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2002 Volkswagen Beetle Q&A
2002 Volkswagen Beetle Question: why my car have too many electricalproblems?
i have this 2002 bettle and im having problems with tthe ligths, dash board, back lights, trunk, is crazy, all the electrical things not working, what i can do? ? - junkcar
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Sometimes something as simple as a poor ground connection at the area under the battery can cause seemingly constant or bizarre problems. If you are so inclined clean and secure every connection particularly ground connections ( usually solid brown color wires ) you can get at under the hood , particularly at and under the battery. I have resolved many ongoing stories like yours this way. An additional thought would be to make sure any accessible electrical connectors are clean and tight ! - spyder
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Ask a mechanic to check your Ignition Module. My Beetle's turn signal was getting stuck.. click click stuck, when it was cold or when i hit a hard bump. About 2 weeks ago, they stopped working all together, but the hazard lights still worked. The headlights wouldn't come on, but the hazards still worked and the dash lights worked. New Ignition Module, poof, everything works! Good luck! My father told me, AFTER I bought my 2000 Beetle, that the wiring in beetles between 1999 to 2003 or so all were outsourced and the company was really shaudy. Expect more problems. - ArcticLotus
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A new promotional campaign featuring the girls of Locodol encourages residents of Nagareyama City, Chiba to help out their volunteer fire department. Hit the jump to learn more.
Crunchyroll's catalog of anime and J-drama continues to swell in size as the Locodol OVA special is set to begin streaming tonight, while Last Cinderella and Always the Two of Us join the site as well. Read on for full details!
Since 2010, hundreds of local mascots have been competing for millions of votes in the the annual Yuru-Kyara Grand Prix. In honor of the 2014 edition, Wooser, of Hand-to-Mouth Life fame, and Uogokoro-kun from the recently anime-adapted Locodol are facing off in head to head competition. More after the jump.
It's pretty early for the news because the first season is only half over, and it's early because volume 3 of Kotaro Kosugi's 4-panel manga Futsu no Joshikosei ga Locodol Yattemita (Ordinary High School Girls Tried Being Local Idols) was just released at the end of July, but publisher Ichijinsha has teased (/joked about) a season two anime announcement. Get a look after the jump.

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On arrival at the cottage in the pouring rain we were allowed to take possession early but the proprietor said she had not had time to check the cleaning. That was an understatement, the place was filthy. The toilet brush was caked in excrement and the toilet had not been cleaned. The cooking pots were under the sink, some of... More
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Parents who had to reschedule an appointment were found to be nearly four times as likely to miss their child's immunization appointment; those who had problems scheduling an appointment were also more likely to miss an appointment. Doubting the importance of vaccines made a parent more than three times as likely to miss appointments. Parents who reported difficulty communicating with their child's healthcare provider were nearly three times as likely to miss their child's scheduled immunization appointment.
A significant association was found between missed visits and under-immunization. Children whose parents reported missing an immunization visit were 2.5 times more likely to have been under-immunized (confirmed by parent-held immunization records, medical record or immunization registry).
"To remedy this situation, educational campaigns about the importance of immunization could help counter misperceptions about the benefits of these important protections against these potentially life-threatening, communicable diseases," said Dr. Stockwell. "Another possible solution may be the availability of online tools to help parents track their child's immunizations and give parents personal information about what immunizations their child needs and when they are due."
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One example is an online immunization management tool that will be available to patients and their families through NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's new personal health record portal, myNYP.org. (Introduced earlier this month, myNYP.org gives patients the ability to select and store personal medical information generated during their doctor and hospital visits at NewYork-Presbyterian.) Dr. David Vawdrey, from th
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Huge Moral Authority What a long road for Tibet, for an institution, for the 14th Dalai Lama, who, as his followers believe, was first born in 1391 and, most recently, in the cycle of rebirths, in 1935. And what a long road for this Tenzin Gyatso, a farmer's son who, at the age of two, was chosen as the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama by a search team of monks because of his special characteristics, who resided in the Potala Palace in Lhasa when he was only five, was named the political leader of his people at 15, negotiated with and long admired Mao, until he recognized that the Great Chairman was only trying to use him. A man who, after his dramatic 1959 journey across Himalayan passes, preached nonviolence, offered the Chinese rulers of his homeland the renunciation of claims to an independent Tibetan nation in return for cultural autonomy, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
For the Chinese, the Dalai Lama is still public enemy number one. Communist Party politicians berate him as a "wolf with the face of a man" and a "demon." In the Western world, however, the 14th Dalai Lama is seen as a role model. According to an opinion poll, he enjoys greater moral authority in Germany than the German pope. Many see him as the alternative to the "classical" politician, as someone who embodies what he says and who practices what he preaches, and even manages to reflect on himself in a self-deprecating way: a blend of Gandhi and Groucho Marx who is particularly beloved among celebrities like actors Richard Gere and Uma Thurman, French first lady Carla Bruni and Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner.
Buddhism has become the fashionable religion, from Los Angeles to London, just as the monk Padmasambhava predicted more than 1,200 years ago: "When the iron bird flies, when horses run on wheels, the king will come to the land of the red man." The Germans are particularly enamored of Tibetan Buddhism, with their dozens of Tibetan centers and tens of thousands of Dalai Lama disciples, who see the Asian faith as the most appealing world religion, and one that generally does not look down on people of other faiths. It preaches peacefulness instead of inquisition, persuasion through meditation instead of missionary evangelism and the hope of attaining Nirvana instead of the threat of jihad, and it treats guilt and sin as concepts from a different, more punishing religious tradition and man as the sole creator of his own fate. What could possibly be wrong with that?
Because of this global support, many pay close attention to the turmoil in Tibet, which they consider the land of their dreams, their Shangri-La. But many people are unaware that as recently as the early 20th century, there were brutal power struggles between the monasteries in Tibet, that torture (including the particularly notorious method of gouging out victims' eyes) was the rule, and that reforms were only begun under the predecessor of the current Dalai Lama. Many are also unaware that it is only the current Dalai Lama who has sharply criticized feudalism and called for an accounting with that aspect of Tibet's past.


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Find Number Of Columns In A WorksheetMar 18, 2009
I believe this rightmost column number information is available. I just could not find it!View 3 Replies
I believe this rightmost column number information is available. I just could not find it!View 3 Replies
Let's say I have a value (N) in Cell A1 of Sheet 2 in Workbook A.
What I want to do is to Find the row number of the first cell and last cell that contains the value (N) in Sheet 1 of WorkBook B.
I have a number in column "A" and I want to match them with column "D", the number in column "C" and "D" is true value. find attached sample sheet for more detail.View 6 Replies View Related
I want to loop through ID Column and find the matching number in Record No.column, and hightlight the entire row when match is found. The code I am running can only work for one cell at a time, but I want to run one time.View 11 Replies View Related
I have a worksheet with about 20 columns of info. First of which is a primary key. Call it "Job Number." I would like to create a macro that runs down the list of primary keys searching for a specific Job Number I ask for in the new worksheet, in A1. It then copies and pastes the entire row where it found that job number into the new worksheet starting at row 6.View 7 Replies View Related
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I have a workbook with several sheets that have basically the same template but some have many more rows that others..
I am using the following code to hide columns based on cell value to "tidy it up" for printing.
Dim i As Long
For i = 170 To 2 Step -1
Cells(39, i).EntireColumn.Hidden = Cells(39, i).Value = "N"
Next i
I would like the VBA to determine what the row number is based on the row header e.g. "Prioritised Courses", rather than having to maintain the code each time new rows are added.
I would put it at the top or way down the bottom, but multiple (even less excel skilled) users will be using the "hide columns" functionality.
I would like to search across a number of rows in a worksheet and then match against two columns.
Column B Column C
test 10
I would like the function to match against all rows that match against "test" in Column B and then work out which cell in Column C has the highest value
I have searched the forum and the 12 pages of results that had the words conditional clumns, but could not find the answer. I am new here so I don't want to ask a question that has been asnwered before. If I missed it I apologize.
I would like to create a spreadsheet that would "automatically" create the proper number of coumns or rows to satisfy a certain set of data. This may be better explained by way of example.
I do financial analysis of real estate. This real estate is say 100 lots today and these lots are going to sell out evenly over a 10 quarter period, or 10 sales per quarter. Simple enough to set up and show the proper cash flow. But lets say I wanted to chnage the sell out period to 8 quarters. Today I would have to manually delete the last two columns. Further let's say I want to run an analysis that has a sell out over 13 quarters. Then I need to add back in the proper number of columns and make sure I correctly copy over the formulas etc.
I'd like a way to have the spreadsheet automatically determine the proper number of columns (or rows) based on a formula that is part of the input data.
I'm looking to use excel to track a number of expense items accross 15 worksheets with up to 500 rows accross 30 + columns per worksheet. Many of the learned people in this forum have helped me get this far, now I need some more assistance - please.
In my speadsheet I have a vlookup formula that returns a value from another worksheet. Here's an example.=IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP($D3,Room_Configs!$A$1:$BO$3006,MATCH(M$1,Room_Configs!$1:$1,0),FALSE)),"",VLOOKUP($D3,Room_Configs!$A$1:$BO$3006,MATCH(M$1,Room_Configs!$1:$1,0),FALSE))
This works brilliantly. Now here comes the tricky part. What I'd like to do is append that formula with another one to do a vlookup on a second worksheet.
If both lookups return a value then I'd like the value of the 1st vlookup returned in the cell. If the value of the 1st vlookup is "0", then I'd like the value of the 2nd vlookup returned, and if the 1st and 2nd vlookup values are blank then a "0" is returned.
The name of the 2nd work sheet is "Non_Network_Equip"
Finally, it would be really great if the font colour for values returned from the 2nd vlookup forumla was blue.
Attempting to hide columns (of cities) via VBA generates an error when that same city is reselected (either individually, or as part of the group) in the list box, upon clicking the 'Hide' button.
The error happens at this point: ...
I have an Excel WorkBook with 100 WorkSheets.
Each Worksheet has a unique identifying label - "Requirement Number"
Within each worksheet is free form text data of the following categories:
Requirement: 10358
Title: Customer requirement 1
Text: This describes the requirements for a product for the customer[code].....
The text of the categories may begin in column A or B
What I need is a macro that will search each worksheet for a category, e.g., "Configuration:", copy the row where the keyword "Configuration" is found, and then have that row transposed and pasted to another WorkSheet (e.g., "Extracted Data") cell.
Data extracted from the next Worksheet would begin a new row in "Extracted Data"
Requirement1 Title Text Verification Method-Level ...
Requirement2 Title Text Verification Method-Level ...
Requirement3 Title Text Verification Method-Level ...
The Requirement# is best extracted from the WorkSheet tab since some of the worksheets are missing this information.
I can provide an example spreadsheet, however, I was not able to figure out how do that in this post.
I found a thread similar to this problem:
find and copy row
However, it only finds, copies and pastes for one keyword.
I am looking for a solution to an otherwise very tedious problem.
I have an Excel WorkBook with 100 WorkSheets.
Each Worksheet has a unique identifying label - "Requirement Number"
Within each worksheet is free form text data of the following categories: ...
I have a workbook that has worksheeets for every day of the month. The data in the worksheet consists of columns (employee #, name, clock in/out times, and break penalty).
What I am trying to do is create another worksheet that searches all the other worksheets for a "yes" in the "break penalty" column and then create a list of all the employees that received a break penalty for the entire month. I would like this to be able to auto populate throughout the month as data is entered and not have to use a filter every time I want to compile this list.
I would like to take the data from worksheet1 and put into worksheet2 but limit the length of a list (the real spread sheet has over 100 rows and i would like them in 4 sets of 25 versus the example I provided). Is there an array or macro that would make this work (keeping the formatting)..
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I have an order form created in excel with a list of about 1600 products. I have a column set up for the customer to place the ordered amount of each product. What I need now is a way to transfer only the rows that have a value in the "ordered" column to a new sheet. I have seen it before , but don't know how it was accomplished.View 1 Replies View Related
I have a large amount of data and I'm trying to count how many unique values I have in one column. I also want to know how many times each duplicate appears. I tried using a pivot table but it's not working for me.
I also tried the following formula: =SUM(IF(FREQUENCY(H:H,H:H)>0,1)) but it's not quite working.
In cell A1, I have the month number (eg, 1, 2, 3,). The month number reflects current month and will automatically change with every month. For example, right now it's 6, next month it will automatically change to 7. Each two columns in Range A10:X20 represents the data from January to December. I want to use a worksheet event to change the background of the current month two columns in the range to yellow color and the two columns in the range will be visible when I activate this sheet.View 3 Replies View Related
Items in Column A1 are calculated by (B2/4+5)*1.4 Items located under the columns 2000, 3000, 4000, etc... 10,000 are calculated by taking the top number, eg 2000/(A1 cell value)+the column B number. 2000/7+0 = 286 (rounded numbers)
I need to find an way to look up for x number (2000,3000,4000, etc...) find the smallest number in that column and then return the value in column A1.
A1 Number >2000300040005000600070008000900010000
70 2864295717148571000114312861429
84 24236148059971883795610751194
I would like to copy and paste two columns from a worksheet to another worksheet simultaneously. I would like to have a macro to do this function.View 5 Replies View Related
What I am trying to do is to write a macro that will automatically copy six columns from worksheet (Sheet 1) to another worksheet (Sheet 2). i.e. 'Description of Project', 'WBS Code', 'Rate', 'Employee Name', 'Premium', 'Invoice', 'Status', 'Total Cumulative Hours', 'Total Cumulative Amount' from Worksheet (from Sheet 1 to Sheet 2)
The problem arises as I know the names of the columns to be copied in Sheet 1 (as details above) but they can be in any order in sheet 1.
In additional the columns 'Total Cumulative Hours', 'Total Cumulative Amount' are total columns so when they are copied from 'Sheet 1' to 'Sheet 2' their values should be copied as opposed to the formulas
Starting with one worksheet with end date as one of the columns. I filtered the worksheet with end date > (certain date) and copied the results to a second work sheet.
The original worksheet has all courses with end dates from 1998 to 2009. The second worksheet has all courses with end dates > 2004.
How do I find out which courses have end < 2004. But do not also have an end date > 2004.
What I am trying to do is determine which courses are not longer being used since 2004.
I have a worksheet with 30,000 rows. But sometimes even if I have fewer records in this worksheet(lets say 1000) worksheet shows the same 30,000 rows.And its annoying when you try to navigate using vertical scroll bar. Is there any option to re-adjust the worksheet to make it more user friendly based on number of rows in current sheet.View 2 Replies View Related
I have attached an example. If I have a set of numbers such as the one attached, is it possible to create a formula that will show me all the combinations of numbers that add up to 55.52? In the attached I have highlighted in different colours all the number combinations that add up to 55.52. The numbers highlighted in blue appear within more then one combination. Is there a formula that can do this for me, instead of randomly adding numbers hoping they add up to 55.52.View 1 Replies View Related
I have attached an example. If I have a set of numbers such as the one attached, is it possible to create a formula that will show me all the combinations of numbers that add up to 55.52? In the attached I have highlighted in different colours all the number combinations that add up to 55.52. The numbers highlighted in blue appear within more then one combination. Is there a formula that can do this for me, instead of randomly adding numbers hoping they add up to 55.52.
I need a VBA code to find the nearest biggest number and nearest lowest number between the data of D2 to H2. In the attached file, I have mentioned my required output (Column A and B - blue highlighted)View 2 Replies View Related
I work on a daily basis with spreadsheets in excel. The number of columns is the same, but every single spreadsheet has a different number of rows. I recorded this macro in a table with 1196 rows and I would like to use this macro also in other tables with a different number of rows.
Sub City2()
' City2 Macro
Cells.Replace What:="POMPANO", Replacement:="Pompano Beach",
Now i have one excel sheet with two separet sheets in it ( Sheet 1 ) and ( Sheet 2 ) . I have in sheet 1 a column A with material codes and ColB is discreption and Col C IS Prices . But in Sheet 2 Col D is materila Code and Col I is a price .
the recordes in sheet 1 are around 11000 but in sheet 2 are around 2200 where the sheet 2 has a specific materials from sheet 1 .
Now i want to update the prices in sheet 2 from sheet 1 for each item after confirm that the materila code in sheet 2 equal in sheet 1 so copy the price from sheet 1 to sheet 2
Sheet 2 is old prices and sheet 1 has new prices so i need update the new prices in sheet 2
to update these values via a form in this sheet. I can find the correct row to be edited by entering a value from column A and B. The problem is if I want display the values of that row first and then change it. If I want to change row 10 data how can I bring back the value in ROW 3 AND THE COLUMN VALUE? The next step would be to do the actual update if I want to change ROW 10 to "Ooi" and a sales value of 200?
This is what I have done so far:
Dim myRows As Integer
With Sheets("Mrt")
'Retrieve history information for row
For myRows = 4 To 49
If comboxDay.Text = Range("A" & myRows).Value And textboxdescription.Text = Range("B" & myRows).Value Then
textboxbedrag.Text = Range("C" & myRows).Value
chkBTW_Ja.Value = Range("D" & myRows).Value
txtNota.Text = Range("S" & myRows).Value
End If
End With
Picture attached to show how sheet looks like.
What If we had to replace any number..
Lets say, if we had to seperate NUMBER TEXT NUMBER in different combinations....
B2 contains values like these then
I am at my wit's end pondering over it?
How to make the SUBSTITUTE function work for each individual digit?
I have a worksheet with data in columns AW to columns QZ. I want to be able to copy a range of columns into another worksheet. The Columns AW to QZ have the same headings repeated every 10 columns. e.g. English, Maths, Science, Art & Design, Humanities, PSHE, History, ICT, RE and Attendance. Each block represents a different time period.
I want to be able to copy all the columns headed one subject (e.g. English) into another workbook. I used the following code to open the worksheet and paste the data into it, but there are so many columns for the 10 subjects that the code is too big to run so I need to shorten it and i don't know how to.
Sheets("On Roll Data & Levels").Select
Range("AF2:AF99").Select 'KS2 English column
Application.CutCopyMode = False
I have one worksheet from which i need to copy only few columns (Ex column A,B, D,G...need not be in sequence.....) to a new sheet.can you please help me to write a macro for this.In addition: Do we need to specify the number of rows in column or is there any way to get data till the end of column automatically.
i need to match 2 columns on one worksheet with 2 columns on another.
One column is alphanumerical (Reference Numbers), the other is company names.
I need to ensure that both the Reference and Company name match from one sheet, with the company and reference from another.
e.g if A1 and B1 on Wks 1 = A1 and B1 on Wks 2 = TRUE, anything else is FALSE.
There is likely to be Reference number and Comapny name duplicates, therefore the trick is to ensure that the number of duplicates match?(I.E ABC Company, Reference number 1234 may appear 5 times on worksheet 1, however if it is only on Worksheet 2 4 times, then this must be flagged).
I work for a store and we're migrating to a new Point of Sale system. The new POS uses the entire UPC code while our existing one uses only partial UPCs, so I have to update from the partial to the full. ex. Partial 3378093 - Full 0033780935
The partial UPC will always be included in the full UPC, the difference is the dropped leading zeros (and possibly other numbers) and the check digit number at the end. What I have is a spreadsheet with with two worksheets (Old, New) - one has our old UPCs and other information, the other has the new, full UPCs and more information we'll need. What I want to do is write a function that will search through the full list of new UPCs to find the one with the old UPC inside it and return the full UPC. InStr seems the right function to do this - correct?
The part I'm having trouble with is writing something that will search through the full column of new UPCs using InStr. I've searched through the forum for a similar situation but the few I've found aren't working or appropriate. I don't want to include any code I've written because 1) it doesn't work and 2) it would be way too embarassing!
With reference to the attached workbook, I need to write a VBA code which will look up the value in cell T4 from worksheet "tdploader" on the "cashbalance" sheet and return the date in row 1 based on which column the value is found e.g. H1 in the attached workbook example. The date should be returned back to cell P4 on the "tdploader" sheet. I have tried to use the Find VBA formula to no avail.View 1 Replies View Related
I have a workbook with two sheets. I have one macro that saves the text of the active cell in sheet 1 for later use, the macro then switches to sheet 2 and using the find function I want it to search for the variable I just setup but I keep getting run-time error 91.
Here is what I have:
[Code] ......
I get the run-time error 91 with the Find lines of code yellow and the arrow pointing at the last row. I've tried all kinds of variations (with and without Activate) of the find function and as long as it is searching in sheet2 for the variable that was made in sheet1 it will NOT work. If I do this same search on Sheet1 I get no error. Also if I change the string name in Find to the same exact text just with quotes on it it will find that text without problem in Sheet2. But if I use a string I get an error.
Once I get this to work I want to save the address where the string is found in Sheet2 and use that address later as well so how to get an address from a Find result.
i have a matrix and want find min & max this matrix. know must use For and IF for example for MIN: i want "a" compare "b" and if "a" < "b" then "a" is local optimum else b is local optimum then "c" compare "a" if "a" < "c" then "a" is local optimum else c replace a and c is local optimum &... until find Global Min
but i could not coding this in VBA EXCEL!!
i do not know number of my columns user will define it so for example i can't use Range("A1")
My problem became greater because at start user will define a number for every column(1 or 2)
and if column value was 1 for example find Max column and put it in cell(1000,1000) then find min column and put it in cell(1001,1000) else i.e if column value was 2 find min column and put it in cell(1000,1000) then find Max column and put it in cell(1001,1000)
numerical example:
column 1: 12 13 15 14 16
column 2: 8 10 9 2 3
and column value for column1 equal "1" and for column 2 equal "2"
so for column1 in cell(1000,1000) will write "16" and in cell(1001,1000) will write "12"
but in column2 because column value equal 2 will have: in cell(1000,1000)= 2 and in cell(1001,1000)=10
Should be an easy fix for experts, but I'm not one of those...
I'm trying to create a "scoresheet" in Excel where a racer has a name and an ID number on the main tally worksheet, with columns relating to their scores for each race. Subsequent worksheets have results from each race (one race per sheet), with the individual referenced by their ID number.
How do I have the main tally sheet "find" that person's score for each event in separate columns so that it can add up their totals? I tried an IF formula to find each score in the subsequent sheets, but that didn't work.
Is there a simple formula to do this? I've been achieving the results by importing the worksheets into a Filemaker database (where the ID number "matches" and updates each score), but that's a pain, and I'd rather do it all in Excel.
I have two worksheets to track students registering for one day workshops, which are offered monthly. In my first worksheet called 'CourseCapacity' I track the number of students that can register for each workshop. It looks something like this:
Col A - "Title"
Col B - "Capacity"
My second worksheet tracks the current number of students registered for each workshop for each month. What I want to do is read the course capacity from the first worksheet and display it for the monthly offering of each workshop.
Col A - "Title"
Workshop101 - 1/23/2010
Workshop101 - 2/20/2010......................
I need to do a find and replace on cell E13 on every worksheet in the workbook - a several hundred pages. The sheets are individually named not Sheet1, Sheet2......
First of all I need to find say "oldchippy" (without quotes) in cell E13 and if its there replace it with "oldchippy2", if its not there leave the contents as it is.


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- Subject: [73cat] Re: java.awt.Insets - Netbeans Property Editor
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:42:23 +0100
Ok, sorry, I worked out. Just forget to read what is mentioned at the beginning of the test spec:
Author: " class="external text" title="mailto: " rel="nofollow">Jana Maleckova
Version: 6.5
Last update: 19.08.2008
Introduction: This test specification is intended to test the most used properties editors.
Comments: Where specs refer to the insets property, use the margins property instead.
2012/11/26 Lehel Sipos < " target="_blank"> >
And also the default value is not 2,14,2,14 but 4,16,4,16.
I find the "margin" property which corresponds the desc. below. It's name is margin, and yes it is derived from java.awt.Insets. But it has the name margin, and not insets. And then, what the disabled "insets" property for?
Lehel2012/11/26 Lehel Sipos < " target="_blank"> >
Just a question again...
Having the following test specification from http://wiki.netbeans.org/TS_65_PropertyEditors#Test_suite:_.22Testing_various_types_of_property_editors.22
Point 15 says.
- Property Editor for type : java.awt.Insets
- select jButton in design and click on property of Insets type (default value="[2,14,2,14]")
- type in created textfield "10,20,30,40"
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- EXPECTED RESULT: New value is "[10,20,30,40]"
The problem with the above, is that the property "Insets" is disabled in the Property editor of Netbeans ("NetBeans Dev 201211260002"), so I can't change the value of jButton Insets(nor any swing componet's that has this prop). Have anyone meet this? Is this a bug?
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Anne Enright: The Green Road, a novel
May 18, 2015 by David
Filed under Fiction, WritersCast
978-0-393-24821-0 – Hardcover – W.W. Norton – 2015 – 314 pages – $26.95 (ebook versions available at lower prices)
Anne Enright is an Irish fiction writer who has been widely praised for the lyrical quality of her prose and for eccentric characters and heartfelt renderings of modern family life, received the 2007 Man Booker Prize, the British Commonwealth's most prestigious literary award, for her novel, The Gathering (2007). In that year's competition, her book was considered a longshot for the prize, but nonetheless was was selected unanimously by the panel of judges. The Gathering was also named "Irish Novel of the Year" at the 2008 Irish Book Awards.
Subsequently, Enright wrote and published more novels, including The Forgotten Waltz (2012) which won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, about which Francine Prose said in her NY Times review, "a nervy enterprise, an audacious bait-and-switch. Cloaked in a novel about a love affair is a ferocious indictment of the self-involved material girls our era has produced."
Enright went to college at Trinity College, Dublin, and took an MFA in writing at University of East Anglia in England, but soon after ended up working in television production in Ireland, which she did successfully for several years. She then turned to writing, first short stories, and then novels, at which she clearly excels. Since the Man Booker prize raised her profile exponentially, she has won numerous awards and traveled widely in support of her novels.
Enright's newest book, The Green Road, is about a very modern Irish family, splintered and scattered, but always focused on the mother, the unhappy and complicated Doraleen. The family lives in County Clare, the farthest eastern shore of Ireland, as Enright says, the last stop before America, a place of immense beauty and also loneliness and struggle for those who continue to live there. And there is a real green road there, the old path along the water.
For the first half of the book, Enright alternates voices and scenes, from County Clare to New York to Africa to Dublin as she introduces us to the children in the Madigan family. And then the scene shifts back to the home turf of the family, as the children return for their mother's birthday, together for the first time in many years. And this is where the heart of the novel lives.
It's a beautiful book, one that has stayed with me after I read it, and even after I had the opportunity to talk about the book, the characters and the writing process with author Enright. She is an incredibly accomplished writer, able to convey immense depth about characters, a places, or events, with an economy of language and a piercing eye. We had a lively and interesting conversation while she was in New York on her book tour. And I am really pleased that she was willing to read two sections of the book, as hearing the author's voice in this particular instance is terrifically important as her tone and intonation helps us feel the book more deeply.
I also had the pleasure to welcome her to the United States as she is now the first official Irish Fiction Laureate. This recording is of a wonderful conversation with one of our best living novelists, about a novel I am happy to recommend to all readers. And here is a terrific piece she wrote about the writing of the book for The Guardian (which we did talk about in our conversation). While I could not find a website for Ms. Enright but here is a pretty nicely done fansite for her work. And for those of you who have become fans of Enright's work, this interview in the Paris Review about The Forgotten Waltz will be of interest as well. Publisher WW Norton has a page for the author here.
Photo of Anne Enright credit Domnick Walsh
Jeffrey Lewis: The Meritocracy Quartet (four novels)
April 27, 2015 by David
Filed under Fiction, WritersCast
978-1-908323-45-3 – trade paperback – Haus Publishing – March 2015 – 742 pages – $19.99 (ebook versions available at lower prices)
Jeffrey Lewis has had a really interesting life and career path. He went to Yale, where he was the Class Poet, graduating in the mid-sixties, and went to law school at Harvard. His first career was in law enforcement – he was an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan. Then he left New York to work on the now famed television show, Hill Street Blues, embarking on what became a terrifically successful career in television and film writing. And then he more or less left television to write serious literary fiction.
In the past few years, Lewis has published a total of six novels. The four that make up the "Meritocracy Quartet" were originally published between 2004 and 2008 – Meritocracy: A Love Story in 2004, The Conference of the Birds in 2005, Theme Song for an Old Show in 2007 and Adam the King in 2008.
Before writing fiction, Lewis won a number of awards including two Emmys, the Writers Guild Award, the Humanitas Prize, the People's Choice Award, and the Image Award of the NAACP, as a writer and producer of Hill Street Blues. His work for television and film includes projects for HBO, Showtime, the BBC, TNT, and many of the major film studios. His last screenplay, before turning full-time to writing fiction, was Paint, set in the New York art world, and is the last unfinished project of the great director Robert Altman.
He lives in Los Angeles, California and Castine, Maine.
The four books in the "Meritocracy Quartet" take place in successive decades and are meant to document and explore what these periods meant to the post war baby boomers. Each novel in the series stands alone, but together, they are a powerful and really striking portrait of the inner and outer lives of the cultural elite of this generation.
Lewis is a wonderful writer. His work is clear, never over wrought and expressive of the emotional lives of his characters. The books all take place in environments Lewis lived in, periods he lived through. It would be all too easy to try to read these novels as romans a clef, but I think they are much more than that. As a true novelist, transforming the lived experience to find its meanings, both for himself and for his readers, Lewis becomes an alchemist of the soul, his words then, taking us to places far beyond. These books are really an impressive accomplishment, and well worth the effort to read all four together, at once, for a deeply rewarding experience.
"Lives are not seamlessly sewn together, but rather forged by coincidence, necessity, and expectation, a fact that Lewis brilliantly conveys. . . . Lewis' memories portray a modern, American life." (San Francisco Book Review)
I really enjoyed talking to Jeff about these books and his work as a writer.
David Wilk talks with editor/writer Richard Marek
April 5, 2015 by David
Filed under Publishing History, PublishingTalks
Publishing Talks began as a series of conversations with book industry professionals and others involved in media and technology about the future of publishing, books, and culture. As we continue to experience disruption and change in all media businesses, I've been talking with some of the people involved in our industry about how they believe publishing might evolve as our culture is affected by technology and the ebb and flow of civilization and economics.
I've now expanded the series to include conversations that go beyond the future of publishing. I've talked with editors and publishers who have been innovators and leaders in independent publishing in the past and into the present, and will continue to explore the ebb and flow of writing, books, and publishing in all sorts of forms and formats, as change continues to be the one constant we can count on.
It's my hope that these conversations can help us understand the outlines of what is happening in publishing and writing, and how we might ourselves interact with and influence the future of publishing as it unfolds. This new interview reflects my interest in the history of independent literary publishing, an area in which I have been active for a long time. And this particular conversation reflects some longstanding personal relationships as well.
Richard Marek's career in publishing began as an acquiring editor at Macmillan; he went on to World Publishing in 1967, and became Editor-in-Chief at The Dial Press in 1972. He acquired the manuscript of a first novel called The Scarlatti Inheritance by the then unknown author named Robert Ludlum, worked on it with him for over two years, and of course it later became a national bestseller. Marek edited Ludlum's next eight books, including The Bourne Inheritance. He acquired and edited books by more than 100 writers, including James Baldwin, Mira Rothenberg, John Yount and David Morrell. In 1978, he was given his own imprint ("Richard Marek Publishers") at G.P. Putnam's, and moved it to St. Martin's Press ("St. Martin's/Marek") where, among many other books, he acquired Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs and Robert Greysmith's Zodiac. In 1989, Marek became President and Publisher of E.P. Dutton, where he edited a number of bestselling books.
After Dutton became a subsidiary of Viking/Penguin, Marek moved to Crown as Editor-at-Large and thereafter became an independent editor, evaluating manuscripts, editing and ghostwriting, which he calls "a glorious and rewarding career."
In the past 10 years, he has edited some 120 books, working for publishers, agents, and unrepresented writers. And he has also become an in-demand ghostwriter. He reports that he enjoys writing mornings and editing during afternoons.
Richard is now the ghostwriter of fourteen books, fiction and nonfiction, among them Trisha Meili's I Am the Central Park Jogger (a national bestseller), James Patterson's Hide and Seek (a national bestseller), Brian Weiss' Same Soul, Many Bodies, Ilanna Rubenfeld's The Listening Hand, David Grand's Emotional Healing at Warp Speed, and David Hackworth's Steel My Soldiers' Hearts.
And I am happy to say that I have had the opportunity to publish a lovely novel authored by Richard and his wife, the writer Dalma Heyn. It's a love story for grown ups called A Godsend.
Dick is an active member of the Independent Editors Group – more about him and that organization here.
For this Publishing Talks series, I thought it would be fun and valuable to talk to Dick about the past, present and future of publishing from his unique perspective. His long and successful experience in commercial and literary publishing as editor, publisher, and now writer, provides him with an amazing depth of knowledge and an unending well of anecdotes and stoies. What he has to say during our conversation in his home will not disappoint. He is a great conversationalist with important things to say about book publishing.
Robin Antalek: The Grown Ups (a novel)
March 22, 2015 by David
Filed under Fiction, WritersCast
978-0-06-230247-2 – William Morrow – 384 pages – trade paperback- $14.99 (ebook editions available at lower prices)
I genuinely enjoyed this evocative coming-of-age novel. I thought it captured the current generation of almost-thirty somethings really beautifully. It's well written and well structured and very sympathetic on a number of levels for a wide range of readers.
The book starts with the central character in this faceted story, Sam Turner, in the summer he is fifteen, the crucial and in some ways defining moment in his life. Just as he connects with Suzie Epstein, the gorgeous girl next door, his mother abandons his family without warning or explanation. While his older, hard working brother Michael, who is a freshman in college and their attorney father both appear to accept her absence as a matter of course, Sam cannot. He is confused, and more deeply hurt by his mother's departure and struggles to understand how she could simply disappear and leave her family behind. And at the same time, Suzie's family suddenly moves away as well. This sense of loss is something he will carry with him throughout the rest of the story.
From this opening, the rest of the book covers the years as Sam and his friends (and brother) grow into adulthood. As one might expect, life is complicated, shit happens, good and bad, and life goes on. Author Antalek navigates this territory brilliantly, telling the stories of the key characters in alternating voices.
Suzie has her own family issues, and remains separated from her old friends for many years. Then a chance meeting with Michael reunites her with Sam and her former best friend Bella, whose first love was Sam. The Grown Ups explores the complicated process of growing up in the modern world. And through it all, we come to understand and appreciate the way her characters handle what it means for them to take on the mantle of adulthood. For most of us, it seems this is how growing up really works, accidents mixed with intentions to create being, meaning, and love. This book is a rewarding read, and one I thoroughly enjoyed. And I felt the same way talking to author Antalek about her book. We had a very fun time talking together about the writing of this book, her characters and life in general.
Robin Antalek is also the author of The Summer We Fell Apart (HarperCollins 2010) which was chosen as a Target Breakout Book. Her non-fiction work has been published at The Weeklings, The Nervous Breakdown and was been featured in several collections, including The Beautiful Anthology, Writing off Script: Writers on the Influence of Cinema, and The Weeklings: Revolution #1 Selected Essays 2012-2013. Her short fiction has appeared in 52 Stories, Five Chapters, Sun Dog, The Southeast Review and Literary Mama among others. Robin has received three honorable mentions in Glimmer Train's Family Matters and New Fiction Writer's contests as well as an honorable mention for the Tobias Wolf Fiction Award.
Bradford Morrow: The Forgers (a novel)
March 5, 2015 by David
Filed under Fiction, WritersCast
978-0802123213 – Mysterious Press – 258 pages – Hardcover – $24.00 (ebook editions available at lower prices)
Brad Morrow is really an excellent writer, mainly of literary fiction, and as listeners of Writerscast will likely know, I have interviewed him twice before, once for the fine novel, The Diviner's Tale (2011) and again for Publishing Talks about his now 25 year old literary magazine, Conjunctions.
The Forgers is a complex and finely crafted mystery novel. It is pretty clearly Brad's homage to the form, one which I assume he loves, and the writing style demonstrates just how much in command of his craft he is.
I myself am not generally a reader of mysteries and detective novels, though I appreciate a good one. So I am not as familiar with the intricacies of the form as are those who read deeply in this genre. One reviewer I read observed that The Forgers follows the form of one of Agatha Christie's most famous novels. Well it might. As I read the book, the writing style reminded me of early twentieth century English writers. Because its main character is a both a literary forger and a dedicated bibliophile, and much of the book's action takes place in Ireland, it has a decidedly British feel to it.
But it is an American story, and as such a grisly murder that opens the book is at its center. The setting for much of the novel is the farthest reach of Long Island, an isolated area that is perfect for this sort of crime.
The main character is one of those quirky characters that inhabit mysteries and suspense novels. He's very compelling, but he keeps his distance, to say the least. Morrow knows the world of books and collectors, as he is one himself, but I don't think anyone would mistake his main character for an authorial stand in. At least I hope not. The narrator takes us through a tangled web of a story, and while we get to know him, much is left to mystery.
Readers will enjoy the slow, building pace of the novel, and the payoff that comes at the end. It's a fun book to read, and as I said earlier, beautifully written by a masterful writer.
Brad Morrow has written a number of fine novels, teaches at Bard College, founded and still edits the literary journal, Conjunctions, and has won many awards for his work. If you have not read his work before now, you should! And The Forgers would be a good book to start with. Author website here.
It's always a great pleasure to speak with Brad about his work. He's a great conversationalist and very easy to talk to, and I think our discussion about The Forgers will be much enjoyed by listeners.
The Forgers is remarkable. Bradford Morrow is remarkable. The Real Thing, which is rare on this earthly plane.
—Michael Cunningham
Marion Winik: Three books
February 8, 2015 by David
Filed under Non-Fiction, WritersCast
This interview with the talented essayist Marion Winik is unusual, as it is about three different (short) books Marion has published with the relatively new digital publisher SheBooks ("Every Woman Has a Story"). Since Winik, for a long time composed audio essays for NPR's "All Things Considered" (archived here), she is pretty smart about doing interviews, so I thought we would be able to cover these three books, as well as talking a bit about SheBooks and Marion's career as writer. I think she did a great job on all counts. I'd recommend a visit to her website too, lots of links, current information, and general literary goings on.
The three short books from SheBooks we talk about in this interview, all of which reflect Marion's wonderful wit and stylish writing:
August in Paris is a collection of travel stories told with great humor and affection, "from lost teenagers and missed connections to overpriced drinks and gambling mishaps." I don't know how she does it, but she keeps her bearings throughout.
The End of the World as We Know It collects nine essays about parenting and family, beginning with the story of her second wedding and subsequent move to rural Pennsylvania. She covers a broad range of subjects, from blended families, to having kids in her 40's and eventually to dealing with the legal problems that sometimes arise with teenage boys. Very much along the lines of her NPR pieces.
Guesswork is a collection of essays about memory and identity. One of my favorites, "The Things They Googled" looks at search engines and their effects on our lives. These eight essays will inspire you to reconsider your own history and sense of self from new angles: how treasured places and objects fit in, how your life as a reader shapes who you are.
You can purchase these and other books directly from SheBooks (they already have a really extensive and impressive list of publications) here or from Barnes & Noble, Amazon and probably other ebook retailers, all at reasonable prices. Buy direct and you support the publisher and its authors.
Marion Winik's (very abbreviated) biography in her own words:
"I was born in Manhattan in 1958 and raised on the Jersey shore. I graduated from Brown in 1978 and got my MFA from Brooklyn College in 1983.
Throughout my childhood and into my twenties, I wrote poetry. Some of it was published in two small-press books. In the late eighties—by which time I was living in Austin, Texas with my first husband, Tony—I began writing personal essays.
These days I live with my daughter Jane and our dachshund, Beau, in the beautiful Evergreen neighborhood of Baltimore. What a fabulous, underrated town this is. I teach writing in the MFA program in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts at the University of Baltimore. I write a column at BaltimoreFishbowl.com, and have a new memoir from Globe Pequot Press. It's called Highs in the Low Fifties: How I Stumbled Through The Joys of Single Living."
And here is something about the digital publishing start up, Shebooks: a curated collection of short e-books written by women, for women. All of our stories are easy to download and read on any digital device—and so good you'll finish them in an hour or two. We like to think of ourselves as an e-book boutique, the kind where you'll always find a story to fit your busy life.
Whether short fiction, memoir, or journalism, all Shebooks are handpicked by discerning magazine and book editors and written by women you either know of or will want to know. And because we offer our e-books by subscription as well as individually, you need never be without a great story to read.
As anyone who listens to WritersCast knows, I'm always interested in new publishing models. SheBooks certainly represents one of those new models. I think we will revisit them in a little while to see how this venture turns out. I hope it works – we need more digital publishing that tries to break out of the existing structures and models to try out different approaches to engaging with readers.
David Wilk talks with Dominique Raccah of Sourcebooks
February 1, 2015 by David
Filed under Ebooks and Digital Publishing, Publishing History, PublishingTalks, Technology, The Future
Publishing Talks began as a series of conversations with book industry professionals and others involved in media and technology about the future of publishing, books, and culture. As we continue to experience disruption and change in all media businesses, I've been talking with some of the people involved in our industry about how publishing might evolve as our culture is affected by technology and the larger context of civilization and economics.
I've now expanded the series to include conversations that go beyond the future of publishing. I've talked with editors and publishers who have been innovators and leaders in independent publishing in the past and into the present, and will continue to explore the ebb and flow of writing, books, and publishing in all sorts of forms and formats, as change continues to be the one constant we can count on.
It's my hope that these conversations can help us understand the outlines of what is happening in publishing and writing, and how we might ourselves interact with and influence the future of publishing as it unfolds.
Dominique Raccah is the founder and CEO of independent publisher Sourcebooks, based in Naperville, Illinois, which she began in 1987 after an earlier career in advertising. Reflecting Raccah's background and interests, Sourcebooks has always been strongly oriented toward marketing and promotion, devoting countless hours and dedicating significant resources to research, intelligence and outreach, and to understanding what customers want. This significantly differentiates Sourcebooks from most other independent publishers, so many of whom are more focused on developing content as opposed to what the customer needs or wants.
But Raccah is more than a smart marketer. She is a highly capable business person, an active entrepreneur, and somewhat of a visionary in terms of technology, business structure. She has been and continues to be willing and able to pivot on her business models and plans much more quickly and readily than most of her peers.
At this stage, after more than a quarter century of successful innovation, she has become a thought leader in the book industry and her presentations about publishing and business structure and opportunities are often models of clarity and deep perception, that are valued by colleagues and competitors alike. In November 2013 she was named FutureBook's Most Inspiring Digital Publishing Person of 2013.
Indicative of the ways Raccah has embraced technology to drive her business forward, in an interview with the Chicago Tribune last year she said that digital technology "has been transformative because it allows you to tackle new kinds of problems and create new ways of connecting books and readers."
In our conversation, which took place in New York City in January, 2015, we covered a wide range of topics, from the history of Sourcebooks, through the present business and publishing landscape that interests and motivates Dominique as she continues to moves her company forward in a highly challenging environment. Much of our conversation focuses on Raccah's industry leading efforts to work directly with readers to make Sourcebooks' publishing brands meaningful to readers, and to learn directly what consumers want in their reading experiences. After a concerted effort over the past few years, Sourcebooks is now one of the leaders in the book industry in selling books directly to readers. It was a pleasure speaking with Dominique – who gives a great interview – and I hope this is a conversation that will be both useful and valuable to anyone interested in contemporary publishing.
Sourcebooks features a long list of innovative and successful publishing programs and projects, including Poetry Speaks, The Shakesperience, an interactive iBook that combines audio, video and a glossary to aid understanding of Shakespeare's plays, and Put Me In The Story, which customizes children's picture books with the reader's own name and photos to get kids excited about reading.
Raccah has a master's degree in quantitative psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle and worked at Leo Burnett's quantitative research department before starting Sourcebooks in her home in 1987.
Sourcebooks now has 120 employees, eight imprints and publishes more than 350 titles annually, several of which have been national best-sellers in recent years.
Some worthwhile links:
Dominique's TedX slideshare The Book in Transformation: A Publisher Vision for the Future
Chicago Tribune interview with Dominique Raccah
Mercy Pilkington article Sourcebooks Dominique Raccah Speaks on Driving Innovation
Put Me in the Story site
Earl Swift: Auto Biography
January 18, 2015 by David
Filed under Non-Fiction, WritersCast
Auto Biography: A Classic Car, an Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream – 978-0062282668 – It Books (HarperCollins) – Hardcover - $26.99 – ebook versions available at lower price, paperback to be published March 17, 2015.
What a wonderful read this book is! The first thing you need to know is that I love old cars. I love stories about the people who love them, and rebuild them. But I also know that most old car stories are of limited interest to most people who don't love old cars. Still – and yet – Auto Biography is much more than an old car story. Earl Swift is a terrific writer – trained as a journalist, which shows in his writing. He is clear and to the point. He never buries the lede. He gets close to the characters he writes about and portrays them brilliantly. And it's impossible to put this book down once you get into the story, which just keeps going and going to a startling and rewarding end.
So yes, the book is about a car – a 1957 Chevrolet (one of the most iconic cars of our time) that Swift was able to trace from its first owner to its last. But it's really about all the people who ever owned the car, and most crucially, it's about Tommy Arney, the owner of the car when Swift begins his story. And Arney is a dream character for any writer, larger than life, complex and compelling. He is impossible to resist and Swift goes all the way in bringing us up close and personal with this incredible all-American character.
It was an incredible joy to read this book. As it happened, I was simultaneously reading a history of the automobile industry and for me, this book was by far the better book. It tells the story of what cars mean to our lives, how the cars we drive can capture our hearts and become our souls. I really enjoyed talking to Earl about this book and the story of how he came to write it is well worth listening to.
If you are interested in the way Americans live today, this book is one you must read. And if you just like a good story and you liked the way Hunter S. Thompson told them, this book ought to be perfect for you. Author website here, worth a visit.
"The story he tells of the car's owners and, in particular, anti-hero protagonist Tommy Arney, is so detailed and informed by such thorough reportage I had to use Google to make sure Swift wasn't embellishing — and I mean that as a compliment . . . . It's the best contemporary book I've read about automobiles since A.J. Baime's Go Like Hell, and I enjoyed the hell out of that."
Matt Hardigree, Jalopnik.com
Longtime journalist Earl Swift wrote for newspapers in St. Louis, Anchorage, and for 22 years in Norfolk, where his long-form stories for The Virginian-Pilot were nominated five times for a Pulitzer Prize. Since 2012, he's been a fellow of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities at the University of Virginia.
He's also the author of four other books of narrative nonfiction–THE BIG ROADS, a lively 2011 history of the interstate highway system and its effects on the nation it binds; WHERE THEY LAY: Searching for America's Lost Soldiers, for which he accompanied an army archaeological team into the jungles of Laos in search of a helicopter crew shot down thirty years before (2003); JOURNEY ON THE JAMES, the story of a great American river and the largely untold history that has unfolded around it (2001); and a 2007 collection of his stories, THE TANGIERMAN'S LAMENT.
Lin Enger: The High Divide: A Novel
January 4, 2015 by David
Filed under Fiction, WritersCast
The High Divide: A Novel – 978-1616203757 – Algonquin Books – Hardcover – $24.95 – ebook versions available at lower prices. Paperback edition due to be published in 2015.
This is a wonderful novel, set in a period and place I have long been drawn to, the northern plains of the late 19th century. In The High Divide, Enger tells the story of a family – father, mother and two young sons – who are living a typical hard life in Minnesota. One day Ulysses Pope, the father walks out and when he fails to return, his family must try to cope, and of course, try to understand why he left and where he has gone. Driven by a desperate need to know more, the two sons set out to find him, leaving their mother, Gretta, at home to worry about her family, and then herself to set out on her own journey, now to search for her missing family.
Their searches lead them to the rough frontier country of Montana, that still reverberates with the terrible era of conquest of American Indians and destruction of the buffalo, massive changes in land and culture. Gretta must grapple with the possibility of losing her husband to another woman, and the boys must decide where their loyalties lie, and what they must do to save their family. Ultimately, the father's secret must be uncovered, his story told, and the family come to terms with their history, in order to be able to go on. In my discussion with Lin, we covered alot of interesting territory. I very much enjoyed our conversation and the opportunity to talk to him about this excellent book and his thinking about writing.
The High Divide is a confidently told and powerful story, set in a period when modern terms of psychological awareness and emotional understanding did not exist. All the characters are ultimately trying to come to terms with the damage done by war and violence. Enger is fully in command of his story and characters, and pulls the reader through to a well earned climax. I really enjoyed this book, and am happy to have discovered a writer whose work I will now be following with interest.
Lin Enger
I grew up in Minnesota, have spent most of my life in the state, and now live in Moorhead, where I teach English at Minnesota State University. Over the years I have received several awards for my fiction: a James Michener Fellowship, a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, a Jerome travel grant, and a Lake Region Arts Fellowship. I have an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where I was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. My first novel, Undiscovered Country, was published by Little, Brown and Company in 2008. My short stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, Ascent, Great River Review, American Fiction, and other journals. During the 1990s my brother, the novelist Leif Enger, and I had a great time collaborating (as L. L. Enger) on a series of mystery novels for Pocket Books.
"The High Divide is a deeply moving, gripping novel about one man's quest for redemption and his family's determination to learn the truth. Written with lean, crisp prose, Enger seamlessly blends historical events with the personal, and deftly pulls the reader into America's Great Plains during the 19th Century. The narrators' voices are captivating, and I was spellbound by the author's ability to express the human condition and especially the complicated bonds between fathers and sons. Layered with meaning, this remarkable novel deserves to be read more than once. The High Divide proves Enger's chops as a masterful storyteller." —Ann Weisgarber, author of The Promise
"The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with durable grace about a man's quest for redemption and the human capacity for forgiveness."
—Benjamin Percy, author of Red Moon
"Lin Enger sets out from the conventions of the traditional Western and brings the reader into new emotional territory, that of the soul of an exquisitely drawn, American family. Told with caring patience and precise language, The High Divide is a novel to get lost in."
—James Scott, author of The Kept
Castle McLaughlin: A Lakota War Book from the Little Bighorn: The Pictographic "Autobiography of Half Moon"
November 30, 2014 by David
Filed under Art and Photography, Non-Fiction, WritersCast
A Lakota War Book from the Little Bighorn: The Pictographic "Autobiography of Half Moon" (Houghton Library Publications)- 978-0981885865 – Paperback – Peabody Museum Press – $50 (no ebook version of this title!)
I was so excited by this book, I had to read Castle McLaughlin's A Lakota War Book from the Little Bighorn several times over, studying the brilliant and beautiful reproductions of a nineteenth-century ledger book of pictographic drawings by Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors that was found in 1876 in a funerary tipi on the Little Bighorn battlefield after Custer's defeat. There is so much richness in McLaughlin's story of the almost miraculous discovery of this document in Harvard's Houghton Library and her subsequent years-long study of the book, together with Butch Thunder Hawk, historian of the Lakota Sioux, it was, for me, completely engrossing.
Nineteenth century journalist Phocion Howard acquired the book from one of the soldiers who took it from the battlefield, and later added his own illustrated narrative to the original pages, and had it bound in new leather with his own invented interpretation of the illustrations made by Cheyenne and Lakota artists.
Howard's fabricated story had the seventy-seven Native drawings made by a "chief" named Half Moon, but McLaughlin persuasively argues that these beautifully made drawings, mostly of war and courting exploits, were drawn primarily by six different warrior-artists, some of whom she is able to identify with some certainty as historical figures who fought the invading settlers during Red Cloud's War in 1866-1868.
These wonderfully evocative and powerful first-person illustrated scenes reflect a native view of the historic events of the plains tribes' war for survival in this terrible period of American history. For the Lakota and other Plains tribes, art played an important role in recording and preserving their narratives of events of pre-reservation, pre-conquest tribal life, so books like this one provide a uniquely meaningful record of their lives.
McLaughlin tells the long story of the Howard book, provides detail and analysis of its cultural and historic significance, and places it within the context of Lakota and Cheyenne culture of the Plains during their fight against the invading Europeans. There is so much exciting work here for anyone who wants to know more about the events in the American west, where cultures clashed for nearly two centuries. During this time, Lakota, Cheyenne and other Plains tribes created a war based culture whose actual nature has not been fully understood. Most of our view is colored by images of that era framed by dime novels of the time and romanticized films of the 20th century. The ledger books give us an opportunity to see and experience this fraught period through actual Lakota and Cheyenne eyes, which is complicated and challenging. They also illustrate how warriors of that time appropriated the physical objects of their opponents as a way to capture their power as well.
The illustrations themselves are incredibly beautiful, and the stories they tell us, as interpreted by McLaughlin and Thunder Hawk, are completely engrossing. Getting a chance to talk to Ms. McLuaghlin about this book and her experiences as a social anthropologist was a great honor for me.
There is a great review of the book by Thomas Powers in the NY Review of Books, which is accompanied by excerpts of the art here.
Original exhibit of the book materials described here.
Castle McLaughlin is actively involved in the Nakota Horse Conservancy, which preserves some of the descendants of Lakota and Cheyenne horses. More about that here.


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I did buy one that I had alot of problems with the clasp (getting it undone).I also had a problem of getting it to adjust to the size I needed,but after I got over being upset with it I did send it back.True to their word I was able replace that one with a brand new one (basically I got the same one).It worked great and was cute.Still have it and no problems.
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We have many Lupine harnesses. They have great, vibrant patterns and the harnesses hold up very well. The biggest selling point is the warranty, though. My dogs tend to chew off the buckles if they can get ahold of one that's not being worn. However, to date they've only chewed on the less expensive local harnesses that aren't under warranty - go figure...
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