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Her book Ripples and Other Stories was shortlisted for the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Her debut novel, The Sum of Our Follies (French trans. La Somme de nos Folies by Frederic Grellier), was awarded the 2018 Prix du Premier Roman Etranger .
Uncle Wiggily Longears is the main character of a series of children's stories by American author Howard R. Garis.He began writing the stories for the Newark News in 1910. . Garis penned an Uncle Wiggily story every day (except Sundays) for more than 52 years, and published 79 books in his lifetime.
Capillary waves (ripples) in water Ripples on Lifjord in Øksnes Municipality, Norway Capillary waves produced by droplet impacts on the interface between water and air.. A capillary wave is a wave traveling along the phase boundary of a fluid, whose dynamics and phase velocity are dominated by the effects of surface tension.
Asymmetrical ripple marks These are created by a one way current, for example in a river, or the wind in a desert. This creates ripple marks with still pointed crests and rounded troughs, but which are inclined more strongly in the direction of the current. For this reason, they can be used as palaeocurrent indicators.
"Ripples in the Dirac Sea" won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story of 1988, [1] and was a finalist for the 1989 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. [2] In the Washington Post, Tim Sullivan called it "excellent", [3] similarly, at Strange Horizons, Paul Kincaid declared that its presence in an anthology was "a harbinger of the very good things to come".
The newest advance in interactive children's books reflects the recent popularity of Amazon's Kindle. There are now a plethora of e-book sites that place children's picture books, along with LeapFrog-like sound effects and word pronunciation, completely online-often for free. Some will actually read an entire story aloud.
Like the sinuous ripples, this form of ripple is created by unidirectional flow with the dip at an angle to the flow as well as downstream. Linguoid / Lunate Linguoid ripples have lee slope surfaces that are curved generating a laminae similar to caternary and sinuous ripples. Linguoid ripples generate an angle to the flow as well as downstream.
For example, ripples were designed with "two colors of high-lighting and shading" and the rain for My Neighbor Totoro was "scratched in the cels" and superimposed for it to convey a soft feel. [5]: 156 The animators stated one month was taken to create the tadpoles, which included four colors; the water for it was also blurred. [5]: 154