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I was born in Cheshire and brought up in Lancashire – apart from a two-year stint in Brussels, Belgium – until I left home to study Economics at Cardiff University in Wales. I have no idea why I chose to study Economics, a subject in which I have little interest and no ability, and after a year I realized that I wanted to be a writer. I decided to switch to a degree in English. This necessitated going to night school to do an ‘A’ level, encouraged along the way by the poet and academic John Freeman.
After gaining my ‘A’ level at night school I started an English Literature degree at Birmingham University, and the main thing on my mind from start to finish was to become as accomplished as possible in writing poetry and prose. I was lucky to be encouraged by the poet Steve Ellis, then a senior lecturer at the university, who kept an eye on my progress. By the time I graduated from Birmingham, I’d started to write poems in the voice I still have today, though it would be more than fifteen years before I had a collection published.
The day after my finals finished, I sat down to write my first novel, and completed the first draft in six weeks – this seems incredible to me now, when I spend six months researching and planning before even contemplating the writing of a draft. After I’d revised the book I sent it to an agent – who took it on, but failed to sell it. That book found three literary agents over the years, but none succeeded in selling it. I carried on writing novels and poetry through various periods of work and no-work – I owe thanks to my parents who often bailed me out at different times. Failing to get published, I became a lexicographer and editor.
I became obsessed with writing sonnets – an obsession that I suspect I’ll have until I die – and I still feel that the best sonnets of Robert Frost and E.A. Robinson are the finest modern poems I have ever read. And I wrote six novels. I landed a lot of agents and had many near-misses with publication. Finally, when I was 40 and had started to fear that I was never going to achieve publication, I was taken on by Alma Books, who encouraged me to develop my ideas for the novel White Man Falling. After publication of the book in 2006, it was a great pleasure to me and the publisher that we won the Goss First Novel Award. Alma Books have also published my collection of sonnets, Folly, under their Herla imprint. I doubt there’ll be another collection from me for at least ten years – poems come slowly, and the really good ones are few and far between.
After Birmingham I moved to London, and after London – interspersed with long trips to India, where one can live cheaply for long writing spells – I moved to Edinburgh, where I'm still based. I spend my days editing other people’s books, writing my own, running my poetry magazine Anon, and hoping that I’ll get lucky with a great idea for a new poem or a novels. --86.128.97.94 (talk) 20:23, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
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www.mikestocks.com
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[edit] Greenpower
Greenpower is an electric car racing series for UK schools and organisations. The series aims to promote engineering and technology careers to those aged 9-21. Staff and students build vehicles to compete in one of three racing formulas.
[edit] Formula 24
The original Greenpower racing formula, secondary school teams build cars based around a standard 24v electric motor and 2 x 12v lead acid batteries to a set of regulations which are designed to produce close and safe racing.
Teams compete in regional heats around the country. Each heat lasts 4 hours and the winner is the car that travels the furthest during that time. Each car has a total of 4 batteries available (two pairs) with no charging. At least 5 student drivers must drive during the race and all pit stops and battery changes are carried out by the students. The top 3 cars from each heat qualify for the national final, held each year at Goodwood motor circuit.
[edit] Formula 24+
A new formula for 2008, cars are built to the same specification as the formula 24 cars but are run by engineering and motorsport teams working with schools or colleges. Cars compete in a series of regional heats gathering points towards the championship.
[edit] Formula Goblin
The formula for primary school students. Students assemble a goblin kit car supplied by Greenpower and compete in a series of driving test challenges.
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http://www.greenpower.co.uk
82.22.34.100 (talk) 20:24, 24 January 2008 (UTC) Category:Articles for creation templates
[edit] Andrew Reiter
Andrew Reiter is a keen computer security guru.
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http://watson.org/~arr/
211.157.24.4 (talk) 20:29, 24 January 2008 (UTC) Category:Articles for creation templates
[edit] Min TestSet
The Min Test Set problem is a classical NP Hard question in computer science and complexity theory.
As input you are given U={} elemnts and J={} groups that include elements in U. the question is to find minimum set c contained in J s.t for each uj,ui in there exits Failed to parse (lexing error): p_k ∈ J
that contain only one of uj,ui
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[edit] Bombay Bicycle Club
Bombay Bicycle Club are a British indie band. They have reached notable recognition from the highly regarded indie journal NME for their 'How We Are' EP. They also played a well received set at the 2007 Carling Weekend Reading.
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http://www.nme.com/reviews/bombay-bicycle-club/9178 http://www.nme.com/news/readingleeds-festival/30618
172.216.57.234 (talk) 22:19, 24 January 2008 (UTC) Category:Articles for creation templates