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"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate." - Asimov "Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you." - Ovid
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She's continuing to improve in terms of the pain. She still has some paralysis and slowness in her hind leg.
Daily update: She is acting like she is in zero pain (yay). Still having trouble with her foot. No longer dragging her toes, but it seems... delayed.
She is eating and drinking and pottying normally. I think she was having some trouble evacuating her bowels, and had to clean up her rear. Her anal glands have been leaking (she has had problems with her anal glands). That smell...
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Her paralysis improved each day and is barely noticable now.
Her vet gave her Vicodin to keep incase it happens again (which it has).


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Zhou, Hong and Zhang, Zhongwei (2009) Adaptive end-to-end QoS provision for real-time multimedia applications in heterogeneous multi-hop wireless networks. In: 5th International ICST Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (MobiMedia'09), 7-9 September 2009, London, United Kingdom.
A wide range of emerging multimedia services (e.g. IP telephony, video conferencing, video-on-demand) require Quality of Services (QoS) guarantees in both wired and wireless networks. Adaptive QoS provisioning and control are especially necessary to meet the QoS requirements in dynamic heterogeneous multi-hop wireless networks. This paper proposed an adaptative mechanism to achieve better perceptive and quantitative QoS for real-time multimedia services suitable for such networks. The mechanism is built based on the theoretical analysis of the end-to-end delay bounds and the necessary and sufficient conditions to maintain the data flow continuity of real-time connections.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Commonwealth Reporting Category E) (Paper) |
Additional Information: | Permission to deposit given by ICST, http://www.icst.org. DOI : 10.4108/ICST.MOBIMEDIA2009.7438 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | adaptive QoS guarantees; delay analysis; multimedia applications |
Subjects: | 280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences |
Depositing User: | Dr Hong Zhou |
Date Deposited: | 12 Feb 2010 02:43 |
Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2013 23:30 |
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A bill introduced in New Mexico seeks to increase government oversight of auction houses in the state. The law would require businesses to disclose the reserve, or minimum acceptable price, on all works of art in a sale; reveal whether the auction house has a financial stake in any of the works it offers; and allow potential buyers to inspect works before a sale begins. The bill would also empower the state's attorney to enforce the new regulations.
The bill's sponsor, the state senator Tim Keller, has said he was driven to advocate for increased oversight of auction houses after receiving a spate of complains from gallery owners and private collectors. The auctioneers' lack of transparency, they said, was distorting prices and hurting consumers. The art trade in Santa Fe, New Mexico's capital, is worth an estimated $200m annually, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican. "This is essentially an unregulated area in our economy that is very high-dollar in places like New York and Santa Fe," Keller told the New Mexican. "Because there's no statute, there's no basis for a complaint. Unless these transactions constitute egregious fraud that would be covered under federal contract law, there's nowhere for people to complain to."Some elements of the bill would serve to bring New Mexico's auction houses in line with those in New York. There, auction houses, which trade billions of dollars' worth of art each year, are already required to disclose whether they have a financial stake in a particular lot. But they do not need to specify the exact reserve on works for sale (though they are required to disclose whether a reserve exists). Recent efforts to further regulate auction houses in New York State have been unsuccessful. The former lawmaker Richard Brodsky introduced a bill every year from 1998 to 2008 to ban chandelier bidding (the practice of an auctioneer shouting out a fictional bid during a live sale) and empower the state's attorney general to enforce new regulations. The bill never passed.
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Despite HP's status as the "preferred" vendor for the state of Maine's massive Maine Technology Learning Initiative (MTLI), the program is largely sticking with Apple for now, according to an Electronista report.
The Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to a $30 million deal with Apple to put iPads into the hands of every student at 47 schools over the next two years. It's the first phase of a larger rollout for the school district, according to Apple.
Microsoft continues to try and use the iPad to sell Windows tablets with this latest effort, starring the Dell XPS 10. Never heard of it? That's possible, since there's a good chance outside of the store you've likely not seen one. The tactic is still the same -- highlight what the iPad can't do, that Windows can -- but at least this time they've moved away from using Office as a weapon.
What do we want to see in iOS 7? That's a question I've been trying to answer since pretty much the moment after iOS 6 launched last year. But this being the final week before WWDC 2013 it's the last chance everyone here at iMore, staff and friends alike, have to stretch our imaginations and let our number one wishes for iOS 7 really fly.
So, up, up, and away!
Microsoft has been fielding some new anti-iPad commercials that, on the surface (see what I did there?) seem to take a page out of Apple's old "I'm a Mac" ads of days long gone by, or even Motorola's "Droid Does" campaign of a few years back. They show an iPad side by side against a Windows 8 tablet, and then demonstrate several areas in which they, Microsoft, think the Windows 8 tablet beats to iPad. And that's where it goes off the rails...
There's a rumor that has been doing the rounds suggesting that a 13-inch 'iPad Maxi' could be on the cards for 2014. While we're pretty skeptical over any accuracy at all on this one, it does raise an interesting question. Should there ever be a larger than 9.7-inch iPad, would you want to pick one up?
There's an obvious, if niche, market for a larger display iPad. Folks with a design-centric profession for example could be appreciative of a larger display, as could medical professionals, or even schools. More room to view, more room to do, and still retain an air of portability over something like a MacBook.
We knew it was coming, but now Mailbox for iPad is here! Released today into the App Store, Mailbox for iPad provides the same great email experience as the iPhone version but optimized for the larger screen. The iPad version comes by way of an update to the main app.
Microsoft has launched their new Windows 8 commercial, and appears to have recruited Siri to help them take on the iPad. OK, so Siri would never do such a thing, but they're licensing the same voice, and it achieves the same effect. The 30-second clip takes aim at what the iPad can't do, that a Windows 8 tablet can. The whole thing is a parody of an Apple ad, right down to the chopsticks played on Garageband at the end.
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Each week our intern Amber will be exploring what Cincinnatians are interested in by scouring the local Twitter trends and reporting on what she's found. From serious tweets to goofy hashtags, she'll highlight what Cincy's been buzzing about. So get to tweeting, folks. #SK2K Sean Kilpatrick became the second player to score 2,000 career points at UC during the Bearcats' game against Louisville on Feb. 22. The only other Bearcat who tops his record is Oscar Robertson, "The Big O," whose career points totaled 2,973 by 1960. Fans from Cincinnati and beyond were showing their love for Kilpatrick all over Twitter on Sunday. #DaleJr As in Dale Earnhardt Jr., the superstar of NASCAR. Earnhardt won the Daytona 500 for the second year in a row and as part of his celebration, he finally decided to create a Twitter. In 10 hours, the racecar driver accumulated over 450,000 followers — 515,000 by Wednesday and 526,000 by Friday. I've had my Twitter for years and I'm barely pushing 200 followers. Anyway, who says NASCAR is only for the Southern folk? Texas A judge in Texas voided the ban on gay marriage in the state this week. An outpour of support for the judge's decision was evident throughout the nation. Following suit in equality, an Arizona judge vetoed a bill that would allow businesses to refuse service to the LGBT community due to their "religious rights" being violated. Of course, Cincinnati also made moves toward a more equal community when announcements of a domestic partner registry for same-sex couples were made. #Reds Thursday was the start of spring training for the Reds. The boys took the win, 8-3 over the Indians, in the Cactus League Opener. It doesn't matter if you think Homer Bailey's extension is a total waste or that Joey Votto should have won the Face of MLB competition, one thing we can all enjoy is the sweet sound of Marty Brennaman's voice and the memories of warm weather it has brought with it for the past 50 years. #NewOscarCategories You know I had to do at least one funny trend. People just made up categories that should be in the Oscars: @Weinheimerandy: Tyler Perry presents the Tyler Perry Oscar for best performance by Tyler Perry.@startpuking: Movies so bad you yell, Sharkeisha! No!@MnightShelton: Best Seth Rogan film in a non-Apatow production Also trending: Stiles, #WatchingTop13, Taco Bell, #Scandal, Penn State, Son of God and #BBN.
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Because summer is the time of the year to be active, or to watch other people be.
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Worst Week Ever!: April 24-30
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MONDAY APRIL 29: Cincinnati police were kept busy today searching for a large monkey on the loose near Union Terminal. Witnesses on the scene said the primate ran through a tunnel near Dalton Avenue.
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The 2013 reader picks for best local athletes, teams and recreational sports spots around town.
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From Joey Votto's cool hitting style to the local coaches, teams and recreational spots we enjoy all year long.
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It's Opening Day today, which means it's time for a citywide celebration of the Cincinnati Reds and baseball. At the City Council meeting last week, Mayor Mark Mallory declared today a local holiday, so if you need an excuse to sneak in a few beers while watching the parade at work, say the mayor made you do it. The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles will allow the children of illegal immigrants who qualify for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to obtain driver's licenses. DACA was signed by President Barack Obama to give recipients the opportunity to remain in the country legally without fear of prosecution, but until Friday, the BMV wasn't sure that qualified recipients for driver's licenses. Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley proposed his budget plan Thursday that he says will avoid layoffs and the city's plan to lease its parking assets to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority, but critics say the plan is unworkable and some of its revenue sources are "fantasy." Cranley's proposal calls for $21 million in casino revenue that Horseshoe Casino General Manager Kevin Kline previously said will be available to City Council, but Jon Harmon, legislative director for Councilman Chris Seelbach, says the number is using an outdated model and the city's estimate of $10 million is more in line with recent turn of events. The budget proposal also claims to make its cuts and raise revenue without layoffs, but even Cranley was uncertain about whether that's possible. Opponents of the city's parking plan say they've gathered more than 10,000 signatures — more than the 8,500 required — but the signatures still need to be verified before the plan is placed on the ballot. Last week, the mayor told Cincinnati residents to not sign the petition because he says it will force the city to make budget cuts and layoffs. A ruling from Hamilton County Judge Robert Winkler opened the parking plan to referendum by essentially striking down the city's use of emergency clauses. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is backing a wider religious exemption for contraceptive coverage in health plans. As part of Obamacare, health insurance plans are required to provide contraceptive coverage — a measure that may save insurance companies money by preventing expensive pregnancies, according to some estimates. But DeWine and 12 other Republican state attorney generals argue the mandate infringes on religious liberty. It's not just charter schools that do poorly under the state's new report card system; most urban schools would flunk too. An analysis by StateImpact Ohio found urban schools actually perform worse in some areas, supporting arguments from charter school advocates that the report cards' harsh grades show a demographic problem in urban areas, not a lack of quality in education. An analysis of old data by CityBeat in 2012 found Cincinnati Public Schools would fall under the new system. A new study found bedbugs are afflicting less Cincinnati residents — suggesting the reversal of a trend that has haunted local homeowners for years. In the past few years, Cincinnati was marked as one of the worst cities for bedbugs around the country. The last two generations are falling behind their parent's wealth. The trend shows a generational divide behind rising income inequality in the United States. Ohio gas prices are starting to go down this week. Scientists still don't know what's killing up to half of America's bees.
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Ask a non-Cincinnati native of a certain age what they know of the Queen City, and inevitably Pete Rose and the Big Red Machine will come up. Hey, probably better that than the Mapplethorpe controversy, WKRP in Cincinnati or Jerry Springer's various post-mayoral hijinks.
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The Reds' pitchers and catchers, including Punxsutawney-native Devin Mesoraco, report for spring training on Feb. 11, signaling the start of yet another baseball season.
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WEDNESDAY JAN. 23: State Board of Education President Debe Terhar has made some folks not so happy. She shared a link on Facebook from some pitiful source who posts things like photos of our president with the caption "Where's Lee Harvey Oswalt when you need him?" (their misspelling, not ours).
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It's tough, at this point, to debate the fact that Bob Castellini might be the greatest thing to happen to the Cincinnati sporting scene in the last decade. Coaches and players come and go, but a commitment from ownership is the most important thing any pro sports franchise needs for sustained success.
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This house plan I based off of plan A-1. This house is still a bungalow but I wanted to add more bedrooms. The master bedroom still has a walk in closet with a bathroom with his and her sinks. The kitchen and great room are still attached just as in blueprint A-1. The two car garage still has an attachment to give more room for a workshop or even for garage storage. Again, I hpe you like the plan and all comments are appreciated. Thanks.
A-2 : Two Story, Four BedroomMy favorite part of this house is the loft over the garage with an enclosed bridge. The living room comes equipped with a cozy fireplace and has a high cathedral ceiling that is open to above. Another small feature is the built in book shelves in the office. This would look really nice with some interior designing. I hope you like this house plan. MAIN FLOOR SECOND FLOOR A-1 : Started Family BungalowThe inspiration behind this house was a starter family. This plan only has two bedrooms, but at the same time is it quite large. I wanted to give a lot of living space into the bungalow. I provided a nice bedroom for the master bedroom with a walk in closet and a master bathroom. As for the other bedroom, I provided them with a regular bathroom across the hall consisting of a shower, sink, and toilet. The kitchen and family room I tried to make very open, those rooms combined makes a lot of open space in the house which makes it look larger. I also gave the garage a workshop because… well every man needs a workshop. FIRST FLOOR PLAN EXTERIOR VIEW A-11 : Tiny House DesignI have been looking around the web lately and there seems to be a lot of tiny house designs recently. I figure the reason for this is because of the state of the economy at the moment, and the cost of land. By creating tiny house plans, you can minimize the space used on a lot. This new house plan is equipped with all the essentials. It has a bathroom with shower, kitchen, a loft to sleep in, and even a TV. The window at the very top of the house is one of my favorite parts. As you can see in the 3D view of the house, the window is currently shaded. This is ideal for when it is summer, and you want to keep the heat out of the house. During the winter the sun can hit the big window, and the house will absorb heat. This is a green friendly design I tried to add into the tiny house. I realize this type of house is not ideal for everyone, because some people like having their space. Me on the other hand would love a place like this because I feel comfortable and cozy in a small place like this. I hope you like the newest plan. FLOOR PLAN SECTION New 3D View For Plan A-10Hello everyone, I hope your having a nice new years eve. I just recently started using revit, and I have made a new 3D view for my house plan A-10. This is also my first attempt at a more modern home. You can check out the full set of the house plan here. HAPPY NEW YEAR! |


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Dea Brøvig moved to the UK from Norway at the age of 17. After graduating from Leeds University, she worked in publishing in London for eight years. She graduated from UEA's Creative Writing MA in 2009. The Last Boat Home is her first novel and we're delighted to be publishing it in March 2014. Here she tells us where she grew up and the locations that inspired the setting of her wonderful new novel…
I moved to Norway from the US at the age of seven and stayed in Oslo until I was 17. Even though it has now been 20 years since I left the country, I still consider it my home. I've spent every summer I can remember there, mostly on the southern coast, with its fjords and skerry and beautiful shoreline. It's a part of the world that fascinates me endlessly. The fictional town where The Last Boat Home is set borrows from real places and is integral to the story.
These days I spend my summers on Tromøya, an island near Arendal, where my partner's family has a property. I write in the boat shed surrounded by life vests, fishing poles, wet suits, old fenders and other boating paraphernalia.
When we're there, I'm at my desk by 5a.m. with a thermos of coffee, which I need more for warmth than for the caffeine. I write until noon and spend the rest of the day being Mum. This is my desk:
I write better here than anywhere. It might have something to do with the silence. I suspect the view doesn't hurt, either.
The Last Boat Home is published in hardback by Hutchinson on 13 March 2014
We're delighted to hear that Anna Quindlen's latest novel, Still Life with Breadcrumbs has been longlisted for the Baileys Women's Fiction Prize.
One of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, the BAILEYS Women's Prize for Fiction – previously known as the Orange Prize for Fiction – celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing from throughout the world – it's fantastic to see Anna selected.
Still Life with Breadcrumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.
Brilliantly written, powerfully observed, Still Life with Breadcrumbs is a deeply moving and often very funny story of unexpected love, and a stunningly crafted journey into the life of a woman, her heart, her mind, her days, as she discovers that life is a story with many levels, a story that is longer and more exciting than she ever imagined.
Click here to read the first chapter of Anna Quindlen's wonderful novel, published by Hutchinson.
The overall winner of the prize will be announced on 4th June 2014.
Mike Thomas is the author of Ugly Bus and Pocket Notebook. Originally hailing from Wales, and a policeman for the better part of two decades, here he tells us why Shadowlands makes him cry (lack of zombies, apparently), how he'd adjudicate the resultant punch-up at his dream dinner party and why an abandoned lorry looms large in the memories of his mis-spent youth.
Why do you write?
I've been a copper for twenty years. There's a lot of insane shit to work through. Not least repairing my faulty moral compass. So in short: therapy.
What's your inspiration for writing?
Life. People. Earning enough never to have to go back to work for the police. Ever.
What were you doing before you became a writer?
I was, and still am, Old Bill. Sorry 'bout that. But I've been on a sabbatical for the last three years and can barely remember what it was like to be a plod. Thankfully.
Favourite book?
Just the one? That's too difficult, so here's a few: Hangover Square, The Road, A Confederacy of Dunces, Crimes in Southern Indiana, anything by Dan Rhodes but especially Little Hands Clapping. Anything by David Vann. Denis Johnson rocks. Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl is a work of demented genius. I used to adore the energy and fuck-you vibe of early Chuck Palahniuk, but we've long since parted ways. Favourite book of the last ten years or so is Mailman by J. Robert Lennon. Superb and surreal story of a US postie that goes postal.
Favourite film?
Again, too difficult to name just one. Shawshank. Raging Bull. Fight Club. The Pianist. Dead Man's Shoes. Mulholland Drive. Fargo. Anchorman for the giggles and quotability factor. Lots more. And I'm a huge horror genre fan. Craven, Hooper, Cronenberg, Raimi, Argento et al. Love Romero's zombie flicks. Any zombie pics actually, because they're the only things that scare the bejesus out of me. Shadowlands makes me cry, too. Possibly because there are no zombies in it.
Favourite band/album/song (pick any, or all three)?
Depeche Mode have been a constant in my life. Totally uncool to admit it, but I love them. Quite partial to The National. Muse, too. And Burial's music is just excellent. Scratchy, pulsing, haunting and frequently beautiful. Favourite song is a toss-up between Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit and Catatonia's Bulimic Beats.
What have been the landmark moments in your life to date?
Marriage. Children. Being published. Losing my virginity under an abandoned lorry. The usual.
Where are you right now?
Sitting in my mezzanine bedroom, on a tatty wicker chair and shivering in the Portuguese cold, surrounded by forests of swaying Eucalyptus and perpetually barking dogs.
Your guiltiest pleasure?
Watching Diners Drive-Ins and Dives on Food Network. It's utter tat, but brilliant. Guy Fieri has the best job in the world: being paid large amounts of money to travel the length and breadth of America while eating lard.
What do you do to relax?
This is rather embarrassing to admit, given my age and their dubious morality, but I do love the occasional blast on a first-person shooter. I've always been a gamer, since the days of the BBC Micro and Commodore 64. Shooty games keep me sane, to be frank. Better those than go on a real-life rampage, no?
Approximately how many books do you own?
Hundreds. And I'm yet to read half of them. There are far, far too many books in the world really, and I am doing nothing to alleviate the problem.
Where were you born?
The cradle of civilisation that is Wales.
Fantasy Dinner party. Who would be your four guests and why?
I've met a lot of celebrities via my 'other job' and, to be brutally honest, most of them have been tossers. Anyway: Noel Gallagher. Larry David. Mike Tyson. Norman Mailer. It would be a scream/punch-up over the trifle.
Tell us about a book you own that you've never read.
Catch 22. The shame.
Cats or dogs?
Dogs. I am allergic to cat hair. It makes me mewl like an infant.
Any bad habits?
I used to smoke miniature cigars. Ten a day minimum, until I was borderline emphysemic. But I quit last year and – hooray! – have been miserable as sin ever since. So, bad habits: I am incapable of waking earlier than seven thirty. Utterly incapable. It's shameful, I know, especially with two young children who are fond of very early starts. Also: snacking on cheese or paté while watching Blu-ray box sets then going to bed very late and waking my wife at two in the morning and whining that I am having a coronary when in fact it's just heartburn. That. And I've just realised there may be a connection between the two.
Hunter S. Thompson used to type out The Great Gatsby to know what it felt like to write it. What would be your choice?
Isn't that just data entry?
How many places have you lived?
Wales, England, and now Portugal.
If you could be anywhere now, where would it be and who with?
I am where I want to be, with the three people who mean the most to me.
What are your writing habits?
Wake. Eat, drink hot, sweet tea. Pace. Moan to my wife that 'the scene isn't working'. Secretly play Clash of Clans in the toilet. Think about lunch. Cook and eat lunch. Reluctantly sit in front of laptop. Type. Get drawn into the scene. Really enjoy writing the scene. Realise you have to collect kids from school and wish you'd started writing a tad earlier. Feel depressed all evening. Repeat each day.
What are you reading now?
A lot of crime novels. It's a bit Busman's Holiday, and I've steered clear of them for most of my life, but they are research for my next effort. It's been an eye-opener, especially with British authors. The police procedure and vernacular is mightily wrong in a lot of them, which surprised me.
What and where is your favourite bookshop?
St. David's Bookshop near the cathedral in St David's, Pembrokeshire. Tiny, idiosyncratic, wonderful.
Where is your favourite place to read?
In bed. Post-coitus.
Ugly Bus is available now in hardback.
Jenny Mayhew has worked as a TV researcher, studied International Relations in Sri Lanka and written film screenplays on both contemporary and historical storylines. In 2003, she was nominated for a BAFTA special achievement award for her screenplay To Kill a King. Jenny has a doctorate in English literature and has taught creative writing courses at Oxford, Bristol and Manchester. She now lives in Edinburgh and A Wolf in Hindelheim is her first novel. Jenny talks us through the creation of a wonderfully atmospheric mystery and an unusual and affecting love story.
Where did you get the idea for A Wolf in Hindelheim?
The setting came first. I wanted to set a story in a quiet, remote, unremarkable 1920s neighbourhood which would be the opposite of the glamorous roaring-twenties world of The Great Gatsby and Al Capone-era gangster movies. No tycoons, no bootleggers, no sophisticated artists hanging out in smoky Berlin jazz bars: I wanted to write about unsophisticated folk with ordinary lives and old-fashioned habits and prejudices, scratching out a living in the decade before Nazism took hold.
It's always puzzled me how ordinary people could be persuaded by the Nazi regime to become obedient Party members and turn on their neighbours. What were those people doing and thinking in the years before Hitler's rise to power that would eventually make them susceptible to his propaganda? I wanted to edge tentatively towards this question rather than attempt a full-on war story. An ordinary German village in the 1920s seemed like a quietly potent setting for some kind of gradual, disturbing shift of mood.
Starting out with this vague sense of an ordinary community quietly going about its business in the lull before Hitler's storm, I stumbled on a bizarre claim that helped to focus the idea. It was on a website of unexplained supernatural events, a sort of spooky alternative timeline of world history, and there was a one-line entry that said something like: 'In a German village in 1925, a man shot a witch who was turning into a werewolf'. I'm not sure it was that year, but it was definitely sometime in the 1920s, because that's what caught my eye. I remember thinking, really? In 20th century Europe there were still people who believed in such things?
This puzzling statement (which was just a one-line assertion, with no sources or references) gave me the idea of starting an improbable rumour in my imaginary village, and getting different characters to respond to the rumour in various ways. It also encouraged me to be quite bold with the inner lives of my characters, and to let their imaginations run wild. Their grievances and desires and jealousies and credulous fantasies could become quite extreme, I decided – especially if the villagers were still suffering from the experiences and effects of the First World War.
How did you research the book?
The short answer is, I didn't. All of the places, incidents and characters in the novel are made up; so there was nothing specific to look for in the archives. Hindelheim is an imaginary village in an invented region – 'south-west Germany' – which is deliberately notional and unspecific. My aim was not to document anything that actually happened, but to speculate on what might conceivably happen if … and if … As for geographical or historical detail, it's 99% guesswork.
I showed the first draft to a scholar of German history who very gently highlighted some implausible features; but no doubt there are others. By lucky accident I came across of a book of photographic portraits taken by August Sander in the 20s, I think, which helped me as a kind of aid to speculation. Many of Sander's subjects – people from all walks of life, and from different regions – look directly at the camera in a way that makes you wonder what is going on behind the eyes.
Where did the characters come from?
The residents of Hindelheim were invented, like everything else in the story, bit by painful bit. They did not arrive one day fully-formed and walk on to the set I'd created for them, unfortunately. For me, building a character on the page is the same laborious, trial-and-error process as building anything else on the page: try this, no that's not working, take it out and try something else. Tap, tap. Cringe. Delete, delete, delete.
It was clear that the story would need a point-of-view character; not a spotless hero, but someone whose perspective we share more than any other. Theodore, the local constable, has this role. It was also important to have a character who could be drawn into irrational thinking; someone susceptible to persuasion, whose choices would affect the course of the story. That part is played by Eckhardt, a young veteran of the First World War. I also wanted a character who would be a kind of barometer for the sexual climate of this imaginary place, where fear and desire go hand in hand, and where neighbours are both too close to each other and at the same time, are strangers; hence Ute.
What kinds of folklore and tales inspired the story?
The novel has a fairly realistic setting and narrative (I hope!), but there are references to folklore and fairy tales peppered throughout. My reason for alluding to these tales and beliefs was to suggest something about the inner lives of the characters – particularly their inherited notions of good and bad, normal and abnormal, purity and danger. I hoped to give a sense of how the characters think, both individually and collectively. In the tight-knit community of Hindelheim, some thought patterns are shared, like patterns on a common type of wallpaper; but not all. A few individuals – like Theodore, the sceptic of the story – manage to stand apart and question the tales they are told.
As the book's title suggests, there's a symbolic wolf prowling around the edges of this story, which means different things to the different characters, depending on what they are inclined to believe. In Hindelheim as in Red Riding Hood, wolves are associated with sexual power and dangerous transformations. And because there's a wolf, there had to be a character called Peter. Another familiar children's tale that is mentioned is The Elves and The Shoemaker, which to my mind has a very slightly creepy, controlling aspect to it. (If there were do-gooding elves rummaging around in my workshop at night without an invitation, I wouldn't be too happy about it!)
One of the central characters, Ute, mentions her aunt's belief in troublesome 'night people'. What I had in mind here is a set of legends that were, as I understand it, current in the Middle Ages across Europe, relating to supernatural 'wild hunters' who flew by night and disrupted communities in various ways. Ute's aunt has several other superstitions, most of which I made up. In fact, there is quite a bit of invented folklore in the novel. Members of the fictional German People's League propagate some weird ideas that I more or less invented at random, hoping to make them seem credibly sect-like and occult. It didn't seem necessary to be constrained by a single folkloric tradition, or to tie the story down to one particular set of historically documented practices. It's fiction, not anthropology! As I see it, what's important and revealing about the characters is not the precise nature of their beliefs, but how they come to persuade themselves, or others, to believe.
Truth is stranger than fiction, though; and none of the made-up rituals or folkloric ideas in this novel is a match for the horrifying beliefs that did, in fact, circulate in medieval Europe. The 'Jewish blood libel' was a sort of malicious, long-lasting whispering campaign which asserted that Jews killed Christian children for ritual purposes. The perceived crimes of witchcraft were for a long time punishable, and punished, by death. Preachers regularly exorcised 'demons' from people who were suffering with certain symptoms. These things were in my mind as I was writing, even though the novel is set in the relatively modern world of the 1920s. Did irrationality suddenly and completely vanish from Europe at some point before the start of the 20th century? I doubt it. In Hindelheim, old habits of mind prove slow to change – slower than technology or transport, for example – and while the official doctrine of demonology has long since died out, the impulse to demonise remains.
In the years after my story ends, in the 1930s and 40s, the Nazis would revive and utilise symbols from folklore, portraying themselves as legendary warriors ridding the world of dirty Jewish rats. With its rather simplistic images of heroism on the one hand, and of a nightmarish menace on the other, fascist propaganda seems to have captivated audiences by playing on infantile fears and fantasies. This is not explored directly in the novel, but I hope the folklore allusions will help to convey a sense that Hindelheim is nurturing some potentially dangerous habits of groupthink.
What's next for you?
I'm writing something else set somewhere else – nothing to do with Hindelheim. My rate of progress is as slow as ever. I've completed one novel in 44 years, so maybe ask me again in 2058?
A Wolf in Hindelheim is available now in paperback.
How far would you go for your family, for love, for revenge?
In the winter of 1897, a trio of killers descends upon an isolated farm in upstate New York.
Elspeth Howell returns home to find her family brutally murdered. The only survivor is her twelve-year-old son who witnessed it all.
Wounded, frightened and with retribution in their hearts, mother and son set out into the frozen wilderness to track down the red-scarfed men who killed their loved ones in cold blood.
Their journey leads them to a rough-hewn settlement on the edge of ice-filled Lake Erie, a merciless place where violence abounds. Here, forced into a brutal adulthood, Caleb begins to discover truths about his mother he could never have anticipated and Elspeth must finally confront the terrible urges that envelop her. All the while, the memory of Caleb's brothers and sisters presses him onwards.
Big skies, deep snow, open wounds: The Kept delves deep into what it means to be a mother – and to be a son. It asks us how far we would go for our family, for love and, ultimately, for revenge?
Click here to read the first chapter of The Kept, out now published by Hutchinson.
James Scott has written up his playlist for writing The Kept, which you can find here.
All artists have places that matter to them. Be it where they work, the setting of their latest piece, or where they go to think. Our Sense of Place feature invites you to the places that matter to our authors.
This time we go on a run around Brighton with Alexandra Heminsley, author of Running Like a Girl.
Even though I taught myself to run in London, it was in Brighton that I became A Runner. After that first London marathon I stopped running almost entirely. I was someone who had 'done the marathon', running was far from being part of my life. After all, what would be the point in running a quick 5k if I were used to running more than I'd ever managed in my life, every week, for months on end?
But a couple of years after that first event, I moved to Brighton, and not long after that I was running again. I was training for my second London marathon, but this time I was doing it with the in-built advantage of a whole new environment to get to know. It wasn't until I lived in Brighton that I became a runner… and it wasn't until I became a runner that I really felt I lived in Brighton.
For the first couple of years I lived up in Powis Square, which is at the top of one of the steepest hills in the city, meaning it was impossible to begin a run without heading downhill. Almost every day for all that time, I would get to the top of Montpelier Street and pass this pretty door. It was only after I'd moved house I realised that it wasn't a door at all, and was in fact a trompe l'oeil. Then I would head down towards the sea, at times having to put more effort into stopping myself tumbling head over heels with anticipation than I ever needed to get back up the hill.
If you head directly down to the seafront, you get to the remains of Brighton's West Pier. It was destroyed in a fire about a decade ago, and now sits, watching the runners, tanners and stag parties like a huge spider in the bathtub that is the sea. I love its immovability, and its sense of giving me an anchor towards home whether I run east or west. Let's say I run east first, it's about a kilometre to the Palace Pier, which is very much still standing, and about another kilometre to run to the end and back. Not advised on sunny weekends, though.
If I head west, there is the wider path of the Hove seafront, which is nearer to where I live now. This is where I came up with the original proposal for Running Like a Girl, it's where I trained for countless events from my third London marathon to the Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco and it's where I have cleared my head on more occasions that I can remember. If you turn from the West Pier, the next landmark you come to is the Bandstand, which holds salsa classes, music video shoots and weddings for couples who have the nerves to risk either heatstroke or windburn on their big day. I know I prefer to just run by, enjoying the view.
The promenade along the Hove lawns has the creamy Regency Splendour of the Brunswick Estate to the north and the sea to the south. There are days when the sea and the sky are all but indistinguishable, seagulls and fragments of light making tiny diamonds in each. And there are days when it feels like you're running into the full force of gales coming straight from Ireland. It was particularly dramatic after the storms this winter, when the sea seemed to have vomited all over the promenade and the sky and sea were a constantly shifting palette of moody colours.
I thought I would get bored of running up and down this stretch, but every time I do it, it seems to look entirely different. If you choose dusk you can see into the homes dotted around the Regency frontage – some are entire houses, splendid interiors designed to create a whole. Others are grotty student flats, or photographic studios there for the light, or family homes containing children that don't know any different than having the sea compete with their telly for attention in the room.
Then, just as you think you've seen it all, the sky will change, and in seconds it seems as if both the sea and the buildings have been given a lick of paint. What was cobalt blue becomes charcoal grey, and what was stark white turns buttery yellow in tandem.
The pre-war modernism of Embassy Court is my final visual treat while along the seafront. Incongruously tacked onto the end of the Brunswick Terrace, its 11 floors of Miami-style fabulousness is something I remember even from childhood visits to an elderly aunt in Hove. In the 1980s it was seen as blot on the landscape, littered with broken windows and enormous satellite dishes. Now it has been restored to its former glory, it never fails to remind me that we all have something within us that has both the potential to crumble when confronted by relentless sea air, and yet remain defiantly glamorous all the while.
The final stop on the way home? The Lion & Lobster. Turn at Embassy Court and treat yourself to a pint. Hydration is as important as exercise after all.
For more photos from Alexandra Heminsley visit her Flickr page.
Running Like a Girl is out now, published by Windmill.
Our featured author is Jude Cook.
Jude is a London based novelist and screenwriter. After a career as a musician and songwriter (more on that later) Jude turned to fiction and his debut novel Byron Easy was published last year by William Heinemann.
Here Jude talks to us about his inspiration, his former band and his writing day.
Why do you write?
Strangely, I don't feel I have much choice in the matter. It's always been a compulsion since the age of 13, when I wrote my first novel and short stories. In my 20s, I found I couldn't write fiction with the same easy facility – just poetry and songs. Then the prose eventually returned, like a muscle recovering from atrophy. Attempting some dramatic writing – screenplays and stage plays – helped enormously.
What's your inspiration for writing?
Hard to pinpoint. To respond to the world by writing about it, by making music, pictures or sculpture about it, is the lot of the artist. A curse and a blessing. It's simultaneously the most selfish and altruistic act. Far better just to enjoy life and consume other people's beautiful creations. Mostly, writing is, to use the cliché, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. But inspirations are everywhere. A seascape. A smile. A memory. Language itself.
What were you doing before you became a writer?
I was a musician and songwriter for the band Flamingoes, which I formed with my twin brother, James Cook. We released two albums twelve-years apart: Plastic Jewels (1995), and Street Noise Invades the House (2007). I'm very proud of both of them.
Who are your literary idols?
Bellow, Roth, Larkin, Plath, Dickens, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Fitzgerald, Woolf, Kawabata, Franzen, Hollinghurst, Amis, Kureishi, Zadie Smith . . . and I'd better add Byron.
And non-literary idols?
Dylan, Scott Walker, Bergman, Kieslowski, Almodovar, Charlie Kaufman, Mike Leigh, Barack Obama, Tony Benn.
Favourite book?
Vanity Fair.
Favourite film?
Hannah and her Sisters (closely followed by Sideways, Withnail & I and Happy-Go-Lucky).
Favourite band/album/song (pick any, or all three)?
Today the band is The Smiths/ Album: Big Moon Ritual by Chris Robinson Brotherhood/ Song: 'When You Rock 'n' Roll With Me' by David Bowie.
What have been the landmark moments in your life to date?
Moving to London. Getting a recording contract. And, many years later, signing a book deal.
Where are you right now?
At my living-room table, which is also my writing desk.
Your guiltiest pleasure?
A hot bath on a Sunday morning; Joni's Hejira playing from the next room.
What do you do to relax?
Play the ukulele. Read poetry.
Approximately how many books do you own?
Must be well over 1,500 by now.
Where were you born?
Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Not the place's fault.
Fantasy Dinner party. Who would be your four guests and why?
Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and Keats. No explanation needed.
Tell us about a book you own that you've never read.
Four books. Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. I've had them for years in the classic Faber covers. I'm waiting for a long illness.
Cats or dogs?
Cats, of course.
Any bad habits?
Looking, but not listening.
Hunter S. Thompson used to type out The Great Gatsby to know what it felt like to write it. What would be your choice?
Humboldt's Gift.
How many places have you lived?
This is my tenth address in London.
If you could be anywhere now, where would it be and who with?
In Florence, with my Huckleberry friend.
What are your writing habits?
Six days a week the alarm awakes me at 6.10am. Then to the dark desk, to read back the previous day's work, or bits of research, or other people's fiction. By 7.30am, I am usually in the act of writing . . . and finished by 9.30am. One to two hours of intense creativity I consider a result. But sometimes I only get a paragraph or a couple of usable sentences. Then I pace out the rest of the day in my private pool, or reading Céline . . . Actually, I have to go to work, teaching English lit. They tell me this will change.
What are you reading now?
Willa Cather's My Antonia; Grayzel's A History of the Jews; and Fiona Sampson's wonderful book Beyond the Lyric. Oh, and Palin's Python diaries.
What and where is your favourite bookshop?
Skoob, Bloomsbury.
Who is largely undiscovered and should be read?
Jonathan Cape have a couple of terrific short story writers: Alexander MacLeod and Andrew Porter.
Where is your favourite place to read?
On the tartan travel rug that is my bedspread.
Byron Easy is out now, published by Windmill.
Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life.
Brilliantly written, powerfully observed, Still Life with Bread Crumbs is a deeply moving and often very funny story of unexpected love, and a stunningly crafted journey into the life of a woman, her heart, her mind, her days, as she discovers that life is a story with many levels, a story that is longer and more exciting than she ever imagined.
Click here to read the first chapter of Anna Quindlen's wonderful new novel, which is out now, published by Hutchinson.
Jessica Soffer's debut Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots is a heartbreaking novel of love, family, grief and food. Set in New York it explores the bond between two women, Victoria and Lorca, and how they begin to suspect that their connection runs deeper than their shared love of food.
With cookery such an integral part of her novel, Jessica has picked her top foodie fiction for Windmill (starting with one of our very own) and a couple of her favourite cookbooks.
The following three novels are my favourites in the foodie genre because they are not devoted to deliciousness or to making you feel starved, and depicting everything — lamb's heart, garbanzos, wheat, whatever — as a literary aphrodisiac. These novels are concerned with food, but in a complicated way: a way that makes you think deeply, wonder, reconsider. In the end, what you're left with is a different kind of satiated. For me, a better kind.
1. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender:
In this beauty of a book, Rose Edelstein can "taste" emotions. That is, in her mother's lemon cake: sadness. In her father's pudding: distraction. In butter, she can taste the weariness of a dairy farmer in Wisconsin. This particular superpower is an unwieldy one. Rose must resort to eating only the most absent, anonymous, non-threatening factory-produced foods she can find to avoid knowing too much, feeling too much. In this way, food is depicted not only a source of sadness, but is sadness, too.
2. The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg:
At the heart of this novel is the sad truth that relationships with food, complicated and all-consuming as they can be, can wreak havoc on a marriage, a family, and, of course, on a body. Food — though, of course, only in a way — runs and ruins the lives of everyone in this book. In The Middlesteins, food has nothing to do with affection, love, or even artistry. It is a weapon. Beware.
3. Heartburn by Nora Ephron:
Tasty recipes abound in this novel about Rachel Samstat, a successful cookbook author, who is having a really tough time. But this isn't lusty foodie fiction. Every recipe is tempered by sorrow, loneliness, or worse. Lobster Cantonese is the beginning of Rachel's mother's psychological end. Carrot cake is what she feeds her husband's mistress — and with too much pineapple. It is at the exact moment that Rachel is mastering the four-minute egg that someone is murdered down the street. This is all to say that often food — no matter how buttery, how delicious — is just food and sometimes isn't quite enough.
The following two cookbooks have kept me fed, enlightened and entertained over the past few months. They are concerned with the foodie things that I am: eating mindfully, heartily, well and with plenty of mint.
4. The New Persian Kitchen by Louisa Shafia:
This book is beautiful–and so is its author who I recently did an event with. If she eats what she writes, I'll have what she's having. She's the picture of health and her recipes are thoughtful, delicious, and clean. I believe that the popularity in Middle Eastern food will help to bridge a gap that needs bridging. Louisa is sure to be at the forefront of that with her amazing fresh herb platter in hand.
5. Feast: Generous Vegetarian Meals for Any Eater and Every Appetite:
I eat no red meat and just a little fish or chicken. Sometimes, I feel left out. Books like Feast help. Here, vegetables aren't an afterthought or a side dish or filler. They steal the show. I've been making my way through, from front to back, and haven't been disappointed yet. Who knew what a radish could do.
Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots is out now, published by Windmill.
Tim Walker is the author of Completion, a debut novel which tells the story of the Manvilles and their North London home. It is a timely and acutely well-observed novel about money, love, family and property that has been recently described by the Evening Standard as 'a proper London novel, and properly good fun'.
Here Tim talks to us about his idols (literary and otherwise), John Mayer and his favourite bookshops.
Why do you write?
I wanted to be a film director. Then I realised that directing films would involve telling lots of people what to do, which sounded terrifying. And that's if I actually managed to become a film director, rather than one of those people that rushes around fetching sushi for film directors, which is what happens to a lot of people who want to be film directors. I eventually decided that if I wanted to tell stories, it'd be a lot more relaxing to tell them on my own in a small room with a MacBook. Also, I thought it might impress girls.
What's your inspiration for writing?
Everything else.
What were you doing before you became a writer?
I was a journalist. Still am. It's good practice.
Who are your literary idols?
An incomplete list, in no particular order: Kingsley Amis; Evelyn Waugh; Laurence Sterne; Michael Chabon; Charles Dickens; Jonathan Franzen; Alan Moore; Jonathan Coe; Jane Austen; Arthur Miller; George Pelecanos; Raymond Chandler; David Nicholls; William Boyd; Jennifer Egan; Don DeLillo; Tom Stoppard; John Le Carre.
And non-literary idols?
I wouldn't call them "idols", but I love and/or respect the work of, among others: Damon Albarn; David Simon; Charlie Kaufman; Paul Thomas Anderson; Armando Iannucci; Martha Gellhorn; Jack Nicholson; Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain; Steven Spielberg; Mark Rylance; Peter Kosminsky; Louis Theroux; Robert Capa; John Simpson; Adam Curtis; Vince Gilligan; Jon Favreau.
Favourite book?
Again, horribly incomplete, but: Any Human Heart; Bleak House; What A Carve Up!; Lucky Jim; Pride and Prejudice; One Day; Wonder Boys; Tristram Shandy; The Big Sleep; The Corrections; The Crow Road; Old School; The Dark Knight Returns; A Visit from the Goon Squad; Underworld; This Book Will Save Your Life.
Favourite film?
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind; Chinatown; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Back to the Future; There Will Be Blood; Twelve Monkeys; Three Kings; Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; Unforgiven; The Third Man; In the Heat of the Night; Festen; Goodbye Lenin; Dirty Pretty Things; Four Weddings and a Funeral; All the President's Men; Out of Sight; Risky Business; Point Break.
Loads more.
Favourite band/album/song (pick any, or all three)?
Wilco; Blur; The National; Phoenix; George Harrison (LP: All Things Must Pass); Radiohead; Dennis Wilson (LP: Pacific Ocean Blue); Supergrass (LP: In It For the Money); Efterklang (song: 'Modern Drift'); TV on the Radio (LP: Dear Science); The Tallest Man on Earth; Andrew Bird; LCD Soundsystem; Kings of Convenience (song: 'I Don't Know What I Can Save You From'); The Maccabees (LP: Given to the Wild). I could go on.
Where are you writing this from?
In my study, in the apartment I share with my wife, 15 minutes' walk from the beach in Venice, California.
Tell us about your guiltiest pleasure.
I own all of John Mayer's studio albums, and even a couple of live ones.
What do you do to relax?
Cycle, read, watch TV, go to the cinema, hang around in bookshops. Eat. Sleep.
Approximately how many books do you own?
At least twice as many as I've read.
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I need a bit of help, about 2 weeks ago I decided to change my jumpshot formation as I was doing a behind the head and to the right release, it looked bad and accuracy was even worse beyond 15ft, I could make 3's every now and again but the consistency was atrocious, It felt comfortable but I thought it was time to change to a more fundamental release, so after about of week of figuring out I have a new comfortable shooting technique. start at my chest and I rise up and release just high of my forehead, it is a accurate as grass is green and even has good height to it, but now the problem is I can't quite make the distance consistently, but I do sometimes.
So I've decided this jumpshot will be easier to fix then my behind the head to the right inaccurate ugliness, what do I do to make the ball go further?
Mind you, most of the time when the ball does make the distance I make the shot as-well.
[–]RainXinyoureyes 2 points3 points4 points 7 months ago
I agree with /u/mrflowz, power generally comes from your legs. Make sure your shot's power comes from there, and that you're releasing just before or at the peak of your jump. Many people wait till the peak or after and then chuck it up with all arms. Bad.
Other than that, its been a week, so you've got plenty of time to practice and stretch your range. Get the midrange down first and then move a foot back, another foot, etc.
[–]adamc25[S] 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
Thanks for the help! I asked today because season resumes tonight, I'm anxious to try out the jumper in game!
[–]mflowz 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
bend your knees and use them as a spring as you pull up, using your arms for more of a push will lower your accuracy.
Yeah I have really good accuracy so I think my arms are fine and I use me knees as-well, maybe do I need to jump higher?
[–]siradoro 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
Also repeat the same jump in every shot. Your 15 ft jump should be as high as your 20 ft jump. Use your arms to control that power. Its tough to explain but you'll feel it
[–]Ihallaw 0 points1 point2 points 7 months ago
Starting a shot at your chest makes blocking extremely easy for the defender though.
I don't really start it there, like a catch at my chest then rise up.
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