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The juried award will have three categories: Long-form. 40K English words or above. Short-form. Under 40K words. A Special Service Award will be awarded to the author, editor, translator, activist or publisher who makes great contribution to promotion of non-English SFF internationally. Earlier this year I was approached by the lovely people at the Future Affairs Administration in China. They were interested in starting up a new set of SF&F translation awards and they wanted me to be part of the jury. Gary Wolfe was also involved, and I still very much believe in having such awards, so I said...

Shipping IPO prospects slim as capital-market access plunges U.S.-listed shipowners raised record-low proceeds from securities sales this year 1,890 5 minutes read Most owners did not raise capital. But some smaller NASDAQ-listed owners raised more than usual (Photo: Flickr/Sami Keinanen) In the mid-2000s, an entire subindustry emerged in New York to help raise capital for shipowners. Investment banks, lawyers and accountants raked in fees on initial public offerings (IPOs), follow-ons, takeovers and restructurings. Private fund managers bought equity and sold credit products. In 2...

>> reporter: megan lindsey does not work in politics. try the national compound sill for adoption. >> they intended to make jokes about politics. instead. they made jokes that would offend adoptive families. >> reporter: there has been no comment from the romney family. there is a bigger point about this, too. adoption and families are changing this this country. you know, the national adoption survey says 40% of kids adopted in the u.s. are in interracial families. so i think this is a recognition that even if politics is still.gstil divided about race, the adoption world is intergreated. w...

Even improvements wouldn't protect them going 60, 70, 80. >> you just can't physically build a tank that can withstand that kind of impact speed. >> reporter: gary wolfe says trains are far safer than trucks. right now, the only alternative to shipping crude oil across the country. >> i don't think the average person wants to be driving next to a 75 mile an hour rig carrying crude oil down the highway 12 feet away from your automobile. >> reporter: some oil companies are using new technology like taking a laser snapshot of each wheel as it goes over each section of the track. they then compare...

>> reporter: but animal rights groups have long been calling for a ban on the rides, citing accidents like these. and they say the animals are forced to live in conditions they say is inhumane. >> no matter what they say, the horses are really not kept in a good condition. >> reporter: the mare -- mayor says he is open to suggestions. >> the horses are the star. it's not the car. it's not the carriage. it's not me. that's what people come for. you can't create that with an electric car. you'll never create it. kids can't pet fenders. they pet horses. >> reporter: the two sides are going back a...