic, frecvent în operele lui Anderson: o poveste fără personaje negative, în care toate personajele au intenții bune, dar sunt obligate să devină parte a unor conflicte.

Corectitudinea față de adversari

În numeroasele sale cărți și povestiri care descriu conflicte desfășurate în cadre science fiction sau fantasy, Anderson se străduiește să facă înțelese punctele de vedere ale ambelor tabere. Chiar și acolo unde e foarte evident de partea cui este autorul, antagoniștii nu sunt prezentați ca oameni răi, ci ca oameni de onoare din punctul lor de vedere. Cititorului i se permite accesul la gândurile și sentimentele lor, iar atunci când sunt înfrânți, o fac cu o demnitate tragică. Exemple tipice în acest sens sunt Iarna lumii (conform originalului, The Winter of the World) și ''Oamenii vântului (conform originalului, The People of the Wind).

O temă comună operelor lui Anderson, cu rădăcini în legendele nord-europene, o constituie aceea că a face lucrul "corect" (înțelept) implică deseori realizarea unor acțiuni care, la prima vedere, par dezonorante, ilegale, distructive, sau chiar rele. În The Man who Counts, Nicholas van Rijn este "The Man" (Omul), deoarece el este pregătit să devină un tiran și un manipulator dur, pentru a permite supraviețuirea sa și a însoțitorilor săi. În "High Treason", protagonistul încalcă ordinele și își trădează subordonații pentru a preveni o crimă de război cu consecințe nefaste asupra omenirii. În A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, Dominic Flandry își supune fiul unei lobotomii și apoi bombardează planeta natală a rasei Chereioniților pentru a-și face datoria și a sprijini Imperiul. Acest gen de acțiuni afectează personajele în moduri diferite, iar suportarea consecințelor pentru faptele "corecte" (dar neplăcute) comise reprezintă deseori un punct central al povestirilor. Lecția generală pare a fi că vinovăția este pedeapsa pentru acțiune.

În Star Fox, între eroul Gunnar Heim și dușmanul său, Cynbe — un membru extrem de talentat al Alerionilor, antrenat de mic pentru a înțelege dușmanii umani ai speciei sale până la nivelul la care ajunge să se înstrăineze de propriul popor - se înfiripă o relație de respect invidios. În scena finală, Cynbe îl provoacă pe Heim la o luptă spațială din care doar unul poate supraviețui. Heim acceptă, moment în care Cynbe spune: "Mulțumesc, frate."

Subestimarea "primitivilor" - o greșeală fatală

Mare parte a operei lui Anderson se petrece în trecut, deseori conținând tușe magice, sau în lumi viitoare care amintesc de erele trecute. Vechea Scandinavie constituie una dintre preferatele sale, după cum se vede și în romanele care au la bază legendele lui Hrólf Kraki (Hrolf Kraki's Saga) și Haddingus (The War of the Gods). De obicei, el prezintă aceste lumi ca fiind superioare prezentului stupid și supra-civilizat, descrieri notabile în acest sens fiind lumile preistorice din The Long Remembering, societatea cvasi-medievală din No Truce with Kings și cea de pe Jupiter din Call Me Joe și Three Worlds to Conquer. Atracția și puterea atavismului au fost tratate satiric în Pact, critic în The Queen of Air and Darkness și The Night Face, tragic în Goat Song.

Romanul său din 1965, Coridoarele timpului, alternează între Epoca de Piatră europeană și un viitor represiv. În această viziune a viitorului, aproape toți oamenii sunt sau iobagi agricoli, sau sclavi industriali, dar conducătorii cred cu sinceritate că au creat o lume mai bună. Cu o acțiune care se petrece în cea mai mare parte în Danemarca, romanul tratează cunoscător și plin de respect societatea neolitică, fără însă a-i ascunde minusurile — și, după ce i se oferă ocazia să acceseze practic toate perioadele trecute și viitoare, acolo alege protagonistul să se stabilească și își găsește o viață fericită și satisfăcută.

În multe povestiri, câțiva reprezentanți ai unei societăți avansate tehnologic subestimează "primitivii" și plătesc din greu pentru asta. În Cruciadă în cosmos, extratereștrii care aterizează în Anglia medievală și se așteaptă la o campanie de cucerire ușoară, descoperă că nu sunt imuni la săbii și săgeți. În The Only Game in Town, un războinic mongol care, deși nu știe că cei doi "magicieni" pe care i-a întâlnit sunt călători temporali din viitor, le ghicește acestora intențiile și îi capturează cu ajutorul unui fulger "magic" pe care aceștia i l-au dat ca să îl impresioneze. În altă relatare a unei călătorii în timp, Pavăza timpului, un "polițist temporal" din secolul XX, echipat cu informații și tehnologie dintr-un viitor mult mai îndepărtat, este întrecut de un cavaler medieval și abia scapă cu viață. Altă operă, The Man Who Came Early, prezintă un soldat din Armata de uscat a Statelor Unite ale Americii (conform, United States Army) din secolul al XX-lea, staționat în Islanda, care e transportat în secolul al X-lea. Deși are o grămadă de idei, lipsa aptitudinilor practice de implementare a lor și lipsa de familiaritate cu tehnologia și obiceiurile perioadei îl duc la pierzanie.

Anderson a scris Uncleftish Beholding, o introducere în teoria atomică, folosind doar cuvinte cu rădăcină germanică. Pentru a omagia dragostea lui pentru epocile trecute, acest tip de scriere a fost denumit "scriere Ander-Saxonă", după numele lui.

Conflicte tragice

Povestea relatată în Pavăza timpului este și un exemplu de conflict tragic, o altă temă comună a operei lui Anderson. Cavalerul încearcă să facă totul cât mai bine, în conformitate cu societatea și timpul său, dar acțiunile sale pot crea un secol XX teribil. De aceea, protagoniștii patrulei timpului sunt nevoiți să se lupte cu el și să îl omoare, deși le place de el (protagonista feminină aproape se îndrăgostește de el).

În Tristețea lui Odin al Goților, un antropolog american primește misiunea de a studia un trib got și cultura sa, vizitându-l în fiecare deceniu. Pas cu pas, el se implică tot mai mult, simțindu-se tot mai atras de goți (unii dintre ei fiind proprii săi urmași, în urma unei aventuri cu o fată gotică), iar aceștia identificându-l cu zeul Odin. El își dă seama ulterior că trebuie să își trădeze iubiții goți, deoarece așa spune o veche baladă - iar neîndeplinirea prezicerii ar schimba istoria și ar duce la destrămarea secolului al XX-lea așa cum îl știm.

În The Pirate, eroul este obligat să împiedice un grup de oameni sărmani să înceapă o nouă viață pe o altă planetă - deoarece stabilirea lor acolo ar distruge urmele unei ființe artistice care a trăit pe ea. O temă similară, dar la un alt nivel, apare în Sister Planet: deși terraformarea planetei Venus ar da o nouă șansă oamenilor care mor de foame pe Pământul suprapopulat, ea ar duce la exterminarea proaspăt descoperitei rase inteligente de pe Venus — iar eroul poate evita genocidul doar omorându-și cei mai buni prieteni.

În Delenda Est, miza este la cel mai înalt nivel posibil. Călătorii în timp care încalcă legile au creat un nou secol al XX-lea — "nu mai bun sau mai rău, doar diferit". Eroul îi poate învinge și poate restabili istoria cu care suntem familiarizați — dar asta ar duce la distrugerea completă a lumii care i-a luat locul.

Premii

 Premiul Gandalf - Grand Master (1978)
 Premiul Hugo - câștigat de șapte ori
 Premiul memorial John W. Campbell (2000)
 premiul Locus - 41 de nominalizări, câștigat o dată (1972))
 Premiul Mythopoeic Fantasy - câștigat o dată (1975))
 Premiul Nebula - câștigat de trei ori
 Premiul Pegasus - pentru cea mai bună adaptare, împreună cu Anne Passovoy (1998)
 Premiul Prometheus - câștigat de patru ori, incluzând și premiul special pentru întreaga carieră din 2001
 Premiul SFWA - Grand Master (1997)

Cărți

Science fiction

Seria Hoka

 Earthman's Burden (1957) cu Gordon R. Dickson
 Star Prince Charlie (1975) cu Gordon R. Dickson
 Hoka! (1983) cu Gordon R. Dickson

Reeditate de Baen ca:

 Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! (1998) cu Gordon R. Dickson
 Hokas Pokas! (2000) cu Gordon R. Dickson

Seria The Psychotechnic League

 Star Ways (cunoscut și ca The Peregrine) (1956)
 The Snows of Ganymede (1958)
 Virgin Planet (1959)
 The Psychotechnic League (1981)
 Cold Victory (1982)
 Starship (1982)

Seria Tomorrow's Children

 Tomorrow's Children (1947) cu F. N. Waldrop
 Chain of Logic (1947)

Istoria tehnică

Perioada Ligii Polesotehnice a lui Nicholas van Rijn

Conform cronologiei interne a seriei,

 War of the Wing-Men (textul și titlul original, apărute într-o ediție ulterioară, sunt cuprinse sub titlul The Man Who Counts) (1958)
 Trader to the Stars (1964) (premiul Prometheus)
 The Trouble Twisters (apare David Falkayn, nu Van Rijn) (1966)
 Satan's World (1969)
 The Earth Book of Stormgate (în multe povestiri nu apare Van Rijn) (1978)
 Mirkheim (1977)
 The People of the Wind (nu apar nici Falkayn, nici Van Rijn) (1973) - nominalizat la premiile Hugo și Locus, 1974  Nebula Award nominee, 1973

Perioada Imperiului Terran a lui Dominic Flandry

Conform cronologiei interne a seriei,

 Ensign Flandry (1966)
 A Circus of Hells (1970)
 The Rebel Worlds (1969)
 The Day of Their Return (nu apare Flandry) (1973)
ro. Ziua reîntoarcerii lor (Traducere Sabina Drăgănel) - Editura Nemira 1992
 Agent of the Terran Empire (1965)
 Flandry of Terra (1965)
 A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows (1974)
 A Stone in Heaven (1979)
 The Game of Empire (apare una dintre fetele lui Flandry) (1985)
 The Long Night (povestește despre Evul Întunecat de după vremea lui Flandry) (1983)
 Let the Spacemen Beware (cunoscut și ca The Night Face, nu apare Flandry) (1963)

Seria Patrula timpului

 "Time Patrol" (1955) - apărută în limba română ca Patrula timpului
 "Brave to Be a King" (1959) - ro. Tăria de a fi rege
 "Gibraltar Falls" (1975) - ro. Cascadele din Gibraltar
 "The Only Game in Town" (1960) - ro. Singurul joc posibil
 "Delenda Est" (1955) - ro. Delenda Est
 "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks" (1983) - ro. Fildeș, maimuțe și păuni
 "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" (1983) - ro. Tristețea lui Odin al Goților
 "Star of the Sea" (1991)
 The Year of the Ransom (1988)
 The Shield of Time (1990) (Deși pe coperta cărții apare titlul "The Shield of Time", e cunoscută ca "Shield". Dedicația care apare pe versiunea scanată a cărții spune "O versiune prescurtată a acestui roman a fost serializată în Fantastic Stories of Imagination, iunie-iulie, 1962. Copyright # 1962, ediția Berkley Medallion / octombrie 1974 ediția Berkley / aprilie 1982. Copyright # 1963 de Poul Anderson."
ro. Pavază timpului (Traducere Gabriel Stoian) - Editura RAO 2000
 "Death and the Knight" (1995)

Lucrările scurte ale seriei au fost antologate de mai multe ori de-a lungul anilor, în:
 Guardians of Time (1960) - conține 1, 2, 4 și 5; ediția extinsă din 1981 adaugă și 3
ro. Păzitorii timpului - Editura Nemira 1999
 Time Patrolman (1983) - conține 6 și 7
ro. Patrula timpului (Traducere Gabriel Stoian) - Editura Nemira 1994
 Annals of the Time Patrol (1983) - conține 1-7
 The Time Patrol (1991) - conține 1-9
 Time Patrol (2006) - conține 1-9 și 11

Seria History of Rustum

 Orbit Unlimited (1961) - roman creat din povestirile "Rustum" apărute în reviste între 1959 și 1961.
 New America (1982) - culegere care include patru povestiri "Rustum" plus două povestiri nepublicate anterior.

Maurai

 Maurai and Kith (1982)3)
 Orion Shall Rise (1983)
ro. Orion va răsări (Traducere Horia Nicola Ursu) - Editura RAO 1999
 Legată: There Will Be Time

Kith

Kith, o rasă stelară persecutată, apare în:
 * "Ghetto" (1954)
 * "The Horn of Time the Hunter" (cunoscut și ca "Homo Aquaticus", 1963)
 * Romanul Starfarers (1998) - nominalizat la premiul Campbell, 1999

Harvest of Stars

 Harvest of Stars (1993)
 The Stars Are Also Fire (1994) (premiul Prometheus)
 Harvest the Fire (1995)
 The Fleet of Stars (1997)

Alte romane

 Flight to Forever (1950)
 Vault of the Ages (1952)
 Brain Wave (1954)
ro. Povara cunoașterii (Traducere Gabriel Stoian) - Editura Nemira 1994
 Question and Answer (cunoscut și ca Planet of No Return) (1954)
 No World of Their Own (1955)
 The Long Way Home (1958)
 Perish by the Sword (1959)
 War of Two Worlds (1959)
 The Enemy Stars (cunoscută și ca "'We have fed our sea—'") (1959) - nominalizată la premiul Hugo, 1959
 The High Crusade (1960) - nominalizat la premiul Hugo, 1961
ro. Cruciadă în cosmos (Traducere Lidia Ionescu) - Editura Nemira 2001
 Murder in Black Letter (1960)
 Twilight World (1961)
 After Doomsday (1962)
 The Makeshift Rocket (1962) (extinderea acțiunii din "A Bicycle Built for Brew")
 Murder Bound (1962)
 Shield (1963)
 Three Worlds to Conquer (1964)
 The Corridors of Time (1965)
ro. Coridoarele timpului - Editura Nemira 1995
 The Star Fox (1965) - nominalizat la premiul Nebula, 1965 , câștigător al premiului Prometheus
 The Fox, the Dog and the Griffin: A Folk Tale Adapted from the Danish of C. Molbeck (1966)
 World Without Stars (1966)
 Tau Zero (1970) (extinderea acțiunii din "To Outlive Eternity") - nominalizat la premiul Hugo, 1971
 The Byworlder (1971) - nominalizat la premiul Nebula, 1971
 The Dancer from Atlantis (1971)
ro. Dansatoarea din Atlantida - Editura Nemira 1996
 There Will Be Time (1972) - nominalizat la premiul Hugo, 1973
NOTĂ: Unul dintre personajele romanului, Leonce, aparține culturii Maurai culture, după cum se precizează în carte. Totuși, ea aparține unei era mult anterioare celei din povestirile Maurai.
 Fire Time (1974) - nominalizat la premiul Hugo, 1975
 Inheritors of Earth (1974) cu Gordon Eklund
 The Winter of the World (1975)
 The Avatar (1978)
ro. Avatarul (Traducere Mihnea Columbeanu) - Editura RAO 1998
 The Demon of Scattery (1979) cu Mildred Downey Broxon
 The Devil's Game (1980)
 The Boat of a Million Years (1989) - nominalizat la premiul Hugo, 1990 ; nominalizat la premiul Nebula, 1989
 The Saturn Game (1989)
 The Longest Voyage (1991)
 War of the Gods (1997)
 Genesis (2000) - premiul memorial John W. Campbell, 2001
 Mother of Kings (2001)
 For Love and Glory (2003)

Alte culegeri de povestiri

 Strangers from Earth (1961). Conține povestirile "Earthman, Beware!" din 1951, "Quixote and the Windmill"  din 1950, "Gypsy" din 1950, "For the Duration" din 1957, "Duel on Syrtis" din 1951, "The Star Beast" din 1950, "The Disintegrating Sky" din 1953 și "Among Thieves" din 1957.
 Un-Man and Other Novellas (1962)
 Time and Stars (1964)
 The Horn of Time (1968)
 Beyond the Beyond (1969)
 Seven Conquests (1969)
 Tales of the Flying Mountains (1970)
 The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories (1973)
 The Worlds of Poul Anderson (1974)
 The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson (cunoscută și ca The Book of Poul Anderson) (1974) - editată de Roger Elwood
 Homeward and Beyond (1975)
 The Best of Poul Anderson (1976)
 Homebrew (1976)
 The Night Face & Other Stories (1979)
 The Dark Between the Stars (1981)
 Explorations (1981)
 Fantasy (1981)
 Winners (1981) - o culegere a povestirilor lui Anderson care au câștigat premiul Hugo
 Cold Victory (1982)
 The Gods Laughed (1982)
 Starship (1982)
 The Winter of the World / The Queen of Air and Darkness (1982)
 Conflict (1983)
 The Long Night (1983)
 Past Times (1984)
 The Unicorn Trade (1984) with Karen Anderson
 Dialogue With Darkness (1985)
 Space Folk (1989)
 Alight in the Void (1991)
 The Armies of Elfland (1991)
 Inconstant Star (1991) - povestiri a căror acțiune se petrece în universul războaielor dintre oameni și Kzini a lui Larry Niven
 Kinship With the Stars (1991)
 All One Universe (1996)
 Going for Infinity

Fantasy

King of Ys

 Roma Mater (1986) cu Karen Anderson
 Gallicenae (1987) cu Karen Anderson
 Dahut (1987) cu Karen Anderson
 The Dog and the Wolf (1988) cu Karen Anderson

Operațiunea Alte Lumi

 Operation Chaos (1971)
ro. Operațiunea Haos - Editura Nemira 1995
 Operation Luna (1999)
 Operation Otherworld (1999) — set care conține "Operațiunea haos" și "Operation Luna"

Alte romane

 Three Hearts and Three Lions (1953)
 The Broken Sword (1954) - revizuit în 1971
 Hrolf Kraki's Saga (1973) - premiul British Fantasy, 1974
 A Midsummer Tempest (1974) - nominalizat la premiile Nebula și World Fantasy Awards, 1975
NOTĂ: Unul dintre personajele care apar în acest roman este Valeria Matucheck, fiica cea mare a lui Steve și Ginny Matuchek, protagoniștii din "Operațiunea haos" și "Operation Luna". Deși scrisă între cele două romane, "A Midsummer Tempest" are loc după ambele. Apare și Holger Carlsen, din Three Hearts and Three Lions.
 The Merman's Children (1979) - nominalizat la premiul Locus Fantasy, 1980
 Conan the Rebel (1980)
 War of the Gods (1997)

Romane istorice

The Last Viking

 The Golden Horn (1980) cu Karen Anderson
 The Road of the Sea Horse (1980) cu Karen Anderson
 The Sign of the Raven (1980) cu Karen Anderson

Alte romane

 The Golden Slave (1960)
 Rogue Sword (1960)

Antologii

 Nebula Award Stories Four (1969)
 The Day the Sun Stood Still (1972) cu Gordon R. Dickson și Robert Silverberg
 A World Named Cleopatra (1977)

Non-Ficțiune

 Is There Life on Other Worlds? (1963)

Note

Referințe

Legături externe

 Ficțiunea online a lui Poul Anderson  pe Free Speculative Fiction Online
 Biografie, bibliografie și coperțile cărților pe FantasticFiction

 Necrolog și omagii  din partea SFWA
 On Thud and Blunder, un eseu de Anderson pe tema ficțiunii fantasy, din partea SFWA
 Călătoria temporală și Poul Anderson , de Dr Paul Shackley
 Istoriile viitoare ale lui Poul Anderson , de Dr Paul Shackley
 Poul Anderson , un eseu de William Tenn
 The Society for Creative Anachronism, printre ai cărei membrii fondatori s-a numărat și Poul Anderson
 The King of Ys recenzie pe FantasyLiterature.net

Nașteri în 1926
Nașteri pe 25 noiembrie
Decese în 2001
Decese pe 31 iulie
Americani de origine daneză
Autori câștigători ai Premiului Hugo
Autori câștigători ai Premiului Nebula
Autori câștigători ai Premiului Prometheus
Fizicieni americani din secolul al XX-lea
Oameni din Bristol, Pennsylvania
Science Fiction Hall of Fame
Scriitori americani de literatură fantastică
Scriitori americani de literatură științifico-fantastică
Scriitori americani din secolul al XX-lea
Scriitori americani din secolul al XXI-lea
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Buchanan Team Assists Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. and Rice Energy LP in Formation of Marcellus Shale Joint Venture
Pittsburgh, PA, February 10, 2010 — A team of attorneys from Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC's Energy and Natural Resources Industry Group assisted firm client Alpha Natural Resources, Inc., form a 50/50 joint venture with Rice Energy LP to develop their valuable Marcellus Shale gas resources in southwestern Pennsylvania, where they control nearly 20,000 acres in one of the Marcellus' most productive regions.
Attorneys Amelia Konesni, Sean Moran, Robert Burns, Jason Wrona and Bruce Booken completed the transaction, which was announced in Alpha's earnings release that was issued yesterday. Alpha's release indicated that the initial phase of development is underway, and that they are currently drilling the first of four wells planned for 2010.
Each party contributed cash and certain mineral and property interests to a newly formed partnership that will own and develop the assets. A limited liability company was also formed to be the managing general partner of the partnership. Alpha and Rice affiliates will provide various administrative services to the joint venture entities.
About Alpha Natural Resources
Alpha Natural Resources is one of America's premier coal suppliers with coal production capacity of greater than 90 million tons a year. Alpha is the nation's leading supplier and exporter of metallurgical coal used in the steel-making process and is a major supplier of thermal coal to electric utilities and manufacturing industries across the country. The Company, through its affiliates, employs approximately 6,400 people and operates more than 60 mines and 14 coal preparation facilities in the regions of Northern and Central Appalachia and the Powder River Basin. More information about Alpha can be found on the Company's Web site at www.alphanr.com.
About Rice Energy
Rice Energy is a private Exploration and Production (E&P) company focused on acquiring and developing unconventional oil and natural gas resources in the United States.
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC has more than 450 attorneys and government relations professionals practicing throughout the United States, with multiple offices in California, Florida, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, as well as offices in Delaware, Virginia and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.buchananingersoll.com.
Buchanan has a long history of representing clients in the minerals, natural resources and energy industry sector. Attorneys from the diverse range of Buchanan's legal practices and specialists within its government relations team have represented leading energy-related companies based in Pennsylvania and around the world.
BRUCE I. BOOKEN
SEAN W. MORAN
ROBERT L. BURNS, JR.
JASON P. WRONA

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The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system transports thousands of Northern California passengers via surface and underground services every day. Overall, BART is a safe way for passengers to travel, and most arrive at their destinations without incident. There are times, however, when equipment failure or operator negligence leads to serious accidents and life-changing injuries. In these situations, injury victims have grounds to seek compensation for their medical care and other losses with the help of a public transportation accident attorney.
These are complex cases that require the attention of a qualified San Francisco BART accident lawyer who knows the law and has the ability to secure the best available outcome on the victim's behalf. At Mary Alexander & Associates, P.C., we offer our clients more than 30 years of experience in the practice of California law. We know your rights, and we know how to protect them. You can rely on us to pursue every available option in an effort to successfully resolve your case.
Types Of BART Accidents
Our law firm handles claims against BART arising from any cause, including:
Fires in trains
Train failure
Operator error or negligence
Train collisions
Accidents at train stations
Escalator and stair accidents
Walkway accidents
Fatal BART accidents
A San Francisco attorney who has experience in BART accidents could help pursue compensation for cases involving catastrophic injuries, such as brain injuries, spinal cord injuries and severe burns. We have also handled cases involving multiple injuries as well as wrongful death claims. In every case, our San Francisco personal injury attorneys prepare thoroughly and consult with well-regarded specialists to build strong cases for our injured clients. We have repeatedly demonstrated our ability to both interpret and utilize complex technical and medical data in pursuit of full compensation for our clients.
Filing a Wrongful Death Claim After a BART Incident
Unfortunately, some BART accidents are fatal. This leaves family members struggling with a number of important issues. For example, a single parent may be left alone to raise their children without the financial support of a primary wage earner. They may also be left alone to deal with funeral expenses and unpaid medical bills that accumulated while their loved one was on their deathbed.
Fortunately, family members can file personal injury claims on behalf of their deceased loved ones. Even though your family member is gone, you are still entitled to fight for justice and fair compensation. This is known as a "wrongful death" claim. By suing negligent parties, you can recover compensation for missed future wages, providing you with more than enough funds to take care of your family for the foreseeable future. You can also recover compensation for unpaid medical expenses, funeral expenses, and much more.
If you have suffered a BART injury, you definitely need to keep an eye on the statute of limitations. This is essentially a time limit placed on injured plaintiffs. If you allow the statute of limitations to expire, you may lose your ability to sue. This means that it will be impossible to recover compensation. Because BART is a government organization, the statute of limitations may actually be much shorter than with a normal personal injury claim. This is why it is always a good idea to get in touch with an experienced personal injury attorney in San Francisco as soon as possible after your injury has occured.
It is worth mentioning that there are often exceptions when it comes to the statute of limitations. For example, the clock only really starts ticking after you become aware of your injuries. This is an important distinction because it may allow you to sue long after the injury has occured. A coma victim does not become aware that they have been injured until after they regain consciousness, which may be decades after the injury. A head injury victim may also suffer from amnesia, only realizing that they have suffered an injury many years later.
What is the Most Common Type of BART Accident?
Some of the most common BART accidents are slips and falls. These accidents often occur as people are walking in train stations or on walkways that are within BART property. There are a number of factors that can lead to a slip and fall. Perhaps the most common is a wet surface. This can be caused by excessive rain buildup, a spill, or perhaps even leaking industrial fluid. In any case, it is the responsibility of BART staff to address these concerns right away and clean up any wet surfaces as soon as possible.
How quickly do staff members need to react when they notice a wet surface? Generally speaking, there is no reason why a spill should be left to sit for more than five minutes. This is about the time it takes to walk to a closet, retrieve the necessary cleaning equipment, and deal with the spill. Alternatively, a staff member may place a "wet surface" warning sign near the spill in order to warn members of the public of the danger. While this can help them escape liability if someone becomes injured, the signs must be clearly legible and placed in an obvious spot.
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Are you an Obliger in disguise?
By now, you might have heard of Gretchen Rubin and her idea of the Four Tendencies. If you're not familiar with it, you can learn more about it here. I've been a fan of Gretchen Rubin and her podcast (Happier) and her books for a few years, but I'll admit that I've had my issues with her Four Tendencies framework. I don't really feel like I'm a great fit with any of the tendencies. At times, I've felt like I identified as an Obliger, a Questioner, and an Upholder (never a Rebel, though, to the great shock of my youth group Sunday school teachers).
I had kind of decided to give up on the idea of the Four Tendencies, thinking, "It's obviously not a perfect framework, it needs some polishing... Maybe it's helpful for some people, but not really for me." That is, until the last few weeks. Let me tell you about them.
If you're someone I talk to regularly, then you probably know that the last 3 or 4 months have been pretty tough for me (though, thankfully, it's all been planned and self-imposed). I've been working a full time job, a part-time retail job, and running The Efficient/Creative, all while trying to spend "enough" time with my kids, "enough" time with my husband, "enough" time on housework, and "enough" time on my responsibilities with my church.
In other words, I've been spreading myself waaaaaaay too thin and just trying to squeak by on pretty much every facet of my life.
Does this sound like you? Does it sound like a personal hell? Or maybe both?!
The day after that, I had a productivity coaching session with a friend (the amazing Zoha over at Multidoer- I've mentioned her here before and if you haven't checked her out yet, get on that for reals.) As we were talking, I think I used the word "obligation" 17 times in 3 minutes.
Is that, like, a record? Somebody tell me.
Her response? "Um, yeah. You're an Obliger." ...yes. Yes, I think so.
But what does this newfound knowledge mean; why is it important? According to Gretchen Rubin, knowing your tendency is crucial for changing your habits. And the habit I have GOT to change (before my children start to wonder, "Who is that woman with the fleece pants and the embarrassing amount of facial hair who is eating dinner with us?") is SPREADING MYSELF TOO THIN.
Here's how I'm changing it. I'm taking stock of what my REAL priorities are. These are the obligations that are going to move me forward toward the life I want to be living. Obligations that don't make the cut have to hit the road, and decisions like that aren't easy—they mean having hard conversations and disappointing people you like. Like all Things Worth Doing, it's going to be a work-in-progress, and I'm excited to take those steps.
What's your tendency? What habits are you trying to build? And how does your tendency inform how you're going to build those habits? I'd LOVE to hear from you, my amazing email friends list, so hit the comments below and tell me all about it!
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package cluster

import (
	"fmt"
	"net"
	"regexp"
	"strings"

	"github.com/docker/machine/drivers/hyperv"
	"github.com/docker/machine/libmachine/drivers"
	"github.com/docker/machine/libmachine/host"
	"github.com/pkg/errors"
	"k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/constants"
)

func createHypervHost(config MachineConfig) drivers.Driver {
	d := hyperv.NewDriver(constants.MachineName, constants.GetMinipath())
	d.Boot2DockerURL = config.Downloader.GetISOFileURI(config.MinikubeISO)
	d.VSwitch = config.HypervVirtualSwitch
	d.MemSize = config.Memory
	d.CPU = config.CPUs
	d.DiskSize = int(config.DiskSize)
	d.SSHUser = "docker"
	return d
}

func getVMHostIP(host *host.Host) (net.IP, error) {
	switch host.DriverName {
	case "virtualbox":
		return net.ParseIP("10.0.2.2"), nil
	case "hyperv":
		re := regexp.MustCompile("\"VSwitch\": \"(.*?)\",")
		hypervVirtualSwitch := re.FindStringSubmatch(string(host.RawDriver))[1]
		ip, err := getWindowsHostIpFromHyperV(hypervVirtualSwitch)
		if err != nil {
			return []byte{}, errors.Wrap(err, "Error getting 9p mount command")
		}
		return ip, nil
	default:
		return []byte{}, errors.New("Error, attempted to get host ip address for unsupported driver")
	}
}

func getWindowsHostIpFromHyperV(hypervVirtualSwitch string) (net.IP, error) {
	virtualSwitchTemplate := "vEthernet (%s)"

	i, _ := net.InterfaceByName(fmt.Sprintf(virtualSwitchTemplate, hypervVirtualSwitch))
	addrs, _ := i.Addrs()
	for _, a := range addrs {
		switch a.(type) {
		case *net.IPNet:
			ip := a.String()
			if strings.Contains(ip, ".") {
				vmIP := net.ParseIP(strings.Split(ip, "/")[0])
				if vmIP.String() == "" {
					return nil, errors.Errorf("Error finding IPV4 address for virtual switch %s", hypervVirtualSwitch)
				}
				return vmIP, nil
			}
		}
	}
	return nil, errors.Errorf("Error finding IPV4 address for virtual switch %s", hypervVirtualSwitch)
}

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Need a gift? Someone hard to buy for?
Need a gift, maybe for someone who is hard to buy for? Don't forget "Chamber Checks" are available at the Chamber Office, 28 S. Lake Street, Boyne City. Chamber Checks also make the ideal "shop local" gift that can be redeemed at many businesses in the Boyne area. As a Chamber member, the benefit of using Chamber Checks is open to you – and we hope you will participate in this effort to keep money local. Each year the Chamber sells thousands of dollars worth of Chamber checks, ensuring that money is spent in our local economy. Chamber Checks are issued through Charlevoix State Bank by the Boyne Chamber and are redeemable much like a gift certificate or traveler's check. Chamber Checks make a great gift and encourage purchases at our member businesses. A person can choose where and when to use Chamber Checks, redeeming them at local restaurants, shops, or for professional services. Chamber Checks function like community-wide gift certificates. Chamber Checks are sold exclusively at the Boyne Chamber office in denominations of $10, $20 and $25 certificates. We appreciate advance notice for large orders.
HOLIDAY BONUSES - Chamber Checks are also a great way to give holiday bonuses to your employees. In fact, just recently the Chamber regularly fills an order for a total of more than $6,000 in Chamber Checks from one local employer.
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My Kia Rio is a very economical car. As such, it only came with the basics including a lowly FM stereo radio with cassette player. Well, as far as I'm concerned, cassette is dead. I use a portable MP3 player to listen to my tunes. But what if I want to listen to my tunes in the car? Sure, I could record them onto cassette and play them that way, but I don't have time for that. This is where the irock! 300W from First International Digital comes into play (no pun intended).
The irock! 300W is a wireless music adapter. It allows you to play music through any FM radio without the need for wires or clumsy cassette adapters. Is it magic? No, but it's the next best thing. To use the 300W, you plug its 1/8" stereo mini plug into the headphone or line-out jack of any audio source (such as a portable MP3 player). Then you choose an FM frequency using a small switch on the side of the 300W. There are four frequencies to choose from: 88.1, 88.3, 88.5, or 88.7 MHz. Then you tune your FM radio to the chosen frequency, and turn on the 300W by pressing the power button located on the front of the unit. Start playback from your audio source, and abracadabra! You have full stereo audio being 'beamed' from your audio source to your FM radio.
Basically, the 300W works like a low-power FM transmitter. It takes the signal from any audio source, converts it into FM stereo radio waves and transmits the signal to any nearby FM radio that is tuned to one of the four previously mentioned frequencies. The operating range is stated to be anywhere from 10 to 30 feet, and it runs off of 2 AAA batteries, which typically last about 20 hours (although this depends on the type of batteries you are using – some last longer than others). My tests of the 300W revealed that the product worked very well. I first tested it inside my car, of course. I set everything up as per the owner's manual. Then I was on my way with tunes blasting, and for the most part, I found that the 300W worked like a charm. I did get some interference at times depending on where I was driving, but that's typical with FM radio signals.
My tests didn't stop there though. The 300W is much more versatile than simply playing tunes while traveling. It also works great at home. For example, what if you have a huge music collection just sitting on your PC's hard drive waiting to be played? But who wants to sit in front of their PC to listen to music, right? Just plug the 300W into the line-out jack of your PC's sound card, turn on your FM stereo or boom box, and you've got tunes anywhere in the house. I tested the 300W with my PC in one room and my radio in another (both on the same floor) and the signal came in loud and clear. Not only that, but I tried moving my radio to an entirely different floor and the signal still stayed full and clear!
I've tested other similar products that included both a transmitter and receiver and used an isolated frequency range for wireless audio. But those products cost at least $100 or more, and they weren't portable. The irock! 300W gives you both home-based and portable playback with FM stereo quality and easy setup/operation. This low-priced, pocket device lets you transform any audio source into a wireless music playback system.


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Q: Is there any node modules or any system that removes Unused CSS to Reduce the Size of Style-sheets? I want to remove all of the unused CSS classes from my stylesheet before I push my project to the server! But I don't find any shortcut way to do that.

A: It depends on how complex your project is and what way to usage classes in markup it is using. For simpler ones, something from the tools listed here can be helpful https://www.keycdn.com/blog/remove-unused-css. If your project is more complex, and if classes are created in the JS part on the flight, and then used, there might be no way to do clean up automatically

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Q: permissions for apache user I have apache set to the _www user account. Every time I create a file in the site directory, It's getting created with owner/group of myusername / wheel, so apache doesn't have access to it and I have to go chown+chmod the folder/files. Looking for either a "correct" setup or any suggestions.
This is a development machine.

A: You could create a group called www-admin and add yourself and apache to it. When you work on the website, change your active group to www-admin and make sure the files are readably by group. You'll still own the files, but Apache will have correct access to them. Here's a guide on Unix Groups.
If this machine has more than one user, you could also consider moving to using per-user web directories and setting up Apache with su-exec so it'll run as the user that owns the directory. This probably isn't necessary or useful on most dev machines, though (this is the setup that shared hosting companies use).


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Q: google map map.fitBounds() is not a function I have error when I load my page: https://www.cupsubito.it/dove-siamo
I don't kwon because about this error. Thank you very much for helping.

Thanks for help me!
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    var elenco;

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    var slider, infowindow = null;
    var bounds = new google.maps.LatLngBounds();
    var current = 0;
    var map = 0;

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            var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
                position: latlng,
                map: map,
                doc_name: item.doc_name,
                address: item.address,
                speciality: item.speciality,

                profile_link: item.profile_link,

                animation: google.maps.Animation.DROP,
                icon: icons[item.icons],
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            });

            bounds.extend(marker.position);
            markers[i] = marker;
            google.maps.event.addListener(marker, "click", function () {
                setInfo(this);
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                window.clearTimeout(slider);
            });
        }
        map.fitBounds(bounds);
        google.maps.event.addListener(map, 'zoom_changed', function () {
            if (map.zoom > 16) map.slide = false;
        });

        // Add a marker clusterer to manage the markers.
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    }

    google.maps.event.addDomListener(window, 'load', initialize);

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                slider = window.setTimeout(showMap, 3000);

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Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, I don't understand why it doesn't always work.
The problem is that it usually works the first time, so I don't understand where I'm wrong on the code side.
The map should display all pointers correctly and instead it sometimes shows me a blank map with this error.
I added part of code where I load setMarkers(map, _locations) for to have more informations.
thank you very much for answers.
I hope I have added useful information to my problem, I don't understand why it sometimes works and sometimes it doesn't.


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Beginning in 1931, Frank Miller became the backbone of a new company, Augusta Amusements, and boldly built a business that seemed to fly in the face of good sense at the height of the Great Depression, purchasing and managing theaters in downtown Augusta. Miller and his associates managed the Modjeska, Imperial, Dreamland, Rialto Theatres and eventually built Georgia's second largest theatre, the 1660 seat Miller Theatre, followed by several drive-ins. For thirty-seven years, Augusta Amusements provided Augustans with the best in film and live entertainment.
Miller served Augusta Amusements in many capacities, chiefly as the face of the business. His partners—Arthur Lucas, William K. Jenkins, James Hull, and Leonard Goldenson—were content to remain in the background while Miller assumed a public role for which his experience in vaudeville as a youth seemed to prepare him. Eventually, he was elected President of Augusta Amusements, a position he held from 1943 until his untimely death, after a brief illness, on August 11, 1944.
Frank Miller contributed mightily to the growth and betterment of Augusta through all of his activities. In many ways, great and small—none for which he sought personal enrichment or recognition—he made Augusta a better community in which to live and work.
Frank J. Miller was the embodiment of the Horatio Alger myth, rising from rags to riches and, ultimately, realizing his own version of the American dream: for more than thirty years he managed theaters in downtown Augusta, providing this community with world-class live and filmed entertainment that would have aroused envy in any other community in the South and capturing the attention of impresarios in such bigger cities as New York and Los Angeles.
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Ford And Toyota Major Self-driving Technologies League Table
Level 3 functions can drive the automobile beneath restricted situations and will not do so unless all required situations are met. When a Level 3 technique abdicates handle, the driver will have to take back over operation of the vehicle (meaning that they can not do some thing like space out and watch a film). Website traffic jam chauffeur systems, like the upcoming Drive Pilot program in the 2022 Mercedes-Benz EQS EV, are examples of this. As driver-help capabilities, Levels -2 imply that the driver is always responsible for piloting the automobile, even in those situations when the system may operate the steering, brakes, and accelerator. The driver will have to constantly monitor these functions and steer, brake, and accelerate as necessary for safe operation of the car. At Level four, autonomous vehicle systems are absolutely responsible for all driving and navigational tasks.
The post-crash fire destroyed the car's onboard telemetry storage despite the fact that the restraint control module/event information recorder was damaged by the fire, it is getting evaluated at the NTSB's recorder laboratory. Primarily based on data recovered from the EDR, the automobile traveled around 550 feet westbound on Hammock Dunes Place from the owner's residence before it departed the roadway. Just after leaving the road and driving over the mountable curb, the automobile hit a drainage culvert, raised manhole, and tree. The highest recorded speed in the five seconds top up to the crash was 67 mph (108 km/h).
Mercedes-Benz's Distronic Plus with Steering Assist also combines adaptive cruise handle with a lane-centering system. In maintaining with Mercedes' autobahn image, it functions at up to 120 mph and warns drivers if they are about to be passed. All self-driving systems at present for sale in the United States are SAE Level two or reduced. It is not protected to take away your interest from driving even though behind the wheel of any vehicle at the moment sold with this technology.
Individuals in cities don't have garages and public chargers are not only annoying to use, but they are also still relatively difficult to come across. This is a difficulty for the reason that electric cars are superior for short page runs and traffic than they are for distance driving and speed. Thus, they should be greater in cities, and far cleaner to operate, but they stay impractical in these places despite their inherent superiority.
The technique considers the speed of surrounding autos and checks for vehicles in front of, behind, and subsequent to the S-Class. Local public and private universities, including ASU, UArizona and GCU, offer applications preparing students for autonomous and electric vehicle fields. There are also a selection of neighborhood college programs and technical schools that train students in engineering and computer science with focuses in automotive, electrical systems, mechanical engineering systems and robotics.
The trove of data collected by self-driving automobiles, paired with cybersecurity vulnerabilities, creates an appealing target for intelligence collection. Self-driving cars are necessary to be regarded as in a new way when it comes to espionage risk. Driver monitoring system is a automobile security program to assess the driver's alertness and warn the driver if necessary. It is recognized in developer side that the part of the systems will increase as SAE Level 2 systems develop into a lot more popular-location, and becomes a lot more challenging at Level 3 and above to predict the driver's readiness for handover. Path arranging is a computational problem to come across a sequence of valid configurations that moves the object from the source to location. The massive scale path of the automobile can be determined by using a voronoi diagram, an occupancy grid mapping, or with a driving corridors algorithm.
Every day, we get closer to meeting our aim of a zero-emission, zero-fatality mobility. Earlier this year in London, we showed the globe what our subsequent-gen autonomous-drive prototype automobile can do. He does not see that situation working for automobiles in faster, additional open environments due to the fact it could be challenging for remote human supervisors to react quickly enough to dangers. Auto data startup Wejo Group Ltd (WEJO.O) receives 18 billion data points everyday from millions of connected vehicles and is assisting with simulations for AVs, stated Sarah Larner, executive vice president for technique and innovation.
In 2017, BMW had been attempting to make 7 Series as an automated automobile in public urban motorways of the United States, Germany and Israel ahead of commercializing them in 2021. Despite the fact that it was not realized, BMW is nevertheless preparing 7 Series to develop into the subsequent manufacturer to attain Level three in the second half of 2022. In 2016, a survey in Germany examined the opinion of 1,603 people, who were representative in terms of age, gender, and education for the German population, towards partially, extremely, and totally automated vehicles. Final results showed that males and girls differ in their willingness to use them.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has produced various statements forecasting a Tesla Level 5 achievement, but has however to prove it. When some authorities say such automobiles could hit the road in the next couple of years, they're a shrinking minority. Most forecasts say a truly self-driving car or truck is at least a decade away — and possibly a lot longer, due to the fact it requires disruptive technology that has but to be invented. The Automotive Market alone is spending billions of dollars in investments for establishing autonomous driving technologies, and numerous other vertical markets, such as Defense, are also active on comparable roadmaps. These levels are a helpful way to track what's happening as we make the transition from human to robot drivers – a transition that will have enormous repercussions for the way we live, function and travel in the future.
It also responds to signals and signs like short-term stop signs and website traffic light colors. This practical experience has been built more than 20 million miles of true globe driving and over 20 billion miles traveled in simulation. Our GPS Fleet Tracking software can preserve track of all the autos in your fleet along with massive equipment and other assets. Dispatchers can use this facts to see which vehicles are nearby when a job pops up. What's additional, we supply prime-notch route optimization tools to enable guide drivers around road construction, accidents, and other hazards that may well stop them from obtaining to their location on time. We can even assistance you schedule routine upkeep, market road safety, and automatically provide dispatch notifications to drivers in the field.
For instance, I have employed these chargers four or 5 occasions in the three years I have owned an electric vehicle. One of the recent messages that the people fighting the electric car revolution are spreading is that electric automobiles do not run on electricity, they run on batteries. Then they argue that electricity that charges the batteries comes from generating facilities that are powered by fossil fuels and as a result not green at all. Complete-service advertising applications from TechNewsWorld deliver sales-ready leads.
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Innoviz's proprietary sensing solutions will be integrated into UK-based Delphi Automotive's systems to deliver automakers with a extensive portfolio of autonomous driving technologies. Sensors of all sorts have gotten drastically lighter, smaller sized, and more affordable in the current previous, enabling their use in a quantity of applications. In the automotive business, developers have started combining different sensor technologies to enhance the situational awareness of driver-assisted and autonomous cars. In addition to self-driving vehicles becoming fitted with more refined versions of ultrasound and infrared sensors, there is presently a new generation of LiDAR sensors getting created and utilized. AVs will also disrupt business models in the mobility atmosphere and have substantial effect across lots of other related sectors.
In 2021, WP.29 extended the scope of UN Regulation No. 157 to heavy vehicles. Simulating all these scenarios in the lab enables R&D to be hugely prepared, to develop finest-in-class options and shorten the time to market. Join this webinar to hear about how Ansys and National Instruments came with each other to build a streamlined improvement course of action to smoothly progress from virtual simulation to hardware- and vehicle-in-the-loop simulation. Automatic generation of safety certified embedded software and functional safety analysis.
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The Genesis G90 flagship sedan will be one of the world's 1st vehicles to use its 'Level 3' autonomous driving program on public roads – permitting drivers to take their hands of the steering wheel even though travelling on specific highways. These providers must have began with highway driving instead of trying to get their automobiles operating like a human driver on a city street. A committed highway lane and standardized communication protocols would have gone a extended lengthy way towards bringing about practical and valuable autonomous driving. You drive your Tesla onto the highway and engage your FSD which queues you up for access to the autonomous lane. You vehicle is starts communicating with the lane and all the automobiles in the vicinity in that lane.
These corporations are offering campus shuttles or employee buses only, and often with human safety drivers on board. These safety drivers also appear to generally be wearing jaunty polo shirts for some purpose. Self-driving vehicles the public can essentially invest in and use themselves are still firmly at Level 3 technology, with Cadillac's Super Cruise method the broadly-recognized leader. This program performs on pre-mapped highways, but Super Cruise is the only hands-cost-free method readily available to the common population.
Makers of customer-facing self-driving vehicles will in all probability will need to do the exact same, and generate marketing campaigns that present autonomous vehicles as a protected and steady portion of each day life. NODAR creates 3D peripheral sensors for driverless vehicles that are constructed for extended-distance perception and are integrated with self-calibrating application to help guide their autos to destinations in 1 piece. Even though designed mainly for automotive use, NODAR's proprietary technologies original site can also be implemented in the logistics market, as nicely as agriculture, aerospace, building and other sectors. CARMERA develops powerful HD mapping technology for use in self-driving vehicles, generating it doable for automotive technologies to predict their surroundings and respond to external factors in real time. Motional's group is building a driverless technique that prioritizes safety above all else. After regarded as a science fiction daydream, self-driving automobiles are now taking the streets of San Francisco, New York, Seattle and beyond.
If your semiautonomous car's laser array skips more than a pedestrian even though you snooze and your vehicle hits him, are you at fault? Because he definitely need to have been staring at your automobile, in awe of its futuristic capabilities and effectively-aware of its place — at least adequate to not discover himself underneath it. But it almost certainly will not be the pedestrian's fault he wasn't sufficiently amazed by your automobile.
With level three autonomy, the driver can take his eyes off the road, but his presence is still necessary in emergencies. The Audi A8 with AI Traffic Jam Pilot technique falls beneath level 3 of automation. At the push of a button, the A8′s AI Targeted traffic Jam Pilot manages starting, steering, throttle and braking in slow-moving website traffic at up to 60km/h on big roads where a physical barrier separates the two carriageways. When the technique reaches its limits the driver is alerted to take more than the driving.
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GM recalled and updated software program in its self-driving automobiles and said the unusual scenario would not recur just after the update. But CEO Kyle Vogt told Reuters that their presence gives invaluable peace of thoughts for drivers. Those remote humans are an extra expense, but they can support self-driving cars handle edge circumstances. All backed by the world's leading center of simulation knowledge, supplying consumer enablement through technical support, solutions and training.
Yann LeCun, a longtime colleague of Bengio, is operating on "self-supervised mastering," deep mastering systems that, like youngsters, can understand by exploring the globe by themselves and without requiring a lot of help and guidelines from humans. And Geoffrey Hinton, a mentor to each Bengio and LeCun, is operating on "capsule networks," another neural network architecture that can develop a quasi-3-dimensional representation of the planet by observing pixels. This is a view that supports Musk's method to solving self-driving automobiles through incremental improvements to Tesla's deep mastering algorithms.
In current years, we have been a leader in active safety technology, which includes our award-winning City Safety system, normal on all Volvos. In 2018, WP.1 adopted the WP.1 Resolution on the Deployment of Extremely and Totally Automated Autos in Road Site visitors. WP.29 issued the needs for the approval of Levels 1 and 2 technologies supporting the driver regarding lane maintaining and also lane changes on motorways (see UN Regulation No. 79). An open atmosphere for optimization, simulation information and procedure management, workflow customization, access to cloud, and higher-functionality capacity. Create, validate and auto-generate autonomous car software program that complies with important standards ISO and DO-178C.
A lot more worrying, 53 percent of Super Cruise users, 42 % of Autopilot users and 12 percent of ProPILOT Assist customers said that they have been comfortable treating their automobiles as totally self-driving. As the technology advances, drivers adjust, and the government tries to preserve up. Some reports indicate that there could be 10 million AVs this year alone as Google, Tesla, and Uber continuously drive the AV market development to new heights. Of course, having car or truck insurance coverage is vital considering the fact that we don't anticipate AVs to be infallible anytime soon.
It also does not enable that there is at the moment tiny regulation for self-driving vehicles. Until lawmakers identify answers to some of the queries above, the presence of self-driving automobiles could be restricted on public roads. With the continual communication among cars, details like your place and driving habits might be accessible to auto producers and other drivers.


Tracking how students approach tasks in one way or another is basically Montessori. Have you observed any true Montessori classes?
My son was in a Montessori class for a year, but I do not know how his teacher kept track of his work. My colleague Russell West pointed out recently that in a meeting we had about a year ago with Diane Briars, she mentioned that in her project in Pittsburgh, teachers were being asked to track strategies instead of just scores, and so although I do not explicitly remember that moment, it may be that the design of this tool is based on her sharing of her work.
Is there a mailing list or emailing list that I could be added to? My school district is beginning to use MARS tasks in an intentional and systematic way, and a tool like this would be awesome to have.
Thank you for all your effort on this project!


Indian transportation technology company Ola has partnered with Microsoft to build a new connected vehicle platform for car manufacturers worldwide.
As part of this strategic partnership, Ola announced that Microsoft will be a preferred cloud provider and will use Microsoft Azure to power Ola Play, the company's existing connected car platform.
Both companies will collaborate to take the platform to car manufacturers globally, to integrate with vehicle systems. "This will transform driver and passenger experiences with vehicle diagnostics, improved in-car productivity, advanced navigation, predictive maintenance of vehicles and more," said a statement issued by Microsoft.
At the heart of this partnership is Ola Play, the world's first connected car platform for ridesharing, that will leverage Microsoft AI and IoT to enhance driver experiences with telematics and navigation guidance; passenger experiences with cloud-based infotainment and productivity; and provide auto manufacturers with custom digital experiences for their customers.
Ola Play customers will be able to use productivity tools such as Office 365 and Skype for Business, as well as voice-assisted controls built using Microsoft Cognitive Services and Bot framework, in-car during their rides.
The advanced telematics platform will transform the car into a high-performing, intelligent vehicle, capable of assessing fuel efficiency, engine performance, and driver performance. It will also enable smarter navigation and predict breakdowns, enhancing safety and security while creating new business models and opportunities.
"Today's car is quickly becoming the ultimate computing device and together with Ola, we're focused on providing more intelligent, connected and productive experiences to our customers," said Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft.
"The combination of Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and our AI platform with Ola Play will deliver new customer experiences and business opportunities across the automotive ecosystem," he added.