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Maps, dining options, and more info you'll need to make the most of your Art All Night DC 2013 experience.
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A funky way to designate the Men's Room at your Halloween bash... from the site: This auction is for a beautiful and vibrant 13" x 19" fine art giclee on acid free archival enhanced matte paper, using top quality UltraChrome pigmented inks that are resistant to water, fading, and smudging. It is dated, numbered, and signed by the artist in pencil. A convenient white border surrounds the artwork to make it a breeze for matting and framing. This item is released in an edition of 250. Frame not included.


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Family and food. That's what makes me happy. I've got two daughters, and I was a foster mother for years. With some of my foster kids, the parenting never finishes. I'll be at their weddings. And they'll keep eating my food.
I had a friend who wanted to open a Mexican restaurant in Greece. I'd never been a chef but I'd lived in Mexico when I was 16 and was confident with the food. So we went to Greece. I rang social services and they didn't mind, so I had two daughters, a foster child and her sister and my niece in tow. I liked restaurant life, so I started one when I returned to the UK.
The soul food I serve is another slant on American cuisine. It is comfort. It is happiness. Every culture has a kind of food that just makes you feel good. You want to eat it when you're down - fried chicken, but done with care; meatballs, but hand-rolled. My definition of happiness is feeling warm inside and well-fed on the inside. And, while we're at it, add to that equality.
It comes back to family. I like that with all these interracial marriages we're creating a new ethnic group. That's exciting. I'm remarried to a guy who lets me be me. He's there because I need backbone for the ups and downs. I've got my family all around me, making the food I love, and that's satisfying. Sometimes my aunt works so hard she dreams of jambalaya.


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The Boulder County 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness is organized around six goals that are designed to have a significant impact on homelessness. Taken together, these goals represent a comprehensive approach that addresses all facets of homelessness by combining the development of a more efficient, effective and coordinated service delivery system with the provision of needed services and housing options. Below is a brief description of each goal.
While permanent housing solutions are needed to help individuals and families become self-sufficient once they are homeless, it is equally important that efforts are made to prevent the occurrence of homelessness whenever possible. This first goal focuses on the provision of preventive services to individuals and families who are at risk of becoming homeless due to life events such as a temporary loss of job, inability to pay for utilities or rent, or the need for some form of short term subsidy to maintain an existing living arrangement. It is further recognized that individuals leaving public institutions, such as prisons or the foster care system, or who are experiencing major life transitions, such as returning veterans, are at a higher risk of becoming homeless. The plan seeks to work with agency partners to better coordinate transition planning efforts and related services. Finally, many low income individuals and families are vulnerable to becoming homeless due to a lack of financial resources or other supports such as health insurance. A third key strategic area under this goal is to assist individuals and families with accessing and securing benefits to which they are entitled.
The temporarily homeless are those who experience an acute homeless episode or have intermittent periods in which they need housing assistance and / or supportive services. With this support, these individuals and families are often able to move back quickly to a stable and self-supported living arrangement. The Boulder County 10-year plan addresses these populations through the provision of appropriate housing options, prevention strategies and supportive wrap-around services. Given the emergent nature of their need, the temporary homeless may also need short-term shelter services. This goal also focuses on the strategic management of shelter beds along with the development of overflow resources to ensure that emergency sheltering needs can be met with the most appropriate populations.
This plan is aligned with the Housing First Model which seeks to move homeless individuals and families into permanent supportive housing as quickly as possible. A chronically homeless individual is defined by the Federal Government as "an unaccompanied homeless individual with a disabling condition who has either been continuously homeless for a year or more, or has had at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three years (reference)." These individuals frequently need multiple services in addition to a viable housing option. The Boulder County 10-year plan has a three part strategy for impacting Chronic Homelessness which includes the provision of permanent housing, needed services and the provision of effective outreach that is aimed at helping to identify and connect these individuals with needed services and housing.
Implementation of this plan will require the addition of new resources that focus on significantly impacting homelessness in Boulder County. At the same time, there is much that can be done through the leveraging of existing resources and enacting improvements in their efficiency, effectiveness and coordination. This is made possible, in part, due to past planning efforts as well as ongoing infrastructure and program investments made by the local government. Key objectives under this goal are to support better information exchange, improve the coordination of services, develop and implement more effective case management and outreach efforts, and augment the use of cross-system data to focus government and non-profits systems in ways that have a more lasting impact on homelessness.
It is critical that the citizens of Boulder County stay fully informed about the changing nature of homelessness in Boulder County as well as efforts related to the implementation of this plan. This helps to maintain public confidence in activities related to plan implementation and also provides avenues for greater public participation. The plan developers recognize that they cannot fully solve the problem of homelessness on their own and that success requires participation from a variety of sectors including non-profits, faith-based organization, business, the larger community and the homeless population. The community awareness and advocacy efforts outlined in this goal are designed to galvanize relevant sectors in the County to ensure the plan receives ongoing community support.
Plans of this nature are difficult to implement and require support from a number of people and institutions to be successful. Implementation of Boulder County's 10-year plan requires the development of a governance structure that will help to manage, oversee and guide the various strategic efforts outlined in the plan. This includes coordination and oversight of plan efforts, the strategic allocation of resource, review and improvement of plan contents, implementation of a project evaluation and securing financing for the plan.


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Jane and August Peltonen have three ideas for how they can fix their Brigantine house, which was flooded during Hurricane Sandy.
But they won't make any decisions until they find out whether they will receive grant money.
"I am not going to have more broken dreams," Jane Peltonen said. "I'm going to wait and see what they will advise me that will meet codes, and will fit in the grants" if the couple receives one.
Starting Monday, the Department of Community Affairs is expected to begin letting applicants know whether or not they will receive a grant, or whether they will be put on a waiting list for future grants. The agency will begin sending letters to those who filed during the initial application period, which ended June 30.
One grant, for as much as $150,000, is designed to help homeowners rebuild and elevate their storm damaged houses. A second grant, of $10,000, is designed as an incentive to keep homeowners in their storm-damaged communities. That "resettlement" grant can't be used for construction costs, but can be used to pay for things such as furniture and even future flood insurance costs.
As of June 30, 15,442 applications had been filed for rebuilding grants and 12,255 were filed for the resettlement grants, said DCA spokeswoman Lisa Ryan. As many as 6,000 rebuilding grants totaling $600 million are available under the $1.8 billion allotment approved in April, and as many as 18,000 resettlement grants are available totaling $180 million.
The agency is still accepting applications, and those with the most need - determined by the severity of the damage, how much insurance money has been paid out and the amount of a homeowner's income, will still be prioritized, Ryan said.
More grant money from the $60 billion aid package approved by Congress in January is expected to be released sometime this fall, Ryan said.
Shortly after the storm, the Peltonens gutted the first floor of their north end house, which has an attached first-floor apartment that the couple rents out for extra money in the summer. But the insurance money still sits in escrow accounts, while the couple determines how they will rebuild so that the house is not flooded again.
Solutions resemble a real-life game of Tetris. If they raise the single-story original bungalow, which was a summer apartment, they must remove the decks from the three-story addition that they live in. Turn the older portion into a garage and they will lose half of the bedrooms and much of the house's value.
So one option the couple has is to lift the apartment and build a garage beneath. Another option is to demolish the apartment and put a modular atop a new garage. And a third option is to use what insurance money they have received and pay off the mortgage and go without flood insurance.
Either way, she said, the couple will convert the first floor of the three-story portion of the house into non-living space to meet flood standards. Lifting the entire structure, she said, is probably too costly - the current estimate of $85,000 does not include related construction costs.
Kim Lovecchio also is waiting for a decision on her grant application to determine how soon she can rebuild her Ventnor Heights home. The house suffered flooding in the crawlspace, but that destroyed the building's heating system and all of the first-floor floors. The value of the damage, Lovecchio, exceeds 50 percent of the value of the house prior to the storm, a determining factor for whether homeowners must also elevate the building to new flood standards.
"The only thing I had done in all these months was I had my crawlspaces cleaned out," Lovecchio said. The heating and air conditioning system was repaired a few weeks ago. All money spent for the repairs, she said, has come out of current living expenses, because her mortgage company won't reimburse the costs out of insurance settlements until all work is complete.
"I'm hopeful for any help they're willing to give period. It's not like I have any expectations on it," Lovecchio said. "If I don't get help, (the house) is going to be sitting unfinished for awhile."
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Mary, you are exactly where we are. I was told Abraham was born in 1798 in Virginia but where was this information obtained? I am beginning to have thoughts that maybe he was not a "Branch". Maybe worked/stayed with family and took the name, etc. I am STUCK.
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Cauliflower Curry
I have taken pictures before, I have folders and folders of them on my Mac, but I guess it just seems too simple to post. Let's face it, Cauliflower is never going to be the sexiest vegetable.
However if you have a huge cauliflower and a husband that dislikes Cauliflower cheese, then maybe this recipe will also be helpful for you too!
Eat Clean: Cauliflower Rice
As part of the workout plan it is suggested that you eat clean, which I mostly ignored. It seems to be lots of lean proteins and broccoli 😉 However I did look at some of the recipes out there and a couple appealed, including this Cauliflower rice.
Memory Boosting Mackerel Salad Recipe
As a disease that has affected both my grandmothers (thankfully both in later life) this research is something that I am particularly interested in. While the research is in its early phases, by eating more foods rich in B vitamins – what is the worst that could happen? It may have no affect on memory, but it's still good for you!
Asparagus Omelette
Easy Mexican Wrap Pizzas
So often I put the leftovers in the fridge only to throw out 5 days later when I realise I am never going to eat them now. It feels a bit rubbish to be throwing out little bits of so many different things, especially after reading The Everlasting Meal over Christmas.
So yesterday I went into the fridge and pulled out all the bits and pieces of leftover mexican food from mid-week. There were two corn wraps, half a tin of refried beans, a quarter of a jar of hot salsa and an orange pepper (along side the usual fridge staples of eggs and cheese).
Red Wine Beef Pot Roast
Christmas Leftover Fried Rice
Country Ham Salad Recipe
The husband and I have been doing a fair amount of traveling recently Amsterdam, Dublin, London and most recently a week long holiday on the Greek island of Rhodes. While discovering a new city or relaxing on a beach somewhere ranks pretty highly on my favourite things to do, airport travel, funnily enough, does not.
However I have to grudgingly admit the airport food is getting a little bit better. Gone are the days when a flight from Glasgow meant the choice of Burger King or a slightly dried up sandwich. In Edinburgh I actually enjoy going to Eat before a flight, as they do light and tasty meals.
I have been wanting to recreate their Ham & Potato Summer Salad for a while, it's pretty simple and it's a salad that can be great for dinner not just lunch 🙂
Chicken Orzo Risotto
It's weird the way naming conventions in food work, isn't it?
Orzo is a type of pasta, it's small, and sort of rice shaped – like a pine nut. One of the best things about Orzo is that like rice you can use it to make a very fast risotto type dish, called an Orzotto.
In Italian orzo means barley, so back in 2010 when I made a risotto using pearl barley, it too was called orzotto. While pearl barley cooks into a delicious risotto dish, you can't say it's fast. It takes longer to cook pearl barley than it does to cook rice.
Risotto is a firm favourite in our household, but the rice version takes a bit long for a week night meal. This is where Orzo (pasta) steps in.


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Real-time footage from a new 3DMark DirectX 11 tech demo has surfaced, giving another glimpse at what the future of console gaming may offer.
The new 3DMark benchmark, designed to test a PC's gaming performance, is due out later this year.
Advanced graphical techniques are demonstrated, such as intelligent tessellation and volumetric lighting using real-time light scattering.
Clouds of smoke and particles (more swirling sparks!) react to other objects in real-time using a dynamically fluid simulation. Post processing, ambient occlusion and various lens effects complete the look.
"Gamers seem disappointed that there was no next-gen news at E3 this year. Strange really, because for PC gaming the technology is already here," Futuremark's James Gallagher told Eurogamer. "It was no surprise to us that the most exciting, interesting and impressive E3 demos were running on PCs."
Epic's Unreal Engine 4 and Square Enix's Final Fantasy tech demo have also recently flashed their wares, as the march towards the next console generation continues.
"In the trade town of Scarport, buildings cling to canyon walls above canals of lava and provide shelter from the toxic volcanic atmosphere," the video description reads. "Gaudy neon signs flicker as steam rises from the molten rivers running beneath the town. A trader walks along ledges carved from the volcanic rock, smoke swirling around her flowing cloak. Her robotic sentinels keep watch, but what dangers lie hidden in the shadows?"


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Connor had a 77 yard punt return for a touchdown and a five yard touchdown run accounting for both touchdowns for South Panola. He had over a 100 yards rushing and he played very well on defense too. He played very physical on both sides of the ball, but what he did was not enough.
It was tough to lose, but he is ready to move forward.
"We have to go back home, look at the mistakes we made, correct them, forget about this loss, and get focused on our next game," said Connor.
They play Memphis University on Friday and like he did against Hoover, the 6-foot-1, 200 pound athlete will play on both sides of the ball. He's okay with that, but he has one side he likes better than the other.
"I will play where the coach needs me, but if I could choose, I would play defense in college. I really like safety, I think I am a better player at safety, and I just like defense. I haven't really talked with schools yet about position, but safety is the position I'd choose if I could."
He will likely be recruited to play safety and he should be recruited by schools across the country. Mississippi State, Ole Miss, and Texas A&M are the schools he named when asked about offers, but he said none of those lead yet.
"I am still just a junior and I am still looking for the next place that I'll call home. I think by the time I am a senior I will know where that is, but right now, I am open, and just looking around."
Ole Miss Commits Perform Well
Issac Gross and Temario Strong are 2012 stars for South Panola and both showed why the Rebels pursued them in this game.
The most impressive one was Strong. He made tackles outside the box, he showed good speed to the ball, and he showed good strength at the point of attack. The 6-foot-2, 220 pound senior is built much more like a linebacker than defensive end, so where he lines up on the next level is something to keep an eye on.
Gross did not make as many individual plays as Strong, but he still affected the game. He showed good quickness off the ball, that stood out more than anything. He is a little undersized at 6-foot-2, 260 pounds, but he uses that size to his advantage. He played low off the ball and he was able to get into gaps with his quickness.
Overall, Strong made more plays and may show up more on film, but Gross may have a little more upside. He really gets off the ball well and can get pressure up the middle.
There is no doubt where they are going to college either – when they were asked about their commitments, neither said anything to make anyone think twice about them being Rebels.
Hoover's Baseball Star Shined on the Gridiron
Sam Gillikin is heading to Auburn - No, not to play football, but to play baseball. The baseball star out of Hoover showed he can play well on the gridiron too, not just the diamond.
He threw for over 180 yards and he had over 260 yards of total offense in Hoover's win over South Panola on ESPN Saturday afternoon. "It was a real confidence booster for me and for us as a team to win this game," said Gillikin. "It was my first game as a starter and a lot of us that did not play a lot last year (Gillikin was injured in 2010) had to play well today. It was a big win for all of us."
Gillikin is headed to play centerfield for the Auburn Tigers, but for now, football is on his mind.
"I really enjoyed the atmosphere out here. We have great fans and we will enjoy this victory, but we will get back to work soon. We want to win a state title and we have to stay focused. We beat a very good team, but we know it is just one game."
This one game though will help them the rest of the way.
"To get this type of win is only going to help us play better. We believe, we will play with confidence, and we will continue to prepare hard. We have a big game against Spain Park next week, so we need to use this game to help us with that one."
Is Humphrey the Next Elite Buccaneer Recruit?
Bobby Humphrey was a star at the University of Alabama when he rushed for over 3,000 yards playing for the Crimson Tide in the late 80s. Now, Humphrey has a son that could be the next top prospect to come out of the Hoover program.
Marlon Humphrey is a track and football star for the Hoover Buccaneers and the 6-foot, 170 pound sophomore is already attracting some attention from schools in each sport.
Football will likely be the way he gets to attend college for free and although his father played for the Crimson Tide, Marlon says he is open.
"I really want to play in the SEC. I do not have any favorites right now, but I just like the SEC style of play. It is a very competitive conference, they have strong academics, great players are on each team, and it is the conference I love," said Humphrey.
Expect to hear more about this 2014 prospect in the coming years.
Mixed Emotions for Deon
Deon Mix already has offers from Alabama, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, and Southern Miss. He is only a junior and the offensive tackle out of South Panola has mixed emotions after Saturdays loss to Hoover.
"I really like it in Alabama and I have a lot of interest in playing football here, but I do not like to lose," Mix said. "I can't stand losing, we were 15-0 last year, and it is tough losing here no matter how much I love being in Alabama."
The 6-foot-5, 305 pound junior knows there is always the next game though.
"We will bounce back. This will be a real test for us. We won it all last year and we did not lose a game, so this loss was tough. We still have to get back to work and aim for the original goal, to win another state title."
Although the loss left a sour taste in his mouth, Mix still loves Alabama.
"It still felt great to be in Alabama, I really like their program, and I am still going to take a long look at Alabama. I won't say they are my leader right now because I am open to everyone, but I still like them a lot. I know I will be back in this state to see them."
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Like any good movie, skin spots can have a beginning, a middle, and an end. So it goes for a recent Hollywood landmark, the protruding mole on the chin of fashion icon Sara Jessica Parker.
Not a wart, not a skin cancer, not an acne lesion, the flesh-toned nodule sported by diva for years acted like many a facial mole. Early on, there was little to see. SJP, started her career early in the teen TV show, "Square Pegs." While possibly present in those simple times, her future cutaneous co-star is hard to discern. The image from later in her teen years shows it starting to surface. Certain moles are never dark discreet beauty marks. Their pigment cells sit deeper in the dermis, hiding the lesion from the limelight.
As Parker's fame escalated, her mole made itself known. Showing changes that are not a sign of cancer, the mole poked up to the surface, catching the attention of the paparazzi. With little talent of its own, the mole proved itself to be a distraction. A literal "hanger-on," it attempted to upstage the "Sex in the City" gang. Could this spot become the fifth gal pal of the group?
Tragically, Parker's mole overstayed its welcome. Was its lumpy look pert of the reason her character Carrie couldn't sustain healthy relationships? By becoming a topic of conversation, not all of it good, it had used up its Tinseltown shelf life. The "Sex and the City" movie was to be its last starring role. By that summer, SJP was seen bereft of her companion forever more.
While her publicist created controversy by suggesting that Parker had not had facial surgery, this type of mole doesn't leave on it's own. Lasers, fancy as they may be, are usually not the treatment of choice. The defenseless spot may have been shave excised, to limit scarring. Or possibly a deeper, "punch" excision was performed, perhaps with absorbable sutures to limit stitch marks.
One need not cry for her spot. You can bet a mole this memorable wasn't merely discarded, tossed into a cold, red, synthetic biohazard waste bag. No, moles, even those whose cancerous potential is low, are gently embedded in paraffin, carefully stained by skilled technicians and analyzed by trained physicians. The remains of this landmark are then kept, much like an artifact in an "Indiana Jones" movie, for posterity.
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Starting 9/25, Amope GelActive Insoles and Inserts will be on sale for just $9.99 at Rite Aid. I don't see it on our preview, but their weekly ad says that there should be a coupon for $10 off in most Sunday newspapers. Elsewhere I've read that there will be a rebate. Assuming that's the case, these will be free after sale and coupon.
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- Dealing with the Aftermath of Tragedy in the Classroom
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Those who were in the mall on Friday, April 12, 2013, qualify for the Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund which can assist with medical and mental health expenses as well as mileage to/from medical/counseling appointments related to recovery. Find more information here: http://www.cicf.state.va.us/.
Resources are available on the Value Options website for full-time employees enrolled in the state health insurance program. Counseling and other services are available seven days a week/ 24 hours per day at 1-866-725-0602. A website is also available: https://www.achievesolutions.net/covacare.
Victims of crime may contact the VA Department of Criminal Justice Services INFO-Line at 1-888-887-3418 for assistance. The INFO-Line provides victims of crime with information and support. DCJS staff typically are available to answer the INFO-line Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Callers will be informed of their rights as victims under Virginia's Crime Victim and Witness Rights Act and will receive additional information, support, and referrals to programs and resources in their communities.
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Also, on the subject of birthdays, Lydia took her son and one of his friends to Chuck E Cheese on his birthday. Thus far, no one has contracted Ebola from the hamster tubes. Yet.
we gave advice to people. Don't laugh. They told us to. Actually, they paid us to. Our husbands were like, "You would think Nickelodeon would have some sort of screening process... Obviously not." Usually, when the Cap'n and McLovin make ridiculous statements like that, we just roll our eyes and go back to solving crime and keeping the world safe from terrorists. And rogue Hello Kitty agents. They're scary. What? It is possible, however, that they're right this time and Nickelodeon won't ask us to write anymore advice columns, since Kate basically advocated stealing other people's dogs and setting fires. [Editor's Note: I totally blame my actions on the fact that I might be dead. -Kate]
We'd also like to share with you a couple of things that our readers have taught us this week. Thank you so much for always sharing the awesomeness with us. Here goes:
Junderpants: When jeans and leggings and underpants are combined to make something horrifying. Oh even yesser, these badboys are real.
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The only reason we could justify this blanket would be if your husband really enjoyed giving you the old Dutch Oven. So you could get this blanket and then be like, "F*CK YOU, GAS-BAG! THAT DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE!"
OH! An important message about your children's masterpieces!!
If you have an awesome kid's arts and crafts FAIL - we want to see it. Today, Lydia found this missive (penned by her 7 year old daughter) under the sofa. She then showed it to her six year old son who shrugged and said: "You see why that's funny, right?"
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Lil Scrappy is once again a free man after a recent scrape with the law landed him behind bars. The ATL rapper was recently released after being arrested on Monday in a police stop, TMZ reports.
Scrappy was apprehended for failing to check in with his probation offer last month. He also neglected to provide his P.O. with an updated home address. As a result of the offense, the Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta star will be required to report to his P.O. more frequently, according to his lawyer.
Scrappy was placed on probation back in 2008 for weed and gun possession. He has claimed that his recent failure to check in with his probation officer was an honest mistake.
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Originally Posted by Alrik Fassbauer
But not for the fourth edition. There is an English-language rule book out there - but that's it. No further translations.
Originally Posted by Ergonpandilus
Oh, come on 99% in this forum understands that DSA2 means Drakensang: The River of Time.
Originally Posted by Avantenor
Doesn't necessarily mean that Significant GbR holds also the name rights to Drakensang. It could simply be part of an agreement that guaranteed Ulixes the use of the game's name for that campaign as both parties wanted to profit by that business relationship.
Originally Posted by Avantenor
It's sold out.


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Latest question:
How do you think the new GigE standards will influence the machine vision industry?
Respond or ask your question now!
Vizrt, a leading producer of real-time 2D and true 3D graphics systems for TV, has expanded the widespread use of its systems into new areas of the Middle East and Africa. Vizrt, based in Norway, recently completed several extended projects with three television stations in Lebanon, Bahrain and Egypt. Vizrt systems already are deployed in Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Pakistan.
Lebanon's National Broadcasting Network (NBN TV) went on the air March 1, 2007 with Vizrt's Viz|Virtual Studio, a module that lets producers enhance fixed sets or create simulated 3D studio environments, and Viz|Trio CG system, a powerful real-time 3D character generator. "Viz|Virtual Studio allows us to update our look or add a unique element of creativity to our programs without having to invest in periodic set updates or remodels," said NBN CEO Kassem Soueid. NBN technical manager Mohamad Daher added, "The intuitive and interactive features of the Viz|Trio CG system not only enhance our production value, they simplify on-air changes to graphics during any of our live programs."
Vizrt delivered a turnkey solution with Lebanon-based system integrator and Vizrt local representative, Broadcast & Communication Systems s.a.l.
Vizrt collaborated with Montreal, Canada-based systems integrator, Astucemedia, on an election coverage project with Bahrain TV, the government network in Bahrain. Bahrain's Parliamentary elections for the Chamber of Deputies, or lower house of Parliament, take place every four years. Voter turnout for the first round of elections reached 72 percent, with a second run-off election taking place in December.
Vizrt and Astucemedia designed a graphic solution for the network's Arabic and English channels for both rounds of elections covering five administrative divisions and 40 constituencies within Bahrain. In just three weeks before the first round, Bahrain TV implemented a complete election solution using Vizrt 3D, user interface and on-air operator. Bahrain Radio and Television News Center technical manager engineer Yousif M. Al-Butti said, "The interactive features, the output quality and the incredible art of animations Bahrain TV was able to use during our election coverage gave us tremendous flexibility to make on-screen changes. We plan to add more Vizrt applications to further develop our programs."


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External Bus Interface
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|External Bus Interface
The External Bus Interface, usually shortened to EBI, is a computer bus for interfacing small peripheral devices like flash memory with the processor. It is used to expand the internal bus of the processor to enable connection with external memories or other peripherals. EBI can be used to share I/O pins controlling memory devices that are connected to two different memory controllers. Use of EBI reduces the total number of system pins required causing the system cost to come down. EBI manufacturers include Barco[1] and Freescale Semiconductor.[2]


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Brucker Family
The Brucker Brothers
Emil M., Albert, Edward, and Herman operated a hotel and cafe in Denison for two decades.
A 1908 publication, "Denison, the Texas Gateway: A Busy, Progressive City with GOlden Opportunities," described the Brucker Brothers Restaurant thus:
Among restaurants of the city, that of Brucker Bros. has become recognized among the leaders, receiving a liberal share of patronage from our businessmen and the general traveling public. Everything served is strictly first-class, and the price for regular meals is only 25 cents. Short orders are given special attention and are served at all hours.
Open day and night. Skilled cooks are employed, also polite, accomodating waiters. The bill of fare includes everything in season. The proprietors know the business thoroughly and are popular citizens. They also have a number of nicely furnished rooms in connection.
Brooker, Ed [Edward Brucker?], Treasurer, Wartburg Lodge, Sons of Hermann, 1927-28
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The World SF Travel Fund needs YOU!
As I type this we're 44% funded on the World SF Travel Fund fundraiser, but we dearly need the help to get to 100%!
The Fund is set up to enable international genre professionals (writers, editors, translators, bloggers) to travel to a major convention – essentially the World Fantasy Convention, with which we've been aligned) and was started in 2011 to enable Charles Tan from the Philippines to attend WFC, where he was nominated for a World Fantasy Award.
In 2012, we helped sponsor Swedish writers Karin Tidbeck and Nene Ormes to travel to WFC in Toronto.
We're now looking to raise $3000 to help us operate for another couple of years. This year's recipients are Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (Philippines/Netherland) and Csilla Kleinheincz (Hungary) to WFC in Brighton, UK.
I should note that the cost for 2013 is fairly light. What we would dearly like is to make sure we have the funding in place for 2014.
Despite its name, World Fantasy Convention is not overwhelmingly international, and I think it's important – for the genre itself, and for the international community, to "put the world back in World Fantasy". If you think you can help us – by donating a few dollars, or merely spreading the word – please do!
Csilla Kleinheincz is a Hungarian-Vietnamese writer living in Kistarcsa, Hungary with her husband and daughter. She is the author of two novels and a short story collection. Her stories can be read in English in the anthologies Interfictions, Heiresses of Russ 2011, and The Apex Book of World SF 2. Some of her stories were translated into Portuguese, Finnish, Czech and Estonian. Csilla is also a translator of works by Peter S. Beagle, Kelly Link, Ursula K. Le Guin and Catherynne M. Valente. She currently works as the editor of the SF/F publishing house Ad Astra, and in her free time edits the Hungarian online SF magazine SFmag.
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz is a Filipino writer of science fiction and fantasy. A graduate of the Clarion West Writer's Workshop, Rochita was the recipient of the 2009 Octavia Butler Scholarship, and the first Filipina writer to attend Clarion West. Her short fiction has appeared in a variety of online and print publications, including Interzone, Fantasy Magazine, Apex Magazine, Weird Tales, and the anthologies Robots: The Recent A.I., and The Apex Book of World SF 2. In the Philippines, her short fiction has been published in Philippine Panorama, Philippine Speculative Fiction 2, and Philippine Speculative Fiction 4. Rochita currently resides in the Netherlands with her husband and her two children.
The Fund has set up a Peerbackers Project with the hope of raising $3000, enabling two years of running. The Board, tasked with selecting future candidates, is composed of Lauren Beukes, Aliette de Bodard, Nnedi Okorafor, Ekaterina Sedia, and Charles Tan, reflecting the truly international nature of the SF world today. For inquiries and further information please contact either co-administrators Lavie Tidhar or Sean Wallace at email@example.com.
With Both Feet in the Clouds: on Israeli Fantasy
At $75 for the hardcover edition, this is a bit expensive, but this new academic collection of essays on Israeli fantasy, first published in different form in Hebrew in 2009, is now out in an English-language edition from Academic Studies Press.
Why do Israelis dislike fantasy? Put so bluntly, the question appears frivolous. But,in fact, it goes to the deepest sources of Israeli historical identity and literary tradition. Uniquely among developed nations, Israel s origin is in a utopian novel, Theodor Herzl s Altneuland (1902), which predicted the future Jewish state. Jewish writing in the Diaspora has always tended toward the fantastic, the mystical, and the magical. And yet, from its very inception, Israeli literature has been stubbornly realistic. The present volume challenges this stance. Originally published in Hebrew in 2009, it is the first serious, wide-ranging, and theoretically sophisticated exploration of fantasy in Israeli literature and culture. Its contributors jointly attempt to contest the question posed at the beginning: why do Israelis, living in a country whose very existence is predicated on the fulfillment of a utopian dream, distrust fantasy?
About the editors:
Danielle Gurevitch (PhD Bar-Ilan University) is an ethnologist who specializes in fantasy fiction and myth, folk and traditional narratives in medieval England and France, and the neo-medievalist approach to the growing popularity of Medieval literately sources and aspiration. She is the associate dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Elana Gomel (PhD Tel-Aviv University) is currently a senior lecturer and graduate advisor at the Department of English at Tel-Aviv University and is the author of numerous articles and four books, the most recent of which is Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination (2010). Rani Graff is the founder and CEO of Graff Publishing, Israel's only publisher specifically devoted to Hebrew-language science fiction and fantasy.
Yoko Ogawa's Revenge!
Yoko Ogawa's Revenge is a master class in the macabre that will haunt you to the last page.
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.
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A combination of genre professionals and fans from the international scene and the United States have gathered together to create the World SF Travel Fund. The fund has been set up to enable one or two international persons involved in science fiction, fantasy or horror to travel to a major genre event. This year's recipients are:
Csilla Kleinheincz is a Hungarian-Vietnamese writer living in Kistarcsa, Hungary with her husband and daughter. She is the author of two novels and a short story collection. Her stories can be read in English in the anthologies Interfictions, Heiresses of Russ 2011, and The Apex Book of World SF 2. Some of her stories were translated into Portuguese, Finnish, Czech and Estonian. Csilla is also a translator of works by Peter S. Beagle, Kelly Link, Ursula K. Le Guin and Catherynne M. Valente. She currently works as the editor of the SF/F publishing house Ad Astra, and in her free time edits the Hungarian online SF magazine SFmag.
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz is a Filipino writer of science fiction and fantasy. A graduate of the Clarion West Writer's Workshop, Rochita was the recipient of the 2009 Octavia Butler Scholarship, and the first Filipina writer to attend Clarion West. Her short fiction has appeared in a variety of online and print publications, including Interzone, Fantasy Magazine, Apex Magazine, Weird Tales, and the anthologies Robots: The Recent A.I., and The Apex Book of World SF 2. In the Philippines, her short fiction has been published in Philippine Panorama, Philippine Speculative Fiction 2, and Philippine Speculative Fiction 4. Rochita currently resides in the Netherlands with her husband and her two children.
The Fund has set up a Peerbackers Project with the hope of raising $3000, enabling two years of running. The Board, tasked with selecting future candidates, is composed of Lauren Beukes, Aliette de Bodard, Nnedi Okorafor, Ekaterina Sedia, and Charles Tan, reflecting the truly international nature of the SF world today. For inquiries and further information please contact co-administrators Lavie Tidhar or Sean Wallace at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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I'm delighted to say we've been nominated for a BSFA Award in the non-fiction category!
And very happy to see two international writers, Aliette de Bodard (France) and Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (Philippines) in the short fiction category.
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Dark Eden by Chris Beckett (Corvus)
Empty Space: a Haunting by M. John Harrison (Gollancz)
Intrusion by Ken Macleod (Orbit)
Jack Glass by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
2312 by Kim Stanley-Robinson (Orbit)
Best Short Story
"Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard (Clarkesworld #69)
"The Flight of the Ravens" by Chris Butler (Immersion Press)
"Song of the body Cartographer" by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (Phillipines Genre Stories)
"Limited Edition" by Tim Maughan (1.3, Arc Magazine)
"Three Moments of an Explosion" by China Mieville (Rejectamentalist Manifesto)
"Adrift on the Sea of Rains" by Ian Sales (Whippleshield Books)
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Ben Baldwin for the cover of Dark Currents (Newcon Press)
Blacksheep for the cover of Adam Roberts's Jack Glass (Gollancz)
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Joey Hifi for the cover of Simon Morden's Thy Kingdom Come (Jurassic London)
Si Scott for the cover artwork for Chris Beckett's Dark Eden (Corvus)
Best Non-Fiction
"The Complexity of the Humble Space Suit" by Karen Burnham (Rocket Science, Mutation Press)
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The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn (Cambridge University Press)
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Guy Hasson's The Emoticon Generation Released
Israeli author Guy Hasson's new collection has just been published by Infinity Plus Books.
Guy Hasson's The Emoticon Generation features seven stories about life-changes brought about by our new electronic generation: stories that blur the borders between our world and science fiction, stories that make you ask, 'Has this already happened? Is that actually true?'
In this collection you'll find a man who, after losing his fiancée to a terrible accident, seeks to learn if true love really exists; a girl, hardly a teen, who searches for her father only to learn a terrible truth about herself; a man who wants to immortalize his genius but ends up tricking himself out of it; an old hero whose entire life unravels when the truth about his heroic act is revealed; a harmless birthday gift that triggers a profound search into the depths of a young couple's relationship; and more.
Guy Hasson is one of the freshest new science fiction authors out there, with a knack for finding the human heart in the biggest ideas.
"Hasson has a scalpel-sharp intellect which, allied to great ideas and a superb story-telling ability, makes for a wonderfully entertaining collection." –Eric Brown
"Guy Hasson writes with a deceptive smoothness, in the assured hand of an Old Master, and with a deep concern for the big questions of science fiction. You need to read him." –Lavie Tidhar, World Fantasy Award winner for Best Novel 2012
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My dad had a saying, "if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." I still call upon that from time to time, like when I get a case of the 'whinies' because IT ALL JUST SEEMS TOO HARD. Then I am forced to remember some of the jobs I've had just to earn what passed for a living. Then it's one big shudder and back to work. And work is good.
There's a great deal more to the artful life than the process of creation. As I've said before, if your business is art, then you are required to do all that any independent business person is called upon to do: marketing, advertising, shipping, research, correspondence, bookkeeping, record keeping, supply-keeping, time management, ick-cetera. But the actual creative process? That's the juice of life for an artist. And if all that other stuff is what gets you there, then it's all worth it. Besides, if you give it the good old 'all-you've-got,' pay them their dues, you should be able to reach the glorious day when you can hire people to do the things that keep you away from your true love: the creative process.
So here's the question, are you being true to your love? I worry about artists who worry about what the market is calling for. Great art is always what the market calls for, and great art can only come from love. Paint what you truly love (or sculpt or carve or photograph) and the passion you feel will reveal itself in your work. Paint (or sculpt or carve or photograph) something merely because you think it's sellable, and that insincerity will scream from the product. Sincerity is as necessary to great art as any any technical skill. It can be a struggle (don't I know it!) to maintain your sincerity in a commercial endeavor so it's important to be alert for weaknesses in your motives; it can also be too easy to lose touch with what really fires your passion. Temptation is everywhere. So from time to time you may find it necessary to reach across your life, clear away the clutter, and focus once again on what you love, what excites passion in you when nobody's looking. The further back you search – the things that thrilled you as a child – the more helpful. Because the joys of youth are honest, are sincere, and are always a part of you. You just have to know where to look. Me? I'm going to the beach, even though it's raining.


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As a member of a loosely knit group of emailers who track the ongoing political arena, I recently posed a question to my associates concerning the public's declining approval of the Obama administration.
One of my friends responded with the bit below. When I asked for approval to air his response, he didn't hesitate to OK my request to do so. His response tells of a background somewhat like mine, but different; it seems that he has retained his allegiance to the party, but not to its present direction.
His reply is surprising since we have generally agreed that he was our group's most ardent contributor, but on the "left" side of the political isle:
"I grew up in a very Democrat, Irish family when being a Democrat meant you stood up for the little people — the blue-collar workers. That was before the party was hijacked by Marxists, socialists and environmental zealots.
"I followed that path and attended college, majoring in psychology and social work with a minor in race relations. I bought into the self-loathing of the white race that came along with being a liberal.
"After entering the work force (in the private sector, no less), I realized that the hippies of yesterday were the new totalitarians of today, who not only want to adhere to their beliefs — which they have every right to do — but want to cram their ideologies down my throat, too.
"Don't like that the Boy Scouts don't accept gays? Start a new group called LGBT Scouts. But no, they have to introduce legislation that will disallow tax credits for charitable donations to groups that do not allow gays.
"Don't want to have a gun? Don't, but don't take away my right to own one to protect my family.
"Want to ride a bike to work? Go ahead! But don't pass laws so absurd like AB32 and SB375 that will kick our status of living back to the Stone Age. Even the cofounder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, says the environmental movement is going to bankrupt the world. I have had enough!"
Makes one wonder if there's not a whole host of Democrats out there with the same mindset; perhaps to "sit it out" until the party is returned to them.
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|3rd April 2013, 03:47 PM
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Using the Dayton ND16FA
Total newbie, and want to build something on my own. Since I am going to screw up (as everyone has told me on here), I wanted to start with something cheap.
I am one of the believers that frequencies listed as ultrasonic and near ultrasonic make a bigger difference than most people think. The little Dayton ND16FA caught my eye on Zaph's site, but I want a speaker that can do for both music and theater, which means playing reasonably loud. These are listed as 89db sensitivity with RMS of 10 watts. These look like they were meant as a line array, so I can use more than 1, but run into comb filtering issues, and cheap ribbons start to look cheaper the more of these I'd need.
Take a look at the Shtick's.
These have 2 B3S (or other mids) with a ND16FA between them. Why use 2 mids, since I would think even 1 mid should be able to handle more power with less distortion than 1 ND16FA? This is not the only design I've seen like this.
How much does the crossover affect real world power handling of these ND16FA's? They have a Fs of 2,283Hz. I could cross them first order (electrical) at 4566Hz which I would imagine would distort or damage much easier than if I did a 4th order at 10 kHz. Which way did Dayton do the RMS spec? Or is RMS an arbitrary number I am paying too much attention to?
|3rd April 2013, 04:15 PM
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The power spec in this case (10 Watts) is likely "real" power. Sometimes you see a tweeter quoted as being able to handle a couple of hundred watts of power. That's a misnomer really - that much broadband power would melt things quickly. What they mean is that, when used with a prudent crossover, the SYSTEM power could be up to a couple of hundred watts. Because the crossover limits the bandwidth coming to the tweeter, and high frequencies above a couple of hundred kHz do not contain much of the power in the music spectrum, the total power actually reaching the tweeter might be less than 10% of the total that is input to the crossover network from the power amp. The steeper the crossover, the better it is at rejecting out of band signals, so using steeper crossovers will mean less power will reach the tweeter.
A good way to judge where you can cross over a tweeter is to look at the distortion plots. This is often how Zaph comes up with his recommendations about where to cross over to the midrange. Zaph's mentions "Works well from 3500 Hz and up" but this would be only when used with a steep crossover, e.g. 4th order or higher in my book. Many drivers have increasing distortion as you come down in frequency towards the driver resonance, and this is one reason why you typically cross over at least one octave higher with a steep filter, or much higher with a shallow filter.
|3rd April 2013, 04:34 PM
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1. 10W is not aleatory (Dayton ND16FA).
2. Crossovers have low frequency components (lower than the crossover frequency) that can damage the tweeter.
3. You don't need to bother with that if not using pro/PA/studio power because the percentage of power going to a tweeter is very small. Let's say for 10W of power in the tweeter you need 100W of power woofer/sub/amp.
4. Usually, if you plan ahead, you never reach max. power.
5. You don't need to screw up.
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|3rd April 2013, 04:39 PM
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I agree 10 watts is probably enough for most music and movies. Suppose I ran a test test tone of 20kHz at 20 watts (about 102db). Would the voice coil melt or the tweeter otherwise be permanently destroyed? If so, that is a serious limitation, even if I don't sit around listening to 102db 20kHz test tones all day.
|3rd April 2013, 09:00 PM
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I still want my previous questions answered, but people seem quick to make crossover suggestions, so here are a few other drivers. Right now, this is still a "thought experiment" and not a real system, so I won't actually build it, but want to start thinking about something I could build.
I would cross the Dayton ND16FA at 4.5k using a 2nd order Linkwitz Riley to a Fountek FR88-EX. The price has gone up dramatically since Zaph did his tests, but this is still within budget, and IMO the cheapest significant step up from the HiVi B3S/B3n that works with the Dayton ND16FA.
This does not get me low enough to cross to a subwoofer, so I have to make this a 3-way, and could use a Dayton RS225-8, which gets me all the way to full range. I could go to a smaller woofer if I had limited cabinet space. Either way, I don't see a reason to use a higher order crossover with the Fountek FR88-EX, so would cross with a 1st order, probably at 380Hz, which is 2 octaves above its FS of 95Hz.
This is starting to resemble a "poor-man" version of the Statements, and I could easily go to the Tang Band W4-1337SA mid if I wanted, but I like the lower distortion (and lower price) on the Fountek.
If people think this is a good design, I will model it in Spice as a next step. Otherwise, back to the drawing board.
|4th April 2013, 06:51 AM
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Let's see if I understand. (Forget the subs now for a moment) The driver you like most, as you are saying is (answer space for the driver name)______________, because of lower distortion, good quality vs "poor-man" Statements, voicing good, nice specs..., good frequency output, good looking, you tell me. (Name just one driver please, so that we/you can "make up your mind").
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|4th April 2013, 10:03 PM
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As I said, this is more a thought experiment than an actual build, but it probably resembles what I will end up with.
If I want a clean top octave and maybe even above 20,000Hz, I need a ribbon or a neo tweeter.
Unless I spend big bucks on a more expensive ribbon or other non-traditional driver, I need a to cross over to this top driver at a high (3kHz+) point. This means I can cross to a conventional tweeter or a 3" driver - I don't think anything larger will play high frequencies well enough to cross that high. A 3" driver will go lower and have a smoother mids and much of the tweeters bandwidth would be wasted, so a 3" is better.
I am sure there are lots of good 3" drivers, but of the ones with data on Zaph's site, the B3N, the B3S, the Fountek FR88-EX and the Tang Band W4-1337SA look the best as far as crossing over that high and being able to play well over a wide range of frequencies.
The B3N and B3S are inferior to the other 2, and all 4 are within budget. The Tang Band costs more, has a smoother response, but more distortion - so I like'd go with the FR88EX unless I was deliberately trying to do something that resembles the statements. The statements got good reviews, and also cross this high to a 3" mid that covers a wide range of frequencies..
A 'statement' with a neo tweeter instead of a ribbon, and only 1 mid and 1 woofer would probably sound surprisingly similar and cost less than half as much. Lots of people miss the larger woofer when writing about the mini-statements, monitors and centers; but I haven't seen a single post saying how much better 2 W4-1337SA's sound than only 1. Of course it won't be the same, but again, it costs well under half the price.
|5th April 2013, 01:01 AM
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Home audio speakers should normally be capable to produce a spl of 100 dB at 1m. A small driver like the Fountek FR88EX reaches only 96 dB at the rated power handling limit. To get 100 dB, you need two of them or a single 4.5" midrange. That's why the Shtick's and other designs do not have a single 3" midrange driver.
|5th April 2013, 01:52 AM
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So I either have to accept the power limitation, or I use 2 drivers and have comb filtering issues. This is harder than I thought - except the original statements should have the comb filtering issue and the rest of the statement line has the power limitation, so maybe this can work.
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Tamara Parsons-Baker, of Tamara And The Martyrs and, er, Tamara Parsons-Baker (her cunning solo artist name), is an industrious type. Having recently set up the first 'All Tamara's Parties' at the East Oxford Community Centre, featuring ToLiesel, The Old Grinding Young and more, she's just launched her 'Loft Sessions' series.
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