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Monday, December 19, 2005
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
The launch for the first Okal Rel Universe Anthology, with authors Elizabeth Woods, Adam Volk, Sarah Trick, Rick Hoggarth and Amanda da Silva, was held in Prince George on December 7. The Okal Rel Universe Anthology 1 was co-edited by Lynda Williams and Virginia O'Dine and published under Windstorm Creative's Fandom Press imprint.
Saturday, December 10, 2005
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Friday, November 18, 2005
Lyranel's Song is a medieval fantasy. From the cover: "When Lyranel wakes on her twelfth birthday bursting with Song, she is horrified and tries to hide her new gift from her father. Worse still, a terrible plague threatens her land. Lyranel must learn to come to terms with her new talent. If not, her land and her people just may not survive."
Leslie will be holding a launch in early 2006 (details yet to be finalized).
The book is available directly from Blooming Tree Press. The hardcover edition is available at the special holiday price of $16.95 US for a limited time.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Monday, November 14, 2005
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Her publications included a book of poetry, Temple into Time, and short stories such as "The Cinderella Caper," a Writers of the Future runner-up in 1985 (and apparently now being taught in a class on creativity and archetypes at a university in Virginia); "Mirror" and "A Spell in Time" in Fantasy Book; "Invasion" in the anthology Arc of Ice; and "Murder Undone," coauthored with Andrea Schlecht, in the anthology Over My Dead Body. At the time of her death she was working to complete a long novel.
In Ottawa, Sahn was the founder of the Lyngarde writers group, which is now in its third decade. Her writing had wit and deftness. Her criticism was direct and often penetrating. She could be eccentric and obdurate, but also kind and funny, and she is dearly missed by those who were close to her.
Friday, November 04, 2005
Friday, October 28, 2005
A translation of Doug's novelette "Enlightenment" (InterZone #194) is up at the Italian webzine, Delos, with a very cool illustration by Luca Vergerio that, says Doug, "actually captures the key themes of the story (how often does that happen?)." Translations of other stories are upcoming in France, Hungary, Netherlands, Ukraine and Bulgaria.
Monday, October 24, 2005
The award is presented to the Saskatchewan publisher of the best book produced as an educational resource, based on its value to educators at primary, secondary or post secondary levels, literary or artistic value, the quality of editing, book design, production and content.
The other nominees are the Canadian Plains Research Center for The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, the Canadian Plains Research Center for Saskatchewan Premiers of the Twentieth Century, Gordon L. Barnhart, ed., the Canadian Plains Research Center for Letters Home, David E. Smith, ed., Hagios Press for Songs to Kill a Wîhtikow by Neal McLeod, and Nature Saskatchewan for Prairie Phoenix (Lilium philadelphicum): The Red Lily in Saskatchewan, by Bonnie J. Lawrence and Anna L. Leighton.
The awards will be presented at a gala evening in Regina on November 25.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Friday, October 14, 2005
From the book jacket:
Like her half-breed mother, young Zarq Darquel can't always hold her tongue as she should. A lowly peasant on a large dragon estate in Malacar, she goes unnoticed by the watchful eye of the Temple of the Dragon, despite her rebellious ways--until she accidentally captures the attention of an eccentric and dangerous dragonmaster and unleashes a storm of tragedy. Her clan is plunged into destitution, her beautiful sister, Waivia, sold into slavery, and her mother lost to madness.
Desperate to find Waivia, Zarq and her delirious mother flee through the underworld of their land--from the Zone of the Dead do a sanctuary for outcast dragons, through discovery and persecution. Consumed with the desire for revenge, Zarq develops a taste for the highly addictive venom drawn from the dragons she has been taught to revere, and sinks into a realm of bizarre magics. Here, influenced by the divine grace of dragon memories, Zarq glimpses possibilities of revenge and social revolution. But to achieve them, she must defy not just the sexual taboos and patriarchal conventions of her society, but the Emperor who rules her nation....
Publishers' Weekly is calling it "a bold debut... a grim but fascinating coming-of-age tale.... richly detailed, a well imagined world," and Jacqueline Carey (author of Kushiel's Dart) says: "Touched by Venom, the first volume in Janine Cross' Dragon Temple Saga, is a compelling and harrowing journey, set in a vividly rendered world alive with detail."
Thursday, October 13, 2005
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Friday, September 16, 2005
Judge Mildred Tremblay said the piece "powerfully invokes strangeness," adding, "I could not resist this poem."
Sandra's entry was chosen from among more than 1,100 poems submitted by 413 entrants. The second prize of $750 went to Irene Livingston of Vancouver, B.C., and the third prize of $500 to Kamloops, B.C. Honourable mentions went to Rosemary Clewes, Pamela Porter and Diane Reid.
The winning poems. as well as the honourable mentions and six poems chosen from the 50 shortlisted poems by Arc’s editors, will be published in the Winter 2005 issue of the magazine.
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Monday, September 12, 2005
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
SF Canada members at CascadiaCon in Seattle, the 2005 North American Science Fiction Convention. The elevated gentleman is Derryl Murphy. The women, from left to right, are Lynda Williams, Jo Beverly, Donna McMahon (in front of Jo), Linda DeMeulemeester, Karen Abrahamson, Nina Munteanu, and Rhea Rose. Stephanie Bedwell-Grime was nowhere to be found when the pix were taken, and Suzanne Church had been there but left the day before.
Scientific Romance" by clicking on the Listen Now link.
Monday, August 22, 2005
The illustrated chapbook of Mark Anthony Brennan's story "Humpback IV" is now available from Sams Dot publishing. Check it out at www.genremall.com.
Friday, August 19, 2005
Monday, August 08, 2005
During this past year, Maggie did many school presentations for the Red Maple program. She also went to Frankfurt, Germany to do workshops for the Young Authors’ Conference held for American children on the Rhein Main Air Force Base. And this summer she will be a presenter and the author liaison for the first London Book Camp to be held in London, Ontario from August 15-19.
The Princess Pawn was also recently short-listed for B.C.’s new teen choice Stellar Award.
Friday, August 05, 2005
Friday, July 15, 2005
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Friday, July 08, 2005
SF Canada members at Westercon 58 in Calgary. Back row, left to right: Mark Anthony Brennan, Diane Walton, Rhea Rose, Richard Bartrop, Edward Willett. Second row, left to right: Linda DeMeulemeester, Donna McMahon, Paula Johanson, Elizabeth Trenholm, James Beveridge. Kneeling, left to right: Karl Johanson, Derryl Murphy, Barb Galler-Smith, Hayden Trenholm, Stephanie Ann Johanson.
The story, in brief: "At the dawn of the twenty-first century, governments around the world banned human cloning. However, the genetic genie had already escaped from the bottle. When Luke's best friend Patrick vanishes and the police quickly close the case, Luke is determined to uncover the truth. Tantalizing clues lead Luke and Patrick's sister Emma to LennoxGen, where they stumble across a shocking international conspiracy."
Simon's second novel, The Sorcerer's Letterbox, has now sold more 13,000 copies in Canada and was one of the top 10 nominated books for this year's Silver Birch Award in Ontario. The novel was also a finalist in Alberta's Golden Eagle Awards and is short-listed for the Diamond Willow Award in Saskatchewan. His first novel, The Alchemist's Portrait, published in 2003, has also been nominated for awards in Canada and continues to gather great reviews.
Among the writers featured in the collection are Claude Lalumière and Joe Mahoney. It's available through Project Pulp and Genre Mall (and soon from Clarkesworld and Shocklines).
Complete results are at the Prix Aurora Awards home page.
Thursday, July 07, 2005
Each month, one Tor title will receive the SCI FI Essential stamp of approval, which will mark it as a title to be promoted with such special features as sample chapters and sneak peeks of upcoming books on SCIFI.COM, possible promotion on SCI FI's handheld AvantGo channel, a highlight in SCI FI Magazine's books section and on-air coverage of select titles.
First up: Cory Doctorow's Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, described as "a novel of wrenching oddity, heartfelt technological vision and human pity set on the streets of Toronto today."
In August, the SCI FI Essential book is Karl Schroeder's Lady of Mazes, set in the distant future and centering on Teven Coronal, a huge multiplicity of human civilizations inhabiting a ringworld.
September's selection is The Road to Dune by Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
Friday, June 10, 2005
To be eligible, a book must have been published in English in North America and marketed to the United States between August 1, 2004, through July 31, 2005, and must meet one of the following criteria:
- Received a starred review in Publishers Weekly
- Named to Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers Program
- Named to BookSense Picks
- Named to Borders' Original Voices
- Appeared on bestseller lists from Publishers Weekly, BookSense, Barnes & Noble, and Borders
On October 11 a black-tie gala to be held at New York’s Chelsea Piers to present the awards; NBC Universal Stations will carry a one-hour special on October 22.
Thursday, June 02, 2005
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Lynda Williams is the featured author on the U.K. Web site Great Writing Web site; the article includes the composite picture above, which uses images from the web that feature Lynda's Okal Rel Universe.
Lynda's new book is Courtesan Prince, published by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
In the Meilleur livre en français/Best Long-Form Work in French category, Les Mémoires de l'Arc by Michèle Laframboise (Médiaspaul, 2004) is one of the nominees, along with Terre des Autres by Sylvie Bérard (Alire, 2004), Les Jours de l`ombre by Francine Pelletier (Alire, mai 2004), Oniria by Patrick Senécal (Alire, 2004), and Suzanne, ouvre-toi by Yves Steinmetz (Éditions de la Paix, 2004).
Michele is also nominated in the Meilleure nouvelle en français/Best Short-Form Work in French category for "Ceux qui ne comptent pas" (Solaris 149). Other nominees in that category are "Galdana" by Richard Blanchette (Solaris 150), "Anne de la Terre" by Mehdi Bouhalassa (Solaris 148), and "Poussière de diamant" by Mario Tessier (Solaris 151).
Meanwhile, Don Bassie is nominated in the Fan Achievement (Other)/Accomplissement fanique (autre) category for his Web site Made in Canada. Other nominees in that category are filksinger Karen Linsley, the Bright Weaving CD by Martin Springett, entertainer Larry Stewart and filksinging group Urban Tapestry.
The complete Aurora Award nominations are posted here, and you can find links to a few of the nominated stories by SF Canada members here.
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Monday, May 23, 2005
The Prix Aurora Awards finalists in the English pro categories have been announced, and include work by several SF Canada members. (French finalists will presumably be forthcoming very soon...)
Three members' books are among the finalists in the Best Long-Form Work in English category: Fallen Angel by Stephanie Bedwell-Grime (Telos Publishing), Black Brillion by Matthew Hughes (Tor) and The Alchemist's Daughter by Eileen Kernaghan (Thistledown Press). The remaining finalists are Survival by Julie E. Czerneda (DAW Books), Radiant by James Alan Gardner (Eos HarperCollins) and Wolf Pack by Edo van Belkom (Tundra Books)
Four works by members are among the finalists in the Best Short-Form Work in English category: "The Smile on the Face" by Nalo Hopkinson (Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks, Sumach Press); "Enlightenment" (Interzone 194, Sept.-Oct./2004) and "Jigsaw" (Odyssey, Trifolium Books), both by Douglas Smith, and "The Luck of Willie Lumen" by Hayden Trenholm (Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine #3). The other finalists in that category are "The Forgotten Ones" by Karin Lowachee (So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy, Arsenal Pulp Press) , "Mikeys" by Robert J. Sawyer (Space Stations, DAW) , and "When the Morning Stars Sang Together" by Isaac Szpindel (ReVisions, DAW) .
In the Best Work in English (Other) category, Nalo Hopkinson (with Uppinder Mehan) is a finalist for editing So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy (Arsenal Pulp Press), and so is Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, edited by Karl Johanson. The other finalists are Julie E. Czerneda and Isaac Szpindel for editing ReVisions (DAW Books), Odyssey: Tales From the Wonder Zone, edited by Julie E. Czerneda (Trifolium Books), and Relativity: Essays and Stories, by Robert J. Sawyer (ISFiC Press, Nov/2004).
Saturday, May 21, 2005
Cory's novel Eastern Standard Tribe (Tor) is one of the finalists for Best Science Fiction Novel, while Charles's The Blue Girl (Viking) is a finalist for Best Young Adult Book.
The other SF novel finalists are The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks (Orbit), Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson (HarperCollins UK, Bantam), The Baroque Cycle: The Confusion; The System of the World by Neal Stephenson (Morrow) and Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross (Ace).
The other YA finalists are Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War by Clive Barker (HarperCollins), The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (Viking), Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt) and A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperCollins).
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Nina Munteanu's new novel The Cypol
Nina Munteanu's romantic SF thriller The Cypol will be released by eXtasy Books this fall. Her novel Collision with Paradise was just released through Liquid Silver Books (Liquid Silver Books (a review appears in Ecata Romance). Nina's interview with Gotta Write Network will appear shortly.
Friday, April 29, 2005
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Mark also reports that Aoife's Kiss has just bought a cyberpunk tale, "The Onus of Survival," which will probably appear in June. He says he also had a spate of publications in the fall, and recommends anyone interested check out his new Web site, "tarted up for the discerning primate."
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Second place in the short-fiction category went to “Winterfair Gifts” by Lois McMaster Bujold, also from Irresistible Forces; third place went to “The Night Owl” by Emma Holly, from Hot Blooded.
As noted in earlier posts, The Sorcerer's Letterbox is also up for the Silver Birch Award in Ontario and the Diamond Willow Award in Saskatchewan.
Friday, April 08, 2005
The winners will be announced at the annual Book Awards banquet in Edmonton May 14. The prize is $1,000 and a leather-bound copy of the winning book.
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Shelter from the Storm by Mark Anthony Brennan
Shelter from the Storm and other speculative tales, a collection of short stories by Mark Anthony Brennan previously published in various mags and anthologiess (plus one never-before-seen story), is now available from Project Pulp and the Genre Mall. SF Canada members should order it directly through email@example.com to receive a special discount.
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Okal Rel Universe Anthology #1 and Guide to the Okal Rel Universe are both being published by Windstorm Creative of Port Orchard, WA. Both are expected to launch (with a bit of luck) at CascadiaCon in August.
Recent fiction sales by Ursula include "The Eyes Of Horus," to an as-yet-untitled invitational anthology from Wheatland press, for women speculative writers, and "Telepathic Fish," a reprint from Leviathan 1, to Moist.
Her review of A Girl Named Sugar by Emily Pohl-Weary recently appeared in The Peterborough Examiner; recent non-fiction sales include an essay on on Nalo Hopkinson’s Salt Roads, Maya Deren’s Divine Horsemen, Wade Davis’s The Serpent And The Rainbow, Angela Carter’s Black Venus, Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire and The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara to New York Review of Science Fiction and, also to NYRSF, an essay on Elizabeth Vonarburg’s Dreams Of The Sea, Ursula Leguin’s The Telling and Kathleen Ann Goonan’s (and the author’s) memoirs of travel to Kauai, in Hawaii.
La nouvelle "Les outils de l'ombre" de Jean-Louis Trudel est parue dans Solaris 154. Il a aussi vendu les droits de réimpression de sa nouvelle "Des anges sont tombés" au nouvel éditeur français Les Moutons électriques pour une anthologie intitulée Les Anges électriques, à paraître en octobre. Sa traduction de la nouvelle "Le temps, en s'évaporant..." de Jean-Claude Dunyach paraîtra dans l'anthologie Year's Best SF 10 (Eos) réunie par David G. Hartwell et Kathryn Cramer sous le titre "Time, As It Evaporates" après avoir été publiée dans le recueil The Night Orchid de Blackcoat Press.
Saturday, April 02, 2005
The Bram Stoker Awards, for superior achievement in the field of horror writing, are presented by the Horror Writers of America. Winners will be presented at the HWA Annual Conference and Bram Stoker Awards banquet, to be held in Burbank, California, on June 25.
Friday, April 01, 2005
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Two of Doug's stories will be reprinted in Italian by Delos Books. "Scream Angel" (Low Port anthology, 2003), winner of the 2004 Aurora Award, will appear in their quarterly print magazine, Robot, which has recently featured fiction by Ian Watson, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Sheckley, and Neil Gaiman. The related story, "Enlightenment" (InterZone #194), will appear in Delos, their well-known online magazine and multiple winner of the Italia and Europa awards. "Scream Angel" will also be translated and reprinted in Science Fiction Magazine in Denmark.
Doug's YA SF story "Jigsaw," which first appeared in Odyssey (#4 in the anthology series Tales from the Wonder Zone, edited by Julie Czerneda), will be reprinted in the Fall 2005 "SF Mysteries" issue of Oceans of the Mind. Doug's novelette "Spirit Dance" (Tesseracts 6 and The Third Alternative #22) will be reprinted for the 17th time in Dragão Quântico in Portugal.
Doug has also recently posted the March update to his foreign market list on his web site.
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Reine de Memoire
1. La Maison d'Oubli
by Elisabeth Vonarburg
La Maison d'oubli, the first book of Elisabeth Vonarburg's new novel Reine de Mémoire, will be released next week by Alire.
The trade paperback edition of her short-story collection In the Palace of Repose will be launched by Prime Books in July. ("And it has been getting kick-ass reviews, by the way," Holly notes. "A happy year so far for me.")
Claude has teamed up with Matthew Cheney to co-edit a special issue of Lost Pages; they are seeking fiction submissions in three categories: SF, fantasy, crossgenre. Guidelines are here.
Claude's own story, "A Visit to the Optometrist," will be included in the forthcoming anthology The Best of SDO, edited by Mark Anthony Brennan. As well, the French translation (by Yves Meynard) of his story "The Lost and Found of Years" appears in the current Solaris (#154) under the titles "L'Écume des années."
Saturday, March 26, 2005
"Burning Day" was originally published in Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic (Vehicule Press), edited by Claude Lalumière, and will appear in Year's Best SF #10, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.
The Tiptree committee doesn't announce a list of nominees, but once the winner is announced they do release a Long List of recommended novels and stories, with comments from the judges, who were Margaret McBride, Judith Clute, Alan DeNiro, Ursula K. LeGuin and Cecilia Tan.
Here were the posted comments for the SF Canada members on the list:
For Glenn Grant's "Burning Day":
I love a story that goes right through exploring what it means to be male or female and ends up getting at what it means to be human. This is a stylish, action-laden science fiction story, not a navel-gazer.--Cecilia Tan
A well-plotted story in Hardboiled Mode -- people smoking cigarettes even though they're androids, and cracking wise, and driving cars in cities, all very TV-cop show. More about species than gender, but has an original twist in the emphasis on the desire/compulsion to reproduce one's kind.--Ursula K. LeGuin
An interesting examination of sexuality and gender-how do expectations still influence "post-humans"-with film noir detective-story tropes.--Margaret McBride
For Hiromi Goto's Hopeful Monsters:
Goto writes with vigor and energy, in a voice very much her own. "Night" and "Tales from the Breast," are both real Tiptroid fantasies, though you mightn't think so till right towards the end of both.--Ursula K. LeGuin
For Marie Jakober's Even the Stones:
No gender bending, but a serious, realistic, and grown-up novel of male-female power relationships, which is so unusual in "high fantasy" as to be practically invisible to many readers.--Ursula K. LeGuin
The 2004 Tiptree winners were Joe Haldeman and Johanna Sinisalo for Camouflage and Not Before Sundown, respectively.
Friday, March 18, 2005
First prize in the novel category went to Dave Cameron of Halifax for The Bottle Collector; Honourable Mention went to Charlotte Mendel of Enfield, NS, for Unlike the Great Majority.
Sherry's poem "Ghosts and Dark Objects" is in the current issue of Astropoetica.
Thursday, March 17, 2005
The cover of Sky Songs II
All six Canadian contributors in the new anthology Sky Songs II (due out June 1) are members of SF Canada: Douglas Smith, Donna Farley, Nina Munteanu, Steven Mills, Steve Stanton and Peter Andrew Smith. Other notable contributors include British novelist Cherith Baldry, American novelist Andrew M. Seddon, and award-winning author Fred McGavran.
Sky Songs II, edited by Steve Stanton and published by Skysong Press, presents spiritual speculative fiction from England, Canada, USA and Brazil.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Friday, March 11, 2005
Sunday, March 06, 2005
Introduced by editors Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, Tesseracts Nine features Anthony MacDonald and Jason Mehmel, Jerome Stueart, Yves Meynard, Candas Jane Dorsey, E. L. Chen, Sandra Kasturi, Steve Stanton, Élisabeth Vonarburg, Timothy J. Anderson, Daniel Sernine, Dan Rubin, Nancy Kilpatrick, Alette J. Willis, Rhea Rose, Casey June Wolf, Sarah Totton, Marg Gilks, Claude Lalumière, Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy, Sylvie Bérard, Rene Beaulieu, Pat Forde, Allan Weiss, Sheryl Curtis, Howard Scott, Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman.
Since the publication of Tesseracts One, edited by the late Judith Merrill, the entire Tesseracts series has presented works from over 150 Canadian speculative fiction writers, many of whom have built brilliant careers: Margaret Atwood, William Gibson, Robert Sawyer, Élisabeth Vonarburg and others.
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Edward Willett's new novel Lost in Translation
(cover art by Jill Bauman)
Edward Willett's new novel Lost in Translation is now out from Five Star in hardcover (ISBN 1594143056). Order directly from the publisher or your favorite online bookstore. You can read the Prologue and Chapter One online here.
Monday, February 28, 2005
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005
The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. The Awards will be announced at the 2004 Nebula Awards Banquet to be held at the Allegro Hotel in the heart of Chicago's Loop Theater District on Saturday, April 30.
Monday, February 14, 2005
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Other nominees in the same category are Jerry Ciccoritti for Blood, Luc Dionne and Sylvain Guy for Monica la mitraille/Machine Gun Molly, Todd Klinck, Jaie Laplante and John Palmer for Sugar, and Jacob Tierney for Twist.
The Genies are the film awards of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. They'll be presented March 21 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Andrea Martin will host the televised ceremony.
Thursday, February 03, 2005
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Joe notes he is also producing a non-genre piece called "Worms For Sale," written by Stacy Gardner, "a wonderfully charming piece set in Newfoundland." He adds, "I'm trying to convince Stacy to include some spaceships or aliens, but so far she's not biting."
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Saturday, January 15, 2005
Friday, January 14, 2005
Holly will be giving a class on publishing as part of the Canada Writes! weekend workshop in Castlegar, B.C., in April, and she says her dark fantasy novel the burning girl will be tidied up and ready to send to publishers soon.
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Friday, January 07, 2005
Nancy has two more books coming out this year. Jason X: Planet of the Beast is due out in October from Black Flame, and Outsiders: Stories on the Edge of the Fantastical, an anthology Nancy co-edited with Nancy Holder, will be out that same time from Roc/NAL.
Nancy has also sold short story "Our Lady of the Snows" to Tesseracts 9, and has just contracted to write another novel in the Jason X world for 2006. She's currently working on Mercedez - Day of the Dead for Blue Moon/VIVID, to be released "eventually."
Thursday, January 06, 2005
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Doug's short story "State of Disorder," which first appeared in Amazing Stories in 1999 and was an Aurora finalist in 2000, will be reprinted in the upcoming Australian anthology An Alternative Time from Altair Books, and his novelette "Scream Angel," which first appeared in the US anthology Low Port in 2003 and won the 2004 Aurora Award, will be translated and reprinted in Ukraine (Real'nost' Fantastiki) and Israel (Bli Panika).
His novelette "Spirit Dance," which appeared in Tesseracts 6 and The Third Alternative #22 and was an Aurora finalist in 1998, will be translated and reprinted in Croatia (Futura), Poland (Nowa Fantastyka), and Lithuania (Dorado Raganos), bringing the number of sales for this story to sixteen.
Finally, Doug's short story "Symphony," which first appeared in Prairie Fire in 1999 and was an Aurora finalist in 2000, will be translated and reprinted in Croatia (Via Galactica).
The Nebula Awards® are voted on, and presented by, active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. The prelimnary ballot will be mailed to all active SFWA members (of which there are more than 1,400). Each member may nominate no more than five works in each category on the preliminary ballot. The final ballot will then be drawn up and mailed February 15. The Awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards® Banquet to be held at the Allegro Hotel in the heart of Chicago's Loop Theater District on Saturday, April 30.
Cory is also on the cover of (and interviewed inside) Locus Magazine this month, along with Charles Stross.
paperback and can be ordered from Whortleberry Press. A signed copy can be ordered by e-mailing Ahmed.
Monday, January 03, 2005
UPDATE, March 1: This cover art was originally incorrectly attributed to Alan M. Clark.


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The book tells the story of the struggles of the colliers across the area in their fight for better conditions and wages during the Victorian age and the early 20th century. It reveals the individual stories of hundreds of men from West Bromwich, Tipton, Oldbury, Coseley, Bilston, Darlaston, Kingswinford, Dudley and beyond. Packed with information on local pits it lays bare the injustices of the time and the lengths that the miners' leaders went to in an effort to change people's lives for the better.
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HMD Global, the new custodians of the Nokia brand of mobile devices, made its first move into the international market at MWC this week. The company announced the launch of Nokia 3, Nokia 5, and Nokia 6 Android smartphones, in addition to the all new 3310 feature phone. Gadgets 360 caught up with HMD Global CEO Arto Nummela and we started off by asking about the close relationship the company enjoys with Nokia, the entity that now runs the telecom business.
“The relationship of course is very strong and fundamental. We are using the Nokia brand and there's joint interest how to develop this brand going forward,” Nummela explains. “It is kind of easy because the CMO of HMD used to be the CMO of Nokia so he knows the brand as well as the Nokia people and the relationship is mostly related to the brand.”
Nokia 3310: What's in a Name? As It Turns Out, Everything
HMD Global now has over 500 employees and a lot of them are ex-Nokia/ Microsoft employees, so it’s understandable the company is leveraging the relationship to adopt some Nokia technologies - ostensibly on the wireless side of things - “to enhance the customer experience”, Nummela says.
He adds that since Nokia announced the decision to rebrand Withings smart home products as Nokia at the same MWC event where HMD made its announcements, “we wanted to celebrate the moment together”.
“They [Nokia] are old good friends, we are sharing transparently everything that we do all the time,” but other than that, Nummela confirms, Nokia has no role in product development and “it’s clear that HMD is owning all the product decisions.”
One of the things Nummela stressed upon at the launch event in Barcelona earlier this week was the “pure, secure, and always up to date” Android experience that the company wants to offer to its users. We asked Nummela if this extended to not bundling any third-party apps on the phone, which can be an additional revenue option for OEMs.
Nokia 3 vs Nokia 5 vs Nokia 6: Which Nokia Android Phone Is Right for You?
“Most of the consumers hate the pre-loads, they want to discover themselves those applications,” he says. “We might recommend those going forward, market by market, but we don’t want to preload because the consumer doesn’t like that, especially the ones you cannot remove.”
When pressed further, Numella didn’t rule out that HMD Global, which is backed by private investors and also has profits from the Nokia feature phone business it purchased from Microsoft last year to fund its business, could recommend apps to consumers via a Nokia-branded store that’s pre-bundled on its phones in the future.
We bring up the “always up to date” promise of HMD’s pitch and wonder if the carriers around the world might play spoilsport. Numella grins before he responds, “Carriers are pretty much aligned with our message and here [at MWC] I have visited pretty much every major carrier in the last few days [and] there is no issue in my conversation because there are certain things the carrier wants to provide to the consumers as well - security updates particularly are very important but also feature updates.”
With other Android OEMs having little luck in convincing carriers to play a more passive role when it comes to software updates, we press Nummela further on the subject. He merely adds: “We have absolute clarity that we are focussed on the consumers and operators are respecting our approach.”
Nokia 3310 Coming to India Before Android Phones; Online and Offline Models to Be Mutually Exclusive
While on the subject of carriers, we ask Nummela about the US market, a very carrier-driven market that Nokia never really cracked, even in its heyday. Turns out, Nummela was the one in charge of the US market for Nokia during that very time.
“I used to run the smartphone business in US in the Nokia time and we actually had amazing success with the few carriers that we focussed - AT&T and T-Mobile to name a few," he insists. "We had 10 percent market share within the smartphone portfolio in AT&T and more than double in T-Mobile.”
“So we had a really good conversation and collaboration with [US] operators, and for example now when we launched the Snake game on Facebook Messenger, most of the players are coming from the US, so there’s a lot of Nokia love in the US,” he adds.
With Snake in focus, the conversation shifted to the new Nokia 3310 that everyone’s loved, only to realise it won’t run WhatsApp, an app that is as central to the modern-day Indian mobile experience as Nokia once was. Though we already know the answer given the OS the feature phone runs, we ask Nummela if there’s an outside chance that we will ever see WhatsApp on the new Nokia 3310.
“It is very unlikely that you will see WhatsApp in feature phone and that’s more dependent on WhatsApp than us. They just want to limit that kind of experience [to] smartphones but we are working on how to get that experience in the affordable price points.”
That sounds a lot like Nummela is leaving the door open for WhatsApp on Nokia 3310, before he firmly slams it shut: “We are definitely ruling it out - it’s not going to happen.”
While on the subject of new Nokia 3310, we quiz Nummela on the decision to make the phone 2G-only, which renders the new Nokia 3310 useless in markets like US, one he himself mentioned earlier has shown a lot of interest in the new Snake game.
“It’s not the optimal thing if you can only play Snake on our device - it’s good to have some connection as well,” Nummela says with a chuckle. “We understand that. We are listening all the time to consumer feedback and customer feedback [on] how to improve the portfolio.”
“The fact is today the feature phone market is 2G market, absolutely dominant volumes are there. But we are looking for other solutions as well,” he adds.
The man entrusted with arguably the most hallowed mobile brand signs off with a message for Nokia fans in India: “You will see that whatever we do as products are true Nokia [products]. I used to make Nokia phones, I know what is the essence of it, and we will be absolutely true to the brand. So you will never be disappointed having a Nokia in your hand.”
For an extended version of this interview, check out the video above.


I'm sure this happens in a lot of "university towns". Near campus here, the "slumlords" that would rent 4-5 or more 3-4 bedroom houses, near campus, let them run down to the point they go to the city council, cry about it being a blighted area, ask for permission to tear them all down, request a tax waiver for 10-20 years to build "luxury" student housing. Well, the city goes along with it, and now we have so many student housing condo/apartments or whatever you call them within a few blocks of the campus, it's just mind blowing. And they are outfitted with gyms, pools, saunas, movie theaters, free tv/internet. The apartments are fully furnished, huge flatscreen TV's etc. They rent by the bed, 500,600, or more PER BED. This is in a smaller city, 150,000 population, 20k students.
Of course with all these that popped up within the last 5 years, the city isn't really getting any tax money on the property, because of the abatement waivers.
So they suck up the resources, electricity, water, (yeah, figured into the rent), infrastructure wear and tear, but the city isn't getting any money, so what does the city do? Beg and beg for sales or property tax increases. The builder got their money, sold it to a property management company most likely not local, so the money paid by the kids parents doesn't stay in the city. When the waivers run out, they will probably try to offload them onto a local developer. They got their piece of pie.
It just amazes me that parents are willing to spend that amount of money on their kids to live in a place like that, when they can live in a dorm for a heck of a lot less.


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With Christmas upon us, a bunch of familiar films will soon be gracing our screens, from Julie Andrews singing a few of her favourite things, to Willy Wonka and his fondness for chocolate – there’s never a dull movie moment over the holidays!
But when you think of Christmas, which films stand out for you?
FILMCLUB – the education charity and in-school club for young people – have just finished putting together the results of a massive poll of its 180,000 school members to see which are the Christmas films you most get excited about.
The fabulously eerie The Nightmare Before Christmas took the top spot for all you secondary schoolers, beating some more tradional treats to the post.
According to Reece, age 12, Tim Burton’s magical masterpiece scooped the number one slot for having enough dark magic to rival Harry Potter:
“Ever since I first saw this film I have been in love with the work of Tim Burton. This is a truly magical film that brings a brilliant story to life”.
For you primary schoolers, Will Ferrell stormed the list with Elf proving a huge hit with under 12’s. One fan was 9 year old Rafia:
“I really liked Elf and I think it is the best Christmas film I have ever seen. It reminds you that you still need some Christmas spirit.”
Here are the top 5 Christmas films, split into primary and secondary school, according to the poll:
2. Home Alone
3. The Muppet Christmas Carol
4. Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman
5. How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
1. The Nightmare Before Christmas
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5. Polar Express
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The Comeback is previewing all 32 NFL teams from worst to first leading up to the start of the 2017 regular season on Sept. 7. Coming in at No. 12 on our rankings are the unpredictable Carolina Panthers.
2016 in a nutshell: Constantly under pressure due to a lack of support, quarterback Cam Newton followed up an MVP campaign with the worst season of his career, ranking dead last among qualifiers in terms of completion percentage and 28th in terms of passer rating. Throw in a defense that lacked bite with Josh Norman gone and Luke Kuechly missing extended time and it’s no surprise a Super Bowl hangover left the Panthers out of the playoffs with a 6-10 record.
What’s different: Carolina gave Newton some more support with rookie weapons Christian McCaffrey and Curtis Samuel, and added a new left tackle in former top-five pick Matt Kalil. But they also lost tackle Mike Remmers and fired general manager Dave Gettleman just days before the start of training camp.
Why they could be awesome: Newton was the MVP just a year ago, and a very similar team went to the freakin’ Super Bowl.
Why they could suck: Norman still hasn’t been replaced, Kuechly might never be the same, Newton has been hampered by a bad shoulder throughout training camp and the preseason, and the Gettleman firing could be a bad omen.
Major additions: Carolina brought back former Panthers Julius Peppers and Captain Munnerlyn and added Kalil at an exorbitant rate.
Major losses: Offensive tackle Mike Remmers and speedy receiver Ted Ginn Jr. departed as free agents.
Breakout watch: With so much turnover at wide receiver and cornerback in recent years, Carolina will be counting on two young receivers — fourth-year first-rounder Kelvin Benjamin and third-year second-rounder Devin Funchess — and two young corners — second-year second-rounder James Bradberry and second-year third-rounder Daryl Worley — to take steps forward.
Position to watch: A once-vaunted defensive line is weird right now. It’s old and rusty on the outside (Peppers is 37, Charles Johnson 31, Mario Addison 29) and deep and young on the inside (recent premier draft picks Star Lotulelei, Kawann Short and Vernon Butler). It’s still a strong position, though, and if they contend this year it’ll likely have to do with what they get from that group.
Prediction: Like I said, the Panthers are unpredictable. This is a team that made the playoffs despite winning just one game in an 11-week span in 2014, won 19 of their next 20 games between late-2014 and the end of 2015 and then lost five of its first six games in 2016. A lot of it is tied to Newton, his health and his supporting cast. That’s scary, which is why I think the Panthers are a wild-card team at best.
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WHUT!?? 🤣 For simply QUESTIONING them? The indoctrination camps have been churning out some winners! The entire premise of SCIENCE is BASED on a method that QUESTIONS… beginning to end.
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“WASHINGTON (TND) — A majority of Democrats support punitive and restrictive policies against the unvaccinated, according to the results of a new poll.
A recent national telephone and online survey from The Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports says respondents who claimed to be Democrats supported a sort of house arrest for the unvaccinated, among other punishments and deterrents.
Fifty-nine percent of Democrats who took the poll were in support of a theoretical government policy which would confine those who have not been vaccinated to their own homes unless it was an emergency. Overall, sixty-one percent of all respondents were against the policy…”


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A referendum has been launched after the Engineering Society (EngSoc) refused to refund almost $300 of Science Formal fees for one student.
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Eric Goldfarb, the Senior Chair of the ERB, then helped Elliot launch a referendum campaign in an effort to appeal EngSoc’s decision. Goldfarb, Sci ’14 said the policy of reducing hours for students with on-campus jobs isn’t official and contravenes human rights principles stipulated in the EngSoc policy. Because of his involvement in this campaign, Goldfarb was temporarily suspended from his position on the ERB on Dec. 19 after he was accused of having a conflict of interest. He has subsequently launched an appeal against EngSoc’s decision.
“I didn’t break the policy,” Goldfarb said. “They didn’t run a proper investigation and didn’t interview all of the parties.”
Goldfarb’s appeal will be discussed this Thursday at EngSoc Council, where it will also be decided whether his suspension will be lifted.
The referendum, concerning Elliot’s case, has so far garnered 8 per cent support from EngSoc members. After it has been officially submitted, the referendum will be put to question during the EngSoc presidential nomination period later this month.
Current EngSoc President Taylor Wheeler said that EngSoc wouldn’t award Elliot a refund because it would be inconsistent with SciFormal policy.
“There was an assumption that since it was after the event and they could not reduce [Elliot]’s hours, they would award [them] cash instead,” Wheeler, Sci ’13 said. “That was something Council has never done before and since it was not consistent with the past, we didn’t award this person the money.”
Elliot could not have been awarded a reduction of hours because of the date the grievance was filed, he added.
“Unfortunately because of the time line involved, [Elliot] got a hold of them so late,” he said. “They couldn’t come to a decision until after the event and therefore couldn’t have reduced [Elliot]’s hours of work after the event.”
Reduction of hours is awarded to students in need with on-campus jobs because of greater accountability, he added.
EngSoc is working on implementing a new policy for SciFormal next year, Wheeler added.
“Hopefully it will be more realistic and more in line with the realities of the students and better communicated,” he said. “Students who are unable to meet the hours will contact us long before and there will be better accommodations.”
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Thursday, October 07, 2010
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Earlier this month, an 87-year-old woman waited 19 hours in a corridor at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after being assessed.
Margot Djordjewitsch's upset family said up to 10 other patients were also "accommodated" in a corridor. They are seeking a response from their local MP.
Australian Medical Association state president Dr Andrew Lavender said waiting up to 19 hours was "not unusual" - but even he was surprised at the QEH's statistics.
The State Government wants 95 per cent of patients admitted or discharged within four hours.
This target - the subject of robust discussions with doctors - is set for 2013 and was an election commitment fulfilled in last week's Budget.
Not to worry. We're keeping our end up in the socialized health care sweepstakes:
They jokingly call the room in which patients bathe and shower on the fourth floor at Sudbury Regional Hospital "the spa," but Tyler Boyer wasn't laughing when it became his hospital room.
Boyer was transferred there Thursday from a medical ward after being admitted early Sunday morning for a respiratory problem.
Boyer's hospital bed was placed in the narrow room at the end of a hallway on the orthopedic-neurology floor, with the head of the bed almost touching the toilet.
He had two views — the wall on one side or a tiled shower stall, bathroom sink and counter, and bathtub about two feet from his bed.
Whenever someone tells me that in Canada we have "free health care," my standard retort is: "Yeap. And you get what you pay for." It's not true though. The single biggest expenditure in the typical Canadian's budget is not housing or food, its taxes. The single biggest item of government spending in Canada is health care.
Tyler Boyer is 34. Let's say he's been paying income taxes for the last twelve years, and various consumption taxes since he was old enough to buy candy bars. Now imagine being a client of a company for a dozen plus years, loyally funding their bottom line, and when the time comes that you need their services, they almost literally stick your head in a toilet. Between the class-action lawyers, angry clients and regulators, the corporate carcass would be picked clean within weeks. Medicare, however, is approaching its golden anniversary.
When shipments of tainted meat were traced back to Maple Leaf Foods in 2008, the company's CEO was nearly lynched by the usual suspects. His mistake wasn't running a company that shipped bad product, but not having the sense to be CEO of a non-profit hospital. The Cult of Medicare continues to claim victims because it carries about it an altruistic halo. Generations of Canadians have been bombarded - in schools, in hospital waiting rooms, in university lectures, in ponderous editorials - that Medicare is a noble national achievement, rather than a Canadian disgrace.
The alternative isn't American-style anything, it's a freer market. If we can feed, clothe and house ourselves without the whole thing being run by a minister of the crown, why doesn't the same work for health care? The laws of economics don't suspend themselves in your doctor's office, and then magically reappear when you reach the sidewalk. The poor don't starve because the Weston family controls Loblaws. The sick wouldn't die because patients had become empowered consumers, rather than numbers in a government ration queue.
Posted by Richard Anderson on October 7, 2010 | Permalink
Amen brother. Good luck with that!
Ah, the Canadian health care delivery monopoly, where suffering is considered your patriotic duty! At least 70% of Canadians pay less into the "system" than what they receive in benefits (generally mediocre to acceptable care, particularly when you know nothing else). Those that get the lousy service, if they are old enough, besides the collective contempt for their miserable lives and cost imposition on the "system" are an inconvenience to the bureaucrats in budgeting.
A former BC Cabinet Minister, in a candid moment once referred to the Canadian health care system as the embodiment of the politics of resentment and hatred. I would add politically irreversible to her description.
As opposed to the "evil" US system(s), Canadians have discovered (copied) the secret to (relative)cost containment. Some selfish people have complained - Silence Comrade!
Posted by: John Chittick | 2010-10-07 11:48:01 AM
The only reason that waiting lists are not even longer in Canada is that provincial and federal governments have literally opened the funding spigots when it comes to medicare. Since the economy has been doing reasonably well over the past few years, governments feel that they can afford it right now.
In most provinces, however, health care spending is approaching 50 percent of the budget. When the economy tightens up, be prepared to see mass layoffs and substantially worse care.
Posted by: Dennis | 2010-10-07 1:50:25 PM
Ontario should follow the lead of states like Texas, PDF and write legislation to establish a central bank. Instead of paying interest on the debt to private banks(0.10 cents per dollar)profits from a Bank of Ontario will be returned to the province.
Posted by: Jim | 2010-10-07 2:57:54 PM
Greatest problem with socialized medicine is that it creates massive distortions in the marketplace. What is the real cost of healthcare? No one knows. What is the real cost of one person's health to that person? Nothing because the state will pay for it. Thus, we have all these people engaged in all kinds of unhealthy behaviours and activities because there will not have to bear the financial costs of their treatments. To have a user pay system would, for one thing, force people to consider the financial impact of an unhealthy lifestyle. Moreover, socialized medicine assures that unhealthy people survive by prolonging their lives. People are clearly living longer than they should, and we can blame socialized medicine for that.
Posted by: AB Patriot | 2010-10-07 3:30:40 PM
I believe we are already seeing large cracks in the Iron Wall of Canada's health care monopoly. Saskatchewan is starting to use private health care, Quebec (!) has private health insurance, and in Alberta D. Smith is in favor of allowing the use of private health care facilities. These cracks will be rent wide apart when the Great Gray Wave of old boomers forces the system to change.
Posted by: Cytotoxic | 2010-10-07 8:11:11 PM
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Election update on the agenda for Olmsted County commissioners Tuesday
Aug. 9 primary and special congressional elections are on the same ballot.
ROCHESTER — Olmsted County commissioners will receive an election update Tuesday.
As absentee voting continues , county election officials will discuss the two-sided ballot and efforts to address potential challenges leading up to the Aug. 9 statewide primary election and special congressional district election.
The Aug. 9 ballot features a four-column format on the front, allowing voters to make choices in state primary races. Voters are required to limit their votes to one of four listed parties – The Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party, the Legal Marijuanna Now Party, the Republican Party or the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
On the backside of the ballot, voters will be able to vote in the special election for a Congressional District 1 representative, as well as any non-partisan primaries in their county district or city ward.
Two of the county’s seven commissioner seats – districts 4 and 5 – will be on the primary ballots for voters in those sections of the county.
A preview of Tuesday’s presentation by Kathryn Smith, Olmsted County’s associate director of property records and licensing, states the ongoing election judge training leading up to the election has helped prepare for questions about the nuances of the two-sided ballot.
Luke Turner, the county’s elections manager, said he expects to see more election activity than seen during the 2018 midterm elections, but doubts that the 2020 numbers – with the nearly 86.2% countywide voter turnout – will be repeated this year.
The special congressional election will require the county to move for a quick confirmation of the vote. County commissioners will be required to review the election results the day after the polls close.
The special election results must be considered separate from the statewide and local primary results, which is expected to require added staff time to process.
The commissioners will receive Tuesday’s update on election activity during their 9 a.m. meeting in board chambers of the city-county Government Center, 151 Fourth St. SE.
Meetings scheduled to be held during the week of July 4 include:
- Administrative Committee, 8 a.m. Tuesday in board chambers of the city-county Government Center, 151 Fourth St. SE.
- Physical Development Committee, 8 a.m. Tuesday in conference room 4 of the Government Center.
- Board of County Commissioners, 9 a.m. Tuesday in the board chambers of the Government Center.
- Planning Commission, 6:30 p.m. Thursday in board chambers of the Government Center.


Why is my AC running but not cooling?
If your air conditioner is running but the internal temperature has not dropped, it may be that the condenser coil is clogged or blocked. During normal operation, the condenser fan draws air into the outdoor unit through the condenser coil to take heat out of your home.
How much does AC repair usually cost?
$125-$459 average total cost. Most air conditioning repairs cost $125 to $459 or an average of $319. Maintenance of AC equipment costs between 50 and 150 US dollars per hour, depending on the project. Certain HVAC services charge a flat rate ranging from $70 to $200, usually covering the first hour of work.
Should I repair or replace my air conditioner?
Generally, AC units that have been used for more than 10 years should be replaced with newer and more effective models. The rule stipulates that if the service life of the air conditioning equipment multiplied by the repair cost exceeds $5,000, it should be replaced. If it is less than this value, the unit should be repaired. You should consult a good air conditioning repair service providers.
Try cleaning the filters and coils of the air conditioner to see if the improved airflow can solve the problem. If there is icing, you need to run the device with a fan only to melt it. If that doesn’t make the device blow cold air again, it may be that the refrigerant level is low (see below).
Should I replace my 20 year old air conditioner?
Unplug the device from the wall for at least 15 seconds, then plug it in again. Next, press and hold the reset button for 3 seconds and then release it. If the device does not start, repeat this step. If the problem is still not resolved, find the circuit breaker panel, and then try to flip the panel connected to the AC power source.
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The actual capacitor cost may be between $10 and $100, depending on the brand and model and single or dual voltage-usually around $40-$60, although some original equipment manufacturers charge up to $200.
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10 to 15 years
Although the lifespan of household air conditioners will vary due to many factors, well-maintained air conditioners should last 10 to 15 years
According to data from the Department of Energy, the average system life of air conditioners in the United States is 15 to 20 years. …But the general rule is that if your system has been in use for more than ten years, then it is time to consider replacement options.
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Four to eight hours
Generally speaking, the average installation time is 4 to 8 hours, which means that the process of dismantling old equipment and being able to open new equipment should be completed in one day.
If the AC power has not yet cooled down, there is another thing to do. This is very important. …Turn it off, and call your HVAC service provider to help you. We always tell customers to turn off the AC power supply, the AC power supply cannot be cooled normally.
What happens when AC condenser goes bad?
Most likely, if your air conditioner has problems blowing hot air or hot air, there may be a problem with the compressor/external equipment, or the air conditioner’s refrigerant content is low. You may also have a return pipe that is turned back or disconnected, and you are sucking in unconditioned air from outside or attic spaces.
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If you see any of the following warning signs, you may need to service the air conditioner:
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Cycle frequently. …
High humidity. …
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AMARAVATI: Keeping in view of the rising covid-19 cases, the state government
has prohibited offering Ramzan prayers
in public places. The government directed the district collectors to take necessary measures to prevent the gatherings in eidgah (public places to offer Eid Namaz
). Eid-ul-Fitr (Ramzan) is likely to be celebrated either on Thursday or Friday depending on the sighting of the moon.
Deputy chief minister (minority affairs) S Azmath Basha in a statement on Tuesday said that the government had decided to prohibit the Eid prayers in open spaces in order to contain the Covid-19 virus.
He appealed to people to confine to their respective homes and offer namaz. He, however, said that 50 people could gather for namaz in mosques on the day of the festival by following covid-19 protocols. He asked all the Maulanas
and mosque committees to strictly follow the covid
protocols in allowing people for Namaz in mosques.
“No one should be allowed without a mask to enter the mosque and six-feet social distance should be followed without deviation,” said deputy CM.
Minority affairs principal secretary Md Ilyas Rizvi said that mosque committees could organize prayers in two or three spells to avoid crowd in the mosque on Eid day. Imams
have been advised to cut short their Eid addresses and also avoid hand shaking with the devotees, which has been a practice in the past. The mosque committees were directed to keep the premises clean and also arrange sanitisers for the devotees.


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The Ethereum Foundation has refuted alleged plans to spend a prospective $15 million on the development of Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) for use in its transition to a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) network. The clarification was made by Foundation researcher Justin Drake in private correspondence with Cointelegraph on Feb. 8.
A report from crypto news outlet CoinDesk had purported that the Foundation was considering an investment of $15 million to develop the technology, given its prospective benefit for Ethereum’s future transition to a PoS-based system. Drake however told Cointelegraph in an email that:
“The EF [Ethereum Foundation] is not looking to spend $15m. We are looking to split funds 50/50 with Filecoin or other financial partners.”
VDFs are a type of technology that functions to protect any system that relies on the generation of (pseudo) random values from manipulation strategies or attack.
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According to a report by SaharaReporters, a N50 billion lawsuit filed against the Federal Government of Nigeria in the case of assault against #EndSARS protesters by Lagos-based Lawyer, Joe Nwokedi, commences on Monday, June 21 at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi.
Nwokedi, in December 2020 slammed the Federal Government of Nigeria; the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emiefele; the Nigeria Police Force, Nigerian Army, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed and 17 others, with a 50 billion naira suit for their human rights abuses and molestation of Nigerians during and after the ENDSARS protests.
The human rights lawyer had proceeded to the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos State, to seek a judicial pronouncement over the activities of some state actors and their agencies regarding last year’s ENDSARS protest.
The actors include the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami; ex-presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba; the Lagos State Government; the Attorney General of Lagos State; Imo State Government; Attorney-general of Imo State; Rivers State Government; Attorney-general of Rivers state; Plateau State Government; Attorney-general of Plateau State; Lagos State Commissioner of Police; the National Assembly; Nigerian Broadcasting Commission and the Nigerian Television Authority.
The human rights lawyer is urging the court to pronounce against the roles played by the respondents, their agents, and others during the ENDSARS protests and also restrain them from further harassing, molesting, intimidating, torturing and eventually killing Nigerians over their participation in peaceful protests.
He is seeking, ”a declaration: that the Honourable Court shall nullify any action or directives by the Respondents, their agents, privies, representatives, etc. towards barring, banning or restricting Nigerians from engaging or participating in any form of protests (peaceful) in Nigeria or any part thereof, as that amounts to infringement of the Rights of the Applicant (Himself) and other Citizens of Nigeria, and that also contravenes the provisions of Chapter IV of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended)
”An order of perpetual injunction of the Honourable Court restraining all the Respondents, whether by themselves or through their privies representatives, etc. acting through any person or persons from harassing, further harassing, arresting, detaining ENDSARS protesters, other protesters, the applicant or any citizen of Nigeria either in Nigeria or elsewhere, based on their participation in ENDSARS protest or any other protest whatsoever, as that amounts to gross contravention and violation of the rights of the applicant and other citizens of Nigeria as enshrined in Chapter 1V of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as Amended.
”A perpetual order/ injunction of the Honourable Court mandating the respondents, jointly and severally, to pay to the applicant and other dehumanised, injured Nigerians as well as those that were shot, killed or suffered financial losses etc by the actions, utterances and deeds of the respondents, their agents, privies et all the sum of 50 billion naira as compensation.”
The matter was filed on December 15, 2020, and has now been slated for hearing on June 21 before Hon. Justice Liman of the Federal High ‘Court, Ikoyi, Lagos State.