Concorde Book Award
The Concorde Book Award is a prize for works of children's literature published in the UK. The award has been given annually since 2007, and is decided by a vote of children in reading groups across South Gloucestershire. It may be compared with the Red House Children's Book Award.
List of winners
- 2008 Anthony Horowitz – Raven's Gate
- 2009 Sally Nicholls – Ways to Live Forever
- 2010 Frank Cottrell Boyce – Cosmic
- 2011 R J Anderson - Knife
Shortlisted books
- 2008
John Boyne – The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Michael Morpurgo – Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
Steve Voake – The Dreamwalker's Child
Louis Sachar – Small Steps - 2009
Tim Bowler – Frozen Fire
F. E. Higgins – The Black Book of Secrets
Stuart Hill – Blade of Fire
Jenny Valentine – Broken Soup - 2010
Sophie McKenzie – Blood Ties
Anne Cassidy – Forget Me Not
Michelle Magorian – Just Henry
Steve Voake – The Starlight Conspiracy - 2011
R J Anderson – Knife
Narinder Dhami – Bang, Bang, You're Dead!
Suzanne LaFleur – Love, Aubrey
Keith Mansfield – Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London
Michael Morpurgo – Running Wild
Ali Sparkes – Frozen in Time
gollark: Or Great Information Transfer.
gollark: Git stands for GIT Is Tremendous.
gollark: The stages of git clone are: Receive a "pack" file of all the objects in the repo database Create an index file for the received pack Check out the head revision (for a non-bare repo, obviously)"Resolving deltas" is the message shown for the second stage, indexing the pack file ("git index-pack").Pack files do not have the actual object IDs in them, only the object content. So to determine what the object IDs are, git has to do a decompress+SHA1 of each object in the pack to produce the object ID, which is then written into the index file.An object in a pack file may be stored as a delta i.e. a sequence of changes to make to some other object. In this case, git needs to retrieve the base object, apply the commands and SHA1 the result. The base object itself might have to be derived by applying a sequence of delta commands. (Even though in the case of a clone, the base object will have been encountered already, there is a limit to how many manufactured objects are cached in memory).In summary, the "resolving deltas" stage involves decompressing and checksumming the entire repo database, which not surprisingly takes quite a long time. Presumably decompressing and calculating SHA1s actually takes more time than applying the delta commands.In the case of a subsequent fetch, the received pack file may contain references (as delta object bases) to other objects that the receiving git is expected to already have. In this case, the receiving git actually rewrites the received pack file to include any such referenced objects, so that any stored pack file is self-sufficient. This might be where the message "resolving deltas" originated.
gollark: UPDATE: this is wrong.
gollark: > Git uses delta encoding to store some of the objects in packfiles. However, you don't want to have to play back every single change ever on a given file in order to get the current version, so Git also has occasional snapshots of the file contents stored as well. "Resolving deltas" is the step that deals with making sure all of that stays consistent.
See also
- Blue Peter Book Awards
- Carnegie Medal
- Children's Laureate
- Kate Greenaway Medal
- Nestle Smarties Book Prize
- Red House Children's Book Award
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