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Book Reviews
Updike's Joyous, Touching Final Story Collection
My Father's Tears and Other Stories
By John Updike
Hardcover, 304 pages
List Price: $25.95
Read An Excerpt
John Updike, who died this past January, stood like a prodigious mountain among late 20th century men of letters. The winner of the National Book Award and two Pulitzer Prizes, he wrote over 60 books (25 novels of which were novels) and contributed more than 800 articles to The New Yorker.
Updike's works are famous for being full of regular guys who rode the post-war boom to prosperity. The most well-known is Rabbit Angstrom, the former high-school sports star of Rabbit, Run, whose adulthood never quite matched the glory days of his youth. Like Rabbit, Updike's characters are often confused by their abundance, lacking in wisdom and spiritually unprepared for hardship. It's as if the author spent his life studying the anthropology of the American suburban male. But Updike confronts these often well-off, occasionally small-minded folk with the forgiving spirituality of Emerson, who believed that a person's greatest possible achievement was to be true to himself. So even as he examines his characters deeply, Updike never blames them for being what they are.
Updike tended to let his characters age with him, and his final short story collection, My Father's Tears, is no exception. "[T]he class beauties have gone to fat or bony or cronehood; the sports stars and non-athletes alike move about with the aid of pacemakers and plastic knees, retired and taking up space at an age when most of our fathers were considerately dead," he writes in the title story.
Yet sometimes these elderly folk refind bits of their youth. "A Walk with Elizanne" starts with a high-school class's 50th reunion and ends with two classmates remembering a romantic evening when they were teens: "[H]e kissed her again, entering that warm still point around which the universe wheeled, its load of stars not yet visible, the sky still blue above the street-lights."
Updike's characters, often the most blessed scions of the mid-20th century, are frequently unprepared for their impending deaths, and many of these stories can be read as meditations on varying degrees of spiritual preparedness. It's as if Updike, who was sometimes a bit tight-lipped about his Christianity, is finally showing us his hand and saying, "yes, although I've spent my life telling stories about confused, materialistic people, I've done so precisely because there's more to life than materialism and confusion."
There's plenty here for longtime fans. Olinger, the post-industrial Pennsylvania town that appears in many of his books, is again prominent, and Updike's trademark wandering sentences, which, like Wordsworth's poetry, seem to go in two directions at once, are everywhere. But My Father's Tears also has a quality, sometimes found in final books, of being filled with light and wonderment. It's not only a fitting final book, but a joyous one.
Excerpt: 'My Father's Tears'
My Father's Tears and Other Stories
By John Updike
Hardcover, 304 pages
List Price: $25.95
The seacoast road went smoothly up and down, but compared with an American highway it was eerily empty. Other cars appeared menacing on it, approaching like bullets, straddling the center strip. Along the roadside, alone in all that sunswept space, little girls in multicolored Berber costume held out bouquets of flowers — violets? poppies? — which we were afraid to stop and accept. What were we afraid of? A trap. Bandits. Undertipping, or overtipping. Not knowing enough French, and no Arabic or Berber. "Don't stop, Daddy, don't!" was the cry; and it was true, when we did stop at markets, interested persons out of the local landscape would gather about our rented Renault, peering in and offering unintelligible invitations.
We were an American family living in England in 1969 and had come to Morocco naïvely thinking it would be, in April, as absolute an escape to the sun as a trip to the Caribbean from the Eastern United States would be at the same time of year.
But Restinga, where a British travel agency as innocent as we of climatic realities had sent us, was deserted and windy. The hotel, freshly built by decree of the progressive, tourism-minded king, was semicircular in shape. At night, doors in the curving corridors slammed, and a solitary guard in a burnoose kept watch over the vacant rooms and the strange family of pre-season Americans. By day, the waves were too choppy to swim in, and the Mediterranean was not so much wine-dark as oil-black. Walking along the beach, we picked up tar on our feet. When we lay down on the beach, wind blew sand into our ears. Off in the distance, apartment buildings of pink concrete were slowly being assembled, and there were signs that in a month vacationers from somewhere would fill the bleak plazas, the boarded-up arcades. But for now there was only the whipping wind, a useless sun, and — singly, idly, silently in the middle distance — Arabs. Or were they Berbers? Dark men, at any rate, in robes, who frightened our baby, Genevieve. Fantastic as it seems now, when she is so tall and lovely in her spangled disco dress, she was then overweight and eight. Caleb was ten, Mark twelve, and Judith a budding fourteen.
"Je le regrette beaucoup," I told the manager of the Restinga hotel, a blue-sweatered young man who wandered about closing doors that had blown open, "mais il faut que nous partirons. Trop de vent, et pas de bain de la mer."
"Trop de vent," he agreed, laughing, as if reassured that we were not as crazy as we had seemed.
"Les enfants sont malheureux, aussi ma femme. Je regrette beaucoup de partir. L'hôtel, c'est beau, en été." I should have used the subjunctive or the future tense, and stopped trying to explain.
The manager gave our departure his stoical blessing but explained, in cascades of financial French, why he could not refund the money we had prepaid in London. So I was left with a little cash, a Hertz credit card, four children, a wife, and plane tickets that bound us to ten more days in Morocco.
We took a bus to Tangier. We stood beside an empty road at noon, six stray Americans, chunky and vulnerable in our woolly English clothes with our suitcases full of continental sun togs bought at Lilywhite's and of Penguins for vacation reading. The sun beat upon us, and the wind. The road dissolved at either end in a pink shimmer. "I can't believe this," my wife said. "I could cry."
"Don't panic the kids," I said. "What else can we do?" I asked. "There are no taxis. We have no money."
"There must be something," she said. Somehow, my memory of the moment has dressed her in a highly unflattering navy-blue beret.
"I'm scared," Genevieve announced, clutching her knapsack and looking painfully hot and rosy in her heavy gray overcoat.
"Baby," sneered her big sister, who attracted stares from native men everywhere and was feeling a certain power.
"The bus will come," Daddy promised, looking over their heads to the vanishing point where the road merged in the pink confusion of the new buildings the king was very slowly erecting.
A thin dark man in a dirty caftan materialized and spoke to us in a lengthy nasal language. He held out his palms as if to have them read.
"Dad, the man is talking to you," Mark, then prepubescent and now a graduate student in computer science, said, very embarrassed.
"I know he is," I told him, helplessly.
"What's he saying, Dad?" Genevieve asked.
"He's asking if this is the bus stop," I lied.
The man, continuing to speak, came closer, confiding a breath rich in Muslim essences — native spices, tooth decay, pious fasting with its parched membranes. His remarks grew more rapid and urgent, but a light was dying in his bloodshot eyes.
"Tell him to go away." This suggestion came from Caleb, our silent, stoic, sensible child, now a college junior majoring in zoology.
"I think he will," I hazarded, and the man did, shaking his skeletal head at our unresponsive idiocy. Our little family clustered closer in relief. Sand blew into our shoes, and the semicircular halls of the abandoned hotel, our only home in this foreign land, howled at our backs like some deep-voiced, clumsy musical instrument.
The bus! The bus to Tangier! We waved — how we waved! — and with an incredulous toot the bus stopped. It was the green of tired grass, and chickens in slatted coops were tied to the top, along with rolled-up rugs. Inside, there were Moroccans: dusty hunched patient unknown people, wearing knit little things on their heads and knit little things on their feet, their bodies mixed in with their bundles, the women wrapped in black, some with veils, all eyes glittering upward in alarmed amazement at this onrush of large, flushed, childish Americans.
The fare, a few dirhams, was taken noncommittally by a driver, who had a Nasseresque mustache and a jaw to match. There was room at the back of the bus. As we wrestled our ponderous suitcases down the aisle, the bus swayed, and I feared we might crush with our bulky innocence this fragile vehicle and its delicately balanced freight. Deeper into the bus, an indigenous smell, as of burned rope, intensified.
In Tangier, the swaying bus was exchanged for a single overloaded taxi, whose driver in his desire to unload us came into the Hertz office and tried to help the negotiations along. Allah be praised, his help was not needed: the yellow plastic Hertz card that I produced did it all. Had I been able to produce also the pale green of an American Express card, our suspenseful career down the coast, from Tangier to Rabat to Casablanca and then through the narrower streets of El Jadida and Essaouira and Tafraout, would have been greatly eased, for at each hotel it was necessary to beg the clerk to accept a personal check on a London bank, and none but the most expensive hotels would risk it; hence the odd intervals of luxury that punctuated our penurious flight from the Mediterranean winds.
The avenues of Rabat as we drove into the city were festooned in red. Any thought that we were being welcomed with red banners gave way when we saw hammers and sickles and posters of Lenin. A Soviet high-level delegation, which included Kosygin and Podgorny, was being received by the versatile king, we discovered at the Rabat Hilton, which was booked so solid with Communists that it could not shelter even the most needy children of free enterprise.
But a hotel less in demand by the Soviets took us in, and at dinner, starved, we were sat down in a ring on piled carpets, around what in memory seems an immense brass tray, while a laughing barefoot girl tiptoed at our backs, sprinkling rosewater into our hair. Mark, tickled, made his monkey face.
This sensation of being beautifully served amid undercurrents of amusement recurred in a meadow high above the sea, where, after miles of empty landscape and empty stomachs, a minuscule restaurant, scarcely more than a lean-to, advertised itself with a wooden arrow. We stopped the rented Renault and with trepidation walked across the grass, single-file, feeling again huge, as when we trod deeper into that fragrant bus. We halted when a man emerged from the shack bearing a table, and a boy emerged carrying chairs. With an air of amusement all around, this furniture was set on the grassy earth, in a spot we lightly indicated. From the shed were produced in time wine, rice, kebabs, and Cokes, which we consumed in sight of the Atlantic, of beige cliffs, and of vast pastures grazed by a single donkey — the only customers, for all we knew, that this beautiful restaurant by the sea had ever had.
Even on the rough back road to Tafraout, into the stony hills of the Low Atlas, with the gas gauge saying zero and not a house, not a sheep or goat, in sight, a little girl in a dip of the unpaved track held out a handful of flowers. The road here had become one with the rocks of a dry riverbed, so our Renault was moving slowly, so slowly she had time, when she saw we were truly not going to stop, to whip our fenders with the flowers and to throw them at the open car window. One or two fell inside, onto our laps. The rest fell onto the asphalt beside her feet. In the rearview mirror I saw the little girl stamp her foot in rage. Perhaps she cried. She was about the age of Genevieve, who expressed empathy and sadness as the girl diminished behind us and dropped from sight.
Excerpted from My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike Copyright © 2009 by John Updike. Excerpted by permission of Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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"Our Town" By James W. Tucker
Hampton Union
Thursday, January 30, 1958
Compared Water Rates
More About The Shoals
Dinner at Laighton's
Leaf From Ipswich's Book
Settlers' Homes
Meeting House of Logs
Mrs. Smith Differs
Here Are The Facts
The first Hampton settlement was not, in all probability, a colony of log cabins; nether was the first church constructed of logs. The first homes in Plymouth were turfed-over dug out huts, but they were soon replaced by frame structures. Winnacunnet, as Hampton originally was called, built nearly two decades after Plymouth, probably escaped the short era of primitive huts and its earliest homes must have been of frame construction. Here are the facts as given in the 1957 Britannica:
Contrary to Legend
Frame Structures
Capen House in Topsfield
Windows Small -- Ceilings Low
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Perhaps the above word-picture will give all of us a better idea concerning the appearance of our town after it was first settled in 1638.

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Sunday, October 3, 2010
Some Films I Use for My Colonial American History Course
I've mentioned on the blog before that I like to use short film clips (10-15 minutes) for many of the classes I teach. I suppose it works better for some courses--America in the 1960s--than others--History Methodology. But thanks to long-running programs like American Experience, Nova, POV, History Detectives, etc, there's much, much out there.
You just have to be willing to do some hunting, inter-library loaning, and some screening. Below are documentaries and features I've found useful for my Colonial America course. Browse the list and I'm sure you'll think of others that could be included. (In the future, I'll post a list from my class on The West in the World since 1500.)
Films for the Colonial American History Course
The Mystery of Chaco Canyon (1999) (Narrated by Robert Redford. Though a more interesting, up-to-date take on Chaco is in the 2010 nat geo adaptation of Jared Diamond's Collapse.)
Native Land: Nomads of the Dawn (1996)
We Shall Remain, Episode 1 (WGBH, 2009) (Contains great material on the first contact between English settlers and Indians. Also includes a good overview of King Philip's War. I combined it with a reading from Jill Lepore's Name of War. Watch the full program on-line.)
The Magnificent Voyage of Christopher Columbus (WGBH, 2007)
Surviving Columbus: The Story of the Pueblo People (KNME, 1992)
Luther (2003) (A good feature film to teach students a bit about the Reformation.)
The New World (2006) (I can think of no other film that more beautifully, graphically presents the Jamestown story. One reviewer called it a visual poem. Good description.)
Nova: Pocahontas Revealed (WGBH, 2007)
Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower (2006)
The Story of English: Muse of Fire (WGBH, 1986) (One of my favorite documentaries from PBS. Excellent summary of the development of the southern accent [West Country] and the Boston, dropped-r accent [East Anglia].)
American Visions: The Republic of Virtue and The Promised Land (1996) (This is the crusty Aussie art critic Robert Hughes's epic series on American art. Contains a discussion with David Hackett Fischer on Old Ship Church in Hingham and an examination of 17th-century decorative art and architecture. Goes along very well with Fischer's Albion's Seed.)
Colonial House (2004) (How well would the typical college student fare in a 17th-century setting? One word, bathroom.)
God in America, Episodes 1 and 2 (WGBH, 2010) (Will be using this when it comes out. Have seen the pre-release version of the first two episodes. Tremendous. Includes accounts of the Pueblo Revolt, the trial of Anne Hutchinson, George Whitefield and the GA, and more. When this airs on PBS Oct 11-13 the full program will be available on-line.)
500 Nations: Cauldron of War (1994)
Slavery and the Making of America (WNET, 2004) (I use episodes 1 and 2: The Downward Spiral and Liberty in the Air for the colonial course.)
Tom Standage interview on his History of the World in Six Glasses: CBS Sunday Morning (2005)
The War that Made America (WQED, 2006) (French and Indian War series.)
Scientific American Frontiers: Unearthing Secret America (Alan Alda's tour of Jamestown and Jefferson's Monticello. Great perspective on how archeology informs history.)
New York: The Country and the City, Episode 1, 1609-1825 (1999)
Benjamin Franklin (2002)
Thomas Jefferson (1997) (Ken Burns's doc.)
John Adams (HBO, 2008)
Liberty! The American Revolution (KTCA, 2004)
Founding Brothers (2002)
9 comments:
- hcr said...
Randall, how do you use these? Clips? Homework? Discussion?
- October 3, 2010 at 5:57 PM
- Randall said...
Always use them as clips. Usually just 10-15 minutes, or even less. I think that like discussion or breaking up students into groups, films work well to add some variety to the class.
I occasionally offer extra credit if a student will watch a documentary and write a brief review.
- October 3, 2010 at 6:04 PM
- Larry Hartzell said...
I use the very first part (about 35 min.) of the first episode of "Africans in America" to great effect; it does a wonderful job of explaining the origins of slavery in seventeenth-century Virginia, in particular addressing the transformation from indentured servitude to racial slavery.
- October 3, 2010 at 8:22 PM
- hcr said...
Larry, will I be able to find that film with just the title?
I find this idea of using clips like this very interesting. I usually go the other way, trying to tie what we're studying into films the students already know-- The Last of the Mohicans, The Patriot, and so on-- as a hook to get them oriented before we get into what really happened, unlike what they saw on film. (Except when I do the American West, which we study through film.) I've never tried this approach, but find the idea intriguing.
for what it's worth, I loved the NOVA special on the 1918 flu epidemic. I just don't have anywhere to use it.
- October 3, 2010 at 10:19 PM
- Larry Hartzell said...
Yes, the series is called "Africans in America," by PBS. The six-hour series covers the African American experience from 1619 to 1865. I couldn't find it available on the PBS Shop website, but it's available on Amazon.
- October 4, 2010 at 10:35 PM
- K. Freeland said...
The last time I taught the first half of the US survey course, I found myself referring back to the HBO John Adams series for a somewhat unusual reason--I was talking about smallpox inoculation and remembered the scene where Abigail has the family inoculated. It was kind of gross, but gave me a reference point to explain how it was done. ;)
- October 5, 2010 at 10:41 PM
- K. Freeland said...
Oh, and thanks for this great list. I've used several listed here, but there were several here that I haven't seen yet. Looking forward to the God in America series!
- October 5, 2010 at 10:46 PM
- hcr said...
After this post went up, I got thinking about effective clips I had seen and remembered John Higginson showing a fabulous series on Africa. He says it's
Basil Davidson's eight part documentary "Africa." He showed the two segments on the transition of global lines of power and wealth from the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. They're called "Caravans of Gold."
I teach some of the material from them in the first half of the American history survey (but not the clips).
- October 7, 2010 at 5:11 PM
- Tollywood said...
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- October 20, 2010 at 3:16 AM


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In this digital era, everyone can access all forms of needs from primary needs to complementary needs only with gadgets and the internet. Of course, this is a big challenge and a great opportunity for every business to innovate in marketing their products.
Recently, real estate investment business is starting to rise again. With large-scale land conversion and an increasingly urban population, making supply and demand settlements become a highly calculated business. So not a few people who start to invest in this real estate business.
For those of you who want to start this business, you do not have to be an architect or a developer, because knowledge of this business can be obtained while running its time.
Most importantly you must have a strong desire and want to try to find as much information. Perhaps as a good start, you can read articles relating to the real estate sale process, regarding the leniency of supporting documents in the form of a land deed or a letter of agreement on building rights in the form of an apartment, other written agreements required in the process of buying and selling or investment real estate.
If you are a broker, make sure the percentage of revenue sharing that you can earn from the sale of real estate units that you will trade.
The second one when you want to start a real estate sales business knows the market price. With that knowledge, you have a basic price that will help you in determining the sale value to reduce the risk of loss.
You also have to pay attention to trends or market desires. The modern and minimalist trend now quite popular so it will be safer if you invest in the type of real estate like that.
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Start by placing an ad with a clear contact person on a real estate sale site. Negotiable price becomes a plus, and make sure you install the photo according to its original condition.
The fourth is to train your ability to analyse price and negotiation skills. Be sure to buy or sell at the right time at the right price. It would be better if you take the time to go directly to the field looking for real estate that is or will be traded. Obviously, by doing so will provide a great opportunity for you to get a relatively low price.
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Also read : With These Ten Tips, You Can Sell Your House in No Time
The blog I started mostly because there have always been some questions asking for good tips to use different technologies in teaching so I thought I could share as much as possible so that everyone could enjoy it and be inspired for their teaching, just as I am inspired by reading blogs from the educational world.
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Ranch Potato Salad
This potato salad recipe couldn't be easier. The hardest part is boiling the potatoes! You don't even have to peel them. I love the flavour of ranch dressing and it pairs perfectly with the potatoes and crisp veggies. Use your favourite type of ranch dressing. If you use peppercorn ranch, I'd leave out the extra pepper so you don't overwhelm your tastebuds!
I typically serve potato salad at barbecues or potluck meals, but lately I've been making it as a side for our suppers. It goes nicely with steak or chicken. It tastes delicious served warm or chilled.
The last time I made it I put it in the fridge to chill till supper time. I didn't realize that one of the kids adjusted the temperature of the fridge to 0 degrees C. When I went to eat the salad with supper, the potatoes were like little ice cubes! Then I discovered why when I saw the temperature of the fridge. FYI it doesn't taste good frozen!
For more potato recipes, check out Dilly Sweet Potato Salad, Pizza Stuffed Mini Potatoes, Garlic Herb Grilled Potatoes and Roasted Potatoes with Poblano Peppers (Papas con Rajas).
Ranch Potato Salad
One of the yummiest potato salad recipes ever! Try Ranch dressing instead of mayo on your next batch.
- 8 potatoes, unpeeled and halved
- 1 tsp salt
- 4 green onions, chopped
- 1 red onion, sliced thin
- 4 celery stalks, chopped
- 1 cup ranch dressing
- ½ tsp pepper
- ½ tsp salt
- Add potatoes to a large pot on the stove. Cover with water and add the 1 tsp salt. Cover and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook the potatoes for about 15 to 20 minutes, or until tender. Remove from heat and drain. Chop potatoes into large chunks and set aside.
- Combine red onion, green onion and celery in a large bowl. Add in potatoes and ranch dressing, salt and pepper. Stir to combine. Makes about 6 to 8 servings.


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Thursday, December 02, 2010
UniBoard is Now Free
Well, yesterday I went looking for it again. I had observed a colleague of mine teaching yesterday and realized that even though it wasn't being updated that he could definitely use it. Well, apparently last week Uniboard went Open Source. It is now called Sankore and is totally free. Warning, the page is all in French. Here's a direct link to the download page.
The free version used to have a nag-screen on every page, it's gone now. The screen-capture tool had a watermark in the recording which is also now gone. I can whole heartedly recommend this program. Whether you need a tool to help present lessons in class or you want to record lessons for reverse lecture you should check out Sankore.
3 comments:
- c-66 said...
Hello Steve,
Never had the chance to thank you for your great videos about Uniboard but it's better now than never ;)
As you have pointed out the project seemed dead but we were working hard on the new version and then, following this amazing opportunity to get Uniboard as an open source software, we spent countless hours to make sure we could make this become reality.
So yes, here it is, Sankore 3.1 (aka Uniboard) is now free, open source and we are setting up the community in order to support the project and keep up the development so there are lots of exciting things coming and we are making sure that access for other language will be easier.
Make sure to visite the open source project page https://adullact.net/projects/sankore/ where you can also get support and extra informations in english
All the best...
Uniboard conceptor
- Steve said...
You are welcome. I was very pleased to learn that Uniboard was not dead. I look forward to seeing what other changes may come with it being open source.
I've been trying it out, but I am having trouble finding some simple things like saving a static image. Can I save a static image?


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Christmas comes in moments more than seasons. It comes in moments we feel love wash over us and sweep us up. It comes in dreams like Joseph's where the line between earth and heaven fades into a vision of hope. It comes when common things take on new beauty and, for no reason, a streetlight on the drive home looks like it has taken on a haloed glow.
This year, the moment of Christmas came to me on a bleak midwinter morning driving down Charlotte Avenue. Several months ago, thistle Farms, the bath- and body-care company run for and by women who have survived lives of addiction, prostitution and violence, moved to the corner of 51st and Charlotte. The location is less than a mile away from St. Luke's community center where my mom worked for decades before she died in 1997.
My childhood memories of Christmas are filled with delivering Christmas baskets and running the toy store in the neighborhood. The smell is a blend of the mulch company and other industries that I always associate with struggling families and my mom's work. It's humbling to me sometimes to think that I have ended up less than a mile from where she worked and I still smell it all.
As I drove down Charlotte, a statue of Mary sitting in a lot caught my eye. She was carved from stone, maybe limestone, and seemed fairly common. She was designed to look holy with downcast eyes and open hands. It was easy to imagine a hundred other Marys just like her, bought at rock-bottom prices and scattered around the country.
She would have never made it up against the high-end statues, but was the Mary made for yards and people who just want a reminder that hope is close by. As I drove past, I had a fleeting vision. I imagined Mary returning to dust and an eon of wind and water freeing her, reforming her back to her unrefined self.
There in limestone, in repose under the earth, her power to serve and save would be natural. Then, the image of all the limestone just beneath the surface of the pavement felt like a solid mantle of love holding up the whole city and beyond.
The depth and power of love was as big and solid as limestone itself. It doesn't matter where we are — we are standing on love. I felt like crying or singing, and so grateful that for a moment Christmas came my way like a star in the east or an angel in a field.
Mary, the beloved who birthed our savior, was still cradling humanity as her own. All of us have moments of vision where sight is filled with grace and love comes down and sweeps us up in its wake. Those are Christmas moments when we can believe Emmanuel, God is with us.
The hope of Christmas lies in the truth that such fleeting visions are enough to carry us through long nights of hardship, injustice or separation.
Joseph's dream carried him through to Bethlehem and into Egypt. Mary's vision kept her faithful. The gift is, we have all we need to have a moment that inspires us to be more loving and faithful pilgrims, as we walk over the limestone paths ahead.
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Sunday, April 26, 2015
An Author/Publisher in the Read-a-thon
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Thanks so much for welcoming us to the blog today, Andi! I've really enjoyed following the readathon on Twitter and checking out readers' books and comments. We, as authors and publishers, love such dedicated readers!! Hope everyone is having a great time. And thanks to you for all of your hard work and this amazing event!ReplyDelete
Thank you for donating books and taking the time to write for us. Indie presses are really important to represent voices that could otherwise have trouble finding a place in bigger publishing houses. Wish you the best of luck! :)ReplyDelete
I loved this post! I think it's the first time I read a post by a publisher (and author, I know), and I'm glad they participate in the readathon too by giving away books.ReplyDelete
I usually read several books by self-publishe authors every year, and I also think that some of their books deserve to be with a publishing house due to the quality of their stories. I'm so glad that there are publishers that are taking this into account.
So glad to know Velvet Morning Press a little bit more!
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Thanks for taking the time to comment! Blogger has been a beast lately, so I hope you do not have any troubles leaving your thoughts.


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Microsoft is really hoping that Windows 8 will be just as successful, if not more so than Windows 7. They're making the process easy by offering cheap upgrades to Windows 8 Pro. Currently, you can use their Upgrade Assistant, and receive an offer for $40 But that's not the cheapest that you'll find it.
By heading over to the Windows Upgrade Offer site, those that have purchased a new PC recently can get an upgrade copy of Windows 8 Pro for just $15. Now I know what you're thinking. Most people haven't purchased a new computer in the last month or so. So why am I making it sound like this is a big deal? Because they're not actually checking to see if you actually did buy a new PC.
I did recently build a new machine, so when I went to the page, I listed my date of purchase, (October 3rd) retailer, (Newegg) PC Brand, (Other) and PC Model (my motherboard is made by MSI, so I just listed that). I was then sent an email with a promo code. Then, after downloading the Upgrade Assistant and running it, I was given that same $40 upgrade offer. At checkout, I entered the promo code given to me, and paid my $15. I then received my shiny new Windows 8 Pro Upgrade key. At no point was I asked for a receipt or any sort of proof that I'd ordered a new PC.
So from the looks of it, Microsoft is really wanting people to upgrade. Perhaps if they believe people are abusing this method, they'll add in some sort of verification process. But until then, you should be able to get a cheap upgrade key. You'll still need to either download the installation files, but that's not a big deal.
UPDATE: It looks like you may be asked for your current Windows key if you enter a "date of purchase" that is prior to October 1st. Anything later than that, and you shouldn't have any issues.


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(howto) Revert a BAM file to FastQ format
NOTE: This tutorial has been replaced by a more recent and much improved version, Tutorial#6484.
Revert a BAM file back to FastQ. This comes in handy when you receive data that has been processed but not according to GATK Best Practices, and you want to reset and reprocess it properly.
- Installed HTSlib
- Shuffle the reads in the bam file
- Revert the BAM file to FastQ format
- Compress the FastQ file
- Note for advanced users
1. Shuffle the reads in the bam file
Shuffle the reads in the bam file so they are not in a biased order before alignment by running the following HTSlib command:
htscmd bamshuf -uOn 128 aln_reads.bam tmp > shuffled_reads.bam
Expected Result
This creates a new BAM file containing the original reads, which still retain their mapping information, but now they are no longer sorted.
The aligner uses blocks of paired reads to estimate the insert size. If you don't shuffle your original bam, the blocks of insert size will not be randomly distributed across the genome, rather they will all come from the same region, biasing the insert size calculation. This is a very important step which is unfortunately often overlooked.
2. Revert the BAM file to FastQ
Revert the BAM file to FastQ format by running the following HTSlib command:
htscmd bam2fq -a shuffled_reads.bam > interleaved_reads.fq
Expected Result
This creates an interleaved FastQ file called
interleaved_reads.fq containing the now-unmapped paired reads.
Interleaved simply means that for each pair of reads in your paired-end data set, both the forward and the reverse reads are in the same file, as opposed to having them in separate files.
3. Compress the FastQ file
Compress the FastQ file to reduce its size using the gzip utility:
gzip interleaved_reads.fq
Expected Result
This creates a gzipped FastQ file called
interleaved_reads.fq.gz. This file is ready to be used as input for the Best Practices workflow.
BWA handles gzipped fastq files natively, so you don't need to unzip the file to use it later on.
4. Note for advanced users
If you're feeling adventurous, you can do all of the above with this beautiful one-liner, which will save you a heap of time that the program would otherwise spend performing I/O (loading in and writing out data to/from disk):
htscmd bamshuf -uOn 128 aln_reads.bam tmp | htscmd bam2fq -a - | gzip > interleaved_reads.fq.gz
Hi Geraldine,
I found the bamshuf command and had a question about this and the overall philosophy of doing so... In the past I have query-sorted bams prior to make FASTQs from bam files (illumina-produced BAMs are notorious for failing SAM spec).
The idea was query sorting should prevent the pitfalls of storing information large rearrangements. So, is
htscmd bamshufdoing sort-of the same thing or is there a reason to shuffle vs query sort?
Thanks as always!
Hi Jason,
I think it's similar; the idea of using bamshuf is to randomize the order of reads to avoid biases in the mapping process that come from coordinate-sorted data.
splaisan Leuven (Belgium)Member ✭✭
Thanks for this page Geraldine, I never heard of this bias before and do not find it mentioned elsewhere. Is there a consensus reference text about this issue?
I know that the remaining part is not a direct GATK matter but hopefully it will help others adventurous.
After some level of trial and ERRORs, I found that BWA mem can handle interleaved fastQ provided one adds -p to the bwa mem command. By contrast, I did not find a way to feed BWA aln with interleaved fastQ data (is there a way?).
I then discovered that BWA aln can take bam as input, we can therefore feed it with the shuffled bam instead of going the long way of de-interleaving the FastQ?
# first shuffle your bam file to 'shuffled_reads.bam' as above .. # second remap using bwa aln and 8 threads # bwa aln man extract # -b the input read file is in the BAM format # ... # -1 use the 1st read in a pair (effective with -b) # -2 use the 2nd read in a pair (effective with -b) bwa aln -t 8 ref.fa -b1 shuffled_reads.bam > 1.sai bwa aln -t 8 ref.fa -b2 shuffled_reads.bam > 2.sai # provide twice the bam file, once for each end bwa sampe ref.fa 1.sai 2.sai shuffled_reads.bam shuffled_reads.bam | \ samtools view -Su - | \ samtools sort - aln_remapped # rm 1.sai 2.sai # for maadventurous
I'm not aware of any reference text on this, it is a part of the shared knowledge in our group and other collaborators.
Thanks for your comments on the bwa options and the script, I'm sure they will be useful for others.
could you please clarify if it is the same to feed BWA with the shuffled bam file or with the interleaved fast?
It is not needed to revert to a fast to lose previous alignment info? Can I skip that part and still have the same result?
Thanks a lot,
Hi Ester,
I believe that both approaches will give the same results. But if you want to be absolutely sure, check the BWA documentation -- since it is not our software, we can't give you any guarantees.
I have a question about best practices when reverting BAMs to fastq. If I'm going to completely re-analyze (mapping all the way to calling variants) the reverted fastq and there are multiple read-groups in the BAM, is it best to create a fastq for each read group?
Yes, you should separate the data by read group into individual FASTQ files. As I recall, the reverting process will discard read group information, so you'll need to add it back in afterward before merging the data back together. If you don't separate them out you'll lose the ability to distinguish between read groups, which would be bad.
@Geraldine_VdAuwera Thanks. That is what I thought and what I was doing just wanted a sanity check.
Hi Geraldine, to realign a processed bam file, I used to do:
1. RevertSam, 2.MArkIlluminaAdapters, 3.SamToFastq, 4.bwa aln, 5.bwa sampe, 6.MergeBamAlignment
Should I incorporate now as a first step the 'Shuffled bam files' step?
Can I continue with my pipeline steps instead of 'Revert the BAM file to FastQ' described here?
Hi @ecuenca,
The bam file shuffling is meant to eliminate biases (due to the bam being sorted) that affect the mapping step, so yes, I would recommend adding that step to your pipeline.
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Is there a parameter which could instruct the command to output two fastQ files, read1 and read2 (for the pairend BAM), instead of having them merged? Also, so that they would still be paired and ready for tophat.
I also have found on forms versions of this command (below), and wonder if they may have some advantages:
htscmd bamshuf -Ou input.bam tmp-prefix | htscmd bam2fq -s se.fq.gz - | gzip > pe.fq.gz
htscmd bamshuf -uO in.bam tmp-prefix | htscmd bam2fq -as se.fq.gz - | bwa mem -p ref.fa -
As that is not our tool, we don't provide usage recommendations beyond the specific use case shown here. For other possibilities, please see the tool's documentation or ask your question in a more general forum such as SeqAnswers.
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If you would like an alternate way to convert bam to fastq, resort them based on query name and have a fastq file outputs for read 1 and read 2. You can check out RevertSam.jar and SamToFastq.jar from the Picard's suite of tools. Because I am typically converting bam files that have recalibrated base call Q scores, I use RevertSam first and pipe it to SamToFastq. If your bam files don't have that (i.e. if there is no OQ tag in your bam files) then you can just use SamToFastq.
Below is the basic cmd line that I (almost) always use, to give you an idea; you can look at the other options to tailor them based on what you have and what you want in the end.
java -jar $PICARD_DIR/RevertSam.jar \ INPUT=$IN_BAM \ OUTPUT=/dev/stdout \ SORT_ORDER=queryname \ COMPRESSION_LEVEL=0 \ VALIDATION_STRINGENCY=SILENT | java -jar $PICARD_DIR/SamToFastq.jar \ INPUT=/dev/stdin \ OUTPUT_PER_RG=true \ OUTPUT_DIR=$CORE_PATH/FASTQ/ \ VALIDATION_STRINGENCY=SILENT
bedtools bamtofastq-- https://code.google.com/p/bedtools/
Better yet, do it all on a pipe and send to bwa mem like you posted. Great example here in the bcbio code:
I'm trying to do the shuffle step but I cannot find the htscmd bamshuf command.
Could you help me with that or to recommend me another software that I can use for this step?
I know that its not in the GATK package but I will appreciate your help a lot.
@vasilis, the usage / command name has changed. See https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/32
Thank you very much, I found it!
Another thing that I noticed is that the -a option doesn't work for bam2fq tool
I'm sorry for my naive question,
but when I am using the shuffle step the shuffled bam file is quite smaller and finally my fq files are smaller, too.
Is there any specific reason for that?
Thank you very much in advance.
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These processing steps discard information, so it is normal for the resulting files to be smaller since they contain less information.
Could we get a corrected example of proper usage since the htscmd command has been changed? I've been looking for documentation in both the HTSlib and SamTools, and have come up empty. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Hi @cpatterson,
We have a new tutorial, (How to) Generate an unmapped BAM from FASTQ or aligned BAM. Is this the type of documentation you are looking for?
Yes. That is what I needed. Many thanks.
Hi ,
I have read all comments, and I could not still figure out where the tools "htscmd" and/or "bamshuf" are located ? I did not find it in samtools, or bcftools or htslib.
Has the name of the tool "htscmd" been changed to something else ? If so, what is the new name ? Or did the usage has changed ?
Should I just use picard's SamToFastq instead ?
I don't think that this tutorial (https://gatkforums.broadinstitute.org/firecloud/discussion/6484/how-to-generate-an-unmapped-bam-from-fastq-or-aligned-bam#latest) will be helpful for me, because it doesn't talk about creating fastq files from BAM files.
Based on the README.md(https://sourceforge.net/projects/samtools/files/samtools/1.3/) file for samtools 1.3, I learnt that the command "bamshuf" is renamed to "collate" . However, in samtools-1.4, both commands seems to work :
[[email protected] samtools-1.4]$ samtools collate
Usage: samtools collate [-Ou] [-n nFiles] [-l cLevel] <in.bam> <out.prefix>
[[email protected] samtools-1.4]$ samtools bamshuf
Usage: samtools collate [-Ou] [-n nFiles] [-l cLevel] <in.bam> <out.prefix>
Hi @mglclinical,
Tutorial#6483's step 3A (https://gatkforums.broadinstitute.org/gatk/discussion/6483#step3A) gives instructions on using Picard SamToFastq. If you search the upper right search box with "how to samtofastq", the tutorial is the third hit.
For Samtools questions, please post to their repo: https://github.com/samtools/samtools.
Hi @shlee
Thank you for pointing me to the Tutorial#6483 .


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Also took a time lapse video of a short part of the ride, I frame every 1 second, played back at 10 frames a second using Lapse-it Pro on my android S5 Active.
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What is the hardest game that you have ever played?
Waah, this is a tricky question. I can't remember the hardest I've ever played but I usually have trouble with games that have a time limit or chase scenes (like the ones in RPG horror games, for instance)… or chase scenes WITH time limits, those are the worst omg. In the end I beat them but they scare the heck out of me 😆 .
I DO remember a game I've played recently though that I had a lot of trouble with and eventually gave up. But more than being difficult, it was the fact that the gameplay was unfair and many players complained about this. I'm talking about Remember, Remember. Basically, you're a butterfly in a semi-dark maze and you have to rescue your butterfly friends by putting a ring around them before the limit (otherwise, the friends you didn't save will die). Looks simple enough, right?
Oh my god those freaking mazes were a nightmare. The first two were alright but the last ones were downright impossible. This is because not only do you have a time limit but there are also monsters who attack you. And if they do… YOU LOSE TIME from the already freaking short time limit. But this isn't even the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that there's a HORRIBLE LAG in the maze game which makes it even more difficult to win. The story was cool but, to be honest, when a game is THAT difficult (and even has bug problems) it risks taking the player out of the story. I ended up seeing a gameplay of the true ending cause' the maze game made me want to flip my desk (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ .
Conclusion: hard games that are a challenge are COOL, games that are almost impossible to beat and take you out of the story ARE NOT.
Which game do you think has the best plot and narrative?
Man, this one might be the most difficult question I've ever answered because there are just so many great games out there. Hmm, okay, maybe this isn't a popular opinion but I think the game with the best and most original plot I've ever played so far is Oneshot.
I'm a huge fan of the Ace Attorney and Danganronpa franchise and there are certain otome games (like Collar x Malice and Hakuouki) which have amazing plots that hook you like you wouldn't believe. However, all of these have some BIG flaws that sometimes make me facepalm. I know that no game is perfect, but I just can't say these have the best plots ever (especially when it comes to Danganronpa, which seems to recycle a lot of things from game to game and goes too heavy on the fanservice).
Oneshot is a game where not only Niko (a cat-like kid) is the protagonist but YOU, the player, as well. And I'm not talking about a pre-defined character who appears in the story and is supposed to be you (as in 95% of the cases). I'm talking about how YOU, the ACTUAL player, are the protagonist. Yes, you read right. YOU, my friend, are the protagonist in the story. You need to guide Niko through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its sun (which happens to be a lightbulb that Niko finds at the beginning of the story). Of course, being able to guide Niko, you can also talk to them.
Oneshot is immersive in a unique way that I've never seen before. And believe me, I've looked for more games with a similar feel and found none. Oneshot is one of a kind. It's more than a game, it's an experience and every freaking story-loving person in the world should play it.
PlayStation or Xbox (make or break question…just kidding!)
Playstation all the way! Well, mainly because I don't own an Xbox 😆 but I think I wouldn't, still, since there aren't really any games from Xbox that catch my eye. So Playstation for me! 😀
I'm always clumsy at the gym, have you done anything embarrassing at the gym (if you go)?
I actually stopped going to the gym this year because it got painfully boring to me. If there's something I can't stand is routine and… well, gyms sort of intimidate me with all those great bodies exercising while I try my best not to look ridiculous 😆
I do, though, remember an embarrassing story from this one time I went to try a spinning class. The problem didn't come during the class but afterwards. Even though I tried not to make too much effort since this was my first class, as the teacher advised me, for some reason my legs still thought I went too far… because I could barely stand. Every time I flexed my knees, my body would fall on the ground like a sack of freaking potatoes. To make it worse, I had forgotten my cellphone so I couldn't call my dad to pick me up. Thankfully the gym was only around 3 blocks from my apartment but it was still difficult to get home while trying not to flex my knees (especially because people on the street looked at me as if I were crazy T▽T ).
What games have you been looking forward to this year?
Oh boy, oh boy, there are so many great looking games that I'm really excited to play!! Being the mystery and otome geek that I am, of course some of my most anticipated ones are these 3:
I say mystery because these three games right here are not only plot heavy but mystery heavy as well, and I never say no to a good mystery. I hope they sell well not only among female customers but among male customers too. Just because the original target of these games are women doesn't mean guys can't enjoy a cool story told from a female perspective. I also hope they sell well because I noticed that not every otome fan enjoys otoges that are too plot heavy and lacking in romance. In my case, I don't mind the lack of romance that much. In fact, I much prefer it when the characters have a strong growth and the romance that develops between the love interests and the heroine makes sense and doesn't seem forced.
The other game I'm REALLY looking forward to is Long Gone Days.
I don't know what is it about this game that has me so hooked but gosh, I played the demo, I played the early access and it just looks SO GOOD. Maybe it's the dystopian plot? Maybe it's the characters? Maybe it's the wonderful art? Maybe it's a combination of all? I don't know, Long Gone Days was like love at first sight. I was excited to play it from the moment I first got to know about it. This game looks amazing already and I can't wait to play the whole thing when it's completed ❤ I'm really glad I backed it 🙂
Then, well, there's of course the new Pokemon game, Ace Attorney game and Fire Emblem game that will come out sometime in 2018 for the Switch. But, even though I loooove those franchises with all my heart, I'm just not as excited about these games as I am about the ones I mentioned before.
Pokemon Sun & Moon was cool, but even though the graphics look more and more amazing with each new game that comes out, the stories are becoming too mild for my taste. They're still very good but I miss the old rivals who started being jerks and eventually came to respect the MC. I miss the old teams that seemed much more interesting in regards to their 'evil ways' and their reasons for stealing pokemon.
Then there's Ace Attorney. While Dual Destinies was quite good (not as good as the previous ones but still good), Spirit of Justice felt like a freaking bad joke. Yes, it still has it's good parts, but the overall game is TERRIBLE. Starting with that prosecutor who's the master of being annoying and ONLY IN THE END do we know his true intentions. But at that point it's just too late to redeem his character and it feels stupid. Then you have the main villain who's evil for absolutely no freaking reason (just muahahaha I'm evil! OK) and finally Apollo, who basically had a backstory forced upon him because the writers forgot to write his past until this freaking game.
Last but not least, there's Fire Emblem. While I did enjoy Fates very much when it comes to Birthright and Conquest, I can't say the same for Revelation. Revelation was supposed to be… well, the revelation to the whole mess that began the story in the first place. However, here we have another case of a villain who's all "I'm evil because I'm evil muahaha" and, when you reach the last chapter, the characters basically share a shounen moment where they keep screaming THEY WON'T GIVE UP and magically defeat the last boss with the power of family and friendship. Peachy.
Sorry for the rant 😆 but that's the reason why, while I AM expecting those games too, I'm not looking forward to them as much as the others. The stories have been suffering too much and are not as enjoyable as before, in my opinion.
😀 And now my nominees (two of them are spanish bloggers):
Leafydream: Leafy's blog is well-known not only because of her otoge reviews, but also because of her Japan sections. I like how many of her reviews include her favorite quote from the heroine plus how she talks about the heroine's strengths and how she's just as important as the love interests. Her Learn Japanese section has motivated me to improve my own japanese too.
Hayurika: Hayurika is a blogger who mainly reviews otome games (especially Voltage Inc routes). Her reviews have helped me decide more than once if I should or shouldn't buy a certain Voltage route I wasn't sure about. She points out the pros and cons in the story as well as a small conclusion in which she mentions who might enjoy it and who might not.
FangirlNinja: Nozomi actually has an english blog as well but, like me, spanish is her first language. She blogs about a lot of things, from otome, manga and anime reviews to life updates. She also shares posts about merch she buys. Her blog is a lot of fun, super cute and colorful just as she is ❤
Dreamcheffy: Just like Nozomi and me, Cheffy's mother tongue is also spanish. In her blog, she has a lot of reviews about otome games and a list with free otoges that are available in spanish. Her reviews are very objective and sincere but she can also be funny and make you laugh when she talks about the things she didn't like in a game 😆
These are my questions for you:
- What do you like to see in an otome game female protagonist?/ ¿Qué te gusta ver en una protagonista de juego otome?
- How do you feel about most japanese role playing games (JRPG) having male protagonists?/ La mayoría de los JRPG tienen protagonistas hombre, ¿cómo te hace sentir esto?
- What's the worst game you remember playing in the last year (can be otome game, RPG, or anything you want)?/ ¿Cuál es el peor juego que recuerdas haber jugado en el último año (puede ser otome game, RPG, o lo que quieras)?
- In fiction, sometimes there are characters that are referred to as a Mary Sue or a Gary Stu. What would you call a Mary Sue/Gary Stu character?/ A veces en la ficción hay personajes a los que denominan Mary Sue o Gary Stu. ¿A qué personaje llamarías tú un Gary Stu o una Mary Sue?
- Do you have a favorite videogame soundtrack? Which one?/ ¿Tienes algún soundtrack the videojuego favorito? ¿Cuál?
That's all folks, thank you for reading until the end and see you next post!! (≧∇≦*)/


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"Decoding Cellular Circuits with Matrix Factorization"
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Environmental changes trigger the circuitry within cells to respond with changes in the amount of gene product created. This circuitry of cells comes in multiple layers, and involves connections with factors including outside environmental signals and internal feedback signals. Unfortunately, most of a cell's internal state cannot be measured directly due to financial constraints, time constraints, or just insufficiently advanced measurement technology, so a major area of research in systems biology is reverse engineering this information from the limited kinds of gene products that can be efficiently measured. This talk will show how matrix factorization can be used in this problem, by structuring a model for inferring the internal state of a cell's circuitry.
"Using Text-Based Measures of Ideology to Analyze Political Communication"
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With the rapid developments in machine learning for text classification and categorization, there has been much interest in developing and using text-based measures of everything from sentiment to political ideology. Much of this research begs the question of whether the target remains consistent across different types of text. We investigate this question in the context of political ideology. We use text data from different sources related to US politics (namely Wikipedia, the Congressional Record, and Press Releases from members of Congress) to measure ideology. We find that, while it is relatively easy to predict partisanship from text, it is much more difficult to consistently measure political ideology within party. The problem is particularly egregious in text that is created by the politicians themselves; indeed, we provide evidence that congresspeople may use different communication channels to express significantly different ideological leanings.


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Writing is powerful magic.
Creating worlds from infinite possibilities, narrowing them down to the parts that work. Choosing who lives, and who dies. Explaining why. Words wrapping around roads, making mountains, filling the skies with wings and clouds and stars in constellations no human eye has ever seen. Waking dreams, that when written down can be revisited again and again.
If my power grows, I can take someone there with me. But only if I get it right.
That is why I have come to this school of the sorcery known as writing. I need to learn to control this magic, to tame the torrent of words that pours onto my virtual page, to learn the spells that will conjure up a world that isn't broken, a world with rules similar to our own so that I may make some sense of the one I live in.
I rush to my keyboard to enter these dreams before they slip away, offerings of my shy and tentative muse, made in the moments between waking and sleep in that grey half wakefulness of morning, when the last memories of the story are stronger than the memory of who I am or who I was.
There is magic in all of us, by some twist of fate and karma I have found mine. This is the chronicle of my quest to master it properly.
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Love your blog. And thanks for visiting mine.
I couldn't find a way to send this privately, so feel free to delete this comment after you read it. For the Polldaddy polls, you don't have to vote a second time to see results. At the bottom of each poll is the phrase 'view results.' (Don't kick yourself. It blends in. LOL) You can return and click on that any time you wish. 🙂
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A friend told me about your blog, knowing I would love it. She was right! Thank you for astute AND humorous insights into the joys (?) of the writing life. =D))
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Hey, saw your post on Query Shark–send your MS! Editors have the ability to publish and pay. It can take YEARS to get an agent. He/she wouldn't request without real interest. One submission does not mean the project is over-shopped. You can always have an entertainment attorney review the contract if necessary. (for prob $200 an hour)
I have contracts for six books with a publisher–without an agent. Had a agent who shopped my book to one editor in 9 months. Sure I'd like another agent for other things but I'm not putting all my eggs in one basket. You can check me out on penmad.blogspot.com


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Hospital Cost Functions and Quality
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This study examines the significance of quality when included in the specification of a hospital cost function. Also, this research estimates a value for scale economies in order to determine if the average hospital experiences increasing returns to scale in the production of hospital care, verifying such findings in previous econometric studies. Furthermore, two functional forms are compared: the Cobb-Douglas and the translog.
The results of this study demonstrate that quality has a significant impact on costs. This relationship is positive meaning increasing quality will also increase the cost of producing hospital care. The results for scale economies demonstrate that the average hospital experiences increasing returns to scale in the production of hospital care, which is consistent with previous research. Lastly, based on an F-test, this study is able to accept the translog as the appropriate functional form.
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That Week On TV: The Great British Sewing Bee, BBC2; Dogging Tales, C4
The new Bake Off was equally warm and well crafted, says Jack Seale in his weekly TV review
Somewhere in an unusually cold marquee on a pristine lawn, series four of The Great British Bake Off started filming yesterday. Months to wait to see that, but the producers have already branched out. The Great British Sewing Bee (Tuesdays BBC2; iPlayer) had different ingredients but kept the same format, with three tasks per week, a historical interlude to allow viewers a toilet break, and an elimination of one of the country's best amateur tailors at the end. What it most importantly kept was the knack of being relentlessly nice without being twee. Hard but fair.
As with the Bake Off, the words "Great British" in the title had more significance than just geography. Something small but great, and probably far from unique but certainly British, was on display. In GBBO people baked cakes and most of us have done that at least once, but not with anything like that sort of skill or creativity. The contestants baked a lot of cakes at home, primarily to share them with people they loved.
In GBSB people made clothes, and most of us have never done that so their skill and creativity was almost miraculous. The contestants made a lot of clothes at home, primarily for themselves. Sewing was mostly a lone pursuit, a way of drawing inner confidence from a job well done.
We were told that GBSB reflected sewing coming back into fashion, but the participants were full of the sort of fierce self-sufficiency that wouldn't give a bugger if it were still seen as laughably eccentric. If there was anyone cooler, or hotter, on TV this week than Tilly, her bedroom clothes rail stuffed with spankingly cute dresses she'd designed and executed herself, I didn't see them.
The Bake Off's secret strength, of course, is its unerringly well chosen cast. Every year the perfect mix shakes itself down into a natural order from last to first, turning your initial prejudices upside down but also introducing you to ten people you like immediately. The Sewing Bee had this nailed down, with obvious no-hoper Mark, who was only used to making costumes for steampunk conventions but suddenly came good in the last round; chummy yam-yam mummy Sandra; and twinklingly camp Stuart. (Would three-and-a-half-hours be long enough for his first task? "Oh I think I'll have had enough by then, yes.")
The early favourite was Ann, 82 years old and still with the pinpoint focus of a kestrel, who had been sewing for seven decades. Watching her swiftly knock up a perfectly fitting crepe wool shift dress, I started feeling sad about the day she takes all that knowledge with her.
Judging were no-nonsense Women's Institute sewing teacher May Martin and the show's instant star, Savile Row tailor Patrick Grant. Seven feet tall and immaculately whistled, quiffed and bearded – Rupert Everett with better diction and a softening northern burr – Grant was serene but perhaps a bit naughty. "Sandra's made what we call in the tailoring industry 'a bit of pork'…"
Claudia Winkleman, who in the best possible way has made a career out of presenting shows on subjects she doesn't know too much about, fronted it with her normal unfussy charm and curiosity, speaking up for us laypeople when tailoring jargon crept in. Great British Sewing Bee was another fluffy comfort blanket to crawl under, but by heck it was well stitched.
Two million wide-eyed viewers tuned in for Dogging Tales (Thursday C4; 4oD), many of them lured by an avalanche of "Channel 4! NOW!" tweets. When they got there, Leo Maguire's film was as weird as they'd hoped, but much bleaker. It was dark in those woods.
Maguire met several couples who dogged locally, plus a lone HGV driver who roamed the country, dogging wherever the opportunity arose. All of them wore animal masks for anonymity – it wasn't clear whether this was standard dogger garb, or a device Maguire had conceived to add to the film's general air of creeping, psychosexual horror. Shifty music and crackling, faulty-neon captions introduced our visits to woodland in the dead of night. Maguire's Blair Witch night vision only captured flashes of explicit sex but, once we learnt that everyone in the programme was badly emotionally damaged, that was more than enough.
Les doused himself in Lynx ("You can't beat it. That and Joop. Brilliant") before driving himself and his girlfriend to their regular hot spot. "I DJ'd for 35 years, so I love entertaining people," he said of their pastime of having sex while other people watched from the undergrowth. "I just feel that little bit more important." His girlfriend had different motivations. She'd had bad relationships in the past and now said the make-up she put on before going out covered the "cracks" in her emotional wellbeing. The shot of her sitting naked on a tree stump in the dark, being ogled by strangers while Les took flash photos, was nightmarish.
So it went on: Susie, slim but buxom with long dark hair and thigh-high boots, liked to have as many men in the back of her husband's car as possible in a night, while he watched. The men couldn't believe their luck, but Susie had struggled with anorexia and was now scared of growing old and no longer being attractive. The last we saw of her, Maguire filmed her sitting facing away from the camera, still with the boots on, in a small circle of pink light, the rest of the frame in pitch blackness.
Terry was a short, slight man having relationship troubles with his partner Sarah. They'd decided to try dogging, partly to spice things up by involving other people. Maguire allowed himself a moment of comedy by cutting from Sarah and Terry on their sofa to a "two weeks later" caption, then straight back to the pair of them in the same places, but now joined by Anne, who like Sarah was twice Terry's size. Terry was squashed between them, half a raw chipolata in a giant bap.
The film hit rock bottom soon after, in a moment like early-80s Mike Leigh gone porno. By torchlight in a copse, jovial Anne yanked down Terry's tracksuit bottoms and got to work, excusing him for his unresponsiveness on account of the chilly weather, while casually admitting that it was a "shame" there wasn't another man present to make up a four. When a stranger arrived, Anne was delighted: she and Sarah took each other's tops off and were starting to enjoy themselves when a small voice piped up from five yards away.
"I'm not comfortable with this… I'm too cold." As the trending topic said: #prayforterry.


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1943 or Showa 18 World War II Era Japanese Map of India and Pakistan (pre-independence)India-showa18-1943
1943 or Showa 18 World War II Era Japanese Map of India and Pakistan (pre-independence)India-showa18-1943
1943 (undated) 30 x 21 in (76.2 x 53.34 cm) 1 : 7000000
This map was issued while India was in the midst of its struggle for freedom. The British Raj however, was still in control of the country, which led to India's participation in World War II.
This map was created by the Japanese during World War II and issued as part of a 20 map Series of Great East Asia Maps, detailing parts of Asia and the Pacific. All text is in Japanese.
Japanese cartography appears as early as the 1600s. Japanese maps are known for their exceptional beauty and high quality of workmanship. Early Japanese cartography has its own very distinctive projection and layout system. Japanese maps made prior to the appearance of Commodore Perry and the opening of Japan in the mid to late 1850s often have no firm directional orientation, incorporate views into the map proper, and tend to be hand colored woodblock prints. This era, from the 1600s to the c. 1855, which roughly coincides with the Tokugawa or Edo Period (1603-1886), some consider the Golden Age of Japanese Cartography. Most maps from this period, which followed isolationist ideology, predictably focus on Japan. The greatest cartographer of the period, whose work redefined all subsequent cartography, was Ino Tadataka (1745 -1818). Ino's maps of Japan were so detailed that, when the European cartographers arrived they had no need, even with their far more sophisticated survey equipment, to remap the region. Later Japanese maps, produced in the late Edo and throughout the Meiji period, draw heavily upon western maps as models in both their content and overall cartographic style. While many of these later maps maintain elements of traditional Japanese cartography such as the use of rice paper, woodblock printing, and delicate hand color, they also incorporate western directional orientation, projection systems, and structural norms. Even so, Japan's isolationist policy kept most western maps from reaching Japan so even 19th century maps appear extremely out of date. The early Japanese maps copy the great 1602 Chinese world map of the friar Matto Ricci. After Shiba Kokan's 1792 map, most Japanese cartographers used Covens and Mortier's 1730 copy of Jaillot's 1689 double hemisphere work as their base world-view. In 1862 Seiyo Sato based a new world map on Dutch sources dating to 1857, thus introducing the Mercator projection to Japan. By the late Meiji Era, western maps became far more common in Asia and Japanese maps began to follow modern conventions.


text: Chicago's the Smith Westerns are a band looking for some teenage kicks with their home-brewed mixture of garage, glam, and punk, and they come by their youthful energy honestly -- none of the group members were old enough to buy a beer when they released their first album. The Smith Westerns were formed in 2007 by Max Kakacek and Cullen Omori, who at the time were students at Chicago's Northside College Preparatory School. The two had been turned on to '60s garage rock through compilations like Nuggets and Back from the Grave, and they decided it was music they could play without knowing too much about technique. As Kakacek and Omori began learning to play guitars, they drafted Cameron Omori, Cullen's brother, to play bass, and with the three members taking turns on drums, the Smith Westerns were born. Within a year, the band was steady enough to be booked into some of Chicago's better rock clubs, including Schuba's and the Empty Bottle, while also playing lots of house parties on the side, which helped win them a loyal local following. In 2008, the Smith Westerns finally found a full-time drummer, Hal James, and local independent label HoZac Records (originally an offshoot of the punk 'zine Horizontal Action) released their first 7", a three-song single featuring the tunes "Irukandji," "Crabman," and "Spiritus Sanctus." The single promptly sold out its first two pressings, and in June 2009, HoZac brought out the band's self-titled debut album (initially a vinyl-only release), which found the Smith Westerns indulging a taste for '70s glam rock along with their punk and garage influences. The band was also touring steadily by this time, including a road trip with Nobunny in which the Smith Westerns opened the show and then reappeared as Nobunny's backing group. In 2010, the band released a split single on Fat Possum with the Magic Kids that featured some of their most polished music to date, and the band pledged to keep making music while several of the members also attended college. That move toward a slicker sound continued on the group's second album, Dye It Blonde. Released in January of 2011, it featured drumming by Brian Chase of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and John Eatherly of Turbo Fruits and production by Chris Coady. After a long tour that involved over 140 shows, the band headed back into the studio in 2012 to record its next album. The Smith Westerns used the same producer but switched labels, moving to Mom + Pop Records for 2013's Soft Will. In 2014, the Smith Westerns announced their breakup. Cullen Omori moved on to a solo career, and Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek launched a new band, Whitney. ~ Mark Deming


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