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Joyce Chng on YA in Singapore
Over at Visibility Fiction, Joyce Chng talks about writing YA and speculative fiction in Singapore. Here's an excerpt:
Lack of exposure and the tendency for Westerners to fix Asians in pigeonholes are not helping the situation. What are Southeast Asians supposed to write about? Literary fiction about oppressive regimes, sad cultural traditions, tortured souls (who then find solace in a Western world/man/woman etc) and what? If you want us to write about diversity, then let us write about diversity. Diversity in our terms, not your own, Western publishing industry. More non-US protagonists and characters, more exciting scenarios, more diversity in gender and sexual orientation.
You can read more at Visibility Fiction.
Table of Contents – We See a Different Frontier & Aliens: Recent Encounters
Here are two anthologies in 2013 which feature a diverse set of writers and topics.
First off, we have We See A Different Frontier edited by Ajibril al-Ayad and Fabio Fernandes:
- Preface by Aliette de Bodard
- Introduction by Fabio Fernandes
- The Arrangement of Their Parts, Shweta Narayan
- Pancho Villa's Flying Circus, Ernest Hogan
- Them Ships, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Old Domes, J.Y. Yang
- A Bridge of Words, Dinesh Rao
- The Gambiarra Effect, Fabio Fernandes
- Droplet, Rahul Kanakia
- Lotus, Joyce Chng
- Dark Continents, Lavie Tidhar
- A Heap of Broken Images, Sunny Moraine
- Fleet, Sandra McDonald
- Remembering Turinam, Nalin A. Ratnayake
- Vector, Benjanun Sriduangkaew
- I Stole the D.C.'s Eyeglass, Sofia Samatar
- Forests of the Night, Gabriel Murray
- What Really Happened in Ficandula, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
- Critical afterword by Ekaterina Sedia
Then there's Aliens: Recent Encounters edited by Alex Dally McFarlane:
- An Owomoyela – Frozen Voice
- Ken Liu – The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species
- Catherynne M. Valente – Golubash, or Wine-Blood-War-Elegy
- Zen Cho – The Four Generations of Chang E
- Vandana Singh – The Tetrahedon
- Paul McAuley – The Man
- Ursula K. Le Guin – Seasons of the Ansarac
- Molly Gloss – Lambing Season
- Desirina Boskovich – Celadon
- Genevieve Valentine – Carthago Delenda Est
- Caitlín R. Kiernan – I Am the Abyss and I Am the Light
- Jamie Barras – The Beekeeper
- Robert Reed – Noumenon
- Elizabeth Bear – The Death of Terrestial Radio
- Sofia Samatar – Honey Bear
- Karin Lowachee – The Forgotten Ones
- Jeremiah Tolbert – The Godfall's Chemsong
- Alastair Reynolds – For the Ages
- Brooke Bolander – Sun Dogs
- Nisi Shawl – Honorary Earthling
- Samantha Henderson – Shallot
- Sonya Taaffe – The Boy Who Learned How to Shudder
- Eleanor Arnason – Knacksack Poems
- Gitte Christensen – Nullipara
- Indrapramit Das – muo-ka's Child
- Jeffrey Ford – The Dismantled Invention of Fate
- Karin Tidbeck – Jagannath
- Pervin Saket – Test of Fire
- Nancy Kress – My Mother, Dancing
- Greg van Eekhout – Native Aliens
- Lavie Tidhar – Covenant
- Yoon Ha Lee – A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel
Tuesday Fiction: "On the Feast of Stephen" by Cyril Simsa
Today's Tuesday Fiction is by Cyril Simsa. Cyril Simsa is originally from London, but has lived in the Czech Republic since the 1990s. He has contributed translations and non-fiction to a wide variety of genre publications (including Foundation, Locus, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, and Wormwood). His stories have appeared in Electric Velocipede, StarShipSofa, Music for Another World, and occasionally also in Czech translation. The present story was first published, in a version by Eva Hauserová, in the Czech anthology Cynické fantazie [Cynical Fantasies], ed. Milan Petrák & Zdeněk Rampas (Millennium Publishing, 2011). Another story is forthcoming shortly in the German online magazine InterNova.
This is the story's first publication.
On the Feast of Stephen
Cyril Simsa
Just about every nation in Europe has its tale of a legendary hero, who lies sleeping under a hill, ready and eager to come to the rescue in its hour of greatest need.
King Arthur. Bran the Blessed. Charlemagne. We've all heard of them.
The thing that hadn't occurred to me—the thing that hadn't occurred to any of us, when we set off into the woods—was that, what with the history of migration in Central Europe, we couldn't be sure whose warrior was sleeping where, or whom we would end up summoning.
I don't remember which of us first came up with the idea that we should spend the Christmas break out on the hilltops, or who first noticed that St Stephen's Day—December 26th—was also a new moon that year. It might have been Marketa, our high priestess, or Treestump (his real name, for Czech surnames are nothing if not descriptive). Or maybe it was Marx, who was always trying to match up the planetary ephemeris with the Communist Manifesto. Whatever, the net result was that, while the Czech nation dozed off in front of their televisions, struggling to digest their heavy seasonal diet of carp soup and potato salad, we were parking our van at the foot of Great Blanik, the heavily wooded hill where Good King Wenceslas was said to rest.
It seemed strange to be worrying about global warming, down by the side of the icy road, for it was much colder out here in the country, surrounded by barren fields and the frozen whorls of muddy streams, than it had ever been in Prague. We had to keep reminding ourselves that the weather was still far warmer than it should have been—just barely a couple of degrees below zero, with no more than a hint of ashy dust between the trees, when really, we should have been snow-bound—and that no greater calamity would ever threaten the well-being of the nation than the prospect of a collapsing climate. Indeed, it could endanger the nation's very survival, for who knew where we would all be driven by shifting weather patterns and the great exodus from the South?
The Czechs had always prayed to St Wenceslas in times of crisis, and now so would we. At least that was Marketa's plan. Marketa, whose English cognate, Margaret, had given its name to the magpie, totem animal of the original lunar priestesses of the Slavs, and whose inconstant eye gathered to itself the moon and the stars, and the whole chymical fabric of the velvety summer night. Marketa, whose animal name-sake once a year stole the fading disc of the sun, and hid him under the icy roots of the trees, until his rebirth in the dark of the solstice.
And it was with Marketa in the lead that we headed off into the green.
Great Blanik is a glum and oppressive hill. Still covered in places by the original old-growth beech forest, now diluted by spruce and pine, it rises up out of the countryside like a giant Neolithic burial mound, its summit demarcated by the tumble-down remains of a Celtic hill fort and spooky natural rock formations, its broader hinterlands spanned by an ancient trading route. It looms up over the fields, like a sump for the back-wash of history—the forgotten tides of a much earlier state of being. It is not hard to imagine it at the centre of some carefully stone-built fiefdom. Its dominance is palpable. And, as dusk started to highlight the flickering windows of the far-flung villages beneath our parking spot, we picked up the knapsacks in which we had stowed our magical gear—all our ritual props and clutter—and set off along the darkening holloway to retrace the footsteps of those tens of thousands of pilgrims, who had visited these paths before. Our ancestors, or at least our antecessors. All those peoples and cultures whose lot it had been to precede us, and—who knows?—perhaps also to follow us in the endless round of unconscious genetic recombination that sweeps through our past like a zephyr.
It did not take us long to leave the everyday world far behind. As soon as the edge of the wood passed out of the field of our vision, the centuries seemed to close in, like the groves of the mammoth taiga, the feeble light of our torches barely denting the immemorial darkness. Our feet scrunched on the frost-rimed leaves like the ticking of a clock on the day of creation, while our breath streamed out in our wake like the shadows of a stratigraphy that was, if anything, even older. By the time we reached the summit, we could have been in any geological era from the Upper Pleistocene to the far-flung dying future of a Wells or a Hodgson. Only the present moment seemed real.
As we started to unload our kit, Marketa and Treestump quickly took charge. We had already agreed we would build a fire in the shelter of the two gneiss outcrops, not only to give us light to work by, but also as a link to the reality of the past—the way people had lived before Edison, before the Wizard of Menlo, at the flick of a switch, had turned off the lamp-black centuries. That task fell to Marx and Agrafena and Julia Goizenboded. Cupertina and Vercundia were set to unpacking and unravelling the costumes, which had somehow always belonged amongst our group's favourite ritual items, while Vernal and I had the job of clearing the ground of sharp sticks and stones, and those rather less savoury fragments of detritus that so often seemed to infest any location that was prone to the DT's. Day-trippers, that is. Marketa and Treestump, meanwhile, did, well, whatever it is that shamans and high priestesses do to prepare themselves for a performance…
Soon, all too soon, we were ready.
Marketa—her slender body draped in her favourite indigo robe, and her long, wavy hair framed by a silver lunar headdress—led. Treestump—his naked torso stocky and muscular, and hairy enough to give the impression he was sprouting a layer of moss—seconded, in a necklace of dried beech leaves and antlers. While the rest of us, dressed up in a strange mixture of fake fur and polished stone amulets and animal masks—wolves with jet bangles, rabbits with amber rings and brooches, wild cats with claws of haematite—followed. In retrospect, I suppose it must all have been pretty incongruous, out there in the woods, but I'd seen so many peculiar juxtapositions in town—so many weird combinations of celebrant and ornament, in the pagan salons of the suburbs—I thought no more about it. It was just how we worked.
Two of the boys had brought their drums with them, and as we started to dance around the fire, their able fingers began to tap out a rhythm that matched the clustered stanzas of our footfalls. And, as the rest of us shuffled along in a kind of timeless gavotte with the drummers, Marketa and Treestump pulled out a couple of slender, fluted swords, spinning their polished blades around their heads in complex ellipses, flashing gold in the darkness, until we were all dizzy.
I couldn't tell you who had first suggested that the swordsmith should use copper, but it was certainly effective. The ruddy blades glowed the colour of a giant red sun in the firelight, evoking memories of the diffuse carnelian sunset of the deepest midwinter, or an obliquely refracted premonition of the end of time. Maybe the original idea had been to reflect the sunrise, the awakening of the Lord of Light from his cold, dark, terrestrial womb—the fall of the Spruce King and the rise of the Beech King, the death and rebirth of the seasons—but the end result was decidedly one of decay and decline. Like a fin-de-siecle lithograph of a dying pagan priestess evoking the flames of Svantovit, printed in a combination of gold and violet on a background of rose madder. Like the murky bronze livery that disguised the petticoats of the notorious Satan Cep. Like a pool of the King's dried blood.
I have no idea how many of us were really expecting the ritual to come to anything. Judging by our previous success rate, perhaps none of us. So it came as something of a surprise when the forest began to stir, as if in response to our footfalls.
At first, it was just the vaguest of impressions that the reflection of the flames in the trees was growing wilder—the shadows, more fluid, the rustling of the leaves, louder. Gradually, though, it began to dawn on me that the earth itself was trembling. It was almost as if the cold, hard dirt might, after all, be giving birth to the much-prophesied child of the solstice. As if the very ground had decided to take on a new life of its own, after a long and difficult confinement. But it was not until the dry spruces started to fall around our fire-pit, with a shriek like a thousand basilisks, that we really knew we were in trouble.
Up to this point, we had all done our best to carry on as if nothing was happening. As if standing around at the epicentre of a potentially lethal firestorm was something we did every day. But now, even Marketa—for all her patrician manner, and her Goddess-given self-belief—faltered. She stopped in the ruins of our scattered circle, her long, elegant arms frozen in mid-gesture, her silver crown slipping down the back of her neck. She turned uncertainly to survey the tree-lined nave of her church and her acolytes, and though her eyes still reflected that same incongruous shade of chicory blue we all found so fascinating, they now also bore an expression of strain and anxiety. I think it was the very first time any of us had seen her hesitate .
She spun on her heel, her body slumping forward, the haunted look about her eyes deepening. She raised her arms and clasped them protectively around her head, as if she was being attacked by a swarm of invisible wasps. As if it had finally occurred to her to look for an exit.
Too late.
Even as the whole raggle-taggle bunch of us retreated to the edge of the clearing, the outcrops where we had built our fire began to open up like a pair of orchids, and the earth bulged upwards, as if a giant mole was coming up for air, direct from the banks of the Styx. Or at least its Central European tributary.
And then he stood before us. Good King Wenceslas—patron saint of the Czechs and, we hoped, saviour of humanity—complete with his mount. Not for him the mealy-mouthed subservience to corporate interests and the dubious blue bird of freedom we had come to expect from our present-day political leaders. Not for him the world of coalition and compromise. Here, I was willing to wager, was a true warrior—a hero who would be glad to take on his role as defender of the faith and standard-bearer of total victory. Here, at last, was a man who would assess the state of the world in its full complexity, and act for the benefit of the whole nation. For him, it would be all or nothing.
True, he was a little smaller that I might have expected, but then, people were shorter in the past, weren't they? And he had no shortage of manly qualities. Even from a distance, I could see his body was hard and muscular. He was dressed in an absolutely filthy leather jerkin that any normal city dweller, in their modernity, could have smelled from several paces, but somehow that did nothing to detract from his masculinity. Perhaps just the opposite. His eyes were protected by a pair of unusually prominent brow-ridges, and his hair was pulled back from a sloping forehead in a complex top-knot. He had prominent teeth, filed to triangular points, and a set of strangely spiralling tattoos that covered the naked expanse of his face and neck and hands pretty much completely. His heavy boots were spattered with mud and flecks of something white, which even by fire-light looked suspiciously like fragments of bone—to say nothing of the rusty brown stains on his leggings…
His horse was brawny and squat, and evidently used to heavy lifting—its build reminded me of nothing so much as a baby rhinoceros—with a crude verdigris-stained bit in its mouth, and leather armour around its head. It stamped impatiently, as if the one thing it craved most, after all these centuries, was a bit of exercise. Preferably violent.
They were not a pretty sight. And, wherever they had come from, it did not take me long to realise this was not the same Wenceslas that Jirasek, and all those other well-meaning nineteenth-century Christians, had imagined during the Czech National Revival. No, this Wenceslas, with his shaman's breath and his tribal markings, was of a more distant, and altogether more ancient, provenance. Not alien, exactly, but certainly not from Schengen. The representative of another of those endless warrior castes that had periodically swept in from the plains of Asia. Pre-modern. Perhaps, even, judging by the look of him, pre-human.
He peered around at our circle short-sightedly, as if struggling to get his bearings, and it was clear he was as perplexed by us, as we were by him. A look of bemusement crossed his face, and for a moment he seemed almost to pinch himself. Then, muttering something wheezing and guttural, in what I presume must have been some kind of language—though to my untrained ears it sounded more like the gabbling of a phthisic dwarf—he turned his horse around smartly, and rode away into the dark.
For a few seconds, there was silence. But if we had assumed that, with his departure, our ordeal would be over, we were wrong. Before we could begin to relax, the ground heaved again, and another knight followed.
And another. And another.
We counted thirteen in all, including Wenceslas himself, before the night was still.
And then, at last, as the dust finally settled on the frosty ground, I allowed myself to look at my companions. None of them wanted to meet my gaze. But, if their expressions were anything to go by, they must have been just as confused as I was, and just as dismayed at the prospect that this might all be real. Of course, we've all read reports in the newspapers about mass hallucinations and mob psychosis, but it's quite another thing to experience something like that first-hand. To feel the presence—the sheer, awesome physicality—of something so manifestly impossible. To accept the irrationality of the moment, the derangement of your being and your senses. Just, for once, to lose control.
At first, I was afraid Treestump might use the opportunity to launch into one of his annoying and inapposite monologues—he was always a talker—but in the end nobody said anything. Not even Marketa. We simply dispersed quietly to our separate homes, and though we never took a vow of silence or anything, we might as well have done.
I heard nothing from anyone in the following days. Indeed, it was a couple of weeks before I could even bear to think of seeing them, and by that time it was all too clear it had been no hallucination. That our real dilemma would be coming to terms with what, in our well-meaning naiveté, we had done.
Yes, just about every nation in Europe has its tale of a legendary hero, who lies sleeping under a hill, ready and eager to come to the rescue in its hour of greatest need. But who knows where these myths have their origins? Are they really just wishful memories from the historical record, or are they far older than that?
What if the sleeper has been watching over the country far longer than we have? What if the spirit of the land lay down to rest not in the romantic glow of knights errant and damsels in distress and the pursuit of the Graal, but in the lunatic fire of an altogether stranger and more ancient stratigraphy? Chthonic. Tectonic. Atlantean, or worse… What if our national hero should emerge from the ground as the avatar of some long-forgotten race from beyond any fully human notion of time, rising like some latter-day conquistador out of the great Indo-European grasslands and, like every conquistador, bringing his own agenda with him…?
Yes, Good King Wenceslas, or Arthur the Bear, or whoever it was we had summoned, came riding in from his antique land, accompanied not only by his nameless horde, but also by any number of interesting, previously extinct Palaeolithic diseases.
Kandahar plague. Pre-human immune deficiency virus. Sudden acute respiratory consumptive syndrome. Plains Ebola. Bear flu.
And, for a time, I thought that, far from being our defender and champion, he had turned out to be the Fourth Horseman. But, on reflection, had we not gone into the woods and begged him to save us from global warming? And by wiping out our cities, and reducing our population, and leaving the world in the hands of the low-carbon civilisation of the steppe, has he not done just that?
Which only goes to show that our planet has a great deal more sense than we have.
Our mother, Gaia, with her tough love.
Our cousin, Artos, from the distaff side of the family.
And our not-so-selfish genes, which have finally decided to put right the transcription error that accompanied our migration out of Africa, when we started to build our empires.
We, the Cro-Magnon.
The children of steel and fire.
The most dangerous plague of all.
Interview with Joan De la Haye
Joan De La Haye writes horror and some very twisted thrillers. She invariably wakes up in the middle of the night, because she's figured out yet another freaky way to mess with her already screwed up characters.Joan is interested in some seriously weird shit. That's probably also one of the reasons she writes horror.
Hi Joan! Thanks for agreeing to do the interview. First off, how did you first become acquainted with fantasy, with horror, etc.?
I must admit I wasn't a big horror fan growing up. I only found it in my twenties thanks to a friend handing me a copy of Stephen King's Misery and telling me not to be such a literary snob. Then another friend got me reading Anne Rice and then I discovered my Dads collection of Dennis Wheatley books. I haven't stopped reading genre fiction since.
What's the appeal of fiction for you?
I think everybody loves to be swept away by a good story. We all want to escape from the mundane day to day of our daily lives and I think the best way to allow our imaginations to take flight is within the pages of a good book.
Since you write in a lot of genres, how would you describe your writing?
In a word, twisted. But if you need a longer explanation, I guess my writing is a little on the dark side. I explore the darker aspects of human nature and ask a few uncomfortable questions about that nature.
Is there a preferred format that you prefer, since you seem to write everything from short stories to novels?
I really enjoy writing shorter fiction. I'm not the most patient of people and quiet enjoy being able to thump out a story in a matter of days. But the long form also has a special place. There are some stories that need to be explored on a far deeper level that you just can't do with short fiction. You also get to know a character far better in the novel format. So I guess that's just the long way of saying that I like all the guises that fiction comes in. It's important for a writer to be able to use all the tools at their disposal. It's the story that dictates the length.
How did you end up getting published by Fox Spirit?
I've known Adele Wearing for a couple years now. I got to know her as a reviewer and after she reviewed my first book, Shadows, we became firm friends. Then when Shadows needed a new home and she was looking for books to publish for her new publishing company, Fox Spirit, I knew that it would be the perfect fit. Adele is a force of nature and will accomplish great things with Fox Spirit. I'm just proud that I can be a part of it.
What's the field like there in South Africa?
The Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror fields here are still pretty small but they are growing. The genre writers are a small group and we all seem to know and support each other. It's an emerging market.
What made you decide to set your novel in Pretoria?
I think it's important to set a story in a place that you're pretty intimate with. I set Shadows in Johannesburg because I was living there while I was writing it. I set Requiem in E Sharp in Pretoria because it's my home town and where I now live once again. It's an interesting city with a very high murder rate. It's also a city I know better than any other and I discover new things about it every day.
Who are some of the authors or what books interest/inspired you?
The obvious one is Stephen King. Just the huge body of his work is inspiring. Then there's Clive Barker, probably another obvious one. I also recently got to meet John Connolly in the flesh. The fluidity of his writing is inspirational. He's also just a really nice guy, completely down to earth and easy to talk to. It's always wonderful to meet a big name author like that.
Anything else you want to plug?
Readers can find out anything they need to know about my books on my website: http://joandelahaye.com/ and they can follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/JoanDeLaHaye
They can also have a look at all the books published by Fox Spirit http://www.foxspirit.co.uk/. Adele has put together a fantastic collection of books and authors, all of which are worth checking out.
Indian SF Magazine
We recently received an emailed from Geetanjali Dighe of Mumbai, India, who started a new digital magazine. Here's what
he they said:
Indian SF is a free to read digital magazine featuring Speculative Fiction (SF) stories. SF broadly stands for Science Fiction and Fantasy. It is published from Mumbai, India.
Indian SF welcomes writers from all across the world, but wants to especially encourage Indian writers / writers of Indian origin.
Indian SF pays INR 750/- for original fiction and to the featured digital artist.
The Jan-Feb 2013 issue is the very first one. It features some re-published stories and original fiction and non-fiction.
And here's the current table of contents:
Flash Fiction:
X Marks the Spot by Kat Otis
Two men follow a treasure map and get more than they bargained for.
Short Stories:
Staying Behind by Ken Liu
Those that have uploaded to machines try to steal children.
The Boy Who Cried Wolf by Ram V
There is more to the wolves that the boy sees in his dreams.
Goddess by Lavanya Karthik
A man finds a Goddess with three heads in Bhopal after the 'Gas'.
With the writer and artist of Legends of Aveon 9 comic
Book Reviews:
Payal Dhar's Satin – A Stitch in Time
Anil Menon's The Beast With Nine Billion Feet
Reviewed by Mandar Talvekar
Digital Art:
A few Digital Art images (and cover) by Stephan Hurlmann
- June 2013 (9)
- May 2013 (10)
- April 2013 (12)
- March 2013 (15)
- February 2013 (11)
- January 2013 (15)
- December 2012 (4)
- November 2012 (14)
- October 2012 (16)
- September 2012 (16)
- August 2012 (22)
- July 2012 (13)
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"I think the biggest mistake we made was betting too much on HTML 5 rather than native. It's just not there."
"We burnt 2 years. It is really painful. We' look back on that and see that one of the biggest strategic mistakes we made."
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Starbucks also encountered significant issues with HTML5 as well:
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Things started out fast for Thomas as he broke off a 43-yard run on his first carry before finishing off the opening drive with a short touchdown run. Part of a solid first offensive performance for the Yellow Jackets, Thomas said it was something to build on as they prepare to face Carrolton (Ga.) High this Friday night.
"I felt like we did good," Thomas said. "There are some things we need to work on, but overall the offensive line did a great job, the receiving corps did a great job and the defense did a great job. I think it was a great job overall."
Putting the craziness of recruiting behind him as he gets ready for his senior season, Thomas said he's glad it's football time once again.
"It feels great," he noted. "Just practicing with my team and hitting those other guys, it feels good playing against somebody else."


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The Nazi insignia would be an issue for me however. I'd not want to imply any sympathy for the ideals represented by it.
The German man who ripped the head off of the wax Hitler was behaving in a very German way. Modern Germans are very aware of what their forbears did, and most of them feel very guilty about it. "No more war!" is an expression of that guilt, and also of a very German desire that such things should never happen again.
Contrast that with the refusal of the Japanese government to acknowledge the barbaric excesses committed by their troops during the same period. Current Japanese schoolbooks actually portray Japan as the victim of WW2!
Contrast it, also, to the behavior of Kofi Annan and the UN in the matter of the Rwanda massacre. The UN still has neither acknowledged, nor apologized for, Annan's refusal to act to keep the murders from happening, in the face of repeated warnings from the UN "peacekeeper" commanding officer who was on-scene at the time.
The Nazi insignia would be an issue for me however. I'd not want to imply any sympathy for the ideals represented by it.
Adolf Hitler is speeding through Germany with his chauffeur at the wheel on his way to an important address.
Driving down a country road, the chauffeur (who is distracted, looking out the window at the countryside) doesn't see a pig walk out onto the road, and he hits it with the car.
Stopping the car, he jumps out, and Adolf climbs out also to see what is going on. The chauffeur, very distressed by what he's done asks Hitler what they should do, and Hitler tells him impatiently that they're in a hurry and they should move the pig to the side of the road and go to the address and worry about it later.
All the way to the address the chauffeur, who is a fairly good-hearted person despite his employer, is worried about the family who owned the pig and wondered how they'd react to discovering the pig, so when they arrived he asked Hitler whether he shouldn't drive back to the farm and let them know what happened.
Hitler agrees before hurrying to the podium, and the Chauffeur hurries back down the road.
Four hours later, stumbling down the road, his arms full of sausage and bread and his breath smelling of liquor.
Hitler in a rage demands to know what has happened to him, and the chauffeur explains, "I did what I thought was right. I went to the farm where I killed the pig. When I went and knocked on the door and gave them the news, they gave me this sausage and bread, fed me the best ale I've ever tasted and let me have their way with their beautiful nubile young daughter and then sent me on my way."
Adolf seemed confused by this and asks his chauffeur, "well what exactly did you tell them?"
To which the chauffeur replied, "I really can't understand it either, all I did was tell them "I'm Hitler's Chauffeur, and I killed the pig."
Here's an actual WW2-era, German joke that got wide circulation in about 1943-44:
Hitler, Himmler, Göring, and Göbbels were flying together to a Nazi rally in Nüremberg.
The plane crashed.
Who was saved?
Answer: The German people.
(If we're gonna hijack a thread, let's do it right!)
...Vell, I sink you need Berlitz or Rosetta Stone, und ja schnell!
Why the interest in Nazi memorabilia?
That's why I collect and the fact that the Nazis Did build some beautiful stuff. Daggers, guns, etc. Historic works of art..
I think there may be a little over-reaction here. I see all kinds of weapons on Gunbroker and other sites with German/Nazi proof stamps commanding higher $$ than those without. I just don't see all the hate over a pair of grips? Tell me why one is OK and the other is not?


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BOV introduce touch screen ATM
Bank of Valletta has installed a touch screen ATM, the first in Malta, at the Embassy Complex in Valletta.
The bank said the new ATM strengthened its position as the bank that operates the largest ATM network in Malta and Gozo. It also confirmed BOV's position as a technological innovator in this field. Recently, the bank also introduced the first ATM fully protected with ink stain technology.
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If anyone knows of any others please don't hesitate to let me know. Additionally, I know the UCL course has a slightly different focus (looking at real time rending) but I also enjoy the technical side (programming) etc.
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Well with your foot injury you will want a damp board, NS does that well. If you like to stay off groomers and ride the trees either hybrid rocker/camber is the way to go to help with float and turn initiation. If you plan to ride switch a lot you will want to stick to a true twin.
The only way to narrow it down further is to figure out what kind of flex your looking for. A softer board like the evo is going to be fun for slower playful riding and will be very forgiving, but has a looser feel to it and will chatter at speed. A stiffer board like say the heritage, will be a more challenging ride, but will give you more stability to open up the throttle on those double blacks. I'm guessing you want something more in the mid flex range which in the NS line would be the SL (now the Snowtrooper I think) or the Proto. Unfortunately the SL isn't a true twin so less ideal for switch riding and the Proto isn't nearly as damp as most NS boards.
Other boards though that fit that profile would be Yes Basic/Jackpot, Salomon Assassin, K2 Happy Hour, Lib Tech TRS, K2 Subculture, Burton Custom FV Twin, Slash Happy Place. I haven't rode all of these but see them commonly referred as very versatile all mt boards.
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|if you really like the evo, go for it. but that is by no means an all mountain board and is definitely more geared towards park. personally i think there are way better options out there for you.
|first of all let me tell you im no spring chicken,im 40..going down double blacks is not a problem and i do my s-turns down the double blacks no problem, i dont avoid them , i like them,last season i started going of tree stump, i like staying off groomers when possible, as far as park goes, i try to stay out of there cause at 40 i dont bounce well off of stuff but my 8 year old daughter i likes it so i gots to follow the leader.. as far as boards ive ridden i think it was a rosignal amp which was stiff as hell, traditional camber, then i went to a capita horrorscope flat rocker, then to a 154 ns evo for afew times but it came apart so i sent it back. i liked the evo the best out of the 3...this season i plan to ride switch cause i just had knee surgery on my lead foot...and thanx for taking the time, much appriciated
Well you're on the right track with some of those boards. The proto could be a good option it's just not going to be very stable at 155, a 160 would be a winner. From Yes the Basic and Jackpot are good all mt freestyle boards, the Asym/Greats if you want more all mt. The outsiders is closer to traditional camber and pretty damn stiff, I think the DOA would be a better call but they're impossible to find on sale. To really give a good recommendation I'd need a little more info:
1) You say you've been riding for 3 years but how would you describe your riding ability? (are you able to ride all in bounds terrain and just working on improving your technique or are you still avoiding double black terrain?)
2) What boards have you previously rode?
3) Specifically what type of riding are you looking to do (bomb groomers, trees, powder, park, etc.)? If you are looking for a "do everything" kind of board is there one area you would be willing to sacrifice in order to improve performance in another?
|what boards do you recommend to progress? i was thinking of getting a yes board or the capita outsiders board , i want to try out cam-rock,ill be waiting for end of season sales of coarse.
|Ok so you definitely have access to some big mt terrain then. To me both of those boards are basically just versatile freestyle decks. If you take a freestyle approach to riding the mountain then great, but if you are interested in speed and progressing your all mountain riding then there are better boards out there. NS makes great decks, but they're expensive. It sounds like you're compromising because of an attractive price tag, but you can do better with $300.
|tahoe riding, kirkwood,northstar,heavenly,,,,im still a rookie this will be my 3rd season, i do ok just not a speed demon, yet!
|You'll be fine with the width. I have to ask though: where are you riding and what do you consider all mt riding? The proto is a bit more stable but at 155 that's still more of a park board for me.
|i also picked up the proto hdx 155 couldnt pass on the deal 304 new, thats why i was asking on the wide , its not as wide as the i 158 but its rated up to 180lbs, i use a 12 boot, i been on a regular size board but for the price i can adjust
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How is the edge to edge on that revolver? I know its not much wider just wondering if by the end of the day that little bit of width will fatigue you?
I should also note I live in the midwest and do most of my riding on about 700 ft of vertical. If you ride soft snow on a smaller mountain (or just don't ride very fast) it could be a really fun all mountain freestyle kind of board, but it's definitely not a board I would take on a trip out west.
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Two graphs, inluding the brand new one to the left, show two (mutually affirming) analyses of the trajectory of Arctic sea ice over the last 30 years.
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1988'S MAGICAL SEASON - The 1988 Lakers, led by captains Terry Hossack and Craig Hewson, cruised to a first-place finish in the CCHA to began an impressive NCAA Tournament run that advanced to the Frozen Four in Lake Placid, N.Y., site of the 1980 Winter Olympics. During the championship game against St. Lawrence, Mark Vermette knocked in a game-winning rebound goal at 4:46 of the first overtime. LSSU then brought home its first of three NCAA Division I national hockey championship titles. (LSSU Archives)
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SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – Lake Superior State opens regular-season play against Atlantic Hockey's Robert Morris at 7:37 p.m. Friday and 5:07 p.m. Saturday at the Taffy Abel Arena. The series will also feature a 25th reunion for the 1988 National Champions and Laker Hockey Parents Weekend.
The public is invited to festivities for the 1988 team. A pre-game tailgate at the Alumni House is 5-7 p.m. Friday. It's free for Alumni Association members and $5 for the public. Following Friday's game, the Soo BlueLiners are hosting a social at the Cisler Center, and special guests include Laker Hockey parents and 1988 alumni. A post-game social is scheduled for Saturday at Moloney's Alley.
Former Lakers from the 1987-88 squad who will be in attendance this weekend include Kord Cernich, Karl Johnston, Rene Chapdelaine, Ken Martel, Tim Harris, Terry Hossack, Craig Hewson, Mike DeCarle, Jeff Jablonski, Jeff Napierala, Brett Barnett, Pete Stauber, Dan Keczmer, Anthony Palumbo, Ed Fuss, Dean Dyer, Brandon Reed and Doug Laprade. LSSU coach Jim Roque '87 was a volunteer assistant coach for the Lakers that season.
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LSSU enjoyed a magical season in 1987-88 after finishing the 1986-87 season with a disappointing loss to Ohio State during the first round of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association Playoffs. The Lakers, led by captains Terry Hossack and Craig Hewson, took off to a 9-1-1 start in 1987-88 and cruised to a first-place finish in the CCHA. They lost 5-3 to Bowling Green State during the CCHA Playoff Finals, then began an impressive NCAA Tournament run.
LSSU split with Merrimack during the first round of the national tournament, losing 4-3 and winning 5-1, and advanced to the Frozen Four thanks to its total-goals advantage. While playing beautiful Lake Placid, N.Y., site of the 1980 Winter Olympics, the Mike deCarle and Jim Dowd scored two goals each as the Lakers beat Maine 6-3 in the NCAA semifinals.
During the championship game, St. Lawrence, a school of similar size to LSSU, battled back from a 2-0 first-period deficit, tying the game 2-2 at 7:49 of the second period at 3-3 at 17:24. Mark Vermette knocked in a game-winning rebound goal during a flurry in front of the SLU net at 4:46 of the first overtime. Defenseman Kord Cernich scored two goals and Tim Harris one during regulation.
Goaltender Bruce Hoffort was named the NCAA Tournament Most-Valuable Player after compiling 82 saves during the series, while Cernich and deCarle were named to the all-tournament team. Vermette was named U.S. College Hockey Player of the Year and a Hobey Baker Award finalist, and coach Frank Anzalone received the Spencer Penrose National Coach of the Year Award.
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LSSU last played Robert Morris during the 2009-10 season, defeating the Colonials 7-6 and 2-0 in Pittsburgh, Pa. Overall, the Lakers lead the all-time series against Robert Morris, 5-1-0. At the Taffy Abel Arena, LSSU is 3-1-0.
The Lakers lost a home exhibition game, 3-2, to the U.S. National Team Development Program Under-18 squad last Sunday. Senior forward Dan Radke tallied both goals for the Lakers, while senior forward Colin Campbell netted two assists. Senior defenseman Zach Sternberg earned one assist to round out Lakers' scoring.
The Colonials are coming off a 2-0 exhibition win to Toronto. Zac Lynch tallied one goal and one assist during the win over Toronto. Lynch led the RMU 2012-13 freshmen class in point scoring with 5-9--14. The Colonials return their leading goal scorer, Cody Wydo (21-12--33), who tied for first in overall goals scored in the Atlantic Hockey League last season.
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For a while now, I've been using Hailo as a European poster child for innovation in the context of big data analytics. Due to the level of interest generated by this example, and the number of questions I've received along the way about Hailo, its technology and business model, etc., I decided to put together this blog post rather than write loads of separate emails.
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Notes from the TechAmerica Europe seminar in Brussels, March 27, 2013
This may not be the most timely event write-up ever produced, but in light of all the discussions I've had on the same themes during the past few weeks, I thought I'd share my notes anyway.
The purpose of the event was to peel away some of the hype layers around the "big data" discussion, and — from a European perspective — take a look at the opportunities as well as challenges brought by the increasing amounts of data that is available, and the technologies that enable its exploitation. As was to be expected, an ever-present subtext was the potential of having laws and regulations put in place which — while well-intentioned — can ultimately stifle innovation and even act against consumer interests. And speaking of innovation: Another theme running through several of the discussions was the seeming lack of technology-driven innovation in Europe, in particular when considered in the context of an economic environment in dire need of every stimulus it can get.
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The Perth Trots form part of the harness racing season that is separated into two classifications, trotting and pacing.
The Perth Trots are held every Friday night at Gloucester Park track and was in fact the stage for the very first Inter Dominion Championship. The pinnacle of the harness racing season and not an exclusive Perth Trot, it is something that the Perth Trots are synonymous for and that is high quality races that are contested from the opening bell and right down the home straight.
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camshaft mistake!
For my 305 chevy Caprice wagon 2 bbl 1978 that I am currently rebuilding, a friend bought for me the wrong camshaft.
But I wonder if I could use it.
He took the sealed Power CS 673, which covers the 76-80 GM truck applications, which seems to deliver for trucks: 140 HP at 3800rpm, and 235ft/lbs@2000rpm, instead of the Sealed Power CS711 which gives: 145hp at 3800rpm and 245ft/lbs@2400 rpm torque for cars.
What would be the inconvenients or advantages using that truck camshaft on my car in terms of driving and fuel economy?
Thank you again.
it would be nice if you could give us cam specs. duration, lift, lsa.
a good sealed power cam for your application would be a KC-274.
(194/203 at 0.050",112 LSA)
I only have a few specs from the 78 stock camshaft, and nothing for the new (wrong) CS673 I have.
Stock camshaftI have:
journal diameter: 1.8682- 1.8692
Lobe lift:
Intake .2217
Exhaust .2315
Camshaft end play: .003- .008
That's all I have for the moment!
Here are the specs I found for both camshafts:
CS 711: Duration at .050" 178 int, 194 Exh, Lobe separation 108
CS 673: Duration at .050" 189 int, 202 Exh, Lobe separation 109
So if someone can say if the 673 will do it without changing the springs, and what will be the results, mainly at highway speeds and the fuel economy it will make, it will be great!
The 673 looks like a good cam for small block in search of mpg and low rpm torque. I think the 673 should work well with cr between 7.5 and 8.5:1, and gears in the 2.50 to 3.08 range. And would work well with stock exhaust and stock heads. Plus it will have much better top end than the 711. That 711 is a very weak cam.
The 673 is about the same cam that I recommended that you to get. But I actually like the 673 better for your engine. The narrower 109 lsa will help build cylinder pressure and help the stock intake port breath better.
I bet you can run stock spring with that cam, since I doubt the lift would be more that 0.420" with that cam and it will not make power past 4800 rpm. I'm guessing your 305 will make 200hp with that cam even with stock exhaust.
If you are looking for mpg. Use a stock 4bbl intake and a Q-jet. Small tube headers would also help but make extra noise. I would also run 2-1/4 exhaust with dynomax super turbos and a x-pipe. With the above mods (headers, exhaust, carb) you could expect 225hp and an extra 2 mpg on the highway.
Thank you very much for your sharp answer. I begin to think it wil will be better to install the 673!
I do hope the springs will be the same, usually GM doesn't change springs between so close engines, but I will check (if you have an idea where...). One thing I know is that on books they usually put umbrella rotators even on intake springs for truck applications. I don't think it's necessary to do so.
I live in France, and here such an old car is authorized on roads without catalyst, so even without headers it will work fine.
At the end of my job this should do a good an simple wagon to use that maybe can haul easier.
Meanwhile, this year 305 is 2bbl equiped and I plan in the future to install a Quadrajet I have on the shelves. One thig at a time!
Thank you again.
Required spring force is a function of rpm and valve lift and cam lift rate. I'm sure your stock springs will work fine with that mild cam.
I have run cams with 20 degrees more duration and up to 5500 rpm with stock springs without any issues.
The trick for flat tappet cam durability is it run as little spring as possible. This is especially true for todays motor oil which are low on antiwear additives for emission reasons.
You can change the springs later if you have valve float at higher rpms. Just make sure the valve spring has enough travel for the lift of the cam.
Ok, I checked different head components ref over 2 suppliers:
Valves, Rockers, lifters are similar, exhaust and intake springs are the same on the 78 wagon, but they use a different ref just for the 78 truck intake springs, and the same ref for the exhaust ones. I wonder why .
I also noticed different valve seats insert ref between them, maybe they put heavy duty valve seats on trucks.
Anyway this drive me little by little to a yes doing the job instead of buying the cs711.
OK, another strange problem.
Before installing that sealed power cs 673, I just proceeded to a check between my worn out GM original cam and this new one.
I was surprised to find that the lobe lift was bigger on the old one than on the new cs 673.
Does anyone can give me an explaination?
I don't feel safe installing that 673, there's maybe an error of package!
The part number is usually stamped into the back of the camshaft, along with the manufacturer brand name. Check to see if the CS673 is boxed wrong, or if the camshaft was changed in your 305 already.
It's quite possible a rebuilt engine has been put in your car sometime in the last 40 years. Then there is another thought I have that the rebuilt engine could be a 350.
First off, let me say that when I answer a question on this board, I try to explain it in very simple terms and perhaps go overboard so that the younger enthusiasts who perhaps have less experience at these things can understand what's going on. All of us began at zero knowledge and I'm sure there are some of those individuals reading this.
In checking cam lobe lift, let's establish some references so that we're all on the same page. If you hold the cam up and sight through the longitudinal axis of it like you were looking through a telescope and hold the tallest part of the lobe in the "up" position, you can imagine that point on the lobe as the "North" position on a compass. Halfway around the lobe, at the bottom of the lobe where it is the shortest, we might imagine as the "South" position on a compass. To the left would be West and to the right would be East.
Now, when comparing two cams, always measure each cam on the exact same lobe one cam to the other. Reason is, if the cam is ground on a "split pattern" or "dual pattern", then the intake lobe is ground differently from the exhaust lobe. Usually, the exhaust lobe will have more duration and lift than the intake lobe on cams for a street motor or moderate race motor.
Another thing to consider, one cam to another, is that the base circle diameter may be a little different based on who ground the cam and whether or not one of them was ground on a reduced base circle in order to work in a special application such as using a 3.750" Chevy 400 crankshaft in a Chevy 350 block. Most times, there is interference between the rod bolt head and the camshaft lobe on one or more positions of the cam, so some of the manufacturers will grind the cam on a smaller base circle in order for the rods to clear at the cam lobes. When using a reduced base circle cam, longer pushrods must be used to make up the difference in the "stack" height from the base circle of the cam to the rocker arm. Grinding the cam on a reduced base circle does not necessarily mean the cam has less lift than a similar cam ground on a full base circle. It's the DIFFERENCE between the base circle and the peak of the lobe that determines the lift of the cam lobe.
Now, back to regularly scheduled programming.....
Using your dial caliper or micrometer, measure the north-south dimension on front lobe nearest the drive pin. Write it down. Now, measure the east-west dimension of the same lobe. Write it down under the north-south dimension. Subtract. Now, you have the lobe lift at the cam. Multiply that figure times the rocker arm ratio to find theoretical valve lift of that particular lobe. If you measure each lobe in this manner and keep a running tally on another sheet of paper, you'll be able to make sense of the cam when you're through.
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So, thanks for your suggestion.
First, the engine I am working on is the original one and had never been opened I am the third owner of the car.
About the number stamped on the camshaft, none are similar to the sealed power commercial reference, cs673. I found: 113220 and 371030 USA and 1539. I even checked on the federal mogul site to find theme, but no way.
Second I took the lobe dimensions in the good way, like your North, south East West exemple and did the difference to find the cam lift figures.
I also understand that the pushrod length play an important action in the lift value figures, but the # I found in parts catalogs for them is similar between both engines (truck or car).
As I live in France here you have my metric figures about valve lifttaken from exhaust and intake cam lobes)
Old worn out GM Car cam lift: exh 6.9, Int 6.9
CS 673 Truck new: exh 7.1, Int 6.2
GM Car theorical Chilton shop manual figures: exh 6.6, Int 6.3
I don't have the best micrometer, so these figures can vary a little, but the very strange figures are for me those from the GM worn out one should I beleive these Chilton's figures?
Now I plan to reorder a basic CS 711 for my 305 but I take much time checking that cs 673 because shipping over here is rather expensive, more than the cost of the part.
Thank you for your help.
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CGTC Nursing Instructor Recognized
Patrice Balkcom, RN, Nursing Instructor at Central Georgia Technical College's Milledgeville Campus, was recently inducted to the Sylvia Bond Nursing Society's scholarship board. The Sylvia Bond Nursing Society (SBNS) originated in 2000 to encourage people to choose nursing as a career by educating, role modeling, recognizing and celebrating the nursing profession. The goal of the society is to develop highly skilled and specialized nurse leaders to excel in the profession and to educate and mentor others.
|Submitted by Rebecca Ledford
August 30, 2005
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