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Sponsor:PnetCDF development was sponsored by the Scientific Data Management Center (SDM) under the DOE program of Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC). It was also supported in part by National Science Foundation under the SDCI HPC program award numbers OCI-0724599 and HECURA program award numbers CCF-0938000.
Project Team Members:
Northwestern University
- Wei-keng Liao
- Alok Choudhary
- Seung Woo Son
- Kui Gao (formally postdoc, now Dassault Systèmes Simulia Corp.
- Jianwei Li (since graduated, now Bloomberg L.P.)
Argonne National Laboratory
- Rob Latham
- Rob Ross
- Rajeev Thakur
- William Gropp(now UIUC)
Tutorial on Subfiling in PnetCDF
Subfiling is a mechanism to partition the NetCDF file into multiple partitioned files (subfiles) internally, making the NetCDF data appear as a single file to users. In order to use the subfiling feature, users need to provide their intention of using it through the hints. Once users specify this hint, all variables defined in your programs will be partitioned and stored into subfiles. Figure below illustrates a high-level view of the subfiling mechanism.
Building and running with subfilingThe subfiling is disabled by default. To enable it, the PnetCDF source code needs to be configured explicitly using "--enable-subfiling" during configuration. Once it is enabled, users should convey their intention of using subfiling through MPI hints:
... MPI_Info info; MPI_Info_create(&info); MPI_Info_set(info, "nc_num_subfiles", "2"); ncmpi_create(MPI_COMM_WORLD, filename, NC_CLOBBER|NC_64BIT_DATA, info, &ncid); ...
The example above will create two subfiles in addition to the original file that user specified to create. During writes, all subfile related information is stored in the master file, so that reading from subfiles can be done transparently. In other words, there will be no code change in reading cases.
Note that the programs built with subfiling should run in parallel execution. This applies to both writes and read cases. Note also that users cannot specify the number of subfiles higher than the number of MPI ranks because during subfiling the original communicator is partitioned according to the number of subfiles. If the number of subfiles is greater than the available MPI ranks, the program will create normal file without partitioning.
File layouts with and without subfiling
This section describes the file layout with and without subfiling to help understand the mechanism behind subfiling module in PnetCDF. Note that regardless of whether subfiling is enabled or not, all files generated are in the NetCDF file format. If no subfiling is used, all variables are stored in the original file specified by the user. For example, the .nc file, t22.214.171.124.nc, generated by running test/subfile/test-subfile.c using 2 ranks (mpiexec -n 2 ./test_subfile -f t1 -s 2 -l 4) looks like.
netcdf t126.96.36.199 { // file format: CDF-5 (big variables) dimensions: dim0_0 = 8 ; dim0_1 = 4 ; dim0_2 = 4 ; variables: int var0_0(dim0_0, dim0_1, dim0_2) ; data: var0_0 = ...
If the number of subfiles is set to N, the same program will generate N+1 files: 1 original (master) and N subfiles. For example, the above test case will generate one master (t126.96.36.199.nc) and two subfiles (t184.108.40.206.nc.subfile_0 and t184.108.40.206.subfile_1). Since the file is partitioned, now the master file does not contain any datasets but includes the information associated with subfiles. That information is stored as attributes in the master file. The nc_num_subfiles is a metadata that specify the number of subfiles associated with the original file. The subfile-range is on the other hand for specifying the data range stored in each subfile.
Using the example above, the subfiling-related metadata of t220.127.116.11.nc is inserted as attributes in both global and variable-specific:
netcdf t126.96.36.199 { // file format: CDF-5 (big variables) dimensions: dim0_0 = 8 ; dim0_1 = 4 ; dim0_2 = 4 ; variables: int var0_0 ; var0_0:par_dim_index = 0 ; var0_0:ndims_org = 3 ; var0_0:num_subfiles = 2 ; var0_0:range(dim0_0).subfile.0 = 0, 3 ; var0_0:range(dim0_1).subfile.0 = 0, 3 ; var0_0:range(dim0_2).subfile.0 = 0, 3 ; var0_0:range(dim0_0).subfile.1 = 4, 7 ; var0_0:range(dim0_1).subfile.1 = 0, 3 ; var0_0:range(dim0_2).subfile.1 = 0, 3 ; // global attributes: :num_subfiles = 2 ; data: var0_0 = 0 ;
Note that, since the file has been subfiled, the master file no longer store the data as indicated by var0_0 = 0.
Each subfile contains its dataset as follows:
netcdf t126.96.36.199.nc.subfile_0 { // file format: CDF-5 (big variables) dimensions: dim0_0.var0_0 = 4 ; dim0_1.var0_0 = 4 ; dim0_2.var0_0 = 4 ; variables: int var0_0(dim0_0.var0_0, dim0_1.var0_0, dim0_2.var0_0) ; var0_0:range(dim0_0).subfile.0 = 0, 3 ; var0_0:range(dim0_1).subfile.0 = 0, 3 ; var0_0:range(dim0_2).subfile.0 = 0, 3 ; var0_0:subfile_index = 0 ; data: var0_0 = ...
netcdf t18.104.22.168.nc.subfile_1 { // file format: CDF-5 (big variables) dimensions: dim0_0.var0_0 = 4 ; dim0_1.var0_0 = 4 ; dim0_2.var0_0 = 4 ; variables: int var0_0(dim0_0.var0_0, dim0_1.var0_0, dim0_2.var0_0) ; var0_0:range(dim0_0).subfile.1 = 4, 7 ; var0_0:range(dim0_1).subfile.1 = 0, 3 ; var0_0:range(dim0_2).subfile.1 = 0, 3 ; var0_0:subfile_index = 1 ; data: var0_0 = ...
Current limitations
- the number of subfiles should be equal or less than the number of MPI processes.
Future work
- user-level APIs to control variable-specific subfiling.
- remove the run-time condition where number of subfiles <= number of MPI processes.
- Seung Woo Son, Saba Sehrish, Wei-keng. Liao, Ron Oldfield, and Alok Choudhary, Dynamic File Striping and Data Layout Transformation on Parallel System with Fluctuating I/O Workload, In IASDS 2013 (held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster'13)
- Kui Gao, Wei-keng Liao, Arifa Nisar, Alok Choudhary, Robert Ross, and Robert Latham. Using Subfiling to Improve Programming Flexibility and Performance of Parallel Shared-file I/O. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing, Vienna, Austria, September 2009.


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I had none pain due to Neulasta shot. It feels achy like the flu.1
Hey dawn, bone pain is horrible and joint pain and the cartilage gone from chemo from my knee and my right thumb.you know there is a problem when you drive to point A to point B and you have to stand for a minute before you walk or when you are watching tv and you get up and you walk worst than a 100 year old yes I have excellent bone dentisy so exercise is the best medicine do leg strengthing you will be amazed1
It's different for everyone. I had major discomfort about 2 days after the neulasta shot. Couldn't get comfortable in any position. Major ache, sometimes pulsing pain in the ankles, shins, thighs, back...I don't feel achy like the flu, it's just a different pain.0
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The "King" and all his union thugs had 3, count em' 3 chances and they couldn't beat Gov. Walker. It's finished and so is the "King". November 6, 2012 and the obama nightmare is over.
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I wasn't aware that the "patriotic liberal" (as if there is such a thing) had moved to Wisconsin. But this could also be "bob munck big shot democrat insider", too. Maybe Gov. Walker needs to fund mental health to a greater degree, especially after this crushing defeat to the union thugs.
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PUNY, PUNY, PUNY, PUNY, PUNY, PUNY, little turd of a man is the Chicago street punk. PUNY, and he couldn't carry Walesa's jock strap either when it comes to being a patriot. b. hussein obama is a third rate, Chicago street punk. Nothing more. He's PUNY.
"Repudiate" all you want but we're not going to allow another "McCain 08 2.0" type campaign. The Chicago street punk is goin' be vetted thoroughly this time around. Whether you re-pu-bi-cans like it or not. We're not goin' leave it up to you this time! Ya' folla'.....
Rev. "Wrong" is fair game. It gives us insight into this guy called obama. It should be vetted completely. After all, he sat in front of this guy for 20 years, listening to weekly diatribes excoriating the US of KKK! While, extolling the virtues of Black liberation theology. And look, it's time to face facts, this guy obama, more than likely was not eligible to be POTUS. He represents the greatest flim flam ever perpetrated on the American people.
If ,obama was, in fact, born in Kenya, then we have a full blown, Constitutional crisis on our hands. We have lawlessness in our Federal Government. Who is obama? It's as if he appeared one day with no past! How did he afford to go to Occidental College, then onto Columbia(an Ivy League school), and then finally to Harvard Law school? All while doing so with NO VISIBLE means of support.
Why did a literary agency in 1991, in selling books about obama, state that he was born in Kenya? And raised in Hawaii and Indonesia.
Maher is "manna" from Heaven, solid gold, for every time he opens his month, the democrat party losses another half a million votes. So "preach on preacher", and don't let em' shut you up, you punk!
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I don't think it will even be close. Gov. Walker's done a fabulous job and is a pattern for other States to get their fiscal house in order. Much to the chagrin of the union goons.


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CDBA Banquet - October 18th
The CDBA Banquet is coming up in lieu of the October meeting. The date is the normal meeting night on October 18th but the time is moved up. Serving will start at 6:30 p.m. so plan to arrive by 6:00 p.m. to get a good seat. Sticky name tags will be ready for all guests with a reservation. The name tag will be coded to let the servers know what you ordered as there is a vegetarian option on the catered menu. All mail in reservations must reach us before October 11. There will be no "pay at the door" option. Reservations are open to friends and family of CDBA members also, and forms will be available at the September meeting. Featured guest speaker will be Trevor Qualls. A brief bio for Mr. Qualls is on the reservation form. The banquet reservation form can be downloaded here. http://cookdupagebeekeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/CDBA-2014-Banquet-Reservation-rev-B.pdf
Beekeeping the Natural Way – Carol Stream Park District
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Days: Monday evenings, 7pm-9pm
Dates: 10/20/14 – 11/24/14
Location: Carol Stream Park District (Fountain View Recreation Center), Carol Stream, IL
Fee: $50 for residents and non-residents alike
Cook-DuPage Beekeepers Mentoring Get Together
The next mentoring get together will be held on Sunday, November 2nd at 8:00 am. The informal get together meets at the York Rd. McDonalds in Hinsdale. It's a good opportunity to meet with other beekeepers in the area to "Talk Bees" and share some knowledge over a cup of coffee and an Egg McMuffin. For further information and directions, visit the Calendar of Events page.
Illinois State Beekeepers Association Annual Fall Meeting
The ISBA Annual Fall Meeting for 2014 is scheduled for November 8, 2014 (a Saturday). The location will be the Illinois Department of Agriculture Building on the Illinois State Fairgrounds. The registration form, meeting agenda, and map to the fairgrounds can be obtained at the ISBA Summary of Events Page on their site.
The registration form is also being included in the September/October issue of the ISBA Bulletin which will be mailed to all ISBA members.
Attendees who wish to have the catered lunch MUST register and pay in advance by November 3, 2014 (must be postmarked by 11/3/14). They will accept walk-in registrations without the catered lunch on the day of the event (November 8, 2014).
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Do you have some beekeeping related merchandise that you would like to sell? Are you a member of the Cook Dupage Beekeepers Association? If you answered 'Yes' to both questions, you may now list your items on the new For Sale page. Please use the Contact Us page to submit information about any items you would like to sell.


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Michael Paglia visits RedLine in this week's review, taking in The Transit of Venus: Four Decades, Front Range Women in the Visual Arts. The group show focuses on pieces from the group that was formed in the mid '70s. Continue reading for photos from all three exhibits. See also: The Kirkland Museu ... More >>
Think of Denver Arts Week as a celebration of all our city has to offer culturally, with the added incentive of sweet deals, from discounted memberships, restaurant meals and original artworks to a free Night at the Museums. But as a trip online to Denver Arts Week central reveals, there's a lot to ... More >>
The Black Forest fire, which started June 11 northeast of Colorado Springs, has been deemed the costliest in state history. "Surely, the loss of every house represents a tragedy for the people who lived there," writes Westword art critic Michael Paglia in this week's Artbeat column. "But in one case ... More >>
Michael Paglia visits the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Arts and Goodwin Fine Art in this week's review, taking in work by two different artists. The show at the Kirkland Museum contains works by Phyllis Hutchinson Montrose while the exhibit at Goodwin Fine Art focuses on pieces from Monique ... More >>
In this week's review, Michael Paglia visits the Kirkland Museum and the William Havu Gallery, both of which are offering solo shows in which the artists handle abstract subject matter. The exhibits deal with the distinction between recognizable imagery and abstract imagery. Continue reading for ph ... More >>
Jean Charlot (1898-1979, American, b. France) LA LAVENDERA (THE WASHER WOMAN) 1937 oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches Collection of Francis T. and Peggy B. Reed © The Jean Charlot Estate LLC. With permission.Back in 1948, a group of European-inspired artists known as "The 15" shook up the Denver A ... More >>
Will somebody please write a poem about this?It can be hard to know what to make of art, especially when the art in question is that of Vance Kirkland, Colorado's foremost abstract expressionist. Sometimes, you need a little help with the interpretation -- and as far as that goes, what better ... More >>
"St. Francis and the Little Red Bull" (c. 1949) by Otto Bach.Quietly, in December, the Kirkland Museum opened a new installment of its ongoing Colorado art survey, a range of 51 art and decorative works, most of them culled from the museum's collection and many on view for the first time. The ... More >>
Museums stay open for one special night.
Colorado remembers another gifted member of the Vavra family.
Brief reviews of current shows.
Denver's Kirkland Museum enriches Lakewood with a Colorado art-history show.
Sci-Fi Uterus brings electronica out of the dark days.
Herbert Bayer is feted at Emil Nelson, while Vance Kirkland will be featured at the Newton Auditorium.
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Patrick F. Leahy became the sixth president of Wilkes University on July 1, 2012. A native of Maryland, Dr. Leahy earned a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in higher education strategy and management. He was a Fried Fellow at Cornell University, where he earned a dual master's degree in business administration and labor relations. He holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from Georgetown University.
Dr. Leahy came to northeast Pennsylvania in 2004 when he joined The University of Scranton as executive assistant to the president. After being appointed vice president for university relations, he led the successful completion of the university's $125 million campaign. Prior to joining Wilkes, as Scranton's first executive vice president, he was responsible for leading key components of the university's five-year strategic plan, including development, government relations, undergraduate and graduate admissions, athletics, planning and information technology. Since 2006, he taught as an adjunct professor in the University Business Leadership Honors program in Scranton's Kania School of Management.
Before beginning his career in higher education, Dr. Leahy was co-founder and president of The Business Affairs Forum, a 15,000-member distance learning community based in Ithaca, New York. He has worked as an investment officer at Allied Capital Corporation, as an account executive at Deluxe Corp., and as a development officer at Georgetown University.
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Looking for a different take on app switching? If so, then look no further than this new app switching concept from @Sentry — the designer behind the highly popular Auxo tweak. The currently unnamed concept allows iPhone users to swipe from the bottom of the page, splitting the page in two. The split reveals a column of strategically placed app icons that can be used to quickly switch between apps.
Swiping on the column reveals toggles and volume and brightness sliders. Since it doesn't have a name just yet, I'll just refer to it tentatively as AppUnzipper. That's a good name, don't you think? I mean, it basically looks like you're unzipping the currently running app to access an app switcher beneath. Read More


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UK-based retail analytics company Dunnhumby has acquired social media marketing firm BzzAgent, the companies said May 23. Dunnhumby CEO Simon Hay said his company bought BzzAgent to better track consumer touchpoints, given the increasing importance of digital marketing.
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Data Services, Inc. meets the needs of today's data-driven marketer by providing front-end database management and data analytics platforms alongside our expertise in global contact data quality, database building and ongoing maintenance that comes with our 45+ years in business.
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Haruhi Suzumiya is a lucid dreamer.:
1 Guy In White, Mon, 4th Apr '11 11:50:39 AM from Dry Cleaning
Morgan Freeman is God.I read an article about lucid dreams the other day, and it fascinated me. Noticing certain "dream signs" in your dreams can help you become lucid, and occasionally even control your dreams, essentially becoming a Reality Warper within your own dream. Then it hit me: one of my favorite anime series might actually have this as the basic premise. As an explanation for Haruhi's powers, it could very well be that the entire series universe, is, in fact, her own dream. The reason the main cast doesn't want her to see any out-of-the-ordinary things happening is because it could possibly trigger lucid dreaming and allow her to fully control her powers with her conscious mind rather than her subconscious. And let's not forget what would happen to the rest of the universe if she were to awaken due to being traumatized within her own dream... ... This explanation might not work with the revelation of the Anti-SOS in the later light novels (specifically how Haruhi supposedly got her powers from Sasaki), but it's still an interesting thought.
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Events are a powerful mechanism to propagate changes within an application. Using custom add and remove handlers, you can even decide what happens when clients subscribe and unsubscribe, a feature I used extensively to "forward" subscriptions to other classes.
class Intermediate { private readonly ISomeEventSource _source; public event EventHandler IntermediateEvent { add { _source.SourceEvent += value; } remove { _source.SourceEvent -= value; } } }
If you're working with events extensively, this is something you come across sooner or later. It is a simple mechanism to directly connect the subscriber of IntermediateEvent to the SourceEvent.
As soon as you have slightly more complicated setups, however, this approach becomes arduous. For example, there is no possibility to intercept the event propagation from the source to the client, because the client is connected to the source directly. Thus, you have no chance of modifying event arguments, dropping certain events or performing some custom handling in the Intermediate class.


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Today is Trailer Tuesday x2! Author Gwendolyn Heasley (Where I Belong, A Long Way from You) will publish her third young adult novel with HarperTeen this April, and BookPage has the pleasure of presenting the first look at the plucky heroine at the heart of Don't Call Me Baby.
It's a cute and charming story about teenager Imogene, the daughter of a popular Mommy Blogger. The "Mommylicious" blog is incredibly embarrassing for Imogene (imagine having all your private puberty stories published online!). Then Imogene must start her own blog for school, and there's no better time to define herself in her own words—and to turn the tables on Mommylicious.
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February is Black History Month, the perfect time to remind young readers of beloved heroes and heroines like Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman. This year, new books focus on other important figures, including Malcolm X, the many voices of the Harlem Renaissance and unexpected champions of equality, from unstoppable performers to long-forgotten slaves.
We picked our 10 favorite new books for honoring African-American heroes and heroines. Some of these stories are inspiring, some brutal and unflinching, but all are valuable and educational.
A Dance Like Starlight by Kristy Dempsey, illustrated by Floyd Cooper
Philomel | Ages 5 to 8
"Kristy Dempsey revisits a watershed moment in performing arts history in her sparkling new book, A Dance Like Starlight. The story's spirited young heroine, an African-American girl who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer, lives with her mother in Harlem. The year is 1951." Read our full review.
Sugar Hill by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
Albert Whitman | Ages 5 to 8
"This lyrical tribute to Sugar Hill, the historic Harlem neighborhood of the 1920s and '30s, and its legendary inhabitants packs a lot of information with an economy of words and R. Gregory Christie's colorful, stylized paintings." Read our full review.
Under the Freedom Tree by Susan VanHecke, illustrated by London Ladd
Charlesbridge | Ages 6 to 9
"With appeal for younger and older readers alike, Under the Freedom Tree is both a beautiful tribute to a lasting symbol of freedom and a powerful reminder that one brave action can change the course of history." Read our full review.
Malcolm Little by Ilyasah Shabazz, illustrated by A.G. Ford
Atheneum | Ages 6 to 10
"Malcolm Little is a terrific introduction to a polarizing historical figure and an inspiring tale that children can apply to their own lives. We all face adversity at one time or another; it's how we respond that counts." Read our full review.
Josephine by Patricia Hruby Powell, illustrated by Christian Robinson
Chronicle | Ages 7 to 10
"In Josephine, Patricia Hruby Powell writes with great reverence and a vigor fitting to the life of the illustrious performer Josephine Baker. This handsomely designed tribute to Josephine's life is refreshingly uncluttered in every way: Powell's free-verse text doesn't waste any words, and Christian Robinson's minimalist acrylic illustrations communicate the very essence of Josephine's vivacious spirit." Read our full review.
The Sittin' Up by Shelia P. Moses
Putnam | Ages 10 and up
"While most African-American children's literature focuses on either slavery or the Civil Rights movement, Moses gives middle grade readers a glimpse of a time when slavery was recent enough to weigh heavily on the minds and hearts of African Americans, yet a more equitable future was also imaginable." Read our full review.
Searching for Sarah Rector by Tonya Bolden
Abrams | Ages 10 to 14
"Using the framework of Sarah's unlikely wealth, Bolden offers a wide-ranging book discussing the creation of the Indian Territory and Oklahoma, the rise of black towns and boomtowns, and the greed and corruption that surrounds money. Searching for Sarah Rector draws upon photographs, census records, sensationalist newspaper articles and first-person interviews to tell a fascinating account of a little-known time in American history." Read our full review.
The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin
Roaring Brook | Ages 10 to 14
"In The Port Chicago 50, Steve Sheinkin, author of the Newbery Honor book Bomb, tells the harrowing story of the fight for the lives and rights of 50 black sailors." Read our full review.
Cy in Chains by David L. Dudley
Clarion | Ages 14 and up
"Cy in Chains is a difficult, painful novel, but it's an important one. Cy quickly morphs from a kind, compassionate boy, looking out for his friend before the accident, to a young man who's been broken by a life of hard work and cruelty, and who comes to see compassion as a weakness he can't afford." Read our full review.
Willow by Tonya Cheri Hegamin
Candlewick | Ages 14 and up
"In a highly credible fashion, Willow grapples with her choices—she is as afraid of the path of freedom as she is of the certain horrors of continued enslavement. Perhaps most important to Willow, however, are the secrets she learns about the fate of her own mother, a beautiful and educated African woman." Read our full review.
Locker Combinations is a Book Case feature by BookPage contributor and young adult (YA) literature expert Jill Ratzan. Using a variety of literary, cultural and educational perspectives, Jill guest blogs about the latest in YA lit and the general direction, trends and changes of the field.
Last week, the American Library Association announced the winner of the Michael L. Printz Award, the highest award in young adult (YA) literature. Four Honor books were also named. (Marcus Sedgick's Midwinterblood won the top spot.) Interestingly, all five books are set either fully or partially in the past, in time periods ranging from the fourth century to 1986.
Historical fiction creates ample opportunities for YA literature, but it also poses a number of challenges. One such challenge is the role of female characters. How can authors of YA historical fiction stay true to historical realities while also presenting the strong, independent female characters that contemporary readers have come to expect? Read on for four possible strategies.
1. Set the story in a time and place where circumstances forced women to make their own way.
When Cat Winters' spooky historical mystery In the Shadow of Blackbirds opens, the year is 1918 and protagonist Mary Shelley Black is on her way to San Diego to stay with her recently widowed aunt. Mary Shelley's father is in jail for supposed unpatriotic activities, her beau is away fighting in France and the deadly Spanish flu is raging around her. With no one else to provide for them, Mary Shelley and her aunt—like many women of their time—must take on roles previously reserved for men. So, while Aunt Eva's work in a shipyard seems shocking, it brings in much-needed money. And although Mary Shelley's own activities might ordinarily have been looked down on by a husband, father or uncle, the combination of war, sickness and imprisonment mean that she's essentially on her own.
2. Allude to historical or literary characters known to be outside the ordinary.
The popularity of crime drama series like "Sherlock" and "Elementary" have made character Sherlock Holmes well known even to those who've never read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Victorian-era tales. Similarly, Bram Stoker's Dracula has become an icon of pop culture. Fictional Holmes and historical Stoker are known for their intelligence, their curiosity and their interest in the macabre . . . but certainly not for their strict following of social conventions. If the two had teenage sisters or nieces, these young women might naturally be determined to set their own rules. Colleen Gleason's The Clockwork Scarab is the first in a series of mysteries starring the imaginary Mina Holmes and Evaline Stoker. If these two characters seem to be more independent than other women of their times, perhaps that's because they're taking a leaf out of their famous relatives' books.
3. Establish the story as a work of historical fantasy, not historical fiction.
Historical fantasy—works that combine history with aspects of the supernatural—is emerging as a hot new genre of YA fiction. Unlike traditional historical fiction, historical fantasy doesn't aim to be a perfect reflection of real life in the time and place in which it takes place. Instead, it combines elements from that setting with elements from the author's imagination.
One especially noteworthy historical fantasy series, His Fair Assassin by Robin LaFevers (especially the recent second book, Dark Triumph), revisits the history of medieval Brittany and France by juxtaposing real historical figures with fictional, magically trained warrior nuns. (You read that right.) Because LaFevers' female assassins are intentionally imaginary, they have no need to answer to the standards of demure behavior expected of other women of their time.
In Kerstin Gier's Precious Stones trilogy, translated from the German by Anthea Bell, teenage Gwyneth comes from a family of time travelers, but she's always been the boring, untalented one. An accidental slip into the past, though, reveals her identity as one of the Circle of Twelve, a secret sect with a long-running mission. Beginning with Ruby Red and continuing in Sapphire Blue, Gwyneth (and her cell phone) travel from contemporary London to the eighteenth century, the early twentieth century and various points in between. Again, because Gwyneth is an outsider to the times she finds herself in, her modern sensibility isn't necessarily an anachronism.
Strong female characters are always welcome in YA fiction, and if this year's Printz winner and Honor books are any indication, genre-blending YA historical fiction is here to stay. Combining the two ideas can sometimes be tricky, but these recent offerings show that it can be done with style, sensitivity and pizzazz.
Ruta Sepetys' critically acclaimed young adult novel, Between Shades of Gray, is headed to theaters.
The internationally best-selling novel has been adapted by Ben York Jones (Like Crazy, winner of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize), and it's set to be directed by Marius Markevicius, who directed The Other Dream Team (a documentary of the 1992 Lithuania national basketball team) and produced Like Crazy. Filming will begin in Lithuania this year.
Between Shades of Gray is a Carnegie Medal-nominated tale of a 15-year-old girl's fight for survival during World War II. Set during the little-known yet shockingly true events of the Baltic deportation, Sepetys' debut shocked readers with its brutal honesty, and her heroine won our hearts with her resolve and her refusal to let go of hope. Check out our interview with Sepetys, where she shared her reasons for telling this moving story.
How exciting! And considering the inevitable hilarity of parents trying to hunt down the titles on their children's school reading lists and confusing Between Shades of Gray and Fifty Shades of Grey, what are the chances that a few feisty Redbox users will end up accidentally renting a heartrending tale about Siberian mass deportation? Probably pretty good, I'd say . . . .
We always look forward to the Newbery, Caldecott and Printz Awards, and this morning was filled with delight (and some surprise!) over this year's recipients.
We're perhaps most ecstatic that Kate DiCamillo won the 2014 Newbery Medal for Flora & Ulysses, the adventurous, hilarious story of a cynical, comic-loving girl who befriends a most unusual squirrel. (We were looking forward to this one several months before it came out; watch us chat with DiCamillo about seal blubber, poetry and giant donuts here.)
Mad props to our teen literature expert, Jill Ratzan, for predicting the Printz winner! She shared her prediction for Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick, saying, "Midwinterblood makes its readers work hard to uncover its secrets. That makes it a top Printz contender in my book." Seven intertwined narratives, full of blood and magic, unfold in reverse chronological order on a mysterious, remote island.
We are also tickled that Brian Floca won the Caldecott Medal for Locomotive, a gorgeous picture book about the beginnings of the transcontinental railroad in the United States.
Here's a (partial) list of the 2014 Youth Media Award winners. Find the full list here, and click the links below to read coverage in BookPage.
Locomotive by Brian Floca (Atheneum)
Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick)
Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick (Roaring Brook)
MARGARET A. EDWARDS AWARD (lifetime achievement in writing for young adults)
Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)
So, what do you think, readers? We're definitely thrilled by some, surprised by others.
For even more recommendations for fantastic children's and teen books, see our list of the Best Children's Books for 2013.


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Monday morning the Oakland Athletics activated Ryan Cook from the D.L. and sent reliever Evan Scribner to Triple-A Sacramento to make room for him.
Cook will help to solidify the A's bullpen in the coming weeks. He has closing experience, but more importantly he is a 3rd legitimate option for Bob Melvin in the setup role.
Craig Gentry shouldn't be too far behind Ryan Cook in joining the team. He has been playing in games in Stockton with the Ports. The A's just want him to be ready to play a full game, so Gentry has been getting stretched out, and over the weekend played a whole 9 inning game. He is set to join the team on the current 9-game road trip, and could even do so before the A's leave Minnesota on Thursday.
The addition of Gentry should be a huge key to the A's success this season. Oakland relies a lot on the long-ball, and the dingers usually come in droves once the weather heats up. Having Gentry's speed and defense will help the A's offense push a few extra runs across the plate while the weather remains cool. There is already a decent amount of speed on the team, with Cespedes, Crisp and Fuld already collecting triples this season, and the addition of Gentry is another speed threat to opposing team. He collected 24 steals and 4 triples in just 287 plate appearances, or about half of the PA of an every day player.
Some fans have expressed worry over the 3-3 start this season. With these two additions, the A's will be ready to start kicking some and taking names.
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It was fifty years ago today that the Beatles' released their first album, Please Please Me. In honor of that world-changing LP, we've compiled a list of the 100 Greatest Debuts of All Time.
A note on how we made the list: Albums got docked points if the artist went on to far greater achievements; conversely, we gave a little extra recognition to great debut albums that the artist never matched. We also skipped solo debuts by artists who were already in well-known bands. We focused, instead, on debuts that gave you the thrill of an act arriving fully-formed, ready to reinvent the world in its own image.
CHART OF THE DAY: Where The Money Is Going In The Media Business
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In Denmark, supermarket crowdsources suggestions for local products
Supermarkets are convenient, but often source their products from multinational companies and farms in distant locations, racking up carbon emissions and squeezing out local competition along the way. Danish co-operative grocery superstore SuperBrugsen now aims to offer a popular alternative by getting customers to suggest local products they would like to see on the shelves of their nearest store. READ MORE…
These are the big names that have come out of SXSW in recent years—what did you see this year that you think will be the next big thing in the Tech? See the full Visual.ly infographic here.
Check these stats:
- 78% of teens now have a cell phone, and almost half (47%) of them own smartphones. That translates into 37% of all teens who have smartphones, up from just 23% in 2011.
- 23% of teens have a tablet computer, a level comparable to the general adult population.
- 95% of teens use the internet.
- 93% of teens have a computer or have access to one at home.
AND - 1 in 4 teens are "cell-mostly" internet users, who say they mostly go online using their phone and not using some other device such as a desktop or laptop computer.
More: http://pewrsr.ch/ZmwgLG
Some things to keep in mind as Facebook prepares to reveal its big announcement today:
- 2/3 of online U.S. adults (67%) are Facebook users, making it the dominant social networking site in this country.
- 61% of Facebook users say they have taken a break from using Facebook for a period of several weeks or more.
- 8% of online adults who do not currently use Facebook are interested in becoming Facebook users in the future.
These facts and more from our recent report on coming and going on Facebook: http://pewrsr.ch/VGNMNO
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Ringo Starr's drumkit from the Beatles' performances on the The Ed Sullivan Show and the red jacket he wore at the band's final performance atop Abbey Road Studios are part of a new exhibit opening July 12th at the Grammy Museum in L.A., the museum's third exhibit to focus on the life and career of a Beatle.
High-tech software for retailers discreetly tracks customers
Imagine that you're the proud owner of a good old-fashioned brick-and-mortar shop. Now imagine a software service that gives you a snapshot of what's hot and what's not in your store. That's what Prism Skylabs offers.
The San Francisco startup has developed technology that uses video captured by security cameras to track customers' movements and create "heatmaps." The images represent an aggregate of all the shoppers' whereabouts in the store and which items they touched. For retailers, it's a valuable tool for making decisions about product placement and floor layout.
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Sharing this as a) Flying Dog makes good beer, b) that's a great poster and c) it got a rise out of Marion Barry's lawyer, so.
Say hello to Vox Brewing's inaugural offering, Junior Extra Pale Ale. To be served at 5 PM, Friday 23 at Vox Media DC.
Vox / SB Nation / The Verge is the coolest.
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Someone from Newcastle's PR agency emailed to see if Yahoo! would be interested in covering their new Winter IPA. To which I said, "I don't think that would be of interest to Yahoo!, but it would be of interest to me." So they sent a few beers.
I just had my first one and liked it. Considering I enjoy both Newcastle and IPAs, that's no surprise. Beer Advocate gives it a B-. Great.
In any event, I think I'm supposed to mention that "New Castle Winter IPA is available at select markets across the country in 6-pack and 12-pack bottles priced comparably to Newcastle Brown Ale, as well as on draught at fine pubs from Nov. 2011 through Jan. 2012."
So try it out sometime. And send me good beer anytime.
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Muir earned All-America honors at the national championships as the Bulldog womenĺs cross country team wrapped up one of its most successful seasons ever with a 17th-place overall finish. She placed 12th overall in a field of 189 runners to become only the second All-American in Bulldog womenĺs cross country history and FSUĺs highest finisher ever at the national championships. Muir was clocked in 21:59 on the 6K course at Cooperĺs Lake Campground in Slippery Rock.
The top 30 finishers at the national meet received USTFCCCA All-America laurels.
Her performance helped the Bulldogs total 381 points in finishing 17th of 24 teams at the national championships. Adams State (Colo.) claimed the title with 79 points and also won the menĺs overall crown. Grand Valley State took second place in the womenĺs division and Western State (Colo.) placed third with 102 and 183 points, respectively.
The womenĺs individual winner was Seattle Pacificĺs (Wash.) Jessica Pixler in a time of 20:59 overall. Muirĺs effort was good enough for ninth place in the team points standings, which didnĺt include those runners competing individually at the meet.
In addition to Muir, Bulldog senior Mikinzie Stuart (Saginaw, Mich./Nouvel Catholic) placed 65th (23:19), sophomore Paige Onweller (Lapeer/East) was 103rd (23:48), junior Megan Josey (Spring Lake) came in 134th (24:18), sophomore Nikki Wiers (Allendale) took 151st (24:40), senior Jackie Green (Portage/Northern) placed 161st (25:01) and sophomore Sarah Creed (Saginaw/Swan Valley) wound up 177th (25:48) at the national championships.
Ferris State qualified for the NCAA Division II National Championships previously by placing third overall in the 2008 NCAA-II Midwest Regional Championships (Nov. 8) held on its own course at Katke Golf Course in Big Rapids, Mich. Both Muir and Stuart earned all-region acclaim with their performances at the regional meet.
This year's third place regional effort was the program's best showing since an identical third-place finish at the 1990 NCAA-II Great Lakes Regional Championships. This season also represented only the third time in history the Bulldog women's cross country team competed at the national championships and was the program's first appearance since 1987. Ferris claimed Great Lakes Regional crowns in both 1981 and 1987 to advance to the NCAA-II Championships where they placed eighth and 11th overall, respectively.
Prior to Muirĺs performance at the national championships, former FSU All-American Jenny Irwin was the only other Bulldog female to earn All-America honors in cross country after placing 20th overall as an individual qualifer in 2005 at Pomona, Calif. Muirĺs performance also topped Irwinĺs 20th-place effort for the highest finish by a FSU women's performer at the Division II Women's Cross Country Championships.
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Nothing says "supporting your favorite team" like cleavage. Lots and lots of cleavage. And what better way to follow your team's cleavage than through the marvelous invention of Twitter, which will streamline all of your team's best cleavage right to your preferred internet device.
With the Royals and Sporting Kansas City well underway, and the Chiefs, Kansas State, Kansas, Missouri, and a whole host of other local teams getting ready to start, what better time than now to help you figure out which accounts to follow.
A team is only as good as their fan's cleavage, and knowing what account to follow is critical to being the best fan you can be. Let this post be your guide.
Kansas City Royals: @Royals_Boobs
Followers: 5,430
Tweets: 1,435
Last Tweet: August 17
Nudity: There is no stated nudity policy.
Royals Boobs is a pretty active account given that it does not get very many submissions. The account tweets about three to five times a week, and generally has at least one submission a week. They are pretty much all Royals, and will retweet tweets from players and followers.
#RoyalsRallyBoobs #RoyalsBoobs pic.twitter.com/8k3bCt4ucV
— Royals Boobs (@Royals_Boobs) August 18, 2013
Kansas City Chiefs: @ChiefsBoobs
Followers: 4,223
Tweets: 6,218
Last Tweet: The account tweets daily.
Nudity: They have a policy against nudity.
It is the preseason, so there have not been many submissions to the site of late, but the account has been active none the less. The account will tweet links to a lot of Chiefs stories, mostly from the KCChiefs.com site.
Way to represent @shastakuboobs: I'm missing the game but I've been #representin at work all day! #redfriday pic.twitter.com/9mZrS0aMpW
— Chiefs Boobs (@ChiefsBoobs) August 17, 2013
Sporting Kansas City: @SKCboobs
Followers: 894
Tweets: 243
Last Tweet: August 20
Nudity: Not yet. They do not have a policy against nudity as of now.
SKC doesn't get a lot of submissions, but when they do it is very instagramed. SKC Boobs will tweet fairly regularly but will not flood your timeline. The account is really good at reminding you it is game day.
Starting #GameDay the right way. #SKCvTOR Good morning #SKCnation ! Morning #SKCboobs courtesy of @rachelaveryy pic.twitter.com/RybHdx1TiA
— SKCboobs (@SKCboobs) July 13, 2013
COLLEGE TEAMS (Division I Edition)
Kansas Jayhawks: @KUboobs
Followers: 67,932
Tweets: 4,975
Last Tweet: August 21
Nudity: None… kinda. The limits are certainly pushed.
The original boobs account, KU Boobs gets a good deal of submissions and is very active on game days. Not surprisingly, KU Boobs is most active during basketball season, but they will also see a good amount of activity during the football season and the offseason as well.
KU Boobs has received a lot of attention over the year-plus that it has been an active account.
Seeing double "@hairbanger04: @KUboobs @RealKUboobs @la_femme_gela I had the mirror idea too… #mirrormirror #2for1 pic.twitter.com/HVHZOAu741"
— KU Boobs (@KUboobs) April 12, 2013
Kansas State Wildcats: @KSU_Boobs1
Followers: 4,185
Tweets: 628
Last Tweet: August 16
Nudity: Nope.
The original K-State boobs account (@KSUBoobs1) was suspended by Twitter for… well, I don't know why they were suspended. If you know, let us know in the comments.
@KSUBoobs1 was considered to be a top 10 accounts according to various internet people, so the potential is certainly there. And K-State fans are some of the most loyal and passionate fans out there, so I imagine the account will grow quickly once football season starts.
For having to re-start an account, KSU has a pretty solid boobs site in terms of activity. However, it is probably going to need a little bit of time to get up to full speed. I imagine having to start a new account from scratch makes things more difficult.
If we can't play hard for these. We need to reload our guns then! #KSUBoobs #Emawnation #gametime pic.twitter.com/3L1BvM3V
— KSU Boobs (@KSU_Boobs1) February 12, 2013
Missouri Tigers: @MizzouBoobs1
Followers: 14,605
Tweets: 270
Last Tweet: August 20
Nudity: Nothing about it in their profile. They seem to push the boundaries like KU and KSU.
Advantage: Missouri has Maxim models who send in pics to this account. I'm not sure any of the local accounts have this advantage.
Disadvantage: Waaaaaaaay too many "rush" photos. There is more sorority promos and body writing with greek letters than there is Mizzou stuff. But, then again, you're probably not following these accounts for those kinds of details, are you?
Plus, I'm not sure that when you can throw in a Maxim model every once in a while that it would get in the way of any disadvantage.
Here are some more #MizzouBoobs submitted by Maxim Model @ashleycmsalazar! [email protected] pic.twitter.com/NKdhowho
— Mizzou Boobs (@MizzouBoobs1) January 28, 2013
Missouri State: @MoStateBoobs
Followers: 2,480
Tweets: 216
Last Tweet: August 17
Nudity: No policy given.
MSU site is pretty new, but whoever runs it seems intent about making it work. There are not a lot of submission – at least recently – but there are a ton of rush pictures in there. It would appear MSU wants to be a player in the cleavage game.
The first of what is hopefully many pictures to come in 2013! pic.twitter.com/TjXFRFdg
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Life Isn't Romantic – Amy Harmon
Life isn't romantic. It's hard and ugly, and people have bad breath and big bellies and thinning hair. Couples age together, see each other at their worst, annoy each other, hurt each other, and even hate each other sometimes. That's why we women love romances with mythical creatures that sparkle, never age, don't get bad breath or work as mail men, school teachers or plumbers. We need that escape, that fantasy, because life is so genuinely un-fantastic sometimes. And that mythical creature can make us swoon, giggle, and pant and never expects us to make dinner, lose a little weight or wear something besides sweatpants. (I love mythical men!!)
I started writing romance because that's the kind of book I love to read. Frankly, whether it's a blockbuster movie or a best-selling book, if it doesn't have romance, I'm not very interested. However, the first time I saw a porno – now I'm blushing – I made the mistake of thinking I was going to get romance. I didn't. And I was not impressed. Nor was I moved, touched, soothed, or inspired. That's when it occurred to me that romance isn't necessarily about sex. And I wanted to be a romance writer. I wanted to write the kind of romance where sex is not the climax. No pun intended. To do that, and make it realistic, I have to create scenarios and plot lines where the two main characters can't have sex because of age or distance or propriety or, in the case of Slow Dance in Purgatory, because one of them is a ghost.
In my bestselling novel, Making Faces, one character is a soldier who comes back from Iraq gravely injured. His injuries and insecurities hold him back in physical situations. In my latest novel, Infinity + One, the two main characters are on the run, and it's not possible or believable for them to be pulling over and engaging in sexy time. In my first book, Running Barefoot, my characters start out at thirteen and eighteen, and sex is not even part of the equation. In my novel, A Different Blue, I made the main character a senior in high school and, in order to allow my characters to build a relationship that is NOT based purely on physical attraction, I made the leading man, Wilson, her young teacher. I didn't do it to be controversial or provocative. I did it because I didn't want sex to be part of their relationship, not in the beginning. Instead, these two characters learn from each other, inspire each other, become friends, and eventually (spoiler alert!) fall in love. All of these scenarios. In each of my books, allow both the reader and the characters to get to know one another without expecting that at any moment there should be sex.
In my books, love always comes first, and sex, well…I'll let you find out for yourselves. I want the characters I create to be REAL, just like you and me – or you and your sweetie – and yet come to love each other anyway. No immortality, sparkles, or granite abs allowed.
For me, and probably most women, a good romance should be emotionally erotic and not just physically erotic. Unlike porn, romance novels are about both. We women enjoy sex…but not just for sex sake. We need that emotional connection. My own love life doesn't look like a porno flick. And that's a good thing! I wish I had the tight tush and the pert breasts, but I honestly wouldn't trade my sex life for either the breasts or the tush. Why? Because my sex life is a love life. Life isn't romantic, but love is, and underneath it all, isn't that what we women are really looking for? In spite of the bedhead and the stretch marks, love exists in everyday life, everywhere I look.
And that, my friends, is why I read and write romance.
~Questions for Amy Harmon~
1 - Describe the most daring, adventurous or inspiring thing you ever did.
I was auditioning to be in a choir directed by Gladys Knight. But I was very late for the audition. When I got there, the audition was over, but I could hear a group of people behind a closed door. The microphone was still on in the main room where the auditions had occurred. So I got on the microphone and started singing. Eventually, someone came out and asked me who I was and if they could help me. I told them I really wanted to audition for Ms. Knight. They left and came back a few minutes later and said she would let me sing for her. Bottom line? I got to sing for a legend, and I made it into the choir. True story.
2 - Tell us about your journey to becoming a writer. (How did you decide to getstarted? Did you always know or was there a specific moment when you knew?)
I've always been a writer, and I wrote my first novel, Running Barefoot, simply because I wanted to prove to myself I could do it. I didn't know how to get something published, and I was a busy mom teaching school, so I set it aside. Several years later, out of work with a brand new baby (child number four) and mounting medical bills, I knew I had to do something different. I wrote another novel, Slow Dance in Purgatory, and self-published both of them on Amazon. Fifteen months later my fourth novel, A Different Blue, hit the NY Times Bestsellers list, and I'm just trying to process it all. What a crazy, awesome ride it's been!
3 - Tell us about a book that changed your life.
There are a lot of really awful books in the self-pub world. There's a lot of terrible writing. I'm sorry, friends, but it's true. And I didn't want to wear that label if that label symbolized an inferior quality of book. Then I read and lovedFlat Out Love by Jessica Park, a self-published book, and I realized that being a self-published author didn't have to mean you weren't "as good" as the traditionally published authors. It just might mean you weren't waiting around for the publishing world to discover you. Jessica Park has now been embraced by both worlds and continues to be an inspiration to me and many others. Flat Out Love was definitely a turning point for me. Thank you, Jessica!
~Amy's Current Reading Recommendations~
**Penny Reid : I met Penny at Book Bash in Orlando in June and devoured Neanderthal Seeks Human. Her books are a cut-above. Truly. http://reidromance.blogspot.com
**Tarryn Fisher : Her books aren't fuzzy feel-goods. But they are incredibly thought-provoking and well-written. I love to find authors like her in the self-pub world. There is no one out there like Tarryn and Mud Vein rocked my world. http://www.tarrynfisher.com/books/
**Rachel Hollis : I read Party Girl by Rachel Hollis – her debut novel – last Christmas, and I really enjoyed it. It felt very fresh and fun, with a similar feel to books I've loved by Sophie Kinsella. Rachel has another book coming out soon and has been recently signed by an Amazon Imprint. www.amazon.com/Party-Girl-Rachel-Hollis
Amy Harmon is a USA Today and New York Times Bestselling author. Amy knew at an early age that writing was something she wanted to do, and she divided her time between writing songs and stories as she grew. Having grown up in the middle of wheat fields without a television, with only her books and her siblings to entertain her, she developed a strong sense of what made a good story. Her books are now being published in several countries, truly a dream come true for a little country girl from Levan, Utah.
Amy Harmon has written five novels - the USA Today Bestsellers, Making Faces and Running Barefoot, as well as Slow Dance in Purgatory, Prom Night in Purgatory, and the New York Times Bestseller, A Different Blue. Her sixth novel, Infinity + One, was released in June, 2014.


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DALLAS — One characteristic of elite NBA teams is the arrogance they consistently show to go into an opponent's building and walk away with a victory.The Dallas Mavericks know they will never be mentioned in championship conversations until they too start showing the arrogance to win games away from American Airlines Center. That finally happened Saturday in Milwaukee when the Mavs gutted out a 91-83 win over the Bucks."I know we're going to play good at home," shooting guard Monta Ellis said. "For us to get to our goal where we want to be in the West, we have to come up with some wins on the road and we have to grind like we did [Saturday] and help each other."The Mavs are 1-3 on the road after starting the season with road losses in Houston, Oklahoma City and Minnesota to go with the victory in Milwaukee. And after hosting Washington on Tuesday, the Mavs will pack their bags and fly to Florida for road games in Miami on Friday and Orlando on Saturday."The road is going to be hard any year," coach Rick Carlisle said. "Our schedule is so difficult early — we're playing all good teams on the road."So we've got to be really, really tight, we've got to be really, really perfect just in our execution of defensive situations, of how we pass the ball and how we make simple plays. We'll develop the right kind of edge on the road, but it's got to start on the defensive end for us."Harris progressingPoint guard Devin Harris has been cleared by the medical staff to increase his basketball activities.Harris, who underwent surgery on a toe on his left foot this past summer, visited his personal doctor in New York on Thursday. The results?"He's got clearance to step up his activities," Carlisle said. "He can do light running, light jumping and that's a very good sign."From there, it's how he tolerates it until his next visit to the doctor and then hopefully things can be ramped up again. But he's doing well, he's made steady progress."Harris will move into the backup point guard spot behind Jose Calderon once he returns. But there's no timetable for his return to a game."It's a very serious surgery that he had when they cut your foot open and start moving things around in there," Carlisle said. "But he's done extremely well with it."He's going to be valuable to us when he's ready, but we're going to make sure that he's ready before we put him out there."Retired jerseys can waitLast month, the Brooklyn Nets retired the jersey of first-year coach Jason Kidd, who happened to be one of the most prolific players in Mavericks history.But don't expect the Mavs to retire Kidd's jersey any time soon. However, it will happen at some point, owner Mark Cuban said."J-Kidd's got a coaching job to do," Cuban said. "He's not worried about [his jersey being retired]."Kidd was a critical part of the Mavs winning the 2011 NBA title. The 6-foot-4 point guard was the No. 2 overall pick of the 1994 draft by Dallas and played 501 of his career 1,391 games with the Mavs.As far as when he plans to retire the jersey of Derek Harper, Cuban said: "What I told Derek was we'll wait to see when there's a slow ticket sales night. Seriously, that's what we'll use it for.""I don't know if it'll be this year or next, but we'll do it."
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Which sex is the worst about washing up? Why is it so important? We've got the dirty truth on how and when to wash your hands.
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Total Serum Protein
What To Think About
- If you have abnormal globulin levels, another test called serum protein electrophoresis is often done. This test measures specific groups of proteins in the blood. To learn more, see the topic Serum Protein Electrophoresis.
- Damaged liver cells lose their ability to make protein. But previously produced protein may stay in the blood for 12 to 18 days, so it takes about 2 weeks for damage to the liver to show up as decreased serum protein levels. The liver's ability to make protein may be used to predict the course of certain liver diseases.
- Unlike carbohydrates and fats, proteins are not stored in the body. They are continuously broken down (metabolized) into amino acids that can be used to make new proteins, hormones, enzymes, and other compounds needed by the body.
- Protein also can be measured in the urine. To learn more, see the topic Urine Test.
Pagana KD, Pagana TJ (2010). Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
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Archive for the 'LD #23' Category
Looking at my previous Ludum Dare results
Thoughts on this Ludum Dare -
- I'm kinda disappointed, but the results seem fair.
- Best ranking: 50th for humor.
- I didn't focus on a concept and the theme enough.
- My concept was you have 1 arm but multiple tools, you have to find ways to carry tools without your arm.
- Didn't have enough time to do that!
- Instead I spent time on other things:
- I wanted to include palette swapping and NPCs.
- I'm happy I included them, but I should've focused more on a concept.
- I coded everything from scratch, which made things take longer. I'm happy I did that though.
- I received a lot of nice comments
- Thanks to the 71 people who rated my game!
- If you haven't played it, check out The Visitor.
Thoughts on previous Ludum Dares -
- My best Entry is Mondrianism, doing well in everything except humor.
- Second best would be my first entry, The Good Ship Higgs Boson.
- Super Space Goat Thief Standoff!! is definitely my worst entry, but I only spent a few hours on that.
- My best category has been different every time, interestingly.
- As you can see, there's a clear trend of… um… well…
See you next Ludum Dare!
LD23 Post-Mortem: Our Man, Dragon
(cross-posted from my blog here)
(you can play it right here)
When I last submitted an Ludum Dare game, I gave myself an MS Paint trophy. I submitted another game, one I daresay is a bit better than the last, so here's my reward.
that's some CGI right there in case you can't tell.
This LD was a blast. I spent the weekend hacking with four colleagues from Braintree and we had ourselves a hootenanny.
The game is more or less as I had imagined, albeit with a few missing bells and whistles. The last big gameplay feature where villagers build huts is still in-progress, and it could really use a GUI to tell you what's going on. Still, remarkably complete, especially when compared to how very far short I fell last time.
What Worked Well
- Knowing Unity – this time around, I knew the tools somewhat before going in. I have yet to finish a game in Unity, but I have banged out a couple of rough prototypes prior to this. In particular, the Catlike Coding tutorials were very helpful.
- Comradery – While I remain a fan of the solo format, leaving home to gather with like-minded hackers was extremely helpful. Just as in my daily work, my colleagues inspire me to be better than I am.
- One Fun Thing – I took Tom Francis' advice and made a game around one fun mechanic and prototyped that mechanic immediately. I spent a lot of time making sure the fire-breathing looked and felt just so, but I think that was time extremely well spent. It's still fun to fly around and set things on fire, even if you don't understand what the game is really about.
What Didn't Go Well
- 3D Modeling – I realized I needed better tooling to make the ork fortresses, which is where I started to spin my wheels. Google Sketchup is a straightforward enough tool, but I really found it hard to navigate. I have a license to Blender somewhere – I need to dig it up and rediscover that tool.
- Visuals – These aren't my strong suit. I cheated by going for a very basic look (one kind commenter compared it to Darwinia), but even then I spent more time on them than I ought to have. I don't know what the solution is here though.
Other Miscellaneous Thoughts
I really had fun with this. One of my 2014 New Year's Resolutions is to try and make a game every quarter. I have a few things I'd like to experiment with – in particular, I want to see how hard it is to make an online multiplayer game. I am going to finish up Our Man Dragon first though.
As always, thanks to the organizers for making this happen. LD is a very special event for me.
Broforce (Post Ludum 23) Development Continues!
We've got some new graphics, sound, enemies, playable characters, levels, blood, explosions, camera shake etc.
Thanks everyone who's supported us from the beginning (and everyone else from Ludum). We've still got a long way to go (but hopefully you'll like what we've done once we get there).
It's done! Play "Freedom"
And I'm done! have fun playing "Freedom" a prequel to my LD#23 game Predicament :
14 things I did to get from Ludum Dare prototype to fundable Kickstarter game
Note: I originally posted this on my own blog at garethjenkins.com, but as it's directly applicable to Ludum Dare past and present, I wanted to share it here as well. I guess this is also my "I'm in!" post… looking forward to the weekend
In April last year (2012) I participated in the 10-year anniversary Ludum Dare game jam and built a 48-hour competition game called Mineral Cities, for the community-selected theme "Tiny World". Nearly 12 months later, I launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for building a game based on that prototype — also called Mineral Cities.
That campaign ends in a couple of days, and at 75% of the funding goal reached I'm hopeful that it is going to make it. In an effort to drum up some further support and close that final gap and in the run up to Ludum Dare #26 this weekend (which I'll also be participating in — my fifth now), I thought I'd share some of the things I did in taking Mineral Cities from a game jam prototype to a fundable game — especially one I could enthusiastically get behind and convince others to share in my vision.
If you've not backed Mineral Cities already, I'd really appreciate you checking out the campaign page over on Kickstarter. You can even sign up to get access to the alpha, which I'll be distributing when the campaign ends.
So, in no particular order, here's a bunch of things I did…
#1 Figured out a point at which I was happy telling people how good it was
This was super important early on. I had an idea for the feel of the game as I was building the Ludum Dare version, but I wasn't necessarily expecting other people to "get it" right away (they did, I got some great comments on the original). The Ludum Dare version was limited in replayability and somewhat obtuse in UI and instruction (as a lot of great LD games are), but I knew how I wanted to fix both. Problem was that I didn't want to end up breaking the feel of that original version. I only wanted to make this game (and ask others to help me fund it if I had confidence in it) The solution I came up with was relatively simple…
#2 Built an alpha, essentially for myself
I didn't do this right away (in fact I didn't start this until February 2013), but I decided early on that this would be my measure of readiness for launching a Kickstarter campaign or, in fact, continuing any further with the development of the game. I effectively identified (and wrote down) what I wanted the game to play like (not how) and what its core mechanics should feel like in use. Building a new version of the game that included a better control system and mechanics that would support a full game that satisfied those criteria became my immediate objective.
#3 Came up with a visual design that I felt embodied the feel of the game when played
This was slightly tricky in that I liked the visual design of the original Ludum Dare game — it was sufficiently simple and articulated game state in a way that provided variety and an evolving aesthetic that mapped well to the game's progression. However, it demonstrated nothing about what the game was — unless you'd read the description of the mechanics, the appearance of arbitrarily-coloured columns on a sphere didn't give much away. I set about coming up with something that manifest both the simplicity and compound, emerging nature of building on the planet as well as the function of the gameplay components themselves. Simple things I did early on, like making terrain (mountains, hills etc) a different colour from the planet's surface, led me to the decision to make colour a foundational part of understanding and differentiating the game's mechanics and level configuration.
#4 Came up with a visual design that gave me the flexibility to build the game
I didn't so much make this decision as I knew I had to live with it. I wanted to work on this alone and I didn't want to (nor was I able to) spend a significant amount of time modelling or manually tweaking art. Ultimately, for the alpha (which is what you see in the campaign video) I went through two iterations of the building models and 3 or 4 planet types, all of which were ultimately merged to the test planet I've been using throughout. All of this was done over a couple of evenings and a couple of bottles of wine.
#5 Kept things that were not broken
I'm really fucking picky about music. I'd put together a little electronic riff for the Ludum Dare game using Propellerhead's Figure, which, whilst it's way too short and it has a couple of things I'm not entirely happy with, it totally nails the feel of the game for me. So I kept it. I need to expand on it at some point, but right now it fits.
#6 Iterated on the core design… a lot
Before I revisited the code for the game (which I didn't in the end, I started from scratch) I spent about 3-4 months going over and over the core mechanics of the game. In the end I boiled this down to 3 sets of ideas, and a couple of variations. My final iteration was actually written as a vocabulary of events in the game, which I worked back from to an implicit set of mechanics. This took by far the single largest chunk of time yet spent on the game, but overall had the least impact (it was done over a serious of long and repetitive journeys over the course of a couple of months).
#7 Worked out what worked, then started again
Somewhat a subset of the above, but it's important to note (/for me to remember) that pretty much every design concept or change I came up with I tested against my original assumptions for how the game should work, then against the Ludum Dare prototype and then against my other design ideas. Often this resulted in not-quite-workable ideas that I then had to go over again. For those who've played the original and seen the alpha, the inclusion of "gems" was central to a lot of these decisions. And I didn't finally decide on them until relatively late in that design process.
#8 Identified a reasonable (time and resource) budget
To some extent this is more of a campaign/business issue around budgeting for the game's development — but in the end it actually factored quite significantly into what I decided should be in the alpha and how some of the game's systems should — or could — work. Knowing that I was looking at an alpha + campaign setup of about 2 months and a final game build time of between 4 and 6 months (which I knew wouldn't be full time — my "day job" is running a consulting business building games for other people) meant that there were certain things I needed to exclude, at least in the first version. This included AI, procedural generation and excessive tech tree balancing (interestingly I ended up moving my design work away from any kind of tech tree and focussing on the core interplay of a relatively small set of building types).
#9 I wrote (mostly coherent) descriptions of the game
I've ended up describing Mineral Cities as a "minimalist RTS / city-buidler hybrid"… which, while it's technically correct, I'm still not happy with and hope to find something better. I did this (write descriptions) a lot though — normally without reference or consideration, I just kept writing them down. I've reused some of that in the lengthier descriptions of the game, but, while they're all okay, I'm still not really happy with any of them. I love the name though, I'm keeping that
#10 Worked out how to add variety and longevity
I knew that once I had the core mechanics in place and control and presentation issues resolved, extrapolating out to various objectives, level configurations and gameplay modes would be relatively easy. It was. Being able to play a version of the game that was functionally complete allowed me to test a variety of game modes very quickly. Subtle changes such as visibility and adjusted mineral replenishment make a massive difference to how the player approaches planning in the game. Really this was evident as soon as I had the core mechanical designs in place — being able to test those assumptions while playing the basic mode of the game just reinforced the longevity and value of those systems.
#11 Made room for essential UI, but nothing else
At the core of the game is the presumption that the (interested) player will develop their understanding of the interplay of the game's systems as they experience the game itself. The game is the UI and vice versa. The only actual "UI" I built was for objective tracking, building selection and level completion. What surprised me is that while I started with that as a minimum required for an alpha to be usable, I've actually ended up with most of the required UI for the finished game — validating my original intentions for the user's interface with gameplay systems.
#12 Listened to all of the feedback
I got some fantastic feedback on the original Ludum Dare game. If it wasn't for that I wouldn't have taken it any further and I wouldn't be writing this now. That there were players that identified with the feel of the game was what led to me making that core to its ongoing design.
#13 Ignored all of the feedback
I knew from the outset that this game wasn't for everyone. I embraced that and ignored feedback of the "wuh?" variety.
#14 I took a break
I didn't so much decide to do this as I was forced to. I didn't have time to do speculative work on making the game (which is what it would have been if I hadn't gone through the lengthy design phase I ended up with), but I did have time to think about it. Over the course of the 10 months between Ludum Dare #23 and February just gone I effectively took a break from the game. I didn't play it for 8 of those months. It was all in my head for all that time though, and the majority of the design was done there as well. I made extensive notes at various stages, but very few of them ended up being part of what I ultimately wrote down in February as a "this is Mineral Cities" document. If it wasn't for that forced period of contemplation, the game wouldn't be anything like as good as it is now. I'm happy to report that I'm in the contemplation phase with a number of other projects — I'll tell you about those in a few years I guess
If you're interested in the game, obviously go check out the Kickstarter campaign page for Mineral Cities. The updates I've posted there articulate some of the output of the design process I've discussed above. It'd be great if you could back the project and/or spread the word about it.
'Zephyr' is Available on iOS
Zephyr, my game from LD 23 is now available on the iTunes App Store.
When I originally created the game a few people commented on how well it work with a touch screen, so I'm happy to finally have a version that runs on iPad and iPad mini.
I ported the game from Flash to iOS using the Sparrow framework. I wrote up some more in-depth development notes in this post at The Pencil Farm, if anyone is interested.
I'm keeping the game free until after LD 26, so get it while it's fresh if you want to try it out.
Zephyr Touch on the iTunes App Store
Zephyr Touch Development Notes
Humphrey's Tiny Adventure: Remastered
It's still a post-compo version, no matter how late it arrives!
I participated in my first Ludum Dare almost a year ago, for #23 "Tiny World" and made Humphrey's Tiny Adventure. It was my first game jam and I had a great time, but the game I made had a long ways to go — despite being technically "complete" it didn't have any audio and a lot of things were unclear due to the fact that I hadn't done any testing for feedback before I released.
I recently decided to revisit the project for OneGameAMonth, and the result is Humphrey's Tiny Adventure: Remastered.
So…yeah. That's all I've got to say. Go play it!
World Panic is back!
Hey everyone,
I'm remaking my first LD entry, World Panic, wich you can play here:
I'm using Unity3D. It's gonna be finished soon with the same original levels and I'll add some more. I'll release for Android and Web (and Windows maybe).
Ludum Dare OST Volume One
I just compiled all of the songs from my various Ludum Dare entries into a single soundtrack. You can download it for free HERE !
Update5: Timelapse video (fourth part)
Timelapse video (speed: 10x) – Work on my Virtual Machine and work on my new microgame Tiny World Adventure developed inside this new VM.
My LD23 entry: Tiny World Adventure. Consider to provide constructive criticism.
No Air Out Here Released!
We've just released our game for this year's October Challenge.
It began as our entry for Ludum Dare 23 but has been polished up since then.
It is available now for PC and will soon be available for Xbox Live Indie Games.
Trailer Here:
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Coolness and Judging People's Entries for LD24
This time around I saw a lot of good games with a lot of great art styles! Unfortunately I didn't see much use of distinct music in a lot of games, but they were still nice.
Some things I noticed were:
(with the exception of Accidental Rebel's Complexivity )
I ALWAYS have a pause screen in my games and for some that I played, it wasn't even possible to quit without Force Quiting the App.
Please people think about BASICS in a first person game.
However most people nailed the graphics style, and that was nice.
Anyways thats me rambling, play my game HERE and happy gaming! <3


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With Bobby Parnell's injury and Daniel Murphy in Florida to be with his wife and newborn son, the Mets made a number of roster moves on Wednesday.
- Bobby Parnell was placed on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to April 1. Parnell will rest for two weeks before beginning a throwing program. The success of the throwing program will determine whether Parnell eventually has to undergo surgery on the partially torn UCL in his right elbow.
- To replace Parnell on the roster, RHP Kyle Farnsworth was called up from Triple-A Las Vegas.
- Daniel Murphy was officially placed on the paternity list. Murphy will be away from the team anywhere from 1 to 3 days. He'll be back with the club no later than Saturday.
- To reaplace Murphy on the roster, infielder Wilmer Flores was called up from Triple-A Las Vegas.
Parnell will be out at least until the third week of April, and likely longer. Farnsworth was the first pitcher called upon, but Vic Black will probably replace one of the relievers (Farnsworth or someone else) in the not too distant future.
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text: Lesbian vindicated after hospital announces LGBT policies The GA Voice Editors April 13, 2010 Health Jackson Memorial Hospital, the site of a tragic scene in 2007 when Janice Langbehn was not allowed to see her dying partner of 18 years, Lisa Pond, announced non-discrimination and visitation policies for LGBT patients and their families yesterday. Pond suffered a fatal brain aneurysm while Langbehn was denied the right to see her in the hospital for eight hours before her death. The shift comes after Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Langbehn seeking damages for verbal harassment and denied visitation. The lawsuit was eventually thrown out of court because no Florida law required such visitation, but after a year-long review the Jackson Health System, in conjunction with the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, announced it has revised its policies. LGBT organizations working with Jackson Health System on this effort included Lambda Legal, the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, Alliance for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth, Pride Center at Equality Park, CenterLink, Equality Florida, Florida Together, Miami Workers' Center, Out with Cancer, SAVE Dade, and the Transgender Equality Rights Initiative. Check a Lambda Legal video featuring Langbehn below. For the full press release, click here. SHARE ON Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published. Name* Email* Website one + 9 = Comment Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email.